Ordered, That there be laid before this Houfe, an Account of the Quantities of Piemento, Ginger, Cotton, Rum, Dying and other Woods, Drugs of all Kinds, imported into Great Britain, from His Majefty�s Sugar Colonies in America, from the Year 1757 to the Year 1764; diftinguilhing each Year-, and likewife the Quantities of the faid Commodities exported from Great Britain in the fame Period; diftinguifhing each Year. The Houfe being informed, that Mr. Bex, from the Commiflioners for paving, cleanfing, and lighting, the Squares, Streets, and Lanes, within the City and Liberty of Wejlminfer, &c. attended at the Door; he was called in; and, at the Bar, prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to the Dire&ions of an Aft of Parliament, A Copy of the Proceedings of the Commiflioners, for putting in Execution the feveral Ads of Parliament, made in the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Years of His prefen: Majefty�s Reign, for paving, cleanfing, and lighting, the Squares, Streets, Lanes, and other Places, within the City of Wejlminfter, &c. and of all Contracts and Agreements made by the faid Commif- fioners, from the 16th Day of January 1765 to the 21ft Day of January 1766, both inclufive: And alfo, Copies of the Accounts of the Treafurer to the Commiflioners, for paving, cleanfing, and lighting Wejlmin- fer, of the Receivers to the faid Commiflioners, and of the Bank of England with the faid Commiflioners, to the Firft of January 1766, inclufive. And then he withdrew. And the Titles of the Books containing the faid Copies were read. Ordered, That the faid Books do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. The faid Books are preferved amongft the other Papers of this Seflion. The Order of the Day being read ; The Houfe refolved itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the feveral Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Conway, upon the 14th, 2zd, 27th, 28th, and 31ft Days of January laft, and the 5th and 10th Days of this Inftant February, and by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the 3d and 1 oth Days of this Inftant February, by His Majefty�s Command. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mi. Cooke took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr. Cooke reported from the Committee, That they had examined feveral other Witnefles, and had made a further Progrefs in the Matter to them referred; and that he was directed by the Committee to move, that they may have Leave to fit again. Refolded, That this Houfe will, To-morrow Morning, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the feveral Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Conway, upon the 14th, 2 2d, 27th, 28th, and 31ft Days of January laft, and the 5th and 10th Days of this Inftant February, and by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the 3d and 1 oth Days of this Inftant February, by His Majefty�s Command. Ordered, That the feveral Perfons, who were ordered to attend the faid Committee this Day, do attend the faid Committee To-morrow Morning, except Benjamin Franklin Efquire. Ordered, That Mr. Whately have Leave to make a Motion, it being near Ten of the Clock. And he moved the Houfe accordingly. Ordered, That Beef on Long Efquire, do, To-morrow Morning, attend the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it is referred to confider further of the feveral Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Conway, upon the 14th, 2zd, 27th, 28th, and VeneriS) 14� die Februarii; Anno 6� Georgii IIP ' Regis, 1766. PRAY ER s. A Petition of feveral Perfons, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, Proprietors of Land, and other- wife interefted, in the feveral Open and Common Fields, and other Commonable Lands and Grounds, in the Hamlet of Waifwortb, in the Parifh of Nitchin, in the County of Hertford, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, T'hat the Lands of the Petitioners in the faid Fields lie intermixed and difperfed, and, in their prefent Situation, are incapable of Improvement; and that it would be advantageous to the feveral Perfons interefted therein, 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, Lands, and Grounds, in fuch Manner as to the Houfa (hall feem meet. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, purfuant to the Prayer of the faid Petition: And that Mr. Byde and General John Bofcawen do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of Robert Burton, Henry Etherington, and Thomas Mould Efquires, John Chambers Gentleman, Richard Howard Merchant, George Ferraby the younger, Jofeph Akam, John Kirkman, Benjamin Clegg, Martin Ringrofe, John Egglefton, John Barrett, William Keeling, and others, whofe Names are fubferibed, Owners or Proprietors of Lands, Meadows, and Common Right, in the Open Meadow Grounds, Common Failures, and other Commonable Places therein aftermentioned, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That within the Townfhip of Cottingham, in the County of Fork, there are certain Open and Uninclofed Meadow Grounds, and Common Paftures, called The Igglemire, Salt Ings, North Carr, Inn Common, Swine Pigbill, New Ings, Bufkey Firth, and the Grooves, which are computed to contain in the whole 2500 Acres, or thereabouts, which are, in their prefent Situation, incapable of Improvement ; but if the fame were inclofed and drained, it would be a Benefit to the Parties interefted, and the Public in general: And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for effefting the Purpoles abovementipned, fubjeft to fuch Regulations as to the Houfe Ihall feem proper. 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 fliall appear to them, to the Houfe : And Fonereau, Mr. Ryde, Mr. Shaner, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Burrell, Geneni Bofcawen, Mr. Whichcot, Mr. Buller, Mr. Edmonjione, Mr. Fitzmaurice, Mr. Butler, Mr. Gray, Lord Charles Spencer, Mr. Keck, Sir Armine Wodeboufe, Sir Charles Mordaunt* Mr. Drake, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Fye, Mr. Gulfton, Mr. Fcr- refter, Mr. Dyfon, Mr. Kynafron, Sir Francis Pincent, Sir fofeph Maw bey, Lord Brownlow Bertie, Mr. Onjlow, Sir �John St. Aubyn, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Waller, Mr. Manners ; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Fork, Durham, Lincoln, Northumberland, Cumberland, Weftmorcland, and Laucaf er: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Spiker�s Chamber-, and have Power to fend for Perfons, Papers, and Records. A Petition of feveral Noblemen, and the humble Petition of feveral others, whole Names are thereunto fub fcribed, the Proprietors and Inhabitants of Houfes in Berkeley Square, in the Pari Hi of St. George, Hanmer Square, in the County of Middlefex, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Fence and Inclofure of fuch Part of the faid Square as was lately inclofed, is gone to Ruin and Decay, and the fame now lies open and common to the Streets and Ways adjoining, and is become a Receptacle for loofe and diforderly Perfons, to the great Annoyance of the Inhabitants in the faid Square, and to the Danger of their Lives and Properties, as alfo of all other His Majefty�s Subjefts refort- ing thereto, and palling through the fame; and that, in cafe a proper Inclofure was made in the faid Square, and the fame properly lighted and paved, it would tend greatly to the Advantage of the Public, and the Proprietors and Inhabitants of the faid Square; that the Ground ^d Soil of that Part of the laid Square formerly inclofed, being leafed to private Perlons, the Petitioners, in order to have the public Benefit thereof, have obtained the Content of the Lcffees, to aflign the Leafe, fubjed to me Rent thereby referved; and that the Petitioners are willing and defirous, by a proportional Charge, to raife a fufficient Sum for the feveral Purpofes abovementioned, and for maintaining the fame when done : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill to enable the prefent and future Proprietors and Inhabitants of the Houfes in the faid Square, to make a Rate on themfelves, for raifing Money fufficient for the inclofing, paving, enlightning, and adorning the faid Square, and for fupporting and keeping the fame in Repair for the future, and for the Payment of the Ground Rent referved by the Leafe abovementioned, 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 Ihall paired, under theTruftees therein named ; and that the Monies which have arifen, by virtue of the faid Aft, have been duly applied according to the Direction thereof, and great Progrefs made in amending the Roads defcribed $ but the Road before defcribed, from Glafgozu to Redburn Bridge, cannot be made commodious for the Ufe of the Public, or paflable for Wheel Carriages, on Account of the many High Hills, and Waters requiring Bridges, unlefs the Direftion in the faid Aft mentioned to Cum- bernauld, be altered, and Liberty granted, for carrying the Road on the North Side of Gamgad Hill, South Side of Germiftoun Hill, by Provan Mill, North Side of Hoggenfield Hill, and from thence in the old Direftion to the Eaft End of Garnkirk's Inclofures, from thence to Burth- land Bridge, from thence to near Badenheath Cafile, from thence to Weft er Airdrice, from thence to Mainhead, and from thence to or near Redburn Bridge, through fuch Grounds as to the Petitioners Ihall feem moft commodious for Wheel Carriages, upon paying the Proprietors thereof the juft Value ; but that the faid Road cannot be made and kept in Repair, nor the Road before defcribed in the faid Aft from Inch Bellie Bridge to Glafgow, unlefs the Term and Powers in the faid Aft are further continued and enlarged, and the faid Aft made more effectual, as to the new Direftion of the Road firft beforementioned : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for rhe Purpofes aforefaid, or that the Petitioners may have fuch Relief in the Premifes 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 Ihall appear to them, to the Houfe : And it is referred to Mr. Edmcnftone, Mr. Pye, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Gulfton, Mr. Fairfax, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Molejworth* Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Buller, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Lord Charles Spencer. Mr. Butler, Sir Alexander Gilmour, Sir Armine Wode- houfe. houfe. General Bofeawen, Mr. Paterfen, Lord Howe, Mr. Jennings, Mr Molyneux, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Lewis, Lord George Sackville, Lord Carysfort, Lord George Ca- vcndijh, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Mackwortb, Lord Grey, Mr. Lafeelles, Mr. Tborolon, Mr. White, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Norris; 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. A Petition of the Right honourable Arthur Earl of Donegall, in the Kingdom of Ireland, was prcfented to the Houfe, and read � Setting forth, That the Petitioner is pofleffed of the Manor of Fi/berwick, in the County of Stafford, and has fixed his Refidence at Fi/herwick Hall, the Petitioner�s Houfe (landing in his Park there, and at the Diftance of about Four Miles from the City of Litchfield, on the Well Side of the River Tame ; and that there is at prefent a Road from Litchfield into Leicejierjbire, leading through Huddlesford Lanes, on the North Side of the Petitioner�s faid Park, which faid Lanes are fcarce paflable, to the North Gate of the faid Park, and from thence, in feveral Branches, through the faid Park, over the faid River 7/.-;w, by Three feveral Fords, and the faid Branches unite again on the Eaft Side of the faid River, near Elf ord Mill, or the Paper Mill; and that the faid Fords are oftentimes quite impaflable; and in high Floods the adjoining Meadows are overflowed; and that there is likewife a public Highway, leading from Litchfield aforefaid, into Leicejierjbire, through Whittington, and by the South and Eaft Sides of the faid Petitioner�s faid Park, on the Outfide thereof, and over the faid River TAW, at the Southermoil of the faid Fords, at Elf ord Mill, which faid Road from Litchfield, to the Ford at the faid Mill, is in general in good Repair, except a Part of the faid Road, from a Gate, called Hadeniore Gate, to the faid Ford, which the Petitioner engages to repair, and keep in good Repair; and that the Road from Litchfield, to Hademore Gate, may eafily be kept in good Repair, the fame going through a dry, gravelly, or fandy Soil; and that there is not at prefent any Bridge over the faid River Tame, South of Elford Mill aforefaid, nearer than Hopwas, which is Four Miles from the faid Mill, nor any Bridge, North of the faid Mill, nearer than Salter�s Bridge, which is above Three Miles from the faid Mill; and that the faid Hopwas and Salter�s Bridges are, from their low Situations, inacceflible in Floods by Foot Paflengers, and in high Floods it is dangerous to pafs with Horfes or Carriages; and that the Petitioner, in Confideration of being authorized by Parliament to ftop up the feveral public Roads through his faid Park, is willing to ercCt and maintain, at his own Expence, a fubftantial public Bridge for the free Pafiage of Cattle, Carriages, and Travellers, at all Times, over the faid River Tame, at the faid Place, called Elford Mill, which will eftablifh an eafy Communication between the faid City of Litchfield, the Borough ofWalfall, and other great Trading Towns, and Places, on the Weft Side of the faid River, and the Villages of Elford, Harlajion, Haunt on, Clifton, and Parts adjacent, in the County of Stafford, Edtngale in the County of Derby, and with the County of Lciccjler on the Eaft Side of the faid River: And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for effecting the abovementioned Purpofes, in fuch Manner as to the Houfe (hall feem meet. Ordered, 1'hat 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. Thurlow, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Grey, Mr. Jownjhend, Mr. Rigby, Mr. Gray, Mr. Price, Nir. Jennings, Mr. Butler, Mr. Thynn, Mr. Wed- derburn, Mr. Gore, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Buller, Mr. Onflow, Mr. De Grey, Mr. Fonereau, Sir Edward Bayntun, Mr. Drake, Sir Armyne Wodebcufe, Lord Fillers, Lord Charles Spencer, Mr. Grenville, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Fitzmaurice, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Lafeelles, Sir Lynch Cotton, Mr. Wynne, Mr. Fane, Mr. Norris, Mr. Clive, Lord George Caven- difh, Mr. Dyfon, Sir George Savile, Mr. Harvey, General Whitmore, Mr. Sargent, Mr. Bull, Mr. Prowfe, Lord Frederick Campbell; and all the Members who ferve tor the Counties of Stafford and Leicejler: 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, Freeholders, Farmers, and Inhabitants, of the Parifh of Whittington, in the County of Stafford: And alfo, A Petition of the Gentlemen, Freeholders, Farmers, and Inhabitants, of the feveral Parifhes and Villages of Elford, Harlajion, Haunlon, and Clifton, in the County of Stafford, Netherfeal in the County of Leicejler, and Edingale in the Counties of Derby and Stafford: And alfo, A Petition of the Merchants, Traders, and Manufacturers, of the Borough and Parifh of Walfall, in the County of Stafford: And alfo, A Petition of the Gentlemen, Traders, and other Inhabitants, of the City of Litchfield; Were alfo feverally prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Taking Notice of the faid Petition of the Right honourable Arthur Farl of Donegall, in the Kingdom of Ireland; and reprefenting to the Houfe many Advantages which, the Petitioners apprehend, will arife from fuch Bridge being built at Elford Mill aforefaid, and by repairing the faid Road, by the Eaft and South Side of the faid Park, to Hademore Gate-, and that it will then be attended with no Inconvenience to the Petitioners, or the Public, if the faid Roads over Fijherwick are difeontinued: And therefore praying, That the faid Bill, if brought into the Houfe, may pafs into a Law. And rhe faid Petitions were feverally ordered to be referred to the Committee, to whom the faid Petition of the Right honourable Arthur Earl of Donegall, in the Kingdom of Ireland, is referred. Mr. Drake prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Common Paftures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and Commonable Lands, in the Townlhip of Winjlow, in the County of Bucks: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Lord Charles Spencer reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and � inclofing the Common Fields, Common Paftures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and Commonable Lands, lying within the Manor and Parifh of Bladon, 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 Satisfaction of the Committee, except Stephen Sclater, a Minor, who is intitled to Right of Common for One Horfe; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto; which they had direfttd him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be in- grofled. Lord Charles Spencer reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing certain Open and A Petition of the feveral Perfons, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, being Proprietors of Land, or otherwife interefted, in the Common Fields, Cow Pafturc, Commons, and Wafte Grounds, within the Townlhip or Hamlet of Findern, in the County of Derby, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That there are, within the faid Townlhip or Hamlet, feveral Open Common Fields, a Cow Pafture, and Commons, called Highfield, Willows End Field, Wall Field, Margate Hill Field, The Cow Pafture, Heath Common, The Bake Acres Common, The Doles, and Wafte Grounds thereto belonging, which, in their prefent Situation, are incapable of much Improvement, but would be very advantageous if inclofed and divided: And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for thofc Pur- pofes. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, pur- fuant to the Prayer of the faid Petition : And that Lord George Cavendijh, Mr. Thoroton, and Sir Henty Harpur, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of the feveral Perfons, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, being Proprietors of Land, or otherwife interefted, in the Commons and WafteGrounds, within the Manor of Darier, in the High Peak, in the County of Derby, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That there are, within the faid Manor, certain Commons and Wafte Grounds, called Darley Commons, which, in their prefent Situation, are incapable of any Improvement, but might be of great Advantage if the fame were inclofed and divided : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for thole Purpoles. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, pur- fuant to the Prayer of the faid Petition : And that Lord George Cavendijh, Mr. Thoroton, and Sir Henry Harpur, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of Richard Wilfon Efquire, Lord of the Manor of Marfton, in the County of the City of Fork, and Owner of divers Mefluages, Cottages, Lands, and Tenements there ; Jonathan Meffenger Clerk, Rcftor of the Parilh and Parilh Church of Marfto'i aforefaid; and of William Hill Gentleman, Matthau Hill Gentleman, Jofepb Acomb, John Grainger, Thomas Silverfides, John Spencer, Charles Gill, John Cartwright, Quintin Acomb, William Palfreyman, Thomas Wakefield, John Ward, and Henry Acomb, Owners and Proprietors of divers other Mefluages, Cottages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, within the laid Manor of Marfton, was prefented to the Houfe, and read �, Setting forth, Thar, within the faid Manor, there are feveral large Arable Fields, called The Church Held, The Mill Held, The Braham Hill Field, The North Field, and The Firth Field, containing together 950 Acres, or thereabouts/ which lie open and uninclofed ; and that, within the laid Manor, there is alfo a large and extenfive Moor, or Common, containing about 7 or Soo Acres, which is, at prefent, of little Advantage; and that the Petitioners are very defirous that theTaid feveral Open Fields, and the faid Moor or Common, may be divided amongft the Petitioners, according to their refpe&ive Eftates and Interefts: And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for the Purpofes aforefaid. Ordered, That I.cave be given to bring in a Bill, pur- fuant to the Prayer of the laid Petition: And that Mr. Lafccllcs, Mr. Thoroton, and Sir Gt:rge Savile, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. 1 ord George Cavendijh prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open Fields, Common Meadows, Common Paftures, Commons, and Wafte Grounds, within the Manor of Repton, in the County of Derby : And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. 7 A Refolved, of Liverpool and the Port of Briftol, which, the Petitioners conceive, will be of great Advantage: And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for the making and maintaining fuch a navigable Cut, or Canal, as aforefaid, by fuch Ways and Means, and with fuch Powers, and under fuch Provifions and Reftridions, as to the Houfe ihall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Gentlemen, Merchants, Land Owners, Tradefmen, and Manufacturers, refiding in the County of Cbejier, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, is referred. Sir John Hynde Cotton prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for draining and preferving Stretbam Common, in the Parilh of Stretbam, in the Lie of Ely, in the County of Cambridge -, and for the building of a Bridge over the River Ouze, between the faid Common and other Commonable Fen Lands, in the faid Parilh: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. APetition of feveral of theTruftees appointed to put in Execution an Aft pafled in the laft Seffion of Parliament, intituled, An Aft for rebuilding the Parilh Church of All- hallows on the Wall, in the City of London -, and for rebuilding the Houfe belonging to the Reftor of the faid Parilh ; and for purchafing feveral Pieces of Ground and Tenements thereon, to render the Paflages to and from the faid Church and Houfe more commodious, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Petitioners have proceeded in the Execution of the faid Aft; and find the Money, which they are thereby impowered to raife, is not fufficient for carrying the faid Aft into ef- fedual Execution : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for raifing fuch further Sum of Money for carrying the faid Aft into effectual Execution, 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, as it ihall appear to them, to the 1 loufe : And it is referred to Sir Robert Ladbroke, Sir Robert Long, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Kynafon, Mr. Thrale, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Bacon, Sir Roger Newdigate, Lord George Cavendi/h, Mr. Lewis, Sir Thomas Cave, General Whitmore, Lord Mexbcrcugh, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Mach worth, Sir Edward Bayntun, Mr. Morant, Mr. Ongley, Mr. Garth, Lord Burgber/h, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Bef, Mr. Boulton, Mr. Drake, Mr. Touchet, Mr. Bacon, Sir John Anftrutker, Colonel Hotham, Sir Lynch Cotton, Mr. Barrow, Sir Francis Vincent, Mr. Cooke, Mr. Paterfon, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Wbicbcot, Mr. Ryder, Sir George Montgomery Metham, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Lafcelles, Sir George Savile, Mr. Legh, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Forrejler, Mr. Town/hend, Sir George Colebrook, Mr. Ne/bitt -, and all the Members who ferve for the City of London; and the Counties of Middlefex, Effex, Hertford, 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 Pcrfons, Papers, and Records. A Petition of Henry Davidfon, Agent for the Right honourable John Earl of Breadalbane, was prefented to the Houle, and read ; Setting forth, That an Exchange having been propofed of a Part of the Earl of Breadal- bane\ Eftate, which lies adjacent to, and interfperfed with, the annexed Lands and Eftate of Perth, for Two fmall Parcels of the annexed F ftates, furrounded by and interfperfed with the Earl�s Eftate, at a great Diftance from each other, and from the reft or the annexed Eftates, the neceffary Surveys and Eftimates have, in Conference of Directions from the Lords ConMnifiioners of of His Majefty�s Treafury, been taken, and are now tranfmitted, as the Foundation of a Petition to the Houfe, for Leave to bring in a Bill for that Purpofe; and that the 15th of this Inftant February being fixed by the Houfe, for the laft Day of receiving Petitions for private Bills, and as the Earl of Breadalbane is now, for the Recovery of his Health, at Nice, in the King of Sardinia's Dominions, from whence he is expected in London in a fhorc Time, at too great a Diftance for getting a Petition, figned by himfelf, fo as to be prefenced on or before the faid 15th of February : And therefore praying for Leave, to the faid John Earl of Breadalbane, to apply, by Petition, for the Purpofes aforefaid, after the faid 15th of February. Ordered, That the faid Petition do lie upon the Table. Lord Brownlow Bertie reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Right honourable Brownlow Earl of Exeter, Lord of the Manor of Bickar Beaumont, in the County of Lincoln, the Right honourable John Peyto Lord Willoughby de Brooke, Lord of the Manor of Helpringbam cum Bickar, in the faid County of Lincoln, John Scudamore Efquire, Lord of the Manor of Huntingfield Hall, in the faid Parifh of Bickar, the Reverend Charles Trimnel, Vicar of the Parilla of Bickar aforefaid, and other Proprietors of Lands, in the faid Manors and Parifh, whofe Names are thereunto fubfenbed, 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 5 viz. To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition, Mr. Samuel Penfon, being examined, faid, That there are within the faid Manors and Parifh feveral Open Fields and Meadows, which contain about Three hundred Acres ; and that the Lands of the Parties interefted therein lie intermixed and difperfed, and are at prefent incapable of any confidcrable Improvement. That there is in the faid Manors and Parifh a large Common Fen, containing near Two thoufand Acres, which is frequently overflowed, and is of little Benefit to thofe Perlons who have Right of Common thereupon j and that it would be a great Advantage to the Parties interefted, if the faid Fields, Meadows, and Fen, were divided and inclofed, and the laid Common Fen was properly imbanked and drained. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Meadows, and Common Fen, in the Parifh of Bickar, in the County of Lincoln, and fordraining and improving the laid Fen : And that Lord Brownlow Bertie, Mr. Buller, and Mr. Wbicbcot, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of Leonard Tbompfon, of Sheriff Hutton, in the County of 2W, Efquire, was prefented to the Iloufe, and read -, Reciting Letters Patent from King Charles the Second, in the Twenty-feventh Year of His Reign, for granting Power to Juftinian Angell, his Heirs, and Afligns, to maintain certain Light Houles, on his own Land, upon the Spume Point, at the Mouth of the Humber, and take the Tonnage therein mentioned, for defraying the Charges thereof, and declaring, that if it fhould thereafter appear, that the laid Grant was not of public Benefit, the laid Letters Patent fhould be void ; and alfo reciting other Letters Patent from his faid Ma- jefty, in the Thirtieth Year of his Reign, granting a further Tonnage to the faid juflinian Angell, for the fame Purpofes, and fubjeft to the fame Condition of declaring the laid Letters Patent to be void ; and fetting forth, That, in 1692, Edward Tbointfon, then of the City of Tcrk, Efquire, the Petitioner�s Great Grand Father, pur- chafed One Fourth Part of the laid Light Houfe, and of all the Duties, Benefits, and Profits whatfoever, to be had, gotten, and received, for, or in refpect of the faid Lights, or either of them; and that the faid Fourth Part hath ever fince remained the Right and Property of the faid Edward Thompfon and his Defendants; and that the Petitioner, by virtue of the Will of Edward Thompfon Efquire, his Uncle, hath, ever fince his faid Uncle�s Death, which happened in 1750, received from John Angell, now of Stockwell, in the County of Surrey, Efquire, the now Representative of the faid fuflinian Angell, the faid Original Patentee, or his Collector or Receiver of the faid Duties and Profits, One Fourth Part thereof, down to the Tenth Day of October 1765: That, by the flowing and ebbing of the Sea fince the erecting the faid Light Houles, Pan of the Ground at and near the faid Spume Point has been walhed away, fo that the Point of the Spume now Jies at a very confidcrable Diftance from the faid Light Houfes, by reafon whereof the faid Light Houfes are not now of fo great Utility as they would be in cafe the fame were taken down, and others were built inftead thereof, near the prelent Point of the Spurne* but for want thereof, many very great Lofles have lately happened to Ships and Veflels employed in the Northern Navigation; and that feveral Applications have been made to the faid John Angell and his Agents, to change the Situation of the faid Light Houfes, in fuch a Manner as they may become more ufeful, and anfwer the good Ends and Purpofes for which they were originally defigned ; but he, from Time to Time, wholly negleCted or refufed fo to do; whereupon the Corporation of the Trinity Houfe of Deptford Stroud (after repeated Complaints from the Corporations of the Trinity Houfe in the North of England, and from the Merchants and Navigators) in or about Month of February 1765, prefented their Petition to His Majefty, Praying, that His Majefty would be plealed to fignify Elis Royal Plea- fure, that the laid Letters Patent fhould be made void; and that His Majefty was pleafed to refer the faid Petition to His then Attorney and Solicitor General, who reported they were of Opinion that the material FaCte alleged in the faid Petition were well founded, and were a fufficient Ground to warrant the Proceeding to revoke the laid Letters Patent; but inafmuch as the laid Spume Lights were a valuable Inheritance, and had been long in the Pofleflion of Mr. Angell and his Family, and as the Petitioner (who had been excluded from any Share of the Management and Direction of the Light Houfes) appeared to have been, and had exprefled himfelf before them to be, defirous that the beft and moft effectual Meafures fhould be taken for fulfilling the Purpofes of the laid Letters Patent, and to contribute his Proportion of the Expence ; and as the Corporation of the Trinity Houfe at Deptford Stroud were willing to undertake the Conduct and Direction of Rebuilding the Light Houfes, and placing them in a proper Situation, tney were of Opinion it might be advifeable, if His Majefty fhould fo pleafe, to fufpend, for a fhort Time, the Steps neceffary to be taken for vacating the laid Patents, in order that the Patentees might have an Opportunity, if they thought fit, of authorizing the Corporation of the Trinity Houfe of Deptford Slrond to take fuch Meafures as they fhould think proper, at the Expence of the Patentees, for taking down rhe prefent Light Houfes, and erecting and building others in fuch Places, and in fuch Manner, and for lokeepingandpreferving the Lights therein, as fhould, in their Judgment, moft effectually conduce to the Safety of the Navigation of thofe Seas; and if the Patentees fhould refufe or negleCt, forthwith to give fuch Authority and Security fur defraying the Expence of the faid Erection, to the Satisfaction of the Corporation, or fhould thereafter retard or attempt tofruftrate the fame, or to obfttuct or render ineffectual the Execution thereof, it fecmed advifeable, if His Majefty fhould fo pleafe, that the fpecdiclt Means the Law would allow fhould be ufed for vacating the faid Grants ; that, on the 6th of July laft, the Petitioner made a Propofal to the Corporation ration of the trinity Houfe of Deptford Strand, whereby he informed them, that he was defirous that the beft and moft efteftual Meafurcs (hould be taken for fulfilling the Purpofes of the laid Letters Patent, and did confent, and was ready, to contribute his Proportion of the Expence of taking down the prefent Light Honfes, and erefting and building others, in fuch Places, and in fuch Manner, and for keeping and preferving the Lights therein, as (hould, in the Judgment of the faid Corporation, be thought proper; and that Mr. Angell having, from Time to Time, from the making of the faid Report, neglected or refufed to make the like Application, the Corporation, in the Month of OEtober laft, prefented another Petition to His Majefty, to the fame Effeft as their former Petition, which Petition His Majefty was pleafed to refer to his Attorney and Solicitor General for their Confideration, and to make their Report thereon, who were pleafed to fignify and recommend it to Mr. Angell (in order to prevent the Revocation of the Patent and Lofs of the whole Inheritance in the Duties, to the Prejudice, not only of Mr. Angell, who had obftinately refufed to do what was neceflary for the fafe Navigation of the Humber, but of the Petitioner, who has been, during the whole Difpute, willing to comply with the earned Requeft and Opinion of the Trinity Corporation, to fubmit the Time, Place, Manner, Di- reftion, and Eftimate of the Expence of erefting new' Light Houfes, to the Trinity Houfe, at Deptford, and to make a Depofit, or give Security for a Sum of Money to be forthcoming, to defray fuch Expence, and alfo to re-imburfe to the Trinity Corporations of Deptford Strand and Hull, all their Expcnces, which they have incurred in this Matter; and that, after the Light Houfes (hould be compleated, they (hould be fbujeft to the Vifitation and Infpeftion of the faid Trintty Houfes, or One of them ; and that the Whole (hould be executed without waiting for the Decifion of any Queftion of Title with Mr. Conjlable, as to the Right of the New Soil thrown up at the Spume Point, under a conditional Agreement to be made with the faid Mr. Conjlable ; that the Right to the Spot where the Lights (hould be fixed (hould be determined after they were letup-, that, in Confequence of the faid Dircftion, a Propofal, or Agreement, was prepared, and approved of by the Counfel for the laid Mr. Angell, but he has hitherto neglected, and upon an Application made to him by the Petitioner�s Agents for thatPurpofe, refufed, tofign or deliver the fame, or any other Propofals, to the faid Corpora tion -, and that the Petitioner is ready and willing to take down and remove the prefent Light Houfes, and to ereft and build others inftead thereof, in fuch Place or Places, near to the prefent Spume Point, and in fuch Manner and Form, as Ihall be thought moft proper and convenient, under the Infpeftion and Direftion of the faid Corporation, and to conform to the Propofition made by His Majefty�s Attorney and Solicitor General as aforefaid, upon his having the Liberties, Duties, and Profits, granted by the faid Letters Patent, vefted in him, fo as to enable him to borrow Money for that Purpofe on the Credit thereof; and that the Three Fourth Parts of the faid Liberties, Duties, and Profits, belonging to the faid John Angell and his Heirs, may be a Redeemable Intereft in him, upon his or their paying to the Petitioner, or the Perlon or Perlons from whom fuch Money (hall be borrowed, his the faid John Angell�s Proportions of fuch Money, and the Intereft thereof, and upon the Petitioner being enabled to charge the remaining Fourth Part of the Money, fo to be borrowed, on the faid Fourth Part of the faid Lands, Light Houfes, Duties, and Profits, to which he is him- felf intitled for his Life -, the Petitioner keeping down the Intereft thereof during his Life -, bur, by reafon of the Eftate and Intereft w hich he the faid John Angell hath in Three Fourth Parts of the faid Lands, Light Houfes, Duties, and Profits, and by reafon that his Condition of Health, Manner of Life, and State of Mind, are fuch that the Petitioner has no Expectation of being able to efteft the Purpofes aforefaid by Agreement with the bid John Angell, and alfo by reafon that the faid Petitioner is only Tenant for Lite in the faid Fourth Part of the faid Premilcs, he cannot be enabled fo to do without the Aid of Parliament: And therefore praying, That, upon Proof of the Allegations aforefaid, Leave may be given to bring in a Bill to enable him to take down and remove the prefent Light Houles, near the Spume Point, and to ereft others inftead thereof, in a Place nearer to the faid Spume Point, and more convenient and ufeful to the Northern Navigation, and to enable him to borrow Money for that and other Purpofes to be therein mentioned, upon the Credit of the Duties payable for Ships and Veficls palling rhe Spurne Lights, and to apply the fame in erefting fuch new Light Houfes, and for other Purpofes therein to be mentioned; or to efteft the Ends and Purpofes aforefaid, by fuch other Means 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 Sir George Savile, Mr. Lafelles, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. OJbaldefton, Sir Edward Hawke, Mr. Pennant, Sir George Montgomery Metham, Sir Charles Saunders, Mr. Hewett, Lord Robert Manners, Sir George Pocock, Mr. Ofwald, Mr. Cholmley, Lord Howe, Mr. Montagu, Sir Walter Blacket, Sir Charles Hardy, Mr. Ellis, Mr. Ridley, Admiral Keppel, Mr. Willoughby, Sir Ralph Milbank, Lord John Cavendijh, Sir William Meredith, Sir George Colebrooke, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Attorney General, Mr. Solicitor General, Sir Fletcher Norton, Mr. Morton, Lord Granby, Mr. Thurlow, Mr. Jones, Sir John Major, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Sbijfner, Sir Roger Newdigate, Mr. Prowfe, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Sir William Baker, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Wood, Sir Edward Turner, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, General Honeywood, Mr. Waller, Mr. Cooke, Lord Frederick Campbell-, and all the Members who ftrve for the Sea Coaft Counties; 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 for Perfons, Papers, and Records. Notice being taken, of a Miftake in the Account of the Total Value of Exports and Imports from and to England, and all Countries, except His Majefty�s Kies and Plantations, from Chrijlmas 1762 to Chrijtmas 1763-, which was prefented to the Houfe upon Wednefday laft; Ordered, That Leave be given to withdraw the faid Account, in order to the prefenting a perfeft Account. The Houfe being informed, that Mr. Tomkyns, from the Commiflioners of the Cuftoms, attended at the Door ; he was called in ; and, at the Bar, prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to their Orders, An Account of the Total Value of Exports and Imports from and to England, and all Countries, except His Majefty�s Illes and Plantations, from Chrijimas 1762 to Chrijimas 1763 : And alfo, An Account of the Total Values of the Exports from England, to Spam, Portugal, Italy, and Streigbts, and of the Imports from the lame into England, from Chrijimas 1763 to Chrijimas 1764; diftinguifhing each Year, and each Country, with the Exceedings of the feveral Exports upon the Imports, or of the Imports upon the Exports: And alfo, An Account of the Total Value of Exports and Imports from and to England, and all Countries, except His Majefty�s Ifles and Plantations, from Chrijimas 1703 to Chrijimas 1764 : And alfo. An An Account of the Quantity of the different Species of Corn exported from England, with the Bounty paid thereon, from Chrifmas 1764 to Cbrijlmas 1765. And then he withdrew. And the Titles of the laid Accounts were read. Ordered, That the Three Firfl of the laid Accounts be referred to the Committee of the whole Houle, to whom it is referred to confider further of the feveral Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Conway, upon the 14th, 22d, 27th, 28th, and 31ft Days of January laft, and the 5th and 10th Days of this Inftant February, and by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the 3d and 10th Days of this Inftant February, by His Majefty�s Command. Ordered, That the other of the faid Accounts be referred to the Committee, who are appointed to con- fider of the State of the Corn Trade of this Kingdom, and the feveral Laws relating thereto. The faid Accounts are preferved amongft the other Papers of the Selfion. Ordered, That Mr. Bagot, Mr. Bootle, Mr. Black- ftone, Sir Charles Bunbury, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Curzon, 553 Sir fames Da/hwood, Mr. Drake, Mr. Grofuenor, Mn Aiderman Harley, Mr. Harbord, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Lowndes, Sir William Meredith, Sir Roger Moftyn, Sir Roger Newdigate, be added to the Committee to whom the Petition of the Reftor, Churchwardens, Overfeers of the Poor, and Parilhioners, of the Parilh of St. Mary, Whitechapel, within the Tower Divifton and County of Middlefex, the Liberty of His Majefty�s Tower of London, and Liberty of the City of London, is referred. The Lord Barrington prefented to the Houfe, pur- fuant to their Addrefs to His Majefty, An Account of the Extraordinary Services incurred, and paid by the Right honourable Lord Holland, late Paymafter General, to 20th December 1765, and not provided for by Parliament: And alfo, An Account of Extraordinaries paid by the Right honourable Charles Townjhend, Paymafter General of His Majefty�s Forces, to the 24th of January 1766, and not provided for by Parliament. And the Titles of the faid Accounts were read. The faid Accounts are as followeth ; viz. An ACCOUNT of Extraordinary Services incurred, and paid by the Right honourable Lord Holland, late PaymaRer General, to the 20th of December 1765, and not provided for by Parliament. Dates of Warrants 1 764- 4th Septr. To Mr. Rump, in Difcharge of a Warrant granted by William Najfau Elliott Efquire, on Peter Taylor Efquire, for Forage for the Troops in their Winter Quarters, in the County of Lingen 349 8 K 31ft December. To Mr. Weft, Secretary to the Commiffioners for examining and Rating German Claims, for the Clerk�s Salaries, and contingent Expences of the faid Com- miffioner�s Office � � � 1,000 >765. 20th Feb. To D�, on D� Acccount � � � 1,000 26th Apr. To D*, on D" Account � � � 1,000 19th Apr. To D�, for i8zd* Pay, at �. 1. 5. a Day, from 19th Oft. 1764, to i8th//r. 1765 � � 227 10 � 24th Jan. To MelT* Bordelius, Delius, and C�, in Difcharge of Two Warrants granted by Mr. Elliott on Mr. Taylor, for Forage delivered into the Magazines at Hamm, Wabendorff, Dulmen, Coesfeld, and Furflenau � 9,410 4 6 11 th Feb. To Lieut. Colonel Faucitt, for 92d> Allowance, at �-5* Day, as Commiflary for collecting together, and keeping in fafe CuRody at Hanover, all the Vouchers on which the Commifiaries in Germany granted Certificates for Money, during the late War, from 2d September 1764 to 2d December following � � � � 460 j 3 th May. To u, for 92dI Pay as D�, from 3d December 1764 to 5th March 1765 � � � � 460 4th Apr. , To MelF* Pownall, Cornwall, and Cuthbert, Commif- fioners for examining and Rating German Claims, for their Pay at /. 2 a Day each, for 182*", from 21ft September 1764 to 21ft March 1765 � 1,092 1764. 23d Nov. 31ft Dec. ^5- 4th Feb. 15 th Mar. 26th Apr. 17th Jan. 26th Apr. >764- 26 th Nov. ?765- iSth Feb. 16th May many � � � To Chauncey Townfend for victualling Part of the Force? between 6th of Auguft and 30th of September 1764 in Nova 2,041 Scotia, � 6 To D�, for victualling D� between iR and 28th Ofto- ber 1764 � � � � W77 2 4 To D�, for victualling D� between 29th Oftober and 23d December 1764. � � � i>*57 4 3 To D�, for victualling D* between 24th December 17 64 and 2 0th January 17 6 5 � � 49� �3 4 To D�, for victualling the Troops and Train of Artillery in Newfoundland �, viz. 8 Men for 297d* from 1R September 1763 to 2 3d June 1764, 200 Mtn for ba*" from 24th June 1764 to 24th Auguft following, 227 Men for i2id� from 25th Auguft 1764 to 23d December following �- � � 968 1 4 To D�, for victualling 227 Men in D" from 24th December 1764 to 23d March 1765 � � 468 3 9 To D�, in Difcharge of a Balance due to him for victualling the Settlers in Nova Scotia � � 5<>3 4 � To Mr. Woodford, for victualling 500 Men in Nova Scotia, between nth of June and 30th September 1764 � � � � I,324 IO 3 To MelP' Fludyer, Drummond, and Franks, Contractors for victualling the Forces in North America, to enable them to^carry on their ContraCt, in further Advance � � � � 12,000 To Forage to rhe Officers of the Hofpital, attending the Forces in Ger- >4,999 * 2,390 � 7th fan. To MelT* Cuming and Mafon, Contraftors for fupply- ing the Forces in Eaft Florida with Provifions, to compleat the Sum of f. 3,000 in Advance to en- able them to make 6 Months Provifions, and to keep the like Quantity in Store, by Way of Impreft, and upon Account � � � � 1,500 � � 9 22,229 19 9 Deduct Lord Holland's Proportion of the Vote for victualling North America and (he Ceded Iflands � 15,953 8 9 24th fan. To Sir George Amy and and Nicholas Linwood, for Provi- 7 th fune fions lent by them to the Garifon of Minorca, upon Account � _ � - - 4,500 To Lord Vifcount Barrington, Treafurer of the Navy, 22d May upon Account of Beef fent from the Victualling Of fice to D* Garifon � � . � 7,520 7 10 To fohn Reunion Efquire, Contractor with the Earl of Albemarle, Com* 1764. mander in Chief of the Forces employed on the Expedition to (he llavanna, upon Account for furnilhing the faid Forces with Provifions � � � � � 15th Nov. To George Rooke Efquire, Commandant of the Ifland of Dominica, in 13 th Dec. Diicharge of a Bill of Exchange, drawn by him for the Public Contingent Charges of the faid Ifland, upon Account 102 6 6 To D�, in Difcharge of D�, drawn by D� for D8 Ser- 1765- vice � � � � 193 7 th far:. To Captain Blomberg, Commandant of D� Ifland, to dif- 14th charge two D�, drawn by him for D� Service � 327 7 8 To D", in Difcharge of a D�, drawn by D� for D� Ser- 28th vice � � � � IOO � � To D�, in Difcharge of a D�, drawn by D� for D� 6th Apr. Service � � � � 150 � To William Cavendijh Efquire, Commandant of D� 14th fan. Ifland, to difcharge a D�, drawn by him for D* Service � � � - j^ lg � To Arthur St. George Efquire, Commandant of D� Ifland, to difcharge Two Bills of Exchange, drawn by him for D* Service � � � 456 J5 To Richard Legge Efquire, Commandant of the Ifland of Tobago, in Dif- 24th charge of a Bill ot Exchange drawn by him, for the Public Contingent Charges of chat Ifland, upon Account � 277 3 9 To D�, in Difcharge of a D�, drawn by D9, for D� 14th fan. Service � � � � *47 9 � To George fobnfton Efquire, Governor of Weft Florida, in Difcharge of a Bill of Exchange, drawn by him for the Public Contingent Charges of that Government, upon Account � � � 17^4- 13th Dec. To Robert Farmer Elquire, Commander of the Forces at Mobille, in Difcharge of a Bill of Exchange, drawn by him, for the Ufe of the faid Forces, upon Account � . � 709 11 1 (7^3- 24th fan. To D�, in Difcharge of a D�, drawn by D�, for D* 151I1 Mar. Service � � � � 500 � � To D% in Difcharge of a D�, drawn by D�, for D* 6th Apr. Service � � � � 731 To D�, in Difcharge of a D�, drawn by D�, for D8 26th Service � � � � 2,000 � � To D�, in Difcharge of a D�, drawn by D8, for D* 13 th May Sei vice � � � � 700 To DJ, in Difcharge of a D�, drawn by D�, for D� Service � � - - 547 5 4 Dates of l Warrants. 6,376 11 � 12,020 7 IO IQ,OCO � � 1,523 8 2 424 12 9 285 14 � i J th Feb. To fofepb Higginfon Efquire, Lieut. Governor of St. Vincent, in Difcharge of a Bill of Exchange, drawn by him, for the Contingent Charges of that Bland, upon Account � � � � 13th May To Lieut. (Sen. Cornwallis, Governor of Gibraltar, in Difcharge of a Bill of Exchange, drawn by him, for the Service of that Garifon, upon Account � � � � 448 5 � 3 5^1 <6 5 119 16 � To Dues of Warrants. ad Aug. To D�, in Difcharge of a D\ drawn by him, for D9 Service � � � � 3,228 12 5 30th Jan. To Major Gen. Durand, for providing Quarters, Coals, and Candles, &c. for the Officers of the 2d Battalion of the ill Regiment of Foot Guards, doing Duty at the Tower � ?� � � 1764- � 14th Sept. To Captain Brifac, for providing Coals, Candles, &c. for the Infirmary and Guard Room in Chatham Lines � � 340 18 9 5th Dec To Da, for providing D in DJ � � 739 13 10 1765. . . . 21ft June. Tb D�, for providing D\ for D� in D\ to 5th Apr. 1765 � � � � 920 19 4 1764. 12th Sept. To John Wemyfs Efquire, Lieutenant Governor of Edinburgh Callie, for furniffiing Coals and Candles to the Forces in the faid Cartie, from ill April 1764 to 30th June following � � 152 14 � 5th Dec. To D�, for D� Service, to 30th September 1764 � 154 3 � *765- Sth May To D�, for D� Service, to 24th December 1764 � 149 14 � 1764. . . 12th D/r. To Philip Thicknefs TLfqtnre, Lieutenant Governor of Landguard Fort, for furniffiing Coals, Candles, &c. to the f orces quartered in the faid Fort � -� � � � � 4th Apr. To Mr. Waucbope, to enable him to provide Coals and Candles, for the Forces that now are, or may be quartered in the Barracks at Plymouth -� � � � 500 � � 26. To D", for providing and repairing divers Utenfils, for the Ufe of D� Barracks � � 325 � 6 Sth May. To T. Ball Efquire, Lieutenant Governor of the Ifland of Jerfey, for furniffiing Coals to 7 Companies of Invalids doing Duty in the faid Ifland in the Year 1764 � � � 37 10 6 26th July. To D% for furniffiing D� to D� in the Year 1765 � 302 10 � 3d May. To T. Bowerbank Contractor, for maintaining the Bedding, ^c. belonging to the Office of Ordnance in the Town and Garifon of Portf- mouth, for providing and repairing divers Utenfils for the Ufe of the faid Barracks, and for furniffiing Coals and Candles to the Forces in the faid Garifon � � � � � Sth May. To Sir Thomas Pym Hales, Lieutenant Governor of the Garifon of Dover Callie, for furniffiing Coals, Candles, &c. to the Forces quartered there, from 24th June 1763 to 24th June 1764 � � To Sir John Mylne, Lieutenant Governor of Guernfey, for Coals, Candles, &c. to 4 Companies of Invalids, in the faid Ifland, from 10th October 1763 to icth April 1764 � � � � �8th Mar. To Mr. Calcraft, for His Majefty�s Proportion of Coals delivered at Gibraltar in the Months of May, Augujt, and October 1763 � � i2ih//pr. To Mr. Gardner, for Neceflaries furniffied by him for the Ufe of the Forces in North Britain, for Charges for Encampments and Monies iflued to Officers, conformable to the Orders of Lord George Beau- clerk, Commander in Chief of the Forces there � � 25th To Mr. Lejlie, Barrack Mailer General in North Britain, in full Satis- faftion of the Account and Charges of Oatmeal, Firing, and Candles, t^c. furniffied to the Forces quartered in feveral Northern Garifons, from 25th December 1763 to 24th December 1764 � � Sth May. To Lord George Beauclerk, Commander in Chief of the Forces \n North Britain, in full Satisfaction of the like Sum expended by him, on divers Occafions, for the Good of the Service in that Part of the Kingdom � � � � � 7th June. To Mr. Caulfield, Jnfpedor of the Roads and Bridges in North Britain, * that is to fay, the Sum of /. 5,530. 14. 8. towards rhe Expences of the Roads and Bridges, to be made and built in North Britain during this prefent Year, and the further Sum of f 2000 to be by him paid over to Lieut. Colonel Rickjon, Deputy Quarter Mafter General, upon Account towards the Expences of making a Road from Carltjle to Port Patrick � � � � To D�, to be taken for the 33d Year�s Allowance, and to be applied by him for the Charges of furveying, repairing, and amending, the Lid Roads and Bridges, according to fuch Orders as he Ihall receive from the Commander in Chief of the Forces in North Britain � 1 Dates of . Warrants. I765- 11 th Feb. 17^4- 25th July. ii th Feb, To Mr. Garnier, for Medicines And Materials provided by him for the Forces in England, Portugal, the Eajl Indies, Africa, and North America, in the Years 1762 and 1763 ' � � � To Nathaniel Clements Efquire, for Levy Money for 639 Men of the 39th Regiment of Foot � � � � To Bounty and Sword Money to the non-commiffioned Officers and private Men of Lord Blaney's and Colonel Armjlrong's Regiments of Foot � � � � 81528 To D* to D� of Colonel Rufands D* � �� 550 15 fl To D� to D� of the Light Troop of Sir John Mor daunt's Regiment of Dragoons � � � 14 16 � To D� to D� of Lieut. General Pulteney's D� � 86 10 � To D� to D� of Colonel Burton's D� � � 268 6 8 To D' to D� of Major General Gray's D� � � 22 3 4 To Bounty and Sword Money to the non-commiflion- ed Officers and private Men of Major General Col- | will's Regiment of Foot � � � 67 � 1 To D� to D� of Major General Parjiow's D� � 142 13 4 1 To D� toD� of late Lord Malpas's D� � � 100 7 4 To D� to D� of Major Colin Campbells D* � � 68 17 � ToD� to D� of Colonel Monokini's D� � � 103 � 4 To D� to D� of Colonel Fitzroy's D� � �� 123118 To D" to D� of Sir William Boothby's D� � � 33x0 � To D� to D� of Lieut. Colonel Grey's D� � � 37 6 8 23d Nov. 5th Dec. X2th 16th May. �765- 25th Apr. 26th July 21ft Aug. To the Marches and Quarters of Lord John Murray's Regiment of Foot, [ to 18th March 1763 � � -� 69 9 6 1 To D� of Major Alderton'sD9, to 30th May 1763 - 177 14 3 1 To D� of 85th Regiment of Foot, to 24th May 1763 105 � � 1 To D� of Major Markham's, late D�, to 10th April ' 1763 � � � �� 360 un To D� of 2d Battalion of Sir Harry Er/kine's D�, to i 24th June 1764 � � � � 437 13 5 To D� of Earl of Panmure's D�, to D� � � 263 19 2 j To D� of 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards to 24th December 1764, and for Horfes and Subfiftence loft j \r\ Germany � � � � 132 2 11 I To D� of Captain Nightengale's Independent Com- ) pany, to 24th June 1762 � � 52 16 10 To D� of 6th Regiment of Foot, to 24th June 1765 - 109 7 5 To D� of 1 ft Regiment of Dragoon Guards, to 24th December 1764 � � � � 205 5 10 1 1763. 17th Aug. To replace Swords and Accoutrements of the 2d Battalion of the Cold- 1 Jiream Regiment of Foot Guards, loft in Germany during the Campaign 1762 � -� � � 796 16 9 14th Dee, To replace Two Heriot of Major General Elliot's, which were taken by the Enemy in Germany � 338 � 1764. I 11 th Apr. To Mr. Poumics, to replace 10 Horfes belonging to fe- ' veral Officers, which were loft on Service on D� 154 9 � 2ld June To replace 13 Horfes of Lieut. General Cholmondeley's ' Regiment of Dragoons, which were (hot for the Glanders in D� Country, in the Years 1760, 1761, ? 1762, and 1763 � � � 204 9 � 27th 7#/y To replace Horfes and Mules of Lieut. General J^f ctlles's Regiment, loft by Shipwreck on their Paf- fage from Quebec to Ireland, Anno 1763 � 6j8 8 �� 6th Aug. To replace 22 Horfes of Lieut. General Carr's Regi ment of Foot, which were killed or taken by the Enemy, during the Campaigns 1760, 1761, and 1762 � � � � 306 18 � 14th Sept. To replace Horfes and Mules of Colonel Lambert's Regiment of Foot, which were loft in Portugal, Anno 1762 � � � � 78 8 � 2 2d June To replace 6 Horfes of the 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards, which were loft in Germany in the Campaigns 1760, 1761, and 1762 � � 93 8 � VOL. XXX. 7 C I 4�JO4 7 4 2,000 � M73 7 8 itfU 1 3 Ta Dates of Warrants. �7^4- I4th5^. To replace Swords, Accoutrements, ^c. of the 9th Regiment of Foot, loft at the Havanna, and deft toyed by Fire on board the Diamond Tranfport, Anno 1761 . � � � � 12th OR. To replace 32 Horfes belonging to the Officers of 1 ft Regiment of Foot Guards, loft in Germany � 23d Nov. To replace Accoutrements of the 51ft Regiment of Foot, loft in D� in the Campaigns 1760, 1761, and 1762 � � � � To replace Horfe Furniture and Accoutrements of 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards, loft on their Paflage from Holland, Anno 1763 � � � To replace 4 Horfes of 33d Regiment of Foot, loft on Service in Germany, Annis 1760 and 1761 � 51b Dee. To replace 12 Hories of 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards, that were killed or taken by the Enemy in Germany, during the Campaigns in 1760 and 1761 To replace 6 Horfes belonging to 2d Regiment of Dragoons, and 20th Regiment of Foot, loft on Service in D\ in the Years 1759, 1760, 1761, and 1762 � � � � To Major General Armiger, for replacing Accoutrements of the 40th Regiment of Foot, loft or rendered unfcrvicable in 1762, and for Cloathing to a Corps of Light Dragoons, railed at the Havanna by Lord Albemarle's Orders � � 19th Dec. To Captain Clerk of the 77th Regiment, to replace Lofles fuftained on embarking on board a Tranf- port at the Ifland of Dominica, in October 1761 � To Lieut. Colonel Taft), to replace 3 Florfes loft in Germany, Anno 1760 � � � 19th To Major General If ebb, to replace Cloathing of his Regiment, rendered ufelefs while at the Havanna, and to reimburfe him for Cloathing delivered to the 3d Battalion of the Royal Americans � � I765- SthM lo replace 16 Horfes belonging to Lieut. Colonel Beckwith, which were Ihor tor the Glanders, or taken by the Enemy during the Campaigns in Germany � � � � 29th Mar. To replace 8 Horfes of the 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards, loft in their Paflage from Ireland � � 26th July. To replace Accoutrements of 63d Regiment of Foot, loft on Service at Guadeloupe � � � zx^Aug. To replace 5 Horfes of the 3d Regiment of Dragoons, and 3d Regiment of Foot Guards, loft on Service, Annis 1760, 1761, and 1762 � nth 02?. To replace fundry Horfes and Mules belonging to 85th Regiment of Foor, loft in Portugal � � Colonel MonfonW , furniffied in the Year 1761 � Major IV. CraufurPs D\ furniffied in the Year 1762 Lieut. Colonel Grey's D To 243d* Off-reckonings of Captain Hopkin's Independent Company, in order that the Off-reckonings of the faid Company may not be carried further than 24th June 1764 To Lieut. Colonel John Campbell, in lieu of Two Months Off-reckonings of the Battalion under his Command, for the extraordinary Expences in pro viding Plaids for the faid Battalion To make good Deficiencies of Off-reckonings of fe- veral Independent Companies To make good Deficiencies of D" of feveral Regiments of Cavalry and Infantry, dilbanded and reduced in To 14 * Subfiftence of the non-commiffion d Officers and private Men of the following Militia Corps; viz. Eaftern Battalion of the Norfolk Colonel Thornton's Battalion of Weft Riding of Fork- To the Marches, (Ac. of the ift Battalion of the De- vonjhire Militia, to 24th December 1762 To D�, of the Pembrokejhire, to D� To D�, of the Breconjhire, to D To 2311� Pay of Sir Hugh /Wiliams, in lieu of a Company in the late 85th Regiment of Foot, to the lOthF^rwoo' 1761 To 183d�Pay of Samuel Lejlie, in lieu of Du in Major General Jeffery's D\ to 24th June 1764 To 183d5 Pay of D% in lieu of D* in D�, to 24th De- Troop of Light Dragoons, to 24th June 1765 � To 38d� Pay of Colonel Burgoyne, as Colonel of the 16th Regiment of Dragoons, to 24th April 1763 To ii6d'Pay of Lieut. General Stanwix, as Major General of the Forces lately ferving in North America, at �. 2 a Day, and for his Aid de Camp at 10 J. a Day, from 9th May 1760 to iff September following To i24d* Pay of Major Gates, as Major to the 45th Regiment of Foot, to 26th Ofiober 1764 To 238^ Pay of Major Heathcote, as Major and Captain in the 94th Regiment of Foot, to 24th December 1760, and alfo in lieu of his Pay as Captain of a company for 1074��*, from the 25th December 1760 to 3d December 1763 To i82d� Allowance to Hayman Rooke, as Major to 98th Regiment of Foot, to 24th June 1765 To � 82d�Allowance to Major Ackland, in lieu of a Company, to D� To 182'� Allowance to Major Cliffe, in lieu of D�, to To i82d* Pay of Mr. Guiguer, as Commiffary for the Exchange of Prifon- ers of War, to 24th June 1765 To i82d� additional Allowance of D� as D�, to D Datess of Warrants. *763- 25th Dec. >764- 23d Mv. 19th Dec. 1765. 14th Jan. 18 th Mar. 4th Apr. tzd June 12 th July. �6th nth OH. 20th Dec. To i82d� Pay of Lieut. General Napier, as Adjutant General, to D* � � � To 12 7*�� Pay of Lieut. Colonel Scott, as Lieut. Governor of the Iflands of Grenada and Grenadines, from 25th March 1762, to 30th July following, excluGvc To 227�� Pay of D�, as D�, to 8th Auguft 1763 � To 365�� Pay of Lieut. IVinniett, as Fort Major at Grenada, to 24th December j 763 � � To 404"� Pay of Mr. Forbes, as Surgeon�s Mate at Bermuda, to 24th December 1764. � � To 432'" Pay of Mr. Ma fey, as Surgeon at Providence, to D� � � To 263d5 Allowance of Colonel Defmaretz, at �. 3 * Day, and 10 J. a Day for his Secretary, as a Reward for his Care and Trouble in infpe&ing theCunette, Forts, and Batteries at Dunkirk, from 5th April 1764. to 2 4th December 1764 � � � To 365*� Pay of Lieut. Colonel John Campbell, as Commander of the Ifland of Jerfey, from 25th December 1762 (the Time from which the Pay of the faid Commander is difcontinued on the Eftablifhment) to 24th December 1763, both inclufive � � To 541'� Pay of James Napier Efquire, at �. 2 a Day, as Infpe&or General of the Regimental Infirmaries, and Chief Direftor of the Hofpitals for the Ufe of the Forces in North America, from 3 i ft December 1762 to 24th JNW 1764, both inclufive � To Colonel Ligonier, for his Pay as Aid de Camp to His Majefty, from 2111.^7/1763 to 16th December following, both inclufive � � To 366*** Pay of the Two Affiftants of Lieut. Colonel Morrifon, as Quarter Mafter General of the Forces, to 24th December 1764, at 5/. a Day each � T� 373d1 Pay �f 8 Surgeons Mates attending the 66th Regiment of Foot in Jamaica, from 17th June 1764 to 24th June 1765 � � � To the Pay of 7 D% attending the 36th Regiment of Foot, in D% to D� � � � To the Pay of Mr. John, Howell, late Surgeon to the Hofpitals in Germany and Portugal, between 25th December 1761 and 14th Mry 1763 * � � 182 127 227 9> 5 � 70 14 � 64 16 � 920 JO � 3oo 1,082 131 to � 183 I 522 4 � 247 273 To the Pay of the Supernumerary Men of the following Corps, duced and difbanded in the Year 1763, from 25th April 1763, clufive, to the Times hereafter mentioned; viz. re- in- 4�^3 19 � 3d� of ift Regiment of Dragoon Guards, to 27th April 1763, at ^. 9. 7. 6. a Day � � 6a� of Argyll's Dragoons, to 30th April, at D� Rate � �? � � 7d�of the Earl of Albemarle's D�, to ift MM, at D�Raw � � � � � x Day of Earl of Ancram's D% 25th April, at D� Rate � � � 34'� of Colonel Burgoyne's �% to 28th My�, at �-45- >2- 6. a Day � � � To the Pay of the Supernumerary Men of the following Corps, reduced and difbanded in the Year >7^3� ^rom ^5tK April 1763 to the Times hereafter mentioned ; viz. 244d* of Sir Harry Erfkinds Regiment of Foot, to 24th December, at �. 13. 3. 2. a Day � � io8d* of Sir Jeffery Amherjl's D�, to 10th Auguji 1763, at�. 10. 17. a Day ? � � i67d� of Colonel Cra^urd*s D�, to 8th October, at �. 19. 6. a Day � � 8 � of Lieut. General Kingjley's D% to 2d May, at- D� Rate � � � � 2� of Lord George Lennox's D", to 26th April, at D� Rate � � ^_ ^D^R^^^ ^encra^ Leighton's D% to 2d May, at 28 9 *>55* 3^10 M71 3,223 >54 J� �54 2 6 5 12 6 7 6 5 it 16 8 2 8 12 8 Date? of Warrants. 1 79d* of Lieut. General Duroures D�, to 12 th July, at J. 20. 19. 6. a Day � � � 79d� of Sir William Bcotbby's D�, to D*, at D� Rate 86d* of Lieut. General Whitmore's D�, to 19th July, at D� Rate � � � � 86d� of Lord Frederick Cavendijb's D�, to D�, at D1 Rate � � � � 1S7'' of General Guife's D\ to 28th Oflober 1763, at/. 10. 16. 6. a Day � � � i8od� of Lieut. General Pulteney's D�, to 2i^.OPober, at D� Rate � � � � i87d* of Lord Robert Bertie's D�, to 28 th October 1763, at/. 10. 17. 6. a Day � � i96d� of Major General Momkton's D\ to 6th Novem ber 1763, at/. 9. i. 4. a Day � � 108^ of Lieut. General Warburton s D , to 10th Au gujl 1763, at D� Rare � � � io8d* of Major General Fownjhend's D�, toD", at DRate j08� of Lieut. General Noel's D%to D% at D� Rate � io8d* of Lieut. General James Murrays D�, to D�, at D�Rate � � � � 24 fh of Major General FAbott's D , to 23d December, at DJ ' � � � � 86d� of Major General Game's D�, to 19th July 1763, at/. 14. 14. 8. a Day � � � 86d' of General Otway's D�, at D* Rate � � 108� of Major General Armiger's D% to 10th Augujl 1763, at D� Rate � � � i22d* of Lieut. General Abercrombie's D", to 24th Au* gujl, at D� Rate � � � 144th of Major General Bofcawen's D�, to 15th September, at D� Rate � � � � j22d� of ill Battalion of the Royal Americans, to 24th Augujl, at D* Rate � � � 122d* of 2d D�, to D% at D� Rate � � 183d� of 2d Battalion of Lord John Murray's D�, to 24th October, at /. 14. 15. 8. a Day � � J5 Vs of Major General Stanwix's D�, to 24th September, at /. 20. 7. 10. a Day � � 103d� of Colonel Foovey's D*, to 5th Augujl, at /. 18. 6. 8. a Day � � � � 69* of Major General Parjlow's D�, to 2d July, at /. 18. 6. 8. a Day � � � 167'� of Sir D. Cunyngbam's D�, to 8th Oflober, at D� Rare � � � � i67ds of Colonel Lambert's D\ to D�, at/. 27. 1. 8. a Day � � � � 91d* Pay of 4 Independent Companies at New York, to 24th July 1763, at /. 19. 11. 4. a Day � 2o6d* D� of 1D0 at Bermuda, to 16th November, at /. 2. 18. 6. a Day � � � 173d* D� of 1 D� at Providence, to tyth Ofiober, at /. 6. 15. 2. a Day � � � 244*� D� of 3 D� at South Carolina, to 24th Decem ber, at /. 16. 1. 6. a Day � � � 244d3 D' of Captain Hopkins's Independent Company, to D�, at /. 5. 5. 8. a Day � � 119d$ D� of Major Gorcbam's Corps of Rangers, to 21 ft Augujl, at/. 13. 16. 4. a Day � � 6915 D� of the Earl of Sutherland's Battalion of Highlanders, from 25th December 1762 to 3d March 1763, both inclufive, at/. 49. 10. 8. a Day � 62�� D� of the Fencible Men of Argylljhire, from D� to 24th February, at / 49. 5. 8. a Day � 1,657 � 6 1,657 � 6 1,803 17 � 1,803 17 � 2,024 5 6 1,948 10 � 2,033 12 6 �>777 1 4 979 4 � 979 4 � 979 4 � 979 4 � 2,203 4 � 1,267 1 4 1,267 1 4 L591 4 � *>797 9 + 2,121 12 � �>797 9 4 i�797 9 4 2,705 7 � 3,119 18 6 i,8S8 6 8 1,265 3,061 13 4 4,522 18 4 1,780 11 4 602 11 � 1,202 19 S 3,922 6 � 1,289 2 8 1,644 3 8 3,417 16 0 3*055 11 4 To the Pay of Major General Foovey's Regiment of Foot, according to the Britijh Eftablifhment, for 366d�, from 25th December 1763 to 24th December 1764, both inclufive � � 8,652 17 � Paid by Ireland, for the fame Time � � 7*837 19 10 Difference Major General Pcrfovjs Regiment the fame Sir Dd. Cunyngbams the fame � 75>6o6 7 8 814 17 1 81417 2 81417 2 Dates of W arrants. Colonel Lambert's Regiment, according to the Britijh Eftablilhment, for the fame Time � � � � 8,689 9 � Paid by Ireland, for the fame Time � � 7,794 12 10 Difference Major General S/r^?sRegiment, according to the Britijh Eftablifhment, for 241d!, from 28th April to 24th December 1764 7,071 6 10 Paid by Ireland, for the fame Time � � 5,119 2 2 Difference To 366^ Pay of Major General Ganfell's Regiment of Foot, from 2 5th December 1763 to 24th December 1764, both inclufive, at Z- 38. 8. 2. a Day � � � 14,057 9 � DeduCt on Account of Non Effectives � � 823 10 � To 94ds Pay of D� Regiment, from 25th December 1764 to 28th March 1 j65, both inclufive, at D� � 3*610 7 8 Deduft on Account of Non Effectives � � 817 16 � To 347*� Pay of Colonel IHlmott's Regiment of Foot, from 25th December 1763 to 5th December 1764, both inclufive, at Z- 2 7. 9. 10. a Day � � � 9*539 12 2 Deduct on Account of Non Effectives � � 1,804 8 � To 59"� Pay of the 3d Battalion of the Royal American Regiment of Foot, from 2^th December 1763 to 2id February 1764, both in- clufive, at Z- 44. 1. 6. a Day � � 2,600 8 6 Deduct on Account of Non Effectives � � 914 10 � To 84d* Pay of 3 Independent Companies at South Carolina, from D* to 17th March 1764, both inclufive, at Z- 16. 1. 6. a Day � To 366"� Pay of Colonel Draper's Regiment of Foot, from 25th De* amber 1763 to 24th December 1764, both inclufive, at Z- 48- 4- 8. a Day _ _ _ _ 17,653 8 � DeduCt on Account of Non Effectives � � i�555 10 � To 366� Pay of Colonel Coote's D�, from D� to D% at f. 52. 7. 10. a Day � � � � 19>175 7 � Dedutl on Account of Non Effectives � � 5*956, 13 � To 366^ Pay of Colonel Morris's D�, from D� to D�, at Z- 39. 14. 10. a Day � _. � � 14,545 9 � DeduCt on Account of Non Effectives � � 2,854 16 � V65- 30th Dec, To 366'* Pay of Colonel Monfon's D�, from D� to D', at Z� 51. - 10. a Day � � � � 18,681 5 � DeduCt on Account of Non Effectives � � 5*508 6 � i764 6th Jan. To the Pay of Two Companies of Invalids of 71ft Regiment, from 2^ December 1764 to 15th and 2 4th February 17 65 � To 121�� Pay of Additionals to Lieut. General Duroure's (now Brude- nell's) Regiment of Foot, from 26th Auguji 1764 to 24th December following, both inclufive, at �. 1. 13. 6. a Day � To 274'� Pay of Additionals to Lieut. General Fleers D�, from 26th March 1764 to D", at D Rate � To I9id� Pay of Lord Adam Gordon's D�, from 17th June 1764 to I) , at Z 29. 6. 10. a Day � To 2o6d� Pay of Major General Lambton's D\ from 2d June 1764 to D\ at D� Rate � � To 2O2di Pay of Major General FrapauFs D1, from 6th June 1764 to D", at D* Rate � � 894 16 2 I*952 4 8 13, 233 I9� 2,792 11 S 7,735 4 2 1,685 18 6 1,350 6 � 16,097 18 � 13,218 74 � r 1,61.0 13 � i3�i/2 19 � 165 10 1 20th Feb. 18 th May 22d June 202 13 0 45s 19 � 5*604 5 2 6,044 7 8 5^7 � 4 To Lord Tyrantey, for fubfifting feveral Men of the Coldjlream Regiment of Foot Guards, from 26th March 1763 (the Day on which the faid Regiment was reduced) to the Time they were difmiffed the Ser- v,ce � � � � 308 19 5 To Colonel Barre, late Adjutant General, for the like Sum expended by him for the Service of the Army 263 � � To Captain John Campbell, for providing 300 Canteens, for the Forces ordered from Martimco to the Havana � � _ � � 66 14 9 To Colonel Scott, being the. Difference of Pay be tween the Britrjb and Irijh Eftablifhments of the late 108th Regiment of Foot under his Command, for 24^, from 6th to 29th May 1762, both inclufive 121 � 11 I8,237 5 Date� of Warrants. � 764j ;th Sept. To Colonel Scotty to reimburfe him the like Sum,' paid by him lor Subfiftence of fundry Men which were drafted from the Regiment of Foot, late under his Command, to recruit the Forces in Germany, and for Cloathing provided by him for the Recruits that were railed to compleat the faid Regiment, in lieu of the Men fo drafted � � � 473 10 9 i 2th To Lieut. Munro, for the Loflcs he fuftained by the blowing up the Magazine at Goree � � 69 5 � To Captain Dunbar, to be by him paid over to feveral Officers, tor conducting Drafts to the Army in Germany � � � � 66 15 � To Mr. Cox, to be by him paid over to the Officers of the late 99th Regiment of Foot, on Account of Lodging Money during the Time the faid Regiment did Duty in the llland of Guernsey � � 237 4 6 j zth Gel. To Mr. Calcraft, for the contingent Difburfemencs of the Regiment and Independent Companies of Invalids, from 25th December 1761 to 24th December 17 6 2 � � � �- 669 6 11 To Lieut. Colonel Morris, for an Allowance of Bas, Baggage* and Forage Money, to a Detachment from the late 89th Regiment of Foot, under his Command, ordered upon an Expedition intended againft the French Elands in the Eajl Indies, in the Year 1761 � � � � 270 3 r ft 03. To Lieut. Colonel Morrifon, for the like Sum expended by him in travelling, &c. as Quarter Mafter General, from 25th September 1762 to 25th September 1764 � � � � 77 >4 � 23ft Nov. To Lord Ligonier, for fubfifting feveral Men belong ing to 1 ft Regiment of Foot Guards, from the Days of their being discharged, in Confequence of the Reduction of the laid Regiment, to the refpe&ive Periods of their being admitted to the Out Penfion of Chelfea Hofpital � � � 4394 � 12th Dee. To D�, for providing the Drum Major and Hautbois of D� Regiment with Cloathing for 2 Years, from March 1763 10 March 1765 � � 344 9 � 12 th 03. To Mr. Williams, Quarter Mafter to the ift Regiment of Foot Guards, in full Satisfaction of the like Sum expended by him on Account of the faid Regiment, from 25th December 1762 to 24th December 1763 448 11 8 *765' 17th J�/y To D�, fur the like Sum expended by him on Account of D� Regiment, from 25th December 1763 to 24th December 1764 � � � 329 4 6 17^4- 31 ft 03- To Lieut. General Thomas Murray, to enable him to replace the LolTes fuftained by the 46th Regiment . of Foor, under his Command, in the Wreck of the Maf^uerade Tranfport on the I Hand of Cuba � 289 16 1 23d Nov. To Lieut. Scott of the 7th Regiment of Dragoons, in full for 270 Ducats of the Regiment�s Money loft by him on the Retreat of the Allied Army out of Hejfe, in March 1761 � � � 131 17 � 3d Dec. To Captain Bury of the 86th Regiment of Foot, Commandant of Senegal, for fundry Prefents made to the Princes of that Country by him, between 9th July 1763, and 1 ft November following � � 189 1 3 To MefF* slmyand, Linwood, and Tierney, in full of the Charges they have been at for Corn delivered at Lifon, for the Ufe of the Troops in Portugal � 32 13 4 5th To Mr. Meyrick, to be by him paid over to feveral Subaltern Officers, for conducting Drafts from Great Britain to Gnadaloupe, in the Year 1760 � 2 2 8 5 � 12th To Lieutenant Seavers and EnGgn McGillivray, ol the 1 ooth Regiment of Foot, for D* Service, in the Year 1761 � � � 43 io � 19th To Captain Brawn, to be by him paid over to feve- ral Officers, for conducing Drafts from Great Bri- Dates of Warrants. I?64- tain, to recruit the Forces in the Erf Indies in the Year 1762 � � L 577 3 ^ Voted on Account of this Service, in Account of Extraordinaries 1763 � 500 17$5� 7th fan. To William Fourg Efquire, being the Balance of his Account, as Director of the Hofpital in Portugal, to 10th Auguf 1763 � � � Sth Jan. To Lieut. Colonel Hardy, for Expences incurred by him in hiring Barracks and providing Water, for the Ufe of the 65th Regiment of Foot, during the 'l ime it continued in the Ifland of Antigua � 17th To Colonel Defmaretz, the Commiffary at Dunkirk, for his contingent Exper\es> from January 1764 to 25th December following � � � 28 th To the Reprefentatives of the late Colonel John Crau- furd, to difeharge a Debt incurred by him, in raif- ing a Regiment with the greateft Expedition, and to eafe his Family from the Load of the faid Debt To Captain Bunbury, to enable him to fatisfy the Owners of a Long Boat, employed in tranfporting a Detachment of the late 85th Regiment of Foot, over the Bar, near the Ifland of Senegal, which was loft together with the Slaves employed in navigating the laid Veffel � � � 1 Sth Feb. To John Vardy, Surveyor of the Horfe Guards, to be by him paid over to feveral Artificers, in full Satisfaction for Work done by them in Repairs at the 'Till Yard, Somerfet Houfe, St. James's, Whitehall, Kenjington, and Hampton Court, in the Year 1764 To C. Sbrieff, late a Lieutenant in the 45th Regiment of Foot, for the Expences of his Paflage from North America � � � � 28th Feb. To Mr. Macrabie, for providing Bedding and Barrack Furniture, for the Lie of the 68th Regiment at Antigua � � � � 15th Afar. To Mr. Cleaver, to reimburfe him the Expences he has been at for Freight and Infurance in fending Cloathing to the Invalids, doing Duty at fundry Garifons � � � � j Sth To Samuel Lee Surgeon, in Confideration of his having received and admitted into his Hofpital, fuch ruptured Soldiers of the Army, as have been afflicted with that Diforder in the Year 1764 � To Captain Jennings, for his Expences in attempting to recover Arms, &a of the Troop to which he belong�d, during the Shipwreck on his Return from Germany, Anno 1763 � � � To Mr. Calcraft, to reimburfe him his Expences incurred by a Fire at Gibraltar in April 1764 � 29th To Captain Haldane of the late tooth Regiment of Foot, to enable him to fatisfy and difeharge Bills drawn by him for Cloathing and Half mounting provided by him for the faid Regiment, together with the Charges for Exchange and Re-exchange - l^th Apr. I o Mr. Calcraft, Agent to Lieut. General Shirley's late Regiment, to enable him to difeharge the Arrears due to the Commanding Officers of that Regiment, from 25th December 1754 to 24th December 1756 � � � � 26th Apr. To Mr. Hoddinelt, Quarter Mailer to the Coldflream Regiment of Foot Guards, for the like Sum expended by him on Account of the laid Regiment, from 25th December 1763 to 24th December 1764 - 8th May. To the Earl of Rothes, for providing the Drum Majors and Hautbois, of the 3d Regiment of Foor Guards, under his Command, with Cloathing for Two Years, from March 1765 to March 1767 � 2111 June. To Lord Adam Gorden, to reimburfe him the Expence of repairing Arms, buying Intrenching Tools, and tranfporting Detachments of the 66th Regiment of Foot under his Command, ordered from Jamaica upon an Expedition the 10th December 1764 � To Mr. Davidfon, for the Contingent Dilburfements of 4th Divifion of Independent Companies to 24th December 1761 � � � � To Lieut. Colonel �Tonyn, for providing Buff Accoutrements, and Waiftcoats, for the Six Independent Companies, incorporated into the late 104th Regiment of Foot under his Command � � To Major General Harvey, for Clerks, Stationery Ware, Poftage, and other Contingent Expenccs as Adjutant General of the Forces, from 7th December 1763 to 31ft December 1764 � � � To Mr. Rogers, Agent for the Captors at Goree, for a Sloop, Launch, and Long Boat, left by them for the Ufe of the Garifon � � � To Mr. Jones, for a Balance due to him for remitting Money to Gibraltar for the Ufe of the Troops there, and in full SatisfaAion and Difeharge of all Claims and Demands, for Commiflion or other Charges whatfoever, for, or upon the Monies fo remitted by him � � � � To Mr. Oldham, for 180 Setts of Buff Accoutrements for the Augmentation to Lieut. General Strode's Regiment ot Foot � � � To John Campbell Efquire, to pay fundry Bills, and for Provifions for the Ufe of the Detachments from the Forces in South Carolina, from 28th May 1764 to 27th May 1765 � � � To Enfign Sharpe, forNeceflaries for the 3d Regiment of Foot Guards, to 24th December 1763 � To Major Rainsford, for D�, for the Foot Guards in the Tower, to Michaelmas 1765 � � To Major General Gage, for his Pay as a Major General in North America, at �. 2. a Day, and for his Aid de Camp at 10J. a Day, for 327��, to 15th November 1764 � � � To Robert Adair Efquire, Infpe&or General of the Regimental Infirmaries on Account, to enable him to fa- tisfy fuch Bills as are or may be drawn upon him, for the Pay of divers Extraordinary Surgeons Mates in the Ceded iflands, for whom there is no Provifion upon the Eftablifhment, and to defray divers other incidental Charges � � � To Mr. Fijher, for the Contingent Difburfements of the 8th Regiment of Foot, to 24th April 1764 � To a Deficiency of the Vote for Colonel Burgoyne's Regiment of Dra- goons, Anno 1763 � � � To a Deficiency of D�, for Major General Toovey's Re giment of Foot, in D� Year � � 237 18 � 556 18 3 To a Deficiency of D�, for Major General Parjlow's D", in D� Year � � � 556 18 3 To a Deficiency of D8, for Sir Dd. Cunynghame's D�, in D� Year � � � � 556 18 3 To a Deficiency of D�, for Major General Lambert's D�, in D� Year � � � � 543 � 8 VOL. XXX. Total � Towards which may be applied a Surplus arifing by Vote to 24th April 1763, of the following Regiments �, viz. 60'* Pay of the reduced Numbers of the Royal Regiment of Horfe Guards � � � 49�� D� of D* of Lieut. General Dejean's Horfe � 6od* D� of D� of Lieut. General Honeywood's D� � 77th D� of D� of 1 ft Regiment of Dragoon Guards � 6od* D� of D� of 2d Regiment of D� � � 64d* D� of D� of 3d Regiment of D� � � ^^s D� of D� of Lieut. General Conway's Dragoons - 39d* D� of D� of Duke of Argyll's D� � �� 86d� D� of D of t arl of Albemarle's D� � �; 7 E i*4�3 � 6 1,628 18 2,042 11 7 1,5�5 13 �� L325 �9 � i�47� *7 4 >,372 7 9 908 16 � 2,712 *3 IO 2,451 �3 5 339>H� �9 � Dates of Warrants. 8zd' D� of D� of Sir Robert Rich's D� � � 38d* D� of D� of Lieut. General Cholmondeley's D� � 33d� Pay of the reduced Numbers of Lieut. General Mofyn's Regiment of Dragoons � � 35"' D� of Du of Sir John Mordaunt's D� � 34� D� of D� of Earl of Amram's D0 � � 34d* D�.of D� of Lieut. General Elliott's D� � 65d* D� of D� of Lord Aberdcur's D� � � 6od� D� of D� of Colonel Hale's D� � � � 34d5 D� of D� of ift Regiment of Foot Guards � 3Od* D� of D� of 2d Regiment of D� � � 32dl D� of D� of 3d Regiment of D� � � 20'" D� of D� of Lieut. General Hodgfon's Foot � 24d* D� of D� of Major General Barrington's D� � 27�� D� of D� of Lieut. General Bockland's DQ � 2Od* D� of D* of Lieut. General Napier's D� � 2od� D� of D� of Lieut. General Jefferye's D� � 16d* D� of D� of Lord George Beauclerk's D� � i2d* Do of D� of Earl of Panmare's D� � � 6d* D� of D� of Lieut. General George Bofcawen's D� 12d' D� of D� of Lieut. General Cornwallis's D� � 4d* D� of D� of Earl of Loudoun's D� � � 14d� D� of D8 of Major General Oughton's D� � 22d� D� of D� of Lord Robert Manners's D� � 37*� D� of D� of Lord John Murray's D� � � D� of D� of Lieut. General Webb's D� � 1 id* D� of D� of Lieut. General Carr's D� � D� of D� of Lieut. General jR^r/y^r�/i^s D� - 1 f' D� of D* of Lord Adam Gordon's D� � � 15 3 6 cember 1764 to the 31 ft of the fame Month � To Ditto, for Victualling the Forces in the Illand of Gra nada and the Granadines, from the ift of January 1765 to the 31ft of March following, and for Victualling the Forces in the Illand of St. Vincent, from the ift of January 1765 to the 30th of June following, and for Pro 27 18 1 vifions loft going from Oufiagunny to Calliaqua � To Ditto, for Victualling the Forces at Dominica, from 2,941 17 1 the ift of January 1765 to the 30th of June following To MelT* Major and Henniker, for Victualling the Forces 854 6 6 at IVeJi Florida � � � � To MelT��* Cumming and Ma/bn, for Victualling the Forces in Eajl Florida, and in the Garifon at St. Augujline, from 3 632 17 6 A Augt. 13. Augt. 6. >7* Sept. 30. Nov. 15. July 10. Sept. 13. 23- July 10. 03. 7. To MelF* Fludyer, Drummond, and Franks, for Provifions delivered into the Dates of Wartants. *765. the 24th of December 1764 to the 9th of June 1765^ as allo for Provifions iflued to the Out Pons of that Gari fon, for the fame Time - � � -� 884 13 2 Sept. <3. To Meir* Major and Henniker, for Vi&ualling the Forces at Weft Florida � � � � 2>29J 7 6 'July 4. To Matthew Woodford Efquire, for Victualling the Forces in the Garifons of Annapolis Royal and Chigne3o, between the 1 ft of 03ober 1764. and the 20th of January 1765, both inclufive � � � � 1,130 15 6 10. To Ditto, for Victualling the faid Forces there, between the 21ft of January 1765 and the 17th of March fol lowing �* � � � � 477 18 1 June 26. To Chauncey �Townfend Efquire, for Victualling Part of the Forces in Noza Scotia, between the 21ft of January 1765 and the 14th of April following, both inclufive, � 1,63 5 19 6 To Ditto, for Victualling the Troops in Newfoundland-, viz. 227 Men, front the 24th of March 1765 to the 23d of June following, both inclufive � � 47S 11 10 Augf 17. To Ditto, for Victualling the Forces in Noza Scotia, from the 15th of April 1765 to the 9th of June following, both inclufive � � � � 1,140 104 03r. 7. To Ditto, for Victualling the faid Forces, from the xoth of June 1765 to the 4th of Auguft following, both in clufive � � � � 1,131114 To Ditto, for Victualling 227 Men in Newfoundland, from the 24th of June 1765 to the 23d of September follow ing, both inclufive � � � � 478 11 10 48,874 18 7 Voted on Account of Victualling the Forces in North America and the Ceded Illands � � � 16,041 1 101 03. 18. To Sir George Amyand and Nicholas Linwood Efquire, for Provifions fent by them for the fupplying the Forces in the Garifon of Minorca 3,500 � � Dec. 27. To Ditto, for Provifions fent by them for the faid Forces in the faid Garifon � � � � 2,500 03. 7. To John Kennion Efquire, upon his ContraCt for furnilhing Provifions to the ' Forces at the Hazanna � �� � � � July 8.' To Sir William Baker, Chriftopher Kilby, and Richard Baker, in full Satisfaction and Difcharge of a Balance due to them on their late ContraCt, for Victualling the Army in North America ��� � � June 28. To fatisfy a Bill of Exchange, drawn by Major General Gage, Commander in Chief of His Majefty�s Forces in North America, on Account of the Public Service carrying on there � � 200 1765- June 14. To fatisfy fundry Bills of Exchange, drawn by Governor Melville, for Payment of Public Contingent Charges of the Ifland of Granada and the Gra- nadines � � � � � 2,000 Augt. 2/ To fatisfy Two Bills, drawn by D�, for D� Service � 800 � � Dec. 6. To fatisfy a Bill, drawn by D", for D� Service � 800 June 28. To fatisfy a Bill of Exchange, drawn by Major Farmer, Commandant of the Forces at Mobille, and that Part of Louifiana, ceded to the Crown of Great Britain by the late Definitive Treaty, for the Ufe and Service of the faid 3,600 Atigi 2. Sept. 10. 30. 03. 5. Troops � � � � To fatisfy Bills, drawn by D\ for D� Service � To fatisfy fundry Bills of Exchange, drawn by Major Barmer, Commandant of the Forces at Mobille, and that Part of Louijiana, ceded to the Crown of Great Britain by the late Definitive Treaty, for rhe Ufe of faid Troops � � � � To fatisfy fundry Bills, drawn by D% for D* Service � To fatisfy fundry Bills, drawn by D�, for D4 Service � 73* 3 2 M55 * � 8ai 17 7 863 6 8 734 � 6; To To fatisfy fundry Bills, drawn by D�, for D� Service To fatisfy fundry Bills, drawn by D�, for D� Service To fatisfy fundry Bills of Exchange, drawn by George Johnfton, Governor of the Colony of Weft Florida, for Payment of Public Contingent Charges To fatisfy a Bill, drawn by D�, for D� Service To fatisfy a Bill, drawn by D�, for D� Service To fatisfy a Bill, drawn by D�, for D� Service � To fatisfy Two Bills, drawn by D , tor D Service To fatisfy fundry Bills of Exchange, drawn by Governor Murray * for Pub- To fatisfy fundry Bills, drawn by D�, for D9 Service � To fatisfy fundry Bills, drawn by D�, for D� Service � To fatisfy a Bill of Exchange, drawn by Major General Burton, for Public To fatisfy fundry Bills, drawn by D�, for D� Services � To fatisfy a Bill of Exchange, drawn by Major Walters, Deputy Governor of Louiftourg, Cape Breton, and St. John's, for Public Services To fatisfy Two Bills of Exchange, drawn by Major Hamilton, for Public To fatisfy a Bill of Exchange, drawn by William Henry Lyttelton Efquire, Governor of the Ifland of Jamaica, for the Service of the Muftquito Shore - To fatisfy a Bill of Exchange, drawn by Governor Cornwallis, for Monies expended in the Service of the Garifon of Gibraltar To Mr. Gueft, for his Attendance on the Commiflioners of theTreafury, and on the late Commiflioners for inquiring into German Affairs, upon Bufmefs referred to the Confideration of the laftmentioned Commif- To Mr. Leach, being the Balance of an Account for Pay due to him while he acted as a Deputy Commiffary in Day, as Commiffary for collecting together and keeping in fate Cuftody at Hanoyer, all the Vouchers on which the Commiffaries in Germany granted Certificates for Money during the late War, for and from the 6th of March 1765, to and for the 5th of June following To Mr. Weft, Secretary to the Commiflioners for examining the Foreign Accounts of the late War in Germa?ty, to be by him applied to the Payment of the Clerks, and other Contingent Expences incurred in their Office - To Mr. Fuhr, for 244d� Allowance, at �. 3. a Day, as a Commiffary to the late Combined Army in Germany, from the ift of November 1762 to the 2d of July 1763, To Mr. Weft, Secretary to the Commiflioners, for examining the Foreign Accounts of the late War in Germany, for Salaries of Clerks, and other Contingent Expences To MtlP5 Pownall, Cornwall, and Cuthbert, for 183d� Al lowance as Commiffaries appointed for Rating the Debts for Extraordinaries incurred during the late War in Ger Dates of Warrants. many, foe 183d* Pay, from the 19th of April 1765 to the 18th of Onober following � � To Edward Fubr, Executor to John Philip Fuhr, in Difcharge of a Warrant, granted by Colonel Pierfon upon the late Deputy Pavmafter in Germany, for travelling Expences of the laid John Philip Fubr � � To Mr. Weft, as Secretary to the Commifiioners for examining the Foreign Accounts of the late War in Germany, for Salaries of Clerks, and other Contingent Expences incurred in their Office � � To fundry Officers of the late 87th Regiment of Foot, in order to enable them to replace feveral Horfes which were loft by them, or died on Service during the Campaigns in Germany, in the Years 1761 and 1762 � To Lieutenant Scroope Egerton, and Captain Adcane of the 5th and 67th Regiments of Foot, for Three Horfes and One Mule, which were loft in the Campaign in Germany and Portugal � � � � To Colonel Burgoyne, to replace Eleven Horfes and Three Mules, belonging to the Officers of the Regiment of Dragoons under his Command, loft on Service in Portugal � � � � To Lieutenant Mortimer Obrien, and other Officers of the late 86th Regiment of Foot, in Confideration of the Lofles they fuftained by the blowing up of the Magazine at Goree � � � � To Lieutenant Angus MNeill, for Lofles fuftained by blowing up the Magazine of Fort Augufta in Jamaica To Lieut. General Anftrutber, to enable him to replace the Lofs fuftained by 8 Companies of his Regiment, when taken Prifoners by the French in July 1762, in their Paffage from New Fork to the Havanna � To Major General Owen, for providing Buff Accoutrements for the Augmentation to the Regiment of Foot under his Command, ordered from Ireland to North America � � To Mr. Oldham, to be by him paid over to Lieut. Colonel Hull, of the late 83d Regiment of Foot, and Lieutenant Ricbardfon, late of the 20th Regiment of Foot, for Two Horfes and Two Mules, loft in the Campaigns in Germany and Portugal, in the Years 1760 and 1762 � To Colonel Montague's Regiment of Foot, to make good t the full Subfiftence, from the 24th of June 1765, the D barkation, to 30th September following � To 161'�* full Pay of the Earl of GranarcTs Regiment of Foot, ordered from Ireland to Nova Scotia, from the 17th of July 1765 to the 24th of December following, both inclufive, at f. 29. 6. 10. a Day � � To 137^ full Pay of Major General Clavering's Regiment of Foot, ordered from Ireland to Quebec, from the 10th of Auguft 1765 to the 24th of December following, both inclufive, at �. 29. 6. 10. a Day. � � To 163d5 full Pay of Colonel Owen's Regiment of Foot, ordered from Ireland to Louiftourg, from the 15th of July 1765 to the 24th of December following, both inclufive, at ^. 29. 6. 10. a Day � � To 183d� full Pay of an Augmentation to Colonel Fletcher's Regiment of Foot, ordered from North America to England, from the 25th of June 1765 to the 24th of December following, both inclufive, at ^. 1. 13. 6. a Day To 183d* full Pay of an Augmentation to Major General Gage's Regiment of Foot, ordered from North America to England, from the 25th of June 1765 to the 24th of December following, both inclufive, at�. 1. 13. 6. a Day � � � � To the Difference of Pay between Englifb and Irifh Eftab- liffiments of Two Troops of Colonel Hale's Regiment of Dragoons for i84d, from the 24th of June 176^ to the 24th of December following, both inclufive � To the Difference of Pay between Engli/h and Iri/h Eftablifhments, of Lieut. General Montague's Regiment )atcs of Varrants, 17^. fine 2 J. 2?. W 5- fdy 12. Oft. 11. June 21. of Foot, for iB^, from the 24th of June 1765 to the 24th of December following, both inclufive � 377 � 8 To feveral Surgeons Mates of the 49th Regiment of Foot ferving in Jamaica, for their Pay, from the 2 5th of September 176^ to the feveral Periods of Difmiffion � � To Lieutenant David Wemyfs, a reduced Officer of the 49th Regiment of Foot, for his Pay as afting as an additional Surgeon�s Mate to the faid Regiment, from the 5th of July 1761 to the 1 ith of June 1764, at 3 s. 6 d. 3 Day, and for the Difference between his half and full Pay as Lieutenant, from the 24th of September 1763 to the laid Time, in Confideration of his Care, Trouble, and great Expences, in being obliged to ftay in Town to take Care of the Convalefcents of the faid Regiment, till they could be examined by the Chelfea Board � To the Duke of Richmond, for his Expences and Trouble in Reviewing His Majetty�s Land Forces in the Year !765 � � � � � To Major General Elliot, for D*, in D� Year � To Major General Parjloiv, for D�, in D� Year � To Lieut. Colonel fohn Campbell, as Commandant in the Wand of ferfey, and all the Forts and Fortifications thereunto belonging, for his Pay from the 25th of December 1763 to the 24th of December 1764, both inclufive � � �� � To Captain Lc/lie, for 747^ Pay, as Deputy Qiiarter Maf- ter General to the Forces ferving at Quebec, from the 16th of Otlober 1759 to the 31ft of October 1761 � To Colonel Defmaretz, for i82d� Allowance, at �. 3. a Day, and 10 r. a Day for his Secretary, as a Reward for, and in full Satisfaction of his Care, Pains, and Labour, in infpecting the Cunette, Forts, and Batteries at Dunkirk, from the 24th of December 1764 to the 24th of June 1765 � � � . � To Major Gladwin, for 454<�� Allowance, at $s. a Day, for Difference of Pay between Major and that of Captain in the late Regiment of Foot, commanded by Colonel Wilmot, from the 13th of December 1760, the Date of his Commiffion as Major, to the 5th of December 1764, when the faid Regiment was difbanded, both inclufive � � � � � To Mr. Robert Adair, for the Pay of extraordinary Surgeons and Surgeons Mates in the Ceded Wands, and to defray divers other Charges � � � To the Marches of Lord Aber dour's Regiment of Dragoons, from the 25th of June 1761 to the 24th of 'June 1762 � � � � To the Marches of Lord Robert Bertie's Regiment of Foot, from the 25th of December 1762 to the 24th of December 1764 _ _ _ � To the Marches and Contingent Dilburfements of the Re- .giment and Independent Companies of Invalids, from the 25th of December 1762 to the 24th of December 1763 � � � � � *5>O5� 6 + June 2 v Augt. 21. Nov. 15. M ?� 222 12 4 960 10 6 960 10 6 960 10 6 300 373 10 � 637 363 10 � 500 107 11 8 4+2 4 5 865 it 9 54?i 1 5 To the Marches of Sir Thomas Worjley's South Battalion of the Hamp/hire Militia, from their embodying in June 1760 to the 24th of December following � � � � To Richard Vcale Efquire, Commiffary of Mutters to the Forces ferving in Germany, being an Allowance of Forage for the Years 1760, 1761, and 1762 � � � � � 50 To Lieut. General Montague, for an Allowance of Bas, Baggagc� and Forage Money, for the Regiment of Foot under his Command, ordered upon Service in the We of Man � � � � 443 15 � To Lieut. General Elliot, for the Difference of keeping in the Houfe in the Summer 1765, 86 Horfus of his Regiment of Dragoons, for 20 Weeks To Mr. Gardiner, to compleat the Sum of f. 2,792. 2. 9. in full Satisfaction of all Demands, for fupplying Bread and Bread Waggons, &c. for the Ufe of the Forces encamped in North Britain, in the Year 1759 � 1.415 7 10 143 18 3 493 ij � 488 5 � 1,092 2 9 To 572 Dates of Warrants. i765- 'June 21 � OH. u. Nov. 15. OH. 11 March following � � � � To Ditto, for Coals and Candles, &c. to the Forces in 141 >5 3 Ditto, from the ift of April 1765 to the 30th of June following � � � � *49 3 3 To Ditto, for Coals and Candles, fAc. to the Forces in Ditto, from the ift of July 1765 to the 30th of September following � � � � *44 i7 To Major Rainsford, for Neceffaries furnifhed by him to the Foot Guards, &c. in the Tower, for Six Months, from Lady Day 1765, and ending at Michaelmas following, alio for lighting the Lamps on Tower Hill, and Coals to the Barracks � � � � 333 IO 6 To Lieut. Governor Wemyfs, for Coals and Candles, &c. furniffied to the Forces in Edinburgh Cattle, from the ift of January 1765 to the 31ft of To 243'�� Pay of Richard Carr Efquire, as a fupernumerary Captain in late Lieut. General Bockland's Regiment of Foot, in lieu of a Company, to 24th Auguft 1765 � 121 IO To 182'�Pay of Thomas Cuthbert E.fqv.ire, as a Ditto in Lord George Beauclerk's Regiment of Foot, in lieu of a Ditto, to 24th June 1765 � � � To 182 ' Pay of Samuel Lejlie Efquire, as a Ditto, in Major General Keppel's Regiment of Foot, in lieu of a Ditto, to 24th June 1765 � � � To 76^ Pay of Major Cliffe, in lieu of a Ditto, in his Corps of Invalids, to 8th of September 1765 � To 183d* Pay of Major Ackland, in lieu of a Ditto, in his Corps of Invalids, to 24th December 1765 � � � 91 91 38 91 IO 769 6 � June 21; 7^y 5- 10. 3^ Ofir. 7. 24- Deer. 4. 6. *5- 16. Jusi. 15, l\i. 6. To Colonel Burgoyne, in Confideration of the Expences incurred by the Detachments of the Regiment of Dragoons under his Command, for extraordinary Feeding for the Hories, and for Victualling and Neceffaries for the Non Commiflioned Officers and Private Men, during the Time they were employed upon the Duty of the Royal Family, in the Year 1764 - To the 66th, 68th, and 70th Regiments of Foot, for 180 Setts of Buff Accoutrements for each of the laid Regiments, on Account of the Augmentation made on their embarking from Ireland for the Weft Indies � To Philip Carteret Webb Efquire, as Solicitor to the Trcafury, for his Trouble, &c. in Soliciting feveral Caufes, and carrying on neceflary Profecutions, for maintaining the Authorities granted by the feveral ACts of Parliament againft Mutiny and Defenion � � � To Meff 3 D'Oyley, Bradjhaw, Powell, and Johnfton, for their Services in fettling the non-effeCtive Accounts of the Army, /. 500 each � � To Colonel James Grant, Governor of the Province of Eaft Florida, for the Purchafe and keeping up a Schoorer for the Service of the faid Province for One Year, from the 2 9th of Auguft 1764 to the 29th of Auguft 1765 - To Meff1� Major and Henniker, for a Quantity of Flour purchafed for the Supply of the Forces in Weft Florida � � � � To Mr. Leehmere, for the Balance of his Account, as Commiflary General of Stores and Provifions, on an Expedition to the Havanna, to 24th December 1762 � � � � � � To Lieut. Colonel Raitt, in full Satisfaction of feveral Sums expended by him for Forage, Bread, Wood, and Straw, Coals, Hire of Store Houfes, and Ground, and divers other fmall Charges, for the Encampment of Two Troops of the Regiment of Dragoons, commanded by Colonel Hale, and Lieut. General Montague's Regiment of Foot, encamped in the Ilie of Man � � � � � To Mr. Wilfon, in full Satisfaction and Difcharge of a Balance due to him, as Executor to David Wilfon Efquire, late Deputy Commiflary of Stores and Provifions at the Havanna, between the 25th of December 1762 and the 9th of July 1763 � � � � � To Mr. Leehmere, as Commiflary General of Stores and Provifions at the Havanna, for Provifions iflued by him on his own private Account to the Forces there � � � � � � To George Carleton Efquire, for Charges attending the Embarkation of Lieut. General Montague's Regiment of Foot, and Two Troops of Colonel Hale's Regiment of Dragoons, from Dublin to the Ide of Man � To Jtfipb 'Trotter Efquire, for Services performed by him in Germany � To MefF* �Zw.r, John, and David Palairet, for travelling Charges in Germany � � � � � � Total 433 300 389 5 � 822 6 5 2,000 3'5 5H-- 2O7 4 7 529 ; 1,261 16 3 1,286 9 4 547 17 10; 60 32 4 10 139,977 11 6i Towards Dates of Warrants. Barrington. both Days inclufive, being 365 Days, be referred to rhe faid Committee. Ordered, That the Eftimate of the Charge of the Difference of Pay between the Britif and Irif Eftablilh- ment of Two Troops of Light Dragoons and of Six Regiments of Foot, ferving in the Ilie of Man, at Gibraltar, Minorca, and the Ceded Iflands, for 365 Days, from 25th December 1765, to 24th December if66, both inclufive, be referred to the laid Committee. Ordered, That the Lift of the Widows of fuch Reduced Officers, of His Majefty�s Land Forces and Marines, who died on the Eftablifhment of Half Pay, in Great Britain, and who were married to them before the Twenty-fifth of December 1716, with an Eftimate of the Charge thereof for the Year 1766, be referred to the laid Committee. Ordered, That the Eftimate of the Charge of Half Pay, and Allowances, to the Reduced Officers of His Majefty�s Land Forces, and Marines, for the Year 1766, be referred to the faid Committee. Ordered, That the Eftimate of the Charge of Full Pay, for 365 Days, for the Year 1766, to Officers reduced, with the Tenth Company, of feveral Battalions reduced from T en to Nine Companies, and who remained on 1 falf Pay at the Twenty-fourth of December 1765, be referred to the faid Committee. Ordered, That the Eftimate of the Charge of the Out Penfioners of Cbelfea Hofpiral, for the Year 1766, be referred to the laid Committee. Ordered, That the Eftimate of the Charge of the Widows of Officers, who have died on Half Pay, for the Years 1765 and 1766, compared, be referred to the , laid Committee. Ordered, 1 hat the Lift of the Reduced Officers of � His Majefty�s Land Forces and Marines, intitled to : receive Half Pay in Great Britain, with an Eftimate of the Charge thereof for rhe Year j 766, be referred to - the faid Committee. r Ordered, I hat the Eftimate of the Charge of the Of- : fice of Ordnance, for the Year 1766, Land Service, be , referred to the faid Committee. 7 G Ordered, 574 Ordered That the Book, intituled, � Account of the � Truftees of the Britijh Mufeum, to the aid of January � inclufive, 1766,� be referred to the faid Committee. Then the Houfe refolved itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Paterfon took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Kir. Paterjbn reported from the Committee, That they had come to feveral Refolutions; which they hail direded him to report, when the Houfe will pleafe to receive the fame. Ordered, 1 hat the Report be received To-morrow Morning. Mr. Paterfon alfo acquainted the Houfe, that he was directed by the Committee to move, that they may have Leave to fit again. Rfolvcd, That this Houfe will, upon Monday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the Supply granted to His Majefty. The other Orders of the Day being read ; Refolded, That this Houfe will, upon Wednefday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of Ways and Means for raifing the Supply granted to his Majefty. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon'AftWay Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe. to confider further of the feveral Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Conway, upon the 14th, 22d, 27th, 28th, and 3 ill Days of 'January laft, and the 5th and 10th Days of this Inftant February, and by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the 3d and 10th Days of this Inftant February, by His Majefty�s Command. Ordered, That the feveral Perfons, who were ordered to attend the faid Committee this Day, do attend the faid Committee upon Monday Morning next. And then the Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. SMati, 150 die Februarii ; Anno 6� Georgii IIPH Regis, 1766. PRAYERS. A PETITION of feveral Gentlemen, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Road leading from the Town of Biddenden, in the Weald of Kent, to Pluckley Hill, and from thence through Chairing Lown, to Bound Gate, which adjoins to the Turnpike Road from Afhford to Faverfham, in the faid County, is in a ruinous Condition, and in feveral Places narrow and incommodious, and cannot be effectually amended, widened, and kept in good Repair, by the or- dinary Courfe of Law : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for amending and widening the faid Road. 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 Mr. Bejl, Mr. Wbicbcot, Mr. Fairfax, Sir Brooke Brydges, Sir Edward Dering, Mr. Knight, Mr. AHUs, Lord George Sackville, Sir Charles Farnaby, Mr. Cooper, Sir Charles Hardy, Mr. Whitworth, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Blackjhne, Sir William Beauchamp Proftor, Sir John Gibbons, Mr. Fitzberbert, Mr. Paterfon, Mr. Cuke, Mr. John Pitt, Mr. Ltgb, A Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Merchants, Freeholders, Manufacturers, and Tradesmen, of the Town of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford, and Places adjacent, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners being informed, that there is now depending, a Bill for making a Navigable Cut or Canal from the River Trent, at or near Wilden Ferry, in the County of Derby, to or near Lawton and Ajibury, in the County of Cbejier, and to the River Merfey; and that the Petitioners, duly cunfidering the vaft Utility thereof pray that the fame may pafs into a Law ; and that, in order to extend the Navigation aforefaid, for the Benefit of the Land and Trading I'ntereft, the Petitioners apprehend, it is practicable to make a Navigable Canal from or near Bewdley, on the River Severn, through Kidderminjler, in the County of Worcejier, to Autherley, near to Wolverhampton aforefaid, and from thence down the River Penk, to join, at or near Sbutborough in the County of Stafford, the aforefaid Navigable Cut or Canal, intended to be made from Wilden Ferry aforefaid, to the River Merfey aforefaid; and that fuch laft mentioned Canal will open a Communication between the Ports of Brifol, Liverpool, and Hull, and be attended with great Advantage to thofe Parts, and the intermediate Towns, as well as to the Trade and Commerce of the Kingdom: And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for the Purpofes aforefaid, under fuch ReftriCtions, as to the Houle Hull feem meet. A Petition of the Mayor, Juftice?, Aldermen, and Corporation, Merchants, Traders, f^c. of Walfall, in 4 the the County of Stafford, alfo Willenball, in the County aforefaid, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed; and alfo, A Petition of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Tradef- men, of the Town of Stourbridge, in the County of Wor- cefter, and Places adjacent, whole Names arc thereunto lubferibed 4 and alfo, A Petition of the Bailiff, Juftices, Aidermen, Capital Burgefles, Merchants, Gentlemen, Clergy, and Tradefmen, of the Borough of Kidderminfter, in the County of Woraftcr, whole Names are thereunto fub- fcribed; and alfo, A Petition of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Traded men, of the Town of Dudley, in the County of Wor- after, and Places adjacent, whole Names are thereunto fubferibed -, and alfo, A Petition of the Bailiff, Juftices, Aldermen, Capital Burgefles, Merchants, Gentlemen, Clergy, and Tradefmen, of the Borough of Bewdley, in the County of Worcefter, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed ; Were alfo feverally prefented to the.iHoufe, and read; Taking Notice of the laid Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Merchants, Manufacturers, and Tradefmen, of the Town of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford, and Places adjacent, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed: And fetting forth, That the Petitioners apprehend the making and maintaining fuch Navigable Canal, will be of great public Utility : And therefore praying, That the laid Bill, if brought into the Houfe, may pafs into a Law, in luch Manner, and under fuch Reftridtions, as to the Houfe ihall feein meet. And the faid Petitions were feverally ordered to lie upon the Table. A Petition of feveral Gentlemen, Land Owners, Merchants, Tradefmen, Manufacturers, and Inhabitants,- of the Town of Stourbridge, and Parts adjacent, in the feveral Counties of Worcejier, Stafford, and Salop, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the 1 loufe, and read-, alfo taking Notice of the faid Application for a Bill to make a Navigable Cut, or Canal, from the River Severn to /father ley, and other Places; which, the Petitioners allege, is intended to be carried within Three Miles of the laid Town of Stourbridge; and that, by a Survey made, it doth appear that a Canal, or Cut, may be brought from the faid propofed Canal, at or near Stourton, in the County of Stafford, to the Town of Stourbridge aforefaid 5 that the Petitioners apprehend, that the making and maintaining fuch laft- mentioned Canal, or Cut, on a feparate and diftinct Tonnage, will be of great Utility to the Public in general : And therefore praying, That in Cafe fuch Bill Ihall be brought into the Houfe, and the fame (hall pafs into a Law, feparate Commiflioners may be inferred, and fuch Claufes, Powers, and Provifions therein made, as will enable them to make fuch Canal, or Cut, from the faid main Trunk, or Canal, at or near Stourton, to the Town of Stourbridge aforefaid, and fuch Works as may be neceflary for the convenient Ofc thereof, under fuch Regulations, and with fuch Powers and Provifions, as the Houfe Ihall think neceflary and proper. Ordered, That the faid Petition do lie upon the Table. A Petition of the Bailiff, Juftices, Aidermen, Capital Burgefles, Gentlemen, Merchants, Clergy, and Tradefmen, of the Borough of Kidderminfter, in the County of Worceftcr, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed : And alfo, A Petition of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Tradefmen, of the Town of Stourbridge, in the County of Wor- cefter, and Places adjacent, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed: Anil alfo, A Petition of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Tradefmen, of the Town of Dudley, in the County of Wor- 575 cefer, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed: And alfo, A Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Merchants, Freeholders, Manufacturers, and Tradefmen, of the Town of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed : And alfo, A Petition of the Mayor, Juftices, Aidermen, and Corporation, Merchants, Traders, S3c. of Walfall, in the County of Watford, alto Wtllenball, in the County aforefaid, whofe Names are thereunto lubferibed : And alfo, A Petition of the Bailiff, Aidermen, Burgefles, Merchants, and Principal Inhabitants of rhe Borough of Bewdley, in the County of Worcejier, whofe Names arc thereunto fubferibed, W ere feverally prefented to the Houfe, and read �, Setting forth, That the Petitioners being informed, that an Application is intended to be made to the Houfe, for a Bill to make a Navigable C ut, or Canal, from the River Severn, at �fern Bridge, in the County of Salop, co Wilden - Ferry (on the River Tw;G in the County of Derby, and from the laid Cur, at or near Bridge- jord, in Staffordjhire, to the River Weaver, in the County of Cbcjler -, and chat the Petitioners conceive, that the Merchants, Manufacturers, and Trading Towns of Birmingham, Wolverhamp- ton, Waif all, Stourbridge, Kidderminfter, Bewdley, and Dudley, and Places adjacent, in the feveral Counties of Warwick, Stafford, and Worcfter, cannot receive the lead Benefit from the faid intended Navigation, as every Part thereof will be at a greater Diftance from them refpedlively, than the River Severn is, nor can the fame be in any Shape ferviceable to the Cities of Briftol, Gloucef- ter, and Worcejier, or the Trading Towns of Upton and Bradley, and other Trading Towns on the Severn, and the lefs fo, as there are feveral Shallows therein betwixt Bewdley and Tern Bridge aforefaid, which render it iinpoflible for the Veflels and Boats thereon to carry a greater Weight than a Broad-wheeled Team ; and that the Freight thereof is near adequate co Land Carriage; and that the faid Navigable Cut is intended to pafs through a Country remote from any Manufactories, and near to which are very few Mines -, and that, confequently, the fame cannot be, as the Petitioners apprehend, of any Service to Trade in general, or Utility to the Public: And therefore praying, That, if fuch infended Bill fhould be brought into the Houfe, the fame may not pafs into a Law; and that, at the Petitioners are advifed, it may be material and neceflary for them to have the Afliftancc of Counfel in Oppofition to the faid Bill, chat they may be at Liberty to be heard by their Counfel. And the faid Petitions were feverally ordered to be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Gen- tiemen, Merchants, Land Owners, Tradefmen, and Manufacturers, refiding in the County of Cbefter, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, is referred; and thefe feveral Petitioners are to be heard, by their Counfel, before the faid Committee, upon their faid Petitions, if they think fir. Ordered, That it be an InftruClion to the faid Com- mittee, that they do admit Counfel to be heard, at the fame Time, in Favour of the laid former Petition, againft: the Petitions now prefented. A Petition of Sir Charles Townley Knight, Claren- ceux King of Arms, Charles Jennens Efquire, and others. Proprietors of I .ands and Grounds, and Common Right, upon rhe Fields, Meadows, and Commonable Places, ot Ratcliffe Culey, in the County of Leicefter, was pre- fented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth. That there fere are, within the Lord flip of Ratc'iffe Culey afore- Lid, feveral large Open Fields, Meadows, and Parcels of Wafte or Common Ground, Part of which lie at a confiderable Diftance from the Town of Ratcliffe Culey, and are, in their prefent Situation, incapable of Improvement; and that the Petitioners are delirous that rhe fame may be inclofed : Anti therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for the Purpofes aforefaid. Ordered That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, pur- fuant to the Prayer of the laid Petition: And that the Lord Grey, Sir Edward Winuington, Sir John Painter, and Sir 'IUmas Cave, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of the feveral Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholder;, and other., of the IHe of Ely, and County of Cambridge and Norfolk, Truftees under an Act made in the Fifth Year of His prelent Majefty, tor amending the Read from Chatteris Ferry, through Chattel is and March, to Wiffecb St. Peters, and from thence to Fid Cate, in the Ide of Ely, and from Wijlecb aforefaid, through Cui-well, to Downbr.m Bridge, in the County of Norfolk-, and for repealing the feveral Afts for repairing'the laid Road through Wijlecb and March-, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed ; was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, Fhat the faid Road is, I 7 the laid A it, directed to be carried ri air. Out zcell Bridge, cn the North Bank of Well Creek, and on the North Side or the New Powdike, to the Weft End al: Nr/b Delpb (writer, and from thence to Downham bridge, in the County of Norfolk ; and that it is apprehended, that it will be more advantageous to the laid Roads, that the fame fliould be earned from Out well bridge, on the South Side of Well Creek, to the End of Popham's Paa, and then, by a Bridge over the faid Creek, to North Detpb Corner, and io to Downbam Fridge ; and that the feveral Ccmpofitions direfted by the faid Act to be taken of the Inhabitants of MJleib St. Peter's, Lcvcrington, Newton, did Saint Giles, Elm, and Einncth, travelling upon the laid Road, will rend to defeat the Intent of the laid Aft, by diminifhing the Toils of the Lid Road ; and that the Land Owners on the South Side of the Banks running from Wijlecb Eridge toStamlyn's Gull, and from thence to a Houft, or the Scire of a 1 loufe, called Fewer I Pule, before the Palling of the faid Aft, maintained the laid Banks a: their own Charges -, and that the repairing and maintaining of the faid Banks will be attended with vt-ry large Expence, and is by the faid Act directed to be done by rhe Truftees of the faid Road, at their own Coft; and that it is now apprehended, that rhe laid Land Owners ought to contribute towards the fame : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for making fuch Amendments in the laid Aft, as to the Houle fliould feeni meet; and that Leave may he given for proper Chutes to be added in the faid Bill, tor extending the laid Road from Downbr.m Bridge, in Norfolk, to Stoke Bridge and Pin ham Bottom, in the faid County; as the fame cannot be repaired by the Laws in being. C- �ered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confederation of a Committee : And that they do examine the Matter thereof; and report the fame, as it ihail appear to them, to the 1 loufe : And it is referred to Sir John Uyndc Cotten, Mr. Wbit~ werth, Mr. Wbichcot, Mr. Pye, Mr. Legb, General Grumee, Lord Purgbcrfh, Mr. Rolinfcn, Nir. Powlet, Mr. Fxjne!!, Colonel Berre, Mr. Morton, Sir Francis Fm- cent, Mr. Fownfuend, Mr. Eidler, Mr. Fitzroy, Lord Pcdmerficn, fir Edmund Ikomas, Mr. Huw, Mr. Aler- eiomlE\ Sir James Lowther, Mr. Burton, Mr. Kyrnfiou, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Cooke, Mr. Holt, Mr. divert, Mr. Xorke, Sir James Dafbwood, Mr. Lownjhcnd, Sir John GiHcns, Mr boncreau, Mr. Willoughby, Mr. Harris, Mr. Burrell, Sir "John (Aynne-, and all the Members who ferve lor the Counties of Cambridge, Huntingdon, Suffolk, Nr* Wk, Lincoln, and Northampton : And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber ; and have Power to fend for Perfons, Papers, and Records. A Petition of Sir Armine Weddcufi Baronet, in Behalf of himfeif and others, Proprietors of Lind, and otherwile interefted, in the Open and Common Fields, and other Commonable Lands and Grounds, in the Parishes of KimErley and Carleton Forebec, in the County ok Norfolk, was prefented totheHoufe, anil read; Setting forth, Thar the Lands of the Petitioner, and others, in the laid Fields, Lands, and Grounds, be intermixed and difperfed, and, in their prelent Situation, are incapable of Improvement: 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 ns to the Houle fliall feem meet. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, pur- fuant to the Prayer of the Lid Petition : And that Mr. De Grey and Sir J ok n Hynde Cotton do prepare, and brino* in, the fame. A Petition of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, was prefented to the I loule, and read ; Setting forth, That, purfuant to the Powers of an Act of Parliament, pafied in the Fourth Year of Eis prefent Majefty, to enable the Petitioners to purchafe Houles and Ground for opening a Paflage from CorubiH to the Bank, and other Purpofes, the Petitioners have pur- chared the neceffary i loufes and Ground, and have laid out the new intended Street, and made a confiderable Progrefs in erefting Buildings on each Side thereof; and that, by an Aft made in the Thirty-third Year of King George the Second, for widening certain Streets, Lanes, and Paffagcs, within the City of London, and Liberties thereof, and for opening certain Streets and Ways within the fame, and for other Purpoles therein mentioned, the Mayor, Aidermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council aflembled, were impowered to treat and agree with the Owners and Occupiers of, and all other Perfons interefted in, the Houfe at the W eft End of the Building, fituate between Cornhill and Fbreadneedle Street, and alfo the 1 loufes on the South Side of 'Threadneedle Street, extending from the Houfe before-mentioned Eaftward, till it reaches to that Part of the Street which is oppofite to the Bank Gates, and to pull down the Lid firft-mentioned Houfe, and lay the Ground into the faid Street, and to pull down the laid other Houfes, and to enlarge the Palfagc there to 1 hirty-five Feer in Width ; and that, by another Aft, made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His prelent Majefty, for veiling certain Glebe Lands, belonging co the Reftory of the Parilh of Saint Cbrijlopber, in the City of L ondon, in the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, fur making aRccompence to the Reftor of the Lid Parilh, and his Succeflbrs, in lieu thereof; and for obviating certain Doubts in an Aft, pafled in the Thirty-third of his late Majefty, for widening certain Streets, Lanes, and Paflages, within the City of London, after reciting the laid Aft of the Thirty- third Year of the Reign of His late Majefty, and that the Lid Petitioners had agreed with the faid Mayor, Aidermen, and Commons, to take upon themfelves the Expence of carry ing the Lid recited Aft into Execution, fo far as relates to the Premifes therein and herein before-mentioned, and to advance the Purchafe Money directed by the laid recited Aft, together with the re- ceflary Fxpences of carrying the fame into Execution in that Behalf; and, in Confideration thereof, the Lid Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the laid City, in Common Council aflembled, had agreed, that all the faid feveral Houles Ihould be conveyed to the Petitioner;, for the Purpofes therein recited ; it was enafted, that the Lid feveral Houfes, quite through to Ccrnkill, were 577 ton, Mr. Gray, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Lord Tavi/locki Mr. Grey, Lord Warkworth, Mr. Sargent, Mr. Palerfon, Colonel Graine, Mr. Glover, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Harri st Mr. Town feed, Mr. Staunton, Mr. Fitzroy, Mr. Touchet, Mr. Howard, Lord George Cavendijh, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Prefcot', and all rhe Members who ferve for the City of London, and the Counties of Middlefex, Kent, Hertford, EJ/ex, 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 Perlons, Papers, and Records. A Petition of the feveral Juftices of the Peace, Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and others, of the County of Wilts, whole Names are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That, by an Aft, palled in the 31ft Year of his late Majefty�s Reign, for amending the Road, leading from Pengate, in the Parifh of IPeJibury, in the County of Wilts, to Latcbet's Bridge, near the Eaft End of Market Laving- ton, and other Roads therein mentioned, which were divided into two Diftrifts, by the Diftinftions of the Firft and Second Diftrift of Roads; it is provided, that out of the Firft Monies which (hall arife by or on account of the Tolls within each refpeftive Diftrift, or out of the Monies which (hall be borrowed on the Credit thereof, the Truftees Ihall pay all reafonable Expences attending the procuring the faid Aft, one Moiety whereof is therein direfted to be paid by the Truftees of the Firft Diftrift, and the other Moiety by the Truftees of the Second Diftrift, of the faid Roads; and that fome of the Petitioners are appointed Truftees for executing the laid Aft, in the Second as well as the Firft Diftrift, and did advance feveral Sums of Money towards obtaining and pairing of the faid Aft, and have attended feveral Meetings held for fuch Second Diftrift, and pro- pofed the erefting of Turnpikes, and repairing the faid Roads within fuch laft-mentioned Diftrift, and for dif- charging the Moiety of the Expences of pafling the faid Aft, fo far as relate to fuch Second Diftrift of Roads, according to the Directions of the faid Aft, and the Sum of 20004. has been offered the Truftees, ar fome or one of their Meetings, to be lent on the Credit of fuch Tolls as may be collefted within that Diftrift, for the feveral Purpofes aforefaid ; but that the good Ends and Defigns of carrying the faid Aft into Execution, within and for fuch Second Diftrift, have been hitherto frustrated and over-ruled by a Majority of the Truftees afting in and for fuch Second Diftrift, as well for the erefting of Turnpikes and proceeding in the Repair of thofe Roads (which are now in as bad and ruinous Condition as before the making of the faid Aft) as for discharging the Moiety of the Expences of pafling the faid Aft, whereby fome of the Petitioners are great Sufferers, by being kept out of their feveral Subscriptions, and are (till deprived of both Principal and Intereft of the fame; and the Country are alfo bereaved of the great Benefits that would refult from the due Execution of the faid Aft within fuch Second Diftrift, and repairing the feveral Roads therein-, and that the Truftees, afting for the fame, have ufually met in the Month of May or June, annually, and only adjourned from Year to Year, without proceeding or intending to proceed to any further Bufinefs; and that fome or one of the Truftees was fo frank as to declare, at one of fuch Meetings, that they were determined not to put the laid Aft into Execution; upon which the Petitioners humbly conceive, that fuch Proceedings are partial, arbitrary, and illegal, if not a Contempt of the Authority of the Legiflature: And therefore praying the Houfe to take the Premifes into Confideration, and to give fuch Relief 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: 7 H And And it is referred to Mr. Blackfione, Mr. Gilbert, "Mr.�Touchet, Mr. Legb, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Sandys, Lord Palmcrfion, Mr. Gray, Lord Burgberjh, Mr. Cooke, Mr. Aiderman Beckford, Mr. Hume, Sir Alexander Gilmour, Mr Whitworth, Sir Edmund Thomas, Mr. Pye, Mr. Fitzherbert, Sir Francis Pincent, Mr. Onflow, Mr. Molef- worth, Mr. Buller, Mr. Paterfon, Sir Fletcher Horton, Mr. Reb inf on, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Staunton, Mr. Fitzroy, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Sbifner, Mr. Kynafion, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Sir James Dajhwood, Mr. Morton, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Wedderburn, Sir James Lowther-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Wilts, Somerfet, Gloucester, and Berks: 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 Legb Mafier, Efquire, on Behalf of himfelf and Catherine his Wife, and Legb Hojkins Maftcr and Catherine Mafier, their Infant. Children, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioner, by Virtue of his Father�s Marriage Settlement, bearing Date the i 3 th and 14th Days of April, 1716, and of two Common Recoveries, fuf- fered in Trinity Term, in the 13th Year of his late Majefty�s Reign; and of a Settlement, bearing Date the 29th and 30th Days of June, 1739 ; and of another Settlement, bearing Date the 4th Day of Augufi, *753�> �s fcifcd or poflefled of 12 Mefluages, in the Strand, in the Parilh of Saint Clement Danes, and of the Manor of Stanley Grange, with divers Mefluages, Lands, and Hereditaments, in the Parifhes of Stanley and Dale Abbey; and alfo of the Manor and Caftle of Codnor, and Codnor Park; and of divers Lands and Hereditaments in. Codnor, Henor, Lofecoe, Langley, and Milnhay, in the County of Derby, fubjeft to an Annuity of �.300 to Ann Mafier, Relift of Legb Mafier, Efquire, the Petitioner�s Father, for her Life; and to another Annuity of �. 100 to the foie and feparate Ufe of the faid Catherine, the Petitioner�s Wife, and fubjeft to a Mortgage for �.4000 to Judith Hopkins, Spinfter ; upon certain Trufts in the faid Petition mentioned, to the Ufe of himfelf for Life, Remainder to the Ufe of Catherine his Wife, for her Life, Remainder to the Firft and every other Son in Tail Male, fubjeft to a Term for raifing certain Portions for the younger Children of the Petitioner, Remainder to Robert Mafier, Brother of the Petitioner, Remainder to the right Heirs of Legb Mafier, Efquire, the Petitioner�s late Father, de- ceafcd, with a Power for the Petitioner to charge the faid Middlefex Eftates with any Sum not exceeding �.2000; that the Petitioner, and Catherine his Wife, have Ifiue the faid Legb Hojkins Mafier, and One Daughter, named Catherine, of the Age of Four Years or thereabouts, and no other Children; that the faid Eftate in the County of Middlefex, confifting of Houfes, which have been long erefted, are very expenfive in fup- porting and keeping the fame in Repair, and will become daily more fo ; and the faid Eftates in the County of Derby lay detached from each other, and not having any Houfes thereupon fit and proper for the Habitation of the Petitioner and his Family, the Petitioner is under Neceflity of leaving the Management thereof to Agents, which is not only very expenfive, but any Improvement is rendered very difficult and uncertain, if not impracticable �, and the Petitioner has great Reafon to believe, that the faid Eftates, efpecially thofe in the County of Derby, might now be fold and difpoftd of at a very advantageous Price; and that, in cafe the whole of the faid Eftates, in the faid Counties of Middlefex and Derby, were fold, and out of the Money, arifing thereby, the feveral Sums of �.4000 and �. 2000 wherewith the fame (land liable refpeftively, were paid off and difeharged, and the Relid tie of the Money, to arife by fuch Sale, laid out in the Purchafe ot one compact Eftate, or Two or more Eftates lying contiguous to each other, in Great Britain or Ireland, to be fettled to the fame Ufes, and upon the fame Trufts, to which the faid Eftates propofed to be fold now ftand fettled, a better and more certain Income would not only be produced therefrom, but the fame would be otherwife for the Advantage of the Petitioner, his Family, and all Perfons claiming any Benefit or Intereft in or under the faid Settlements: Therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for verting the faid Eftates in Truftees, to be fold, for the Purpofcs aforefaid. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, pur- fuant to the Prayer of the laid Petition : And that Mr. Legb and Mr. Wbicbcot do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of the Minifters, Churchwardens, and Over- feers of the Poor, and other Principal Inhabitants, of the Parifhes of Saint Andrew Holbourn, above the Bars, and Saint George the Martyr, in the County of Middlefex, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ?, Setting forth, That the Petitioners apprehend it would tend greatly to the Advantage, Safety, and Convenience of the Inhabitants of the faid Parilh of Saint George the Martyr, and Part of Saint Andrew Holbourn aforefaid, if fufficienc Powers were given to eftablilh and regulate a nightly Watch, and Beadles, as alfo to cleanfe, and enlighten the Streets, Lanes, Ways, Paflages, and Places within the fame, and to provide a more fukable and competent Maintenance and Support for the Poor thereof; and that it would greatly facilitate the Execution of the Purpofcs abovementioned, and likewife be for the Eale of the faid Inhabitants, if the Rates and Afleflments necefiary for defraying the Charges thereof, were con- folidatcd into One joint and general Fund, and to be collected together: And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for the Purpofcs above- mentioned, with fuch Powers and Provifions, and under fuch Regulations, as the Houfe fhall think proper. 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 fhall appear to them, to the Houfe : And it is referred to Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Wbicbcot, Mr. Pye, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Fitzherbert, Mr. Tufnell, Sir Francis Pincent, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Buller, Mr. Molefwortb, Mr. Gray, Sir Alexander Gilmour, Lord Brownlow Bertie, Mr. Aiderman Beckford, Mr. Hume, Mr. Harris, Mr. Abercrombie, Sir Richard Bampfylde, Sir John Glynne, Colonel Fitzroy, Lord Grey, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Harley, Mr. Cooke, Mr. Townjhend, Colonel Barre, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Ward, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Morton, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Paulet, Mr. Paterfon, Sir Lynch Cotton; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Middlefex, Surrey, Eflex, Suflex, and Kent ; and for the Cinque Ports: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber �, and have Power to fend for Perfons, Papers, and Records. A Petition of the Commiffioners for putting in Execution the fcveral Afts of Parliament for paving, cleanf- ing, and lighting, the Squares, Streets, and Lanes within the City and Liberty of Wefiminfier and other Places therein mentioned, and for the other Purpofcs in the faid Afts mentioned, was prefented to the Houfc, and read �, Setting forth, That the Petitioners have continued to put the faid Afts in Execution, in doing which they perceive that fome further Powers and Regulations are neceflary, effectually to anfwer the Purpofcs of the faid Afts ; and that it would be of great Eafc and Safety to the Petitioners, and tend to facilitate the Execution of the Powers of the faid Afts, if rhe fame were to be confolidatcd, or reduced inro One Aft, and altered in fuch Places as may be found neceflary : And And therefore praying. That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for the Purpoles abovementioned, 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. Whitworth., Mr. Morton, Mr. Cooke, Mr. Paterfon, Mr. Pitt, Sir William Beauchamp Proffer, Mr. Fitzberbert, Mr. Tufnell, Mr. Molefworth, Mr. Town/hend, Colonel Barri, Sir James Lowther, Sir Richard Bampfyldc, Mr. Anfon, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Robinfon, General Grame, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Parle, Lord Burgherfh, Mr. Alderman Beckford, Colonel Fitzroy, Lord Grey, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Fuller, Sir Alexander Gilmour, Mr. Whichcot, Lord Tavifock, Mr. Worfey, Mr. Egerton, Mr. Paulet, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Fonereau, Sir John Gibbons, Mr. Touchet, Lord Strange-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Middlefcx, Hertford, Effex, Kent, Surrey, 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 Perlons, Papers, and Records ; and all who come are to have Voices. A Petition of the Commiflioners for putting in Execution the feveral Ads of Parliament, for paving, cleanfing, and lighting, the Squares, Streets, and Lanes, within the City and Liberty of Wefminfer, and for the other Purpofes in the faid Ads mentioned, was prefented to the Houle, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners have continued to put the faid Ads in Execution with great Diligence, and have made great Progrefs in the Works thereby direded to be done, which, they prefume, has been produdive of a very confiderable Convenience; and that the Petitioners humbly reprefent, that the granting a Power to the Petitioners to colled further or other Tolls, on the Roads communicating with the feveral Streets and other Places direded by the faid Ads to be paved, cleanfed, and lighted, would be a Means more effectually to facilitate the Execution of the faid Ads : And therefore praying the Houfe to take the Premifes into Confider- ation, and to grant the Petitioners fuch Afliftance therein as to the Houfe Ihall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition do lie upon the Table. A Petition of the Right Honourable Lord Killmorey, Sir Richard Lyttelton Knight of the Bath, and Sir Thomas Robinfon Baronet, and others, whole Names are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That it would be of great public Advantage, if Power was given to light and watch the Roads from Hyde Park Corner, and from Buckingham Gate, to Chelfea Church, and certain other Roads and Places within the Parilh of Chelfea, and to water the fame when neceffary : And therefore praying, That Provifion may be made for thole Purpofes, in fuch Manner as the Houfe Ihall think proper. port, their Lordftiips were pleafed, by their Warrant, to dired Five hundred Acres, Part of the faid Sand, called Cherry Cobb, lying contiguous to the Petitioners faid Eftate, to be granted to them, for a Term of Thirty-one Years, without Fine, for the Benefit of the faid Charity, but fubjed to the Rent of Sixty-fix Pounds, Thirteen Shillings, and Four Pence, per Annum ; and to a Covenant to try the Crown�s Right, at the Expence of the Petitioners, with the Aid of the Exchequer ; and the Remainder was ordered to be granted to the faid Mr. Poole, fubjed to a Rent of One hundred and Forty-fix Pounds per Annum, on the like Conditions, which Grant he afterwards declined; and that, afterwards, and before a Grant of the faid Five hundred Acres was made to the Petitioners, they, with the Leave of their Lordfbips, caufed an Information to be filed, in the Name of His Majefty�s Attorney General, in the Court of Exchequer, againft the faid William Conf able, for the recovering the Poffeflion of the fame; to which Information, the faid Defendant having appeared, and pleaded Not Guilty; the Information came on to be tried, by a Special Jury, at the Summer Affixes, holden at Fork, in One thoufand Seven hundred and Sixty- three ; the Jury found a Verdid for the Defendant William Conf able-, and that the Petitioners, being diffatisfied with fuch Verdift, prefented another Memorial to the then Lords Commiflioners of the Treafury, praying their Lordfbips to order a new Information to be brought, in the Name of the Attorney General, for the Recovery of the Poffeflion of the whole Sand, to be tried at the Bar of the court of Exchequer, at the Expence of the * Crown, upon which the then Lords of the Treafury were pleafed, by their Order of the Tenth Day of December, One thoufand Seven hundred and Sixty-three, to fignify their Difapprobation of trying the Right at the Expence of the Grown ; but if the Petitioners were inclined to profecute their Claim, their Lordfbips would order a new Information of Intrufion to be brought, and tried at the Expence of the Petitioners; and if the De- cifion fhould be in favour of the Crown, that they would grant the whole Sand to the Petitioners, for the Benefit of the faid Charity, fubjeft to the fame Quit- rents and Conditions, and for rhe fame Term, as were direded to be inferred in the intended Grants to rhe Petitioners, and Mr. Poole ; and that the then Attorney General, in Purfuancc of Rich Order, and at the Expence of the Petitioners, and with the Permiflion of the then Lords of the Treafury, in or about Hilary Term, One thoufand Seven hundred and Sixty-four, filed fuch Information, to which the faid William Conf able appeared and pleaded the General Iflue, Not Guilty; but, in order to prevent further Litigation, made the following Propofal to the Petitioners, viz. That all further Proceedings on the laft Information fhould be ftayed ; and that the faid Defendant William Confable would, with all convenient Speed, grant and convey to the Petitioners, and their Succeffors, for ever, for the Benefit of the faid Charity, Four hundred Acres, Parcel of the faid Sand, called Cherry Cobb Sand, lying at the South Eaft End thereof, and neareft to a certain Place, called Sunk IJland, to be fet out, with Stakes and Bounds, by two indifferent Perfons, One to be named by the Petitioners, and the other by the faid William Conjlable; and all his Eftate, Right, and Intereft therein, to be holden of him, as of his Manor of Little Humber, at the yearly Rent of Three Shillings and Four Pence for ever, and free from all other Incumbrances, in Confideration that his faid Seigniory of Hol- dernefs fhould be preferved to him, and that the Refi- due of the faid Sand fhould be ratified and confirmed to him, and his Heirs ; and that he would confent to an Aft of Parliament to carry the faid Propofal effeftually into Execution; and that the Petitioners being only Truftees for the faid Charity, and as the Iflue of the faid Information might be doubtful and precarious, and if it fhould prove unfucefsful, the Coils thereby incurred would be a very great L.ofs to the faid Charity', the Petitioners, from thefe Confiderations, did on their Part moft readily accept the faid Propofal; and therefore laid the fame before the Lords Commifiloners of His Majefty�s Treafury, praying their Approbation thereof, and Intercefiion with His Majefty, in order to carry the faid Propofal effeftually into Execution ; and that their Lordfhips have been pleafed to approve of fuch Propofal, and to intercede with His Majefty for His Confent thereto, notwithftand- ing which, and although it is apparently for the great Benefit of the faid Charity, yet the fame cannot be effeftually carried into Execution, fo as to bar fuch Right as the Crown may have in the faid Sand, without the Aid of Parliament: And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a bill to confirm and eftablifti the faid Propofal, and effeftually to carry the fame into Execution, in fuch Manner as to the Houfe ftiall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of a Committee of the whole Houle. Refolded, That this Houfe will, upon Tuejday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houle, to confider of the faid Petition. A Petition of feveral Gentlemen, Traders, and Manu- fafturers, refiding in the Town of Newcafle under Line, in the County of Stafford, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Petitioners obferve, by the Votes, that Leave is given to bring in a Bill for making a navigable Cut, or Canal, from the River Trent, at or near Wilden, in the County of Derby, to the River Merfey; and that the faid Cut, or Canal, will pals within Three Miles of the faid Town, and, by a Survey taken, it appears that a Branch may be brought from thence to the faid Town, which would be greatly beneficial to the faid Town, where a confiderable Ma- nufafture is eftablilhed, as well as to the adjacent Country : And therefore praying, That Provifion may be made in the faid Bill, for bringing the faid Cut, or Branch, to the Town of Hewcajlle, in fuch Manner, and under fuch Regulations, as the Houfe Ihall think proper. O.dered, '1'hat the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Inhabitants of the City of Lit elf eld, is referred: And that they do examine rhe Matter of this Petition ; and report the fame, as it Ihall appear to them, to the Houfe. A Petition of feveral of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, Principal Inhabitants, and Manufafturers of the Counties of Stafford and Cbejicr, and of the Towns of Newcajlle under Line and Namptwich, in the faid Counties, whofe Names are thereunto lubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Road leading from the Flood Gates, upon a certain Place called Tbe Mill Dam, in or near the faid Town of Newcajlle, through Keel, and over Madely Heath, to the Turnpike Road leading from Woor, to Cbejter, near the faid Town of jVawpfw/cZ�, is in moft Parts thereof fo ruinous and deep, that Carriages, or Perfons on Horfe- back, cannot pafs without great Danger; and that there are many deep hollow Ways, in the faid Road, which are very narrow and incommodious, fo that the faid Road cannot, by the ordinary Courfe of Law, be effeftually amended and repaired : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for the more effectual repairing and amending the faid 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 ftiall appear to them, to the Houfe: And it is referred to Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Tufnell, Mr. Pye, Colonel Barre, Mr. Fitzroy, Mr. Whitworth, Lord Brownlow'Bertie, Mr. Wkichcot, Mr. Sandys, Sir James Lowther, Mr. Robinfon, Sir Richard Bampfyldc, Mr. Buller, Mr. Molefworth, General Grame, Sir Alexander Gilmour, Mr. Fitzherbert, Lord Palmeijlon, Mr. Pater- fon, Mr. Morton, Mr. Harris, Mr. Rigly, L.ord Wark- worth, Mr. Touchet, Sir Edward Bayntun, Lord Garlies, Mr. Staunton, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Hume, Mr. Wood, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Egerton, Mr. Shifncr, Lord Grey, Sir James Lowther, Sir John Gibbons; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Stafford, Chejler, Lancafttr, Warwick, Fork, and Salop ; 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 feveral Perfons, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, living in and near Batterfea, in the County of Surrey, and Chelfea, in the County of Mid- dlefex, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the prefent Ferry between the faid Places, is very inconvenient and dangerous, and the erefting a Bridge, at or near the faid Ferry�, will be of great Benefit and Advantage to the Petitioners, and others, open a more commodious Communication between the laid Counties, and be of public Utility : And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for the building a Bridge, at or near the faid Ferry, by fuch Ways and Means, and under fuch Regulations, as co 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 ftiall appear to them, to the Houfe : And it is referred to Sir Francis Pincent, Mr. Cooke, Mr. John Pitt, Mr. Patcrfon, Mr. Touchet, Sir John Gibbons, Mr. Morton, Mr. Gilbert, General Gr^mc, Lord Paimerjlon, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Harris, Mr. Whichcot, Mr. Gray, Lord Grey, Mr. Thore ton, Mr. Townjbend, Sir William Beauchamp Pro flor, Mr. Molefworth, Mr. Buller, Sir Richard Bampfylde, Mr. Earle, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Gaf- coyne, Sir George Armytage, Mr. Hewett, Sir James Lowther, Mr. Fitzherbert, Mr. Fitzroy, Mr. Legh, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Kynajlon, Sir Lynch Cotton, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Fow- reatt, Mr. Mackwortb; and all the Members who ferve for for the Counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Suf ex, Kent, and Southampton-, and for the City oil.on don: 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 Right honourable John Earl Spencer, ^as alfo prefented to the Houfe, and read-. Setting forth, That the Petitioner is the Owner and Proprietor of the faid Ferry, between Ba'terfea and Chelfea, and is willing and defirous, at his own Expence, to build a Bridge at or near the faid Ferry, upon having fuch a reafonable Toll granted him as to the Houfe ihall feem meet'. And therefore praying. That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for building a Bridge at or near the faid Ferry, in fuch Manner, and under fuch Regulations, as to the Houfe Ihall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Con- fideration of the Commitee to whom the laft preceding Petition is referred. A Petition of feveral of the Truftees appointed to put in Execution an Aft, palled in the 16th Year of his late Majefty�s Reign, intituled, An Ad for repairing the Road from Bowes, in the County of Fork, to Brough under Stainmcre, in the County of Wejlmoreland, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners, in purfuance of the Power vefted in them by the faid Ad, proceeded to repair the faid Road, in order to which, they were obliged to borrow a confiderable Sum of Money upon the Credit of the Tolls, a Part of which Hill remains unpaid �, and that the faid Road cannot be rendered commodious, and kept in effectual Repair, without a further Enlargement of the Terms and Powers of the faid Ad; and that the Road leading from the faid Turnpike Road, nearTlv Grained Free, or Maiden Cajlle, through Kaier, to KaberCrofs, to join the prefent Turn- pike Road, leading from Highgate, near Tebay, through Kirby Stephen, to Brough; and alfo the Road from a Place ar or near Fbe Grained Free, or Maiden Cajlle, aforefaid, in rhe faid Stainmore Turnpike Road, to the Coal Works at Faylor Rigg, in the County of Wejlmoreland. and Tanbill, and Kings Pitt, in the County of Fork, are in a very ruinous Condition, and fome Parts thereof too narrow, and totally impaflable for Carriages -, and that the fame cannot be repaired by the ordinary Courfe of Law: And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill to enlarge the Terms and Powers granted by the faid Ad �, and that Provifion may be made in the faid Bill for repairing, widening, and amending, the faid Roads. 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 fames Lowther, Mr. Fufnell, Colonel Fitzroy, Mr. Morton, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. John Pitt, Sir Francis Vincent, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Pye, Sir George Savile, Mr. Middleton, Mr. Fhoroton, Mr. Staunton,'^. Gray, Mr. Fitzherbert, Mr. Alderman Harley, Mr. Watte hope, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Robinfon, Mr. Mackenzie, Sir John Gibbons, Lord Warkwortb, Sir Fletcher Norton, Lord Mountfsewart, General Gr^me, Mr. Wcdderburn, Mr. Wcrfiey, Lord Grey ^ and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Wejl- mcreland, Cumberland, Northumberland, Durham, Fork, 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 Petition cf Charles Fitzroy Efquire, was prefented to the I loufe, and read ; Setting forth, That at prefent there is only One Market for the Sale of Live Cattle, for the Supply of this Metropolis, which is held in Smithfield, upon Monden, and Friday, in cverv Week ; VOL. XXX, Houfe, and read �, Setting forth, That the High Road leading from the Market Croft, in the Town of Wareham, through the Weft Street of the faid Town, and through the feveral Pariffies, Hamlets, Tythings, Towns, and Villages, of Lady Saint Mary, Worgret, Stake, Woolbridge, Coombe Kaines, Moreton, Knighton, Wit combe, Le- well, Stafford, Come, and Fording ton, to the Eaft End of the Town or Village of Frodington, and Part of the High Road leading from the Bridge, over the River Frame, called Holme Bridge, in Length One Mile, beginning at the faid Bridge, and leading towards Laf Lulworth, in the County of Dorfet, and alfo the High Road leading from the faid Market Crofs in Wareham, through the North Street of the faid Town, and over a Bridge called Sandford Bridge, and through the feveral Parifhes, Hamlets, Tythings, Towns, and Villages, of St. Martin and Litchet Minjier, otherwife South Litchet, and over a Heath called Holton Heath, to a Gate, or Gateway, in the Road leading from the faid Heath, to a Bridge, called King's Bridge, and from the Turnpike Road between the faid Bridge and Poole Gate, over Part of Poole Heath, to the Turnpike Road leading from Poole Gate aforefaid, to Longham, and from Sandford Bridge aforefaid, through Morden, Wintcrborne, Ze/fon, Spetiffury, Charleton, and Blandford St. Maty, to Blandford Bridge, in the faid County of Dorfet, and alfo the High Road leading from the faid Market Crofs, in Wareham, through the South Street of the faid Town, and through the feveral Parifhes, Hamlets, Tythings, Towns, and Villages, of the Holy trinity, Stove-borough, and Corfe Cafle, through a Lane called Lynch Lane, and the Common Fields belonging to the Manor of Kingjlon, and through the feveral Parifhes, Hamlets, Tythings, Towns, and Villages, of Kingjlon, Langton-Maltravers, Worth, and Swanwich, to the Eaft End of the Town or Village of Swanwich, and from the faid High Road, between Lynch Lane aforefaid, and the Town or Village of Langton Maltravers, through the Common Fields belonging to the faid Manor of Kingjlon, to the Gate on the Eaft Side of a Farm cailed Eaji Orchard Farm, and from the High Road pacing through Stowborough aforefaid, to the Gate near to a Black Smith�s Shop, in the Occupation of John Coajlfield Savage, in the Road leading to Grange, in the Parilh of Steeple, in the faid County of Dorfct �, are in a ruinous Condition, and inconvenient for Wheel Carriages, and in many Places too narrow, and cannot be repaired by the Ordinary Courfe of Law: And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for repairing, amending, and widening, the faid Roads, in fuch Manner as to the Houfe (hall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Con- fideration of a Committee : And that they do examine the Matter thereof; and report the fame, as it (hall appear to them, to the Houfe: And it is referred to Mr. John Pitt, Lord Grey, Lord Burgberjh, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Cooke, Mr. Robinfon, Mr. Cooper, Colonel Fitzroy, Mr. 'Tufnell, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Aiderman Beckford, General Burgoyne, Mr. Aiderman Harley, Sir John Gibbons, Mr. Touchet, Mr. Bagot, Sir Alexander Gilmour, Mr. Paterfon, Sir Edward Bayn- tun, Mr. Staunton, Sir Richard Warwick Bampfylde, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Gray, Sir John Turner, Sir John Griffin, Mr. Cafwall, Lord Villiers, Lord Dcwne, Mr. Luttrell, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Burton, Mr.Clayton, Mr. Onflow, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Jennings, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Calvert �, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Dorfet, Wilts, Somerfet, Devon, Cornwall, and Southampton: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber �, and have Power to fend for Perfons, Papers, and Records. Ordered, That Mr. Richard Ofwald do, upon Monday Morning next, attend the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it is referred to confider further of the feveral Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Comvay, upon the 14th, aad, 27th, 28th, and 31ft Days ^January laft, and the 5th and lothDays of this Inftant February, and by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, upon the 3d and 10th Days of this Inftant February, by His Majefty�s Command. Refolved, That an humble Addrefs be prefented to His Majefty, that He will be gracioufly pleafed to give Directions, that there be laid before this Houfe, Copies of all Letters, Orders, Reprefentations, Memorials, and Papers, relating to the Appointment of Courts of Vice Admiralty in America, together with all Proceedings which have been had thereupon, fince the Conclufion of the late War, except fuch as have been already laid before this Houfe. Ordered, That the faid Addrefs be prefented to His Majefty by fuch Members of this Houfe as are of His Majefty�s moft honourable Privy Council. Mr. Paterfon, according to Order, reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it was referred to confider further of the Supply granted to His Majefty, the Refolutions which the Committee had direded 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 rhe Opinion of this Committee, That a Number of Land Forces, including Two thou- fand Five hundred and Thirteen Invalids, amounting to Seventeen thoufand Three hundred and Six effective Men, Commiffion and Non-commiffion Officers included, be employed for the Year One thoufand Seven hundred and Sixty-fix. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Sum, not exceeding Six hundred and Five thoufand Six hundred and Eight Pounds Nineteen Shillings and Nine-pence, be granted to His Majefty, for defraying the Charge of Seventeen thoufand Three hundred and Six effective Men, for Guards, Garifbns, and otherHis Majefty�s Land Forces, in Great Britain, Guernfey, and Jcrfey, for the Year One thoufand Seven hundred and Sixty-fix. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Sum, not exceeding Eleven thoufand Two hundred Ninety-one Pounds Eight Shillings and Six Pence Half-peny, be granted to His Majefty, for the Pay of the General and General Staff Officers, in Great Britain, for the Year One thoufand Seven hundred and Sixty-fix. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Sum, not exceeding Three hundred Ninety-two thoufand One hundred Eight-three Pounds Six Shillings and Five Pence Half-peny, be granted to His Majefty, for maintaining His Majefty�s Forces and Garifons in the Plantations and Africa, including thofe in Garifon at Minorca and Gibraltar, and for Provifions for the Forces in North America, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Gibraltar, the Ceded Jfands, and Africa, for the Year One thoufand Seven hundred and Sixty-fix. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Sum, not exceeding Two thoufand Three hundred Twenty-one Pounds Fourteen Shillings and Ten Pence, and One-eighth of a Peny, be granted to His Majefty (out of the Monies, or Savings, remaining of the Grant in the laft Seffion of Parliament, for defraying the Charge of Three Independent Companies of Foot, to be raifed for His Majefty�s Service, on the Coaft of Africa, and for Provifions for the fame, for the Year One thou- land Seven hundred and Sixty-five) towards maintaining His Majefty�s Forces and Garifons in the Plantations and Africa, including thofe in Garifon at Minorca and Gibraltar, and for Provifions for the Forces in North America, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Gibraltar,' rhe Ceded JJlands, and Africa, for rhe Year One thoufand Seven hundred and Sixty-fix. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Sum, not exceeding Seven thoufand Nine hundred Ninety-three Pounds Eleven Shillings and Four Pence, be granted to His Majefty, for defraying the Charge 583 y�ur ^H^^i^ee having called before them, Mr. Philips, 1 reafurer to the Kenfington Truft, and Mr. Scot, one of the Fruftecs, the Evidence which they gave to the Committee appointed on the like Occafion in the Years 1764 and 1765, and which was then reported to the Houfe, was read to them, which they confirmed in every particular, except that Parr of the Report in 1 ;6.-, which takes Notice of the Revenue of the faid Turnpike to be 4 4737� it appearing by the Schedule annexed to the Report for that Year, to amount only to the Sum of f. 4245. 5. 6. And Mr. Philips added, That there has been, by the Surveyors Account, 1251 Load of Gravel put on the Road the laft Year more than the Year before, notwith- ftanding the laft Summer was much finer, and drier, and the Collection was lefs by �. 110. 9. 6. Upon the whole Matter, your Committee came to the following Refolutions: Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That there has been great Malmanagement of the Public Money, in the Repair of that Part of the Kenjingtcn Road lead ng from Clarges Street to Knightsbridge. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That fume Alteration ought to be made in the Execution of the faid Truft. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That it would be of public Utility, and a Saving to the �Fruit, if that Part of the Road from Clarges Street to Hyde Park Corner, was put under the Management of the Commiffioners for Paving the Streets of Wejlminjler, and a proper Sum allowed out of the Truft forpavin�- and repairing the fame. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That it would be of great Conveniency to all Perlons travelling through Kenjington, in cafe Part of the Truft Money was appropriated towards paving and cleanfino- the fame, and a proper Proportion allowed by the ref- pective Inhabitants for the faid Purpofe. The faid Refolutions being feverally read a fecond Time, were, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe. The Houfe being informed, that Mr. Tomfyns, from the Commiffioners 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 Foreign-manufactured Leather Gloves, and Mittins, imported into England for Seven Years, from Cbrijimas 1757 to Chriji- mas 1764; diftinguilhing each Year, together with the Duties paid on the Importation thereof: And alfo. An Account of all Foreign-manufaftured Leather Gloves, and Mitts, which have been feized and condemned for Seven Years laft paft: And alfo, An Account of all Foreign Kid and Lamb Skins un- dreft, imported for Seven Years, from Cbrijimas 1757 to Cbriftmas 1764; diftinguilhing each Year, together with the Duties paid on the Importation thereof. 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 Glove-fellers, and Glove - manufaftureres, Leather-dreflers, and Leather-fellers of the Cities of London and Wejlminjier, and Borough of Southwark; and alfo the Petition of the Glove-manufacturers, Glove-fellers, Leather- dreflers, and Leather-fellers, of the City of Pork ; are referred. The faid Accounts are preferved amongft the other Papers of this Scffion. A Petition of feveral Noblemen, and Gentlemen, of the Cities of London and Wejlminjler, whofe Names are thereunto annexed, on Behalf of themfelves and others, was offered to be prefented to the Houfe. A Motion A Morion was made, and the Queftion being pur, That the laid Petition be brought up; The Houfe divided. The Yeas went forth. Tellers for the Yeas, { } 29* � t Sir Edmund Ikomas: > Tellers for the Noes l^iv John Gibbons, ? eners tor tne j Mr ^ WinfOn. 5 9- So it was refolved in the Affirmative. Then the faid Petition was brought up, and read; Setting forth, That feveral Attempts have, for many Years paft, been made, by different Perfons, to bring Water to the Weft End of the Cities of London and Welhr,infer, from the River Colne above Uxbridge, the general Utility of which to the faid Cities is univerfally known and admitted,although the Defign has never been effected, which the Petitioners apprehend is to be attributed to the feveral Propofals, having been made for taking the faid Water out of the River Colne, above the Town of Uxbridge, whereby feveral valuable Mills would have been manifeftly injured; and that the Petitioners, from accurate Surveys made, find that a proper Supply of Water may be had, which they pro- pofe to bring from the faid River Colne, at or near a Place called Hobarts Mill, about Three Miles below Uxbridge, by a Cut Navigable for Boats, Barges, and other VelTds, to a Place near Williams Farm Houfe, in the Parifh of St. Mary Le Bon, by which Method very few Mills will receive any kind of Detriment, and the Petitioners are willing to make proper Satisfaction to the Owners and Occupiers thereof; and that the Petitioners, in confequence of this Plan, have a Propofal depending for an Agreement with the Governor and Company of Cbelfca Water Works, for uniting the Petitioners Undertaking with the faid Company, and making them one United Company with a Joint Stock, and for carrying the lame into Execution by virtue of an Act of Parliament for that Purpofe ; and that the Advantages refulting to the Cities of London and Wefminjier, from the Execution of this Plan, are great and obvious, not only by a Supply of Water, but from the faid Navigation : And therefore praying. That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for fupplying the Cities of London and Wejlmin- jler with Water from the River Colne, in fuch Manner, and under fuch Regulations and Reftridions, as to the Houfe Ihall feem proper, and for carrying into Execution fuch Agreement as the Petitioners (hall make with the faid Governor and Company of Cbelfea Water Works. Ordered, That the faid Petition do lie upon the Table. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for punifhing Mutiny and Defertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters: And that the Lord Barrington and Mr. Ikomas Gore, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of Charles Amcotts Efquire, Lord of the Honor of Stowe, and Wapentake of Well, in the County of Lincoln (of which the Parifh of Ket- tletborpe, in the fame County, is Parcel) and Patron of the Redory of Kettbletborpe aforefaid; and alfo Proprietor of feveral MefTuages, Toftfteads, Lands, Tythes, and Hereditaments, in Laughterton, and Kettletborpe, within the faid Parifh, and the feveral other Perfons whofe Names are thereunto fubfenbed, Proprietors of, or Perfons interefted in, certain other MefTuages, Toftfteads, Open Field Lands, and Meadow Grounds, and in the Commons and Waite Lands, in the faid Parifh of Kettletborpe, was prefented to the Houle, and read ; Setting forth, Thar, within the faid Parifh, there is an Open Field called Laugbterton Sand Field, an Open Meadow called Laugbterton Marjb, and certain Free Commons called the Green and Eajt Mcor, hkewife feveral antic nt inclofed Grounds, Parts whereof are Tythe free, and other fmall Parts are liable to Tythes, of which Tythes the faid Charles Amcotts 13 Proprietor; and that the Lands belonging to the ref- pedive Proprietors of the faid Fields, and Meadow Grounds, lie intermixed and in fmall Parcels, and are at prefent incapable of any confiderable Improvement, but if Power was given to allot, divide, or inclofe the fame, and the faid Commons, and to make Satisfaction in Land to the Propietor, for the Tythes of fuch Part of the faid Parifh, as is now liable to Tythes, the fame would tend to the great Benefit and Advantage of all Parties concerned: And therefore praying, That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill for inclofing and dividing the faid Open Fields, Meadows, and Commons, within the Parifh of Kettletborpe, aforefaid, in fuch Manner, and with fuch Regulations, as the Houfe Ihall think fit. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, purfuant to the Prayer of the faid Petition: And that Lord Brownlow Bertie and the Lord Barrington do prepare, and bring in, the fame. And then the Houfe adjourned till Monday Morning, Nine of the Clock. Lun#) 170 die Februarii; Anno 6� Georgii IIP'* Regis, 1766. PRAYERS. A B I L L for dividing and inclofing a certain Open and Common Field, called Bidford Common Field, within the Parifh of Bidford, in the County of Warwick, was read a fecond Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Fane, Mr. Darker, Mr. Egerton, Mr. Townjhend, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Glover, Sir George Savile, Sir John Sebright, Mr. Norris, Mr. Fitzmaurice, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Luther, Mr. Ewer, Sir John Glynne, Sir Armine Wodeboufe, Sir George Armytage, Mr. Methuen, Mr. Holt, Mr. Fane, Mr. Clive, Mr. Manners, Sir James Dajhwood, Mr. Boone, Mr. Rufsout, Mr. John Pitt, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Fane, Mr. Staunton, Mr. Morton, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Whitworth, Lord Carysfort', and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Warwick, Leicefter, Northampton, Stafford, and Salop: 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 Moor, Wafte, or Common, in the feveral Townfhips, Villagest or Hamlets, of Upper Heworth and Nether Hewortb, in the County of Durham, was read the third Time. Rejolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Ad for dividing and inclofing the Moor, Wafte, or Common, in the feveral Townfhips, Villages, or Hamlets, of Upper Hewortb and Nether Hewortb, in the County of Durham. Ordered, That Mr. Vane do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. A Bill for dividing and inclofing the Commons or Wafte Grounds, called Cuddington, or Bryn Common, in the Townfhip of Cuddington with Bryn, in the Parifh of Weverbam, in the County of Chefter, was read a fecond Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Egerton, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Fonereau, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Lord Grey, Mr. ToWnJhend, Mr. Cbolmondeley, Mr. Gray, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Cbolmley, Mr. Morgan, Mr, Buller, Mr. Chve, Mr. Clive, Mr. Norris, Mr. Butler, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Grey, Mr. Bull, Mr. Vane, Mr. Methuen, Sir William Beauchamp Proflor, Mr. John Pitt, Sir John Sebright, Mr. Fairfax, Mr. Mackye, Mr. Fitzmaurice, Mr. Darker, Sir George Savile, Mr. Ewer, Sir James Dajhwood, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Kynajion, Mr. Gore, Mr. Hewett, Lord Carysfort�, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Cbejler, Salop, Stafford, and Lancaster: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Mr. Fitzmaurice reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for confirming Articles of Agreement, for dividing, allotting, and inclofing the Common Field Lands, within the Parilh ot Heddington, 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 Parties concerned had given their Content to the Bill, to the Satisfaction of the Committee, except Two Pcrfons, whofe Property in the faid Lands amounts to 64 Acres, who being applied to, refufed to fign the Articles, butthat the Perfon who has the Reverfion of 50 Acres, Part of the faid 64 Acres, had figned the Articles, and that the whole Quantity of Land intended to be in- clofcd amounts to Nine Hundred Acres, or thereabouts ; and that no Perfon appeared before 'he Committee to oppofe the Bill-, and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto, which they had directed him to report to the Houle; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read th oughout; and then a Second Time, One by One ; and, upon the Quellion fcverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofied. A Bill for dividing and inclofingthe Common Fields, Common Failures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and Commonable Lands, within the Manor and Parifh of Steeple AJion, in the County of Oxford, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Sir James Dajhwood, Mr. Methuen, Sir George Savile, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Darker, Mr. Wood, Mr Kynajion, Mr. Gore, Lord Carysfcrt, Mr. Holt, Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fairfax, Sir Armine Wodeboufe, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Pane, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Willoughby, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Plumpt re, Mr. Clive, Mr. Buller, Sir George Colebrooke, Mr. Onjlow, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Fane, Mr. Dyfon, Mr. Fairfax, Mr. Mackye, Mr. Knight, Lord Burgherjh, Sir John St Au- byn, Mr. Whitworth; and all the Members who ferve tor the Counties of Oxford, Bucks, Berks, Gloucejler, Northampton, Warwick, and Salop: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Mr. Thomas Gore prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for punifhing Mutiny and Defertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters : And the lame was received ; and read the Firlt Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. The Lord Carysfort prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill to enable the moll Noble Francis Duke of Bridgewater to extend a Branch of his Navigable Cut or Canal, upon Sale M or, in the County of Cbejler, to the Market Town of Stockport, in the faid County: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second 1 ime. An ingrofied Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Common Failures, Common Mea- VOL. XXX. dows, Common Grounds, and Commonable Lands, lying within the Manor and Parifh of Bladsn, 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 Common Fields, Common Failures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and Commonable Lands, lying within the Manor and Parilh of Bladon. in the County of Oxford. Ordered, That Sir James Dajhwood do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. An ingrofied Bill for dividing and inclofing certain Open and Common Fields, Common Failures, Common Meadows, and Commonable Waite Grounds, in the Manor, Parilh, and Tythir.g, of Great Tew, in the County of Oxford, was read rhe Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pals : And that the Title be, An Aft for dividing and inclofing certain Gpm and Common Fields, Common Failures, Common Meadows, and Commonable Wafte Grounds, in the Manor, Parifh, and Tything, of Great Tew, in the County of Oxford. Ordered, That Sir James Dajhwood do carry the Bill to the Lords, and de fire their Concurrence. An ingrofied Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open Commons; Common Fields, Meadows, and Grounds, lying in the Hamler of MaugerJbury, in the Parifh of Stow on tbe Weld, in the County of Gloucejler, was read the Third Time. Rejolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Aft for dividing and inclofing the Open Commons, Common Fields, Meadows, and Grounds, lying in the Hamlet of Matigerjlury, in the Parifh of Stow on the Wold, in the County of Gloucejler. Ordered, That Lieutenant General Whitmore do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. Mr. Fitzherbert repotted from the Committee, to wrhom the Petition of the Mayor and Corporation, Burgeflcs, Traders, and Inhabitants, of the Borough of Derby, in Behalf of themfelves and many others, 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 followed! ; viz. To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition, a Member prelent informed your Committee, that many fmall Debts are contracted in the laid Borough, which, from the prefent Forms of Law, are difficult to be recovered : That the ellabliffiing a Jurifdiftion in the faid Borough arid Liberties theieof, for the more eafy Recovery of fmall Debts, would be of great Advantage to the Inhabitants thereof. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for the more eafy and fpcedy Recovery of fmall Debts, within the Borough of Derby, and the Liberties thereof: And that Mr. Fitzherbert, Mr. Tudway, and Lord Frede' rick Cavendijh, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Meflage from the Lords, by Mr. Edwards and Mr. Anguijh : Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair the Road leading f\om Turbridge Wells, in the County of Kent, to the Crofs Ways, near Maresfeld Street, in the County of Suffex, without any Amendment: And alfo, J The Lords have ag etd to the Bill, intituled, An Aft to enable Thcmas Kymer Efquire, to make a Navigable Cut or Canal, from Little Gwendraetb River, near the Town of Kidwely, to the Great toreji and Pwll Llygcd, in the County of CatmartLen, without any Amendment. 7 K And 5^ And then the Meflehgers withdrew. The Houfe being informed, that Mr. Parfons, 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 Amount of the Duties paid on Molafles imported into the Northern Colonies, in America, for the Three laft Years, ending at Chrijlmas 1765 ; diftinguilhing each Year and Colony, as tar as the Account can be made up: And alfo. An Account of the Quantity of Rice exported from the Colonies of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to any Part of America, to the Southward of South Carolina and Georgia, fincc the palling of the Ads by which fuch Exportation was allowed, as far as fuch Account can be made up. And then he withdrew. , And the Titles of the faid Accounts were read. Ordered* That Mr. Fuller do carry to the Lords, the ingrofled Bill to indemnify fuch Perlons as have omitted to qualify themfelves for Offices and Employments, and to indemnify Juftices of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenants, and Officers of the Militia, or others, who have omitted to regifter or deliver in their Qualifications within the Time limited by Law; and for giving further Time for thofe Purpofes; and to indemnify Members and Officers in Cities, Corporations, and Borough Towns, whofe Ad- miffions have been omitted to be Stamped, according to the feveral Afts of Parliament now in force for that Purpole, or, having been Stamped, have been loft or millaid, and for allowing them Time to provide Admiffions duly Stamped; and defire the Concurrence of their Lordlhips thereto. Mr. Comptroller reported to the Houfe, that their Addrefs of Saturday laft, that His Majefty would be gracioufly pleafed to give Directions, that the Account therein mentioned might be laid before this Houfe, had been prefented to His Majefty; and that His Majefty had commanded him to acquaint this Houfe, that He will give Directions accordingly. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for the Regulation of His Majefty�s Marine Forces, while on Shore : And that Mr. Stephens, Mr. Charles Town/bend, Mr. Tucker, and Mr. Buller, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Mr. Secretary Conway prefented to the Houfe, by His Majefty�s Command, Copies and Extracts of Letters from feveral American Governors, to the Lords Commiflioners for Trade and Plantations, dated in the Months of November and December laft. And the Titles of the faid Papers were read. Ordered, That the faid Papers be referred to the Con- fideration of the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it is referred to confider further of the feveral Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Conway, upon the 14th, 23d, 27th, 28th, and 31ft Days of 'January laft, and the 5th and 10th Days of this Inftant February, and by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the 3d and 10th Days of this Inftant February, by His Majefty�s Command. The faid Papers are preferred amongft the other Papers of this Seflion. Ordered, That the Accounts prefented to the Houfe this Day, by Mr. Parfons, from rhe Commiflioners of the Cuftoms, be referred to the faid Committee. , The faid Accounts are 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 the Supply granted to His Ma- JeftF� . . . . Ordered, That the Ordinary Eftimate of His Majefty�s Navy, for the Year 1766, be referred to the faid Committee. Ordered, That the Eftimate of the Charge of what may be neceflary for the Buildings, Rebuilding), and Repairs of Ships of War, in His Majefty�s Yards, and other Extra Works, over and above what are propofed to be done upon the Heads of Wear and Tear and Ordinary, for the Year 1766, be referred to the faid Committee. Then the Houfe refolved itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Paterfon took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr. Paterfon reported from the Committee, That they had come to feveral Refolutions; which they had directed him to report, when the Houfe will pleafe to receive the fame. Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow Morning. Mr. Paterfon aMb acquainted the Houfe, that he was directed by the Committee to move, that they may have Leave to fit again. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon this Day Seven- night, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the Supply granted to His Majefty. The other Order of the Day being read ; The Houfe refolved itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the feveral Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Conway, upon the 14th, 22d, 27th, 28th, and 31ft Days of January laft, and the 5 th and 10th Days of this Inftant February, and by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, upon the 3d and 10th Days of this Inftant February, by His Majefty�s Command. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Fuller took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr. Fuller reported from the Committee, That they had examined feveral other Witnefles, and had made a further Progrefs in the Matter to them referred; and that he was directed by the Committee to move, that they may have Leave to fit again. Refolved, That this Houfe will, To-morrow Morning, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the feveral Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Conway, upon the 14th, 2zd, 27th, 28th, and 31ft Days of January laft, and the 5th and loth Days of this Inftant February, and this Day, and by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, upon the 3d and 10th Days of this Inftant February, by His Majefty�s Command. Ordered, That the feveral Perfons, who were ordered to attend the faid Committee this Day, except Beejlon Long and Richard Ofwald Efquires, do attend the laid Committee To-morrow Morning. Ordered, That Mr. Fuller have Leave to make a Motion, it being near Ten of the Clock. And he moved the Houfe accordingly, that the Order, made upon Monday laft, fur taking into further Confidcration, To-morrow Morning, the Petition of Robert Tudway Efquirc, Mayor of the City of Wells, in the County of Sowrfet, complaining of an undue Return for the laid City, might be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly ; Ordered, That the faid Order be difeharged. Ordered, That the further Confideration of the faid Petition be further adjourned till Wednefday Morning next. Ordered, That Paris Taylor Efquirc, High Sheriff of the County of Somcrft, and William Keate, Senior Mafter of of the faid City of Wells, who were ordered to attend this Houfe To-morrow Morning, do attend this Houfe upon Wednefday Morning next. The Houfe was moved, that the Order made upon Tuefday laft, for hearing, at the Bar of this Houfe, Tomorrow Morning, the Matter of the Petition of the Bur- gdTes and Freemen of the City or Borough of Wells, in the County of Somerfet, on behalf of themfelves and others. Voters of the faid City or Borough; and alfo the Matter of the Petition of Peter Taylor Efquire; feve- rally complaining of an undue Eleftion and Return for rhe faid City; might be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly ; Ordered, That the faid Order be difcharged. Ordered, That the Matter of the faid Petitions be heard at the Bar of this Houfe, upon Wednefday Morning next. Ordered, That Lord Frederick Campbell have Leave to make a Motion. And he moved the Houfe accordingly. Ordered, That James Glen Efquire, do, To-morrow Morning, attend the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it is referred to confider further of the feveral Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Conway, upon the 14th, 22d, 27th, 28th, and 31ft Days of 'January laft, and the 5th and 10th Days of this Inftant February, and this Day, and by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, upon the ?d and 10th Days of this Inftant February, by His Majefty�s Command. And then the Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. �� ... 587 from the faid Broil Park Gate, to the Town of Batt ell, in the faid County; was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed toMr. Butter,M^ Grey, Mr. Pelham, Mr. Pennant, Mr. Kymsjicn, Mr. Pitt, Mr. Lowndes, Lord Grey, Mr. Bull, Mr. Tudway, Mr. Thoroton, Mr. Buber, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Lewts, Mr. Gray, Mr. Cere, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Grev, Sir �Thomas Cave, Mr. Ofbaldejlon, Sir George Savile, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Grenville, Lord Ltjlurne, Lord George Sackville, Lord Frederick Campbell, Mr. Paterfon, Mr. Burrell, Mr.Jennings, Mv.TownJhcml, Mr.Ward, Mr. Shiffner, Sir John Delavall, Sir Edward Turner, Mr. Holt; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Suffix, 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. An ingroffed Bill for naturalizing Jean Pierre Michel, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be. An Act for naturalizing Jean Pierre Michel. Ordered, That Mr. Lewis do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. Mr. Burrell reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing anti incloftng the Common Fields, Common Paftures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and Wafte Grounds, of and in die Manor and Parilh of Tbenford, otherwife Fenford, in the County of North- ampton, was committed, Thar the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the lame to be true ; and that the Parties concerned had given their Content to the Bill, to the Satisfaction of the Committee; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto; which they had directed him to report to the Houle; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in ar the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be in* groiled. Ordered, Thar the Committee, to whom the Petitiort of feveral Truftees appointed to put in Execution feveral Afts of Parliament, palled in the Fourth, Sixth, and Tenth Years of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Firft, and of the Fourth Year of his late Majefty King George the Second, for repairing feveral Roads, in the Counties of Surrey and Suffix; and allo of an Ait pafied in the Tenth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled. An Aft for explaining and amending, and making more efTedu.il, feveral Afts of Parliament, made in the Fourth, Sixth, and Tenth Years of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Firft, refpeftively, for repairing the feveral Roads therein mentioned, in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, and Siffex-, and for enlarging the Terms and Powers by the faid Afts granted; and for repairing the Roads lying between Nnefucb and Worcefter Parks, in the Parilh of Luddington, in the County of Surry; was referred; be revived. Sir George Savile prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and incloftng the feveral Stinted Paftures, called Cow Cl of, Weft Moor, and Clowder, other- wife Clrwther, within the Townlhip of Arncliffc, in the Weft Riding of the County cl Fork; And the fame was received ; and read the Firft 1 ime. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Bill for repairing and widening the Road from Willas Pump, in the Town of Beverley, in the Eaft Ridins of the Count? er Torn, through Mo! c oft, and Gnat 1 � Drifted, Driffield, to Kendell Houfe �, and from Molfcroft to Bainton Balk, in the faid Riding �, was read a Second Time. * Refolded, That rhe Bill be committed to Sir George Savile, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Paterfon, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Jennings, Lord Gw, Mr. Pennant, Mr. Bootle, Mr. Gray, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Gore, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Bagot, Mr. T. Pitt, Lord Frederick Campbell, Mr. Clayton, Sir Thomas Cave, Sir Edward Turner, Lord George Sackville, Mr. Thrale, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Hume, Mr. Clive, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Fonereau ; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of 2 'ork, Lincoln, Nottingham, Durham, Northumberland, Wejtmoreland, Cumberland, and Lan- cafter: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Lord George Sackville reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for enlarging the Term and Powers of an Aft of the Fourth Year of his late Majefty, for repairing the Road from Godjione, in the County of Surrey, to High Gate, in the Parifh of Eaf Grinfiead, in the County of Suffex, 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 an Amendment to One of them, agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be in- grofled. Mr. Jennings prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for naturalizing Godhard Sutthoff and John Peter Cornud: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Rejolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Mr. Stephens prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for regulating His Majefty�s Marine Forces, while on Shore : And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Mr. Bagot prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for making a navigable Cut, or Canal, from the River Trent, at or near Wilden Ferry�, in the County of Derby, to or near Swarkjlone and Willington, in the faid County, Which nor, Rudgley, Stone, and Burflem, in the County of Stafford, and from thence to or near Law- ton and Aftbury, in the County of Chejler, and to the River Merfey: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Bill for punilhing Mutiny and Defertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters, 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 J loufe will, upon Friday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the faid Bill. Ordered, That Mr. Crew be added to the Gentlemen, who are appointed to prepare, and bring in, a Bill for making and maintaining a navigable Cut, or Canal, from Wilton Bridge, to Nether Knutsford, by or near Mottram Andrew, and from thence to Macclesfield, and from or near Mottram aforefaid, to Stockpcrt, in the County of Chejicr, and from thence to Manchefler, in the County of Lancafier. Mr. Hewett prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for the better Regulation of Pilots for the conducting of Ships and Vefiels into and out of the Port of Liverpool: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Mefiage from the Lords, by Mr. Anguijh and Mr. Cuddon: Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft to prohibit the Exportation of Corn, Grain, Malt, Meal, Flour, Bread, Bifcuit, and Starch, for a limited Time, without any Amendment: And alfo, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for allowing the Importation of Corn and Grain, from His Majefty�s Colonies in America, into this Kingdom, for a limited Time, free of Duty, without any Amendment : And alfo, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for allowing the Importation of Oats and Oatmeal into this Kingdom, for a limited Time, Duty free, without any Amendment: And alfo, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for continuing, and granting to His Majefty, certain Duties upon Malt, Mum, Cyder and Perry, for the Service of the Year One thouland Seven hundred and Sjxty- fix, without any Amendment: And alfo, The Lords have pafled a Bill, intituled, An Aft to diflblve the Marriage of John Matthews with Amt Matthews his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again ; and for other Purpofes therein mentioned ; to which the Lords defire the Concurrence of this Houfe. And then the Meflengers withdrew. Ordered, That all have Voices who come to the Committee, who are appointed to confider of a proper Plan, for making a General Index to the Printed Journals of this Houfe. The Houfe was moved, that the Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Merchants, Freeholders, Manufaftur- ers, and Tradefmen, of the Town cf Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford, and Places adjacent, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed; which was prefented to the Houfe upon Saturday laft, and then ordered to lie upon the "1 able; might be again read. And the lame was read accordingly. 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. Bagot, Mr. Wynn, Sir Thomas Hales, Lord Grey, Mr. Grant, Mr. Wilfon, Mr. Grey, Mr. Paterfon, Sir John Palmer, Sir Walter Bagot, Lord Downe, Lord Broderick Campbell, Lord Strange, Mr. Tudway, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Townjhend, Sir Edmund IJham, Mr. Gray, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Coventry, Lord Granby, Lord Ft liters, Mt. Knight, Sir Edward Turner, Lord Lijburne, Mr. Shaftoe, Mr. Willoughby, Mr. Bertie, Mr. Legh, Mr. Foley, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Thurlow, Mr. Cooke, Mr. Whichcot, Mr. Edmonftone, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Egerton, Mr. Walter, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Cadogan, Sir Francis Vincent, Mr. Onflow, Mr. Popham, Mr. Holt, Sir William Baker, General Howard, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Fitzmaurice, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Aiderman j5cd/W, Sir Robert Long-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Stafford, Salop, Worcefler, Glcuceftcr, Somerfet, Cbtjler, Lancafler, Derby, Nottingham, Fork, 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 Pcrfons, Papers, and Records. The Houfe was alfo moved, that the Petition of the Mayor, Juftices, Aldermen, and- Corporation, Merchants, chants, Traders, ^c. of Walfall, in the County of Stafford, alfo Willenball, in the County aforeiaid, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed: And alfo. The Petition of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Tradefmen, of the Town of Stourbridge, in the County of Worcefler, and Places adjacent, whole Names are thereunto fubferibed: And alfo, The Petition of the Bailiff*, Juftices, Aidermen, Capital Burgefles, Merchants, Qentlemen, Clergy, and Tradefmen, of the Borough of Kidderminjler, in the County of Worcefler, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed : And allo, The Petition of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Tradefmen, of the Town of Dudley, in the County of Worcefler, and Places adjacent, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed: And alfo, The Petition of the Bailiff, Juftices, Aidermen, Capital Burgefles, Merchants, Gentlemen, Clergy, and Tradefmen, of the Borough of Bewdley, in the County of Worcefler, whofe Names are thereto fubferibed; which were alfo feverally prefented to the Houfe upon Saturday laft, and then ordered to lie upon the Table; might be again read. And the fame were read accordingly. Ordered, '1 .hat the faid Petitions be referred to the Confideration of the faid Committee. Mr. Veil erf�, according to Order, reported from the Committee of the whole Iloufe, to whom it was referred to confider further of the Supply granted to His Ma- jefty, the Refolutions which the Committee had directed him to report to the Houfe; which he read in his Place; and afterwards delivered in at rhe Clerk�s Table: Where the fame were read; and are as followeth; viz. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That a Sum, not exceeding Four hundred and Twelve thoufand Nine hundred Eighty-three Pounds Six Shillings and Three Pence, be granted to His Majefty, for the Ordinary of the Navy, including Half-pay to Sea and Marine Officers, for the Year One thoufand Seven hundred and Sixty-fix. Refolvcd, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, Thar a Sum, not exceeding Two hundred Se- venty-feven thoufand and Three hundred Pounds, be granted to His Majefty, towards the Buildings, Rebuildings, and Repairs of His Majefty�s Ships, Docks, Building Slips, Wharfs, and Storehoufes, for the Year One thoufand Seven hundred and Sixty-fix. The laid Refolutions being feverally read a Second Time, were, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe. t An ingrofled Bill for confirming Articles of Agreement, for dividing, allotting, and inclofing the Common Field Lands, within the Parifh of Heddington, in the Count)� of Wills, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pals: And that the Title be, An Aft for confirming Articles of Agreement, for dividing, allotting, and inclofing the Common Field Lands, within the Parifli of Heddington, in the County of Wilts. Ordered, That Mr. Fitzmaurice do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill for regulating the Qualifications of the Proprietors of Eif India Stock; Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon this Day Seven- night, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houle, upon the faid Bill. Tht Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider of the Petition of the Governors of the Charity VOL. XXX. 589 for the Relief of Poor Widows and Children of Clergymen ; Refolvcd, That this Houfe will, upon this Day Fort- night, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider of the laid Petition. The other Order of the Day being read ; The Houfe refolved itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the feveral Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Conway, upon the 14th, 22d, 27th, 28th, and 31ft Days of January laft, and the 5th and 10th Days of this Inftant February, and Yefterday, and by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, upon the 3d and 10th Days of this Inftant February, by Elis Majefty�s Command. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Fuller took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr. Fuller reported from the Committee, That they had examined feveral other Witnefles, and had made a further Progrefs in the Matter to them referred; and that he was directed by the Committee to move, that they may have Leave to fit again. Refolved, That this Houfe will, To-morrow Morning, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the feveral Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Conway, upon the 14th, 22d, 27th, 28th, and 31ft Days of January laft, and the 5th and 10th Days of this Inftant February, and Yefterday, and by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, upon the 3d and 10th Days of this Inftant February, by I lis Majefty�s Command. And then the Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. Mercuri^ 190 die Februarii \ Anno 6� Georgii IIFn Regis, 1766. PRAYERS. S I R Francis Vincent reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of feveral Perfons, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, living in and near Batterfea, in the County of Surrey, and Chefea, in the County of Mid- dlefex-, and alfo the Petition of the Right honourable John Ear\Spencer-, were feverally referred; That the Committee had examined the Matter of the faid Petitions; 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 Petitions; Mr. George Stepbenfon, being examined, faid, That the pre- fent Ferry between Batterfea and Cbclfea is frequently dangerous, and in frofty Weather, and in high Winds it is imprafticable to pals over the fame; that it would be a great Advantage to the Inhabitants of the faid Two Places, if a Bridge was erefted at or near the faid Ferry, by which Means a more fafe and commodious Communication would be opened between the faid Counties of Surrey and Middlefex, and would be of great Utility to the Public. Thomas Parker Efquire, being examined, faid. That Lord Spencer is poflefled of the faid Ferry, and is willing and defirous, at his own Expence, to build a Bridge at or near the faid Ferry, upon having a reafonablc Toll granted to him. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for building a Bridge, crofs the River �Thames, from Cbelfea, in the County of Middlefex, to Batterfea, in tht County of Surrey: And that Sir Francis Vincent, Lord Howe, and Mr. Onflow, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. 7 L Sir Sir Francis Vincent reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of feveral Truftees appointed to put in Execution feveral Afts of Parliament, pafied in the Fourth, Sixth, and Tenth Years of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Firft, and of the Fourth Year of his late Majefty King George the Second, for repairing feveral Roads, in tiie Counties of Surrey and Saflex-, ami alfo of an Aft pafied in the Tenth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled, An Aft for explaining and amending, and making more effectual, feveral Acts of Parliament, made in the Fourth, Sixth, and Tenth Years of the Reign of lus late Majefty King George the Firft, refpcftively, for repairing the feveral Roads therein mentioned, in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, and Saflex; and for enlarging the Terms and Powers by the faid Ads granted; and for repairing the Roads lying between Nonefucb and IVorceJler Parks, in the Parifh of Coddington, in the County of Surrey ; 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 follow- eth; viz. . To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition, the feveral Acts of the Fourth, Sixth, and Tenth Years of his late Majefty King George the Firft ; and alfo the Aft of the 10th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King G??r^the 2d; were feverally read; whereby it appeared that feveral Powers were granted to the Truftees to repair the Roads therein mentioned : Then Mr. Roger Peck, Clerk to the faid Truftees, being examined, faid, That the Truftees had proceeded in repairing the fuel Roads; and he produced to your Committee an /Account, whereby it appeared, that there was now owing upon the Credit of the faid Tolls �. 10,250, and that Half a Year�s Intereft at 5 per Cent, would be due upon the fame at Lady Day next: Then James Turner, being examined, faid, That he was a Farmer and Carrier, and lived at Ryegate; and that he travels through the Road leading from Smitbam Bottom, to the End of [Kooky Lane next Ryegate; and that the faid Road was in a ruinous Condition, too narrow, and could not be repaired by the ordinary Courfe of Law: which Evidence was confirmed by Two Members prefent. Thomas Strong Efquire, faid, That he is well acquainted with the Road from the Town of IVandfwortb, through Garrat, to Tooting, which is impaflable at fome Times of the Year, and that the fame cannot be repaired by the ordinary Courfe of Law : Then your Committee proceeded to examine Samuel St. Hill Efquire, the Reverend Mr. Allifon, and Mr. John Morgan; who feverally faid, That the Roads near and adjoining to the Borough of Southwark, are very dangerous for Paflengers by Night, and that the elbblilh- ing a Nightly Watch and enlightening the lame, would tend to the Security of the Perlons ana Properties of the Paflengers: And the hft Witnefs faid, That he had been flopped Three Times on the faid Road by Highwaymen, and that he and his Servant were (hot at laft Winter, to the manireft Danger of their Lives. Mr. Richard Somerfall, Surveyor of the faid Roads, being examined, declared, 1'hat the faid feveral Afts had in many Particulars been found to be defeftive. Ordered, Tint Leave be given to bring in a Bill for enlarging the Term and Powers granted by feveral Afts of Parliament made in the Fourth, Sixth, and Tenth Years of his late Majefty King George the Firft, and in the Tenth Year of his late Majefty King George the Second, for repairing feveral Roads from the Stones End, in the Borough of Southwark, to feveral Places in rhe Counties of Surrey and Suflx; and for enlightening the faid Roads, and eftablilhing a regular Nightly Watch thereupon, to a certain Diftance from rhe laid Borough of Southwark i and tor repairing the Road from Smith.� Bottom, to the End of IVooLy Lane, and from IFandff worth, through Garrat, to Tooting: And that Sir Francis Vincent, Lord Howe, Mr. Onflow, Sir Kendrick Clayton, Sir George Colebrook:, Mr. Titrate, Mr. Clayton, and Sir Jofepb Mawbey, do prepare, and bring in, the lame. Sir Jarrit Smith reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Mayor, Burgcfles, and Commonalty, of the City of Brijlol, under their common Seal, 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 followed!; viz. To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition, Sir Abraham Ijdac Elton Baronet, being examined, faid, 1�hat feveralStreets, Lanes, and Pafiages within the faidCity, are very narrow and incommodious, which is a great Inconvenience to the Owners and Inhabitants (>f Houfes in and near the fame, and a 1 iindrance to Trade and Commerce ; that the faid Inconveniences might be remedied, and feveral new Streets and Pafiages made, if Power was given to widen or alter the faid narrow Streets, and to purchafe fuch Edifices and Ground as may be found ne- ceflary for that Purpofe. 'That the Afts pafied for cleanfing, paving, lighting, watching, and regulating the Streets and Places within the faid City, and for preventing Annoyances on the Keys and Wharfs, and upon the Banks of the Rivers Avon and Froome, have been found defeftive; and that it would tend greatly to the Convenience of the Inhabitants, and be of Benefit to Trade, if the faid Afts were explained and amended, and Powers given to reftrain the Carriage of exceflive Weights within the faid City, and to prevent Nufances and Obftruftions, by Spouts, Signs, and Pofts, and ruinous Buildings, or otherwife ; and alfo more efteftually to prevent Obftruftions and Annoyances on the Banks of the faid Rivers, and Incroachments upon the faid Streets, by the Projection of Buildings or other- wife ; and tor the better cleanfing common Sewers and Drains within the faid City and Liberties. A Member prefent confirmed the above Evidence. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for widening feveral Streets, Lanes, Ways, and Pafiages, within the City of Brijlol, and for opening feveral new Streets and Pafiages within the fame; and forexplaining, amending, and enlarging the Powers of the feveral Acts palfed for paving, cleanfing, lighting, watching, and regulating the Streets, and other Places within the faid City, and Liberties thereof: And that Sir Jarrit Smith, Sir Francis Vincent, and Mr. Nugent, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of the Gentlemen, Freeholders, Tradefmen, and other Inhabitants of the Town and Parifh of Dudley, in the County of IVorceJler, and alfo the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and other Inhabitants, of the Parilh of Tipton, otherwife Tibbington, in the County of Sfaflord, whole Names are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Petitioners have been informed of a Petition for a Bill to repair the Roads from Muckley Corner, in the faid County of Stafford, to the feveral Places in the faid Petition mentioned i and that the Road leading from Hcrftey Heath to Puppy Green, and from thence to Tipton Green, from Puppy Green aforefaid, through and along Randle Lane, other- wife Park Lane, to the Road leading from Birmingham, to Dudley aforefaid, are become very ruinous and narrow, and cannot be repaired by the ordinary Courfe of Law : And therefore praying, 1'hat Leave may be given to add the faid Road to the laid Bill. Ordered, That the find Petition be referred to the Con- fideration of the Committee, to whom the Petition of the feveral Gentlemen, Freeholders, Tradefmen, and other Inhabitants, of Walfall, in the County of Stafford, and of the City of Litchfield, and Places adjacent, whole Names Names are thereunto fubfcribed, is referred : And that they do examine the Matter of this Petition; and report the fame, as it (hall appear to them, to the Houfe. Sir Charles Saunders, from the Commiflioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to their Addrefs to His Majefty, N�. 1. Copy of His Majefty�s Order in Council, upon a Memorial from the Right honourable the Lords Commiflioners of His Majefty�s Treafury, relative to the fecuring the Revenue arifing by the Duties of Cuf- toms in /imerica, and the eftabliffiing the Judicature of the Courts of Admiralty in that Country, dated 5th of October 1763. N�. 2. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Stephens, Secretary of the Admiralty, to Mr. Seddon, Solicitor of the Admiralty, inclofing a Cafe for the Opinion of the King�s Advocate, Attorney and Solicitor General, relative to the appointing a Vice Admiralty Court over all North America, dated 19th of Oflober 1763. Nu. 3. Copy of the Opinion of the King�s Advocate, Attorney and Solicitor General, upon a Cafe which the Solicitor for the Affairs of the Admiralty was direfted to lay before them, on the 19th of October 1763, relating to the appointing a Vice Admiral over all North America, with a Court and proper Officers. N�. 4. Copy of a Memorial from the Lords of the Admiralty, to His Majefty in Council, relative to the appointing a Vice Admiral overall North America, with a Court and proper Officers, dated 14th Marot 1764. N�. 5. Copy of His Majefty�s Order in Council, dated 18th of April 1764, relative to the appointing a Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court for all America. NJ. 6. Copy of a Memorial from the Lords of the Admiralty, to His Majefty in Council, dated 24th of April 1764, reprefenting the Neceffity of having fpecial Power, their prefent Commiflion not authorizing them to appoint a Vice Admiral over all America, with a Court and proper Officers. N\ 7. Copy of His Majefty�s Letters Patent, im- powering the Commiflioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, to appoint a Vice Admiral over all America, with a Court and proper Officers, dated 18th of Moy 1764. N*. S Copy of a Warrant from the Commiflioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, to Sir Thomas Saltjbury, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, to prepare Letters Patent, appointing Lord North- umber land Vice Admiral of all America, dated 28th May �764- N�. 9. Copy of a Warrant from the Commiflioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, to Sir Thomas Salijbury, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, to prepare Letters Patent, appointing Doctor William Spry, Judge of the Vice Admiralty for all America, dated the 29th of May 1764. N�. 10. Copy of Letters Patent, appointing Doctor William Spry, to be Judge of the Vice Admiralty of all America, dated the 15th of June 1764. N�. JI. Copy of the Patent conftituting Hugh Earl of Northumberland Vice Admiral of all America, dated the 20th of December 1764. Together with a Lift of the faid Papers. And the Titles of the faid Papers were read. Ordered, That the faid Papers be referred to the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it is referred to conftder further of the Several Papers, which were pre- fented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Conway, upon the 14th, 2 2d, 27th, 28th, and 31ft Days of January laft, and the 5th, 10th, and 1 7th Days of this Inftant February, and by Mr. Chancellor of die Exchequer upon the 3d and 10th Days of this Inftant February, by His Majefty�s Command. The faid Papers are preferved amongft the other Papers of this Seffion. Inclofing, Stare and Condition cf Aaamabce Fort Stare and Condition of Commenda Fort. State and Condition of Secondee Fort. State and Condition of Tantumquery Fort. State and Condition of Accra Fort. State and Condition of D^'csw Fort. State and Condition of Cape Cerf Cajllel State and Condition of Winibah Fort. N�. 17. Copy of a Letter from Captain Allwright, of the Spy Sloop, to Mr. Stephens, dated the 17th of May 1765. inclofing,- N*. 18. Captain Allwrighl's Obfervations on the State of Fort Louts at Senegal. Together with a Lift of the laid 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 the Houfe. The faid Papers are preferved amongft the other Papers of this Seffion. A Meflage from the Lords, by Mr. Anguijh and Mr. Montagu : Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled. An Aft, for extending the Provifions of an Aft, made in the laft Seffion of Parliament, for the more eafy and fpeedy Recovery of Small Debts, within the Hundreds of Blackheath, of Bromley and Beckenham, of Rokefley, otherwife Ruxley, and of Little and Leffnefs, in the County of Kent, to the Hundred of Wallington, in the County of Surrey, without any Amendment. And then the Meflengers withdrew. Mr. Thurlow reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Right honourable//r/ZwrEarl of Done- gall, in the Kingdom of Ireland ; and alfo, the Petition of the Gentlemen, Freeholders, Farmers, and Inhabitants, of the Pariffi of Whittington, in the County of Stafford-, and alfo, the Petition of the Gentlemen, Freeholders, Farmers, and Inhabitants, of the feverai Pariffies and Villages of Elford, Harlaftcn, Haunton, and Clifton, in the County of Stafford, Netherfeal in the County of Let- tefer, and Edingale in the Counties of Derby and Stafford ; and alfo, the Petition of the Merchants, Traders, and Manufafturers of the Borough and Pariffi of Walfall, in the County of Stafford-, and alfo, the Petition of the. Gentlemen, Traders, and other Inhabitants, of the City of Litchfield-, were feverally referred; That the Committee had examined the Matter of the faid Petitions ; 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 To prove the Allegations of the (aid feverai Petitions, the Reverend William Sawley being examined, laid, That there is a Road from Litchfield into Leicefter- fhirc, leading through Huddlesford Lancs, on the North Side of Lord DonegalTs Park, to the North Gate of the faid Park, and from thence in feverai Branches through the faid Park, very near his Lordlhip�s I loufe, over the River Lame, by Three feverai Fords in the laid River ; and that the faid Branches from the faid Fords, unite again on the Fait Side of rhe faid River, near a certain Mill called Elford Mill. That the faid Fords are oftentimes impaflable on Account of the Floods, and the Conflux of the Rivers Lrcni and Meefe, near the Mouth of the River Lame, except at One of the faid Fords near Elfcrd Hall, where Pafiengers are conveyed over in fmall Ferry Boats, and in high Floods are obliged to walk from the Boats over the Meadows through the Water. That the Road leading from Litchfield into Leicefter- Jhire, through Whittington, and by the South and Fail Sides of the faid Park on the Outfide thereof, and over the River Lame at the Southermoft of the Gid Fords at Elfcrd Mill, is in general in good Repair, except from Hademore Gate to the faid Ford, which Lord Donegal! propofes to repair and maintain at his own Expence. That there is not at prefent any Bridge over the River Lame, South of Elf ord Mill, nearer than Hof was, which is Four Miles from the faid Mill, nor any Bridge North of the faid Mill, nearer than Salter's Bridge, which is above Three Miles from the faid Mill; and that the faid Hcgwas, and Salter's Bridges, are frequently inaccefEble in Floods for Foot Pafiengers, and, in high Floods, it is dangerous to pafs with Horfes or Carriages. That if a Bridge was erefted for the free PafTage of Cattle, Carriages and Travellers at all Times, over the River Lame, at Elford Mill, it would dlablilh an eafy, fafe, and certain Communication between the faid City of Litchfield, the Borough of Walfall, and other great Trading Towns and Places on the Weft Side of the faid River, and the Villages of Elford, Harlafion, Haun- ton, Clifton, and Parts adjacent, in the County of Stafford, Edingale, in the County of Derby, and with the County ot Leicefter, on the Eaft Side of the faid River, whereby the Inhabitants on the Eaft and Weft Sides of the River, may refpe&ively more conveniently be fup- plicd with Corn, Coals, and Lime. And that Lord Donegall is willing and defirous to erect and maintain at his own Expencc, a fubllantial and convenient Public Bridge for the free PafTage of Cattle, Carriages, and Travellers at all Times, over the faid River Lame, nt Elford Mill, in cafe he (lull be authorized to flop up and difeontinue the Ufe of all the Roads through and over his Park, and the Fords and Paflages leading into the fame. And the Witnefs added, Thar, upon thofe Conditions, the difeontinuing of the feverai Public Roads through his Lordlhip�s Park, will not be attended with any Inconvenience to the Public, but will be of great Advantage to the Inhabitants of the neighbouring Country. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for difeontinuing the Ufe of feverai Roads, over and leading into Fi/herwick Park, in the County of Stafford, and for building a Bridge crofs the River T^w^, at or near Ellford Mills, in the faid County, and for repairing and keeping in Repair, the Road from fuch Bridge to Hade- more Gate, in the Road leading through Whittington, to the City of Litchfield; And that Mr. Lbnrlow and Mr. Wynn do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Mr. 'Thomas Pitt reported from the Committee, to wnom the Petition of the feverai Gentlemen, Clergy, and others, whole Names are thereunto fubferibed, living near and ufually travelling the High Roads, from the Crofs or Market Place, in the Town of Winbern Minfter, in the County of Dorfet, through the faid Town, and through the feverai Pari flies, 1 ythings, Villages, or Hamlets, of Stone, Abbottfireet, Ccwgrcve, Kingfton, Lacy, Sbafwicke, Little Crawford, otherwilc Larrant Antiock, Larrant Kenifton, Langton, Long Blandford, to the Town of Blandford Forum, in the faid County of Dcrfet, and through the faid 1 own of Blandford Fo- rnm, to the Market Place or Crofs there, was referred, That the Committee had examined the Matter of the faid Petition�, and had dire&ed 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. In Support of the Allegations of the faid Petition, Mr. William Dogget, and Mr. William Dean, being fe- verally examined, laid, That the faid feverai Roads are in a ruinous Condition, in many Places very narrow and incommodious, and cannot be repaired and widened by the prefent Methods prefcribed by Law. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for repairing and widening the Road, from the Crofs or Market Place in the 1 own of Winborn Minfter, to the Crofs or Market Place in the Town of Blandford Forum, in the County of Dorfet: And that Mr. Lbomas Pitt, Sir Charles Saunders, and Mr. Frederick Montagu, do prepare, and bring in, the lame. Lord George Cavendifo reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of feverai of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and Inhabitants of the County of Derby, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, was referred, That the Committee bad examined the Matter of the faid Petition ; and had okefted him to report the fame, as it appeared to them, to the Houfe; and he read rhe 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. Lbcmas Oldham faid, That the Road from Cranford Bridge, through Holloway and Erich, to the Turnpike Road at or near Langley Mill, is very narrow in many Places, in fome Parts very deep and ruinous, and in general much out of Repair, and the faid Road cannot be effedually repaired by the prefent Laws. Mr. George Evans faid, he knows moft part of the faid Road, it is narrow, and in Winter impaflable for Carriages, and the fame cannot be repaired and widened by the prefent Laws. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair, the Road, leading from Cromford Bridge, in the County of Derby, to the Turnpike Road, at or near Langley Mill, in the faid County: And that Lord George Cavcndijh, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Cbolmley, and Mr. Lafcelles, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of feverai Perfons, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, being Proprietors of Capital Stock of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the Eaft Indies, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Petitioners find, by the Votes, that a Bill is depending, for regulating Qualifications of the Proprietors of Eaft India Stock; that the Petitioners beg Leave to reprefent to the Houfe, that they conceive it is juft and reafonable that all Perfons being poflefled of Two thoufand Pounds, and upwards, in the faid Stock, fhould be enabled to give more than One Vote, at any General Court, called lor the Election of the Directors of the laid Companv, or any of them, or in any Queftion concerning By- Laws, and in all others relative to the Affairs or Government of the laid Company, in fome Proportion to their respective Capitals : And therefore praying, That Pro- vifion may be made, in the laid Bill, for the Purpofes afore- Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for encouraging^ the Cultivation, and for the better Pre- fervarion, of Trees, Roots, Plants, and Shrubs: And that Mr. Cooke, Mr. Wbiihcot, Sir William Beauchamp Prolitor, Mr. Grofvenor, Mr. Blackjlone, Sir John Glynne, and Mr. Fuller, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer prefented to the Houfe, by His Majefty�s Command, A Paper, intituled,�� Newport, on Rhode Ijland,� �26 December 1765.�Mr. Samuel Ward, Governor ot � that Province, concerning the Refignation oftlv Dif- � tributor of Stamps, acquainting mv Lords with the � Opinion of the People there, in refpeft of rhe Son p � Aft, and requeuing their Lordlhips good Offices � with the King and Parliament on their Behalf?��Received 12 February 1766: And alfo, Copy of L4 tters from Char les Stuart Efquire, Surveyor General of the Eaftern Middle Diftrict of America, to the Officers of the Cuftoms, and the Commif- fioners of the Cuftoms, dated 8 December 1765. Received and fent to the 1 reafury, n February 1766: And allo, Copy of a Letter from Mr. Graham, Diftributor of the Stamps for the Colony of Eajl Florida, dated the 9th of December 1765. Received at the Stamp Office the 1 ozh of February 1766. And the Titles of the faid Papers were read. Ordered, Tnat the faid Papers be referred to the Confideration of the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it is referred to confider further of the feveral Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Conway, upon the 14th, aid, 27th, 28th, and 31ft Days ot January laft, and the 5th, 10th, and 17th Days of this Inftant February, and by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the 3d and 10th Days of this Inftant February, by His Majefty�s Command. The faid Papers are preferved amongft the other Papers of this Seflion. The Houfe being informed, that Mr. Ibbetfon, from the Commiflioners of Greenwich Hof pit al, attended at the Door; he was called in -, and, at the Bar, prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to the Direftions of an Aft of Parliament, Report from the Commiflioners or Governors of the Royal I iofpital for Seamen at Greenwich, of what Money has been received out of the Rents and Profits of the Eftates forfeited by the Attainders of James late Earl of Dcrwentwater, and Charles Radcliffe, between the 30th of November 1763, and the iftof December 1764-, and of their Proceedings in carrying on the Building : And alfo, Report of the Commiflioners or Governors of the Royal Hofpital for Seamen at Greenwich, of what Money has been received out of the Rents and Profits of the Eftates forfeited by the Attainders of James late Earl of Derwentwater, and Charles Radcliffe, between the 30th of November 1764, and 1ft of December 1765; and of their Proceedings in carrying on the Building. And then he withdrew. And the Titles of the laid Reports were read. The faid Reports are as followeth ; viz. In Obedience to the Direftions of an Aft of Parliament, palled in the Eighth Year of his late Majefty�s Reign, intituled, An Aft for the Application of the Rents and Profits of the Eftates forfeited by the Attainders of James late Earl of Derwentwater, and Charles Radcliffe, . . Requiring the Commiflioners or Governors of the Royal Hofpital for Seamen at Greenwich, to contraft and agree with able and fufficient Tradefmen, Artificers, and other Perfons, for finilhing and completing the Lid Koval Hofpital, in a workmanlike and fubftantial Manner, on the eafieft and moft reafonable Terms, according to the Plan laid before the Houfe of Commons ; and to lay their Proceedings therein before His Majefty, and both Houfes of Parliament, refpeftively : VOL. XXX. 7 M The The Commiflioners or Governors of the faid Royal Hofpital, do humbly report as followeth; viz. That there has been received, between the 30th of November 1763, and the ift of December 17 64, out of the Rents and Profits of the faid Eftates, ' Z- J. � On Account of the annual Rents � � � 7,539 9 3? Lead Mines � � � 6,460 10 8; X. 14,000 o o Note, There has been paid by the Receivers out of the Money arifing from the faid Rents, Z- s. d. and Profits, during that Time, on account of Repairs � � � 218 3 U As to their Proceedings in carrying on the Building, ^e. Finiihing Cabins for 32 Penfioners in the Eaft End of the South Side of King William's Building; fitting up an Office for the Treafurer for paying the Out Penfioners ; making additional Calks and Utenfils at the Brewhoufe; and fitting up a Room for the 2d Matron to f. s. d. keep her Linen in 5 amounted together to � � � 400 4 2 Keeping in repair the Buildings, Furniture, Courts, Roads, Drains, Water Pipes, Brewing Veflels, and other Works, amounted together to � � � 1,711 2 8 Z. 2,111 6 10 By Order of the Commiflioners, 18 February 1766. John Dbetfon, Secretary. Z- 9,267 4 6 By Order of the Commiflioners, 18 February 1766. John fbbetfon, Secretary. Ordered, That the faid Reports do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. Ordered, That the Order of the Day, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the feveral Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Conway, upon the 14th, 22d, 27th, 28th, and 31ft Days of January laft, and the 5th 10th, and 17th Days of this Inftant February, and by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, upon the 3d and 10th Days of this Inftant February, by His Majefty�s Command, be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly; Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Friday Morning next,' refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the faid Papers. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of Ways and Means for railing the Supply granted to His Majefty ; The Houfe was moved, that the Twelfth of the Re- folutions, which, upon the 30th Day of April laft, were reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it was referred to confider further of Ways and Means for raifing the Supply granted to His Majefty, and agreed to by the Houfe, might be read. And the fame was, as agreed to by the Houfe, read accordingly ; and is as followeth ; viz. � Refolved, That all Linen Cloth and Diaper of � Ruff a, which are not at prefent particularly rated in � any Aft of Parliament, or Book of Rates, be, upon � the Importation thereof into this Kingdom, rated in i � Manner 595 Seven Companies within the faid City, being thereunto intitied by Birth, Servitude, or Marriage, was alfo read. And the Counfel tor the Petitioners were heard, and examined a Witnels, and produced Evidence, in order to Ihew what Time the Writ for elefting of a Citizen to ferve in Parliament for the faid City, in the Room bf the Right honourable Henry Lord Digby, in the Kingdom of Ireland, now Lord Digby, Baron Digby of Sherborne, in the County of Dorfel, called up to the Houfe of Peers, was received by the Sheriff of the Countv of Somerfet, and the Behaviour of the Mayer of the faid City, with refpeft to receiving the Sheriff's Precept. And then the faid Witnefs was directed so withdraw. He was again called in ; and further examined. And then he was again direfted to withdraw. And then the Counfel on both Sides were directed to withdraw. They were again called in. And One of the Counfel for the Petitioners was further heard, and examined feveral other Witnefles, and produced Evidence, in order to prove the Mayor�s re- fufing to go into the Borough to receive the Precept. Then the Counfel for the Petitioners alfo examined feveral Witnefles, and produced Evidence, in order to fhew the Manner of Mr. William Keate, the Senior Ma- fter of the faid City, proclaiming the Election and taking a Poll. And having offered to produce the faid Poll, taken before the faid Senior Matter ; And the Counfel for the Sitting Member, having ob- jefted to the fame being produced �, they were heard upon that Point. And the Counfel for the Petitioners were heard in anfwer thereto. And the Counfel for the Sitting Member having been heard by way of Reply; The Counfel on both Sides were direfted to withdraw. A Motion was made, and the Queftion being pro pofed, That the Poll taken at the laft Eleftion of a Citizen to ferve in Parliament for the City of Wells, by Mr. William Keate, be brought up; An Amendment was propofed to be made to the Queftion, by adding, after the Word � Keate,� thefe Words, � who was not the proper Returning Officer at the faid Eleftion.� And the faid Amendment was, upon the Queftion put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe. Then the Main Queftion, thus amended, being pur, That the Pool taken at the laft Eleftion of a Citizen to ferve in Parliament for the City of Wells, by Mr. William Keate, who was not the proper Returning Officer at the laid Eleftion, be brought up ; * The Houfe divided. The Yeas went forth. r L v 1 The Lord Strange, ) Tellers for the Yeas, |si ^ ^J: | 24. Tellers for the Noes, | hg^' | 166. ' oir Oeorge longe. J So it pafled in the Negative. And the Counfel on both Sides were again called in ; and Mr. Speaker acquainted them with the faid Rcfo- lution. And then they were again direfted to withdraw. Ordered, That the further Hearing of the Matter of the faid Petitions be adjourned till Tuefday Morning next. The poftponed Order of the Day being read ; Ordered, That the further Confideration of the Petition of Robert Tudway Efquire, Mayor of the City of Wells, in the County of Somerfet, complaining of an undue Return for the faid City, be further adjourned till Tuefday Morning next. Ordered, That Paris Taylor Efquire, and Mr. William Keate. 596 Keate, who were ordered to attend this Houfe this Day, do attend this Houfe upon Tuefday Morning next. And then the Houfe, having continued to fit till after Twelve of the Clock on Tburfday Morning, adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. A petition of Renira Bentinck, was prefented to the Houfe, and read j Praying, that her Name may be in- ferted in the Bill depending in the Houfe, for naturalizing Godbard Sutboff and John Peter Cornud. Ordered, That the laid Petition do lie upon the Table, until the laid*Bill be read a Second Time. Mr. Molefworth reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of feveral Gentlemen, and other Freeholders and Inhabitants, of the Counties of Cornwall and Devon, 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 followeth ; viz. To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition ; Mr. John Walter faid, That he knows the Road from the Town of Stratton, in the County of Cornwall, and the feveral other Roads defcribcd in the faid Petition ; that they are very ruinous, and in many Parts narrow and very deep-, and that the fame cannot be effectually amended, widened, and kept in good Repair by the ordinary Courfe of Law. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair feveral Roads leading to the Town of Stratton, in the County of Cornwall: And that Mr. Molefwortb and Sir George Tonge do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Sir John Sebright prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for the more eafy and fpeedy Recovery of Small Debts, within the City of Bath, and the Liberties and Precinfts thereof: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Bill to remove and regulate the public Marketa in the City of Bath; for widening certain Streets, Ways, and Paflages, within the faid City, and the Liberties and Precinfts thereof, and for opening certain new Streets and Ways within the fame; for better paving, cleanfing, lighting, watching, and regulating the Streets, Lanes, Ways, and Pallages there; to remove all Nufances and Obftruftions therein, and to prevent the fame for the future; and for better fupply- ing the Inhabitants of the City, Liberties, and Precincts, with Water ; was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Sir John Sebright,Mr. Fonereau,Mr. Jackfon,Mr. Hewett, Mr. Brude- nell, Mr. Cafwall, Mr. Cooke, Mr. Harris, Mi. Bagot, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Gore, Mr. Townjhend, Lord Garlies, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Ward, Mr. Plumer, Mr. Way, Mr. Clive, Mr. Morant, Mr. Buller, Lord Barrington, Mr. Mack worth, Sir Armine Wodcboufe, Mr. Hamilton, General Lambton, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Laf- celles, Sir J of ph Mawbey, Mr. Bejl, Sir Charles Hardy, Mr. Gray, Mr. Neville, Mr. Fitzmaurice, Lord Strange-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Somerfet, Dorfet, Wilts, Devon, and Cornwall: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. The Lord Gm reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and others, of the Counties of Stafford and Derby, refilling near unto and tiling the Road leading from the,City of Litchfield,�er High Bridges, through Hill,Ridware,Abbots Bromley, Uttoxeter, Spath, Crakemarjh, Rewcejier, Ellajlon, and MatbfHd, over Hanging Bridge, to Ajhbcrn, in the County of Derby, and allo of feveral of the Truftees appointed by or under an Aft of Parliament, paded in the 28th Year of the Reign of His latcMajefty King George the Second, intituled, An Aft for amending, altering, continuing, and making more dfeftual, Two Afts of Parliament, Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for repairing the Road from the Turnpike at Tunbridge Wells, in the County of Kent, to Ringles Crofs, near Uckfield, in the County of Suffex: And that Mt. Plumer and the Lord Grey do prepare, and bring in, the fame. The Houfe, according to Order, refolved itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill for punilh ng Mutiny and Deftrtion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Thomas Gore took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr. Thomas Gore reported from the Committee, That they had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto, which they had direrted him to report, when the Houfe will pleafe to receive the fame. Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mondo) Morning next. Refolved, That all Committees be revived. An ingrafted Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Common Failures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and W.ifte Grounds, of and in the Parilh of Thenford, or her wife Benford, in the County of Northampton, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Act for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Common Paftures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and Waite Grounds, of and in rhe Parilh of Thenford, otherwife Fenford, in the County of Northampton. Ordered, That Mr. Peter Burrell do carry the Bill to the Lords, and delire their Concurrence. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer prefented to the Houfe, by His Majefty�s Command, Copy of a Letter from Mr. Lloyd, Diftributor of Stamps for the Colony of South Carolina, dated 12th December 1765. And the Title of the faid Paper was read. Ordered, That the laid Paper be referred to the Con- fideration of the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it is referred, to confider further of the feveral Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Conway, upon the 14th, 2id, 27th, 28th, and 31ft Days of January laft, and the 5th, 10th, and 17th Days of this Inftant February, and by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, upon the 3d, 10th, and 19th Days of this Inftant February, by His Majefty�s Com* mand. The faid Papers are preferved amongft the other Papers of this Sellion. Mr. Onflow, according to Order, reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it was referred to confider further of Ways and Means for raifing the Supply granted to His Majefty, the Refolutions which the Committee had direrted him to report to the Houfe-, which he read in his Places and afterwards delivered in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the lame were read ; and are as followeth ; viz. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That, towards raifing the Supply granted to His Ma- jefty, the Sum of Four Shillings in the Pound, and no more, be railed, within the Space of One Year, from the 25th Day of March 1766, upon Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Penfiuns, Offices, and Per* fonai Eftates, in that Parr of Great Britain called England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed -, and that a proportionable Cefs, according to the Ninth Article of the Treaty of Union, be laid upon that Part of Great Britain called Scotland. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That Provifion be made, to remove all Doubts concerning the afcertaining of the Duties payable upon the Importation of Linen Cloth of the Manufafture of Rufiia, in purfuance of an Aft, made in the laft Sefiion of Parliament, intituled, � An Aft for the better fecuring, and � further Improvement of the Revenues of Cuftoms, � Excife, Inland, and Salt Duties, and for encouraging � the Linen Manufafture of the Ilie of Man, and for � allowing the Importation of feveral Goods, the Pro- � duce and Manufafture of the faid Ifland, under cer- � tain Reftriftions and Regulations ;� and for fupplying an Omiffion in the faid Aft, by declaring that all unrated Linen Cloth and Diaper of Rufiia, being in Breadth more than Twenty-two Inches and One Half, and not exceeding Thirty-one Inches and One Halt, were, by the laid Aft, intended to be rated at Four Pounds for every One hundred and Twenty Englijh Ells thereof. The faid Refolutions being feverally read a Second Time, were, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, agreed to by the I loufe. Ordered, That a Bill, or Bills, be brought in, purfuant to thefaid Refolutions : And that Mr.O^, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord John Cavendijh, Mr. Thomas Town fiend Junior, Mr. Attorney General, Mr. Solicitor General, Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Paterfon, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. The Houfe was moved, that an Aft, made in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled, An Aft for repealing the prefent Inland Duty of Four Shillings per Pound Weight, upon all Tea fold in Great Britain, and for granting to his Majefty certain other Inland Duties in lieu thereof; and for better fecuring the Duty upon Tea, and other Duties of Excifc ; and for purfuing Offenders out of one- County into another ; might be read. And the fame was read accordingly. The Houfe was alfo moved, that an Aft, made in the 2Sth Year of the Reign of his faid late Majefty, intituled, An Aft for making more effectual the Laws prohibiting the Importation of Spirituous Liquors in Calks or Vefiels, nor containing Sixty Gallons, and of Tea above the Quantity of Six Pounds, found on board any Britijh Ship or Veflel, not belonging to, or employed by, the Eafl India Company, might be read. And the fame being read accordingly ; Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the Gentlemen, who are appointed to prepare, and bring in, the faid Bill, or Bills, that they do make Provifion, in One of the faid Bills, for obviating any Doubts, relating to the granting of Licences for the Importation of Tea, in purfuance of the faid Aft, made in the 18th Year of the Reign of his late Majefty. The other Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the feveral Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Conway, upon the 14th, 22d, 27th, 28th, and 31ft Days of'January laft, and the 5th, 10th, and 17th Days of this Inftant February, and by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the 3d, 10th, and 19th Days of this Inftant February, by 1 lis Majefty�s Command; Mr. Secretary Conway prefented to the Houfe, by His Majefty�s Command, Copy of a Letter from Governor �Thomas, to Mr. Secretary Conway. Antigua, December 21ft 1765. Received 12th February 1766. Inclofing, Copy of a Letter from Mr. Tuckett, Diftributor of the Stamps for St. Kitts and Nevis, to Governor Thomas. Nevis, $th Deccember 1765. And the Titles of the faid Papers were read. Ordered, That the faid Papers be referred to the Con- fideration of the faid Committee. Then the Houfe refolved itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Fuller took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr. Fuller reported from the Committee, That they had come to feveral Refolutions; which they had directed him co report, when the I loufe will pleafe 10 receive the fame. Ordered, That the Report be received upon Monday Morning next. Mr. Fuller alfo acquainted the Houfe, that he was direfted by the Committee to move, that they may have Leave to fit again. Refolved, That this 1 loufe will, upon Tuefday Sevennight, the 4th Day of March next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the feveral Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Corrway, upon the 14th, 2 2d, 27th, 28th, and 31ft Days of January laft, and the 5th, 10th, and 17th Days of this Inftant February, and this Day, ar.d by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the 3d, joth, and 19th Days of this Inftant February, and this Day, by His Majefty�s Command. And then the Houfe, having continued to fit till Two of the Clock on Saturday Morning, adjourned till Monday Morning, Nine of the Clock. Luna, 24� die Feiruarii ; Anno 6� Georgii IIP4 Regis, 1766. PR AY E R S. ID Enira Bentinck took the Oaths appointed, in order to her Naturalization. Ordered, That Mr. Peter Burrell be added to the Gentlemen, who arc appointed to prepare, and bring in, a Bill, purfuant to the Prayer of the Petition of the Right honourable James Ofwald, and the Right honourable George Sackville, commonly called Lord George Sackville. A Bill for the better Regulation of Pilots for the con- dufting of Ships and Vefiels into and out of the Port of Liverpool, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Hewett, Mr. Gafcoyne, Lord Strange, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Cholm- ley, Mr. Gore, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Lowndes, Mr.Fonereau, Mr. Robinfon, Mr. Cocke, Mr. Butler, Mr. Montagu, Lord Ferney, Mr. Buller, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Gray, Mr. Grant, Lord Grey, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Jenyns, Sir William Meredith, Mr. Shtfiner, Lord Mexborough, Lord George Cavendifh, Mr. Cholmondelcy, Mr. Egerton, Mr. Plumer, Mr. Harris, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Clive, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Nugent, Mr. By de, Sir Alexander Grant, Mr. Bagot, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Lord George Sackville, Sir William Beauchamp Profferand all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Lancafrer, Chef er, Fork, Wejl- moreland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Mr. Hewett reported from rhe Committer, to whom the Petition of feveral of the Truftees, appointed to put in Execution Two feveral Afts of Parliament, made, the one in the Twelfth of King George the Firft, the other in the Twelfth of King George the Second, for repairing the Road from Spittlegate Hill, near Grantham, in the County of Lincoln, to Little Drayton, in the County of Nottingham ; and alfo the Petition of feveral of the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders, and other Inhabitants, of the County of Nottingham, living in and near the Town of Eaji Retford, in the laid County ; and alfo the Petition of feveral of the Truftees, appointed to put in Execution Two feveral Acts of Parliament, made, the one in the 2 Twelfth Mr. Cooke reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Reftor, Churchwardens, Overfeers of the Poor, and Parifhioners, of the Parifh of St. Mary, Whitechapel, within the Tower Divi/ion and County of Middle- fex, the Liberty of His Majefty�s Tower of London, and Liberty of the City of London, 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 laid Petition ; an Ad, made in the Third Year of I Iis prefent Majefty�s Reign, for maintaining, regulating, and employing the Poor in the faid Parilh, was read; whereby Power is given to purchafe Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments within the faid Parifh, and to alter, repair, and furnifh any Buildings within the fame, for receiving, maintaining, and employing the Poor of the faid Parilh, or to build or hire any Houfe or Houfes within the faid Parifh, for the Pur- pofes aforefaid ; and to raife the Sum of f. 4,000, to be charged on the Rates authorized to be levied by the faid Ad. Mr. Thomas Price, Treafurer to the Truftees appointed by the faid Ad, being examined, faid, That the faid Truftees had endeavoured, feveral Times, to purchafe Lands for eroding a Workhoufe, but without Effed; for the Proprietors, knowing that they were confined to the Parilh, always afked them an exorbitant Price: Which Evidence was confirmed by Mr. Robert Brownfon and Mr. John Moore, Two of the faid Truftees; and all the faid Witnefles agreed, that there is a Piece of Ground, which was formerly ufed as a Burying Ground, on the North Side of Whitechapel Road, near the Londt n Workhoufe, which would be extremely proper for the Scite of a Workhoufe for the Poor of the faid Parifh ; and that the faid Parilh have Three Acres of Ground adjoining thereto, which is now lett upon Leafe, Twenty-fix Years of which are yet unexpired. Mr. Edward Hawkins, being examined, faid, That he had furveyed the faid Burying Ground, which is about 'Three Quarters of an Acre; that this will be a very commodious Place for a Workhoufe; and that there are not any Tomb Stones on that Part where the Houfe is pro- pofed to be built. Mr. William Hamilton, being examined, faid, That it was intended to remove the Bodies from that Part of the Burying Ground, where the Houfe was to be built, and to inter them decently in another Part of the Ground; and to bury no more there for the future: That the other Burying Grounds belonging to the Parilh are fufficient, in his Opinion, with proper Management; but, if not, the Parilhioners have contracted for another. Mr. William Kirby, one of the Churchwardens of the faid Parilh, being examined, faid, That the Expence of maintaining, regulating, and employing the Poor of the faid Parilh is much greater at prefent than it would be if a Workhoufe was built. Mr. Thomas Deming, being examined, faid, That there are many Pieces of Ground near, or adjoining to the faid Parilh, which would be very convenient for building a Workhoufe, particularly a Place called The Mulberry Gardens, which he thought as convenient a Situation as pof- fible. Mr. John Billington, being examined, faid, That the Truftees have already borrowed f. 1,100 on the Credit of the faid Aft, upon Annuities for Lives. That fome Alterations are neceflary to be made in the faid Aft, particularly to impowcr the Truftees to raife a larger Sum of Money, and to allow them to give larger Intereft than Nine/^r Cent. Life Annuities ; and that feveral additional Powers are wanting to enforce the Execution of the faid Aft. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to render more effectual an Aft, made in the Third Yeaf of 1 lis prefent Majefty�s Reign, for maintaining, regulating, lating, and employing the Poor within the Parifh of St. Mary, Whitechapel, in the County of Middlefex: And that Mr. Cooke and Sir William Beauchamp Proflor, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. The Earl Ferney prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Common Paftures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and Commonable Lands, in the Parifh of Little Horwood, in the County of Bucks: Ard he fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Sir John Hynde Cotton reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Juftices of the Peace, Gentlemen, Freeholders, and Inhabitants, redding within the Counties of Suf oik and Cambridge, was referred, Th at the Committee had examined the Matter of the faid Petition ; and had dire&ed 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 ; viz. In Support of the Allegations of the faid Petition; Mr. Jeremiah Lagden, being examined, faid, That the Road leading from the Turnpike Road at Haverhill, to a certain Place called the Red Crofs, in the Parifh of Shelford, in the County of Cambridge, is in a ruinous Condition, and in many Places very narrow and incommodious, and cannot be repaired and widened by the prefent Methods prefcribed by Law. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for repairing and widening the Road leading from the prefent Turnpike Road at Haverhill, to Red Crofs, in the Parifh of Shelford, in the County of Cambridge: And that Sir John Hynde Cotton and the Lord Carysfort do prepare, and bring in, the fame. The Houfe being informed, that proper Blanks were not left in the Bill for dividing and inclofing the Commons or Wafte Grounds, called Cuddington, or Bryn Common, in the Townfhip of Cuddington with Bryn, in the Parifh of Weverham, in the County of Chejler, which, upon the 17th Day of this Inftant February, was read a Second Time, and committed; Ordered, That the Committee, to whom the faid Bill was committed, be difcharged from proceeding thereupon. Ordered, That the faid Bill be withdrawn. Ordered, That Leave be given to prefent a proper Bill inftead thereof. A Bill for making a navigable Cut, or Canal, from the River Trent, at or near Wilden Ferry, in the County of Derby, to or near Swark ft one and Willington, in the faid County, Whichnor, Rudgley, Stone, and Burflem, in the County of Stafford, and from thence to or near Lawton and Aftbury, in the County of Chefter, and to the River Mcrfey, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Cholmon- deley, Mr. Grey, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Robinfcn, Mr. Gray, Mr. Fonereau, Lord Grey, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Vaughan, Mr. Dyfon, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Pennant, Mr. Lowndes, Lord Granby, Mr. Howard, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Harris, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Whitworth, Sir John Delaval, Lord George Cavendijh, Lord Strange, Mr. Gore, Sir John Hynde Cotton, Lord George Sutton, Mr. Bootle, Sir George Armytage, Mr. Plumer, Mr. Boulton, Mr. Price, Mr. Bertie, Lord Barrington, Mr. Shuttleworth; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Derby, Stafford, Chefter, Lancafter, Fork, Lincoln, Nottingham, and Warwick: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Sir Robert Long reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for enlarging the Terms and Powers of Two Afts, one of the Twelfth of King George the Firft, and the other of the Fourteenth of his la'e Majefty, for repairing the Road from Hor/ley Upright Gate, 10 the Top of KingfdownHill, in the County of Wilts; and for amending feveral Roads near or adjoining to the faid Road; was committed �, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true ; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto; which they bad 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 fc- verally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be in- grofied. Lord George Cavendijh reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open Fields, Common Meadows, Common Paftures, Commons, and Wafte Grounds, within the Parifh of Willington, in the County of Derby, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and that the Parties concerned had given their Confent to the Bill, to the Satis. faftion of the Committee -, and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto; which they had directed him to report to the Houfe; and he real 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 ingroiTed. Mr. Thomas Gore, according to Order, reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill for punilhing Mutiny and Defertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters, was committed, the Amendments which the Committee had made to the Bill; and which they had directed him to report to the Houfe ; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon rheQueftion 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. Ordered, That Sir John Barrington, Sir John Gibbons, Sir Edward Bayntun, Sir George Tonge, Mr. Wilbraham Bootle, Mr. George Clive, Mr. Jackfin, Mr. Eames, Mr. Powell, Mr. Drax, Mr. Gafcoyne, be added to the Committee to whom the Petition of the Minifters, Churchwardens, and Overfeers of the Poor, and other Principal Inhabitants, of the Parifhes of Saint Andrew Hol- bourn, above the Bars, and Saint George the Martyr, in the County of Middlefex, is referred. A Bill for regulating His Majefty�s Marine Forces, while on Shore, 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 Wednefday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the faid Bill. Mr. Cooper prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for granting an Aid to His Majefty by a Land Tax, to be railed in Great Britain, for the Service of rhe Year Ordered, That the Matter of the faid Petition be heard, at the Bar of this Houfe, upon Monday the 21ft Day of April next. Ordered, That Peter Taylor Efquire, be at Liberty to withdraw his Petition, complaining of an undue Eleftion and Return for the City of Wells, in the County of So- merfet. Ordered, That the BurgefTes and Freemen of the City, or Borough, of Wells, in the County of Somerfet, who have petitioned this Houfe, on behalf of themfclves, and others, Voters of the faid City, or Borough, complaining of an undue Eleftion and Return for the faid City, be at Liberty to withdraw their laid Petition. Ordered, That the Order made, upon Wednefday laft, for further hearing the Matters of the faid Petitions, Tomorrow Morning, be difeharged. The Houfe was moved, that the Order, made upon W�dnefday laft, for the further hearing of the Matter of the Petition of Robert Tudway Efquire, Mayor of the City of Wells, in the County of Somerfet, complaining of an undue Return for the faid City, To-morrow Morning, might be read. And the faid Order being read accordingly; Ordered, That the faid Order be difeharged. Ordered, That Paris Tayler Efquire, and Mr. William Keate, who were ordered to attend this Houfe To-morrow Morning, be difeharged from their faid Attendance. A Meffage from the Lords, by Mr. Graves and Mr. Pechell : Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Common Failures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and Commonable Lan is, lying within the Manor and Parilh of Bladon, in the County of Oxford, without any Amendment : And alfo, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for confirming an Award, made for dividing and in- clofing feveral Common Fields and Downs, in rhe Parilh of Hafelton, in the County of Glouccfler, without any Amendment: And alfo, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for dividing and inclofing the Open Commons, Common Fields, Meadows, and Grounds, lying in the Hamlet of Maugerfl ury, in the Parilh of Stow on the Wold, in the County of GLuceftcr, 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 Walk Grounds, in the Manor, Parilh, and Tything of Great Tew, in the County of Oxford, without any Amendment. And then the Mcflengers withdrew. 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, Thar this Houfe will, upon Friday Morning next, refolve itfelf into the faid Committee. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of Ways and Means for raifing ths Supply granted to His Majefty; Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Friday Morning next, refolve itfelf into the faid Committee. The other Order of the Day being read ; Mr. Fuller reported from the Committee of the whole 1 loule, to whom it was referred to confider further of the feveral Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Ccnway, upon the 14th, 2id, 27th, 2 8th, and 31ft Days of January laft, and the 5th, 10th, 7 O i7th> 17th, and 21ft Days of this Inftant February, and by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the 3d, 10th, i^th, and 21ft Days of this Inftant February, by His Majefty�s Command, the Refolutions 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 follow- eth; viz. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That the King�s Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, of Great Britain, in Parliament aflembled, had, hath, and of Right ought to have, full Power and Authority to make Laws and Statutes, of fufficient Force and Validity to bind the Colonies and People of America, Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, in all Cafes whatfoever. Refolved, That it appears to this Committee, That Tumults and Infurreftions of the moft dangerous Nature have been raifed, and carried on, in feveral of the North American Colonies, in open Defiance of the Powers and Dignity of His Majefty�s Government, and in manifeft Violation of the Laws and Legiflative Authority of this Kingdom. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That the faid Tumults and Infurreftions have been greatly countenanced and inflamed by Votes and Refolutions, pafied in feveral of the Aflcmblies of the faid Provinces, highly injurious to the Honour of His Majefty�s Government, and tending to deftroy the Legal and Conftitutional Dependency �f the faid Colonies on the Imperial Crown and Parliament of Great Britain. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That fuch Perfons, who, on Account of the Defire which they have manifefted to comply with, or to aflift in carrying into Execution, any Ads of the Legiflature of Great Britain, relating to the Britijh Colonies in North America, have fuffered any Injury or Damage, ought to have full and ample Compenfation made to them for the fame, by the refpeclive Colonies in which fuch Injuries or Damages were fuftained. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That the Houfe be moved, to refolve and declare, that all His Majefty�s Subjcfts, refiding in the faid Colonies, who have manifefted their Defire to comply with, or to aflift in carrying into Execution, any Adis of the Legiflature of Great Britain, relating to the Britijh Colonies in North America, have acted as dutiful and loyal Subjefts, and are therefore intitled to, and will afluredly have, the Proteftion of the Houfe of Commons of Great Britain. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That all Perfons, who, by reafon of the Tumults and Outrages in North America, have not been able to procure Stamped Paper, fince the palling of the Aft for laying certain Duties of Stamps in the Colonies, ought to be indemnified from all Penalties and Forfeitures, which they may have incurred, by writing, ingrafting, or printing, on Paper, Vellum, or Parchment, not duly ftamped, as required by the laid Aft, under proper Rellriftions. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That the Houfe be moved, that Leave be given to bring in a Bill to repeal an Aft, pafled in the laft Seflion of Parliament, intituled, �An Aft for granting and apply- � ing certain Stamp Duties, and other Duties, in the � Britifh Colonies and Plantations in America, towards � further defraying the Expences of defending, pro- " tefting, and fecuring the fame ; and for amending � fuch Parts of the feveral Afts of Parliament, relating � to the Trade and Revenues of the faid Colonies and � Plantations, as direft the Manner of determining and � recovering the Penalties and Forfeitures therein men- � tioned.� The Firft Refolution of the Committee being read a Second Time i 1 A Motion was made, and the Queftion being put, That the faid Refolution be poftponed ; It pafled in the Negative. Then, the faid Refolution was, upon the Queftion put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe. The Three next Refolutions of the Committee being feverally read a Second Time, were, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe. The Fifth Refolution of the Committee, that the Houfe be moved, to refolve and declare, that all His Majefty�s Subjefts, refiding in the faid Colonies, who have manifefted their Defire to comply with, or to aflift in carrying into Execution, any Afts of the Legiflature of Great Britain, relating to the Britijh Colonies in North America, have afted as dutiful and loyal Subjefts, and are therefore intitled to, and will afluredly have, the Proteftion of the Houfe of Commons of Great Britain, being read a Second Time ; The Houfe was moved accordingly. Refolved, That this Houfe doth refolve and declare, That all His Majefty�s Subjefts, refiding in the faid Colonies, who have manifefted their Defire to comply with, or to aflift in carrying into Execution, any Afts of the Legiflature of Great Britain, relating to the Britijh Colonies in North America, have afted as dutiful and loyal Subjefts, and are therefore intitled to, and will afluredly have, the Proteftion of the Houfe of Commons of Great Britain. The Sixth Refolution of the Committee, being read a Second Time, was, upon the Queftion put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe. The fubfequent Refolution of the Committee, that the Houfe be moved, that Leave be given to bring in a Bill to repeal an Aft, palfed in the laft Seflion of Parliament, intituled, � An Aft for granting and ap- � P�ng certain Stamp Duties, and other Duties, in � the Britijh Colonies and Plantations in America, to* � wards further defraying the Expences of defending, � protefting, and fecuring the fame; and for amending � fuch Parts of the feveral Afts of Parliament, relating � to the Trade and Revenues of the faid Colonies and � Plantations, as direft the Manner of determining and � recovering the Penalties and Forfeitures therein men- � tioned *,� being read a Second Time ; And a Motion being made, and the Queftion being propofed, That the faid Refolution be re-committed -, The Houfe was moved, that Part of an Aft, made in the 5th Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, intituled, An Aft for an Union of the Two Kingdoms of England and Scotland, might be read. And the fame was read accordingly. Then the Queftion being put, That the faid Refolution be re-committed ; The Houfe divided. The Yeas went forth. Tellers for the Yeas, j { i jj. � I Mr. Gilbert: J * Tellers for the Noes, j ^ '^ ^W� I 2 4O, � t Mr. Garth. J * So it pafled in the Negative. Then the Houfe was moved, purfuant to the faid Refolution. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to repeal an Aft, pafled in the laft Seflion of Parliament, intituled, � An Aft for granting and applying certain � Stamp Duties, and other Duties, in the Britijh Colo- � nies and Plantations in America, towards further de- � fraying the Expences of defending, protefting, and � fecuring the fame ; and for amending fuch Parts of � the feveral Afts of Parliament, relating to the Trade � and Revenues of the laid Colonies and Plantations, � as direft the Manner of determining and recovering � the Penalties and Forfeitures therein mentioned:� And that Mr. Fuller, Mr. Secretary Conway, Mr. Pitt, Mr. do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Motion was made, and the Queftion being put, That it be an Inftru&ion to the faid Gentlemen, that they do make effectual Provifion, in the faid Bill, for pre- ferving the juft Rights and Authority of the Britijh Legiflature, by directing all Votes and Refolutions of the Afiemblies of any of the American Colonies, repugnant to the faid Rights and Authority, to be erafed and expunged before the faid Repeal (hall take Place in fuch refpe&ive Colonies; - It pafied in the Negative. Ordered, That a Bill or Bills be brought in, upon the Firft and Sixth of the faid Refolutions : And that Mr. Fuller, Mr. Secretary Conway, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord John Cavendijh, Mr. Thomas Townjbend Junior, Mr. Onflow, Mr. Attorney General, Mr. Solicitor General, and Mr. Cooper, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Ordered, That the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth, of the faid Refolutions, be humbly laid before His Majefty. Refolved, That an humble Addrefs be prefented to His Majefty, humbly to defire that His Majefty will be gracioufiy pleaftd to give Directions, that the faid Refolutions be tranfmitted to the Governors of His Ma- jefty�s Colonies and Plantations in America, to be by them communicated to the Afiemblies of their refpec- tive Governments. Ordered, That the faid Addrefs be prefented to His Majefty by fuch Members of this Houfe as are of His Majefty�s moft honourable Privy Council Ordered, That Mr. Onflow have Leave to make a Morion, it being after One of the Clock on Tuefday Morning. And he moved the Houfe accordingly, that the Order of the Day, for the Call of the Houfe, be now read. And the faid Order being read accordingly -, Ordered, That the Call of the Houfe be further adjourned till this Day Fortnight. Ordered, That Mr. Whitworth have Leave to make a Motion. And he moved the Houfe accordingly. Ordered, That all Committees have Leave to fit, notwithftanding any Adjournment of the Houfe. And then the Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. Mer cur ii, 26� die Februarii ; Anno 6� Georgii IIP11 Regis, 1766. Parifh of Beffngby, in the County of Pork: And the fame was received �, and read the Firft Time. Refold Thar the Bill be read a Second Time. A Bill for dividing and inclofing the feveral Stinted Paftures, called Cow Cioffi Weft Moor, and Clowder, otherwife Clowther, within the Townfhip of Arncliffe, in the County of Fork, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Sir George Savile, Lord Strange, Mr. Fonereau, Sir Roger New- digate, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Prowfe, Mr. Townjhend, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Harley, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Blackftone, Mr. Houblon, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Ward, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Buller, Lord Frederick Campbell, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Butler, Mr. Cholmondeley, Mr. Gore, Sir Robert Long, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Fitzroy, Mr. Plumer, Mr. Meyrick, Lord Ferney, Mr. Bromley, Mr. Forrefter, Mr. Whichcot, Mr. Lafeelles, Mr. Lambton, Mr. Foley, Mr. Tracey, Mr. Clive, Mr. GiWert, Mr. Fairfax, Mr. Long -, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Fork, Cumberland, Northumberland, Durham, Weft- mcreland, Lancafter, and Stafford . And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Petition of the Gentlemen, Merchants, Freeholders, and Manufacturers of the Townfhip of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners obferve, by the Votes, that 3 Petition has been prefented to the Houfe, letting forth, that the Road leading from Partway, through Bilftone, to Gibbet Lane End, next adjoining to the Turnpike Road leading to Wolverhampton, is in a very ruinous Condition; and praying for a Bill for repairing and widening the Roads in the faid Petition mentioned; and that thefe Petitioners apprehend, that fuch Petition was brought into the Houfe without any general Meeting of the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders, and Manufacturers of the Townfhip of Wolverhampton aforefaid, and the Places adjacent, though Bilftone aforefaid is only a Village in the Parifh of Wolverhampton aforefaid ; and although fuch Meeting was generally defired by the Inhabitants of the faid Town of Wolverhampton, and the Places adjacent, in order partially to obtain a Bill calculated merely for rhe Intereft of the former Petitioners and alleging, That the faid Bill, if pafied into a Law, will be highly injurious to the Manufacturers and Inhabitants of the Townfhip of Wolverhampton and its Neighbourhood : And therefore praying, That the faid Petition, and the Matters therein prayed for, may not pafs into a Law �, and that, as the Petitioners are advifed, it may be necefiary for them to have Afiiftance of Counfel, in Oppofition to the faid Bill, they may be at Liberty to be heard, by their Counfel, in Oppofition thereto. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Gentlemen, Freeholders, Tradefmen, and other Inhabitants, of the Towns of Wednejbury and Bilfton, and the Places adjacent, in the County of Stafford, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, is referred; and that thefe Petitioners be heard, by their Counfel, before the faid Committee, upon their Petition, if they think fit. � Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the faid Committee, that they do admit Counfel to be heard, at the fame Time, in Favour of the faid former Petition, againft the Petition now prefented. Mr. Sandys reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of feveral Noblemen, Gentlemen, and other Inhabitants, Parilhioners of the Town and Parifh of Richmond, Richmond' in the County of Surrey; and alfo the Petition of the Churchwardens, fome of the Overfeers of the Poor, and a great Number of the Inhabitants and Traders, within the Parifh and Town of Richmond, in the County of Surrey ; were feverally referred ; That the Committee had heard the laftmentioned Petitioners by their Counfel, and had examined the Matter of the faid Petitions �, and had directed him to report the fame, as it appeared to them, to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place �, and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the fame was read ; and is as followeth -, viz. To prove the Allegations of the faid firft mentioned Petition, Mr. Percival Hart, being examined, laid, That he lives near the Workhoufe in Richmond', that it is a very corrupt Houfe-, that the Poor are fed with brown Bread; that the Parifh have paid for a Pound and an half of Bread for One Perfon a Day; that they may be furnifh- ed with a fufficient Quantity of white Bread at a lefs Expence; that no well regulated Workhoufe within Five Miles of London, confumes more than Five Pound and an half of Bread, for One Perfon, a Week. That the Witnefs was Churchwarden in the Year 1761, when he found a Debt of �140 on the Parifh ; that in Order to pay the fame, the Rates were raifed from 18J. to 2r. in the Pound, by which Means rhe Debt was difeharged, the Poor maintained, and a Balance of �.129. 11 J. 2^.1 was paid over to Mr. Ki�f the next Overfeer; that they endeavoured to fet the Poor to Work, but could not accomplifh it; that they took off the Salary of the Matter of the Workhoufe, and gave him the Labour of the Poor for his Wages. That the Poor have not been maintained for lefs than �.800 per Annum for Six Years paft ; that the Expence is double to what it was formerly; and the Witnefs thinks they may be maintained in a better and more regular Manner, and at lefs Expence, if proper Powers were given for that Purpofe; that there has been a total Negleftof the Workhoufe for feveral Years. That the Pavements and Highways of the faid Town are in general in a very ruinous Condition, and not cleanf- ed or lighted; that it is neceffary to make a large Drain from the Eaft to the Weft End of the Town, in order to carry off the Water and Filth into the Thames; that it appears by a Survey taken, that the making fuch Drain will coft �. 500. That the Streets are not lighted, not having Power to compel Perfons to hangout proper Lights; that if Power was given to Truftees to regulate the Streets and Highways, and appoint a Nightly Watch, it would be of great Benefit to the Town; and that it would tend much to the Safety of the Inhabitants, if a regular Watch was eftablifhed to patrole the Streets, in cafe of Fires. Mr. Edward Collins, being examined, faid, That he was Overfeer of the Poor in the Year 1761 ; that he collected f. 960. UJ. 2d. h and maintained the Poor for ^.645.9^ 7^- and paid over a Balance of �.315. u. 10^.} to the next Overfeers, and all the Debts were difeharged. That the Witnefs thinks the Poor are not in want of Food, but want Regulating ; that a poor Woman of So Years of Age complained to him for Want; fhe is not maintained in the Workhoufe, but is allowed One Shilling per Week; that there is a Man maintained in the Workhoufe, who is able and does go out to Work, and purs his Earnings into his own Pocket. That he does not think the Poor are fo well maintained and regul .ted, nor fo cheap, as they might be, if proper Powers were given for that Purpofe by Aft of Parliament. That the Streets in the faid Town arc in general very ill paved; that he apprehends a capital Drain is wanted, as well for Cleankncis as Health; that he ruks thefc Regulations may be efiefted without lay- j r any great Bu then on the Inhabitants, but will t .. _r be n Advantage to them by eafing them of their Statute Labour, as it is propofed to exempt all Perfons from paying to the Rates who do not rent a Houfe of Six Pounds a Year. Henry Hobart Efquire, being examined, faid. That his Houfe is fo near rhe Workhoufe, that he is able to fee and hear what palfes there ; that he cannot fpeak as to the Manner of feeding the Poor, but they are nor kept in any Order or Regulation what foe ver; that the Houfe appears to be very dirty, and the People ill cloathed ; that he apprehends if the Poor were to wear Badges, many Perfons who now receive Money would refufe to do it; and that he thinks they may be better maintained and regulated, if proper Powers were given for that Purpole. That the Streets of the faid Town are in many Parts very ruinous; that the Statute Labour, and the Nine Shilling Rate cannot poffibly put them into fufficient Repair, nor can it be done by any other Means than by Aft of Parliament. Colonel Pechel confirmed Mr. Hobart's Evidence. To prove the Allegations of the fecond mentioned Petition, Mr. Thomas Bordican being examined, faid. That he was Overfeer in the Year 1762 ; that he often vifited the Workhoufe, and has feen many of the Poor; that he never heard any Complaints from them; that they were employed by Mr. Clark, who was to have rhe Profits of their Labour for looking after them; that the Number of poor at prefent maintained in the Workhoufe is Eighty-two. Mr John Lewis, being examined, faid, That he is an Inhabitant of Richmond; that he lives near the Workhoufe, and frequently calls in to fee whether the Poor are properly taken Care of; that he never heard any Complaints. That the Workhoufe was not fo clean as it ought to be, the latter Part of the late Maftcr�s Time ; but fince his Death, it has been kept as clean as any Workhoufe in the Kingdom ; that many of the Poor are very old and infirm ; thofe that are able are employed in making Mop Yarn -, and he does not think there is a Neceffity for any new Regulations. That the Streets and Highways are in very good Condition, and there is not an immediate Neceffity for any Reparation of them; and he thinks if the Laws relating to the Poor and the Highways were properly enforced, they are fufficient to regulate them without the Addition of any new Taxes; and that he believes there are Three to One of the Inhabitants of Richmond* againft the prefent Application. Mr. Ambrofe Parifh, the Mafter of the Workhoufe, being examined, faid, That there are Eighty-two Perfons under his Care -, that they are furniffied with good Victuals and Drink, and fuch as are able are fet to Work; and that their Earnings have amounted to �.8 in about Four Months; that many of them are employed in attending upon thofe that are unable to work by Age or Infirmity; that there is a Surgeon and an Apothecary to attend thofe that are fick ; that they are kept very clean, c-nftantly attend divine Service, and are neither idle, diifolute, or unemployed ; and he does not think any new Regulation would be any Advantage to the Inhabitants, as the Witnefs apprehends they cannot be more properly taken Care of, or at any lefs Expence. Mr. Charles Scott, being examined, faid, That the Streets and Highways were never in better Repair in his Memory than at prefent; that the Footways are bur indifferent, but he thinks the Statute Labour and a Rate of Six-pence in the Pound would put them into fufficient Repair; that he does not think there is any Neceffity for more Lights than there are at prefent; that he never heard of any Robberies or Burglaries; that Lamps were fet up bv Sublcription, but they were not thought neceffary, and have therefore been clifeontinued. Mr. Thomas Payne, Surveyor of the Highways, being examined. examined, faid, That the Highways are in tolerable good Repair, but are dirty; that there are Seventy Labourers and Thirteen Teams that do Statute Labour on the Road; and he thinks about f 50 a Year added to the Statute Labour, would be fullkicntto keep them in good Repair; that the Witnefs apprehends there is not any Neccflity for Lamps or Watch, as the Town is not any great Thoroughfare, and therefore thinks them not worth the Expence; that he never heard of any Robberies or Burglaries there. Mr. James Wicks, being examined, laid, That he is acquainted with the Highways at Richmond', that they are in general in very good Repair; that about �.70 a Year would keep them in Repair , that he thinks itne- ceflary to have a large Drain to carry off the Water and Filth. Mr. BenjaminCaJlledine, being examined; faid, That he is acquainted with the Roads at Richmond-, that they are better now than they were Twenty Years ago; that the prefent Drains are fuflicient to carry off the Water; and that the Roads may be kept in Repair by the Common Statute Labour. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for the Relief and Employment of the Poor; and for repairing the Highways, paving, cleanfing, lighting, and watching the Streets, and other places; within the Town and Parifli of Richmond, in the County of Surrey : And that Mr. Sandys, the Lord Grey, Mr. Way, and Mr. Burton, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. The Lord Coleraine reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Mayor, Jurats, and Commoners, of the Town of Folkejione, in the County of Kent, and of feveral of the principal Inhabitants of the faid Town and Parilh of Folkejione, 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, Mr. 'Thomas Mayham faid, That the Parilh Church of Folke- Jlonc ftands at a fmall Diftance from the Cliff; that the Cliff having of late Years been greatly wafhed away by the Sea, the Church is in danger of falling, and is much out of Repair, and that it will be neceflary to ered a Jcttee for the Support thereof. That the lower Part of the faid Town is defended from the raging of the Sea by 7 wo Jettees or Heads, which are now very much out of Repair; and if the fame are fuffered to go totally to Decay, the lower Part of the faid Town muft be overflowed and carried away by the Sea ; and that the Inhabitants of the faid Town are unable to repair and fupport the fame. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for the Support and Prefervation of the Parilh Church of Folkejione, and the lower Part of the Town of Folkejione, in the County of Kent: And that the Lord Coleraine, Mr. Jackfon, Mr. FairJ'ax, Sir 'ThomasHales, Sir Brooke Bridges, and Mr. Bouverie, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Mr. Cholmley reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Principal Inhabitants, Mafters, and Owners of Ships, of the Town of Whitby, in the County of 2�crk, 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 feveral Ads relating to the Piers of Whitby., were read : Mr. John Woolier, being examined, faid, That he is an Engineer, and has been employed many Years by the Truflces for repairing Whitby Harbour: That the laid VOL. XXX. Truftees have been at great Expences in repairing the Piers ot the faid Harbour, and in deepening the Channel, for which Purpofe they have borrowed the Sum of �. 11,700; and when their Accounts were Hated in July laft, f. 5,500 Rill remained owing upon Bond. . That the Foundation of the Weft Pier is very much weakened by the wafning away of the Marl, or foft Rock on which it is built; and both the Piers exceflive- ly fhaken by the Seas; and it is become ab/olvtely ne- ceffary to repair them, which will be cxptnliw, being eftimated at �.11,000 and upwarus; and that it will not be poffible to pay off the remaining Debt, anil to complete the neceflary Repairs without the further Aid of Parliament. That the Powers given by the faid Adis relating to the Authority given and Salary to be allowed to the Pier Mafter, are found to be infufheient fui the well governing the faid Harbour, and properly rewarding the faid Service ; and that many other Powers are neceflary for carrying the laid A&s into Execution. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for further continuing the Duty of One Farthing per Chal- der on Coals, granted by an Act of the Firft Year of Queen Anne, and revived and continued by an Act of the Eighth of King George the Second, for improving and repairing the Piers and Harbour of Whitby, in rhe County of 2'ork, and for better regulating the Shipping there: And that Mr. Cholmley, Sir George Montgomery Metbam, Mr. Lcfcelles, and Mr. Hewett, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Mr. Cholmley prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Meadows, Paftures, Common and Wafte Grounds, within the Townlhip of Beef ord, otl.cv- wife Becforth, in the County of 2'ork: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Mr. Cholmondeley prefented to the Houfe, according ro Order, a Bill for making and maintaining a Navigable Cut, or, Canal, from Witton Bridge, to Nether Knutsford, by or near Mottram Andrew ; and from thence to Mac- clesjield; and from or near Mottram aforefaid, to Stock- port, in the County of Chejier, and from thence to Man- cbejler, in the County of Lancajler : And the fame was received; and read the Firft l ime. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Petition of the Merchants and Traders in the City of Glafgow, and its Neighbourhood, fubferibing: And alfo, . A Petition of the Merchants and Traders in the Town of Dumbarton, and its Neighbourhood, fubferibing : And alfo, A Petition of the Merchants and Traders in the Town of Renfrew, and its Neighbourhood, fubferib- ing� ? - Were feverally prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That very great and interefting Advantages muft neceflarily accrue to the Kingdom in general, and to the feveral Places above- mentioned and the Petitioners in particular, from the intended Amendments of that Part of the A6t pafled in the Twenty-fixth Year of his late Ma- jefty King George the Second, defcribing the Road leading from the City of Glafgow to Luggie Water, from thence by the Town of Cumbernauld, to Redburn Bridge, in the Counties of Lanark and Dumbarton: And therefore praying, That the �faid Bill may pais into a Law, under fuch Regu- � htions as to the I loufe flnll feem meet. And the faid Petitions were kverally ordered to be referred to the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Truftees, appointed by an A& palled in the Twenty-fixth Year of for repairing, and keeping in Repair, the Road fuch Bridge, to Hademore Gate, in the Road leading through Whittington, to the City of Litchfield : And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolded, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Mr. Gilbert reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of leveral of the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders, principal Inhabitants, and Manufacturers of the Counties of Stafford and Chejler, and of the Towns of Newcajlle under Line and Namptwich, in the faid Counties, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, was referred,That the Committee had examined the Matterof 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; William BeardEfqynre, being examined,faid,That the Road leading from the Floodgates upon the Mill Dam,near Newcajlle, through Keel, and over Madeley Heath, to the Turnpike Road leading from Woor to Chejler, near the Town of Namptwich, is in moft Parts very ruinous and deep; that there are many hollow Ways, which are very narrow and incommodious ; and that the faid Road cannot be effectually repaired and widened by the Laws in being. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for repairing and widening the Road leading from the Floodgates upon the Mill Dam, in or near the Town of Newcajlle under Line, in the County of Stafford, to the Turnpike Road leading from Woor to Chejler, near the Town of Namptwich, in the County of Chejler: And that Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Anfon, and the Lord Griy, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Lord Brownlow Bertie reported from the Committee,' to whom the Petition of the Right honourable Brownlow Earl of Exeter and George Pochin Efquire, Lords of the Manors of Bourn and Bourn Abbots, in the Countyof Lincoln, the Reverend Humphry Hyde, Vicar of the Parilh of Bourn aforefaid, Fhomas Buckwortb Efquire, and others, Proprietors of Lands and other Eftates, within the faid Manors and Parilh, 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. Robert Pedley, being examined, faid, That there are within the Manor and Parilh of Bourn, in the County of Lincoln, feveral Open and Common Fields, Meadows, Wafte and Fen Grounds, which are frequently overflowed with Water; and that it would be of great Advantage to the Parties interefted, if Power was given for allotting, dividing, inclofing, and draining the fame. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for allotting, dividing, inclofing, and draining feveral Open and Common Fields, Meadows, Wafte and Fen Grounds, within the Manor and Parilh of Bourn, in the County of Lincoln : And that Lord Brownlow Bertie, and Mr. Whtchcot, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Sir Charles Mordaunt reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing a certain Open and Common Field, called Bidford Common Field, within the Parilh of Bidford, in the County of Warwick, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true ; and that the Parties concerned had given their Con- fent to the Bill, to the Satisfaction of the Commitee, except John Palmer, who is poflefled of one Acre of Land, of the Value of Five Shillings a Year, and who could not be found; and that the Committee had gone 4 through 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 'fable : Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, one of them was difagrecd to, and the reft were agreed toby the Houle; and feveral Amendments were made by the Houfe to the Bill. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofled. Ordered, That Mr. Baeon, Mr. Shiftier, Mr. Byde, Mr. Prefott, and the Members who ferve for the City of London, be added to the Committee to whom the Petition of the Minifters, Churchwardens, and Overfeers of the Poor, and other Principal Inhabitants, of the Parifhes of Saint Andrew Holbourn, above the Bars, and Saint George the Martyr, in the County of Middlefex, is referred. An ingrofled Bill for enlarging the Terms and Powers Of Two Afts, one of the Twelfth of King George the Firft, and the other of the Fourteenth of his late Majefty, for repairing the Road from Horjley Upright Gate, to the Top of Kingfdown Hill, in the County of Wilts; and for amending feveral Roads near or adjoining to the faid Road; was read the third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be. An Aft for enlarging the Terms and Powers of Two Afts, one of the J welfth of King George the Firft, and the other of the Fourteenth of his late Majefty, for repairing the Road from Horjley Upright Gate, to the Top of Kingfdown Hill, in the County of Wilts ; and for amending leveral Roads near or adjoining to the faid Road. Ordered, That Sir Robert Long do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. Ordered, That Mr. Kynajlon do make the Report from the Committee, to whom rhe Bill for dividing and indofin'' the Common Fields, Common Paftures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and Commonable Lands, within the Manor and Parifh of Steeple Afton, in the County of Oxford, was committed. Mr. Kynajlon accordingly reported from the faid Committee, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true; and chat the Parties concerned had given their Confent to the Bill, to the Satisfaction of the Committee, except Robert George and William Wing, who refufed to fign the Bill, and who are poflefied of Three Yards Land and Three Quartersofa Yard L.and; and that the whole Lands to be inclofcd confift of Forty One Yards Land and One Eighth ; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto, which they had direfted to be reported to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second l ime, One by One; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofled. An ingrofled Bill for punifhing Mutiny and Defcr- tion, 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 Defertion, and for the belter Payment of the Army and their Quarters. Ordered, That Mr. Thomas Gore do carry the Bill to the Lords, and delire their Concurrence. Ordered, That Mr. Barrow be added to the Gentle- men, who are appointed to prepare, and bring in� a Hill tor encouraging the Cultivation, and for the better Ercfervatton, of Trees, Roots, Plants and Shrubs. Mr. Comptroller reported to the Houfe, that His Majefty had been attended with the Refolutions and Ad- drefs of the Houfe, of Friday laft ; and that His Majefty had commanded him to acquaint this Houfe, that He will give Directions, as defired by the laid Addrefs. Mr. Speaker acquainted the Houfe, that the Clerk of this Houfe had received feveral Returns to the Order of the Houle of the 29th Day of January laft, � That � the Chief Magiftrate, or Clerk of the Market, of the � feveral Cities and County Towns of England and � Wales, do forthwith tranfmit, to the Clerk of this � Houfe, Accounts of the Prices of Corn, in fuch � Cities and Towns refpeftively, as the fame ftood in � the Month of December hit, and in this prefent � Month of January ; diftinguiihing the Proportion � of the Meafure ufed in fuch Cities and Towns to � the Standard Meaiure;� and that the laid Returns were now upon the Table. Ordered, That the faid Returns be referred to the Committee, who arc appointed to confidcr of the State of the Corn Trade of this Kingdom, and the feveral Laws relating thereto. The faid Returns are preferved amongft the other Papers of this Seffion. A Bill 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-fix, 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. To-morrow Morning, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houle, upon the faid Bill. A Bill to remove all Doubts, concerning fuch Part of an Act made in the iaft Sdiion of Parliament, as relates to the afeertaining of the Duties upon the Importation of certain Linen Cloth of the Manufacture of Rufia ; and to obviate a Doubt, with Refpeft to the Power of granting certain Licences for the Importation of Tea, under rhe Authority of an Aft made in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty ; 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, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the faid Bill. A Meffage from the Lords, by Mr. Graves and Mr. Pechell: Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft to indemnify fuch Perfons as have omitted to qualify themfelves for Offices and Employments, and to indemnify Juftices of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenants, and Officers of the Militia, or others, who have omitted to regifter, or deliver in, their Qualifications, within the Time limited by Law; and for giving further Time for thole Purpofes; and to indemnify Members and Officers, in Cities, Corporations, and Borough Towns, whofe Admiflions have been omitted to be Stamped, according to the feveral Afts of Parliament now in Force for that Purpol'e, or, having been ftamped, have been loft or miflaid; and for allowing them Time to provide Admiflions duly ftamped ; with- out any Amendment. And then the Meffengers withdrew. Sir John Sir John Glwne reported from the Committee appointed to inquire into the Price of Carriage of Goods, and the Weight ufually drawn by Common Stage Waggons ; and of the feveral Laws relating thereto �, and to report their Opinion thereupon to the Houfe; That the Committee had inquired accordingly, and had come to feveral Refutations ; which they had d.reded him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place ; and afterwards deliveredit in at the Clerk�s fable: Where the fame was read ; and is as followeth; viz. The refpeftive Book keepers to the Hereford, Exeter, Chef er, Norwich, Mancbefer, and Birmingham Common Stage Waggons, being feverally examined, faid, in general, That" their Waggons ufually carried from 50 Hundred Weight to Pour Tons, and fometimes Four Tons and an half. That in thole Places where the Price of Carriage has been fettled by the Quarter Selfions, they ufually rake the full Price from Gentlemen, and fomewhat lets from Tradefmen, as Tradefmen�s Goods are, in general, much heavier in Proportion to the Space they occupy ; and all the Witneffes faid. That when Goods are bulky and light, they are ufually carried by Contract, at a higher Price than is allowed, or taken, for more weighty Commodities ; and that, in this Refpeft, they make no Difference between Gentlemen and Tradefmen: and that as to Money, Plate, Writings, and other valuable Effects, if entered as fuch, they are looked upon to be infured by the Matters of the Waggons, and are paid for accordingly. Then an Aft of the 3d Year of King William and Queen 3Ian, Cap. 12. and another made in the 21ft Year of King George 2d, Cap. 28. were read. By the former of which, Juftices of the Peace are required, at their Quarter Selfions after Eaftcr, yearly, to affefs the Prices of Land Carriage of Goods to be brought into any Place within their Jurifdiftions, by any Common Carrier, and fuch Rates to certify to the Mayors, and other Chief Officers of the Market Towns, to be bung up in fome public Place; and no Common Carrier (hall take above fuch Rates, upon pain of forfeiting Five Pounds, to be levied by Diftrefs and Sale of his Goods, by Warrant from any Two Juftices where fuch Carrier Ihall refide: And by the latter of the faid Aits, it is enacted. That if any Waggoner Ihall demand or take any greater Price for bringing of Goods to the City of London, or any Place within the Bills of Mortality, than is allowed by the Juftices of the Peace for the County or Place from whence fuch Goods are brought, for carrying of Goods from London to the faid County or Place, every fuch Waggoner Ihall forfeit the Sum of Five Pounds, to be levied in the Manner by the laft mentioned Aft direfted, or*by Diftrefs and Sale of his Goods, by Warrant from Two Juftices of the Peace for the Counties of Middle- [ex or Surrey, or the City of London, or the City and Liberty of ^T^w/^w; and the refpeftive Clerks of the Peace are required, immediately after Eajter Seffion yearly, to certify to the Lord Mayor of the City of London, and to the Clerks of the Peace of Middlefex and Surrey, and City and Liberty of Wejiminjier, the Rates made for the Carriage of Goods, in purfuance of the laid Aft, in their refpeftive Counties and Places; which Certificate, or an attefted Copy thereof, is to be deemed fufficient Evidence of the Rates and Prices fet for the carrying Goods to any County or Place. Then your Committee, in order to afeertain how far the faid Afts had been complied with in Relation to fixing fuch Rates, and tranfmitting Certificates Thereof in the Manner thereby direfted, examined Mr. James Jefferfon, Deputy Clerk of the Peace for the County of Middlefex, and the Chief Clerk in the Office of the Town Clerk of the City of London; by whole Examination, and by the Certificates by them produced, it appeared, that there are Eighteen Counties in England, from which no Certificate has ever been returned in purfuance of the faid laft mentioned Aft. Upon the whole Matter, your Committee came to the following Refutations: Refolded, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That the feveral Laws for fettling the Rates of Carriage of Goods are not complied with. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That Profecutions of Offenders againft the Afts of the Third Year of King William and Queen Mary, and of the 21ft Year of King George the Second, for fettling the Rates of the Carriage of Goods, are attended with Difficulties; as the Penalties are to be recovered in the Place where fuch Offenders refide, or in the Cities of London or Wejiminjier, or in the Counties of Middlefex or Surrey, and not elfewhere. Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That the Houfe be moved, that leave be given to bring in a Bill to explain, amend, and reduce into One Aft, fo much of the faid Acts, as relates to the fettling the Rates of the Carriage of Goods. The Two firft of the laid Refutations being feverally read a Second Time, were, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, agreed to by the Houfe. The fubfequent Refolution of the Committee being read a Second Time; Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to explain, amend, and reduce into One Aft of Parliament, the feveral Laws now in being, for fettling the Rates of the Carriage of Goods, as relates to fettling the Rates of the Carriage of Goods: And that Sir John Glynne, Mr. Wbichcoi, Mr. John Robinfon, Mr. Molef- worth, and the Lord Strange, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of the High Sheriff, Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders and Occcupiers of Lands in the County of Hereford: And alfo, A Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and others, of the County of Worcejier, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, on behalf of themfelves, and very many others, the Inhabitants, Proprietors and Occupiers of Lands, in the faid County: And alfo, A Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and others, of the County of Gloucejler, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, on Behalf of themfelves, and very many others, the Inhabitants, Proprietors and Occupiers of Lands, in the faid County: And alfo, A Petition of the High Sheriff, Gentry, Clergy and Freeholders of the County of Devon: And alfo, A Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy and Freeholders of the County of Somerfct, affembled at the General Quarter Seffions at Wells, on the 16th Day of January 1766: And alfo, A Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the County of Cornwall: And alfo, A Petition of the High Sheriff, Gentlemen Clergy, Freeholders, and Occupiers of Land in the County of Monmouth: And alfo, A Petition of the Mayor, Aidermen, and Common Council of the City of Exeter, and of the Principal Inhabitants of the faid City,and theCounty thereof: Andalfo, A Petition of the Mayor, Aidermen, and Citizens of the City of Hereford: And alfo, A Petition of the Bailiff, and Principal Burgefles, and other Inhabitants of the Borough of �Tewkejlury, in the County vf Gloucejler: And alfo, A Petition of the Bailiffs, Juftices, and Corporation of the Borough of Leominjkr, in the County of Hereford: and Allo, A Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and other Principal Inhabitants of the Town, Borough, and Parifli of AJhburton : And alfo, A Petition of the Portreeve, Bailiff, and other Principal Inhabitants, Houfekeepers of the Borough and Town of Honiton, in the County of Devon; Wero Were feverally prefenceci to the Houfe, and read ; Reprefenting to the Houfe, That the Petitioners, and others, are fubjed to many Grievances, by fo much of Two ftveral Afis, palled in the 3d and 4th Years of the Reign of His prelent 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 Excife Laws: And praying, That they may be relieved in the Premiles, by a Repeal of the faid ACts, fo far as the fame relate to the laying a Duty on the Makers of Cyder and Perry; or in fuch other Manner as the Houfe (hall think meet. And the faid Petitions were feverally ordered to lie upon the Table. Ordered, That the faid Bill be read a Second Time, To morrow Morning. The Order of the Day being read ; The Houfe refolved itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill for regulating His Majefty�s Marine Forces, while on Shore. Mr Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Stephens took rhe Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr. Stephens 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 To-morrow Morning. Sir Thomas Cave prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Meadows, Paftures, and Wafte Grounds, in the Parifh of Blaby, in the County of I.d- cefter : And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolded, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Sir John Palmer prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Meadows, Paftures, and Wafte Grounds, in the Parifh of Counteftborpe, in the County of Leicefter; And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Petition of the Churchwarden of the Parifh of Saint George the Martyr, the feveral Houfekcepers, ancient Inhabitants, and Tradefmen, whofe Names are thereunto fubfcribed, paying Scot and Lot, in the Pariffics of Saint Andrew, Holbourn, above the Bars, and Saint George the Martyr, in the County of Middlefex, on behalf of themfelves, and many others, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Petitioners are informed, by the Votes of the Houfe, of a Petition of the Minifters, Churchwardens, and Overfeers of the Poor, and other principal Inhabitants, of the Pariffies of Saint Andrew Holbourn, above the Bars, and Saint George the Martyr, in the County of Middlefex, for Leave to bring in a Bill for the Purpofes therein mentioned; and that, by the Laws now in being, very effectual Provifion is made for the eftablifliing and well governing the Nightly Watch, and for chanting and enlightening the feveral Streets, Lanes, Ways, Pafages, and Places, within the Parifhes aforefaid ; and that the Poor of the faid Pariffies are numerous, but are decreafing ; and that the Increale of the Poor�s Rate is owing to the interfering of levcral of the Magiftrates, and Gentlemen, Promoters of the Bill in Queftion, in the Choice of Parochial Officers, contrary to the Nomination of the Pariffiioners; and that the Petitioners conceive it would not be for the Eafe of the Inhabitants, if the Rates and Aflcflments were confoiidated into One Joint or General Fund, to be collected together; and that the Petitioners are extremely averfe to fpccial and feleft Committees, and moft earneftly crave that the Choice of Parochial Officers, and the making of Parochial Rates, or AflelT- ments, may be continued to the Pariffiioners in general : And therefore praying, That the Petitioners may be heard, by themfelves or Counlel, againft the faid Petition ; or that the Petitioners may have fuch other Relief in the Premifes, as to the Houfe ffiall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Minifters, Churchwardens, and Overfeers of the Poor, and other principal Inhabitants, of the Pariffies of Saint Andrew, Holbourn, above the Bars, and Saint George the Martyr, in the County of Middlefex, is referred ; and that thefe Petitioners be heard, by their Count'd, before the faid Committee, upon their faid Petition, if they think fit. Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the faid Committee, that they do admit Counlel to be heard, at the fame Time, in favour of the former Petition, againft the Petition now prefented. Ordered, That all have Voices, who come to the faid Committee. Mr. Cbolmley prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for further continuing the Duty of One Farthing per Chalder on Coals, granted by an Aft of the Firft Year of Queen Anne, and revived and continued by an Aft of the Eighth of King George the Second, for improving and repairing the Piers and Harbour of Whitby, in the County of Folk, and for better regulating the Shipping there: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft 1 imc. Refolded, That the Bill be read a Second Time. An ingrofled Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Common Paftures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and Commonable Lands, within the Manor and Parilh of Steeple Ajion, in the Counry of Oxford, was read the Third Time. Refolded, That the Bill do pals : And that the Title be, An Aft for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Common Paftures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and Commonable Lands, within the Manor and Parifh of Steeple Afton, in the County of Oxford. Ordered, That Mr. Kynaftun do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. Mr. Cholmondeley prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Commons or Wafte Grounds, called Cuddington or Bryn Common, in the Townffiip of Cuddington with Bryn, in the Pariffi of Weverbam, in the County of Chefter: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Mr. Cbolmley reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for inclofing and dividing the Common Wafte Grounds, Open Fields, Open Meadows, Grounds, and Ings, within the Pariffi of Stillington, in the County of York, was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill; and found the fame to be true; and that the Parties concerned had given their Confent to the Bill, to the Satisfaftion of the Committee, except the Proprietors of Sixty Acres of Land, in the faid Fields and Ings, who refufed their Confent to the Inclofure, and the Proprietors of Twenty-feven Acres, who were not at Home when Application was made for their Confer.ts; and that the whole of the faid Fields and Ings contain Six hundred Acres, or thereabouts ; and alfo, except the Proprietors of Eight Common Rights, who refufed to confent, and the Proprietors of Seven Common Rights, who were from Home, when Application was made for their Confents; and that the whole Number of Common Rights are Eighty-nine*, 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 ieverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe; and feveral Amendments were made, by the Houfe, to the Bill. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrolfed. An ingrofled B.ll from the Lords, intituled, An Aft to diHblve the Marriage of John Matthews with Ann Matthews his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purpofes therein mentioned; was read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. An ingrofled Bill for enlarging the Term and Powers of an Aft of the fourth Year of his late Majefty, for repairing the Road from Godftone, in the County of Surrty, to High Gate, in the Pariffi of Eaft Grinftead, in the County of Sujfex, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do paG: And that the Title be, An Aft for enlarging the Term and Powers of an Aft of the Fourth Year of his late Majefty, for repairing the Road from Godjlone, in the County of Surrey, to High Gate, in the Pariffi of Eaft Grinftead, in the Counry of Sujfex. Ordered, That Lord George Sackville do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. Mr. Thomas Pitt prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for repairing and widening the Road from the Crofs, or Market Place, in the Town of Winborn Minfter, to the Crofs, or Market Place, in the Town of Blandford Forum, in the County of Dorfet: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Ordered, That Sir Laurence Dundas and Mr. Dundas, be added to the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Truftees appointed by an Ad patted in the 26th Year of his late Majefty, for repairing feveral Roads leading to the City of Glafgow, thereunto fubfcribing, is referred. Sir George Savile reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for repairing and widening the Road from Willas Pump, in the Town of Beveiley, in the Eaft Riding of the County of Fork, through Molfroft and Great Driffield, to Kendell Houfe �, and from Molfcroft to Bainton Balk, in the laid Riding-, 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 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 fcverally 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 To-morrow Morning. A Petition of the Merchants, Traders, and Manufacturers of Cutleiy and other Hardware, of the Town of Sheffield, in the County of Forb, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Complaining of a great Decay in their Trade to North America: And praying fuch Relief in the Premifes, as to the Houfe (hall feem 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 Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Conway, upon the 14th, 22d, 27th, 28th, and 31ft Days of January laft, and the 5th, 10th, 17th, and 2 1 ft Days of this Inftant February, and by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, upon the 3d, 10th, 19th, and 21ft Days of this Inftant February, by His Majefty�s Command. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Tuefday Morning next, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill for regulating the Qualifications of the Proprietors of Eaf India Stock. A Petition of the Inhabitants of the Parilhes of Saint George, Saint Saviour, Saint Olave, Saint John, Saint Thomas, and of Blackman Street, and Kent Street, in rhe Parifh of Saint Mary Newington, and of Bermondfey Street, in the Parilh of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondfey, in the County of Surrey, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That the Petitioners obferve, that a Bill is depending for paving the High Street, Part of White Street, and Kent Street, in the Borough of Southwark, and Parilh of Newington, in the County of Surrey, anti for cleanfing, lighting, and watching, the fame, and alfo certain Courts, Yards, and other Places, adjoining thereto, and for preventing Annoyances in the faid Streets ; and that it would be of Public Utility, if the Streets, and other Public Carriage Ways and Paflages, within the faid Parilhes and Places contiguous thereto, were to be new paved and regulated, and, together with the feveral Courts, Yards, Alleys, Paflages, and Places, not being Thoroughfares, within the fame, but contiguous thereto, were to be cleanfed and lighted, and a regular Watch kept therein, and proper Powers given to remove and prevent Nufances, and other Obftruftiona therein, and, for the expediting thereof, if Power was given to lay a proportionable Tax, on the Inhabitants of the faid feveral Streets and other Places, and a final! Toll to be collected on the feveral Roads communicating therewith : And therefore praying, Thar Provi- fion may be made in the laid Bill for the above Purpofes. Ordered, 'I 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 Sir Jofeph Mawbfy, Mr. Black- Jlone, Mr. Eiliot, Sir Robert Long, Mr. Begot, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Upton, Lord Grey, Mr. Gore, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Fonereau, Lord Frederick Campbell, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Town/hcnd, Mr. Grant, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Wynn, Sir Francis Pincent, Mr. Buller, Mr. Kyna- JI on, Mr. Edmonftcne, Sir Richard Warwick Bamtfylde, Mr. Ryder, Nir. Coutts, Nir. Jennings, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Bootie, Mr. Morton, Mr. Pryfe Campbell, Mr. Stephens, Mr. Wood, Sir Robert Burdett, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Foley, Sir William Baker, Mr. De Grey, Sir Anthony Abdy; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Suffix, and Middlefex-, and for the City of London, and the Cinque Ports: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber ; and have Power to fend for Perlons, Papers, and Records. A Meflage from the Lords, by Mr. Graves and Mr. Pecbell: Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for confirming Articles of Agreement for dividing, allotting, and inclofing the Common Field Lands, within the Parilh of Heddington, in the County of Wilts, without any Amendment: And alfo, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for naturalizing Jean Pierre Michel, without any Amendment. And then the Meflengers withdrew. Mr. Stephens, according to Order, reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill for regulating His Majefty�s Marine Forces, while on Shore, was committed, the Amendments which the Committee had made to the Bill; and which they had direfted him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Queftion fcverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe.. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrolfed. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to. refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill 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-fix ; Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the laid Committee, that they have Power to receive a Claule of Credit. Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the faid Committee, that they have Power to receive a Claufe, co make good the Deficiency of the Land Tax of the Year 1764, out of the Supplies granted fur the Year 1766. Then the Houfe refolved itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Onflow took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker relumed the Chair. Mr. Onflow 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 Houle will plealc to receive the fame. Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow Morning. The Houfe, according to Order, refolved itfclf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the Bill to remove all Doubts, concerning fue l Part of an Aft, made in the laft Sefiion of Parliament, as relates to the afeer- taining of the Duties upon the Importat on of certain Linen�Cloth of the Manufacture of Ruff a ; and to alfo taking Notice of the faid Application: And praying, That Provifion may be made for making and maintaining fuch Road over the Lands aforefaid, and through Able-well Street afore- faid, in fuch Manner, as the Houfe Ihall think proper. And the faid Petitions were feverally ordered to be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Petition of the feveral Gentlemen, Freeholders, Tradef- men, and other Inhabitants, of Walfall, in the County of Stafford, and of the City of Litchfield, and Places adjacent, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, is referred. An ingrofled Bill for dividing and inclofing a certain Open and Common Field, called Bidford Common Field, within the Parifh of Bidford, in the County of Warwick, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Aft for dividing and inclofing a certain Open and Common Field, called Bidford Common Field, within the Parifh of Bidford, in the County of Warwick. Ordered, That Sir Charles Mordaunt do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. The Lord Carysfort reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill to enable the moft noble Francis Duke of Bridgewater, to extend a Branch of his Navigable Cut, or Canal, upon Sale Moor, in the County of Chefter, to the Market Town of Stockport, in the faid County, was committed, That the Committee had examined tho Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true 5 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 j 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 Bill for further continuing the Duty of One Farthing thing per Chalder on Coals, granted by an Aft of the Firft Year of Queen Anne, and revived and continued by an Aft of the Eighth of King George the Second, for improving and repairing the Piers and Harbour of Whitby, in the County of Fork, and for better regulating the Shipping there, was read a Second 'l ime. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Cholm- ky. Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Fairfax, Mr Kynafton, Mr. Prowfe, Mr. Tudway, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Butler, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Cholmondeley, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Sbiffner, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Egerton, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Clive, Mr. Montagu, Lord Strange, Mr. Cujl, Mr. Norris, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Bui- Ur, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Shuttleworth, Mr. Gore, Mr. Powlet, Lord Ferney, General Honey wood, Mr. Fitzroy, Lord Coleraine, Lord George Sackville, Mr. Egerton, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Fitzherbert, Mr. Drake, Mr. John Pitt, Mr. Thoroton, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Burrell-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Fork, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, Wejlmoreland, and Lancajler: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Ordered, That Mr. Hewett be added to the Gentlemen, who are appointed to prepare, and bring in, a Bill, purfuant to the Prayer of the Petition of Richard Wil- Jon Efquire, Lord of the Manor of Marjion, in the County of the City of Fork, and Owner of divers Mef- fuages, Cottages, Lands, and Tenements there, Jonathan Meffenger Clerk, Reftor of the Parilh and Parilh Church of Marjion aforefaid, and of William Hill Gentleman, Matthew Hill Gentleman, Jofeph Acomb, John Grainger, Thomas Silverjidcs, John Spencer, Charles Gill, John Cartwright, Quintin Acomb, William Palfreyman, Thomas Wakefield, John Ward, and Henry Acomb, Owners and Proprietors of divers other Mefluages, Cottages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, within the faid Manor of Marjion. A Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Meadows, Failures, Common and Wafte Grounds, within the Townlhip of Beeford, otherwife Beeforth, in the County of Fork, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Cbolm- ley, Mr. Cholmondeley, Mr. Clive, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Cujl, Mr. Fonereau, Lord Strange, Mr. Lowndes, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Kynaf- ton, Mr. Egerton, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Norris, Mr. Townf- hend, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Fidler, General Honywood, Mr. Prowfe, Mr. Tudway, Mr. Hayes, Sir Walter Blacket, Mr. Hopkins, Mr. Legh, Mr. Gore, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Fitzherbert, Lord Grey, Mr. Bagot, Sir Roger New- digate, Lord George Sackville, Mr. Knight, Sir Edward Bayntun, Mr. Parker, Mr. Dyfon, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Fitzroy; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Fork, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, Wejlmoreland, and Lancajler: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. An ingrofied Bill for inclofing and dividing the Common Wafte Grounds, Open Fields, Open Meadows, Grounds, and Ings, within the Parifh of Stillington, in the County of Fork, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs : And that the Title be, An Aft for inclofing and dividing the Common Wafte Grounds, Open Fields, Open Meadows, Grounds, and Ings, within the Parilh of Stillington, in the County of Fork. Ordered, That Mr. Cholmley do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. An ingrofied Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open Fields, Common Meadows, Common Failures, Com- VOL. XXX. mons, and Wafte Grounds, in the Parifh of Willington, in the County of Derby, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Aft for dividing and inclofing tiie Open Fields, Common Meadows, Common Failures, Commons, and Wafte Grounds, in the Parilh of Willington, in the County of Derby. Ordered, That Lord George Cavendijh do carry the Bill to the Lords, and delire their Concurrence. Mr. Shuttleworth prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing feveral Common Arable Fields,Common Meadow Grounds, and the Moor, or Common, within the Manor and Townlhip of Naburn, 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. Sir George Savile prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for inclofing and dividing a Common, called Thorpe Marfh, and a Piece of Land, called Grumble- birjl, within the Parilh of Barmby upon Dunn, 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. A Petition of Sir Robert Burdett Baronet, in Behalf of himfelf and others, Proprietors of Open Field Lands, belonging to the Manor of the Priory of Repton, within the Parilh of Repton, in the County of Derby, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Taking Notice, That a Bill is depending in the Houfe, for dividing and inclofing the Open Fields, Common Meadows, Common Failures, Commons, and Wafte Grounds within the Manor of Repton, in the County of Derby ; and letting forth, that the Lands of the Petitioner, and others, in the faid Open Fields, belonging to the laid Manor of the Priory, lie intermixed and difperfed, and are, in their prefent Situation, incapable of Improvement, and it would be advantageous to the feveral Perlons intereft- ed therein, if the fame were divided and inclofed, together with the faid Open Fields, Common Meadows, Common Failures, Commons, and Wafte Grounds, within the faid Manor of Repton: And therefore praying, That Provifion may be made in the faid Bill, for dividing and inclofing the faid Open Field Lands, belonging to the faid Manor of the Priory, in fuch Manner as to the Houfe Hull feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open Fields, Common Meadows, Common Failures, Commons, and Wafte Grounds within the Manor of Repton, in the County of Derby, is committed. Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the faid Committee, that they have Power to make Provifion in the laid Bill, purfuant to the Prayer of the faid Petition. * A Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open Fields, Grounds, and Waftes, within the Townlhip or Parilh of Bejfingby, in the County of Fork, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Sir George Savile, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Fairfax, Mr. Gore, Mr. Buller, Mr. Vane, Mr. Shuttleworth, Mr. Butler, Mr. Harris, Mr. Townjhend, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Prowfe, Mr. Pitt, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Clive, Mr. Tudway, General Honywood, Mr. Egerton, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Beji, Mr. Hewett, Sir Edward Bayntun, Mr. Grant, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Robinfon, Mr. Staunton, Mr. Rolle, Sir Roger Newdigate, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Bertie, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Lord George Sackville, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Sir Armine Wodeboufe, Mr. John Pitt, 7 S Mr. Mr. Aiderman Beckford, Mr. Fitzberbert, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Burrell, Sir Charles Saunders, Sir George Warren-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Fork, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland,Wefimoreland, Lancafier, Lincoln, and Nottingham : And they are to meet this Afternoon, at f ive of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Bill for the more eafy and fpeedy Recovery of Small Debts, within the City of Bath, and the Liberties and Precinfts thereof, was read a Second 1 ime. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Sir John Sebright, General Honywcod, Mr. Harris, Mr. Pitt, Mr. Egerton, Mr. Fonercau, Mr. Shtjfner, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Kynafion, Mr. Butler, Sir George Savile, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Mojtyn, Mr. Tudway, Mr. Bcfi, Mr. Town/bcnd, Mr. Powlet, Mr. Martin, Sir John Clynne, Mr. Rolle, Mr. Cocks, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Parker, Lord Burgberfu, Mr. Fane, Sir Jarril Smith, Mr. Sandys, Sir Charles Saunders, Sir George Warren, Mr. Wbicbcot, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Cbrdmley, Mr. Bertie, Mr. Gore, Mr. Fitzberbert, Mr. Whitworth; and all rhe Members who ferve for the Counties of Somerfet, Wilts, Devon, Dorfet, and Cornwall: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. An ingrofted Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and. Common Fields, Common Failures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and Commonable Lands, in the Townfhip of Winflow, in the County of Bucks, was read the '1 hird Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Act for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Common Failures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and Commonable Lands, in the Townfhip of Winflow, in the County of Bucks. Ordered, That Mr. Kynafion do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. A Bill for clifcontinuing the Ufe of feveral Roads over and leading into Fijhcrwick Park, in the County of Stafford, and for building a Bridge crofs the River Tame, at or near Elif ord Mill, in the laid County, and for repairing, and keeping in Repair, the Road from fuch Bridge, to Uademore Gate, in the Road leading through Whittington, to the City of Litchfield, was read a Second Time. Refolved, 'Fhat the Bill be committed to Mr. Kyna- Jion, Mr. Adams, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Thurlow, Mr. Whitworth, Sir Roger Newdigatc, Mr. Gilbert, I.ord Carys- fort, Mr. Thyme, Lord Grey, Mr. Montagu, Sir Edward Bayntun, Mr. Rigby, Mr. Dempfier, Mr. Fitzberbert, Mr. Forrefter, Mr. Harris, Mr. Hernan, Mr. Garth, Lord North, Lord Hilliers, Mr. Gafcoyne, Mr. Shelly, Mr. Fane, Mr. Harley, Mr. Sbaftoc, Mr. Whateley, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Morton, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Parker, Mr. Gore, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Prowje, Sir John Sebright, Sir Jarrit Smith, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Wynn, Lord Burgherfb, Sir Edward Dcring, Mr. Jolliffe, Sir John Glynne, Lord Howe, Mr. Rolle, Mr. Dundas-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Stafford, Warwick, Leicefier, Derby, and Salop: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Sir Jofepb Mawbey reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the leveral Perfons whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, being Inhabitants, refiding in St. Glaves Street, Erccfibool Street, and Bcrmondfey Street, in and near the Borough of Southwark, in the County of Surrey, 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 after wards 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. David Griffin being examined, faid, 7 hat Saint Olaves Street and Bermondfey Street lead from London Bridge, to the Kentifb Road; and that Saint Olaves Street and I rcefchool Street, lead direftly from London Bridge, to His Majefty�s Victualling Office and Dock Yard at Deptford, in the County of Kent-, that the iaid Streets are great Thoroughfares, and at prefent very ill paved, and not fufficiently clcanfed, lighted, and watched; and that there are many Obftruttions and Annoyances in the faid Streets. That if the Provifions of the intended Bill for paving, cleanfing, and lighting the High Street and Kent Street, in the Borough of Southwark, were extended to Saint Olaves Street, Ircefchool Street, and Bermondfey Street, the fame would be of great Advantage to the Inhabitants of the faid Streets, and to the Public in general. That if a fmall Toll was laid upon all Cattle and Carriages palling on Sundays through the Turnpikes on the Roads which communicate with the faid Streets, and the Inhabitants thereof were enabled to make Rates on themfelves, the faid Streets might be properly paved, watched, lighted, and cleanfed. Mr. William Maymotl, Mr. John Fellowes, and Mr. George Flower, confii med the aforegoing Evidence. Ordered, That the faid Report do lie upon the Table. Mr. Hewett prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing feveral Open Fields, Commons, and Wafte Grounds, within the Manor of Marflon, in the County of the City of Fork : And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time, Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Bill for making and maintaining a Navigable Cut, or Canal, from Witton Biidgc, to Nether Knutsfcrd, by or near Mottram Andrew, and from thence to Macclesfield, and from or near Mottram aforefaid, to Stockport, in the County of Chefier, and from thence to Mancbefier, in the County of Lancafier, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Cbol- mondeley, Mr. Hewett, Sir George Savile, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Garth, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Townsend, Mr. Buller, Mr. Pennant, Mr. Prowfe, Lord Grey, Sir John Wvnn, Lord George Sackville, Mr. Bootle, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr. Fitzroy, Mr. Scudamore, Sir Francis Fincent,Mr.Fonereau, Mr. Paulet, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Butler, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Coventry, Sir Fletcher Norton, Mr. Clive, Mr. Parker, Mr. Edmonfione, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Mackwortb, Sir Alexander Gilmour, Sir George Fonge, Mr. Onflow, Mr. Brudenell, Lord North, Mr Harbord, Mr. Gafcoyne, Mr. Fifher, Mr. Pennant, Mr. Bullock, Mr. Egerton, Mr. Legh, Lord Frederick Campbell, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Sir Charles Saunders, Mr. Keck,Sir Jofepb Mawbey, Lord Mexborough, Mr. Tudway, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Chefier, Lancafier, Derby, Northumberland, Cumberland, Durham, Wefimoreland, Stafford, Warwick, and Fork : 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 from the Crofs, or Market Place, in the 1 own of Winborn Minfier, to the Crofs, or Market Place, in the Town of Blandford Forum, in the County of Dorfet, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Frederick Montagu, Mr. Ryder, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Pitt, Lord Grey, Mr. Kynafion, Mr. Pennant, Mr. Harris, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Tudway, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Townjbend, Mr. Gore, Mr. Knight, Lord North, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Morant, Mr. Cbolmondelev, Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Act lor dividing and inclofing the Moor, Wafte, or Common, in the feveral Townlhips, Villages, or 1 Ir-mlers ol Upper Hcworth, and Nether llcworth, in the County or Durham, with fomc Amendments; to which Amendments, the Lords defire the Concurrence of this Houle. And then the Mcflungcrs withdrew. Ordered, That Sir George Tonge be added to the Geniemen, who are appointed to prepare, and bling in, a Bill to explain, amend, and reduce into One Aft of Parliament, the feveral Laws now in being for fettling the Rates of the Carriage of Goods. Ordered, That there be laid before this Houfe, an Account of the Amount of the Exchequer Bills made out, in Purfuance of an Act, parted in the Fourth Year of His prefent Majefty�s Reign, intituled, An Aft for elhblilhing an Agreement with the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for raifing certain Sums of Money towards the Supply for the Service of the Year 1764; and for more elfeftudly preventing the forging Powers to transfer fuch Stock, or receive fuch Dividends or Annuities, as are therein mentioned, and the fraudulent perfonating the Owners thereof. Ordered, That there be laid before this I bufe, an Account of the Amount of the Exchequer Bills made out, by virtue of an Act, parted in the laft Seflion of Parliament, intituled, An Aft for railing a certain Sum of Money by Loans, or Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year 1765. An ingrafted Bill for granting an A:d to Uis Majefty by a Land 'Fax, to be railed in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year One thoufand Seven hundred and Sixty-fix, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Act for granting an Aid to His Majefty by a Land Tax, to be railed in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year One thouland Seven hundred and Sixty-fix. Ordered, That Mr. Cooper do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. An ingrofiedBiHto remove all Doubts,concerningfuch Part of an Aft, made in the laft Seflion of Parliament, as relates to the afeertaining of the Duties upon the Importation of certain Linen Cloth of the Manufacture of llufia ; and to obviate a Doubt, with Refpeft to the Power of granting certain Licence for the Importation of Tea, under the Authority of an Aft made in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty ; was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pats : And that the Title be, An Aft to remove a Doubt, concerning fuch Part of an Aft, made in the laft Seflion of Parliament, as relates to the afeertaining of the Duties upon the Importation of certain Linen Cloth of the Manufacture of Raffia ; and to obviate all Doubts, with Refpeft to the Importation of Tea, under certain Licences authorized to be granted by an Aft made in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty. Ordered, That Mr. Cooper do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. The Houfe was moved, that an Aft, made in the Firft Year of the Reign of King Janies the Second, intituled, An additional Aft for the Improvement of Tillage, might be read. And the fame being read accordingly; Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for explaining and amending fo much of the faid Aft as relates to the City of London: And that Mr. Shifter, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Mr. Alderman Beckford, Sir Richard Glyn, and Mr. Wbicbcot, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. An ingfoffed Bill for regulating His Majefty�s Marine Forces, while on Shore, was read the Third Time. Refolved That the Bill do pafs : And that the Title be. An Aft for regulating His Majefty�s Marine Forces, while on Shore. Ordered, That Mr. Stef hens do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. Mr. Secretary Conway prefented to the Houfe, pur- fuant to their Addrefs to His Majefty, N�. 1. Copy of a Memorial from the Lords Commif- fior.ers of the Treafury, to His Majefty in Council, relative to the fecuring the Revenue, anfing by the Duties of Cuftoms in America �, and the eftablilhing the Judicature of the Courts of Admiralty in that Country, dated 4th October 1763 : And alfo, N�. 2. Copy of His Majefty�s Order in Council, approving the preceding Memorial of the Lords Com- miffioners ot the Treafury (N�. 1.), and direfting the Secretary of State, the Lords Commiftioners of the Admiralty, and the Board of Trade, to give die necefiary Directions for carrying into Execution, the feveral Propofols contained in the faid Memorial, fo far as to them may refpeftivtly appertain, dated the 5th of October 1763: And alfo, N�. 3. Copy of a Memorial of the Lords Commif- fioners of the Admiralty, fubmitting whether it may not be necefiary, that they fhould be impowered to appoint Vice Admirals, and alfo Judges and other Of* fleets, requifite for Courts of Vice Admiralty, within the Four New Governments of Quebec, Eaft Florida, V/cft Florida, and Grenada, dated 25th Otlober 1763: And alfo, N\ 4. Copy of His Majefty�s Order in Council, direfting the Earl of Halifax, one of His Majefty�s Principal Secretaries of Sta'e, to prepare a Warrant for paffing a Commifiion under the Great Seal, impower- ino- the Lords of the Admiralty, to appoint Vice Admirals, and other Officers, for Vice Admiralty Courts, within the Four New Governments of Quebec, Eaft Florida, l^eft Florida, and Grenada, dated 4th November 1763 : And allo, N�. 5. Copy of a Memorial of the Lords Commif- fioners of the Admiralty, relative to the appointing a Judge of the Admiralty, for all North America, with a Salary of Soo 7. per Annum, dated 14th March 1764: And alfo, N�. 6. Copy of His Majefty�s Order in Council, referring the Memorial of the Admiralty (N�. 5.) to the Lords Commiffioners of the Treafury, for their Confi- deration, dated 26th "March 1764: And alfo, N�. 7. Copy of a Letter from the Secretary of the Treafury, to the Clerk of the Council in waiting, fig- nifying that the Lords of the Treafury approve of the appointing fuch a Judge as is mentioned in the Admiralty Memorial (N�. 5.), and alfo the Propofal relative to the Payment of bis Salary, dated 7 April 1764: And alfo, N�. 8. Copy of His Majefty�s Order in Council, inferring rhe Letter from the Secretary of the Treafury to the Clerk of the Council (N�. 7.), and alfo the Memorial of the Admiralty (N'. 5.) to a Committee of the Lords of the Council, dated nth April 1764: And alfo, N�. 9. Copy of a Report of the Lords of the Committee of Council, upon the Memorial of the Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty (N�. 5.), and Letter from the Secretary of the Treafury (Nu. 7.), and pro- pofing that a Judge of the Admiralty fhould be appointed, for all America, with a Salary of 800/. per Annum, dated \6ih April 1764: And alfo, N"' >0. Copy of H�S Majefty�s Order in Council, approving the Report of the Lords of the Committee 'N*. y.), and direfting, that a Judge of the Vice Admiralty, for all America, be appointed, dated 18 April 1764: And alfo, N3. 11. Copy of a Memorial of the Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty, fubmitting, that they fhould be impowered to appoint a Vice Admiral, and proper Officers, fora Court of Vice Admiralty, for all America, dated 24 April 1764 : And alfo, N�. 12. Copy of His Majefty�s Order in Council, re- ^rring the Memorial of the Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty (N9. it.) to a Committee of the Lords of the Council, dated 25 April 1764 : And alfo, N�. 13. Copy of a Report of the Lords of the Committee of Council, upon the Memorial of the Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty (N�. n.) dated 7 May 1764: And alfo, N*. 14. Copy of His Majefty�s Order in Council, approving the Report of the Lords of the Committee (N�. 13.), and direfting the Earl of Halifax, one of His Majefty�s Principal Secretaries of State, to prepare a Warrant for palling a Commifiion, under the Great Seal, impowering the Lords of the Admiralty to appoint a Vice Admiral, and proper Officers, for a Court of Vice Admiralty, for all America, dated 9 May, 1764. Together with a Lift of the faid Papers. And the faid Lift was read. Ordered, That the faid Papers be referred to the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom it is referred to confider further of the feveral Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Conway, upon the 14th, 2ad, 27th, 28th, and 31ft Days of January laft, and the 5th, 10th, 17th, and 21ft Days of this Inftant February, and by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the 3d, 10th, 19th, and 21ft Days of this Inftant February, by His Majefty�s Command. The faid Papers are preferved amongft the other Papers of this Stffion. 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 Friday Morning next, refolve itfelf into the faid Committee. The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of Ways and Means for raifing the Supply granted to His Majefty. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Wednefday Morning next, refolve itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Fuller, according to Order, reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill for the better fecuring the Dependency of His Majefty�s Dominions in Amtrica, upon the Crown and Parliament of Great Britain, was committed, the Amendments which the Committee had made to the Bill; and which they had direfted him to report to the Houfe ; and he read the Report in his Place ; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One-, and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. A Claufe was offered to be added to the Bill, for in- flifting the Penalty of Premunire on fuch as, by writing or printing, (hall maintain Aflertions contrary to this Aft. Then the Houfe was moved, that an Aft, made in the Firft of the Reign of Queen Mary, intituled. An Aft for repealing and taking away certain Treafons, Felonies, and Cafes of Premunire, might be read. And the fame was read accordingly. The Houfe was alfo moved, that an Aft, made in the 6th Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, intituled, An Aft for the Security of her Majefty�s Perfon and Government, vernment, and of the Succeffion to the Crown of Gnat Britain, in the Proteftant Line, might be read. And the fame was read accordingly. Then the Queftion being put, That the faid Claufe be brought up ; It pafled in the Negative. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrafted. The other Order of the Day being read ; Mr. Fuller reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill to repeal an Act, made in the laft Seflion of Parliament, intituled, An Aft for granting and applying certain Stamp Duties, and other Duties, in the Britijh Colonies and Plantations in America, towards further defraying the Expences of defending, protefting, and fecuring the fame; and for amending fuch Parts of the feveral Afts of Parliament, relating to the Trade and Revenues of the laid Colonies and Plantations, as direft the Manner of determining and recovering the Penalties and Forfeitures therein mentioned; was committed; the Amendments which the Committee had made to the Bill; and which they had direfted him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place-, and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrafted. And then the Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. tides charged with the Duty of Six Shillings and Eight Pence per I logfhead : And alfo, An Account of the Quantities of Cyder and Perry made fince the 5th Day of July 1765, and charged with the additional Duty laid by an Aft paired in the Third Year ot His Majefty�s Reign, together with the Amount of fuch Duty ; and alfo of the Amount of the Money arifing from the Compofition paid by the Makers of Cyder and Perry, fince the faid 5th Day of July 1765 ; and of the Number of additional Officers employed in afeertaining, charging, and collefting the faid Duty, fince the faid 5th Day of July 1765 ; diftinguilhing each Month, and the Amount of their Salaries, as far as fuch an Account can be made up. And then he withdrew. And the Titles of the laid Accounts, were read. Ordered, That the faid Accounts do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. The faid Accounts are preferved amongft the other Papers of this Seflion. A Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open Commons, Common Fields, Common Meadows, and Commonable Lands and Grounds, of and in the Manors of Hafelor and Walcot, and of and in the Manor of Upton Hafelor, in the Parifli of Hafelor, in the County of Warwick, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Methuen, Mr. Lowndes, Sir Robert Long, Mr. Montagu, Sir James Dafhwood, Sir Henry Harpur, Mr. Bagot, Lord Garlies, Lord Ferney, Lord Grey, Mr. Shiffner,, Mr. Kynafion, Mr. Egerton, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Gray, Sir Roger Newdigate, Mr. Popham, Mr. Price, Colonel Barre, Sir George Savile, Mr. Hewett, Sir William Beauchamp ProHor, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Walter, Mr. Sharpe, Lord Downe, Mr. Ofbaldefion, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Martin, Mr. Sullivan, Me. Fitzroy, Mr. Coventry, Lord Burgberfe, Sir Charles Kemys Fyntc, Mr. Cholmlcy, Mr. Fairfax, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Harris, Mr. For refer, Mr. Ffber, Mr. Grenville, Mr. Prefcot; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Warwick, Stafford, Northampton, and Salop: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Petition of the Gentlemen, Freeholders, and Inhabitants, of the Town of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford, and Places adjacent, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, in behalf of themfelves and others, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Petitioners obferve a Petition has been prefented to the Houfe, taking Notice of an Application for a Bill to repair the Roads from Mucklty Comer to Litchfield Heath, and other Places in the faid County of Stafford-, and ftat- ing, that it would be of public Advantage, if a Road was made from the Brook at Walfall, over rhe Lands of the Countefs of Montratb, Richard Pearfehoafe Efquire, and Samuel Corbet Gentleman, and along Ablewell Street, to the prefent Turnpike Road leading from Walfall to Birmingham: And therefore praying, That Provifion may be made for making and maintaining fuch Road over the Lands aforefaid, and through Ablewell Street aforefaid, in fuch Manner as the Houle Ihall think proper. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Committee, to whom the Petition of the feveral Gentlemen, Freeholders, Tradefmen, and other Inhabitants, of Walfall, in the County of Stafford, and of the City of Litchfield, and Places adjacent, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, is referred. An ingrafted Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Aft to diflblve the Marriage of John Matthews with Ann Mattbe-As his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again ; and for other Purpofes therein mentioned; was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed. 7 T � ' Refolved, Refolved, That the Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole Houfe. Refolved, That this Houfe will, upon Tburfday Sevennight, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, upon the faid Bill. Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the faid Committee, that they do hear Counfel, and examine Witnefies, for the faid Bill ?, and alfo, that they do hear Counfel, and examine Witnefies, againft the faid Bill ?, if the Parties concerned diink fit to be heard by Counfel, or produce Witnefies. A Petition of the Merchants and Traders of the Town of Ayr, and its Neighbourhood, fubferibing : And alfo, A Petition of the Merchants and Traders in the Town of Irvine, and its Neighbourhood, fubferibing; Were feverally prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That very great Advantages muft necefiarily accrue to the Kingdom in general, and to the Petitioners in particular, from the intended Amendments of that Part of rhe Aft, pafled in the 26th Year of his late Majefty, defcribing the Road leading from the City of Glafgow to Luggie Water, and from thence, by the Town of Cumbernauld, to Redburn Bridge, in the Counties of Lanark and Dumbarton: And praying, That the faid Bill may pafs into a Law, under fuch Regulations as to the Houfe Ihall feem meet. And the faid Petitions were feverally ordered to lie upon the Table. A Bill for building a Bridge, crofs the River of Thames, from Chelfea, in the County of Middlefex, to Batterfea, in the County of Surrey, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Sir Francis Vincent, Mr. Jennings, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Onflow, Mr. Gore, Mr. Knightley, Mr. Fonereau, Lord Villiers, Sir George Savile, Mr. Town/hend, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Hewett, Lord Downe, Mr. Sbiffner, Mr. Price, Sir George Longe, Mr. Cooke, Sir Edward Turner, Mr. Gray, Mr. Popham, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Alderman Harley, Mr. Whitworth, Sir William Beauchamp Pro flor, Mr. Sullivan, Colonel Barre, Mr. Grenville, Mr. Fairfax, Mr. Wilfon, Sir John Palmer, Sir John Glynne, Mr. Aiderman Beckford, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Rolle, Sir Jarrit Smith, Mr'Gilbert, Mr. Bertie, Mr. Way', and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Surrey, Middlefex, Suffex, Kent, and Southampton; and for the City of London: And they arc to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Mr. Kynaflon reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill to enable the Right honourable James Ofwald, and the Right honourable George Sackville, commonly called Lord George Sackville, to take, in Great Britain, the Oath of Office, as Vice Treafurer, and Receiver General, and Paymafter General, of all His Majefty�s Revenues in the Kingdom of Ireland, and to qualify them- felves for the Enjoyment of the laid Offices, 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 Biil, and made feveral Amendments thereunto; which they Irad 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 ; anti, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofied. Mr. Elliot reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Gentlemen, Freeholders, and principal Inhabitants, of the Parilhes of Lauder, Earlflown, Smatl- kolm, Mertown, Makerflon, Nentborn, Kelfo, and Sprou- flon, living near or travelling on the Road after delcribed, 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'Fable: Where the fame was read-, and is as followeth ; viz. To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition; a Member prefent, being examined, faid, That the Road leading from the Burgh of Lauder, by Bridgbaugb and Birkenflde, and Tawnfloanend, in the Shire of Berwick, through Smailbolm and Kelfo, in the Shire of Roxburgh, to the Marcbburn, which divides England and Scotland, is ruinoue, narrow, and incommodious, and cannot be widened, amended, and kept in Repair, by the common Courfe of Law. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for repairing the Road from the Burgh of Lauder, in the Shire of Berwick, to and through Kelfo, in the Shire of Roxburgh, to the Marcbburn : And that Mr. Elliot, Sir Jofeph Maw bey, Sir James Douglas, and Mr. Pringle, do prepare, and bring in, the lame. An ingrofied Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Arable Fields, and Common Paftures, within the Parilh of Waltham, otherwife Waltham in ibe Wolds, in the County of Leuefler, 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 Arable Fields, and Common Failures, within the Parilh of Waltham, otherwife Waltham in the Wolds, in the County of Leicefter. Ordered, That Mr. Hewett do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. An ingrofied Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open Arable Fields, and Common Paftures, within the Parilh of Croxton, otherwife Croxton Kerial, in the County of Leiccfler, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Aft for dividing and inclofing the Open Arable Fields, and Common Paftures, within the Parilh of Croxton, otherwife Croxton Kerial, in the County of Lci- cefler. Ordered, That Mr. Hewett do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defirc their Concurrence. An ingrofied Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open Arable Fields, and Common Paftures, within the Parilh of Braunflon, otherwife Branflon, in the County of Lei- ccfler, was read the Third Time. Rifolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Aft for dividing and inclofing the Open Arable Fields, and Common Paftures, within the Parilh of Braunflon, otherwife Branflon, in the County of Leicefler. Ordered, That Mr. Hewett do carry the Bill to rhe Lords, and defire their Concurrence. A Bill to enlarge and continue the Term and Powers, granted by an Aft, pafled in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled, An Aft for repairing the Roads from Doncafler, through Ferry Bridge, to the South Side of Tadcafler Crofs-, and alfo from Ferry Bridge to Weatherby, and from thence to Borough Bridge, in the County of Fork; as to fo much of the laid Aft as relates to the Roads from Doncafler, through Ferry Bridge, to the South Side of Tadcafler Crofs ; was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Lafcelles, Mr.bitzroy, Mr. Butler, Sir Francis Vincent, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Buller, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Townjbend, Mr. Jennings, Sir George Savile, Mr. Fuller, Lord Downe, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Sbiffner, Sir Jofeph Mawbey, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Montagu, Sir James Dajhwood, Lord Grey, Lord George Sackville, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Gray, Mr. Elliott, Mr. Plumptre, Sir Edward Turner, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Aiderman nun Beckford, Mr. Barrow, Sir Edward Whmington, Lord Carysfort, Sir Matthew Feather Jone, Mr. Sandys, Mr. If'ay, Mr. Coventry, Mr. If after, Mr. Sharpe, General A'Court, Sir Robert Burdett, Mr. Foley, Sir Jarrit Smith-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Fork, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, Wefmoreland, and Lancajler: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. An ingrofled Bill for repairing and widening the Road from I Ellias Pump, in the Town of Beverley, in the Eaft Riding of the County of York, through Molfcroft and Great Driffield, to Kcndell Houfe-, and from Molfcroft to Bainton Balk, in the faid Riding; was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be, An Act for repairing and widening die Road from Beverley, by Molfcroft, to Ken Jell Houfe-, and from Molfcroft, to Bainton Balk, in the County of York. Ordered, That Sir George Savile do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. Mr. Lafcelles reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Merchants, Manufacturers, and Dealers in Broad Woollen Cloth, manufactured in the Weft Riding of the County of York, 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 ar the Clerk�s Table: Where the fame was read; and is as follow- Cth; viz. To prove the Allegations of the faid Petition; Mr. Thomas Lodge, a Merchant, being examined, faid, That the Regulations fdbftituted by an Aft, made in the laft Sefiion of Parliament, intituled, An Aft for repealing feveral Laws relating to the Manufacture of Woollen Cloth, in the County of York ; and alfo, fo much of feveral other Laws, as prefcribes particular Standards of Width and Length of fuch Woollen Cloths, and for fubftituting other Regulations of the Cloth Trade, within the Weft Riding of the faid County, for preventing Frauds in certifying the Contents of the Cloth, and for preferving the Credit of the faid Manufacture at the foreign Market, are inadequate for preventing Frauds in certifying the true Contents of the Cloth. That, at the Commencement of the laid Aft, Cloths were truer ftamped, but that lately they have begun to falfe ftamp, and continue fo to do; and that he has feen Seals with the Searcher�s Mark, and a Blank left for the Meafure. . That there have been many Perfons convicted for over- ftretching Cloths under this Aft. That he apprehends it to be a I lardftiip, that Searchers ate allowed to come into Warehoufes, as it gives them an Opportunity of prying into the Bufinefs-, and that no Frauds can be committed in Warehoufes. That not only the Merchant, but every other Perfon who has Cloth in his Cuftody, is fubjeft to the Penalty for Faults of his Servants; and in cafe of not fufficient Diftrefs, liable to be lent to the Houfe of Correction. and a Quarter, and confequently cannot deliver the Yard at the Score; and chat Wire Cards are not allowed to be ufed in DreAing of Cloth, but fine Hatters Cards are of great Utility in firiking Cloth down upon the Teritcrs> which may be better done with them than Teazles. And the faid Witnefies further faid, That the faid Act is defective in feveral other Refpefts. Ordered, I hat Leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend an Adi, made in the laft Sefiion of Parliament, intituled, An Aft for repealing feveral Laws relating to the Manufacture of Woollen Cloth, in the County of York, and alfo fo much of feveral other Laws, as pre- fcribes particular Standards of Width and Length of fuch Woollen Cloths ; and for fubftituting other Regulations of the Cloth Trade, within the Weft Riding5of the faid County, for preventing Frauds, in certifying the Contents of the Cloth, and for preferving the Credit of the faid Manufacture at the Foreign Market: And that Mr. Lafcelles and Sir George Savile do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Bill for the Support and Prefervation of the Parifh Church of Fdkejlone, and the lower Part of the Town of Folkejlone, in the County of Kent, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Lord Coleraine, Lord Downe, Mr. Bouverie, Mr. Sbiffner, Mr. Fuller, Sir farrit Smith, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Buller, Mr. Tudway, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Butler, Mr. Gray, Sir Matthew Fctberjlone, Mr. Fonereau, Lord Grey, Lord George Sackville, Mr. Fitzmaurice, Mr. Townjbend, Mr. Cbolmley, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Hewett, Sir Edward Turner, Sir Francis Vincent, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Popham, Mr. Gafcoyne, Mr. OJbaldefton, Mr. Wbichcot, Lord Frederick Campbell, Sir Jofepb Mawbey, Mr. Jenkinfon, Lord John Cavendijb, Mr. Praed, Mr. Gore-, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Kent, Surrey, and Suffiex-, and for the Cinque Ports: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Petition of feveral Noblemen, and the humble Pcti- 4 tion tion of feveral Gentlemen and others, whofe Names are thereunto fubfcribed : And allo, A Petition of feveral Gentlemen and others, whofe Names are thereunto fubfcribed �, Were feverally prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Petitioners obfervc, by the Votes, that a Petition hath been prefented to the Houfe, for a Bill for fupplying the Citics of London and Wejlminjter with Water, from the River Colne ; and that, if a Bill Ihould pafs into a Law, as prayed for by the faid Petition, the Properties of the Petitioners will be greatly prejudiced : And therefore praying, That they may be heard, by themfelves or Counfel, againft the laid Petition; and that the Bill thereby prayed for may not pafs into a Law ; or that the Petitioners may have fuch Relief in the Premifes, as to the Houfe fliall feem meet. And the faid Petitions were feverally ordered to lie upon the Table. i A Bill for making and continuing navigable the River Start, in the Counties of Hertford and Effex, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Hou- blon, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Byde, Sir Matthew Lambe, Mr. Jennings, Mr. Thomlinfon, Lord North, Sir John Sebright, Mr. Long, Sir John Griffin, Mr. Brand, Sir George Savile, Sir Robert Long, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Price, Mr. Plumer, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Coventry, Sir Francis Vincent, Mr. Fuller, Sir Edward Turner, Mr. Cooke, Mr. Hewett, Mr. Whitworth, Sir Jarrit Smith, Lord Verney, Lord Downe, Mr. Grant, Mr. Prefcot, Mr. Gafcoyne, Mx. Martin, Mr. Sharpe, Mr. Tuckfield, Mr. Fitzmaurice, Lord John Cavendifb, Lord Carysfort, Lord Frederick Campbell, Sir Jofeph Mawbey, Mr. Whatley �, and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Hertford, Effex, Middlefex, Cambridge, Norfolk, and Suffolk: 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 from Raw try, in the County of Fork, to Eajl Markham Common, in the County of Nottingham, and from Little Drayton, to Twiford Bridge, in the faid County, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Hewett, Mr. Coventry, Sir Jofeph Mawbey, Mr. Plumptre, Mr. Fairfax, Mr. Cholmlcy, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Buller, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Honblon, Mr. Butler, Sir George Savile, Lord Coleraine, Mr. Jackfon, Mr. Cooke, Lord Downe, Lord Lijburne, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Whatley, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Price, Sir William Beauchamp Profiler, Mr. Grant, Mr. Alderman Harley, Mr. Jenkinfon, Mr. Coventry, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Jackfon, Mr. Fitzroy, General /PCourt, Mr. Gray, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Plumer, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Towrjhend, Lord Verne}-, Mr. Wynne, Mr. Fitzmaurice, Mr. Reck, Sir Richard Bampfyldc; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Nottingham, Fork, Lincoln, Durham, and Northumberland : And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Mr. Aiderman Harley reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for the better maintaining, regulating, and employing, the Poor within the Parifh of St. Botolpb Aidgate, in the City of London, 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 Houle; and he read the Report in his Place ; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One; and, upon the Quellion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be in- grofled. The Houfe being informed, that Mr. Julliot, from the Exchequer, attended at the Door ; he was called in; and, at the Bar, prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to their Orders, An Account of the Income of, and the Charges upon, the Fund commonly called the Sinking Fund, from the 10th Day of October to the 5th Day of January laft : And alfo, An Account of the Amount of the Exchequer Bills, made out in purfuance of an Aft, palled in the Fourth Year of His prefent Majefty�s Reign, intituled, An Aft for eftablilhing an Agreement with the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for raifing certain Sums of Money, towards the Supply for the Service of the Year One thoufand Seven hundred and Sixty-four; and for more effectually preventing the forging Powers to transfer fuch Stock, or receive fuch Dividends or Annuities, as are therein mentioned, and the fraudulent per- fonating the Owners thereof: And allo, An Account of the Amount of the Exchequer Bills made out by virtue of an Aft, pafled in the laft SelTion of Parliament, intituled, An Aft for raifing a certain Sum of Money, by Loans or Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thoufand Seven hundred and Sixty-five. And then he withdrew. And the Titles of the faid Accounts were read. The faid Accounts arc as followeth; viz. To Charges on the Sinking Fund, from the 10th Day of OMeri76$ to the 5th Day of January 1766. 4. A d. To the Bank of England, for 6 Months Intereft, and Charges of Management on /. 33,127,821. 5. 1 $. in Confolidated Annuities, to the 5th Day of January 1766, at �. 3. per Cent. � � � � -506,15310 4 To D�, for 6 Months Intereft, at �. 3. 4 per Cent, and Charges of Manage ment on Annuities granted Anno 17 5 6, toD* � � � 2 6,671 17 6 To D�, for 3 Months Annuity, at /. 4. per Cent, due 25th December 1765, on �. 870,888. 5. 54. being 25 per Cent, paid off, Part of �. 3,483,553� b ,Ot in Navy Bills, &c. fubfcribed for Annuities, Anno 1763 � � 8,708 17 71 To D�, for Charges of Management on the faid Annuities for the fame Time 122 9 44 To D�, for Annuities granted for 99 and 98 Years, with Charges of Manage ment, for 6 Months, to the 5 Day of January 1766 � � 125,870 10 14 To D�, for 6 Months Charges of Management of Annuities, Anno 17 5 8, toD� <>40 6 5 � ToD�, to reimburfe Fees paid the Auditors of the Impreft for examining, auditing, and ingrofling the Accounts of �. 3. per Cent, confolidated Annuities.�Annuities granted Annis 1756 and 1758, �.4. per Cent, and Long Annuities 1761 and 1762, for One Year and 4 to the 5th July 1763 ; and alfo of Reduced Annuities, for 2 Years, to the 5th April 1763 � � 13,451- 7 8 To Du, to reimburfe Fees paid at the Treafury and the Exchequer and Impreft Rolls, for 4 Years, to the 5 July J 763, and for Fees and Charges in paflir.g through the Exchequer, and obtaining a Quietus upon Accounts of Contributions for Annuities 1760, 1761, and 1762, and or Annuities for 4 Years, to the 5th July 1759 � � � � � 1,936 13 � ToCalh taken to make good the Deficiency of Annuities, granted Anno 1758 - 31,292 12 �4 To the South Sea Company for 6 Months Intereft on Annuities, Anno 17519 and Charges of Management, to the 5th of January 1766 � � 32,090 12 6 To Life Annuities, Anno 1757, at the Exchequer, for 6 Months, toD* � 15,976 2 6 To the Com miflioners of the Lottery 1765, in Reward for their �. s. d. Labour, Pains, and Service � � � 6,150 J To the Secretary to the faid Commiflioners, for incident Ex- > 8,400 � � pences attending the faid Commiffion � � 2,250 � � J To the Ufher of the Receipt of the Exchequer for Neceffaries � � 233 77*�9*3 � 6 Ballance to be applied tn further Part of the Sum of �. 2,100,000. granted for the Service of the Year 17 65 � � � � � 117,3 62 3 1 889,345 3 7 Exchequer, the 4th Day of S. P. Julliot.. N March 1766* ^ To the honourable the Knights, Citizens, and Burgeffts in Parliament affembled An Account of the Amount of the Exchequer Bills made out, in purfuance of an Aft paffed in the Fourth Year of His prefent Majefty�s Reign, intituled, An Aft for eftablilhing an Agreement with the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for raifing certain Sums of Money towards the Supply for the Service of the Year One thoufand Seven hundred and Sixty-four, and for more effeftually preventing the forging Powers to transfer fuch Stock, or receive fuch Dividends or Annuities as are therein mentioned, and the fraudulent perionating t e Owners thereof. The Exchequer Bills made out in purfuance of the above Aft, amount to the Sum of One Million. Exchequer, the 4th Day of March 1766. & P � Julliot. To the honourable the Knights, Citizens, and Burgeffes in Parliament affembled. An Account of the Amount of the Exchequer Bills, made out by virtue of an Aft, paffed in the laft Seffion of Parliament, intituled, An Aft for raifing a certain Sum of Money by Loans or Exchequer Bilk, for the Service of the Year One thoufand Seven hundred and Sixty-five. The Exchequer Bills made out in purfuance of the above Aft, amount to the Sum of Eight hundred thoufand Pounds Exchequer, the 4th Day of March 1766. B. P. Julliott. Ordered, That the faid Accounts do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. Mr. Shiffner prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for more efieftually preventing the Exportation of Wool, Wool-fells, Wool-flocks, Shortlings, Mortlings, and Wool manufaftured, from Ireland into Foreign Parts, and for fecuring the fame to be imported into Great Britain: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolded, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the Gentlemen, who are appointed to prepare, and being in, a Bill for encouraging the Cultivation, and for the better Prefer- vation of Trees, Roots, Plants, and Shrubs, that they have Power to bring in a Bill, or Bills, for encouraging the Cultivation, and for the better Prcfervation of Trees, Roots, Plants, and Shrubs. The Houfe was moved, that the Order made upon Wednefday laft, that there be laid before this Houfe, an Account of the Number of Makers of Cyder and Perry in the Year commencing 5th 'July 1764; diftinguifhing how many of fuch Makers were exempted Perfons, and how many were not exempted; and alfo of the Quantity of Cyder and Perry made between the laid 5th of July 1764, and 5th of July 1765, and charged with the additional Duty, laid by an Aft paffed in the Third Year ot 1 lis Majefty�s Reign-, and alfo of the Amount of the faid Duty, and of the Money paid by the Makers of Cyder and Perry between the faid 5th of July 1764, and 5th of July 17651 and alfo of the Salaries paid the additional Officers of Excife employed in charging and collefting the new Duty on Cyder and Perry for the faid Time; might be read. And the faid Order being read accordingly; Ordered, That the faid Order be difeharged. Ordered, That there be laid before this Houfe, an Account of the Number of Makers of Cyder and Perry in the Year commencing the 5th Day of July 1764; diftin- guilhing each Collection, and how many of fuch Makers were exempted Perlons, and how many were not exempted -, and alfo of the Quantity of Cyder and Perry made between the faid 5th of July 1764, and 5th of July *765, and charged with the additional Duty laid by an Aft paffed in the Third Year of His Majefty�s Reign; and alfo of the Amount of the faid Duty, and of the Compofition Money paid by the Makers of Cyder and Perry between the faid 5th of July 1764, and r,thofjuly 1765 ; and alfo of the Salaries paid the additional Officers of Excife employed in charging and collefting the new Duty on Cyder and Perry for the faid Time. An ingrafted Bill fur the better fecuring the Dependency of Ilis Majefty�s Dominions in America, upon the Crown and Parliament of Great Britain, was read the 'Third Time. The Amendment following was propofed to be made to the Bill; viz. Pr. Pr. 2. 1. 2. To leave our � in all cafes whatfo- ever.� And the Queftion being put, That thofe Words Hand Part of the Bill; It was refolved in the Affirmative. Refolved, Thar the Bill do pafs: And that the Title be. An Act for the better lectin ng the Dependency of Mis Majefty�s Dominions in America, upon the Crown and Parliament of Great Britain. Ordered, That Mr. Fuller do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. An ingrofled Bill to repeal an Aft made in the laft Seffion of Parliament, intituled. An Aft for granting and applying certain Stamp Duties, and other Duties, in the Britifh Colonies and Plantations in America, towards further defraying the Expences of defending, protefting, and fecuring the fame ; and for amending fuch Parts of the feveral Afts of Parliament, relating to the Trade and Revenues of the faid Colonies and Plantations, as direft the Manner of determining and recovering the Penalties and Forfeitures therein mentioned ; was read the Third Time. A Motion was made, and the Queftion being put, That the Bill do pafs ; The Houfe divided. The Yeas went forth. Tellers for the Yeas�{ MnS^^Z, Junior J 25�� Tellers for the Noes. | I ,22� So it was refolved in the Affirmative. Refolved'That theTitle be, An Aft to repeal an Aft, made in the laft Seffion of Parliament, intituled, An Aft for granting and applying certain Stamp Duties, and other Duties, in the Britifh Colonies and Plantations in America, towards further defraying the Expences of defending, protefting, and fecuring the fame; and for amending fuch Parts of the feveral Afts of Parliament, relating to the Trade and Revenues of the faid Colonies and Plantations, as direft the Manner of determining and recovering the Penalties and Forfeitures therein mentioned. Ordered^ That Mr. Secretary Conway do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. The Orders of the Day being read; Refolved' That this Houfe will, upon this Day Seven- night, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider of the Petition of the Governors of the Charity for the Relief of Poor Widows and Chib dren of Clergymen. Revived' That this Houfe will, upon this Day Sevennight, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the feveral Papers, which were prefented to the Houfe, by Mr. Secretary Con- wv, upon the 14th, 22d, 27th, 28th, and 31ft Days of 'January laft, and the 5th, toth, 17 th, and 21ft Days of February laft, and by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the 3d, icth 19th, and 21ft Days of February laft, by His Majefty�s Command. Refolved^ That this Houfe will, To-morrow Morning, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houle, upon the Bill for regulating the Qualifications of the Proprietors of Eafl India Stock. And thenthe Houfe adjourned till To-morrow Morning, Nine of the Clock. Mr. Hewett reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for the better Regulation of Pilots for rhe Con- dufting of Ships and Veflels into and out of the Port 2 or of Liverpool was committed, That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true �, and that rhe 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 federally put thereupon, were agreed to by the I loufe. A Claufe was offered to be added to the Bill, for giving Security for the Pilotage of Outward bound Veffels. And the faid Claufe was twice read; and, upon the Queftion put thereupon, agreed to by ihe I loufe, to be made Part ot the Bill. Then feveral Amendments were made, by the Houfe, to the Bill. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be in- grofled. An ingrofied Bill to enable the moft noble Francis Duke of Bridgewater, to extend a Branch of his Navigable Cut, or Canal, upon Sate Moor, in the County of Cheder, to the Market Town of Stockport, in the faid County, was read the Third Time. Refolved, That the Bill do pafs : And that the Title Be, An Aft to enable the moft noble Francis Duke of Bridgewater, to extend a Branch of his Navigable Cut, or Canal, upon Sale Moor, in the County of Cheftcr, to the Market Town of Stockport, in the faid County. Ordered, That the Lord Carysfort do carry the Bill to the Lords, and defire their Concurrence. Lord George Cavendifh reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open Fields, Common Meadows, Common Paftures, Commons, and Wafte Grounds, within the Manor of Repton, in the County of Derly, was committed; and to whom the Petition of Sir Robert Burdett Baronet, in Behalf of himfelf, and others. Proprietors of Open Field Lands, belonging to the Manor of the Priory of Repton, within the Parifh of Repton, in the County of Derby; was referred; That the Committee had examined the Allegations of the Bill, and found the fame to be true ; and had confidered the Petition to them referred; and t! at the Parties concerned had given their Confent to the Bill, to the Satisfaftion of the Committee ; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments thereunto ; which they had directed him to rept rt 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 fcverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofied. A Petition of the Returning Officers, Freeholders, Fleftors, and other Inhabitants, of the Borough of Weobly, in the County of Hereford, and alfo of Occupiers of Land in and near the faid Borough, was prefented to theHoufe, and read; Reprefenting to the Houfe, that the Petitioners, and others, are fubjeft to many Grievances, by fo much of Two feveral Afts, pafled in the Third and Fourth 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 Collefting it, under the Power of Excife Laws: And praying, That they may be relieved in the Premifes, by a Repeal of the faid Afts, fo far as the Jame relate to the laying a Duty on the Makers of Cyder and Perry; or in fuch other Manner as the Houfe fhall think meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition do fie upon the Table. The Houfe being informed, that Mr. Forrefter, from the Commiflioners of the Excife, attended at the Door ; he was called in ; and, at the Bar, prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to their Order, An Account of the Number of Makers of Cyder and Perry, in the Year commencing the Fifth Day of July 1764; diftinguiihing each Collection, and how many of fuch Makers were exempted Perlons, and how many were not exempted; and alfo of rhe Quantity of Cyder and Perry, made between the faid Fifth July 1764 and Fifth July 1765, and charged with the additional Duty laid by an Aft pafled in the Third Year of His Majefty�s Reign; and alfo of the Amount of the faid Duty, and of the Compofition Money paid by the Makers of Cyder and Perry, between the faid 5th of July 1764 and 5th of July 1765; and alfo of the Salaries paid the additional Officers of Excife employed in charging and collefting the new Duty on Cyder and Perry, for the faid Time. 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 Sefiion. 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 Friday 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 regulating the Qualifications of the Proprietors of Eaft India Stock. 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 direfted him to report, when the Houfe will pleafe to receive the fame. Ordered, That the Report be received upon Friday Morning next. Ordered, That all Committees have Leave to fit, not- withftanding any Adjournment of the Houfe. And then the Houfe adjourned till Friday Morning next. Nine of the Clock. VMeris, j� die Martii; Anno 6� Georgii IIP5�� Regis, 1766. PRAYERS. � M R. By de prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields and Grounds, in the Hamlet of Waif-worth, in the Parifh of Hitcbin, in the County of Hertford: Hertford: And the fame was received; and read the Firll Time. Refolved., That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, and other Commonable Lands and Grounds, in the Parilh of Hexton, in the County of Hertford) except a Common Pafture called The Cow Common) was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Byde, Mr. Plumery Lord Gref) Sir Charles Mordaunt) Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Hujke, Mr. Shuttleworth, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Fane, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Cornwall, Mr. Wynn, Sir George Savile, Sir William Beauchamp Prohor, Mr. Pennant, Sir John Gibbons, Sir Edmund Thomas, Sir John Sebright, Sir Matthew Lambe, Mr. Brand, Sir Charles Farnaby, Mr. Jenyns, Mr. Nicholfon Calvert, Mr. Prefcot, Sir William Baker, Mr. Hume, Sir Bennet Garrard, Sir John Barrington, Sir Thomas Hales, Mr. Aiderman Beckford, Mr. Herne, Mr. Butler, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Kynajlon ; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Hertford, Bedford, Buckingham, and Eflex: And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. A Bill for dividing and inclofing feveral Common Arable Fields, Common Meadow Grounds, and the Moor, or Common, within the Manor and Townfhip of Naburn, in the Eaft Riding of the County of Fork, was read a Second Time. Refolved, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Shuttleworth, Mr. Pennant, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. B)de, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Plumer, Lord Grey, Mr. Hu fee, Mr. Fane, Mr. Fonereau, Sir William Beauchamp Proilor, Mr. Fuller, Sir George Savile, Sir Edmund Thomas, Mr. Wynn, Sir John Gibbons, Mr. Butler, Mr. Drummond, Mr. Clive, Mr. Harley, Mr. Kynajlon, Mr. Prefcot, Mr. Edmonflone, Sir George Tonge, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Ongley, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Morton, Mr. Montagu, Sir Richard Bampfylde; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Fork, Lancajler, Northumberland, Cumberland, Weftmorcland, and Durham; And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Sir Charles Mordaunt prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, and Commonable Lands, lying within the Parifh of Hinton in the Hedges, in the County of Northampton : And the lame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Rejolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Mr. Edmonftone reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Truftees, appointed by an Aft, pafled in the Twenty-fixth Year of his late Majefty, for repairing feveral Roads leading to the City of Glafgow, thereunto fubferibing; and alfo the Petition of the Merchants and Traders in the City of Glafgow, and its Neighbourhood, fubferibing; and alfo the Petition of Merchants and Traders of the Town of Dumbarton, and its Neighbourhood, fubferibing ; and alfo the Petition of the Merchants and Traders in the Town of Renfrew, and its Neighbourhood, fubferibing ; and alfo the Petition of the Merchants and Traders in the Town of Paijley, and its Neighbourhood, fubferibing; were referred; That the Committee had examined the Matter of the faid Petitions ; 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 Petitions; the faid Aft was read, whereby it appears, that the Truftees therein named, were impowered to repair, among others, the Road leading from the City of Glafgow, ' to Luggie Water, and from thence to the Town of Cumbernauld, and Redburn Bridge; and alfo the High Road kad- VOL. XXX. 629 ing from Tncbbelly Bridge, through the Town of Kirkintilloch, to the City of Glafgow: And Mr Samuel Garbet, being examined, faid, That a great deal of Work has been done upon the faid Road leading from Glafgow, to Redburn Bridge; but that it is found impracticable to carry on the further Repairs of the faid Road, fo as to anfwer the good Purpofes intended by the faid Aft, on Account of the many Heep Hills, which renders it impracticable for Carriages, even if the Road was in good Repair; that if Power was given to carry the Road on the North Side of Garngadbi!!, South Side of Germijlorenhill, by Provan Mill, North Side of Hcgganfeld Hill, and from thence, in the old Direction, to the Ealt End of Garnkirks Indufures ; from thence to Beerthland Bridge ; from thence to or near Baden Heath Caffe ; from thence to Wejier Airdice; from thence to Mainbead; and from thence to or near Redburn Bridge; it would open an eafy Communication between the two Seasi whereby the Carriage of Goods would be rendered lefs expenfive, and tvould be of great Advantage to the Commercial Interefts of Great Britain in general, and to that Part of the Country in particular, to the Amount of feveral thoufand Pounds a Year. Then the faid Witnefs produced a Letter from feveral Gentlemen of Glafgow, approving of the Application to Parliament, for the intended Alteration, and determining the old Road to be imprafticable. And he further faid, That if the Term and Powers of the faid Aft were enlarged with rtfpeft to both rhe before mentioned Diftrifts of Roads, and Power given to turn the Road as aforefaid, the Creditors under the former Aft would be better lecured than at prelent. Mr. Charles Gafcoigne, being examined, confirmed the aforegoing Evidence; and added, That there are feveral Hills upon the old Road leading from Glafgow, to Redburn Bridge, which rife One Foot in Six for One hundred Yards together; and that Carriages from Eighteen to Twenty hundred Weight drawn~by Two Horfes upon a common Road, could not be drawn up thofe Hills with the fame Number of Horfes, with more than Seven hundred and an half Weight. Thar there is not a Hill upon the intended Road, that rifes more than One Foot in Twenty, and that Two Horfes might draw Eighteen or Twenty hundred Weight upon any Part of it. That the Price of Carriage is at prefent One Shilling a Hundred, bur, upon the intended Road, would be carried for Nine-pence; and that the Witnefs would give Security to carry for Nine Pence a hundred Weight all the Year round ; and that, upon the whole, he apprehends there would be a laving in the Price of Carriage of upwards of Three thoufand Pounds a Year, according to the Quantity of Goods now carried ; and would be a Means of a much greater Quantity coming into the Country, if they could go by that Road ; that," in the new Line of Road, a Bridge of One Arch only will be necefTary over Luggie Water, which will not coft above Three hundred Pounds; whereas to make a fuf- ficient Bridge over the fame Water in the prefent Line of Road, would coft One thoufand Six hundred Pounds; of which an Eftimate has been made by Order of the Court of Seffion, and given in upon Oath. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to enlarge the Term and Powers of an Aft, made in the Twenty-fixth Year of King George the Second, for repairing feveral Roads leading into the City of Glafgow, fo far as the fame relates to the Diftrifts of Roads, from Inchbelly Bridge to Glafgow, and from Glafgow to Luggie Water, Cumbernauld, and Redburn Bridge; and for altering the Courfe of the laft mentioned Diftrift of Road : And that Mr. Edmonjlone, Mr. Butler, Lord Frederick Campbell, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, and Mr. Wcd- derburn, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Mr. Hujke prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bdl for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common 7 X Field; Field, Downs, and Commonable Lands, and allotting the Old Inclofures, lying within the Townlhip and Parifh of Hatherop, in the County of Gloucefter: And the fame was received ; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. The Lord Grey prefenred to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for dividing and inclofing the feveral^ Commons and Wafte Grounds, within rhe Manor of Bradutp,\n the Parifh of Leek, in the County of Stafford: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second T ime. Sir George Savile reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the feveral Perlons, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, being Owners or Mafters of Ships belonging to the Port of Whitby, in the County of Fork, in Behalf of themfelves, and many others ; and alfo the Petition of the feveral Perlons, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, being Owners or Mafters of Ships belonging to Scarborough, in the County of Fork, in Behalf of themfelves and many others; were referred; That the Committee had examined the Matter of the faid Petitions; and had directed him to report the fame, as it appeared to them, to the Houfe; and lie read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the fame was read ; and is as foliowet h ; viz. To prove the Allegations of the faid Petitions, Mr. Robert Dewftury, being examined, faid, That he is acquainted with the Coal Trade at Newcajlle and Sunderland-, that it is very extenfive; that many Inconveniences arife to the Trade from the Methods now ufed by the Coal Fitters at thofe Ports, by frequently refufing Loadings to Mafters of Ships who apply for the fame, and from other Proceedings of fuch Fitters -, and the Witnefs apprehends, that many of the Inconveniences which the Mafters of Ships are liable to, would be prevented, if the Perfons employed as Fitters in the Coal Trade at the faid Ports, were obliged to keep Public Lifts in their Offices, of all Ships applying for Loadings; and alfo to load all fuch Ships, as fhall be entered in their due Courfe ; and that Mafters of Ships Ihould be obliged to load with the Fitters in whole Office they fhall enter and fix. And he added, That thefe Matters have been con- fidered by many employed in the Coal Trade, who declared themfelves of the fame Opinion with himfelf in rcfpeCt to the Regulations he had mentioned. Mr. William Chapman, being examined, faid, That he has been prefent when Coal Fitters at Sunderland re- fufed to load Ships that ofiered, faying, they muft give the Preference to their Friends; and that the Ships they gave the Preference to were then at London; and that he has known the Matter of a fmall Ship from Plymouth apply to feveral Fitters at Sunderland fur a Loading, which being refilled him, he was obliged to go to Newcajlle. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to ley, and Sir Walter Blackett, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Sir George Smile prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill to render more effectual an Ad, made in the Fourth Year of His prefent Majefty, for draining, preferving, and improving, the Low Grounds and Carrs, lying and being in the Parifhcs, Townfliips, Hamlets, Lordlhips, PrecinCts, and Territories, of Sutton, Gc.njlead, Swine, Benningbolme, Benningbolme Grange, and Fairbolmc, North Skirlaugb, Rowton, Arnold, Long Rifton, Leven, Hcigbolme, and Hallytree Holme, Brandes Burton, and Burfal, EJke, Tickton, Weel, Routh, Meaux, and Wagben, otherwife Wawn, in Holdernefs, in the Eaft Riding of the County of Fork : And the lame was received ; and read the Firft Time. and confirmed by the Sentence of the Court of Seflion petitioned for, will not come near the Town of Cum- bernauld, by almoft half a Mile, and that it will pafs over fome Hills confiderably higher than any in the prefent Road, where no heavy Carriages can be ufed; and that, at or near Bandenbeatb Cajlle, it will crofsa Valley, w hich, for near a Mile in Length, and for feveral Hundred Yards in Breadth, is ever)' Flood covered with the Water of Luggie, which runs through it, and where Bridges and Parapet Walls will be needed, which will coft im- menfe Sums j and allo, that almoft the whole Road that has been made, in the County of Lanerk, and which has coft a great Sum of Money, will be rendered ufelefs, and loft to the Public ; and therefore, the Petitioners beg Leave further to reprefent, that they apprehend that the faid Alteration petitioned for, and Bill, if brought in, is unncceHary, and will be ineffectual to anfwei anfwer any good Purpofe, and in its Confequences prove oppreffive and hurtful to the Petitioners: And therefore praying the Houfe* to take the Premifes under their Confideration; and that the Petitioners may- be allowed to be heard* by their Counfel, againft the laid Petition and Bill; and that the fame may not pafs into a Law. A Petition of fin's Roberton and Archibald Rober- ton Efquircs, was alfo prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth, That the Petitioners arc Trufttes, and the faid Archibald Roberton is a Creditor, under the hud Aft, to the faid Road from Glafgow to Luggie Water, Cumbernauld, and Redburn Bridge 5 and in an Act, pafifed in the Twenty-feventh Year of the late King, for explaining, amending, and rendering the fame more effeftual; and that the Petitioners are informed, that a Bill is now depending in the Houfe, for altering the Direction of the faid Road, and for continuing and enlarging the Term in the aforefaid Afts, and making the fame more effeftual, as to the new Direction of the Road beforementioned; and reprefenting, that the greateft Part of the prefent Road, betwixt Glafgow and Luggie boater, is made, and particularly where it paijes through the Petitioners Eftate in that County ; and that the Grounds are moftly inclofed, that lie on the Side of the prefent Road, where the fame is made; and alfo, that the Road may be carried on, and made in Form of the prefent Aft, in a Way more convenient for the Public, and without any fteep Afcents, and as near, and at lefs Expence, than the Road in the Direction beforementioned �, and that, if this new-propofed Road was to take Place, the greateft Part of the Turnpike Road already made through the County of Lanerk. will be of no Ufe to the Public, and the Damages fuftained by Individuals, by the propofed Alteration, will be very great: And therefore praying the Houfe, to take the Premifes under their Confideration; and that the Petitioners may be heard, by themfelves or Counfel, againft the faid Bill; and that the fame may not pafs into a Law. And the faid Petitions were feverally ordered to lie upon the Table. Mr. Butler reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill to enlarge the Term and Powers of an Aft, made in the 25th Year of King George the Second, for repairing the Roads from the North End of Malling Street, near the Town of Lewes, and other Roads in the County of Suffix-, and for amending the Road from the Broil Park Gate, to the Weft End of the Turnpike Road leading from the Turnpike Road on Hurft Green, through the Parifhes of Etching ham and Burwaff ; and from the faid Broil Park Gate, to the Town of Bat tell, in the faid County, 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 Amendments, in at the Clerk�s Table : Where the Amendments were Once read throughout; and then a Second Time, One by One ; and, upon the Queftion feverally put thereupon, were agreed to by the Houfe. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be in- groffed. A Bill for dividing and inclofing feveral Open Fields, Commons, and Wafte Grounds, within the Manor of Marf.cn, in the County of the City of York, was read a Second Time. Refolded, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Lafcelles, Mr. Inlier, Mr. Bootle, Sir George Warren, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Bull, Mr Ongley, Mr. Morton, Mr. Burrell, Lord Browrdcw Bertie, Mr. Fcnereau, Sir Herbert Lloyd, Mr. Montagu, Sir Edmund Thomas, Lord Mexborough, Mr. Sandys, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Lord Winterton, Mr. But- 4 Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for inclofing, paving, cleaning,. lighting, and adorning, Berkley Square, in the Parifh of Saint George Hanover Square, in the County of Middlefex: And that Mr. Burrell and Mr. Frederick Montagu do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of feveral Noblemen, Gentlemen, and others, redding at Richmond and Kew, in the County of Surrey, and of feveral Freeholders and others, pof- fefled of Eftates there, was prefented to the Houle, and read ; Setting forth, That the Highway, from the late Florfe Ferry at Kew, to Richmond, was over Kew Green, and through Kew Lane ; that the late Queen Caroline, about the Year 1731, caufed the Road from the faid Horfe Ferry, to the End of a Lane, on the.Weft Side of the Royal Garden, to be made a convenient Carriage Way, and after fuch Carriage Way was made, it was occafionally ufed by Paffengers from the faid Ferry to Richmond; that a Bridge hath been lately built near the Lower Ferry at Kew, and a new Road made over the Green, to Kew-Lane, which is now the common Highway from Kew to Richmond, and confequently the Carriage Way made by her late Majefty is ufelefs; that Kew-Lane is much out of Repair, and in fome Parts narrow; and that the Petitioners have Reaion to believe, the King�s moft Excellent Majefty will be pleafed, at His own Expence, to caufe the faid Lane to be amended, and made commodious for Paffengers and Carriages, and the Road from the faid Bridge to Richmond to be kept in good Repair for the future, in cafe the Carriage Way, from the late Horfe Ferry, to the End of the Lane on the Weft Side of the Royal Gardens, and alfo the Carriage and Foot-way, from the End of the faid Lane to Richmond Green, (hall be ref- peftively (hut up, and difeontinued ; that a Bill is now depending in the Houfe, for the Relief and Employment of the Poor, and for repairing the Highways, paving, cleanfing, lighting, and watching the Streets, and other Places, in the Town and Parifh of Richmond, in the County of Surrey; and that as the amending, and keeping in Repair, the Road from Kcw to Richmond, without any Expence to the Inhabitants, will be an Advantage to them, and the (hutting up the Carriage Way and Foot Path before defcribed will not injure any Perlon whatfoever; therefore praying, that Provifion may be made in the faid Bill, for effecting the Purpofes aforefaid. 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, that the Houfe may do therein as they (hall think fit. 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 Lord TVarkwortb, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Sandys, Mr. Wynn, Lord Grey, Mr. Pennant, Mr. Harbord, Mr. Butler, Sir James Peachey, Mr. Powell, Lord George Sackville, Mr. Comptroller, Mr. Milles, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, General Howard, Mr. Shelley, General Gr^me, Sir Alexander Gilmour, Sir Charles Bunbury, Mr. Mackenzie, Mr. Worjley,Mr. Brude- nell, Lord Mountfluart, Mr. Fitzmaurice, Lord Adam Gordon, Colonel Scott, Colonel Howe, Sir Hugh Dalrymple, Sir George Pocock, Mr. Darner, Sir Andrew Mitchell, Mr. Drummond, Lord Lijburn, Mr. Cocks, General Whitmore, Mr. Robinfon, Sir James Lowther, Sir Edward Turner, Mr. Thomas Townjhend, Jun. Lord John Cavendijb, Mr. Secretary Conway, Mr. Rofe Fuller, Mr. Onflow, Lord Brownlow Bertie, Admiral Cotes, Mr. Cornwall, Mr. Gore, Lord Downe, Lord Villiers, Sir George Savile, Sir George Tonge, Mr. Prowfe, General Honeywood, Mr. Fitzwilliam, Mr. Dundas, Sir John Sebright, Mr. Pitt, Sir William Meredith, Mr. Frederick Vane, Mr. Plumer, Lord George Cuzen- difl>, Mr. Fitzherbert, Mr. Shuttleworth, Lord Strange, Mr. Harris, Mr. Cuft, Mr. Peter Burrell, Mr. Plumtre, Mr. Aiderman Beckford, Mr. IVhichcot, Sir Francis Drake, Mr. Penton, Mr. Knight, Mr. Montagu, Mr. IVay, Mr. Cbolmley, Colonel Nugent, Mr. Cafwall, Mr. Hobart, Mr. Staunton, Sir Francis Delaval, Mr. Garth, Mr. Coventry, Mr. Rujhout, Mr. Bertie, Mr. Foley, General ACourt; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Surrey, Middlefex, Effex, Hertford, and Kent: 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 feveral Gentlemen and others, Inhabitants of the Town of Richmond, in the County of Surrey, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Setting forth, That a Bill is depending in the Houfe for the Relief and Employment of the Poor, and for repairing the Highways, paving, cleanfing, lighting, and watching the Streets, and other Places in the Town and Parifh of Richmond, in the County of Surreys that it would greatly conduce to the Benefit and Convenience of the Petitioners, and all Perfons refilling in or re- fortingto the faid Town, if the Truftees to be named in the faid Bill were authorized and impowered to take away all Polls, and to remove all Obftruftions, In- croachments, and Annoyances, in the faid Streets and other Places, and to prevent the like for the future; and alfo, if the Owners of Houfes, and other Buildings, in the principal and moft frequented Parts of the Town, were obliged to caufe the Water to be conveyed by proper Pipes, from the Roofs of their Houfes, and other Buildings, down the Sides thereof, into the Streets, or the Grounds or Lands belonging to the Owners thereof: And therefore praying, That Provifion may be made in the faid Bill for the Purpofes aforefaid ; or that the Petitioners may have fuch other Relief, as to the Houle (hall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the laft preceding Petition 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 Meflage from the Lords, by Mr. Montagu and Mr. Cuddcn : Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Act for puniihing Mutiny and Defertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters, without any Amendment: And allo, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Common Paftures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and Wafte Grounds, of and in the Manor and Parilh of Thenford, otherwife Fenford, in the County of Northampton, without any Amendment: And allo, The Lords have paffed a Bill, intituled, An Aft for veiling Part of the Fee Simple Eftate of George late Lord Vifcount Midleton, of the Kingdom of dreland, in Truftees, to be fold, for paying the Debts, Legacies, and Incumbrances, mentioned in, and appointed to be paid by, his Will; and for executing and effeftuating feveral Contrafts entered into by him for felling and leafing divers Farms and Lands in Ireland-, and for making the Exemplification of his Will Evidence in Law and Equity; to which the Lords defire the Concurrence of this Houfe. And then the Melfengers withdrew. Ordered, That Lord Downe, Mr. Pracd, Lord George Cavendijb, Mr. Stephens, Lord Frederick Cavendijb, Mr. Dempjter, Dcmpfter, Mr. Cavcndijh, Mr. Powlet, Mr. Plumer, Mr. Fitzherbert, Sir Alexander Gilmour, Mr. Thomas Town- Jhend, jun. Mr. Scawen ; and all the Members who ferve for the County of Nottingham, and for the Sea Coaft Counties, be added to the Committee, to whom the Bill for further continuing the Duty of One Farthing per Chalder on Coals, granted by an Ad of the Firft Year of Queen Anne, and revived and continued by an Aft of the Eighth of King George the Second, for improving and repairing the Piers and Harbour of Whitby, in the County of Fork, and for better regulating the Shipping there, is committed. Mr. Kynafton, according to Order, reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the Bill for regulating the Qualifications of the Proprietors of Eaft India Stock, was committed, the Amendments which the Committee had made to the Bill, and which they had directed him to report to the Houfe; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk�s 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 adder) to the Bill, for giving Proprietors a Number of Votes in Proportion to their Stock. And the faid Claufe was once read, with Blanks. And the Queftion being put, That the faid Claufe be read a Second Time; The Houfe divided. The Yeas went forth. TenersfouheYeas^r.^^^ ^ Tellers for the Noes, } �5- So it pafled in the Negative. Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrofled. Notice being taken, that His Majefty�s Intereft is concerned in the Bill for dividing and inclofing feveral Common Arable Fields, Common Meadow Grounds, and the Moor, or Common, within the Manor and Townfliip of Naburn, in the Eaft Riding of the County of Fork �, which Bill was this Day read a fecond Time, and committed; Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Majefty�s Command, acquainted the Houfe, that His Majefty, having been informed of the Purport of the faid Bill, gives His Confent, as far as His Majefty�s Intereft is concerned, that the Houfe may do therein as they fhall think fit. Notice being taken, that His Majefty�s Intereft is concerned in the Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open Commons, Common Fields, Common Meadows, and Commonable Lands and Grounds, of and in the Manors of llafelor and Walcot, and of and in the Manor of Upton llafelor, in the Parifh of Hafelor, in the County of Warwick ; which Bill was, upon Tuefday laft, read a Second Time, and committed; Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Majefty�s Command, acquainted the Houfe, that His Majefty, having been informed of the Purport of the faid Bill, gives His Confent, as far as His Majefty�s Intereft is Notice being taken, that His Majefty�s Intereft is concerned in the Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Meadows, Paftures, and W afte Grounds in the Parifh of Blaby, in the County of Leicefter-, which Bill was, upon Thurfday the 27th Day of February laft, read the Firft Time, and ordered to be read a Second Time; Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Majefty�s Command, acquainted the Houle, that His Majefty, having been informed of the Purport of the faid Bill, gives His Confent, as far as His Majefty�s Intereft is concerned, that the Houfe may do therein as they fhall think fit. Mr. Rice, from the Commiflioners for Trade and Plantations, prefented to the Houfe, purfuanc to their Addrefles to His Majefty, Eftimate of the Charge of maintaining and fupport- ing the Civil Eftablifhment of His Majefty�s Colony of Nova Scotia, for the Year 1766. Mr. Rice, alfo from rhe Commiflioners for Trade and Plantations, prefented to the Houfe, by His Majefty�s Command, A State of what remains due on Account of fundry Expences incurred for the Service of Nova Scotia, in rhe Years 1750, 1751, 1752, 1762, and 1763, and not provided for by Parliament: And alfo, Eftimate of the Civil Eftablifhment of His Majefty�s Colony of Georgia, and other incidental Expences attending the fame, from 24th of June 1765 to the 24th June 1766 : And alfo, Eftimate of the Civil Eftablifhment of His Majefty�s Province of Eaft Florida, and other incidental Expences attending the fame, from the 24th of June 1765 to the 24th of June 1766 : And alfo, Eftimate of the Civil Eftablifhment of His Majefty�s Province of Weft Florida, and other incidental Expences attending the fame, from the 24th of June 1765 to the 24th of June 1766 : And alfo, Eftimate of the Expence attending General Surveys of His Majefty�s Dominions in North America, for the Year 1766 : And alfo, Eftimate of the Expence of fupporting and maintaining the Civil Eftablifhments of the New Government of Senegambia, on that Part of the Coaft of Africa, fituate between the Port of Sallee, in South Barbary, and Cape Rouge, for the Year 1766. And the Titles of the faid Eftimates and State were read. The faid Eftimates and State are as followeth; viz. ESTIM ATE. ESTIMATE of the Charge, of maintaining and fupporting the Civil Eftablilhment of His Majefty�s Colony of � Nova Scotia, for the Year 1766. To an additional Salary to the Governor � � � � � To the Salary of the Chief Juftice � � � � � To the Salary of the Attorney General � � � �� � To the Salary of the Secretary7, for himfelf and Clerks � � � � To the Salary7 of the Naval Officer � � � � � � To the Salary of the Regifter � � � � � � To the Salaries of the Surveyor and Deputy Surveyor of Lands, and for other Contingent Expences attending that Eftablifhment � � � � � To the Salaries of a Secretary and Meflenger to the Council � � � To the Hire of a Houfe and other Contingent Expences attending the Secretary�s Office � To a Salary to the Treafurer � � � � � � To a Salary to the Agent for the Affairs of the Province � � � � To fundry Stipends and Allowances for Houfe Rent to the Minifters and Schoolmafters in the different Diftrids of the Province � � � � � To an Allowance for Fire Wood for the Ufe of the Governor�s Houfe, and Public Offices - To the Expence of rhe Pilot Boat � � � � � To the Expence of the Orphan Houfe � � � � � To an Allowance for fundry Eftablifhments at Lunenburgh � � � To an Allowance for Contingent Expences ^. --* � -. f. 4,866 3 5 A STATE of what remains due on Account of fundry Expences incurred for the Service of Nova Scotia, in the Years 1750, 1751, 1752, 1762, and 1763. To Balance of an Account for Provifions fupplied the Garifons at Chigneflo, and other Services performed, and Expences incurred there by Captain Howe, in the Years 1750, 1751, and 1752 � � � � � � � � � To Balance of an Account for Goods fupplied, and other Expences incurred for carrying on Commerce with the Indians, upon the Plan fettled by Governor Lawrence for that Trade - To Balance of Bills of Exchange, drawn by Jonathan Belcher and Montagu Wilmot Efquires, Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia, for fundry Expences incurred for the Service of Nova Scotia in the Years 1762 and 1763, over and above the Eftimates for that Service � ESTIMATE of the Civil Eftablilhment of His Majefty�s Colony of Georgia, and other incidental Expences attending the fame, from the 24th of June 1765 to the 24th of June 1766. To the Salary of the Governor � � � � To the Salary of the Chief Juftice �- � � �. � � To the Salary of the Secretary � � � � � � To the Salary of the Clerk of Afiembly � � � � � � To the Salary of the Surveyor of Lands � � � � � To the Salary of the Regifter General of Quitrents � � � � � To the Salary of the Attorney General � � � � � To the Salary of the Provoft Marfhal � � � � � To an Allowance for a Minifter of the Church of England, and Two Schoolmafters � To the Salary of the Agent for the Affairs of the Colony � � � � To an Allowance to the Pilot ftationed at the Mouth of Savanna River, with a Boat and fuf- ficient Hands � � � � � � � To an Allowance for Contingent Expences � � � � � To a Continuation of the Provifions, made by the lateTruftees for purchafing from the Growers, the Balls, or Cocoons of Raw Silk, as an Encouragement to the Growth and Culture of it �- � � � � � � 1 ESTIMATE of the Civil Eftablilhment of His Majefty�s Province of Eaft Florida, and other incidental Expences attending the fame, from the 24th of June 1765 to the 24th of June 1766. To the Salary of the Governor in Chief � To the Salary of the Chief Juftice � � To the Salary of the Attorney General � To the Salary of the Secretary and Clerk of the Council To the Salary of the Regifter � � To the Salary of the Surveyor of Lands � To an Allowance for an Affiftant � � To the Salary of the Agent �� � � � � To a Minifter at St. Auguftine � � � � � To a Minifter at St. Mark�s � � � � � To a Schoolmafter at each of the above Places, Z- 2 5. each � - � To an Allowance for a Pilot eftablilhed at St. Auguftine � � � To an Allowance for unforefeen contingent Expences � � � To an Allowance for the Encouragement of the Culture of Silk, Vines, and other Articles of beneficial Produce � � � � � � To an Allowance for the Purchafe of a proper Aflbrtment of Goods, for Prefents to the Indians - Z- 5^50 ESTIMATE of the Civil Eftablilhment of His Majefty�s Province of kPeft Florida, and other incidental Expences attending the fame, from the 24 th of June 1765 to the 24th of June 1766. ESTIMATE of the Expence attending General Surveys of His Majefty�s Dominions in North America, for the Year 1766. To an Allowance for a Deputy Surveyor of Lands at Quebec, during the Time the Chief Surveyor is employed in making Surveys in other Parts of the Northern Diftrid � � To Two Affiftant Surveyors, to be employed in the general Survey, at 7 J. per Day each � To One Draftfman, at 5 J. per Day � � � � � To an additional Pay of 1 J. 8 d. per Day to One Serjeant, 1 s. per Day to One Corporal, and 6 d. per Day to Twelve private Men, to aflift in fuch Survey, and to ferve as Camp, Colour, and Chain Men, and to make Signals along Shore, and on the Tops of Mountains � To extraordinary Expences for Horfes, Guides, &c. � � � � To the like Expences and Allowances for the Survey of the Southern Diftrict � � To an Allowance of 105. per Day, for an additional Deputy Surveyor and Six Affiftants, for expediting the Survey of the Hand of Cape Breton � � � To an Allowance upon Account, for Fees to be paid upon the Orders for the Receipt, and upon the Hue of the Monies granted upon this Eftimate � � � � Z- I*784 4 E S TIM A T ESTIMATE of the Expence of fupporting and maintaining the Civil Eftablilhments of the new Government of Senegambia, on that Part of the Coaft of Africa, fituate between the Port of Sallee, in South Barbary, and Cape Rouge, for the Year 1766. To a Salary to the Governor � � � � � � To a Salary to the Chief Juftice � � � � � To a Salary to the Superintendant of Trade at Raines Fort, in the River Gambia � To a Salary to the Secretary to the Province � � � � To an Allowance to Two Minifters � *� � � � � To an Allowance for a Schoolmafter at St. Lewis � � _ � To a Salary to the Secretary for Moorish Affairs � �� � � To an Allowance for Repair of Forts and other contingent Expences � � � To the Expence of an armed Sloop, to be employed under the Command of the Governor - To a Salary to an Agent for the Affairs of the Province � � � � Z- 5,55� Ordered, That the faid Eftimates and State do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. Mr. Onflow reported from the Committee, who were appointed to prepare an Eftimate of the Charge of the Pay and Cloathing of the Militia, in that Part of Great Britain called England, and of the Amount of 28 Days Subfiftence for the Commiffion Officers of the faid Militia, under the Rank of Major, for One Year, beginning the 25th Day of March 1766, That the Committee had prepared an Eftimate accordingly; which they had directed him to report 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 5 and is as followed); viz. ESTIMATE of the Charge of the Pay and Cloathing of the Militia, in that Part of Great Britain called England, and of the Amount of 28 Days Subfiftence for the Commiffion Officers of the faid Militia, under the Rank of Major, for One Year, beginning the 25th Day of March 1766. Pay to 30,840 Private Men, at 1 s. each, 2S Days � � � Ditto, to 70 Adjutants, at 6J. a Day each � � � � � Ditto, to 1,542 Serjeants, at 1 r. a Day each � � � � � Ditto, to 1,200 Drummers, at 6 d. a Day each � � � � For additional Pay to 30,840 private Men, for going to the Place of Exercife and returning, calculated upon an Average of 4 Days Pay each Man � � � � Additional Pay to 70 Serjeant Majors, at 2 r. 6d. a Week each � � � Ditto, to 70 Drum Majors, at 6^. a Day each � � � � � Ditto, to 1,542 Corporals, at 6 ^. a Day each, 28 Days � � � � Salaries for 70 Battalion Clerks, at Z- 50. a Year each � � � Allowances to Clerks of General and Subdivifion Meetings, computed at � � Ditto to each Regiment, Battalion, and Independent .Company, for contingent Expences, at the Rate of 6 d. per Month for each private Man and Drummer � � � Cloathing for 30,840 private Men, at f. )� IOJ. each � � � Ditto, for 1,542 Serjeants, at Z- 3� i0^ each � � � � Ditto, for 1,200 Drummers, at Z- 2. each � � � � � For additional Pay, for Cloathing 54 Serjeant Majors and 55 Drum Majors, at Z- 1. each � Subfiftence to 498 Captains, at 75. 6 d. per Day, for 28 Days � � � Subfiftence to 561 Lieutenants, including Two Lieutenants to Grenadiers Companies, at 3 J. 6 d. each, for 2 8 Days � � � � � � Ditto, to 435 Enfigns, at 3 J. each, for 28 Days �* � � � Z- 179,766 11 � Ordered, Ordered, That the faid Report do lie upon the Table. / ? The Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf inro a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of the Supply granted to His Majefty; Refolved, That this Houle will, upon Monday Morning next, refolve itfelf into the laid Committee. The other Order of the Day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of Ways and Means for railing the Supply granted to His Majefty ; Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the faid Committee, that they do confider of the Laws relating to the Duties on Cyder and Perry. Ordered, That the feveral Petitions, which have been prefented to the Houfe, in this Sefiion of Parliament, le- lating to Cyder and Perry, be referred to the faid Committee. Ordered, That the Account of the Quantities of Cyder and Perry made for Sale, from the 5th Day of July 1755 to the 5th Day of July 1765 ; diftinguilhing each Year, and diftinguilhing alfo the Quantities charged with the old Duty of Four Shillings per Hoglhead, from the Quantities charged with the Duty of Six Shillings and Eight Pence per Hoglhead; be referred to the faid Committee. Ordered, That the Account of the Quantities of Cyder and Perry made fince the 5th Day of July 1765, and charged with the additional Duty laid by an Aft palled in the Third Year of His Majefty�s Reign, together with the Amount of fuch Duty ; and alfo of the Amount of the Money arifing from the Compofition paid by the Makers of Cyder and Perry, fince the faid 5th Day of July 1765; and of the Number of additional Officers employed in afeertaining, charging, and collefting the faid Duty, fince the faid 5th Day of July 1765 ; diftin- guilhing each Month, and the Amount of their Salaries, as far as fuch an Account can be made up; be referred to the faid Committee. Ordered, That the Account of the Number of Makers of Cyder and Perry in the Year commencing the 5th Day of July 1764, diftinguilhing each Colleftion, and how many of fuch Makers were exempted Perfons, and how many were not exempted; and alfo of the Quantity of Cyder and Perry made between the faid 5th of July 1764 and 5th of July 1765, and charged with the additional Duty laid by an Aft palled in the Third Year of His Majefty�s Reign ; and alfo the Amount of the faid Duty, and of the Compofition Money paid by the Makers of Cyder and Perry, between the faid 5th of July 1764 and 5th of July 1765 ; and alfo of the Salaries paid the additional Officers of Excife employed in charging and collefting the new Duty on Cyder and Perry for the faid Time ; be referred to the faid Committee. Then the Houfe refolved itfelf into the faid Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Cornewall took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker refumed the Chair. Mr Cornwall reported from the Committee, That tl ey had come to feveral Refolutions; which they had direfted him to report, when the Houfe will pleafe to receive the fame. Ordered, That the Report be received upon Monday Morning next. Mr. Ccrnewall 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 Wednefday Mon> ing next, refolve itfelf inro a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider further of Ways and Means for raifing the Supply granted to His Majefty. VOL. XXX. 637 Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do ifiue his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ for the Elefting of a Burgefs to ferve in this prefent Parliament for the Town of Kingjlon upon Hull, in the room of Sir George Montgomery Metham Knight, who, fince his Eleftion for the faid Town, hath accepted the Office of Patent Clerk of His Majefty�s Wardrobe. And then the Houfe adjourned till Monday Morning next, Nine of the Clock. Lunee, 10� die MartH \ Anno 6* Georgii IIP11 Regis, 1766. PRAYERS. S IR Robert Ladbroke reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of feveral of the Truftees appointed to put in Execution an Aft pafled in the laft Sefiion of Parliament, intituled, An Aft for rebuilding the Parifh Church of Allhallows on the Wall, in the City of London, and for rebuilding the Houfe belonging to the Reftor of the faid Parifh, and for purchafing feveral Pieces of Ground and Tenements thereon, to render the Pafiages to and from the laid Church and Houfe more commodious, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, 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 the Truftees are impowered to borrow a Sum of Money, not exceeding f. 4,000. Mr. William Deyongb, Clerk to the faid Truftees, produced an Account, whereby it appeared, that the faid Truftees had borrowed the faid Sum of f. 4,000, and had paid, or contrafted to pay the Sum of �. 4062. 5 j. for rebuilding the faid Church and Reftor�s Houfe only j and that the other Works neceflary for making commodious Ways, and carrying the other Purpofcs of the faid Aft into Execution, are eftimated at �.415. 19^ . And, being examined, he faid, That great Progrefs has been made in repairing the faid Church, which is already nearly compleated ; but that it will not be pof- fible to carry the faid Aft into Execution, without the further Affiftance of Parliament; the prefent Rate being infufficient for that Purpofe. Mr. George Dance, Surveyor, being examined, confirmed the Evidence given by Mr. Deyongb. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to render more effeftual an Aft, palled in the laft Sefiion of Parliament, for rebuilding the Parifh Church of AIL hallows on the Wall, in the City of London, and for rebuilding the Houfe belonging to the Reftor of the faid Parifh, and for purchafing feveral Pieces of Ground and Tenements thereon, to render the Pafiages to and from the faid Church and Houfe more commodious: And that Sir Robert Ladbroke and Mr. Cornewall do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of the Coal Owners, and Coal Fitters, of the River Wear, and Tort and Haven of Sunderland, in the County of Durham, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, on Behalf of themfelves and the feveral other 7 Z Coal C xi Owners, and Coal Fitters, of the faid River, Port, and Haven, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; Set- ting forth, That, by feverai Afts of Parliament, the p ritioners, and all other Coal Owners of the River Wear, are liable to pay Three Half-pence for every Chalder of Coals and Cinders brought to the Harbour of Sunderland, and the Coal Fitters and Faftors One Half-peny for every fuch Chalder, for the Preferva- tion and Improvement of the Port and Harbour of Sunderland, and making the River Wear navigable ; and that the Petitioners obferve, from the Votes, that Leave has been given to bring in a Bill for continuing the Dory of One Farthing per Chalder on Coals, granted by former Afis of Parliament, for improving and repairing the Piers and Harbour of Whitty, in the County of dirk, and for the better regulating the Shipping there; and reprefenting, that the further Continuance of the faid Duty of One Farthing per Chalder upon all Coals Hupped at the Port of Sunderland, will be a heavy Charge upon the fame Port, and tend to the Difcourage- ment of Trade there; and that the Petitioners apprehend, if the laid Bill fhould pafs into a Law, it will greatly afreet the Trade and Property of the Petitioners, and many others : And therefore praying, That they may be heard, by themfelves or their Counfel, againft the faid Bill ; and that the Houfe will give them fuch Relief in the Premifes, as to the Honfefhall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Confideration of the Committee, to whom the Bill for further continuing the Duty of One Farthing^r Chalder on Coals, granted by an Act of the Firft of Queen Shine, and revived and continued by an Ad of the Eighth of King George the Second, for improving and repairing the Piers and Harbour of Whitty, in the County of Fork, and for better regulating the Shipping there, is committed : And that the Petitioners be heard, by their Counfel, before the faid Committee, upon their faid Petition, if they think fit. Ordered, That it be an Inftruftion to the faid Committee, that they do admit Counfel to be heard, at the fame Time, in favour of the faid Bill, againft the faid Petition. Ordered, That all have Voices, who come to the Committee, to whom the faid Bill is committed. A Petition of feverai Gentlemen, Traders, and Manufacturers, refilling in the Town of Stafford, in the County of Stafford, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setring forth, That the Petitioners are informed that an Application is intended to be made for a Bill to make a navigable Cut, or Canal, from Wildest Ferry, in the County of Derby, to the River Merfey-, and that the Petitioners apprehend, that the making and maintaining the faid Navigation will be of great Ad- vantage: And therefore praying, That the faid Bill may pafs into a Law, under fuch Regulations as to the Houfe (hall feem meet. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the Committee, to whom the Bill for making a navigable Cut, or Canal, from the River Trent, at or near Wilden Ferry, in the County of Derty, to or near Swarkftone and Willington, in the faid County, Whicbnor, Rudgley, Stone, and Burftem, in the County of Stafford ; and from thence to or near Lawton and Aftbury, in the County of Chefter, and to the River Merfey, is committed. A Petition of Archibald Sterling Efquire, was prefented to the Houfe, and read-, Setting forth, That the Petitioner is a Truftee, and Creditor, under an Aft for making a Turnpike Road from Inchbelly Bridge, through rhe Town of Kirkintilloch, in the County of Dumbarton, to the City of Glafgow, in the County of Lanerk, which is One of the Roads comprehended in the Aft, patTed in the Twenty-fixth Year of the late King, for repairing feverai Roads leading to the faid City of Glafgow, and in the Aft of Parliament, that palled in the Twenty- feventh Year of the late King, for explaining, amending, and rendering the fame more efiredual; ana that the Petitioner is informed, that a Petition has been pre- fented to the Houfe, for Leave to bring in a Bill for prolonging the Term, and enlarging rhe Powers, of the faid Aft, not only with refpeft to the Road above- mentioned, but alfo for altering the Direftion of the Road from the faid City of Glafgow, to Luggie Water, Cumbernauld, and Redburn Bridge ; and that, in cafe the Bill petitioned for fhould pafs into a Law, the Road abovementioned, that has been made in Confequence of the aforefaid Afts of Parliament, and at great Expence, will not only be in a great Meafure loft, and of little Ufe to the Public, but alfo the Petitioner�s Security, for the Money he has advanced upon the Credit of the Tolls of the Road leading from InchK Uy Bridge, to the City of Glafgow, will thereby be greatly weakened, and rendered infufficient: And therefore praying, That the Houfe may take the Prcmifes under their Confideration, and allow the Petitioner to be heard, by his Counfel, againft the faid Petition and Bill, if brought in ; and that the fame may not pafs into a Law. Ordered, 7 hat the laid Petition do lie upon the Table. Mr. Elliot prefented to the Houfe, according to Order, a Bill for repairing the Road from the Burgh of Lauder, in rhe Shire of Berwick, to and through Kelfc, in the Shire of Roxburgh, to the March Burn: And the fame was received; and read the Firft Time. Refolded, That the Bill be read a Second Time. A Bill for dividing and inclofing the Open and Common Fields, Meadows, Paftures, and Wafte Grounds, in the Parifh of Blaty, in the County of Leicejlcr, was read a Second Time. Refolded, That the Bill be committed to Sir John Palmer, Lord Winter ton, Mr. Darker, Mr. Montagu, Sir Robert Burdett, Lord Mount fluart, Mr. Kynafton, Mr. Fonereau, Mr. Mackenzie, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Lord Grey, Mr. For ref er, Mr. Shiffncr, Mr. Bagot, Sir Roger Moftyn, Sir Edward Turner, Lord Orwell, Sir Armine Wodehoufe, Mr. Elliot, Lord Mexborough, Sir Alex- ander Grant, Mr. Fuller, Lord Pigot, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Cholmley, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Sir Francis Pin- cent, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Sir John Morgan, Mr. Plumer, Mr. Frederick Montagu, Mr. Sandys, Sir Edmund Jfham, Sir Walter Blacket, Mr. Heme; and all the Members who ferve for the Counties of Leicefer, Derby, Lincoln, Nottingham, and Fork : And they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. Ordered, That Sir fames Douglas have leave to go into the Country for Six Weeks, upon extraordinary Oc- caiions. A Bill for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Meadows, Paftures, and Wafte Grounds, in the Parifh of Countefthorpe, in the County of Leicefer, was read a Second Time. Refolded, That the Bill be committed to Sir John Palmer, Lord Mcxborougb, Mr. Darker, Sir Robert Long, L.ord Pigot, Mr. Long, Mr. Fonereau, Sir Alexander Grant, Mr. Town/hend, Mr. Shiftner, Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, Mr. Kynajlcn, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Gore, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Mr. Plumer, Lord Orwell, Sir John Glynne, Sir Armine Wodehoufe, Sir Francis Pincent, Mr. Gore, Sir Robert Burdett, Sir Edward Ttimer, Sir John Morgan, Sir Roger Moftyn, Sir Thomas Cave, Mr. Sib- thorpe, Mr. Staunton, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Fitzherbert, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Fitzroy, Mr. Norris and ail the Members who ferve for the Counties of Leicefter, Derby, Lincoln, Nottingham, andF^.' And they 6 GEO. III. Journals of the they are to meet this Afternoon, at Five of the Clock, in the Speaker�s Chamber. An ingroHed Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Aft for veiling Part of the Fee Simple Ellate of George late Lord Viicount Midleton, of the Kingdom of Ireland, in Trullees, to be fold, for paying the Debts, Legacies, and Incumbrances, mentioned in, and appointed to be paid by, his Will; and for executing and effeftuating feveral Contrafts entered into by him for felling and leafing divers Farms and Lands in Ireland'., and for making the Exemplification of his Will Evidence in Law and Equity ; was read theFirft Time. Refolved, That the Bill be read a Second Time. Ordered, That all have Voices, who come to the Committee, ro whom the Bill for building a Bridge, crofs the River of Thames, from Cbelfea, in the County of Mid- dlefex, to Batterfa, in the County of Surrey, is committed. The Houfe being informed, that the Chamberlain of the City of London attended at the Door; he was called in-, and, at the Bar, prefented to the Houfe, purfuant to the Directions of feveral Afts of Parliament. An Account of the Surplus of the Fund for the Relief of the Orphans, and other Creditors, of the City of London, on the 5th Day of 'July 1765 : And alfo, An Account of Money received and paid by the Cham � berlain of the City of London, for building a Bridge, crols the River '?Thames, from Black Fryars, in the City of London, to the oppofite Side in the County of Surrey, from ^th July 1764 cxdufive, to the 5th Day of 'Juty �765, include. Ami then he withdrew. And the Titles of the faid Accounts were read. Ordered, That the Lid Accounts do lie upon the Table, to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe. The laid Accounts are preferved amongft the other Papers of this Sefiion. Ordered, That there be laid before this Houfe, an Account of the Quantity of Coals and Cinders, exported from Sunderland, from Cbrijlntas 1730 to Cbrijimas 1735, and from Cbrijimas 1759 to Cbrijimas 1764; diltinguilbing each Year, and the Places to which the tame were exported. Sir Robert Ladbroke reported from the Committee, to whom the Petition of the Glove Sellers, and Glove Manufacturers, Leather Dreflers, and Leather Sellers of the Cities of London and IFeJlminJier, and Borough of Southwark -, and alfo the Petition of the Leather Glove Manufafturers and Leather Dreflers of the City of Ifcrcejier -, and alfo the Petition of the Glove Makers and Leather Dreflers of the City of Hereford; and alfo the Petition of the Glove Manufafturers, Glove Sellers, Leather Dreflers, and Leather Sellers of the City of Fork", were referred -, That the Committee had examined the Matter of Faft contained in the Three firfl: mentioned Petitions; no Pcrfon appearing in Behalf of the laft mentioned Petition; and had di- rtfted him to report the fame, as it appeared to them, to the Houle ; and he read the Report in his Place; and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk�s Table: Where the lame was read; and is as followeth ; viz. It appears by an Account from the Cullom Houfe referred to your Committee, that the Quantity of Foreign manufaftured Leather Gloves and Mitts, which have been feized in the laft Seven Years, have greatly increafrd ; it appearing by the laid Account, that the Quantity feized in One thoufand Seven hundred and Fifty-eight, was 'Two hundred and Seventy-three Dozen and Eight Pair ; and in the Year 1764, One thoufand Six hundred and Sixty-eight Dozen and feven Pair; Tn the Year 1764, French Kid Skins 1410 8 Italian D� 1393 2 $ LambSkins 194 15 2 1602 8 G Which makes a Diminution to the Revenue in thole Two Years of 2959 16 4 Then Mr. George Jennings, a Glove Manufafturer, informed your Committee, that, of late Years, great Quantities of Gloves have been clandeftincly brought into this Kingdom, by which Means the Trade is greatly decreafed; that he lias not Employ for a Fourth Part of the Hands as he had formerly; that the Revenue is likewife afrefted thereby, in Proportion to the Number of Gloves fmuggled in ; and that if the Importation of Foreign Manufaftured Gloves and Mitts was prohibited, the Skins, of which fuch Gloves are made, would be imported into this Kingdom, in order to be manufaftured here. Mr. John Pitt, a Glove Manufacturer, confirmed the aforegoing Evidence. Mr. James Knowles, a Leather Drefler, being examined, faid, That formerly he has imported large Quantities of Skins, but that now he cannot get them, owing not only to the French manufafturing their own Kid and Lamb Skins, but to their buying up others at Foreign Markets -, and that the Witnefs was prevented by that Means of having Forty thoufand Skins from One Houfe in Italy laft Year, which rhe French bought up for their own life. Mr. Robert Perry, a Leather Drefler, confirmed the laft Evidence, with refpeft to the Decline of the Trade, and gave the fame Reafons; and added, That he does not employ a Third Part of the Hands he did formerly. Mr. Richard Griffiths, a Glove Seller, faid, That great Quantities of Gloves are clandeftincly brought into this Kingdom, and whenever they are feized, are fold at the Cullom Houfe with certain Stamps; and that, under Cover of fuch Gloves fo fold and llamped at the Cullom 1 loulc, great Quantities of Foreign manufaftured Leather Gloves that have been fmuggled into this Kingdom, and efcaped Seizure, are daily vended and fold ; to the great Diilrefs and Ruin of our own Manufafturers. Mr. Timothy Bevington, a Glove Manufacturer, and 4 Leather dangerous; and that the fame cannot be clrcftually repaired and widened by the prefent Methods preferred by Law t Which Evidence was confirmed by a Member prefent at the Committee. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for repairing feveral Roads leading into the Borough of Wareham, in the County of Dorfct: And that Mr John Pitt and Mr. Peter Burrell do prepare, and bring in, the fame. A Petition of the feveral Inhabitants of the Town and Borough of Wareham, in the County of Dorfct, and the feveral Gentlemen, Freeholders, and Owners, and Occupiers of Lands, in the Neighbourhood of the faid Town of Wareham, whofe Names are thereunto fubferibed, was prefented to the Houfe, and read ; Setting forth. That the Petitioners obftrve, by the Votes of the Houfe, that Application has been made for a Bill for repairing and widening the feveral Roads mentioned in the faid Petition, leading into the faid Town ; and that the Petitioners have great Reafon to apprehend, that, fhould the faid Bill pafs into a Law, it would greatly injure the little Trade and Commerce of the faid Town, as fo many Branches of Road are inferted in the faid Petition, and the moft material Branch leading from Ware- barn to Beer Regis, in the faid County of Dorfet, is taken no Notice of, though the laid Road is very ruinous ; and that the Petitioners therefore hope no Toll Gate will be placed to affeft Perfons travelling the faid Road, unlcfs the faid Road be included in laid Bill; and that the Petitioners alfo apprehend, that the Tolls to be collected will b^ greatly infuflicient to raife a Fund for amending, repairing, and widening fo many different Branches as are mentioned in the Petition : And therefore praying, That a Claufe may be inferted in the Bill, that no Gate or Gates for collecting Tolls, fliall be ereCted on any Branch of the faid Roads, until the Sum of Two thouiand Pounds be advanced and railed for repairing the faid feveral Roads. Ordered, That the faid Petition do lie upon the Table. A Melfage from the Lords, by Mr. Anguifh and Mr Graves: Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Aft for dividing and inclofing the Common Fields, Common Paftures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and Commonable Lands, within the Manor and Parifh of Steeple Afton, in the County of Oxford; with an Amendment ; to which Amendment the Lords defire the Concurrence of this Houfe. Aud then the Mcficngers withdrew. The Houfe was moved, that an Ad, made in the laft Seflion of Parliament, intituled, An Aft for the more effectual Prefervation of Filh, in Filh Ponds and other Waters, and Conies in Warrens, and for preventing the Damage done to Sea Banks, within the Count}� of Lincoln, by the Breeding Conies therein, might be read. And the fame being read accordingly; Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to explain and amend the faid Aft, fo far as it relates to the taking and deftroying of Fifh in Rivers: And that Sir Francis I'incent, Mr. Peter Burrell, Sir Richard Warwick Bampfylde, Mr. Rice, Mr. Fitzherbert, and Mr. Onflow, do prepare, and bring in, the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Burton and Mr. Ewer be added to the Committee, to whom the Petition of feveral Noblemen, Gentlemen, and others, refiding at Richmond and Kcw, in the County of Surrey, and of feveral Freeholders and others, poflefled of Eftates there, is referred. Sir George Tonge prefented to the I loufe, according to Order, a Bill to explain, amend, and reduce into One Aft