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given fuch manifeft Proofs of your Firmness and Conftancy in the Service of the Crown, and of your Zeal for the Intereft of the Church as by Law establish'd, and the Welfare and Profperity of your Country.

Particularly, We the Clergy, have reafon to blefs Almighty God, and thank Her Majefty for Placing your Grace again over us, to whofe fuc• cessful Mediation with Her Majefty, we not only owe the Restitution of our Right to Sit in Convocation with every Parliament, but in a great measure alfo,Her Majefty's remitting the Twentieth Parts, and granting the First Fruits to purchase Impropriations; and that Royal Bounty, which hath lately been extended to the College of Dublin.

C For thefe, and many other Instances of Your Grace's Favour and Goodness towards us; we heartily pray that Almighty God may long preferve your Grace in Health, Honour and Profperity; and that Her Majefty may never want fo faithful a Minifter, the Church fo good a • Friend, or this Kingdom fo acceptable a Go

vernor.

The Lord Lieutenant was pleafed to answer, His Grace's THAT this was a very kind Address; that he took it very kindly; and that he would be ready at all times to Serve the Convocation to the utmost of his Power.

Answer.

Mellage from

the Lower

On the other hand the Prolocutor of the LowerHoufe, with his Affeffors, and the reft the House did on the 14th of July, attend the Upper-House of Convocation with the following Meffage : May it please your Graces and Lordships. THE Lower House of Convocation preferving a juft and due Senfe of your Graces and House of Con-Lordfhips Paternal Care of them, and tender Regard for the Rights of Convocation, so often and feasonably fhewn fince their Happy Restoration and Revival by Her Moft Gracious Majefty: And more particularly, by your Graces and Lordships moft Undaunted and Generous Refufal to join in an Illegal and Groundless Affertion or Opinion, That feveral of their Members had acted

vocation to

the Upper.

July, 14.

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in Derogation to Her Majefty's Prerogative, and A. C. might be profecuted by Way of Information or In- 1701, dictment, for Words inferted in a Proteft by them, fign'd and enter'd into the Books of their Houfe, June 30. 1759. And alfo for you Graces and Lordships vigorous Refolution to complain to the Lords in Parliament of thofe Men who had, in Compliance with the then powerful Fa• Etion, given under their Hands the faid Affertion, or Opinion, for Law; and likewife for your • Graces and Lordships at the fame Time ordering and impowering Two very Worthy and Right Reverend Members of your most Venerable Body, to undertake a Dangerous and Expen• five Voyage and Journey, at a most discouraging Juncture, to lay the whole Affair in a true Light before Her Majefty, whereby the Rights of Convocation, the Perfons and Fortunes of feveral of ⚫their Reverend and Worthy Members, were • preferv'd, and the Lower-Clergy vindicated and · fupported:

Have commanded me, in their Names, to return your Graces and Lordships their moft So. lemn Thanks, their most Humble and Hearty • Acknowledgments, for your Graces and Lordfhips great Watchfulness, Difinterested Zeal, and Paternal Regard, at all Times, for the Rights of Convocation, particularly for your Graces and Lordfhips Juft and Seafonable Re* folution of Auguft 5. 1700. wherein your Graces and Lordships, with a Primitive Courage, truly declare, That the Convocation of Ireland hath a Right to be fummon'd, and meet with every • Parliament that is called in this Kingdom, and is truly a Parliamentary Affifting Body, convened by the Queen's Writ, aud hath Rights, Powers, and Priviledges of its own; and that the Members thereof ought, and may freely debate, and give their Opinions in all Matters that fhall come before them. For all which, and many other Inftances of your Graces and Lordfhips Justice to the Rights of Convocation in general, and of their Houfe in particular, they do, by me, moft humbly take leave to affure • your

your Grace's and Lordship's, that they will endeavour to demonftrate to the World, that no Time, no Power, no Management, fhall ever be able to obliterate or leffen those most dutiful and grateful Sentiments, wherewith your Grace's and Lord/hips Favour, Patronage, and Protection, have juftly fill'd their Hearts.

To which Meffage, the Archbishops, and Bifhops, were pleafed by the Prefident, before their Graces and Lordships adjourn'd their House, to give the following Answer.

Mr. Prolocutor,

The President', WE

Answer. July, 17. Meffage of the Lower

Houfe to the Bishops of Offory and Killaloe,

E have taken your Affectionate and Dutiful Addrefs into Confideration, and will in Time return you an Answer.

Three Days after, the Prolocutor, attended with his Affeffors, and feveral Members of the Lower-Houfe, deliver'd to the Bishop of Killaloe, the following Meffage from the faid Lower-Houle to the Bifhops of Offory and Killaloe.

My LORDS,

HO' the Lower-Houfe of Convocation have 'with the very firft Opportunity endeayour'd to fhew their Graces and Lordships of <the Upper-Houfe, the Juft and Grateful Senfe they do, and always will retain of the very many feasonable and fignal Favours they have receiv'd from that most venerable Body, efpecially in the Difficulties, under which they labour'd in the late Times of Tryal; yet they cannot be fatisfy'd that they have fully perform'd their Duty till they have waited upon your LordC fhips, and acknowledg'd what they more particularly owe to your Lordship's ready and chearful Undertaking, at the Defire of the UpperHoufe, a dangerous and expenfive Voyage and Journey for the Service of the Convocation, and the Prefervation of feveral of their Worthy "Members from the Ruine threatned them by Ill.defigning Men, for their refolutely adhering tothe juft and effential Rights of their Houfe,

For this they do, by me, return your Lordfhips their most humble and hearty Thanks; and defire your Lordships to be affur'd, that the

"Lower

Lower Clergy are very truly fenfible how much A. C. they ftand Indebted to your Lordships juft and 1711. fatherly Concern for the Prefervation of their Rights and Privileges, and your Lordships Pru dent and Steddy Management of the great Trust repos'd in your Lordships by their Graces and Lordships of the Upper-Houfe, at a time when " the whole facred Order was threatned with Ruin by the Attempts of barefac'd Enemies, and the Compliances of falfe Friends.

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And may Almighty God long preserve your Lordships for the Good of his Church happily "Eftablish'd among us, the Service of her moft Sacred Majefty, and the true Intereft of this Kingdom, which your Lordfhips have fufficiently fhewn you have at Heart; and for which their "Open and Secret Enemies endeavour, but in effectually, to Maligne, and Oppose you.

To which the Bishop of Killaloe was pleased to make the following Answer: mand

Gentlemen,

THE Value you put upon the Bishop of Offory's The Bishop of Services and Mine, is a fufficient Recompence Killaloe's for the Trouble and Expence we have been at; I Answer. for my part, fhall think no Labour too great, where I may be able to do Good, either for the Convoca tion in general, or for any Member of it in par

ticulary 15.

Befides the Bill for the better Prefervation of the Bills brought Game, already mention'd, the following were into the fe brought into the House of Commons, viz. A Bill Commons. for the Encouragement of Tillage A Bill for the more effectual preventing exceffive and deceitful Gaming A Bill for qualifying Perfons to be Members of Parliament in this Kingdom; A Bill for the more effectual preventing. Frauds committed by Tenants; A Bill for the Eafe of her Majesty's Subjects in their paying Quit-Rents, Crown Rents, and Com pofition Rents A Bill for rendring more effectual a Statute made in the 33d Tear of Henry VIII relating to Vagabonds, and vagrant Beggars, and for the better regulating the Poor within the respective Parifbes of this Kingdom, and employing fuch as are able to labour; A Bill to regulate the Method

Mm

of

A. C. of raifing Money at Veftries; ABill for qualifying 1711. Persons to be Juftices of the Peace in this Kingdom;

Refolution to prevent Mif chiefs from

the Lofs of Records by the late Fire.

Refolutions

A Bill to enable Guardians to renew Leafes of Lives, during the Minority of their Wards A Bill for fecuring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and to prevent Imprisonment beyond the Seas A Bill for explaining and amending several Statutes for prohibiting Under-Sheriffs and Sheriffs Clerks, for officiating as Under-Sheriffs and Sheriffs Clerks, more than one Year. A Bill for preventing Lotteries, for expofing Goods to Sale by Lot, or other Adventure; A Bill to oblige the Proprietors and Tenants of neighbouring Lands to make Fences between their feveral Holdings.

On the 25th of July, the Commons, with their Speaker, attended the Lord-Lieutenant, at the Caftle, with the Heads of a Bill for the En couragement of Tillage, and defir'd his Grace to recommend the fame to Her Majefty, as a Bill of great Benefit to this Kingdom: Which his Grace promifed to do, in the most effectual Man

ner I can.

The fame Day, Mr. Attorney-General reported from the Committee appointed to confider of proper Methods for preventing theMischiefs, both Publick and Private, which arife by the Lofs of Records confum'd in the late Fire, That they had come to a Refolution in the Matter to them re. ferr'd, which he read in his Place, and afterwards deliver'd in at the Table, where the fame was a gainread as follows.

Refolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, that the proper Method to prevent the Mifchiefs, Publick and Private, which may arise by the Lofs of Records confum'd by the late Fire, is, That the Houfe be mov'd, That Leave may be given to bring in Heads of a Bill for the • Confirming the Mears and Bounds of Lands and Tenements, whereof the Surveys are destroy'd, according as they were enjoy'd at the time of the ⚫late Fire.

On the 30th of July the Commons refolv'd to about the grant a fupply to Her Majefty, fufficient to make Supply. good the neceffary Branches of the Establishment

for