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 108 PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT January earnest request of such as tendred the safetie of her royall person and the quiett of the Realme, did direct a Commyssion under the greate Seale to sondrie lordes and others of her maiesties privy Counsell and a greate nomber of lordes of parliament of the greatest and moste auncient degree assisted with somme of the principall Judges of the Realme, to heare examyne and determine the same according to a statute in that behalf made in the Seaven and twentith yeare of her Raigne, who to the nomber of sixe and thirtie havinge attended the execucion of the saide Commyssion and diuerse daies and tymes heard the allegacions against the saide Scottishe Queue in her owne presence and hearing, she being permitted to saie, what she would in her owne excuse, did with one assent finde her cul- pable both in privitie and consent to the saide Crymes obiected against her. And alsoe in compassing the Queues maiestes deathe, and had there- upon geven their sentence and ludgment accordinglye. Monday, November 7th. [As in the Lords' JoumcUs, ii. 119, loith a few, unimportant alterationa in wording.] After on twesdaie the eight of Nouember the sentence and Judgement pronounced by the Comyssioners againste the saide Scottishe Queue was openly reade And thereupon the principall Evidences and prooffes whereupon the same sentence and ludgment was grounded, and all the processe and proceading in the execucion of the saide Commission, were alsoe shewed forth read and declared, upon the hearing whereof all the saide lordes dyd with one assente allowe the same sentence and Judgement to be honorable iuste and lawfull.^ After on Wednesdaye the nynth of Nouember, the lordes the Comittes made reporte unto the whole house that they had at seuerall tymes conferred with the Comittes of the Conunon house touchinge the greate cause of the sommons of this parliament by whome they did understand that the Conunons in the lower house had not only with greate deliberacion openlie debated the same cause, But had also selected seventie learned grave and discrete persons of that house, to consulte together touching the same, who had likewise sondrie private metinges and conferences in that behalf. Whose opynions and resolucions, being after openlie declared in the same Common house. They all thought good and desired to heare at large the sentence and Judgement geuen and pronoimced by the Commissioners aforesaide and the princjTpaU evidences and prooffes whereuppon the same was grounded, Which being openly read declared and shewed in the saide Common house. The saide Commons after longe and aduised deliberacion and consultacion had there- upon wayinge diligentlie aswell all the partes and circumstances of the same Evidences and prooffes, as the whole processe and proceading in the Lords' Journals, ii. 120 b. The later date is supported by a passage in Hatton's speech in the lower house (D'Ewes, Journals, p. 397 b), although this may be loosely worded. An epitome of the roll's entry for 9 November appears under 8 November in the original Lords' Journal, but is crossed out. Both epitome and the roll entry refer to the com- mons' judgement upon the commission's findings, which could not have been reported to the lords until 10 November : cf. D'Ewes, pp. 397-8.
 * The hearing of the commission's findings is entered mider 9 November in the