〈…〉 ●●●IAMENT.  
〈…〉 and temporal exactly delineated.  
〈…〉 manner of propounding, discussing, and enacting of laws in both Houses.  
〈…〉 ●… ation-House of the clergy.  
〈…〉 Coppe●● and explained with an historical Discourse thereupon.  
〈…〉 ●… light to understand these state and gravity used in the Parliamentary proceedings.  
〈…〉 spoken in a bill, & is confuted strait, 〈…〉 aine; no not though he change his 〈…〉 ●… an speaks but once in one day to the 〈…〉 ●… oyd altercation between parties, and 〈…〉 ●… s to speak, without which order two or 〈…〉 whole time. If any man reply with bitter 〈…〉 ●… things against another, or speak unreverently 〈…〉 Privy counsel, the whole House will cry, It is 〈…〉 or a bar a bar, 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 asks 〈…〉 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 cries be 〈…〉, then they divide the House, the Speaker saying, As 〈…〉 do allow the Bill, go down with the Bill, and as many as do not, sit still: Thus dividing the●●s they are numbered, and the most voices carries it. If some ●art of the Bill be allowed, and some part disliked, then c●use they certain 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●… ●… were again, either to pass or dash it by plurality of voices.  
Here is to be understood that the Speaker ha●● no voice in the House; neither will they suffer him ●o dissuade or persuade, with or against any thing. Neither hath any member of the Commons-house the liberty of proxy as in the Vpper-house; but each man answers for himself, and for no 〈…〉: Each house hath equal power of propounding laws 〈…〉 ●… g themselves: and what the Commons-house hath pass●… 〈…〉 to the Vpperhouse; and there the Lords canvasse the Bi●… 〈…〉 several 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 sand the 〈…〉 to the Speaker presentative of the clergy. All those of the Province of canterbury, meet every Wednesday and Friday after dinner in Westminster Abbey; and those of the Province of york, meet in that Cathedrall on the same dayes. Their meeting is to pray for the good success of the Parliament; to be near at hand to give their Iudgement concerning such Controversies in Religion as arise in the Houses. And when special 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 aids to the King for the whole Clergy: in which commonly they are more exemplary then the laity.  
Their Prolocutor is commonly some dean of more eminent note, learning, and language. But though the times have been, 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 do in Parliament.   

Printed at London for Nicolas Bourne at the South entrance of the royal Exchange. 1640.