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deletion Upon which, /deletion addition & /addition they petition'd ye. K. to put ye. Laws against Recusants in Execution, which He consented to.

deletion Some time /deletion addition Soon /addition after, ye. Com. presented a list of their grievances to deletion him /deletion addition them, /addition who in a few days, addition return'd for /addition answer'd deletion unclear /deletion yt. those deletion of them /deletion should be redress'd deletion which He in so /deletion deletion Short a time, /deletion addition he /addition had been able to examin into. addition in so short a time /addition deletion About ye. Same time /deletion addition the house then voted /addition a Subsidy deletion & /deletion a fifteenth & tenth deletion was voted, /deletion & ye. Ld. Treasurer brought a written Message from ye. K. to ye. Lds. yt. ^ addition importing /addition he would accept of 200,000. £ pr. Ann. instead of ye. Tenures & c. they immediately acquainted ye. Com. with it & nam'd Comees to settle this which was term'd ye. Grand Contract between ye. K. & People.

In ye. Course of this Sess. ye. Clergy gave 6s. in ye. pound. after a prorogation ye. Parl. assembl'd & proceeded on ye. deletion affairs concerning ye. /deletion Grand Contract & Tenures. addition then came on a short adjournment when /addition ye. Chan. inform'd ye. Lds deletion after a Short adjournment, /deletion deletion yt. ye. Under Clerk of ye. Com. had desir'd heirs, to send him a /deletion addition that the Comm. desir'd /addition Copy of ye. K. answers to ye. Grievances &c. deletion but yt. he had /deletion addition which had been /addition refus'd deletion to give underline them, /underline till he knew /deletion their Ld-sp. pleasure; was addition known /addition upon which they order'd deletion him to send them, & to say it /deletion addition the copy to be sent /addition deletion was by their Commands; /deletion but at ye. Same time deletion they /deletion addition made an entry /addition deletion enter'd /deletion in their Journals, deletion yt. this should not be look'd /deletion addition to prevent the seedy drama /addition deletion on as /deletion addition into /addition a Precedent.

This great indulgence had not ye. desir'd effect for ye. Grand Contract was not settl'd, ye. Parl. being suddenly dissolv'd.