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An Abridgement of the statutes made in the thirteenth year of the reign of King Charles the Second alphabetically digested under apt titles and heads for the ready finding out of the matter.
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England and Wales. Laws, etc.
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his Majesties service other then the person so impowred shall upon due conviction of the said offence suffer the punishment contained in the first recited Act. 5. That none of his Majesties said Servants shall be compelled to pay above 1 s. by the night for every Bed that they shall use for themselves nor above 6d for the same for their servants And that in all such houses where any of his Majesties said Servants shall pay for their Diet or for Hay and Provender convenient Lodging shall be provided for themselves and their servants without paying any thing for the same 6. That any two or more Justices of Peace near the Road through which his Majesty is to pass shall immediately after notice in writing from the said Green-cloth and Avenor under their hands and seals set down and appoint such reasonable rates and prices to be pai'd during his Majesties abode there both for Hay Oats and other accommodations for Horses as they shall think meet which Rates the Justices shall cause to be proclaimed one day at the least before his Majestles coming to such place in the Market-Town next to such place and in such other places as they shall think fit to the end that notice may be taken of such prices And if any take above the rates so limited either for Lodging Horse-meat Stable-room or other such accommodations thereof be convicted by confession or Oath of one credible Witness before any one Justice of Peace who is to administer the said Oath every person so offending shall forfeit and pay to the party grieved 40 s. to the leavied by distress by warrant from the said Justice and sale thereof returning the overplus the charge of the distreining being first deducted 7. This Act to continue till the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer Collectors see Treasurers Dear-stealing Killing c. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 10. That if any person or persons shall after the first day of August 1661. unlawfully Course Kill hurt or take away any Red or Fallow-Deer in any Forest Chase c. or other Ground where Deer are or have been usually kept within the Realm of England or Dominion of Wales without the consent of the Owner or person chiefly intrusted with the Custody thereof or shall be aiding or assisting therein and shall be convicted thereof by confession or by the Oath of one credible Witness before a Justice of Peace who is hereby impowred to-administer an Oath to that purpose such person being presented within six months after such offence done shall forfeit for every such offence 20 li to be leavied by distress upon the Goods and Chattels of the Offendor by warrant under the Justices hand before whom such conviction shall be made the one moyety to the Informer the other to the Owner of the Deer and for want of Sufficient distresse the Offender shall be committed to the Howse of Corection for six moneths or to the Common Goale for one whole year without Bail or Mainprise at the Justices discretion and not to be discharged till sufficient security be given for their good behaviour for one whole year next ensuing their inlargement No offendor punished hereby shall incur the penalty of any other Law or statute for the same offence Disorders see Tumults Excise Arrears vested in the King Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 13. That all and every Sum and sums of money any waies due or owing from or by any person or persons for or touching the Imposition or Duty called the Excise here o'ore imposed and made payable upon Beer Ale or any other Commodities by any Laws of pretended Laws or Ordinances And all Debts therefore owing whether by Obligation or upon Accompt from the Farmers of Excise or any other person or persons whatsoever or any of their Securities and not pardoned by his Majesties Act of Pardon and Oblivion be and are hereby vested in the King his Heirs and Successors and that his sacred Majesty his Heirs and Successors may from time to time and at all times hereafter have demand sue for and recover the same of all and every person and persons their Heirs Executors and Administrators having Assets who are any way accomptable for the same or any part thereof and from his and their respective Sureties and Securities as if the same Duties of Excise had been lawfully assessed imposed and collected and as if the several pretended Acts Orders and Ordinances assessing and imposing the same had been legall Acts of Parliament and had in express words given and granted all every the said Duries unto his Majesty and as if the Obligations and Recognizances entered into by the respective Sureties and Securities had been taken in his Majesties name 2. That all persons accomptable by virtue of this Act shall have all such due allowance in their Accompts as all such persons whose Accompts are excepted in the Act of Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion are or ought to have 3. No person shall be questioned or molested for any of the Duties herein or hereby vested in the King except he shall be sued or prosecuted with effect before the 25 of December 1662. 4. That all persons Accomptable hereby are hereby enabled to sue for leavy and recover from any person who stands indebted unto them in any Sum of money for the Duty of Excise for which they are hereby accomptable all Sums of money and arrears unsatisfied in as full manner as they might have received and levied the same when they first grew due Free Present see Present Forfeitures to the King see Pains and Penalties Holy Orders Stat. 13 Car. 2. c. 2. Whereas an Act was made by the Parliament begun at Westminster the 3 of Nov. in the 16 Caroli 1. entituled An Act for disinabling all persons in Holy Orders to exercise any Temporal Jurisdiction or Authority Which Act hath made several Alterations prejudicial to the Constitution and antient Rights of Parliament and contrary to the Laws of this Land and is by experience found otherwise inconvenient It is Enacted that the said Act and every Clause matter and thing therein contained shall be and is hereby from henceforth repealed and made void to all intents and purposes The King's Person and Government see Treason Militia Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 6. A Recitation being made that it is and ever was by the Laws of England the undoubted Right of his Majestie his Royall Predecessors Kings Queens of England to have the sole Supreme Government Command and Disposition of the Militia and of all Forces by Sea and Land and of all Forts and places of strength and that both or either of the Houses of Parliament cannot nor ought to pretend to the same nor can nor lawfully may raise or leavy any War offensive or defensive against his Majesty his Heirs or lawfull Successors and yet the contrary hath of late been practised almost to the ruine of the Kingdome And whereas during the late
AN ABRIDGEMENT OF THE STATUTES Made In the Thirteenth year of the Reign of KING CHARLES The Second Alphabetically digested under apt Titles and Heads for the ready finding out of the matter LONDON Printed in the year of our Lord M.DC.LXI A brief view of this BOOK A Recitation of all such Acts by their particular Titles as have received by this Parliament a Confirmation viz The Repeal of such Statutes as were injurious to the Church and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction The sole Right of the Militia proved to be in the King What Offences are now made Treason The punishment to be inflicted on such as Speak Write c. any thing against the King or His Government either in Church or State What punishment shall be to those that meet in any disorderly numbers under pretence of presenting publick Petitions or Addresses Moneys Goods c. vested in the King How such as are excepted out of the Act of Oblivion are to be call'd to an Accompt for Moneys Goods c. What Pains Penalties Forfeitures are to be inflicted on such persons as are excepted out of the late Act of Oblivion The Government of the Navy for punishing all Offences committed therein Concerning the Arrears of Excise Killing of Deer c. All which by the Table following you will be more particularly satisfied in where by apt and significant Titles you will be directed without any further trouble to the main matter in the Book The Table ADdresses and petitions see Tumults Attempts against the King see Treason Articles for the Navy see Navy Orders Accompts see Moneys Goods c. vested in the King Benevolence see Present to the King Bishops and persons in Holy Orders see Holy Orders and Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiasticall Collectors see Moneys Goods c. Confirmation page 1. Causes Ecclesiastical page 5 Carriages c. for the King page 7 Dear-stealing Killing c. page 11 Disorders see Tumults Excise Arrears vested in the King page 12 Free Present see Present Forfeitures to the King see Pains and Penalties Holy Orders page 14 The King's Person and Government see Treason Militia ibid. Moneys Goods c. vested in the King page 17 Navy-Orders page 19 Progress and Removals see Carriages Present to the King page 27 Pains Penalties c. on excepted Persons page 28 Preservation of the King's Person and Government see Treason Petitions and Addresses see Tumults Receivers see Moneys Goods c. Speaking Writing c. against the King see Treason Treasurer see Moneys Goods c. Treason page 34 Tumults page 38 Writing against the King c. see Treason AN ABRIDGEMENT of the Statutes of the Parliament began at Westminster the 8th day of May in the 13th yeare of the Reigne of King CHARLES the Second Addresses and petitions see Tumults Attempts against the King see Treason Accompts see Treasurers Bishops and persons in Holy Orders see Orders Holy and Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiasticall Confirmation STat. 13. Car. 2. cap. 17. Enacted That all and singular the Acts made or mentioned to be made by his Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons upon or since the 25th day of April in the 12th year of his Majesties Reign herein after particularly mentioned and expressed shall be and hereby are ratified and confirmed That is to say 1. One Act of Free and Generall Pardon Indemonity and Oblivion 2. One other Act entituled A Subsidy granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage and other Sums of money payable upon Merchandize exported and imported 3. An Act intituled An Act for continuing the Excise untill the 20th of August 1660. 4. An Act for continuing the Excise till the 25th day of December 1660. 5. An Act for the speedy provision of money for disbanding and paying off the Forces of this Kingdome both by Land and Sea 6. An Act for Confirmation of Judiciall procedings 7. An Act for the speedy disbanding of the Army and Garrisons of this Kingdome 8. An Act for Supplying and Explaining certain defects in an Act entituled An Act for the speedy provision of money for Disbanding and paying off the Forces of this Kingdome both by Land and Sea 9. An Act to prevent Frauds and Concealments of his Majesties Customs and Subsidies 10. An Act for raising Seavenscore thou sand pounds for the Compleat Disbanding of the whole Army and Paying oft some part of the Navy 11. One other Act entituled A grant of certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for the increase of his Majesties Revenue during his life 12. An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite ' and by Knights Service and Purveyance ' and for setling a Revenue upon his Majesty in Lieu thereof 13. An Act for the better Ordering the selling of Wines by Retail and for preventing Abuses in the mingling corrupting and vitiating of Wines and for setting and limiting the prizes of the same 14. An Act for the leavying of the arrears of the Twelve moneths Assessment commencing the 24 of June 1659. And the six months Assessment commencing the 25 of December 1659. 15. An Act for Granting unto the Kings Majesty four hundred and Twenty thousand pounds by an Assessment of Threescore and ten thousand pounds by the month for six months for disbanding the Remainder of the Army and paying off the Navy 16. An Act for further Supplying and explaining certain defects in an Act entituled An Act for the speedy Provision of money for disbanding and paying off the Forces of this Kingdome both by land and Sea 17. An Act for the raising of Seaventy thousand pounds for the further supply of his Majesty 18. An Act for the Attainder of severall persons guilty of the Horid Murther of his late Sacred Majesty King Charles the first 19. An Act for erecting and Establishing a Post-Office 20. One other Act entituled An Act for putting in Execution an Ordinance mentioned in this Act. And all and every the Clauses sentences and articles in them and every of them contained shall be and are hereby ratified and confirmed and declared to have the full force of Acts of Parliament and so shall be adjudged and taken to all intents and purpose whatsoever Sata 13. Car. 2. cap. 11. That the Severall Acts made or mentioned to be made by his Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons upon or since the 25 day of April in the 12 year of his Majesties Reign and herein after particularly mentioned and expressed are hereby ratified and confirmed That is to say 1. One Act entituled An Act for the raising of Seaventy Thousand pounds for the farther Supply of his Majesty 2. An Act for Confirmation of Marriages 3. An Act for a perpetuall Anniversary Thanksgiving on the 29 day of May. Stat. 13. Car. 2. cap. 14. The severall Acts of the aforementioned Parliament bâ—gun at Westminster the 25. of April in the 12. years of his Majesty Reign aforesaid