[fos. 206-7] List of the houses,

[fo. 208] Queen's writ of summons.

Session 1. Sunday 18 October 1601

[fos. 208-13] Archbishop's mandate; bishop of London's certificate. House called. The lower house required to choose a prolocutor. Absent contumacious. Archdeacon of Canterbury's certificate with the mandate inserted.

Session 2. Saturday 31 October 1601

[fos. 213-15] Protestation of the dean of Westminster to archbishop. Approbation of Dr Sutcliffe for prolocutor. Archbishop's commission to the bishops of London, Winton, Bath, Norwich, St Asaph, Lincoln and the dean of Canterbury to preside in his stead.

Sessions 3-4. Dates unknown.

[fos. 215-17] Nothing remarkable.

Sessions 5-6. Wednesday 18 November 1601 (AM and PM)

[fos. 217-26] Grant of four subsidies proposed, passed and engrossed. Payable within four years. First payment 26 March 1602. Last payment 26 March 1605.

Sessions 7-17. Dates unknown.

[fos. 226-9] Nothing of moment more than (in the ninth) the archbishop declares the queen's gracious acceptance of the said subsidies.

Session 18. Monday 21 December 1601

[fo. 229] The archbishop present exhorts the bishops to be diligent in their charges and careful to observe the canons of the last convocation, and particularly gives them caution of these things following, viz.:

• 1. Not to proceed in court upon apparitors promoting without churchwardens’ presentment, or other just inquisition.

• 2. That ecclesiastical judges hold not too frequent courts, nor oftener than once in five weeks.

• 3. That chancellors and officials call not men to several courts for the same fault.

• 4. To have yearly but once, not quarter bills of presentments.

• 5. To take care that the curates of non-residents be able persons and have good allowances.

• 6. That none but chancellors grant licences for marriage.

[fo. 230] Contumacious suspended. Archbishop, by the queen's writ, dissolves [the convocation].

Archbishop Whitgift's letter of 7 January 1602

Salutem in Christo. Your lordship hath by experience now found how the not reforming of the inconveniences crept into ecclesiastical inferior courts, specified in my letters sent unto you in April last, hath bred that effect which was then feared, even the multitudes of complaints made against them in the last parliament.