Catalogue description Main Papers

Mar 5 - Resolution of Committee to consider state of Peerage Great Britain. Bill in Parchment Collection. Mar 5 - (Bill: Navy Stores importation). a. Extracts from Minutes of Commissioners for Trade and Plantations relating to premiums upon importation of pitch and tar from America, 12 March 1718-1719. b. Extract of Minutes of Council of Massachusetts Bay 1718, 2 April 1719. c. Petition of Jeremy Drummer, 7 April. Mar 5 - Bill for better securing lawful trade to and from East Indies etc. Petition of Merchants and Ship Owners of London against, 5 March. (In Large Parchments). Mar 7 - Philips v Smith. Writ of Error. Record. Mar 9 - Act for making town and township of Sunderland a district parish. Consents of: a. Nathaniel Bishop of Durham and b. Reverend James Bowes, DD. Mar 11 - Privilege. Petition of Robert Webb against Edward Kelly. Annexed: a. Petition of Sir William Sanderson, 22 Dec. b. Petition of Henry Andrews, 7 April. Mar 14 - Act for settling the Peerage of Great Britain with clauses and amendments. Annexed: a. Petition of James, Earl Abercorn and other noblemen against, 16 March. (In Large Parchments). b. Petition of divers Peers of Scotland against Bill, 20 March. (In Large Parchments). c. Two petitions of Scotch Peers against, 6 April. (In Large Parchments). d. Petition of Lord Cranstoun against, 8 April. Bill in Parchment Collection. Mar 14 - Petition of Lord Castlemain with the Appeal next mentioned. Mar 14 - Lord Castlemain et al v Edwards. a. Petition of Richard, Viscount Castlemain. (In Large Parchments). b. Answer of John Edwards and Elizabeth, his wife, 14 March. (In Parchment Main Papers). c. Petition of Viscount Castlemain withdrawing Appeal, 17 March 1719-1720. Mar 17 - Bill against storage of gunpowder in London and Westminster. Read 10. a. Petition of Samuel Watlington et al, 21 March. b. Petition of John Martin and others, 21 March. c. Copy of Indictment against Robert Kingston for erecting a powder warehouse in Wapping, Michaelmas term, 1691. Mar 18 - Act for exchange of parcels of land in Fulham, Middlesex, bishopric of London. Charles, Earl of Peterborough. Annexed: (152) amendments. Mar 19 - Commissioners for building fifty new churches. Representation of Commissioners to his Majesty, touching manner of providing maintenance of ministers for said churches. (Duplicate). Apr 2 - Minutes of the Council of Massachusetts Bay regarding encouraging the manufacturing of iron. Apr 7 - Bill: East India Trade. Clause offered. (Perhaps 17 Feb. See that date). Other clauses in Parchment Collection. Apr 11 - Petition of Charlotte Whetstone and Rene Cottiby. Naturalization. Apr 14 - Habkine v Hogg. a. Petition of William Habkine, 14 April. b. Petition of William Habkine, 10 March 1719-1720. c. Protests of William Habkine, 17 March 1719-1720. d. Memorandum of Intimation of Orders. Apr 14 - Petition of William Boswell. Dagenham breach. Apr 15 - Petition of Moses Vita Sacerdote and Thomas Charnock. Apr 16 - Repairs of records and record repositories. Reports and estimates. (Numbered and list annexed). See 5 Feb 1718-1719. Apr 17 - Report of Lords Committee appointed to examine what monies have been ordered and issued out of Chamber of London in prosecuting, defending etc certain causes on writs of error. Bolton and Bridgen v Jeffs and Bolton and Bridgen v King. Annexed: Fifty papers touching same business. Apr 18 - The King's speech prorogation of Parliament. Nov 23 - The King's speech. Opening of Parliament. Nov 25 - Act for settling the Peerage of Great Britain. Amendments.

Lords Journals, vol xxi, pp88-277