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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2009
22. The opening of Parliament 1614; Wentworth to his father (SC, xxi/7).
After my humble duty remembred, desiring your blessing &c, Sir, this day was the first of the Parlament, whear after the oath of supremecy and allegeance administred to the lower house, wee went to hear the king's maiesty's speach which was diuided into three parts: bona animae, bona corporis, bona fortunae. In the first part he spoke sumthings touching the increase of Papists, his maiesties care and watchfullnes to preuent ther increase, but rather by the clearing of sum points as yeat obsqure and the exeqution of that which hath allready been inacted then by more strikter order, bycause that seuerity is soe far from altering men's consciences that itt doth rather confirme them in thear opinions, with the particulars whearof he would lett the house haue notice att more leisure. Under the head of bona corporis he spoke of his royall issue and among the rest, of the prince Palitine his many vertues and the reasons whie his maiesty affected that mache before any other, to witt in regard of his religion; lastly that the electore Palatine and his issue might be made free dinozens.
page 64 note 1 This is a volume of the papers of Nathaniel Johnston which includes notes of proceedings in this Parliament in Wentworth's hand. Johnston certainly had access to Wentworth Woodhouse and may have removed these papers from there. Fos. 46v–48v give an account of the opening of Parliament, the election of the Speaker and the king's first two speeches, which do not add anything significant to what can be found in the Commons' Journal; Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England, i (London, 1806), pp. 1149–58Google Scholar; Historical Manuscripts Commission, lxxviii, MSS. of R. R. Hastings, iv (1947), pp. 230–41.Google Scholar
page 64 note 2 This appears to be a mistake for Friday, 8 April; the account also covers the proceedings on Monday, 11 April, C.J., i, pp. 456, 459Google Scholar; for a full account, see Moir, T. L., The Addled Parliament of 1614 (Oxford, 1958), pp. 85–87.Google Scholar
page 66 note 1 This was the second reading of the bill ‘concerning Taxes and Impositions upon Merchants’, C.J., i. pp. 466–67Google Scholar, which is the only other record of this debate.
page 67 note 1 I.e. for one descent.
page 67 note 2 C.J. gives Brooke as the next speaker.
page 67 note 3 C.J. gives Middleton and does not name Owen as speaking.
page 68 note 1 Hoskyns, C.J.
page 69 note 1 Sir Henry Montague, C.J.
page 69 note 2 This is wrong; the date should be 3 May.
page 70 note 1 The patent is printed in Select Charters of Trading Companies, 1530–1708, ed. C. T. Carr (Selden Society, xxviii, 1913), pp. 62–78Google Scholar; cf. pp. xxiv–xxvi.
page 70 note 2 See Reynolds, B., ‘Elizabethan Traders in Normandy’, Journal of Modern History, ix (1937), pp. 301–3.Google Scholar
page 71 note 1 3 Jac. I cap. 6.
page 72 note 1 When the patent was brought in on 3 May; ‘It was alledged it was ymposed upon them and controverted wherfore was there a greate summ given unto some lord, and 3001 to Secretaries …’, Notestein, vii, p. 630.
page 72 note 2 The report was made 20 April; C.J.. i, pp. 469–70.Google Scholar
page 73 note 1 C.J. i, p. 468, 19 April.Google Scholar
page 73 note 2 This presumably should be Tuesday, 3 May; C.J., i, p. 471.Google Scholar
page 73 note 3 The date in the text is that of the opening of the parliament. Much briefer reports are in C.J., i, p. 472Google Scholar; Notestein, vii, pp. 633–34, cf. p. 638, 12 May. The leaves have been bound into the volume in the wrong order; fo. 40 continues on fo. 45.
page 76 note 1 This speech was presumably intended for the debate on the undertakers on 12 April.
page 77 note 1 Sir Robert Killigrew and Sir William Herbert tried to drag Sir Roger Owen from the chair of the committee on undertakers on 12 May; their punishment was debated on 13 May, C.J., i, p. 483.Google Scholar
page 77 note 2 Sir Thomas Parry was excluded on 11 May, C.J., i, pp. 480–81.Google Scholar