〈…〉 manner of propounding , discussing , and enacting of Lawes in both Houses .

〈…〉 ●… ation-House of the Clergie .

〈…〉 Coppe●● and explained with an historicall Discourse thereupon .

〈…〉 ●… light to understand these state and gravitie used in the Parliamentary proceedings .

〈…〉 spoken in a Bil , & is confuted straight , 〈…〉 aine ; no not though hee change his 〈…〉 ●… an speaks but once in one day to the 〈…〉 ●… oyd altercation betweene parties , and 〈…〉 ●… s to speake , without which order two or 〈…〉 whole time . If any man reply with bitter 〈…〉 ●… tings against another , or speake unreverently 〈…〉 Privy Counsell , the whole House will cry , It is 〈…〉 or a Barre a Barre , sometimes sending him to 〈…〉 Thus are the arguments made pithy , strong and 〈…〉 not violent .

〈…〉 Bill hath been sufficiently discussed , amended and 〈…〉 ( as before in the Vpper-house ) then the Speaker askes 〈…〉 go to the Question ? If they agree , he holdeth up the Bill in 〈…〉 and saith , As many as will have this Bill go forward ( naming 〈…〉 yea ; And as many as will not , say , No. They that allow it 〈…〉 and as many as will not , cry No : and as the Cry of No or 〈…〉 ●… eater , so is the Bill passed or dashed . If the Cryes be 〈…〉 , then they divide the House , the Speaker saying , As 〈…〉 doe allow the Bill , goe downe with the Bill , and as many as doe not , sit still : Thus dividing the●●s they are numbred , and the most voyces carries it . If some ●art of the Bill be allowed , and some part disliked , then c●use they certaine Committees , of those who have spoken both for and against it , to alter or amend it amongst themselves : yet the resolution of the Committees takes not away the liberty from the rest of the house , who at the last Question have f●… ●… wer againe , either to passe or dash it by pluralitie of voyces .

Here is to be understood that the Speaker ha●● no voyce in the House ; neither will they suffer him ●o disswade or perswade , with or against any thing . Neither hath any member of the Commons-house the libertie of Proxie as in the Vpper-house ; but each man answers for himselfe , and for no 〈…〉 : Each house hath equall power of propounding lawes 〈…〉 ●… g themselves : and what the Commons-house hath pass●… 〈…〉 to the Vpperhouse ; and there the Lords canvasse the Bi●… 〈…〉 severall times , as the Commons had done theirs : the same ●●●●er being used , by sending from one house to another , and by giving Meetings and Conferences to one another , as was before mentioned . If the Lords agree , then they send the 〈…〉 to the Speaker presentative of the Clergie . All those of the Province of Canterburie , meete every Wednesday and Friday after dinner in Westminster Abbey ; and those of the Province of Yorke , meete in that Cathedrall on the same dayes . Their meeting is to pray for the good successe of the Parliament ; to be neere at hand to give their Iudgement concerning such Controversies in Religion as arise in the Houses . And when speciall Command is directed to them by the King , to consult about the making of new Canons and Orders of the Church . They give Subsidies and Aydes to the King for the whole Clergy : in which commonly they are more exemplary then the Laitie .

Their Prolocutor is commonly some Deane of more eminent note , learning , and language . But though the times have beene , that the Parliament thought nothing sure enough ratified by them , until it were solemnly blessed by the Church-men : yet now plainly the Convocation-house hath not much to doe in Parliament .