loo Sterling Money, be charged upon every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, on which (hall be ingrofled, written, or printed, any fuch Original Grant, or any fuch Deed, Mefne Conveyance, or other Inftrument whatfoever, by which any Quantity of Land, above Two Hundred, and not exceeding Three Hundred and Twenty' Acres, (hall be granted, conveyed, or afligned, and in Proportion for every fuch Grant, Deed, Mefne Conveyance, or other Inftrument, granting, conveying, or aligning, every other Three hundred and Twenty Acres, within fuch Colonies, Plantations, and Iflands. Rejoined, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty of Three Shillings, Sterling Money, be charged upon every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, on which fhall be ingrofled, written or printed, any fuch Original Grant, or any fuch Deed, Mefne Conveyance, or other Inftrument whatfoever, by which any Quantity of Land, not exceeding One hundred Acres, {hall be granted, conveyed, or afligned, within all other Parts of the Bri- lijh Dominions in America. Refolded' That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty of Four Shillings, Sterling Money, be charged upon every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, on which fhall be ingrofled, written, or printed, any fuch Original Grant, or any fuch Deed, Mefne Conveyance, or other Inftrument whatfoever, by which any Quantity of Land, above One hundred, and not exceeding Two hundred Acres, fhall be granted, conveyed, or afligned, within the fame Parts of the faid Dominions. Rejoined, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty of Five Shillings, Sterling Money, be charged upon every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, on which fhall be ingrofled, written, or printed, any fuch Original Grant, or any fuch Deed, Mefne Conveyance, or other Inftrument whatfoever, whereby any Quantity of Land, above Two hundred, and not exceeding Three hundred and Twenty Acres, fhall be granted, conveyed, or af- figned, and in Proportion for every fuch Grant, Deed, Mefne Conveyance, or other Inftrument, granting, conveying, or affigning, every other Three hundred and Twenty Acres, within the fame Parts of the faid Dominions. Rejoined, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty of Four Pounds, Sterling Monty, be charged upon every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, on which (hall be ingrofled, written, or printed, any Grant, Appointment, or Admiflion, of or to any Public Beneficial Office or Employment, not before mentioned to be charged, above the Value of Twenty Pounds per Annum, Sterling Money, in Salary, Fees, and Perquifites, or any Exemplification of the fame, within the Britijh Colonies and Plantations upon the Continent of America, the Iflands belonging thereto, and the Bermuda and Bahama Iflands, except Commiflions of Officers of the Army, Navy, Ordnance, or Militia, and of Juftices of the Peace. Refolded, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty of Six Pounds, Sterling Money, be charged upon every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, on which fhall be ingrofled, written, or printed, any fuch Grant, Appointment, or Admiflion, of or to any fuch Public Beneficial Office or Employment, or any Exemplification of the fame, within all other Parts of the Britijh Dominions in America. Rejoiced, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty of Two Shillings and Sixpence, Sterling Money, be charged upon every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, on which fhall be ingrofled, written, or printed, any Indenture, Leafe, Conveyance, Contraft, Stipulation, Bill of 4.1765. Sale. Charter Party, Proteft, Articles of Apprenticefhip, or Covenant (except for the Hire of Servants not Apprentices, and alfo except fuch other Matters as are before mentioned to be charged), within the Britijh Colonies and Plantations in America. Rejoined, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty of Five Shillings, Sterling Money, be charged upon every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, on which any Warrant or Order for Auditing any Public Accounts, Beneficial Warrant, Order, Grant or Certificate under any Public Seal, or under the Seal or Sign Manual of any Governor, Proprietor, or Public Officer, alone, or in Conjunftion with any other Perfon or Perfons, or with any Council, or any Council and Aflembly, not before mentioned to be charged, or any Pafs-port, or Let-pafs, Surrender of Office, or Policy of Aflurance, (hall be ingrofled, written, or printed, within the faid Colonies and Plantations, except Warrants or Orders for the Service of the Navy, Army, Ordnance, or Militia, and Grants of Offices under Twenty Pounds per Annum, in Salary, Fees, and Perquifites. Rejoined, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty of Two Shillings and Three Pence, Sterling Money, be charged upon every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, on which (hall be ingrofled, written, or printed, any Notarial Aft, Bond, Deed, Letter of Attorney, Procuration, Mortgage, Releafe, or other Obligatory Inftru- ments, not before mentioned to be charged, within the laid Colonies and Plantations. Refolded, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty of Three Pence, Sterling Money, be charged upon every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, on which (hall be ingrofled, written, or printed, any Regifter, Entry, or Inrollment, of any Grant, Deed, or other Inftrument whatfoever, before mentioned to be charged, within the faid Colonies and Plantations. Rejoined, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty of Two Shillings, Sterling Money, be charged upon every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, on which fhall be ingrofled, written, or printed, any Regifter, Entry, or Inrollment, of any Grant, Deed, or other Inftrument whatfoever, not before mentioned to be charged, within the faid Colonies and Plantations. Rejoined, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty of One Shilling, Sterling Money, be charged upon every Pack of Playing Cards, which (hall be fold or ufed within the faid Colonies and Plantations. Rejoined, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty of Ten Shillings, Sterling Morey, be charged upon every Pair of Dice, which (hall be fold or ufed within the faid Colonies and Plantations. Rejoined, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty of One Halfpeny, Sterling Money, be charged upon every Paper, commonly called a Pamphlet, and upon every News Paper, containing Public News, Intelligence, or Occurrences, contained in Half a Sheet, or any lefler Piece of Paper, which fhall be printed within the faid Colonies and Plantations, to be difperfed and made public. Rejoined, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty of One Peny, Sterling Money, be charged upon every fuch Pamphlet and Paper, being larger than Half a Sheer, and not exceeding One Whole Sheet. Rejoined, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That there be charged, upon every Pamphlet and Paper, being larger than One Whole Sheet, and not exceeding Six Sheets in ORano, or in a lefler Page, or not exceeding Twelve Sheets in Quarto, or Twenty Sheets in Folio, which fhall be printed in the faid Colonics and Plantations, tions, a Duty, after the Rate of Two Shillings, Sterling Money, for every Sheet of any kind of Paper, which ihall be contained in One printed Copy thereof. Refolded, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Duty of Two Shillings, Sterling Money, be charged upon every Advertifement, to be contained in any Gazette, News Paper, or other Paper, or any Pamphlet, which Ihall be printed in the faid Colonies and Plantations. Refolded, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty of Two Pence, Sterling Money, be charged upon every Almanack, or Calendar, for any One particular Year, or for any Time lefs than a Year, which (hall be written or printed on One Side only of any One Sheet, Skin, or Piece of Paper, Parchment, or Vellum, within the faid Colonies and Plantations. Refolded, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty of Four Pence, Sterling Money, be charged upon every other Almanack, or Calendar, for any One particular Year, which Ihall be written, or pi inted, within the faid Colonies and Plantations. Revived, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That, for every Almanack or Calendar, written, or printed, within the faid Colonies and Plantations, to ferve for feveral Years, the faid refpe&ive Duties be charged for every fuch Year. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Duty, after the Rate of Six Pence, Sterling Money, be charged upon every Twenty Shillings, in any Sum not exceeding Fifty Pounds of like Money, which Ihall be given, paid, contracted, or agreed for, with, or in relation to, any Clerk or Apprentice, which Ihall be put or placed to or with any Matter or Miftrefs, to learn any Profelfion, Trade, or Employment, within the laid Colonies and Plantations. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Duty, after the Rate of One Shilling, Sterling Money, be charged upon every Twenty Shillings, in any Sum exceeding Fifty Pounds of like Money, which Ihall be given, paid, contracted, or agreed for, with, or in relation to, any fuch Clerk or Apprentice. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That every Skin, or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, on which any Inftrument, Proceeding, or other Matter or Thing aforefaid, Ihall be ingrofled, written, or printed, within the faid Colonies and Plantations, in any other than the Englifh Language, be charged with a Stamp Duty of double the Amount of the refpe&ive Duties before mentioned to be charged thereon. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That the Produce of all the faid Duties be paid into the Receipt of His Majefty�s Exchequer; and there referved, to be, from Time to Time, difpofed of by Parliament, towards further defraying the neceflary Expences of defending, protecting, and fecuring, the faid Colonies and Plantations. 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 be brought in, upon the faid Refolutions : And that Mr. Hunter, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Lord North, Sir John Turner, Mr. Harris of Chrijl Church, Mr. Attorney General, Mr. Solicitor General, Mr. Jenkinfon, and Mr. Whately, do prepare, and bring in, the lame. The other Orders of the Day being read �, Ordered, That the Bill for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor, within that Part of Great Britain called England, be read a Second Time To-morrow Morning. Refolded, That this Houfe will, To-morrow, at Twelve of the Clock, le.blve kfelf into a Committee VOL. XXX. Broadjhard, in the faid Parifh of Crewkerne, through the Parifh of Merriot, to Lopenhead, within the Parifh of Lopen, in the faid County of Somerfet �, was pre- fented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth. That the Roads aforefaid are in a very ruinous Condition, and, in feveral Places, very narrow and incommodious, and cannot be effeftually amended by the ordinary Courfe of Law: And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for repairing, widening, and amending the Roads aforefaid, by fuch Means, and 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 fhall appear to them, to the Houfe : And it is referred to Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Lord Strange, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Bull, Mr. Buller, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Thomas Gore, Mr. Parker, Mr. Fonnereau, Sir Robert Long, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Waller, Mr. Wood, Lord Pollington, Mr. Paterfen, Mr. Townfend, Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. De Grey, Mr. Fairfax, Sir Thomas Palmer, Mr. Sandys, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Egerton, Mr. Glover, Sir Charles Hardy, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Drax, Mr. Bagot, Sir John Evelyn, Mr. Onflow, Mr. Scudamore, Sir Walter Blacket, Mr. Long, Mr. Butler, Lord Grey, Mr. Grey, Mr. Clive, Sir Jarrit Smith, Lord Ferney-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Somerfet, Doifet, Devon, and Cornwall: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in' the Speaker�s Chamber; and have Power to fend for Per- fons, Papers, and Records. A Petition of William Thornton Efquire, and others, whofe Names arc thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That there are, within the Townihip of Kirkhammerton, in the Parifh of Kirkhammerton, and County of Fork, feveral Open and Uninclofed Arable Fields, called The Eaji Field, Weft Field, North Field, and South Field, or Little Field', and alfo a Common Stinted Pafture, called, The Low Moor, which, in their prefent Situation, cannot be fo much improved, or occupied to fuch Advantage as they might be, if the fame were divided and indofed, and fpecific Parts thereof allotted to the Petitioners and others intcrefted therein: And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for dividing and inclofing the faid Fields, Lands, and Grounds, in fuch Manner as to the Houfe fhall feem meet. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, purfuant to the Prayer of the faid Petition : And that Sir Anthony Abdy, Mr. Kynafton, and Mr. Wilkinfon, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Bill for repairing and widening the Road from Dunham Ferry, to the South End of Great Markham Common, in the County of Nottingham, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Willoughby, Mr. Norris, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Glover, Mr. Buller, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Bull, Mr. Gore, Mr. /Food, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Pitt, Mr. Harris, Mr. Barrow, Sir Charles Mo"daunt, Mr. Mawbw, Sir Alexander Grant, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Webb, Lord Frederick Campbell, Captain Ourry, Mr. Dyfon, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Edmonftone, Lord Brownlow Bertie, Mr. Rfhout, Mr. Sergifon, Mr. Hewett, Sir Roger Nvedigate, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Waller, Mr. Drax, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Fornereau, Mr. Plumptre, Sit Robert Long, Mr. Long, Mr. Tozonjhend, Sir John Glynne-, and all the Members whofervefor the Counties of Nottingham, Lincoln, Derby, Fork, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, Wcftmoreland, and Lane aft er. And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. An ingrofled Bill for punifhing Mutiny and Defertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs : And that the Title be. An Aft for punifhing Mutiny and Delertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. Ordered, That Mr. Thomas Gore do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. Mr. Lafcelles reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Merchants, Freeholders, Tradcfmen, Farmers, and others, Inhabitants and Owners of Landsand Premifes in or near the Road leading from Leeds to Huddersfield, in the Welt Riding of the County of Fork, was referred, That the Committee had examined the Matter of the faid Petition ; and had direfted him to report the lame, as ir appeared to them, to the Houfe ; and he read the Report in his Place-, and afterwards delivered ir 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 Battie being examined, faid, That die Road from the Sign of the Coach and Horfcs in Burftal, to the Turnpike Road at Nunbrook-, and from a certain Place in Bradley Lane, where die Turnpike Road leading to El- land, and the Road leading to Huddersfield meet, to the Town of Huddersfield; is in a niinous Condition, and, in many Places, very narrow and incommodious, and cannot be repaired and widened by the prefent Method prefcribed by Law. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for amending and widening the Road from the Sign of the Coach and Horfes in Burftal, to the Turnpike Road at Nunbrock ; and from Bradley Lane to the Town of Huddersfield-, in the Weft Riding of the County of Fork: And that Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. Kynafton, and Sir Lionel Pilkington, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Mr. Whitworth reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of feveral of the Juftices of the Peace, Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of Kent, was referred, That the Committee had examined the blatter 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 followedi; viz. To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition, Mr. William Ruffell faid, That he knows the Road from die Town of Tonbridge, in the County of Kent, to the Village of Mercworth, and from thence to Adaidfione, in the laid County ; and that the fame is in a very ruinous Condition, and cannot be repaired by the ordinary Courfe of Law, but if repaired, would be of Public Utility. A Member prefent confirmed the above Evidence. Ordered, That Leave t>e given to bring in a Bill for repairing and widening the Road from Tonbridge to Maidftone, in the County of Kent: And that Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Fairfax, and Sir Brook Bridges, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Mr. Willoughby prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open Common Fields and Meadows, Common Paftures, and other Commonable Lands, lying within the Parifh of Lcwd- ham, in the County of Nottingham : And the fame was received; and read the firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Sir Robert Long reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for the more eafy and fpeedy Recovery of 2 fmail fmall Debts within the Hundreds of Chippenham, Caine, and Damerbam North, and Lordflup of Ccrjham, in the County of Wilts, 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 to One of them, agreed to by the Houle. Ordered^ That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofied. Mr. Hewett reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of feveral of the Gentlemen, Freeholders, and other Inhabitants, of the Counties of Fork and Nottingham, was referred, That the Committee had examined the Matter of the laid Petition ; and had di- refted 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. William Robinfon being examined, faid. That the Road from Balby Pinfold, through the Towns of Balby Lover- fal, Wadworth, Pickbill, Alecoats, and Carlton, to Workfop, in the County of Nottingham, is in a ruinous Condition, and very dangerous to Travellers, and, in many Places, deep and narrow, and cannot be repaired and widened by the Laws in being. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for amending the Road from the Pinfold in Balby, in the County of Fork, to Workfop, in the County of Nottingham : And that Mr. Hewett, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Laf- celles, and Mr. Willoughby, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. An ingrofied Bill for repairing and widening the Road leading from the Town of Wadhutfl, in the County of Stiffen, to the Turnpike Road at Lamberhurft Pound and Pullens Hill, in the County of Kent, and from the Top of Pullen's Hill, through the Parishes of Horfemonden, Marden, Falden, and Weft Farley, to Weft Farley Street, in the faid County of Kent, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs : And that the Title be, An Act for repairing and widening the Road leading from rhe Town of Wadhurft, in the County of Suf- fex, to the Turnpike Road at Lamberhurft Pound and Pullen's Hill, in the County of Kent, and from the Top of Pullen's Hill, through the Parilhes of Horfmon- den, Marden, Talden, and Weft Farley, to Weft Farley Street, in the faid County of Kent. Ordered, That Mr. Fairfax do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defirc their Concurrence. A Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and other Inhabitants, of the County of Lincoln, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Roads leading from Alford, by Miles Crofs Hill, through Uiceby Weft Field, and the I .ane between Dex- tborpe and Langton, and through the Towns of Dally, Partncy, Spilfly, Baft Keale, Weft Keak, Stickfcrd, Stickney, and Sibfey, to Bofton, and from thence to Cowbridge, near Bofion aforefaid, arc, in divers Places, very deep and ruinous, and in others very narrow and incommodious, and cannot be amended, widened, and kept in Repair, by the ordinary Courfe of Law : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill fur amending, widening, and Keeping in Re- 103 pair, the laid Roads, 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 Hull appear to them, to the Houfe : And it is referred to Lord Brownlow Bertie, Sir Roger Newdigate, Mr. Wood, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Pa- terfon, Mr. Edmonftone, Mr. Lafcelles, Lord Frederick Campbell, Mr. Glover, Mr. Townjbend, Mr. Whichcot, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Mawbey, Mr. Foley, Mr. Drax, Sir Robert Long, Mr. Pitt, Mr. Stephens, Lord Catberlough, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Rufhout, Mr. Dodd, Sir Thomas Cave, Sir Thomas Palmer, Mr. Wtlfon, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Sbijfner, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Fonnereau, Mr. Long, Lord Coleraine, Lord Charles Spencer, Mr. fenyns, Mr. Jennings, Mr. Clayton, Mr. Fairfax, Mr. De Grey, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Lowndes, Lord Grey ; 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 ; and have Power to lend for Perfons, Papers, and Records. A Petition of feveral of the Truftees for putting into Execution an Aft, palled in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty, for repairing and widening the Roads leading from Spalding High Bridge, through Little- wonb, and by Frognall, and over James Deeping Stone Bridge, in the County of Lincoln, to Maxey Outgang, in the County of Northampton, adjoining the High Road there, whole Names are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners have proceeded in the F xecution of the faid Ack, and have borrowed a confiderable Sum of Money upon the Credit thereof, which has been duly applied in repairing and widening the faid Roads ; but find the faid Roads cannot be effectually repaired and widened, and the faid Money borrowed be repaid, unlefs the Term granted by the faid Ad is further continued, the Tolls increaicd, and the Powers thereof are altered and enlarged : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill to continue the Term, and enlarge the Powers of the faid Ad, in fuch Manner, and by fuch Means, as to the Houfe 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 rhe fame, as it (hall appear to them, to the Houfe: And it is referred to Lord Brownlow Bertie, Lord Harry Powlet, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Waller, Mr. Whichcot, Mr. Glover, Lord North, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Fairfax, Sir Walter Blacket, Mr. Gore, Mr. Harvey, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Crawfurd, Sir Robert Long, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Stephens, Mr. Clive, Mr. Gilbert,Lord Coleraine, Mr. Rtfbout, Mr. Burt, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Luttrell, Mr. Coventry, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Dowdefwell, Mr. Fane, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Barrow, Mr. Parker, Mr. Sbijfner, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Norris, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Edmonftone, Lord Ferney,Mr. Tow�jhend,Mr. Shaftoe, Sir Thomas Palmer, Mr. De Grey, Mr. Bagot', and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Lincoln, Nottingham, Fork, Northampton, Cambridge, and Norfolk: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber; and have Power to lend lor Perfons, Papers, and Records. An ingrofied Bill for the moreeafy and fpeedy Recovery of fmall Debts within the Hundreds of Blackbeath, of Bromley and Beckenham, of Rokefty, otherwife Ruxley, and of Little and Lffnefs, in rhe County of Kent, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs : And that the Title be, An Aft for the more cafy and fpeedy Recovery of fmall fmall Debts within the Hundreds of Blaekbeath, of Bromley and Beckenham, of Rokefy, otherwife Ruxley, and of Little and Leffrefs, in the County of Kent. Ordered, That Mr. Fairfax do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. The Houfe was moved, that the Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and principal Inhabitants of the Towns and Parifhes of Newton Bufhell, Newton Abbott, Eaft Teingmotilh, Weft Tcingmoutb, Woolborough, Combintinbead, Stokeintinbead, Saint Nicholas, Coffinfwell, Haccombe, Saint Mary Church, Tormobam, Abbot/kerfwell, Kingfkerfwell, and Cockington in the County of Devon, which was prefented to the Houfe upon the 1J th Day of January laft; and alfo the Report which was Yefterday made from the Committee, to whom the faid Petition was referred; might be again read. And the fame being read accordingly; Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in 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 Torkey, in the County of Devon: And that Sir Robert Long, the Lord Strange, Sir George Tonge, and Mr. Parker, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Nope Weir have Leave to go to the Bath, for the Recovery of his Health. Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do iflue his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ for the Electing of a Burgel�s to ferve in this prefent Parliament for the Borough of Brackley, in the County of Northampton, in the room of Marjbe Dickinfon Efquire, deceafed. Dr. Hay, from the Commiflioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to the Directions of an Aft of Parliament, ? A Paper, intituled, � Extraft of a Letter from Cap- � tain Clevland, Commander of His Majefty�s Ship the ^ Phanix, to Mr. Stephens, dated at Spi/bead, the 13th *� Augud 1764., inclofing his Report of the State and ** Condition of Forts and Settlements on the Coaft of ** Africa, in the Pofieffion of the Royal African Com- *� pany :� And alfo, An Account of the State and Condition of Forts, &c. on the Coaft of Africa : And alfo, A Paper, intituled, � Governor Barnes's Return of t{ the Garifon of Senegal, November 4th, 1762:� And alfo, Copy of a Letter from Captain George Vandeput, late Commander of His Majefty�s Sloop the Goree, to Mr. Stephens, dated 13th September 1764, containing his Report of the State and Condition of the Fort at Senegal: Together with a Schedule of the faid Papers. And the Titles of the faid Papers were read. Ordered, That the faid Papers do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of rhe Houfe. The faid Papers are preferred amongft the other Papers of this Seffion. An ingrofled Bill for the Regulation of His Majefty�s Marine Forces, while on Shore, was read rhe Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Aft for the Regulation of His Majefty�s Marine Forces, while on Shore. Ordered, That Mr. Stephens do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to tcfolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon rhe Bill to prohibit the Exportation of Wheat, Wheatcn Meal, Flour, Bread, Bifcuit, and Starch, for a Time to be limited; Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the faid Committee, that they have Power to extend the Provifions of the Bill to Ireland. Then the Houfe refolved itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Sir Robert Ladbroke took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Sir Robert Ladbroke 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 pleafe to receive the fame. Ordered, That the Report be received upon Monday Morning next. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of rhe whole 1 loufe, to confider further of Ways and Means for raifing the Supply granted to I lis Majefty ; Refolved, That this 1 loufe will, upon Mond.y Morning next, reiolve itfelf into the laid 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 ; Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Monday Morning next, refolve itfelf into the laid Committee. The Bill for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor, within that Part of Great Britain called England, was, according to Order, read a Second Time. Refolved, Thar the Bill be committed. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole Houfe. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Fhurfday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the faid Bill. Ordered, That Sir John Glynne have Leave to make a Motion, it being after Three of the Clock. And he moved the Houfe accordingly. And an Aft made in the 26th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled, An Aft for the better preventing of Clandeftinc Marriages, was read. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, to repeal an Aft pafied in the Twcnty-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: And that Sir ''John Glynne, Mr. Hanbury, Mr. Wilbraham, Mr. Fazakerly, and Mr. Eliab Harvey, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. The Houfe being informed, that Mr. Tomkyns, from the Commiflioners of the Cuftoms, attended ar the Door; he was called in; and, at the Bar, prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to their Orders, An Account of the Quantity of Wool, Woollen and Bay Yarn, imported from Ireland into England, from Midjttmmer 1750 to Midfummer 1764; what Quantity each Year; and alfo the Ports from and to which the fame was exported and imported : And alfo, An Account of the Quantity of Raw and Thrown Silk imported into England, from Chriftmas 1750 to Cbriftmas � to afeertain and enforce uniform and certain Standards ** of Weights and Meafures to be ufed for the future, � that all the Statutes relating thereto fhould be reduced � into One Act of Parliament �, and all the faid Statutes � now in being, fubfequent to the Great Charter, rc- ** pealed.� � Refolved, That the Diftance between the Two � Points in the Gold Studs in the Brafs Rod, defcribed � in this Report, and delivered herewith, ought to be � the Length called a Yard ; and the Inftrument, alto � herewith delivered, adjufted to the fame Length, � ought to be preferved, and ufed for fizing Meafures � of Length, at the Exchequer ; and that One Third � Part of the faid Length, called the Yard, fhould be � a Foot, and the Twelfth Part of that Third, or Foot, � deemed One Inch.� � Refolved, That all Meafures of Length whatfoever � fhould be taken in Parts, Multiples, or certain Pro- � portions, of the faid Standard Yard.� � Refolved, That Meafures, called Meafures of Ca- � pacity, fhould be afeertained, according to the Num- � ber of cubical Inches therein contained.� � Refolved, 7 hat all Meafures of the fame Denomi- � nation, whether of Liquids, or of dry Goods, ought � to contain the fame Number of cubical Inches �, and � that the Gallon ought to contain 282 fuch Inches, � and the Quart One Fourth of the Gallon, and the � Pint One Half of the Quart.� � Refolved, That the Bufhcl ought to contain Eight of ** the faid Gallons, and the Quarter Eight fuch Bulhels; � and all other Meafures, called Meafures of Capacity, � ought to be taken in Parts, Multiples, or propor- � tional Parts, of the faid Gallon.� � Refolved, That all Goods, meafured by any of the � faid Meafures of Capacity, fhould not be heaped, but � ftricken, with a round Strike of the fame Diameter � from one End to the other.� � Refolved, That the Standard of Weight ought to � be the Pound herewith delivered, defcribed in this � Report, and made upon the Examination and Review � of the feveral prefent Standard Troy Weights there- � in mentioned ; and that the Twelfth Part of the faid � Pound fhould be an Ounce, the Twentieth Part of � fuch Ounce a Penyweight, and the Twenty-fourth � Part of fuch Penyweight a Grain.� � Refolved, That all other Weights fhould be taken � from Parts, Multiples, or certain Proportions of the � faid Standard Pound.� � Refolved, That all Contracis, Bargains, Sales, and � Dealings, ought to be taken, and adjudged to be, � according to the Standards aforefaid �, and that no � Perfon fhould recover the Price of Goods fold, or � the Goods themfelves, or any Damages on Account � of any Contracts, Bargains, Sales, or Dealings, but � according to the faid Standards.� � Refolved, That it ought to be made penal for any � Perfon to have in his Poflefiion any Meafure, or � Weight, that is not agreeable to the aforefaid Stand- � ards. * � Refolved, That it ought to be made highly penal �� for any Perfon to make or fell any Meafure, or � Weight, that is not agreeable to the aforefaid Stand- � ards.� � Refolved, That, for the enforcing an Uniformity � in the Weights and Meafures to be ufed for the � future, no Perfon ought to be permitted to make � Weights or Meafures without having firft obtained � a proper Licence for that Purpofe, upon the Payment � of a certain Sum. � Refolved, That all Meafures, called Meafures of � Capacity, to be hereafter made, ought to be marked �� with the Name of the Maker; and, after a proper - � Examination of the Meafure, the fame to be itampt � with the initial Letters of the Name of the Perfon � who has examined it.�* E c 44 point certain Perlons at one particular Office, with 44 Clerks and Workmen under them, for the Purpofe 44 only of fizing and adjufting, for the Ufe of the Sub- 44 jefts, all Meafures of Length, and all Weights, be* 44 ing Parts, Multiples, or certain Proportions, of the 44 Standards to be ufed for the future.� 45 Rejoined, That a Model or Pattern of the faid 44 Standard Yard mentioned in the 2d Refolution of 44 the former Committee agreed to by the Houfe 2d 44 June 1758, and now in Cuftody of the Clerk of the 44 Houfe, and a Model or Pattern of the Standard Pound, 44 mentioned in the 8th Refolution of the former Com- 44 mittee, agreed to by the Houfe 2d June 1758,'toge- 44 ther with Models or Patterns of the Parts of the laid 44 Pound now prefented to the Houfe; and allo of the 44 Multiples of the faid Pound mentioned in this Re- 44 port, when the fame are adjufted, Ihould be kept 44 in the faid Office, in Cuftody of the faid Perfons to 44 be appointed for fizing Weights and Meafures, under 44 the Seal of the Chief Baron of the Court of Exche- 44 quer for' the Time being, to be opened only by Or- 44 der of the faid Chief Baron, in his Prefence, or the 44 Prefence of One of the Barons of the Exchequer, 44 on the Application of the faid Perlons, for the Pur- 44 pole of correcting and adjufting, as Occafion Ihall 44 require, the Patterns or Models uled at the faid Of- 44 fice, for fizing Meafures of Length or Weight de- 44 livered out to the Subjcfts.� 44 Rejoined, '1 hat Models or Patterns of the laid 44 Standard Yard and Standard Pound aforefaid, and 44 allo Models or Patterns of the Parts and Multiples 44 aforefaid of the faid Pound, Ihould be lodged in the 44 faid Office for the lizing of fuch Meafures of Length 44 or Weights, as, being Parts, Multiples, or Propor- 44 tions of the faid Standards, ihall hereafter be required 44 by any of his Majefty�s Subjects.� 44 Rejoined, That all Meafures of Length and Weights, 44 fized at the faid Office, Ihould be marked, in ibme 44 convenient Parc thereof, with fuch Marks as Ihall be 44 thought expedient, to Ihew the Identity of the Mea- 44 fures and Weights fized at the faid Office, and to dif- 44 cover any Frauds that may be committed therein.� 44 Rejoined, That the faid Office Ihould be kept within 44 a convenient Diftance of the Court of Exchequer at 44 We/lminjier; and that all Meafures of Length and * Weights, within a certain Diftance of London, Ihall 44 be correfted and reaffized, as Occafion Ihall require, 44 at the laid Office. 44 Rejoined, I hat in order to enforce Uniformity in 44 Weights and Meafures to be ufed for the future, all � Perfons appointed by the Crown to aft as Juftices of 44 the Peace in any County, or City, or Town Corpo- � rate, being refpeftively Counties within themfclves, 44 throughout the Realm, Ihould be impowered to hear 44 and determine, and put the Law in Execution, in 44 refpeft to Weights and Meafures only, without any 44 of them being obliged to fue out � Dedimus, or to 44 aft in any other Matter ; and the faid Commiffioners 44 Ihould be impowered to fine and imprifon, and to 44 inflift or mitigate fuch Penalties, as Ihall be thought 44 proper, and have fuch other Authorities as Ihall be 44 neceflary, for compelling the Ufe of Weights and 44 Meafures, agreeable to the aforefaid Standards.� �44 Rejoined, That Models or Patterns of the faid' 44 Standard Yard and Pound, and of the Parts and Mul- 44 tiples thereof before mentioned, Ihould be diftributed 44 in each County in fuch Manner as to be readily ufed 44 for Evidence in all Cafes, whereMeafures and Weights 44 Ihall be queftioned before the faid Commiffioners, and 44 for adjufting the fame in a proper Manner.� Ordered, that the faid Refolutions be referred to the Confideration of a Committee of the whole Houfe. Rejoined, That this Houfe will, upon Wednejday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houle, to confider of the faid Refolutions. A Mef- A Meffage from the Lords, by Mr. Edwards and Mr. Montagu : Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled. An Aft for granting an Aid to His Majefty by a Land Tax, to be raifed in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year One thoufand Seven hundred and Sixty-five, without any Amendment: And allo, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for naturalizing Cbriftian James Strackboven, without any Amendment: And allo, The Lords have paffcd a Bill, intituled. An Aft for annexing the Reftory of Coltrne, in the County at Wilts, to the Office of Warden of the College of Saint Mary of Wincbejler, in Oxford; to which the Lords defire the Concurrence of this Houle. And then the Meffengers withdrew. And then the Houfe adjourned till Monday Morning next, Nine of the Clock. Luna?) 110 die Februarii; Anno 50 Georgii IIP� Regis, 1765. P R AYERS. M R. Frederick Montagu prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and in- clofing the Common Fields, and Common Grounds, in the Manor and Parifh of Denford, in the County of Northampton: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Robert Long, Sir Alexander Grant, Lord Burgher/h, Mr. Forrejier, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Glover, Sir Simeon Stuart, Mr. Barrow, Mr. Kynajlon, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Montagu, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Lane, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Dempjler, Mr. Long, Mr. Fonnereau ; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Fork, Lincoln, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, Wefmor eland, and Lancafter: And they ate to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber; and have Power to fend for Perlons, Papers, and Records. An ingroffcd Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Aft for annexing the Reftory of Colerne, in the County of Wilts, to the Office of Warden of the College of Saint Mary of Wincbefter, in Oxf'.rd, was read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Bill for continuing and rendering more effeftual Two Afts, paffed in the 12th Year of King George rhe Firft and the 20th of his late Majefty, for repairing the feveral Roads therein mentioned, in the Counties of Effex and Suffolk, and for repairing and widening feveral other Roads, in the laid County of Effex, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Sir William Maynard, Mr. Blackflone, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Glover, Mr. Gray, Mr. Lane, Mr Burt, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Major, Mr. Sandys, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. BiudeneU, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Onflow, Mr. Paterfon, Mr. Coventry, Sir William Meredith, Mr. Dempjler, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Fonnereau, Sir Thomas Palmer, Sir Simeon Stuart, Sir Walter Bagot, Sir Charles Keny/s Tynte, Mr. Plumptre, Sir Thomas Pym Hales, Mr. Shuttleworth, Mr. Barrow, Lord Burgberjh, Mr. Meyrick, Mr. Long, Mr. Fane, Mr. Dyfon, Sir .Alexander Grant, Mr. Rafhleigb, Mr. Willa ugh by,Mr. Luther, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Rebow, Mr. Henniker, Mr. Bullock, General Honeywood, Sir Anthony Abdy, Mr. Gafcoyne, Mr. Bertie, General Douglas, Mr. Aufrere, Mr. Anthony Bacon, Mr. Kynaflon �, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Effex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge, and Hertford: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Petition of the Reverend William Cant, Lord of the Manor of Harifforne, in the County of Derby, the Reverend William Ajleley, Rcftor of the Parilh Church of Hartjhorne aforefadd, Ann Cant Widow, John Taylor Efquire, Thomas Richards Elquire, Edward Dawfon Elquire, John Minors Gentleman, George Pilkington Gentleman, and others, Proprietors of Lands and Grounds, and Common Right, in, over, and upon, the Commons, Fields, Meadows, and Commonable Places, of, and belonging to, Hartjhorne aforefaid, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Lordlhip of Hartjhorne aforefaid confifts of Open Fields, and feveral large Commons or Wafte Ground, which are uninclofed, and, in their prefent Situation, incapable of Improvement; and alleging, that the Petitioners are defirous that the fame may be inclofed, and a fpecific Part thereof affigned and allotted to each Proprietor, in Proportion to their refpeclive Intercft and Common Right: And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for the Purpufes aforefaid. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, pur- fuant to the Prayer of the laid Petition : And that Lord George Cavendi/b and Mr. OJbaldejion do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of Benjamin Francis Tribe, now called � Francis Poole, Efquire, was prefented to the Houfe, and. read; Setting forth, That Elizabeth Ludwell, late of ' Charing in the County of Kent, Widow, deceafed, did, 2 by by her lift Will and Teftamcnt, bearing Date the 28th Day of September 1761, give and devife fever.il ERates to the Petitioner upon the Terms therein mentioned, and required him to take upon himfelf the Surname oi Poole: And therefore praying. That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for that Purpofe. Ordered^ That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, pur- fuant to the Prayer of the faid Petition : And that Mr. Beji, Mr. Frederick Montagu, and Mr. Hewett, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of feveral Perfons, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, Owners and Proprietors of Lands and Grounds, and orherwife interefted in rhe Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Failures, and Commonable Waite Grounds, in the Manor and Paridi of Twywell, in the County of Northampton, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Lands and Grounds of the Petitioners and others in the faid Fields and Meadows, lie intermixed and dif- perfed, and, in their prefent Situation, are incapable of Improvement; and alleging, that it would tend greatly to the Advantage of all Perfons interefted, if the fame were divided and inclofed : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for dividing and inclofing the faid Fields, Meadows, Failures, and Commonable Wafte Grounds, in fuch Manner as to the Houfe Hull feem meet. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, pur- fuant to the Prayer of the faid Petition : And that Mr. Frederick Montagu and Mr. Bejt do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of John His, John Henry Ernft, and John Michael Platz, was prefented to the Houle, and read ; praying that Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for their Naturalization. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, according to the Prayer of the laid Petition : And that Mr. Lewis and Mr. Ofbaldfion do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Meflage from Ilis Majefty, by Sir Septimus Robin- Jon, Gentleman Ufher of the Black Rod : Mr. Speaker, The King commands this honourable Houfe to attend His Majefty, immediately, in the Houle of Peers. Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the Houfe, went up to attend His Majefty. And being returned; Mr. Speaker reported, That the Houfe had attended I lis Majefty in the Houfe of Peers : Where His Majefty was pleafed to give the Royal Aflent to the feveral Public and Private Bills following ; viz An Act for continuing and granting to His Majefty, certain Duties upon Malt, Mum, Cyder, and Perry, for the Service of the Year One thoufand Seven hundred and Sixty-five. An Aft for granting an Aid to I lis Majefty by a Land Tax, to be raifed in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year One thoufand Seven hundred and Sixty-five. An Aft for extending the Time granted, by an Aft faffed in the Third Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, for allowing His Majefty�s Subjefts to import their Goods and Effefts, being tlie Produce of certain Places ceded to France and Spain by the late Treaty of Peace, upon Payment of the fame Duties as they would have been liable to, if the fame Places had remained in J lis Majefty�s Pofieffion. An Aft to indemnify fuch Perfons, as have omitted to qualify themlelves for Offices and Employments; and-to indemnify Juftices of the Peace, Deputy Lvu- rtnants, Officers of the Militia, or others, who have knitted to regiller, or deliver in, their (Qualifications, within the Time limited by Law; and for giving further Time for thofe Purpofes. An Aft for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Failures, and Commonable Wafte Grounds, in the Manor and Parifh of Podington, in the County of Bedford. An Aft for dividing and inclofing the Open Common Fields, Common Failures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, Lanes, and Wafte Grounds, within the Manors and Parifii of Hardingjione and Cotton, in the County of Northampton. . � An Aft for naturalizing John William Plauel, John James Lang, Jacob Nadal, and Chrijiopher Henry Baumer. An Aft for naturalizing Luder Lang. An Aft for naturalizing Chriflian James Strackhoven. A Petition of the Mayor and Commonalty of the City of Fork, and of the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders, refiding near, or travelling on, the Highways or Roads thereafter mentioned, and ochers, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Roads Jeading from Fork, by Grimfion Smithy, in the Eaft Riding of the County of Fork, to Kexby Bridge, and from Grimjlcn Smithy aforefaid, in Two Branches, the One to a Gate in the Road bciviccn Ki/by Underdale and Pocklington, at the upper End of Garraby Hill, and the other through the Town of Elvington to Elvington Bridge, in the ful Riding, are lb deep and ruinous, and in fome Parts f> narrow, that the fame cannot be tufficiencly amended and widened by the Laws now in Force: And therefore praying. That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for amending and widening the faid Roads, in fuch Manner, and under fuch Regulations, as to the Houfe (hall fecin 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 ihall appear to them, to the Houfe : And it is referred to Mr. Lane, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Shuttleworth, Mr. Fitzherbert, Mr. Kynafon, Sir Walter Bagot, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Lafcelles, Sir Robert Burdett, Mr. Foley, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Drax, Mr. ^Court, Mr. Hotham, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Gray, Sir John Lynch Colton, Mr. Town/bend, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Pennant, Sir Charles Hardy, Sir Edward Turner, Mr. Fitzherbert, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Butler, Mr. Glover, Lord Strange, Mr. Whichcot, Mr. Dowdefwell, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Ed- monjlone, Mr. Long, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Dundas, Mr. Buller, Mr. Gafcoyne, Lord Grey, Mr. Plumpt re, Mr. Luttrell, Mr. Fonnereau, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Cbobnley, Lord Harry Powlet, Lord Barrington, Mr. Southwell, Sir William Baker, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Stephens, Mr. Stevens ; and all ths Members who ferve for the Counties of Fork, Lincoln, Durham, and Lancajler: 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. A Bill for dividing and allotting the Commons or Waftes, and the Common Field* and Ings, in the Manor and Townfhip of Everingham, in the County of F'ork-, and for other Purpofes therein mentioned; was read a Second Time. Refolded, That the Bill be committed to Sir George Montgomery Mecham, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Lane, Mr. Kynajlcn, Sir Charles Kemys Lyate, Sir John Turner, Mr. Tudway, Mr. Skiffner, Mr. Shuttleworth, Mr. Dempfter, Sir George Colebrook, Colonel Barre, Mr. Fitzherbert, Mr. Bejt, Sir Walter Bagot, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Parker, Mr. Prefcot, Mr. Glover, Mr. Howard, Mr. Dyfon, Sir Anthony Abdy, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. I Fay, Mr. Coventry, Mt. Walcot, Sit Thomas Cave, Lord George Sackville, Sir Thomas Palmer, Mr. Gafcoyne, Mr. Hunt, Hunt, Mr. Jiff Sir William Meredith, Sir George Savile, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Parker, Mr. Bullock, Lord Taviflock, Mr. Rigby, Mr.TownJhend, Lord "John Cavendijb, Lord George Cavendijh, Mr. Vernon, Sir Edward Turner, Mr. Onflow, Sir George Tonge', and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Tork, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, Wcftmoreland, and Lancafler: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Bill for repairing and widening the Road leading ' from Portbaetbwy Ferry to Holyhead, in the County of � Anglefey, was read a Second Time. - Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Meyrick, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Stephens, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Parker, Mr. Fitzbcrbert, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Tudway, Sir Roger Newdigate, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Godolphin, Sir George Montgomery Metham, Mr. Willy, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Weft, Sir Walter Bagot, Mr. Edmonftone, Mr. Coventry, Colonel Irwin, Mr. Luttrell, Sir Robert Burdet, Sir Edward Turner, Mr. Howard, Mr. Skiff/ier, Mr. Wilfon, Mr. Wauchope, Mr. Molyneux, Mr. Harbord, Mr. Wynne, Mr. Price, Lord George Sackville, Lord Middlefex, Sir John Wynne, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Rigby, Mr. Vaughan, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Buller, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Conollyand all the Members who lerve for the Principality of Wales, and the Counties of Cbefer, Lancafler, and Salop: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. APetition of feveral Truftees, appointed to put in Execution fo much of an Ait of Parliament, made in the 27th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled, An Aft for repairing and widening the Road from a certain Intrenchment on AJkerfwell Hill, oppofite to Chilcombe Farm, through the Town of Bridport, to Pen Inn, and from Bridport afore- faid, to the Town of Beamifler, in the County of Dor- fet ; and alfo the Road from Pen Inn aforefaid, through the Town of Axminfler, to the Workhoufe ar the Eaft End of the Town of Honiton, in the County of Devon, as relates to the Diftrift of Roads leading from the Intrenchment on AJkerfwell Hill, through Bridport, to Pen Inn, and from Bridport to Beamifler aforefaid j was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, Thar, purfuant to the Direftions of the laid Aft, the Petitioners have proceeded in the Repairs of the faid Roads, and have borrowed confiderable Sums of Money on the Credit of the faid Aft, which now remains due, and that the fame cannot be repaid, and the faid Roads kept in good and fufficient Repair, unlefs the prefent Tolls granted by the faid Aft, within the faid Diftrift, are in- creafed, and the Term and Powers thereof enlarged; and further fetting forth, that the Road leading from the North End of the South Street in Bridport aforefaid, through the laid Street, to Bridport Harbour, through the feveral Parifhes of Bridport, Bothenbampton, and Burton Bradflock, in the faid County of Dorfet, is in a ruinous Condition, and, in many Parts, narrow, and cannot be effcftually amended, and kept in good Repair, by the ordinary Courfe of Law : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for increafing the prefent Tolls granted by the faid Aft, and for enlarging the Term and Powers thereof-, and for repairing the aforefaid 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, as it (hall appear to them, to the Houfe : And it is referred to Mr Coventry, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Dowdefwell, Mr. Ward, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Foley, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Dyfov, Mr. Willoughby, Mr. Fitzberbert, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Prefcot, Sir Edward V01,. XXX. A Petition of the Juftices of the Peace, Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders, of the County of SuJJex, and of the feveral Perfons ufuaily travelling the Road from Hurfl Green to Burwajh, and from thence to Lewes, in the faid County, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Road from the Turnpike Road on Hurfl Green, in the County of Suflex, through the Parilh of Etchingham, and the Parilh and Town of Burwajh, to a Swing Gate in the laid Parilh, and from thence to the Extent of the faid Parilh of Burwajh, in the Road leading to Lewes, in the faid County, is very thunderous and out of Repair, and, in lome Parts, very narrow, and cannot, by the ordinary Courfe of Law, be effeftually amended, widened, and kept in Repair: And therefore praying, Thar Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for repairing the faid Road, and keeping the fame in Repair, by fuch Ways and Means as to the Houfe fliall leem meet and expedient. Ordered, 1 hat the laid Petition be referred to the Confideration 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. Pelham, Mr. Butler, Mr. Coventry, Sir George Colebrooke, Mr. Onflow, Mr. Shelley, Mr. Townjhend, Sir George Tonge, Mr. Luttrell, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Buller, Sir'Jarrit Smith, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Drax, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Dyfon, Mr. Gilbert, Sir Anthony Abdy, Mr. Gray, Mr. Dowdefwell, Lord Frederick Cavendijb, Lord Midlcton, Mr. Hamilton, Mr Cbclmley, Mr. Hewett, Sir George Savile, Mr. Edmon- fl one, Mr. Fitzbcrbert, Mr. Rice, Mr. Wood, Sir Walter Blacket, Mr. Shif tier, Mr. Plumptre, Mr. Harbord, Lord John Cavendijb, Lord George Cavendijb, Mr. Robinjon, F f Mr. XUM Englijh Thrown ; and that the encouraging the Importation of Raw Silk into this Kingdom, will be a Means of increafing the very ufeful and beneficial Trade of Throwing of Silk in this Kingdom, and of encouraging the feveral Manufaftures carried on by the Petitioners ; and therefore praying the Houfe to take the Premifes into Confideration, and grant fuch Relief therein, as to the Houfe Ihall feem meet. Ordered, Thar the faid Petition be referred to 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 them- felves and the Silk Manufafturers of Great Britain, is referred. A Petition of Rene Labutte was prefented to the Houfe, and read; praying that his Name may be inferred in the Bill now depending for naturalizing Andrew Fubrer. Ordered, That the faid Petition do lie upon the Table, until the faid Bill be read a Second Time. Lord Charles Greville Montagu reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for continuing the Terms of feveral Afts, and for giving further Powers, for repairing the Road from Chatteris Ferry, which divides the Ifle of Ely from the County of Huntingdon, to Hammond's Eau, and from thence to Somerjham Bridge at Somerjham Town's End, in the faid County; and for amending and widening the Road from Somerjham Bridge aforefaid, over Somerjham Heath, to rhe South End of the Lane next the White Hart, in the Sheep Market, in Saint Ives -, and alfo the Road branching out of the faid Road near Stocks Bridge, through Needingwortb to Earith, in the faid County j 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 direfted him to report to the Houfe -, and he read theReportin his Place; and afterwards delivered theBill, 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 an Amendment to One of them, agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofled. A Petition of the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Burgefles of the Borough of Leicefler: And alfo, A Petition of the Mayor, Recorder, Aidermen, Gentlemen, and Tradefmen of the Borough of Derby: Were feverally prefented to the Houfe, and read; Taking Notice of the prefent high Price of Corn -, and alleging, that the Petitioners apprehend, that the prohibiting the Exportation of Wheat and Flour, for a Time, would be a Means of preventing the fame : And therefore praying the Houfe to take the Premifes into Confideration ; and to grant fuch Relief therein as ihall feem meet. And the faid Petitions were feverally ordered to lie upon the Table. Ordered, That there be laid before this Houfe, an Account of the Quantities of Silk Stockings imported into Great Britain, from Chriflmas 1753 to Cbriflmas 1764; diftinguifhing each Year. Ordered, That there be laid before this Houfe, an Account of the Quantities of Silk Gloves and Mitts imported into Great Britain, from Cbriflmas 1753 to Cbriflmas 1764; diftinguilhing each Year. Ordered, That there be laid before this Houfe, an Account of the Quantities of Silk Pieces imported into 1 Greet Great Britain, from Cbriftmas 1753 to Cbriftmas 1764; diftinguilhing each Year. Ordered, That there be laid before this Houfe, an Account of the Quantities of Silk Stockings exported from Great Britain, from Cbriftmas 1753 to Cbriftmas 1764 ; diftinguilhing each Year. Ordered, That there be laid before this Houfe, an Account of the Quantities of Silk Pieces exported from Great Britain, from Cbriftmas 1753 to Cbriftmas 1764; diftinguilhing each Year. Ordered, That there be laid before this Houfe, an Account of the Quantities of Silk Gloves and Mitts ex- I I I ported from Great Britain, from Cbriftmas 1753 to Cbriftmas ij6^ j diftinguilhing each Year. Mr. Jenfanfon prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to their Addrefs to His Majefty, Surplufles, ftated the 5th of April 1764: And alfo, Surplufles, ftated the 10th of Oflober 1764. And the Titles of the faid Surplufles were read. The faid Surplufles are preferved amongft the other Papers of this Seflion; and the Abftrads thereof are as followcth; viz. ABSTRACT ABSTRACT oF the laid Surpluses, Rated the 5th of April 1764. Hie Exchequer to the Sinking Fund � � � To Calh remaining in the Exchequer the loth of O&ober 1763 � To Surplus Monies arifen in the Half Year ended the 5th Day of April 1764 ; vi^, Surplus of the Aggregate Fund, brought from Account, Folio 1 � Surplus of the South Sat Company�s Fund, brought from Account, Folio 2 Surplus of the General Fund, brought from Account, Folio j � To Money arifen by Sale of unrated Goods undervalued, brought to this Account, pursuant to the Afi 11* Georgii lmi, Page 146 � � _ To Monies brought to this Account the 5th Day of April 1764, purfuant to the Aft palled 25- Georgii zdi, for confolidating the Funds ; viz. The additional Stamp Duty on Paper, granted per Aft 4� Georgii 2*�, for the Service of the Year 1731 � � � Surplus ot the additional Duties on Low Wines and Strong Waters, granted per ASI it� Georgii 2*� � � � The like of the additional Duty on Wines imported, granted by an Aft 18� Georgii 2^', for the Service of the Year 1745 � � The like of the Duties on Glafs and Spirituous Liquors, granted by an Aft 19� Georgii z�1, for the Service of the Year 1746 � � The like of the Rates and Duties upon Houles, Windows and Lights, granted by an Aft 20� Georgii z��, for the Service of the Year 1747 The Income of the Duty on Coaches, granted per Aft 20� Georgii a*1, for the Service of the laid Year � � � Z- A d. 462,118 g 4 84,019 13 11 34M97 3 5} *94-535 6 8] 529 �9 6 - Dr. Z- A d. 1.128,777 9 � Z- d. �4.47C 8,776 *0-374 *��774 54-z96 5 8 2 �s The Subfidy on Goods and Merchandizes imported, granted per Aft 2i� Georgii 3d1, for the Service of the Year 1748 � � The Duty of 6 d. per Ounce on wrought Plate, granted /er Aft 6� Cecr- gti im', for the Service of the Year 1720 � � T he Duty on Licences to be taken out by all Perfons dealing in or vending of Gold or Silver Plate, granted from 5th of July 1759, per Aft 320 Georgii 2^, and brought to this Account, purfuant to thefaid Aft To the Duty of 3/. 4/. /rr Bulhel on Salt, brought to this Account, purfuant to an Aft 26� Georgii 2*, Page 51, in that behalf � To the Duty of 12 ,. per Barrel on Sweets or Wines made from Britijh or foreign Fruit or Sugar, granted per A& to� Georgii 211, for the Service of the Year 1737, brought to this Account purfuant to an Aft 27'�Georgii z*', Page 218 � � � To the Surplus of the additional Duties on Soap, Paper, and Coals, continued by an Aft z� Georgii 2% for railing the Sum of /� 1,250,000 by Sale of Annuities to the Bank of England, brought to this Account purfuant to an Aft 28� Georgii zdl, Page 457 � � To the Surplus of the Duty upon Coals, continued/er Afi t� Georgii zdi, for raifing the Sum of /. 1,750,000 by Sale of Annuities to the Bank of England, brought to this Account purfuant to the faid Afi 28� Georgii 2d* � � _ To the Duty on Licences for retailing Beer, Ale, and other excifeable Liquors, brought to this Account purfuant to the Aft 29� Georgii z"*. Page 31 z � � � To the additional Duty on Cards and Dice, brought to this Account purfuant to one other Aft 29� Georgii 2*�, Page 323 � To the feveral Rates and Duties payable by all Perfons, Bodies Politic or Corporate, having certain Quantities of Silver Plate, brought to this Account purfuant co one other Aft 29� Georgii 2% Page 332 27.563 130,663 17 7 16�6 2.787 119.381 14 2.553 26,053 1 8} 8-53* 7 36,800 � � 5,687 9,605 Per Contra ���� �� � , � .. _� By the Chief Cafliier of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for HalfaYear�s Intereft, due the 5th of January 1764, being after the Rate of /. 3 per Centumper Annum, on the principal Sum of /. 21,127,821 5/. 1 ^Z fubferibed to the Joint Stock of/. 3. per Centum transferrable Annuities at the Bank of England, purfuant to the Afis 25�, 28�, 29�, 320, and 33� Georgii 2dl, in that Behalf � � _ � � � � � � _ By D�, for Charges of Management of the faid Annuities for the fame Half Year � By the Chief Cafliier of the faid Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for Half a Year�s Intereft, due the 5th of April 1764, being after the Rate of �. 3 per Centumper Annum, on the principal Sum of �. 17,701,223 16/. 4Z the Amount of the Joint Stock of Annuities transferrable at the Bank of England, purfuant to the Aft 25� Georgii 7^, in that Behalf � � � � � � By D", for Charges of Management of thefe Annuities for the fame Half Year � By the Chief Cafliier of the Add Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for Half a Year�s Intereft, due the 5 th of January 1764, being after the Rate of �. 3 10 s. per Centum per Annum, on the principal Sum of �. 1,500,000, Part of �. 2,000,000 lent on Credit of this Fund, towards the Supply granted for the Service of the Year 17 5 6, purfuant to the Afi 29� Georgii zd'. Page 2 24, in that Behalf � � � � _�_�__ � � By D�, for Charges of Management of the faid Annuities for the fame Half Year � By Half a Year�s Annuity, due thefaid 5th of January 1764, being after the Rate of �. 3 per Centum per Annum, on the principal Sum of �. 2,100,000 transferrable at the South SrcUoufc, lent on Credit of this Fund towards the Supply granted for the Service of the Year 1751, purfuant to the Aft 24� Georgii 2d�, Page 39, in that Behalf � � � � � � � By the Company of Merchants trading to the South Seat, Sec. for Half a Year�s Allowance for Charges of Management of thefaid Annuities, due at the fame Time, purfuant to the faid Aft, Page 59, in that Behalf � '� � By the Chief Cafliier of the faid Company of Merchants trading to the South Sea3, Sec. to reimburfe the Fees and Charges in palling the Accounts of the Monies im- prefted to him for paying the faid Annuities 1751, and for his Trouble and other Charges in the Premifes for 3 Years, ended the 5th of January 1763 � � By Cafli taken to anfwer Annuities on Angle Lives payable at the Exchequer, granted by an Aft 30� Georgii 2dl, and charged on this Fund by an Aft $2�Georgii adl, for the Half Year ended the 5th of January 1764 � � � � By the Chief Cafliier of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for Half a Year�s Annuity, due the faid cth of January 1764, on the principal Sums of/. 8,240,000 in Annuities granted by an Aft, ^Georgii 2dl, and/, t 2,coo,000 in Annuities granted by an Aft 20 Georgii 3tU, making together /. 20,240,000 which were made one Joint Stock of /. 4 per Cent. Annuities, transferrable at the Bank of England, by the Aft 2� Georgii 3'�, Page 211 � � By D�, for Charges of Management of the laid Annuities for the fame Half Year � By the faid Chief Cafliier of the Governor and Company of theBankof England, for Half a Year�s Annuity, due the faid 5th of January 1764, on the Annual Sum of /. 120,000 to continue for 98 Years, granted by the faid Aft 20 Georgii 3�11, Page 206 By D , for Charges of Management of the faid Annuities for the fame Half Year � By the Chief Cafliier of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for Charges of Management of the feveral Annuities payable in refpeft of Five millions, borrowed purfuant to an Aft 31� Georgii 2dI, for the Service of the Year 1758, which faid Management is charged on this Fund, by a Claufe in the faid Aft, Page 761, for the Half Year ended the faid 5th of January 1764 � Cr. H Z- A d. 316,917 6 4� 5,*61 3 nJ 265,519 17 ri 4.97* 9 IOJ 26,250 421 17 6 3',500 590 12 6 1,043 8 � 16,242 18 9 404,800 � �. 5,692 io � 60,000 *43 �5 � 1,406 5 � Journals of tie Houfe of Commons. A. 1765. Ulla WWUUIH puuuuilk *v VUV wuiv� AM U^ w��rj;M A , *�^-JJ- VOL. XXX. Gs ABSTRATC To the additional Stamp Dut'es on Pamphlets and printed Papers, granted by an Aft 30� Georgti a*", brought to this Account pursuant to the Aft 32� Georgii 2*� � � �. To the additional Duty on Coals exported, the like � To the Surplus of the New Duty on Licences to retail Wine, the like 'lo D� of the Duty on Licencestoretail Spirituous Liquors, the like To the Subfidy on Goods and Merchandizes imported, granted by an Aft 52� Geordi 2dl, brought to this Accountpurfuant to the Aft 33� Georgii 2''*, Page 305 � � � To the additional Inland Duty on Coffee, the like � To the additional Inland Duty on Chocolate, the like � To the Duties upon SpirituousLiquors, granted by an Aft 24� Georgii a*1, brought to this Account purfuant to an Aft z� Georgii 3% Pages 217 and 218 � � � To Surplus of Duties upon Spirituous Liquors, granted by an Aft 33� Georgii 2dl, brought to this Account purfuant to D� � To the Duties upon Spirituous Liquors granted by an Aft 2� Georgii yi', brought to this Account purfuant to D�, Page 218 � To the Rates and Duties upon Windows or Lights, granted and made a Part of this Fund by one other Aft 2� Georgii 311, Page 189 � The Duties upon Mak granted by ah Aft 33� Georgii 2dl, brought to this Account purfuant to one other Aft 2U Georgii 3��, Page 197 � �5�555 4�54� 3 2< 55 >6 5; 8,820 1 2 92,731 10 ,7 5,566 2,216 � � 24,096 � � 128,886 12 6 28,372 23,803 ll 7s 6z,zc6 � � 895,280 15 s| 1,790,346 1 8 2,919,123 to 8 By the Chief Calhier of the faid Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for Half a Year�s Intereft, due the 25th of March 1764, being after the Rate of/ . 4 per Centum per A/inttm, On the principal Sum of A 3.483,5 53 1 1. 10A the Amount of the Navy, Viftualling, and Tranfoort Bills, and Ordnance Debentures fubferibed for Annuities, charged on this Fund by an Aft 3� Georgii 3,w, Pages 256 and 257, which Sum is to be replaced to this Fund nut of the Supplies to be granted in the next Scflion of Parliament after iAning the fame, as by Claufe in the fame Aft, Page 265, in that Behalf � � � � By Calh taken to make good the Deficiency on the 5 th of January 1764, of the fe- vcral Rates and Duties upon Offices and Penfions, and upon Houfes, and upon Windows or Lights, which were made a Fund per Aft 31� Georgii 2n, for paying Annuities at the Bank of England, after the Rate of �? 3 10/. per Centum 0,1 A 4,500,000 an^ �>� 3 fer Centum on �. 500,000 in Lottery Annuities, making together Five millions, borrowed towards the Supply granted for the Service of the Year 1758, which Sum is to be replaced to this b und out of the Firft Supplies to be granted in Parliament, as per Claufe in the faid Aft, Page 746, in that Behalf �- �� By Calh taken to make good the Deficiency on the 5 th of April 1764, of the (everal additional Duties upon Wines imported into this Kingdom, and certain Doties upon all Cyder and Perry, which were made a Fund per Aft 3� Georgii 3th, lor paying Annuities at the Bank of England after the Rate of f 4 per Centum on �. 3,500,000 borrowed towards the Supply granted for the Service of the Year 1763, which Sum is to be replaced to this Fund out of the Firft Supplies to be granted in Parliament, as per Claufe in the faid Aft, Page 328, in that Behalf r By Calh paid the Ufher of the Exchequer for Neceffaries furnifhed the "Exchequer Bill Office By Calh taken in full of A 2,000,000 granted out of this Fond towards the Supply of the Year 1763, purfuant to an Aft 3� Georgii f11, Page 404, in that Behalf� By Caflt taken in part of �. 2,000,00 granted out of this Fund towards the Supply of the Year 1764, purfuant to an Aft 4� Georgii 3"*, Page 248, in that Behalf � This being the Eighty-third Half-yearly Account, made up purfuant to the Aft a� Georgii t�*, Page 367, is humbly prefented this nth Day of Ee~ truarj 1765, by me C. Jenkinjin, 69,671 I 2 31,378 r9 10 33�9^4 ll 7{ 9 2 �1 1,196,598 18 ii 2<5�4.1i 13 91 2,919,123 10 8 5 GEO. III. Journals of r^Houfe of Commons. The additional Stamp Duty on Paper, granted by an Aft 40 Georgii 2dl, for the Service of the Year 1731 � Surplus of the additional Duties on Low Wines and Strong Waters, granted /er Ads 16� et 1 yu Georgii 1^ -� The like of the additional Duty on Wines imported, granted /rr Aft 18� Georgii 2dl, for the Service of the Year 174; The like of the Duties upon Glafs and Spirituous Liquors, granted /er Aft 19� Georgii a�11, for the Service of the Year 17.16 � � The like of the Rates and Duties upon Houles, Windows and Lights, granted/er Aft 2�� Georgii a*1, for the Service of the Year 1747 � The like of the Duties on Coaches, granted /er Aft 200 Georgii 2dl, for the Service of the faid Year �� - The Subfidy on Goods and Merchandizes imported, granted /er A& 21* Georgii zdl, for the Service of the Year 1748 - -- The Duty of ftd. /er Ounce on Wrought Plate, granted /er Aft 6� Georgii 1 �* for the Service of the Year 1720 � - The Duty on Licences to be taken out by all Perfons dealing in, or vending of Gold or Silver Plate, granted from the 5th of July 1�59 /er Aft 320 Georgii 2*'*, and brought to this Account purfuant to the faid Aft � To the Duty of 3/. 4/. /er Buihcl on Salt, brought to this Account purfuant to an Aft 26� Georgii 2di, Page 51, in that Behalf � . � To the Duty of 12/. /er Barrel on Sweets or Wines made from Briti/h or foreign Fruit or Sugar, granted /tr Aft , for railing the Sum of <,7,0,00 , by Sale of Annuities to the Bank ef England, brought to this Account purfuant to the faid Aft 28� Georgii 2 1 � To the Duty upon Licences for retailing Beer, Ale, and other excifeable Liquors, brought to this Account purfuant to an Aft 29� Georgii 2dl, Page 5�2 � � To the additional Duties on Cards and Dice, brought to this Account purfuant to one ether Aft 79� Georgii 2d>, Page 323 � � To the feveral Rates and Duties payable by all Perlons, Bodies Politic or Corporate, having certain Quantities of Silver Plate, brought to this Account purfuant to one other Aft 29� Georgii 2dl, Page 332 To the additional Stamp Duties on Pamphlets and printed Papers, granted by an Aft 30� Georgii a1�, brought to tins Account purfuant to the Aft 3 2* Georgii i>* � � � Per Contra. By the Chief Calhier of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, Cor Half a Year�s Intereft, due the cth of July 1764, being after the Rate of /. 3 /er Centum /er Annum, on the principal Sum of /. 33,127,821 51. 1^4 fubferibed to the joint Stock of /. 3 /er Centum transferrable Annuities at tv 32�, and 33� Georgii 2di, and 40 Georgii 3di, in that Behalf � � By D�, for Charges of Management of the faid Annuities for the fame Half Year � By the faid Chief Calhier of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for Half a Year�s Intereft, due the 10th of Ofiober 1764, being after the Rate of /. 3 /er Centum /er Annum, on the principal Sum of/. 17,��01,323 i6r. 4/. the Amount of the joint Stock of Annuities transferrable at the Bank of England, purfuant to the Aft 25� Georgii 2di, Page 598, in that Behalf � . . . � ~ By D�, for Charges of Management of the faid Annuities for the fame Half Year � By the faid Chief Cafliier of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for Half a Year�s Intereft, due the 5th of July 1764, being after the Rate of /. 3 10/. /tr Centum/er Annum, on the principal Sum of�. 1,500,000, Part ofTwo millions lent on Credit of this Fund, towards the Supply granted for the Service of the Year 1756, purfuant to the Aft 29� Georgii 2d,� Page 224, in that Behalf �� � �� �-�� By D�, for Charges of Management of the faid Annuities for the fame Half Year ��� By Half a Year's Aunuity, due the 5 th of July .1764, being after the Rate of /. 3 /er Centum /er Annum, on the principal Sum of/. 2,100,000 transferrable at the South Sea�Houfe, lent on Credit of this Fund, towards the Supply granted for the Service of the Year 1751, purfuant to the Aft 24� Georgii 2dl, Page 39, in that Behalf � � � � By the Company of Merchant, trading to the South Seat, &c. for Half a Year�s Allowance for Charges of Managcment/>f the faid Annuities due at the fame Time, purfuant to the (hid Aft, Page 59, *n th*1 Behalf � � � � �* � � By Calh taken to anfwer Annuities on Angle Lives, payable at the Exchequer, granted by an Aft 300 Georgii jdl, and charged on this Fund by an Aft 32* Georgii 2", for the Half Year ended the 5th of July 1764 � � � �- � *~ �� By the Chief Calhier ?f the Governor and Company of the Bank of England; for Half a Year�s Annuity, due the ;th of July 1764, on the principal Sums of/ 8,14.0,600 in Annuities, granted by an Aft 3 3� Georgii 2d>, and /. 12,000,000 in Annuities, granted by an Aft 2� Georgii 3,u� making together A20,240,0 0, which were made one Joint Stock ef/. ^/er Centum Annuities transferrable, at the Bank of England, by the Aft 20 Georgii'^1, Page 211 By D�, for Charges of Management of the faid Annuities for the fame Half Year ~ By the faid Chief Cafliier of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for Annuities granted /er Afts 1� & 2� Georgii i��, for 99 and G8 Years, which were made one Joint Stock of Annuities, from the 5th of January 1764, by an Aft 4� Georgii 3*�, Page 3 25, for the Half Year ended the5th of July 1 �64 _ . � ~ By D�, for Charges of Management of thefe Annuities for the fame Half Year � By the faid Chief Calhier of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for Charges of Management of the feveral Annuities payable in refpeft of Five millions borrowed pur- fuant to an Aft 31� Georgii zd�, for the Service of the Year 1758; which faid Management is charged on this Fund by a Claule in the faid Aft, Page 761, for the Half Year ended the faid 5th of July 1764 � ' By the faid Chief Calhier of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for Half a Year�s Intereft, due the 29th of Se/tember 1764, being after the Rate of /. 4 /er Centum/er Annum, on the principal Sum of /. 3,483,553 tr. tod. the Anfountof the Navy, Viftual- ling, and Tranfport Bills, and Ordnance Debentures, fubferibed for Annuities charged on this Fund, by an Aft }� Georgii 3��, Pages 256 and 257 ; which Sum is to be replaced to this Fund out of the Supplies to be granted in the next Seflion of Parliament after ilfuing the fame, as by Claufe in the fame Aft, ^age 265, in that Behalf ~. 1 � ��- j�* Georgii 2* >-W� �- To the additions! Duty on Coals exported, the like . � - 5�45' 7 6 To the Surplus of the new Duty on Licenees for retailing Wine, the like 11,874 7 io| To D� of the Duties on Licences to retail Spirituous Liquors, the like 15.844 To the J.ubfidy on Goods and Merchandizes imported, granted by an Aft -z" Geertu a'", brought to this Account purfuant to the Aft 33� Georgii 2**, Page 305 � - - �124�3*5 3 �<4 To the additional inland Duty on Coffee, the like � � � 5�2� � To the additional inland Duty on Chocolate, the like, � � 1,112 To the Duties upon Spirituous Liquors, granted by an Aft 24� Georgii 2'", brought to this Account purfuant to an Aft z� Georgii 3�', Pages 217 and 218 � � � � 33�32$ � To the Duties upon Spirituous Liquors, granted by an Aft 33� Georgu 2dl, brought to this Account purfuant to D� 169,028 � To the Duties upon Spirituous Liquors, granted by an Aft 2� Georgii j'11, brought to this Account purfuant to D�, Page 218 � 33�2*� To the Rates and Duties upon Windows or Lights, granted and made a Part of this Fund by one other Aft 2" Georgti 3d1, Page 189 � 38,961 *9 3 To the Duties upon Malt, granted by an Aft 33� Georgii 2'�, brought to this Account purfuant to one other Aft 2� Georgii 3'", Page 197 � 281,603 To the additional Duty upon Strong Beer and Ale, granted by an Aft 1� Georgie 3�n, brought to this Account purfuant to an Aft 4� Georgii 3�', Page 326 " 430.887 *�755�49* *9 11 To Monies granted out of the Supply 1764, for the Purpofes following, by the Act 40 Georgii j��, Pages 368 and 369, in that Behalf; viz. To replace to this Fund the like Sum iffued out of the fame, for the Half- �. '� <*� year�s Payment due the 29th Day of September 176 ], on the Annuities after the Rate of �. 4 per Centum per Annum, granted in refpeft of certain Navy, Viftualling, and Tranfport Bills, and Ordnance Debentures, de- * fivered in and cancelled, purfuant loan Aft 3� Georgii 3'" 19.671 1 - To replace to this Fund the like Sum paid out of the lame, to make good the Deficiency on the 5th Day of July 1763, of the feveral Racesand Duties upon Offices and Pennons, and upon Houfes and Windows or Lights, which were made a Fund by an Aft of the 31ft Year of the Reign of his late Majefly, for paying Annuities at the Bank of England, in refpt ft of Five millions borrowed towards the Supply granted for the Service of the Year 17t8 4*>221 1 To replace to this Fund the like Sum paid out of the fame, to make good the Deficiency on the icth Day of October 1763, of the feveral additional Duties upon Wines imported into this Kingdom, and certain Duties upon ail Cyder and Perry, which were made a Fund by an Aft 3� Georgii 3�*�, for paying Annuities, in refpeft of �. 3,500,000 borrowed towards , the Supply granted for the Service of the Year 1763 �� 36,699 �54* .0 ? " ' '47�593 � # By Cafh taken to make good the Deficiency on the 5th of July 1764, of the feveral Rates and Duties upon Offices and Pen lions, and uponHoufcs, and upon Windows or Lights, which were made a Fund by an Aft 31� Georgii 2dl, for paying Annuities at the Bank of England, after the Rate of �. 3 10r. per Centum, on �. 4,500,000, and �. 3 per Centum on �. 500,000 in Lottery Annuities, making together Five millions, borrowed towards the Supply granted for the Service of the Year 1758; which Sumis to be replaced to this Fund out of theFirll Supplies to be granted in Parliament, as per Claufe in the laid Aft, Page 746, in that Behalf � 16,797 2 'r By Calh taken to make good the Deficiency on the joth of Oflober 1764, of the feveral additional Duties upon Wines imported into this Kingdom, and certain Duties upon all Cyder and Perry, whicn were made a Fund by an Aft 3� Georgii 3'11, for paying Annuities at the Bank of England, after the Rate of �. 4 perCent. on �. 3,500,000, borrowed towards the Supply granted for the Service of the Year 1763 ; which Sum is to be replaced to this Fund out of the Firft Supplies to be granted in Parliament, as per Claufe in the faid Aft, Page 328, in that Behalf � 15>777 9 7 By Cafh taken in further Part of �. 2,000,000 granted out of this Fund towards the Supply of the Year 1764, purfuant to an Aft 4� Georgii 3�u, Page 2 4 8, in that Behalf 169,30 8 it 7 1,660,906 13 2 By Cafh remaining in the Exchequer the 10th Day of 08,353 16,473 I5�i33 15*148 15*47� 15,418 15*838 20,125 19,716 18,444 i9,6�4 19,736 19,890 16,670 15*083 14,887 15,092 14,692 15,039 3,628 3*509 3*460 3,121 3,ii6 3*�58 3*062 3�i52 3*253 2,971 2,876 2,840 2,718 2,821 2,590 2,424 2,533 2,474 2,316 2,375 2,506 2,260 2,149 2,115 670 584 684 520 499 600 684 705 649 649 649 649 209,093 17,424 208,988 17,415 38.146 3.�78 29,281 2,440 7*542 628 G. Cokburnt,. Tbo. Slade. W. Bately. Crimed, 1 5 GEO. III. .Journals of the Houfe of Commons. 137 Ordered, That the faid Account do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. A Petition of the diftreffed Prifoners for Debt confined in the County Gaol at Carliflc, Cumberland: A nd allo, A Petition of the feveral unfortunate Prifoners for Debt, in His Majefty�s Gaol of the County of Somerfet, in behalf of themfelves, and the reft of the Prifoners in the feveral Gaols within the faid County ; Were feverally prefented to the Houfe, and read ; complaining of their Diftrcfs; and praying Relief. And the faid Petitions were feverally ordered to lie upon the Table. Sir John Hynde Colton reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of feveral of the Truftees appointed to put in Execution an Ad, made in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled, An Ad to continue and render more effectual feveral Ads, for repairing the Road from Stump Crofs, to Newmarket Heath and the Town of Cambridge, for repairing the Road from Foulmire to Cambridge, and for repairing other ruinous Parts of the Highways adjacent to the Road from Foulmire to Cambridge �, fo far as the fame relate to that Part of the Road leading from Foulmire to Cambridge, and the other Roads therein mentioned to be adjoining thereto-, was referred; That the Committee had examined the Matter of the faid Petition ; and had direded 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 Ad was read; and Mr. James Day being examined, faid, That the Road from the Chalk Pits near Hauxton Mill, to join the old Road near the Houfe of Mr. Pa- terfon on the other Side of Hauxton Stream, is the nearer and moft commodious Road; and that it will be necef- fary to build a Bridge acrofs the Stream, for want of which many Accidents have happened ; and that the faid Ad is, in many Refpeds, defedive, with refped to the Diftrid of Road leading from Foulmire to Cambridge, and the other Roads adjoining thereto. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for enlarging the Powers of feveral Ads, for repairing the Road from Stump Croft, 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 Foulmire to Cambridge, and the faid other Roads adjoining thereto: And that Sir John Hynde Cotton, the Lord Carysfort, Mr. Jenyns, and Mr. John Forke, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. An ingrofled Bill for dividing and inclofing certain Open and Common Fields, Common Paftures, Common Meadows, and Commonable Wafte Grounds, in the Manor, Hamlet, and Tything of Weftcote, in the Parilh of Waddefdon, in the County of Bucks, was read the Third Time. Refolded, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Ad for dividing and inclofing certain Open and Common Fields, Common Paftures, Common Meadows, and Commonable Wafte Grounds, in the Manor, Hamlet, and Tything of Weftcote, in the Parilh of Waddefdon, in the County of Bucks. Ordered, That Mr. Lowndes do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. A Petition of feveral Perfons, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, being Dyers, Callicoe Printers, and others ufing Madder in their feveral Trades, in behalf of themfelves and many others, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That Madder being a principal Ingredient in Dying and Callicoe VOL. XXX. Printing, great Quantities thereof are annually ufed in this Kingdom ; and that an Ait was paffed in the 3 ift Year of his late Majefty�s Reign, for encouraging the Growth and Cultivation of Madder in this Kingdom, by afeertaining the Tythe thereof; which was to continue in Force for Fourteen Years only ; and that the faid Aft, from the Shortnefs of the faid Term, hath not an- fwered the End of the Petitioners, the Price of Madder having, fince its Commencement, been greatly advanced, whereby the Petitioners have been obliged to raife their Prices to their Employers ; in confequence whereof great Part of the Trade is removed, and now carrying on in France, and other foreign Parts; and that the Manufacturing of Madder, from the Setting of it, to its being fit for Ufe, requires fo long Time, and great Expence in Building, Mills, and other Requilitcs, that it is apprehended many Perfons may be deterred from beginning the Cultivation of it, unlefs the Term of the faid former Aft be further continued : And therefore praying, That the Term of the faid Aft may be extended -, or that the Petitioners may have fuch other Relief in the Premifes, as to the Houfe fhall 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 Hull appear to them, to the. Houfe: And it is referred to Mr. Whitworth, S\r John Turner, Mr. Henniker, Mr. I Filly, Lord Coleraine, Mr. IFaljh, Mr. Rigby, Sir John Evelyn, Mr. Calvert, Sir Edward Turner, Mr. Lafcelles, Sir Francis Fincent, Sir George Savile, Mx. Tucker, Mr. Prefcot, Mr. Townfhend, Mr. Cuft, Mr. Colleton, Mr. Jackfon, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Sir George Pocock, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Fuller, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Clive, Mr. Jennings, Sir Anthony Abdy, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Ongley, Mr. Glover, Mr. Harvey, Sir John Delaval, Mr. Holt, Mr. Blackjhne, Sir Armine Wodehoufe, Sir Charles Bunbury, Lord Grey, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Burt, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Prowfc, Mr. Forrefter, Mr. Mawbey, Mr. Mellifh, Mr. Harris, Mr. Barre, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Mr. Wilbraham, Colonel Hotham, Mr. Boulton, Mr. Martin, Mr. Fonnereau, Sir Roger Newdigate, Sir Jarrit Smith, Lord Howe, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Edmonfone, Mr. Huffey; and all the Merchants of the Houfe: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber; and have Power to fend fur Perfons, Papers, and Records. A Petition of the Commiflioners for putting in Execution the feveral Afts, for paving, cleanfing, and lighting the Squares, Streets, and Lanes, within the City and Liberty of Weftminfl er, and other Places therein mentioned, and for preventing Annoyances therein, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners have made a further Progrefs in performing and executing the Powers and Trufts repofed in them by the faid Afts; in the doing whereof they perceive that the faid Afts are defective, with refpeft to fome of the Powers thereby given; nor can the faid Ads be effeftually put in Execution, fo as to anfwer the good Purpofes thereby intended, unlefs fome new Powers are granted, and the faid Afts in other refpefts amended and made more effectual: And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill to explain, amend, and render more effectual the laid Afts, in fuch Manner as to the Houfe fhall feem meet. Ordered, That rhe faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of a Committee : And that they do examine the Matter thereof; and report the fame, as it Hull appear to them, to the I Joule: And it is referred to Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Fitzherbert, Lord Panmure, Mr. Rigby, Mr. Plummer, General Howard, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Mawbey, Sir Reger Newdigate, Mr. Edmonftone, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Plumptre, Mr. Jackfon, Mr. Dowdefwell, Sir John Glynne, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Mr. Dyfon, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Aiderman N n Beckford, 138 Journals of the H Beckford* Lord Orwell* Sir Francis Vincent* Mr. Parker* Mr. Ongley* Mr. Boulton* Mr. Stephens* Mr. Varfittart* Mr. Wood* Mr. Martin* Mr. Montagu* Mr. Eyre* Mr. Cholmley* Mr. Blackfione* Mr. Sandys* Sir Anthony Abdy* Lord Tavifiock* Mr. Dodd* Mr. Fuller* Sir Brocke Bridges* Mr. Luttrell* Mr. Harvard* Mr. Clive* Mr. Kynafion* Mr. Gray* Sir Charles Mordaunt* Mr. For- refter* Mr. Henniker* Doftor Hay* Lord Grey* Mr. Bov- verie; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Middlefex* EJfex* Kent* and Surrey: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber ; and have Power to fend for Per- fons, Papers, and Records. Ordered* That there be laid before this Houfe, an Ac'count of all foreign manufactured Gloves and Mittins that have been feized and condemned by the Officers of His Majefty�s Cuftoms in England* for Seven Years laftpaft, to Chrifimas 1764; diftinguilhing each Year, together with the Produce arifing from the Sale thereof. A Bill for the regulating Qualifications of the Proprietors of Eafi India Stock, was read a Second Time. Refolved* That the Bill be committed to Mr. Boulton* Mr. Sulivan* Sir Edward Turner* Sir Matthew Featber- fionhaugh* Mr. Walfh* Mr. Attorney General, Mr. Solicitor General, Mr. Thomas Walpole* Sir George Colebrooke* Mr. Jackfon* Sir John Glynne* Mr. Gilbert* Lord Orwell* Sir Roger Newdigate* Mr. Blackfione* Sir Charles Bunbury* Mr. Prefcot* Mr. Touchet* Mr. Mawbey* Sir George Tonge* Mr. Kynafion* Mr. Fonnereau* Mr. Staunton* Mr. Burrell*Mr. Lowndes*Sir Thomas Pym Hales* Mr.Jenkinfov* Sir Robert Ladbrcke* Mr. HuJ/ey* Mr. Hunter* Mr. Ongley* Mr. Ryder* Sir George Savile* Mr. Hume* Sir William Beauchamp Probior* Mr. Tucker* Mr. Sandys* Mr. Whitworth* Lord John Cavendtjh* Mr. Plummer* Mr. Ofwald* Lord Howe* Mr. Harris* Mr. Burrell* Mr. Rigby* Mr. Whichcot; and all the Merchants of the Houfe: And they are to 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 laid Bill is committed. The Houfe being informed, that One of the Sheriffs 'of the City of London attended at the Door ; he was called in ; and, at the Bar, prefented to the Houfe, A Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aidermen, and Commons of the City of London* in Common Council af- fembled. And then he withdrew. And the faid Petition was read ; Setting forth, That the Petitioners, upon the Application of divers Merchants, Tradefmen, Citizens, and Inhabitants of the City of London* and Borough of Southwark* and of the feveral Counties of Surrey* Kent* and Sujfex* to the Houfe, were, by an Aft, pafled in the 29th Year of his late Majefty, to improve, widen, and enlarge the Paf- fages over and through London Bridge* impowered to make fuch Purchafes, and required to rake down fuch Houfes and Buildings as they (hould judge neceffary for the Enlargement and Improvement of the Paffage over, and the .Avenues leading to and from the faid Bridge, and alfo to widen and enlarge One or more of the Arches thereof; and certain Tolls were thereby granted and vefted in the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the laid City, for that Service; and that, by another Act, pafled in the 3 ift Year of his faid late Majefty, for applying a Sum of Money, then granted for the Service of London Bridge* and for rendering more effectual the faid former Aft, the faid Tolls granted by that A A were difeontinued; and that, by a fubfequent Aft, pafled in the 2d Year of His prefent Majefty, to enlarge and improve the North Eaft Avenue of the faid Bridge, the Petitioners were authorized and required to caufe fo much of the Fabric of the Parilh Church of the United Pa- mons mons of the City of London, in Common Council af- Gmbled. And then he withdrew. And the faid Petition was read ; Setting forth, That the Gaol of Newgate is the Common Gaol for the City of London and the County of Middlefex ; and that, for feveral Years laft paft, there have been, Commumbus Annis, near a Thoufand Perfons committed to the faid Gaol, Two Thirds of which have been Middlefex Pri- foners �, and that the faid Gaol is a very ancient, ilF conftruded, clofe, and incommodious Building, and, in its prefent State, unfit for the Reception of Prifoners committed there; and that the Petitioners are well fatis- fied, that the prefent State and Condition of the faid Gaol merits the Attention of the Legiflature; and that, on a careful Examination and Survey, it appears, that the fame cannot be rendered healthy and commodious, without being taken down, and rebuilt on a more extended Plan ; and that the Petitioners are ready and willing to do every thing towards the promoting a Work of fuch Public Utility, that, on their Part, can equitably be expeded or required ; but that the fame cannot, as the Petitioners are advifed, be carried into Execution, without the Aid of Parliament: Anti therefore praying the Houfe to take the Premifes into their Confideration, and to grant fuch Relief therein, as to the Houfe fliall 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 Ihall appear to them, to the Houfe : And it is referred to Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Aiderman Harley, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Harvey, Sir William Beauchamp ProEtor, Mr. Mawbey, Mr. Gilbert, Sir Roger Newdigate, Sir John Turner, Lord Warkworth, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Dyfon, Sir Francis Vincent, Sir Charles ferve for the City of London, and the Counties of Mid� dlefex, EJfex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertford: 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 to the Committee are to have Voices. A Motion was made and the Queftion being propofed, That die Bill for amending, widening, altering, clearing, and keeping in Repair, feveral Roads leading from the Market Crofs,\nTheBoroyx^hof Wareham, in theCountyof Dorfet, be read a Second Time upon this Day Fortnight; An Amendment was propofed ro be made to the Queftion, by leaving out the Word � Fortnight� and adding the Words � Three Months� inftead thereof. And the Queftion being put, that the Word � Fortnight� ftand Part of the faid Queftion; It paffed in the Negative. And the Queftion being put, that the Words � Three Months� be added inftead thereof; It was refolved in the Affirmative. Then the main Queftion thus amended being put; Refolved, That the laid Bill be read a Second Time upon this Day Three Months. Ordered, That there be laid before this Houfe, Copies of the Inftructions given to Mr. John Harrifon, and the Perfons appointed to make the Obfervations, relative to the Second Trial of his Time-keeper. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. The Houfe being informed, that Mr. Wejlon, from the Commifiioners 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 Coals brought into the Port of London, for the Twenty Years preceding the 5th January 1765 ; diftinguilhing each Year, and from what Places. 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 Seffion. on private Wharfs, from Cbrijlmas to Cbrijlmas 1764: And alfo, '' ^_ j _. _.^�. * * avwg^aat KJ 11 IYO exported from England, from Cbrijlmas 1763 to Cbrijlmas 1764; diftinguilhing to what Countries, with the Amount of the Drawback thereupon : And allo, A Return to the feveral Orders of the Houfe, dated 11 February 1765, relative to the Importation and Exportation of Silk Stockings, Silk Gloves, Silk Mittins, and Silk Pieces. And then he withdrew. And the Titles of the laid Accounts were read. And the faid Return was alfo read. Ordered, That the Firft of the faid Accounts be referred to the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Committee of Merchants and Traders within the Port of London, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, appointed to make a proper Application for an Extenfion of the lawful and public Whans, in behalf of themfelves and the faid Merchants and Traders, is referred. . Ordered, That the other of the faid Accounts be referred to 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 Manufacturers of Great Britain, is referred. Ordered, That the faid Return do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. The faid Accounts and Return are preferved amongft the other Papers of this Seffion. Mr. Kynafton, according to Order, reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it was referred to confider of the Refolutions, which, upon the 26th Day of May 175$, were reponed from the Committee, appointed to inquire into the Original Standards of Weights Weights and Meafures in this Kingdom, and to confi- der the Laws relating thereto, and to report their Obfer- vations thereupon, together with their Opinion of the m oft efieftual Means for afeertaining and enforcing uni- fo rm and certain Standards of Weights and Meafures to b e ufed for the future; and, which, upon the 2d Day of June following, were, with Amendments to feveral of them, agreed to by the Houfe; and alfo the Refo- lutions, which, upon the nth Day of April 1759, were reported from the Committee appointed to inquire into the Original Standards of Weights and Meafures in this Kingdom, and to confider the Laws relating thereto, and to report their Obfervations thereupon, together with the ir Opinion of the moft effeftual Means for afeertaining and enforcing uniform and certain Standards of Weights and Meafures to be ufed for the future; and which were the next Day agreed to by the Houfe; the Refol utions 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 followeth; viz. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, �1 hat every Perfon making or felling Meafures of Capacity, (hall be obliged to take out an Annual Licence, within the Space of Forty Days after a Day to be limited. Refolded, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty be charged upon every Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, on which every fuch Licence Ihall be ingrofled, written, or printed. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That there be paid for every Afiizing, Sealing, or Marking every Gallon, or greater Meafure of Capacity, the Sum of Three Pence ; for every Quart, or other greater Meafure lefs than One Gallon, the Sum of Two Pence ; and for every Meafure lefs than a Quart, One Peny. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That every Perfon making and felling of Weights, fhall be obliged to take out an Annual Licence, within rhe Space of Forty Days after a Day to be limited. Refolded, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty be charged upon every Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, on which every fuch Licence Hull be ingrofied, written, or printed. Refolded, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That there be paid for the Firft Afiizing, Sealing, or Marking of every Weight, not being lefs than Sixty-eight Pounds one Ounce and Twelve Peny Weight, the Sum of Three Pence; and for every Re- aflizing, Re-fealing, or Correcting any fuch Weight, the Sum of One Peny Half-peny; for the Firft Afliz- ing, Sealing, or Marking of every Weight, being more than One Pound Two Ounces and Twelve Peny Weight, and lefs than Sixty-eight Pounds One Ounce and Twelve Peny Weight, the Sum of Two Pence; and for every Re- aflizing, Re-fealing, or Correcting every fuch Weight, One Peny; and for every Afiizing, Sealing, or Marking of every Weight, being more than Half of One Ounce, and lefs than One Pound Two Ounces and Twelve Peny Weight, the Sum of One Half-peny; and for every Half Ounce, and other inferior Weight, One Farthing. Refolvcd, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That there be paid for every Afiizing, Sealing, or Marking every Meafure of Length, the Sum of One Peny. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That the Monies which Ihall arife by the faid Stamp Duties, and by the Afiizing, Sealing, and Marking of Weights and Meafures, as aforefaid, ought to be applied in dilcharging the Expence of carrying into Execution the Regulations, propofed to be eftablifhed by the Re- And then the Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. I'eneri XUM 5 GEO. III. Journals of the Generis, 150 die Februarii} Anno 5* Georgii IHUi Regis, 1765. PRAYERS. APETITION of feveral Mercers and Traders in the Silk Manufafture, whofe Names are fub- fcribed, in behalf of themfelves and others concerned in the fame Bufinefs, was prefentcd to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth. That the Petitioners obferve, by the Votes of the Houfe, that a Petition of the Bailiffs, Wardens, Afliftants, and Commonalty of the Trade, Art, and Myftery of Weavers, London, on behalf of themfelves and the Silk Manufacturers of Great Britain, has been prefented to the Houfe, praying Rich Relief, on behalf of the Silk Manufacture, as to the Houfe (hall appear reafonable ?, and that the Petitioners alfo obferve, a Petition of feveral Mercers has been prefented to the Houfe; Setting forth, That, if the Importation into this Kingdom of all Foreign Wrought Silks were to be prohibited, or any hig. er Duty laid, it would be very injurious, not only to themfelves, but to the Public in general, and likewife a great Lofs to the Revenue ; and that thefe Petitioners apprehend, that the Importation, Ufe, and Wear of Foreign Wrought Silks and Velvets, tend to the great Difcouragement of the Petitioners Trade and Bufinefs, of the Silk Manufacture, and Silk Trade in general: And therefore praying the Houfe to grant Rich Relief to the Silk Manufacture of this Kingdom, as to the Houfe Rial) appear reafonable and necef- fary to encourage and fupport the Silk Manufacture and Silk Trade of Great Britain. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of 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 Manufacturers of Great Britain, is referred. A Petition of William Thompfon Gentleman, the Reverend George Coalton the Elder, Richard Hill, Jofepb Bunney Gentlemen, and others, Proprietors of Lands within the Common and Open Fields of Houghton on the Hill, in the County of Leicefter, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Lands and Grounds of the Petitioners in the faid Fields lie greatly intermixed, and are, in their prefent Situation, incapable of Improvement; and alleging that if the faid Fields were divided and inclofed, it would greatly improve their feveral Eftates : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for dividing and inclofmg the faid Fields, under Rich Rules, Orders, and Regulations, as to the Houle fliall feem meet. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, purfuant to the Prayer of the faid Petition: And that Sir �Thomas Palmer, Sir Jarrit Smith, and Sir Thomas Cave, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of the feveral Perfons, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, that, at a Veftry held in the Parilh Church of All Saints, Hertford, February j2th, 1765, purfuant to a Notice give n only on the preceding Sunday, feveral of the principal Inhabitants being debarred, by their Occupations, from attending upon fo fhort a Notice, a Majority was obtained, which determined to prefent a Petition to the Houle, for a Grant of �. 1,500 (though a Faculty applyed for has not been obtained in the Spiritual Court) to repair a ruinous old Fabnck of a Church, as appears by the Atteftation of feveral able Builders and Surveyors; that the Petitioners have therefore moft folemnly objected to it, humbly hoping to VOL. XXX. the ordinary Couric of Law: And therefore praying. That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for repairing the (aid Roads �, and that the Petitioners may have fuch other Relief in the Premiles, as to the Houfe (hall feem meet. Ordered That the laid Petition be referred to the Confideration 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 Lord Thomond, Mr. Shiffner, Sir Edward Bayntun, General Howard, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Kynaftcn, Mr. Methuen, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Lane, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Cafwall, Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. Molyneux, General Lambton, Sir William Meredith, Mr. Gilbert, Colonel Barre, Mr. Fonnereau, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Upton, Mr. Fitzherbert, Mr. Dempjter, Mr. Sulivan, Mr. Townjhend, I .ord Catherlougb, Mr. Mawbey, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Morton, Lord Gage, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Aiderman Harley, Sir George Amy and, Mr. Keppel, Mr. Hume, Lord North, Mr. Prowfe, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, General Stanwix, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Dowdefwell, Lord Howe, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Rigby; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Somerfet, Wilts, and Deron: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in rhe Speaker�s Chamber ; and have Power to fend for Pcrfons, Papers, and Records. Mr. Lafcelles prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Arable Fields, Meadows, Failures, Commons, and Wade Grounds, in the Lordfhip and Parilh of Flam- brough, in the Cbunty of Fork: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolded, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Petition of 'Thomas Duke of Leeds, Knight of the Moft noble Order of the Garter, Lord of the Manor, and of feveral others. Owners and Proprietors of Lands lying in the Parilh, of Braithwell, in the County of Fork, was"prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That there are, within the laid Manor and Parilh, Two Open Common Pafture Fields, called Braithwell and Mil Helming Common, wl Cockhill Common, together with a fmall Piece of Ground called Braithwell Green, the whole containing, by Eftimation, 200 Acres; and that the laid Fields and Piece of Ground are, in their prefent Situation, very inconvenient, and incapable of Improvement ; but, if divided and inclofed, would be of great Benefit to the Petitioners : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for dividing and inclofing the faid Fields, in fuch Manner, and under fuch Regulations, as to the Houfe Ihall feem meet. Ordered, d�hat Leave be given to bring in a Bill, pur- fuant to the Prayer of the faid Petition : And that Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. Ridley, and Mr. Hewett, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Walter Scott have Leave to flay in the Country, on Account of the Indifpofition of his Lady. An ingrofled Bill from the Lords, intituled. An Aft for naturalizing Dirk Jager, of London, Merchant, was read a Second 1 ime. Refohed, That the Bill be committed to Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Touchet, Mr. Kynafon, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Lane, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Upton, Mr. Methuen, Mr. Demp/ler, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Buller, Mr. Butler, Mr. Montagu, Lord Coleraine, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Morton, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Edmonftone, Sir George Amy and, Sir Anthony Abdy, Mr. Nugent, Sir George Savile, Mr. Aufrere, Sir George Metham, Mr. Gray, Sir William Meredith, Mr. Parker, Sir Walter Bagot, Mr. Bootle, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Burrell, Sir George Pigot, Mr. Glover, Colonel Irwin, Mr. Cbolm- Icy, Mr. Fane, Mr. Vernon, Mr. Dundas, Mr. Patcrfon, Mr. Townjhend, Sir Simeon Stewart, Mr. Bolton, Mr. 1 Bouverie, Sir Robert Long, Mr. Long, Mr. Ward, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Drax, Mr. Jennings, Mr. Walter, Mr. Cafwall, Mr. Foley: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Petition of the Inhabitants of the feveral Parifhes of Weft Quantoxhead, Eaft Quantoxhead, Kilve, Stringfton, Holford, Kelton, Dodington, and Nether Stowy, in the County of Somerfet, and of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and others, refiding near, and travelling on the Roads therein after mentioned, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners have been informed, that a Petition is, or is defigned to be, prefented, praying that the Roads through the feveral Parifhes aforefaid may be repaired, by the Aid of a Turnpike, from thel�own of Minehead, in the faid County of Somerfet, to Watchet, in the Parilh of Saint Decumans, in the faid County of Somerfet, and from Watcher aforefaid to a certain Place in the Town and Parilh of Nether Stowy aforefaid, where the Bridgewater Turnpike ends; and letting forth, to the great Surprize of the Petitioners, that � the Roads, in the feveral Parifhes � Firft abovementioned, are in a ruinous Condition, � and in many Parts narrow and incommodious, and � cannot be effectually amended, widened, and kept in � Repair by the ordinary Courfe of Law;� and thefe Petitioners allege, that the faid Roads, leading through the faid abovementioned Parifhes, are not in a ruinous Condition, nor in any Part too narrow, or otherwife incommodious, and may and can be effectually kept in Repair by the ordinary Courfe of Law ; and that, fhould the Bill petitioned or intended to be petitioned for, pafs into an Aft, in the full Extent as therein fpecified, it will bring a very burthenfome and ufelefs Expence to the Petitioners and many others : And therefore praying the Houfe to take the Premiles into Confideration; and that the Roads leading through the faid feveral Parifhes may not be included in the Minehead or any other Turnpike Bill; and that the Petitioners may have fuch other Relief in the Premifes, as to the Houfe fhall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Conftables, BurgefTes, and principal Inhabitants of the Borough of Minehead, in the County of Somerfet, and feveral Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and others, of the Counties of Somerfet and Devon, refiding near, and travelling on, the Roads thereafter mentioned, is referred. A Petition of feveral of the Proprietors of Lands and Commons in the Open and Common Fields, in the Parilh of Granburrow, in the County of Warwick, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners are feifed and polfefled of feveral Eftates in the faid Fields, which lie open and difperfed, and, in their prefent Situation, are incapable of any confiderable Improvement; and that it will be for the Benefit of the feveral Parties interefted therein if the fame were divided and inclofed : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in aBill for the Purpofes aforefaid, under fuch Regulations as the Houfe Ihall think proper. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, pur- fuant to the Prayer of the laid Petition: And that Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Kynafton, Sir Roger Newdigate, and Mr. Bromly, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of (he Lords of the Manor or Manors of Syrejham, otherv/ife Sifebam, in the County of Northampton, and of the Patron and Rector Incumbent of the Parilh Church there, and of feveral other the Owners and Proprietors of Lands and Commons, in the Open and Common Fields of Syrejham, otherwife Sifeham aforefaid, and of Common of Pafture and other Properties in and upon certain Trafts or Parcels of Common Ground within the faid Manor or Manors and Parilh, commonly called Crowfield Common and Sifeham Wild, whole Names are are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Petitioners are foiled and poffeffed of feveral Eftates and Properties in the faid Fields ; and alfo of a Right of Common and other Properties in and upon the laid Common Ground, which lie intermixed and difperfed in fmall Parcels; and that it would be of great Advantage to the Owners and Proprietors thereof, if the fame were inclofed and divided into juft Allotments: And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for dividing and inclofmg the Common Fields, Common Failures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and Commonable Lands, in the Manor or Manors and Parifh of Syrefoam, otherwife Sifebam, in the County of Northampton, according to each Perfon�s Right in the fame. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, pur- fuant to the Prayer of the laid Petition : And that Sir Charles Mordaunt and Mr. Kynajlon do prepare, and bring in, the fame. An ingrafted Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Aft for annexing the Reftory of Cukrne, in the County of Wilts, to the Office of Warden of the College of Saint Mary of Wincbejler, in Oxford, was read a Second Time. Refolved, Thar the Bill be committed to Sir Rover Newdigate, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Sir Walter Bagot, Mr. Bagot, Sir Robert Long, Mr. Long, Mr. Tucker, Sir George Savile, Mr. Walter, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Sir ^'vnes Dajhwood, Mr. Bouverie, Sir Thomas Stapleton, Mr. Curzon, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Methuen, Mr. Pye, Mr. Jennings, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Drax, Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. Ongley, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Boulton, Mr. Cafwell, Mr. Foley, Mr. Ward, Mr. Parker, Mr. Plummer, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Prowfe, Mr. Morton, Mr. Rajhleigh, Mr. Blackjione, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Gray, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Secretary at War, Mr. Fanfttart, Sir Ermine Wodehoufe, Mr. Ward, Mr. Fuller, Sir George Pocock; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Oxford, Berks, Warwick, Southampton, and Wilts: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Petition of feveral Gentlemen, Merchants, and other Inhabitants, of the Counties of Chejler, Lancafier, and Fork, refiding near, and ufualiy travelling, the High Roads therein after mentioned, lying in the fame Counties, whofe Names are thereunder written, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Road leading from the prefent Turnpike Road in Stockport, to the Finger Pojl at Saxon Lane, and adjoining to the prefent Turnpike Road at the Eaft End of the Townlhip of Audenfhaw, otherwife Oudenjbaw; and alfo the Road from the Crofs in AJhton Under Line, to Doc- tor's Lanehead, or Du tier's Gate, adjoining to the prefont Turnpike Road leading from Huddersfield, to Oldham ; and alfo the Road branching out of the faid Firft mentioned Road, at or near the Finger Poft, in the Townfhip of Bredbury, to Mottram, in Longdendale; are in a very ruinous Condition, narrow and founderous in many Places, and cannot be effeftually repaired, and kept in Repair, by the ordinary Proviftons of the Law : And therefore praying. That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for repairing, amending, or widening and altering, fo much of the feveral Roads beforementioned, as are therein before defcribed, in fuch Manner as to the I loufe (hall feem meet. Ordered, That the laid Petition be referred to the Confideration of a Committee : And that they do examine the Matter thereof; and report the fame, as it Ihall appear to them, to the I loufe: And it is referred to Sir William Meredith, Sir George I Farren, Mr. Fuller, Mr. De Grey, Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. Ridley, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Upton, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Dowdefwell, Mr. Ward, Mr. Edmonftone, Mr. Fitzherbert, Mr. Prat, Mr. Conolly, Mr. Dyfon, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Glover, Mr. Sandys, Lord Coleraine, Mr. 143 Plummer, Mr. Harris, Lord North, Mr. Drax, Mr. Parker, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Prowfe, Mr. Methilen, Mr. Walcot, Mr. Rajhleigh, Mr. Gray, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Morton, Mr. Wbichcot, Mr. Vanfittart, Sir Armine Wodehoufe, Mr. Ward, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Buller �, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Lan- cajier, Chejler, Stafford, Fork, and Derby; and for the Principality of Wales: And they are to meet this Afternoon, atFiveof theClock, in the Speaker�s Chamber; and have Power to fend for Perfons, Papers, and Records. A Petition of the Gentlemen, Landholders, and Occupiers of Lands, lying near the High Road leading from the Town and Borough of New Malt on, in the North Riding of the County of Fork, to the Market Town of Pickering, in the faid Riding, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Road leading from the North End of a Street in the faid Town and Borough, called Old Malton Gate, to and through the faid Town, and from thence to Pickering, is, in many Parts thereof, very ruinous, narrow, and much out of Repair, and cannot, by the ordinary Courfe of Law, be effeftually amended and kept in good Repair: And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for repairing and amending the faid Road, by fuch Ways and Means, and 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 (hall appear to them, to the Houfe : And it is referred to Mr. Savik Finch, Mr. Lafcelles, Lord North, Sir William Meredith, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Byde, Mr. Dowdefwell, Mr. Kynajlon, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Sir Roger Newdigate, Mr. Hunter, Lord Orwell, Mr. Paterfon, Mr. Hume, General Stanwix, Mr. Milks, Mr. Jackfon, Mr. Sandys, Lord Howe, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Gilbert, Mr, Bagot, Mr. Glover, Mr. Conolly, Sir William Maynard. Mr. Fonnereau, Mr. Boulton, Mr. Sbiffner, Mr. Stephens, Mr. Cafwall, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Gray, Mr. Curzon, Mr. Blackjione, General Honey wood, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Mr. Morton, Mr. Luther, Colonel Howe, Mr. Vernon, Lord Warkwortb; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Fork, Lincoln, Wejlmoreland, Northumberland, Cumberland, Durham, and Lancafter: 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. A Petition of the Merchants, Buyers, and Dealers in Woollen Broad Cloth, in the Borough of Leeds, and Weft Riding of the County of Fork, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners having feen, by the Votes of the Houfe, that a Petition has been prefented from the Juftices of the Peace afl'embled at the General Quarter Seflions of the Peace held at Wakefield, in and for the faid Weft Riding, the Grand Jury at the fame Seflions, and the Gentlemen, Tradesmen, and other Manufacturers in the fame Riding; and alleging, that thefe Petitioners, not having been previoufly acquainted with the Intentions of the faid Petitioners, pray, that, before the feveral Afts mentioned in the faid Petition, or any of them, be repealed, or any Aft palled in Confe- quence of fuch Petition, thefe Petitioners may be heard, by themfelves or Counfcl, before the Houfe. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Juftices of the Peace, aflembled at the General Quarter Seflions of the Peace held at Wakefield, in and for the Weft Riding of the County of Fork, the Grand Jury at the fame Seflions, the Gentlemen, Tradefmen, Clothiers, and other Manufacturers in the fame Riding, is referred; and that the Petitioners be heard, by themfelves, or their Counfel, before the faid Committee, upon their Petition, if they think fit. Ordered, *4+ Ordered, That it be an InftruAion to the faid Committee, that they do admit Counfel to be heard, at the fame Time, in Favour of the faid former Petition, againft the Petition now prefented. , A Petition of George Baker Efquire, Lord of the Barony or Manor of Bulbeck, in the County of Northumberland ; and alfo of the feveral Freeholders and Owners of Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, in the laid Barony or Manor, whofe Names are thereunto fublcribed, for and on behalf of themfelves and other the Freeholders and Owners of Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, having Right of Common upon a certain Common Moor or Trad of Wade Land, therein after mentioned, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That there is a large Common Moor, or Trad of Waite Land within and belonging to the faid Barony or Manor of Bulbeck, containing, by Eftimation, 12,000 Acres, or thereabouts; and that the faid George Baker is Lord of the faid Manor, and, as fuch, is Owner of the Soil, Inheritance, and Royalties, of the faid Common Moor, or Wafte Land; and himfelf and others have a Right to depafture their commonable Cattle thereupon ; and alleging, that the Petitioners are willing and defirous that the faid Common Moor, or Wafte Land, which, in its prefent State and Condition, is of very little Ufe or Service, may be inclofed, cultivated, improved, and divided, amongft the Lord of the faid Manor and the feveral Freeholders and Land Owners intitled to Right of Common on the fame : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for the Purpofe aforefaid. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, purfuant to the Prayer of the faid Petition; and that Mr. Delaval and Mr. Ridley do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of Sir Lancelot Allgood Knight, Chrifiopbf Reed Efquire, Edward Cbarlton Efquire, Thomas Airey Efquire, William Cbarlton Efquire, John Ridley and Reynold Cbarlton, Gentlemen, and alfo of the feveral Freeholders, and Owners of Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, in the Parifh of Sytnondburn, and County of Northumberland, whofe Names are thereunto fub- fcribed, for and on behalf of themfelves and other rhe Freeholders, Owners of Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, having Right of Common upon the Trafts of Wafte Ground, Moors, or Commons, therein after mentioned, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That there are Two large Trafts of Wafte Ground, Moors, or Commons, within and Parcel of the Barony or Manor of Warke, in the County of Northumberland, one called Warke's Fell, or Warke's Common, containing, by Eftimation, 2000 Acres, or thereabouts, the other called Broad Poole, otherwife Wark's Shield Common, containing, by Eftimation, 6000 Acres, or thereabouts; and that the honourable Ifaac Townsend Efquire and certain other Commiflioners or Governors and Directors of the Royal Hofpital for Seamen at Greenwich, are Lords of the faid Barony or Manor, and, as fuch, are Owners of the Soil and Inheritance of the faid Two Waftes, Moors, or Commons; and that the Petitioners, and feveral other Freeholders and Land Owners of and within the faid Parifh, have and enjoy a Right to depafture their Commonable Cattle upon the faid Two Waftes, Moors, or Commons, or One of them ; and that the Lords of the faid Barony or Manor of Warke, and the Petitioners, are willing and defirous that the fame, which, in their prefent Condition, are of little Ufe, may be cultivated and improved, and be divided and inclofed, and allotted unto and amongft the faid Lords of the faid Manor, and the Petitioners, and the other feveral Freeholders and Land Owners intitled to Right of Common thereon refpec tively : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for the Purpofes aforefaid, under fuch Regulations, and in fuch Manner and Form, as to the Houfe fhall feem meet. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, purfuant to the Prayer of the faid Petition : And that Mr. Delaval and Mr. Ridley do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and other principal Inhabitants of the Counties of Oxford, Northampton, and Leicejler, whofe Names are thereuntoiub- fcribed, refiding in and near the Roads and Places therein after mentioned, on the behalf of themfelves and others, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, that the public Road leading from the Bridge, at or near the Eaft End of Banbury, in the County of Oxford, through the Hamlet of Grimsbury, the Parifh of Cbal- combe, the Towns of War ding ton, Chippen Warden, Byfield, and Charwelton, in the Parifhes of Faujley and Badby, the Hamlet of Drayton, the Town and Parifh of Daventry, and thence through the Parifhes of Welton, Ledgers Afhby, and Kilfby, to the Watling-Jlreet Road, at or near the North Eaft Corner of Kiljly Open Fields; thence, along the fame Road, about Three Miles, to a Place called The Gibbet, through the Town and Parifh of Cottefibatch, through Part of the Parifh of Mijiertou, to the South End of Millfield, in the Parifh of Lutterworth, in the County of Leicejler; are, in many Parts thereof, in a founderous Condition, and, in the Winter Seafon in particular, almoft impaflable; and the Means provided by Law for repairing the Highways arc not fufficient effcftually to amend and keep the faid Road in good Repair : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for repairing, amending, and widening the faid Road, by fuch Ways and Means, and in fuch Manner, as to the Houfe 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 fame, as it fhall appear to them, to the Houfe: And it is referred to Lord North, Lord Thomond, Mr. Harris, Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. Bagot, Lord Grey, Sir Armine Wodehoufe, Mr. Hunter, Lord Warkworth, Mr. Drax, Mr. Conolly, Mr. Buller, Mr. Hotham, Mr. Tuck- field, Lord Carysfort, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Sir Edward Bayntun, Mr. Kynafion, Mr. Ward, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Lambton, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Parker, Mr. Morton, Mr. Edmonftone, Sir George Tonge, Sir Francis Drake, Mr. Fonnereau, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Buller, Mr. Gray, Mr. Bull, Mr. Webb, Mr. Hume, Mr. Nugent, Sir Jarrit Smith ; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Leicefter, Northampton, Oxford, Gloucejler, and Warwick: 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. Mr. Lane reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Mayor and Commonalty of the City of Fork, and of the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders, refiding near, or travelling on, the Highways or Roads thereafter mentioned, and others, 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 the Clerk�s Table : Where the fame was read ; and is as follow - eth 5 viz. To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition, Mr. William Adiock faid, that he knows the Roads mentioned in the Petition, and that the fame are very narrow and incommodious, and cannot be repaired by the ordinary Courfe of Law. Mr. John Raper confirmed the above Evidence. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for amending and widening the Road from the Citv of Fork, whom the Bill 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 decealed, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true ; and that the Committee had direded 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. A Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and Inhabitants of the City of Litchfield, and of the feveral Towns or Vills of Toxal, Mavefon, Ridware, Abbots Biomley, Uttoxeter, Spath, Crakemarjh, Rocefier, Ellafion,^ Mathfield, in the County of Stafford-, and of AJhborn, in the County of Derby} and of feveral Gentlemen, Clergy, and other Perfons refiding near to and ufing the Road leading from Lit Afield over High Bridges, through Mavefon, Ridware, Abbots Bromley, Uttoxeter, Spath, Crakemarjh, Rocefier, over Hanging Bridge to AJhborn; and alfo the Road leading from Litchfield to Toxal; was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Road leading from High Bridges aforefaid^ through Abbots Bromley, to Uttoxeter aforefaid ; and alfo the Road branching from the Turnpike Road betwixt Uttoxeter and Newcafiie at Spath aforefaid, leading through Crakemarjh, Rocefier, and Ellafion, to Hanging Bridge aforefaid; and alfo the Road branching from the Road betwixt Litchfield and Uttoxeter, near Hanch, and leading from thence to Toxal aforefaid ; are in general deep, narrow, rough, and, for want of proper Bridges, cannot, in Time of Floods, be palled without the ut- moft Danger ; and that the fame cannot be cffeftually repaired, and proper Bridges built, by the Laws now in being; and further fetting forth, that by an Aft paifed in the Year of his late Majefty King George the Second, the Tolls collected at the Turnpike Gate, at the North End of the City of Litchfield, called Finals Gate, on the Road leading to Uttoxeter aforefaid, were to be applied in amending and widening fo much of the Road betwixt Litchfield and Uttoxeter as extended from Litchfield to High Bridges; and that the faid Road �is now fufficiently widened and repaired ; and that the Tolls taken at the faid Gate are more than fufficient to keep the faid Road in Repair, and to pay the Intereft of the Money borrowed thereon ; and that Travellers puffing along the Road betwixt Uttoxeter and AJhborn are obliged to pay Toll at a Turnpike Gate erefted near Hanging Bridge aforefaid, by virtue of an Aft pafied in the 2d Year of His prefent Majefty, for repairing the Road betwixt AJhborn and Congleton, although they travel no further on the faid Turnpike Road than from Hanging Bridge to AJhborn ; and that the Truftees appointed for putting the faid Aft in Execution, do not repair any Part of the Road from Hanging Bridge afore- laid, leading to Uttoxeter ; and that the Truftees for the? faid Road between AJhborn and Congleton have borrowed and laid out upwards of 50001, towards the Repair of the fame, but that the Produce of the Tolls arifing thereon will not keep down the Intereft of the Monies borrowed, by reafon of the feveral Exemptions made by the faid Aft: And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to prefent a Bill for the effectually repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair, the faid Roads, and building Bridges on the fame; and that the Tolls taken at the faid Turnpike Gate near Litchfield, called Timals Gate, in the Road to Uttoxeter, may be applied in repairing fo much of the faid Road as extendeth from Litchfield aforefaid to the Middle of Blythford, and in making fuch Part of the Road and Bridges as may be neceflary to that Place; and after the fame (hall be ef- feftually made and repaired, that the faid Tolls may be applied in repairing the faid Road branching from the Road betwixt Litchfield and Uttoxeter, and leading to- wards Toxal, to Toxa! aforefaid ; and that a Turnpike P p Gare Gate may be erected on the faid Road, near to Uttoxetcr-, and that the Tolls to be taken at the fame may be applied in making and repairing fo much of the laid Road asextendeth from the Middle of Blytbford toUttoxeter, and in building proper Bridges thereon; and alfo that the faid Road branching from the Turnpike Road betwixt Uttoxeter and Ncwcajile, at or near Spath aforefaid, and leading to AJhborn, may be admeafured betwixt the faid Turnpike at Spath aforefaid, and Hanging Bridge and be divided into Two equal Parts; and that a fuffi- cient Part of the Tolls to be taken at the Turnpike Gate now erefted, or at another to be erected inftead thereof, between Afborn and the Half-way from Hanging Bridge to Spath, may be applied in making and repairing the Half of the faid Road next to Hanging Bridge; and that the Truftees for the faid Road betwixt A/hbcrn and Conglcton fhall contribute 501, for building a Bridge over the River Cburnet �, and that a Turnpike Gate may be erefted on the laid Road at Spath aforefaid ; and that the Polls to be taken at the fame may be applied in making and repairing the other I lair thereof, and in building Bridges where neceflary; and alfo, that the Exemptions made by the faid Ait for repairing the Road betwixt Affiorn and Congleton may be taken off; and that the Petitioners think it would be highly beneficial to the Country in general, if a Branch fhould be made out of the faid Turnpike Road prayed for, from Uttoxeter to Stafford; but that they have not had Time to confult the Gentlemen and Inhabitants of Stafford, and others refiding near the faid Road, concerning the fame* 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 fhall appear to them, to the Houfe: And it is referred to Mr. Bagot, Mr. Tawnjbend, Lord Grey, Sir James Da/hwood, Mr. Prouft, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Webb, Mr. Dowdefwell, Ms'. Bootle, Mr. Sandys, Mx.Tudway, Mr. Kynajion, Lord Harry Powlet, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Edmonjione, l.ord Coleraine, Mr. Fitzberbert, Sir J wit Smith, Sir George Savile, Mr. Glover, Mr. Curzon, Sir Herbert Lloyd, Mr. Gray, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Rajhleigb, Mr. Waucbcpe, Lord Warkwortb; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Derby, Stafford, Cbejler, Warwick, and Leicefter : And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Petition of the Reverend Charles Tarrant, Doftor in Divinity, Reflor of the Parifh of St. George Bloomjbury, in the County of Middlefex, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Reciting feveral Ads for building and endowing 50 New Churches in and about London and Wtjbnin- Jler; and alleging, that, in purfuance of One of the faid Acts, Three thoufand Pounds was directed to be applied for making Provifion for the Reftor, for the Time being, of the faid Church, in or near Bloomjbury Market, which Sum, together with the Sum of One thoufand T wo hundred and Fifty Pounds paid by the Inhabitants of the Parifh of St. Giles in the Helds, towards the better Maintenance of the Reftor of the faid Church for the Time being, and his Succeffors, fhould be laid out in the purchafing Lands, Tenements, Fee Farm Rents, Ground Rents, or other Hereditaments, in Fee Simple, to be conveyed to and fettled upon and to the Ufe of the faid Reftor of the faid Parifh Church, for the Time being, and his Succeffors in the faid Church for ever, for and towards his and their Maintenance; and in the mean Time that the faid Two Sums fhould be placed out on real Security or Securities, or in the Public Funds, and the Intereft and Produce thereof fhould be received by the Rector of the faid Church for the Time being ; and that the faid Two Sums were in veiled in South Sea Annuities, and the Dividends thereof, from Time to Time, paid to Dr. Edward Vernon, the Firft Reftor of the faid Parifh, rill on or about the 3d Day of November 1733, when the Sum of Three thoufand Five hundred and Fifty Pounds was laid out in the Purchafe of the Manor of Combe, and divers Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, in the County of Kent, which were conveyed to, and to the Ufe of, the faid Dr. Edward Pet non, the Reftor of the faid Parifh of St. George Bloomjbury, and his Succeffors in the faid Church; and that the faid Dr. Edward Vernon, during the Time he continued Reftor of the laid Parifh, which was till the Month of March 1761, kept the faid Filiate in Kent in his own Hand-, but the Petitioner, who was appointed Reftor on the Third of May 1761, finding the Inconvenience of fo doing, by reafon of its Diftance from London, was obliged to let the fame to a Tenant, at the Rent of f. 170 per Annum, for 21 Years, if he fo long continued Rector, fubjeft to Repairs, Tythes, and Land Tax, and alfo to a Deduction of Ten Pounds a Year for the firft Ten Years; and that, the faid Eftate being contiguous to the River Thames, and liable to be overflowed thereby, and the Farm 1 loufe and Out Houfes belonging to the faid Eftate being in very bad Repair, the laid Charl's Tarrant hath been at a very confiderable Expencc in making the neceflary Repairs to fuch Farm Houfe, and the Out I loufes thereto belonging, and alfo in repairing feveral Breaches made in the Walls and Dams there, by reafon of the Inundations which have lately happened ; and fuch Walls and Dams are now much damaged, and will require a large Sum of Money immediately to be laid out for repairing the fame ; fo that, by this Means, the fame Eftate, inftead of being a fixed and certain Maintenance for the Reftor of the faid Parifh, as was intended by Parliament, may eventually become a confiderable Burthen to fuch Reftor-, and that it would be highly beneficial to the Petitioner and his Succefibrs, if if the faid Manor, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, could be fold, and the Price thereof applied to the Purchafe of other Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, of a more fixed and certain Income: And therefore praying, That a Bill may be brought in for the Purpofes aforefaid; or that the Petitioner may have fuch other Relief in the Premifes, as to the Houle (hall feem meet. 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, gives His Confent, fo far as His Majefty�s Intereft is concerned, that the Houfe may do therein as they (hall think fit. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, pur- fuant to the Prayer of the faid Petition: And that Mr. Harris of Cbrijl Church, the Lord Howe, Mr. Lane, Mr. Wedderburn, and Mr. Philip Carteret Webb, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. An ingrofled Bill for continuing the Terms of feveral Acts, and for giving further Powers, for repairing the Road from Chatteris Ferry, which divides the IJle of Ely from the County of Huntingdon, to Hammond's Eau, and from thence to Somerfham Bridge, at SomerJbam Town's End, in the faid County; and for amending and widening the Road from Somcr/ham Bridge aforefaid, over Somerfham Heath, to the South End of the Lane next the White Hart in the Sheep Market in Saint Ives; and alfo the Road branching out of the faid Road near Slack's Bridge, through Needingvorth, to Earith, in the fuel County; was read the Third Time. Rcfolvcd, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, 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 Somerjhair. Bridge; and for amending and widening the Road from Sotner- Jham Bridge to the Sheep Market in Saint Ives; and alfo the Road branching out of rhe faid Road near Stock's Bridge, through Nedingworth, to Earitb, in the County of Huntingdon. Ordered, 147 pofals made for dtfeovering the Longitude, 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, To-morrow Morning, rcfolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon 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 raiding die Supply granted to His Majefty ; Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the faid Committee, that they do confider of proper Methods for effeftually fupplying the Export Trade of this Kingdom to Africa with fuch coaric Printed Callicoes and 'other Goods, being the Produft or Manufafture of the Eaji Indies, or other Places beyond the Cape of Good Hope, as are prohibited to be worn and uled in Great Brita; Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the faid Committee, that they do confider of the Bounty allowed by Law, to be paid on the Exportation of Corn, Grain, Malt, Meal, and Flour, from this Kingdom, to the Ife of Max. Then the Houfe refolved itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. And there being a Difference in the Committee vho Ihould take the Chair of the Committee ; Mr. Speaker relumed the Ciiair. And a Motion being made, and the Queftion bein'* put, That Mr. Paterfon do take the Chair of the faid Committee; It was refolved in the Affirmative. Then the Houle 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 diretied 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. 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 railing 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 further of the Supply granted to His Ma- iefty * Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Monday Morning next, refolve itfelf into the laid Committee. The other Order of the Day being read, for the Second Reading of the Bill for granting certain Stamp Duties, and other Duties, in the Britifb Colonies and Plantations in America, and for applying the fame towards further defraying the Expences of defending, protefting, and fecuring fuch Colonies and Plantations ; A Petition of feveral Perfons trading to, and interefted in the Illand of Jamaica, relating to the faid Bill, was offered to be prefented to the Houfe. And a Motion being made, and the Queftion being propofed, That the faid Petition be brought up ; The Journal of the Houfe of the 8th Day of March 1732, relating to the Petition of Richard Partridge, Asent �for for the Colony of Rhode If and, and Providence Plantations, in America, againft a Bill then depending, for the better fecuring and encouraging the Trade of the Sugar Colonies in America, was read Then the faid Motion was, by Leave of the Houfe, withdrawn. A Petition of Edward Montagu. Agent for the Province of Virginia, praying the Houle to take their unhappy Circumftances into Confideration ; and that their Houfe of Burgefles may be continued in the Pofieffion of the Rights and Privileges they have fo long and uninterruptedly enjoyed ; and that they may be heard, by their Counfel, againft any Bill that may be intended to charge Stamp or any other Duties on the Colony of Virginia ; was offered to be prefented to the Houfe. And a Motion being made, and the Queftion being put, That the faid Petition be brought up ; It patted in the Negative. A Petition of the Governor and Company of the Englifj Colony of Connellicut, in New England, in North America, praying, That the Petitioners may be indulged in the Exercife of the Power of laying all internal Taxes on th: faid Colony ; and that the Relblution of this Houfe, in the laftjSefllon ofParliamenr, may not be carried into Execution, by a Bill for impofing Stamp Duties on the Colonies; was ottered to be prefented to the Houfe. And a Motion beingmade, and theQueftion being put, That the faid Petition be brought up ; It patted in the Negative. A Petition of William Middleton Efquire, Daniel Huger Efquire, fofeph Nutt Efquire, in behalf of themfelves and the reft of the Inhabitants and Owners of Property in His Majefty�s Province of South Carolina, in America, praying. That the Houfe will not approve of any Bill, that may be offered, charging Stamp Duties in the Province of South Carolina,, was offered to be prefented to the Houfe. And a Motion being made, and the Queftion being pur, That the faid Petition be brought up; It patted in the Negative. Then 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 Monday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the faid Bill. The Houfe being informed that Mr. Tomkins, 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 Raw and Thrown Silks imported into England, from Chrifmas 1763 to Chrifmas 1764; diftinguifhing from what Countries, with the Amount of the Duty : And alfo, An Account of the Quantity of Raw and Thrown Silk exported from England, from Chrifmas 1763 to Chrifmas 1764; diftinguifhing to what Countries, with the Amount of the Drawback. And then he withdrew. And the Titles of the faid Accounts were read. Ordered, That the faid Accounts be referred to the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Bailiffs, Wardens, Affiftants, and Commonalty of rhe Trade, Art, and Myftery of Weavers of London, in behalf of themfelves and the Silk Manufacturers of Great Britain, is referred. The faid Accounts are preferved ainongft the other Papers of this Seffion. And then the Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. Sabbati, 160 die Februarii ; Anno 5* Georgii 111'� Regis, 1765. PRAYERS. A PETITIO N 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 Litchfeld, and of Walfall aforefaid, and Places adjacent, whofe Names are thereunto fub- fcribed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Roads from Muckley Corner (adjoining to the Turnpike Road there leading to the City of Litchfeld aforefaid) over Ogley Hey, or Litchfeld Heath, to and through Ruf all, and from thence to Walfall aforefaid ; and from thence along the New Mills Lane, to and through Wednejbwy, to the Turnpike Road leading from Hilf on, to Great Bridge, from the End of a Lane at a Place called 'foie End, in the Parifhof Tipton (communicating with the Turnpike Road laft mentioned) through the fame Lane, to the other End thereof, at Horfey Heath, and entering the Turnpike Road there, leading from Birmingham to Dudley; and from Port Way, upon or adjoining to the laid Turnpike Road, fo leading from Bilfon, to Great Bridge, to and through Darlafon ; and from thence to fames Bridge, to and through the PlaJt Lane, to the Turnpike Road leading from Walfall aforefaid, to Woolverhampton ; and from the Turnpike Road (leading from the City of Chef er, to the City of London) at Church Bridge, through Great Wirley and Great Blox- wicb, to the Brook or Water Courfc at Walfall aforefaid, and running to New Mills aforefaid ; are become very ruinous, and dangerous for Travellers, and in many Parts narrow ; and that fome of the Brooks thereon arc totally impattible at fome Time in the Winter Seafon: And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for amending, widening, and keeping in Repair the Roads before mentioned, by fuch Means,Ind in fuch Manner, as to the Houfe (hall 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 Ihall appear to them, to the Houfe : And it is referred to Lord Grey, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Upton, Mr. Nugent, General Bofcawen, Mr. Lowndes, Sir farrit Smith, Mr. Whateley, Mr. Shiffner, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. Gore, Sir George Warren, Mr. Paterfon, Mr. Edmonfone, Mr. Fitzherbert, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Montagu, Sir Thomas Cave, Sir Ro'cr Newdigate, Mr. Stephens, Mr. Drax, Mr. Kynafon, Sir Charlcs Mordaunt, Sir Simeon Stuart, Sir George Fonte, Sir George Savile, Mr. Brudenell, Mr. Gore, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Fonnereau; and all the Members who ferve tor the Counties of Stafford,Warwick,Worcefer, and Chefier: 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. A Petition of Henrietta Rofa Peregrina Town fend. Wife of fames Townfend Efquire, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for her Naturalization. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, according to the Prayer of the faid Petition: And that Mr. Hewett, Sir Thomas Cave, and Colonel Barre, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of fofepb Pocklington Efquire, Lord of the Manor of Carlton upon Trent, in the County of Nottingham, and of feveral Perfons intcrefted in a certain Common, called Carlton Common, and in the Open Arable Fields Houfe of Commons. 149 Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, pur- fuant to the Prayer of the faid Petition : And that Sir Armine Wodehoufe, Sir Roger Newdigate, Mr. De Grey, and Sir Charles Mordaunt, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of feveral Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders in the Counties of Cumberland and Weftmoreland, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Salmon, Cod, Trout, and other Fifheries carried on, in the faid Counties, have been very confider- able ; but the fame are at prefent very much decayed, occafioned, as the Petitioners apprehend, by the Fifher- men and others taking great Numbers of full-bellied Salmon, or Breeding Salmon Fifh, Gilfe, and Salmon Trout, and Trout going up the Rivers to fpawn, and likewife Floats, or Salmon that have lately fpawned, and taking of Cod and other Fifh at unfeafonable Times of the Year-, which Practices, fo mamfeftly deftrudive to the Fifheries, the Laws in being have been found in- fufficient to prevent; and that feveral Engines and Devices are made ufe of within the faid Counties, tending to deftroy the Salmon, Salmon Fry, Cod, Trout, and other Fifh; and the Nets are of fo fmall a Mefh, as to be very deftruftive to the Breed of Fifh : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for the Prefervation of the Salmon, Gilfe, Cod, Trout, and other Fifh, and the Spawn thereof, in the faid Counties, by limiting the Seafons for taking, ufing, and having the fame in Pofleffion, and prohibiting the Ufe of fuch deftruttive Engines and Devices, and re- ftraining the Ufe of improper Nets. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, pur- fuant to the Prayer of the faid Petition : And that Mr. Upton, Mr. fenkinfon, Sir fames Lowther, and Sir fohn Pennington, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of thofe whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, being Prifoners confined in His Majefty�s Gaol at Appleby, in the County of Weftmoreland: And alfo, A Petition of the Prifoners confined for Debt in the County Gaol of Southampton, at Wincbefter ; Were feverally prefented to the Houfe, and read ; complaining of their Diftrefs; and praying Relief. And the faid Petitions were feverally ordered to lie upon the Table. A Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, and Common Grounds, in the Manor and Parifh of Denford, in the County of Northampton, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Frederick Montagu, Sir George Yonge, Mr. Upton, Sir farrit Smith, Mr. Milles, Lord Frederick Cavendi/h, Mr. Town- Jhend, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Hewett, Sir Thomas Cave, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Penton, Mr. Pennant, Mr. Drax, Sir William Beauchamp Proftor, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Stephens, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Burton, General Howard, Mr. Paterfon, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Fonnereau, Lord Midleton, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Edmonftone, Lord fohn C'avendijh, Mr. Southwell, Mr. Wynne, Lord Grey, Sir Walter Bagot, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Gilbert, Sir Brooke Bridges, Mr. Fitzherbert-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Northampton, Lincoln, and York: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Petition of feveral of the Inhabitants of the Pa- rifhesof Gosfield, Weatherfield, and Fincbingficld, in the County of Eflex, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That it appears, by the Votes of the Houfe, that there is a Bill now depending, tor continuing Two Acts for re* pairing feveral Roads therein mentioned, in the Coun- Q q ties ties of Effex and Suffolk, and for repairing feveral other Roads ; and that the Road leading from rhe Village of Gosfeld, to Halfead, in the faid County of Effex, is very ruinous and narrow, and cannot be effeftually amended, widened, and kept in Repair, by the ordinary Courfe of Law: And therefore praying, That Provifion may be made, in the faid Bill, for repairing and widening the faid Road, in fuch Manner as to the Houfe (hall 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 fhall appear to them, to the Houfe: And it is referred to Mr. Nugent, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Fitzberbert, Lord John Cavendiff, Mr. Sbiffner, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Kynafon, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Harbord, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Lord Burgberff, Mr. Nugent, Sir Armine Wodehoufe, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Fonnereau, Mr. Abercrombie, Sir I Falter Bagot, Mr. Stephens, Mr. Drax, Mr. Upton, Mr. Patcrfon, General Honeywood, Mr. Blackfone, Sir Boger New- digate, Mr. Luttrell, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Aitfrere, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Whicheot, Mr. Gray, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Lowndes, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Buller, Mr. Laf- celles, Sir Simeon Stuart, Mr. Burton ; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Effex, Suffolk, and Cambridge: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber; and have Power to fend for Perlons, Papers, and Records. A Petition of the Noblemen, Gentlemen, Truftees of the Turnpike Roads, Juftices of the Peace, Traders, and others, of the County of Stirling, was prefented to the Houfe, and read -, Setting forth, That the Petitioners are much interefted in the Improvement of the River Carron ; and that a cheap and eafy Communication between the Eaft and Weft Seas of this Kingdom, between the Rivers Forth and Clyd, Ihould be effectuated, and that the faid Communication is capable of great Improvement : And therefore praying the Houfe to take the fame into their Confideration, and grant fuch Means of compleating the fame, in fuch Way as Hull 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 fliall appear to them, to the Houfe : And it is referred to Mr. Hamilton, Mr. F.gerton, Mr. Elliot, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Sbiffner, Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. Jackfon, Mr. Drax, Mr. Nugent, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Burton, Sir Armine I Fade- houfe, Sir George Longe, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Kynaf.cn, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Edmund Nugent, Mr. Fitz- herbert, Mr. Paterfon, Sir Laurence Dundas, Lord Barrington, Mr. Dyfon, Sir James Campbell, Sir Charles Mordaunt; and all the Members who ferve for North Britain: 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. Mr. Drax prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for repairing and widening feveral Roads leading from between the Second and Third Milestones, on the Turnpike Road leading from the Town and County of Poole, to IFinborn Minfer, in the County of Dorfet, to Bratton Corner, in the County of Somcrfet: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Pjfoived, That the B.ll be read a Second 1 ime. A Petition of feveral of the Truftees, appointed to put in Execution the feveral Acts, made in the Third and Eighth Years of the Reign of King George the Firft, and in the Seventh, Eighth, and Twenty-fixth Years of the Reign of his late Majefty, for repairing the 1 ligh- ways, from the feveral Places therein mentioned, lead- 2 ing to Highgate Gatehoufe, and Hampfead, and other Roads in the laid Aft mentioned, in the County of Middlefex, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the prefent Road called Pi.mrafs Waff, leading from the Brill, near Battle Bridge, in the Parilh of Saint Pancrafs, to Pancrafs Wells, and from thence to the Eaft End of Fig Lane, and to the South End of the Road leading to Kentiff Town, and Highgate, is very incommodious and dangerous, and fometimes impaifable; and that, if the laid Truftees were impowered to carry the Road in a direft Line from the Brill aforefaid, on high Ground, over certain Fields and Grounds on the Wcftern Side of the prefent Road, to the Eaft End of Fig Lane, it would greatly contribute to the Safety of all Perfons travelling the laid Road, and be of confider- able Advantage to the Public : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for carrying the faid Road from the faid Place called the Brill, on high Ground, over the faid Fields and Grounds, to the Eaft End of Fig Lane aforefaid, in fuch Manner, and under fuch Regulations, as to the Houfe fliall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition do lie upon the Table. A Petition of Sherlock Willis Clerk, Reftor of the Parilh Church of Saint CbrifopbePs, London, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Glebe belonging to the aforefaid Rectory, conlifts of certain Sheds, let to Tenants at Will at 10I. JOJ. a Year, and of Four Houfes, let upon a 40 Years Leafe, at 24/. a Year, which has been ufually renewed every 14 Years, upon Payment of 60 I. Fine, which Rents and Fine, together with the Tythes, are computed, upon an Average, to amount to 40 /. 14 5. a Year; and that the Parfonage Houfe, Garden, and Yard, belonging to the faid Reftory, together with fmall Acknowledgments paid by the Owners or Occupiers of adjacent Houfes for Permiflion of certain Lights looking into the faid Garden and Yard, is eftimated at the yearly Sum of 401.; that the aforefaid Premifes are contiguous to the Bank Edifice; and the Petitioner ap- prehends the vefting the fame in the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, would be of public Utility, as it might enable the faid Governor and Company to enlarge their Edifice, and more effeftually preferve the fame from any Accident by Fire; that the faid Governor and Company have propofed to pay unto the Petitioner, and his Succeflbrs, the Reftor of the faid Pa- rifli for the Time being, the yearly Sum of 40 /. 14 s. for ever, in lieu of the faid Glebe, and the further yearly Sum of 71, for ever, in lieu of Surplice Fees, and alfo the further yearly Sum of 401, until they (hall, at their own proper Cofts and Charges, provide a proper and fuitable Parfonage Houfe, to the Satisfaction of the Ordinary and Reftor for the Time being, and fettle and convey the fame for that Purpofe, according to due Courfe of Law ; fuch Payments to commence from the 'l ime of vefting the Premifes in the faid Governor and Company, and to be paid by Quarterly Payments, clear of all Deduftions; and that the faid Governor and Company have alfo propofed to pay unto the Lefturer of the faid Parifli, for the l ime being, the yearly Sum of 3 I. 3 s. for ever, in lieu of any Lofs fuch Lefturer may fuftain by reducing the Number of Houfes in the faid Parilh; and that the Petitioner conceives fuch Propofal is for the Benefit and Advantage of the faid Reftory, and hath communicated the fame to the Lord Bifhop of London, who is both Patron of the Living and Ordinary of the Diocefe ; and his Lordlhip is willing to give his Con lent thereto: Therefore praying, That the aforefaid Premifes, belonging to the faid Reftory, may be veiled in the faid Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and their Succeflbrs for ever; and that the aforefaid Annuities or yearly Sums, in lieu thereof, may be fecured, in fuch Manner as to the Houfe fliall feem meet. Ordered, worth, to the River at Swat bling �, and that the faid Road to the River at Swatbling aforefaid, and alfo the Road leading from the faid River, through Weft End, Bolley, Curdridge Common, and Sbidjicld, to the Turnpike Road, at Sherrill Heath, leading to IVickham, IFelt bam, and Drexford, in the faid County of Southampton, are, in many Places, very narrow and incommodious, and cannot, by the ordinary Methods appointed by Law, be effectually amended, widened, and kept in Repair: And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for connefting and uniting the laid Road from The Hundred aforefaid, through Gbilworth, to the River at Swathing aforefaid, with the laid Road called Tie Second Div if on, to the 1 '.nd that fuch Two Roads may be confolidatcd, under the Name and Appellation at'The Second Diz Jion, anc may thenceforth be repaired, widened, and kept in Repair, together, in fuch Manner as to the Houle (hall leem meet; and alfo for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair the faid other Road, leading from the laid River, through the feveral Places aforefaid, to the Turnpike Roads at Sherrill Heath, leading to Wickham, IFaltham, and Drcxford aforefaid, 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 fhall appear to them, to the Houle: And it is referred to Sir Simeon Stuart, Mr. Mcntag^, Mr. Kynafion, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Sir Walter Bagot, Mr. Tudwny, Mr. Elliot, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Lefccllcs, Mr. Sandys, Lord Carsfort, Mr. Paterfon, Mr. Ettzbtr- bert, General Howard, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Upton, Mr. Stephens, Mr. Burtsn, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Drax, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. SbiJJncr, Mr. Ed- monftone, Mr. Bagot, Mr. fackfon, Sir George Tonga and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Southampton, Dor ft, Wilts, and Suffix: 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. A Petition of William Thompfon, praying the Houfe to recommend his Cafe to His Majefty, was offered to be prefented to the Houfe. And the Queftion being put,That the faid Petition be brought up; It pafled in the Negative, Nemine ContruditCHte. A Petition of Charles SAaw, Lord Cathcart, Proprietor of the Eftate and Coal Mines of Sauchic, adjoining to the River Devon, in the County of Clackmannan, was prefented to the I loule, and read ; Setting forth, That the faid River has, from Ficarjbridge to the Mouth or Entry of the laid River into the River Forth, at all Seaibns of the Year, a conftant Run of Water, fufficient for the Purpofes of an Inland Navigation ; but, the Courfe of the laid River being through a flat, level, and, in fome Places, marfliy Country, is, in the prefent State of the River, extremely winding and interrupted by Shallows, fo as to make any Navigation imprafticable; and that the Navigation of the /wvZ�, betwixt Devon and Alloa, is liable to levcral Inconveniences of a fimilar Nature; and that rendering the Devon navigable, from Ficarjlridge, to its Entry into the Forth, and improving the Navigation of the laft mentioned River, will be Works of great Public as well as Private Utility ; and, from the Plenty ; of Water and the Nature of the Ground through which ? thefe Rivers run, can be accomplilhed st a moderate : Expence, as well as with a Certainty of cffeftually an- I fwering the intended Purpofes : And therefore praying, � That a Bill may be brought in for rendering the River : Deven navigable, from Fifcarjl ridge, to its Mouth or r Entry into the Faith, and for improving the Navigation ; of the Forth. \ Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the - Confideration of a Committee: And that they do exaamine mine the Matter thereof; and report the fame, as it Ihall appear to them, to the Houfe : And it is referred to Mr. Elliot, Mr. Montagu, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Edmonftone, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Brudenell, Mr. Pitzbcrbert, Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. Abercrombie, Lord Burgherjh, Sir George Savile, Mr. Jackfon, Mr. Paterfen, Mr. Dy/sn, Mr. Upton, Mr. Burton, Mr. Stephens, Mr. Yudway, Lord John Cavendish, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Sbiffner, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Lowndes, Sir Armine Wode- houfe, Mr. Dowdefwell, Mr. Brand, Sir William Codrington, Lord George Sackville, Mr. Champion, Mr. Beauclerk, Lord Strange, Mr. Townjbend, Mr. Robinfon, Mr. Wilbraham, Mr. Yorke, Mr. Rigby, Mr. Yernon, Mr. fen- kinfon, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. puller, Sir George Yonge; and all the Members who ferve for North Britain : And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber ; and have Power to fend for Perlons, Papers, and Records. A Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders, refiding in and near the City of Wells, and Town of Glaf- tonbury, in the County of Somerfet, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That, by virtue of an Aft pafied in the 26th Year of his late Majefty, for repairing and widening the Road from Piper's Inn, in the Parilh of A/hcott, to and through Glaftonbury and Wells, to the Direftion Poll in the great Weftern Road to the City of Bath �, and alfo from Wells to Ru/h Hill, leading to the City of Briftol �, the Truftees therein appointed, in order to make and repair the faid Roads, borrowed, from Time to Time, the Sum of ft. 5500, or thereabouts, which faid Sum now remains due, the faid Roads having been, for feveral Years paft, well and effectually made and repaired; and that, in the 4th Year of His prefent Majefty, a Renewal of the laid Aft was obtained, with Power to extend the Road from Wells to Shepton Mallett, Cannards Grave, and Stean Bow Bridge, in the Parilh of Pilton ; and alfo from Wells, to join the Turnpike Road leading to Froome, where the Froome Turnpike Road ends ; and for the Purpofe of making and repairing thereof, the further Sum of ft. 1200 is already taken up at Intcreft, and to compleat the lame, the further Sum of ft. 1300 at leaft will be neceflary ; and that the Petitioners have obferved, in the Votes of the Houfe, that, in a Bill now depending, for renewing the Shepton Mallett Turnpike Aft, an Application is made for extending the Road from the End of their prefent Turnpike Road, in the Parilh of Pilton, to Glaftonbury, and alfo the Road from, to, and through Shepton Mallett aforefaid, to the Parilh of Leighton, leading towards Froome; and alfo the Road from Shepton Mallett aforefaid, to Long Crofs Bottom, which joins the Froome Turnpike Road; which, if the fame Ihould pafs into a Law, particularly from Pilton, near to the faid Town of Glaftonbury, the Courfe of Travelling the great and ancient Roads, from the Weftern Parts of England, to the Northern, to and through Glaftonbury and Wells, and from Bath to London, will be much leffened; and the Petitioners have the greateft Reafon to apprehend, that the Tolls, in Confequence thereof, will be fo much di- minilhed, as to render it impoffible to pay the Debt already due, or to compleat and finilh the aforefaid new Roads, and to keep in good Repair the Roads already made; and that, by Means thereof, the Courfe of Travelling will be fo much divided, that the Tolls will be infufficient to keep either of the laid Roads in due and proper Repair; and that the Road leading from Pilton to the further End of Glaftonbury, where the new Shepton Road is intended to be made, is a private Road, unknown to Travellers, and of no general Benefit, and will be a great Injury to the faid ancient, public Roads, and to the City of Wells and Town of Glaftonbury aforefaid : And therefore praying, That the Extenfion of the faid Road, particularly from Pilton to Glaftonbury, may not pafs into a Law; and that the Petitioners may be heard, by their Counfel, or be relieved in fuch Manner as to the Houfe ihall feem proper. Ordered, That the faid Petition by referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Petition of rhe Truftees appointed to put in Execution an Aft of the 26th Year of his late Majefty, for repairing and widening the Roads therein mentioned, leading to and through the Towns of Shepton Mallett and Ivdcbefter, in the County of Somerfet, and alfo of the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders, living in and near the faid Town of Shepton Mallett, is referred. Ordered, That all, who come to the faid Committee, have Voices. A Petition of the Gentlemen, Freeholders, and other principal Inhabitants, refiding in and near the Towns of Northampton and Daventry, in the County of Northampton, and the Town of Southam, in the County of Warwick, whole Names are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners are informed, that Application is intended to be made to the Houfe, for a Bill to repair the Road from Warwick to Northampton ; and reprefenting to the Houfe, that the prefent ruinous Condition of the faid Road is incommodious to Travellers, and very detrimental to the Country : And therefore praying, in cafe fuch Bill Ihall be brought into the Houfe, the fame may pafs into a Law, and may be carried to and through die Towns of Southam and Daventry aforefaid. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Mayor, Aidermen, Burgefles, and principal Inhabitants of the Borough of Warwick, in the County of Warwick, and of the feveral Gentlemen and others re- fiding near the faid Borough of Warwick, ufually travelling the Road therein after-mentioned, is referred : And that they do examine the Matter of this Petition ; and report the fame, as it Ihall appear to them, to the Houfe. Mr. Hewett prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for amending the Road from the Pinfold, in Balby, in the County of York, to Workfop, 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. Paterfon, according to Order, reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it was referred to confider further of Waysand Means for raifing the Supply granted to I lis Majefty, 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 followeth; viz. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That, for the better Supply of the Export Trade of this Kingdom to Africa, with fuch coarfe Printed Callicoes, and other Goods, being the Produft or Manufafture of the Eaft Indies, or of other Places beyond the Cape of Good Hope, as are prohibited to be worn and ufed in Great Britain, the United Company of Merchants trading to the Eaft Indies, be permitted to import the fame from any Part of Europe, not within His Majefty�s Dominions, under proper Limitations and Reftriftions. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That, upon Failure of the faid Company�s keeping the laid Export Trade fupplied with a fufficient Quantity of fuch Callicoes, and other Goods, other Perlons be permitted to import the fame into this Kingdom, from any fuch Part of Europe, under proper Limitations and Reftriftions. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That the faid Callicoes and other Goods, which Ihall be fo imported, be liable to pay the fame Duties, as if the lame fame were imported by the faid Company from the Ea/i Indies, or any other Place beyond the Cape of Good Hope, and no other. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That the Bounty, allowed by Law, to be paid on the Exportation of Corn, Grain, Malt, Meal, and Flour, from Great Britain, to the IJle of Man, be difeontinued. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty of Ten Shillings be charged upon every Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, on which every Licence for making and felling Meafures of Capacity, fhall be ingrofled, written, or printed. � 4 , Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Stamp Duty of Ten Pounds be charged upon every Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, on which every Licence for making and felling of Weights, (hall be ingrofled, written, or printed. 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 be brought in, upon the Four Firft of the faid Refolutions: And that Mr. Paterfon, Mr. Jenkinfon, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Lord North, Sir John Turner, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Harris of Cbrifi Church, Mr. Attorney General, Mr. Solicitor General, and Mr. Whateley, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the Gentlemen, who are appointed to prepare, and bring in, rhe faid Bill, that they do make Provifion therein, for difeontinuing the Payment of all Allowances and Bounties, on the Exportation of Corn, Grain, Malt, Meal, and Flour, from Ireland, to the Ifle of Man. Ordered, That it be an Inftmftion to the faid Gentlemen, that they do make Provifion in the faid Bill, for encouraging the Importation of Bugles into this Kingdom, for the better Supply of the Export Trade thereof. The Houfe was moved, that the Refolutions of the Houfe, of the 2d Day of June 1758, relating to Weights and Meafures, and which, upon the 8 th Day of this In- Rant February, were read, might be again read. And the fame were read accordingly. The Houfe was alfo moved, that the Refolutions of the Houle of the 12th Day of April 1759, relating to Weights and Meafures, and which, upon the 8th Day of this Inftant February, were read, might be again read. And the fame were read accordingly. The Houfe was alfo moved, that the Refolutions of the Houfe of Thurfday laft, relating to Weights and Meafures, might be read. And the fame were read accordingly. Ordered, That a Bill, or Bills, be brought in upon the faid Refolutions, of the 2d Day of June 1758, the 12th Day of April 1759, and of Thurfday laft; and alfo upon the Two lall of the Refolutions, this Day reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it was referred to confider further of Ways and Means for railing the Supply granted to His Majefty, and which were agreed to by the Houfe: And that the Lord Carysfort,Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Nugent, Sir George Savile, Mr. Hewett, Mr. White, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Ridley, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Chetwynd, the Lord North, Mr. Harris of Chrif Church, Mr. Hunter, Sir Roger New digate, Mr. Thomas Townjhend, Sir Walter Wagjlaffe Bagot, Mr. Jenkinfon, Mr. Upton, Mr, Mackenzie, Mr. Elliot, Dr. Hay, Mr. Stephens, and Sir Edward Bayntun, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. The other Order of the Day being read ; The Houfe refolved itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill for rendering more effectual an Aft, made in the 12 th Year of the Reign of her late Majefty Queen Anne, intituled, An Aft for providing a Public Reward for fuch Pcrfon or Perfons as fhall dif- VOL. XXX. cover the Longitude at Sea, with regard to the making Experiments ofPropofals made 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 gone through the Bill, and made frveral Amendments thereunto �, which they had direfted him to report, when the 1 loufe will pleafe to receive the fame. Ordered, That the Report be received upon Monday Morning next. A Petition of the feveral Perlons, whole Names are thereunto fubferibed, Makers and Manufacturers of Ribbands, in Great Britain, was prefented to the Houfe, and read �, Setting forth, That the Law lately obtained for preventing the Clandeftine Importation of Ribbands into this Kingdom is ftill ineffeftual, arifing, as the Petitioners humbly conceive, partly from the Smallnefs of the Penalties, by the Aft parted in the Third Yeai of His prefent Majefty�s Reign, inflicted on the Importers of Foreign Wrought Ribbands into this Kingdom, their Aiders, Abettors, and Afliftants, and upon the Venders and Retailers of the fame ; and partly from the Claufe in the faid Aft, directing and requiring fuch Ribbands, when feized and condemned, to be publicly burnt; whereby the Inferior Officers employed in His Majefty�s Cuftoms, for want of due Encouragement to feize fuch prohibited Goods, are become remifs in their Duty : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for explaining, amending, and rendering more effeftual the faid Aft of the Third Year of His prefent Majefty, in fuch Manner as to the Houfe fhall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition do lie upon the Table. And then the Houfe adjourned till Monday Morning, Nine of the Clock. Lunce, 18 die Februarii; Anno 5* Georgii I IF1�Regis, 1765. PRAYERS. A N ingrofled Bill to enable John Jennings Efquire, now called John Smith, and his Heirs, to take and ufe the Surname of Smith, purfuant to rhe Will of Thomas Smith, deceafed, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, 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. Ordered, That Mr. Fitzherbcrt do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. A 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, deceafed, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Beft, Mr. Mi Ues, Sir Edward Dering, Mr. Knight, Sir Thomas Hales, Lord George Sackville, Mr. Fairfax, Mr. Plumptre, Mr. Drake, Sir Jarrit Smith, Lord Grey, Mr. Gray, Mr. Kynajlon, Sir Francis Vincent, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Sir JohnGlynne, Mr. Methuen, Mr. Gore, Mr. Hewett, Sir Edmund Ifham, Sir William Meredith, Mr. Dempjler, Sir Francis Delaval, Mr. Fcley, Mr. Walter, Mr. Burrard, Mr. Prefcot, Mr. Cholmley, Mr. Gafcoyne, Mr. Waller, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Bentinck, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Ward, Mr. Dowdefwell, Mr. Paterfon, Sir George Savile, Lord Cather- hugh, Mr. Stephens, Sir Robert Burdett, Mr. Boulton, R r Mr. Mr. Townfhend, Mr. Kynafon Mr. Blackfone, Sir �Thomas Cave, Mr. Forrefer, Mr. Wbichcot, Mr. Lane, Sir Robert Ladbroke: And they are 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 and Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Paftures, Common Grounds, and Wafte Grounds, in the Parifh of North Kilworth, in the County of Leicefer : And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. The Lord Grey reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the feveral Gentlemen, Clergy, Merchants, Freeholders, and Inhabitants in the Counties of SM/^andjDfr^,whofcNanies are thereunto fubfcrib- ed, refiding near and ufually travelling the Roads therein after-mentioned, 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 the Clerk�s Table: Where the fame was read; and is as followeth ; viz. To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition, Mr. John Davenport being examined, faid. That the Road leading from Newcafle under Line, in the County of Stafford, through Leek and Monyafh, in the County of Derby, to Haffop -, and alfo the Road from a Place called Middle Hills, to the Turnpike Road near Buxton, and th,e Road in that Part of the Vill of Cobridge, that lies in the Parifh of Burfem, to the Houfe of Ifaac Cartlitch, in Burfem -, and the Road in that Part of the faid Vill of Cobridge that lies in the Parifh of Stoke upon Trent, to the Turnpike Road in the Vill of Shelton\ are in a very ruinous Condition, and, in many Places, narrow, and incommodious, and cannot be repaired and widened by the prefent Method prefcribed by Law. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for repairing and widening the Road from Newcajlle under Line, to Haffcp; and from Middle Hills to the Maccles- f eld Turnpike Road near Buxton-, and alfo the Road branching out of the laid firft-mentioned Road at Cobridge, to Burfem; and to the Uttoxcter Turnpike at Shelton, in the County of Stafford: And that the Lord Grey, Mr. Bagot, and Sir Henry Harpur, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Mr. Wbichcot prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Common and Wafte Grounds, in the Parifh of Rothwell, in the County of Lincoln: And the fame was received 5 and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Sir Jarrit Smith reported from the Committee, to whom the ingroffed Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Aft for naturalizing Dirk Jager, of the City of London, Merchant, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill -, and found the lame to be true; and that the Committee had diredbed him to report the Bill to the Houfe, without any Amendment ; and he delivered the Bill in at the Clerk�s Table. And the faid Bill was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs. Ordered, That Sir Jarrit Smith do carry the Bill to the Lords, and acquaint them, that this Houfe hath agreed to the fame, without any Amendment. Mr. Wbichcot reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and other Inhabitants of the County of Lincoln, 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 their, 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 Turner being examined, faid, That the Road leading from Barton Waterfde Houfe, to the Turnpike Road at Rifeham Bridge', and the feveral other Roads, defcribed in the Petition, in the faid County of Lincoln, are in a ruinous Condition, narrow and incommodious, and cannot be amended, widened, and kept in Repair by the Laws in being. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for repairing and widening the Road from Barton Water- fde Houfe to Rujholm Hedge Comer, and feveral other Roads in the County of Lincoln, therein mentioned: And that Mr. Wbichcot, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Willoughby, and Lord Brownlow Bertie, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Bill to continue the Term, and to vary and enlarge the Powers of an Aft, patted 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 Idfcn, 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 Parifh Church of Nuffield, otherwife Tuffield, in the County of Oxford, to the Commencement of the faid Turnpike Road, leading from Wallingford to Wantage ; was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Black- fone, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Methuen, Sir Walter Bagot, Mr. Burrard, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Lane, Mr. Seijeant Hewitt, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Kyna- fon, Mr. Sbiffner, Mr. Holt, Mr. Bromley, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Walcot, Mr. Ward, Mr. Walter, Colonel Barre', Mr. Ethnonfone, Sir Jarrit Smith, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr* Abercrombie, Mr. Milles, Lord Catberlougb, Sir Francis Delaval, Mr. Dempfer, Mr. Gore, Mr. Wilkinfon, Mr. Gafcoyne, Sir Robert Burdett, Sir Edmund Thomas, Sir Roger Newdigate, Mr. Howard, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Eames, Mr. Webb, Mr. Gray, Mr. Rafhleigh, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Montagu; andall the Members who ferve for the Counties of Berks, Oxford, Wilts,Bucks, Glouccf- ter, and Southampton: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Mr. Lane prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for amending and widening the Road from the City of Fork, by Grimfon Smithy, in the Eaft Ridina of the County of Fork, to Kexby Bridge, in the fame Ridina; and alfo from Grimfon Smithy aforefaid, in Two Branches^ the One to a certain Gate in the Road between Kirby Underdale, and Pocklington, at the upper End of Garraby Hill, in die faid Riding, and the other to and through Elvington to Elvington Bridge, in the faid Riding : 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 feveral Roads from the Quay at Lymington, in the County of Southampton, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Burrard, Mr. Lane, Sir Jarrit Smith, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Bagot Sir Walter Bagot, Mr. Blackfone, Sir Robert Ladbroke Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Sbiffner, Mr. Kynafon, Mr. Walcott, Mr. Drummond, Mr. Waller, Mr. Ward, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Cbolmley, Mr. Parker, Mr. Bromley, Mr. Milles, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Garth, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Gore, Mr. Methuen, Sir William Beauchamp 'ProRor, Mr. Meyrick, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Gray, Sir William Maynard, Mr. Molyneux, Mr. Scott, Sir Anthony Abay, Mr. Barre, Mr. Jackfon, Sir Bennet Garrard, Mr* Hewett, Mr. Fonnereau, Mr. Honey wood, Mr. Abercrombie, Bradley, containing Inftrudions for making Obfervations at Porifmoulb, for the Second Trial of Mr. Harri- fou's Time-keeper. And the Titles of die faid Copies were read. Ordered, That the faid Copies do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. The faid Copies are preferved amongft the other Papers of this Seflion. Mr. Stephens, according to Order, reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill for rendering more effectual an Ad, made in the 12 th Year of the Reign of her late Majefty Queen Anne, intituled. An Ad for providing a Public Reward for fuch Perfon or Pcrfons as fliall difeover the Longitude ar Sea, with regard to the making Experiments of Propofals made for difcovering the Longitude, was committed, the Amendments which the Committee had made to the Bill; and 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 Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofied. . A Bill for repairing and widening the Roads leading from the Turnpike Road at Kippings Crofs, in the Parilh of Brencbley, in the County of Kent, through the Parifhes of Brencbley, Horfemonden, and Goudhurft, by the Left-hand Side of Iden Green, to the Turnpike Road on Wilfiey Green, in the Parilh of Cranbrooke; and from a Place near Goudburfi Gore, through the Parilh of Marden, to Stile Bridge, in the faid Parilh; and from Underdo Green, in Marden aforefaid, to Wanjhutts Green, in the County of Kent �, was read a Secotfd Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Fuller, Mr. Barrow, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Bagot, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Sirjarrit Smith, Mr. Parker, Sir Robert Lad- broke, Mr. Delaval, Mr. Gore, Mr. Cbolmley, Mr. Pennant, Mr. Jackfon, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Mawbey, Lord Howe, Mr. Milles, Sir Francis Delaval, Mr. Sandys, Lord John Cavendifh, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Prat, Mr. Kynafion, Mr. 'Townfhend, Mr. Gray, Mr. Boulton, Sir William Beauchamp Proctor, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Wefi, Mr. Sulivan, Sir Edward Bayntun, Sir William Meredith, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Befi, Mr. Montagu, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Bertie, Mr. Methuen, Lord Charles Montagu, Mr. Legb; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Kent, Suffix, Surrey, and Southampton; and for the Cinque Ports : And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of rhe Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Ordered, That there be laid before this Houfe, a Copy of the Obfervations for determining the Difference of Time, and Rate of going, of Mr. John Harrifon's Time-keeper, taken at Portfmouth and Barbadoes, on the Second Trial, together with the Refults of thofe Obfervations, compared with the Times ihewn by the faid Titne-keeper. Mr. Holt prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor in the Hundreds of Loes and Wilford, in the County of Suffolk: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. The Houfe being informed that Mr. Hulton, 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 Addrefs to His Majefty, Copy of a Memorial from the Commiflioners of the Cuftoms, Cuftoms, to the Right honourable the Lords of the Treafury, relative to the Duties to be collected at the Grenades., St. Vincents, Dominica, and Tobago. And then he withdrew. And the Title of the faid Copy was read. Ordered, That the faid Copy do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. The faid Copy is preferved amongft the other Papers of this Sellion. Ordered, That the Order of the Day, for the Second reading of the Bill to repeal an Aft, palled in the Twenty-fixth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled, An Aft for the better preventing of Clandcftine 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; be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly; 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 Tburfday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the faid Bill. / Ordered, That there be laid before this Houfe, an Account of all Monies received and paid by theGovernors and Guardians of the Hofpital, for the Maintenance and Education of expofed and deferred young Children, between the 31ft Day of December 1763, exclufive, and the 31ft Day of December 1764, inclufive, with the Ballance then remaining; and alfo, an Account of the Number of Children received into the faid Hofpital, on or before the 25th Day of March 1760, who have been placed out Apprentices, between the faid 31ft Day of December 1763, exclufive, and the faid 31ft Day of December 1764, inclufive; and alfo, an Account of the Number of the faid Children, who have been returned to their Parents, between the faid 31ft Day of December 1763, exclufive, and the faid 31ft Day of December 1^64, inclufive ; and alfo, an Account of the Number of the faid Children, who have died between the faid 31ft Day of December 1763, exclufive, and the faid 31ft Day of December 1764, inclufive; and alfo, an Account of the Number of the faid Children who were living, under the Care of the faid Governors and Guardians, on the laid 31ft Day of December 1764. Ordered, That the Governors and Guardians of the Hofpital, for the Maintenance and Education of expofed and deferred young Children, do prepare, and lay before this Houfe, an Eftimate of the Expence of maintaining the Children, received into the faid Hofpital on or before the 25th Day of March 1760, from the 31ft Day of December 1764, exclufive, to the 31ft Day of December 1765, inclufive. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for regulating the Currency and due Payment of Notes, if- fued by the Banks and Banking Companies in North Britain: And that the Lord Advocate of Scotland, Sir Alexander Gilmour, Lord Frederick Campbell, Mr. Ofaald, Mr. Elliot, and Mr. Coutts, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Ordered, That the Order of the Day, for the Third Reading of the Bill, now ingrofled, to permit the free Importation of Cattle from Ireland, be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly ; The laid Bill was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Aft to permit the free Importation of Cattle from Ireland. Ordered, That Mr. Nugent do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. A Meflage from the Lords, by Mr. Graves and Mr. Pc A i'll: Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for repairing and widening the Road leading from the Town of IVadhurft, in the County of Sujfex, to the Turnpike Road at Lamberhurjl Pound, and Pullen's Hill, in the County of Kent, and from the Top of Pullen's Hill, through the Parilhes of Horfemonden, Marden, Yai- den, and Jiff Farley, to Weji Farley Street, in the faid County of Kent, without any Amendment : And alfo, The Lords have pafled a Bill, intituled, An Aft to enable William Marwood Efquire, lately called William Metcalfe, and his I flue, to take, ufe, and bear the Surname and Arms of Marwood, purfuant to the Will of fane Turner Widow, deceafed ; to which the Lords defire the Concurrence of this Houfe. And then the Meflengers withdrew. A Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of Surrey, aflembled in General Quarter Seflion of the Peace, holden in and for the faid County, by Adjournment, onThurfday the 14th Day of February 1765, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Taking Notice of the Bill for the better enabling the Commiflioners for putting in Execution the feveral Afts pafled, for paving, clcanfing, and lighting, the Squares, Streets, and Lanes, within the City and Liberty of Weft- minjler, the Parilhes of Saint Giles in the Fields, Saint George the Martyr, Saint George Bloomfbury, that Part of the Parilh of Saint Andrew's Holbom, which lies in the County of Middlefex, the feveral Liberties of the Rolls and Savoy, and that Part of the Duchy of Lancajler which lies in the County of Middlefex, and for preventing Annoyances therein, and for other Purpofes therein mentioned, to execute the Trufts veiled in them by the faid Afts ; and alleging, that, Ihould the faid Bill pafs into a Law, the Petitioners conceive it will greatly tend to the Detriment and Prejudice of that County in general, and in particular, the Parilhes near adjoining to the Turnpike, where the additional Toll therein propofed is to be collefted; and that many and great Inconveniences will arife by the collefting the faid additional Toll: And therefore praying, That the fame may not pafs into a Law, or that the Petitioners may have fuch other Relief, as to the Houfe ftiall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition do lie upon the Table, until the faid Bill be read a Second Time. Ordered, Thar the Order of the Day, for the Houle to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill for the more efteftual preventing the Stealing of Filh and Rabbits, be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly ; Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Thurfday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the faid Bill. Ordered, Thar the Order of the Day, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider of the feveral Afts, made in the 26th, 28th, and 30th Years of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, fur the Amendment and Prefervation of the Public Highways and Turnpike Roads of this Kingdom, and for the efteftual Execution of the Laws relating thereto, be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly ; Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon this Day Sevennight, vennight, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider of the faid Ads. Mr. Jenkinfon prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a 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 Eaf 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 difcontinuing the Bounty payable in Great Britain, and all Bounties and Allowances in Ireland, upon die Exportation of Corn, Grain, Malt, Meal, and Flour, from thence to the Ifle of Man: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolded, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Bill for appointing Commiflioncrs to put in Execution an Ad of this Seflion of Parliament, intituled, An Ad 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 Ads for appointing Commiflioncrs of the Land Tax; and for indemnifying Perfons who have aded as Commiflioncrs of the Land Tax, by virtue of Eftates of or above a certain Value, though the fame were not rated or aflefled at the Value of One Hundred Pounds per Annum; and for limiting a Time, within which Suits and Profecu- tions (hall be commenced, with refped to the Qualifications of Perfons who (hall ad as Commiflioncrs of the Land Tax ; was read a Second Time. Refolded, That the Bill be committed. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole Houfe. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Tuefday the 12th Day of March next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon 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 the feveral Ads relating to the Rewards for difeovering the Longitude at Sea, and making Experiments of Propofals for difeovering the Longitude ; Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon this Day Sevennight, 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 the Supply granted to His Majefty; Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Wednefday Morn- in� 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 the Supply granted to His Majefty ; Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Wednefday Morning next, refolve itfelf into the faid Committee. The other Order of the Day being read; The Houfe refolved itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill for granting certain Stamp Duties, and other Duties, in the Britijh Colonies and Plantations in America, and for applying the fame towards further defraying the Expences of defending, protecting, and fecuring fuch Colonies and Plantations. 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 gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amend- VOL. XXX. Martig 190 die Februaries Anno 50 Georgii IIP1* Regis, 1765* PRAYERS. L ORD Brownlow Bertie prefented co the Houfe, ac- l cording to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing certain Common Fields, Meadows, and Common Pa- ftures, in the Townlhip and Parilh of Newton, in the County of Lincoln, and certain Rights of Pafture in Kettletborpe, in the faid County: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Lord Brownlow Bertie reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of Elizabeth Douglas Widow, Lady of the Manor of AJlackby, in the County of Lincoln, the Reverend Thomas Fojier Clerk, on behalf of himfelf, and of the Reverend Brownlow Toller Clerk, and James Hurjl Efquire, as joint Lords of the Manor of Dowjby, in the faid County of Lincoln, Ann Garland Spinfter, Robert Ridlington, and William Welby, Efquires, John Steel, and William Buckberry, Gentlemen, on behalf of themfelves and others, Proprietors of Lands in the Manors and Parilhes of AJlackby and Dowjby aforefaid, whofe Names are thereunto fubfcribed, 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 the Clerk�s Table: Where the fame was read j and is as followeth; viz. To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition, Daniel Douglas Efquire, being examined, faid, That there are, in the Manors and Parilhes of AJlackby and Dowjby, a certain Trad of Common Fen Land, which is frequently overflowed with Water, and is of little or no Ufe to the Proprietors thereof i that the faid Land is capable of being drained and improved, to the great Benefit and Advantage of the Parties interefted �, but that the fame cannot be done without the Aid of Parliament. Mr. Thomas Meafure and Mr. Robert Bankes confirmed the above Evidence. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for dividing and inclofing a certain Common Fen, in the Parilhes of AJlackby and Dowsby, in the County of Lincoln, and for draining and improving the faid Fen : And that Lord Brownlow Bertie, Mr. Dowdcfwell, and Mr. Whichccl, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Lord Brownlow Bertie reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of feveral of the Truftees for putting into Execution an Act, palled in the Thirtieth 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 Outgang, in the County of Northampton, adjoining to the High Road there, whofe Names are thereunto fubfcribed, 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 j and after- S f wards 158 wards 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 faid Petition, the faid Aft was read. And Mr. Fulwood Sanderfon produced to your Committee, an Account of the Money borrowed on the Credit of the faid Aft ; whereby it appeared that the Sum of 3134 I. 16 s. g^d. is now due on the Credit thereof; and the Witnefs faid, that the faid Roads cannot be effeftually repaired and widened, and the faid Money be repaid, un- lefs the Tolls are increafed, the Term continued, and the Powers altered and enlarged. Mr. Theophilus Buckworth confirmed the above Evidence. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to continue the Term, and render more effectual, an Aft palfed in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of his late Ma- jefty, for repairing and widening the Roads leading from Spalding High Bridge, through Littleworth, and by Ftognall, over fames Deeping Stone Bridge, in the County of Lincoln, to Maxey Outgang, in the County of Northampton, adjoining to the High Road there: And that Lord Brownlow Bertie, Mr. Kynajlon, and Mr. Whichcot, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Sir George Warren reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of feveral Gentlemen, Merchants, and other Inhabitants, of the Counties of Chejler, Lan- cafter, and Fork, refiding near, and ufually travelling the High Roads therein after mentioned, lying in the fame Counties, whofe Names are thereunder written, was referred, That the Committee had examined die 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. Robert Newton being examined, faid, That the Road leading from the prefent Turnpike Road in Stockport, to the Finger Polls at Saxon Lane, and adjoining to the prefent Turnpike Road at the Ealt End of the Townlhip of Audenjhaw, otherwife Oudenjhaw; and alfo the Road from the Crofs in AJhton under Line to Do flor's Lanehead, or Dover's Gate, adjoining to the prefent Turnpike Road leading from Huddersfield to Oldham; and alfo the Road branching out of the firft mentioned Road at or near the Finger Polls in the Townlhip of Bredbury to Mottram, in Longdendale; are in a very ruinous Condition, narrow in many Places, and cannot be effeftually repaired and widened by the Laws in being. A Member prefent confirmed the above Evidence. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for repairing and widening the Road from Stockport to Saxons Lane End, in the County of Chejler; and from the Crofs, in AJhton under Line, in the County of Lan- cajier, to Do flor's Lane-head, in the County of Fork ; and allo the Road branching out of the faid firft mentioned Road, in the Townlhip of Bredbury, to Motram, in the faid County of Chejler: And that Sir George Warren, Mr. Shuttleworth, and Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, do prepare, an<) bring in, the fame. A Petition of feveral Perfons, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, being Silk and Worfted Weavers ax. Kidderminjler, in the County of Worcejier, in behalf of themfelves and others, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners find, by the Votes, that a Petition hath been prefented from the Silk Throwfters, reprefenting the declining State of the Manufaftory of Silk Throwing in this Kingdom ; and alleging, that the Manufaftory carried on by the Petitioners is that of Silk mixed with Worfted; and that almoft the whole of the Thrown Silk ufed by the Petitioners is Englifs Organzine, which the Petitioners find more fuitable to their Manufaftures than Foreign Organzine; that the encouraging the Importation of Raw Silk into this Kingdom, will be a Means of increafing the very beneficial Trade of Throwing Silk in this Kingdom, and of encouraging the feveral Manufaftures carried on by the Petitioners: And therefore praying the Houfe to take the Premifes into Confideration, and grant fuch Relief therein, as to the Houfe Ihall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Bailiffs, Wardens, Aftiftants, and Commonalty of the Trade, An, and Myfteryof Weavers of London, in behalf of themfelves and the Silk Manufacturers of Great Britain, is referred. A Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Arable Fields, Meadows, Failures, Commons and Wafte Grounds, in the Lordlhip and Parilh of Flam- brough, in the County of Fork, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Lcf- celles, Sir George Tonge, Lord Brownlow Bertie, Mr. Paterfon, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Wilfon, Lord Strange, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Fonnereau, Lord Ferney, Mr. Shuttleworth, Sir Charles Hardy, Sir Jarrit Smith, Sir William Beauchamp Proflor, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Fuller, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Butler, Sir William Baker, Mr. Garth, Sir George Savile, Mr. Duke, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Mr. Drake, Sir George Pigot, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Morton, Mr. Bagot, Lord Thomond; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of York, Lincoln, Lancajier, Cumberland, Weft - moreland, Northumberland, and Durham: And they arc to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. An ingroffed Bill to enable Richard Duppa Clerk, heretofore called Richard Hancorn, and his Heirs Male, to take and ufe the Surname and Arms of Duppa, pur- fuant to the Will of Baldwin Duppa Efquire, deceafed, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs : And that the Title be, 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. Ordered, That Mr. Philip Fonnereau do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defirc their Concurrence. A Petition of the Makers and Manufacturers of White Woollen Cloth, in the Weft Riding of the County of York, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the feveral Laws now in being, for the regulating the Manufafture of Cloth in the laid Weft Riding, have been, by Experience, found not only to be ineffeftual for the preventing Frauds in Making of Woollen Cloth, and the undue Stretching of it when made; but have aftually produced the contrary Effeft, whereby the Fair Trader is injured, and the Manufaftory at Home and Abroad is very much debafed and difere- dited, to the great Lofs and Detriment of the Petitioners in particular, and of the Kingdom in general; and reprefenting to the Houfe many Grievances, which, the Petitioners allege, they labour under by the Laws in being, with refpeft to the Breadths they are obliged to make their Cloths: And therefore praying the Houfe to take the Premifes into Confideration, and, by fuch Ways and Means as to the Houfe Ihall feem meet, relieve the Petitioners from the Hardlhips they now lie under, and, by effeftually preventing the Frauds and Abufes above mentioned, reftore the Manufafture of White Woollen Cloth, within the Weft Riding of the faid County of York, to its ancient Reputation and Credit, both at Home and Abroad, 4 Ordered, at the Clerk�s Table : Where the fame was read; and is as followeth ; viz. _To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition, an Aft of Parliament made in the 24th Year of the Reign of hii late Majefty, for repairing the Road from Crofsford Bridge to the Town of Manchejler, was read. And Mr. William Tomkinfon produced to your Committee an Account, by which it appeared, that a confider- able Sum of Money was due on the Credit of the faid Aft. And the Witnefs faid, That the Truftees appointed by the faid Aft have caufed the faid Road to be repaired 5 but that the fame cannot be kept in Repair, and the Money now due repaid, during the fubfifting Term of the faid Aft. And he further faid, That the Road from Crofsford Bridge aforefaid, to Altrincham, is in a ruinous Condition, and cannot be properly amended and widened by the ordinary Courfe of Law. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to enlarge the Term and Powers of an Aft made in the 24th Year of his late Majefty, for repairing the Road from Crofsford Bridge to Manchejler �, and for amending the Road from Crofsford Bridge aforefaid to a certain Place in Altrincham, in the County Palatine of Chejier : And that the Lord Strange, Mr. Shuttleworth, and Mr. Reynolds, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. The Houfe was moved, that the Petition of the Reverend John Lee, Patron and Incumbent of the Reftory and Parilh Church of Burton Overy, in the County of Leicejler, and others, whole Names are thereunto fubferibed, Proprietors of Land, and Perfons interefted, in the Open Fields and Commonable Places of and in Burton Overy aforefaid; which was prelented to the Houfe upon this Day Sevennight, and then ordered to lie upon the Table; might be again read. And the fame being read accordingly ; Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, purfuant to the Prayer of the faid Petition : And that Sir Thomas Cave, Sir Charles Mordaunt, and Sir Thomas Palmer, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Sir William Beauchamp Proflor reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the feveral Perfons whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, being Truftees for putting in Execution an Aft made in the 27th Year of his late Majefty, for opening, making, widening, and keeping in Repair, a Road from Ratcliff Highway, through Cannon Street, in the County of Middlefex, into the Road leading into the County of Effex; and alfo from the Weft End of Brook Street, into Cable Street, and from Upper Shadwell Street, into the Back Lane, in the faid County of Middlefex �, was referred �, That the Committee Lad 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, the faid Aft was read ; and John Shake/pear, Seymour Stoker, and Horne, Efquires, being examined, faid, That the Truftees have proceeded in the Execution of the laid Aft, and have borrowed a confiderable Sum of Money on the Credit thereof, which, with the Tolls, have been duly applied, but the Repair of the faid Road cannot be completed, and the Money due thereon repaid, during the fubfifting Term of the faid Aft. That fome further Powers are neceffary for the effectually putting the faid Aft in Execution ; and that it would be of Public Advantage, if Power was given to ? water the faid Roads in proper Seafons, and to tftablilh a regular Watch upon the faid Roads, and to provide a : fufficient Number of Lamps to light the fame. I Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to enlarge Common Grounds, and Commonable Lands, lying within the Townfhips and Hamlets of Horley and Hornton, in the Parifh of Horley aforefaid, in the County of Oxford, 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 Stephen Jarrit, Richard Bujiin, and Thomas Dove, whofe Property confiftsof Two Yard Lands, One Quarter of a Yard Land, and One Acre, who refufed their Confent to the Bill; and alfo except Thompfon, whofe Property confifts of Two Quarters of a Yard Land, and who could not be found; 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. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofled. ' An ingrofled Bill for rendering more efteftual an Aft, made in the 12th Year of the Reign of her late Majefty Queen Anne, intituled, An Aft for providing a Public Reward for fuch Perfon or Perfons as fhall difeover the Longitude at Sea, with regard to the making Experiments of Propofals made for difeovering the Longitude, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Aft for rendering more effeftual an Aft, made in the 12th Year of the Reign of her late Majefty Queen Anne, intituled, An Aft for providing a Public Reward for fuch Perfon or Perfons as fhall difeover the Longitude at Sea, with regard to the making Experiments of Propofals made for difeovering the Longitude. Ordered, That Mr. Stephens do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. Mr. Stephens, from the Commiflioners for the Difco- very of the Longitude at Sea, prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to their Order, a Paper, intituled, A. � Copy of Captain John Campbell's Computations � of the Observations made for the Second Trial of Mr. � John Harrifon's Time Keeper:� And alfo, B. � Copy of Doftor Bevis's Computations of the faid � Obfervations, N* 1. to 9. inclufive:� And alfo, C. � Copy of Mr. George Witcbell's Computations of � the faid Obfervations, N� 1. to 5. inclufive :� And alfo, D. � Copy of Mr. James Short's Computations of the � faid Obfervations, N� 1. to 6. inclufive.� Together with a Schedule of the faid Papers. And the faid Schedule was read. Ordered, That the faid Papers do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. The faid Papers are preserved amongft the other Papers of this Seflion. Ordered, That Mr. John Richmond Webb be added to the Gentlemen, who are appointed to prepare, and bring in, a Bill, purfuant to the Prayer of the Petition of the Reverend Charles Tarrant Doftor in Divinity, Reftor of the Parifh of St. George Bloom (bury, in the County of MiddleJex. Mr. Paterfon, according to Order, reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill for granting certain Stamp Duties, and other Duties, in the Britlfh 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 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 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 Confideration of the faid Report be adjourned till Thurfday Morning next. Lord Charles Spencer prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to their Addrefs to His Majefty, N� r. Copy of a Reprefentation from the Lords Commiflioners of the Treafury to His Majefty, relative to Duties to be levied in the I (lands of Grenada, the Grenadines, Tobago, Saint Vincents, and Dominica, dated 10th January 1764: And alfo, 2. Copy of His Majefty�s Order in Council, referring to the Lords of the Committee of Council, the aforegoing Reprefentation from the Lords Commiflioners of the Treafury, dated 27th January: And alfo, 3. Copy of an Order of His Majefty in Council, approving Five Draughts of Inftruments or Laws, for levying and collecting feveral Duties in the Elands of Grenada, the Grenadines, Tobago, Saint Vincents, and Dominica, and directing the Secretary of State to prepare Warrants for paffing the fame under the Great Seal, dated 23d May 1764; together with the Copies of the faid Draughts annexed : And allo, 4. Copy of an Order of His Majefty in Council, for delivering to Robert Melvill Efquire, Governor of the Grenada IJlands, the Five Inftruments or Laws for levying and collecting feveral Duties-, with Directions to him to caufe the fame to be publifhed and carried into Execution within the faid I (lands, dated 17 th Auguft 1764. Together with a Schedule of the faid Papers. And the faid Schedule was read. Ordered, That the faid Papers do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. The faid Papers are preferved amongft the other Papers of this Seflion. The other Order of the Day being read, for the Second Reading of the Bill for more effectually preventing the Mifchiefs arifing to the Revenue and Commerce of Great Britain and Ireland, from the illicit and clandeftinc Trade to and from the I de of Man -, The Counfel againft the Bill were called in. And the faid Bill was read a Second Time. And the Petition of the Moft noble John Duke of Atholl, and Charlotte Duchefs of Atholl his Wife, Baro- nefs Strange, was alfo read. And One of the Counfel againft the Bill was heard, and produced Evidence in Support of the faid Petition. And then the Counfel were directed to withdraw. They were again called in. And the other of the Counfel againft the Bill was heard. And then the Counfel were again directed to withdraw. And Mr. Speaker opened the Bill. And the Bill was committed. Refolded, That the Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole Houfe. Refolded, That this Houfe will, upon Thurfday Sevennight, the 28th Day of this Inftant February, refolve it- felf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the faid Bill. And then the Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the Committee, to whom the Bill for continuing and rendering more effectual Two Ads, paffed in the 12th Year of King George the Firft, and 20th of his late Majefty, tor repairing the feveral Roads therein mentioned, in the Counties of Efex and Suffolk; and for repairing and widening feveral other Roads in the laid County of Efex-, is committed; that they have Power to make Provision in the faid Bill, for repairing and widening the Road from the Village of Go.feld to the Town of Halfed, in the laid County of Effex. Sir Charles Mordaunt prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Heath, and Wafte Grounds, and Commonable Places, in the Lordfhip and Liberties of Draycot, in the Parifli of Bourton, in the County vflFar- wick: And 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, Inhabitants of the County of Carmarthen, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners are informed, a Petition hath been prefented to the Houfe, for a Bill for repairing and widening feveral Roads in the faid County, particularly the Road from Kidwelly to Llangfepben Ecrry, and from thence through Llangbarn to Tavern Spite, and from Llangbarn to Saint Clear's Bridge; and that the Road from the faid Town of Llangbarn, through Long Lane, to the Upper Ford* or Ferry at Llangbarn, is in a ruinous Condition, narrow in fome Places, and inconvenient to Travellers, and cannot be repaired and widened by die prefent Methods provided by Law : And therefore praying, That Provi- fioh may be made in the laid Bill, for repairing and widening the faid Road, in fuch Manner as to the I loufe fliall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Petition of feveral Gentlemen, and other Inhabitants of the County of Cacrmartbcn, is referred ; And that they do examine the Matter of this Petition; and report the fame, as it Hull appear to them, to the Houfe. NLrJFHIottgbby reported from theCommittee, to whom the Bill fur repairing and widening the Road from Dunham Ferry, to the South End of Great Markham Common, 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 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 Amedments, 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, that Proceedings (hall not be quafhed for want of Form only. And the laid 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 ingroffed. Ordered, That the Committee, to whom the Bill for the regulating Qualifications of the Proprietors of Eajl India Stock, was committed, be difeharged from proceeding upon the faid Bill. Ordered, That the faid Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole Houfe. Refolved* That this Houfe will, upon Monday Morn- ing next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the faid Bill. 163 arifing by the faid Afts, to the Truftees for putting in Execution an Aft of the 22d Year of King G#^ the Second, for opening and making a new Road from the Eaft End of New Street, in the Parifh of 57. John, Southwark, to and through the feveral Places therein mentioned �, and for keeping the laid Road in Repair for the future: And that Mr. Peter Burrell, Sit Francis Vincent, Mr. Onflow, Mr. Weft, Mr. Matthey, and Mr. Whitworth, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Mr. Lafcelles prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a 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 d own of Huddersfield, in the Weft Riding of the County of 1'crk ; And the fame was received -, and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Petition of the Aldermen, Sheriff, and Common Council, of the Town and County of Newcaftle up01 Tyne, whole Names are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read �, Setting forth. That the Petitioners obferve, that a Petition of the Owners and Mailers of Ships employed in the Coal Trade between London and Shields, has been prefented to the 1 loufe, containing Allegations touching the Harbour and River oiTyne, which, thefe Petitioners apprehend, are not well founded-, and that the Petitioners further apprehend, that fome other Method is intended by the f id Petition to be introduced, for the Difpofal of Ballaft, 10 be taken out of Ships in the faid River, than by laying it upon Land, where the Tide or Water never flows or runs, which, the Petitioners conceive, is the only fafe and certainMeans for preferving the faid River from Nufances by Ballaft; and that the Petitioners apprehend, that the Coal Trade hath not fuffered any Delay or Interruption from the prefent State and Condition of the Navigation of the faid River or Port-, but, on the contrary, that the fame is greatly increafed; it appearing that, in the Year 1764, 20,000 Chaldrons, and upwards, Nsweaftle Meafure, were exported, from Ncwcaftle, to London and Coaftways, more than in any One Year before; and that 40,000 Chaldrons of Coals and upwards, I ondon Meafure, were brought into the Port of London, more than in any preceding Year: And therefore praying the I loufe to take the Premifes into Confideration, and to permit the Petitioners to be heard, by themfelves or their Counfel, againft fuch Pans of the laid Petition, as, in their Opinion, may affeft or endanger the laid River and Harbour-, 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 the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Owners and Mailers of Ships employed in the Coal Trade between London and Shields, is referred ; and that the Petitioners be heard by themfelves, before the laid Committee, upon their Petition, if they think fit. A Petition of the Governor and Stewards, and Brethren, of the Fraternity of Hoftmen, of the Town of Newcaftle upon Tyne, was allo prefented to the Houfe, and read: Alfo taking Notice of the laid Petition, which, thefe Petitioners allege, contains Allegations touching the Harbour and River of Tyne not well founded ; and that thePrefervation of the Navigation of theRiverof Tyne is of great Confequence to thefe Petitioners, and to this Kingdom in general; and further Setting forth, Thar, at the Mouth of the River Tyne, there is a Bar, and alfo a large Bed of Sand, called The Herd; and tint the Petitioners apprehend, the Navigation of the faid River may be in Danger of being totally obftrufted by a con- fiderable Increafe of Sand or Ballaft either upon the Bar or Herd ; and that the permitting of Ballaft to be unloaded from Ships or Vettels in the River Tyne, othc|- wife than to be call or thrown upon the dry Land, where i the the Tide or Water never flows or runs, may be of dangerous Confequence to the Port and River of Neweaftle: And therefore praying the Houfe to take the Premiles into Confideration ; and that they will not make any Alteration in the Laws now in Force, concerning the unloading of Ballaft in the faid Port or River of Newcastle upon Tyne. A Petition of the Mafter, Pilots, and Seamen, of the Trinity Heufe, in Neweaftle upon Tyne, was alfo pre- fented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Petitioners are apprehenfive,thatfome other Method is intended to be introduced, for the Difpofal of fuch Ballaft, than by laying it on Land where the Tide doth not flow, which, according to the Petitioners Judgment, is the only fafe and certain Means for preventing Nu- fances in the faid River, by calling Ballaft : And therefore praying the Houfe will take the Premifes into Con- fideration ; and not fuffer Ballaft to be call in any other Method than is directed by the Statute of the 19th Year of his late Majefty. And the laid Petitions were feverally ordered to be referred to the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Owners and Mailers of Ships employed in the Coal Trade between London and Shields, is referred. The Houfe being informed that Mr. Bannifter, from the Office of the Six Clerks in Chancery, attended at the Door; he was called in; and, at the Bar, prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to their Addrefs to His Majefty, Copy.�Patent, appointing a Duty of Four an Half per Cent, in Specie, on all dead Commodities (hipped off from the Ifland of Grenada ; and alfo a Poll Tax on the Inhabitant of faid Ifland : And alfo, Copy.�Patent, appointing a Duty of Four and an Half per Cent, in Specie, on all dead Commodities (hipped off from the Grenadine Iflands; and alfo a Poll Tax on the Inhabitants of faid Iflands : And alfo, Copy.�Patent, appointing a Duty of Four and an Half/ur Cent. Specie, on all dead Commodities (hipped off from the Ifland of Dominica : And alfo, Copy.�Patent, appointing a Duty of Four and an Half per Cent, in Specie, on all dead Commodities (hipped off from the Ifland of Saint Vincents: And alfo. Copy.�Patent, appointing a Duty of Four and an Half per Cent, in Specie, on all dead Commodities fliipped off from the Ifland of Tobago. And then he withdrew. And the Titles of the faid Copies were read. Ordered, That the faid Copies do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. The faid Copies are preferved amongft the other Papers of this Seffion. Ordered, That the Lord Grey be added to the Gentlemen, who are appointed to prepare, and bring in, a Bill for cleanfing and lighting the Streets, Lanes, and Paffages, within the Towns of Manchefter and Salford, in the County Palatine ofLancafter, and for eftabliffiing a regular Watch, and for providing Fire Engines and Fire-men, and for preventing Annoyances, within the faid Towns. Ordered, That the Lord Grey be added to the Gentlemen, who are appointed to prepare, and bring in, a Bill to enlarge the Term and Powers of an Act made in the 24th Year of his late Majefty, for repairing the Road from Crofsford Bridge to Manchefter ; and for amending the Road from Crofsford Bridge aforefaid, to a certain Place in Altrincham, in the County Palatine of Chefter. A 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 Eaft Indies, or other Places beyond the C^>e 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 Ifle of Man; was read a Second Time. Refolded, That the Bill be committed. Refolded, That the Bill be committed to the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill for the more effectually 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, is committed. Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the Lid Committee, that they do alter and make both the faid Bills into one. The Order of the Day, for the Call of the Houfe, being read ; Ordered, That the Serjeant at Arms attending this Houfe do go, with the Mace, into the Speaker�s Chamber, and fummon the Members there to attend the Service of the Houfe. And he went accordingly. And being returned ; A Motion was made, and the Queftion being pur, That the Call of the Houfe be adjourned till this Day Fortnight; Ir palled in the Negative. Then the Houfe was called over; and theNames of fuch Members as made Default to appear, were taken down. Then the Names of fuch Members as made Default to appear, were again called over -, and feveral of them appeared ; and the reft were excufed, on Account of their own Illnefs, or the lllnefs of their near Relations, or as being in Town, or as being Abroad or in the Public Service, or abfent upon other extraordinary Avocations, or with the Leave of the Houfe. The Houfe, according to Order, refolved itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the Bill for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor, within that Part of Great Britain called England. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Kynafton took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr. Kynafton 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. Kynafton 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 fhall be fut- ficient for the Ufe of the Members of the Houfe. The other Orders of the Day being read; Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Friday Morning next, rcfolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of Ways and Means for raifing the Supply granted to His Majefty. Rejoined, That this Houfe will, upon Friday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the Supply granted to His Majefty. Ordered, That Mr. Fitzberbert have Leave to make a Motion, it being after Nine of the Clock. And he moved the Houfe accordingly. Ordered, That all Committees be revived. Ordered, Ordered, That Mr. Fitzberbert have Leave to make a Morion. And he moved the Houfe accordingly. Ordered, That all have Voices who come to the Committee, to whom the Petition of feveral Perlons, whole Names arc thereunto fubferibed, being Dyers, Callicoe Printers, and others ufing Madder in their feveral Trades, in behalf of themfelves and many others, is referred. And then the Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. Jowls, 2i� die Februarii. Anno 50 Georgi: III'1' Regis, 1765. PR AYERS. S^HARLES Frederick Hempel, fames Janot, and Cbri~ Jlopher John Schultz, cook the Oaths appointed, in order to their Naturalization. Sir Charles Kemys Tynte reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of feveral Gentlemen, Clergy, and other Perfons living in, near, and ufually travelling the Road leading from a certain Water, called South Perrot Water, which divides the Counties of Somerfet and Dorfet, through the Parifh of Mijierton, and co and through the Town of Crewkerne, in the faid County of Somerfet, to the North End of a Lane, called Provoji Lane, in the Parifh of Stoke under Hambden, in the faid County of Somerfet; and alfo the Road leading from a certain other Water, which divides the faid Counties of Somerfet and Dorfet, called Br:mble Water, through the faid Parifh of Mijierton, to the Direction Pojl, at a Place called Roundbam, in the faid Parifh of Crewkerne-, and alfo the Road leading from the faid Town of Crewkerne, over Clapton Bridge, to the Three AJhes, in the faid Parifh of Crewkerne-, and alfo the Road leading ftom Broadjhard, in the faid Parifh of Crewkerne, through the Parifh of Merriot, to Lopenhead, within the Panfh of Lopen, in the faid County of Somerfet ; 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 ; z-iz. To prove rhe Allegations of the faid Petition, Mr. William Budden faid, That he knows the faid feveral Roads j that they lead from the Ports of Bridpovt and Lime, to the Cities of Bath and Brfol -, that they are in a ruinous Condition, and narrow, and incommodious in many Places -, and cannot be effectually repaired and widened by the ordinary Courfe of Law. Mr. Robert Taylor confirmed the above Evidence. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair, feveral Roads leading from Crewkerne, in the County of Somerfet: And that Sir Charles Kemys Tynte 2nd MfAPbicbcotdoprcptre, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of His Majefty�s Juft ices of the Peace for the County of Middlefex, in Selfion afiembled, on behalf of themfelves and the reft of the Inhabitants of the faid County, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Reciting the Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aidermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council afiembled, which hath been lately prefented to rhe Houfe, relating to the Gaol of Newgate-, and re- prefenting to the Houfe, that the faid Ga-2 is fuppofed to have been originally built in the Reign of King Henry I. or of King Stephen; that is to fay, between the Years 1100 and 1154; and that the fame hath been under the foie Government of, and hath from Time to Time, fometimes by exprefs Mandate from the King, \ OL. X XX. being rebuilt, repaired, altered, and enlarged, by the City of London; and that, fuppofing the Number of Prifoners yearly committed to the faid Gaol to be as great as is alleged, and that Two Thirds of fuch Prifoners are Middlefex Prifoners(the latter of which Pofitions thefe Petitioners do by no means admit) the Number is rather lefs now than it hath been for a long Series of Years paft -, and that the County of Middlefex have feveral Prifons of their own, which they maintain at a great Expence, wherein no malignant Difeafe hath ever yet appeared, to which Prifons, Perfons for all but the moft atrocious Offences are committed ; and that the foie Reafon why any Middlefex Prifoners at all are in Newgate is, that the Citizens of London do, by their feveral Charters, among divers other valuable Privileges and Immunities, hold the Shrievalty of Middlefex, together with that of London, in Farm -, and that, as they unite thole Two feveral Offices and the Jurifdi&ions attendant thereon in the fame Perfons, fo do they make the Prifon of Newgate, which is fituated in and is properly the Prifon of London, a Prifon for the County of Middlefex-, that therefore the Cuftody of th? Middlefex Prifoners is nor to be confidered as a Burthen on rhe Citizens, but as a neceflary Confequence of their Nomination of the lame Perfons as are Sheriffs of London, to be Sheriff of Middlefex, the Right to which Nomination could never have been forced on them 5 they mult neceflarily be fuppofed originally to have folicired ir, and the rather, as they conftantly exercife it, and, under Colour thereof, have, for many Years paft, railed im- menfe Sums ; in Proof whereof, the Petitioners allege, that, fince the Year 1672, the Amount of Sheriffs Fines hath been upwards of 148,750/. a fufficient Part whereof the Petitioners apprehend might very properly have been applied by the Citizens for the Re-building of their Gaolof MTOJ^, as it is, in Judgment of Law, the Prifon of rhe Sheriff; and that, although it is now upwards of 600 Years fince the firft building of the faid Gaol, no Attempt hath ever been made to charge rhe County of Middlefex with any Expence attending the fame ; bur, on rhe contrary, immediately after the dreadful Conflagration in 1666, when the real Diftrefles of the Citizens might oblige them to implore the Aid of Parliament, they, without any previous Application to the County of Middlefex, obtained, tor the Purpole of building Prifons for Felons and other Malefactors, (among other Things) a Grant of a very confidcrable Revenue by a Duty on Coals, which hath produced to the City no lefs a Sum than 736,8041.; and that, how much foever the Petitioners may be difpofed to lament that the laid Gaol is (till ill conllructed, dole, incommodious, and unhealthy, they humbly hope, that the County of Middlefex is not anfwerable for any of the bad Confequences of its Conftrudiun or Situation, in as much as the City, and not the County, have made it what it is; and that the Citizens have been poftefied of at leaft two Funds, amounting together to near 900,000/. Sterling, out of which, for aught that has ever yet appeared to the Public, they might have rebuilt their Gaol of Newgate, without any Aid of the County, which already is taxed at near 1000/. a Year for the Maintenance of its own Gaols, and other Pur- pofes, by County Rate, of which Rate, the Petitioners, as Juftices of the Peace, are Truftees -, that rhe Revenues of the City are immenfe; the Offices in their Difpofal, folong ago as the Year 1721, were eftimated at 152,000/. and a very few Years will put the Citizens in the actual Pofftfiion of fuch Eftates as muft yield an Income much more than adequate to the Expences of its Government-, and that, as the Sources of thefe Revenues are in general Royal Grants, many of them under the exprefs Condition of well-governing the City, and are enjoyed by the Citizens in their Political and Corporate Capacity, the Revenues cannot be confidered as Private Emoluments, in Reafon and Juftice they ought to be applied only for the Public Purpoles ; and, as the Petitioners conceive, the defraying the neceffary Expences U u of of Magiftracy, the Erection and Repair of Gaols, Bridges, and other Public Edifices, are lome of thole beneficial Furpofes fur which loch Grants Icem originally to have been intended, and to which the Revenues, thereby arifing, arc with the greatell Propriety applicable ; for which Realbns, as allo for divers of Weight and Importance, which the Petitioners have to offer, they do deny that the faid Gaol ought to be rebuilt at the Expence of the City of London and County of Middlefx, in any Proportion whatfoever ; on the contrary, that the Citizens are by Law bound, and ought, at the foie Expence of the City, to rebuild and repair the faid Gaol whenever the fame fliall be necef- fary : And therefore praying the Houfe, that the Petitioners may be heard, by themfelves or their Counfel, againft the Matters contained in the faid Petition, lb iar as the fame may any way tend to impofe a Charge on the faid County. 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 affembled, is referred ; and that thtfe Petitioners be heard, by themfelves or their Counfel, before the faid Committee, upon their faid Petition, if they think fit. Ordered, I hat it be an InftruClion to the faid Committee, that they do admit Counfel to be heard, at the fame Time, in Favour of the faid former Petition, againft the Petition now prefented. Mr. Methuen reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Mayor, Aidermen, Burgeffes, and Principal Inhabitants of the Borough of Warwick, in the County of Warwick, and of the feveral Gentlemen and others, refiding near the faid Borough of Warwick, ufually travelling the Road therein after-mentioned ; and alfo the Petition of the Gentlemen, Freeholders, and other Principal Inhabitants, refiding in and near the Towns of Northampton and Dave-airy, in the County of Northampton, and the Town of Southam, in the County of Warwick, whole Names are thereunto fub- fcribed ; were feverally referred ; That the Committee had examined the Matter of the laid Petitions 5 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 1 able : Where the fame was read ; and is as followeth ; viz. To prove the Allegations of the Lid Petitions, Mr. fohn Sptcer, and Mr. John Beardftey, being leveraliy examined, faid, That the Road leading from the Great Bridge in the faid Borough of Warwick, through Southam and Daventry, to Northampton, is in a ruinous Condition, and, in many Places, very narrow and incommodious j and the faid Road cannot be effectually repaired and widened by the prefent Method pre- fcribtd by Law. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for repairing and widening the Road from the Great Bridge, in the Borough of Warwick, through Southam and Da- �uentry, to the Town of Northampton: And that Mr. Methuen and Mr. Frederick Montagu do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Mr. Frederick Montagu prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the levcral Fields and Meadows, Paftures, Commons, and Wafte Grounds, within the Hamlets of Afford and Sheldon, in the Parilh of Bakewell, and County of Derby: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Mr. Harris of Chrif Church prefented to the I loufe, according to Order, a Bill for Sale of certain Lands, in the County of Reni, fettled upon the Redtor of the Parilh of St. George Bloomfury, in the County of Mid- illefex, and for applying the Money arifing thereby, in Manner therein mentioned, for the Benefit of the Gid Reftor: And the fame was received -, and read the Firft 'Fime. Refolded, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Mt. Frederick Montagu prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Paftures, and Commonable Wafte Grounds, in the Manor and Parifli of Twywell, in the County of Northampton : And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolded, That the Bill be read a Second Time. An ingrofled Bill to enable William Ager, and his IfTuc, to take and ufe the Surname of Tumor, was read the Third Time. Refolded, That the Bill do pafs : And that the Title be. An Act to enable William Ager, and his Ilfuc, to take and ufe the Surname of Tumor. Ordered, That Mr. Luther do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. A Petition of many Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and other Perfons ufing the Markets of Netberftowey, Minehead, and Dunfter, in the County of Somerfet, and others travelling that Road, was prefented to the Houfe, and read �, Setting forth, That the Petitioners are informed, that Application is intended to be made for a Bill to repair certain Highways within the Counties of Somerfet and Devon, amongft which it is pro- pofed to let up Gates for colle&ing Tolls between the Towns of Minehead and Nelherfowey, in the Lid County; reprelenting to the Houfe, that the Roads between Minehead and Netberftowey, which are about 15 Miles diftant, have been, in Part, put in good Repair by the Statute Labour; and that the reft, being in general over a good Soil, may be amended and very well repaired by the Statute Labour, and by the Inhabitants of the feveral Parifhes through which the Road runs, which they arc willing and defirous of doing, without the Aid of Parliament: And therefore praying, That there may be no Turnpike erefted between the Lid Town of Minebead and Netberftowey, as it will be a great Burthen on the County ; or that the Petitioners may have fuch other Relief as to the Houfe fhall feem meet. Ordered, That the Lid Petition do lie upon the Table. A Bill for repairing and widening feveral Roads, leading from between the Second and Third Mile Stones, on the Turnpike Road leading from the Town and County of Poole to Winborn Minfter, in the County of Dorfet, to Bratton Corner, in the County of Somerfet, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Drax, Mr. Major, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Cornwall, Mr. Luttrell, Mr. Ryder, Lord Strange, M. Blackftone, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Eames, Mr. Parker, Lord Orwell, Mr. Mar- tin, Sir Edward Winnington, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Harris, Mr. Luther, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Fane, Sir Francis Drake, Sir George Savile, Sir John Morgan, Mr. Townfsend, Mr. Onflow, Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. Gaf- coync, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Fane, Mr. Sandys, Lord Conying- ham, Mr. Dyfon, Mr. Foley, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Touchet, Mr. Clayton, Mr. Duke, Sir George Tonge, Mr. Gray, Mr. Grey, Lord Grey, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Reft, Mr. Kynaftcn, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Townfmd, Mr. Walter, Mr. Butler, Mr. Dcmpfter, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Gore; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Dorfet, Wilts, Southampton, and Somer* fet: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Mr. Dowdefwell prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open Lands and Grounds, lying in the Parilh of Bretferton, in the County of Worcefter: And the fame was received ; and read rhe Firft Time. Refolded, Refolded, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Sir George Yonge prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a 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 Workhoufe at the Eaft End of the Town of Honiton, in the County of Devon 5 and for amending the Road from Axmmjter, to a Place called Ouandoe's Gate, and allo 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 Intrench- ment on A/kerfwell Hill to Penn Inn, and from Brid- port to Beamtnjler; and allo for amending the Road from the North End of South Street to Bridport Harbour: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time, Mr. Bfi prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for amending and widening the Road from the Town of Biddenden in the Weald of Kent, through Charing, to join the Turnpike Road which leads from Afford to Feverjham, at a Place called Bound Gate: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Mr. Walter reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair, feveral Roads in and near Great Torrington, in the County of Devon, was committed, That the Commitee 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 theHoufe; 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. A Petition of the Chairman and Commiflioners of the River Wear, and Port and Haven of Sunderland, in the County of Durham, within the Limits fet forth in an Aft of Parliament pafled in the 20th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, for the better Prefervation and Improvement of the River Wear and Port and Haven of Sunderland, in the County of Durham, aflembled at a Meeting, purfuant to the faid Aft, on Thurfday the 14th Day of February 1765, was prefented to the Houfe and read ; Reciting the Petition of the Owners and Mailers of Ships employed in the Coal Trade between London and Shields, which was prefented to the Houfe upon the 4th Day of this Inftant; and alleging, that all Ships of great Burthen trading to the Port of Sunderland are obliged to anchor at Sea, and take in their Loading at a great Diftance from the Harbour, and, in bad Weather, fuch Ships are often driven from their Anchors, in which Emergencies the Port and Harbour of Shields is the only Port to the Northward to which Ships can make for Safety, and therefore all Perfons, trading with Ships of great Burthen to the Port of Sunderland, arc particularly interefted in the Prefervation of the Port of Shields-, and that the Petitioners are appre- henfive, that fome Method, other than the Calling of Ballaft upon the dry Land, where the Tide or Water never flows or runs, is intended to be attempted in the faid Port of Shields ; and that the Petitioners conceive, that the permitting of Ballaft to be unloaded from Ships in the Port or Harbour of Shields, otherwife than to be caft upon the dry Land, might be of the moft dangerous Confequence to the faid Port and Harbour: And therefore praying the I loufe to take the Premifes into Mr. Ward prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields and Grounds, lying in the Parilh of Lenchwicb and Norton, and the Borough of Evcffam, in the County of Worcefer: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolded, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Petition of feveral Perfons, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, being Makers and Venders ot Hats made with Beaver, Rabbits Fur, and other Materials, in the Cities of London anti Weftminfter, the Borough of Southwark, and Parts adjacent, on behalf ot themfelves and others concerned in the faid Manufacture in Great Britain, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Hat Manufacture did receive an Encouragement from Parliament the laft Seflions, by an Act for repealing the Duties payable upon Beaver Skins imported, and for granting other Duties in lieu thereof, s Politic, Corporate, and Collegiate, to grant Leafes of fuch Incorporeal H reditaments, with a Remedy to recover the refpeftive Rents referved ; be difeharged. Ordered, Thar Leave be given to bring in a Bill to quiet the prefent Pofleflbrs of Leafes from Ecclefiaftical Perfons, and Bodies Politic, Corporate, and Collegiate, of Tythes, Tolls, and other Incorporeal Hereditaments, for Lives, or Terms of Years, in the Enjoyment of fuch Leafes; and to enable Ecclefiaftical Perlons, and Bodies Politic, Corporate, and Collegiate, to grant Leafes of fuch Incorporeal Hereditaments, with a Remedy to recover the refpeftive Rents referved : And that Mr. Ridley, Mr. Blackftone, Mr. Wilbraham, Sir Roger Ntwdi- gate, Sir Walter Wagjlajfe Bagot, Mr. Thomas Townfsend, and Mr. Hatton, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Mr. Whitworth prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for repairing and widening the Road from Tunbridge to Maidftone, in the County of Kent: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Sir Charles Kemys Tynte reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the feveral Perfons, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, Trtiftees and Creditors under an Aft of the 26th of his late Majefty�s Reigrf, intituled, An Aft for repairing and widening the Road from the Half-way Houfe, in the Parilh of Lower Compton, in the County of Dorfct, through the Towns of Teovil, Crewkerne, and Chard, to the F.aft End of the Town of rlxminfer, and feveral other Roads round the faid Town of Yeovil, in the County of Somerfet �, and of feveral other Perfons living in and near the Towns of ll- minfter, Chard, and other Places, who frequently travel the Road from Chard to Honiton, through Stockland�, 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, the faid Aft was read; whereby it appeared, that the Truftees for repairing the Diftrift of Road from Hafe- borough Bridge, to the Eaft End of the Town of Hx- minjier, were impowered to borrow the Sum of 3000 i. on the Credit of the Tolls to be collefted thereon. George Warry Efquire, Treafurer to the faid Truftees, produced an Account, whereby it appeared, that 2400 Z. hath been borrowed by the faid Truftees, on the Credit of the faid Aft, and that only too /. hath been paid off; and the Witnefs faid, that great Progrefs hath been made in repairing the faid Road, but it will be necefiary to build Bridges or Arches over fome Parts of the fame ; and that the Road cannot be effeftually amended, and the Money due on the fame be paid off' during the fub- fifting Term of the Aft ; and that it is the Defire of the principal Part of the Creditors, both in Number and Value, and who have figned the Petition, that the prefent Application is made. And the Witnefs further faid, That the Road from Chard to Honiton, through the Parifhes of Chard, Warn- brook, Chardjlock, Mcmbuty, Stockleigb, Cotleigb, Monk- ton, and Honiton, mialures only 12 Miles One Furlong and 22 Poles, but that the fame is in a ruinous Condition, and, in ibme Parts, very narrow, and cannot be effeftually repaired and widened by the Laws in being; and that the Road fromChard to Honiton, through Axminjler, meafures 16 Miles by the Stones ; that a confiderable Woollen and Lace Manufafture is carried on at Honiton, and a Woollen Manufafture at Chard, and the Goods manufaftured at thefe Places are carried from Ont Town to the other on Hurfes �, that if the Road was made paflable for Carriages, Goods would be carried cheaper, and it would be of Public Utility. That if' the laid rruikes were enabled to borrow 70c/. more more than the 3000 I. it would be fufficient to repair all the faid Roads. Mr. "John ford being examined, confirmed the Evidence of Mr. lfarry, with refped to the Condition and Admeafurement of the Roads, and the Impracticability of repairing the Road from Chard, through Ifam- brook, to Honiton, by the Laws in being �, and faid, that it was the old Poft Road from London to Exeter ?, that the Hills are not fo long, but fteeper, than they are through Axminjler, but could travel Mile for Mile as foon on the intended as on the prefent Turnpike Road -, that Materials are near, and that it may coft about 100 I. a Mile to put the fame into proper Repair. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to enlarge the Term and Powers of an Aft, made in the 26th Year 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 Teovil, Crewkerne, and Chard, to the Eaft End of the Town of dxminjter, and feveral other Roads round the faid Town of Yeovil, in the County of Somerjet; fo far as the fame relates to the Road from Hajleborough Bridge, to the Eaft End of the Town of Axminfter; and for repairing and widening the Road from Chard, through Stockland, to Honiton, in the County of Devon: And that Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Touchet, Mr. Prowfe, and the Lord North, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. The Houfe being informed, that Mr. Julliott, 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 all the Public Debts at the Receipt of His Majefty�s Exchequer, ftanding out the 5th Day of January 1765, being Old Chriftmas Day, with the Annual Intereft, or other Charges payable for the fame. And then he withdrew. And the Title of the faid Account was read. The faid Account is as followeth; viz. VOL. XXX. X x To To the honourable the Knights, Citizens, and Burgefies, in Parliament aflembled. M AN ACCOUNT of all the Public Debts at the Receipt of His Majefty�s Exchequer, ftanding out the 5th Day of January 1765, (being Old Cbrijlmas Day) with the Annual M Intereft, or other Charges, payable for the fame. O Annuities for long Terms, being the Remainder of the original Sum contributed and uofubferibed to the South Sea Company �� ? - ? � Ditto for Lives, with the Benefit of Survivorihip, being the original Sum contributed - ' ? ? ��� Ditto � for Two and Three Lives, being the Sum remaining after what is fallen in by Deaths _�� �? � �*� Exchequer bills made out for Intereft of old Bills �� - ?� ? � ? ? �� ?? * ? Note, The Land Taxes and Duties on Malt, being annual Grants, are not charged in this Account, nor the �. 1,000,000 charged on the Deduction of 6/. per Lib. oil Penftons, nor the �. 800,000 charged on the Supplies, AMO 1765, nor the 4. t,000,000 charged on the Supplies, Anno 1766 �M ? ? M 'EAST INDIA COMPANY. By Two Adis of Parliament, 9� Willi, jtii Regie, and Two other Ads 6� & 9� AM* Regime, at �. 3 per Cent, per Annum �� �- ??*'?? Annuities at �.3 per Cent, per Ann. Anno 1744, charged on the Surplus of the additional Duties on Low Wines, Spirits, and Strong Waters �?� �- BANK OF ENGLAND. On their original Fund at �. 3 per Cent, per Ann. from the ill Auguft 174.3 -�-*- ? ? L - - � For cancelling Exchequer Bills, 30 Georgiiprimi Regie � � � �� ? ? ? , .^ ? Purchafed of the South Sea Company �- � ? � � . ?. � Annuities at �.3 per Cent, per Ann. charged on the Surplus of the Funds for Lottery 1714 �� � � ? Ditto at �.3 per Cent, per Ann. charged on the Duties on Coals, fince Lady Day 1719 �� �� � Ditto��at �.3 per Cent per Ann. Anno 1746, charged on the Duties on Licences for retailing Spirituous Liquors, fince Lady Day 1746 Ditto at �.3 per Cent, per Ann. charged on the Sinking Fund, by the Ads 25*, 28�, 29�, 32� W 33� Gii. z'11 Regie, & 4� Gii. tertii Regie Ditto��at �. 3 per Cent, per AM. charged on the Duties on Offices and Penfions, by the Ad 31 Gii. zdl Regie �� Ditto�at �.3 per Cent, per Ann. charged on the the Sinking Fund, by the Ad 25� Gii. 2dl Regie ? �� ? ? ? � ? Ditto at �.35 per Cent, per Ann. charged on the faid Fund, by the Ad 29� Gii. 21** Regie > ?? Ditto at �.3}per Cent, per AM. charged on the Duties on Offices and Penfions, by the Ad 31� Gii. 2dI Regie �� Ditto at�.4per Cent per Ann. charged on the Sinking Fund, by the Ads of the 2�Gii. 3U* Regie � ?� - Ditto--? at �.4 per Cent, per Ann. in Lottery Tickets, charged on the additional Duties on Wines, by the Ad 30 Gii. tertii Regie �� Ditto at �.4 per Cent, per Ann. charged on the faid Fund, by the laid Ad , � ? � Ditto�' at �.4per Cent, per Ann. to fatisfy certain Navy Bills, Ue. charged on the Sinking Fund, by the Ad 3� Gii. tertiiRegie ? 33*127,821 500,000 70�,coo 2,800,000 5 Memorandum: The Subfcribers of �. too to the Lottery 1745, were allowed an Annuity for One Life of 9 /. a Ticket, which amounted to �. 22,500, but is now reduced by Lives fallen in, to �.17,65 7. 5. And the Subfcribers of �.100 to the Lottery 1746, were allowed an Annuity for One Life of 18 /. a Ticket, which amounted to �.45,000, but is now reduced by Lives fallen in, to �.35,557. 10. And the Subfcribers of �.100 for �.�, per Cent. Annuities, AMO 1757, were allowed an Annuity for One Life of �. 1 2. 6. which amounted to �.33,750, but is now reduced by Lives fallen in, to �.32,231. 7. 6. And the Subfcribers of �.100 for�.3 per Cent. Annuities, Anno 1761, were allowed an Annuity for 99 Years of �.1. 2. 6. amounting, with the Charges of Management to the Bank of England, to �.130,0 5 3. 10. 3. which Annuities are an Increafe of the Annual Intereft, but cannot be added to the Public Debt, as no Money was advanced for the fame: And the Contributors to �.12,000,000 for the Service of the Year 1762, were intitled to an Annuity of �.1 per Cent.per Ann. to continue for 98 Years, and then to ceafe, which, with the Charges of Management to the Bank of England, amount to the Sum of�.121,687. 10. which Annuities far 99 Years, and 98 Years, were confolidated by the Ad 4�Georgii tertiiRegie ? � � �� ?? � ?. . , ? ? ?? ? -? - �ir SOUTH SEA COMPANY. On their Capital Stock and Annuities, 9� Georgii prime Regie � > * ? Annuities at �.3 per Cent, per duet. Anno 1751, charged on the Sinking Fund ,�� *�� Exchequer, the 21ft Day of February 1765. 5. P. Julliott. Principal Debt. Annual Inteteft, or other Chaigel payable the fame. for 1,836,275 17 to| � 36.45 3 12 8 ic8,too �� 7.567 MM 75H�5 14 l�l 9�I�7 13 �A* 2,200' -��? MH � �� - � : - 3*100,000 �HAM �97.�*5 *4 4 i,ooo�oecf ?BOM 30,401 *5 8 3,200,000 MM MM 100,0*0 500,000 4,000,000 �420 MdM 15,000 , 111,898 3 Si 1,250,000 � MdM 37.5�� MM 1,750,000 MMW MM $2,500- MM 986,800 � � 29,604 -AM. 33,627,821 3 1$ ' �>,017,588 5 ft *7�7O�.3*3 16 ^r 54*�996 *4 �MM 1,500^00 ^.' �* 5 3.343 >5 4,500,000 MM r 160,031 5 MM 20,240,000' �M4 . 8^0,985 3,560,000' ?M �Aw 140,000 � M� 3>^3iB3 r 10 *39.34* 2 ? 25,02$; 30? 2,100,000 �3 129,5 86,489 M �� 337.1*7 765,326 64,181 2 3 5 4,68#,299 11 9 Journals of the Houle ^Commons. Ordered, That the Order of the Day, for the Second Reading of the Bill for the better enabling the Commif- fioners for putting in Execution the feveral Afts patted, for paving, cleanfing, and lighting the Squares, Streets, and Lanes within the City and Liberty of Weftminfter, the Parifhes of Saint Giles in the Fields, Saint George the Martyr, Saint George Bloomjbury, that Part of the Parifh of Saint Andrews, llolbourn, which lies in the County of Middlefex, the leveral Liberties of the Rolls and Savoy, and that Part of the Duchy of Lancajler which lies in the County of Middlefex, and for preventing Annoyances therein; and for other Purpofes therein mentioned; to execute the Trufts veiled in them by the faid Afts j be now read. And the fame being read accordingly; A Petition of feveral Inhabitants of the Borough of Southwark, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, in behalf of themfelves and other Inhabitants of the faid Borough, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners obferve by the Votes of the Houfe, that a Bill is brought in for � the better enabling " the Commiflioners for putting in Execution the feveral � Afts for paving, cleanfing, and lighting the Squares, � Streets, and Lanes, within the City and Liberty of ** Wejlminfter, and other Places therein mentioned, to � execute the Trufts vefted in them by the faid Afts,� by which an additional Toll on Sundays is intended to be laid on all Perfons, patting through the Turnpike neareft Wefminjler Bridge, in the County of Surrey', that, on account of the great Number of heavy Carriages palling through the faid Borough, to and from the Cities of London and Wejlminfter, and the adjacent Counties, the Pavements of the Streets within the fame are become extremely ruinous and bad, notwithftanding very confiderable Sums of Money have been expended in their Reparation ; and that, fince the Opening of Weftminfter Bridge, and the making the Road acrofs Saint George's Fields, the Waggons, Carts, Drays, and Coaches, as have oc- cafion to go from Wejlminfter, to the Cuftom Houfe Quays, and the Eaftern Part of the City of London or EJfex, generally pafs through the faid Borough; and that the Turnpike at which it is propofed by the faid Bill to colleft the additional Toll aforefaid, ftands nearly in the Midway between the Borough of Southwark, and the City of Weftminfter, and the Intercourfe between the faid City and Borough is reciprocal: And therefore praying, That the faid Bill may not pafs into a Law, or, if it fhould, that a Moiety or other Part of the additional Toll, to be collefted at the faid Gate, may be appropriated towards the better Maintenance of the Pavements within the faid Borough. Then the faid Bill was read a Second Time. A Motion was made, and the Queftion being put, That the Bill be committed ; The Houfe divided. The Yeas went forth. Tellers for the Yeas 5 Sir W,Uiam Codrington, J 1 ellcrs tor the Mr fra&((^. \�5i- Tellers for theNoes,|^ } 58. So it was refolved in the Affirmative. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole Houfe. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Tuefday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the faid Bill. Ordered, That the Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders, of the County of Surrey, aflemblcd in General Quarter Seflion of the Peace, holdeo in and for the faid County, by Adjournment, on Thurfday the 14th Day of February 1765, which was prefented to the Houfe upon Monday laft, and then ordered to lie upon the Table, until the Bill be read a Second Time, be referred to the faid Committee. Ordered, That the Pention of feveral Inhabitants of 4 the the Borough of Southwark, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, in behalf themfelves and other Inhabitants of the faid Borough, this Day prefented to the Houfe, be referred to the faid Committee. A Motion was made, and the Queftion being put, That the Houfe be called over upon this Day Fortnight 5 It palled in the Negative. A Petition of the High Sheriff, Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of Devon, and others, holding and occupying Lands within the faid County, aflembled in a General County Meeting, held at the Caftle of Exeter, the Twenty-fifth Day of 'January 1765: And alfo, A Petition of the Mayor, Aidermen, Common Council, and principal Inhabitants of the City of Exeter, met together at the Guildhall of the faid City, the Thirty- firft Day of January 1765 : And alfo, A Petition of the Portreeve, Bailiff, and other principal Inhabitants of the Borough of Honiton, in the County of Devon : And alfo, A Petition of the High Sheriff, Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of Cornwall, and others occupying Lands in the faid County, affembled at the General Quarter Seffions of the Peace held at Lof- witbiel, the Eighteenth Day of January 1765 : Were feverally prefented to the Houfe, and read; Reprefenting to the Houfe, That the Petitioners and others are fubjefted to many Grievances, by fo much of Two feveral Acts, paffed in the 3d and 4th Years of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, which lays an additional Duty on Cyder and Perry, both with refpeft to the Tax itfelf, and to the Mode of collecting it, under the Power of the Excifc Laws: And praying the Houfe to take the Premifes into Confideration, and to give fuch Relief therein, as to the Houfe fliull feem meet. A Motion was made, and the Queftion being pro- pofed, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to repeal fo much of an Act, pafled in the 3d Year of His Majefty�s Reign, as lays a new Duty of Excife on Cyder and Perry, to be paid by the Maker thereof; and alfo an Act paffed in the laft Seflion of Parliament, to explain and amend fuch Part of the faid Act as relates to Cyder and Perry made in this Kingdom; The Houle was moved, that an Aft made in the Third Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled, An Aft for granting to His Majefty feveral additional Duties upon Wines imported into this Kingdom; and certain Duties upon all Cyder and Perry; and for raifing the Sum of Three millions, Five hundred thoufand Pounds, by Way of Annuities and Lotteries, to be charged on the faid Duties; might be read. And the fame was read accordingly. The Houfe was alfo moved, that an Aft, made in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled, An Aft to explain and amend fuch Part of an Aft made in the laft Seflion of Parliament, intituled, An Aft for granting to His Majefty feveral additional Duties upon Wines imported into this Kingdom ; and certain Duties upon all Cyder and Perry ; and for raifing the Sum of Three millions Five hundred thoufand Pounds, by Way of Annuities and Lotteries, to be charged on the faid Duties; as relates to Cyder and Perry made in this Kingdom; might be read. And the fame was read accordingly. Then the Queftion being put, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to repeal fo much of an Aft, pafled in the 3d Year of His Majefty�s Reign, as lays a new Duty of Excife on Cyder and Perry, to be paid by the Maker thereof; and alfo an Aft paffed in the laft Seflion of Parliament, to explain and amend fuch Part of the faid Aft as relates to Cyder and Perry made in this Kingdom ; I The Houfe divided. The Yeas went forth. Tellers for the Yeas J ^^n.^, 1 1 Mr. Barrow: j Tellers for the Noes, j^^�� ��M I5,. ( Mr. Gafcoyne. $ 3 So it paffed in the Negative. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill to repeal an Aft, paffed 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, To-morrow Morning, 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, upon the Bill for the more effeftual preventing the Stealing of Fifh and Rabbits; Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Tuefday Morning next, refolve itfelf into the faid Committee. The other Order of the Day being read ; The Houfe refumed the adjourned Confideration of the Report, which was made from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill for granting certain Stamp Duties, and other Duties, in the Briti/h Colonies and Plantations in America; and for applying the fame towards further defraying the Expences of defending, protefting, and ftcuring fuch Colonies and Plantations; was committed. And the Refidue of the Amendments, made by the Committee to the faid Bill, being feverally read a Second Time, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, One of them was difagreed to; and the reft were, with an Amendment to One of them, agreed to by the Houfe. A Claufe was offered to be added to the Bill, that Warrants for Bounties (hall be exempted from Duty. 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. Another Claufe was offered to be added to the Bill, to exempt Proclamations, Forms of Prayer, and certain other Things, from the Duty. And the laid Claufe was Twice read ; and, upon rhe Queftion put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe, to be made Part of the Bill. Another Claufe was offered to be added to the Bill, to exempt Inftruments for purchafing Lands of the Indians from the Duty. 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 Leave be given to offer a Claufe to he added to the faid Bill, to extend the Jurifdiftions by the Aft to be eftablilhed, to the Execution of an Aft made in the 4th Year of His prefent Majefty�s Reign relating to the Cuftoms, and to the feveral other Afts relating to the Revenues in the Colonies and Plantations. And a Claufe was accordingly offered to be added to the Bill for that Purpofe. And the faid Claufe was Twice read, with Blanks, which being filled up, the faid Claufe was, upon the Queftion put thereupon, agreed to bv the Houfe, to be made Parc of the Bill. Then grofled. And then the Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. ^etieris^ 2 2� die Februarii. Anno 5� Georgii IHtn Regis, 1765. PRAYERS. L ORD Brownlow Bertie prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing certain Open Common Arable Fields, in the Parifhes of North Cocktrmgton and South Cockerir.gton, in rhe County of Lincoln: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Common and Wafte Grounds, in the Parilh of Rothwell, in the County of Lincoln, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Wbicb- cot, Mr. Lane, Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. Barre, Mr. Kyna- Jton, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Waller, Mr. Il ilbraham Bootle, Mr. Praed, Sir William Maynard, Sir Edmund IJham, Mr. Gore, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Bofcawen, Lord Charles Montagu, Mr. Whitworth, Lord Strange, Mr. Fane, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Parker, Mr. Burrell, Nir. Buller, Mr. Bejl, Sir 'John Glynne, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Wood, Lord Frederick Campbell, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Dyfon, Mr. Walcot, Mr. Montagu, 5ir Charles Mordaunt, Lord Grey, Sir Edward Bayn- tun, Sir George Tonge, Lord Robert Bertie, Sir Jar- rit Smith, Mr. Fonnercau, Mr. Brudenell, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte ; 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 repairing and widening the Road from Alford to Bofon, and from thence to Cow- bridge, in the County of Lincoln : And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Sir Edward Bayntun prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill to continue the Term and enlarge the Powers of an Aft, palled in the Second 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 ot SaliJLury, 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 at Littleton, and from the faid Turnpike Road to Mr. Jennen's Well, and to Salter's Lane, at Eaft Chalderton, and from thence to Mullens Pond-, and alfo a Lane called Applejhaw Lane, leading out of Eaft Chalderton to the Andover Turnpike Road : And the lame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Bill for continuing the Term and altering and enlarging the Powers 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, VOL. XXX. Refolved, I hat the Bill be committed to Mr. Butler, Sir Thomas Cave, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Which- cot, Mr. Kynafton, Lord Orwell, Lord Catberlcugb, Mr. Wtllbrabam Bootle, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Brudenell, Mr. Gore, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Fuller, Lord Strange, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Fane, Mr. Rigby, Lord Frederick Campbell, Mr. I Food, Mr. Fundus, Mr. Praed, Mr. Holt, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Touchet, Mr. Pelham, Mr. Norris, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Lane, Lord Robert Bertie, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Fonnereau, Mr. Buller, Mr. Bull, Nir. Burrell, Sir Thomas Cave, Sir Edmund IJham, Mr. Onflow, Nir. Citft, Mr. Glover, Sir William Maynard, Sir George Savile ; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Sujfex, Surrey, Kent, and Southampton -, 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 dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Failures, Common Grounds, and Wafte Grounds, in the Pa- rilh of North Kilworth, in the County of Lricejkr, was read a Second l ime. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Butler, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Wbichcot, Mr. Lane, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Lord Orwell, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Mr. I.ajcelles, Lord Frederick Campbell, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Fairfax, Mr. Burt, Mr. Mawbey, Sir Francis Pincent, Mr. Willoughby, Mr. Dowdef- well, Mr. Molyneux, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Fonnereau, Mr. Clayton, Mr. Foley, Sir Walter Blacket, Sir Thomas Palmer, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Lovett, Mr. Parker, Mr. Leigh, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Barrow, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Brudenell, Mr. Tcmpeft, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. Townjhend', and all rhe Members who ferve for the Counties of Led eft er, Northampton, and Warwick : And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Bill for amending and widening the Road from the City of Fork, by Grinifton Smithy, in the Eaft Riding of the County of Fork, to Kexby Bridge, in the fame Riding j and alfo from Grinifton Smithy aforefaid, in Two Branches, the One to a certain Gate in the Road between Kirby Underdale, and Pocklington, at the upper End of Garraby Hill, in the faid Riding, and the other to and through Elvington, to Elvington Bridge, in the faid Riding; was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. I.ane, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Lafcelles, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Gore, Lord Burgberfh, Lord Orwell, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Dowdefwell, Sir Armine Wodeboufe, Nir. De Grey, Mr. Clayton, Mr. Beft, Mr. Holt, Mr. Molyneux, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Mawbey, Mr. Fonnercau, Sir George Fonge, Mr. Foley, Mr. Parker, Mr. Gray, Sir Edmund IJham, Mr. Scudamore, Mr. Montagu, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Buller, Mr. Butler, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Sulivant and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Fork, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, Weftmoreland, Lancafter, and Nottingham: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Sir Charles Kemys Tynte prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill tor repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair feveral Roads leading to and from Crewkerne, in the County of Somerfet : And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Y y Mr. Confideration of a Committee : And that they do examine the Matter thereof; and report the fame, at ft fliall appear to them, to the Houfe : And it is referred to Sir George Tonge, Mr. Kyna- fon, Lord Catherlougb, Sir Henry Harpur, Mr. Thomas Town/hend, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Gray, Mr. Maw- bey, Mr. Holt, Mr. Fonnereau, Lord Strange, Mr. Fitz- herbert, Mr. Sandys, Sir Charles Mor daunt,^Mr. Dowdef- well, Mr. Wood, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Ongley, Mr. D\- fon, Sir William Maynard, Mr. Burt, Sir Edmund Thomas, Mr. Willoughby, Mr. Fairfax, Mr. Town/hend, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Bull, Mr. Butler, Mr. Whitworth, Mr*. Lafcelles, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Parker, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle ; and all rhe Members who lerve for the Counties of Kent, Suffex, Surrey, and Southampton ; and for the Cinque Ports: And they arc to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Cluck, in the Speaker�s Chamber � and have Power to fend for Perlons, Papers, and Records. A Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders refiding in or near Great Waltham, Great Dun- mow, Great Canfield, Barnfton, Little Canfield, Takely, King's Hatfield, Stanfted Mountfitchet, Birchanger, and Great Hallingbwy, in the County of EJfex, and in or near Bijhop Stortford, in the County of Hertford, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners obferve by the Votes of the Houfe that a Bill is brought in for continuing and rendering more effectual Two Afts, patTed in the 12th of Kin? George the Firft, and the 20th of his late Majefty, for repairing the leveral Roads therein mentioned, in the Counties of EJfex and Sujfolk, and for repairing and widening feveral other Roads in rhe faid County of EJfex-, and that the Road leading from the Turnpike in little Waltham, in the County of Ejjcx, through Great Waltham, Great Dunmow, and the feveral other Pariflies aforefaid, to the Crown Inn at Hockerill, in the Parifh of Bijbop Stortford, is in a ruinous Condition, and, in many Places, very narrow and incommodious, and cannot be repaired and widened by the Laws in being : And therefore praying, That Provifion may be made in the faid Bill for repairing and widening the faid Road, in fuch Manner as to the Houfe (halHcem 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 fliall appear to them, to the Houfe : And it is referred to Sir William Maynard, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. Holt, Sir George Tonge, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Dowdefwell, Mr. Wood, Mr, Plumpt re, Mr. Lowndes, Lord Downe, Mr. Demp- Jier, Mr. Hunt, General Bofcawen, Mr. Cholmondely. Lord Orwell, Mr. Knight, Mr. Praed, Mr. Crefwcll, Sir Thomas Palmer, Mr. Prefect, Mr. Sullivan, Mr* Hobart, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Mr. Townjhcnd, Sir Edmund IJham, Lord Ferney, Mr. Powell, Mr. Sandys, Lord Catherlougb, Mr. Weft, General Honeywood, Mr� Garth, Mr. Luther, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Fonnereau, Mr. Burrell, Sir Henry Harpur, Mr. Waller, Mr. Ryder, Lord John Cavendijb, Mr. Montagu ; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of EJfex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Hertford, and Middlefex: 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. The Lord Strange prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for the dividing, allotting, and inclofing divers Parcels of Common or Wafte Grounds, within the Manors of Appleton and Lymm, in the County of Cbcftcr: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolded, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Pe- cation of Expofed and Deferred young Children, on or before the 25th Day of March 1760, who have been returned to their Parents, between the 31 ft Day of December, 1763, exclufive, and 31ft Day of December 1764, inclufive : And alfo, N 4. An Account of the Number of Children received into the Hofpital for the Maintenance and Education of Expofed and Deferred young Children, on or before the 25th Day of March 1760, who have died, between the 31ft Day of December 1763, exclufive, and the 31ft Day of December 1764, inclufive: And alfo, N� 5. An Account of the Number of Children received into the Hofpital for the Maintenance and Education of Expofed and Deferred young Children on or before 25th Day of March 1760, who were living on the 3 ill Day of December 1764 : And allo, N� 6. AnEftimateof the Expence of maintaining the Children received into the Hofpital for rhe Maintenance and Education of Expofed and Deferred young Children on or before the 25th Day of March 1760, from the 31ft Day of December 1764, exclufive, to the 31ft Day of December 1765, inclufive : And allo, N� 7. An Account of the Number of Children in the feveral Foundling Hofpitals in London, Ackworth, Shrew fury, Chejlcr, Wejierham, AyiejLury, ami Barnet -, diftinguilhing how many are of the Age of Six Years and upwards, and how many are at Nurfe. And then he withdrew. And the Titles of the faid Accounts and Eftimatc were read. The faid Accounts are preferved amongft the other Papers of this SclTion; and the laid Efti- mate is as followeth ; viz. AN ESTIMATE of the Expence of maintaining the Children, received into the Hofpital for the Maintenance and Education of Expofed and Deferred young Children, on or before the 25th Day of March 1760, from the 31ft Day of December 1764, exclufive, to the 31ft Day of December 1763, inclufive. The Number of Children living in rhe laid Hofpital, on the laid 31ft Day of December 1764, is Four thou- fand Nine hundred and Eleven, the Expence of maintaining whom, at Seven Pounds Ten Shillings each, amounts to Thirty-fix thoufand Eight hundred Thirty-two Pounds and Ten Shillings. Note, Befides the above 4911 Children, there have been taken into the Hofpital 166 Children, molt of whom were under the molt diftrefled Circumftances, or Orphans of Soldiers and Sailors, whole Parents died in His Majefty�s Service, whereof 7 have been apprenticed, 4 claimed, and 36 dead, fo that there are 119 Children now alive, which are wholly maintained and provided for out of the private Donations made to this Hofpital, and are not, nor ever have been charged to Public Account. Signed by Order of the General Committee, Thomas Collingwood, Secretary'. Ordered, That the faid Accounts and Eftimate do lie upon the 'fable, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. The Houfe being informed that Mr. Rowe, from the Commiflioners of the Cuftoms in Scotland, attended at the Door ; he was called in ; and, at the Bar, prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to their Order, An Account of the Quantity of Br/7^&-made Silks exported, together with the Bounty paid upon the 1 fame, fame, from Chrijlmas 1758 to Chrijlmas 1763-, diflin- guiddng to what Countries the fame have been exported. And then he withdrew. And the Title of the faid Account was read. Ordered* Thar the faid Account be referred to 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 Manufacturers of Great Britain, is referred. The faid Account is preferved amongft the other Papers of this Seflion. 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 I lis Majefty -, Resolved, 'Fhat 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 Houfe, to confider further of the Supply granted to His Majefty ; Refolded, 1 hat this Houfe will, upon Monday Morn - ing next, relolve itfelf into the laid Committee. The other Order of the Day being read ; The Houfe refolved itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon 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 Act for the better preventing of Clandeftine Marriages ; ?nd to encourage and facilitate Marriages to be fo- lemmzed 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 Act-, and for the regulating Regifters; and for preferving the Evidence of Pedigrees. 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 directed him to report, when the Houfe will pleafe to receive the fame. Ordered, That the Report be received upon Tuefday Morning next. A Meflage from the Lords, by Mr. Graves and Mr. Peckel!: Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for the more eafy and fpeedy Recovery of Small Debts within the Hundreds of Chippenham, Caine, and Damerbam North, and Lordfhip or Liberty of CorJham, in the County of Hilts, without any Amendment: And alfo, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled. An Aft for dividing and inclofing certain Open and Common Fields, Common Paftures, Common Meadows, and Commonable Wafte Grounds, in the Manor, Hamlet, andTythingof Wejlccte, in the Parifh of P/addef- don, in the County of Bucks, without any Amendment: And alfo, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for naturalizing Andrew Fubrer and Rene Labutte, without any Amendment: And alfo, The Lords have palled a Bill, intituled. An Aft for vefting the fettled Eftates of Ami Wiljon Widow, and Ami PFilfon her Daughter, an Infant, in Truftees, to be fold fbr�diLharging the Debts and Incumbrances af- fefting the fame; to which the Lords defire the Concurrence of this Houfe : And alfo. The Lords have pafled a Bill, intituled, An Aft to enable Brigg Price Efquire, and his Ifiue, to take and ufe the Surname of Fountaine, and to bear the Arms of Sir Andrew Fountaine Knight, deceafed ; to which the Lords defire the Concurrence of this Houle. And then the Meflengers withdrew. Ordered, That Mr. Stephens have Leave to make a Motion, it being Half an Hour after Five of the Clock. And he moved the Houfe accordingly. Ordered, That the Reverend Mr. Majkelyne, Royal Aftronomer of Greenwich, do, upon Monday Morning next, attend 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 Propofalsfor difeovering the Longitude, is committed. Ordered, That the Reverend Mr. Hornsby, Savilian Profeflbr of Aftronomy in Oxford, do attend the faid Committee, at the lame Time. Ordered, That the Reverend Mr. Shepherd, Plumian Profeflbr of Mathematics in Cambridge, do attend the laid Committee, at the lame Time. Ordered, That Captain John Campbell do attend the faid Committee, at the fame Time. Ordered, That Doftor Bevis do attend the faid Committee, at the fame Time. Ordered, That Mr. James Short do attend the faid Committee, at the fame Time. Ordered, That Mr. George Hitcbcll do attend the faid Committee, at the fame Time. Ordered, That Mr. C. Meres do attend the faid Committee, at the fame Time. Ordered, That Mr. James Dewar do attend the faid Committee, at the lame Time. Ordered, That Mr. Lauder do attend the faid Committee, at the fame Time. Ordered, That Mr. Robert Scott do attend the faid Committee, at the fame Time. Ordered, That Mr. Charles Newland do attend the faid Committee, at the fame Time. Ordered, That Mr. John Horfeley do attend the faid Committee, at the fame Time. � Ordered, That Mr. Gael Morris do attend the faid Committee, at the fame Time. And then the Houfe adjourned till Monday Morning next, Nine of the Clock. Lunce, 2 50 die Februarii; Anno 5� Georgii IIP51 Regis, 1765. PRAYERS. fiRdered, That Mr. John Tbbctfon, Secretary to the Commiflioners for the Difcovery of the Longitude at Sea, do this Day attend 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 Propo- f als for difeovering the Longitude; and bring with him the Minutes of the Proceedings, and all other Books and Papers of the faid Commiffioners, now in his Cuftody. Ordered, That Mr. James Stephens do attend the faid Committee, at the lame Time. Mr. �77 Mr. Henniker, Sir Walter Blacket, Mr. Sulivan, Mr. Wejl, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Dowdefwell, Lord Harry Powlet, Mr. Rafsleigh, Mr. Shiffner, Sir George Montgomery Metham, Sir William Maynard, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Boulton, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Mellifo, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Prat, Mr. Holt, Mr. Butler, Mr. Grey, Mr. Edmonjlone, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Seymour, Mr. de Grey, Sir James Dafhwood, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Parker, Lord Carysfort, Lord Howe, Mr. Glover, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Forrefer, Lord Grey, Mr. Clive, Mr. Whichcot, Mr. Willoughby, Mr. Townfhend, Mr. Ridby, Lord Strange, Sir William Meredith, Sir Roger Newdigate, Mr. Plumptre; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Warwick, Worcefier, Gloucefer, Salop, Stafford, and Oxford: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. The Earl of Thomond reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of feveral of the Truftees for putting in Execution an Ad, patted in die 25th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty, for amending the feveral Roads leading from the Town of Taunton, in the County of Somerfet, whofe Names are thereunto fub- fcribed, was referred, That the Committee had exa ? mined 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 ; v/z. To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition, the faid Ad was read. And Mr. John Furnival faid, That the Sum of 7000 I. had been borrowed on the Credit of the faid Ad, and remains due ; which Sum cannot be repaid, and the Roads be effeftually repaired, unlcfs the Term and Powers of the Ad are enlarged and altered. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to continue the Term of, and render more eftedual, an Ad patted in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty, for amending the feveral Roads leading from the Town of Taunton, in the County of Somerfet : And that the Earl of Thomond, Mr. Wilkinfon, Mr. Stilivan, and the Lord Farnham, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. An ingrofled Bill for dividing and allotting the Commons or Waftes, and the Common Fields and Ings, in the Manor and Townfhip of Everingham, in the County of }ork-, and for other Purpofes therein mentioned was read the Third Time. An ingrofled Claufe was offered to be added to the Bill, by way of Ryder, for obliging Perlons borrowing Money to keep down the Intereft. 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 Part of the Bill, by way of Ryder. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs : And that the Title be, An Aft for dividing and allotting the Commons or Waftes, and the Common Fields and Ings, in the Manor and Townfliip of Everingham, in the County of York-, and for other Purpofes therein mentioned. Ordered, That SirGwr^e Montgomery Met ham do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defirc their Concurrence. Sir Roger Ncwdigate reported from the Committee, to whom the ingroifed Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Aft for annexing the Reftory of Colerne, in the County of Wilts, to the Office of Warden of the College of Saint Mary of Winchef er, in Oxford, was com- nutted, 1 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 Con- fen t to the Bill, to the Satisfaftion of the Committee; and that the Committee had direftvd him to report the Z z B4 Bill to the Houfe, without any Amendment : And he delivered the Bill in ar the Clerk�s Table. And the faid Bill was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs. Ordered, That Sir Roger Newdigate do carry the Bill to the Lords, and acquaint them, that this Houfe hath agreed to the fame, without any Amendment. Sir Reger Newdigate prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common, called Seaming Common, and the Greens, called Pound Green, Popes Green, and Betts Green, lying within the feveral Manors of Seaming Hall, Drayton Hall, and Northern Hall, Seaming Pana, Guntons and Rougholme, on the Part of Hoe, or lome or One of them, and in the Parilh of Scarning, in the County of Norfolk: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolded, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Sir William Maynard reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders refiding in or near Great Waltham, Great Dunmor, Great Canfield, Barnfton, Little Canfield, Takely, Kings Hatfield, Stanfied Mountfitchet, Birchanger, and Great Hallingbury, in the County of Effex, and in or near Bijhop Stortford, in the County of Hertford, 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 the Clerk�s Table : Where the fame was read ; and is as followeth ; viz. To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition, a Member prefent informed your Committee, That the Road leading from the Turnpike Gate in Little Waltham, through Great Wallham, Great Dunmow, and the feveral other Pariihes deicribed in the Petition, to the Crown Inn in Hockerill, in the County of Hertford, is in a ruinous Condition, and, in many Places, very narrow, and incommodious, and cannot be repaired and widened, by the prefent Method prefcribed by Law. Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the Committee, to whom the Bill for continuing and rendering more effectual Two Ads, pafled in the Twelfth Year of King George the Firft, and the Twentieth of his late Majefty, for repairing the feveral Roads therein mentioned, in the Counties of Effex and Suffolk; and for repairing and widening feveral other Roads in the faid County of Effex', is committed ; that they have Power to make Provifion in the laid Bill, for repairing and widening the Road leading from the Turnpike in Little Waltham, through the Pariihes of Great Waltham, Great Dunmow, Great Canfield, Barnfton, Little Canfield, Takely, Kings Hatfield, Stanfied Mountfitchet, Birchanger, and Great Hallingbury, in the faid County of Effex, to the Crown Inn in Hockerill, in the County of Hertford, An ingrofled Bill for repairing and widening the Road from Dunham Ferry, to the South End of Great Markham Common, in the County of Nottingham, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Aft for repairing and widening the Road from Dunham Ferry, to the South End of Great Markham Common, in the Countyof Nottingham. Ordered, That Mr. Willoughby do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. An ingrofled Bill to enable William Nevill Blondeau Efquire, and his Iflue, to take and ufe the Surname of Hart, was read the Third Time. Refolded, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Act to enable William Nevill Blondeau Efquire, and his Iflue, to take and ule the Surname of Hart. Ordered, That Mr. Hewett do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. Mr. Hewett prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing certain Open Common Fields, Lands, and Grounds, in Ellerker, in the Parilh of Branttngham, 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 Second Time. Mr. Henniker reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Truftees for enlarging and maintaining the Harbour of Ramfgate, 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 the Clerk�s Table : Where the fame was read ?, and is as followeth j viz. Toprove rhe Allegations of the faid Petition, an Aft of Parliament, made in the Twenty-fecond Year of die Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, for enlarging and maintaining the faid Harbour, anti for cleanling, amending, and preferving the Haven of Sandwich, was read; and it appeared to your Committee, that the Truftees thereby appointed were im- powered to fettle and impofe feveral Rates and Duties upon Shipping, which are fubjtft to the Payment of any Sum co be borrowed by the faid Truftees, not exceeding Seventy thoufand Pounds, with Intereft for the fame ; and they were alfo impowered to grant Annuities for Lives, not exceeding in the whole the faid Sum of Seventy thoufand Pounds, and that fuch Annuities fliould not exceed Eight Pounds Ten Shillings for every One Hundred Pounds, and the faid Annuities are direfted to be charged upon the faid Rates and Duties, with this Rcftnftion, that the Truftees Ihould not fubjeft the fame to the Payment of any greater Sum than Fifty thoufand Pounds, ar any One Time, upon Annuities tor Lives. Then John Baker Efquire, a Truftee for the Care of the faid Harbour, faid, That the Truftees had, purfu- ant to the Powers of the faid Aft, impoled Three Pence per Ton on all Shipping under Three hundred Tons Burthen, and One Peny per Ton on all Shipping above Three hundred Tons Burthen, the Amount whereof, Communibus Annis, has been Four thoufand Five hundred Pounds, or thereabouts. That in carrying on the neceflary Works of the faid Harbour, the Truftees have expended Eighty thoufand Pounds, or thereabouts, and the Annuities charged on the faid Rates and Duties amount to Forty-fix thoufand Nine hundred and Ninety-nine Pounds Five Shillings and Four Pence. And the Witnefs added, That the Money raifed by virtue of the faid Aft, is not fuflicient to compleac the Works neceflary to be done to the faid Harbour, bur he apprehends, about Twenty thoufand Pounds more will complete the fame, and he thinks the prefent Duties will be fuflicient to pay Annuities for Twenty thoufand Pounds more than are at prefent granted. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to enlarge certain Powers, granted by an Aft parted in the Twenty-fecond Year of the Reign of King George the Second, intituled, An Aft for enlarging and maintaining the Harbour of Ramfgate, and for cleanling, amending, and preferving the Haven of Sandwich: And that Mr. Henniker and Mr. Tucker do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Mr. Hewett prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing feveral Open and Common Fields, Lands, and Grounds, in the Pa- rilh of Bentcn, in the Eaft Riding of the County of Fork : And rhe fame was received 5 and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Lord 5 GEO. III. Lord Brownlow Bertie prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and allotting certain Open Fields, Meadows, and Stinted Paftures. in the Townlhip of Fenton, in the Parilh of Kettletborpe, in the County of Lincoln, and a certain free Common, called 'The Eajl Moor, in the fame Parilh : And the fame was received ; and read the FirftTime. Refolded, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Mr. Lowndes prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, a Commonable Cow Pafture, and other Commonable Lands and Grounds, in the Parilh of Simpfon, in the County of Bucks: And the fame was received $ and read the Firft Time. Refolved, 1 hat the Bill be read a Second Time. A Bill for dividing and inclofing certain Common Fields, Meadows, and Common Paftures, in the Town- ftiip and Parilh of Newton, in the County of Lincoln, and certain Rights of Pafture in Kettletborpe, in the faid County, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Lord Brownlow Bertie, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Wbicbcot, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Monfon, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Sibtborpe, Mr. Staunton, Colonel Hobart, Sir George Savile, Lord Robert Bertie, Mr. de Grey, Mr. Harbord, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Buller, Mr. Sbiffner, Mr. Plumptre, Sir Roger Newdigate, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Edmonjlone, Sir William Meredith, Mr. Fitzberbert, Mr. Cuf, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Sir William Beauchamp ProRor, Mr. Holt, Sir Lionel Pilkington, Lord Strange, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Town- Jhend, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Butler, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Rujhout, Lord Coleraine; 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 Speakers Chamber. A Bill for dividing and inclofing the Fen Grounds, Moors, Sheep-walks, Wood Ings, Sike Clofes, Open and Common Fields, and other Commonable Lands and Grounds, in the Parilh of Branjlon, in the County of the City of Lincoln, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Lord Brownlow Bertie, Sir Jarrit Smith, Lord Robert Bertie, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Wbicbcot, Mr. Parker, Mr. Hobart, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Monfon. Mr. Gray, Mr. Sibtborpe, Mr. Prat, Sir George Fonge, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Cujl, Lord Strange, Lord Harry Powlet, Sir Walter Blacket, Mr. Boulton, Mr. Foley, Mr. Martin, Mr. Bejl, Mr. Stephens, Lord Burgherjh, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. Sulivan, Mr. Sharpe, Mr. Sandys, S>\v Lionel Pilkington, Colonel Hotham, Sir Charles Bunbury, Sir George Savile, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Butler, Mr. Bull, Mr. Fuller, Mr. de Grey, Sir William Meredith, Lord Coleraine, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Sbiffner, Mr. Long, Sir Walter Bagot, Mr. Bagot, Sir Roger Newdigate; 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. Mr. Lafcelles prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing certain Pieces or Parcels of Land, in the Parilhes of Doncajler and Cant- ley-, and for draining and pieferving the faid Lands, and allo feveral other Lands and Grounds, in the feveral Parilhes of Roffington and Wadworth, in the Weft Riding of the County of Fork: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time, Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. AningrolTed Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Aft to enable William Marwood Efquire, lately called WiF 179 Ham Metcalfe, and his lifue, to take, ufe, and bear the Surname and Arms of Marwood, purfuant to the Will of Jane Turner, Widow, deceafed, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. Delaval, Mr. Cbolmley, Mr. Gore, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Wood, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Cujl, Sir William Baker, Sir William Meredith, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Holt, Mr. Tudway, Sir William Beaucbahtp Proctor, Sir William Menard, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Wbicbcot, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Chetwynd, Mr. Boone, Mr. Foley, Mr. Wynne, Mr. Ward, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Dowdefwell, Lord Strange, Mr. Burrell, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Martin, Mr. Aufrere, Mr. Bacon, Sir Lionel PiL kington, Sir George Savile, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Darner, Sir George Montgomery Metbam, Mr. Prat, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Townjhend, Lord Grey, Mr. Glover, Sir Charles Hardy ?, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Fork, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, Wejimoreland, and Lancajier: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Mr. Wilkinfon prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for inclofing and dividing, feveral Lands and Grounds, in the Townlhip of Kirkhammerton, in the Parilh of Kirkhammerton, in the County of Fork : And the fame was received j and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Mr. Sibtborpe prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for inclofing and dividing the Open Common Fields, Meadows, Paftures, and Common Grounds, in the Manor and Parilh of Telford, 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 Bill for amending and widening the Road from the Sign of the Coach and Horfes, in Birjtall, to the Turnpike Road at Nunbrook, and from Bradley Lane, to the Town of Huddersfeld, in the Weft Riding of the County of Fork, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. Dowdefwell, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Ward, Sir GeorgeFonge, Mr Sandys, Sir George Montgomery Metbam, Mr. Cujl, Lord Harry Powlet, Mr. Barrow, Lord Wark- wortb, Mr. Grey, Sir William Meredith, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Luttrell, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Osbaldejlon, Mr. Wilkinfon, Lord Grey, Mr. Hunt, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Lowndes, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Kynajlon, Sir Lionel Pilkington, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Cbolmley, Mr. Rigby, Sir Roger Newdigate, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Parker, Mr. Ful* ler, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Foley, Mr. Bejl, Mr. Bacon ; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Fork, Durham, Northumberland, Lincoln, Lancajler, and Nottingham : And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. An ingrofled Bill for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair, feveral Roads in and near Great Torrington, in the County of Devon, 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 in and near Great Torrington, in the County of Devon. Ordered, That Mr. Walter do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. A 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- 4 houfe if& of Commons. 4. 1765. Coleraine, Mr. Grofvenor, Mr. Drax, Sir farrit Smith, Sir William Meredith, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Willoughby, Mr. Dowdefwell, Lord Ferney, Mr. Brudenell, Sir Walter Blacket, Mr. Molyneux, Sir fames Dajhwood, Mr. Blackjlone, Sir John Glynne ; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge, Effex, and Hertford: 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 Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Paftures, Common Grounds, and Commonable Lands, lying within the Townfhips and Hamlets of Hcrley and Hornton, in the Parilh of Horley aforefaid, in the County of Oxford, 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 Paftures, Common Grounds, and Commonable Lands, lying within the Townfhips and Hamlets of Horley and Horniest, in the Parilh of Horley aforefaid, in the County of Oxford. Ordered, That Mr. Peter Burrell do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. Ordered, That the Lord Grey be added to the Gentlemen, who are appointed to prepare, and bring in, a Bill for repairing and widening the Road from Stockport to Saxons Lane End, in the County of Chejler; and from the Crofs, in AJhton under Line, in the County of Lancaster, to Dollar's Lane Head, in the County of fork �, and allo the Road branching out of the faid firft mentioned Road, in the Townlhip of Bredbury, to Motram, in the faid County of Chejler. A Petition of the Owners and Maftcrs of Ships, ufing the Coal Trade, refiding in North and South Shields, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth. That the Ships employed in that Trade, upon their Arrival in the Port of Shields, are obliged to throw their Ballaft upon Quays ; and the unavoidable Wafte which attends the Conveyance thereof, is of great Prejudice to the Navigation of the faid River, and hath, as the Petitioners apprehend, been the Caufe of feveral Nufances; and, as the Petitioners believe that the Confervators of the River of Tyne have received feveral thoufand Pounds a Year for the Purpofe of cleanfing and keeping the faid River navigable, which does not appear to the Petitioners to have been applied for that Purpofe, and in regard that the Navigation of the faid River may be ftill further injured, unlefs fome Remedy is immediately applied : Therefore praying the Houfe will enquire what Sums of Money have been collefted by the Confervators of the faid River, for the Purpofe aforefaid, and how the fame have been applied; and that the faid Confervators may be obliged to cleanfe the faid River forthwith, and to give the Petitioners fuch other Relief in the Premifes, as may be thought proper. Ordered, That the faid Petition do lie upon the Table. Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do iftue his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ for the Elefting of a Burgel's to ferve in this prefent Parliament for the Borough of Stafford, in the County of Stafford, in the Room of the honourable William Richard Chetwynd, deceafed. A Bill for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor in the Hundreds of Loes and Wilford, in the County of Suffolk, was read a Second Time. Refolved, Thar the Bill be committed to Mr. Holt, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Bull, Mr. Kynajion, Mr. Boone, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Sir Robert Long, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Butler, Mr.Fonereau, Mr. Long, Mr. Town/hend, Mr. Gray, Mr. Ward, Mr. Cuft, Sir Charles Bunbury, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Lord Grey, Mr. Sandys, Lord A Petition of fohn Harrifon, of Red Lion Square, in the Parilh of Saint George the Martyr, tyeen Square, London, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, Thar the Petitioner is the Inventor of a Timekeeper, as a Method for the Difcovery of the Longitude at Sea; and that the Petitioner, by Orders of the Commif- fioners of Longitude, has Twice font his Time-keeper ot? Trial to the Weft Indies ; and that, on the 9th of this Inftant February, the faid Commiffioners did refolve and Signified 5 GEO. III. lignified to the Petitioner, that his laid Time-keeper had kept Time, and thereby determined the Longitude between Portjmauth and Barbados confiderably within the neareft Limits required by the Aft of the 12th of Queen June; and that the faid Commiffioners have not as yet granted to the Petitioner a Certificate to the Commiffio- ners of His Majefty�s Navy, as direfted by the faid Aft, without which Certificate the Petitioner cannot receive the Reward he humbly conceives he is intitled to by the laid Aft; that, as the faid Commiffioners, in their Re- folutions communicated to the Petitioner, mention their Opinion that Application fhould be made to Parliament, in regard to what relates to the Petitioner : Therefore praying the Houfe to take his Cafe into Confideration, and give the Petitioner fuch Relief, as to the Houfe fiiall Item meet. Ordered^ That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of 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. Ordered' That a Meffage be fent to the Lords, to defire that their Lordfhips will give Leave to the Earl of Morton to come to a Committee of the Houfe of Commons, 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; in order to be examined at that Committee. Ordered, That the Lord Barrington do carry the faid Meffage. Ordered, That the Order of the Day, for the I loufe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill for the regulating Qualifications of the Proprietors of the Eajl India Stock, be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly ; Ordered' That it be an Inftruftion to the faid Committee, that they have Power to receive a Claufe, for pleading the General Iflue, and giving the Special Matter in Evidence, in Aftions brought for any thing done in purfuance of any Aft of Parliament or Charter relating to the United Company of Merchants trading to the Eaf Indies. Refolved' That this Houfe will, upon IFednefday Morning next, refolve itfelf into the faid Committee. The Lord Barrington reported, that he had, according to Order, been at the Lords to defire that their Lordfhips will give Leave to the Earl of Morton to come to a Committee of the Houle of Commons, 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 tor difeovering the Longitude �, and that their Lordfhips gave for Anfwer, that they would fend an Anfwer by Meftengers of their own. The Houfe being informed, that Mr. Roote, Ac- comptant to the Society of the Free Britijh Fifhery, attended at the Door ; he was called in ; and, at the Bar, prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to the Directions of an Aft of Parliament, An Account of Receipts and Difhurlements by the Society of the Free Britijh Fifhery, from 31 December 1763 t0 3' December 1764. 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 Houle. The faid Account is preferved amongft the other Papers of this Seffion. Ordered' That the Order of the Day, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, VOL. XXX. l8 T to confider further of the feveral Afts relating to th Rewards for difeovering the Longitude at Sea, and making Experiments of Propofals for difeovering the Longitude, be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly; A Motion was made, and the Queftion being pro- pofed. That this Houfe will, upon IFednefday next, at Twelve of the Clock, refolve itfelf into the faid Committee ; An Amendment was propofed to be made to the Queftion, by leaving out the Words � at Twelve of the Clock� in order to infert, after the Word � IFed- nefdayf the Word �Morning.� And the Queftion being put, That the Words � at � Twelve of the Clock� hand Part of faid Queftion -, It was relblved in the Affirmative. Then the main Queftion being put; Refolved' That this Houfe will, upon Wednefday next, at Twelve of the Clock, refolve 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 the feveral Perfons, who were ordered to attend the faid Committee this Day, do attend the faid Committee upon lEedncfday Morning next. The other Orders of the Day being read; Refolved, Thar this Houle will, uponTbnrjday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houle, to confider 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 Prefervation of the Public Highways and Turnpike Roads of this Kingdom, and for the effeftual Execution of the Laws relating thereto. Refolved, 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. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Friday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of rhe whole Houle, to confider further of the Supply granted to His Majefty. And then the 1 loufe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. Martis^ 26� die Fcbruarii; Anno 50 Georgii IH'li Regis, 1765. PRAYERS. � A PETIT I ON of John Moore Efquire, on the behalf of his Son Francis Ferrand Foljambe, a Minor, under the Age of 21 Years, Lord of the Manor of IFadworth, in the Weft Riding of the County of Fork^ and an Owner of confiderably more than One-third Parc of the Open Arable Fields, and Undivided Inclofures, in the Parifh of IFadwortb aforefaid, and alfo a Proprietor of feveral ancient MeiTuages and Cottages, and largely interefted in the Commons and Wafte, in the faid Parifh, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Petitioner is informed, that Leave has been given to bring in a Bill for dividing and inclofing the laid Open Arable Fields, Undivided Inclofures, Commons, and Waftes ; that, although the Petitioner�s Son, the faid Franas Ferrand Foljambe, has fo confiderable an Intercft and Property in the Lands fo intended to be inclofed, neither his Content or Con_ currence, nor that of the Petitioner on his behalf, hath been obtained in any of the Meafures or Proceeding A a a tchum. relating to the faid Inclofure ; but the fame have been conduced contrary to their Approbation; and the whole Plan thereof is framed in fuch a Manner, as, the Petitioner apprehends, will be highly prejudicial to the Eftate, Rights, and Intereft of his faid Son: And therefore, for and on the behalf of his faid Son, the Petitioner prays that the laid Bill may not pafs into a Law ; and that he may be heard, by his Counfel, againft the faid Bill. Ordered, That the faid Petition do lie upon the Table, until the Bill for dividing and inclofing the feveral Open Arable Fields, Undivided Inclofures, Commons, and Waites, lying and being within the Parilh of Headworth, in rhe Welt Riding of the County of Fork, be read a Second Time ; and that the Petitioner be then heard, by his Counfel, upon his faid Petition, if he thinks fit. Ordered, That Counfel be admitted to be heard, at the fame Time, in Favour of the faid Bill, againft the faid Petition. A Bill for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair, feveral Roads leading to and from Crewkerne, in the County of Somerfet, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Lord Brownlow Bertie, Mr. Jennings, Mr. Waller, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Byde, Mr. Praed, Mr. Sharpe, Mr. Blackjione, Mr. Bootle, Mr. Foley, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Long, Mr. Kyna- Jlon, Mr. Sandys, Sir Francis Vincent, Mr. Meyrick, Mr. Sbijfner, Mr. Cocks, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Whitworth. Mr. Onflow, Mr. Clayton, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Bertie, Mr. Hayes, Sir Edward Bayntun, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Fonereau, Sir Robert Long, Sir Jarrit Smith, Sir Thomas Palmer, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Gore, Lord Charles Montagu �, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Somerfet, Devon, Wilts, and Dorfet: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Mr. Kynafton reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Truftees for putting in Execution an Aft of Parliament, paffed in the 25th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled, An Aft for repairing the High Road from the Town of Sbrewjbury, through Creffage, Harley, Much Wenlock, by Muckley Crofs, and through Morvil/e, to Bridgnorth, in the County of Salop, 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, the faid Aft was read. And Mr. William Church Norcop produced to your Committee the original Book of the Truftees for repairing the faid Roads, from which it appears, that a confiderable Sum of Money is now owing upon the Credit of the faid Aft �, and he faid, he apprehended that Debt could not be paid off, and the faid Roads kept in Repair, unlefs the Tolls granted by the faid Aft were increafed, and the Term of the Aft continued, and the Powers thereof enlarged. And the Witnefs added, That the feveral new additional Roads defcribed in the faid Petition, are moft of them ruinous, and, in many Places, narrow, and cannot be effeftually amended, widened, and kept in Repair, by the prefent Methods prefcribed by Law. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for enlarging the Term and Powers of an Aft, made in the 25th Year of rhe Reign of his late Majefty, for repairing the High Road from the Town of Shrewsbury, through Creffage, Harley, Much Wenlock, by Muckley Crofs, and through Morville, to Bridgenorth, in the County oi Salop; and for amending feveral ocher Roods 1 - near or adjoining thereto: And that Mr. Kynaflon, Lord Brownlow Bertie, and Mr. Hill, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. An ingroffed Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Ad for veiling the fettled Eftates of Ann Wiljon Widow, and Ann Wilfon her Daughter, an Infant, in Truftees, to be fold, for difeharging the Debts and Incumbrances tf- fefting the fame, was read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Sir John Hynde Cotton prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill to continue the Term, and alter and enlarge the Powers, of an Aft paffed 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 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 direfted to be repaired and widened by the faid Aft: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Sir Thomas Cave prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open Fields, Common Paftures, and other Commonable Places, in Burton Overy, in the County of Leicefler: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. The Lord Grey prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for repairing and widening the Road from Newcaftle under Line, to Hajfop; and from Middle Hills to the Macclesfield Turnpike Road near Buxton; and alfo the Road branching our of the faid firft mentioned Road at Cobridge to Burfiem, and to the Uttoxeter Turnpike at Shelton, in the County of Stafford: And the fame was received 5 and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Bill for dividing and inclofing the feveral Fields and Meadows, Paftures, Commons, and Wafte Grounds, within the Hamlets of AJhford and Sheldon, in the Parilh of Bakewell, and County of Derby, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Frederick Montagu, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Pryfe Campbell, Sir Francis Vincent, Sir Edward Bayntun, Lord Charles Montagu, Mr. Fairfax, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Burrell, Lord Grey, Mr. Onflow, Mr. Sbiffner, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Touchet, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Bertie, Mr. Bootle, Mr. Way, Mr. Prowfe, Lord John Cavendijh, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Ongley, Mr. Hewett, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Eyre, Mr. Grey, Sir Richard Mill, Sir Anthony Abdy, Lord Midleton, Lord Frederick Cavendijh, Mr. Milks, Mr. Penton, Mr. Fitzherbert, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Hume, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Lowndes ?, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Derby, Fork, and Lancafter: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Paftures, and Commonable Wafte Grounds, in the Manor and Parilh of Twywell, in the County of Northampton, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Frederick Montagu, Mr. Shuttleworth, Sir Francis Vincent, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Ward, Sir Thomas Cave, Lord Verney, Mr. Blackjione, Lord Grey, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Clayton. Mr. Long, Mr. Bouverie, Mr. Waller, Mr. Prowfe, Sir Edward Bayntun, Mr. Sulivan, Mr. Coventry, Lord Pollington, Sir Roger Newdigate, Mr. DyJon, Mr. Paterfon, Mr. ones, when neceflary, at the Places aforefaid, and to take and receive fuch Tolls thereat, as are direded to be taken and received at any of the Gates ereded within the faid Diftrid of Road. 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 Ihall appear to them, to the Houfe: And it is referred to Mr. Coventry, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Blackftone, Lord Ferney, Mr. Foley, Lord Grey, Mr. Ward, Mr. Onflow, Sir Francis Fincent, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Parker, Mr. Barre, Mr. Wilfon, Mr. Edmonftone, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Dowdefwell, Mr. Darner, Mr. Plumptre, Mr. (Faller, Mr. Hewett, Sir Jarrit Smith, Sir William Meredith, Mr. Garth, Mr. Mawbey, Mr. Beft, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Way, Mr. Gray, Lord Orwell, Mr. Grofvenor, Dodor Hay, Lord Cat her lough, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Prat, Mr. Clayton, Mr. Grey, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Long, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Shuttleworth, Mr. Molyneux, Lord Brownlow Bertie, Mr. Wbichcot', and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Dorfet, Wilts, Somerfet, Devon, and Cornwall: 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. A Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergymen, Freeholders, Tradefmen, and other Inhabitants of the Town and Parilh of Dudley, in the County of Worceftcr; and alfo the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and other Inhabitants of the Parilh of Tibton, otherwife Tibbington, in the County of Stafford; whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed; was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners have very lately been informed of the Petition for a Bill to amend and widen the Roads, from Muckley Corner, in the faid County of Stafford, adjoining to the Turnpike Road leading to the City of Litchfield, over Ogley Hay, and other Roads therein mentioned-, and further fetting forth, that the Road leading from Horfley Heath, to Puppy Green, to the Upper End of Tipton Green, and the Upper End of Chamber's Lane, and from Puppy Green aforefaid, to the Upper End of Parke Lane, in the Parilh of Tipton aforefaid, are become very ruinous and narrow, and cannot be repaired by the ordinary Courfe of Law : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to add live faid Road to the faid Bill, in fuch Manner as to the Houfe Ihall feem meet. Ordered That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Mayor, Recorder, and Capital BurgelTes 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 Ihall appear to them, to the Houfe. A Bill for repairing and widening the Road from Ton- bridge to Maidftone, in the County of Kent, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Ward, Sir Thomas Cave, Lord Ferney, Mr. Burrard, Mr. Eyre, Lord Brownlow Bertie, Mr. Long, Mr. Blackftone, Mr. Frederick Montagu, Sir Robert Long, Mr. Coventry, Sir Jarrit Smith, Sir Richard Mill, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Grofvenor, Mr. Eames, Mr. Walcott, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Way, Mr. Fitzberbert, Mr. Edmonftone, Mr. Mawbey, Sir George Savile, Mr. Walter, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Clayton, Lord Charles Montagu, Mr. Cocks, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Meyrick, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Bagot, Lord Grey, Mr. Gray; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Kent, Middlefex, Surrey, and Suffex j and for the Cinque Ports: And And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. An ingroffed Bill for repairing and widening the Road leading from Porthaetbwy Perry, to Holyhead., in the County of Anglefey, was read the Third 1 ime. Refolded, That the Bill do pais: And that the Title be. An Aft for repairing and widening the Road leading from Porthaetbwy Ferry., to Holybead, in the County of An fiefey. Ordered, That Mr. Meyrick do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. A Petition of feveral Freeholders, Copy holders. Owners and Occupiers of Lands and Houfes within the Town of Wellingborough, in the County of Northampton, and the Manors of Wellingborough and of Wellingborough formerly belonging to the College of Irtblingborough, in the Parifh of Wellingborough, whofe Names are thereunto fubfcribed, in behalf of themfelves and many poor Inhabitants of the faid Town, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth. That the Petitioners find, by the Votes, an Application hath been made, for a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Failures, Common Grounds, and Waite G rounds, of and in the faid Manors and Parilh ; and reprefenting to the Houfe, that the Inhabitants of the faid Town of Wellingborough are very numerous, and many thereof are Owners and Occupiers of fmall Eflatcs within the laid Town and Manors, and have a Right of Common of Failure for their Cows, Sheep, and other Cattle, in and upon the Fields, Meadows, Failures, and Grounds, which are propofed to be divided and inclolvd ; and thar, if the laid Bill Ihould pals into a Law, it will be of the ut- moft Prejudice to many of the Petitioners, and to Numbers of the poor People and labourers within the faid Town ; and that feveral of the Petitioners and Inhabitants of the faid Town have fullered fo much from the great Lofics and Damages, which they have fuftain- ed by Fire and other Accidents in the faid Town, that they have already been under a Neceflity to mortgage their Eftates, and to involve themfelves otherwife in Debt; and that the inclofing of the faid Fields, Meadows, Failures, and Grounds, will not only deprive them of a Right of Common there, as appurtenant to their refpeftive Eftates, but will be fo very expenfive, that it will aimoil, if not altogether, bring many of the Petitioners, and poor Inhabitants of the laid Town, to utter Ruin, who atprefent gain a fmall but comfortable Subfiftance, by their Labour, for themfelves and Families, and will tend greatly to the Prejudice of the laid Town, and to the Increafe of the Poor : And therefore praying, That they may be heard, by themfelves or Counfel, againft the faid Bill, and that the fame may not be palfed into a Law. Ordered, That the faid Petition do lie upon the Table. Mr. Blackfione reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill to continue the Term, and to vary� and enlarge the Powers, of an Aft, palled in the Twenty-fitth Year of his late Majefty, for repairing the Road from Wallingford, in the County of Berks, to Wantage, and from thence to Farringdon; and allo from Wantage to Idfon, in the faid County ; fo far as the lame relate to the Road leading from Wallingford to Wantage, and from thence to Farringdon', and for difcontinuing 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 Fuffield, in the County of Oxford, to the Commencement of the laid Turnpike Road, leading from Wallingford to Wantage �, was committed ; Thar the Committee bad examined the Allegations of the Bill, and 2 found the fame to be true �, and that the Committee had gone through rhe 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, ill in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the Amendments were once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One ; and, upon the Qucftion feverally put thereupon, were, with leveral Amendments to One of them, agreed to by the Houle; and an Amendment was made, by the 1 loufe, to the Bill. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be in- grofied. A Meflage from the Lords, by Mr. Edwards and Mr. Montagu: Mr. Speaker, The Lords have given Leave to the Earl of Morton, to go to a Committee of the I loufe of Commons, to whom it is referred to confider of the feveral Afts relating to the Rewards for difeovering the Longitude at Sea, and making Experiments of Propofals for difeovering the Longitude -, in order to be examined at the faid Committee -, as defired by the Houfe of Commons ; if his Lordlhip thinks lit. Anti then the Mdfengers withdrew. A Bill to continue the Term, and enlarge the Powers, of an Aft, palfed 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, anil 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�s Shop, at Littleton, and from the faid Turnpike Road, to Mr. Jennen's Well, and to Salters Lane, at Eafi Cbalder- ton, and from thence to Mullens Pond; and alfo a Lane called Applejbaw Lane, leading out of Eajl Chaldcrton, to the Andover Turnpike Road ; was read a Second '[�ime. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Sir Edward Bayntun, Mr. Harris, Mr. Proufe, Mr. fohn Richmond Webb, Mr. Waller, Mr. Wedderburn, Mr. Long, Mr. Lane, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Lord Cary- fort, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Beauclerk, Mr. Sbiffiner, Lord Cat her lough, Mr. Kynafion, Mr. Blackfione, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Parker, Sir Roger Newdi- gaie, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Dempfer, Sir William Meredith, Lord George Sackville, Mr. Clive, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Townfbend, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Buller, Mr. Lafcelles, Lord Thomond, Lord Frederick Campbell, Mr. Way, Mr. Hatton, Mr. Clayton, Sir William Beauchamp Proper, Mr. Fbynne, Mr. Lynch �, and all rhe Members who ferve for the Counties of Wilts, Somerfet, Dorfet, and Southampton: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Ordered, Thar all have Voices who come to the Committee, to whom the faid Bill is committed. Sir Edward Bayntun reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of leveral Gentlemen, Freeholders, and others, Inhabitants of the Counties of Welts and Somerfet, whofe Names are thereunto fubfcribed; and alfo, the Petition of the feveral Perfons, whole Names are thereunto fubfcribed, being Truftees for carrying into Execution, or Creditors under the Security of, an Aft, palled in the Firft Year of His preienc Majefty, intituled, An Aft for amending, widening, and keeping in Repair, the Road leading from Fifher- ton Bridge, to the Turnpike Road at Willoughby Hedge, in Wefl Kwyle, and from Wilton Bridge, to the Turnpike Road at the Weft End of Heyteffiury, and alfo the Rond from the Turnpike Road at the Top of Red Hone Hill, in the Parilh of Urjbfont, to the Mile Stone, at thc*Wcftern End of Fifer ton Street, in the County of If �ills j 5 GEO. III. Journals of the Wilts-, and alfo an Ad, pafled in the Second Year of His prefent Majefty�s Reign, to amend and render more effeftual the faid Firft mentioned Aft ; was referred ; Thar the Committee had examined the Matters of the faid Petitions i and had directed 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. To prove the Allegations of the firft mentioned Petition, feveral Afts for repairing the Roads leading from the Town of Warminfter, and alfo the faid Aft of the Firft Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, were read. Then Mr. Thomas Everett faid, That the Truftees for the Care of the laft mentioned Roads have, by virtue of the faid Aft, erefted a Turnpike within the Borough of Heytejbury, and that all Perfons travelling between Warminfter and Amejbury are obliged to pay a Toll for only travelling through the laid Borough, being about Three Quarters of a Mile, and that he has often heard the Inhabitants of the faid Borough, and other Perfons who are obliged to travel the faid Road in going to Warminfter Market, fay, they thought it a great Hardfliip; and that if the faid Gate was removed and placed where the Road divides which leads to Salijbury, it would be a great Benefit to all fuch Travellers, and that Applications have been made to remove the Gate, and Meetings had in Confequence of fuch Applications. Mr. Join Majkelyne confirmed the aforegoing Evidence, as to the Hardfliip of Perfons paying Toll at the Heytejbury Gate, who do not make ufe of any other part of the Salisbury Road ; and added, that he thought the Salisbury Truft would be no great Lofers by removing the Gate, as One Colleftor would be fufficient tocolleft the Tolls upon both the Salisbury and Amef- bury Roads; and that then Travellers could not evade the Tolls at that Gate, which they can now do at the Gate in Ileytesbury. That if fo much of the faid Aft of the Firft of His prefent Majefty, as relates to the Road within the Borough of Heytesbury, was repealed, and that Road put under the Direftion of the Truftees for the Care of the Warminfter Road, and fo much of the Road as lies between the Direction Pcft, and the Top of Anftrow Hilly now under the Care of the Warminfter Truftees, was to be put under the Direftion of the Truftees for the Care of the Amesbury Road; the Witnefs apprehends it would be a more proper Divifion of the Roads than is now direfted by the faid Afts, and would be of Public Utility and Convenience. Then to prove the Allegations of the Second mentioned Petition, rhe faid Aft of the Firft Year of His prefent Majefty�s Reign was again read, by which it appears, that the Truftees thereby appointed are authorized to ereft or caufe to be erefted One or more Turnpike or Turnpikes upon any part of the Roads therein direfted to be repaired, except as therein is excepted ; and alfo to borrow the Sum of 10,000/. upon the Credit of the Tolls arifing at any fuch Gates for the Purpofe of repairing the faid Roads. And Mr. James Stilly Clerk to the Truftees, produced to your Committee the Minute Book of the Proceedings of the Truftees, whereby it appears that the Sum of 8000/. has been borrowed on the Credit of the faid Aft �, and the Witnefs informed your Committee, that the Repairs of the faid Roads cannot be perfected without borrowing the further fum of 2000/. That the Annual Income of the Tolls upon the faid Roads amounts, upon an Average, to the Sum of � � � ^756 16 o And the Dilburfements to � 663 16 o Remains the Sum of o o a Year to pay off the Principal, and keep die laid Road tn Repair. VOL. XXX.