The Earl of Lauderdalepresented a petition from the mayor and aldermen of Barnstaple against the Writs Suspension bill, and praying that they might be heard by counsel against it 1636 on the second reading. The petition was laid on the table, and lord Lauderdale moved that the petitioners be heard by counsel on the second reading. The earl of Caernarvon wished their lordships to proceed as speedily as possible to the discussion of the principle of the bill; but the time that counsel must occupy would prevent that object, if they were called in on the second reading. He therefore proposed that they should be heard in the committee, or on some subsequent stage of the bill. A conversation followed, in which lord Lauderdale and the lord chancellor supported the motion, and lords Grosvenor, Caernarvon, Lansdowne, and Dacre, opposed it. A division took plate, when the numbers were Contents, 12; Non-contents, 11. It was accordingly ordered that counsel should be heard to-morrow.