III. of tafte and Palladian architecture, that CHAR On the fame day fir William Temple reported the meffage delivered to the lords relative to fending commiffioners to England, The agreement of the lords was notified on the 26th of June, who announced their defign of fending four commiffioners.. On the 27th Mr. Whalley reported from the committee of trade the great detriment of enhancing the value of coin, and recommending, that the late proclamation relative thereto fhould be recalled; and accordingly a joint vote and addrefs from the lords and commons was presented to the lords justices. On the 29th of June it was reported from the committee of trade, that the reftraint of transporting wool into England was a great injury to commerce; and three acts of parliament which related to this fubject were also reported, namely, the thirH 3 teenth CHAP. teenth of Henry the eighth, chapter the III. fecond; the twenty-eighth of Henry the 1661. eighth, chapter the feventeenth; and the thirteenth of Elizabeth, chapter the first: upon which the folicitor, fir John Temple, informed them, that a bill for repealing the faid ftatutes was under confideration of the lords juftices and council. The folicitor and Mr. Whalley were then ordered to repair to the committee of the council to know how far this bill, for the encouragement of the exporting of wool and other native commodities, extended; and laftly, to take into their confideration whether the wool of Ireland exceeded the demands of the manufacture; the injury to the king's customs, and to the nation, if there should be any farther reftraint; and they deputed a committee to wait upon the lords juftices, with fir William Temple at their head, to defire that freedom and liberty might be given to all persons to export wool to England. On the same day two inftructions were given to the intended III. 1661. commiffioners: to endeavour to keep the CHAP. king's declaration of the 30th of November inviolable; and to requeft of his majefty, that he would not permit any private person to appear before him, to solicit any public affair, without the consent of the Irish parliament. On the 3d of July the following eight perfons were chofen commiffioners by ballot : Sir Audley Mervyn, Sir Theophilus Jones, Sir Arthur Forbes, Sir John Skeffington, And on the 5th fir William Temple was fent to the lords to defire their concurrence in the instruction to the commiffioners, and alfo for raifing money for them. On the 8th of July Mr. Whalley reported the sense of the committee of trade, that an act lately made in England for the encouragement H 4 CHAP. ragement of shipping and navigation would be of great fervice in Ireland; and it was referred to them to draw up an a&t accordingly. 1661. in The act of navigation in one thousand fix hundred and fifty-one, as it appears Scobell's collection during the republic, comprehended England, Scotland, and Ireland, or the whole empire, excepting three islands in the West Indies, which would not acknowledge the government of the commonwealth after the restoration it was renewed and narrowed to the shipping of England alone, which gave rise to this proposition in the Irish parliament. On the 12th of July, the house being called over, the members of the feveral Counties, beginning with Antrim, answered for raifing the fum of one hundred pounds each, being three thousand three hundred pounds, for the ufe of the commiffioners. On the 16th of July an order was made for expunging fuch matters as reflected on III. 1661. lord Strafford and the chancellor Bolton's CHAP. memory; and alfo upon the bifhop of Derry, then primate, (agreeable to an antecedent meffage from the lords,) from the journals; and a vote for granting two thou fand pounds to the bishop of Raphoe, out of the money to be raised for the agents in England, for his fervices in the rebellion in one thousand fix hundred and forty-one. On the 17th of July an order, which was made before the rebellion, in favour of the clerk, Mr. Fernly, for raifing two hundred and fifty pounds upon four counties, on account of a bill naturalizing the ante nati Scotch in one thousand fix hundred and thirty-four, was renewed. This was in lieu of fees for this comprehenfive act; the intervening disturbances having prevented the execution of the order. About this time the house was occupied about an intended plot to take the caftle of Dublin by furprize, for which Mr. Cahan and others were committed. The |