Appendix XV. full and sufficient power to do and consent to those things which then and there by the common council of our said kingdom (by the blessing of God) shall happen to be ordained upon the aforesaid affairs, so that, for want of such power, or through any improvident election of the said knights, citizens or burgesses, the aforesaid affairs may in no wise remain unfinished; willing, nevertheless, that neither you nor any other sheriff of this our said kingdom be in anywise elected, and that the election in your full county so made, distinctly and openly, under your seal and the seals of those who shall be present at such election, you do certify to us in our Chancery, at the day and place aforesaid, without delay, remitting to us one part of the aforesaid indentures annexed to these presents, together with this writ.*

Witness Ourself, at Westminster, the in the

year of our reign.

day of

1. The day when this writ is received is to be indorsed, and a receipt given to the person delivering it, at the time of delivery, expressing the day and hour of receiving it.

2. When returned, it is to be indorsed thus-"The execution of this writ appears in certain schedules hereunto annexed.-A. B. Sheriff."

3. The writs to the sheriffs are all in the same form, except that in the above for Oxfordshire, and that for Cambridgeshire, there is a clause for the election of Members for the respective Universities.

* Every writ of summons formerly contained the following clause, known by the name of the "Nolumus clause ;"-" Nolumus autem quod tu aut aliquis alius "Vicecomes regni nostri, aut apprentius, aut aliquis alius homo ad legem ali"qualiter sit electus." The history of this clause is given by Lingard (Hist. of England, 4th vol. p. 170), from which it appears to have originated in the following manner. Parliament, as the supreme court for the redress of all grievances, as well of the state as of individuals, was then (as now) in the habit of receiving petitions from all persons who complained of any kind of oppression. The number of petitions had increased during the reign of Edw. III. to an enormous amount, when, in the year 1372, a singular species of fraud was discovered. Attorneys and barristers, practising in the courts of law, procured themselves to be returned knights of the shire, and took advantage of the opportunity to introduce the cases of their clients among the petitions which were presented to the king in the name of the lower house. To correct this abuse, it was enacted, that no practising lawyer should for the future be chosen knight of the shire, and that, if any such lawyer had been returned for that parliament, he should forfeit his wages. Accordingly, this new clause was first introduced in the writs of the 47 Edw. III., and was then omitted in those sent to the Cinque Ports; in the 49 Edw. III. it is to be found in all writs, except in that for Bristol; in the 50 Edw. III., in all without exception; omitted again in the writ for Bristol, 1 Rich. II. ;

Form observed by House of Commons in attending the Appendix XVI. Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

(Commons' Journals, 28 June, 1838.)

PRAYERS.

The House having met,

And the time being arrived for the House to proceed to be present at the solemnity of Her Majesty's Coronation, Mr. Speaker desired the members to take their places and to remain therein, until the names of their respective counties should be drawn, and then to go forth and proceed towards the Abbey; whereupon the members took their places accordingly: Then the Clerk drew from a glass the name of one of the counties, and the members serving for that county, and for all the places within the same, rose from their places and went forth. Then the Clerk drew the name of another county, and the members went forth in the same manner; and the names of all the counties having been drawn, and all the members having gone forth, Mr. Speaker adjourned the House till to-morrow, and left the Chair.

And the House accordingly adjourned at half an hour after nine of the clock in the morning.

Mr. Speaker and the House then went in procession to Westminster Abbey, to a gallery directly over the altar, which had been provided for their accommodation, in the following order, viz:

Some of the Serjeant's Messengers went first,

Then the Under Clerks.

Then the Deputy Serjeant-at-arms.

Then the Members, two and two, according to the counties, as they were drawn.

after which year it was replaced, and the writs all continued uniform till the 12th year of that reign, when they underwent some alteration, and have continued in the form so altered until modern times, when that part of it which relates to lawyers, having always been a dead letter, was at length omitted; still leaving, however, the prohibition upon the return of Sheriffs to Parliament. But see, as to Sheriffs, ante p. 83.

Two attempts were made in the reign of Charles I. to exclude lawyers from the House of Commons, under the authority of this clause, but both proved unsuccessful. One was made by the army during the trial of that ill-fated king (see Parl. Hist. v. 18, p. 527); and the other by the Long Parliament in 1649 (see Parl. Hist. v. 19, p. 226),

The Serjeant, carrying the Mace, as usual, before Mr.
Speaker.
Mr. Speaker alone.

The Clerks Assistant.

Mr Speaker sat in the centre of the gallery, in a chair. prepared for him, with the Mace on a cushion before him, the Clerk on his right hand, and the Serjeant-at-arms on his left, and the Clerks Assistant, Deputy Serjeant, Chaplain, and Secretary, in a seat immediately behind his chair.

Note: The Serjeant's Messengers and Doorkeepers

of this House were placed at the doors of the gallery in the Abbey, with orders that none but members should be let into the same; and the better to keep off the crowd, a platform and covered way were erected, from the Members' waiting room, across Saint Margaret's street, at the door of the Abbey in Poet's Corner, and several of the police were placed along the passages".

XVII.

PUBLIC BILLS.

Appendix XVII. MOTIONS TO BE MADE DURING THE VARIOUS STAGES OF A BILL.

Mr.

Notice.

gives notice that he will on [tomorrow] move for leave to bring in a bill to [alter the mode of holding County Elections].

Motion for leave to bring in a Bill.

seconded by Mr.

Mr. moves for leave to bring in a Bill to (alter the mode of holding County Elections.)

The motions for its first reading, second reading, and committal, being questions of course, are made by the Speaker without a formal motion put, when the time appointed for the same has arrived. But if a member be desirous of bringing up a Bill out of its turn, the following motion is required:

* This plan is similar (though with a few alterations) to that adopted by the House on the occasion of the Coronation of Queen Anne, and entered on the Journal book of the 23d April, 1702.

Motion for calling up a Bill out of its turn.

Mr. seconded by Mr.

moves, that the Order of the Day for the second reading of the Bill to (alter the mode of holding County Elections) be now read.

On a question for receiving the report of a Bill from Committee, a member may move that it be received "this day six months," or that "it be re-committed."

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Motion for amending a Bill on the question for its third reading.

seconded by Mr.

Mr. moves, that the Bill be not now read a third time, but that it be re-committed forthwith (or, on- next,) for the purpose of amending the same (by expunging the clause,-or, by adding the following: (or otherwise, as the case may be.)

Motion for throwing out a Bill.

On the question for the second or third reading, recommittal, or passing.

Mr. seconded by Mr. moves in amendment, that the Bill be not read a second, (or third time, or committed,- -or do not now pass-as the case may be)-but that it (be read, &c.-as the case may be) this day three months.

TITLE.

After the passing of the Bill.

Mr. seconded by Mr. moves, that the bill be entitled "An Act to alter the mode of holding County "Elections, and to repeal the laws now in force for that "purpose"--(or as the case may be.)

XVIII.

Appendix XVII

Example of the Forms required in a Private Bill, in the Appendix XVIII. Notice, Petition, and Allegations that must be proved before the Committee-(in the case of a Road Bill).

Notice is hereby given, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the next session, for an Act for making, and maintaining a turnpike road, to commence at or near to a certain place called and to pass from thence over aforesaid, through to

in

in the parish ofin the parish of the parish of

--
2 W

and

ppendix XVIII. from thence through or near the town or village of

to

ed

and to terminate at, or near to a certain place callin the town of -; all in the County of

A. B. Solicitor for the Bill.

Form of Petition.

To the Honourable the Commons of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in
Parliament assembled.

The humble petition of the several persons whose names
are hereunto subscribed, being inhabitants of
in the parish of·

Sheweth,

in the county of

That the making and maintaining of a turnpike road, to commence at (insert from the notice,) would be of great benefit and advantage to the inhabitants of and the adjacent country, and also to the public at large; but the same cannot be carried into execution without the aid and authority of Parliament.

Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that leave may be given to bring in a bill for effecting the purpose aforesaid, in such manner, by such ways and means, and under such regulations and restrictions, as to this Honourable House shall seem meet.

And your petitioners shall ever pray.

[Signatures.]

Form of statement of Proofs before Committee on Petition. 1. Produces newspapers entitled of [such a date.]

2. Produces and proves copy of notice, which he affixed to the door of the Sessions House, at, on the

at the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions.

3. Proves that he applied to the owners and occupiers of property to be taken, and that the statements set against their names, as entered in the list deposited in the Private Bill Office, is correct.

4. Proves the estimate: he made it.

5. Proves that the list of the names of the subscribers, and of the sums set against their names, is correct. 6. Proves depositing in the Private Bill Office, plan, section, and book of reference, list of owners and occupiers, estimate of expense, and subscription

list.

7. Proves allegations of petition.