lens Pond; and alfo a Lane called Applejhaw Lane, leading out of Eaft Chaldertcn to the Andover Turnpike Road ; is committed; that they have Power to make Provifion in the faid Bilk for repairing the Road leading from the d'op of shift row Hill, to the Direbiion Poll, at the Junction of the Roads leading from Amesbury and Salisbury, towards Heytesbury; and for allowing the Truftees appointed to put in Execution an Aft, patted in the Sixteenth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty, for enlarging the Term and Powers granted by an Aft, made in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Firft, for repairing the feveral Roads leading from the Town of Warminfler, in the County of Wilts; a competent Sum of Money, Part of the Money to be by them paid to the Truftees, who have now the Care of the Read lying within the Borough of Heytesbury. Mr. Left reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill to enable Benjamin Francis Tribe, Efquire, and his Heirs, to take and ufe the Surname of Poole, pur- Rlant to the Will of Elizabeth Ludwcll, deceafed, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true j and that the Committee had direfled him to report the Bill to the Houfe, without any Amendment; and he delivered the Bill in at the Clerk�s Table. Ordered, That the Bill be ingrotted. A Bill for Sale of certain Lands, in the County of Kent, fettled upon the Reflor of the Parifli offr. George, Bloomsbury, in the County of Middlefex, and for applying the Money arifing thereby in Manner therein mentioned, for the Benefit of the faid Reflor, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Hewett, Sir Roger Moftyn, Mr. Harris, Mr. Hujfey, Mr. Jack- Jon, Mr. Mawbey, Mr. Onflow, Mr. Blackftone, Mr. John Richmond Webb, Mr. Wood, Mr. Wedderburn, Mr. Gray, Mr. Lane, Lord Carysfort, Lord Howe, Mr. Waller, Mr. Eames, Mr. Coventsy, Mr. Morton, Mr. Walter, Mr. Thomas Pitt, Mr. Walcott, Mr. Paterfon, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Hume, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Clayton, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Tcwn/hend, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Fone- reau, Mr. Serjeant Hewitt, Mr. Buller, Sir Roger New- digate, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Sir Thomas Cave, Sir Thomas Palmer-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Kent, Middlesex, and EJJcx: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Ordered, That Mr. Charles Green do, To-morrow at Twelve of the Clock, attend the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it is referred to confider further of the feveral Afis relating to the Rewards for dif- covering the Longitude at Sea, and making Experiments of Propofals for difeovering the Longitude. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill to enable Ecclefiaftical Perfons, and Bodies Politic, Corporate, and Collegiate, to exchange their Lands, under certain Reftriflions therein to be limited ; Ordered, That it be an Tnftruflion to the faid Committee, that they have Power to receive a Claufe, or Claufes, to enable Ecclefiaftical Perfons, or Corporations, being merely Truftees for other Perfons, to convey the Eftates fo held in Truft, under the Direction of the Court of Chancery. Then the Houfe refolved itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Kynajlon took the Chair of the Committee* Mr. Speaker relumed the Chair. Mr. Kynajlon reported from the Committee, That they had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto-, which they had direfled him to report, when the Houfe will pleafe to receive the fame. Ordered, That the Report be now received. Mr. Kynajlon accordingly reported from the faid Committee, the Amendments which the Committee had made to the Bill; and which they had direfled him to report to the Houfe ; and he read the Report in his Place, and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table. Ordered, That fuch a Number of Copies of the faid Bill, with the Amendments, be printed, as fliall be fuf- ficient for the Ufe of the Members of the Houfe. The Houfe, according to Order, refolved itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill for the better enabling the Commiflioners for putting in Execution the feveral Afis patted for paving, cleanf- ing, and lighting the Squares, Streets, and Lanes, within the City and Liberty of Wejlminfter, the Parifhes of Saint Giles in the Fields, Saint George the Martyr, Saint George Bloomsbury, that Part of the Parilh of Saint Andrews Holbourn which lies in the County of Middlefex, the feveral Liberties of the Rolls and Savoy, and that Part of the Duchy of Lancafter which lies in the County of Middlefex, and for preventing Annoyances therein ; and for other Purpofes therein mentioned ; to execute the Trufts vefted in them by the faid Afis. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Kynajlon took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr. Kynajlon reported from the Committee, That they had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto; which they had direfled him to report, when the Houfe will pleafe to receive the fame. Ordered, That the Report be received upon Friday Morning next. The other Orders of the Day being read ; Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Friday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill for the more cffeftual preventing the Stealing of Filh and Rabbits. Ordered, That the Report from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill to repeal an Afi, paf- fed in the Twenty-fixth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled, An Afi for the better preventing of Clandeftine Marriages; and to encourage and facilitate Marriages to be folemnized in Churches or Public Chapels, under a Publication of Banns, or by Licences; and to remove all Doubts which have arifen, or may arife, concerning the Validity of certain Marriages folemnized fince the making the faid Afi; and for the regulating Regifters; and for preferving the Evidence of Pedigrees; was committed -, be received upon Friday next, at Twelve of the Clock. And then the Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. Mercursi, Houfe of Commons. 187 the Port of Shields may be in Danger of being totally blocked up : And therefore praying the Houfe, to take the Premifes into Confideration, and not make any Alteration in the Laws now in being, fo as to permit Ballad to be unloaded out of Ships or Veflels in the laid Port or Harbour of Shields, otherwife than to be call upon the dry Land, where the Tide or Water never flows or runs. And rhe faid Petitions were feverally ordered to be referred to the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Owners and Maders of Ships employed in the Coal Trade between London and Shields, is referred. A Bill for naturalizing Charles Frederick Hempel, James Junot, and Cbrijtcphcr John Schultz, was read a Second lime. Refolded, That the Bill be committed to Sir John Glynne, Mn Sandys, Lord Harry Powlet, Mr. Fames, Mr. Dyfon, Mr. Willoughby, Mr. Whichcot, Lord Howe, Lord Carysfort, Sir Walter Blacket, Lord Catherlough, Mr. Glover, Sir Francis Vincent, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Serjeant Hewitt, Mr. Bentinck, Mr. Townfiend, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Kynaficn, Lord Coleraine, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Sir John Wynne, Sir Richard Warwick Bampfylde, Sir William Baker, Mr. Grey, Mr. Montagu, General Bof cawen, Mr. Fitzherbert, Lord Brownlow Bertie, Si John St. Aubin, Lord Burgher/h, Mr. Harris, Mr. Fojler, Mr. Rajhleigh, Mr. Pitt, Mr. Long, Mr. Sandys, Sir Roger Newdigate, Mr. Brudenell, Lord Rohn Bertie, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Shi finer, Mr. Buller, Mr. Butler, Mr. Bull: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Bill for repairing and widening the Roads from Bawtry Bridge, in the County of Nottingham, to Thorp Hall Mill, in the County of Lincoln', and from Weft Raijin to Pilford Bridge; and from the Great Road about Six Furlongs Welt of Bijhop Bridge, to Bijhop Norton Common ; and from the Hamlet of Morton to Crowle; and from Snow Sewer to Kinnald Ferry ; in the faid County of Lincoln', was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Which- cot, Mr. Glover, Mr. Sandys, Sir Jarrit Smith, Lord Brownlow Bertie, Mr. Rajhleigh, Sir Walter Blacket, Mr. Long, Lord Catherlough, Mr. Burrard, Sir Francis Fin- cent, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Serjeant Hewitt, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Kynajlon, Sir William Baker, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Lord Coleraine, Sir Richard Bampfylde, Mr. Coventry, Lord George Sackville, Sir Thomas Cave, Lord Burg- herjh, Mr. Grey, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Blackjtone, Lord Robert Bertie, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Fonereau, Sir Robert Long; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Lincoln, Nottingham, Northampton, and Fork: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. An ingrofled Bill to continue the Term, and to vary and enlarge the Powers of an Aft, pafltd in the Twentyfifth Year of his late Majefly, for repairing the Road from Wallingford, in the County of Berks, to Wantage, and from thence to Farringdon ; and alfo from Wantage to Idfon, in the faid County ; fo far as the fame relate to the Road leading from Wallingford to Wantage, and from thence to Farringdon; and for difeontinuing the laid Term and Powers, fo far as the fame relate to the Road leading from Wantage to Idfon ; and for repairing the Road leading from the North Fall Corner of Nuffield Common, by the Parilh Church of Nuffield, otherwife Tufield, in the County of Oxford, to the Commencement of the laid Turnpike Road, leading from Wallingford to Wantage-, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pals : And that the Title be, An Aft to continue the Term, and to vary and enlarge the Powers of an Aft, palled in the Twenty-fifth Year of his late Majefly, for repairing the Road from Wallingfird, in the County of Birks, to Wantage, and 1 from from thence to Farringdon; and alfo from Wantage to Idfon, in the faid County; id far as the fame relate to the Road leading from Wallingford to Wantage, and from thence to Farringdon; and for difeontinuing the faid Term and Powers, fo far as the fame relate to the Road leading from Wantage to Idfon ; and for repairing the Road leading from the North Eaft Corner of Nuffield Common, by the Parilh Church of Nuffield, othtrwife Tuffield, in the County of Oxford, to the Commencement of the faid Turnpike Road, leading from Wallingford to Wantage. Ordered, That Mr. Blackjlone do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. Mr. Coventry reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of feveral Truftees, appointed to put in Execution fo much of an Act, made in the 27th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty, for repairing feveral Roads therein mentioned, as relates to the Road between Bridpcrt and Beamijler, in the County of Dorfel, was referred. That the Committee had examined the Matter of the laid Petition; and had directed him to report the fame, as it appeared to them, to the Houfe j and he read the Report in his Place ; and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the fame was read; and is as followeth ; viz. To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition, the faid Ad was read. And Mr. Samuel Way faid, Thar there is a Lane, called Pig Lane, leading out of the faid Road, into the Town of Bridport, and unlefs the Truftees for the Care of the Roads within the BeamiJlerDi^nH are impowered to ereft a Gate in that Lane, the Tolls payable by the faid Aft cannot be properly collefted. And Mr. John Sargent laid. That there is a Bye Lane, called Clampel Lane, leading out of the faid Roads, near the Town of Beamijler, and unlefs the Truftees have alfo a Power to ereft a Turnpike there, the Tolls granted by the faid Aft may be evaded, by palling along the faid Lane. Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the Committee, to whom the Bill for enlarging the Term and Powers of fo much of an Aft, made in the 27th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty, for repairing feveral Roads in the Counties of Dorfet and Devon ; as relates to the Road from Penn Inn, in the County of Dorfet, to the Work- houfe at the Eaft End of the Town of Honiton, in the County of Devon; and for amending the Road from Axminfer, to a Place called Quandoe�s Gate, and alfo feveral Roads leading from Honiton aforefaid; and for enlarging the Term and Powers of fo much of the faid Aft, as relates to the Road from the Intrcnchment on A/kerfwell Hill to Penn Inn, and from Bridport to Bea- wjler; and alfo for amending the Road from the North End of South Street to Bridport Harbour ; is committed ; that they have Power to make Provifion in the faid Bill, to prevent Perlons evading the Payment of the Tolls granted by the faid Aft, in the Diftrifts of Bridport and Beamijler. Mr. Sbiffner reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Conftables, Burgeffes, and principal Inhabitants of the Borough of Minehead, in the County of Somerfct, and feveral Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and others, of the Counties of Somerfet and Devon, refiding near, and travelling on, the Roads thereafter mentioned ; and alfo the Petition of the Inhabitants of the feveral Parifhes of Weft Quantoxbead, Eaft Quantoxbead, Ki Ive, Stringjion, Holford, Kelton, Dodington, and Nether Stowy, in the County of Somerfet, and of the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders, and others, reading near, and travelling on, the Road therein after mentioned; were feverally referred; That the Committee had examined the Matter of the faid Petitions; and had direfted him to report the fame, as they appeared to diem, to the Houfe j and he read the Report in his Place ; and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the fame was read; and is as followeth ; viz. To prove the Allegations of the Firft mentioned Petition, Mr. Samuel Kingdon faid, That the Road from the Borough of Minebead, to the Town of Dunjler, to timber/combe, to Helebridge, to the Town of Dulverton, and by the River, and by Brujbford Green, to Exbridge, in the County of Somerfet, and to Batbam Bridge, in the Parifh of Bampton, in the County of Devon, is, in many Places, narrow and incommodious. That the Road from Brujbford Green to Worth Crofs, in the Parifh of Tiverton, in the County of Devon, is very hilly, and narrow; and lie thinks it would be for the Advantage of Travellers to have that Road made for Wheel Carriages. That the Road from Bilbrook to Fair Crofs is very narrow, and cannot be amended by the Statute Labour; and the Road from Fair Crofs to Harfrow Gate, in the Parifh of Elworthy, is very narrow and hilly. That the Road from Carhampton to the Town of Watchet, is deep, and very founderous in feveral Places. That the Upper Road from Watchet to the Village of Ridon, and from Ridon to Netber Stowey, in the County of Somerfet, where the Bridgewater Turnpike ends, is fteep, from Watchet to Ridon, and very narrow and incommodious, and dangerous, on account of the Cliff. That the Road from Ridon, over the Hill, is fteep, and, in fome Places, very rough and narrow, and that Carriages go the Hill Road, but very few Waggons go that Road. That there are Two Roads from Ridon to Netber Stowty, the Upper and Lower Road j that in the Upper Road there are very fteep Hills. That if both Roads were in Repair, Travellers would choofe to go the Under Road ; and if the Hills were made alike eafy of Accefs, the Under Road could be made at lefs Expence. That the Under Road is more commodious, and the Difference little, either as to the Length, or the Expence of making it. That there is a little Hill in the Lower Road, but not fteep; that if the Hills in the Upper Road were now made alike eafy, the Under Road would be made fomething cheaper. That he thinks it moft convenient to repair the Under Road, as there are more Houfes and Villages near that Road than the Upper Road. Being afked, Whether, if the Road was to go over the Hill, the Inhabitants of Putjham, and the other Villages adjacent, would not be liable to pay Toll, without going over the Road ? He faid, they would. That the Road from Putjham to Saint Awderys is, in fome Parts, narrow, and will not admit Horfes to pafs by Carriages. That the Elevation of Staple Hill is Eleven Degrees, and the Elevation of the other Hill near Holford is Twelve Degrees. That he meafured the Roads, and that the Road over the Hill is Three Quarters of a Mile and Six Poles nearer; and the Reafon given to him for iigning the Counter Petition was, that they thought the Lower Road was between Two and Three Miles about. 1'hat the moft confiderable Expence in making the Upper Road would be, eafing the Hills, and that of making the Under Road, widening it. That there is a Sufficiency of Materials on and near each Road. That the Diftance from the Foot of Staple Hill to Alfoxton Dog Pound, is Two Miles Seventy-fix Chains ; and that Part of the Road cannot be repaired by the Statute Labour. That there is a Hill near the Village of Holford, which is fo fteep, it being Twelve Degrees Elevation, that the Statute Labour would be inefficient to make it eafy of Accefs, 18g which is narrow and incommodious, and cannot be re-� paired by the ordinary Courfe of Law. Mr. Popham faid, That he is well acquainted with the Upper Road from Nether Stowey to Staple Hill Foot, and in general thinks it very far from a good Road, fome Parts being hilly, rough, and ftoney, and fome Parts narrow. That he never travelled the other, and that he believes where One goes the Lower Road 20 go the Upper, and though fie went the Upper Road, he knew4 there was a Lower Road; that fome Part of the Upper Road may be repaired by the Statute Work, but a great deal cannot -, and that the Parts which are not now repairable by Statute Labour, exceed all together a Quarter of a Mile. That fome of them lie between Stowey and Quanlock Hills, and that he thinks there are feveral Miles, which the common Statute Labour will not make good. That the Road from Ridcn to Staple Hili Fott is very rough and ftoney, and the Statute Labour will not repair it, and that the 1 lills in general in that Part of the Road arc open, and may be made to wind round, which would make the Accefs lefs fteep, but that it will carry a Perfon round about a Quarter of a Mile, and that it would be neceflary to vary the common Road from the Place where it now goes over Staple Hill, to make the Afcents eafy, and that the Stcepncis of the prelent Road is inconvenient to Travellers, and that the Statute La- bour, though properly applied, would be infufficient to make the Road good, and to widen and fmooth the Road over Staple Hill, and make it capable of allowing Two Carriages to pafs each other. To prove the Allegations of the Second mentioned Petition, George Hawkins faid, That he has known the Road defcribed in the Petition many Years, and that the Road from Watchet, through the Village of Ridon, may be repaired by the Statute Labour, if properly applied. That the Road from Staple Hill Foot to Mr. St. Aubin's Dog Pound, is the common Road to Netber Stowey, and may be repaired by the Statute Labour, and made wide enough for 10 Carriages to pals each other, and that the Steepnefs of Staple Hill never prevented any Carriages going the common Road to Netber Stowey, and that the Road from the Dog Pound, to the Caftle of Comfort, is fufficiently wide and good, to be eafily put into complete Repair by the Statute Labour, if properly applied. That the Road from the Cajlle of Comfort, being the Right Hand Road to Redborougb Hill, is now in good Repair and Condition, and capable of being made good by Statute labour only, and that it is the common and direft Road to Nether Stowey; that the narrow Parts between that Hill and Nether Storey don�t make all together quite a Quarter of a Mile, and that fuch Parts maybe completely repaired by the Statute Labour. Being alked the Queftion, he faid, That he lives at Stowey, is a Sow Gelder, and goes often tnlFatchet, and has driven Cattle through Nether Stowey, and that he reckons the principal People are againft the Turnpike. That he faid he had heard, the Pariffies had been threatened to be indicted. And as far as he knows they had mended their Roads fince. That there is no Place in the Road between Ridon and Netber Stowey, where a Man and Horfe may not pafs a Carriage, except a little Part, where he thinks a Horfe cannot pafs by a Carriage, but if the Banks on each Side of fuch narrow Parts of the Road were cut down, it would make it fufficent for Two Carriages to pafs, and that may be done by the Statute Labour only. Mr. Richard Davey faid, That he knows rhe Road from Staple Hill Foot, over Staple Hill, to Mr. St. Aubin's Dog Pound, to be a very- firm Road tor Carriages j that no Part of the Hill is fo fteep as to prevent Carriages coming over the common Road to Stowey, and C c c � he 190 he thinks, that if the Statute Labour was properly applied, it would be fuflicient to widen and make it as fmooth and good a Road as ought to be travelled, and fuflicient for any Two Carriages to pals each other ; that there is no Hill between the Dog Pound and the Cajlle of Comfort, fo fteep as to prevent any Carriages going the common Road to Stowey-, that he thinks about Two hundred Yards of the Road from the Cajlle of Comfort, on the Right Hand, down Redborough Hill into Nether Stowey, is fo narrow as not to permit Two Carriages to pafs each other, and that fuch Parts, and all the reft of the Road, from the Cajlle of Comfort, might very eafily be completely repaired, if the Statute Labour was properly applied ; that the Hill is fo fteep, as to be inconvenient for heavy Carriages to pafs up and down the fame, but that the under Road is not fo bad as to prevent the Paflage of Carriages going the Road. That he knows the Power of the Statute Labour, but did not know what a Day�s Labour was. That Mr. Palmer's Coach always drag�d down the Hill by the Dog Pound, and that he cannot fay what Expence would make the Road good, nor what Statute Labour has been done thereon, nor whether the Roads have been threatened to be indifted or not. That the Road from the Cajlle of Con fort, the Lower Way to Nether Stowey is founderous, and that he believes the Upper Road is the neareft, that it is the general and the old accuftomed Road. Being allied if there are not many Hills between Hoells and Bath, much more fteep and difficult for Carriages to afeend, than any Hill between Staple Foot and Nether Stowey in the prefent Road ? He faid, not as the new Road is-, that Rcdjlock Hill is fteeper and rougher than the Hill going to Nether Stowey, and that he went up Rodjlock Hill Three Years ago. That the Road from Staple Hill to Ridon was very good fome Years ago. Mr. John Day faid, That he knows the Road from Staple Hill Foot, over the Hill, by the Cajlle of Comfort, and from thence by the Right Hand, down Redborough Hill, to Nether Stowey. Which he thought might be repaired by the Statute Labour, and that the narrow Places may be widened and repaired thereby, if the Whole was applied to that Part of the Road -, that it is fo fteep that heavy Carriages cannot pafs eafily down, but he thinks it may be repaired; that it is in general (hallow, and that, in his Opinion, a Turnpike Road would be of no Benefit to the Country ; that a good Road without a Turnpike would be better, but he could not fay how long it would take to repair the Road by the Statute Labour. That he could not tell what other Roads were to be repaired by Statute Labour, but believes there are other Roads; that he palkd over Staple Hill Foot Four Months ago, and thinks a Fourth Part of the Statute labour will repair it. Mr. Robert Davis informed your Committee, That he is well acquainted with the Road from Staple Hill Foot, by the Cajlle of Comfort-, that he has made Inquiry what Statute Labour has been done on Quantock Hills, that there had been no Statute Labour done there thefe One hundred Years; that the Lane from Quantock Hill to Storey, is but an indifferent Road, and feems to want Repair; that about 200 Yards of the Road is narrow; that the only bad Road upon Quantock Hill is the Road by the Dog Pound and Staple Hill; about a Quarter of a Mile by the Dog Pound is rough, and has loofc Stones, which may be eafily picked oft; that the Hill by the Dog Pound is pretty fteep, but not fo fteep as Rodfock Hill, and he faw it laft Summer; and the Road that is out of Repair, may be repaired by the Stature Labour in a reafonable Time. That the Statute Labour, Twice a Year, Three Days at a Time, would repair the Road between Nether Stowey and Redborough Hill in Two Years, and it would rim be as good a Road as need be. That it was the common Road from Staple Hill Foot to Nether Stowey, and that Mr. Acland, when he goes to St. Audries, goes over the Hill, but he does not know the Reafon why; that Mr. Acland goes fometimes one Way and fometimes another. Mr. Francis Carde faid, He thinks the Road may be repaired by the Statute Labour in One Year, but could not fay what Number of Hories, Carriages, and Labourers are obliged to do Statute Work in Storey, but he has feen what Work has been done in One Day, and by that he makes his Calculation. That he had feen the Road between Stowey and the Cajlle of Comfort mended in the common Way, but he does not think it will laft fo long as a Turnpike Road, but that it may be kept in Repair by the Statute Labour. That he believes the Parilh Duty is performed very punctually every Year, that he never heard the Roads had been threatened to be indicted, except a Road which is by Long Crofs Barn, which is not fo commonly ufed as the Upper Road. He faid he could not tell what Number of Men and Horfes were employed in a Day, but fome Yards of Road were repaired between Cajlle Hill Gate and Mr. Sydenham�s. That Nether Stowey is a fmall Market Town, and fur- niffies a great Number of Labourers, but that there are a great many Roads belonging to that Parifh to be repaired, and that the Statute Labour is ufually applied to the Road where it is moft wanted. Mr. William Sealey faid, That he knows the Road from the Eaft Side of Staple Hill, that Road, into Nether Stowey. And that there was not any Part of that Road fo narrow, or fo much out of Repair, as not to be repaired by the Statute Labour, if properly applied. That he faw the Road a Year ago, that fome Pans of it are fo narrow that Two Carriages cannot pafs, but the greater Part may be made wide enough for Two Carriages, if the Foot Paths were taken down, and the Road repaired between Hedge and Hedge. William Tully being examined faid, That he is Servant to Mr. Barnard, that he knows the direft Road from Staple Hill Foot, acrofs Staple Hill, by Alfoxton Dog Pound, by the Cajlle of Comfort, and from thence, to the Right Hand, to Nether Stowey; and that he thinks the whole Road may be widened and completely repaired by the Statute Labour, if properly applied, that it is the direft Road from Ridon to Nether Stowey for Carriages and Horfes. That no Turnpike is wanted, the Road being tolerable good, except about a Quarter of a Mile from Nether Stowey. Being afked if he knows what Statute Labour is; He faid a Man goes out Four Days. That a Perfon of 30 Z. or 401, a Year is deemed to keep a Plow, and that they go Six Hours to work; that he don�t know the Number of Perfons that do Statute Labour at Nether Stowey, neither can he fell how many Plows go out -, that he don�t know what a Plow Land is. And being further examined, he faid, he could not tell what the Statute Labour was. But that the Calculation he had made, in One Part of the Statute Labour, was from the Obfervation he had made on Statute Labour being done in other Parifhes. And that his Obfervation was of the Number of Men employed, but could not fay how many Yards of Road he had feen mended at a Time. Edmund Stadden faid. That he is a Taylor, that he knows the Road from Staple Hill acrofs Staple Hill, by Alfoxton Dog Pound, by the Cajlle of Comfort, and from thence, to the Right Eland, to Nether Stowey ; that Six Days Statute Labour, at Three feveral Times, are annually required to be done at Stowey; that he don�t know there are any Parts of the Road ib narrow and out of Repair, as might not be completely repaired by the Statute Statute Labour, if properly applied, except Two Parts coming into Redborougb, One at a Place called Gallows Clofe Lane and Hake Lane, which may by a fmall Matter of Labour be made wide enough; that Two Plows cannot pals without drawing the Ditches, but the Road may ^ made wide enough between Hedge and Hedge; and that the aforefaid Road is the direft Road from Ri- don to Nether Stowey for Carriages and Horfes. Thar he keeps a Shop at home, but has not gone abroad of late Years; that formerly he has done Statute Labour on the Road, but has paid Three Shillings a Year in lieu thereof for feveral Years; that they go out Three Weeks together, but don�t go out the latter End of the Year, and they work from Eight o�Clock to Four, being Eight Hours ; and that all the Farmers go out in proportion to their Farms. He faid that the Statute Labour, regularly performed, would be more than fufficient to repair the Road in queftion; that it has been regularly performed, he having paid 3 J. a Year for feveral Years; and that the Roads are in good Repair in his Parifh. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for repairing, widening, turning, altering, and keeping in Repair, the Roads leading from the Port 1 own and Borough of Minebead, through Dunfter and Timberfambe, to Hele Bridge, and through the Town of DAvert on, and by the River, and Brufford Green, to Exbridge, in the County of Somerfet, and from thence to Batbcm Bridge, in the County of Devon; and from Brufford Green aforefaid, to Worthcrofs, in the Parifh of Tiverton, in the faid County of D.von ; and alio the Road leading from the faid Port Town and Borough of Minebcad, through Carbampton and Billbrooke, to Hartrow Gale, in the Parifh of Elworthy, in the County of Somerfet; and allo the Road leading from Carbampion aforefaid, through the Town rf Watcbet, in the Parifh of St. Decumans, in rhe County of Somerfet, to or near the Village of Rydon, and through the Village of Putjham, and by Long Crofs Barn, to the End of the Bridgewater Turnpike Road in the Town of Nether Stowey, in the County of Somerfet; and allo from the faid Town of I Ratchet, to 'Tower Hill, in the Village of IVililon, in the faid Parifh of St. Decumans ; and from the faid Town of IFatchet, by way of Five Bells, to Fair Crofs, and from thence to Sticklcpatb, over Brendon Hill, to Rcbery Lane, and to Bampton, in the faid County of Devon: And that Mr. Shiftier, Sir Richard Warwick Bampfylde, the Earl of Tbomond, Sir Edward Bayntun, and Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. The Lord Howe prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for repairing and widening the Road leading from the South End of the Town and Borough of Newton Abbott, in the County of Devon, through the feveral Parifhes of Woolborougb, Abbotts Kerfwell, Kings Kerfwcll, Marledon, Paington, Cburjlon Ferrers, Brixbam, and King/wcar, to the Paffage Way in King/wear aforefaid, oppofite to the Town and Borough of Clifton Dartmouth Hardnef; and alfo the Road leading from the End (next adjoining to the faid Town of Newton Abbott) of a certain Lane leading out of the Turnpike Road between Newton Abbott and Totnes, towards the Village of Abbotts Kerfwell, to and through that Village to Five Lanes, in the Road before defcribed ; and allo the Road leading from a Barn, lying near to Smoaky Houfe, in the Parifh of Marledon aforefaid, called Langvers Barn, through the feveral Parifhes of Marledon and Ipplepen, in the faid County, leading to the Turnpike Road between Newton Abbott and Totnes aforefaid ; and alfo the Road leading from a Common called Galmpton IFarborough, through the faid Parifhes of Brixbam and CburjlonFerrers, and the Lower End of Cburjlon Ferrers Town, by a Black- fmith�s Shop there, to Monks Bridge, and from thence to Brixham Quay, in the faid Parifh of Brixbam ; and alfo the Road leading from the faid Barn called Langvefs Barn, through the faid Parifhes of Marledon and Paing- A Petition of the feveral Perfons, whofe Names are thereunder written, Inhabitants of the Hundreds of Elthorn:, Spelthome, and Ijiewortb, in the County of Mid- dlefex, on behalf of themfelves and the reft of the Inhabitants of the laid Hundreds, was prefented to the Houle, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners obferve, by rhe Votes, that a Petition hath been prefented to the Houfe, relating to the Prifon of Newgate, within the City of London; and alleging, that the faid Gaol has been, Time out of Min'd, maintained, repaired, and fupported by the City of London, and, after the great Fire of London, was rebuilt at rhe Expence of the laid City ; and that, before the prefent Application, no Attempt has been ever made to charge the faid County with any Parc of fuch Expences ; and that the Petitioners conceive, that they cannot, by the Laws now in being (nor ought, in Equity) to be compelled to contribute towards rebuilding rhe faid Gaol; and that the City of London has no Grounds whatfoever for fuch an Application, in regard of the immenfe Profits that have accrued to the faid City from divers Charters, and particularly in refpeft of the faid City�s holding the Shrievalty of Mddlefex together with that of London, by Means whereof great Sums have been raifed, by Fines and other Ways; therefore the Petitioners flatter themfelves, that, out of the Sums fo raifed, and other Revenues of the City, a confiderable Sum hath been fet apart for the Purpofe contained in the faid Petition : And therefore praying, That the Petitioners may be heard, by themfelves or Counfel, againft fuch Part of the faid Petition, as any way tends to im- pofe a Charge on the Petitioners. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aidermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council afiembled, is referred : And thatthefe Petitioners be heard, by themfelves or their Counfel, before rhe faid Committee, upon their Petition, if they think fit. A Bill for dividing, allotting, and inclofing divers Parcels of Common, or Wafte Grounds, within the Manors of Appleton and Lymm, in the County of Chefter, was read a Second Time. Refolded, That the Bill be committed to Lord Strange, Mr. Blackjlone, Sir William Beauchamp Proftor, Mr. Ky- nefon, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Bentinck, Lord Robert Bertie, Mr. Waller, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Butler, Sir Robert Long, Mr. Pitt, Mr. Lowndes, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Glover, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Wbicbcot, Mr. . Shuttleworth, Lord Howe, Mr. Beft, Lord Caryfcrt, Mr. Sbiffner, Mr. Townjhend, Sir Robert Ladbtoke, Sir Alexander Gilmour, Mr. Fonereau, Sir Edward Bayntun, Mr. 4 Harfor t Harbord, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Brudenel!-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Chejler, Lancafter, Fork, Durham, Wejimoreland, Cumberland, and Northumberland: And they are to meet this Afternoun, at five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Meflage from the Lords, by Mr. Edwards and Mr. Montagu : Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled. An Aft for continuing the Terms of feveral Afts, and for giving further Powers, for repairing the Road from Chatteris Ferry, to Hammond's Eau and Somerjbam Bridge; and for amending and widening the Road from Somerjbam Bridge to the Sheep Market in Saint Ives; and alfo the Road branching out of the faid Road near Stockfbridge, through Needingwortb, to Earith, in the County of Huntingdon; without any Amendment. And then rhe Meflengers withdrew. An ingrofled Bill to enable Benjamin Francis Tribe Efquire, and his Heirs, to take and ufe the Surname of Poole, purfuant to the Will of Elizabeth Ludwell, de- ceafed, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pals: And that the Title be, An Aft to enable Benjamin Francis Tribe Efquire, and his Heirs, to take and ufe the Surname of Poole, purfuant to the Will of Elizabeth Endwell, deceafed. Ordered, That Mr. Beji do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. A Motion was made, and the Queftion being pro- pofed, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, to im- power the High Court of Chancery to lay out, upon Government Securities, a Sum of Money, not exceeding a Sum therein to be limited, out of the Common and General Calh in the Bank of England, belonging to the Suitors of the faid Court; and to apply the Intereft arif- ing therefrom towards augmenting the Income of the Mailers of the hid Court-, An Amendment was propofed to be made to the Queftion, by leaving out the Words � towards augmenting � the Income of the Mailers,� and inferring the Words, � for the Benefit of the Suitors,� inftead thereof. And the Queftion being put, that the Words propofed to be left out ftand Part of the Queftion -, It was refolved in the Affirmative. Then the main Queftion being put, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to impower the High Court of Chancery to lay out, upon Government Securities, a Sum of Money, not exceeding a Sum therein to be limited, out of the Common and General Calh in the Bank of England, belonging to the Suitors of the faid Court; and to apply the Intereft arifing therefrom towards augmenting the Income of the Mafters of the faid Court; The Houfe divided. The Yeas went forth. Tellers for the Yeas, 1 ^.Jd^bmondlVM, 1 6 (Mr. Kynafton: J J Tellers for the Noes, { } 73. So it was refolved in the Affirmative. Ordered, That Mr. Wilbraham, Mr. Forre/ler, Mr. Blackjlone, Mr. Serjeant Hewitt, and Mr. Richmond Webb, do prepare, and bring in, the faid Bill. Ordered, That there be laid before this Houfe, an Account of the Non-effective Money, now in the Hands of the Pay-mafter General, or in the Hands of the Agents of the Regiments of the Army, and of the Regiments, Battalions, and Independent Companies, of the Militia refpeftively, except the Regiments in the Eajl Indies �, and alfo what remains of the faid Monies now due, and is uniflued; diftinguilhing each Corps. Refolved, That an humble Addrcfs be prefented to His Mayfly, that Fie will be gracioufly pleafed to give Di- reftions, that there be hid before this Houfe, an Account of the Ships and Old Stores, which have been fold, in the Years 1763 and 1764 4 and for how much they were fold. Ordered, That the faid Addrefs be prefented to His Majefty by fuch Members of this Houfe as are of His Majefty�s Moft honourable Privy Council. The Houfe was moved, That an Aft, made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled, An Aft for preventing any Inconveniences that may happen by Privilege of Parliament, might be read. And the fame being read accordingly ; Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to explain, amend, and render more effectual the faid Aft: And that Lord John Cavcndijh, Mr. Serjeant Hewitt, General Conway, and Sir William Baker, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. An ingrofled Bill for granting certain Scamp Duties, and other Duties, in the Brilijh Colonies and Plantations in America, and for applying the fame towards further defraying the Expences of defending, protefting, and fecuring fuch Colonies and Plantations, was read the Third Time. An ingrofled Claufe was offered to be added to the Bill, by way of Ryder, to exempt the Colonies of ^ue- bec and Grenada from the double Stamp Duties upon Writings, not in the Englijh Language. And the faid Claufe was Twice read, with Blanks; which being filled up, the faid Claufe was read the Third Time; and, upon the Queftion put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe, to be made Parc of the Bill, by way of Ryder. Then the Amendments following were feverally propofed to be made to the Bill; viz. Pr. 28.1. 21. To leave out � fign,� and infert �iflue� inftead thereof. 23. To leave out � figning,� and infert � if- � filing� inftead thereof. 25. To leave out � figning,� and infert � ifluing� inftead thereof. Pr. 44.1. 27. After � Oath,� to infert � or if a Qua- � ker, upon Affirmation.� 2. .I. io. After �Oath,� to infert, �orAffirma- � tion.� And the faid Amendments were, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe; and the Bill was amended at the Table accordingly. Then the Amendment following was propofed to be made to the Bill; viz. Pr. 50. 1. 7. To leave out � or in any Court of Admiralty.� And the Queftion being put, that thofe Words ftand Part of the Bill; It was refolved in the Affirmative. Then the Amendments following were allo feverally propofed to be made to the Bill; viz. Pr. 50. 1. 14. Before � Plantation,� to leave out �or,� � and after � Plantation,� to infert � or � Place.� 51. 1. 21. To leave out � fuch,� and after � For- � feitures,� to infert � inflifted by this � Aft, or by the faid Act made in the � 4th Year of His prefent Majefty�s � Reign, or by any other Aft of Par- � liament relating to the Trade or Re- � venues of the laid Colonies or Plan- � rations.� 1. 27. To leave out � the,� and infert � any� inftead thereof. 2. 31. Before � Plantation,� to leave out � or,� and after � Plantation/� to infert � or � Place.� And And the faid Amendments were, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe ; and the Bill was amended at the Table accordingly. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs : And that the Title be, An Act for granting and applying certain Stamp Duties, and other Duties, in the Britijh Colonies and Plantations in America towards further defraying the Expences ot defending, protecting, and fecuring the fame ; and for amending inch Parts of the feveral Acts of Parliament, relating to the Trade and Revenues of the faid Colonies and Plantations, as direct the Manner of determining and recovering the Penalties and Forfeitures therein mentioned. Ordered, That Mr. Paterfon do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. The Orders of the Day being read ; Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Tur/day Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the feveral Acts relating to rhe Rewards for difeovering the Longitude at Sea, and making Experiments of Propofals for difeovering the Longitude. Ordeitd, That the feveral Perfons, who were ordered to attend the laid Committee this Day, except the Reverend Mr. Hornsby and the Reverend Mr. Shepherd, do attend the faid Committee upon Tucfday Morning next. Rejoined, That this Houfe will, upon Friday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill for the regulating Qualifications of the Proprietors of Raji India Stock. And then the Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. Jovis, 28� die Fcbruarii, Anno 5* Georgii IIP� Regis, 1765. PRAYERS. M R. Whicbcot prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing fevcral Lands and Grounds, in the Parilh of Aukborougb, in the County of Lincoln: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Petition of Sir Rowland [Finn Baronet, the Mini- fter. Freeholders, and Inhabitants of the down of Appleby, in the County of Lincoln, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Petitioners fee, by the Votes, that a Petition has been prefented for a Bill for repairing a Road from Barton, through Eltram Lane, to Brigg; and from Cajlletborp Cate, through Cajllethorp Town, to Birkets F alk, as far as the Hill Top, leading to Appleby aforefaid ; and that the Road from the faid Hill Top, through Appleby, to Roxby Cate, at the North End of the Parilh of Appleby aforefaid, is in a ruinous Condition, unfafe for Travelers, and cannot be amended and kept in Repair by the ordinary Courfe of Law : And therefore praying, 1 hat the faid Road may be continued from the laid Hill Top, to Roxby Gate, at the North End of the faid Parilh of Appleby, and that the Petitioners may have fuch other Relief, as to the Houfe (hall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Con- fideration of a Committee: And that they do examine the Matter thereof; and report the fame, as it Ihall appear to them, to the Houfe: And it is referred to Mr. Which cot, Mr. Townfend, General Lambton, Mr. Fonercau, Mr. Waller, Mr. Buller, Mr. Bagot, Sir George Montgomery Metin m, Mr. Mar- VOL. XXX. ?�� ^j ^y1^' r^0"1 Loltraine, Mr. Cnmry, Lord G??v Mr. Ward, Lord Brawntow Bertie, Mr. Parker Lord George Sackville, Mr. O'iltougbly, Mr. Mantua n^"^.� Mr- ^"�GM'- Leigh,'Mr. Buller, Mr' Ridley Mr. Delaval, Sir I Falter Blacket, Sir 'Jorrit Smith, Mr. James Grenville, Lord Carysfort, Lord Charles Montagu, Lord Catberlougb, Sir Walter Bagot, Mr. Dempfer, Sir Roger New Agate, Mr. Cujl, Cocks, Mr. hH?, Mr. Attorney General, Lord Heun Mr. Crcfwell, Mr. Robinfon, General ^r Court, Sir Chart's Kemys Tynte, Mr. Touchet; and all the Members who ferye tor the Counties of Lincoln, York, Nottingham, and Northampton: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock,'in the Speaker�s Chamber; and have Power to fend for Perfons, Papers, and Records. Ordered, I hat there be laid before this Houfe, art Account of the Quantity ot Hemp and Flax imported into this Kingdom, for Seven Years laft paft, to Cbi if mas 17^4 i diftinguilhing tach Year. A Petition of the Owners and Matters of Ships belonging to the Port of Sunderland, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the prefent Method ot conveying Ballaft from Ships by Keels, in the River ot Tyne, and landing the fame upon Quays, is very detrimental to the Navigation of that River, as large Quantities of Ballaft mull unavoidably fall in, in the throwing ot fuch Ballaft from the Ships and Keels upon the Quays, and by the fame being blown off in dry Seafons by high Winds, and carried off by Rains and P loods; and that the Petitioners apprehend, that, if the Ballaft, which is brought into the Port of Shields, was to be carried out of the faid Port to Sea, into 14 Fathom Water, and not lets, by the Machines invented by Mr. Richard Liddell, called Hoppers, it would be of great Advantage to the River of Tyne, and Haven of Tinemouth, and to the Coal Trade in general: And therefore praying the Houfe to take the Premifes into Con- fideration, and grant the faid Richard Liddell fuch Encouragement as may be thought proper. Ordered, 1 hat the faid Petition be referred to the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Owners and Mafters of Ships employed in the Coal Trade between London and Shields, is referred. Mr. Idel anal prefetited to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing a certain Common Moor, or Tract of Wafte Land within the Barony or Manor of Bidbeck, in the County of Northumberland. And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Sir Charles Kemys Tynte prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill to enlarge the Tenn and Powers of an Act, made in the 26th Year of his late Majefty�s Reign, for repairing and widening the Road, from the Halfway Houfe, in the Parifhof Louer Compton, in the County of Dorfet, through the Towns of Yeovil, Crewkerne, and Chard, to the Eaft End of the Town of Axminjler, and feveral other Roads round the faid Town of Yeovil, in the County of Somerfet ; lb far as the fame relates to the Road from Hajleborcugb Bridge, to the Eaft End of the Town of Axminjler-, and for repairing and widening the Road from Chard, through Stockland, to Honiton, in the County of Devon: Ar.d the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Petition of feveral Gentlemen and others, of the Counties of Dorfet and Devon, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners are informed, a Bill is depending in the Houfe, for repairing the Road from Chard, in the County of Scmer- Jet, to Honiton, in the County of Devon, through D d d Stockland^ Stockland, and feveral other Panflies in the Bill mentioned ; and reprefenting to the Houfe, that there is already a very good Turnpike Road from Chara aforefaid, through Axminjier, to Honiton aforefaid, which is a Part of the Great Weftern Road, and has been made at a very great Expence; and, Ihould the laid Bill pals into a Law, the Petitioners apprehend, as both the faid Roads lead to and from the fame Places into the Weft of England, that, by the Divifion of the 1 oils now cohered on the faid Turnpike Road, neither of the faid Roads will be fufficiently repaired-, and that the feveral Perfons who have advanced Money on the Blandford, Dorchefier, Bridport, and Axminjier Turnpikes, will be prejudiced in their refpeftive Securities: And therefore praying the Houfe to take the Pre- mifes into Confideration, and that the faid Bill be not fuffered to pafs into a Law; and that the Petitioners may have fuch Relief as to the Houle fhall leem Ordered, That the faid Petition do he upon the Table, until the faid Bill be read a Second 3 ime. Ordered, That the faid Bill be read a Second Time upon Monday Morning next. Ordered, That Sir George rouge be added to the Committee, to whom the Bill for repairing and widening the Road from Tonbridge to Maidjlone, in the County of Kent, is committed. A Petition of the Gentlemen, Freeholders, Tradef- men, and other Inhabitants of the Towns of Wednef bur)� and Biljlon, and Places adjacent, in the County of Stafford, whole Names are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Taking Notice, That a Petition has been prefented to the Houfe, to bring in a Bill for amending, widening, and keeping in Repair, the Roads from Muckley Corner, in the laid County, adjoining to the Turnpike Road there, leading to the City of Litchfield, and other Roads in the faid Petition mentioned; and letting forth, 1 hat the Road from High Bullen, in the Town of Wednesbury, through Troufe Lane and Wednesbury Field, to Bulls Lane, and from thence to the Portway adjoining to the Turnpike Road leading from Gibbet Lane End to Birmingham ; and from the Toll Gate in the Town of Bilfton, along the Windmill Lane, and Goldthorne Hill Lane, to the Turnpike Road leading from Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford, to Stowerbridge, in the County of Worcefter -, are become very founderous and dangerous for Travellers by Carriages, and, in fome Parts, very narrow : And therefore praying, That, if a Bill Ihould be brought in, and pafs into a Law, tor amending, widening, and keeping in Repair the Roads mentioned in the Petition from Walfall to Litchfield, a Claufe may be added thereto, for amending, widening, and keeping in Repair the additional Roads beforementioned in this Petition. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Mayor, Recorder, and Capital Burgefles of the Borough and Foreign of Walfall, in the County of Stafford, and of the feveral Gentlemen, Freeholders, Tradefmen, and other Inhabitants of the City of Litchfield, and of Walfall aforefaid, and Places adjacent, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, is referred : And that they do examine the Matter of this Petition, and report the fame, as it (hall appear to them, to the Houfe. The Lord Grey prefented to the 1 loufe, according to Order, a Bill for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair the Road from Welford Bridge, in the County of Northampton, through Husbands Bcjwortb, and Great Wigfion, to Milfion Lane, in the Town of Lcicefier : Mr. Willoughby reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for inclofing the Common Fields, Meadows, Paftures, and Wafte Grounds, in the Manor of Long Eaton, in the Parilh of Sawley, in the County of Derby, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Parties concerned had given their Confent to the Bill, to the Satisfaftion of the Committee, except William Trowel!, who was in America, and who was pofleffed of 4 Oxgangs ; and that the whole confifted of 131 Oxgangs; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto ; which they had direded him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Quef- tion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the I loufe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofled. A Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields and Grounds, lying in the Parilh of Lenchwick and Norton, and the Borough of Evefham, in the County of Worcefier, was read a Second Time. Refolded, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Ward, Mr. Cocks, Sir Edward Winnington, Mr. Wood, Mr. Dowdefwelt, Mr. Hanis, Mr. Barrow, Mr. Cafwall, Mr. Foncreau, Lord Burgherjh, Mr. Parker, Mr. Webb, Mr. Ridley, Lord Grey, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Willoughby, Sir Walter Bagot, Mr. Gray, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Grey; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Worcefier, Stafford, Warwick, Salop-, and the Principality of Wales: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Sir John Hynde Cotton prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for enlarging the Powers of feveral Ads, for repairing the Road from Stump Crofs to Newmarket Heath, and the Town of Cambridge, and from Foulmire to Cambridge, and other Roads adjoining thereto; fo far as the fame relate to the Road from Fcubnire to Cambridge and the faid other Roads adjoining thereto: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Sir George Savile prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing certain Open Common Fields, Lands, and Grounds, in Rran- tingham, and Thorpe Brantingham, in the Parilh of Brantingham, in the Eaft Riding of the County of Fork: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a fecond Time. A Petition of the feveral Land Owners and Inhabitants of the Townfliip of Batley, in the Weft Riding of the County of Fork, on the behalf of themfelves and the reft of the Land Owners and Inhabitants of the faid Townfliip, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That, within the faid Townfliip, there are many Highways, containing in the whole about Twelve Miles in Extent, which are annually repaired by Statute Work; and that a Turnpike leading from Wakefield to Halifax, in the Weft Riding aforefaid, extends through about Three Quarters of a Mile of the laid Townfliip, on which the Inhabitants of the faid Townfliip are, by Aft of Parliament, obliged to 3. . . do the Houfe, for obtaining an Aft for making a Turnpike Road from Huddersfield to Fir fall, in the laid Weft Riding, which is intended to go through little more than Half a Mile within the laid Townlhip of Batley; and that the Petitioners humbly fubmit, it would be extremely hard, Ihould a General Claufe be inferted in the intended Aft, to compel the Inhabitants of Batley to do Two Days Statute Work in every Year upon the faid intended Turnpike Road, as it would, in that Cafe, leave only Two Days Statute Work for the repairing all the other High Roads in the faid Town- mip, which are more than Ten Miles in Extent, ex- clulive of both the faid Roads from Wakefield to Halifax, and the intended Road to be made in Purfuance of the faid Bill: And therefore praying the Houfe to take the Cafe of the Petitioners into Confideration, and that the faid Townlhip of Batley may be excepted out of fuch General Claufe, or that the Petitioners may not be compelled to do more Statute Work annually upon the faid intended Road, than the Proportion char the faid Road bears to the reft of the Highways in the faid Townlhip. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Bill for amending and widening the Road from the Sign of the Coach and Horfes, in Birftall, to the Turnpike Road at Nunbrook, and from Bradley Lane, to the Town of Huddersfield, in the Weft Riding of the County of 1 ork, is committed. Sir John Glynne reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for naturalizing Charles Frederick Hempel James Janot, and Cbrifiopher John Schultz, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true ; and that the Committee had directed him to report the Bill to the Houfe, without any Amendment: And he delivered the Bill in at the Clerk�s Table. Ordered, That the Bill be ingrolfed. Mr. Willoughby reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open Common Fields and Meadows, Common Failures, and other Commonable Lands, lying within the Parilh of� Loud* bam, in the County of Nottingham, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true �, and that the Parties concerned had given their Confent to the Bill, to the Satisfaction of the Committee, except Edward Wetherill, who is only poffeffed of One Cottage in Cathorpe, and who, upon his being Ihewn the Bill, laid he did not choofe to fign it; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made fevcral Amendments thereunto ; which they had directed him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the Report was read. And feveral of the Amendments, made by the Committee to the faid Bill, being feverally read a Second Time, were, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the further Confidcration of the faid Report be adjourned till Monday Morning next. Sir George Tonge reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, Tradefmtn, Fanners, and Inhabitants of the Parilhes of 7onbridge, Leigh, Penfijurf, and Cowden, in the County of Kent, was referred, That the Committee had examined the Matter of the faid Petition, and had directed him to report the fame, as it appeared to them, to the 1 loufe; and he read the Report in his Place i and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk�s To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition, Mr. Kemble Watley, being examined, faid, That the Road leading from Wats Crofs, through the Parilhes of Leigh and Penfhurfi, to Cowden, is in a ruinous Condition, and, in many Places, very narrow and incommodious, and cannot be repaired and widened by the prefent Methods prefenbed by Law. Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the Committee, to whom the Bill for repairing and widening the Road from Tonbridge to Maidfione, in the County of Kent, is committed, that they have Power to make Provilion in the faid Bill for repairing and widening the Road from Watts Crofs, in the Parilh of Tonbridge, through the Parilhes of Leigh and Pen/burf, to Cowden, in the laid A Petition of feveral of the Mortgagees and Truftees authorized to put in Execution an Aft of Parliament, palfed in the 27th Year of his late Majelly�s Reign, intituled, An Aft for repairing and widening the Road from a certain Intrenchment on Ajkerfwell Hill, oppofite to CLilcombe Farm, through the Town of Bridpcrt, to Penn Inn, and from Bridport aforefaid, to the Town of Bcamijier, in the County of Dorfet, and alfo the Road from Penn Inn aforefaid, through the Town of Axmin- ficr, to the Workhoufe at the Eaft End of the Town of Honiton, in the County of Devon, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, that the Petitioners are informed of a Petition now before the Houle, for a Bill for the Amendment of an Aft, for repairing and widening the Road from the Half-way Houfe, in the Parilh of Lower Compton, in the County of Dorfet, through Teovil, and alfo for extending the Road from the faid Town of Chard, through the Parilh of Stockland, to the Eaft End of the Town of Honiton, or fome fuch like Purpoies ; and reprefenting, that there already is a very good Turnpike Road from the laid Town of Chard, through the Town of Axminfer, to Honiton, much upon a Level, and more eafy and commodious to Travellers than the Road petitioned for can be made, by reafon of the many vaft large Hills lying between Chard and Stockland, and Stockland and Honiton, and no Houfe upon the whole Road for the Accommodation of Travellers, in Cafes of Accident; and that if an Aft Ihould pafs for extending the Road from Chard, through Stockland, to Honiton, it will caufe fo great a Diminution of the Tolls arifing from the Road already amended, from Penn Inn aforefaid, to the Eaft End of the Town of Honiton, that the fame will not be a fufficient Security to the Mortgagees for the Monies they have advanced, nor the Roads kept in Repair: And therefore praying, That the Petitioners may be heard, by their Counfel, againft the Bill fo prayed for by rhe faid Petition, or that they may have fuch other Relief in the faid Premifes, as to the Houfe fhall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition do lie upon the Table, until the laid Bill be read a Second Time. A Meflage from the Lords, by Mr. Edwards and Mr. Montagu: Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft to permit the free Importation of Cattle from Ireland, without any Amendment: And alfo, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for rendering more efFeftua! an Aft, made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of her late Majclly Queeen Anne, intituled, An Aft for providing a Public Reward for fuch Perlon or Perfons as fhall difeover the Longitude at Sea, with regard to the making Experiments of Pro- pofals made for difeovering the Longitude, without any Amendment: And alfo, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft to to enable William Ager, and his I flue, to take and ufe the Surname of Turner, without any Amendment. And then rhe Mcflengers withdrew. The Houfe being informed, that Mr. Rowe, from the Commiftioners of the Cuftoms in Scotland, attended at the Door ; he was called in ; and, at the Bar, prefepted to the Houfe, purfuant to their Order, An Account of the Quantity of foreign manufactured Gloves and Mittins, imported into that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, for Seven Years, to Midfummer laft ; diftinguidnng each Year; together with the Duties paid on the Importation thereof. And then he withdrew. And the Title of the laid Account was read. Ordered, That the faid Account do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. The laid Account is preferved amongft the other Papers of this Sefiion. The Lord Carysfort prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for enlarging the Term and Powers of feveral Ads of the 9th and 12 th Years of Queen Anne, and of the 13 th of George the Firft, and of the 14th of his late Majefty, for repairing the Highways leading from Royfon, in the County of Hertford, to Wansford Bridge, in the County of Huntingdon ; fo far as relates to the Middle and South Divifions of Road comprized in the faid Afts �, and for amending the Road from the Town of Huntingdon, to the Town of Somerjham, in the faid County of Huntingdon: And the lame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolded, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Petition of the Gentlemen, Land Owners, and Chief Inhabitants of the feveral Towns and Parilhes of Somerfam, Bluntijham, Earith, Colne, Ridley cum Fenton, Warboys, and Old Hurf, in the County of Huntingdon, whole Names are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Taking Notice, That Leave hath been given to bring in a Bill for enlarging the Term and Powers of feveral Ads of Parliament, for repairing the Highways leading from Royfton, in the County of Hertford, to Wansford Bridge, in the County of Huntingdon ; fo far as the lame relates to the Middle and South Divifions of the faid Highways; and alfo for amending the Road from Huntingdon to Scmerfam ; and fetring forth, that if a Bill be brought in for amending the laid Road, which leads from Huntingdon through Fidley, to Somerjbam aforefaid, it will be of great Advantage to that Part of the Country, and likewife of Public Utility : And therefore praying, That the fame may pals into a Law. Ordered, That the faid Petition do lie upon the Table. The Houfe was moved, that an Aft, made in the 26th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled, An Aft for permitting the Importation of Wool, and Woollen, or Bay Yarn, from any Port in Ireland, to any Port in Great Britain, might be read. And the fame being read accordingly; Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon this Day Sevennight, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confiderof the faid Ad. Ordered, That the Account of the Quantity of Wool, Woollen, and Bay Yarn, imported from Ireland into England, from Midfummer 1750 to Midfummer 1764; what Quantity each Year; and alfo the Ports from and to which the fame was exported and imported ; be referred to the laid Committee. Ordered, That the Report from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor, within that Part of Great Britain called England, was committed, be taken into Confidtration upon this Day Sevennight. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to enable His Majefty, with the Advice of His Privy Council, to prohibit the Exportation of Wheat, Wheaten Meal, Flour, Bread, Bifcuit, and Starch, during the next Recefs of Parliament, at fuch Time, and in fuch Manner, as the Neceflity of rhe Time may require, and He, in His Wifdom, Hiall think convenient and needful : And that Sir William Meredith, Mr. Mawbcy, and Sir George Savile, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of the Committee of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, being offered to be pre- fented to the Houfe ; Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Majefty�s Command, acquainted the Houfe, that His Majefty, having been informed of the Contents of the faid Petition, recommends it to the Confidcration of the Houfe. Then the faid Petition was brought up, and read ; Setting forth, That the Petitioners have laid before the Houfe, an Account of the Sum granted for 1763 ; and have inverted the Money granted in 1764, in Goods, Stores, and Neceflaries for the Support of the feveral Forts upon the faid Coafts ; that, being fenfible of the great Regard fhewn by the Houfe for the Britijh Fons and Settlements upon the Coaft of Africa, they humbly pray the Houfe to grant fuch a Sum for the neceffary Support thereof for the enfuing Year, as (hall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of a Committee of the whole Houfe. Refolded, That this Houfe will, upon Tuefday Seven- night, the 12th Day of March next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider of the faid Petition. The Order of the Day being re;.d, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill for more effcftually preventing the Mif- chiefs arifing to the Revenue and Commerce of Great Britain and Ireland, from the illicit and clandeftine Trade to and from the Ide of Man ; and alfo upon the Bill for more effeftually fupplying the Export Trade of this Kingdom to Africa, with fuch Coarfe Printed Calli- coes and other Goods, of the Produft or Manufafture of the Eajt Indies, or other Places beyond the Cape of Good Hope, as are prohibited to be worn and ufed in Great Britain; for encouraging the Importation of Bugles into this Kingdom, for the better Supply of the Export Trade thereof; and for difeontinuing the Bounty payable in Great Britain, and all Bounties and Allowances in Ireland, upon the Exportation of Corn, Grain, Malt, Meal, and Flour, from thence to the Ide of Man; Ordered, That the feveral Papers which have been prefented to the Houfe in this Seffion of Parliament, relating to the lile of Alan, be referred to the faid Committee. Then the Houfe refolved itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Paterfon took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr. Paterfon reported from the Committee, That they had gone through the Bill for more effeftually preventing the Mifchiefs ariiing to the Revenue and Commerce of Great Britain and Ireland, from the illicit and clandeftine Trade to and from the Ide of Alan, and had mack feveral Amendments thereunto ; which they haddirefted 1 him 5 GEO. III. Journals of the I him to report, when the Houfe will pleafe to receive the fame. Ordered, That the Report be received upon this Day Sevennight. Mr. Paterfon alfo acquainted the Houfe, that he was directed by the Committee to move, that they may have Leave to fit again. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon this Day Sevennight, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill for the more effeftually fupplying the Export Trade of this Kingdom to Africa, with fuch Coarfe Printed Callicoes and other Goods, of the Pro- dud or Manufacture of the Eafl Indies, or other Places beyond the Cape of Good Hope, as are prohibited to be worn and ufed in Great Britain ; for the encouraging the Importation of Bugles into this Kingdom, for the better Supply of the Export Trade thereof; and for dif- continuing the Bounty payable in Great Britain, and all Bounties and Allowances in Ireland, upon the Exportation of Corn, Grain, Malt, Meal, and Flour, from thence to the Ilie of Man. The other Order of the Day being read; Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Wednefday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the feveral Acts, made in the 26th, 28th, and 30th Years of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, for the Amendment and Prefervation of the Public Highways and Turnpike Roads of this Kingdom, and for the effectual Execution of the Laws relating thereto. Ordered, That Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer have l.eave to make a Motion, it being I lalf an Hour after Five of the Clock. And he moved the Houfe accordingly. Refolded, That this Houfe will, upon Monday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider what Rights of the Proprietor of the Ifle of Man, under the feveral Grants of the laid Bland, it may be expedient to veft in the Crown, for the further and more effectual preventing the Mifchiefs arifing to the Revenue and Commerce of Great Britain and Ireland, from the illicit and clandeftine Trade to and from the faid Bland; and what Compenfation it may be proper to make to the faid Proprietor, in refpeft thereof. And then the Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. Veneris, i� die Martti loufe of Commons. 197 Mr. Coventry, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Cuf, Mr. Bolton, Sir William Baker, Mr. Whichcot, Lord Frederick Campbell, Mr. Sbiffner, Mr. Onflow, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Fown- fend, Sir Charles Kemys Fynte, Mr. Buller, Mr. Buller, Mr. Burrell ; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of dork, Durham, Northumberland, Lincoln, and Nottingham: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Colonel Barre prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill fur naturalizing Henrietta Rofa Peregrin* Fownfend, Wife of 'James Fownfend Efquire: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Bill for repairing and widening the Road from Barton Waterfde Houfe, to Rifebam Hedge Corner, and feveral other Roads, in the County of Lincoln, therein mentioned, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Wbicheat, Lord Brownlow Bertie, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Demp- fler, Sir Richard Bampfylde, Lord Strange, Mr. Fone- reau, Mr. Harvey, Sir John Glynne, Sir William Maynard, Sir Jarrit Smith, Lord Burgbcrjh, Mr. Cholmley, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Mr. Kynajlon, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Praed, Mr. Serjeant Hewitt, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Eyre, Mr. Boulton, Sir Richard Mill, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Bentinck, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Coventry, Lord Frederick Camp* bell, Lord Warkworth, Mr. Fown/hend, Mr. Barrow, Mr. Onflow, Lord Cathcrlough, Mr. Buller, Mr. Butler, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Lewis, Sir Fbomas Cave �, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Lincoln, Fork, Nottingham, and Northampton: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. The Houfe was moved, that the Order, made Yefter- day, for the Second Reading of the Bill to enlarge the Term and Powers of an Aft, made in the 26th Year of his lateMajefty�s Reign, for repairing and widening the Road, from the Half-way Houfe, in the Parilh of Lower Compton, in the County of Dorfet, through the Towns of Feovil, Crewkerne, and Chard, to the Eaft End of the Town of Axminflcr, and feveral other Roads round the faid Town of Feovil, in the County of Somerfet-, fo far as the fame relates to the Road from Hafleborough Bridge, to the Eaft: End of the Town of Axminfler; and for repairing and widening the Road from Chard, through Stockland, to Honiton, in the County of Devon, upon Monday Morning next; might be read. Anil the fame was read accordingly. Ordered, That the faid Order be difeharged. Ordered, That the faid Bill be read a Second Time, upon Wcdnefday Morning next. A Bill for dividing and inclofing certain Open Common Fields, Lands, and Grounds, in Ellerker, in the Parifh of Brantingham, in the Eaft Riding of the County of Fork, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Hewett, Mr, Coventry, Mr. Kynaflon, Mr. Sibtborpe, Mr. Rujh- out, Sir William Maynard, Mr. Praed, Sir Charles Mordaunt, General Bofcawen, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Butler, Mr. Waller, Sir Simeon Stuart, Sir John Glynne, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Mr. Sbiffner, Lord Strange, Mr. Calvert, Lord Burgberjh, Sir Richard Mil, Mr, Bertie, Sir Richard Bampfylde, Sir William Baker, Mr. Elliot, Sir George Savile, Sir Roger Newdigate, Mr. Barrow, Lord Grey, Mr. Fownjhcnd, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Buller, Mr. Burrell', and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Nottingham, Fork, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, Weftmoreland, and Lancafier ; And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five or the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. E e c A Bill A Bill for dividing and inclofing feveral Open and �Common Fields, Lands, and Grounds, in the Parifh of Beaten, in the Eaft Riding of the County of York, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Hewett, Lord Warkworth, Mr. Praed, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Sibthorpe, Mr. Barrow, Sir William Maynard, General Bofcawen, Sir Jar- rit Smith, Mr. Boulton, Mr. Cup, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Serjeant Hewitt, Sir Walter Bagot, Mr. Cholmley, Mr. Hutchings, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Mr. Lewis, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Prow/e, Lord Carysfort, Sir Robert Long, Mr. Parker, Sir Alexander Grant, Lord Grey, Mr. Buller, Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. Ru/hout, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Plumptre, Mr. Gray, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Fonereau, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Buller, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Grey, Mr. Bull, Lord Burgherjh; and all the Members who fcrve for the Counties of Fork, Nottingham, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, Wejtmoreland, and Lancafter: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Petition of the Church-wardens and Overfeers of the Poor, the Veftrymen, and other principal Inhabitants of the Pari flies of Saint Margaret and Saint John the. Evangelift, Saint Martin in the Fields, Saint George Hanover Square, Saint Clement Danes, Saint Mary Le Strand, Saint Anne, and Saint Paul Covent Garden, within the Liberty of Weftminfter, in the County of Middlefex, on behalf of themfelves and the reft of the Inhabitants there, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth. That the Petitioners obferve, by the Votes, that the Application of the Lord Mayor, Aidermen, and Commons of London, to Parliament, for pulling down and removing the Gaol of Newgate, in that City, is renewed ; and that it is thereby alleged, that Two Thirds of the Prifoners committed to that Gaol are County Prifoners, with a View, as the Petitioners conceive, to put fome Part of the Charge of that Work upon the Petitioners ; and that the faid Liberty of Weftminfter being One of the Divifions of the County of Middlefex, the Petitioners do contribute to the Maintenance of New Prifon, and the Houles of Correction at Clerkenwell and Tothill Fields ; and that the Rates for rebuilding and repairing of Prifons and Bridges, and divers other public Ufes, being raifed out of the Poors Rates, the Taxing of the County of Middlefex, for removing and re-edifying of Newgate, will involve the Petitioners in a large Expence, proportionable to their Quota of the Poors Rates, which are already very heavy -, that the Petitioners conceive themfelves more remotely benefited by the Gaol of Newgate, than any other Inhabitants of the faid County, the Gatehoufe of Wejlminjler being the Common Gaol of the faid Liberty, and more conveniently fituated for the faid Inhabitants; that as the Petitioners are informed, that the Gaol of Newgate was originally built and always repaired by and for the Eafe and Benefit of the City, without any Aid from the County of Middlefex: Therefore praying the Protection of the Houfe againft any Charge that may be attempted tube thrown upon the faid Inhabitants, towards fuch intended Re edification. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aidermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council aifcmbled, is referred. A Bill for inclofing and dividing the Open Common Fields, Meadows, Paftures, and Common Grounds, in the Manor and Parilh of Teiford, in the County of Lincoln, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Sibthorpe, Mr. Glover, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Mawbey, Mr. Edmonjione, Mr. Parker, Mr. Prozvfe, Mr. Methuen, Mr. Wood, Mr. Bond, Lord Grey, Sir Richard Bampfylde, Mr. Delaval, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Brudencll, Mr. Hayes, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Ward, Sir Robert Long, Sir Riihard Mill, Lord Frederick Campbell, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Cholmoudeky, Mr. Sulivan, Sir Francis Vincent, Colonel Bane, Mr. Gray, Mr. Webb, Mr. Barrow, Lord Warkworth, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Rujhout, Mr. Shiftier, Mr. Plumptre, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Butter, Mr. Buller, Mr. Cholmley, Mr. Fuller, Sir William Maynard, Mr. Boulton, Lord Burgherjls -, and all the Members who fcrve for the Counties of Lincoln, Fork, Nottingham, and Northampton ; And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. An ingrofled Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Meadows, Paftures, and Wafte Grounds, in the Manor of Long Eaton, in the Parifh of Sawley, in the County of Derby, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Aft for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Meadows, Paftures, and Wafte Grounds, in the Manor of Long Eaton, in the Parilh of Sawley, in the County of Derby. Ordered, That Mr. Kynajlon do carry the Bill to the Lords, anddefire their Concurrence. Mr. Ruf out prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for continuing the Terms of feveral Ads, and for giving further Powers, for repairing the Road leading from Chapel on the Heath, in the County of Oxford, to Bourton on the Hill, in the County of Gloucejler : And the fame was received j and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Bill for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair, the Road leading from the Turnpike Road dn Hurft Green, in the County of Suf ex, through Etching- ham and Burwajh, to the Extent of the faid Parifh of Burwa/h, in the faid County, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Butler, Mr. Rujhout, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Forrefter, Mr. Delaval, Mr. Fuiier, Mr. Brudenell, Sir Bennet Garrard, Sir George Colebr 00k e, Mr. Maw bey, Mr. Dowdejwell, Mr. Martin, Lord Down, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Ward, Mr. Methuen, Lord Grey, Mr. Sulivan, Sir Thomas Cave, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Lord George Sackville, Sir Roger Newdigate, Mr. Plumptre, Mr. Glover, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Har- bord, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Lewis, Sir William Maynard, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Eyre, Mr. Pelham, Mr. Robinfon, Mr. Norris, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Fonereau; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Sujfex, Surrey, Southampton, and Kent; and for the Cinque Ports: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker's Chamber. A Bill for naturalizing John His, John Henry Ernft, and John Michael Platz, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Lewis, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Ru/hout, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Brudentll, Mr. Vane, Mr. Shiffner, Sir Richard Mill, Mr. Edmonftone, Mr. Webb, Mr. Wbichcot, Mr. Ward, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Foley, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Delaval, Lord Grey, Sir Robert Lad- broke, Mr. Mawbey, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Harb ord, Mr. Fairfax, Mr. Parker, Mr. Bertie, Mr. Shuttleworth, Mr. Methuen, Mr. Fuller, Sir William Meredith, Mr. Barrow, Mr. Garth, Mr. Curzon, Mr. Plumptre, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Drake, Mr. Morgan, Sir Thomas Hales, Sir Geo>ge Savile, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Lane, Lord George Sackville, Mr. Shiffner, Sir William Maynard, Mr. Eyre, Mr. Pelham, Mr. Robinfon, Mr. Norris, Sir Roger Newdigate, Mr. Lowndes, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Mr. Town- jhend, >ufe of Commons. 199 had directed him to report to the Houfe ; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at rhe Clerk�s Table: Where the Report was read. And the Amendments, made by the Committee to the laid Bill, as far as Fo. 33. 1. 2, being feverally read a Second Time, upon the (^ueftion feverally put thereupon, fome of them were difagreed to, and the reft were agreed to, by the Houfe. Ordered, That the further Confidcration of the faid Report be adjourned till Monday Morning next. Mr. Butler reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for continuing the Term, and altering and en- ^rg'nn ^e P�*cr$ of an Aft, palled in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty, for amending, widening, and keeping in Repair, the Roads leading from the Village of Milford, in the County of Surrey, through Petworth, to the Top of Dunckton Hill; and from Petworth to Stopham Bridge, in the County of Suf- fex-, was committed; That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments there; nto; which they had directed him to report to the Houfe ; and he read the Report in his Place ; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in ar the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout ; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the 1 loufe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofled. A Bill for dividing and allotting feveral Open Fields, Meadows, and Stinted Paftures, in the Townlhip of Fenton, in the Parifli of Kettletborpe, in the County of Lincoln, and a certain Free Common, called The Eft Moor, in the fame Parifh, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Bertie, Mr. Whichcot, Mr. Nugent, Lord Coleraine, Sir John Glynne, Sir Walter Blacket, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Townffend, Mr. Bouverie, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Walter, Mr. Prowfe, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Sulivan, Colonel Barre, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Scudamore, Mr. Martin, Mr. Milles, Sir John Delaval, Mr. Plumptre, Mr. Damer, Mr. Butler, Mr. Barrow, Mr. Dowdefwell, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Mr. Mawbey, Mr. Jackfon, Sir Robert Long, Sir Walter Bagot, Mr. Bagot, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Lord Grey, Mr. Gray, Mr. Grey, Mr. Fonereau, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Mr. Hayes, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Lewis, Sir William Maynard-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Lincoln, Nottingham, Fork, and Northampton : And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Bill for rebuilding the Parifh Church of Allhallows on the Wall, in the City of London, and for rebuilding the Houfe belonging to the Rector of the faid Parifh, and for purchafing feveral Pieces of Ground and Tenements thereon, to render the PafTages to and from the faid Church and Houfe more commodious, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Sir Robert Ladbroke, Sir Walter Blacket, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Mr. Fonereau, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Prefcot, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Gray, Me. Bertie, Mr. Touchet, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Boulton, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Pryce Campbell, Mr. Aiderman Beckford, Mr. Jackfon, Mr. Edmonfone, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Cujl, Mr. Clive, Mr. Boone, Sir Samuel Fludyer, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Mr. Rigby, Mr. Dowdefwell, Mr. Kynajlon, Lord Grey, Mr. Parker, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. CbolmLy, Sir Roger Newdigate, Sir Alexander Grant; and all the Members who ferve for the City of Lo :don, and Which Evidence was confirmed by Mr. Collier. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for amending the Road from Chattel is Ferry, through Chatteris and March, to Wijbecb Saint Peters, and from thence to Tid Gate, in the I fie of Ely; and from Wijbcch afore- faid, through Oulwell, to Downham Bridge, in the County of Norfolk; and for repealing the feveral Afts for repairing the faid Road between Wljlecb and March: And that Sir John Hynde Cotton and the Lord Carysfcrt do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Sir Charles Mordaunt prefented to the I loufe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Common Paftures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and^Wafte Grounds, of and in the Parifh and Liberties of Spratton, in the County of Northampton: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolded, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Mr. Cbolmley reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, and Grounds, within the Townfhip of Ul- rome, otherwife Owram, in Holdernefs, in the County of Fork, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Parties concerned had given their Confent to the Bill, to the Satisfaftion of the Committee ; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto; which they had direfted him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place ; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with rhe Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofled. Ordered, That there be laid before this Houfe, an Account of the Qiiantity of Wool, Woollen Yarn, and Bay Yarn, imported into this Kingdom from Ireland, from Midfummer 1740 to Midfummer 1751 ; diftinguifli- ing each Year. Ordered, That there be laid before this Houfe, an Account of the Quantity of Woolfells, Shortlings, Mort- lings, Wool-flocks, Worfted Cloth, Serge, Bays, Ker- feys. Says, Frizes, Druggets, Cloth Serges, Shalloons, or any other Drapery Stuffs, or Woollen Manufaftures whatfoever, made up or mixed with Wool or Woolflocks, imported into this Kingdom from Ireland, from Midfummer 1743 to Midfummer 1764; diftinguifhing each Year; and alfo a Lift of the Ports in Ireland, from whence the faid Goods have been exported ; and a Lift of the Ports in Great Britain, to which they have been imported. Sir William Meredith prefented co the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill to enable His Majefty, with the Advice of His Privy Council, to prohibit the Exportation of Wheat, Wheaten Meal, Flour, Bread, Bifcuit, and Starch, during the next Recefs of Parliament, at fuch Time, and in fuch Manner, as the Neceflky of the Time may require, and He, in His Wifdom, fliall think convenient and needful: And the fame was received ; and read rhe Firft Time. Refolded, I hat the Bill be read a Second Time. I.ord Charles Spencer reported to the Houfe, that their Addrefs of Wednefday laft, that His Majefty would be gracioufly pleafed to give Direftions, that the Account therein mentioned might be laid before this 1 loufe, had been prefented to I hs Majefty; and that I lis Majefty had commanded him to acquaint this 1 loufe, that He will give Direftions accordingly. Ordtref That the feveral Accounts and Eftimatcs, which have been prefented to this Houfe, in this or any former Scflion of Parliament, relating to the Hofpiral for rhe Maintenance and Education of Expofed and De- ftned young Children, be referred to the Confideration of a Committee : And that they do confider of the prefect State of that Hofpiral, and of the moft proper Means for the future Support and Employment of the Children who have been received into the laid Hofpiral; and report the fame, with their Opinion thereupon, to the I loufe : And a Committee was appointed of Lord Coleraine, Mr. Harvey) Mr. Nugent) Lord Orwell Mr. Fuller, Mr. Fownjhcnd, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Waller, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Cat entry. Lord Midleton, Mr. Sibthorpe, Mr. Rigby, Sir Reger Newdigate, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Fouchet, Lord Catbcrlough, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Dyfon, Mr. Milles, Mr. Edmonftone, Lord Harrington, Mr. Fitzheibert, Sir Join Clywie, Colonel Hotham, Mr. Elliot, Lord Robert Bertie, Mr. Secretary at War, Lord Strange, Mr. Har- berd, Lord George Sackville, Mr. Harris, Colonel Barre, I.ord North, Mr. Martin, Mr. Fitzmaurice, General Howard, Sir Robert Long, Mr. Prefect, Sir Charles Kewys Fyntc, Mr. Fane, Mr. Proufe, Mr. Kynaflou, Mr. Ryder, Lord Rurgbcrjh, Mr. Prat, Mr. Onflow, Lord Downe, Mr. Mawbey, Mr. Rice, Mr. Dowdefwell, Mr. Wilbraham Beetle, Mr. Jackfon, Mr. Aiderman Beckford, Mr. Parker, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Montagu, Mr, Grenville, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Clive, Sir William Meredith, Mr. Fomreatt, Mr. Gilbert, Lord Brownlow Bertie, Mr. Bacon, Sir George Pocock, Sir George Pigot, Mr. Walpole, Sir John Delava!, Mr. Grey, Lord Grey : And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber; and have Power to fend for Perfons, Papers, and Records; and all who come are to have Voices. Mr. Kynnfton, according to Order, reported from the Committee of the whole 1 loufe, to whom the Bill to repeal an Aft, palled in the Twenty-lixth Year of the Reign of his late Majelly King George the Second, intituled, An Aft. for the better preventing of Clandeftir.c Marriages ; and to encourage and facilitate Marriages to be folemnized in Churches or Public Chapels, under a Publication of Banns, or by Licences �, and to remove all Doubts which have ariftn, or may arife, concerning the Validity of certain Marriages folemnized fince the making the laid Aft; and for the regulating RegUlcrs; and for preferving the Evidence of Pedigrees; was com- milted; the Amendments which the Committee had made to the Bill; and which they had di reded him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Report was read. And the Amendments, made by the Committee to the laid Bill, as far as the Amendments in Fo. 5. Lit. being fcverally read a Second Time; upon the C^ieflion feverally put thereupon, feme of them were poftponed ; and the reft were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the laid Bili be re-committed. Ordered, That the laid Bill be re-committed to a Committee of the whole Houle. Refclved, That this Houle will, upon Monday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the faid Bill. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of Ways and Means for railing rhe Supply granted to His Majelly ; Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Monday Morning next, refolve itfelf into the laid Committee. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houle, to confider further of the Supply granted to His Majefty ; Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Monday Morning next, refolve itfelf into the faid Committee. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole I loufi., upon the Bill for the more effectual preventing the Stealing of filh and Rabbits; Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Monday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon rhe faid Bill. The other Order of the Day being read ; The Houfe refolved itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill for the regulating Qualifications of the Proprietors of Eajl India Stock. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Bolton took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr. Bolton reported from the Committee, That they had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto; which they had direfted him to report, when the Houfe will pieafe to receive the fame. Ordered, Thar the Report be received upon this Day Sevennight. And then the Houfe adjourned till Monday Morning next, Nine of the Clock, F f f L^, Lunacy 4' die Martii; Anno 5* Georgii IIF*' Regis, 1765. PRAYERS. A PETITION of the feveral Perfons, whofe Names are thereunto fubfcribed, in behalf of themfelves and the reft of the Inhabitants of the 1 lundred of Edmonton and Gore, in the County of Middlefex, was pre- fented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Petitioners are informed, by the Votes of the Houfe, of an Application, by Petition, from the City of London, being renewed, for making the Petitioners, among other Inhabitants of that County, contributary to the Expences of taking away, rebuilding, or enlarging the Gaol of Newgate, fi mate in the City of London-, that the Petitioners conceive, they are nor, by any Law or Cuftom, compelled to pay any Part of the Expences of taking down, altering, or rebuilding the laid Gaol: And therefore praying the Houfe will give them Liberty to be heard, by themfelves or Counfel, againft any Application that may be made to charge them. Ordered, That the laid Petition be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aidermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council aiTembled, is referred ; and that thefe Petitioners be heard, by them- felves, or Counfel, before the faid Committee, upon their Petition, if they think fit. A Bill for dividing and inclofing feveral Lands and Grounds, in the Parifh of Aukborough, in the County of Lincoln, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Which- rot, Mr. Kynafcn, Lord Catherlough, Mr. Bond, Sir Thomas Cave, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Bur- rard, Sir John Glynne, Lord Strange, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Blackjlone, Mr. Hume, Mr. Walter, J.ord North, Mr. Pitt, Mr. Barrow, Mr. Vane, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Paterfon, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Drax, Lord Brownlow Bertie, Mr. Sandys, Sir Alexander Grant, Lord Orwell, Mr. Long, Sir Robert Long, Sir John Wynne, Mr. Drummond, Mr Martin, Sir George Cole- broke, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Burt, Mr. Jackfon, Lord Downe, Sir George Amyand, Mr. Fitzmaurice, Mr. Wil- kinfon, Mr. Prefect, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Cujl, Mr. Whitworth, Sir William Maynard, Mr. Townffend, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Rigby, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Norris; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Fork, Durham, Lancajler, Lincoln, and Cumberland: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. An ingrofled Bill from the Lords, intituled. An Ad for veiling the fettled Eftates of Ann Wilfon, Widow, and Ann Wilfon her Daughter, an Infant, in Truftees, to be fold, for difeharging the Debts and Incumbrances ifffcfting the fame, was read a Second Time. Refolved,That the Bill be committed to Mr. Wilkinfon, Mr. Fitzherbcrf, Mr. Prefcot, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Kynaflon, Lord Orwell, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Price Campbell, Mr. Morant, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Willoughby, Mr. Mel- lifh, Sir Lionel Pilkington, Mr. Norris, Sir John Turner, Mr. Gore, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Serjeant Hewitt, Mr. Hr wett, Mr. Calvert, Lord Charles Montagu, Lord Caryf- fort, L.ord Frederick Campbell, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Which- tot, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Cuft, Sir Thomas Gave, Mr. IF hit worth, Sir William Maynard, Mr. Townf- b^d, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Luttrell-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Fork, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, Lancajler, and Lincoln: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. An ingrofled Bill for continuing the Term, and altering and enlarging the Powers, of an Aft, pafled in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty, for amending, widening, and keeping in Repair, the Roads leading from the Village of Milford, in the County of Surrey, through Petwcrth, to the Top of Dunckton Hill; and from Petworib to Stopbam Bridge; in the County of Suffex-, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Aft for continuing the Term, and altering and enlarging the Powers, of an Aft, pafled in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty, for amending, widening, and keeping in Repair, the Roads leading from the Village of Milford, in the County of Surrey, through Petwcrth, to the Top of Dunckton Hill; and from Petwcrth to Stopbam Bridge; in the County of Sujfex. Ordered, That Mr. Butler do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. Mr. Rice reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of feveral Gentlemen, and other Inhabitants of the County of Car mar then, was referred, That the Committee had examined the Matter of the laid Petition; and had direfted him to report the fame, as it appeared to them, to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the fame was read; and is as followeth; viz. To prove rhe Allegations of the faid Petition, Richard Powell Efquire, and Charles Phillips Efquire, were feverally examined, by whofe Evidence it appeared, that the feveral Roads leading from Pont ar Ddylais, being the Borders of the County of Glamorgan, to and through the Towns of Llanelly, and Kidwelly, to Carmarthen Bridge, and from the Town of Kidwelly afore- faid, to the Ferry of Llanjiephan, and from thence, through the Town of Llangbarn, to Tajin Spite, in the Parifh of Kiffig, and from the faid Town of Llangbarn to Saint Clear's Bridge-, from the Town of Llandilo- fawr, over Llandilo Bridge, through or by the Village of Llandebye, to a certain Place on the Mountain of Bcttus, where the Counties of Carmarthen and Glamorgan ]oin, near a Place called Penllyr Cajtell-, and from the laid Town of Llandilo-fawr to Golden Grove Park Gate-, and from the faid Town of Llandilo-fawr, Two Miles on the Road leading by Pen-coed, towards Wenallt, and the Great Mountain ; and from a Place called Efair-fach, lying on the Road leading from Llandilo- fawr aforefaid, to the Village of Llandebye aforefaid, by Trcgib Mill, and Manorabon, to the Borders of the Parilh of Llangadock, being the Road leading to the Market Town of Llangadock-, and from Tregib Mill aforefaid, by Tregib Houfe, to a certain Place called Tafrny Trap, in the Parifh of Llandilo-fawr aforefaid; and from rhe faid Village of Llandebye, by a Place called Pentrejgevenles, to the Borders of the Parifh of Idanfhangel Aberbylbick, and from the faid Village of Llandebye, through the River Lajh, to the Great Mountain Gate, being the Road leading to the Market Town of Llanelly ; and from Pont ar Ddylais, over the Foreft, and a certain Common called Mynydd Fferws, to join the Road leading from Llandebye Village, to Be 'ttus Mountain, between a certain Place on the faid Road, called Pont Llwynffbl, and the River Amman, and from a Place on the faid Road, leading from Llandebye Village aforefaid, to Pont Llwynffbl aforefaid, called Caufey Garw, for Half a Mile towards Pen y Lian Barn, being the High Road leading by Llewl- Iwebcor, over the Black Mountain, towards the Market Town of Brecon; are in a ruinous Condition, and cannot be effectually repaired by the ordinary Courfe of Law. And to prove the Allegations of the Second mentioned Petition, the before named Witnefles were feverally examined; and faid, T hat the Road from the Town of Llangbarn, through a Lane, be, An Aft for continuing and rendering more effeftual Two Afts, palfed in the 12th Year of King George the Firft, and 20th of his late Majefty, for repairing the feveral Roads therein mentioned, in the Counties of EJjex and Suffolk; and for repairing and widening feveral other Roads in the Counties of Effex and Hertford. Ordered, That Sir William Maynard do carry the Bilj to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. Sir Simeon Stuart reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of feveral of the Truftees appointed to put in Execution an Aft, palfed in the 33d Year of the Reign of his lute Majefty, intituled, An Aft for repairing and widening the Roads from Oxdown Gate, in Popham Lane, to the City of Winchefter, and from the faid City, through Hurjley, to Chandlers Ford; and from Hurjley aforefaid, to rhe Turnpike Road at Romfey, and from the faid Turnpike Road, through Ringwood, in the County of Southampton, to Longham Bridge, and Winborn Minfter, in the County of Dorfet; and of feveral other Gentlemen, Clergy, and other Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County of Southampton, whole Names are thereunto fubferibed; was referred ; That the Committee had examined the Matter of the laid Petition ; and had direfted him to report the fame, as it appeared to them, to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place-, and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the fame was read -, and is as followeth �, viz. To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition, the faid Aft was read. And John White Efquire, being examined, faid, That the Truftees appointed by the faid Aft, have proceeded in the Execution thereof in refpeft to the Road called The Second Divifton, leading from the Weft Gate of the City of Wincheftcr, through Pit and Hurjley, to Chandlers Ford *, and from Hurjley, through Anfield, by New Pond, to the Turnpike Road at Romfey j and have borrowed the Sum of f. 2800. That the Tolls hitherto collefted on the faid Road, are an inadequate Security for the Money borrowed, and therefore it is propofed to ereft a Gate in a Street, called The Hundred, Part of the faid Road leading into Romfey, the Tolls of which, it is apprehended, will be much more than equal to the prefent Deficiency in the faid Divifion, and will afford a Surplus fufficient to amend and widen the Road from the laid Street through Cbilwortb to the River at Swat bling. Mr. John Jobnfon being examined, faid, That he knows the Road defcribed in the Petition, from the Street called The Hundred, to the River at Swatbling -, and from the faid River to the Turnpike Roads at Sherrill Heath, leading to Wickham. Waltham, and Droxford, in the County of Southampton ; and that the fame are in a very ruinous Condition, narrow in many Places, and cannot be repaired and widened by the ordinary Courfe of Law. Mr. Thomas Warner confirmed the Evidence of Mr. Jobnfon. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for repairing and widening the Road leading from a Street called The Hundred, at Romfey, through Cbilwortb, to the River at Swatbling, in the County of Southampton; and for connefting the fame with the Road leading from the City of Wincbefter, through Hurjley, to Chandlers Ford, and from Hurjley aforefaid, to the Turnpike Road at Romfey aforefaid -, and allo for repairing and widening the Road leading from rhe River at Swatbling aforefaid, through Bctley, to the Turnpike Road at Sherrill Heath, in the faid County of Southampton: And that Sir Simeon Stuart and Mr. Mellijh du prepare, and bring in, the fame. Mr. Hobart prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for repairing and widening feveral Pleads leading from Grantham, in the County of ZArwZ#; And the lame was received ; and read rhe Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. / 1 A Pc A Petition of Thomas Patterfen, of Hauxton Mills, in the County of Cambridge, Oil Merchant, was prefented to the Houle, and read; Setting forth. That the Petitioner and his Anceftors have, for the Space of Fifty Years laft pad, and upwards, poflefled and held by I .cafe from the Dean and Chapter of Ely, certain Oil Mills called Hauxton AfiZZsjJwith a Garden thereunto adjoining, and an Orchard; and that in the faid Garden are Four Large Filh Ponds well (locked with Filh, of confiderable Profit to the Petitioner; and that the Banks or the Sides of the faid Garden have been occupied by the Petitioner in depofiting Cifterns for pre- lerving his Oil from Fire, and are iikewife quite necef- fary for the more convenient Stowage of the Petitioner�s Seed, Oil Cakes, and other Goods belonging to his Trade, which, if obliged to be carried and placed at a greater Diftance from the faid Mills, will be attended with much Lofs and Detriment; and that the Petitioner obferves, by the Votes of the Houle, that a Bill is brought in for enlarging the Powers of ftveral Ads, for repairing the Road from Stump Crofs, to Newmarket Heath, and the Town of Cambridge, and from Foulmire, to Cambridge^, whereby, the Petitioner apprehends, it is intended to build a Bridge near his Mill Dam, and to turn the Road over fome Part of his faid Garden, Clofe or Orchard, which, he alleges, would be a great Prejudice and Inconvenience to him: And therefore praying, That he may be heard, by himfelf or Counfel, againft the faid Bill, fo far as the fame relates to his Garden and Clofe and Orchard; and that the Houle, will grant him fuch Relief in the Premifes, as Ihall be thought tic by the Houle, and as the Nature of the Cafe requires. Ordered, That the faid Petition do lie upon the Table, until the Bill for enlarging the Powers of feveral Acts, for repairing the Road from Stump Crofs, to Newmarket Heath, and the Town of Cambridge ', and from Foulmire to Cambridge ; and other Roads adjoining thereto ; fo far as the fame relate to the Road from Foulwre to Cambridge, and the faid other Roads adjoining thereto ; be read a Second Time*. Ordered, That all have Voices who come to the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Heath, and Wafte Grounds, and Commonable Places, in the Lordfliip and Liberties of Drayoot, in the Parlfh of Bourton, in the County of IHarwick, is committed. A Bill for enlarging the Term and Powers of feveral A6ts of the 9th and 1 2th Years of Queen June, and of the 13th of Gecrgc the Firft, and of the 14th of his late Majefty, for repairing the 1 lighways leading from Roy- Jlon, in the County of Hertford, to Wans ford Bridge, in the County of Huntingdon, fo far as relates to the Middle and South Divifions of Road comprized in the faid Acts; and for amending the Road from the Town of Huntingdon, to the Town of Somerjham, in the faid County of Huntingdon; was read a Second Time. Refolded, That the Bill be committed to Lord Caryf- fert, Mr. Eames, Mr. Kyne Ji on, Mr. Bull, Sir Robert Ladbrcke, General Honeywood, Mr. Wbichcot, Mr. Pitt, I .ord Charles Montagu, Lord Mdleton, Mr. Bond, Mr. Rigby, Lord Catherlougb, Mr. Touchet, Lord Grey, Mr. Myddletou, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Dyfon, Lord Or- wdl, Mr. Blnckjlone, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Melhjh, Mr. Priec Campbell, Mr. Town/hend, Sir Richard Bampfylde, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Mr. Gray, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Forrcjler, Mr. Burrard, Sir Jcrrit Smith, I.ord Burgberfo, Mr. Grey, Mr. A Herman Beckford, Sir John Gibbens, Mr. Dowdefwcll, Mr. Whitworth-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Huntingdon, Cambridge, Hertford, and Ljucobr. And they are tn meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Ordered, That all have Voices who come to the Committee, to whom the faid Bill is commit^. ^�7 765. The Houfe was moved, That the Petition of the Gentlemen, Land Owners, and chief Inhabitants of the feveral Towns and Parifhes of Somerjham, BluuUJham, Earith, Colne, Pidley cum Fenton, Warboys, and Old Huiji, in the County of Huntingdon, whofe Names arc thereunto fubferibed ; which was prefented to the Houfe upon Thurfday the 28th Day of February laft, and then ordered to lie upon the Table; might be again read. And the fame being read accordingly ; Ordered, 1�hat the faid Petition be referred to the faid Committee. A Petition of feveral of the Truftees appointed to put in Execution Two Ads of Parliament, pafled in rhe Firft and Fourteenth Years of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, for repairing the Roads leading from Chatteris Ferry, which divides the Ilie of Ely from the County of Huntingdon, to Hammonds Eau, and from thence to Somerjham Bridge, at Somerjham Towns End, in the faid County; and alfo of the feveral other Perfons refiding in or near the Towns of Somerjham, Woodhurjl, Saint Ives, Holywell with Nced- ingworth, Bluntijham, and Earith, in the faid County of Huntingdon, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed ; was prefented to the 1 loufe ; and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners having this Seflions obtained a Bill for continuing the Terms of feveral Acts, and for giving further Powers for repairing the Roads from Chatteris Ferry, to Hammonds Eau and Somerjham Bridge; and for amending and widening the Road from Somerjham Bridge to rhe Sheep Market in Saint Ives, and alfo the Road branchingout of the faid Road, near Stockbridge, through Needingworth, to Earith, io the County of Huntingdon; which will be, as the Petitioners apprehend, of great Convenience to the Country, and to all Perfons travelling out of the Ide of Ely, and the Counties of Lincoln and Norfolk, to London, and into the North and Weft Parts of England', and that, upon the prefling Application of feveral Inhabitants of fome of the Pariihes near the faid Road from Somerjham to Saint Ives, the Truftees of the faid Aft are, by a Claufe therein, re- ftrained from erefting any Toll Gates within certain Diftances of Somerjham, becaufe it was imagined an unlimited Power to ereft Toll Gates might be prejudicial to the faid Inhabitants, in removing their Stock from one Parilh or Place to another; and that, to the great Aftonifhment of the Petitioners, they are now informed, that Application is making to Parliament for a Bill to continue feveral Ads, for repairing Canton Road, and for repairing and amending an additional Road from Somerjham to Huntingdon, which, if pafled into a Law, as it now ftands, muft, with refpeft to the faid additional Road from Somerjham to Huntingdon therein mentioned, fubjecl the Inhabitants of Somerjham and the adjacent Parifhes to the fame Inconveniences provided againft by the faid reftraining Claufe in the above mentioned Act, in Confequence of the faid Application ; and that the Petitioners are confident, if the faid Bill fhould pafs into a Law, with the Lid additional Road, it will be of far greater Prejudice to the Road included in the Petitioners faid Bill, than it can be of Advantage to the Town of Huntingdon, or any Place through which it leads, the fame running near parallel and at a fmall Diftance from the faid other Road; and that the Road from Somerjham to Huntingdon, through Saint Ives, is very little more than a Mile further than the faid intended new additional Road from Somerjham, directly to Huntingdon, which muft, of Confequence, be a great Burthen to the Country, as it is highly improbable that the Tolls thereof will be fufficient to pay near the Intereft of the Money the faid Road will coft making and keeping in Repair, there being but very little Traffic; and that, in Cafe the faid Caxton Bill, with a Claufe for the faid additional Road, fhould pafs into a Law, the good Purpofes intended by the Petitioners faid 4 � Bill Bill will be in a great meafure fruftrated, as it will dif- courage Perlons from advancing Money on the Credit of their faid Road, whereby the Country will be deprived of a moil convenient Road, and the Petitioners put to a great Expence in palling the faid Aft to no Purpofe : And therefore praying the Houfe to take the faid Petition under Confideration, and that they may be heard, by themfelves or their Counfcl, againft the faid Bill, and that they may have fuch other Relief in the Premifesas to the Houfe (hall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Bill for enlarging the Term and Powers of feveral Afts of the 9th and 12th Years of Queen Anne, and of the 13th of George the Firft, and of the 14th of his late Majefty, for repairing the Highways leading from Royjion, in the County of Hertford, to Hansford Bridge, in the County of Huntingdon, fo far as relates to the Middle and South Divifions of Road comprized in faid Afts; and for amending the Road from the Town of Huntingdon, to the Town of Somerjham, in the faid County of Huntingdon ; is committed; and that the Petitioners be heard, by their Counfel, before the faid Committee, upon their faid Petition, if they think fir. Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the faid Committee, that they do admit Counfel to be heard, at the fame Time, in Favour of the faid Bill, againft the faid Petition. A Petition of the Inhabitants of the Town of Somer- Jham, in the County of Huntingdon, and alfo of feveral other Perfons refiding near the faid Town of Somerjham, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That many of the Petitioners have been, by the Per- fonal Application of John Cole Efquire, and his Agents, induced by falfe Suggeftions, to fee and fubferibe their Names to a Petition, for a Claufe to be inferred in the Caxton Road Bill, that a Turnpike Road might be made from the Town of Huntingdon, to the Town of Somer- Jham, leading through the Villages of Hartford, Old Hurff and Pidley �, in which faid Petition it is fet forth, that many Advantages and Conveniences would arife to the Town of Somerjham in particular, and the County in general; but the Petitioners, on more mature Confideration, find that they have been much impofed upon, and have Reafon to believe the Advantages propofed thereby are imaginary, and by no Means adequate co the Inconveniences and Burthens that will be thrown upon them by the intended Road, which will require Nine Miles, through a very deep Country, to be made good, which will be attended with great Expcnce, as the Materials for repairing the fame are very fcarce, and the Road from Huntingdon to Somerjham, through Saint Ives, will not require more than Five Miles to be made good, and will be done at a fmall Expence ; and that the Petitioners humbly hope, that this their Petition will be accepted, and that the Claufe intended to be in- ferted in the GW/OH Road Bill, to make a Turnpike Road from Huntingdon to Somerjham, through the Villages of Hartford, Old Hurjl and Pidley, may not ftand Part of the faid Bill. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Committee, to whom the faid Bill is committed. A Bill for repairing and widening the Road from Newcajile under Lyne, to Haffop-, and from Middle Hills to the Macclesfield Turnpike Road near Buxton-, and alfo the Road branching out of the faid Firft mentioned Road at Cobridge to Burjlcm, and to the Uttoxeter Turnpike at Shelton, in the County of Stafford; was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Lord Grey, Mr. Luttrell, Mr. Gore, Mr. Iwzvndes, Mr. Parker, Mr. Gafcoyne, Mr. Fuller, Lord Middlefex, Mr. Kynaf- ton. Sir John Glyr.ne, Mr. Barnard, Mr. By de, Mr. Bond, Mr. Delava!, Mr. Mawbey, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Townf- hend, Mr. Burt, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Powell, Mr. Rice, Mr. Drummond, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Barrow, Mr. Bagct, VOL. XXX. Mr. Burrell, Mr. Sulivan, Mr. Vane, Mr. Norris, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Sandys, Sir Charles Mcr daunt, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Bouverie, Mr. IVhicbcot, Mr. Shiffner, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Mr. Vouch*:, Lord Burgherfh, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Gray, Mr. Grey, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Mr. Long, Sir Robert Long �, and all die Members who ferve for the Counties of Lacefl er, Stafford, Northampton, Derly, and I Fer wick : And they are to meet this Afternoun, at l ive of the Clock, in the Speakers Chamber. A Bill for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair, the Road from Belford Bridge, in the County of Northampton, through Husbands Bofworth, and Great Wigjlon, to Miljlon Lane, in the Town of Leicefler, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Lord Grey, Mr. Gilbert, Sir William Baker, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Darner, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Barrow, Mr. Walter, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Whichcot, Mr. Pitt, Mr. Mlles, Mr. Weft, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Fitzmaurice, Mr. Byde, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Fuller, Sir William Beauchamp ProAor, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Mr. Dundas, Mr. Glover, Mr. Luttrell, Mr. Cuff Mr. Touchet, Lord Frederick Campbell, Mr. Rufhout, Mr. Delaval, Mr. Martin, Mr. Price Campbell, Mr. Edmonjlone, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Kynajlon, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Bott- verie, Mr. Shiffner, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Way, Mr. Long, Sir Robert Long, Mr. Buller, Mr. Willoughby, Mr. Dowdefwell, Mr. Forrejler, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Legb, Mr. Bond, Sir Edward Bayntun, Lord Downe, Sir William Maynard, Sir Jar rii Smith, Mr. Methuen -, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Leicefler, Northampton, Stafford, Derby, and Warwick : And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Mr. Whichcot reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Common and Wafte Grounds, in the Parilh of Rothwell, in the County of Lincoln, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true ; and that the Parties concerned had given their Confent to the Bill, to the Satisfaction of the Committee ; except William Bell, whofe Property is of the annual Value of �. 7. who refufed to fign the Bill, but faid he was willing to have his Land plotted, but was indifferent about the Inclofure ; but faid he would not oppofe the Bill; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto 5 which they had direfted him to report to the Houfe-, and he read the Report in his Place ; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One ; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, feveral of them were difagrecd to, and the reft were agreed to, by the Houfej and feveral Amendments were made, by the Houfe, to the Bill. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingroffed. A Bill for dividing and inclofing feveral Common Fields, Common Meadows, and Wafte Grounds, in the Parilh of Emload, in the County of Wcrcejler, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Dowdeff well, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Norris, Mr. Edmonftone, Mr. Burrard, Lord Grey, Mr. IVhicbcot, Mr. Bond, Mr. Ward, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Hewett, Sir Alexander Grant, Mr. Plnmptre, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Willoughby, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Price Campbell, Lord Strange, Mr. Cocks, Mr. Cuff Mr. Staunton, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Milles, Mr. de Grey, Mr. Hutchins, Mr. Rigby, Mr. Grey, Sir John Wynne, Mr. Touchet, Mr. Gore, Mr. But1 er, Mr. Forrejter, Mr. Legb, Mr. Fonereau, Sir Edward Bayntun, Lord Downe, Sir William Maynard, Str G g g Jerri: him to report to the Houfe ; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with .the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table : "Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One ; and, upon the Quellion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be in- grofled. A Bill for dividing and inclofing certain Open Common Fields, Lands, and Grounds, in Brantingham, and �Thorpe Brantingham, in the Parifh of Brantingham, in the Eaft Riding of the County of Fork, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Hewett, Mr. Hunter, Sir Lionel Pilkington, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Waller, Mr. Whichcot, Lord Strange, Mr. Shijfner, Sir Charles Hardy, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Dyfon, Mr. Glover, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Prefcot, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Sandys, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Norris, Mr. Grey, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Anfon, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Cuft, Sir Edmund Thomas, Mr. Jennings, Mr. Grofvtnor, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Beckford, Mr. Dowdefwell, Mr. Rice, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Serjeant Hewitt, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Fo- nereau, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Delaval, Mr. HuJ/ey; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Nottingham, Fork, Lancafter, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Weftmoreland: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Lord Brownlow Bertie reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of Theophilus Buckwortb Efquire, on behalf of himfelf and others, Proprietors of certain Old Inclofed Low Lands, adjoining to the North Side of Aftackby and Dowjby Fen, in the County of Lincoln, was referred, That the Committee had examined the Matter of the faid Petition ; and had direfted him to report the fame, as it appeared to them, to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the fame was read; and is as followeth ; viz. To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition, Mr. Thomas Meafure being examined, faid, That there are feveral Old Inclofed Low Lands lying within the Parifh of Aftackby, containing about 200 Acres, which are frequently overflowed ; that the faid Lands are adjoining to the Lands propofed to be drained in the Parifhes of Aftackby and Dowjby, and may conveniently be drained therewith, and which will be more fubjeft to be overflowed, if not included in the faid propofed Drainage. Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the Gentlemen, who are appointed to prepare and bring in a Bill for dividing and inclofing a certain Common Fen, in the Parifhes of Aftackby and Dowjby, in the County of Lincoln, and for draining and improving the faid Fen, that they do make Provifion in the faid Bill for draining anol improving certain inclofed Lands and Grounds, called The Low Grounds, containing Two hundred Acres, or thereabouts, lying within the faid Parifh of Ajlackby, and adjoining to the faid Fen. Ordered, That the Order of the Day, for refuming the adjourned Confideration of the Report, which was made from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Failures, Common Grounds, and Wafte Grounds, of and in the Manor of Wellingborough, and of and in the Manor of Wellingborough, formerly belonging to the College of Irtlingborough, and in the Parifh of Wellingborough, in the County of Northampton, was committed, be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly ; The Houfe refumed the adjourned Confideration of the faid Report. And the Refidue of the Amendments, made by the Committee to the faid Bill, being feverally read a Second manufafture it into Hats; and that the Petitioners ob- ferve, by the Votes, that it is ordered to be an Inftruction to the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill for the more effectually preventing the Stealing of Fifh and Rabbits, is committed, that they have Power to receive a Claufe, or Claules, for reftrainhvr Perfons from keeping Rabbits upon or near any Sea Bank or Sea Wall; and that Rabbits Fur being a very effen- tial and valuable Article in the Hat Manufafture, and growing in no other Place in the Perfeftion that it does in this Kingdom, and feveral Warrens having of late Years been deftroyed, and the Land applied to other Ufes, the Petitioners are apprehenfive, that a farther Demolition of Rabbit Warrens will be a Difadvantage to the Hat Manufaftory: And therefore praying the Houfe, in behalf of this great and valuable Branch of Manufafture, That if fuch Claufe, or Claufes, be received, they may be fo qualified, as to prevent the Confequences apprehended by the Petitioners; and that the Petitioners may have Liberty to be heard, by themfelves and Counfel, if neceffary, againft fuch Claufe, or Claufes ; and that they may have Time allowed to prepare proper Evidence from the different Countries, or that the Houfe will give them fuch other Relief in the Premifes, as the Houfe fhall think fit. Ordered, That the faid Petition do lie upon the Table. A Meffage from the Lords, by Mr. Holford and Mr. Lane: Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft to enable Richard Duppa Clerk, heretofore called Richard Hancorn, and his Heirs Male, to take and ufe the Surname and Arms of Duppa, purfuant to the Will of Baldwin Duppa Efquire, deceafed, without any Amendment. And then the Meffengers withdrew. Ordered, That there be laid before this Houfe, an Account of the Quantity of White Callicoes exported to any Foreign Countries, excepting the Britijh Colonies and Plantations in America, with the Duties and Drawbacks paid thereon, for Four Years, ended at Chrijimas 1764 ; diftinguilhing each Year. Ordered, That there be laid before this Houfe, an Account of the Quantity of Callicoes, Printed, Painted, Stained, or Dyed, in the Eajl Indies, exported to any Foreign Countries, excepting the Britijh Colonies and Plantations in America, with the Duties and Drawbacks paid thereon, for Four Years, ending at Chrijimas 1764; diftinguilhing each Year. A Petition of Hugh Owen Efquire, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That at the late Eleftion of a Knight of the Shire to ferve in Parliament for the County of Pembroke, in the room of S'xrjohn Philipps Baronet, deceafed, Sir Richard Philipps Baronet, and the Petitioner, were Candidates; that the Petitioner had a Majority of legal Votes, and ought to have been returned; but that John Francis Meyrick, the High Sheriff, and his Deputies, or Perfons by him appointed to take the Poll, admitted feveral Perfons to vote for the faid Sir Richard Philipps, who were not duly qualified, and refufed many to poll for the Petitioner who had an undoubted Right to vote; whereby, and by many other partial, illegal, and unwarrantable Praftices of the faid Sheriff, as alfo of the Agents of the faid Sir Richard Philipps, a pretended Majority was procured in his Favour, and he has been accordingly returned to ferve in Parliament for the faid County, in manifeft Prejudice of the Petitioner, and in open Defiance of the Laws: And therefore praying the Houfe to take the Premifes into Confideration, and to grant the Petitioner fuch Relief therein, as fhall, upon Examination, appear juft. Ordered, That the Matter of the faid Petition be heard at the Bar of this Houfe. Ordered, That the Matter of the faid Petirion be 4 heard heard at the Bar of this Houfe, upon Ttiffday the Sixteenth Day of April next. Mr. Cujl reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Bailiffs, Wardens, Affiftants, and Commonalty of the Trade, Art, and Myftery of Weavers of London, in behalf of themfelves, and the Silk Manufacturers of Great Britain ; and alfo the Petition of the feveral Perfons, whofe Names are thereunto fub- fcribed, being Silk Throwfters and Perfons concerned in Throwing Raw Silk, in behalf of themfelves and the reft of the Silk Throwfters of this Kingdom �, and alfo the Petition of feveral Perfons, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, being Mercers and Traders in the Silk Manufacture, on behalf of themfelves and others following the fame Bufinefs; and alfo the Petition of' feveral Hofiers, Frame-work-knitters, and Manufacturers of and Dealers in Frame-work-knitted Silk Stockings, Silk Gloves, and Silk Mitts, whofe Names are thereunder written, living and refiding in the Town of Nottingham., and in feveral Towns and Places being near to the fame, as well on behalf of themfelves as many Hundred of poor Manufacturers and their Families employed in the fame Trade ; and alfo the Petition of the Proprietors and Mailers of the feveral Silk Works in the Town of Derby ; and alfo the Petition of feveral Perfons ufing Thrown Silk in their Manufactures in the Town of Manchejier, in the County Palatine of Lan- cc.fier, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed; and alfo the Petition of the Mafter, Wardens, Affiftants, and Society of the Art or Myftery of Frame-work-knitters of the Cities of London andl^eftminfter^ndthe Kingdom of England, and Dominion of Wales, and alfo of divers Hofiers and Manufacturers in the faid Trade, who live and refide in and about the faid Cities, on behalf of themfelves and all others concerned in the faid Trade; and alfo the Petition of feveral Mercers and Traders in the Silk Manufacture, whofe Names are fubferibed, in behalf of themfelves and others concerned in the fame Bufinefs; and alfo the Petition of feveral Perfons, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, being Silk and Worfted Weavers at Kidderminflcr, in the County of Worcefter, in behalf of themfelves and others ; were fe- verally referred; That the Committee had examined the Matters of FaCt contained in the faid Petitions-, and had directed him to report a State thereof to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place -, and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk�s Tabic: Where the fame was read; and is as followeth; viz. To prove the Allegations of the Silk Weavers Petition, Mr. John Bakery Mr. Charles Triquelt, Mr. 'John Sabatiere, Mr. John LezAs, Mr. Lewis Ogi ery Mr. John Banyardy and Mr. John Lefouef, all Weavers of Englifh Silks, being feverally examined, faid, That, for Two or Three Years laftpaft, they have found a very great Decline in their Trade -, that the Demand for Englifh made Silks was greatly leflened; that Journeymen Weavers were every Day applying to them for Work, which it was not in their Power to give them -, and that the Number of Men now employed by them is lefs than formerly, being gradually decreafed for the Two or Three laft Years, in fome of the Houfes 20, and in others 30, in 100 ; notwithftanding which, feveral of the Witnefles faid, they had a large Stock on hand. Mr. Ogier faid, he had f 2000 of Stock on hand now, more than at the Time laft Year; and Mr. Baker and Mr. Sabatiere faid, they had a great Part of their laft Winter�s Stock ftill by them. Mr. Lezvis Ogier, a Weaver of Flowered Velvets, faid, That in 1761, he had 17 Looms; in 1762, 12; in 1763, 7; in 1764, 3 ; and at prefent, none. They all of them attributed this Decay to rhe legal and illegal Importation of Foreign Wrought Silks; and were of Opinion, if that could be ftopped, Spittle Fields cou\d make enough to fupply the Confumption of Great Britain, and what is exported from thence. Mr. Triquel t further faid, That there are fome Men employed in rhe Silk-weaving at Canterbury, but they are likewife much reduced. Mr. Baker and Mr. Sabatiere being examined with refpeCt to their Knowlege of the illegal Importation of French Silks, faid, That they prefumed the illegal Im portation was very great. Mr. Sabatiere founded his Opinion on the Number of F'reneb Silks that he had known imported as Italian ; and Mr. Baker, on the great Number of Seizures that he had known made, many of which he had been lent for to examine, and found them to be French. The Mercers crofs examined thefe Witnefles, todhew that the Hands now out of Employ worked in the Gauze and Silk Handkerchief Way, which could nor be affefted by a Foreign Importation. The Weavers admitted, that an Importation of Foreign Wrought Silks would not affect thefe Two Branches, and that fome Men were out of Employ in them, but the Number could not be afeertained; and did not appear to the Committee to be very great. Mr. Thomas Price being examined to this Point, faid, however, That he believed a good many Men, now out of Employ, had been employed in Handkerchiefs and Gauze, the former of which was in a great meafure gone into Flanders, and the latter into Scotland. As to the prefent State of Trade in Spittle Fields, he faid, That in the prefent Month, and in January laft, he made Inquiry, by himfelf and 10 others, in the Pa- rifh of Bethnal Green, and in Three Parifhcs only in Spittle Fields, one of which he did not go half over, and found 1632 Looms unemployed, about 1300 of which he believed were in the Silk Manufacture, exclu- five of Gauze and Handkerchiefs ; and that, upon Inquiry, he found they were unemployed merely for want of Work; and that One Loom employs Four Perfons; which makes the Number unemployed 5200. He could not fay particularly in what Branch of the Manufactory the Decay was, but believed it was in all, from the high- eft to the loweft. Your Committee, in order to find out the true Caufe of this Decay, examined all the above Witnefles, and alfo Mr. James Johnfon, as to the particular Nature of the Manufactory, who agreed, that the Wages to Journeymen Weavers are not railed lately, and that good Workmen may earn from 12 to 15, and fome 18 Shillings per Week. That the Weights of Wrought Silks are as follow : Nine Yards of Ducape to a Pound; Eight Yards of Mantua Silk to a Pound, Eight Shillings the Yard ; the loweft Brocade, without Gold and Silver, 7 Yards to a Pound, at Nine Shillings a Yard; Brocade at Eighteen Shillings a Yard, 5 Yards to a Pound ; the higheft, at Two Guineas a Yard, Three Yards to the Pound; that in Damafks, of 14 Shillings a Yard, 5 Yards weigh a Pound; and Velvets at Twenty-three Shillings, Three Yards make a Pound. That the Wafte of every Pound of Raw Silk, of 24 Ounces, is 4 in Winding, 5 in Boiling, and 2 in Manufacturing, in all 11 Ounces. That in Thrown Silk, of 16 Ounces to the Pound, it is Six, viz. 4 by Boiling, and 2 in Manufacturing. That the Price of Raw Silk, on an Average, is 27 Shillings the Pound, and Thrown 32 ; and that the Duty paid on as much Raw and Thrown Silk together, as will make a Pound of Wrought Silk, is Four Shillings and Eight Pence the Pound, befides the Duty paid in Italy on Raw Silk exported,and Profit to theMiddle Man. That the Expence of varying the Loom for different Patterns upon Brocades, fome laid was from 10 to 20 I. according to the Richnefs of the Pattern ; and One Wit- nefs faid it fometimes amounted to 50 I. and that if Orders could be given for a greater Number of each Pattern, the Silk would come cheaper. That all Silks are fold by the Weavers Wholcf.de, and that at prefent very few Silks are exported. That French Silks have been frequently found without Stamps ; from whence they prefume there is a great illicit Trade. Your Committee then examined Mr. Robert Trott, Examiner, Searcher, and Stamper of Foreign Silks at the 100 live better at Lyons for 7 r. a Week, than in London for 12. That he was in Switzerland, where Two Fabrics are eftablifhed in Imitation of the French, One at Berne and One at Bahl, which were in a thriving Way. Your Committee then proceeded to read the Petition of the Mercers, in Oppofition to the Weavers ; and ob- ferving it was figned by 21 Perfons, they inquired if the faid 21 Perfons belonged to fo many diftintt Houles of Trade-, and were informed, that in fome Houles, Two, and in others Three Partners had figned the faid Petition ; and that the Petitioners upon the whole had no more than 10 Houfes of Trade ; and your Committee were informed by Mr. Peter Ogier, that befides thefe 1 o Houfes, who were Importers, there were above 100 Warehoufe Men and Silk Mercers, not Importers, who buy more Englijh Manufacture than thofe io Houfes. To prove the Allegations of this Petition, Mr. John Peregol, a Weaver of Silks from the flighted to the rougheft, was examined, who laid, That lie employs more Hands than he uled to do, and is fully employed, but that is owing to the Nature of his Trade, which is not to keep a Stock of Goods by him for a general Market, but to work for particular Shops, whole Patterns cannot be made for others ; that this Method of Trade, which he calls a befpoke Trade, is a great Confinement -, that if he made on his Account, and for all the Mercers in general, he could not only make more Silks, but afford them cheaper, becaufe 80 Hands would do the fame Work, if he worked on his own Account, as 100 in the befpoke Trade -, that the Reafon why Silks are dearer in the befpoke Trade, is owing to the few Pieces which are taken of a Pattern (in rich Brocades only Four) which is a very heavy Expence, for the Charge to the Mailer on every Loom is 20 /. and when the Figure is changed, the whole is changed; whereas, as One Sec of Harnefs would make from 18 to 20 Pieces, if he might be permitted to make that Quantity inftead of Four, the Expence of the 201, for the Loom would fall upon the greater inftead of the lefler Number. That this Confinement to Four Pieces of a Pattern is the Occafion of the Importation of Foreign Wrought Silks, becaufe it makes ours dearer. That he is more and more in the befpoke Trade, owing to the Mercers not chufing to have the Patterns which another Shop has-, and that if he was not fo confined to particular Shops, he could employ more Men, and with greater Eafe. That many Men have applied to him for Work, which he could not give them; that the Silk Weavery has been declining, gradually, for 2 or 3 Years ; and that he fuppofes fome Parc of the Men now unemployed, are in the Gauze Way, but cannot fay what Proportion. That if no French Silks were imported, he thinks he fhould make more of every Pattern. That the general Credit to the Mercer is 12 Months, and the Weaver abates One Yard and a Quarter in every 20 Yards and a Quarter. That the Price of Labour is not rifen-, and that a good Workman may earn from 15 to 18 J. a Week. Mr. John Allen, a Mafter Weaver, laid, That he has now 100 Looms at work -, that if he had a larger Capital, he could employ more Looms; that in his Trade, which is chiefly in Flowered Silks, there has, to his Knowlege, been no Decreafe, nor does he believe in general there has been any Decreafe for the laft Two Years, in the Flowered Way; that the Gauze Manufacture has been removed to Scotland, and he thinks (but fpeaks from Conjecture) that the Journeymen Weavers out of Employ, are in that Way chiefly. That he prefers a befpoke Trade to keeping a Stock of Goods for a Market, becaufe in the former he would not be fubjeCt to have Goods left on his Hands, bus fhould fell all he could make. H h h That 2 TO That in fine Goods fcldom more than Four Pieces are made of One Pattern in the Flowered Way ; but in middling Goods 8 or 10 Pieces are made of each Pattern. That a good Hand can earn from 15 to 18 s. a Week; and that a Brocade Weaver can work in the Gauze Way, but a Gauze Weaver cannot work in the Brocade Way. Mr. Stephen Paris faid, he was fully employed in the Brocade Way, and in Flowered Silks, from 7 s. a Yard to Three Pounds, and believes no good Hands are our of Employ in that Way. That he has no Stock in hand, being moftly in the befpoke Way. That a good Journeyman can get from 15 to 20 s. a Week, according to his Ability. That, in his Opinion, the Men out of Employ are Gauze Weavers, who cannot work in thofe Silks which are affected by Foreign Importation. And that he never exported any Silks, but has fold for that Purpofe. Your Committee then examined the following Mercers, who had figned the Petition, as to French Silk. Mr. William Pickart, in Partnerfhip with Mefirs. Carr and C�, in order to fhew the Duty paid on French Silks imported, produced an original Invoice of French Silks, which had been imported and paid the French Duty, by which it appeared that the Coft of the Silks in France was �.278 12 J. yd. and the Duty �. 134. 9 J. 6 d. which is as near as pofllble to 49 per Cent, on the Coft in France. The Witnefs then faid, that the Confequence of an Increafe of Duty would be a Prohibition, becaufe the few he imported was very fmall, on Account of the Duty being fo high. ? That Perlons converfant in the Bufinefs, may diftin- guifh betwixt French and English Silks, though it has fometimes happened to the contrary. That the Terms of buying Goods in France, are upon fuch Credit as the Mercers plcafe to take, or if ready Money is paid, the French allow a Difcount of 6 per Cent. ' � That he has heard of French Goods imported as Italian, and feized, about Eight Years ago, but not fince. That he had known One Englijh Pattern of Flowered Damafk fent to Italy, to have the Silks made there from it, and then imported. That a Government Stamp put upon our own, as well as Foreign Silks, would tend to diftinguifh them from fuch as were fmuggled; and that he thinks Smuggling would be more encouraged by an additional Duty, than a Prohibition. Mr. Lavie, a Mercer, faid, The Duty upon French Silks imported, is �. 50 per Cent. That a total Prohibition would be the Confequence of an Increafe of Duty, becaufe the Duties are already fo high, no Mercer could then import for Sale, which would produce a Monopoly amongft the Weavers. That if there was no Importation of Foreign Silks, the Price of British would be raifed, and that the Confequence would be, the Manufacture here would ftand ftill in the Fancy Way for want of Pattern Drawers, becaufe Variety of Patterns induces People to buy double the Quantity they otherwife would do ; and that French Silks would be worn, but they would be got another Way; that fince the Prohibition of Gold and Silver Silks the Manufacture has decreafed, that Prohibition having been attended with a Monopoly and bad Confequences; he declared he was daily wanting thofe Goods, and could not get them. That he has been lucky, and got a Profit upon the French Silks he has imported, though not fo much as upon Englijh; that the Allowance in France is �. 5. per Cent, for Ihort Meafure, and 12 Months Credit, or 6 per Cent, for ready Money. ? That lie has paid an Allowance lately of Six-pencc on 10 J. 6 d. on Account of Labour, which Advance being A. 1765. upon die Whole, he cannot fo well judge of it in die Flowered as the Plain way ; but he now pays more than he did Four or Five Years ago. , That the Manufacture in Spittle Fields has increafed in Six Years fully in Proportion to the Increafe of Wear; and that with refpedt to himfelf, he has at all Times found a Scarcity. Mr. Fleetwood, a Mercer, faid, That the Duty on French Silks imported, is �. 50 per Cent.; that an Increafe of Duty would amount to a Prohibition; and, in his Opinion, would be of more Detriment to the Silk Manufacture than a total Prohibition, becaufe Smuggling would be thereby greatly increafed, which he thinks now at a great Height in Wrought Silks, both with and without Gold and Silver; and that the fame is a great Detriment to the Manufactory. That if the Importation of French Wrought Silks was prohibited, no Defigns or Patterns could be got, which would occafion a Monopoly in the Weavers, who at this Time treat the Mercers as if they were their Servants; and though the Mercers lay out annually a large Sum of Money with the Weavers, the latter don�t look upon themfelves under the leaft Obligation, and refufe to execute their Orders in the Fancy Way. That the Manufacture of Gold and Silver Silks in England is decreafed. That this Year he could have bought 20 or 30 more Pieces of Silks, if he could have been fupplied; and, was it not for the Check of Importation, he thinks the Weavers might impofe any Terms on the Mercers. Being alked, Whether if the Weavers were to impofe unreafonable Terms on the Mercers, more Weavers would not be induced to fee up ? He laid, he thought nor, for want of Patterns; and there is no way of procuring Patterns from France, without permitting the Importation of French Silks. Mr. JJhburner, a Mercer, faid, A total Prohibition of French Wrought Silks would create a Monopoly in the Weavers, who are now our Mafters, and ufe us as they pleafe ; if we want any thing in the Fancy Way, they either refufe our Orders, or afk very high Prices. That this is owing to their being much in the befpoke Trade, which has confined the Bufinefs to Two Weavers chiefly; whereas formerly, all the Weavers kept large Stocks of Goods. That he has not yet this Year been able to make his Aflbrtments for want of Goods, and has declined dealing with One Houfe, on Account of his being ill treated. That he lays out here �. 50,000 a Year, and his Orders were never refufed by the capital Houfes till within thefe 2 or 3 Years; that evenDamalks, which are common things, are not to be procured. That Fancy Silks imported are for the Sake of Defigns, which could not otherwife be got without the Expence of an Agent, who might not know whether they were new. That he believes the new Method of befpoke Trade, was owing to the Mercers chufing to have Patterns to themfelves, and the Ladies not liking to buy Patterns, which were to be found in all Houfes. That the Mercers cannot eftablifli Weavers, becaufe, in the Fancy Way, they muft fupport them, which he has tried, and loft Money by it; and they muft likewife have Pattern Drawers, which is impofllble, as the Trade are too jealous of each other to unite. . That the Trade in England is greatly confined for want of Tafte, there being no Comparifon between the Tafte of France and England; but that Brocades on white Grounds made in England, are greatly fuperior to thofe of France. � Mr. John Pritchard, a Mercer, being examined, faid, That a Prohibition of Foreign Wrought Silks would create a Monopoly; that the Mercers are now put to fuch Difficulty to get their Orders executed, that he has been obliged to carry on the Weaving as well as the Mercery Mercery Bufinefs, One of his Partners being a Pattern Drawer; and chat Perfons having Pattern Drawers, may eafily find Weavers to execute their Defigns. Being afked (as he was both a Weaver and Mercer) whether the Englijh or French Manufacture was the beft ? He anfwered, That the Englijh Execution was preferable to the French, but that the French excel in Tafte, and that the Effects of their Defigns are obvious. He further faid. That the Ten capital Mercers Houfes were almoft all that were in the Flowered Way ; that others dealt very largely, but chiefly in plain Silks. Your Committee obferving through the Courfe of this Examination, that the Mercers laid great Strefs on rhe Neceflityof having French Patterns, and urged this as a principal Reafon why the Importation of French Silks ought to be continued, alleging it to be very difficult to procure fuch Patterns, if the Importation was nor allowed, thought it proper to inquire particularly into this Fatt 5 and for that Purpofe examined the following Mercers on this Head. Mr. William Pickart laid, That the few French Silks which are now imported, are more for the Sake of Patterns, for the Improvement of our Manufacture, than any Profit arifing thereby. That for every Piece of French Silk he imports, he can get the Sight of too Patterns at leaft, upon which the Pattern Drawers here improve. That fmall French Patterns are of very great Ufe, the few Pattern Drawers in England, who are difengaged, not being able to furnifh Defigns for all the Looms without them. That he did not apprehend a Prohibition of French Silks would bring over other Pattern Drawers, as they look upon a Pattern Drawer at Lyons of fuch Confe- quence, and give him fuch high Wages ; and that he never knew one born in France come over. To this Point he was crofs examined, and afked, Whether he did not think a larger Salary would tempt a Pattern Drawer to come over? To which he anfwered. He did not know: He was then afked, If he knew what Salaries were given in France ? To which he likewile anfwered, He did not know. He further faid, That a Profit was made upon the Importation of rich Brocades and clouded Luftrings; but upon the whole of what they imported they were Lofers, and only imported for the Sake of Patterns, which he did not think could be got from the Taylors, Mantua Makers, ^c. in France. ? Mr. Laz'ic faid, That the Importation of Foreign Silks is of great Confequence on this Account to the Englijh Manufactory of Gold and Silver Silks, as French Patterns are allowed at the Cuftom Houfe, though in Gold and Silver. That as the Trade is now circumftanced, the Mercers, Dealers in Flowered Silks, do not exceed Four or Five in Number in London, Two of which have Pattern Drawers confined to their Bufinefs �, that this Monopoly obliged him to have recourfe to a Foreign Importation. That he imported Foreign Silks for the Sake of Patterns ; and though there is little Profit upon them, yet they are neceflary for Sale ; that this Courfe of Trade has arifen within Four Years paft, before which Time Weavers were wont to make Goods on their own Account, and in any Quantity, but of late the Weaver had refufed to make them Silks of lefs Quantity than 12 Pieces of the fame Pattern. But upon Crofs Examination he gave in Evidence, That the increafcd Importation of French Silks had leflened the Confumption of the Briiijh Manufacture ; that the Briiijh Manufacture would increafe if the Foreign was difeouraged ; and being afked, Whether if the Confumption of Briiijh Silks was thus increafed, the Weavers would not have more Demand for their Goods r and whether, if the Motives for preferring the exclufive Engagements to particular Mercers were to � 4 . leflen, a great Excitement would not be given to others to become Pattern Drawers and Weavers fur the common Trade ? He only anfwered, That he did not know, but believed that no Pattern Drawers in this Cafe would be found; he knew no Weavers capable of being fee up; he doubted if Pattern Drawers would find it an Objed; but alleged no Circumftances peculiar to this Bufinefs, tending to (hew why fuch an Increafe of Demand in fo profitable a Trade, would not in this, as in others, and as it has done in this very Trade in former Times, raife up more induftrious, capable, and iucccfs- ful Men in Defign and Weaving. Mr. Fleetwood faid, That if it was not for the Importation of Foreign Wrought Silks, it would not be in the Power of the Engltjh Weavers to carry on the Trade, for want of Pattern Drawers, there being only Three in Spittle Fields of any Reputation ; Two of which are confined to particular Houfes. Mr. Pritchard faid, That prohibiting Frwc^ Wrought Silks would create a Monopoly, as there are at prelent no more than Three Pattern Drawers, who are confined to Two Houfes; and that this Confinement gives a Power to the Weavers to monopolize, which is already felt in the Article of Gold and Silver Silks, which are prohibited. That he does not think a Prohibition of Foreign Wrought Silks would bring over Pattern Drawers, without whom, or the Affiftance of French Patterns, this Branch of the Weaving Bufinefs could not be carried on. Mr. John Peregal, a Weaver, who was examined in Support of the Mercers Petition, faid, That there are many Pattern Drawers who draw for particular Houfes, but only Two in general Efteem ; that it is neceflary, in the befpoke Trade, to have a Pattern Drawer co him- felf, and that he Ihould fuppofe, if we were not fupplied with French Patterns, good Pattern Drawers would come over. That he apprehends the Silk Manufacture has been brought to the prefent Perfection by the Help of French Patterns, though he does not remember that he ever made io Silks from French Patterns for the Houfes he works for. Mr. John Allen, a Weaver, faid, That his Trade has been increafed by the Importation of Foreign Silks, which has brought in French Defigns, and which would be flopped by flopping the Importation, becaufe Patterns are fent from France in Hopes of Orders; that thofe who keep Pattern Drawers would not feel this Lofs, but thofe are few in Number, there being only Three Houfes who have Pattern Drawers of any Note. That he does not think Pattern Drawers of Note would come over, unlefs very great Encouragement could be given them -, bur if they could be prevailed upon, he is of Opinion that confining the Confumption to our own Manufactory would increale it. Several other Weavers were examined to this Point, who faid in general, That no Draughtfmen are wanted for the Species of Goods manufactured in Italy, they being chiefly plain Goods; that if more Fancy Goods were made here, it would bring in Foreign Draughtsmen j and that the Copying after French Patterns, is rather done to comply with the prefent Tafte, chan from Superiority in the French Defigns. Mr. Peter Cheveney, a Pattern Drawer, being examined, faid, Thar, in his Opinion, French Patterns were io far from being neceflary for the Improvement of the Silk Manufacture, that he looked upon them to be a great Detriment, becaufe the copying from French Patterns is a Cramp to the Genius, and prevents the Increafe of Pattern Drawers in this Country ; that the Difadvantages are immenfe, which he can better feel than expreis. That the working after our own Inventions, gives a different Tafte from the French, and a fairer Chance of the Export Trade than copying from Fiemh Defigns, becaufe 2i2 Journals oj the Hot becaufe Foreigners will not chufc to take from you at Second hand, what they can get from the French at the Firft ; that by ftudying from Nature, there is no Bound to Invention, but copying creates Indolence-, that if French Patterns were neceifary, they are very eafily had from France, he himfelf having imported fome for a Weaver who wanted them. That in his Opinion, encouraging the Englijh Manufactory, is the beft Means of improving Pattern Drawing, for as the Manufactory augments. Pattern Drawing would augment allo, which would induce Men of Genius to apply themfelves to that An, and would encourage Pattern Drawers to come over-, and that if there was a Penalty, as there is in France, upon a Per- fon�s dealing another�s Defign, it would be a further Encouragement to Pattern Drawers. But being crofs examined, as to the Probability of procuring Pattern Drawers from France, he faid, 1 hat the beft Pattern Drawers at Lyons are always taken into Partneifhip with the Weavers, and that the Salaries to others are very large (he has heard, Six or Seven thou- �fand Livres a Year) and they muft have more, to make it worth their while to come to England, as the Expence of living is about double. Being afked, Whether the Manufacturers here are capable of executing Flowered Goods as well as they are at Lyons ? He anlwered, better in general; that fome Goods, particularly Brocades upon a white Ground, were in greater Perfection here than it Lyons ; and that there were none made at Lyons, which could not be made here that he knew of; that he has worked as a Pattern Drawer at Lyons, and that Silks are made there 763 _ � 3 D� � � *23 i764 X D� � 35 And in the laft Year the above Works have been unemployed Two Months, and now are all unemployed. Witnefs our Hands, the Ninth Day of February 1765. James Roe* Minifter. } Churchwardens. Ct. Ridley* Overfeer. N� V. A STATE of the Silk Mills belonging to Bradock and Hall, Macclesfield, for Four Years pad. N� VI. A STATE of the Silk Mills belonging to Lankford, Robinfon, and Stafford, of Macclesfield, for Four Years paft, on Sir Fbomas Loomis's Conftruflion. Dutch Mills. People employed, 2 Pair � � 350' 2 Pair � � 350 1 Pair � � 280 1 Pair � � � Witnefs our Hands, the Ninth Day of February 1765. James Rowe, Minifter. John right, 1 church Wardens. bam. mover, 3 Ct. Ridley, Overfeer. N� VII. A STATE of the Silk Mills belonging to Glover & C� of Macclesfield, made after Sir Thomas Lamb's Model. Year. Dutch. People employed, 1761 *M* �"* S MiUs � 2 Pair �� � 400 1762 MM 8 Mills � 2 Pair � � 400 >7^3 � � 6 Mills �� � 1 Pair � � 300 �7^4 �* � 3 Mills � T" 1 Pair � � j 80 We believe the above to be a juft and true Acwunt. Witnefs our Hands, the Ninth Day of February 1765. James Roe, Minifter. ?Join Wright, . Churchwardens. Sam. Glover, j Ct. Ridley, Overfeer. N� vin. An ACCOUNT of the Number of Mills and Hands employed by W. Hall, Macclesfield, in the Years 1761, 1762, 1763, and 1764. � � Hands. To 2 Pair � Mills � � 140 - � � . - � 1761 2 Pair Mills � �r~ 120 ' � � � 1762 1 Pair 4 D* � �� � 90 � � � � 1763 1 Pair Mills � � 70 � � � 1764, We believe the above co be a juft and true Account. Witnefs our Hands, the Ninth Day of February 1765. James Roe, Minifter. bam. sever, j Ct. Ridley, Overfeer. N� IX. Derby, February 5, 1*765. S I R, I received yours Yefterday, and immediately communicated the Contents to the rc* of the T.T '� in th... _ wn, who, at this Time, are all under Difficulties from the Stagnation of it. Mr. Hewett has drawn 1 p a 7etition to OUT Members in Parliament, which we have figned, letting forth the Number of People that arc employed 07 th* Throwfters in this Town, which are to the Amount of 2000 People, Men, Women, and Children, praying them to ufe all their Intereft in behalf of the Petition that is to be delivered to the honourable Hcufc. I would gladly have anfwered yours fully in every Point mentioned; viz. as to particular Number Mills, Swifts, ard 7-0-4-, would they have come into it. Mr. Bennett and Stamford fay they will fend a fatiscaflo;? /ccuua;, but .\hat l.lr. Bennett does is through Mr. Loyd, fo that my Tingle Account, I fuppofe, can be of no Ule ; *' ceruu that for fomeTimepaft, not Half the Number of People herein mentioned are, or can be employe., and thofc that are, are not employed whole Days; a melancholy Confideration, and calls loudly for [The Remainder of the Letter, to the Pojlfcript, is torn off.] As to the Silk you mention, we can do you what Quantity you pleafe, for at this Time we run very low, and fhall take it as a Favour if you could fend fome direftly. As to Price 1 will not differ with you, but will go as low as the Silk will admit of. Our Compliments wait on Mrs. Blackburn. To Mr. Blackburn, at the Half Moon, Woodfireet, Cheapfde, London. N�X. I We the Minifter, Church Wardens, and Overfeer of the Poor of Macclesfield, in the County of Chefier, do I hereby certify, that the Number and Neceffities of the Poor of Macclesfield aforefaid, are greatly increafed within the Space of Twelve Months laft paft, occafioned (as we believe) by the great Decreafe of the Silk Throwfters Trade in the faid Town; and that many Perlons heretofore employed in the faid Trade, who maintained themfelves and Families with Credit, have of late, for want of Employment, been obliged to apply I for Relief, and are reduced to great Diftrefs. I We do alfo certify, That, befides the Silk Throwfters, the State of whofe Mills is herewith prefented, there are not lefs than Twelve of inferior Note in the faid Town, who did, in the Years 1761 and 1762, employ 1 to the Number of One thouland Hands, or thereabouts, which are at this Time almoft, if not intirely, at a ftand, for want of Raw Silk to manufacture. Witnefs our Hands, the Ninth Day of Fehrua y 176 . James Roc, Miniitcr of Macclesfield. I ^ �John Wright,; ch . , Sam.Ghvir, | Ct. Ridley, Overfeer. I XUM N* XI. A true STATE of feveral Silk Throwfters in London, in the Years 1761, 1762, 1763, and 1764*, vix, Men, Women, and Children employed in t � 1761 1762 I?63 1764 Spra�Z> Hopkins and White � � John Graham � � ^- � � ��� 800 700 300 � � 5�� 35� 240 120 John Powell � � � � �* MM ? 400 300 17� Triquet and Bunney � � � UMM � 300 300 200 130 Sane. Nicholls � � � � 300 300 200 *5� Number of Hands employed in 1 1OO 2150 1640 870 N� XII. A true STATE of feveral Silk Throwfters in Macclesfield, in the Years 1761, 1762, 1763, 17641 viz. Befides the above, there are not lefs than Twelve Silk Mills of inferior Note in the faid Town, which did, in the Years 1761 and 1762, employ to the Number of One thoufand Hands, or thereabouts, which are at thia Time almoft, if not intirely, at a ftand, for want of Raw Silk to manufafture. Ordered, That the faid Report be referred to the Confideration of a Committee of the whole Houfe. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Thurfday Sevennight, the 14th Day of this Inftant March, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confidcr of the faid Report. Ordered, That a Committee be appointed, to prepare an Eftimate of the Charge of the Bay and Cloathingof the Militia of that Part of Great Britain called England �, and of the Amount of the 28 Days Subfiftance fur the Commiflion Officers of the faid Militia, under the Rank of a Captain, for One Year, beginning the 25th Day ot March 1765 And a Committee was appointed of Mr. Jenkinfon, Colonel HctLam, Lord Strange, Mr. Burrell, Sir John Turner, Mr. Gafcoyne, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Whichcct, Mr. Aiderman Beckford, Mr. Cujl, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Byde, Mr. Calvert, Sir Roger Newdigate, Mr Hunter, Mr. Myddelton, Mr. Whitworth, Colonel Burgoyne, Mr. Pitt, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Fairfax, Mr. Onflow, Mr. Kynafton, General Conway, Mr. Bertie, Lord Barrington, Mr. Prat, Mr. Yorke, Sir Armine WoAeboufe, Mr. Harris, Mr. Secretary at War, Mr. Stanley, Mr. Ridley, Sir William Meredith, Mr. Luttrell, Mr. Townsend, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Colonel Howe, Mr. Glover, Mr. Martin, Lord Harry Powlet, Mr. Grenville, Sir George Savile, Mr. Vanfittart, Mr. Wynne, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Montagu, Lord Hincbinbroke, Mr. WbaWy, Mr. Fane, Mr. bordereau, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Rigby, Sir William Beauchamp Proctor, Mr. 'John Pitt, Lord Grey, Lord Charles Montagu, Sir "farrit Smith, Lord Tbomond, Mr. Mawbey, Mr. Hume, Mr. Dyfon, Lord Catherlougb, Mr. Gray, Lord � Howe, Mr. Morton, Lord Frederick Campbell, Lord Orwell, Mr. Shaftoe, Mr. Cooke, Mr. Dempfcr, General Grame, Mr. Ousley* L-ord George Sackville, Lord Downe: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. r: The Houfe was moved, that Part of an Ad, made in the 16th Year of the Reign of King Charles the Firft, intituled, An Ad for regulating the Privy Council, and for taking away the Court, commonly called the Star Chamber, might be read. And the fame being read accordingly �, A Motion was made,/and the Queftion being put, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for Relief of His Majefty�s Subjects, touching Informations in the Court of King�s Bench, by and in the Name of His Majefty�s Attorney General; The Houfe divided. The Yeas went forth. Tellers for the Yeas, j ^r> M^J^^ J ?S. Tellers for the Noes, { N1' Moiku, 1204. �1 Mr. Rice. J T So it pafled in the Negative. The other Orders of the Day being read ; Refolved, That this Houfe will, To-morrow Morning, relolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confiderwhat Rights of the Proprietor of the Ilie of Man, under the feveral Grants of the faid Ifland, it may be expedient to veft in the Crown, for the further and more effectual preventing the Mifchiefs arifing to the Revenue and Commerce of Great Britain and Ireland, from the illicit and clandeftine Trade to and from the faid Ifland ; and what Compenfation it may be proper to make to the faid Proprietor, in refpeft thereof. Refolded, That this Houfe will, upon Friday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the Bill to repeal an Aft, pafled in the Twenty-fixth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled, An Aft for the better preventing of Clandeftine Marriages ; and to encourage and facilitate Marriages to be fo- lemnized in Churches or Public Chapels, under a Publication of Banns, or by Licences; and to remove all Doubts which have arifen, or may arife, concerning the Validity of certain Marriages folemnized fince the making the faid Aft; and for the regulatingRegifters; and for preferving the Evidence of Pedigrees. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon /Fednefday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of Ways and Means for raifing the Supply granted to His Majefty. Refolved,That this Houfe will, upon IFednefday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the Supply granted to His Majefty. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Wednefday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill for the more effectual preventing the Stealing of Filh and Rabbits. And then the Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. The Lord Strange prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for cleanfing and lighting the Streets, Lanes, and Paflages, within the Towns of Manchejier and Salford in the County Palatine of Lancafier ; and for eftablifliing a Regular Watch, and for providing Fire Engines and Firemen ; and for preventing Annoyances within the faid Towns: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Mr. Fitzherbert reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and Inhabitants of the Counties of Nottingham and Derby, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, was referred, That the Committee had examined the Matter of the faid Petition �, and had directed him to report the fame, as it appeared to them, to the Houfe ; and he read the Report in his Place ; and afterwards delivered it in at rhe Clerk�s Table: Where the fame was read ; and is as followeth; viz. To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition, Mr. John Gladwin laid, That he knows the Road leading from the Alfreton Turnpike Road, near a Place called Little Robins, in the Parifli of Mansfeld, in the County of Nottingham, to the Turnpike Road near Tanjley, in the County of Derby ; and from Woolley Moor, to the Cbejlerfeld Turnpike Road at Keljlidge, in the Parifli of AJhover, in the faid County of Derby. That the faid Roads arc ruinous and narrow, and cannot be effcdually repaired and widened by the ordinary Courfe of Law. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for repairing and widening the Road from the Alfreton Turnpike Road, near a Place called Little Robins, in the Parifli of Mansfield, in the County of Nottingham, through Woolley Moor, to 'the Nottingham Turnpike Road, neat Tanjley, in the County of Derby ; and from Woolley Moor, to the Chejlerfield Turnpike Road at Keljlidge, in the faid County of Derby: And that Mr. Fitzherbert, Mr. Gray, Lord George Cavendijb, and Mr. Hewett, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of feveral Truftees, appointed to put in Execution fo much of an Aft, made in the Twenty- feventh Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George, for repairing feveral Roads therein mentioned, as relates to the Road between Bridport and Beamijler, in rhe County of Dorfet, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Petitioners obferve, a Bill is now depending before the Houfe, for enlarging the Term and Powers of fo much of an Aft, made in the Twenty-feventh Year of his late Majefty, for repairing feveral Roads in the Counties of Dorfel and Devon, as relates to the Road from Penn Inn, in the County of Dorfet, to the Workhoufe at the Eaft End of the Town of Honiton, and other Roads therein mentioned ; and that the Road from the North Turnpike Gate, at the South End of the Town of Beamijler, to the Entrance into Beamijler Wood, otherwife Wood Common, and to Lenham's Water, both within the Parifli of Beamijler aforefaid, is in a very ruinous Condition, being very narrow, incommodious, and liable to be overflowed, and cannot be cffeftually amended, widened, and drained, by the ordinary Courfe cf Law : And therefore praying the Houfe to take the Premifes into Confideration, and to include the laid Road in the faid Bill, now depending before the Houfe, for the Purpofes aforefaid; and to order and direft, that the fame may be amended, widened, drained, and repaired, by and out of the Tolls arifing upon that Part of the Road lying between the Towns of Bridport and Beamijler, without erefting any Turnpike Gate, or collefting any Tolls, upon the Road the Petitioners are defirous of having included therein ; and that the Petitioners may have fuch other Relief in the Premifes, as the Houfe (hall think fit. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the VOL. XXX. derden Grew, in Marden aforefaid, to Wanjbutts Green, in the County of Kent-, was committed ; That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made leveral Amendments thereunto; which they had directed him to report to the Houfe ; and he read the Report in his Place ; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the Amendments were Once read throughout ; and then a Second Time, One by One; and upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofied. Ordered, That the Report from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill to enable Eccle- fiaftical Perfons, and Bodies Politic, Corporate, and Collegiate, to exchange their Lands, under certain Re- ftriftions therein to be limited, was committed, be taken into Confideration upon Monday Morning next. An ingrofied Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Pafltires, Common Grounds, and Wafte Grounds, in the Parilh of North Kilwortb, in the County of Leicejler, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Aft for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Paf- tures. Common Grounds, and Wafte Grounds, in the Pariflr of North Kilwortb, in the County of Leicejler. Ordered, That Sir Thomas Cave do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. A Petition of the feveral Perfons, whofe Hands are thereunto fubferibed, being Truftces for carrying into Execution, or Creditors under the Security of, an Aft, palled in the 26th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, for repairing and widening the Road from the Top of Wbitejheet Hill, in the Parilh of Donbead St. /Indrew, in the County of Wilts, through the Towns of Sbaftejbury, Milborne Port, and Sherborne, in the Counties of Dorfet and Somerfet, to the Half-way Houfe, in the Parilh of Nether, uiherwife Lower Compton, in the faid County of Dorfet, and feveral other Roads, near the 1 owns of Sbaftejbury and Sherborne aforefaid 5 and alio an Aft, palled in the 29th Year of the Reign of his faid late Majefty King George the Second, for explaining, amending, and making more effeftual the aforefaid Aft, and for repairing other Roads therein mentioned} was prelented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the faid Truftces have made a very confidcrable Progrefs in repairing and amending the fame, and for that Purpofe have taken up at Intereft Z- 35OO� and that the laid Road cannot be compleatcd without taking up more Money; and that the Tolls at prefent are not fufficient to anfwer and make good the Intereft of the Money already borrowed, and make and keep the laid Road in good and fufficient Repair, by reafon of leveral Turnpike Roads having been mace near to the aforefaid Road; and that the Petitioners find, Application is made to the Houfe, to enlarge the Terms and Powers of an Aft, made for repairing and widening the Road from the faid Half-way Houfe, in the Parilh ot Lower Compton, through Yeovil, Crewkerne, and Chard, to the Eaft End of the Town of xdxminjter, and feveral other Roads round the faid Town of Yeovil, Jo far as the fame relates to the Road from Hajlcborougb Bridge, to the Eaft End of the Town of Axminjler and tor repairing and widening the Road from Chard, through Stockland, to Honiton, in the County of Devon ; ^^ ^Petitioners apprehend, the carrying the laid R oad fiom Chard, through Stockland, to Hcmton, will 1 be of great Service to Perfons travelling from London to Exeter, as it will be many Miles nearer, and may enable the Petitioners, the Truftees, well and fufficiently to repair and amend the fame, and thereby make the Petitioners, who have lent fuch Sums of Money on rhe Credit of the faid Tolls, more eafy in refpeft to their Security: And therefore praying. That the faid Bill may pafs, and that the laid Road from Chard, through Stock* land, may be taken in and repaired thereby, by fuch Means, and in fuch Manner, as to the Houfe (hall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition do lie upon the Table, until the faid Bill be read a Second Time. Mr. Lewis reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for naturalizing John His, John Henry Ernji, and John Michael Platz, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true ; and that the Committee had direfted him to report rhe Bill to the Houfe, without any Amendment; and he delivered the Bill in at the Clerk�s Table. Ordered, That the Bill be ingrofied. Sir James Dajhwood prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing a certain Open Common Field, Common Paftures, Common Meadows, and Wafte Grounds, in the Manor and Parilh of Somerton, in the County of Oxford: And the fame was received ; and read rhe Firft Time. Refolved, That rhe Bill be read a Second Time. An ingrofied Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, and Grounds, within rhe Town- fhip ot Ulrome, otherwife Owram, in Holdernefs, in the County of York, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Aft for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, and Grounds, within the Townfliip of Ulrome, otherwife Owram, in Holdernefs, in the County of York. � 7 Ordered, That Mr. Cbolmley do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. Sir Robert Ladbroke reported from the Committee to whom the Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen^ and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council aflembled, was referred, That the Committee had examined the Matter of Faft contained in the faid Petition ; and had direfted him to report a State thereof ro the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the fame was read; and is as followeth ; viz. By an Aft of Parliament of the 29th Year of his late Majefty it appeared, that certain Tolls were granted ro the Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens of London for improving the PalTage over and the Avenues leading to London Bridge, and for enlarging the Arches thereof And by an Ad of the 31ft Year of his Lid late Majefty, the faid Tolls were difeontinued, and a Sum of Money granted in Lieu (hereof. And by an Aft of the zd Year of Uis prefent Ma- jefty�s Reign, the Petitioners were authorized to mak- a Paflage through the Tower of St. Magnus'* Church and to/[ed/ .Mry Room antl Engine Houle for the Ufe of the laid Parilh. -.^H/^ Heberts Efquire, Comptroller of the Bridge Accounts, produced to your Committee, .A particular Account of what has been received and paid under the Afts tor the Improvement of London Bridge, together with what remains due; and he allo produced Vouchers for each Article in thefaid Account. And by the faid Account it appears, That That there has been received * Thar there has been paid � That the Work done amounts to The Works remaining to be done, to So that there remains a Deficiency of Z- S' d. � � � 85,786 18 4, � � � 85,04, ,3 9f � Z- 103,298 16 51 � 1,387 16 2 � 104,686 12 72 _. _ __ ^,899 I+ 3i Ordered, That the faid Report do lie upon the Table. A Bill to continue the Term, and alter and enlarge the Powers, of an Ad palled in the Third Year of His prefent Majefty, for repairing, widening, turning, and keeping in Repair, the Road from the Town of Cambridge to Ely, and from thence to&i��j and for building a Bridge crofs the River Oufe, at or near a Place called Stretham Ferry, in the County of Cambridge-, and for repairing and widening and making feveral other Roads adjoining to the Road directed to be repaired and widened by the faid Ad �, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Sir John Hynde Cotton, Mr. Plumptre, Mr. Grey, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Drake, Lord Downe, Mr. Bootle, Mr. Walcot, Sir Jorrit Smith, Mr. Bejl, Mr. Dowdefwell, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Gore, Sir Francis Delaval, Mr. Pye, Mr. Willoughby, Sir Charles Hardy, Mr. Holt, Mr. Which cot, Sir James Dajhwocd, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Forrefler, Mr. Bond, Mr. Town/hend, Mr. Harbord, Mr. Parker, Sir George Savile, Sir Thomas Palmer -, and all the Members who lerve for the Counties of Cambridge, Huntingdon, Lincoln, Suffolk, and Norfolk : And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Petition of the Society of the Free Britijh Filhery, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners were incorporated by Charter, granted by his late Majefty, purfuant to the Powers given by his Majefty, by an Ad pafled in the 23d Year of his Reign, intituled. An Ad for the Encouragement of the Briiijh White Herring Filhery ; and that, by feveral Ads of Parliament, an Intereit of 3 I. per Cent, was granted, upon all Money which fhould be raifed and adually employed in the faid Filhery, and allo a Bounty of 50 Shillings a Ton on all Veflels employed therein, for 17 Years from the Date of the faid Charter, which Term will expire the 2 2d Day of ORo- ber 1767 ; and alleging, that the Petitioners have complied with the Conditions enjoined by the feveral Ads, and have raifed and employed therein the Sum of 134,000/. and upwards, and have proceeded with the utmoft Care and Frugality in the Execution of the faid Afls, notwithftanding which, they have loft the greateft Part of the Money by them raifed and employed as aforefaid, which Lofs, the Petitioners conceive, has in a great meafure been owing to certain Provifions in the Aft of the 23d Year of his late Majefty, by which they were obliged, within Eighteen Months from the Commencement of their Charter, to lay out the Sum of 100,000/. in Buffes and Nets, and in other Neceflaries, for fitting out and employing the faid Bufles, and to the Want of Experience, which muff neceflarily attend all new Undertakings �, and that, from the Experience the Petitioners have gained in the faid Filhery, they are now able to carry it on in a much more advantageous Manner than formerly, and can cure Herrings for European Confumption equal to the Dutch, and do export them to different Parts of Germany ; and, as the Returns for fuch Herrings are always made in Specie, that Trade is fo much clear Gain to the Nation �, that the Petitioners do alfo cure Herrings for Exportation to the Weft India Colonics, and fuch as have been fent thither of General Graeme reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Juftices of the Peace of the County of Perth, met in their Quarter ScITions, and of the Magiftrates and Town Council of Perth, was referred, 1 hat the Committee had examined the Matter of the faid Petition �, and had direfted him to report the fame, as it appeared to them, to the Houfe ; and he read the Report in his Place ; and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the fame was read ; and is as followeth j tw. To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition, feve � ral Members prefent informed your Committee, Thar the building a Bridge over the River Tay, at or near the Town of Perth, would be of Public Utility, and conduce to the Purpofes of civilizing the Highlands, and promoting Induftry in that Part of 'he Kingdom, by opening a Communication to the military Roads anil Bridges already made there; but that the fame cannot be accomplilhed without the Aid of Parliament. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for the building a Bridge over the River T.w, at or near the Town of Perth, in the County of Perth : And chat Gent! al neral Graeme, Mr. Crawfurd, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, Mr. Drummond, and Mr. Dempjler, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Mr. Henniker prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill to enlarge certain Powers granted by an Ad, palfed in the 22d Year of the Reign of King George the Second, intituled, An Ad for enlarging and maintaining the Harbour of Ramjgate ; and for deanfing, amending, and preferving the Haven of Sandwich; And the lame was received; and read the Firft Time. Rtfolvcd, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Mr. Richmond Webb reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for Sale of certain Lands, in the County of Kent, fettled upon the Redor of the Parilh of St, George Bloomfbury, in the County of Middlefex, and for applying the Money arifing thereby in Manner therein mentioned, for the Benefit of the faid Redor, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Parties concerned had given their Conlent to the Bill, to the Satisfadion of the Committee; and that the Committee had diredcd him to report the Bill to the Houfe, without any Amendment; and he delivered the Bill in at rhe Clerk�s fable. Ordered, That the Bill be ingrofled. Mr. WVbraham prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill to impower the High Court of Chancery to lay out, upon Government Securities, aSum of Money, not exceeding a Sum therein to be limited, out of the Common and General Calh in the Bank of England, be- l�nginS t0 the Suitors of the faid Court; and to apply the Intereft arifing therefrom, towards augmenting the Income of the Matters of the faid Court: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolded, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Ordered, That the faid Bill be read a Second Time, upon Tburfday Morning next. A Bill for repairing and widening the Road leading from rhe South End of the Town and Borough QFNewton Abbott, in the County of Devon, through the feveral Parishes of Woolborough, Abbotts Kerfwell, Kings Kerfwell, Marledon, Paington, Churjlon Ferrers, Brixham, and Kingfwear, to the PafTage Way in King [wear aforefaid, oppofite to the Town and Borough of Clifton Dartmouth Hardnefs\ and alfo the Road leading from the End (next adjoining to the faid Town of Newton Abbott) of a certain Lane leading out of the Turnpike Road, between Newton Abbott and Totnes, towards the Village of Abbotts Kerfwell, to and through that Village to Five Lanes, in the Road before defcribed; and alfo the Road leading from a Barn, lying near to Smoaky Houfe, in the Parilh of Marledon aforefaid, called Lang- ver�s Barn, through the feveral Parilhes of Marledon and Ipplepen, in the faid County, leading to the Turnpike Road between Newton Abbott and Totnes aforefaid ; and alfo the Road leading from a Common called Galmpton Warborough, through the faid Parilhes of Brixham and Churjlon Ferrers, and the Lower End of Churjlon Ferrers Town, by a Blackfmith�s Shop there, to Monks Bridge, and from thence to Brixham Quay, in the faid Parilh of Brixham-, and alfo the Road leading from the faid Barn called Z^wr's Barn, through the faid Parilhes of Marledon and Paington, to the North End of Paington Town, within the faid Parilh of Paington-, was read a Second Time. And a Member returned upon a new Writ, having taken the Oaths, and made and fubferibed the Declaration, and taken and fubferibed the Oath of Abjuration ; and having delivered in to the Clerk of the Houfe an Account ot his Qualification, and taken and fubferibed Oath of Qualification ; according to the Laws made for thofe Purpofes ; Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Lord Howe, Lord Robert Bertie, Sir Robert Burdett, Mr. Sbiffner, Colonel Hotham, Sir 'John Barrington, Mr. Townf- hend, Admiral Keppel, Sir George Pocock, Mr. Jeffries, Colonel Howe, Captain Bentinck, Mr. Sandys, Lord Midleton, Mr. Gray, Mr. Burrell, Lord Coleraine, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Mr. Stephens, General Irwin, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Hunter, Colonel Burgoyne, Lord Thomond, Mr. Fuller, Lord John Cavendijh, Mr. Webb, Mr. Townfend, Lord Carysfort, Mr. (Faller, Mr. Tudway, General Stanwix, Sir John Turner, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Edmonjlone, Sir Edward Bayntun, Mr. Harvey, Sir George Tonge, Mr. Aiderman Harley, Mr. Rigby, Dr. Hay, Mr. Elliot, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Gafcoyne, Sir George Savile, Mr. Fitzherbcrt, General Conway, Sir John Seabright, Mr. Brudenell, Mr. Wood, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Grey, Sir George Pigot, Mr. Paterfon, Mr. Dyfon, Lord North, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Gore, Lord Palmerjlon, Mr. Parker, Mr. Vane; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Devon, Cornwall, Somerfet, and Dorfet: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Meflage from the Lords, by Mr. Holford and Mr. Browning : Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft to continue the Term, and to vary and enlarge the Powers of an Aft, palfed in the Twenty-fifth Year of his late Majefty, for repairing the Road from Wallingford, in the County of Berks, to Wantage, and from thence to Farringdon; and alfo from Wantage to Idfon, in the faid County; fo far as the fame relate to the Road leading from Wallingford to Wantage, and from thence to Farringdon-, and for difeontinuing the faid Term and Powers, fo far as the fame relate to the Road leading from Wantage to Idfon; and for repairing the Road leading from the North Eaft Corner of Nuffield Common, by the Parilh Church of Nuffield, otherwife Tuff eld, in the County of Oxford, to the Commencement of the faid Turnpike Road, leading from Wallingford to Wantage; without any Amendment: And alfo, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for repairing and widening the Road, leading from Porthaethwy Ferry, to Holyhead, in the County of Angle- fey, without any Amendment: And alfo, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for repairing and widening the Road from Dunham Ferry, to the South End of Great Markham Common, in the County of Nottingham, without any Amendment: And alfo, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft to enable John Jennings Efquire, now called John Smith, and his Heirs, to take and ufe the Surname of Smith, purfuant to the Will of Thomas Smith, deceafed, without any Amendment: And alfo, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for naturalizing John Elias Jaquery, Peter Samuel Dar- bonnier, Daniel Hcnriod, John James Ofvald, and John Francis Anthony Rivaz,vmhout any Amendment: And alfo, 1 he Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for naturalizing Peter Anthony Sapte, and David Frauds Saptc, without any Amendment: And alfo, The Lords have patted a Bill, intituled, An Aft to diflblve the Marriage of John Nixon, with Hejier Spencer, his now XVife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purpofes therein mentioned; to which the Lords defire the Concurrence of this Houfe. And then rhe Meflengers withdrew. Ordered, That there be hid before this Houfe, an Account of the Quantity of all Drillings imported from Ruffia, for the the Four laft Years, with the Duties paid thereon i dif- tinguifhing each Year. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer prefented to the 1 loufe, by His Majefty�s Command, Copy of a Letter from the Duke and Duchefs of Atholl, to the Commiflioners of the Treafury, dated February 27th 1765: And alfo, Copy of an Abftrad of the Clear Revenue of the Ifle of Man, for 'Fen Years, from the Year 1754, to the Year 1763, both inclufive. And the Titles of the faid Copies were read. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Majefty�s Command, acquainted the Houfe, that His Majefty recommends it to the Houfe, to do as they (hall think fit, with refpeft to the Propofal contained in the faid Letter, from the Duke and Duchefs of Atholl to the Commif- fioners of the Treafury. Ordered, That the faid Copies be referred to the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it is referred to confider what Rights of the Proprietor of the Ide of Man, under the feveral Grants of the laid Idand, it may be expedient to veft in the Crown, for the further and more effectual preventing the Mifchiefs arifing to the Revenue and Commerce of Great Britain and Ireland, from the illicit and clandeftinc Trade to and from the faid Ifland -, and what Compenfation it may be proper to make to the faid Proprietor, in refped thereof. The faid Copies are preferved amongft the other Papers of this Scfiion. Ordered, That the Order of the Day, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider what Rights of the Proprietor of the Ifle of Man, under the feveral Grants of the faid Ifland, it may be expedient to veft in the Crown, for the further and more effectual preventing the Mifchiefs arifing to the Revenue and Commerce of Great Britain and Ireland, from the illicit and clandeftine Trade to and from the faid Ifland ; and what Compenfation it may be proper to make to the faid Proprietor, in refpeft thereof; be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly; The Houfe refolved itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Paterfon took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker relumed the Chair. Mr. Paterfon reported from the Committee, That they had come to feveral Refolutionsj which they had directed him to report, when the I loufe will pleafe to receive the fame. Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow Morning. The other Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the feveral Ads relating to the Rewards for difeovering the Longitude at Sea, and making Experiments of Propofals for difeovering the Longitude; Ordered, That the Copy of the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Commiflioners for the Difcovery of the Longitude at Sea, ^Ac. at a Meeting at the Admiralty, on the 19th Day of January 1765, be referred to the Confideration of the faid Committee. Ordered, 1 hat the Copy of the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Commiflioners for the Difcovery of the Longitude at Sea, ^c. at a Meeting at the Admiralty, on the 9th Day of February 1765, be referred to the Confideration of the faid Committee. Ordered, That the Copy of a Letter from the Commiflioners for the Difcovery of the Longitude at Sea, ^c. to Mr. John Harrifon, containing Inftruftions for his Son�s proceeding to Barbadoes, to make a Second Trial of his Time-keeper, be referred to the faid Committee. Ordered, That the Copy of a Letter from the Commiflioners for the Difcovery' of the Longitude at Sea, VOL. XXX. ^c. to the Reverend Mr. Nevil Mafkelyne and Mr. Charles Green, containing Inftru&ions for their Proceeding to Barbadoes, to make Obfervations for the Second Trial of Mr. Harrifon1 s Time-keeper, be re. ferred to the faid Committee. Ordered, That the Copy of a Letter from the Com � mifliuners for the Difcovery of the Longitude at Sea, &c. to Mr. John Bradley, containing Inftruitions for making Obfervations at Portfmouth, for the Second Trial of Mr. Harrifon's I�ime-keeper, be referred to the faid Committee. Ordered, That the feveral Papers, marked A, B, C, and D, containing Computations of the Obfervations made for the Second Trial of Mr. John Harr if oil's Timekeeper, be referred to the faid Committee. Then the Houfe refolved itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Stephens took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr. Stephens reported from the Committee, That they had made fome Progrefs in the Matter to them referred; and that he was directed by the Committee to move, that they may have Leave to fit again. Refolved, That this Houfe will, To-morrow, at Twelve of the Clock, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houle, to confider further of the feveral Ads relating to the Rewards for difeovering the Longitude at Sea, and making Experiments of Propofals for dircovering the Longitude. Ordered, That the feveral Perfons who were ordered to attend the faid Committee this Day, do attend the faid Committee To-morrow, at Twelve of the Clock. The Houfe being informed, that Mr. 7*omkyns, from the Commiflioners of the Cuftoms, attended at the Doori he was called in-, and, at the Bar, prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to their Orders, An Account of the Quantity of White Callicoes exported to any Foreign Countries, except the Britifb Colonics and Plantations in America, with the Duties and Drawbacks paid thereon, for Four Years, ending at Chriflmas 1764 ; diftinguilhing each Year : And alfo, An Account of the Quantity of Callicoes, Printed, Painted, Stained, or Dyed, in the Eajl Indies, exported to any Foreign Countries, excepting the Britijh Colonies and Plantations in America, with the Duties and Drawbacks paid thereon, for Four Years, ending at Chriflmas 1764; diftinguilhing each Year. And then he withdrew. And the Titles of the faid Accounts were read. Ordered, That the faid Accounts do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. The faid Accounts are preferved amongft the other Papers of this Seflion. And then the Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. Mercurii, 6� die Martii; Anno 50 Georgii IIP' Regis, 1765. PRAYERS. EJENRIEfTA Rofa Peregrina foumfend took the Oaths appointed, in order to her Naturalization. Mr. Ridley prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill to quiet the prefent Pofleflbrs of Leafes from Ecclefiaftical Perfons, and Bodies Politic, Corporate, and Collegiate, of Tithes, Tolls, and other Incorporeal Hereditaments, for Lives or Terms of Years, M m m .in in the Enjoyment of fuch Leafes �, and to enable Ec- clefiaftical Perlons, and Bodies Politic, Corporate, and Collegiate, to grant Leaks of fuch Incorporeal Hereditaments �, with a Remedy to recover the refpeftive Rents referred : And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time, Refolvef That the Bill be read a Second Time. Mr. Coventry reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of feveral Truftees appointed to put in Execution fo much of an Ad, made in the Twenty-feventh Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George, for repairing feveral Roads therein mentioned, as relates to the Road between Bridport and Beamijhr, in the County of Dorfet, was referred, That the Committee had examined the Matter of the laid Petition-, and had directed him to report the fame, as it appeared to them, to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the fame was read ; and is as followeth ; viz. To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition, Mr. John Serjeant faid, Ihat he knows the Road leading from the North Turnpike Gate, at the South End of the Town of Beamfer, to the Entrance into Beamijier Wood, and to Lcnbam\ Water, in the Parilh of Beamijier�, that the faid Roads are very narrow, and, in the Winter Seafon, frequently overflowed ; and that the faid Roads cannot be efieftually amended, and kept in Repair, by the ordinary Courfe of Law. Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the Committee, to whom die Bill for enlarging the Term and Powers of fo much of an Aft, made in the 27th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty, for repairing feveral Roads in the Counties of Dorfet and Devon, as relates to the Road from Penn Inn, in the County of Dorfet, to the Work- houfe at the Eaft End of the Town of Honiton, in the County of Devon ; and for amending the Road from Hxminjier, to a Place called Guandoe's Gale, and alfo feveral Roads leading from Honiton aforefaid; and for enlarging the Term and Powers of fo much of the faid Aft, as relates to the Road from the Intrenchment on H/kcrfwell Hill to Penn Ian, and from Bridport to Beamijter and alfo for amending rhe Road from the North End of South Street to Bridport Harbour -, is committed; that they have Power to make Provifion in the faid Bill, for amending the Road leading from the North Turnpike Gate, at the South End of the Town of Beamifter, to the Entrance into Beamijter Wood, other- wife Wood Common, and to Lenham's Water, within the Parilh of Beamijter. A Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Common Paftures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and Wafte Grounds, of and in the Parilh and Liberties of Spratton, in the County of Northampton ; was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill he committed to Sir Charles Mordaunt, Sir �Thomas Cave, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Coventry, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Barrow. Mr. Gray, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Mackay, Mr. Rujbout, Sir Francis Drake, Lord Grey, Mr. Howard, Sir Roger Newdigate, General Howard, Mr. Robinfon, Sir Richard Mill, Lord Robert Bertie, Mr. Touchet, Mr. Pane, Lord Burgberjh, Mr. Montagu, Sir Roger Mojlyn, Lord John Cavendijh, Mr. Butler, Sir John Gibbons, Sir Thomas Hals, Mr. Tboro ton, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Sir John Clynne, Mr. Mawbey, Mr Foley, Mr. Waller, - Mr. Prowfe, Mr. Kynaf- ten, Sir Thomas Palmer, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Grty, Mr. Sbiffncr, Mr. Buller, Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. Norris -, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Northampton, Warwick, Stafford, and Salop: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Bill for continuing the Terms of feveral Afts, and for giving further Powers, for repairing rhe Road leading from Chapel on the Heath, in the County of Oxford, to Bourton on the I Fil, in the County of Glou- cefler, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Rujhout, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Robinfon, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Gray, Mr. Howard, Sir Walter Blacket, Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. Barrow, Lord Burgberjh, Mr. Grey, Mr. Mawbey, Lord Grey, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Mr. Bagot, Sir George Colebrookc, Mr. Cbolmley, Mr. Burrell, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Whichcol, Mr. Foncreau, Sir Francis Drake, Mr. Glover, Mr. Kynaf- ton, Sir Thomas Hales, Mr. Pane, Mr. Sandys, Sir John Gibbons, Mr. Touchet, Mr. Montagu, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Townfsend, Sir Roger Mojlyn, Mr. Myddlelon, Mr. Bertie, Lord Brownlow Bertie, Sir Charles Kemys Tyntc, Mr. Prowfe, Sir Thomas Palmer, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Oxford, Gloucejler, Worcejier, and Wilts, And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Petition of the Recorder, Mayor, iind Capital BurgelTes, Freeholders, and Inhabitants, of the Borough and Foreign of Walfall, in the County of Stafford, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth. That a Petition having been prefented to this Houfe, from feveral of the Petitioners, and others, praying, that Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for amending, widening, and keeping in Repair certain Roads therein dcfcribed, lying near and adjoining to the Borough of Walfall, aforeliiid, and more particularly the Road leading to the Brook or Water-courfe at Walfall aforefaid, running to New Mills ; that it would be of great Advantage, if a Road was to be made from the faid Brook or Water-courfe, through and over certain Pieces of Land belonging to the Right honourable the Countefs of Montrotb, Richard Perjhoufe Efquire, and Mr. Samuel Corbet, containing in Length about 440 Yards, to Ablcwell Street, in Walfall, and to and through the fame Street, to the prefent Turnpike Road leading from Walfall aforefaid, to Barr, in the faid County: And therefore praying the Houfe to take the Premiles into Confideration, and to make fuch Provifion in the faid Bill, for making and repairing the Road above defcribed, in fuch Manner, and under fuch Regulations as to the Houfe Ihall feem juft. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Mayor, Recorder, and Capital Burgefles of the Borough and Foreign of Walfall, in the County of Stafford, and of the feveral Gentlemen, Freeholders, Tradefmen, and other Inhabitants, of the City of Litchfield, and of Walfall aforefaid, and Places adjacent, whofe Names arc thereunto fubferibed, is referred : And that they do examine the Matter of this Petition; and report the fame, as it (hall appear to them, to the Houfe. A Petition of the Mayor and Capital Burgefles of the Borough and Foreign of Walfall, in the County of Stafford, and of the feveral Gentlemen, Freeholders, Tradefmen, and other Inhabitants of Walfall aforefaid, and of Wednejbury and Tipton, otherwife Tibbington, in the faid County, and Places adjacent, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Alleging, That a Petition, under the Hands of fome of the now Petitioners, having been lately pre- fenred to the Houle, for a Bill for amending, widening, and keeping in Repair, the Roads from a Place called Muckley Corner, in the faid County, and other Roads therein mentioned; and that the Petitioners having been lately informed, that another Petition hath been fince prefented to the Houfe, for adding the Road from Horjley Heath, to Puppy Green, to the Upper End of Tipton Green, and the Upper End of Chambers Lane, and from Puppy Green to the Upper End of Parke Lane; and letting forth, that the laid laft mentioned Roads are of a private Nature, and fo extremely ruinous, that they cannot be repaired, but at a very confiderable Expence, Winterton, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Wedderbuntj Sir James Dajhwood, Mr Prolific, Mr. Glover, Sir George Pigot, Mr. Robinfon, Mr. Whitworth, Sir Richard Warwick Bampfylde, Mr. Touchet, Mr. Long, Lord John Caven- di/h, Mr. Praed, Mr. Pitt, Sir Armine Wodehcifie, Mr. Fitzmaurice, Mr. Townfiend, Lord Brownlow Bertie, Mr. Norris, Mr. Fouereau, I.ord William Campbell, Mr. Butler, Mr. Rice, Mr. Sbifiner, Mr. Milles, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Buller, Mr. Barrow, Mr. Bentinck-, and they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Sir John Glynne ptefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for naturalizing Sabine Loujfe Winn: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Rfiolved, That die Bill be read a Second Time. An ingroffed Bill for naturalizing John His, J An Henry Ernjl, and John Michael Platz, was read the Third Time. Rfiolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Ad for naturalizing John His, John Henry Ernft, and Jehu Michael Platz. Ordered, That Mr. Lewis do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. An ingrofled Bill for naturalizing Charles Frederick Hempel, James Janet, and CLriJFpLer John Schultz, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pals: And that the Title be, An Act for naturalizing Charles Frederick Hempel, James Janet, and Chrijtcphsr John Schultz. Ordered, That Sir John Glynne do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. OJeraZ,Thatthe Order of the Day, forthe Second Reading of the Biil to enlarge the Term and Powers of an Aft� made in rhe 26th Tear of his late Majefty�s Reign, for repairing and widening the Road from the Half-way Houfe, in the Parilh of Lower Compton, in the County of Dorfet, through the Towns of Yeovil, Crewkerne, and Chard, to the Eaft End of the Town of Avninjler, and feveral other Roads round the faid Town of Yeovil, in the County of Scmerfet; fo far as the fame relates to the Road from Hajleborougb Bridge, to the Eaft End of the Toven of Axminjler-, and for repairing and widening the Road from Chard, through Stockland, to Honiton, in the County of Devon -, be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly; The faid Bill was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Sir Charles KemysTynte,, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Dowdefwell, Mr. Touchet, Mr. Delaval, Lord North, Mr. Harris, Lord Digby, Mr. Prowfe, Mr. Coventry, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Rigby, Mr. Cujl, Lord Strange, Mr. Fuller, Sir Simeon Stuart, Sir Walter Blacket, Mr, Kynajlon, Sir John Ru/haut, Lord Brownlow Bertie, Mr. Burrell, Sir George Amy and. Sir RA er I Ladbroke, Mr. Pitt, Sir Jarrtt Smith, Lord Grey, Mr. Robinfen, Sir Charles Bunbury, Mr. Townficnd, Mr. Hume, Mr. Sergifon, Mr. Prefcot, Mr. Paterfion, Mr. HuJ]ey, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Somerfet, Dorfet, Devon, Wilts, 2nd Cornwall: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber; and all who come are to have Voices. A Petition of feveral Gentlemen and others, of the Counties of Dorfet and Devon, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitionees are informed, a Bill is depending in the Houfe, for repairing the Road from Chard, in the County of Somerfet, to Honiton, in the County of Deven, through Stockland; that there is already a very good Turnpike Road from Chard, through Axminjler, to Honiton, which is Part of the Great Weftern Road; and that, if the faid Bill fliould pafs, in the Manner it is now drawn, neither the prefent Turnpike Road aforefaid, nor the intended Turnpike Road, can properly be repaired, and kept kept in Repair for the future, from the Tolls which can be collefted thereon, or Money to be borrowed on the Credit thereof; And therefore praying the Houfe to rake the Premifes into Confideration, that the faid Bill, as it is now drawn, may not pafs into a Law; and that the Petitioners may be heard by themfelves or Counfel, againft fuch Part thereof as they apprehend will be injurious to the Country in general. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of the faid Committee ; and that the Petitioners be heard, by their Counfel, before the faid Committee, upon their faid Petition, if they think fit. The Houfe was moved that the Petition of feveral of the Mortgagees and Truftees authorized to put in Execution An aft of Parliament, pafled in the 27th Year of his late Majefty�s Reign, intituled, An Aft for repairing and widening the Road from a certain In- trenchment at Afkerfwell Hill, oppofite to Chilcornbe Fann, through the Town of Bridport, to Penn Inn, and from Bridport aforefaid, to the Town of Beamijler, in the County of Dorfet, and alfo the Road from Penn Inn aforefaid, through the Town of Axminjler, to the Workhoufe at the Eaft End of the Town of Honiton, in the County of Devon ', which was prefented to the Houfe upon Thurfday laft, and then ordered to lie upon the Table until the faid Bill be read a Second Time; might be again read. And the fame was read accordingly. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Con- cleration of the Committee, to whom the faid Bill is committed ; and that the Petitioners be heard, by their Counfel, before the faid Committee, upon their Petition, if they think fit. The Houfe was moved, that the Petition of feveral Gentlemen and others, of the Counties of Dorfet and Devon, which was prefented to the Houfe upon Thurf- day laft, and then ordered to lie upon the Table until the faid Bill be read a Second Time, might be again read. And the fame was read accordingly. The Houfe was alfo moved, that the Petition of the feveral Perfons, whofe Hands are thereunto fubferibed, being Truftees for carrying into Execution, or Creditors under the Security of, an Aft, pafled in the 26th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, for repairing and widening the Road from the Top of Whitejheet Hill, in the Parilh of Donhead St. Andrew, in the County of Wilts, through the Towns of Shaftesbury, Milborne Port, and Sherborne, in the Counties of Dorfet and Somerfet, to the Half-way Houfe, in the Parilh of Nether otherwife Lower Compton, in the faid County of Dorfet, and feveral other Roads, near the Towns of Shaftesbury and Sherborne aforefaid; and alfo an Aft, pafled in the 29th Year of the Reign of his faid late Majehy King George the Second, for explaining, amending, and making more effeftual, the aforefaid Aft, and for repairing other Roads therein mentioned ; which was Yefterday prefented to the Houfe, and then ordered to lie upon the Table until the faid Bill be read a Second Time, might be again read. And the fame being read accordingly; Ordered, That the faid Petitions be referred to the faid Committee. Ordered, That it be an Inftruftton to the faid Committee, that they do admit Counfel to be heard, in Favour of the laid Bill, againft the Petitions now referred ; and whereupon Couniel are to be heard before the faid Committee. An ingroffed Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Aft to difldive the Marriage of John Nixon, with Hejler Spencer, his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again ; and for other Purpofes therein mentioned ; was read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second l ime. Mr Peterfon, according to Older, reported from the Committee of the whofe Houfe, to whom it was referred to vonfider what Rights of the Proprietor of the Ifle of Man, under the feveral Grants of die laid llland, it may be expedient to veft in the Crown, for the further and more effeftual preventing the Mifchiers anfing to the Revenue and Commerce of Great Britain and Ireland, from the illicit and clandeftine Trade co and from the faid llland ; and what Competition it may be proper to make to the faid Proprietor, in refpeft thereof ; the Refolutions which the Committee had directed him to report to the Houle; which he read in his Place; and afterwards delivered in at the Clerk�s 7'able: Where the fame were read; and arc as followeth; viz. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That for the further and more effeftually preventing the Mifchiefs arifing to the Revenue and Commerce of Great Britain and Ireland, from the illicit and clandeftine Trade to and from the Ifle of Man, it is expedient to veft in the Crown, upon a proper Compen- fation to be paid to the Proprietors of the faid llland, the Ifle, Caftle, and Peele, of Man, and all Rights, Jurifdiftions, and Interefts in and over the faid llland, and all its Dependencies, holden by the faid Proprietors, under the feveral Grants thereof, or under any other Title whatfoever, excepting only their landed Property, with all their Rights in and over the Soil, as Lords of the Manor, with all Courts Baron, Rents, Services, and other Incidents, to fuch Courts belonging, their Waftes, Commons, and other Lands, Inland Waters, Filheries, and Mills, and all Mines, Minerals, and Quarries, according to their prefent Rights therein, Felons Goods, Deodands, Waifs, Eftrays, and Wrecks at Sea, together with the Patronage of the Bilhoprick, and of the other Ecclefiaftical Benefices in the faid llland, to which they are now intitled. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That the Sum of Seventy thoufand Pounds may be proper to be paid, as a full Compenfation to the faid Proprietors, according to the Propofal contained in the Letter from the faid Proprietors, dated the 27th Day of February 1765, to the Commiflioners of the Trea- fury. The faid Refolutions being feverally read a Second Time, were, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to relblve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the feveral Afts relating to the Rewards for difeovering the Longitude at Sea, and making Experiments of Propofals for difeovering the Longitude; Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the faid Committee, that they do confider of the Proceedings of the Commiflioners for Difcovery of the Longitude at Sea, in relation to a Watch, or Time-keeper, invented by Mr. John Harrifon �, and alfo, in relation to certain Lunar 7 ables, conftruftcd by Fobias Mayer, deceafed, late Proftffor at Goetinghen. Then the Houfe relblved itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Stephens took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr. Stephens reported from the Committee, That thev had examined feveral Witneffes; and had made a further Progrefs in the Matter to them referred ; and that he was direfted by the Committee to move, that they may have Leave to fit again. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Friday next, at Twelve of the Clock, refolve itfelf into a Com mittee Joris, 7� die Mar til \ Anno f Georgii IIP15 Regis, 1765. PRAYERS. QRDERED, That the Bill to quiet the prefuit PoL fellbis of Leaks from Ecclefiaibcal Perfons, and Bodies Politic, Corporate, and Collegiate, of Tythes, 1 oils, and other incorporeal ] hereditaments, for Lives or Terms of Years, in the Enjoyment of fuch Leafes, and to enable Ecclrfiaftical Perlons, and Bodies Politic, Corporate, and Collegiate, to grant Leafes of fuch incorporeal Hereditaments-, with a Remedy to recover the refpedive Rents referved ; be printed. Mr. Whichcot prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for repairing and widening the Road from Great Grimsby Haven, at or near a Place called the Upper Sand End, to Wold Nekton Church; and from Nuns Farm to the Mill Field, in the Parilh of Irby, in the County of Lincoln t And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and Principal Inhabitants reftding in and about North Willingham and Hainton, in the County of Lincoln, whole Names are thereto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read-, Taking Notice, That a Bill is now depending in the Houfe, for a Turnpike Road from Baw try Bridge, in the County of Nottingham, to Thorp Hall Mill, in the County of Lincoln -, and fet- ting forth, that the Road leading from the Great Road in the Village of North Willingham, in the faid County of Lincoln, through a Lane leading South to the Town of Six Hills, and from thence to the direct Road to Hainton, in the faid County of Lincoln, to the Blackfmith\ Shop in Hainton aforefaid, is, in many Parts thereof, narrow, much in Decay, incommodious, and unfafe for Travellers, and cannot be effectually widened and repaired by the ordinary Courfe of Law : And therefore praying, That Provifion may be made for inferring the above Road in the faid Bill now depending, in fuch Manner, as to the Houfe Ihall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of a Committee : And that they do examine the Matter thereof-, and report the fame, as it fliail appear to them, to the Houfe: And it is referred to Mr. Whichcot, Mr. Mellijb, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Kynajlon, Sir Robert Long, Mr. Willoughby, Mr. Sbiffner, Sir William Beauchamp Prohor, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Hewett, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Waller, Mr. Abercrombie, Sir John Wynne, Mr. Eyre, Mr. Hume, Sir Alexander Grant, Mr. Gray, Mr. Jennings, Lord Charles Montagu, Mr. Long, Mr. Aiderman Beckford, Sir Francis Vincent, Mr. Vernon, Mr. Sandys, General Douglas, Mr. Bertie, Mr. Mac- kenfte. Lord Farnham, Mr. Forrejier, Mr. Rigby, I.ord Grey, Mr. Norris, Mr. Fonereau, Sir Edward Bay num, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Townjbend, Sir Charles Kemys lyate, Sir George Tonge, Mr. Rofs-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Lincoln, Fork, Nottingham, and Northampton: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speakei�s Chamber-, and have Power to fend for Perfons, Papers, and Records. Mr. Kynajlon prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for enlarging the Term and Powers of an Aft, made in the 25th Year of the Reign of his late N n n Majefty, Majcfty, for repairing the High Road from die Town of Shrewfoury, through Crejfage, Harley, Much Wenlock, by Muckley Crofs, and through Morville, to Bridgnorth, in the County of Salop; and for amending feveral other Roads near or adjoining thereto: And the fame was received ; and read the,Hid Time. Refolded, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Principal Inhabitants of the Parifhes of Hartford, Houghton with Myton, and Broughton, in the County of Huntingdon, was prefented to the I loufe, and read ; Taking Notice, That a Petition has been prefented to the Houfe, to add a Clauie to the Royftcn and Caxton Road Bill, for extending the faid Road from Huntingdon to Somerfisam, which mud pafs through the Parifhes of Hartford and Houghton with Wyton, the Roads of which, leading from Huntingdon to Saint Ives, by the great Diligence and Expence of fome of the Petitioners, and the Exertion of their Statute Work, being already in extreme good Repair ; and as the intended Road from Huntingdon to So- merfoam mud break off from the common Road from Huntingdon to Saint Ives, upon probable Conjecture, (for the Petitioners can with Truth fay, that they have not fo much as been confulted upon the Application, nor fo much as heard of fuch a Project, till they found that the aforefaid Petition had been prefented to the Houfe) at a certain Guide Pod, at the Ead End of Hartford Town, and proceed through the Open Fields of Houghton with Wyton, and fo on, through the Parilh of Broughton, to Somerfhaw, and that the Inhabitants of thefe Firft mentioned Towns will be fo far from being benefited thereby, that they will be greatly injured, by Part of the Statute Work being taken off from the necefTary Repairs on the accuftomed great Road between Huntingdon and Saint Ives �, and that the new intended Road is very little nearer to Somerfham, than that leading from Huntingdon, through Saint Ives, already in good Repair, and likely to improve ; and that the aforefaid Clauie to theRoyJion and Caxton Road Bill appears, to the Petitioners, to be ufelefs ; and, fhould a Bar be erefted in the Lane leading to Huntingdon commonly called Hartford Lane, the Petitioners will then be obliged to pay for patting on the Road, which they have already made at fo much Trouble and Expence : And therefore hope for fuch Relief in this Matter, as to the Houfe fhall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Committee, to whom the Bill for enlarging the Term and Powers of feveral Acts of the 9th and 12th Years of Queen Anne, and of the 13th of George the Firft, and of the 14th of his late Majefty, for repairing the Highways leading from Royjlon, in the County of Hertford, to Wansford Bridge, in the County of Huntingdon-, fo far as relates to the Middle and South Divifions of Road comprized in the faid Ads ; and for amending the Road from the Town of Huntingdon, to the Town of Somer/bam, in the faid County of Huntingdon ; is committed. A Petition of the Grand Jury of the County of Middlefex, the Church Wardens and Overfeers of the Poor, and other Principal Inhabitants of the feveral Parifhes within the Hundred of Ojfuljlan, whofc Names are thereunto fubferibed, on behalf of thcmfelves and the other Inhabitants of the fame Parifhes, was prefented to the I loufe, and read ; Setting forth. That the Petitioners obferve, by the Votes, that a Petition from the Lord Mayor, Aidermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council aflembled, for the removing and rebuilding the Gaol of Newgate, hath been prefented to the Houle ; and that a new Charge is thereby intended to be thrown on the County of Middlefex ; and reprefenting, that the County Rates for the Maintenance of Gaols, and for other Public Services, being levied and collected out 01 the Poor�s Rates, the Peti tioners do confiderably contribute already towards the Support of Three, viz. New Prifon and Clerkenwell Bridewell, and Tolhill Fields Bridewell; and that the Petitioners apprehend that the City is become bound in Law to maintain the fame, without the Contribution of the County of Middlefex: And therefore praying, That the Houfe will be pleafed to take the Cafe of rhe Petitioners into Confideration, and protect: them from any Charge that may be attempted to be thrown upon them, towards pulling down the faid Gaol. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aidermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council aflembled, is referred. Sir Charles Kemys Tynte reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair, feveral Roads leading to and from Crewkerne, in the County of Somerfet, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto; which they had directed him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where rhe Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Quef- tion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofled. Mr. Willoughby prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing feveral Open Fields, Meadows, and Commons, within the Lordfhip or Liberty of Wilford, in the County of Nottingham: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Colonel Barre reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for naturalizing Henrietta Rofa Peregrina Town- fend, Wife of James Townfend Efquire, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Committee had direfted him to report the Bill to the Houfe, without any Amendment: And he delivered the Bill in at the Clerk�s Table. Ordered, That the Bill be ingrofled. Sir George Tonge reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for enlarging the Term and Powers of fo much of an Aft, made in the 27th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty, for repairing feveral Roads in the Counties of Dorfet and Devon, as relates to the Road from Penn Inn, in the County of Dorfet, to the Work- houfe at the Eaft End of the Town of Honiton, in the County of Devon ; and for amending the Road from Axminjier, to a Place called Guandoe's Gate, and alfo feveral Roads leading from Honiton aforefaid ; and for enlarging the Term and Powers of fo much of the faid Act, as relates to the Road from the Intrenchment on Askerfwell Hill to Penn Inn, and from Bridport to Bea- mifer-, and alfo for amending the Road from the North End of South Street to Bridport Harbour; was committed; That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true ; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto; which they had directed him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One -, and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were, with feveral Amendments Amendments to One of them, agreed to by the 1 loufe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrafted. The Houfe bring informed, that Mr. Rowe, from the Commiflioners of the Cuftoms in Scotland, attended at the Door; he was called in; and, at the Bar, pre- fentedto the 1 loufe, purfuant to their Orders, An Account of all Coals exported from Scotland, for the Twenty Years preceding the 5th of January 1764, with the Duties payable thereon; diftinguilhing each Year; and diftinguilhing fuch Part as have been exported to Foreign Countries, fuch as have been exported to Ireland and the I fie of Man, and fuch as have been exported to the Britifh Colonies and Plantations: And alfo, An Account of the Quantities of Silk Stockings imported into that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, from 5th January 1754, to 5th January 1765 ; diftin- guifhing each Year: And alfo, An Account of the Quantities of Silk Stockings exported from that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, from 5th January 1754 to 5th January 1765; diftinguilhing each Year : And alfo, An Account of the Quantities of Silk Gloves and Mitts imported into that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, from 5th January 1754 to 5th January 1765 ; diftinguilhing each Year : And alfo, An Account of the Quantities of Silk Gloves and Mitts exported from that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, from 5th January 1754 to 5th January 1765; diftinguilhing each Year: And alfo, An Account of the Quantities of Silk Pieces imported into that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, from 5th January 1754 to 5th January 1765; diftin- guilhing each Year: And alfo, � An Account of the Quantities of Silk Pieces exported from that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, from 5th January 1754 to 5th January 1765; diftinguilhing each Year : And alfo, An Account of the Quantities of Briti/h made Silks exported from Scotland, together with the Bounty paid upon the fame, from Chriflmas 1750 to Chrijlmas 17$S -, diftinguilhing each Country to which the fame have been exported, and each Year. And then he withdrew. And the Titles of the faid Accounts were read. Ordered, That the faid Accounts do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. The faid Accounts are preferved amongft the other Papers of this Seflion. The Lord Advocate of Scotland prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for regulating the Currency and due Payment of Notes, iflued by the Banks and Banking Companies in North Britain: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved) That the Bill be read a Second Time. Ordered, That the faid Bill be read a Second Time, upon Tuefdoy Morning next. Lord Brownlow Bertie prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing a certain Comm' n Fen, in the Parifhes of Ajlackby and Dowfby, in the County of Lincoln) and for draining and improving the faid Fen : And the lame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Rtfolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Sir Edward Bayntun reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for enlarging the Terms and Powers of Two Aits, of the 13th of George the Firft, and of the 16th of his late Majefty, for repairing feveral Roads leading from the Town of Warminfer, in the County of Wilts, and for amending feveral ocher Roads near or adjoining thereto, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fameto betrue; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto �, which they had directed him to report to the Houfe ; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon rhe Queftion feverally put thereupon, One of them was dilagreed to, and the reft were, with Amendments to feveral ot them, agreed to by the Houle. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrafted. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for the more effectually preventing and punching Embezzlements and Breaches of Truft: And that Mr. Glover, Mr. Aiderman Beckford, the Lord Strange, Mr. Wilbraham, and Mr. Morton, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. The Houfe being informed, that Mr. Tomkyns, from the Commiflioners of the Cuftoms, attended at the Door; he was called in; and, at the Bar, prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to their Orders, An Account of the Quantity of Hemp and Flax imported into this Kingdom, for Seven Years laft paft, to Chriflmas 1764-, diftinguilhing each Year: And allo, An Account of the Quantity of all Drillings imported from Rufia, for the Four laft Years, to Chriji- mas 1764, with the Duties paid thereon; diftinguilhing each Year. And then he withdrew. And the Titles of the faid Accounts were read. Ordered, That the faid Accounts do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. The faid Accounts are preferved amongft the other Papers of this Seflion. Ordered, That Sir George Metham, Mr. Onflow, Mr. Lynch, Sir Edward Bayntun, Lord Robert Bertie, Mr. Boone, Colonel Brudenell, Mr. John Calvert, Mr. Jones, Mr. Stephenfon, Mr. Finch, Mr. Dundas, be added to the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing certain Open Common Fields, Lands, and Grounds, in Branlingham and Thorpe Brantingham, in the Parifh of Brantingham, in the Eaft Riding of the County of 2'ork, is committed. Ordered, That Sir George Montgomery Metham and Colonel Hotham be added to the Committee, to whom the B.li for dividing and inclofing feveral Open and Common Fields, Lands, and Grounds, in the Parilh of Benton, in the Eaft Riding of the County of Fork, is committed. Ordered, That Sir George Montgomery Metham, Mr. Onflow, Mr. Lynch, Sir Edward Bayntun, Lord Brownlow Bertie, Mr.Boone, CoXontA Brudenell,Mr. JobnCalvert,Mr, Finch, Mr. Dundas, Mr. Jones, Mr. Stephenfon, be added to the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing certain Open Common Fields, Lands, and Grounds, in Ellerker, in the Parilh of Brantingham, in the Eaft Riding of the County of Fork, is committed. Ordered, That the Order of the Day, for the Second Reading of the Bill to impower the High Court of Chancery to lay out, upon Government Securities, a Sum of Money, not exceeding a Sum therein to be limited, out of the Common and General Calh in the Bank of England, belonging to the Suitors of the faid Court; and to apply the Intereft arifing therefrom, towards augmenting the Income of the Mafters of the laid Court; be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly ; The faid Bill was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed. 1 Refolded, That the Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole Houle. Refolved, That this Houle will, upon Tuefday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the laid Bill. Ordered, That there be hid before this Houfe, an Account of the Annual Balance of the Dead Cafli and Securities of the Bank of England, belonging to the Suitors of the Court of Chancery, from the Year 1739, to the 23d Day of February hit inclufive; diftinguilh- ing rhe Dead Cafli from the Securities in each Year. A Bill for continuing an Act, made in the gift Year of his lateMajefty�s Reign, for encouraging the Growth and Cultivation of Madder in that Part of Great- Britain called England, by afeertaining the Tythe thereof, was read a Second Time. Refolded, That the Bill be committed. Refolded, That the Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole 1 loute. Refohed, That this 1 loufe will, upon this Day Sevennight, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the laid Bill. A Petition of the feveral unfortunate Prilbncrs for Debt, in behalf of themfelves, confined in his Maje- fty�s Gaol of the County of Salop, whole Names are thereunto fubferibed, and alfo in behalf of all other Pn- foners for Debt in the feveral Gaols within the laid County, was prefented to the I loufe, and read ; complaining of their Diftrefs ; and praying Relief. Ordered, That the laid Petition do lie upon the Table. Mr. Kynafon, according to Order, reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it was referred to confider of the feveral Ads made in the 26th, 28th, and 30th Years of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, for the Amendment andPre- fervation of the Public Highways and Turnpike Roads of this Kingdom, and for the effectual Execution of the Laws relating thereto, the Relblutions which the Committee had directed him to report to the Houfe; which he read in his Place ; and afterwards delivered in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the fame were read ; and are as fnlloweth ; viz. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That the Provifions (except that which permits Waggons, Wains, Carts, and Carriages, having the Fellies of the Wheels thereof of the Breadth of Nine Inches, to pals through Turnpike Gates, upon paying I lalf the ordinary Tolls) in an Aft palled in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of his late Majefly King George the Second, intituled, An Aft to render more effectual the feveral I.aws now in being, for the Amendment and Prefcrvation of the Public Highways and Turnpike Roads of this Kingdom ; which will expire on the 24th Day of June 1765-, be continued, under certain Re- ftriftions and Regulations. Refolded, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That all Waggons, Wains, Carts, and Carriages, having the Fellies of the Wheels thereof of the Breadth of Nine Inches, and drawn according to Law, do, after thefaid 24th Day of June, pay the full Tolls direfted to be paid by any Aft of Parliament. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That fome Encouragement fliould be given to Waggons and Wains having Wheels of the Breadth of Nine Inches, at the Foot or Sole thereof, and Axle-trees of different Lengths, and a certain Diltance between fuch Wheels. The Firfl; of the laid Refutations being read a Second Time, was, upon the Queftion put thereupon, agreed to by the 1 loufe. . The Second of the faid Refolutions being read a Second Time, an Amendment was propofed to be made thereto, by leaving out the Words, � and drawn ac- �� cording to Law.� And the faid Amendment was, upon the QueAum put thereupon, -agreed to by the Houfe. Refolded, That the Houfe doth agree with the Committee in the laid Refolution, fo amended, That all Waggons, Wains. Carts, and Carriages, having the Fellies of the Wheels thereof, of the Breadth of Nine Inches, do, after the faid 24th Day of June, pay die full Tolls direfted to be paid by any Aft of Parliament. The hit Refolution of the Committee being read a Second Time, was, upon the Queftion put thereupon, agreed to by the Houle. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, pur- fuanc to the laid Relblutions, as the lame have been agreed to by the Houfe : And that Mr. Fuller, Mr. Ky- nafon, the Lord Strange, and Mr. Morton, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Ordered, That the Order of the Day, for receiving the Report from the Committee of the whole Houle, ro whom the Bill for more effeftually preventing the Mif- chiefs ariling to the Revenue and Commerce of Great Britain and Ireland, from the illicit and clandeflihe Trade to and from the llle of Man, was committed, be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly �, Ordered, That the faid Report be received upon this Day Sevennight. Ordered, That the Order of the Day, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill for the more effeftually fupplying the Export Trade of this Kingdom to Africa, with fuch Coarfe Printed Callicoes, and other Goods of the Pro- duft or Manufafture of the Eajt Indies, or other Places beyond the Cape of Good Hope, as are prohibited to be worn and ufed in Great Britain �, for encouraging the Importation of Bugles into this Kingdom, for the better Supply of the Export Trade thereof; and for difeon- tinuing the Bounty payable in Great Britain, and all Bounties and Allowances in Ireland, upon the Exportation of Corn, Grain, Malt, Meal, and Flour, from thence to the Ifle of Maw, be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly ; Rejolved, T hat this Houfe will, upon this Day Sevennight, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Huufe, upon the faid Bill. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houle, to confider of an Aft, made in the 26th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled. An Aft for permitting the Importation of Wool, and Woollen or Bay Yarn, from any Port in Ireland, to any Port in Great BHiain. Rfolved, That this Houfe will, upon Friday Seven- night, refolve itfelf into the faid Committee. The Order of the Day being read, for taking into Coniideration the Report from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor, within that Parc of Great Britain called England, was committed ; A Motion was made, and the Queftion being put, Thar the faid Report be taken into Confideration upon this Day Three Months ; It palfed in the Negative. T hen the Houfe proceeded to take the faid Report into Confideration. And the faid Report was read. And the Amendments, made by the Committee to the faid Rill, were feverally read a Second Time; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, fome of them were difagreed to, fome of them were poft- poned, and the reft were, with Amendments to feveral of them, agreed to by the Houle. 4 Ordered, Ordered, That the further Confideration of the faid Report be adjourned till To-morrow Morning. The other Order of the Day being read ; Ordered, 1'hat the Report from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill for the more efteftual preventing the Stealing of Filh and Rabbits, was committed, be received upon Monday Morning next. And then the Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. Feuer is, 8� die Martii; Anno 5� Georgii IIP1 Regis, 1765. PR A YER S. A B ILL for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, and other Commonable Lands, within the Manor and Parifh of Snitfeld, otherwife Snitterfcld, in the County of War- Kick, was read a Second l ime. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Coventry, Mr. Kyncfcn, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Waucbcpe, Mr. Morton, Sir George Colebrooke, Mv. Cocks, Mr. Montagu, Lord Thomond, Mr. Ward, Mr. Fane, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Foley, Sir Simeon Stuart, Mr. Dowdefwell, Mr. Foncreau, Lord Burghcrfb, Mr. Chetwynd, Mr. liar- bord, General A'Court, Mr. Gray, Mr. Praed, Sir William Maynard, Mr. Sulivan, Mr. Shiffner, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. fTown/bend, Mr. Boone, Colonel Barre, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Hayes, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Burrell, Lord Winterton, Mr. Howard, Mr. Parker, Mr. Aiderman Beckford, Mr. Pryce, Mr. Peachey ; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Warwick, Worcefler, Oxford, and Gloucejhr: And they arc to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Sir Thomas Cave prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open Fields and Commonable Places in the Parifh of Houghton on the Hill, in the County of Leicefter: And the fame was received; and read the Firft 1 ime. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. from the Town of Taunton, in the County of Somerfei : And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, 1 hat the Bill be read a Second Time. Sir Simeon Stuart prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for repairing and widening the Road leading from a Street, called The Hundred, at Romfy, through Chilworth, to the River at Swathling, in the County of Southampton �, and for connecting the fame with the Road leading from the City of Winchefter, through Hurfey, to Chandlers Ford, and from Htirjiey aforefaid, to the Turnpike Road at Romfey aforefaid ; and allo for repairing and widening the Road leading from the River at Swathling aforefaid, through Botley, to the Turnpike Road at Sherrill Heath, in the faid County of Southampton : And the fame was received ; and read the Firft 1 ime. Rfolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Mr. Frederick Montagu reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, and Common Grounds, in the Manor and Parifh of Denford, in the County of Northampton, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true ; and that the Parties concerned had given their Confent to the Bill, to the Satisfaction of the Committee-, except Three Perfons, whole Property in the faid Lands amounts to Five Pounds per Annum ; and that the whole Value of the Lands intended to be inclofed amounts to 6411, per Annum ; and that no Perfon appeared before the Committee, to oppofe the Bill; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto-, which they had directed him to report to the Houfe ; and he read the Report in his Place ; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the Amendments were Once read throughout-, and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the I loufe. A Claufe was offered to be added to the Bill, allowing Perfons aggrieved by any thing done, by virtue of the Aft, to appeal to the Quarter Sefiions. And the Lid Claufe was Twice read, with Blanks; which being filled up; the faid Claufe was, upon the Queftion put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe, to be made part of the Bill. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofied. An ingrofied Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Paftures, Common Grounds, and Wafte Grounds, of and in the Manor of Wellingborough, and of and in the Manor of Wellingborough, formerly belonging to the College of Irtlingborough, and in the Parilla of We'lingborough, in the County of Northampton, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pals : And that the Title be, An Aft for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Paftures, Common Grounds, and Wafte Grounds, ot and in the Manor of Wellingborough, and of and in the Manor ot Wellingborough, formerly belonging to the College of Irtling- borough, and in the Parifh of Wellingborough, in the County of Northampton. Ordered, That Mr. Bagot do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. Ordered, That Mr. Wilbraham Bootle be added to the Gentlemen who are appointed to prepare, and bring ir, a Bill for repairing and widening the Roads from Keyberry Bridge, to the Pafiage at Shalldon-, and from the faid Bridge to the Pier or Harbour of Turkey, in the County of Devon. Mr. Wilbraham Bootle prefented to the Houfe, accord - O o 0 ing ing to Order, a Bill for repairing and widening the Roads from Key berry Bridge, to the PafTage at Shalldon; and from rhe faid Bridge to the Pier or Harbour of Torkey ; in the County of Devon : And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. The Lord Orwell reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Society of the Free Britifi Fifhery, was referred, That the Committee had examined the Matter of Fadi contained in the faid Petition ; and had directed him to report a State thereof to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the fame was read ; and is as foiloweth; viz. By a Charter and feveral Adis of Parliament produced and read to your Committee, it appeared, That the Petitioners were incorporated by Charter, in Confe- quence of an Aft of Parliament of the 23d Year of his late Majefty�s Reign ; and by feveral Afts of Parliament, 3 L' per Centum was granted upon all Money raifed and employed in the faid Fifhery, and a Bounty of 50 Shillings a Ton on allVeflels employed therein, for 17 Years, from the Date of the Charter, which Term will expire on the 2 2d Day of ORober 1767. By the Company�s Ledger, produced by Mr. George Root, it appeared, that the Company had employed above 4- 134,000 in the faid Fifhery. And by other Accounts produced to your Committee, it appeared that the Society had loft upwards of f. 107,000 in carrying on the faid Fifliery. Then a Claufe in the Aft of the 23d Year of King George the Second, was read, obliging the Petitioners, within Eighteen Months after the Commencement of their Charter, to employ �. 100,000 in Bufles, Nets, and other Neceflaries for fitting out, and employing the faid Bufles. To prove that the Society were become more fkilful in the Curing Fifh than formerly, Mr. Lockman, Secretary to the faid Society, produced to your Committee a Letter from the Society�s Agent at Hamburgh, from which the following Extraft was read ; � It is with the greareft Satisfaction I aflure you 44 how far luperior the Curing is this Year to the laft, 44 and both Cargoes being fo much better than the � Dutch, People begin to be convinced of their former 44 Prejudice againft them, and even to give them the 44 Preference to the Hollands:� And Thomas Collet Efquire, faid, That he had fent feveral Quantities of Britijh Herrings to the American Colonies; that formerly they did not anfwer, but within this laft Three Years, fince a new Method of curing them has been found out, they have anfwered very well, and are as good at Ja- maica as they are in the Baltic. Ordered, That the faid Report be referred to the Confideration of a Committee of the whole Houfe. Rejolved, That this Houfe will, upon this Day Sevennight, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider of the faid Report. The Houfe, according to Order, refolved itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the feveral Afts relating to the Rewards for difeo- vering the Longitude at Sea, and making Experiments of Propofais for difeovering the Longitude. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Stephens took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr. Stephens reported from the Committee, That they had made a further Progrefs in the Matter to them referred ?, and that he was direfted by the Committee to move, that they may have Leave to fit again. Refolved, 1 hat this Houfe will, after the Houfe fhall have proceeded upon the other Orders of the Day, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the faid Afts. The Order of the Day being read, for receiving the Report from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill for regulating Qualifications of the Proprietors of Eafl Jnda Stock, was committed; Ordered, That the faid Report be received upon Thurfday next, at Twelve of the Clock. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the Bill to repeal an Ad, pafled in the Twenty-fixth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled, An Aft for the better preventing of Clandeftine Marriages ; and to encourage and facilitate Marriages to be folemnized in Churches or Public Chapels, under a Publication of Banns, or by Licences; and to remove all Doubts which have arifen, or may arife, concerning the Validity of certain Marriages folemnized fince the making the faid Aft; and for the regulating Regifters; and for preferving the Evidence of Pedigrees �, Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Thurfday Sevennight, the 21ft Day of this InftantMir^, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the faid Bill. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of Ways and Means for raifing the Supply granted to His Majefty ; Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the faid Committee, that they do confider fo much of an Aft, pafled in the 33d Year of the Reign of his late Majefty, intituled, An Aft for granting to His Majefty feveral Duties upon Malt; and for raifing the Sum of Eight millions by Way of Annuities and aLottery,to be charged on the faid Duties; and to prevent the fraudulent obtaining of Allowances in the Gauging of Corn making into Malt; and for making forth Duplicates of Exchequer Bills, Tickets, Certificates, Receipts, Annuity Orders, and other Orders, loft, burnt, or otherwife de- ftroyed; and alfo of an Aft, pafled in the Second Year of His prefent Majefty, intituled, an Aft for raifing by Annuities, in Manner therein mentioned, the Sum of Twelve millions, to be charged on the Sinking Fund; and for applying the Surplus of certain Duties on Spirituous Liquors, and alfo the Monies arifing from the Duties on Spirituous Liquors granted by an Aft of this Seflion of Parliament; as relate to the Payment Half- yearly, on the 5th Day of July and the 5th Day of January in every Year, of the Annuities therein granted, in refpeft of certain Capital Stocks thereby eftabliflied, amounting together to the Sum of 20,240,000/. at the Rate of 4/. per Centum, per Annum, for certain Terms of Years, and then to be reduced to 3 /. per Centum, per Annum. Then the Houfe refolved itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair: Mr. Paterfon took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr. Paterfon reported from the Committee, That they had come to a Rcfolution; which they had direfted him to report, when the Houfe will pleafe to receive the fame. Ordered, That the Report be received upon Monday Morning next. Mr. Paterfon alfo acquainted the Houfe, that he was direfted by the Committee to move, that they may have Leave to fit again. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Monday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of Ways and Means for raifing the Supply granted to His Majefty. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider confider further of the Supply granted to His Majefty ; Refolded, That this Houfe will, upon Monday Morning next, rtfolve itfelf into the laid Committee. The other Order of the Day being read, for refuming the adjourned Confideration ot the Report from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor, within that Part of Great Britain called England, was committed ; The Houfe refumed the adjourned Confideration of the faid Report. And a Claufe was offered to be added to the Bill, di- refting the Method of Proceeding in Cafes where Perfons chofen Commiflioners refufe to aft. And the laid Claufe was Twice read; and, upon the Queftion put thereupon, agreed to by rhe Houfe, to be made Part of the Bill. Another Claufe was offered to be added to the Bill, declaring that all peculiar Franchifes and Jurifdiftions, having Quarter Seflions, Hull, for the Purpofes of the Aft, be deemed to be Parr of the County at large. And the faid Claufe was Twice read ; and, upon the Queftion put thereupon, agreed to by rhe Houfe, to be made Part of the Bill. Another Claufe was offered to be added to the Bill, directing the Commiflioners to advertife their Contracts. And the faid Claufe was Twice read, with Blanks ; which being filled up; the faid Claufe was amended. Then the faid Claufe was, upon the Queftion put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe, to be made Part of the Bill. Ordered, That the further Confideration of the faid Report be adjourned till Monday Morning next. The Order, made this Day, for the Houfe to refolve. itfelf into a Committee of the whole, to confider further of the feveral Afts relating to the Rewards for difeo- vering the Longitude at Sea, and making Experiments of Propofals for difeovering the Longitude, after the Houfe Ihould have proceeded upon the other Orders of the Day, being read; Refolded, That this Houfe will, upon Tue/day Sevennight, the 19th Day of this InftantMtrr^, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the faid Afts. Ordered, That the feveral Perfons who were ordered to attend the faid Committee this Day, do attend the faid Committee upon Tuefday Sevennight, the 19th Day of this Inftant March. A Meflage from the Lords, by Mr. Ho ford and Mr. Lane: Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for granting and applying certain Stamp Duties, and other Duties, in the Britff Colonies and Plantations in America, towards further defraying the Expences of defending, protefting, and fecuring the fame-, and for amending fuch Parts of the feveral Afts of Parliament relating to the Trade and Revenues of the faid Colonies and Plantations, as direft the Manner of determining and recovering the Penalties and Forfeitures therein mentioned-, without any Amendment: And alfo, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for impowering the Commiflioners for putting in Execution the feveral Afts pafled for paving, cleanfing, and lighting the Squares, Streets, and Lanes, within the City and Liberty of Weftmtnjler, and Parts adjacent, to colleft certain Tolls, on Sundays, upon the feveral Roads therein mentioned ; and applying the fame for the Purpoles of the faid Afts; without any Amendment: And alio, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair, feveral Luna?) II� die Martti; Anno 50 Georgii HI'" Regis, 1765. PRAYERS. A N ingroffed Bill for enlarging the Terms and Powers of Two Acts, of the 13th of George the Firft, and of the 16th of his late Majefty, for repairing feveral Roads leading from the Town of Warminjier, in the County of Wilts, and for amending feveral other Roads near or adjoining thereto, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Aft for enlarging the Terms and Powers of Two Afts, of the 13th of George the Firft, and of the 16th of his late Majefty, for repairing feveral Roads leading from the Town of Warminfer, in the County of Wills, and for amending feveral other Roads near the faid Town ; and for repealing fo much of an Aft, made in the Firft Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, for repairing feveral Roads therein mentioned, in the faid County, as relates to the Road within the Town of Heytejbury; and for other Purpoles therein mentioned. Ordered, That Sir Edward Bayntun do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. A Petition of feveral Gentlemen, Clergy, and others, living in the Towns of Axminfftr and Crewkerne, and ocher other Places, in the Counties of Dfrcaand Somerfet, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth. That the Petitioners are informed of a Bill now depending in the Houle, for repairing the Roads from the Town of Chard) through the fever.il Parifhcs of Chard, Wan- Inuit, Chardjlock, Mctabury, Stockland, Cotleigh, and Monckton, to the To am of Honiton, in the County of Devon; and that the ancient High Road from the Direction Stone, at the Weft End of White Down, to and through Chard Common and Perry Street, as far as the Place where the Spy Pofts lately ILod, by the Side of the Turnpike Road, on the Eaft ofTytberly Inn, being the neareft Way from Crcwkernc to Honiton, is in a ruinous Condition, narrow in many Places, and dangerous to 'Travellers, and cannot be repaired by the prelcnt Methods prefcribed by Law : And therefore praying, 'That Provifion may be made in the laid Bill, for repairing and widening the Lid Road, in fuch Manner as to the Houfe (hall teem meet. Ordered, Thar the laid Petition be referred to the Confidei arson of a Committee: And that they do examine the Matter thereof; and report the fame, as it Hull appear to them, to the Houle : And it is referred to Mr. Darner, Mr. Coventry, General Irwin, Mr. Kynafon, Mr. Lowndes, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Fane, Mr. Lafcelles, Sir George Tonge, Mr. Methuen, Mr. Drax, Sir Laurence Dundas, Mr. Dice, Mr. Sandys, Sir Edmund IJbam, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Blackfcne, Sir �?Ikomas Cave, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Robinfon, Lord Burgherfj, Mr. Town/jend, Mr. Nugent, Sir John Clynne, Mr. Burt, Mr. Fonereau, Lord Bateman, Mr. Holt, Mr. Plumptre, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Jennings, Mr. Northey, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Gray, Sir Thomas Palmer-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Dorfet, Devon, Somerfet, and Cornwall: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber-, and have Pow er to fend for'Perlons, Papers, and Records. An ingrofled Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Aft to dtflblve the Marriage of John Nixon, with Hefter Spencer, his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purpofes therein mentioned; was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed. Refolved, 1 hat the Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole Houfe. Refolved, That this IJoufe will, upon To morrow Sevennight, rcfolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the faid Bill. Ordered, That it be an Inlruftion to the faid Committee, that they do hear Counfd, and examine Wit- nefles, tor the laid Bill; and alfo, that they do hear Counlrl, and examine Wirneflcs, againft the faid Bill; if the Parties concerned think, fit to be heard by Coun- fcl, or to produce Witnefles. An ingrofled Bill for enlarging the Term and Powers of fo much of an Aft, made in the 27th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty, for repairing feveral Roads in the Counties of Dorfet and Devon, as relates to rhe Road from Penn Inn, in the County of Dorfet, to the Workhouie at the Eaft End of the Town of Honiton, in the County of Devon-, and for amending the Road from Axminf.tr, to a Place called ^unndee's Gate, and alfo feveral Roads leading from Iloniton aforefaid; and for enlarging the Te m and Powers of Io much of the faid Aft, as relates to the Road from the Intrenchment on AJkerfwell Hill to Penn Inn, and from Bridport to Bea- mifer -, and alfo for amending rhe Road from the Nurrh End of South Street to Bridport Harbour-, was read the T.jrJ Time. Refolved, T hat the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Act for enhrging the 'Term and Powers of fo much of an Aft, made in the Twcnty-fcventh Year of the Reign oi his late Maje�y, for repairing feveral Roads in the Counties of Dorfet and Deven, as relates to the Road from Penn Inn, in the County of Dorfet, to the Workhoufe at the Eaft End of the Town of Honitcn, in the County of Deven, and to the Road from the In- trcnchment on AJkerfwell Hill to Penn Inn, and from Bridport to Beamijler; and alfo for repairing and amending feveral other Roads therein mentioned, in the Counties of Dorfet and Devon. Ordered, 'That Sir George Tonge do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. An ingrofl'ed Bill for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair, feveral Roads, leading to and from Crew* kerne in theCounty of Somerfet, was read the Third Time, Refolved, That the Bill do pafs : And that the Title be, An Aft for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair, feveral Roads, leading to and from Crewkerne in the County of Somerfet. Ordered, That Sir Charles Kemys Tynte do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. An ingrofled Bill for Sale of certain Lands, in the County of Kent, fettled upon the Reftor of the Parifli of Saint George Bloomfbury, in the County of Middlefex, and for applying the Money anfing thereby in Manner therein mentioned, for the Benefit of the faid Reftor, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be. An Aft for Sale of certain Lands, in the County of Kent, fettled upon the Reftor of the Parilh of Saint George Bloomjbury, in the County of Middlefex, and for aPP'y*ng ^e Money anfing thereby in Manner therein mentioned, for the Benefit of the faid Reftor. Ordered, That Mr. Harris of Chrif Church do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. - A Bill for enlarging the Term and Powers of an Aft, made in the 25th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty, for repairing the High Road from the Town of Shrewfury, through Creffage, Harley, Much Wenlock, by Muckley Crofs, and through Morville, to Bridgenorth, in the County of Salop-, and for amending feveral other Roads near or adjoining thereto; was read a Second T�ime. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Kvna- fon, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Mr. Blac If one, Mr. Dodd, Sir Armine Wodchoufe, Mr. Jack- fon, Mr. Lowndes, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Waller, Sir William Codrington, Mr. Harris, Mr. Colleton, Sir Edmund IJbam, Mr. Bolton, Mr. Cttjl, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Butler, Mr. Cholmley, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Lafcelles, Sir Roger New dig ate, Mr. Sbiffner, Mr. Legh, Sir Robert Burdett, Mr. Holt, Mr. Delaval, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Wilkin- fan, Lord Harry Powlet, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Edmonfone, Mr. Parker, Mr. Rice, Mr. Norris ; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Salop, Hereford, Worthier, Stafford, and Chejler-, and for the Principality of Wales: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Mr. Wilkinfon reported from the Committee, to whom the ingrofled Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Aft for veiling the fettled Eftates of Ann Wilfon Widow, and Ann Wilfon her Daughter, an Infant, in Truftees, to be fold, for difeharging the Debts and incumbrances affefting the fame, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Parties concerned had given their Confcnt to the Bill, to the Satisfaftion of the Committee; and that the Committee had directed him to report the Bill to the Houfe, without any Amendment: And he delivered the Bill in at theCk-rk�s T able. And the faid Bill was' read the Third T ime. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs. (ordered, That Mr. Wilkinfon do carry the Bill to the Lords, and acquaint them, that this Houle hath agreed to the fame, without any Amendment. Mr. Mr. Rice prcfented ro rhe Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair, leveral Roads leading from Kidwely, in the County of Carmarthen', and alii) feveral Roads leading from I landilo, in the faid County: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. RfAvcd, That rhe Bill be read a Second Time. A Bill for confirming the Allotments of, and forin- clofing, the Common, and feveral Wafte Lands, in the Manor and Parilh of Sebrabam, otherwife Sebergbam, in the County of Cumberland, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Har- lev, Sir Edmund IJham, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Robin- Jen, Mr. Onflow, Sir Anthony Abdy, Mr. Milles, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Lord Frederick Campbell Mr. Mon- tartt, Mr. Cbclinley, Sir Alexander Gilmour, Mr. Murray, Mr. Waljb, Sir William Meredith, Mr. Norris Mr. White, Colonel Fitzroy, Mr. Pennant, Mr. Whitworth, Sir Edward Bayntun, Mr. Plumptre, Mr. Delaval, Sir George Savik, Mr. litzFrlert, Mr. Rice, Sir George Yonge, Mr. Hanbury, Mr. Ridley, Lord John Cavcn- df, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Sandys, Lord Grey, Mr. Mey- u:ll, Mr. Scawcn, Sir George Montgomery Metbam, Mr. Bentinck, Mr. Ryder, Lord Midlem, Mr. Peter Barrel, Mr. Foley, Mr. Harbcrd, Mr. Mawbey; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Cumberland, Weflmsreland, Northumberland, Durham, Fork, and Lan- erfer : And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Sir Robert Ladbroke reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for rebuilding the Parilh Church of AdFdlows on the Wall, in the City of London, and fur rebuilding the Houfe belonging to the Redor of the faid Parilh, and for purchafing feveral Pieces of Ground and Tenements thereon, to render the Paffages to and from the laid Church and Houfe more commodious, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto: which they had directed him to report to rhe Houfe ; and he read the Report in his Place ; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One ; and, upon the Queftion federally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be in- groffed. Lord George Cavcndiff prcfented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for repairing and widening the Road from the Alfreton Turnpike Road, near a Place called Little Robins, in the Parilh of Mansfield, in the County of Nottingham, through Woolley Moor, to the Nottingham Turnpike Road, near Tunjhy, in the County of Derby \ and from Woolley Moor, to the Chejterficld Turnpike Road at Kelflidge, in the faid County of Derby : And the fame was received ; and read the Firft �Fime. Refolded, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Bill for dividing and inclofing feveral Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common and Wafte Grounds, within the Manor and Parilh of Hartf- born, in the County of Derby, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Lord George Cavendijh, Mr. Clohnlev, Sir George Savile, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Willoughby, Lord Lawne, Mr. Fitzherbert, Mr. Onflow, Sir George Tonge, Mr. downjhend, Mr. Lfcclles, Lord John CavendUh, Mr. Blackfl one, Mr. Calvert, Lord Bateman, Mr. 'Jackfoil, Mr. Glover, Lord Frederick Cavcndff, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Lowndes, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. I Azmawice, Mr. Dfon, General VOL. XXX. Bert it, Mr. Lowndes, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Shi finer, Mr. Drake, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Sir Roger Newdigate, Mr. Hobart, Mr. Cujl, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Gray, Lord Robert Bertie, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Glover, Colonel Barre, Mr. Foxereau, Mr. Gilbert, Sir John Barrington, Mr. Foley, Mr. Laurence, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Fane, Mr. Bouverie, Lord George Sackville, Mr. Sulivan, Mr. Jackfon, Sir George Montgomery Metham, Mr. Rice, Mr. Harvey, Lord George Cavendi/h, Mr. Tcwnjhend, Mr. Nugent, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Morton, Mr. Alderman Beckford, Sir John St, Aubyn, Mr. Morant, Mr. Hewett, Lord Tbomond, Mr. Sandys', and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Lincoln, Fork, Nottingham, and Northampton: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Bill for dividing and inclofing a certain Common Fen, in the Parilhes of Aflackby and Dowsby, in the County of Lincoln, and for draining and improving the faid Fen, was read a Second Time. Rcfolved, That the Bill be committed to Lord^r^ww- low Bertie, Mr Wbicbcct, Mr. Glover, Mr. Hobart, Mr. Drake, Sir fames Difhwood, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Lowndes, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Bertie, Mr. Cuft, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Holt, Mr. Colleton, Sir Robert Burdett, Mr. Morton, Mr. Delaval, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Legh, Lord Robert Bertie, Mr. Boulton, Mr. Grey, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Harley, Mr. Foley, Lord Grey, Mr. Aiderman Beckford, Mr. Ridley, Sir Francis Kincent, Mr. J ackfox, Sir Edmund IJham, Colonel Barre, Mr. Burrell, Sir Thomas Hales; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Lincoln, Fork, Nottingham, and Northampton: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Lord Brownlow Bertie prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing certain Open and Common Fields, and Grounds, within the feveral Parilhes of Keelby anil Stallingborough, in the County of Lincoln: And the lame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Bill for dividing and inclofing a certain Open Common Field, Common Paftures, Common Meadows, and Wafte Grounds, in the Manor and Parilh of So* merton, in the County of Oxford, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Sir James Dfhwood, Lord Charles Spencer, Sir Jarrit Smith, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Grey, Mr. Knightley, Mr. Gray, Mr. Luttrell, Mr. Shiffner, Sir Francis Drake, Mr. Wbicheat, Mr. Blackftone, Lord Grey, Mr. Jennings, Mr. Glover, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Rice, Mr. Coutts, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Lafe el les, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Forke, Sir Robert Burdett, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Lowndes, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Martin, Mr. Delaval, Sir Roger New- digate, Mr. Plumptre, Mr. Cuft, Sir Francis Fincent, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Legh, Mr. Barrow, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Townjhend,Mr. Foley, Mr. Beau- clerk ; and all the Members who ferve for theCounties of Oxford, Bucks, Northampton, Warwick, and Berks: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Mr. Cholmley, reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing the 'Commons and Wafte Grounds, within the Manor of Cropton, in the County of Fork ; and for other Purpoles therein mentioned ; was committed ; and to whom the Petition of William Watfon Gentleman, and John Brown, Owners of feveral ancient Freehold Meffuages, Cottages, or Fronts, in the Townlhip of Middleton, in the Manor of Cropton, in the County of Fork, in behalf of themlelves, and feveral other Owners of ancient Meffuages, Cottages and Fronts, and of Lands within the faid Manor, was referred; That the Committee had confidered the the faid Petition; and had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Parties concerned had given their Confent to the Bill, to the Satisfaction of the Committee ; except the faid William Watfon and John Brown, whole Property in the Lands intended to be inclofed is of rhe Yearly Value of 401, or thereabouts; and that die whole of the Lands intended to be inclofed amounts to the Annual Value of 3000 Z. or thereabouts; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto; which they had directed him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Tabic : Where rhe Report was read. And feveral of the Amendments, made by the Committee to the faid Bill, being feverally read a Second Time, were, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, with an Amendment to Ont of them, agreed to by the Houle. Ordered, That the further Confideration of the faid Report be adjourned till To-morrow Morning. An ingrofled Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to enable Brigg Price Efquire, and his Iftue, to take and ufe the Surname of Fountaine, and to bear the Arms of Sir Andrew Fountaine, Knight, deceafed, was read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. An ingrofled Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Ait for the Sale of Lands and Tenements, in the County of Cumberland, late the Eftate of William Dobinfon, Gentleman, deceafed, for the Benefit of the Children of Jofeph Banks, his Nephew, deceafed, was read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Lord Brownlow Bertie reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and allotting certain Open Fields, Meadows, and Stinted Paftures, in the Townlhip of Fatten, in the Parilh of Kettlethorp, in the County of Lincoln, and a certain Free Common, called The Eaft Moor, in the fame Parilh, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Parties concerned had given their Confent to the Bill, to the Satisfaction of the Committee; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto; which they had directed him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Whore the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofled. General Howard prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing feveral Lands and Grounds, Undivided Inclofurcs, Commons, and Waftes, in or near the Village or Hamlet of Masbrcugh, in the Townlhip of Kimberworth, and in the Parilh of Rotherham, in the County of Fork : And the fame was received; and read the Firft l ime. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Lord Brownlow Bertie reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing certain Common Fields, Meadows, and Common Paftures, in 4 the the Townfliip and Parifh of Newton, in the County of Lincoln, and certain Rights of Pafture in Kettleihorpe, in rhe faid County, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true -, and that the Parties concerned had given their Confent to the Bill, to the Sa- tisfaftion of the Committee;, and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto-, which they had directed him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the I loufe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofled. The Houfe being informed, that Mr. Smith, from the Governor and Company of the Bank of Eng, land, attended at the Door ; he was called in ; and, at the Bar, prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to their Order, An Account of the Annual Balances of the Dead Calh and Securities of the Bank of England, belonging to the Suitors of the Court of Chancery, from the Year 1739,t0 ^c 23^ Day of February laft, inclufive ; diftinguifliing the Dead Ca/h from the Securities in each Year. And then he withdrew. And the Title of the faid Account was read. Ordered, That the faid Account be referred to the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill to impower the High Court of Chancery to lay out, upon Government Securities, a Sum of Money, not exceeding a Sum therein to be limited, out of the Common and General Calh in the Bank of England, belonging to the Suitors of the faid Court; and to apply the Intereft arifing therefrom, towards augmenting the Income of the Mafters of the faid Court; is committed. The faid Account is preferved amongft the other Papers of this Seflion. A Bill to quiet the prefent Pofleflbrs of Leafes from Eccleliaftical Perfons, and Bodies Pontic, Corporate, and Collegiate, of Tithes, Polls, and other Incorporeal Hereditaments, for Lives or Terms of Years, in the Enjoyment of fuch Leafes, and to enable Ecclefiafti- cal Perfons, and Bodies Politic, Corporate, and Collegiate, to grant Leafes of fuch Incorporeal Hereditaments ; with a Remedy to recover the refpeftive Rents referved ; was read a Second Time. Refolded, That the Bill be committed. Refolded, That the Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole Houfe. Refolded, That this HoufF will, upon Friday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the laid Bill. Ordered, That the Order of the Day, for taking into Confideration the Report from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill to enable Ecclefiaftical Perfons, and Bodies Politic, Corporate, and Collegiate, to exchange their Lands, under certain Reftriftions therein to be limited, was committed, be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly ; The Houfe proceeded to take the faid Report into Confideration. And the faid Report was read. And the Amendments, made by the Committee to the faid Bill, being feverally read a Second Time, were, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, with Amendments to feveral of them, agreed to by the Houfe ; and feveral Amendments were made, by the Houfe, to the Bill. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofled. Ordered, That the faid Bill be read the Third Time upon this Day Sevennight, if the faid Bill (hall be then ingrofled. Mr. Paterfon, according to Order, reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it was referred to confider further of Ways and Means for raifing the Supply granted to His Majefty, the Refo- lution which the Committee had directed him to report to the Houfe; which he read in his Place; and afterwards delivered in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the fame was read ; and is as followeth; ziz. Refolded, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That the Annuities granted by Two Ads of Parliament, the one parted in the 33d Year of the Reign of his late Majefty, and the other pafled in the Second Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, in refpeft of certain Capital Stocks thereby eftablifhed, amounting together to the Sum of �. 20,240,000 at the Rate of �.4 per Centum, per /Innum, for certain Terms of Years, and then to be reduced to �. 3. per Centum, per Annum, which Annuities are, by the faid Afts, made payable Half-yearly, on the 5th Day of July and the 5th Day of January in every Year, and were, by the laft mentioned Aft, confolidated and made one Joint Stock, fhall, from and after the 5th Day of July next enfuing, with the Confent of the Proprietors thereof, be payable in the Manner following, that is to fay-. That one Quarterly Payment of the laid Annuities (hall be payable on the toth Day of October next ; and that the faid Annuities, from and after the faid 10th Day of October, fhall be payable Half- yearly, on the 5th Day of April and the 10th Day of October in every Year; and that fuch of the Proprietors of the faid Annuities who fhall not fignify their Diflent on or before the ift Day of June next, in Books to be opened at the Bank of England for that Purpofe, fhall be deemed and taken to confent thereto. The faid Refolution being read a Second Time, was, upon the Queftion put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That a Bill be brought in, upon the faid Refolution : And that Mr. Paterfon, N\v. Jenkin Jon, and Mr. Wbateley, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. The Houfe was moved, that an Aft, made in the Second Year of the Reign of King James the Firft, intituled, An Aft concerning Tanners, Curriers, Shoemakers, and other Artificers occupying the Cutting of Leather, might be read. And the fame being read accordingly ; Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to explain and amend fo much of the faid Aft as relates to Tanners : And that Mr. Whitworth, General Howard, and Mr. Hanbury, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Ordered, That there be laid before this Houfe, an Account of the Amount of the Exchequer Bills, made out in purfuance of an Aft, pafled in the laft Seflion of Parliament, intituled, An Aft for raifing a certain Sum of Money, by Loans or Exchequer Bills ; and for applying certain Monies remaining in the Exchequer for the Service of the Year 1764; and for Application of certain Savings of Public Monies, and of Monies arifing by the Sale of Military Stores ; and for further appropriating the Supplies granted in this Seflion of Parliament; and for Relief of Perfons who have omitted to infert, in Indentures or other Writings, the full Sum agreed to be paid with Clerks, Apprentices, and other Servants. Ordered, Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the Gentlemen, who are appointed to prepare, and bring in, a Bill, pur- fuant to the Refolutions, which, upon Tburfday laft, were reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it was referred to confider of the feveral Ads, made in the 26th, 28th, and 30th Years of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, for the Amendment and Prcfervation of the Public Highways and Turnpike Roads of this Kingdom, and for the effectual Execution of the Laws relating thereto; and which Refolutions were, with an Amendment to One of them, agreed to by the Houfe ; that they do make Provifion in the faid Bill, for preventing the Paflage upon Turnpike Roads being ftraitened or confined by Polls, Stones, or other means. Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the faid Gentleman, that they do make Provifion in the faid Bill, for the Meeting of the Truftees of any Turnpike Road, in Cafes where they have negleded to meet on the Day appointed for their Firft Meeting, or where they cannot meet for want of a proper Adjournment. Ordered, That the Order of the Day, for the I loufe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the Supply granted to His Majefty, be now� read. And the faid Order being read accordingly ; Ordered, That the Eftimate of the Debt of His Ma- jefty�s Navy, as it flood the 31ft of December 1764, be referred to the faid Committee. Ordered, Thar the feveral Plans of a Lazaret propofed to be built on Chidney Hid, near Standgate Creek, be referred to the laid Committee. Ordered, That the feveral Papers, marked A, B, and C, containing Mr. Stuart's Report, Eftimate, and Paper of References, relating to the Building of the the faid Lazaret, be referred to the laid Committee. Then the Houfe refolved itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Patcrfon took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker relumed the Chair. Mr. Paterfon reported from the Committee, That they had come to a Refolution ; which they had direfted him to report, when the Houfe will pleafe to receive the fame. Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow Morning. Mr. Paterfon alfo acquainted the Houfe, that he was direfted by the Committee to move, that they may have Leave to fit again. Refolded, That this Houfe will, upon Wednefday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the Supply granted to His Majefty. Ordered, That the Order of the Day, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of Ways and Means for raifing the Supply granted to His Majefty, be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly �, Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the faid Committee, that they do confider of the Laws relating to the General Poll Office, and to the Office commonly called the Penny Poll Office. Then the Houfe refolved itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Paterfon took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr. Paterfon reported from the Committee, That they had come to feveral Refolutions; which they had directed him to report, when the Houfe will plcafe to receive the fame. Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow Morning. Mr. Paterfon alfo acquainted the 1 loufe, that he Was direfted by the Committee to move, that they may have Leave to fit again. Refolved, That this* Houfe will, upon Wednefday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of Ways and Means for raifing the Supply granted to His Majefty. Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the Committee, appointed to prepare an Eftimate of the Charge of the Pay and Cloathing of the Militia of that Part of Great Britain called England, and of the Amount of the 28 Days Subfiftance for the Commiffion Officers of the faid Militia, under the Rank of a Captain, for One Year, beginning the 25th Day of March 1765, that they do alfo prepare an Eftimate of the Amount of 28 Days Subfiftance for the Captains of Companies in the find Militia, for One Year. ' The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whofe Houfe, to confider further of the feveral Afts, made in the 26th 28th, and 30th Years of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, for the Amendment and Prcfervation of the Public Highways and Turnpike Roads of this Kingdom, and for the efteftual Execution of the Laws relating thereto ; Ordered, That the laid Order be poftponed. Mr. Peter Bia rd! according to Order, reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill for the more effeftual preventing the Stealing of Filh and Rabbits, was committed, the Amendments which the Committee had made to the Bill; and which they had direfted him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place ; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One ; and, upon the Qucfl ion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, Thau the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofied. The other Order of the Day being read ; The Houfe refumed the adjourned Confideration of the Report from rhe Committee of the whole I loufe, to whom the Bill for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor, within that Part of Great Britain called England, was committed. And a Claufe was offered to be added to the Bill, fur including Counties Corporate in the adjoining County. And the faid Claufe was Twice read ; and, upon the Qtieftion put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe, to be made Part of rhe Bill. Another Claufe was offered to be added to the Bill, enabling Overfeers of the Poor to relieve Poor Perfons, in Cafes of Accidents. , And the faid Claufe was Twice read ; and, upon the Qtieftion put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe, to be made part of the Bill. Refolved, That the faid Bill be re-committed. Refolved, That the faid Bill be re-committed to a Committee of the whole Houfe. Refolved, That this Houfe will, immediately, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the faid Bill. The Houfe accordingly refolved itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Glover took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr. Glover reported from the Committee, That they had made feveral other Amendments to the Bill; which they 241 to the BlcakfmitPs Shop in Hainton, in the County of Lincoln. A Petition of feveral of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and other Inhabitants of the County of Lincoln, was prefented to the I loufe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners obferve, by the Votes, that a Bill has been brought in for repairing and widening the Roads from Bawtry Bridge, in the County of Lincoln, and feveral other Roads therein mentioned; and that the Road from Thorp Hall ABU aforefaid, through Wejigate End, Break Neck Lane, and Goofepool, to the Blue Stone Inn Backgate, in Louth, and from thence over Louth South Field, by Kennick Thorne, through Manners Lane, through the Parilh of Burwell, over Calcey Beck, over Driby Warren, and Part of Ulceby Weft Field, to the North End of the Lane between Dexthorpe and Langton, in the faid County, is ruinous, and cannot be repaired and widened by the Laws now in being: And therefore praying, That Provifion may be made in the faid Bill, for repairing and widening the faid laft mentioned Road, in fuch Manner as to the Ilouie fhall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of a Committee : And that they do examine the Matter thereof; and report the lame, as it (hall appear to them, to the Iloufe: And it is referred to Mr. Whiebcct, Mr. Hewett, Lord Brownlow Bertie, Mr. Caveudiff, Mr. Prowfe, Sir Thomas Palmer, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Shiffner, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Lafe dies, Mr. Scudamore, General Lambton, Mr. Cholmley, Mr. Meyrick, Sir George Pocock, Mr. Ed- monflone, Mr. Harbord, Sir Lionel Pilkington, Mr, Wilbraham Bootle, Mr. Pairfax, Sir Edward Bayntun, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Kynajion, Sir Jahn Hynde Cotton, Mr. Tewajhend, Mr. Bull, Lord Catberlougb, Mr. Morton, Mr. Butler, Sir Charles Alordaunt, Mr. Sturt, Mr. Sandys, Mr. By de, Mr. Noel, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Houk Ion, Mr. Eonereau, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Buller, Mr. Bouverie; all and the Members who ferve tor the Counties of Lincoln, Nottingham, York, and Northampton : And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber; and have Power to fend for Perfons. Papers, and Records. An ingrofled Bill for amending the Road from the Pinfold in Balby, in the County of York, to Workfop, in the County of Nottingham, was read the Third Time. Refolded, That the Bill do pafs : And that the Titlube, An Aft for amending the Road from the Pinfold in Balby, in the County of York, to Workfop, in the County of Nottingham. Ordered, That Mr. Hewett do carry die Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. A Bill for repairing and widening the Roads from Keyberry Bridge, to the Paflage at Sballdon, and from the faid Bridge to the Pier or 1 larbour of Torkey, in rhe County of Devon, was read a Second Time. Refolded, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Mr. Bagot, Sir Edmund Ifham, Mr. Cbolm- ley, Mr. Prowfe, Sir Thomas Palmer, Mr. Cavcndiff, Mr. Kynajion, Lord Cathcrlough, Mr. Eames, Mr. Sandys, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Edmonjlone, Mr. Hewett, Sir Edward Bayntun, Mr. Afajor, Mr. Meyrick, Sir Lionel Pilkington, Mr. Sturt, Mr. Burrell, Sir George Yonge, Mr. Sibthorpe, Mr. Sbiffner, Lord Charles Montagu, Sir Lynch Salufbury Cotton, Mr. Henniker, Sir Charles Afor- daunt, Sir Richard Philipps, Sir John Gibbons, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Lord Strange, Lord Carysfort, Colonel Barre, Lord life *, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Devon, Cornwall, Dorfet, Somerfet, and Wils: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Mr. Wilbraham Bootle prefented to the 1 loufe, ac- O^q q cording 242- cording to Order, a Bill for repairing and widening the Road from Stockport., in the County vf CbeJLr, to Saxons Lane End, in the laid County; and from the Crofs, in Affton under Line, in the County of Lancajler, to Doctors L ine Head, in the County of Fork ; and alfo the Road branching out of the faid firft mentioned Road, in the Townfhip of Bredbury, to Mctram, in the faid County of Chef er: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolded, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Ordered, That the Order of the Day, for refuming the adjourned Confideration of the Report which was made from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing the Commons and Watte Grounds, within the Manor of Cropton, in the County of 2~ork; and for other Purpofes therein mentioned-, was committed ; be now read. And the faid Order lacing read accordingly, The Houfe refumed the adjourned Confideration of the faid Report. And another of the Amendments, made by the Committee to the faid Bill, being read a Second d ime -, Refolded, That the faid Bill be re-committed. Refolded, That the Bill be re-committed to the Committee, to whom the fame was committed. An ingrofled Bill for repairing and widening the Roads leading from the Turnpike Road at Kippings Crofs, in the Parifh of Brenchley, in the County of Kent,' through the Parifhes of Brenchley, Horfenionden, andGoud- bttrjl, by the Left-hand Side of Idea Green, to the Turnpike Road on Wtl/iey Green, in the Parifh of Cranbrooke; and from a Place near Goudburf Gore, through the Parifh of Marden, to Stile Bridge, in the faid Parifh ; and from Underden Green, in Marden aforefaid, to Wanffutts Green, in the County of Kent-, was read the Third Time. Refolded, That the Bill do pafs : And that the Title be, An Aft for repairing and widening the Roads leading from the Turnpike Road at Kippings Crofs, in the Parifh of Brenebley, in the County of Kent, through the Parifhes of Brcncbhy, Horfemonden, and Goudburf, by the Left-hand Side of Iden Green, to the Turnpike Road on Wiljlcy Green, in the Parifh of Cranbrooke -, and from a Place near Goudhurjl Gore, through the Parifh of Marden, to Stile Bridge, in the faid Parifh �, and from Undcr- den Green, in Marden aforefaid, to ll 'anffutts Green, in the County of Kent. Ordered, That Mr. Fairfax do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. A Petition of the feveral Gentlemen, and others, In- habitants of the Towns of Greenwich, Charlton, Woolwich, Plumpjhad, and Erith, in the County of Kent, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners arc informed, a Bill is depending in the Houfe, to amend feveral Acts, palled in the Fourth and Sixth Years of King George the Firft, and in the Eleventh and Twenty-fourth Years of King George the Second, for repairing feveral Roads, from the Stones End in Kent Street, and Bermondfey Street, Southwark, to Dartford, and other Roads therein mentioned ; and that the Road leadingout of the faid Turnpike Road, on Blackheath, near Greenwich Park Wall, through Charlton, and over Woolwich Common, to Woolwich Warren, is in a ruinous Condition, narrow in fome Places, and cannot be repaired by the prefent Methods provided by Law: And therefore praying, That Provision maybe made in the faid Bill, for repairing and widening the faid Road, in fuch Manner as to the Houfe ihall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of a Committee: And that they do examine the Matter thereof; and report the fame, is it Ihall appear to them, to the Houfe : And it is referred to Mr Fairfax, Mr. Lowndes, Lord Strange, Mr. Sibiborpe, Mr. Luttrell, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Coventry, Sir Lionel Pilkington, Mr. Prowfe, Mr. Eames, Lord Charles Montagu, Mr. Martin, Mr. Puller, Sir Edward Bayntun, Mr. Houblon, Mr. Kynajion, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Mi. Sandys, Mr. Bagot, Sir "John Gibbons, Mr. Hobart, Mr. Meyrick, Lord Catberlough, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Henniker, Sir Brook Bridges, Mr. Parker, Mr. Huffy, Lord Hincbinbrook, Mr. Morgan, Mr. By de, Mr. Jackfon-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Kent, Surrey, Middlefex, Effex, and Suffex; and for the Cinque Ports: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber; and have Power to fend for Perfons, Papers, and Records. Sir Charles Mordaunt reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Heath, and Wafte Grounds, and Commonable Places, in the Lordihip and Liberties of Draycot, in the Parifh of Botirton, in the County of Warwick, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Parties concerned had given their Confent to the Bill, to the Satisfaction of the Committee; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto; which they had directed him to report to the Houfe ; and he read the Report in his Place ; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One ; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe; and feveral Amendments were made, by the Houfe, to the Bill. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofled. A Bill to enlarge certain Powers granted by an Act, palled in the 22d Year of the Reign of King George the Second, intituled, An Ait for enlarging and maintaining the Harbour of Ramfgate; and for clcanfing, amending, and preferving the Haven of Sandwich; was read a Second Time. Refolded, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Henniker, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Prowfe, Sir Richard Philipps, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Sturt, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Parker, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Mr. By de, Mr. Sibtborpe, Sir Edward Bayntun, Mr. Townffend, Mr. Jaekfon, Sir James Dajhwood, Mr. Shiff- ner, Mr. Kynafon, Sir John Barrington, Mr. Morton, Mr. Major, Colonel Barre, Mr. Fazakerley, Mr. Fonc- reau, Lord Digby, Mr. Mawbey, Mr. Herne, Mr. Eames, Mr. Harbord, Mr. Fairfax, Mr. Wbicbcot, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Prefcot, Mr. Meyrick, Mr. Lowndes-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Kent and Effex; and for the Sea Coaft Counties; and all the Merchants of the I loufe: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Sir Edward Bayntun reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill to continue the Term, and enlarge the Powers, of an Act, pafled in the 2d Year of rhe Reign of His prefent Majefty, for repairing and widening the Road from Mullens Pond, in the County of Southampton, to the Eighteen Mile Stone from the City of Saliffury, and feveral other Roads in the faid Aft mentioned ; and alfo for repairing and widening the Roads from the faid Turnpike Road, to Fifty Yards beyond the Blackfmith\ Shop nt Littleton, and from the faid Turnpike Road to Mr. Jennen's Well, and to Salter's Lane, at Eaft Cbal- derton, and from thence to Mullens Pond; and alfo a Lane called Appleffaw Lane, leading out of Eajt Cbal- derton, to the Andover Turnpike Road ; was committed , That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true ; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto: which they had directed him to to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered rhe Bill, with rhe Amendments, in at rhe Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon. One of them was difagreed to, and the reft were agreed to by the Houle ; and feveral Amendments were made, by the I loufe, to the Bill. Oraetcd, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingroffed. Ordered, Thar Mr. Cbclmhydo carry to the Lords, the ingroffed Bill from the Lords, intituled. An Act for veiling the fettled Eftates of Ann Wdfon Widow, and Ann Wifen, her Daughter, an Infant, in Truftees, to be fold, for difeharging the Debts and Incumbrances af- fefting the fame-, and acquaint their Lordfliips that this Houle hath agreed to the lame, without any Amendment. The Lord Strange prefented to the Houfe, according to Or er, a Bill to enlarge the Term and Powers of an Ad made in the 24th Year of his late Majefty, for repairing the Road from Croftford, BAdge to Manchejler; and for amending the Road from Croftford Bridge aforefaid to a certain Place in Altrincham, in the County Palatine of Chefler : And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Tune. Rfolvul, I hat the Bill be read a Second Time. The Lord Strange prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing Waikden Moor, and a Part of a Parcel of Mois Ground, called Cbatmofs, within the Manor of Worjiey, in the County Palatine of Lancafler: And the fame was received �, and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Bill for cleaning and lighting the Streets, Lanes, and Paffages within the Towns of Manchejler and Salford, in the County Palatine of Lance ft er; and for efta- blifhing a Regular Watch, and for providing Fire Engine, and Firemen, and for preventing Annoyances within the faid Towns ; was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Lord Strange, Mr. Shuttleworth, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Whichcot, Sir Jami Smith, Mr. Morton, Mr. Coventry, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Touchet, Mr. Dow- defwell, Colonel Hotham, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Cocks, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Calvert, Lord Howe, Mr. Townjhend, Mt. Glover, Sir George Amy and, Mr. Shiftier, Mr. Dyjon, Colonel Barre, Mr. ReJi, Mr. Gray, Mr. Bull, Mr. Buller, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Proufe, Mr. Thomas Vown/hcnd, Mr. Aiderman Beckford, Mr. Stanley, Mr. Puller, Mr. Norris, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Butler, Mr. Pitt; and all the Members who lerve for the Counties of Lancajler, Chef- ter, Wejlmortland, Cumberland, Northumberland, Durham, and Fork; And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Bill to continue the Term of, and render more effectual, an Act palftd in the 30th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty, for repairing and widening the Roads leading from Spalding High Bridge, through Littleworth, and by Frognail, and over James Deeping Stone Bridge, in the County of Lincoln, to Maxey Ontgang, in the County of Northampton, adjoining to the High Road there, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Lord Brownlow Bertie, Mr. Whlcbcot, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Kynajion, Mr. Willoughby, Sir William Meredith, Mr. Tufntll, Mr. Lowndes, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Curzon, Sir Robert Long, Mr. Mawbey, Mr. Dowdefwell, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Tucker Mr. Coutts, Sir Richard Warwick Bampfylde, Mr. Townftind, Mr. Calvert, Lord Robert Bertie, Mr. Patcrfon, Mr. Webb,Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Pennant, Mr. Garth, Colonel Howe, Mr. Penton, Mr. Grofvenor, the Refolution which the Committee had direfted him to report to the Houfe; which he read in his Place; and afterwards delivered in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the fame was read ; and is as followeth ; viz. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Sum, not exceeding One million Five hundred thoufand Pounds, be granted to His Majefty, towards dilcharging Bills payable in Courfe of the Navy and Victualling Offices, and for Tranfports. The faid Refolution being read a Second Time, was, upon the Queftion put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe. Mr. Paterfon, according to Order, reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it was referred to confider further of Ways and Means for raifing the Supply granted to His Majelly, the Refolutions which the Committee had direfted him to report to the Houfe; which he read in his Place; and afterwards delivered in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the fame were read ; and are as followed!; viz. Refolded, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That the feveral Rates eftablilhed by an Aft made in the Ninth Year of the Reign of her Majefty Queen Amie, for the Conveyance and Portage of Letters and Packets, between London and the Britijh Dominions in America, and between any Places within the faid Dominions, do ceafe and determine. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That there be granted to His Majefty, upon the Poftage and Conveyance of Letters and Packets from London, to any Port in the Britifh Dominions in America, and from any fuch Port to London, for every Single Letter One Shilling, for every Double Letter Two Shillings, for every Treble Letter Three Shillings, and for every Ounce Four Shillings Sterling Money; and fo in Proportion for every Packet of Deeds, Writs, or other things. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That there be granted to His Majefty, upon the Poftage and Conveyance of Letters and Packets, from any Port in the Britifh Dominions in America, to any other Port in the faid Dominions, for every Single Letter Four Pence, for every Double Letter Eight Pence, for every Treble Letter One Shilling, and for every Ounce One Shilling and Four Pence Sterling Money ; and fo in Proportion for every Packet of Deeds, Writs, or other things. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That there be granted to His Majefty, upon the Inland Poftage, not exceeding Sixty Britifh Miles, of Letters and Packets, to or from any Chief Poft Office, within the Britijh Dominions in America, from or to any other Part of the faid Dominions, and of fuch Letters and Packets conveyed from any other Poft Office, as (hall not be brought to any Chief Poft Office within the faid Dominions, for every Single Letter Four Pence, for every Double Letter Eight Pence, for every Treble Letter One Shilling, and for every Ounce One Shilling and Four Pence Sterling Money; and fo in Proportion for every Packet of Deeds, Writs, or other things. � Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That there be granted to His Majefty, upon fuch Inland Poftage of Letters and Packets, upwards of Sixty Briti/b Miles, and not exceeding One hundred Britijh Miles, for every Single Letter Six Pence, for every Double Letter One Shilling, for every Treble Letter One Shilling and Sixpence, and for every Ounce Two Shillings Sterling Money, and fo in Proportion for every Packet of Deeds, Writs, or other things. Refolved, 1 hat it is the Opinion of this Committee, That there be granted to His Majefty, upon fuch Inland Poftage of Letters and Packets, upwards of One hundred Britifh Miles, and not exceeding Two hundred Britijh Miles, for every Single Letter Eight Pence, for every Double Letter One Shilling and Four Pence, for every Treble Letter Two Shillings, and for every Ounce Two Two Shillings and Eight Pence Sterling Money ; and lb in proportion for every Packet of Deeds, Writs, or other things. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That" there be granted to His Majefty, in like Manner upon fuch Inland Poftage of Letters and Packets, above Two hundred Britijb Miles, for every Single Letter 1 wo Pence, for every Double Letter Four Pence, for every Treble Letter Six Pence, and for every Ounce Eight Pence Sterling Money; and fo in proportion for every Packet of Deeds, Writs, or other things, in re- fpeft of every Diftance, not exceeding One hundred Britijb Miles, beyond fuch Two hundred Miles, and to the like Amount for every fuch further Diftance. Refolded, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That there be granted to His Majefty, for every fuchLet- ter and Packet, delivered from any Ship orVeflel, other than Packet Boats, to the Deputy Poll Mafter, at the Ports in Great Britain, Ireland, the Britijb Colonies and Plantations in America, and all other Parts of the Britijb Dominion1?, as (hall be directed to any Place within the Town, belonging to fuch Port, or within the Limits of the Delivery of Letters and Packets by fuch Deputy, One Pcny, Sterling Money. Refolded, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That the Rates now payable for the Poftage of Letters and Packets, by the General Poft, not exceeding One Poll Stage, in Great Britain and Ireland, and Two Poft. Stages in England, do ceaie and determine. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That there be granted to His Majefty, upon the Poftage of Letters and Packets, not exceeding One Poft Stage, in Great Britain and Ireland, for every Single Letter One Peny; and fo in proportion for Double and Treble Letters and Packets, for every Ounce, and for every Packet of Deeds, Writs, and other things. Refolded, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That there be granted to His Majefty, upon the Poftage of Letters and Packets, above One Poft Stage, and not exceeding Two Poft Stages in England, for every Single Letter Two Pence �, and lb in proportion for Double and Treble Letters and Packets, for every Ounce, and for every Packet of Deeds, Writs, and other things. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That Provifion be made to authorize the Eftablilhmenr of Offices for the Receipt and Carriage of Letters within Cities, Towns, and Places adjacent thereto, in Great Britain, Ireland, and the Britijb Dominions in America, fubjeft to the like Rates as are now taken, in refpeft of Letters and Packets conveyed to and from the Office, called the Pcny Poft Office, for London, Wejhniafter, Southwark, and adjacent Parts. Refolved, That it. is the Opinion of this Committee, That the Rates cftablilhed by the faid Aft, made in the Ninth Year of the Reign of her Majefty Queen Anne, for all Letters and Packets palling from London, through the Spantfh Netherlands, or the United Provinces, to Hamburgh, (Port paid to Antwerp or Amferdam) and from Hamburgh, through the Spantjh Netherlands, or the United Provinces, unto London, do ceafe and determine. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That there be granted to His Majefty, upon the Portage and Conveyance of Letters and Packets from London to Hamburgh, and from Hamburgh to London, fuch Rates as are appointed by the laid Aft, to be taken for Letters and Packets palling from London, to ail other Parts of Germany. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That the Monies arifing by all the faid Rates, be appropriated and applied to fuch and the fame Ufes, to which the prefent Rates of Poftage are refpeftively now by Law appropriated and made applicable. The faid Refolutions being feverally read a Second Time, were, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe. Qrde*d, That a Bill be brought in upon the laid Rc- VUL. XXX. 245 folutions: And that Mr. Paterfen, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Lord North, Sir John Turner, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Harris of Chrift Church, Mr. Attorney Generd, Mr. Solicitor General, Mr. Jenkinfon, and Mr. Whately, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Ordered, That the Order of the Day, for the Second Reading of the Bill for regulating the Currency and due Payment of Notes, iflued by the Banks and Banking Companies in North Britain, be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly 5 The faid Bill was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole Houfe. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Thurfday Seven- night, the 21ft Day of this Tnftant March, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the faid Rill. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houle, upon the Bill for appointing Commiffioners to put in Execution an Aft of this Seifion of Parliament, intituled, An Aft for granting an Aid to His Majefty by a Land Tax, to be railed in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year One thoufand Seven hundred and Sixty-five, together with thofe named in the Two former Afts for appointing Commiffioners of the Land Tax; and for indemnifying Perlons who have afted as Commiffioners of the Land Tax, by virtue of Eftates of or above a certain Value, though the fame were not rated or afleffied at the Value of One hundred Pounds per Annum �, and for limiting .1 Time, within which Suits and Profecutions (hall be commenced, with refpeft to the Qualifications of Perlons who (hall aft as Commiffioners of the Land Tax; Refolved. That this Houfe will, upon this Day Seven- night, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the faid Bill. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe tQ refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, tQ confider of the Petition of the Committee of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa �, Ordered, That the Taper, intituled, � Anno 1763, the � Account of the Committee of the Company of Mer- � chants trading to Africa, diftinguifliing every Article � of Expcnce under its proper Title,� be referred to the faid Committee. Ordered, That the Papers, which were prefented tQ the Houfe upon the 8 th Day of February laft, relating tn the State and Condition of the Forts and Settlements on the Coaft of Africa, be referred to the faid Committee. Then the Houfe refolved itfelf into the faid Committee, Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Bacon took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr. Bacon reported from the Committee, That they had come to feveral Refolutions; which they had direfted him to report, when the Houfe will pleafc to receive the fame. Ordered, That the Report be received upon Tburf- day Morning next. The other Orders of the Day being read; Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Monday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill to impowcr the High Court of Chancery to lay our, upon Government Securities, a Sum of Money, not exceeding a Sum therein to be limited, out of the Common and General Calh in the Bank of England, belonging to the Suitors of the faid Court; and to apply the Intereft arifing therefrom, towards augmenting the Income of the Mafters of the faid Court. Ordered, That the Report from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill for the better Relief R r s *nrf 246 and Employment of the Poor, within that Pan of Grant Britain called England, was re-committed, be received To-morrow Morning. Ordered, That Mr. Whately have Leave to make a Motion, it being near Eight of the Clock. And he moved the Houfe accordingly. Ordered, That there be laid before this Houfe, an Account of all Wrought Silk, or Herba, of the Manufacture of Perfa, China, or the Eaft Indies, which have been exported, from Chriftmas 1760 to Chriftmas 1764; diftinguilhing each Year, and to what Countries; together with the Duties payable thereon. And then the Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. Mercura, 130 die Mar lit; Anno 50 Georgii III�� Regis, 1765. PRAYERS. A PETITION of the Owners and Maders of Ships redding in the Town of Farmouth, in Norfolk, and ufing the Coal Trade, was prefented to the 1 loufe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners obferve, by the Votes of the Houfe, that feveral Petitions have been prefented, relative to the Navigation of the River 'Tyne', and that the Petitioners apprehend, the River of Tyne and Harbour of Shields are now in a much worfe Condition for the Purpoles of the Coal Trade, and particularly for the Colliers trading to London, than the fame were in Twenty Years ago; and, unlefs fome effeftual Methods are immediately taken to cleanfe and fcour the faid River and Harbour, the Confequence will, as the Petitioners conceive, be very prejudicial to the Nation in general, and to the City of London in particular; and that the Petitioners, like other Owners, pay a Duty upon Coals and Ballaft to the Corporation of NewcaJHe upon Tyne, to a very confiderable annual Amount ; and as the faid Corporation claim the Con- fervatorlhip of the faid River, and juftify (as the Petitioners are informed) the receiving the faid Duties from an Obligation they are under to cleanfe and fcour the faid River and Harbour, and to keep the fame a Place of Safety for Ships to load and lie in: Therefore praying, That the Confervators may be compelled (by fuch Means as the Houfe Ihall think proper) to cleanfe and fcour the faid ICiver and Harbour, and to keep the fame clean and navigable; and to grant to the Petitioners fuch other Relief in the Premifes, as to the Houfe Hull feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition do lie upon the Table. A Bill to amend feveral Afts, palled in the Fourth and Sixth Years of King George the Firft, and in the Fleventhand Twenty-fourth Years ofKingGwr^ the Second, for repairing feveral Roads, from the Stones End, in Kent Street, and Bermondfey Street, Southwark, to Dartford, and to the Extent of die Parilh of Lewi- foam, next Bromley and Beckenham, in the County of Kent; and for extending the faid Aft to the Repair of the Roads leading from the End of the prefent Turnpike to the Weft End of Stroud Green, and to the End of Bromley Common, next Farnborough, and to the Stones End in London Street, Greenwich, and to the North End of Burnt Afo Lane, in the Parilh of Lee ; and for making an Allowance, out of the Tolls arifing by the laid Afts, to the Truftees for putting in Execution an Aft of the 2 2d Year of King George the Second, for opening and making a New Road from the Eaft End of New Street, in the Parilh of St. fohn, Southwark, to and through the feveral Places therein mentioned, and for keeping the faid Road in Repair for the future; was read a Second l ime. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Peter Burrell, Mr Glover, Sir 'John Glynne, Mr. TownJLend, Mr. Gilbert, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Burt, Mr. Gray, Sir farrit Smith, Mr. Parker, Mr. Onflow, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Bejl, Mr. Drake, Sir Edmund Thomas, Mr. Fonereatt, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Sir Thomas Palmer, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Gore, Sir fames Douglas, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Wilbraham, Lord fobn Cavendijh, Mr. Butler, Mr. Lovett, Lord Mi diet on, Mr. Shuttle- worth, Mr. Ridley, Lord Thomcnd, Mr. Norris, Mr. Afoburnbam, Sir William Baker, Me. Shiffner, Mr. Pelham, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Filzberbert, Mr. Townfoend, Mr. Fuller; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Kent, Middlefex, Hertford, Efox, Suffex, and Surrey; and for the Cinque Ports: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Bill for explaining and amending, and likewife for enlarging the Term and Powers granted by, a certain Aft of Parliament, pafled in the 25th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled. An Aft for amending feveral Roads, leading from the Town of Taunton, in the County of Somerfet, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Lord TTw- mond, Sir Edward Bayntun, Lord Midleton, Mr. Shifo- ncr, Mr. Glover, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Townfoend, Mr. Gilbert, Sir Edmund Thomas, Mr. Burt, Mr. Gaf- coyne, Sir fobn Glynne, Mr. Parker, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Beft, Mr. Drake, Lord Winterton, Mr. Rice, Mr. Kynajlon, Marquis of Tavi- Jiock, Mr. Robinfon, Mr. Sandys, Sir George Pocock, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Ridley, Sir George Pigot, Mr. Shuttleworth, Mr. Howard, Lord Strange, Mr. Norris, Mr. Pelham, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Fuller Mr. fackfon, Sir Waller Blacket, Mr. Mawbey, Sir George Tonge, Sir fames Dufowood, Sir fames Douglas, Lord Coleraine, Sir John. Wynne, Lord Burgherjh, Lord Farnham; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Somerfet, Devon, Wilts, Dorfct, and Cornwall: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of die Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Mr. Butler reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair, the Road leading from the Turnpike Road on Hurft Green, in the County of Sufoex, through Etcbingbam and Burwajb, to the Extent of the laid Parilh of Burwafo, in the faid County, was committed, That rhe Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto; which they had direfted him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be in- grofled. An ingrofled Bill for rebuilding the Parilh Church of Allhallows on the Wall, in the City of London, and tor rebuilding the Houfe belonging to the Reftor of the laid Parilh, and for purchafing feveral Pieces of Ground and Tenements thereon, to render the Paffages to and from the faid Church and Houfe more commodious* was read the Third l ime. Refolved, 1 hat the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Aft for rebuilding the Parilh Church of AllhaL lows on the Wall, in the City of London, and for rebuilding the Houfe belonging to the Reftor of the faid Parilh, and for purchafing feveral Pieces of Ground and Tenements thereon, to render the Paflages to and from the laid Church and Houfe more commodious. Ordered, That Sir Robert Ladbroke do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defirc their Concurrence. Mr. mitwortb reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for repairing and widening the Road from Tonbridge to Maidjhne, in the County of Kent, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made fevcral Amendments thereunto ?, which they had directed him to report to the Houfe �, and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Queftion fevcrally put thereupon, were, with Amendments to feveral of them, agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill with the Amendments, be in- grofled. 2 47 The Houfe being informed, that Mr. Hughfon, from the Exchequer, attended at the Door -, he was called in; and, at the Bar, prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to their Order, An Account of the Amount of the Exchequer Bills, made out in purfuance of an Aft, pafled in the laft SeHion of Parliament, intituled, An Aft for raifing a certain Sum of Money by Loans or Exchequer Bills; and for applying certain Monies remaining in the Exchequer for the Service of the Year 1764; and for Application of certain Savingsof Public Monies, andof Monies arifen by the Sale of Military Stores-, and for further appropriating the Supplies granted in this Seflion of Parliament ; and for Relief of Perlons who have omitted to iniert, in Indentures or ether Writings, the full Sum agreed to be paid with Clerks, Apprentices, and other Servants. And then he withdrew. And the Title of the laid Account was read. The laid Account is as followeth ; viz. To the honourable the Knights, Citizens, and Burgefles, in Parliament A (Tumbled. An Account of the Amount of the Exchequer Bills, made out in purfuance of an Aft, pafled in the Lift Seflion of Parliament, intituled, An Aft for railing a certain Sum of Money by Loans or Exchequer Bills-, and for applying certain Monies remaining in the Exchequer for the Service of the Year 1764-, and for Application of certain Savings of Public Monies, and of Monies arifen by the Sale of Military Stores ; and tor further appropriating the Supplies granted in this Seflion of Parliament ; and for Relief of Perlons who have omitted to iniert, in Indentures or other Writings, the full Sum agreed to be paid with Clerks, Apprentices, and other Servants. The Exchequer Bills made out in purfuance of die above Aft, amount to the Sum of Eight hundred Thoufand pounds. John Ihghfn, Exchequer, the 13th "Day vf March, 1765. Ordered, That the faid Account do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. Mr. Glover, according to Order, reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it was referred to confider further of the Bill for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor, within that Part of Great Britain called England, the Amendments which the Committee had made to the Bill; and which they had direfted him to report to the Houfe-, and he read the Report in his Place ; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout ; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, One of them was dilagreed to, and the reft were, with Amendments to feveral of them, agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with rhe Amendments, be ingrofied. Mr. Whitworth reported from the Committee, to' whom the Petition of the Commiflioners for putting in Execution the feveral Afts for paving, clcanfing, and lighting the Squares, Streets, and Lanes, within the City and Liberty of Weftminjler, and other Places therein mentioned -, and for preventing Anoyances therein -, was referred; That the Committee had examined the Matter of the faid Petition 5 and had direfted him to report the fame, as it appeared to them, to the Houle-, and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the feme was read ; and is as followeth -, viz. To prove the Allegations of the laid Petition, Mr. 2 George Box and Mr. George Wyatt, being feverally examined, faid, That the faid Commiflioners have made a great Progrefs in executing the Trufts in them repoied by the faid Afts, but further Powers are wanting to an- fwer the good Purpoles thereby intended ; and they mentioned the following Particulars, wherein they thought a further Extention of Power to be abfolutely neceflary ; viz. to oblige the Commiflioners of Water-works to repair their Pipes within a certain 'Time; to oblige the Surveyors to the Commiflioners of Sewers to repair their Drains and Grates in a certain Time, and in a proper Manner ; to extend the Power of the Commiflioners to the Squares in the City and Liberty of Weftminjler, and to the Pavement on the Surrey Side of Wejlminjler Bridge-, to impower Three Commiflioners to iflue Money for Work that has been before ordered to be performed by the proper Number of Commiflioners; and to impower a Jury to afiefs the Damage that may be done, by altering the Pavement of the Terras in St. James's Street. Ordered, 1�hat Leave be given to bring in a Bill to enlarge the Powers of, and to render more effectual, the feveral Afts, pafled in the 2d, 3d, and 4th Years of His prefent Majefty�s Reign, for paving, cleanfing, lighting, and otherwiie regulating the Squares, Streets, and other Places within the City and Liberty of Wejiminftcr, and other Parts in the faid Afts mentioned ; and for extending the Provifions oi the faid Afts to the Surrey Side of Wejlminjlcr Bridge -, and for enlarging the Powers of the laid Afts, with refpeft to Squares: And that Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Edmonftone, General Howard, Mr. Dowdefwcll, Mr. Plumptre, and Mr. Eitzbcrbci t, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Ordered That a Committee be appointed to examine into the prefent State of the Manufacture of Leather Gloves, and Leather Mittins ; and report the fame, as it Hull appear to them, to the 1 loufe : And a Committee was appointed of Mr. Bolton, Mr. fown/bend, Sir William Baker, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Dyfon, I .ord Barrington, Mr. Rice, Mr. Grofvcnor, Sir George Savile, Mr. Paterfon, Mr. Edmonftone, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Harley, Mr. Whitworth, Sir Roger New- digate, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Gray, Lord Cat furlough, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Weft, Sir George Armitage, Mr. Rigby, Mr. Walftj, Sir Jarril Smith, Mr. Sbiffner, Mr. Coventry, General Howard, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Dowdef- wctl, Sir Walter Blacker, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Glover, Lord Orwell, Mr. Hewett, Mr. White, Lord Frederick Campbell, Mr. I-alter, Mr Ongley, Sir Francis Fincent, Mr. Prowfe, Mr. Gafcoync, Colonel Barre, Mr. Fitz- berbert, Mr. Cuft, Mr. Aiderman Beckford, Mr. Stanley, Mr. Ward, Mr. Forke, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Dempfter, Mr. Wilbraham, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Ofwald, Mr. Gore, Mr. Serjeant Hewitt, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle -, and all the Merchants of the Houle : And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber; and have Power to fend for Perfons, Papers, and Records ; and all who come are to have Voices. Ordered, That the Account of rhe Quantity of Foreign manufactured Gloves and Mittins imported into this Kingdom, for Seven Years, to Midfummer laft; diftinguifhing each Year, together with the Duties paid on the Importation thereof; be referred to the faid Committee. Ordered, That the Account of all Foreign manufactured Gloves and Mittins, which have been feized by the Officers of His Majeity�s Cuftoms in England, and condemned, for Seven Years laft paft ; diftinguifhing each Year-, with the Produce arifing from the Sale thereof ; be referred to the faid Committee. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the Supply granted to His Majefty ; Refolded, That this Houfe will, upon Friday Morning next, refolve itfelf into the faid Committee. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of Ways and Means for raifing th# Supply granted to His Majefty -, Ordered, That it be an Inltruftion to the Laid Committee, that they do confider of the Afts relating to the Stamp Duties on Indentures, Bonds, Leafes, and other Deeds, in Great Britain. Ordered, That the Account of all Coals exported from England, for the Twenty Years preceding the 5th of January 1764, with the Duties payable thereon -, diftinguifhing each Year; and diftinguiftring fuch Part as have been exported to foreign Countries, fuch as have been exported to Ireland and the IJle of Man, and fuch as have been exported to the Britiftj Colonies and Plantations ; be referred to the faid Committee. Ordered, That the Account of all Coals brought into the Port of London, for the Twenty Years preceding the 5th January 1765; diftinguiftring each Year, and from what Places -, be referred to the laid Committee. Ordered, That the Account of all Coals exported from Scotland, for the Twenty Years preceding the 5th of January 1764, with the Duties payable thereon ; diftinguifhing each Year; and diftinguiftring fuch Part as have been exported to foreign Countries, fuch as have been exported to Ireland and the Illy of Man, and fuch as have been exported to the Britiftj Colonies and Plantations ; be referred to the faid Committee. , Ordered, That the Account of the Quantity of White Callicous exported to any foreign Countries, except the Britiftj Colonies and Plantations in America, with d^ Duties and Drawbacks paid thereon, for Four Years, ending at Cbriftmas 1764; diftinguifhing each Year ; b< referred to the faid Committee. Ordered, That the Account of the Quantity of Cal- licoes, Printed, Painted, Stained, or Dyed, in ihe Eaft Indies, exported to any foreign Countries, excepting the Britijb Colonics and Plantations in America, with the Duties and Drawbacks paid thereon, for Four Years, ending at Cbriftmas 1764; diftinguifhing each Year; be referred to the faid Committee. Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the faid Committee, that they do confider of an Aft, made in the Eighth Year of the Reign of King George the Firft, intituled, An Aft to prevent the Clandeftine Running of Goods, and the Danger of Infeftion thereby, and to prevent Ships breaking their Quarentine -, and to fubjeft Copper Ore, of the Produftion of the Britiftj Plantations, to fuch Regulations as other enumerated Commodities of the like Produftion are fubjeft; and alfo of an Aft, made in the 12th Year of King George the Firft, intituled, An Aft for the Improvement of his Majefty�s Revenues of Cuftoms, Excife, and Inland Duties. Then the Houfe rdblvcd itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Paterjon took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr. Paterfon reported from the Committee, That they had come to feveral Refolutions ; which they had direfted him to report, when the Houle will pleafe to receive the fame. Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow Morning. Mr. Paterfon alfo acquainted the Houfe, that he was directed by the Committee to move, that they may- have Leave to fit again. Refolded, That this Houfe will, upon Friday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of Ways and Means for raifing the Supply granted to His Majefty. And then'the Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Moro, ing, Nine of the Clock. Jovis, 14.0 die Martti \ Anno 50 Georgiilir1'1 Regis, 176^ PRAYERS. M R. Jackfon prefented to the Houfe, according tQ Order, a Bill for veiling certain Glebe Lands, belonging to the Reftory of the Parilh Church of Saint Chnftopher, in the City of London, in the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and for making a Recompence to the Reftor of the faid Parilh, and his Succefibrs, in lieu thereof: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. The Houfe being informed, that fome of the Com- miffioners for managing the Duties arifing by Stamps, attended at the Door ; they were called in; and, at the Bar, prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to their Order, An Account of the Grofs and Nett Produce of the Duty of Two Shillings and Four Pence upon Policies of Infurance, made within the Bills of Mortality, for the Eight laft Years; diftinguifhing each Year. And then they withdrew. And the Title of the faid Account was read. Ordered, That the faid Account do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of die Houfe. 3 The The faid Account is preserved amongft the other Papers of this Scffion. A Me (Tage from the Lords, by Mr. Harris and Mr. Pecbcll: Mr. Speaker, The Lords have paffed a Bill, intituled, An Aft for veiling an Eftate, called Woodlands, in the County of Wilts, belonging to the Matter, Fellows, and Scholars of the College, called Clare Hall, in the Univerfity of Cambridge, in William Earl of Shelburne, and his Heirs ; to which the Lords defire the Concurrence of this Houfe. And then the Meflengers withdrew. A Bill to enable His Majefty, with the Advice of His Privy Council, to prohibit the Exportation of Wheat, Wheaten Meal, Flour, Bread, Bifcuit, and Starch, during the next Recefs of Parliament, at fuch Time, and in fuch Manner, as the Necefiity of the Time may require, and He, in His Wifdom, fhall think convenient and needful, was read a Second Time, Refolved, That the Bill be committed. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole I loufe. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Monday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the faid Bill. An ingrofled Bill from the I .ords, intituled, An Aft for vetting an Eftate, called Woodlands, in the County of Wilts, belonging to the Matter, Fellows, and Scholars, of the College, called Clare Hall, in the Univer- fity of Cambridge, in William Earl of Shelburne, and his Heirs, was read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Mr. Bacon reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of feveral Juftices of the Peace, Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and other Inhabitants, who live near the great Road leading from Wijbeacb, in the Ifle of Ely, and County of Cambridge, to Long Bridge, in South Lynn, otherwife rill Saints, in the Borough of King-Lynns, in the County of Norfolk, whofe Hands are thereunto fubferibed �, and alfo the Petition of feveral Gentlemen, and others, of the County of Norfolk, whole Names are thereunto fubferibed ; were feverally referred; That the Committee had examined the Matters of the faid Petitions; and had direfted him to report the fame, as they appeared to them, to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place �, and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the fame was read-, and is as followeth; viz. In Support of the Allegations of the Firft mentioned Petition, Mr. Chriftopher Bell being examined, faid, That the Road defcribed in the faid Petition is in a ruinous Condition, in many Places very narrow and incommodious, and cannot be repaired and widened by the pre- fent Methods prefcribed by Law. To prove the Allegations of the Second mentioned Petition, Mr. Chriftopher Bell informed your Committee, That the Road from Ijlington to a Place called Crofs Keys Wafts, in the County of Norfolk, is in a ruinous Condition, in many Places very narrow and incommodious, and cannot be repaired and widened by the prefent Methods prefcribed by Law. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for repairing and widening the Roads from the Little Bridge, over the End of the Drain next Wijbeacb River, lying between Ropers Fields and the Bell Bin, in Wijbeacb, in the J lie of Ely, to the Sign of the Bear, in Walfoken, in the County of Norfolk-, and from Walfoken Bridge, lying over the fame Drain, to the laid Sign of the Bear, and to Lord's Bridge, in Ifington, and from thence to the Weft Ends of Mandi.n Bridge and German's Bridge, VOL. XXX, the Houfe; which he read in his Place ; and afterwards delivered in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the lame were read ; and are as followeth; viz. Refolvef That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That all Perfons interefted in, or intitled unto, any Bill or Bills, payable in the Courfe of the Navy or Victualling Offices, or for Tranfports, which were made cut on or before the 30th Day of June 1764, who fliall, on or before the 26th Day of this Inftant March, carry the fame, after having had the Intereft thereupon computed to the 6th Day of April next, and marked upon the faid Bills at the Navy or Victualling Office refpeClively, to the Office of the Trcafurer of His Majefty�s Navy, fhall have, in Exchange for the fame, from fuch Trea- furer, or his Paymafter or Caffiier, a Certificate, to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for every intire Sum of One or more Hundred Pounds, of which fuch Bill or Bills, together with the Intercft fo marked, fhall confift, until the feveral intire Sums of One or more hundred Pounds, for which fuch Certificates are to be made forth, fhall amount together to One million Five hundred thoufand Pounds, and alfo One other Certificate for the Fractional Part of One hundred Pounds, being the Remainder of fuch Bill or Bills; and the Perfons who fhall be poflefled of fuch firft mentioned Certificates, of the intire Sum of One or more hundred Pounds, fhall, upon Delivery thereof to the faid Governor and Company, be intitled, in refpect of the fame, to the Annuities hereafter mentioned : That is to fay; For Two Fifth Parts of the Sums therein mentioned, to an Annuity, after the Rate of Three Pounds, per Cent, redeemable by Parliament, and transferrable and paid at the Bank of England-, for Two other Fifth Parts thereof, to a proportional Number of Tickets of the Value of Ten Pounds, in a Lottery, to confift of 60,000 Tickets, every Blank to be of the Value of Six Pounds, the Blanks and Prizes to be attended with the like Three per Cent. Annuities �, and, for the remaining One Fifth Part, to a like Annuity, after the Rate of Three Pounds per Cent. with Liberty to convert the fame into an Annuity for Life, after the fame Rate, with Benefit of Survivorffiip, in Manner following: That is to fay; That every Per- fon, who ftiall become poflefled, in Right of One hundred Pounds Capital Stock, of an Annuity of Three Pounds in fuch laft mentioned Annuities, and fhall produce, on or before the 5th Day of April 1766, a Certificate thereof, attefted by the Calhier of the Bank of England, to the Auditor of the Receipt of his Majefty*s Exchequer, (lull, in Lieu thereof, be intitled, from the faid 5th Day of April 1766, during the Life of the Nominee whom he fhall appoint, to a Life Annuity of Three Pounds payable at the Exchequer, out of the Sinking Fund ; and the feveral Nominees, to be appointed in refpeCt of fuch Life Annuities, to be divided into Claf- fes, the whole Annuity belonging to each Clafs not to be lefs than One thoufand Five hundred Pounds, if Life Annuities to that Amount fhall be fo fubferibed ; and, upon the Death of every Nominee, the Annuity, fo fallen in, to be diftributed among the Survivors of the fame Clafs: And the Annuities, in refpeft of the faid Firft Two Fifth Parts, fhall be immediately added to, and made a Part of, the Joint Stock of Annuities, reduced from 4 to 3 per Cent, and confolidated, purfuant to certain Ads of Parliament, made in the 25th and 26th Years of the Reign of his late Majefty ; and the Annuities attending the faid Lottery, together with fuch of the Annuities in refpeft of the faid One Fifth Part as fhall not be exchanged for Annuities on Lives, with the Benefit of Survivorfliip, in Manner abovementioned, fhall alfo be added to, and made a Part of, fuch Joint Stock, from the 5th Day of April 1766 ; and all the faid Annuities, transferrable and paid at the Bank, fhall commence, from the faid 5th Day of April 1765, and be payable Half-yearly, on the 10th Day of October and the 5th Day of April in every Year, out of the Sinking 1 und : Bur, in cafe die feveral inure Sums of One or 2 more hundred Pounds, for which Certificates are to be granted by the Treafurer of His Mujefty�s Navy, or hig Pay-mafter or Calhier, in rtfped of fuch Bills fo to be delivered in, on or before the 26th Day of this Inftant March, and of the Intereft marked thereon, fhall not then amount in the whole to the Sum of One million Five hundred thoufand Pounds, all Perfons poflefled of the above mentioned Certificates for the Fractional Parts of One hundred Pounds, or of Navy, Victualling, or Tranfport Bills, which were made out on or before the 30th Day of June 1764, and do not amount, together with the Intereft thereupon computed to the 6th Day of April next, to One hundred Pounds, may, on or before the 5th Day of April next, after having had the Intereft upon fuch Bills marked in fuch Manner as is before mentioned, bring the fame to the Office of the Treafurer of His Majefty�s Navy, and fhall have, in Exchange for the fame, from fuch Treafurer, or his Pay-mafter or Calhier, a Certificate to the faid Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for the Sums contained in fuch Certificates, and for the Amount of the Principal and Intereft of which fuch Bills fhall confift; and, upon Delivery thereof, and Payment of fo much Money to the faid Governor and Company as fhall, with the Sum fo certified amount to One hundred Pounds, fhall be intitled to the Annuities and Advantages before mentioned: And if any fuch Certificates for Fractional Parts fliall not be delivered in, and fubferibed as aforefaid, on or before the faid 5th Day of April next, they fhall be paid, according to the Courfe of the Navy, in fuch Order as the Bills in Part of which they were granted were payable; and fuch of them, as were granted in Part of Bills bearing Intereft, fhall, from the faid 5th Day of April next* carry the like Intereft to which fuch Bills were intitled. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That there be granted to His Majefty, an additional Duty of Four Shillings, for every Chaldron of Coals, Newcajlle Meafure, which fhall be fhipped for Exportation to any Part beyond the Seas, except to Ireland, the Ifle of Man, or the Briti/h Dominions in America; and after the fame Rate for any greater or lefler Quantity. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That there be granted to His Majefty, upon all Wrought Silks, Bengals, and Stuffs, mixed with Silk or Herba, of the Manufacture of PerJia, China, or Eaft India, and upon all Callicocs, Printed, Dyed, Painted, or Stained there, which fhall be exported from this Kingdom, except to Africa or the Britifh Dominions in America, a Subfidy of Poundage, after the Rate of Twelve Pence for every Twenty Shillings of the Value of fuch Goods, according to the Grofs Price at which the fame were fold at the Public Sales thereof. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That, upon the Exportation from this Kingdom of any fort of White Callicocs or Muflins, except to Africa or the Britijh Dominions in America, there be retained, be- fides the One Half of the Rate or Duty commonly called 'The Old Snbfidy, which now remains, and is not drawn back for the fame, the further Sum of Two Pounds for every Hundred Pounds of the true and real Value of fuch Goods, according to the Grofs Price at which they were fold at the Sale of the United Company of Merchants trading to the EajlIndies-, but that fuchCallicocs, which fliall firft have been Printed, Stained, Painted, or Dyed, in Great Britain, fhall not be fubjed to the faid Duty of Two Pounds, to be retained as aforefaid. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, � That there be granted to His Majefty, a Stamp Duty of Two Pence, for every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, on which fliall be in- grofled, written, or printed, any Policy of Aflurance, which fliall be made or entered into, within the Cities of London or iPeftminJler, or elfewhcre within the Limits of the Weekly Bills of Mortality, over and above ^11 other Duties. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That That there be granted to His Majefty, a Stamp Duty of Two Shillings and Six Pence, for every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, on which (hall be ingrofied, written, or printed, any Policy of Affurance, which Ihall be made or entered into in Great Britain, over and above all other Duties. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That rhe faid Duties be carried to, and made Part of, the Sinking Fund, towards making good the Payment of the faid Annuities. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty of Six Pence, impofed by an Ad made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, and the additional Stamp Duty of One Shilling impofed by an Aft made in the 30th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, upon Vellum, Parchment, and Paper, containing any Indenture, Leafe, Bond, or other Deed, be declared to extend to every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, on which (hall be ingrofied, written, or printed, in Great Britain, any Policy of Aflurance or Charter Party. The faid Refolutions being feverally read a Second Time, were, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That a Bill, or Bills, be brought in, upon the faid Refolutions: And that Mr. Paterfon, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Lord North, Sir John Turner, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Harris of Cbrift Church, Mr. Attorney General, Mr. Solicitor General, Mr. Jenkinfon, and Mr. Whately, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. *5* his late Majefty*s Reign, for encouraging the Growth and Cultivation of Madder in that Part of Gm/ Britain called England, by afeertaining rhe Tythe thereof. Ordered, That the Report from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill for more effeftually preventing the Mifchiefs arifmg to the Revenue and Commerce of Great Britain and Ireland, from the illicit and clandeftine Trade to and from rhe Ifle of.%w,was committed, be received upon Monday Morning next. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Monday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the- whole Houfe, upon the Bill for the more effectually fupplying the Export Trade of this Kingdom to Africa, with fuch Coarfe Printed Callicoes and other Goods, of the Produft or Manufacture of the Eafi Indies, or other Places beyond the Cape of Good Hope, as are prohibited to be worn and tiled in Great Britain �, for encouraging the Importation of Bugles into this Kingdom, for the better Supply of the Export Trade thereof-, and for difeontinu- ing the Bounty payable in Great Britain, and all Bounties and Allowances in Ireland, upon the Exportation of Corn, Grain, Malt, Meal, and Flour, from thence to the llle of Man. - And then the Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. Mr. Boulton, according to Order, reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill for the regulating Qualifications of the Proprietors of Eafi India Stock, was committed, the Amendments which the Committee had made to the Bill-, and which they had direfted him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place ; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One ; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. A Claufe was offered to be added to the Bill, for extending the Oath to be taken by Eleftors at any General Court, that may he held before the 24th of June next. And the Queftion being put, That the faid Claufe be � brought up. It pafied in the Negative. Then a Motion was made, and the Queftion being put, Thar the faid Report be taken into further Confidcra- tion, upon this Day Three Months; The Houfe divided. The Yeas went forth. Tellers for the Yeas, { } 4- Tellers for the Noes, j^'^. pi- So it was refolved in the Affirmative* The other Orders of the Day being read; Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Wednefday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider of the Report which was made from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Bailiffs, "Wardens, Afliftants, and Commonalty of the Trade, Art and Myftery, of Weavers of London, in behalf of themfelves and the Silk Manufafturers of Great Britain, and the feveral other Petitions relating to Silk, were fc- verally referred. Refolved, That this Houfe will, To-morrow Morning, refolve itfelf into a Committee of rhe whole Houfe, upon the Bill for continuing an Aft, made in the 31ft Year of � Generisj t^ die Mart it � Anno 50 Georgii IirH Regis, 176^. PRAYERS." PETITION of feveral Owners of Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, within the Parilh of in the Eaft Riding of the'County df Fork, was committed, T hat the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true ; and that the Parties concerned had given their Confent to the Bill, to the Satisfaction of the Committee, except Mrs Hillary y who is pofiefled of Two Oxgangs in rhe laid Fields, who refufed to fign the Bill, but made no Objection to it; and alfo except Samuel Cooke, who has Half an Acre of Land ; and that the whole Fields contain upwards of 79 Oxgangs; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto; which they had directed him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One ; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofled. An ingrofled Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Heath, and Wafte Grounds, and Commonable Places, in the Lordihip and Liberties of Draycot, in the Parifh of Bourton, in the County of Warwick, was read the Third 1 ime. Refclved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be. An Aft for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Heath, and Wafte Grounds, and Commonable Places, in the Lordihip and Liberties of Draycot, in the Parifh of Bourton, in the County of Warwick. Ordered, That Sir Charles Mordaunt do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. Mr. Hewett reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing certain Open Common Fields, Lands, and Grounds, in Brantingham, and Thorpe Brantingham, in the Parifh of Brantingham, in the Eaft Riding of the County of Fork, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Parties concerned had given their Confent to the Bill, to the Sa- tisfaftion of the Committee, except Mr. Atklnfon, who is pofiefled of Five Oxgangs, and Four-fifths of Six Oxgangs, who, being applied to, refufed to fign the Bill, but faid, he would not oppofe it; and that no Perfon appeared before the Committee to oppofe the Bill; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto; which they had direfted him to report to the Houfe ; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. A Claufe was offered to be added to the Bill, directing how the Public Roads fliall be repaired. And the faid Claufe was Twice read; and, upon the Queftion put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe, to be made Part of the Bill. Then feveral Amendments were made, by the Houfe, to the Bill. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofled. An ingrofled Bill for dividing and alloting certain Open Fields, Meadows, and Stinted Paftures, in the Townfliip of Fenton, in the Parifh of Kettlethorp, in the County of Lincoln, and a certain Free Common, called 9be Eaft Moor, in the fame Parifh, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be. An Aft for dividing and alloting certain Open * .Fields, Meadows, and Stinted Paftures, in the Townfliip of Fenton, in the Parifh of Kettletborp, in the County of Lincoln, and a certain Free Common, called The Eaft Moor, in the fame Parifh. Ordered, That Lord Brownlow Bertie do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. An ingrofled Bill for dividing and inclofing certain Common Fields, Meadows, and Common Paftures, in the Townfhip and Parifh of Newton, in the County of Lincoln, and certain Rights of Pafture in Kettlethorpe, in the faid County, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs : And that the Title be, An Aft for dividing and inclofing certain Common Fields, Meadows, and Common Paftures, in the Townfhip and Parifh of Newton, in the County of Lincoln, and certain Rights of Pafture in Kettlethorpe, in the faidCounty. Ordered, That Lord Brownlow Bertie do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. A Bill for dividing and inclofing certain Open and Common Fields, and Grounds, within the feveral Parifhes of Keelby and Stallingbourgh, in the County of Lincoln, was read a Second 1 ime. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Lord Brownlow Bertie, Nir. Rice, Mt. Lewis, Mr. Dy fan, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Gray, Lord Strange, Mr. Shijfner, Sir Edward Bayntun, Mr. Parker, Mr. Dempfter, Lord Carys - fort, Mr. Bertie, Mr. I Kbit boot, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Glover, Sir George Savile, Mr. Butler, Mr. Coutts, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Blackftone, Sir John Rujhout, Mr. Foley, Mr. Howard, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Kynafton, Lord Catherlough, Mr. Pryce Campbill, Mr. Shaftoe-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Lincoln, Nottingham, Fork, and Northampton : And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Bill for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair, feveral Roads, leading from Kidwely, in the County of Carmarthen; and alfo feveral Roads leading from Llandilo, in the faid County; was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Rice, Mr. Cholmley, Lord Howe, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Drake, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Lewis, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Dyfon, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Foley, Mr. Glover, Lord Strange, Mr. Norris, Mr. Gwynne, Sir Robert Long, Mr. Price, Mr. Gray, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Buller, Mr. Long, Lord Orwell, Mr. Fo- nereau, Mr. Shiffner, Sir Thomas Palmer, Mr. Parker, Mr. Montagu, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Mr. Harris, Mr. Blackftone, Lord Burgberfh, Mr. Fane, Mr. Howard, Lord Grey, Mr. Butler, Mr. Town/hend, Mr. Forrefter-, and all the Members who ferve for the Principality of (Kales; and for the Counties of Gloucefter, Hereford, and Somerfet: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Mr. Cholmley reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing the Commons, and Wafte Grounds, within the Manor of Cropton, in the County of Fork; and for other Purpofes therein mentioned ; was re-committed; That the Committee had made feveral other Amendments to the Bill, which they had direfted him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table. And the faid Report was read. And feveral of the Amendments, made by the Committee to the faid Bill, being feverally read a Second Time, were, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, agreed to by the 1 loufe. Ordered, That the further Confideration of the faid Report be adjourned till Monday Morning next. Mr. Hewett prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Biil for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields 4 � and and Common Pafture, Common Meadow, Common Grounds, and Wafte Grounds, in the Manor and Lord- fhip of Ca< lion upon Trent, in the County of Nottingham : And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Mr. Hewett reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing certain Open Common Fields, Lands, and Grounds, in Ellerker, in the Parilh of Brantingham, in the Eaft Riding of the County of York, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Parties concerned had given their Confent to the Bill, to the Satisfaction of the Committee ; except the Proprietors of Six Oxgangs and an Half, and Five Common-right Houles; and that the whole Lands intended to be inclofed confift of 75 Oxgangs, and 52 Common-right I loufes; and that no Perlon appeared before the Committee, to oppofe the Bill; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto ; which they had direfted him to report to the Houfe ; and he read the Report in his Place ; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. A Claufe was offered to be added to the Bill, direding how the Public Roads (hall be repaired. And the faid Claufe was Twice read ; and, upon the Queftion put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe, to be made Part of the Bill. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofled. The Lord Howe reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for repairing and widening the Road leading from the South End of the Town and Borough of Newton Abbott, in the County of Devon, through the feveral Pari Jies of lYoolborough, Abbotts Kerf well, Kings Ordered^ That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofled. Mr. John Calvert reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Church Warden, Ovcrkcrs of the Poor, and principal Inhabitants of the United Parifhes of All Saints and Saint John, in the Town of Hertford, in the County of Hertford; and alfo the Petition of the feveral Perlons, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed; were feverally referred ; That the Committee had examined the Matter of the faid Petitions; and had directed him to report the fame, as it appeared to them, to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the fame was read; and is followeth; viz. To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition, Mr. John Taylor, Architect, being examined, laid, That he had furveyed the Church of the faid united Parifhes ; that it is in a ruinous Condition, and, in its prefenc State, unfit for the Parilhioners to refurt to, to attend Divine Service; but that it is capable of being ef- fcdually repaired, and made, not only fafe, but commodious. Mr. Thomas Hill, a Carpenter, and Mr. Samuel Kynaf- ton, a Bricklayer, being feverally examined, confirmed the Evidence of Mr. Taylor. Mr. C^far Saunders being examined, confirmed the above Evidence, in regard to the prelent Condition of rhe faid Church; and added, that the Parifhioners are unable to repair the faid Church without the Aid of Parliament. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for repairing the Church of the United Parifhes of All Saints and Saint John, in the Town of Hertford: And that Mr. John Calvert, Mr. Cafwall, and the Lord Howe, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. An ingrofled Bill for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair, the Road leading from the Turnpike Road on Hurjl Green, in the County of Suffix, through FJcbingbam and Burwajb, to the Extent of the Parifli of Burwajh, in the laid County, was read the Third 'l ime. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Ad for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair, the Road leading from the Turnpike Road on Hurjl Green, in the County of Sujfex, through Etching- ham and Burwajh, to the Extent of the Parilh of Bur- wafh, in the faid County. Ordered, That Mr. Buller do carry the Bill to the Lords, and delire their Concurrence. The Lord Strange reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for ^dividing, alloting, and incloiing divers Parcels of Common or Wafte Grounds, within the Manors of Appleton and Lymm, in the County of Chejler, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Parties concerned had given their Confcnt to the Bill, to the Satisfaction of the Committee; except John Hatton, a Quaker, whofe Eftare in the Townfhtp of Appleton is about 8 I. a Year, who refuted to fign the Bill; and alfo Two other Pcrfons, who are only Cottagers, who could not be found ; and that the Value of the whole Manor of Appleton is about 1500/. a Year ; and likewife except the Widow AJhbrocke, whofe Eftate in the Manor of lymm is about 101. a Year, who milled to fign the Bill/on Account of the Expence; and allo except George Mackenzie Efquire, Captain of a Man ot War, who is at Sea, and whofe Eftate in the laid Minor is about 24/. a Year; and that the whole Value of the faid Manor is about 2000/. a Year; and that the Committee had gone through t' e Bill, and made leveral Amendments thereunto; which they had directed him to report to the Houfe; and he read tk Report in his Place, and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, Cne T 11 by by One ; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. A Claufc was offered to be added to the Bill, for pre- ferving the Rights of the Duke of Bridgewater, with refpeft to his Navigation. And the laid Claufc was Twice read ; and, upon the Queftion put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe, to be made Pat t of the Bill. Another Claufe was offered to be added to the Bill, directing how Monies paid by the Duke of Bridgewater, tor Lands, purchafed by virtue of the Afts for making his Navigation, (hall be applied. And the faid Claufe was Twice read, with Blanks ; which being filled up, the faid Claufe was, upon the Queftion put thereupon, agreed to by the Houle, to be made Part of rhe Bill. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be in- groifed. An ingrofled Bill from the Lords, intituled. An Act for the Sale of Lands and Tenements, in the County of Cumberland, late the Efface of William Dobinfan Gentleman, deceafcd, for the Benefit of the Children of Jofeph Banks, his Nephew, deceafed, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Richmond Webb, Mr. Wedderburn, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Jackfon, Nir. Calvert, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Parker, Mr. Gilbert, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Mr. Kynajion, Mr. Wilbraham, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Prefect, Mr. Willoughby, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Rice, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Sir Edmund Jjham, Mr. Mawbey, Mr. Coventry, Lord Orwell, Mt. Shifter, Mr. Sandys, Lord Harry Powtet, Mr. I*uller, Mr. Byde, Sir Thomas Palmer, Mr. Town/hend, Sir Walter Blacker ; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Wejlmoreland, Cumberland, Northumberland, Durham, Fork, and Lancajler: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Sir John Hynde Cotton reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill to continue the Term, and alter and enlarge the Powers, of an Act, pafled in the Third Year of His prelent Majefty, for repairing, widening, turning, and keeping in Repair the Road from the Town of Cambridge to Ely, and from thence to Soham ; and for building a Bridge crofs the River Oufe, at or near a Place called Stretham Ferry, in the County of Cambridge; and for repairing and widening, and making feveral other Roads adjoining to the Roads directed to be repaired and widened by the laid Act; was committed ; That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true ; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto ; which they had directed him to report to the Houfe ; and he read the Report in his Place ; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One ; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, One of them was difagreed to, and the reft were agreed to, by the Houfe; and an Amendment was made, by the Houfe, to the Bill. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofled. A Mefiage from the Lords, by Mr. Harris and Mr. Angutjh : Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft to enable Benjamin Francis Tribe Efquire, and his Heirs, to take and ufe the Surname of Poole, purfuant to the Will of Elizabeth Ludwell, deceafed, without any Amendment: And alfo, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft Mr. Jenkinfon reported from the Committee, who were appointed to prepare an Eftimate of the Charge of the Pay and Cloathing of the Militia, in that Part of Great Britain called England; and of the Amount of 28 Days Subfiftence, for the Commiffion Officers of the faid Militia, under the Rank of a Captain, for One Year, beginning the 25th Day of March 17651 and alfo an Eftimate of the Amount of 28 Days Subfiftence, for the Captains of Companies in the faid Militia, for Ont Year; That the Committee had prepared an Eftimate accordingly; which they had directed him to report to the Houle ; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the fame was read : And is as followed), viz. ESTIMATE of the Charge of the Pay and Cloathing of the Militia, in that Part of Great Britain called England; and of the Amount of 28 Days Subfiftence, for the Commiffion Officers of the faid Militia, under the Rank of Major, for One Year, beginning the 25th Day of March 1765. Pay to 30,840 Private Men, at 1 s. each 28 Days � � � � 43,176 o o Ditto to 70 Adjutants, at 6 a. a Day each � � � � � 7,665 o o Ditto to 1542 Serjeants, at 1 J. a Day each � � � � � 28,141 100 Ditto to 1200 Drummers, at 6 J. a Day each � � � � 10,950 0 0 For Additional Pay to 30,840 Private Men, for going to the Place of Exercife, and returning, calculated upon an Average of 4 Days Pay each Man � * � � � 6,163 o o Additional Pay to 70 Serjeant Majors, at 2 J. and 6 J. a Week each � � � 455 o o Ditto to 70 Drum Majors, at 6 . I � < Sir Roger Newdigaie: 5 Tellers for the Noes, J Mr� J 95� I Frederick Montagu. So it was refolved in the Affirmative. Refolved, That the Title be, An Aft for the Allowance of certain Exchanges and Conveyances of Real Eftates, by Ecclefiaftical Perfons and Corporations, and Truftees for Charitable Ufes, under the Rcftriftions therein limited. Ordered, That Mr. Blackjlone do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. A Mettage from the Lords, by Mr. Browning and Mr. Anguijh: Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Act for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Arable Fields, Meadows, Paftures, Commons, and Wafte Grounds, in the Lordfhip and Parifh of Flamborough, in the County of Fork, without any Amendment. And then the Meflcngers withdrew'. The Houfe being informed, that Mr. Tomkyns, from the Commiflioners of the Cuftoms, attended at the Door; he was called in ; and, at the Bar, prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to their Order, An Account of all Wrought Silk or Herba, of the Manufaifture of Perfia, China, or the Eaji Indies, which have been exported, from Chrijhnas 1760 to Chrijhnas 1764; diftinguilhing each Year, and to what Countries. And then he withdrew. And the Title of the faid Account was read. Ordered, That the faid Account do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. The faid Account is preferved amongft the other Papers of this Seflion. Ordered, That the Order of the Day, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill to quiet the prefent Pofleflbrs of Leafes from Ecclefiaftical Perfons and Bodies Politic, Corporate, and Collegiate, of Tythcs, Tolls, and other Incorporeal Hereditaments, for Lives or Terms of Years, in the Enjoyment of fuch Leafes, and to enable Ecclefiaftical Perfons, and Bodies Politic, Corporate, and Collegiate, to grant Leafes of fuch Incorporeal Hereditaments ; with a Remedy to recover the reipeftive Rents referved; be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly; A Motion was made, and rhe Queftion being put, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair ; It patted in the Negative. Refolved, That this Houfe will, To-morrow Morning, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the faid Bill. A Motion was made, and the Queftion being put, That the ingrofled Bill for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor, within that Part of Great Britain called England, be read the Third Time, upon this Day Three Months ; It patted in the Negative. Refold, Refolved, That the laid Bill be now read the Third Time. The faid ingrofled Bill was accordingly read the Third Time. An ingrofled Claufe was offered to be added to the Bill, by way of Ryder, providing that no Parilh fhall be included in the Provilions of the Aft, but with Con- fent of the Majority of the Parilhioners paying the Poors Rates. And the Queftion being put, That the faid Claufe be brought up ; The Houfe divided. The Yeas went forth. Tellers for the Noes, { y^ Lord Orrf. � '5J So it parted in the Negative. Then the Amendments following were fcverally pro- pofed to be made to the Bill; viz. Pr.7.1. 15. After � Bar� to infert, � or in the Court � of King�s Bench, in the County of � Middlefex, in the Term next after.� 1. 30. After � aforefaid� to infert, � or in the � Court of King�s Bench, in fuch Term � aforefaid.� 2. 35* After � Affize� to infert, � or in the � Court of King�s Bench, at the Time � aforefaid.� Pr.8.1. 33. After �Bar� to infert, Court of King�s � Bench.� Pr. 11.1. 19. After � Place� to infert, � which main- � tains, or is liable to maintain its own � Poor.� Pr. 33. 1. 2. To leave out � for any Term not ex- � ceeding Seven Years. Pr. 34.1. ult. After � Diftrift� to infert, � and they � are hereby required.� And the faid Amendments were, upon the Queftion fcverally put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe : And the Bill was amended at the Table accordingly. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Act for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor, within that Part of Great Britain called England. Ordered, That Mr. Gilbert do carry the Bill to the Lords, and delire their Concurrence. Mr. Paterfon, according to Order, reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it was referred to confider further of the Supply granted to His Majefty, the Refolurions which the Committee had directed -him to report to the Houfe ; which he read in his Place; and afterwards delivered in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the fame were read; and are as fol- loweth ; viz. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That the Sum of Eight hundred thoufand Pounds be granted to HisMajefty, for paying offand dilcharging the Exchequer Bills, made out by virtue of an Aft, parted in the laftSeflion of Parliament, intituled. An Aft for raifing a certain Sum of Money, by Loans or Exchequer Bills ; and for applying certain Monies, remaining in the Exchequer, for the Service of the Year 1764 ?, and for Application of certain Savings of Public Monies, and of Monies arifen by the Sale of Military Stores ; and for further appropriating the Supplies granted in this Seflion of Parliament; and for Relief of Perlons who have omitted to infert, in Indentures or other Wrirings, the full Sum agreed to be paid with Clerks, Apprentices, and other Servants; and charged upon the Firft Aids to be granted in this Seffion of Parliament. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Sum, not exceeding Seven thoufand Pounds, be granted to 11 is Majefty, to be applied towards the Enifh- mg and completing the Works for improving, widen ing, and enlarging, the Pafiage over, and through, London Bridge. The faid Refolutions being feverally read a Second Time, were, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Order of the Day, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the Supply granted to His Majefty, be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly; Ordered, .That Surplufles, ftated the 5th of April 1764, be referred to the faid Committee. Ordered, That Surplufles, ftated the 10th of ORAtr 1764, be referred to the faid Committee. A Motion being made, That the Report, which was made from the Committee appointed to prepare an Efti- mate of the Charge of the Pay and Cloathing of the Militia, in that Part of Great Britain called England 1 and of the Amount of 28 Days Subfiftence, for the Com million Officers of the faid Militia, under the Rank of a Captain, for One Year, beginning the 25th Day of March 1^65 -, and alfo an Eftimate of the Amount of 28 Days Subfiftence, for the Captains of Companies in the faid Militia for One Year j be referred to the Confi- deration of the faid Committee ; Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Majefty�s Command, acquainted the Houfe, that His Majefty recommends it to the Houfe, to make fuch Provilion for defraying the Charges of Pay and Cloathing for the Militia, for the Year 1765, as the Houfe fhall think neceflary. Ordered, That the faid Report be referred to the Con- fideration of the faid Committee. Then the Houfe refolved itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Paterfon took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr. Paterfon reported from the Committee, That they had come to feveral Refolutions �, which they had di- reftedhim to report, when the Houfe will pleafe to receive the fame. Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow Morning. Mr. Paterfon alfo acquainted the Houfe, that he was directed by the Committee to move, that they may have Leave to fit again. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Wednefday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the Supply granted to His Majefty. Ordered, That the Order of the Day, for receiving the Report from the Committee of the whole Houle, to whom the Bill for more cffe&ually preventing the Milchiefs arifing to the Revenue and Commerce of Great Britain and Ireland, from the illicit and clandcftinc Trade to and from the Ilie of Man, was committed, be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly; Mr. Paterfon reported from the faid Committee, the Amendments which the Committee had made to the Bill; and which they had directed him to report to the Houfe ; and he read the Report in his Place, and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s 'Fable : Where the Report was read. Refolved, That the laid Bill be re-committed. Refolved, That the faid Bill be re-committed to a Committee of the whole Houfe. Refolved, That this Houfe will, immediately, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the faid Bill. The Houfe accordingly refolved itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Paterfon took the Chair of the Committer. Mr. Speaker relumed the Chair. Mr. Mr. Paterfon reported from the Committee, That they had made feveral other Amendments to the Bill $ which they had directed him to report, when the Houfe will pleafe to receive the fame. Ordered^ That the Report be received To-morrow Morning. Ordered' That the Order of the Day, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill for more effectually fupplying the Export Trade of this Kingdom to Africa, with fuch Coarfe Printed Callicoes, and other Goods, of the Product or Manufacture of the Eajl Indies, or other Places beyond the Cape of Good Hope, as are prohibited to be worn and ufed in Great Britain �, for encouraging the Importation of Bugles into this Kingdom, for the better Supply of the Export Trade thereof-, and for difeontinuing the Bounty payable in Great Britain, and all Bounties and Allowances in Ireland, upen the Exportation of Corn, Grain, Malt, Meal, and Flour, from thence to the Ifle of Man; be now read. And the laid Order being read accordingly ; The Houle refolved itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Paterfon took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker relumed the Chair. Mr. Paterfon reported from the Committee, That they had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto-, which they had directed him to report, when the Houfe will pleafe to receive the lame. Ordered, That the Report be now received. Mr. Paterfon accordingly reported from the faid Committee, the Amendments which the Committee had made to the Bill-, and which they had direfled him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the Report was read. Refohed, That the faid Bill be re-committed. Refolded, That the faid Bill be re-committed toaCom- mittee of the whole Houfe. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon To-morrow Sevennight, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole* Houfe, to confider further of the faid Bill. The other Orders of the Day being read ; Refolded, That this Houfe will, upon Friday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill to impower the High Court of Chancery to lay out, upon Government Securities, a Sum of Money, not exceeding a Sum therein to be limited, out of the Common and General Calh in the Bank of England, belonging to the Suitors of the faid Court; and to apply the Intereft arifing therefrom, towards augmenting the Income of the Mailers of the faid Court. Refolved, That this Houfe will, To-morrow Morning, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill to enable His Majefty, with the Advice of His Privy Council, to prohibit the Exportation of Wheat, Wheaten Meal, Flour, Bread, Bifcuit, and Starch, during the next Recefs of Parliament, at fuch Time, and in fuch Manner, as theNeceflity of the Time may require, and 1 Ie, in Ilis Wifdom, fhall think convenient and needful. 1 Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Vednefday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of Ways and Means for raifing the Supply granted to His Majefty. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Friday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole I loufe, to confider of the Report, which was made from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Society of the Free Britifo Filhery, was referred. And then the Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Glock. VOL XXX. A Paper, intituled, � Mr, Raper's Redudion of the v Obfervations made for the Trial of Mr. Harr if on's � Watch:� And alfo, A Paper, intituled, � Mr. Howe's Reduction of the ** Obfervations taken at Portfmcutb and Jamaica, for the � Trial of Mr. Harrifon's Watch, together with Two � Letters from him, marked (A) and (B):� And alfo, A Paper, intituled, � Mr. Gael Morris.� Inclofing his Reduftion of the Obfervations made for the Trial of Mr. Harrifon's Watch. Together with a Schedule of the faid Papers. And the Titles of the faid Papers were read. Ordered, That the faid Papers be referred to the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it is referred to confider further of the feveral Afts relating to the Rewards for difeovering the Longitude at Sea, and making Experiments of Propofals for difeovering the Longitude. The faid Papers are preferved amongft the other Papers of this Selfion. Mr. Lafcelles reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Juftices of the Peace, aflembled at the General Quarter Sellions of the Peace held at Wake- field, in and for the Weft Riding of the County of York, the Grand Jury at the fame Seflions, the Gentlemen, Tradefmen, Clothiers, and other Manufacturers, in the fame Riding; and alfo, the Petition of the Merchants, Buyers, and Dealers in Woollen Broad Cloth, in the Borough of Leeds, and Weft Riding of the County of lark, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed; and alfo the Petition of the Makers and Manufacturers of mixt Woollen Cloth, in the Weft Riding of the County of York; and alfo, the Petition of the Makers and Manufacturers of White Woollen Cloth, in the Weft Riding of the County of York; and alfo, the Petition of the Cloth Workers, and Dreffers of Broad Woollen Cloths, in the Borough of Leeds, and Weft Riding of the County of York, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed; and alfo, the Petition of the Makers and Manufacturers of Broad Woollen Cloths, in the Borough of Leeds, and Weft Riding of the County of York, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed; were feverally referred ; That the Committee had examined the Matters of the faid Petitions; and had directed him to report the fame, with their Opinion thereupon, to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the fame was read; and is as followeth; viz. In Support of the Allegations of the Firft, Third, and Fourth mentioned Petitions, The Agent for the Petitioners produced Three ACts, palfed in the 7th of Queen Anne and the 7th and 14th of King George the Second, which were read: And then Mr. John Senior, a Cloth Maker, being examined, faid, That Cloth, though it varies 3, 4, or 5 Inches in Breadth, is generally ftamped 1 Yard 13 Inches and an Half, which is the Standard Breadth. That Cloth, which is only 1 Yard 9 Inches in Breadth, is frequently ftretched to the Standard -, that Commif- fions are fometimes given for Cloth under the Standard Breadth, which Orders they muft either return, to their great Difadvantage, or fubjeCt themfelves to the Penalties of the Standard. That it is impoflible to weave Cloth to a given Breadth, on Account of the Difference in Wool and its Dirtinefs, and alfo in the Milling, Carding, and Stiffening the Warp when the Air is moift. That Two Cloths equal in every RefpeCt, as to Materials, when milled, One will come out feveral Inches narrower than the other, occafioned by the different State of the Stocks. 1 hat when Cloth is milled to the Standard Breadth, it is frequently found greafy, and then is obliged to be milled over again, and confequently lofes in the Breadth. That Coarfe Cloths mill (wifely, and will, in 5 Hours, run up 30 Inches in Breadth.. That if a Mill Man is ever fo diligent, it is impoflible for him to mill a Cloth exactly to any given Breadth, fo as to make it marketable, That if he mills 50 Coarfe Cloths, and the Wool is of the fame Sort, which is almoft impoflible to get, yet there will be Four or Five Inches Difference, or more, in the Breadth of fome. That it is impoflible for the Clothier to ftretch his Cloth without being difeovered by the Merchant who buys it, becaufe the Merchant will wet it, and the Cloth when it has lain 4 Hours in Water will run up to its original Breadth. That when a Cloth is milled narrower, by lying longer in the Stocks, it is generally the ftouter. That the Witnefs was fummoned before a Juftice of the Peace for a Cloth 2 Inches under Standard, and the Juftice being informed it was owing to the Milling, he remitted the Penalty, and ordered him to agree with the Searcher, which Agreement coft him ys. 6d.', and he could not name any other Inftance of any one being punifhed for making Cloth 2 Inches under the Standard Breadth. That when a Cloth is under the Standard Breadth, it is fold 44/. or 6 d. per Yard cheaper, in proportion to the Price and Goodnefs of the Cloth. That when the Merchant finds the Cloth narrow, he infifts on an Abatement of 3 Yards in 50 in the Length, and fometimes more; and he keeps a Stoppage in his Hands, out of which he makes thefe Abatements, and then does not profecute the Clothier. That Profecutions have been commenced within thefe 4 or 5 Months for Cloth under the Standard Breadth. And that more Cloths are now made under the Stan - dard Breadth than there were 20 Years ago, owing to the ready Market for narrow Cloths. That Cloth fometimes comes out of the Mill a greater Length than the Maker defires, owing to the Warp. That if the Wool is (hort the Cloth holds out in Length, but if it be long, it widens and contracts in the Length. When Cloth is drained it looks much worfe. That if a Method was found out to have the Cloth truly ftamped, and to prevent over-ftretching, it would be an Encouragement to the making Cloth broad, as the Maker would in that Cafe be paid for every Inch of his Cloth. That if the Searchers were to attend at the Mills and ftamp the Cloth truly, it would be a Means of preventing the Cloth from being over-ftretched. That the Witnefs has been applied to for Cloths 5 Quarters wide, but refufed the Order, becaufe he would have been liable to the Penalty, and the Perfon told him he did not care, as he could get fuch Cloth in Lanca- Jhire. That if the Maker was to put his own Stamps upon his Cloth, the Maker and the Merchant might agree together, fo that rhe Maker might ftamp his Cloth more than it really was, and the Confequence would be, that the Merchant would be left at Liberty to over-ftretch. That the Maker in effeft is at prefent the Stamper, becaufe the Miller will ftamp the Cloth as the Maker direfts, notwithftanding the Maker is anfwerable to the Merchant for the Width of the Cloth. That if a General Infpedtor was appointed, the Witnefs apprehends the Maker and the Merchant might ftill combine together, and prevent the Infpe&or feeing the Cloth. That the Merchants Remedy is againft the Clothier, and the Clothiers Remedy is againft the Searcher, and that the Merchant has an Intereft, if he has bad Defigns in wilhing the Clothier to make Cloth under the Standard, and the Clothier has an Intereft in defiring the Searcher to mark his Cloth the full Breadth. That if there was not any Standard, the Clothier 4 would would have no remaining Reafon to wifh that his Cloth fhould be over-ftampt, in hopes ofimpofing on the Merchant, becaufe his Cloth would then appear in the Market without Difguife; and it would be the Intereft of the Clothier, to make his Cloth of fuch Length and Breadth, as would fuit the Markets he carries his Cloth to. That the Witnefs is not acquainted with the Manu- fadory in Lancashire., only he knows that Cloth is brought into Torkjhire from thence without any Stamps; and that he does not think there are any Inconveniences to, or Abufes in the Trade in Lancajhire, from not being re- ftrairied as in Torkjhire; the Trade there being in a very flourishing Condition. Mr. John Speight, a mixt Clothier, being examined, faid, That he has frequently had Orders for Cloth under Standard, and One Year in particular he had Orders for Cloth i Yard 8 Inches in Width, and had Directions to have it thick milled, and was told, if it was an Inch or Two under that Breadth, it would do. That he has had Cloth duly ftamped as to Length and Breadth, which has been brought in by the Merchant feveral Yards Ihort. That the Witnefs had a Cloth, which he knew was Three Inches under the Standard, and told the Merchant fo, who faid it would do, if an Allowance was made; that the Witnefs agreed to make an Allowance of Three Yards, but when he came to be paid for his doth, the Merchant paid him for 2 Yards and an Half lefs than the Witnefs agreed to abate, which he did not dare to refufe, becaufe he was afraid of being profecuted for the Penalty. That the Clothiers are very willing to make fuch Cloth as is ordered, and fometimes make Cloth of 1 Yard 8 Inches wide. That he has frequently had Orders for Cloth above the Standard Breadth; but when he has received fuch Orders, he has not always been able to make them all to that Breadth, notwithftanding the utmoftCare has been taken; and that he has been obliged to keep thofe Cloths that were under the Standard Breadth, to fupply other Orders they would fuit. That he never had Orders for Cloth under 1 Yard 8 Inches; but if the Cloth comes out of the Mill under that Breadth 2 or I hree Inches, the Merchant fays it will do. That the Merchant does not always pay for the Quantity of Cloth delivered, which the Clothier would rather fubmit to than go to Law, becaufe he is fubjed to a Penalty. That there is a limited Time allowed the Merchant for examining the Cloth, but yet fuch Abatements have been made after the limited Time, though he imagines the Merchant could not recover the Penalty after 14 Days, but the Clothier fubmits to the Abatement after the 14 Days, becaufe he may afterwards have Cloths under the Standard Breadth, and then might be fued for the Penalty. That if there was not any Standard, Cloth would come into the Market better both in Breadth and Quality, as the Cloth would be truly ftamped, which would be a Means of preventing the Clothiers ftretching the Cloth fo much as they do at preient, becaufe when it is under the Standard, they ftretch it, in order to avoid the Penalty. That the Witnefs would not chufe a Standard, becaufe it is impoflible always to come up to it. That the Clothier has an Intereft to have his Cloth ftamped the Standard Breadth, though fhort of it, that the Cloth may appear in the Market of the true Breadth; and that if there was not any Standard, the Clothier would not have any Intereft in having his Cloth ftamped otherwife than it is. That if the Cloth falls fhort of the Standard, the Merchant�s Remedy is againft the Clothier; and if the Searcher marks the Cloth wrong, the Clothier�s Remedy is againft the Searchers. That if the Merchant�s Defigns are bad, it is his In- 263 tereft to have Cloth ftamped of a greater Breadth than it is, becaufe he can ftretch it to the Breadth he wants; and it is the Clothier�s Intereft that the Searcher fhould ftamp the Cloth wrong. That the Searchers very feldom attend at the Mill, but leave the Miller to ftamp himfelf, becaufe the Salaries allowed them, are not adequate to the Attendance required. That it is the Searcher�s Bufinefs to regifter the Cloths, but the Mill-man regifters One Half of the Cloths he mills, and the other Half are not regiftered at all; and the Miller puts the Stamping Money in his own Pocket for fuch Cloths as he does not regifter. That it would be a fufficient Allowance for the Searcher, if he was to have a fixed Sum for every Cloth he ftamps, and the Mills in general would fupport a Searcher.�The Payment for ftamping is 6d. a Cloth. That there are not any Complaints againft the Searchers for not attending, nor did the Witnefs ever hear of any Searcher being profecuted; nor has he heard of any Pro- fecution againft the Clothier by the Merchant thefe 7 Years, till within thefe 3 or 4 Months. George Clapham, a Cloth Drefler, being examined, faid, That Merchants rather choofe to buy narrow Cloth, than Cloth of Standard Breadth, becaufe they can buy it cheaper, and then ftretch it, which they commonly do from 1 Yard 10 to 1 Yard 20 Inches; and the Witnefs has broke Cloth himfelf in the Stretching. That the Cloth after it is ftretched is wet at the Edges, in order to fhrink it, or it would not be fit to be lent abroad. That Cloths are brought into Leeds Market ftamped at x Yard 134, and afterwards ftretched to 1 Yard 27 Inches on the Tenters; and when the Merchant wants to ftretch his Cloth to a greater Breadth than common, he puts it on the Tenter without ftretching it in Length, and then obliges the Clothier to abate him feveral Yards of its true Length; and tho� duly ftamped will oblige him to take off 1 Yard and Half in 25 Yards in the Length. That the Witnefs has d refled more Cloth of 1 Yard 9 Inches, than of 1 Yard 13 Inches and an Half broad. That the Merchant would refufe Cloth if it was nor of a marketable Breadth, though not One Cloth in Ten is of the Standard Breadth; and he has feen a Cloth of 1 Yard 6 Inches ftampt 1 Yard 134, which the Witnefs has ftretched to 1 Yard 20 Inches; that if there was not a Standard, all Breadths would be marketable, but the Merchants would continue to ftretch, if there was no Law to prevent them. That it is the Clothier�s Intereft to make good Cloth; that if the Clothier was to ftamp his own Cloth, and an Infpe&or to examine fuch Stamp, that Method would not do, as fome Clothiers are honeft, and others are not. That they are allowed to ftretch One 9th Part above the natural Width, when Cloth is duly ftamped. If a Merchant fhould defign ill, and could buy a Cloth of 1 Yard 13 4 at the fame Price as he could a Cloth of 1 Yard 9, he would choofe the Cloth of 1 Yard 134; but if not, he would choofe the Cloth of 1 Yard 9. That if a Cloth be over-ftretched, it will not appear fo well as a Cloth that is not ; and a Man of Judgment may diftinguilh whether it is over-ftretched or not. Jofepb Hemmingway, a Cloth Drefler, being examined, faid, That when a Merchant buys a Piece of Cloth duly ftamped, and does not want it to be above 6 Quarters, they can take off the Seals that are marked 26 Yards in Length, and pull the Cloth 2 Yards and an Half, though there is a Penalty, if pulled above 1 Yard and an 4. That if a Piece of Cloth that is 1 Yard 6 or 7 Inches is wanted to be ftretched to 1 Yard 18 or 20 Inches, fuch Cloth, if Black, or any other tender Colour, will not ftretch without hot Water, which is ufed for that Purpoie; and that Cloth has many Times broke under his Hands in ftretching. ' That That when the Merchant wants a Piece of Cloth under Standard, he fends it to the Mill to have it milled over again without the Maker�s Knowledge, which draws it up 1 Yard and J in Length, and an Inch in Breadth ; and when he pays the Clothier for it, he abates him 3 Yards in the Length. That the Merchants can ftrctch Cloth to any Breadth with Impunity, and fome Merchants make Cloth them- felves, and have it milled to what Breadth they pleafe; that he hath known the Searcher lodge an Information againft a Merchant for Cloth of 1 Yard 10 ; and when the Merchant has appeared before a Juftice ot the Peace, he has complained of the Hardflup in not being at Liberty to make fuch Cloth as would luit his Cuftomers, which has been thought reafonable by the Juftice that he fhould be at Liberty, and therefore did not make him pay any thing. That he has known a Merchant fend his Cloths to be re-milled unknown to the Clothier, becaufe he wanted ilouter; that the Expence of re-milling is only One Shilling. Benjamin Cravfbawy a Miller, being examined, faid, That Cloth cannor be made or milled to a particular Standard Breadth. That Cloths will take more or lefs Time in milling, from 4 to 20 Hours, according to the Quality of the Cloth, and he cannot tell by 5 or 6 Hours how long a Cloth will be in milling when he puts it into the Stocks; that he can tell when Cloth is milled enough by the Feel of it. That the Reafon why he cannot mill to a particular Breadth is on Account of the Sharpnefs of the Stocks, and Wool being carded on new or old Cards; but he can�t diftinguifh by the Appearance of the Cloth, whether the Wool is carded on new or old Cards. That the Miller ftamps the Cloth himfelf, but not truly, bccaufe of the Penalty on the Clothiers, he ftamps it 1 Yard 13 |, if not above 1 Yard 9 or 10; and there is no Penalty on him, he does it to oblige the Clothiers. That there is a regular Searcher at his Mill, who comes Twice a Day, and ftays Half an Hour each Time, but feldom ftamps any Cloth. That Cloths appearing well made and of proper Materials, fufficicnt for the Standard Breadth, are frequently and unavoidably milled feveral Inches under it. That he only remembers One Information by the pre- fent Searcher, which was feveral Years fince, for a Cloth of 1 Yard 9 Inches. That the Witnefs milk fome Cloths 48 Yards long, and fometimes mills Two Cloths, each 34 Yards long, in the fame Stock, which frequently ftretches, and fome- times burfts the Stock and cuts Holes in the Cloth; and that a Cloth of 48 Yards long cannot be well milled in a Stock that has been (trained. That the Clothiers defire to have Two Cloths milled in One Stock, and if that is refilled, the Clothier will go to another Mill, and the Miller muft lofe his Bread ; though he receives no more for 2 Cloths of 34 Yards each, than he dots for a Cloth of 48 Yards. That the Witnefs�s Wages is t d. for One Stock full of Cloth, and his Mailer receives Two Shillings, which is generally the Price at all Mills. To prove the Allegations of the 2d, jth, and 6th mentioned Petitions, Mr. David L'arrer, Clothier at Leeds, being examined, faid, That when he buys Wool he cannot tell what Quantity of Cloth it will make, but when fpun into Yarn, can tell within an Inch or Two in Breadth and 1 Yard in Le ngth, in a Piece of Cloth of 60 Yards that fhould be the Standard Breadth. 1 hat the Spinning of the Yarn harder or fofter, will make a Difference of an Inch or Two ; that it is in fome meafure in the Power of the Weaver to remedy that Defeat. That foft Yarn inclines to mill fafter than hard, but the Mill-man, if he gives proper Attention, can pre vent that making any material Difference within an Inch or Two. That if Two Cloths of equal Quantity of Materials are fent to the Mill, they will, if proper Care is taken, in general come out nearly alike. That Clothiers fend a Note to the Mill-man, defcrib- ing the Length and Breadth wanted, which he frequently compleats, if he does not, it is owing to his Negleft. When a Cloth is found greafy, it is fent to the Mill to be fcowered,and is thereby made both longerand broader. That the Manufacture of Cloth is conduced by Weight till the Wool is fpun, and afterwards by Meafure. That the Merchant does not always pay for the Cloth delivered, but he never found he was abated to the Value of the Deficiency in the Breadth of the Cloth. That the Mill Searcher is not the proper Perfon to ftamp the Cloth, as it will alter by laying wet for want of Weather to dry it. That he meafures the Cloth before it is put on the Tenter as to Length and Breadth, and thinks that is the proper Time to ftamp it. That when he dries it on the Tenter, he can fet it to the Breadth and Length he intends it to be; and if he had the Power of (lamping it himfelf, he (hould have no Advantage by ftretching it. That he is not deceived as to the Produce of the Wool above a Yard in Length, or an Inch or Two in Breadth. That a Cloth is a longer or (hotter Time in milling according to the Quality of the Cloth and the Sharpnefs of the Stocks; that he has known one Cloth milled in Six Hours, and another has not been milled in lefs than 40 Hours; that Stocks are (harp when new made or new lined. That there will be that Difference in milling Cloths of equal Quality �, that if a Cloth be of a thriving Wool, it will mill quick ; but if of a poor hungry Nature, will mill flower. That it is the Maker�s Intereft to have Cloth duly (lamped, but it is not always (lamped of the Breadth the Maker requires ; that he never knew a Mill-man ftamp Cloth unfairly above Half a Yard in Length. That the Miller frequently, though he has no Orders, ftamps the Cloth 1 Yard 13 1, though not of that Breadth. That it happens fometimes that the Maker has a Cloth Three or Four Inches under Breadth, and will not have the full Breadth (lamped on it. 1�hat the Maker has the Cloth (lamped under the Standard to prevent the Searcher finding it, and lodging an Information againft him for not having it of the Standard Breadth; and he informs againft himfelf to fave Half the Penalty; that he has lain an Information againft himfelf for a Cloth of 1 Yard 10 Inches; that the oftener a Cloth is wetted, the more it lofes in Length and Breadth. That if a Cloth is meafured when it comes from the Mill, and has lain Three or Four Days or a Week without being dried, and then meafure it again, it will be both fhorter and narrower, but can�t (ay how much ; and if over-milled, will lofe both in Length and Breadth. That Cloth is always lefs in Length and Breadth when Twice milled. That the Merchants abroad know that Cloth is made in Yorkjbirc to a particular Breadth, and expeft to have it fo ; but thinks it would not be for their Advantage if Cloth was duly (tamped; though he believes all Buyers Cloth, if it is narrow, endeavour to fet it to the Standard Breadth, and that ftretching makes the Cloth worfe. That the Witnefs thinks the Trade would not be well regulated, if the Makers were at Liberty to make Cloths of fuch Breadth as their Correfpondents require. That the Benefit of the Stamp is to fecure the Credit of the Manufacture abroad. That if a Stamp was fo regulated by Act of Parliament, as to be Evidence of the real Length and Breadth of of the Cloth, and the Maker left at Liberty to make fuch Cloth as his Correfpondents require, it would not be for the Benefit of the Manufacturer, becaufe there are 4 or 5000 People concerned in the Manufactory, and the Market confifts of 4 or 5000 Cloths made at an Uncertainty ; and if there was no Standard, half of thofe Goods might probably not anfwer the Orders from abroad, by which Means the Manufacturer would have his Stock in Goods, and be unable to anfwer other Orders that might then be wanting; and he thinks the Standard regulates the Demands abroad. That he never heard there is any Standard for Cloth in Lancafnr^ nor of any Order for Cloth lefs than the Standard ; and that it there was no Standard, he would not make Cloth under the Breadth that is now uniformly wanted. That fometimes the Miller and fometimes the Searcher marks the Cloth, but the Miller moft often; arid the Miller ftatnps the Cloth according to the Clothier�s Direction. That the Clothier is difpoRd to make the Cloth of fuch Breadth as will pleafe the Merchant. That he does not know whether the M /reliant can punilh the Clothier, if he makes his Cloth under the Standard Breadth ; and the Clothier has no Remedy againft the Searcher, if he marks his Cloth wrong. That it is the Merchant�s Jntereft, if he has bad De- figns, to have the Cloth narrower than it is Ramped, becaufe he can ftretch it the more. That it is the Clothier�s Intereft to have the Cloth ftamped to the Standard Breadth whether it be or not, but if there was no Standard, the Clothier would not defire it to be ftamped falfely; and if a Stamper was appointed with a proper Salary, believes it would remedy the Evil complained of; and that the propereft Time to ftamp, would be immediately before the Cloth is put on the Tenters. That it would be more Advantage to the Clothier to have his Cloth ftamped at the Mill than at the Market, becaufe it is longer and broader than it will be afterwards. That the Clothier experts to be paid according to the Stamp after it has lain Four I lours in Water, and the Clothier has a Right to Payment by the Seal, whether right or wrong ftamped, if die Merchant does not call a Searcher in 14 Days to ineafure and re-ftamp it, after which Time the Merchant has no Remedy againft the firft Searcher. That there are more Cloths go to Leeds Market of One Yard 9 Inches than of the Standard Breadth ; and that Cloths of 1 Yard 9 Inches are fold cheaper on that Account. That it would be the Intereft of the Clothier to make fuch Cloths as are marketable. That he knows of a great many Profecutions, but cannot recollect within what Time. That he does not know whether it would be for the Benefit of the Clothiers, to try who could make the beft Cloth, if there was no Standard, it would be for the Support of the Trade, but not for a prefent Profit. That their Correfpondents abroad would chufe to have their Cloth unftretched, if they could have it of the Breadth their Markets require. 1 hat the Clothier would chufe to have the Stamp upon the Cloth, to be the Rule of Payment. That the ftretching Cloth from 1 Yard 13 | to 1 Yard 18 does not diferedit it, but ftretching from 1 Yard 9 to 1 Yard 18 does diferedit it. That the Manufacturer can impofe upon the Merchant by ftretching Cloth from 1 Yard 9 to 1 Yard 13 j, but that if the Merchant could always wet the Cloth, (which fome Clothiers will nor admit of) and he had a longer T imc allowed for fuch wetting, he could always detect the Fraud in all Colours. That a C loth of 34 Yards long and A Yard 13 ' width, VOL. XXX. Merchant deceiving Foreigners, it would be for the Credit of the Manufacture abroad, and better than the pre- fent Standard. That he generally makes by Order, and thofe don�t go to the Market, but are carried to the Merchant�s Houfe ; and that he complies with his Orders as foon as it fuits him. That it would be for the Benefit of the Clothier, to make Cloth to the Breadth the Merchants order. And that he does not think any Stamp can be put on the Cloth to be depended upon till Four Hours after the Milling, nor then with any Degree of Certainty. Henry Akeroyde, a Mill-man at Leeds, being examined, faid, That when a Cloth is fcoured he can be at a Certainty what Time it will take in Milling, by frequently pulling it out of the Stocks before it is quite milled. That he has (lamped Cloth at the Mill after it has lain 4 Hours, and when wet at the Merchant�s, he has found a Difference ; that he meafures Cloth over a Deal Pole, which ftretches it, by reafon of the Striftnefs of the Mea- furing at the Merchant�s, it will not meafure fo much as it did at the Mill; that he frequently meafures the Breadth, but not always. That he commonly puts on all one Breadth, unlefs the Clothier defires to have it (Vamped narrower. That he has had Cloths brought to the Mill, fo defective in the Materials, that if he had milled them up to the Standard, they would have been too thin and flimfey, and would not have been marketable ; and in that Cafe, he mills them Two or Three Inches under the Standard to make them faleable, which happens frequently. That he generally (lamps Cloth 1 Yard 13 Inches and *, and let it be meafured at what Time he will, it will be deficient Half a Yard in Length, and perhaps an Inch in Breadth �, but can�t fay he ever meafured a Cloth after it had lain a Week wet. That he does not think it the propereft Time to (lamp Cloth when it has lain 4 Hours wet after it is taken out of the Stock, becaufe if it is bad Weather and a thriving Cloth it will grow, and in a Week run up Half a Yard in Length and an Inch in Breadth ; and that Clothiers fometimes come to the Mill for new Stamps, though the Cloth had been (lamped, but had grown up. Mr. William Cowell, a Merchant at Leeds, being examined, faid, That he is of Opinion the Standard is of great Ufe, and abolishing of it would be of bad Confe- quence. That he never had any Order for Cloth under Standard, nor does he believe any regular Merchant ever had. That before the palling of the laft Act, the Trade was in a languifhing State, but afterwards flourifhed much. That he remembers Profecutions on that Aft, and many heavy Penalties inflifted on Millers and Clothiers. That Mill Searchers were appointed in 1741 to take off the Penalty from the Millers. That he as a Merchant has no Remedy againft the Mill Searcher for falfe (lamping. That he had too frequent Complaints from abroad, for fending Cloth under the Standard Breadth. That if the Clothiers manufacture their Goods up to the Standard Breadth they have no Occafion to ft retch it, therefore the Stretching is to deceive the Merchant. That the Cloth brought to the Market is in general too narrow for Exportation-, and therefore the Merchants are obliged to (tretch it further than they are willing, or is lawful for them to do. That it would be greatly for the Benefit of Trade to have Cloth under the Standard Breadth ; that the moll effectual Method to prevent (Iretching, is for the Maker to put a Seal when tlie Cloth is tvntercd, containing its true Length and Breadth, and would propole an Inlpec- tur, who (hould keep feveral Regifter Offices; and if the Cloth is falfe damped, the Regifter to ilamp it and leal it again, and that to be the Rule of Payment. '1 hat it would be of bad Confequeme, if the Panics weit to agree without the Infpeftor�s Knowk-ge. That it is expefted in foreign Markets, that Cloth (hould be of the Standard, though there is great Quantities of Cloth in Leeds under that Breadth; that he thinks (Fetching, as now allowed by Law, is detrimental, and that it would be better if they were allowed to (Fetch only 1 a Yard in a Score; and that the Standard Breadth (hould be 1 Yard 15 Inches. That the Merchants at prefent allow � 5. per Cent, on the Length, but he is in Hopes that they might be prevailed on to take 2 1 per Cens, as the Goods would then go fo much the honelter, and clear from ihrinking. That it would be more difficult to afeertain the Breadth without a Standard than with one, becaufe fo long as a Standard is properly fupported, all wife and capable Ma- nufafturers will endeavour to come to any Orders or any Meafure, which they find is wanted by the Merchant. That he frequently buys Goods under Standard, but has a proper Market to apply to where there is no Standard, and can have Goods of any Lengths or Breadths. That he fometimes prefers a Market without a Stan- clard to fuit a Variety of Orders, which a Market where there is a Standard would not do. That it is a Convenience to have a Market where there it no Standard, but does not go there to buy Broad Woollen Cloths. That in fome Sorts of Cloths a Market without a Standard is a Convenience. That a wife Merchant, though a clifhoneft one, would not have any Intereft in wiftung his Cloth reallv to be under Standard, and yet marked Standard to ilretch it the more, becaufe he would lofe by it in the End. That the Clothier frequently ftamps Cloth Standard Breadth, though (hort, to the Prejudice of the Buyer. That the Merchant�s Remedy is againll the Clothier, which Merchants Intereft may be, that the Clothier (hould do wrong, and the Clothier�s Intereft that the Searcher fhould do wrong. That he thinks if the Clothier could not deceive the Merchant, he would not have any Intereft in falfe (lamping, if there was no Standard. Mr. Thomas Lee, Merchant at Leeds, confirmed the Evidence of Mr. Cowell. Upon the whole Matter, your Committee came to the following Refolutions; Refolded, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That the feveral Laws now in Force, prefcribing particular Standards of Width and Length for the feveral Woollen Cloths, refpeftively made within the Wpft Riding of theCountyof/W, have been ineffectual even tothe Purpofes propofed to have been fecured by the faid Afts. Refolded, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That the F ftablifhment of the faid refpeftive Standards, by Aft of Parliament, as a Regulation of the Manufacture, has been found inconvenient, in many Refpefts pro- duftive of Frauds, and in no Degree advantageous to the Manufacture. Refolved, That it is rhe Opinion of this Committer, That the Houfe be moved for Leave to bring in a Bill for repealing fo much of the faid feveral Laws as relates to the Standard, and fubftituting other Regulations of the Cloth Trade within the Weft Riding of the County of H'ork, by proper Checques, Infpeftions, and Meaiurc- ments to be made, and Stamps to be affixed at the proper Stages of the Manufacture, for preventing the fevc- ral Frauds, for certifying the real Contents of the Cloth, and for preferring the Credit of the faid Manufacture at the foreign Market. The Two firll Refolutions of the Committee beimt feverally read a Second Time, were, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, agreed to by the Floufe. The laft Refolution of the Committee being read a Second Time; Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for repealing fo much ot the feveral Laws now in Force as prcfcribes particular Standards of Width and Length for the feveral Woollen Cloths made within the Well Rid- ing of the County of Krk; and for fubftituting other Regulations of the Cloth Trade, within the faid Weft Riding, for preventing Frauds in certifying the Contents of the Cloth, and for preferving the Credit of the faid Manufacture at the foreign Market: And that Mr. LaJ- eelles, Mr. Wlkinfon, Sir George Savile, Mr. Eozvnjhend, and the Lord Strange, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Mr. Wan! reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields and Grounds lying in the Parifh of Lencbzvtck and Norton, and the Borough of Eve/bam, in the County of Worcefier, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Parties concerned had given their Confent to the Bill, to the Satisfaction of the Committee; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto; which they had directed him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill with the Amendments, be in- groffed. Mr. Ward reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing feveral Common Fields, Common Meadows and Wafte Grounds, in the Parifh of Emload, in the County of Worcefier, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Parties concerned had given their Confent to the Bill, to the Satisfaction of the Committee (except Three Minors, who arc poflefled of no Land, but of Three Cow Commons only ; and that the whole of the Land intended to be in- cloled confifts of upwards of 27 Yard Lands; and the Perfons interefted therein are intitled to 170 Cow Commons, 83 Horfe Commons, and 605 Sheep Commons; and that no Perfon appeared before the Committee to oppofe the Bill); and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto which they had directed him to report to the Houle; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second l ime, One by One; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofled. Mr. Dowdefaellreported from theCommittee,to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open Lands and Grounds, lying in the Parifh of Bretfcrton, in the County of Worcefier, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Parties concerned had given their Confent to the Bill, to the Satisfaction of the Committee; except Richard AjLwin, poflefled of about 70 Acres of Land, and Mary Bird, who, together with her Sifter Catherine Bird, were poflefled of about 70 Acres of 1 .and; and that the faid Richard A/kwin and Mary Bird, being feverally applied to, faid, they had much rather the Inclofure fhould not be made; but that no Perfon appeared before the Committee to oppofe the Bill; and that the whole Lands to be inclofed confift of about 1200 Acres; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto; which they had directed him to report to the Houfe; and he lead the Report in his Place ; and afterwards delivered rhe Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read through- Lord George Sackville reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair, the Road leading from the Turnpike Road at Wrotham Heath, in the County of Kent, to the Turnpike Road leading from Croydon to Godfione, in the County of Surrey, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto; which they had directed him to report to the Houfe ; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofled. Mr. Cbcbnley reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing the Commons and Wafte Grounds, within the Manor of Cropton, in the County of Tcrk ; and for other Purpofes therein mentioned ; was again re-committed ; That the Committee had made feveral other Amendments to the Bill; which they had directed him to report to the Houfe; and he read rhe Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the I loufe. An ingrofled Bill to continue the Term, and enlarge the Powers, of an ACt, pafled in the 2d Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, for repairing and widening the Road from Mullens Pond, in the County of Southampton, to the Eighteen Mile Stone from the City of Salisbury, and feveral other Roads in the faid ACt mentioned ; and alfo for repairing and widening the Roads from the faid Turnpike Road to Fifty Yards beyond the Blackfmith�s Shop at Littleton; and from the faid Turnpike Road to Mr. Jenneu's Well, and to Salter's Lane at Eafi Chatterton, and from thence to Mullens Pond; and alfo a Lane called Applejhaw Lane, leading out of Eafi Cbaldcrton tn the Andover Turnpike Road; was read the Third Time. The whole Number of Meffuages, Cottages, and Tofts, about 71 ; and that all Parties concerned had been ap. prized of the Bill; and that no Perlon appeared before the Committee to oppofe the Bill ; and that ihe Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto; which they had direfted to be reported to the Houfe ; and he read the Report in his Place ; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Report was read. And feveral of the Amendments, made by the Committee to the faid Bill, being feverally read a Second Time, were, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, with feveral Amendments to One of them, agreed to by the J loufe. Refolved, That the faid Bill be re-committed. Refolved, That the faid Bill be re-committed to the Committee, to whom the fame was committed. A Bill to continue and amend an Aft, made in the 30th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled, An Aft to render more effeftual the feveral Laws now in being, for the Amendment and Prefervation of the Public Highways and Turnpike Roads of this Kingdom, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole Houfe. Refolved, That this I loufe will, upon Tuefday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the faid Bill. A Bill for dividing and inclofing Two Moors or Commons, within the Barony and Manor of Warke, and Parilh of Symondburn, in the County of Northumberland, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Ridley, General Irwin, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Willoughby, Colonel Barre, Mr. Burt, Mr. Gray, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Edmonfone, Sir William Beanchamp Pro flor, Mr. Sandys, Mr. De Grey, Lord Grey, Mr. Forrcftcr, Mr. Whichcot, Sir John Gibbons, Mr. Parker, Mr. Grofvenor, Sir William Meredith, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Wilbraham, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Gilbert, Sir Thomas Hales, Mr. Hume, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Dyfon, Mr. Butler, Mr. Whitworth, Mr.Campbell, Mr. Touchet, Mr. Weft, Mr. Onflow, Mr. Prowfe, Mr. Fairfax, Mr. Tracey, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Montagu, Mr. AJbburnham, Mr. Buller, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Millcs, Mr. Boulton-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Northumberland, Durham, Fork, Cumberland, Weftmorcland, and Lanc.ifter: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Ordered, That the Order of the Day, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the ingrofled Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Aft to difolve the Marriage of John Nixon, with Hefter Spencer, his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purpofes therein mentioned ; be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly; The Houfe refolved itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. General Irwin took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. General Irwin reported from the Committee, That they had heard Counfel, and examined Witneffes, for the Bill; and that no Counfel or Party appeared before the Committee, to oppofe the Bill; and that the Committee had direfted him to report the Bill to the Houfe, without any Amendment; and he delivered the Bill in at the Clerk�s Table. Dr. Hay, from the Commiffioners for executing the Office of L.ord High Admiral of Great Britai;:, prefented to the I loufe. purfuant to their Addrefs to His Majefty, An An Account of the Ships and Old Stores which have been fold, in the Years 1763 and 1764, and for how much they were fold. And the Title of the faid Account was read. Ordered, That the faid Account do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. The faid Account is preferved amongft the other Papers of this Seffion. A Petition of feveral of the Truftees for putting in Execution feveral Afts, palled in the Fourth and Sixth Years of King George the Firft, and in the Eleventh and Twenty-fourth Years of King George the Second, for repairing feveral Roads, from the Slones End, in Kent Street, and Bermondfey Street, Southwark, to Dartford, and to the Extent of the Parilh of Le^jbam, next Bromley and Beckenham, in the County of Kent, was offered to be prefented to the Houfe. And theQueftion being put, That the laid Petition be brought up It pafled in the Negative. A Meflage from the Lords, by Mr. Browning and Mr. Jtnguifh: Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Act for enlarging the Terms and Powers of Two Afts, of the Thirteenth of George the Firft, and of the Sixteenth of his late Majefty, for repairing feveral Roads, leading from the Town of Warminjier, in the County of Wilts; and for amending feveral other Roads near the faid Town �, and for repealing fo much of an Ait, made in the Firft Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, for repairing feveral Roads therein mentioned, in the faid County, as relates to the Road within the Town of Heytefoury, and for other Purpofes therein mentioned; without any Amendment: And alfo, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Ad for dividing and allotting the Commons or Waftes, and the Common Fields and Ings, in the Manor and Townfliip of Evcringbam, in the County of Dork ; and for other Purpofes therein mentioned} without any Amendment: And allo, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Ad for naturalizing 'John His, �John Henry Ernjl, and John Michael Platz, with fome Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords defire the Concurrence of this Houfe: And allo, The I.ords have pafled a Bill, intituled, An Ad for rebuilding the Parilh Church and Chancel of�Tilbury, in the County of GloHceJler-, to which the Lords defire the Concurrence of this I loufe. And then the Meflengers withdrew* A Motion was made, and the Queftion being put, That the other Orders of the Day be now read ; The Houfe divided. The Noes went forth. � r L v C Mr. Whitworth, 1 Tellers tor the 1 eas, ) Sr ^^ pomk . � 6;. r i XT {Mr. Peter Barrell, 7 � Tellers fortheNces,, s;r7^^^ J 82. So it pafled in the Negative. An ingrofled Bill to continue the Term, and alter and enlarge the Powers, of an Ad, palled in the I'hird Year of His prefent Majefty, for repairing, widening, turning, and keeping in Repair the Road from the Town of Cambridge to Ely, and from thence to Soldi". �, and for building a Bridge crofs the River Of/, at or near a Place called St ret bam Perry, in lite County of Cambridge-, and for repairing and widening, and making feveral oilier Roads adjoining, to the Roads directed to be repaired and widened by the faid Aft; was read the Third Time. Refolded, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Aft to continue rhe Term, and alter and enlarge the Powers, of an Aft, pafled in the Third Year of His prefent Majefty, for repairing, widening, turning, and keeping in Repair the Road from the Town of Cambridge to Ely, and from thence to Soham; and for building a Bridge crofs the River Oufc, at or near a Place called Stretham Ferry, in rhe County of Cambridge; and for repairing and widening, and making feveral other Roads adjoining to the Roads direfted to be repaired and widened by the faid Aft. Ordered, That Sir John Hynde Cotton do carry the Bill to the Lords, and delire their Concurrence. Mr. Secretary at War prefented to the Houfe, pur- fuant to their Order, An Account of Non-effeftive Money of the feveral Regiments, remaining in the Hands of the Agents, as flared by the faid Agents, and delivered by them into the Office or His Majefty�s Secretary at War. And the Title of the laid Account was read. The laid Account is as followeth; 'viz. VOL. XXX. Z z z An An ACCOUNT of the Non-efFedive Money of the feveral Regiments remaining in the Hands of the Agents, as Rated by the faid Agents, and delivered by them into the Office of His Majefty�s Secretary at War, diRip. guiffiing each Corps. �. J. d. Second Battalion of Sir Henry Erjkine's Regiment � � 369 5 7 Major General Burton's, late Howard's Regiment � � Colonel BrudenelBs, late Duroure's � � � � 4,824 *5 4 4,9�4 17 2 Major General Hodgfon's � � � � 3,440 >2 9 General Guife's � � � � � i,278 2 1 1 Lieutenant General Lord Robert Bertie's � � � 892 � 4 Lieutenant General Stanwix's, late Barrington's � � � Lieutenant General Whitmore's �' � � � *,693 14 4 2,434 15 10 Lieutenant General Bockland's � � � � 2,862 Lieutenant General Napier's �� � � * � 2�195 General Pulteney's � � � � � 272 15 6 Lieutenant General Lord George Beauclerck's � � � �,232 2 Lieutenant General Sir Jeffery Amherffs � � � 9,080 >8 8 Major General Monckton's � � � � 14 1 Lieutenant General Ktngjley's � � � � 1,084 Lieutenant General Lord Panmure's � � � 1,242 2 8 Major General Gage's � � � � � 2,327 19 3 lieutenant General Bofcawen's � � � � 756 Lieutenant General Cornwallis's � � � � 2,602 10 IO Lord George Lennox's � � � � 922 15 5 Lieutenant General Warburton's � � � � 752 16 10 Major General Lord Town/hend's � � � � L779 Lieutenant General Lord Loudoun's � � � 2 2 Late General Holmes's � � � � 75 1O 3 Major General Ougbton's � � � � 69 14 10 Lieutenant General Sir John Griff H'S � � � � *45 2,790 5 * �5 5 Colonel Pletcher's, late Otway's � � � � Lord Robert Manners's � � � � 4,33! 18 11 262 16 1 ? Lieutenant General Stuart's � � � � 2,060 18 6 Major General 9"albott's � � � � 754 Late Major General Barrington's � � � � 1,805 11 9 Major General Armiger's � � � � 584 4 5 Lord John Murray's � � � � 2,389 16 , 12,719 11 5 Lieutenant General Noel's � � � � � 1,342 12 6 Major General John Bofcawen's � � � � 1,383 1 0 Colonel Howe's, late Murray's � � � � Lieutenant General Lafcelles's � � � � Lieutenant General Webb's � � � � ' 402 6 10 6,836 11 1 1,704 4 9 5 5 Major General Grime's, late Stanwix's � �- � Major General Sir William Boothby's, late Carr's � � 1,963 2,814 >8 it Major General BrudenelPs � � � � 205 14 8 Major General Tovey's � � � � 892 1 7 Major General Parjlow's � � � � 953 10 9 Major General Keppel's � � � � 623 4 6 Sir David Cunningham's � � � � M7i 2 8 Major General AnfrutbePs � � � � 2,618 19 5 Royal American Regiment � � � � 10,783 19 6 Major General Gray's, late Elliott's � � � Major General Peirfon's, late Boothby's � � � Colonel Mackay's, late Lord Malpas's � � � Lord Adam Gorden's, late La Faufflie's � � � 2,161 12 2 5�97 1 9 1 6,015 15 � 4 567 4 6 Major General Lambert's � � � � �,425 *9 1 Major General Colvill's � � � � 992 1 6 Major General Tvapauds � � � � 83 6 9 Duke of Richmond's late Regiment � � � 822 1 J � Colonel Frederick's � � � � � 6,528 1 2 Colonel Montgomery's � � � � � Colonel Frafer's �- � � � � 1,384 2 7 396 12 q Colonel Wilmot's � � � � 12 5 Colonel Coote's � � � � � 9>�4O 1,323 I .ate Colonel Crawfurds � � � � 16 2 Colonel Keith's � � � � � 2,OlQ 12 6 2 Colonel Colonel Campbell's Late Colonel Fcrrefer's Lieutenant Colonel Barre's Colonel Bcauclerck's Major Nairn's � Lord Warkwortb's - Colonel Fitzroy's � Total � In Part whereof the following Sums have been paid back into the Office of the Pay- mafter General, and appropriated to the Public Service �, viz. Major General Burton's, late Howard's � � � 3,000 � 3,000 � 500 � 7,500 � 1,000 � 1,000 � 1,000 � 500 � 1,000 � 3,000 � 500 � 9,000 � 5,000 � 5,000 � 1,500 � 4,000 � 4,000 � ?� � 1,000 ~ L5�� � 1,000 � 5,000 � 8,000 � I,OCO Colonel Brttdenell's, late Duroure s � - Lieutenant General Napier's � � Lieutenant General Sir Jeffery Amherffs Regiment Lieutenant General Bockland's � Major General Game's � � Lieutenant General Cornwallis's �� Major General Lord Townjhend's � lieutenant General Sir John Griffn's � Colonel Fletcher's, late Otway's -^ Lieutenant General Stuart's � � Lord John Murray's � � Lieutenant General Lnfcelles's � Royal American Regiment � � Major General Gray's^ late Elliot's � Major General Peirfon's, late Boothby's � Colonel Mackay's, late Malpafs � Major General Sir William Boothby's, late Carr's Major General Anftruthcr's � Major General Lambton's Colonel Frederick's Colonel Coote's � Colonel Keith's Lieutenant General Jeffery's Regiment � � 3,1 ^4 4 4 Lieutenant General Leighton's � � 505 618 14 8 Lord Frederick Cavendijh's � . � � 19 2 Lieutenant General Abercrombie's � � 16c 16 Major General Ganfell's � � 161 3 io Major General Gray's � � � ^893 a 7 Major General Cary's � � � �*� 4,049 15 Major General Lambtons � � � 1^8/; 6 1 Major General Pctitoi's � � 2>6?7 1 Major General Irwin's � � � � 847 19 11 Major General Rufane's � � � � 1,658 4 5 Colonel Wcrge's � � � � 164 6 11 Major General Armstrong's � � � 5 SO 2 7 Colonel Grant's, late Morgan's � 232 2 Lord Blayney'S' � � � � � 726 2 10 Colonel Monckton's � � 841 la. 8 Colonel Burtons � � � Colonel Grey's � � � � 597 2,036 IO IO 3 7 Major Byng's � � *� � �45 16 4 Major Broughton's � � � � * 111 2,366 Major JohrJlon's � � � 23 Q 8 Colonel Tonyn's ?� � � Major Alderton's, late Wedderburn's � 1,500 53 475 20 1 2 8 Lieutenant Colonel OfwalLs � � l6 Major Markham's - � � � 7 Major Hamilton's � � � 408 427 *3 13 16 2 Major Maclean's � � � Major Ctazvfurd's � � � � � 552 2 4 31,201 8 6 Over Payments upon the Non-efFeflive Accounts of the following Regiments, as ftated by the Agents; viz, War Office, 19th March 176?. IF. Ellis. Z- j. d. 87? 10 1 666 �4 7 110 14 2 5�i 15 5 565 13 10 442 *5 2 653 7 9 ,9*6 14 8 >5�^ 68,000 � � 82,916 14 8 Ordered, Ordered, 1 hat the faid Account do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. The Houfe being informed, that Mr. Powell, from the Office of the Pay-mafter General of His Majefty�s Forces, attended at the Door; he was called in ; and at the Bar, prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to their Order, An Account of Monies arifing from Non-effedivcs of fundry Regiments, Independent Companies, and Regiments of Militia, for the Times within mentioned. And then he withdrew. And the Title of the faid Account was read. The faid Account is as followeth, viz. An ACCOUNT of Monies arifing from Non-effedivesof the following Regiments of Dragoons, Regiments of Foot, Independent Companies, and Regiments of Militia, for the Times under-mentioned, viz. 7,500 Lieutenant Colonel Faugbaus Ditto � Ditto to 24th December 1760 to 24th December 1761 to 24th December 1762 4- 451 1,832 4,473 9 10 13 10 6 10 Colonel Burton's � � � to 2 ^th December 1761 � L334 18 � ?' Ditto � to 24th December 1762 � 3,959 14 8 L.ieutenant Colonel Grey's � � to 24th December 1761 � 942 8 4 Ditto � ? to 24th December j 762 2,567 14 Major Byng's � � � to 24th December 1761 � 237 2 � � Ditto � to 24th December 1762 � 214 12 � Major Gor barn's � � �� to 24th December 1761 � 427 10 2 �� Ditto ��^ to 24th Dw��^r 1762 � 472 15 8 Lieutenant Colonel Stuart's � to Ditto 5�� � Major Colin Campbell's � � to Ditto � i,474 16 4 Major Redder burn's � � to Ditto 450 18 6 Lieutenant Colonel Tonyn's � � to Ditto � 342 7 � Lieutenant Colonel Barre's � � to Ditto � 828 11 Ml Major Hamilton's � � * -11 to Ditto � 165 2 * � Major Freren's � � � to Ditto � 692 7 � Received from Mr. Calcraft, being Part of the Non-effedive Subfiftence of Sir Jeffery Am- herji's Regiment of Foot � � � � � � Kefpited for Non-effedives of the following Regiments, purfuant to His Majefty�s Warrants, viz. Captain Thomas's Captain Hay's � to 24th December 1761 � 610 415 8 6 to Ditto � Captain Barbar's *� ? ?? to Ditto �-� * ?? 495 12 6 Captain Peters's � � to Ditto � ? ?? ? 49� 11 6 Captain Fletcher's � � to Ditto �� � 599 4 � Captain IFalcot's to Ditto � � 639 2 � Captain Graham's � �� to Ditto ��� �� 457 10 *�� Captain P. Gordon's �- � to Ditto *� --?? � 457 10 �� Captain Grant's � � to Ditto -�� � 457 10 � Captain Campbell's � � to Ditto ��- � 457 10 � Captain Cuthbert's � � to Ditto � � 457 10 � Captain T. Gordon's � � to Ditto � � 188 18 6 Captain StormFs �� � to �� Ditto � � 185 5 � Captain Paterfon's � � to Ditto � * * >85 5 � Captain Dodd's � � to Ditto �?? � 182 16 � Captain Cleiland's � � to Ditto * ? � ??? * 186 9 6 Captain Maxwell's � � to Ditto �� � 268 7 � Captain Parkhill's � � [0 Ditto � *- - * 548 2 �- Captain Brown's � � to Ditto ?'� � � 422 *9 **� Captain Wilkie's � �� to Ditto � � 5^8 *5 6 Captain Hunter's � � to Ditto _� � 430 12 � Refpited for Non-effedives of the following Independent Companies, purfuant to His Majefty�s Warrants, viz. Refpited for the Pay of the Non-efiedive Officers, Non-commiffioned Officers, and Private Men of the Norfolk Militia, to 24th of December 1760, purfuant to His Majefty�s Warrant � 21,368 10 10 8,654 18 � 779 4 5 5 GEO. III. Journals of the Houfe o/Commons. Refpitedfor Non-effeaives of the following Regiments of Militia, as per Warrants now in the , 1 aymafter General�s Office, viz. Btrk/bire from 25 th June � Um kingbamjhire � Brecon Battalion �- Cbefbirc Regiment � � to 24th December Ditto Ditto Ditto 1761 � 74 101 57 I � 18 6 10 � Cumberland � Carmarthen � Devonshire 2d Battalion � � Ditto Ditto Ditto � 3� *5 16 *3 8 5 � 13 8 Ditto � 3d Battalion � Denbighjhire Battalion .� � Ditto Ditto � 75 5 4 0 2 8 Effex � ift Battalion � Ditto � 2d Battalion �. Flinf/hire � Battalion � Ditto Ditto Ditto � HMM 198 358 3 0 13 6 18 � Glamorganshire Battalion � Ditto 4 0 >5 6 Q 1/untingdonShire Battalion � Ditto 1 w 212 Weft Kent � Battalion � Ditto LeicefterShire � Regiment Ditto 168 Norfolk � 1 ft Battalion � Ditto Ditto � 2d Battalion � Northumberland Battalion � SomerfetShire Regiment � � Ditto Ditto Ditto �� � 354 314 >5* 19 6 11 � 12 IO T TA Surrey � ift Battalion � � Ditto 462 132 * 5 10 Ditto � 2d Battalion � Weftmoreland Battalion � Ditto Ditto � � 5 * Hertfordshire Regiment � Suffolk* Weft Battalion � � from 25th June to 24th December Ditto � 1760 z32 215 2 13 � i 11 6 18 IQ ' Ditto, Eaft Battalion � Cleveland and Bulmar Battalion Ditto Ditto �� � 33 IOI Richmondftjire Battalion � �HMM from 25th June to 24th December 1761 161 / z 1 6 8 Sir Geo. Savile's Yorkshire Battalion � Ditto 118 16 �� Colonel Lifter's Ditto � � Ditto 120 *9 � 4 � Bedfordshire Regiment � Berkshire Regiment � � from 25th December Ditto 1761 to 24. Dec. 1762 - 162 Buckinghamshire � Ditto *� 1 6l I �� Brecon � � Cornwall �- � Cumberland � �. Devonshire 2d Battalion � � Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto HMM >03 248 2 75 "7 13 JO 4 9 5 � Ditto � 3d Battalion � Ditto J3 � Dorsetshire � � Ditto Durham � � Denbighshire �. � Ditto Ditto � � 288 48 1,2 IO *7 0 3 6 Effex, 1 ft Battalion � � Ditto 3 iy Ditto � 2d Battalion � Flintshire � � ? Ditto Ditto �� � 1,462 212 4 8 Glamorganshire � Ditto in 6 Huntingdonshire � �HMM Ditto 252 694 422 1,110 io 6 Weft Kent � � Lancaftjire � � Ditto Ditto HMM � 16 8 LeiceJlerSbire - � �MM Ditto - * 5 5 Lincolnshire* North Battalion �MM Ditto 160 4 Ditto � South Battalion Ditto 7 0 Monmouthshire - � Ditto 4*7 339 634 19 4 16 IO Norfolk* ift Battalion � ? - Ditto Ditto � 2d Battalion Ditto Northumberland � � Ditto 680 V I 16 10 Somerfetftjire � � � Ditto 1,065 Suffolk* Weft Battalion � �X Ditto 7 0 Ditto � Eaft Battalion � MM* Ditto 75 343 764 G745 526 932 >�999 3 � Surrey* ift Battalion � Ditto 11 6 18 7 Ditto � 2d Battalion � � Weftmoreland � � Ditto Ditto ~ Richmond/hire � � / Cleveland and Bulmar � � Colonel Thornton's Yorkshire Battalion Ditto Ditto Ditto 11 � 16 � Colonel Lifter's Ditto � � Ditto MB HMM 128 3 4 12 8 Rtfpited for Non-effeftives of the following Regiments, as per Warrant now in the Paymafter General�s Office viz., Burgoyne's Dragoons � � ro 2 8th May 1763 � � 12 2 16 6 Erjkine's 2d Battalion of Foot � to 24-th December � � 518 10 � Late Craufurda Regiment � � to Sth ORober. � � 521 17 6 Duroure's � � . � to 12th July � � 507 11 6 Guife's � � � to 28th October � � 359 19 6 Bertie's � � � to Ditto � � � 350 12 6 Whitmore's � � � to 19th July � � 1,111 11 � Pulteney's � � to 21^ Oblober � � 279 Amherjls � _ � to 1 oth Augujl � � � 961 4- Mcnckton's � � � to 6th November � � 583 2 � Kingjley's � � � to 2d May � � 3412 � Gage's � � � to 19th July � � 5t>5 9 � Lenox's � � to 26th April � � 11 1 � Warburton's � � � to 1 oth Augujl � � 656 2 � Lord Townjhefid's � � to Ditto � � 963 18 � Leighton's � � � to 2d May �� � 14 16 -� Cavendijh's � �� � to 19th July � � 935 5 � Otway's � � � to Ditto � � � 806 5 � Talbot's � � � to 23d December � � 650 � 6 Armiger's � � � to 1 oth Augujl � � 704 14 � Parfons's � � � to 24th June � -~ 42 14 � Lord John Murray's 1 ft Battalion � to 24th October � � 603 18 � Noel's Regiment � � to 10th Auguft � � 688 10 � Abercrombie's � �- � to *4 Augujl � � 3$ 9 � Bofcawcn's � � � to 15 September � � 133 4 � Late Murray's � � � to 10th Augujl � � 648 � � Lafcelles's � � � to 17th December � � 1,566 5 � Webb's � � � to 12th September � � 2,174 12 � Late Stanwix's � � to 24th September � � 317 �9 6 Toovey's � � � to 23th April � � 137 6 8 Parjlow's � � �'to Ditto � � 142 � 6 Ganfell's � -7* � to 24th December � � 201 6 � Keppell's � � to 27 October � � � 1,633 10 � Cunningham's � � to 8 October � � 464 16 4 Royal Americans' ift Battalion � � to 24th Augujl � � 97 12 � Ditto � 2d Battalion � � to Ditto � � 366 � � Ditto� 3d Battalion � � to 24th December � � 1,439 12 � Ditto � 4th Battalion � � to 24th Augujl � � 448 7 � Gray's Regiment � � to 10th May ~ � 90 10 -� Boothby's � � � touth}///; � � 647 16 � Carey's � � � to 3d May � � 31 5 6 Late Malpas's . � � to t^-July � � 425 � � Lambert's �� � � to Sth October � � 310 6 io Lambton's �� � � to 26th April � � n 10 � Colvill's � � � to 26 October � � 1,179 7 6 Petitol's � � � toiftyaw � � 33 5 � Duke of Richmond's � � to 29th Augujl � � 1,425 11 6 Irwin's � � � to 6th December � � 610 4 � Frederick's � � � to 24th May � � 55 10 � Rufane's � *� � to ift December � � � 1,353 >2 6 Montgomery's � � to 24th December � � 1,573 16 � Frafer's � � � to 14th December � � 836 n � Draper's *- � � to 24th December � � 1,387 Wilmot's � � � � � to Ditto � � � 8-47 18 � Lindore's � � � to 24th June � � 134 4 � Parker's *- � � to Ditto � � 167 15 � Armjb ong's ; � � � � to 6th June � � 44 1 6 Coote's � � � to 24th December � � 2,527 12 6 Craufurd's �* � � � to 24th May � � 372 Worge's -^� �* - � to 19th October � � 1*517 9 ~ Keith's � � � to 24th May � � 83 5 � Campbell's � � � to 9th May � � 41126 Morris's � � � to 24th December � � 757 7 6 Blaney's � � � to 6th June � � 43 � � 1 3S>3�7 9 Jo Refpited for Non-effeftives of the following Independent Companies, 23 per Warrant now in die Paymafter General�s Office j viz. Pay Office, Horfc Guards, 19th March 1765. ing, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the faid Bill. Mr. Pat er foil' according to Order, reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it was referred to confider further of the Supply granted to His Majefty, the Refolutions which the Committee had di- refted him to report to the Houfe; which he read in his Place -, and afterwards delivered in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the fame were read; and are as followeth; viz. Refolved' That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Sum, not exceeding Eighty thoufand Pounds, be granted to His Majefty, upon Account, for defraying the Charge of the Pay and Cloathing of the Militia for One Year, beginning the 25th Day of March 1765. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Sum, not exceeding Forty-eight thoufand One hundred Seventy-fix Pounds One Shilling and Eleven Pence Half-peny, be granted to His Majefty, to replace to the Sinking Fund the like Sum paid out of the fame, to make good the Deficiency, on the 5th Day of July 1764, of the feveral Rates and Duties upon Offices and Penfions, and upon Houfes, and upon Windows or Lights, which were made a Fund, by an Aft of the 31ft Year of the Reign of his late Majefty, for paying Annuities at the Bank of England' in refpeft of Five millions borrowed, towards the Supply granted for the Service of the Year 1758. Refolved' That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Sum, not exceeding Forty-nine thoufand Seven hundred Forty-two Pounds One Shilling and Two Pence Half-peny, be granted to His Majefty, to replace to the Sinking Fund the like Sum paid out of the fame, to make good the Deficiency, on the 1 oth Day of Oflo- ber 1764, of the feveral additional Duties upon Wines imported into this Kingdom, and certain Duties upon all Cyder and Perry, which were made a Fund, by an Aft of the Third Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, for paying Annuities in refpeft of 3,500,000/. borrowed towards the Supply granted for the Service of the Year 1763. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Sum, not exceeding One hundred Thirty-nine thoufand Three hundred Forty-two Pounds Two Shillings and Four-pence be granted to His Majefty, to replace to the Sinking Fund the like Sum iffued thereout, for paying Annuities, after the Rate of 4/. per Cent, for the Year, ended the 29th Day of September 1764, which were granted in refpeft of certain Navy, Viftualling, and Tranfport Bills, and Ordnance Debentures, delivered in and cancelled, purfuant to an Aft of the Third Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty. The faid Refolutions being feverally read a Second Time, were, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe. Mr. Paterfoti' according to Order, reported from the 3 Committee