NOY. 10. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Mr. Jeanour will maiatej'iie two horses soe long as 

 this 



Sir Riclu Onslow will mainteyne fower horses for himself 



and his Sonne. 

 Sir SaiB. Owtield will mainteyne fower horses, and doe 



more if occasion shall bee. 

 Mr. H. Pethai- [Qy. Pelhani?] will bringe an hundred 



pownds. 

 Mr. Whittlock will mainteyne two horses. 

 Mr. Vassall will mainteyne one horse, and, if occasion bee, 



two more. 

 Mr. Ven will bringe in an hundred pownds in money, 



and will have a horse ready for himself and sonne all- 



wayes, uppon 



Sir H. Heyman will bringe in one hundred pounds in 



plate or money and two horses, for the defence of the 



kinge, kingdome, and privileges of parliament and li- 

 berties of the subject. 

 Mr. Stevens will furnish two horses compleatly. 

 Mr. Ro. Goodwyn will bringe in one horse and fifty 



pownds in plate or monej'. 

 Sir Gilb' Pickering will bringe in fower horses and one 



hundred and fifty pownds in money or plate. 



and having lost now twenty years of the best part of my 

 life, and the greatest of my advantages, it will appear I 

 liave been a greater loser than an improver of my for- 

 tunes b}'' those public places 1 have with so much hazard 

 and danger undergone. I received by the last years of 

 my practice jive and twenty hundred pounds by the year, 

 which I quitted when I was made Speaker, and instead 

 of making any advantage by that, 1 added a great charge, 

 keeping a great retinue and public table," &c. And he 

 further affirms, " Of the 51. per diem, due to the Speaker 

 as Speaker, from my first sitting to my last, I never re- 

 ceived one farthing," and (with the exception, of course, 

 of the vote already mentioned) " I never had any recom- 

 pense from the House in money, land, or by other re- 

 ward, and from 1648 to the last time I sate, I never 

 received any profit by fee or otherwise." 



In Lord Somers's Tracts, vol. vii. p. 103., there is a 

 letter (evidently addressed to Lord Goring) confirmatory 

 of this statement, in which the writer saj'S, " I am very 

 glad you liave given me an opportunity of vindicating 

 my old friend the late Speaker. You cannot be unac- 

 quainted with the greatness of his practice before he was 

 called to that employment, for I, having seen his ac- 

 counts [can vouch] 'twas more than 2000/. per annum. 

 In the first two years of his Speakership he kept a public 

 table, and every day entertained several eminent persons, 

 as well belonging to the Court, as Members of Parlia- 

 ment, &c Immediately after, the unhappy war 



broke out, and it was his chance to have his fortunes in 

 the activest parts of it, so that his estates for five years 

 yielded him nothing." One of the " estates " thus referred 

 to was that of Bessels Leigh, the old manor place of which 

 (from its proximity to the royal quarters at Oxford) was 

 once seized, and for a time garrisoned, by the King. 

 (Whitelock's 3Ic7norials.) Of the Speaker's " hearty affec- 

 tion " to the public service, he had already in the preced- 

 ing "short" parliament, as Chairman of the Ship Money 

 Committee, and subsequently of the Committee of the 

 whole House, given abundant proof. There was scarcely 

 a committee, in fact, appointed, however remotely affect- 

 ing any one of the three great questions which then so 

 deeply agitated the public mind, viz. Religion, Privilege, 

 and Suppl3', on which his name does not occur in the 

 Journals, associated with the leaders of the popular part}', 

 Hampden, St. John, and Pym, &c., from his very first 

 entry into the House. He had also previously declined 

 to contribute to the king's expedition against the Scots. 

 No. 315.] 



Mr. Browne, of Kent, will bringe in an hundred pownds 

 in money or plate. 



Capt. Skinner will bringe in two horses. 



Sir Thos. Walsingham will bringe in an hundred pownds 

 in money or plate, and have two horses allwayes ready 

 at fower-and-twenty bowers warninge. 



Sir Rob' Harley will furnishe two horses. 



Mr. Purey will furnishe one horse. 



Mr. Green will furnishe one horse and bringe in fifty 

 pownds in plate or money. 



Sir Edward Boyse will furnishe two horses, when there 

 shall bee occasion, and bringe in fifty pownds in plate 

 or money. 



Mr. Prideaux will bringe in an hundi'ed pownds. 



Mr. Lucas will bring in fifty pownds in money and one 

 horse. 



Mr. Peard will bring in an hundred pownds and expect 

 noe interest. 



Mr. Rigby will send up one horse completely furnisht, if 

 his countie bee in peace nine dayes after liee comes 

 down. 



Mr. Bagshaw will bringe in fifty pownds and expect noe 

 interest, for the preservation of the tinge and parlia- 

 ment, accordinge to his protestation, oathe of supre- 

 macie, and allegiance, conjunctively and not divided, 

 and in noe other manner. 



Mr. Reynolds will furnishe out two horses, and bringe in 

 an hundred pownds in plate, 



Mr. Knightley will bringe in an hundred pownds in money 

 and furnishe two horses. 



Mr. Grantham will furnishe out two horses. 



Sir Jo. Merrick will furnish two horses. 



Mr. Oldsworth will subscribe fifty pownds and furnish an 

 horse. 



Mr. Kirle will furnish one horse. 



Mr. Cromwell will bringe in five hundred pownds. 



Mr. Ashton will bringe in two horses. 



Mr. Jo. Moore will bringe in two horses. 



Sir Beauchamp St. Jon will bringe in two horses. 



Mr, Tate will bringe in two horses and mainteyne them. 



Mr. Hobby will finde two horses. 



Sir Jo. Holland will bringe in two horses ready furnisht, and 

 an hundred pownds in money or plate, for maintenance 

 of the true Protestant religion, the defence of the king's 

 person, his royall authoritie and dignitie, our lawes, li- 

 berties, and privileges conjunctively. 



Mr. Sam. Browne will bringe in one hundred pownds, 



•Sir Thos. Soame will bringe in two horses compleatly 

 furnisht. 



Sir Edw, Master will bringe in an hundred pownds pre- 

 sently, and an hundred pownds a month hence, 



Mr. Thos. Moore will furnishe two horses. 



Mr. Cornelius Holland will furnishe two horses. 



Mr. White will bringe in an hundred pownds and expect 

 noe interest, 



Mr. Lawrence Whittacre will freelj' give twenty pownds. 



Mr, Mathew will finde one horse and furnish fifty pownds 

 in plate or money. 



Mr, Downes will bringe in fifty pownds, 



Mr. Millington Avill, for the present, bringe in fifty 

 pownds. 



Mr. Noble will bringe in one hundred pownds, 



Mr, H, Herb' will furnish one horse, 



Mr. Edw. Mountague will bringe in an hundred pownds 

 in plate or money for defence of the kinge and parlem* 

 conjunctively, and not divided. 



Mr. Tho. Laine will furnish one horse. 



Mr. Fountaine will bringe in one horse. 



Mr. Harris will give fifty pownds. 



Mr. Geo. Buller will furnishe one horse. 



Mr. Thos. Arundell will furnish one horse. 



