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 1920 RELATIVE TO MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS 109 execution of the saide Commission, did all with one full consent conclude and agree that the same sentence and ludgement was in all thinges most honorable iust and lawfull. Whereupon the comittes of both houses after longe conference and deliberacion had in that behalf dyd conclude and resolue, that in respect of the preseruacion and safety of the Queues maiesties most roiall person and the happie estate of this Realme and the common weale yt was expedient and necessarie that the lordes and Commons assembled in this present parliament shoulde all ioyne together in moste humble and instant peticion to her maiestie that it would please her to cause declaracion of the same sentence and Judgment to be made and published by proclamacion and thereupon to giue direccion for further spedie procedinge againste the saide Scottishe Quene according to the effecte of the saide Statute, Accordinge to which their resolucion they did forthwith cause a forme of peticion to be devised and sett downe in writing which being after advisedlie heard and considered by all the said Comittes of both the saide houses, The saide lordes the Comittes dyd the saide nynth of Nouember presente the same in the saide higher house, whereupon the Clarke of the saide higher house did the same day openly reade the same peticion, The tenor whereof followeth in theis wordes [Then follows the petition as in Lords'' Journals, ii. 124, with very few, and slight, differences.'] After the reading whereof all the lordes did with one assent conclude and agre that the ymportaunce and necessitye of the cause was such as dyd enforce them to use all humble and instaunt meanes soe farre as might stande with their duties to move and presse her maiestie to proceade against the saide Scottishe Quene, according to the said statute, and therefore resolued to preferre the saide peticion to her maiestie soe soone as mighte please her highnes to graunt them accesse to her presence. After which on the saide nynth daie of Nouember certeine of the Common house dyd eftsoones comme and desire further conference with somme of the lordes of this house what nomber yt should please them to appoint touching the said greate cause. Whereupon the lordes appointed theis lordes following. . . the same as appointed on 7 November, Lords' Journals, ii. 119 h] and the place of meting was in the saide utter parlia- ment Chamber, at three of the clock in the after none of the same daye.^ After on thursdaie the tenth daye of Nouember the Lordes the Comittees made reporte unto. the whole house, that upon further conference with certeine Comittees of the saide lower house they dyd understand that the saide peticion was alsoe openly read in the saide lower house, And that upon aduised and due consideracion thereof all the saide Commons did with one full consent (none gainsaying) resolue and conclude that the ground and matter of the saide peticion was in all thinges most iust and true, and that fynding the daunger of her maiestes person and of the whole Realme to be soe greate and ymminent the necessitye of the cause required that they should with all speede possible present that their most humble sute and peticion to her maiestie, and that therefore they humblie desired
 * In D'Ewes, p. 398 a, the meeting is given as the next morning.