Procedure: various overtures read, continued and printed

Overture for an act prohibiting and discharging the importation of all merchandise and other commodities from England after 25 December next, during and until the prohibitory clauses in the English act of parliament are repealed, read and a first reading marked thereon.

Overture for an act anent the exportation of wool and skins, read and a first reading marked thereon.

Overture for an act discharging the importation of English or Irish tanned leather, read and a first reading marked thereon.

Overture for an act taking off the duty of wool and linen manufacture, read and a first reading marked thereon.

Overture for an act for sending ambassadors from this kingdom to foreign treaties, read and a first reading marked thereon and ordered that the same is printed.

Overture for an act discharging the victualling of ships of this nation outward bound with Irish or foreign beef, or providing themselves with foreign small beer, read and a first reading marked thereon.

Overture for an act discharging the peers of this kingdom from going into England without leave of the privy council, again read, and being moved that it have a first reading, it was put to the vote, mark a first reading or not, and carried in the negative.

  1. NAS. PA2/39, f.35. Back
Procedure: adjournment

Then the lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until tomorrow at 10 o'clock.

  1. NAS. PA2/39, f.35. Back