THE greek Postscripts Of the Epistles to Timothy and Titus Cleared in Parliament.  
AND AN occasional SPEECH Touching The Bill of ACAPITATION, Or Poll-money.  
BY Sir Simonds D'Ewes.  
Printed in the year, 1641.   

The greek Postscripts of the Epistles to Timothy and Titus, cleared in Parliament.  
THe authority of that most ancient Parchment MS. copy of the Bible remaining in his Majesties Library at Saint james, being all written in great capital greek Letters, was vouchsafe and asserted by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, in a speech delivered by him on Friday June 11. 1641. in the morning, upon the debate of the Bill touching Bishops, &c. by which it infallibly appeareth, that the styling of Timothy the first Bishop of Ephesus, and Titus the first Bishop of Crete, are but the bold and spurious additions of some eastern B●shop or monk, to the Postscripts of those Epistles of Saint Paul, at least 500. yeares after Christ. The Postscripts of the said Epistles in that ancient Manuscript agreeing in the main with the Siriac Testament are onely thus: THE FIRST TO TIMOTHY WRITTEN FROM LAODICEA. THE SECOND TO TIMOTHY WRITTEN FROM LAODICEA. TO TITUS WRITTEN FROM NICOPOLIS. This rare MS. was sent to his Majesty that now is, by Cyrillus then Patriarch of Alexandria, in which the first letter A. stands for 〈◇〉, and the second letter B. for 〈◇〉.  

The Letters were transcribed almost identically out of the said most ancient MS.  Ibid. fol. 146. a. 
〈◇〉. 〈◇〉.  
Testamentum Siriacum concordat.  Ibid. fol. 147. b: 
〈◇〉. 〈◇〉.  
Testamentum Siriacum concordat in omnibus exceptâ loci applellatione. Nam Romae habet.  Ibid. fol. 148. b. 
〈◇〉.  
Testamentum Siriacum concordat.   

The suprious addition of latter times are set down in read or miniated Letters.  〈◇〉. 〈◇〉. 〈◇〉.   

An occasional speech of sir Simonds D'Ewes( as near as it could be collected together) delivered at a conference by a Committee of both houses in the painted Chamber, on Friday morning July 2. 1641. in which the proportions or rates set upon the peers by the House of Commons in the Bill of Acapitation or Poll-money are asserted by former Presidents.  
My Lords,  
I Shall humbly crave liberty to show you that the House of Commons hath done no more in rating and proportioning of these particular sums upon your Lordships, then by the ancient rights and privileges of Parliament they might; and to speak the truth, they could in possibility do no less.  
It hath been several times spoken in this place, no less justly then nobly by some of your Lordships, that all matters of Supply should originally proceed from the House of Commons: for so hath been the practise of former times in the ages past. In the Parliament Roll de anno 9. H. 4. Numero 21. when the peers began but in a small circumstance to trench upon this privilege of the Commons, there arose a long and an earnest debate upon it, the issue of which produced a full Declaration agreed upon by both Houses, That matter of supply must first proceed from the grant of the Commons, and then the assented unto by the Lords: so as if we had sent up the present Bill either with blanks, for your Lordships to have filled them up, or have left you out wholly, to have inserted your own degrees and proportions( one of which wee must have done if we had not proceeded as we did) it must of necessity have followed, that your Lordships, contrary to the undoubted privilege of the same house, had originally granted aid and subsidy, and the Commons had but assented.  
Before that time, though not upon so great an occasion, it was declared in Parliament, as appears in Rotulo Parliamenti de anno 5. R. 2. n 16. That the house of Commons are first to treat of matter of supply, to resolve upon it, and then to communicate their resolutions to the peers. Now my Lords our resolutions are most properly couched in a Bill, so as we did transmit the present Grant of aid and supply to your Lordships in the ancient and due form.  
But perhaps your Lordships will say, you question not that general right wee have of granting Subsidies, that it is to receive its birth & being from the house of Commons; but that in this particular case of Poll-money you expect a particular satisfaction, and much more to see it proved that the Peerage of England were ever before ranted in such a Bill.  
For the first, my Lords, this way is an ancient and a known way; it began in the time of that wise and victorious Prince King E. 3. as appears upon Record in Rotulo Parliamenti de a. 51. E. 3. Numero 19. And I assure myself, near upon three hundred yeares continuance is able to challenge both allowance and imitation from this present age.  
During the reign of R. 2. his grandchild, this course of raising money by the Poll was again put in practise, as an advantageous and a speedy way. Your Lordships shall find one example of it in the Parliament Roll de a. 4. R. 2. n. 15. being almost the same with that rate and proportion granted in the time of E. 3.  
But that Record which comes home to this case, and is an identicall president in the very particular before your Lordships to give you full satisfaction, is found in Rotulo Parliamenti in Parliamento 2.( for the miseries at home, and the calamities abroad, caused in one year sometimes two, sometimes three Parliaments, in those elder times) de a. 2. R. 2. n. 14. where the Dukes, earls, and Barons, are all particularly ranted, and the Duke of britain is there assessed as a Duke, though he were a free Prince, and had onely the title of earl of Richmond in England. Nay my Lords the house of Commons a● this time hath come far short of the same president, in favour of the Noble Ladies: for whereas the Countesses Dowagers were there ranted at the same proportions with earls, and the widows of Barons at as high a rate as the Barons themselves, we have now eased them of two parts of that, and onely charged them with the third.  
I hope now your Lordships have seen both reason and president for our proceedings at this time, you will bee pleased to believe that the house of Commons will be as careful and tender of your Lordships Rights and privileges, as of their own.  
We know, my Lords, that this is the way to preserve peace and unity between us, which as it is always expedient, so is it at this time most necessary. For the two houses are as the two arms of the kingdom, if we hold fast together, we shall be able to accomplish great things worthy to be transmitted to after ages, but if we dissever and disunite, we may end in ruin and calamity.  
So much of the said Record a● concerns the rating of the Nobility and Gentry is here added, it being presented thus ready written at the said Conference.  

Rot. Parliam. in Parliamento 2. de a. 2. R. 2. n. 14.  
Le duke de lancaster & le duke de Bretaigne chescun a— x. marks, chescun connte Dengleterre— iiij. l. Chescun Countesses veoves en Engleterre a taunt come less Countes iiiij. l. Chescun Baron & Baneret ou Chivaler qui poet a taunt dispendre— xl. s. Chescun Baronesse veove paiera come Baron & Banresse come le Baneret— xl. s. Chescun bachelor & chescun esquire qui per Lestatute deveroit easter Chivaler— xx. s. Chescun veove Dame feme de bachelor ou esquire al afferant— xx. s. Chescun Esquire de meindre estate vj. s. viij. d. Chescun feme veove de tiel Esquire ou merchant suffisant— vj. s. viij. d. Chescun esquire nient possession de terres ne chateux quest en service ou ad east arms— iij. s. iiij. d.   
FINIS.