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[2nd §, No 21., May 24, 756, 
proceeding ; adjourned to Ten next day: At Four after- 
noon Committee of Petitions and Trade sate; a Petition 
preferred by Nangle against Gerard Borre, Esq., for Per- 
quisites of the Clerk of Parliament; Borre ordered to 
appear Monday following at Four in the afternoon. 
“ May 11. Bishop of Limerick introduced: House or- 
dered to attend the King in their Robes, which they did: 
The Orders of the House read: Bill for Trade read the 
second time, and committed: Bill of Recognition brought 
into the House from the Commons; at Eleven the King 
comes to the House in his Robes, and passes the Bill; the 
King goes out. ’Tis disputed, whether the Session was 
vot discontinued by passing the Bill; moved to refer it 
to the Judges by the Bishop of Meath; over-ruled, 
and resolved in the Negative. Adjourned till Mun- 
day. 
© May 13, A Bill brought into the House by C. J. 
Nugent for altering the Act of Settlement, read once, and 
motion made for the second reading, but rejected. The 
King present at Four in the afternoon; the Committee of 
Petitions and Privileges sate; Borres Answer put in, and 
Nangle ordered to reply. Lord Brittas’s Petition con- 
cerning his Arrest 18 years ago, read; Affidavit ordered 
to be made, and on the Affidavit the Party to be commit- 
ted to the Black Rod. 
“ May 14, The Peers names called; License of absence 
granted, and Proxies admitted: Two Bills brought up 
by the Commons, and read once; one for recalling all 
Grants of Civil Offices from the King, during Life or 
Good behaviour: Another against Writs of Error, and 
Appeal into England; and that an Act of Parliament 
in England shall not bind Ireland. King present all the 
while. 
“ May 15. Earl of Westmeath introduced Bill for va- 
cating Offices, &c. read second time, and committed; 
Speaker quits the Chair: Chief Justice Nugent called up 
by the King to be Chair-man; the Bishop of Meath 
against it for two Reasons; Ist. Because able Officers 
might be turned out without fault. 2d. It was unjust to 
turn men out of Freehold without tryal or compensation, 
the Lord Chancellor for it, because to the King’s preju- 
dice to grant them: the House reassumed, and the Bill 
read a third time; at every Sentence the Clerk stopt, and 
the Speaker asks the House, Shall it pass without amend- 
ment? It was put to the vote; all consent but the Bishop 
of Meath, who desired to protest, but was denyed, because 
he offered it too late; viz. after the votes were past; King 
present all along. 
“ May 16. Ch. Just. Nugent reports the Alterations 
made in the Bill of Trade: The Bill against Writs of 
Error, &c. read the Second time, and committed: Speaker 
quits his place; Chief Justice Nugent assumes it: Bishop 
of Meath argues against it, because against his Oath of 
Supremacy to the King; because prejudicial to the King 
and Kingdom; robbing the King of his Prerogative, and 
the Subject of the Liberty of appealing to the King in 
person: He desires a Clause in the latter end for saving 
all Writs of Error, and Appeals now depending in Eng- 
land: The Lord Chancellor for the Bill, argues from the 
Kase and Benefit of the Subject. The House reassumed 
the Bill, read seriatim, as the other before; after that, put 
to the vote; all consent: The King present at all the 
Debates, A Bill read once, making it Treason to bring in 
Counterfeit Foreign Coin into the Kingdom; referred to 
the Committee. A Petition preferred about Butter-Casks, 
and referred. At Four in the afternoon the Committee 
sits, and refers the Bill about Money to the Judges; and 
that about Casks to the Committee of Trade. 
“ May 17. The Bill about Trade read twice, and passed 
nemine contradicente : Lord Primate’s Summons and Proxy 
granted to the Bishop of Meath, read and allowed: ob- 
jected, That the Proxy should be introduced, not allowed, 
because the Primate did not appear; but it was carried in 
the Negative, and presidents were cited for it. 
“ May 18. Journals of the last day read: A Petition for 
the relief of some poor Prisoners, read, and referred to the 
Committee. l 
“ May 20. Journals of the House read; Lord Dillon in- 
troduced. 
“ May 21. Earl of Barrymore’s Proxy granted to the 
Lord Granard, allowed, but not read: Lord Dunfany’s 
Proxy allowed. 
“ May 22. Lord Trimnestown, and Lord Kilmahar in- 
troduced. Motion made by Bishop of Meath against the 
Sheriffs of Dublin for quartering an Officer upon him; 
Ordered, That no Peer should be quartered on; and that 
the Sheriff should be committed to the Black Rod, The 
Bill for repealing the Acts of Settlement brought up 
from the Commons by Coll. Macharty, and lodged in the 
House. 
“Observe, That nothing was done in the House for 
four days before, because the King waited for this Bill 
from the Commons; and that the King sent frequently 
for it; the Black Rod having called to the House of 
Commons six or seven times this very day to send it up, 
the Lords House and King spent the time in Discourses 
and News. 
“ May 23. Journals of last day read. The bill from the 
Commons lodged yesterday, read this day once: Motion 
made to have it read again in the afternoon, but rejected: 
Bishop of Meath moves, That the Lords Bill might have 
Precedence of it in reading, or at least, that both might 
be committed: The first rejected, the latter granted: The 
Commons Bill ordered to be read next morning. 
“ May 24. Col. Macarty made Baron, Moun Casson in- 
troduced. The Commons Bill of Repeal read again, and 
committed to the whole House; moved the Lords Bill of 
Repeal might be read and committed; but denied. Se- 
veral Petitions read, put in by Persons concerned under 
the Acts; all referred, except Capt. Kelly’s. 
“ May 25. Bill about Counterfeit Foreign Coin amended, 
and read the Third time: Controversie between Trimne- 
stown and Dunsany about Prececencies, Reported by the 
Committee, adjudged to Trimnestown, because it was so 
in 1634; with a saving to Dunsany, if he can shew a 
better Right. Several Petitions read, preferred by Per- 
sons concerned under the Acts of Settlement and Expla- 
nation, and by others for Remainders: One by Lord Clan 
Meleera, to be relieved against the Sale of his Estate to 
Sir Patrick Trant. 
“ May 27. Several Petitions read, and Counsel on them 
heard at the Lords Bar; viz. Lord Galways, Mathews, 
Lord Kingstown’s brothers, Sir Henry Bingham’s bro- 
ther’s; the Scope of them all was, To have savings for 
their Remainders, and consideration for their Improve- 
ments; referred all to the Committee of Petitions, 
“ May 28. Several Petitions read, relating to the Act of 
Settlement; Bill of Repeal read the second time; the 
House adjourned during Pleasure, and Resolved into a 
Grand Committee; the Bill of Repeal read by Para- 
graphs; some Objections made, which occasioned some 
Alterations. Motion made for adjourning till Thursday, 
because Wednesday was a Holiday; the King ask’d, 
What Holiday? Answered, The Restoration of his Bro- 
ther and Himself, &c. He replied, The fitter to Restore 
those Loyal Catholic Gentlemen that had suffered with 
him, and been kept unjustly out of their Estates; the 
Motion rejected. 
“ May 29. Petitions read, and referred to the Commit- 
tee; the House Resolved into a Grand Committee; the 
rest of the Bill read by paragraphs; Objections made; 
some over-ruled, others thought reasonable; King offers 
a new Preamble to the Bill, instead of that which was 
sent up from the Commons House; Assented to it. Judge 
