HISTORY and PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

House of Commons

FROM THE

RESTORATION

TO THE 9653

PRESENT TIME.

CONTAINING

The most remarkable MOTIONS, SPEECHES, RE,
SOLVES, REPORTS and CONFERENCES to
be met with in that Interval :

AS ALSO

The most exact ESTIMATES of the Charge of Government;
State of the PUBLIC REVENUE; the Rife and Growth
of the NATIONAL DEBT, Expence of the WAR, Pro-
ceedings on WAYS and MEANS, SPEECHES and MES-
SAGES from the Throne, ADDRESSES, and REMONSTRAN-
CES, alfo the Numbers Pro and Con upon every Divifion, &c.
Many of which Curious Particulars were never before printed.
Collected from the BEST AUTHORITIES,
Compared with the JOURNALS of the House;
And Illuftrated with a great Variety of HISTORICAL
and EXPLANATORY NOTES.

Together with a large APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

Exact LISTS of every PARLIAMENT, the Names of the
SPEAKERS, their feveral PoSTS under the Govern-
ment, and other valuable, Supplemental Pieces.

VOL. V.

LONDON;

Printed for RICHARD CHANDLER, and fold at the Ship
without Temple-Bar, and at York and Scarborough. 1742.

THE

CONTENTS of TOME V.

[The ASTERISKS fignify the Omiffions in
TORBUCK's Edition, as before.]

Continuation of the Third Seffion of the Third
Parliament of Great Britain.

Prefs, 2.

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STIMATES and Accounts prefented, Page 1. folutions on the Supply, ibid. *Bill to reftrain the *Farther Refolutions on the Supply, ibid. Debate on the Report of the Commiffioners of Public Accounts, ibid. Ways and Means, ibid, * Refolutions against Petitions for compounding Bonds, 3. * Half Pay voted, ibid. *Proceedings on the Bill for taking the public Accounts, ibid. * And on a free Trade to Africa, 4. Bill to fecure the Freedom of Parliament, ibid. * Proceedings on a Bill to fufpend the Duties of 25 1. per Ton on French Wines for Two Months, ibid. *Bill in Favour of Officers and Soldiers, ibid. *The new Barrier-Treaty called for, 6. * Accounts of the unaccounted Part of 35 Millions, ibid. * Farther Proceedings on the French Wine Bill, ibid. * Reports of the Commiffioners of the public Accounts, confider'd, 7. William Churchill, Efq; cenfur'd, ibid. *Votes on the Supply, 8. * Petition of the African Company, ibid. * Queen's Meffage, on communicating the Treaties of Peace and Commerce, ibid. * Ways and Means, &c. 9. * Council heard for the African Company, 10. * Reports of the Commiffioners in Spain and Portugal call'd for, ibid. * Refolutions on the Supply, ibid. * Papers relating to Trade, 11. * Debates on the 8th and 9th Articles of the Treaty of Commerce, ibid. Motion to tack the Place-Bill and the Malt-Bill, rejected, 12. * Petition against the French-Wine-Bill, ibid. Censure paft on the Earl of Wharton, ibid. *Debate on the Malt Bill, 13. More Petitions against the French-Wine-Bill, 14. * The Malt-Tax Bill pafs'd, ibid. * Refolutions on the Supply, 15. * Clothiers Petition, ibid. Several Papers laid before the House, 16. *Cafe of the Silk-Weavers, ib. [A 2] * Petition

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