AN EXACT Abridgment Of all the STATUTES OF King WILLIAM AND Queen MARY Now in Force and Vse By J. Washington Esq LONDON Printed by the Assigns of the Kings Printers And by the Assigns of R. Atkins and E. Atkins Esquires And are to be sold by M. Gilliflower S. Keble D. Brown W. Rogers T. Goodwin A. Churchill and J. Walthoe 1694. THE TITLES Of all the STATUTES Contained in this ABRIDGMENT Now in Force and Vse 1. AN Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes concerning the assembling and sitting of this present Parliament 2. An Act for reviving of Actions and Process lately depending in the Courts at Westminster and discontinued by the not holding of Hillary-Term and for supplying other Defects relating to Proceedings at Law 3. An Act for establishing the Coronation Oath 4. An Act for the abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths 5. An Act for the removing Papists and reputed Papists from the Cities of London and Westminster and ten Miles distance from the same 6. An Act for the taking away the Revenue arising by Hearth-Mony 7. An Act for the explaining and making effectual a Statute made in the first Year of King James II. concerning the Haven and Piers of Great Yarmouth 8. An Act for the encouraging the Exportation of Corn. 9. An Act for preventing Doubts and Questions concerning the collecting the Publick Revenue 10. An Act for the better securing the Government by disarming Papists and reputed Papists 11. An Act That the Simoniacal Promotion of one Person may not projudice another 12. An Act for rectifying a Mistake in a certain Act of this present Parliament For the amoving Papists from the Cities of London and Westminster 13. An Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws 14. An Act for enabling Lords Commissioners for the Great Seal to execute the Office of Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper 15. An Act for the Exportation of Beer Ale Syder and Mum. 16. An Act for reviving two former Acts for exporting of Leather 17. An Act to regulate the Administration of the Oaths required to be taken by Commission or Warrant Officers employed in their Majesties Service by Land by virtue of an Act made this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for the abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths 18. An Act to vest in the two Universities the Presentations of Benefices belonging to Papists 19. An Act for taking away the Court holden before the President and Council of the Marches of Wales 20. An Act for appropriating certain Duties for paying the States General of the United Provinces their Charges for his Majesties Expedition into this Kingdom and for other Uses 21. An Act for Relief of the Protestant Irish Clergy 22. An Act to repeal the Statute made in the fifth Year of King Henry IV. against the multiplying of Gold and Silver 23. An Act for the better preventing the Exportation of Wooll and encouraging the Woollen Manufactures of this Kingdom 24. An Act for explaining part of an Act made in the first Year of King James I. concerning Tanned Leather 25. An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France 26. An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown 27. An Act for preventing all Doubts and Questions concerning the collecting the Publick Revenue 28. An Act for the charging and collecting the Duties upon Coffee Tea and Chocolate at the Custom-house 29. An Act for preventing venatious Suits against such as acted in order to the Bringing in their Majesties or for their Service 30. An Act for the better Security and Relief of their Majesties Protestant Subjects of Ireland 31. An Act for Recognizing King William and Queen Mary and for avoiding all Questions touching the Acts made in the Parliament assembled at Westminster the thirteenth day of February 1688. 32. An Act for granting to their Majesties for their Lives and the Life of the Survivor of Them certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors 33. An Act for granting to their Majesties a Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of Mony payable upon Merchandizes exported and imported 34. An Act for enabling the Sale of Goods distrained for Rent in case the Rent be not paid in a reasonable time 35. An Act for the Exercise of the Government by Her Majesty during his Majesty's Absence 36. An Act to declare the Right and Freedom of Election of Members to serve in Parliament for the Cinque Ports 37. An Act for reversing the Judgment in a Quo Warranto against the City of London and for restoring the City of London to its ancient Rights and Priviledges 38. An Act for the discouraging the Importation of Thrown-Silk 39. An Act for the King and Queens most Gracious General and Free Pardon 40. An Act concerning the Commissioners of the Admiralty 41. An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods and Manufactures and upon all Wrought Silks and several other Goods and Merchandize to be imported after the 25th day of December 1690. 42. An Act for the continuance of several former Acts therein mentioned for the laying several Duties upon Wines Vinegar and Tobacco 43. An Act for reviving a former Act for regulating the Measures and Prices of Coals 44. An Act for paving and cleansing the Streets in the Cities of London and Westminster and Suburbs and Liberties thereof and Out-Parishes in the County of Middlesex and in the Borough of Southwark and other Places within the Weekly Bills of Mortality in the County of Surry and for regulating the Markets therein mentioned 45. An Act for the encouraging the Distilling of Brandy and Spirits from Corn and for laying several Duties on Low-Wines or Spirits of the first Extraction 46. An Act for granting to their Majesties several additional Duties of excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for four Years from the time that an Act for doubling the Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors during the space of one Year doth expire 47. An Act for preventing vexatious Suits against such as acted for their Majesties Service in Defence of the Kingdom 48. An Act for the more effectual putting in Execution an Act Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France 49. An Act for Relief of poor Prisoners for Debt or Damages 50. An Act for abrogating the Oath of Supremacy in Ireland and appointing other Oaths 51. An Act for the better ascertaining the Tithes of Hemp and Flax. 52. An Act for the Encouragement of the Breeding and Feeding of Cattle 53. An Act to take away Clergy from some Offenders and to bring others to punishment 54. An Act for the more effectual discovery and Punishment of Deer-stealers 55. An Act for the better explanation and supplying the Defects of the former Laws for the
Arrears thereof and of all Moneys then and before the determination of the said Power in the Hands of the Receiver General or Cashiers of the Customs Excise or Hearth-money and of the Sum of 412925 l. 14 s. 6 d. Granted by an Act of the First Session of the late Parliament Entituled An Act for the Granting a present Aid to Their Majesties and of the Money paid or payable by an Act Entituled An Act for raising Money by a Poll and otherwise towards the Reducing of Ireland and by one other Act Entituled An Act for preventing Doubts and Questions concerning the Collecting the Publick Revenue and by one other Act Entituled An Act for the Grant to Their Majesties of an Aid of 12 d. in the Pound for one Year for the necessary defence of the Realm and of one other Act Entituled An Act for an additional Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors and one other Act For Appropriating certain Duties for paying the States General of the United Provinces their Charges for His Majesties Expedition into the Kingdom and for other Uses and of one other Act of the Second Session of the same Parliament Entituled An Act for preventing all Doubts and Questions concerning the Collecting the Publick Revenue and of one other Act Entituled An Act for a Grant to Their Majesties of an Aid of two Shillings in the Pound for One Year and of one other Act of the same Session Entituled An Act for a Grant to Their Majesties of an additional Aid of 12 d. in the Pound for One Year and of one Act Entituled An Act for Charging and Collecting the Duties upon Coffee Tea and Chocolate at the Custom-house and of one other Act Entituled An Ast for Review of the late Poll granted to Their Majesties and for an additional Poll towards the Reducing of Ireland and by one other Act Entituled An Act for Raising Money by a Poll and otherwise towards the Reducing of Ireland and Prosecuting the War against France and by one other Act Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties for their Lives and the Life of the Survivor of them certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors and one other Act Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties a Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage and other Sums of Money payable upon Merchandizes Exported and Imported and by one other of this Session Entituled An Act for Granting an Aid to Their Majesties of the Sum of 1651702 l. 18 s. and by one other Act Entituled An Act for doubling the Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors during the space of One Year and by one other Act Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods and Manufactures and upon all wrought Silks and several other Goods and Merchandize to be Imported after the 25th Day of December 1690. and by one other Act Entituled An Act for the continuance of several former Acts therein mentioned for the Laying several Duties upon Wines Vinegar and Tobacco and of all Prizes taken since the said Fifth Day of November and of Money paid for the same to any Person Authorised to receive it or otherwise and of all the Crown-Lands First-fruits and Tenths of the Clergy Wine-licences Fines Forfeitures and of all other Branches of the Revenue and all Publick Money whatsoever that hath arisen since the said Fifth Day of November or shall arise before the determination of the Power hereby Granted and how and by and to whom the same hath been disposed or paid and for taking Accounts of all Their Majesties Stores Provisions and Habiliments of War by Land and Sea and to set down what numbers of Ships Yachts or Boats were on the said Fifth Day of November or at any time since and what Sums of Money Provisions Victuals Sâ—oes c. have been provided or paid since the said Fifth Day of November or shall be provided and paid towards the Payment or Maintenance of the Land Forces in England or Ireland or elsewhere or their Forces by Sea and the numbers of them respectively and towards the Building Repairs or Setting out of any Ships or Navies since the said Fifth Day of November and before the determination of the Power aforesaid II. The Auditor of the Receipt in the Exchequer and the Clerk of the Pells there and all other the Officers of the Exchequer and the Receipt thereof the Secretary and Treasurer at War Muster-master and Pay-master of the Land Forces in England and Ireland all Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy and Ordnance all Officers and Keepers of Their Majesties Stores and Yards and all Persons employed as Commissioners in and about the Treasury or the Management Ordering Paying or Receiving of Their Majesties Treasure Revenue Provisions or Stores of War and all Persons whatsoever whom the said Commissioners or any Five of them shall think fit to Examine are hereby required to observe such Orders as they or any Five of them shall by writing under their Hands Direct and Ordain for and touching the taking of the said Accounts III. The said Commissioners to sit in the Inner Court of Wards at Westminster or where they think fit with or without Adjournment and to send their Precepts for Persons Books Papers and Records and to Administer an Oath for the better discovery of the Truth of the Inquiries by them to be made and all Bayliffs Constables Sheriffs and other Officers are hereby required to obey and execute their Precepts and the said Commissioners or any Five of them may Employ such Clerks Messengers and Officers as they think fit and give them an Oath for their faithful Demeanour which Clerks and Officers shall take nothing for their Service but such Salary as the Commissioners shall direct IV. Two of the said Commissioners first named in this Act before they enter upon the Execution thereof shall take an Oath before the Chancellour of the Exchequer or the Master of the Rolls in these words viz. I A. B. do Swear that according to the best of my Skill and Knowledge I shall Faithfully Impartially and Truly demean my self in Examining and Taking the Accounts of all such Sum or Sums of Money and other things brought or to be brought before me in Execution of one Act Entituled An Act for Appointing and Enabling Commissioners to Examine Take and State the Publick Accounts of the Kingdom according to the Tenour and Purport of the said Act. V. And every other of the said Commissioners shall take the said Oath before the said two Commissioners VI. The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury shall cause to be paid such Sums of Money not exceeding 2000 l. to such Persons as the said Commissioners or any Five of them shall direct to be employed in the Payment of Clerks Messengers and other Officers and in defraying other necessary Charges the same to be Accounted for by him to whom it is paid according to the course of the Exchequer and the
the Quorum shall set prices of Coals to be sold by Retail And if any Ingrosser or Retailer of Coals refuse to sell as aforesaid the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Justices of Peace respectively shall impower whom they think fit to enter into any place where such Coals are stored up and in case of refusal taking a Constable to force Entrance and to sell the said Coals at the prices set as aforesaid rendring the Money to the Owner Charges deducted This Act to continue for 3 years and to the end of the next Session of Parliament No person sued by virtue of this Act shall be sued upon any other for the same Offence and if any Action be prosecuted for any thing done by colour hereof the Defendant may plead the General Issue and give the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Verdict be found for him or the Plaintiff become Nonsuit he shall recover his Damages and double Costs No Person having any Interest in a Wharf used for Coals or Trading in Coals in his own or any others name or engrossing the same in order to sell them shall intermeddle in the setting the price of Coals Continuance I. Stat. 4. 5. W. M. cap. 24. Entituled An Act for Providing Carriages by Land and by Water for the use of His Majesties Navy and Ordnance shall be in force for Seven years from the 13th day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the First Session of Parliament then next ensuing II. An Act Entitused An Act for encouraging of Coynage made in the 18th Year of King Charles 2. And another Act made in the 25th Year of the same King Entituled An Act for continuing a former Act concerning Coynage shall be in force from the 13th Day of February 1692 and to the end of the First Session of Parliament then next ensuing III. An Act made in the 2â—th and 23th Years of the Reign of the same King Entituled An Act for the better and more certain recovery of Fines and Forfeitures due to His Majesty shall be in force and is hereby made perpâ—tual IV. All Officers to whom it belongeth to make returns of Estreats into the Court of Exchequer shall upon the delivery in of all and every such Estreat and Estreats take this Oath viz. You shall Swear that these Estrates now by you delivered are trult and carefully made up and examined and that all Fines Issues Americaments Recognizances and Forfeitures which were Set Lost Imposed or Forfeited and in right and due course of Law ought to be estreated into the Court of Exchequer are to the best of your Knowledge and Understanding therein contained And that in the same Estreats are also contained and expressed all such Fines as have been paid into the Court from which the said Estreats are made without any wilful or fraudalent Discharge Omission Misnomer or Defect whatsoever So help you God Which Oath any of the Barons of the Exchequer shall Administer V. An Act made in the 22th and 23th Year of the same King Entituled An Act to prevent the Planting of Tobacco in England and for Regulating the Plantation Trade shall be in full force for Seven Years from the said 13th Day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament VI. An Act made in the 19th Year of the same King Entituled An Act for Assigning Orders in the Exchequer shall be in force for Seven years from the said 13th Day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament VII Whereas an Act made in the 22th and 23th years of the same King Entituled An Act to revice an Act Entituled An Act to prevent the disturbance of Seamen and others and to preserve the Stores belonging to His Majesties Navy Royal with some Alterations and Additions was by an Act made in the 1st Year of the Reign of the late K. James Enacted to be in force for Seven years and from thence to the end of the 1st Session of the next Parliament The said last mentioned Act shall be continued for Seven years from the said 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament VIII An Act made in the 22d and 23d of the said K. C. 2. Entituled An Act to prevent Frauds in the buying and selling of Cattle in Smithfield and elsewhere together with a Proviso in an Act made the 1st year of the late K. James for the Reviving and Continuance thereof That the said Act should not extend to Salesmen or Factors employed by Farmers or Feeders shall be in force for Seven years from the 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament IX An Act made in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for the better preventing the Exportation of Wooll and encouraging the Woollen Manufacture of this Kingdom except such part thereof as relates to the free Exportation of the Woollen Manufacture shall be in force for Three years from the said 13th day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament X Provided that no Wooll shall be Imported from Ireland into the Port of Exeter any thing in this or any former Act to the contrary notwithstanding XI An Act made the 13th and 14th years of the late King Charles 2. Entituled An Act for the better relief of the Poor of this Kingdom as to all Parts other then what relates to the Corporations thereby Constituted shall be in force for Seven years from the said 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XII An Act made in the 30th year of the late K. Charles 2. Entituled An Act to enable Creditors to recover their Debts of the Executors and Administrators of Executors in their own wrong shall be perpetual XIII And further Executors and Administrators of Executors or Administrators of Right who shall waste or convert to their own Use the Goods or Estate of his Testator or Intestate shall be chargeable as their Testator or Intestaâ—e should or might have been XIV If any Woman hath been or shall be Convicted of any Felony for which a Man might have the Benefit of Clergy and hath once had or shall have the Benefit of an Act made at the last Session of this present Parilament Eâ—â—â—ed Aâ— Act to take away Clergy from some Offenders and to being others to punishment and shall be again Convicted of any other Felony such Woman thall be totally excluded from having any other benefit of the said Act. XV. The said last mentioned Act to continue for Three years from the said 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XVI An Act made in the 13th and 14th years of the Reign of the late King Charles 2. Entituled An Act for preventing abuses in Printing Seditions Treasonable and Unlicensed
Inrolled and had the same allowed by the Court of King's-Bench shall be compelled to Plead the same to any Inquisition returned by any Coroner And if any Corporations Lords of Manors or others have or shall have such Grants from the Crown for Felons Goods Deodands and other Forfeitures they shall not be compelled to enrol their whole Charters or Grants but such part thereof as may express the Grants of such Felons Goods Deodands and Forfeitures and no more for doing whereof the Clerk of the Crown shall receive 20 s. for his Fee and no more and from and after such Enrolment they shall not be compelled to Plead the same to any inquisition II. If any Clerk of the Crown shall hereafter issue out any Process against such Grantees after such Enrolment he shall forfelt for every such Offence to the Party grieved the Sum of 5. l. III. But the Clerk of the Crown shall incur no Penalty mentioned in this Act for issuing Process against any persons who shall not upon every purchase of the Title of such Felons Goods c. Inrol and Plead the said Purchase in the said Court nor against any Devisee who shall not Enrol or Plead such Devise nor against any Heir who shall not Inrol his or her Right by descent and till after such Pleas have been allowed of by the said Court nor where by any Inquest of any Coroner the Goods of any Felon or Felons or Decodands shall not be found to be in the Hands of such Purchaser Devisee or Heir IV. Upon issuing of any Exigent for any Criminal Matter before Conviction there shall issue a Writ of Proclamation bearing the same Teste and Return to the Sheriff of the County City or Town where the persons in the Record of the said Proceedings are mentioned to inhabit according to the form of the Statute made Anno. 31 Eliz. which Writ shall be delivered to the Sheriff Three Months before the return thereof V. This Act to continue for Three years from the 25th Day of March 1693. and to the end of the then next Session of Parliament Customs I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 6. After the 29th Day of September 1689. so much of every Act of Parliament as requires the Levying the Duties arising by those Acts by way of Excise upon Coffee Chocolate and Tea shall cease and determine and is hereby Repealed II. And be it farther Enacted that after the 25th Day of December 1689. the Duties and Charges hereafter mentioned shall be Collected and Received at the Custom-house upon Coffee-berries Tea in the Leaf and Cacao-nuts and upon Chocolate ready made and according to the Proportions herein after mentioned besides what is now payable for the same at the Custom house viz. Upon every 100 Weight of Coffee Imported containing One hundred and twelve pound 5 l. 12 s. Upon every 100 Weight of Cacao Nuts containing as aforesaid 8 l. 8 s. Upon every pound weight of Tea 5 s. and upon every pound Weight of Chocolate 5 s. and so proportionably III. If any of the said Commodities shall be unshipt or laid on Land the Duties not paid or lawfully tendred to the Collector or his Deputy with the consent and agreement of the Comtroller and Surveyor there nor agreed with for the same in the Custom-house they shall be forfeited the one Moiety to Their Majesties the other to the Informer This Act to continue for Five years and no longer IV. Merchants and others having paid the Duties and Impositions by this Act appointed who shall within Six Months after Importation again transport the said Goods or any part thereof shall be repaid Two thirds of the Duties by them paid of so much of the said Goods as they shall export V. It shall be lawful to Import Nutmegs Cinnamon Cloves and Mace in any English Ships One third part of the Mariners whereof to be English from any parts beyond the Seas paying double the Sums the same are charged with in the Book of Rates so as notice be first given to the Commissioners or Farmers of the Customs of the Quality and Quantity thereof with the Name of the Ship and Master and the place where they intend to Import the same and taking a Licence under their Hands or of any Three of them for the Lading and Importing thereof as aforesaid which Licence shall be given without Fee or Reward I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 4. The Commons assembled in Parliament do hereby Give and Grant to your Majesties the Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage and other Sums of Money Granted to the late K. Charles 2. in the Twelfth year of his Reign by an Act Entituled A Subsidy granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage c. according to the Rates therein mention'd and the Rules and Orders thereunto annexed other then such concerning which it is otherwise provided by any Act made in the last Parliament and pray that it may be Enacted and be it Enacted that the said Subsidy and other Sums of Money be paid to Their Majesties for Four years from the 24th Day of December 1690. and that the aforesaid Act and an Order of the House of Commons made in pursuance of the Rules and Orders annexed thereunto for settling Officers Fees Dated the 17 of May 1662. ans Signed by Sir Edward Turnor then Speaker shall be of force during the said Four years VII An Act made in the 12th year of the said K. Charles 2. Entituled An Act to prevent Frauds and Concealments of His Majesties Customs and Susidies and an Act made in the 14th year of his Reign Entituled An Act for preventing Frands and regulating Abuses in His Majesties Customs and an Act made in the 22d year of His Reign Entituled An Act for Improvement of Tillage and the breed of Battel and another Act made in the 25th year of His Reign Entituled An Act for taking off Aliens Duties upon Commodities of the Growth Product and Manufacture of the Nation and another Act made in the said 25th year of his Reign Entituled An Act for the encouragement of the Greenland and East-land Trades and for the better securing the Plantation Trade and one other Act made in the First year of the late King James 2. Entituled An additional Act for the Improvement of Tillage shall be in force during the said Term of Four years VIII Nothing herein shall be Construed to determine any Clauses in the said Acts which were intended to be perpetual IX It shall be lawful for any persons to advance upon the Credit of this Act any Sums of Money not exceeding 500000 l. in the whole at the Interest for such Money as shall be lent before the 10th of June 1690. of 8 l. per Cent. and for Money lent after 7 l. per Cent. X. After the First Day of Novemb. 1690. during the continuance of this Act there shall be continued within London an Office for the Receipt of the Subsidies and other Sums hereby
of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for one year so far as it relates to Elections of Members to serve in Parliament and leaving true Notes in Writing of the last Gauges with the Penalties relating thereunto shall from the First Day of March next be revived and continue during the continuance of this Act and from thence to the End of the next Session of Parliament CLIII It shall be Lawful to Lend and Advance to Their Majesties upon the Credit of this Act any Sum or Sums not exceeding in the whole 510000 l. and to receive for forbearance 8 l. per Cent. per Aanum CLIV. Officers concerned in Levying the Duties arising by this Act shall keep a separate account thereof and pay the same in specie into the Exchequer every Wednesday unless it be a Holyday and then the day after and upon neglect or refusal shall incur the Penalties c. that other Officers of the Exchequer before mentioned shall be liable to which Moneys shall be applied to the Uses mentioned in this Act. CLV Out of the Money which shall be paid into the Exchequer upon Loan or otherwise by Virtue of this or any other Act of this Session of Parliament for Granting Aids and Supplies c. other then an Act Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties an Aid of Four Shillings in the Pound c. the Sum of 1226516 l. shall be Appropriated for the payment of Officers and Seamen and for Stores Provisions and Victuals for the Navy and to the Expences of the Ordnance in respect to Naval Affairs and other necessary Uses for the Navy And if any Officer belonging to the Revenue Exchequer Navy or Ordnance wittingly divert any Part of the Money hereby Appropriated to any other purpose he shall lose his Place and be disabled to execute any Office whatsoever CLVI The additional Duties imposed by this Act shall not affect such Foreign Stores as have been sold to the use of the Navy by Contract with the Navy-board before the First of January 1692. so as a Certificate be given by the Commissioners of the Navy that such Stores have been so Contracted for and so as the Importer make Oath of the Truth of the Contract and that he will deliver them into their Majesties Stores accordingly CLVII Commissioners and Patent-Officers their Deputies Clerks and Servants who have or shall have any Imployment about the Customs shall before the 19th Day of April next or at their admissions hereafter take their Oaths for the true Execution to the best of their Knowledge and Power of their several Trusts and Employments and that they will take no Reward or Gratuity but their respective Salaries and what is or shall be allow'd them by the Crown or the Regular Fees Established by Law for any Service done or to be done in the Execution of their Employments CLVIII Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 15. The several Impositions and Duties upon Wines and Vinegar Granted by an Act made the First year of the late King James 2d Entituled An Act for Granting His Majesty an Imposition upon all Wines and Vinegar Imported between the 24th of June 1685. and the 24th of June 1693. Which by an Act of this present Parliament was continued from the said 24th of June 1693. to the 24th of June 1696. shall be farther continued until the 24th of June 1698. CLIX. The Rates Duties and Impositions for Tobacco Granted by an Act in the 1st Year of the Reign of the said late King James 2d Entituled An Act for Granting to His Majesty an Imposition upon all Tobacco and Sugar Imported between the 24th day of June 1685. and the 24th day of June 1693. which said Act as concerning Impositions upon Tobacco only by an Act of this present Parliament was farther continued unto the 24th day of June 1696. shall be continued from the said 24th day of June 1696. to the 24th of June 1698. CLX The Additional and other Impositions and Duties upon several sorts of Goods and Merchandize Granted by an Act of this present Parliament in the Second year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East India Goods and Manufactures and upon all wrought Silks c. to be Imported after the 25th day of Decemb. 1690. and which were to have continuance to the 10th day of Novemb. 1695. shall be continued from the 9th day of November 1695. to the 10th day of November 1697. CLXI Any Persons may advance Moneys upon the Security of this Act not exceeding in the whole 500000. l. and to have any Sum for forbearance nor exceeding 8 l. per Cent. per Annum CLXII There shall likewise be paid to Their Majesties 5 l. for every 100 l. of the Joynt-Stock of the East-India Company the said Stock being valued at 744000 l. The same to be paid by the Governour and Treasurer of the Company by Four Quarterly Payments the First on the 25 of March 1693. and to be deducted upon the next Dividend CLXIII And for every Share in the Joynt-Stock of the African Company as the Number of Shares are now reckoned there shall be paid to Their Majesties the Sum of 20 s. by the Governour and Treasurer of that Company by Four Quarterly Payments the First to be made on the said 25th of March 1693. and to be deducted as aforesaid CLXIV And for every Share in the Joynt-Stock of the Hudson's Bay Company as the number of Shares are now reckon'd there shall be paid the Sum of 5 l. by the Governour and Treasurer of that Company ut supra And for default of Payment at the Days and Times aforesaid the Charter of such Company respectively shall be void CLXV From and after the Sixth Day of April 1693. none shall be admitted to swear to a Debanture for any Duties to be drawn back upon Re-exportation but he who is the true Exporter as being either Interested in the Goods or Employed by Commission CLXVI All Persons who by way of Insurance or otherwise shall undertake to deliver any Goods Imported from beyond Sea without paying the Duties payable for the same or any Prohibited Goods and shall deliver or cause to be delivered the same as aforesaid knowing thereof and all their Abbettors shall for every such offence forfeit 500 l. above the Forfeitures to which they are already liable CLXVII And all who shall agree to pay any Money for the Insuring or Conveying any Goods Imported without paying the Duties or any Prohibited Goods or shall receive such prohibited Gods or such other Goods before the Duties are paid knowing thereof shall also Forseit for every offence 500 l. the one Moiety of the said Forfeitures to Their Majesties and the other to the Informer CLXVIII And if the Insurer or Manager of such Fraud be the Discoverer he shall not only keep the Insurance Money given him and be discharged of
the Penalties to which he is liable but shall have one half of the Penalties imposed upon the Parties making such Insurance or Receiving the Goods as aforesaid and in Case no Discovery be made by the Insurer and the Party Insured shall make discovery thereof he shall recover back his Praenium and have One Moiety of the Forfeitures imposed upon the Insurer and be discharged of the imposed upon himself CLXIX The said Penalties and Forseitures to be Recoverable according to the Course of the Court of Exchequer as other Penalties in like Cases are Recoverable CLXX No Penalty hereby inflicted to be recoverable unless presented within Twelve Months after the Fact Committed CLXXI. All Duties whatsoever that shall accrue to Their Majesties at the Custom-house after the 25th day of March 1693. for Prize-Goods shall be applied entirely to the Credit of an Act of Parliament made this Session Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Additional Impositions upon several Goods and Merchandize for the Prosecuting the present War against France Any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding Deer Stealers I. Stat. 3. 4. W. M. cap. 10. If any Persons shall unlawfully Course Hunt Take in Toyles Kill Wound or take away any Red or Fallow Deer in any Forest Chase Purlieu Paddock Wood Park or other Ground inclosed where Deer are or shall be usually kept without the consent of the Owner or Person entrusted with the Custody thereof or be aiding therein and shall be Convicted by Confession or the Oath of one Witness before a Justice of Peace of the County where the Offence shall be Committed or the Party Apprehended within a Twelve-month after the Offence done they shall Forseit for every such Offence 20 l. and for every Deer wounded taken or killed 30 l. to be Levied by Distress and Sale of Goods by Warrant from the Justice before whom the Conviction shall be made the One third Part to the Informer the other third Part to the Poor of the Parish where the Offence shall be Committed and the other third to the Owner of the Deer And for want of a Distress they shall be Imprisoned a year and set in the Pillory an hour on some Market-Day in the Town next adjoyning to the Place where the Offence was Committed by the Chief Officer of such Market Town or his under Officers II. Constables Head-boroughs and Tythingmen by a Justices Warrant may Enter and Search as for Stolen Goods the Houses and other Places of suspected Persons and if any Venison or Skins of Deer or Toyles be found shall carry such Offender before a Justice of Peace and if he do not give a good Account how he came by them and in some convenient time produce the Party of whom he bought them or prove such Sale upon Oath he shall be Convicted of such Offence and be subject to the Penalties hereby inflicted for killing a Deer III. The Constable or other Officer or Persons prosecuting may detain such Offenders in Custody if they do not presently pay the Moneys due by the Conviction till a Return may be made of the Warrant for Distress such Detainer not exceeding Two days IV. Owners of any such Deer or any acting under them may resist such Offenders and be Indemnified as if such Fact had been Committed in an ancient Chase or Park V. No Certiorari shall be allowed to remove any Conviction or other proceeding upon this Act unless the Party Convicted shall before it be Allowed become bound to the Prosecutors in 50 l. with Sureties to be approved by the said Justice to pay within a Month after the Conviction confirm'd or a procedendo Granted their full Costs to be ascertain'd upon Oath VI. No Offender Punished by Virtue of this Act shall incur the Penalty of any other Law for the same Offence VII Persons prosecuted for any thing done in pursuance of this Act may Plead the general Issue and give the special Matter in Evidence VIII If any Person shall in the night time pull down or destroy or cause to be pull'd down or destroyed the Pails or Walls of any Park Forest c. or other Ground inclosed where Red or Fallow-Deer shall be kept such Persons being Convicted by Oath of one Witness before a Justice of Peace shall by such Justices Warrant suffer Imprisonment for Three Months Distresses I. Sat. 2. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 5. After the First Day of June 1690. where any Goods or Chattels shall be distrained for Rent reserved and due upon any Demise Lease or Contract and the Tenant or Owner of the Goods shall not within Five days after such Distress and Notice thereof with the cause of such taking left at the Mansion-house or other most notorious Place of the Premisses charged with the Rent Replevy the same the Person distraining may with the Sheriff or Under-Sheriff of the County or with the Constable of the Hundred Parish or Place where c. who are hereby required to assist cause the Distress to be appraised by Two sworn Appraisers whom such Sheriff c. shall swear to Appraise them truly according to the best of their Understanding and after such Appraisement may Sell the same towards the satisfaction of the Rent and the Charges of the Distress and Appraisement leaving the Overplus if any be in the hands of the said Sheriff c. for the Owners Use II. It shall be Lawful to Distrain for Rent arrear as aforesaid any Sheaves or Cocks of Corn or Corn loose or in the Straw or Hay in any Barn or Granary or upon any Hovel Stack or Rick or otherwise and to lock up and detain the same in the Place where it shall be found till it be Replevied as aforesaid and in default thereof within the time aforesaid to Sell the same after Appraisement as aforesaid so nevertheless that it be not removed to the damage of the Owner but kept where it shall be found and seiz'd as Impounded till it be Replevied or Sold. III. Upon any Pound-breach or Rescous of Goods Distrained for Rent the Person grieved shall have a special Action upon the Case and Recover treble Damages and Costs of Suit against the Offenders or against the Owners of the Goods if they come to his Use or Possession IV. If any such Distress and Sale as aforesaid shall be made where there is no Rent due the Owner of the Goods Distrained may by Action of Trespass or upon the Case against the Persons distraining Recover double the Value of the Goods Distrained with full Costs of Suit Excise I. STat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 24. From the 24th day of July 1689. there shall be paid to Their Majesties for Three years for Beer Ale Cyder and other Liquors herein after mentioned by way of Excise over and above the Duties already Charged That is to say For every Barrel of Beer or Ale above 6 s. price 9 d. For every Barrel of Beer or Ale of 6 s. or under 3
custody or stood upon Bail on the said 13th day of February shall be proceeded against as if the said Crimes had been committed before the said 11th day of December and all Persons for any Matter arisen since the said 11th day of December and before the said 13th day of February shall be liable to any Action and it shall be sufficient in all Indictments and Informations for any such Crimes and in all Actions and Declarations for any such Cause to alledge the Year of our Lord instead of the Year of the King and in such Indictments Informations or Actions wherein Conclusions used to be contra Pacem Domini Regis to conclude contra Pacem Regni and Indictments for Felonies committed within that time shall be good having the words contra Pacem Regni though the words Domini Regis Coronam Dignitatem be omitted X. Recognizances Statutes and Obligations made since the said 11th day of December and before the said 13th day of February in the Name of and to the late King James II. shall be good and may be sued in their Majesties Names and all Persons who were bound by Recognizance to the said late King to appear in the Court of Kings Bench at any time in Hill Term or at the next Assizes Oyer and Terminer General Gaol-delivery or of the Peace shall be obliged to appear in the said Court of Kings Bench on the first day of Easter-Term 1689. and at the next Assizes Sessions of Oyer and Terminer c. under the Penalty of forfeiting the said Recognizance c. XI Writs and Process issuing out of any of the Courts of Westminster as of Mich. Term 1688. that have been executed before they were returnable and all Bills Plaints Judgments and Proceedings in any Inferior Court and Executions thereupon since the said 11th day of December and before the said 13th day of February shall be good as if the said late King had continued so XII Bail Bonds taken by Sheriffs c. though not lawfully qualified since the first day of November 1687. and Recognizances of Bail taken since the said 11th day of December before any Person who upon the first day of December last was Justice of the Kings Bench Common Pleas or Baron of the Exchequer shall be good and may be inroll'd in Easter-Term 1689. and all Commitments to prison on any Writ or Process by the said Judges since the said 11th day of December shall be good in Law XIII No part of the time from the 10th of December 1688. until the 12th of March 1688. shall be accounted as part of the six months from the time of the avoidance of any Church in which any Person is bound to bring his darrein Presentment or Quare impedit or as any part of the time in which any Person by virtue of any Statute of Limitation ought to bring his Action Iudgments I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 20. The Clerk of the Essoins of the Court of Common Pleas every Clerk of the Doggets of the Court of Kings Bench and the Master of the Office of Pleas in the Exchequer shall before the end of every Easter-Term put into an Alphabetical Dogget by the Defendants Names a particular of all Judgments for Debt by Confession non sum Informatus or nihil dicit entred in the said respective Courts of the Term of St. Hillary preceding containing the Names of the Plaintiffs and Defendants their Places of Abode Title Trade or Profession if any such be in the Record and the Debt Damages and Costs recovered thereby and where the Actions were laid and the Number-roll of the Entry thereof and every Clerk of the Judgments and other Clerk of the Courts of Common Pleas and Kings Bench shall within ten days before the said time bring to the Clerks of the Doggets Notes in Writing of all the Judgments by them entred of the said Term of St. Hillary upon Verdicts Writs of Enquiry Demurrer and every other Judgment for Debt or Damages in all things as aforesaid and that the Clerk of the Judgments and every other Clerk of the Exchequer shall within the time aforesaid bring unto the Master of the Office or Pleas the like Note in Writing of all the like Judgments by him entred to the end they may be respectively entred and the respective Officers and Clerks shall before the last day of the Term of St. Michael make the like Doggets containing all Judgments of the Terms of Easter and Trinity in all things as aforesaid and before the last day of every Hillary-Term the like Doggets of Judgments in Michaelmass-Term The said Doggets to be kept in Books in Parchment to be searched and viewed by all Persons at reasonable times paying for every Terms search 4 d. and no more on pain that every Clerk of the Essoins of the Court of Common Pleas Clerk of the Doggets of the Kings Bench and Master of the Office of Pleas in the Exchequer and every Clerk before-mentioned shall for every Term in which he shall neglect his Duty forfeit 100 l. one moiety to the Party grieved and the other moiety to the Prosecutor II. No Judgment not doggetted as aforesaid shall affect any Lands as to Purchasers or Mortgagees or have any preference against Heirs Executors or Administrators in the administration of their Ancestors Testators or Intestates Estates III. The Plaintiffs in every of the said Judgments shall pay to the Clerks of the Judgments for every Judgment entring 4 d. over and above the Fees now due IV. This Act to continue for one year from the 25th day of March 1693. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament King and Queen I. STat. 2 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 1. The Lords and Commons publish declare and enact in Parliament that they do recognize and acknowledge that their Majesties are and of Right ought to be by the Laws of this Realm their Soveraign Liege Lord and Lady King and Queen of England France and Ireland c. in and to whose Princely Persons the Royal State Crown and Dignity of the said Realms with all Honors Prerogatives c. are fully rightfully and entirely invested incorporated united and annexed II. All and singular the Acts made in the Parliament assembled the 13th day of Febr. 1688. were and are the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom and as such ought to be reputed taken and obeyed Leather I. STat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 23. Whereas an Act made in the 20th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for giving liberty to buy and export Leather and Skins tanned or dressed was revived by another Act made in the first year of the Reign of the late King James II. Entituled An Act for reviving a former Act for exporting Leather which Act will expire at the end of this Sessions Be it enacted that the said two Acts be revived and continue in force from the end of this Session of Parliament for seven
provide each their Souldier with pay in Hand not exceeding one Months Pay as if all the Pay before advanced and provided had been re-imbursed Oaths I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 6. The Oath herein after mentioned shall be administred to King William and Queen Mary at the time of their Coronation viz. The Archbishop or Bishop shall say Will you solemnly promise and swear to Govern the People of this Kingdom of England and the Dominions thereunto belonging according to the Statutes in Parliament agreed on and the Laws and Customs of the same The King and Queen shall say I solemnly promise so to do Archbishop or Bishop Will you to your Power cause Law and Justice in mercy to be executed in all your Judgments King and Queen I will Archbishop or Bishop Will you to the utmost of your Power maintain the Laws of God the true Profession of the Gospel and the Protestant reformed Religion established by Law And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of this Realm and to the Churches committed to their charge all such Rights and Priviledges as by Law do or shall appertain unto them or any of them King and Queen All this I promise to do After this the King and Queen laying his and her Hand upon the Holy Gospels shall say King and Queen The Things which I have here before promised I will perform and keep So help me God Then the King and Queen shall kiss the Book II. The said Oath shall be in like manner administred to every King or Queen who shall succeed III. Stat. Anno 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 8. Henceforth no Persons shall be obliged to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy or either of them by force of the Acts of 1 Eliz. or 3 Jac. or any other Statute and the said Oaths are hereby abrogated II. The Oaths appointed by this present Act to be taken and the Declaration appointed by this Act to be made c. shall be taken made repeated and subscribed by such as were required by any Act to take the said abrogated Oaths or either of them before such Persons as hereafter is expressed viz. Archbishops and Bishops and all above the Degree of a Baron of Parliament in the Court of Chancery or Kings Bench between the hours of 9 and 12 in the Forenoon before the end of Trin. Term next or at the General Quarter-Sessions for that County or Place where they shall be or reside between the said hours before the first day of August next IV. Other such Persons shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration before such Persons as by any Act were authorized to tender the said abrogated Oaths V. All Persons other than such concerning whom other provision shall be made in this Act or Session of Parliament that shall be admitted into any Office or Imployment Ecclesiastical or Civil or come into any capacity by reason whereof they should have been obliged to take the said abrogated Oaths or either of them shall take the Oaths hereby appointed in such manner as they ought to have taken the former Oaths and under the same Penalties Forfeitures Disabilities and incapacities VI. If any Person now having any such Office or Imployment neglect or refuse to take the said Oaths before the first day of August next or sooner if required by order of Council such Office and Imployment shall be void VII Archbishops or Bishops and other Persons now having any Ecclesiastical Dignity Benefice c. neglecting or refusing to take the said Oaths before the first day of August next shall be suspended for six months from the said first of August and if they shall not within the said space of six months take the said Oaths they shall be ipso facto deprived and are hereby adjudged to be deprived VIII Governors Heads or Fellows of Colledges or Halls in either University or of any other Colledge Masters of Hospitals or Schools Professors of Divinity Law Physick or other Science in either University or in London neglecting or refusing as aforesaid before the first day of August next shall be suspended six months to be accounted as aforesaid and if they shall not within the said space of six months take the said Oaths their Offices Imployments Masterships Governments Fellowships and Professorships shall be void IX Other Persons refusing to take the said Oaths being lawfully tendred shall be committed by the Persons tendring the same to the Common Gaol or House of Correction for three months without Bail or Mainprize unless such Offenders shall pay down 40 s. or such lesser Sum as the Persons tendring the said Oaths shall require which Mony shall go to the relief of the Poor of the Parish or Place where such Offender did last reside and if at the end of three months such Persons shall again refuse c. they shall be committed as aforesaid for six months unless they shall pay down such Sum of Mony as the Persons tendring the said Oaths shall require not exceeding 10 l. nor under 5 l. the said Mony to be disposed as aforesaid and unless such Offenders shall become bound with two Sureties to be of the Good Behaviour and appear at the next Assizes or General Gaol-delivery for the place where they shall reside at which Assizes or Gaol-delivery the said Oath shall be again tendred in open Court and upon refusal the Persons refusing shall be adjudged incapable of any Office Civil or Military and be bound to their Good Behaviour till they take the said Oaths and if such Persons shall refuse to make and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in the Statute of the 30th Year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government c. they shall be taken and deemed Popish Recusants convict to all intents and purposes X. Commission-Officers and Non-Commission or Warrant-Officers now employed by Sea or Land shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the last mentioned Declaration before the Lord Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty or their Deputies or such as their Majesties shall appoint to administer them And all Persons hereafter to be put into any such Imployment shall before the delivery of their Commission or Warrant take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration before the Lord Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty or their Deputies or such as shall issue such Commission or Warrant or such as shall be authorized to administer the same as aforesaid and in case of refusal shall be incapable of taking or executing such Office or Imployment XI The Oath appointed by the Statute of 13 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for the ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom And so much of a Declaration prescribed in another Act made in the same Year Entituled An Act for the Uniformity of Publick Prayers c. as is expressed in these Words viz. I A. B.
nominate any person that shall then have any Benefice with cure of Souls but that such Presentation shall be void XIX Provided that if any person so presented c. to any Benefice with cure shall be absent from the same above sixty days in one year that such Benefices shall be void XX. Provided nevertheless That if any such person shall at the General quarter-Quarter-Sessions where his Name is recorded repeat and subscribe the said Declaration and take the Oaths contained in an Act of this Parliament Entituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance c. he shall be discharged from the said Disability and be enabled to make such Presentation c. as if this Act had not been made Pardon I. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 10. All Subjects of this Realm of England Wales and the Town of Berwick All Bodies Politick and Corporate Cities Burroughs Shires Ridings Hundreds c. shall be pardoned and discharged of and from all Treasons Felonies Misprisions of Treason Treasonable or Seditious Words or Libels Misprisions of Felony seditious and unlawful Meetings Offences of Premunire Ryots Routs Offences Contempts Trespasses Entries Wrongs Deceits Misdemeanors Forfeitures Penalties and Sums of Mony pains of Death pains Corporal and Pecuniary and of and from all Things Causes Quarrels Suits Judgments and Executions not hereafter excepted which by their Majesties in any wise can be pardoned before the 16th day of May 1690. II. All their Majesties Subjects and Bodies Corporate may by themselves their Deputies or Attornies plead this for any thing hereby pardoned or discharged without any Fee or other Thing paying to any person for writing or entry of the Judgments or other Cause concerning such Plea Writing or Entry but only 16 d. to the Officer or Clerk that shall enter the same III. This Pardon to be expounded most beneficial and available to the Subject IV. If any Officer or Clerk of any of their Majesties Courts shall after Easter-Term next make out any Process whereby any of the Subjects or Bodies Corporate aforesaid may be inquieted for any thing hereby pardoned or if any Sheriff Escheator or their under Officers levy or with-hold any thing discharged by this Act they shall pay to the party grieved treble Damages and Costs of Suit and forfeit to their Majesties 10 l. for every such Offence and such Process to be void V. Except Treasons and other Offences against the King and Queens persons or either of them and all Conspiracies and Confederacies against their Majesties most Royal Persons And all Treasons committed in Ireland or any Parts beyond the Seas since the 13th day of Febr. 1688. And all Offences in forging and counterfeiting the Great or Privy Seal Sign Manuel or Privy Signet or of Monies and all Offences of unlawful diminishing Monies and all Misprisions and Concealments of the Treasons above excepted and abetting aiding comforting and procuring the same VI. And except all Murthers Petit Treasons and wilful Poysonings and the Accessaries thereunto VII And except Robberies and Pyracies upon the Seas procuring and abetting such Offenders and receiving them or Goods taken by Pyracy VIII And except all Burglaries and breaking into and stealing out of any Dwelling-houses in the day and Accessaries thereunto IX And except Robberies of Churches and Robberies committed on the High-way X. And except Buggery with Mankind or Beast and Rapes of Women XI And except the wilful taking away or marrying any Maid Widow or Damsel against her will or the assent of her Parents or Guardians and Accessaries thereunto XII And except all Offences of Perjury and Subornation of Witnesses and of forging and counterfeiting Deeds Writings or Records or Examinations of Witnesses tending to bring any Persons in danger of Life and all procuring or counselling the same XIII And except all Offences committed in any Forest since the 13th day of Febr. 1688. XIV And except Forfeitures now due or which may be be due to their Majesties by reason of any Offence c. contrary to any Statute other than using a Trade without serving seven years or contrary to the Common Law and whereof any Action Bill Plaint or Information within six days next before the day of holding this present Parliament viz. the 20th day of March 1689. hath been commenced in any of their Majesties Courts at Westminster and is there depending or whereupon any Verdict Judgment or Decree is already given or entred or whereof their Majesties have made any Assignment before the said 16 day of May. XV. And except all Proceedings concerning High-ways and Bridges and Issues return'd upon any such Process since the 20th day of March 1679. XVI And except all Offences in imbezeling and purloining their Majesties Goods Monies Chattels Jewels Armor Munition Stores Naval Provisions Shipping Ordinance and other Habiliments of War and all Offences in conveying to the French King any Naval Stores or contraband Goods XVII And except all Conditions and Covenants and all Penalties Titles c. accrued to their Majesties by the breach of them XVIII And except all Offences of Incest Simony and Dilapidations for which any Suit is or was depending the first day of this Parliament XIX And except Adultery and other Enormous Crimes by Persons in Holy Orders punishable in Ecclesiastical Courts XX. And except First-fruits and Tenths Pensions Procurations Synodals and other Payments out of any Ecclesiastical Benefice other than Tenths due out of small Livings not worth 30 l. a year improved value and which shall be so certified by the Bishop or Guardian of the Spiritualties before the last of Michaelmas-Term but this Act shall not discharge Bishops from answering any of the said Arrears by them received XXI And except the Monies and Duties following and Concealments thereof viz. of any Custom or Subsidy Excise Hearth-mony Imposition upon Wine or other Liquors Duties arising by Wine-licences or the Post-office or any other Duty due to their Majesties by Act of Parliament and Forfeitures for non-payment thereof and Misdemeanors in Ministers concerning the same XXII And except all taking from their Majesties or the late King Charles II. or King James II. Goods forfeited for Treason Petit Treason Murder or Felony or the Issues and Profits of Lands of Traitors or Felons attainted or of the Possessions of any Bishoprick the Temporalties whereof upon the 20th day of March 1679. were or ought to have been in their Hands and except all Arrears of Rent due from any Farmer of any part of the Revenue and of Fee-farms and other Rents XXIII And except the accounts of Collectors Commissioners or Receivers of any Subsidy Custom Tunnage and Poundage additional Duty Prize Goods or other things grown due since the 25th of March 1673. and of all other Accountants to their Majesties in respect of any receit or other charge grown since the said 25th day of March and all untrue Accounts made since then XXIV And except Recognizances and other Securities given by any Accountant in the
Exchequer and their Sureties and all Recognizances and Conditions for the payment of Mony XXV This Act shall not discharge any Recognizance c. not yet forfeited nor any forfeited Recognizanc c. whereof the Farmers of the Excise or any part of the Revenue ought to receive benefit nor any Debt due by Recognizance c. to any Persons endebted to their Majesties which hath been seiz'd in Aid nor any Debt whereupon any enstalment or seizure hath been made upon which any thing is or since the 25th of March hath been answered and paid nor to discharge any Forfeitures or Sums of Mony due to their Majesties by any Statute which Forfeitures c. since the said 25th of March are converted into the nature of a Debt or have been install'd or any seizure made for them upon which any thing has been paid since the said 25th of March. XXVI But all Recognizances c. forfeited since the said 25th of March for non-payment in any Court or other place or not keeping the Peace or not being of the Good Behaviour are discharged except Recognizances granted to or in trust for the Lord Almoner XXVII And except all Issues Fines and Amerciaments lost or assessed since the said 25th day of March being totted or received by any Officer before the last day of this Session of Parliament and all Issues c. lost or assess'd since the said 25th day of March affeered taxed estreated or entred severally touching any one or more Persons joyntly or severally above 6 l. and except Issues Fines c. set in any Court of Record at Westminster within a year before the first day of this Parliament XXVIII But all other Fines as well pro lic concord as others set or entred before that time and Issues and Amerciaments as well real as others set or entred before the time aforesaid and which do not exceed 6 l. whether estreated or not estreated whether turn'd into Debt or not and not being totted or received by any Officer before the first day of this Parliament shall be discharged yet nevertheless the estreats of such Fines c. already estreated out of the Exchequer and remaining in the Sheriffs Hands shall upon the return of such Estreats be charged and delivered by Scrowes into the Pipe-Office as hath been accustomed and yet Sheriffs and other Accountants upon Petition to have allowance for such Fines c. as are pardoned shall have their Petition allowed without Fee XXIX This Act shall not pardon any who by Name are excepted out of the Act of Oblivion made 12 Car. 2. nor to those two Persons who appeared in Vizors upon the Scaffold when King Charles I. was murther'd XXX Nor shall this Act restore any Ability to exercise Offices or to serve in Parliament c. to persons disabled by any other Laws XXXI Nor shall this Act discharge any person who if he after the first day of September 1660. has exercised any Office is by the said Act of 12 Car. 2. to stand as if excepted out of the said Act by Name XXXII And except all persons attainted by Act of Parliament or otherwise for any Rebellion levying of War or any Conspiracy thereof in any of their Majesties Dominions and all persons attainted or outlawed for any other Treason Petit Treason Murder wilful Poysoning or Burglary XXXIII And except all persons who by any former Act are by Name made liable to any penalties whatsoever XXXIV And except persons who after conviction or attainder for any Felony have desired to be transported XXXV And except persons who being excepted out of the said general Act of 12 Car. 2. have had any pains or penalties imposed on them by any subsequent Act. XXXVI And except all penalties of 500 l. which shall by any Act of this Session be inflicted for holding Offices contrary to an Act of Parliament made in the 25th of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants XXXVII And except William Marquiss of Powis Theophilus Earl of Huntington Robert Earl of Sunderland John Earl of Melfort Roger Earl of Castlemain the Lord Thomas Howard Nathaniel Lord Bishop of Durham Thomas Lord Bishop of St. Davids Henry Lord Dover William Molineux Sir Edward Hales Sir Edward Herbert Sir Francis Wythens Sir Richard Holloway Sir Edward Lutwich Sir Richard Heath Sir Thomas Jenner Sir Roger l'Estrange Sir Nicholas Butler Edward Petre Thomas Tindesley Townly Rowland Tempest Edward Morgan Obadiah Walker Robert Brent Richard Graham Philip Burton Robert Lundy Matthew Crone and George Lord Jefferies deceased XXXVIII And also except all Offences committed by Jesuits and Romish Priests contrary to the Statute made in the 27th year of Queen Elizabeth Entituled An Act against Jesuits Seminary Priests and other disobedient Persons and except all Convictions of Popish Recusants XXXIX No Process of Outlawry at the Suit of any person Plaintiff shall by virtue of this Act be stay'd unless the Defendant appear and put in Bail where the Law requires it and take out a Seirs Fac Nor shall this Pardon discharge any Outlawry after Judgment till satisfaction or agreement with the party XL. Persons hereby pardoned may plead the Ceneral Issue and give this Act in Evidence XLI This Act shall be of as good force to pardon and discharge the Premisses against such as claim the same by any Grant from the Crown as against their Majesties themselves XLII Nothing in this Act shall discharge any person from abetting or procuring the raising War or Rebellion against their Majesties or adhering to their Enemies since the 13th day of February 1688. unless such person shall before the 20th day of July next or sooner if required take this Oath in such Court as shall have power to administer the same viz. I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary So help me God Parliament I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 1. The Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons conven'd at Westminster the 22th day of January 1688. and there sitting on the 13th day of February following are the two Houses of Parliament to all intents and purposes notwithstanding the want of any Writs of Summons or other defect of Form and this Act and all other Acts to which the Royal Assent shall be given before the next Prorogation shall be adjudged to commence upon the said 13th day of February II. The Act made in the 30th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government by disabling of Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament and all other Acts of Parliament as to so much of them as concerns the taking the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy or either of them by any Member of either House of Parliament with relation to their sitting and voting there are hereby repealed III. And the taking the Oaths herein after
XVII This Act shall give no ease to Papists or Popish Recusants nor to any that in preaching or writing shall deny the Trinity XVIII If any persons after the 10th day of June come into any Church Chappel or Congregation permitted by this Act and disturb the same or misuse the Teacher upon proof thereof by two Witnesses before a Justice of Peace they shall find two Sureties to be bound by Recognizance in 50 l. and in default thereof be committed to prison till the next quarter-Quarter-Sessions and upon conviction of such Offence at the General or Quarter-Sessions shall forfeit 20 l. XIX No Assembly for Religious Worship shall be allowed by this Act till the place of meeting be certified to the Bishop of the Diocess or the Arch-deacon or to the Justices of Peace at the General or quarter-Quarter-Sessions and registred or recorded there respectively and a Certificate thereof given without Fee c. Revenue I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 14. The Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of Mony payable upon Merchandise and the several Impositions Duties and Charges upon Liquors Manufactures and other Things and all and singular the Revenue and Revenues except Hearth-mony other than the Duties thereby arising at or before the 25th of March 1689. granted and payable to the two late Kings or either of them which remained and had continuance on the 5th day of November last and all Arrears of the same shall be answered and paid to their Majesties until the 25th day of December 1689. II. All persons who have received or collected any part of the publick Revenue since the said 5th day of November are hereby indemnified against all persons of whom they received or collected the same to be answerable nevertheless to their Majesties III. Seizures and Distresses made or to be made by any persons authorized and all Forfeitures and Penalties for any Offence against any Law concerning the Customs or Excise or relating to the Transportation of Wool or importation or exportation of prohibited Goods incurred since the 11th day of December and before the 13th of February 1688. shall be prosecuted as well by any Informer for the King and Queen and himself as by the Attorny General in manner and form as if such Seisures Distresses and Offences had been made and committed after the said 13th day of Febr. IV. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 28. Part of the Mony accruing to their Majesties by one Act of Parliament made in the first year of the Reign of the late King James II. Entituled An Act for granting to his Majesty an Imposition upon all Tobacco and Sugar imported between the 24th day of June 1685. and the 24th day of June 1693. not exceeding in the whole 60000 l. shall be applyed to the payment of the Wages due to the Servants of the late King Charles II. which were his Servants at the time of his decease to be paid them within three years from the 24th day of Dec. 1689. by three equal payments and in such manner and proportion and to such of them as his Majesty shall direct and the residue of the Mony arising by the said Act and the Mony arising by two other Acts of the said first year of the said late King James the one entituled An Act for granting his Majesty an imposition upon all Wines and Vinegar imported between the 24th day of June 1685. and the 24th of June 1693. and the other An Act for granting an aid to his Majesty by an imposition on all French Linnens and all East-India Linnen and several other Manufactures of India and on all French wrought Silks and Stuffs and on all other wrought Silks and on all Brandies imported after the first day of July 1685. and before the first day of July 1690. and by one other Act of this Parliament Entituled An Act for an additional Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors shall be applied from the 29th of September 1689. during the continuance of the said Acts in the first place towards the payment of 600000 l. to the States of the United Provinces for their assistance to his Majesty in coming into this Nation in such manner as his Majesty shall direct and the residue towards the subduing the Rebellion of Ireland and other Charges of the War against France V. Accounts of the said Monies to be kept apart from other Monies payable to their Majesties that such as the States of the United Provinces shall appoint and other persons concerned may see how the said additional Duty and other Impositions are from time to time paid into the Exchequer VI. No Mony shall be paid to any of the late King Charles II's Servants but to such as before the first day of February next shall have taken the Oaths and made and subscribed the Declaration mentioned in an Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths at the General quarter-Quarter-Sessions of the County or Place where they reside and shall produce a Certificate thereof attested by the Clerk of the Peace VII Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 3. An Act for preventing all Doubts and Questions concerning the collecting the publick Revenue Exp. Rights and Liberties I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 2. Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons assembled at Westminster lawfully fully and freely representing all the Estates of the People of this Realm did upon the thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred eighty eight present unto their Majesties then called and known by the Names and Stile of William and Mary Prince and Princess of Orange being present in their proper Persons a certain Declaration in Writing made by the said Lords and Commons in the Words following viz. Whereas the late King James II. by the assistance of divers evil Councellors Judges and Ministers employed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom By assuming and exercising a Power of dispensing with and sus-spending of Laws and the Execution of Laws without consent of Parliament By committing and prosecuting divers worthy Prelates for humbly petitioning to be excused from concurring to the said assumed Power By issuing and causing to be executed a Commission under the Great Seal for erecting a Court called The Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes By levying Mony for and to the use of the Crown by pretence of Prerogative for other time and in other manner than the same was granted by Parliament By raising and keeping a standing Army within this Kingdom in time of Peace without consent of Parliament and quartering Souldiers contrary to Law By causing several good Subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when Papists were both armed and employed contrary to Law By violating the freedom of Election of Members to serve in Parliament By
farther declared and enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after this present Session of Parliament no dispensation by Non obstante of or to any Statute or any part thereof shall be allowed but that the same shall be held void and of no effect except a Dispensation be allowed of in such Statute and except in such Cases as shall be specially provided for by one or more Bill or Bills to be passed during this present Session of Parliament Provided that no Charter or Grant or Pardon granted before the three and twentieth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred eighty nine shall be any ways impeached or invalidated by this Act but that the same shall be and remain of the same force and effect in Law and no other than as if this Act had never been made Silk I. STat. 2 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 9. The throwing of Silk is not a Manufacture within the Intention of the Act of 12 Car. 2. for encouraging and encreasing of Shipping and Navigation And no thrown Silk of the product of Turkey Persia East-India or China or any other Place except of the production of Italy Sicily or Naples and imported in Vessels navigated as the said Act directs and brought from some Port of the Countries of which they are the production and which shall come directly by Sea shall after the 25th of May 1690. be imported into England Wales Jersey or Guernesey or the Town of Berwick on pain to forfeit the same one moiety to their Majesties and the other to the Informer II. Yet this Act shall not extend to any thrown Silk of the production of Italy Sicily or Naples that shall be imported otherwise than by this Act is directed before the first day of September 1690. and which shall be proved by Oath of the Owner or his Agent to have provided and bought by his Order from England in some part of Italy Sicily or Naples before the first day of June 1690. which Oath any two Commissioners of the Customs may administer III. And no thrown Silk laden in India Persia or China to be imported hither on or before the 20th day of September 1690. shall be liable to any Forfeiture by virtue of this Act. Symony I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 16. After the Death of a Person Symoniacally promoted to any Benefice or Ecclesiastical Living the Offence or Contract of Symony shall neither by way of Title in Pleading or in Evidence to a Jury or otherwise be alledged or pleaded to the prejudice of any Patron innocent of Symony or of his Clerk upon pretence of Lapse or otherwise unless the Person symoniacally promoted or his Patron were convicted of such Offence at the Common Law or in some Ecclesiastical Court in the life-time of the Person symoniack II. No Leases really and bona fide made or to be made by any Person symoniacally promoted for good and valuable consideration to any Person not being privy to or having notice of such Symony shall be impeached or avoided by reason thereof Souldiers I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 5. An Act for punishing Officers or Souldiers who shall mutiny or desert their Majesties Service Exp. II. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 4. An Act for punishing Officers or Souldiers who shall mutiny or desert their Majesties Service and for punishing false Musters Exp. III. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 6. An Act for punishing Officers and Souldiers who shall mutiny or desert their Majesties Service and for punishing false Musters Exp. IV. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 13. From and after the 10th day of March 1692. every Person being mustered in Pay as an Officer or Souldier in the Army who shall before the first of March 1693. cause or joyn in any Mutiny or Sedition in the Army or desert the Service shall suffer Death or such other punishment as a Court-Martial shall inflict or being a Souldier listed in any Regiment Troop or Company shall list himself in any other Regiment c. without a Discharge from his Officer shall suffer Death or such other Punishment as aforesaid V. Their Majesties or the General of their Army may grant Commissions to any Lieutenant-General or other Officers not under the Degree of a Field-Officer or Commander in Chief of a Garrison to call and assemble Courts-Martial No Court-Martial that shall have Power to inflict punishment as aforesaid to consist of fewer than thirteen whereof none to be under the Degree of a Commission Officer and the President not to be under the Degree of a Field-Officer or the Commander in Chief of the Garrison where the Offender shall be tried VI. No Field-Officer shall be tryed by any under the Degree of a Captain And such Courts-Martial shall have power to administer Oaths to Witnesses VII Nothing in this Act shall exempt any Officer or Souldier from the ordinary Process of Law nor shall extend to concern any the Militia Forces of this Kingdom VIII This Act to be in force till the first of March 1693. and no longer IX Every Officer present at Trials of Offences that may be punished by Death shall take this Oath viz. You shall well and truly try and determine according to your Evidence the Matter now before you between our Soveraign Lord and Lady the King and Queens Majesties and the Prisoner to be tryed So help you God No sentence of Death shall be given unless nine of the thirteen present concur And if there be a greater number present Judgment shall pass by the Concurrence of the greater part so sworn such greater part not being less than nine No Proceedings Trial or Sentence of Death shall be had or given but between the hours of eight in the Morning and one in the Afternoon X. If any shall make or procure to be made false Certificates to execute Souldiers for absence from any Muster or other Service they shall forfeit 50 l. and to be cashiered and disabled to hold any Military Imployment XI Officers making salse Musters and Commissaries Muster-Masters and other Officers allowing the Muster-Roll wherein such false Muster is contained or a duplicate thereof upon proof thereof by two Witnesses before a Court-Martial shall be cashiered and disabled to hold any Civil or Military-Office or Imployment and forfeit 100 l. XII Commissaries and Muster-Masters upon any Muster to be made shall by a convenient time before give notice to the Chief Magistrate of the place where the Souldiers shall be quartered who are required to be present at such Musters and assist in the discovery of any false Muster Commissaries and Muster-Masters neglecting to give such notice or refusing the assistance of such Chief Magistrate shall forfeit 50 l. and be discharged from his Office and no Muster-Roll shall be allowed not signed by such Chief Magistrate XIII If any Person shall be falsly mustered or offer himself so to be upon Oath thereof made before the
Tallies of Loan and Orders for repayment shall be levied which Orders shall be assignable XVIII Every Sum and Sums so to be borrowed with Interest not exceeding 8 l. per Cent. to be paid every three months shall be payable to the Lenders out of any the next Aids or Supplies to be granted to their Majesties in Parliament and shall be transferred thereunto as soon as such Aid shall be granted and in case no such Aid or Supply shall be granted before the second day of February 1693. then such Sum or Sums shall be paid to the Lenders out of any of their Majesties Treasure not already appropriated by Act of Parliament XIX Whoever shall refuse to take in payment crack't Mony being the currant Coin of this Kingdom shall for every such Offence forfeit 5 l. and be liable to such other Punishments as by any Law may now be inflicted for such Offences XX. Every Receiver-General appointed by the said Poll-Act shall prepare a Duplicate in Parchment of the whole Sum charged in any of the Parishes and Places whereof he is Receiver General to be subscribed by two or more of the Commissioners and return it into the Exchequer before the last day of Easter-Term next with a Schedule containing the Names Sirnames and Places of Abode of every Person within their Collection that hath not paid and every Receiver General not making such returns except the same have been returned pursuant to the said poll-Poll-Act shall forfeit 50 l. and be uncapable of any Office or Place of Trust in their Majesties Service XXI No Fees shall be taken by any Officer of the Exchequer or in any Office wherein any Receiver General is concerned in taking out his Commission passing his Accounts taking out his Quietus for receiving or paying any Mony granted by this or any other Act of this Parliament for Aids to their Majesties but such ancient Fees as shall be allowed by the Barons of the Quoif and the said Barons shall deliver a Table of the Fees by them allowed to the Lords and Commons in Parliament at the next Session Trade and Commerce I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 34. From the 24th day of August 1689. No Goods or Commodities of the Product or Manufacture of the Dominions of the French King or made of or mixed with any such Goods or Commodities shall during three years or before the end of the first Session of Parliament after such three years expired be imported into England Ireland Wales Berwick or the Isles of Jersey Guernsey Alderney Sark or the Isle of Man and all Importations vending or uttering of any French or other Commodities contrary to this Act are hereby declared to be a common Nusance and the Commodities so imported may be seized by any Person and carried into their Majesties Ware-house of the Port or Place where they are seized or to the Ware-house of the next Port Member or Creek to the place of Seizure and Persons claiming the same shall tender good Security to answer the Penalties of this Act and to make their claim within twenty days after seizure to the Collector or Customer or his Deputy where there is no other Collector established or to the Commissioners of the Custom in time of vacation or within ten days in Term-time by delivery of a Bill to such Officer subscribed with his Name Addition and Place of Abode with the particulars of the Goods claimed and the date of the Claim and the Names of his Sureties they being worth 500 l. a-piece at least and to give Bond to their Majesties in double the value of the Goods and the Penalties in this Act to answer the value of the Goods and other the said Penalties and after such Security given the Claim and Sureties Names and the Sum and date of the Bonds to be registred and subscribed by the Claimer Collector or Customer to whom such Bill shall be delivered and for want of giving Security and making Claim as aforesaid the Goods shall be adjudged to be imported contrary to this Act and be forfeited and within seven days after such default shall be destroyed as hereafter is appointed but if such Security be given and Claim made as aforesaid an Information shall the next Term or sooner be exhibited in the Exchequer and no Writ of Delivery or Restitution shall be granted till the Cause be determined by the Verdict of a Jury to be returned by the proper Officers in the presence of a Commissioner of the Customs in London and of the principal Officer in any Out-port which Jury upon the taste or view of the Goods oâ— upon proof shall judge the quality and value thereof and whether imported contrary to this Act and in what Vessels imported and by whom imported or sold and in whose custody they were when seized and if the Jury shall find that they were of the Product or Manufacture of the French Kings Dominions or mixt with any Goods of such Product or Manufacture then all such liquid Commodities shall be adjudged to be staved and spilt and other Commodities to be publickly burnt in the presence of one of the Sheriffs of London in the Port of London and of the chief Magistrate in any other Port who are required to be present and assisting in the destruction thereof and to view taste and examine them according to the first Entry made in the Warehouse-Book and to join with the Collector c. who are also required to be present at the destruction thereof in a Certificate to be entred in the said Book of the day of the destruction thereof no Persons to take away or save any of the said Commodities on pain to forfeit 40 s. above the value of the said Goods II. Importers thereof shall forfeit the full value according to the Rates hereafter mentioned and Persons in whose custody they shall be found when seiz'd or who shall sell or retail them shall for the first Offence forfeit the value thereof as aforesaid and for the second Offence double the value and be disabled to bear or execute any Office or Employment relating to the Customs or any part of the Revenue or any other Office whatsoever and if any such Commodities imported contrary to this Act shall within the time aforesaid upon any pretence be sold retailed or uttered or be found within England Ireland c. any Persons may seize them and like Information and Judgment for destruction thereof shall be had and given as aforesaid III. They in whose custody such Goods shall be found shall incur the Forfeitures and Penalties aforesaid and if any dispute or doubt shall arise whether the said Goods were of the Product or Manufacture of the French Kings Dominions or imported contrary to this Act the proof shall lie on the Importer Claimer Vender c. and not on the Informer and if any Informer shall by Fraud or Collusion desist or delay Prosecution he shall forfeit 500 l. All Officers belonging to the Customs and
such Agreement c. shall be void XLIV Vessels employed by the said Company for catching Whales and truly belonging to England Wales or Berwick whereof the Masters shall be English-men and inhabiting within the said Places until the first of Octob. 1697. if navigated during their Voyages with one third of English Mariners at the least shall pay no other Custom for Oyl Blubber and Fins imported than if they had been navigated with three fourths of Mariners English provided such Vessels proceed on their Voyage from England Wales or Berwick and were victualled for the same in some of those Places to be attested by the Collectors of the Ports where they were victualled XLV The said Joint-Stock to continue and the said Company to have and enjoy the said Trade from the first day of October 1693. for fourteen years and no longer XLVI This Act declared to be a Publick Act and that it shall be taken notice of in their Majesties Courts accordingly XLVII Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 25. An Act made in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France and another Act made in the second year of their Reign Entituled An Act for the more effectual putting in execution An Act Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France shall continue in force during three years from the end of this Sesfion of Parliament and from the expiration of those three years to the end of the next Session of Parliament if this War with France shall so long last XLVIII All Vessels with their Ladings and all Goods and Merchandizes that shall be taken or seized as Prize shall be brought into some Port of this Kingdom and before breaking of Bulk put into the possession of the Commissioners for Prizes their Officers or Agents who with two or more such Persons as the Officers or Mariners of the respective Ships shall intrust and such as shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the Customs are to preserve the same till they be adjudged Prize except where it shall appear to the Judge of the Admiralty that the Goods are perishable in which case the Judge shall take Bail for them yet so as to be subject to sale and distribution as is provided by this Act. XLIX Notwithstanding any thing in the said Acts or either of them if any Goods prohibited to be imported shall bona fide be taken as Prize and so adjudged the Commissioners for Prizes c. shall cause them to be entred and landed and brought into their Majesties Ware-house to be safely kept till they be sold as is hereafter directed L. After such Goods c. shall be adjudged Prize they shall as soon as conveniently may be be sold by the Commissioners for Prizes c. in the presence of such as shall be entrusted by the Commissioners of the Customs and the Owners Officers and Mariners of such Ship of War publickly by Inch of Candle publick notice being given fourteen days before of the quantity and quality of the Things to be sold and of the time and place of Sale LI. Out of the proceed of such Sale their Majesties Duties being deducted the neat proceed in case such Prize were taken by a Private Man of War shall be divided into five parts four parts to be answered to the Persons interested in the Privateer and the fifth to their Majesties and the Ship or Vessel with its Furniture shall be enjoyed by the Persons interested in the Privateer and in case such Prize be taken by any of their Majesties Ships the neat proceed shall be divided into three parts one third whereof to be answered to the Commander Mariners and Seamen taking the same according to the Custom of the Sea for sharing Prizes or to such Orders as have or shall be made by their Majesties LII Provided that one third part thereof be distributed among the Ships Crew one third part to be paid to the Treasurer of the Navy for the Relief of sick and wounâ—â—â— Mariners and the Widows Children and impotent Pare◠〈◊〉 of Persons slain at Sea in their Majesties Service 〈◊〉 the other third part to the use of their Majesties a 〈◊〉 case such Prize be taken by any Merchant Ship en 〈◊〉 in their Majesties Service the proceed thereof shâ—◠〈◊〉 vided into three parts one third part to the Câ—◠〈…〉 ficers and Mariners taking the same one third 〈…〉 use of their Majesties and one third to the Treasurer of the Navy for the purposes aforesaid LIII If any who shall take such Prize or Prizes imbezil or conceal any part of such Goods or Merchandize or put the same on Shore in any other place than their Majesties Ware-houses they shall lose their share thereof upon proof made by one or more Witnesses upon Oath before the Commissioners of the Customs in the Port of London if such Offence be committed within the said Port or within the view and knowledge of any Officer of the Customs belonging thereunto and before the Chief Magistrate of the Place in the presence of the Chief Officer of the Port in any other Port one moiety of such Wares to be to the use of the Informer and the other part to the use of their Majesties LIV. Seamen and others concerned in any Prize shall be permitted to see and puruse the Accounts of any Prize without paying any other Fee than 1 s. for one Account at one time LV. If any Ship or Goods of the Product or Manufacture of the Dominions of the French King shall be taken by any Privateer by Collusion upon proof made thereof in the Court of Exchequer or Commission of Admiralty they shall be adjudged lawful Prize one moiety thereof to their Majesties and the other moiety to him that shall discover the same and the Bond given by the Captain of such Privateer is hereby adjudged to be forfeited If such Ships or Goods shall be taken by Collusion by any Man of War the Commander shall forfeit 1000 l. one moiety to their Majesties and the other to the Discoverer and such Commander shall forfeit his Command or Imployment and be uncapable of any Office under their Majesties during seven years and such Vessel and Goods shall be adjudged good Prize to their Majesties LVI In all cases where such Prize shall not be taken by any Private Man of War one tenth part thereof after deduction of their Majesties Customs and before any division of the proceed thereof shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Navy and by him kept apart to be disposed of by Warrant from the Commissioners of the Admiralty or Lord High Admiral for Medals and other Rewards for Officers and Seamen who shall do any extraordinary Service LVII In case any Man of War or Privateer take or destroy any French Man of War or Privateer they shall receive for every Piece of Ordinance in any Ship so taken or destroyed 10 l. to be paid by
French Kings Dominions in Europe into England during the said War without leave obtain'd they shall be kept in Prison without Bail or Mainprize during their Majesties pleasure for any time not exceeding twelve months Tythes I. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 3. All Persons that shall sow or cause to be sown any Hemp or Flax shall pay to every Parson Vicar or Impropriator of the Parish or Place for every Acre so sown pulled or drawn an annual Sum not exceeding 4 s. before it be carried off the Ground and so proportionably for the recovery of which such Parson c. shall have the common and usual Remedy II. This Act shall not charge any Lands discharged by any modus dâ—cimandi ancient Composition or otherwise III. This Law to continue for seven years and to the end of the then next Session of Parliament Wills I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 2. From and after the 26th day of March 1693. Persons inhabiting or who shall have any Goods within the Province of York may by their last Wills dispose of all their Personal Estate as they shall think fit and their Widows Children and other Kindred shall be barred to claim any part of the Personal Estate in other manner than as by their Wills shall be appointed II. This Act shall not extend to the Citizens of the Cities of York and Chester who are or shall be Freemen of the said Cities inhabiting within the same or the Suburbs thereof at the time of their death Wool I. Stat. 1 W. M Sess 1. cap. 32. Owners of Wool or their Agents that shall at any time carry or cause to be carried any Wool to any Port or Place on the Sea-Coasts to be conveyed to any other Port or Place in England Wales or Berwick from whence the same may be transported into Foreign Parts shall first cause a due entry thereof to be made at the Port from whence it shall be intended to be conveyed containing the Weights Marks and Numbers thereof before they carry it within five miles of any such Port or Place or else such Wool found and the Beasts and Carriages conveying it shall be forfeited and the Persons conveying driving or abetting the same shall forfeit and suffer as by the Laws and Statutes now in force against the exportation of Wool II. The forgoing Clause shall not extend to hinder any Person from carrying their Wool from the place of Shearing to their own Dwelling-house c. though within five miles of the Sea so as within ten days after Shearing and before they otherwise dispose of the same they certifie under their Hands to the Officers of the Customs in the next Port the quantity thereof viz. the number of the Fleeces and where housed and do not remove the same without first certifying the Officer of the next Port under their Hands of their intention to remove it three days at least before such removal the said Officers to keep and register such Certificate but Persons neglecting to certifie as aforesaid or removing their Wool before such Certificate of their intention shall be liable to the Penalties of the former Clauses III. Cocquets for carrying Wool from any Port in England Wales or Berwick shall be written upon Paper and sign'd by three Chief Officers of such Port at least and Certificates of landing them again at any other of the said Ports or from Ireland shall be so sign'd and all such Wool both at shipping and landing shall be weigh'd in the presence of the said Officers giving such Cocquets and Certificates and the Weight Marks and Numbers of such Wool shipped and landed shall be expressed in both Cocquet and Certificate IV. Officers not observing the Directions of this Act shall be adjudged Abettors of the Transportation and suffer the Penalties contain'd in the Statutes of the 12th and 14th years of King Charles II. against Transportation of Wool V. No Wool shall be shipt from Ireland but from Dublin Waterford Youghall Kinsale Cork and Drogheda nor imported from thence but into Leverpool Chester Bristol Minehead Barnstaple Bidford and Exeter VI. For the better execution of this and other Acts against the Exportation of Wool Sir Tho. P. Lord Mayor of London Sir H. G. Baronet Sir P. W. Kt. Sir B. N. Kt. Sir J. M. Kt. Sir P.R. Kt. Sir R.D. Sir W.P. Kt. and Bar. Sir H.A. Bar. Sir W.A. Kt. Sir R. N. Sir J. F. W. H. J. S. J. S. F. O. J. P. R. B. W. C. E. M. Esquires S. H. W. H. Senior J. P. J. V. J. G. B. C. Gentlemen Mr. M. of Horton Sir T. S. Bar. W. D. Esq J. A. of Woley Esq Sir W. L. Sir J. P. Kt. Sir B. A. Bar. Sir R. J. Kt. Sir J. L. Kt. Sir G. R. Kt. Sir S. D. Kt. Sir T. V. Kt. N. T. W.H. T.C. W.G. H.S. S.M. J.S. T.F. A.M. W.C. T.H. T.S. W. J. Esquires P. S. H. C. J. D. R. S. D. P. T. C. P. B. J. P. R. H. J. B. J. H. E. B. N. B. W. S. B. J. D. J. A. J. T. T. P. P. H. N. J. P. M. F. W. S. J. K. Senior J. M. Junior W.W. J.Y. R. F. J.L. T. P. W.B. J.U. J. S. J.M. or any five or more of them are hereby authorized for putting this and other the said Laws in execution and by their Substitutes to be appointed under the Hands and Seals of five or more of them to seize all Wools Woolfels and other Things above-mentioned which shall be endeavoured to be exported contrary to this Act and to prosecute Offenders against this or any the said Laws VII Owners of Ships Masters or Mariners knowing of the Exportation of any Sheeps-wool Wool-fells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks Fullers-earth or Tobacco-pipe Clay contrary to the meaning of this Act that shall within three months after their knowledge thereof or after their return into England Ireland Wales or Berwick give the first Information thereof and by whom where and in what Vessel upon Oath before any of the Barons of the Exchequer in England or Ireland or any three of the Commissioners appointed by this Act or the Head-Officer of the Port where they shall first arrive and shall be ready to justifie and prove the same shall not be subject to the Penalties of this or any other Act for the said Offence but shall recover and receive such benefit and advantages as are appointed by any precedent Act. VIII The Powers given to the said Commissioners shall not hinder any Persons lawfully authorized from seizing Wool or prosecuting Offenders against this or any former Act. IX If any Prosecution shall be against any Person for what he shall do in pursuance of this Act he may file a Common Bail or enter into a Common Appearance and plead the General Issue and give this Act in Evidence and if the Plaintiff be non-suit or discontinue or a Verdict pass against him or Judgment upon a Demurrer the Defendant shall recover
And in case they be not sufficient then the Loans which shall remain unsatisfied and their Interest shall be repaid out of the next Aids or Supplies granted in Parliament and shall be transferred thereunto as soon as any such Aid or Supply shall be granted to their Majesties For want of such Aids to be supplied out of the Treasury And if no such Aids or Supplies be granted before the 2d of February 1694. then the Sums so borrowed and their Interest shall be paid out of their Majesties Treasure not appropriated to any particular use by Act of Parliament before this time made XXX That out of the Mony to be levied by this Act or another Act of this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Rates and Duties upon Salt and upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of 1000000 l. towards carrying on the War against France or any other Act of this present Session of Parliament by which any Aids shall be granted to their Majesties towards the carrying on the said War and which shall be paid into the Exchequer as well upon Loans as otherwise except only the Mony appropriated to pay the Recompences in this and the before recited Act the Sum of 1500000 l. over and above the Sum of 1000000 l. appropriated by an Act of this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of 4 s. in the Pound for one Year for carrying on a vigorous War against France Monies appropriated to the use of the Navy and Ordnance and Land Forces is appropriated for the Services of the Navy and Ordnance performed and to be performed And that all other Monies to be paid by this or any other Act of this present Session of Parliament not appropriated to the use of the Navy or to pay the Recompences aforesaid into the Receipt of the Exchequer as well upon Loans as otherwise shall be appropriated to the payment of their Majesties Land Forces and Armies Ordnance Ammunition and other Charges incident to the War and not otherwise XXXI Mony to be applied to the use of the Navy The half of the Mony paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer by this Act or any other of this present Session of Parliament except the Act for granting an Aid of 4 s. in the pound for one year c. and except what is appropriated to pay the Recompences aforesaid and except also one other Act Entituled An Act to supply the deficiency of the Menies raised by a former Act Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Rates and Duties of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned c. shall be applied to answer the said Sum of 1500000 l. hereby appropriated to the use of the Navy until the same shall be paid XXXII Mony to pay Seamens Wages That out of the Sum of 1500000 l. and out of the Sum of 1000000 l. appropriated for the use of the Navy the Sum of eleven hundred fifty six thousand nine hundred ninety four pounds shall be applied to pay Wages to Officers and Seamen and other Services belonging according to the course of the Navy to the Head of Wages Marine Regiment and to pay the Officers and Souldiers of the two Marine Regiments And that twelve hundred fifty seven thousand two hundred sixty and six pounds be applied to pay for Victuals Victuals and Stores necessary Provisions and Stores and other extraordinary Services of the Navy and Ordnance eighty five thousand seven hundred and forty pounds to pay the Wages of the Yards Yards c. and other ordinary Services of the Navy XXXIII The Rules and Directions appointed in one Act made in the first Year of their Majesties Reign Entituled Former Act revived for the better executing this Act. An Act for a Grant to their Majesties of an Aid of 2 s. in the Pound for one Year for the speedy payment of Mony thereby granted into the Receipt of the Exchequer by the Collectors and Receivers and for distribution and application thereof and keeping distinct Accounts of the same and all the Penalties and Forfeitures in case of diversion of any Mony thereby appropriated are hereby revived and enacted to be executed and put in ure concerning the distribution and application of the said Sums hereby appropriated as fully and effectually as if the same were here particularly repeated and re-enacted XXXIV The Commissioners of the Customs from and after the end of this Session of Parliament shall mark and seal Lustrings and Alamodes c. to be markt and sealed by the Commissioners of the Customs or cause to be markt and sealed all Lustrings and Alamodes which are now imported and in the Hands of any Person or Persons whatsoever and also of all the said Stuffs so called which shall be hereafter imported and keep an Entry and Registry thereof in the Custom-House in a Book for that purpose provided Those imported already to be so markt sealed or registred within twenty days of the said time for which there shall be no Fee or Reward paid and those hereafter imported from the time aforesaid to be so markt sealed and registred without any Fee before they be delivered out of the Custom-House Ware-House And all Lustrings and Alamodes imported after the 15th day of May 1694. Penalty of unsealed Goods and not so sealed and markt shall be forfeited and the Importers or Possessors thereof subject to such and the like Penalties and Forfeitures as Importers of French Goods by one Act made in the first Year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Commerce and Trade with France to be recovered as therein directed Counterfeiting Mark or Seal 500 l. And if any Person or Persons shall alter or counterfeit the Marks or Seals used for that purpose the Offender shall forfeit 500 l. to any that will sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster XXXV Whereas it is enacted in one Act of this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of 4 s. in the Pound for one Year c. that over and above the Ships of War for the Line of Battail and for Convoys to remote Parts at the least four Ships of the third Rate and sixteen of the fourth Rate thirteen of the fifth Rate and ten of the sixth Rate shall be from time to time directed and appointed by the Lord High-Admiral or the Commissioners for executing that Office Commissioners of the Admiralty to certifie at the next Sessions of Parliament what Ships have been set out and the Places where to such proper Stations as they shall deem meet to cruise for securing Merchants Ships in their going
out and returning home The Lord High-Admiral or Commissioners for executing that Office shall exhibit to the Commons assembled in Parliament at the next Session of this or any other Parliament which shall happen after the first of August 1694. a Certificate in Writing under his or their Hands respectively of the Ships set out in pursuance of the said recited Clause expressing therein the Name and Rates of the Ships set out the times when ordered as also the Stations to which they were directed and the times how long they were continued at Sea in that Service XXXVI Fees of the Officers of the Exchequer 1 d in the Pound The Officers of the Receipt of the Exchequer may receive and take for their Fees one peny in the pound and no more for all or any the Sums of Mony to be issued or paid to any their Majesties Garrisons Land-Forces and Armies and other Charges incident to the same out of the Mony arising by this or any other Act and Grant of this Session or any other Session of Parliament during this present War to be distributed in such proportion as the Lord Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury shall appoint XXXVII No Collector Gauger or Officer of Excise shall give his Vote for Parliament Man After the first day of May 1694. no Collector Supervisor Gauger or other Officer or Person whatsoever concerned in the Excise or any Branch or Part thereof shall by Word Message or Writing or in any other manner whatsoever endeavour to perswade any Elector to give or disswade any from giving his Vote for the Choice of any Person to be a Knight of the Shire Citizen Burgess or Baron of any City Borough or Cinque-Port to serve in Parliament and every Officer or other Person offending shall forfeit 100 l. one moiety to the Informer The Penalty for offending the other to the Poor of the Parish where such Offence shall be committed to be recovered by any Person that shall sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts at Westminster and every Person convict on any such Suit of the said Offence shall be disabled and incapable of ever executing any Office relating to the Duty of Excise or other Office or Place of Trust whatsoever under their Majesties their Heirs or successors XXXVIII Gaugers to leave Notes in Writing True Notes in Writing of the last Gauges made or taken by the Gaugers shall be left by them with Brewers Makers or Retailers of Beer Ale or other Excisable Liquors or some of their Servants at the times of taking their said Gauges Penalty for neglecting containing the quantity and quality of the Liquors so gauged upon the Penalty of 5 l. for every Offence or Neglect to be recovered by any Person that shall sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster An Act upon Parchment c. I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 15. The Act when to commence From the 28th of June 1694. shall be paid the several Duties upon Vellum Parchment and Paper for four Years thence ensuing viz. For every Skin or piece of Vellum or Parchment Letters Patents on which any Grants or Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England or the Seal of the Dutchy or County Palatine of Lancaster or of any Honour Dignity Promotion Franchise Liberty or Priviledge to any Person or Persons Bodies Politick or Corporate or Exemplifications of the same shall be ingrossed or written the Sum of 40 s. II. Pardons Reprieves Relaxations For every Skin or piece of Vellum Parchment or Sheet of Paper on which are ingrossed or written any Pardon of any Crime or of any Mony or Forfeiture or of any Warrant or Reprieve or Relaxation from any Fines Corporal Punishments or other Forfeiture shall pay 40 s. III. Grants of Mony by their Majesties For every Skin c. upon which any Grant from their Majesties of any Sum of Mony exceeding 100 l. which shall pass the Great Seal or Privy not directed to the Great Seal shall be engrossed or written 40 s. IV. Offices above 50 l. per Ann. For every Skin c. upon which any Grant of any Office or Imployment which shall be above the value of 50 l. per Annum shall be ingrossed or written 40 s. V. Grants of Lands in Fee for years c. For every Skin c. upon which any Grant of Lands in Fee Lease for Years or other Grant of Profit not herein particularly charged that shall pass the Great Seal Exchequer Seal Seal of the Dutchy or County Palatine of Lancaster or Privy Seal not directed to the Great Seal shall be ingrossed or written 40 s. VI. Ecclesiastical Promotions For every Skin c. upon which any Presentation or Donation under the Great Seal Collation by Archbishop or Bishop Presentation or Donation by any Patron to any Benefice Dignity or Spiritual Promotion such Benefice Dignity or Spiritual Promotion being 10 l. value or above in the Kings Books shall be ingrossed or written 40 s. VII Register Entry Testimonial c. For every Skin c. on which any Register Entry Testimonial or Certificate of any Degree taken in the Universities or Inns of Court shall be engrossed or written 40 s. VIII Dispensations Ecclesiastical For every Skin c. on which any Dispensation to hold two Ecclesiastical Dignities or Benefices or both a Dignity and a Benefice or any other Dispensation or Faculty from the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Master of the Faculties shall be ingrossed or written 40 s. IX Admittance of a Fellow of the Colledge c. For every Skin c. on which an Admittance of any Fellow of the Colledge of Physitians or of any Attorny Clerk Advocate Proctor Notary or other Officers in any Court whatsoever shall be ingrossed or written 40 s. X. Appeals from the Admiralty c. For every Skin c. on which any Appeals from the Court of Admiralty Arches Prerogative Court of Canterbury or York shall be ingrossed or written 40 s. XI Deeds inrolled For every Skin c. on which any Conveyances Surrenders of Grants or Offices Release or other Deed whatsoever enrolled in any Court of Westminster or other Court of Record or by any Custos Rotulorum or Clerk of the Peace shall be ingrossed or written 5 s. XII Writs of Covenant and Entry For every piece c. on which any Writ of Covenant for levying of Fines or Writs of Entry for suffering Recoveries shall be ingrossed or written 5 s. XIII Exemplifications For every Skin c. on which any Exemplification of whatever nature that shall pass the Seal of any Court whatsoever shall be ingrossed or written 5 s. XIV Decrees Dismissions For every Skin c. on which any Decree or Dismission made by or in the Chancery Exchequer Dutchy-Court or Courts of Lancaster Chester Durham or other
settlement of the Poor 56. An Act for the better repairing and amending the High-ways and for settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods 57. An Act against corresponding with their Majesties Enemies 58. An Act for the Relief of Creditors against fraudulent Devises 59. An Act for the better ordering and collecting the Duty upon Low-Wines and Strong-Waters and for preventing the Abuses therein 60. An Act that the Inhabitants in the Province of York may dispose of their Personal Estates by their Wills notwithstanding the Custom of that Province 61. An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Rates and Duties of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of ten hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France 62. An Act for taking Special Bails in the Country upon Actions and Suits depending in the Courts of Kings-Bench Common-Pleas and Exchequer at Westminster 63. An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Additional Impositions upon several Goods and Merchandizes for the prosecuting the present War against France 64. An Act to prevent Abuses committed by the Traders in Butter and Cheese 65. An Act for encouraging the apprehending of High-way Men. 66. An Act for reviving two former Acts of Parliament for the repairing the High-ways in the County of Hertford 67. An Act for prohibiting the Importation of all Foreign Hair Buttons 68. An Act to make Parishioners of the Church United Contributors to the Repairs and Ornaments of the Church to whom the Union is made 69. An Act for punishing Officers and Souldiers who shall Mutiny or Desert their Majesties Service and for Punishing false Musters and for the Payment of Quarters 70. An Act for continuing certain Acts therein mentioned and for charging several Joynt-Stocks 71. An Act to prevent Frauds by Clandestine Mortgages 72. An Act for the regaining encouraging and settling the Greenland Trade 73. An Act to prevent malicious Informations in the Court of Kings-Bench and for the more easie reversal of Outlawries in the same Court 74. An Act for preventing Suits against such as acted for their Majesties Service in Defence of the Kingdom 75. An Act for the better Discovery of Judgments in the Courts of Kings-Bench Common-Pleas and Exchequer at Westminster 76. An Act for delivering Declarations to Prisoners 77. An Act for regulating the Proceedings in the Crown-Office of the Court of Kings-Bench at Westminster 78. An Act for the more easie discovery and conviction of such as shall destroy the Game of this Kingdom 79. An Act for reviving continuing and explaining several Laws therein mentioned which are expired and near expiring 80. An Act for continuing the Acts for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France and for the Encouragement of Privateers 81. An Act for repealing such parts of several former Act as prevent or prohibit the importation of Foreign Brandy Aqua Vitae and other Spirits and Bacon except from France 82. An Act for the importation of fine Italian Sicilian and Naples Thrown Silk 83. An Act to repeal a Clause in the Statute made in the four and thirtieth and five and thirtieth Years of King Henry the eighth by which Justices of Peace in Wales are limited to eight in each County 84. An Act to supply the Deficiency of the Mony raised by a former Act Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Rates and Duties of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of ten hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France 85. An Act to prevent Disputes and Controversies concerning Royal Mines 86. An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Rates and Duties upon Salt and upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of ten hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France 87. An Act for the explaining and for the more effectual Execution of a former Act for the Relief of poor Prisoners 88. An Act for repeal of a Clause in the Statute of the fifth Year of Queen Elizabeth containing divers Orders for Artificers and others which relates to Weavers of Cloath 89. An Act for Relief of the Orphans and other Creditors of the City of London 90. An Act to prevent Delays of Proceedings at the quarter-Quarter-Sessions of the Peace 91. An Act to take away the Process for the Capiatur Fine in the several Courts at Westminster 92. An Act to repeal the Statute made in the tenth Year of King Edward III. for finding Sureties for the good abearing by him or her that hath a Pardon of Felony 93. An Act for continuing the Act for punishing Officers and Souldiers who shall Mutiny or Desert their Majesties Service and for punishing false Musters and for the payment of Quarters for one Year longer 94. An Act for the importation of Salt-Petre for one Year 95. An Act for the exportation of Iron Copper and Mundick Metal 96. An Act for enabling their Majesties to make Grants Leases and Copies of Offices Lands and Hereditaments parcel of their Dutchy of Cornwal or annexed to the same and for confirmation of Leases and Grants already made 97. An Act for raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the Year 1694. although the Months Pay formerly advanced be not repaid 98. An Act for granting to their Majesties several Rates and Duties upon Tunnage of Ships and Vessels and upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily Advance the Sum of fifteen hundred thousand pounds towards carrying on the War against France 99. An Act for granting to their Majesties several Duties upon Vellum Parchment and Paper for four Years towards carrying on the War against France 100. An Act for the licensing and regulating Hackney-Coaches and Stage-Coaches 101. An Act for appointing and enabling Commissioners to examine take and state the Publick Accounts of the Kingdom 102. An Act for building good and defensible Ships 103. An Act for the better Discipline of their Majesties Navy Royal. AN EXACT ABRIDGMENT Of all the STATUTES OF King William Queen Mary IN Force and Use until the 14th of March in the Fifth Year of Their Reign An. Dom. 1692 3. Accounts I. STat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. c. 9. Sir Robert Rich Sir Thomas Clarges Paul Foley Robert Austen Sir Matthew Andrews Sir Benjamin Newland Sir Samuel Barnardiston Sir Peter Colliton and Robert Harley or any Five or more of them shall be Commissioners for taking the Accounts of the Publick Revenues of the Crown which were in the Receipt of the Exchequer on the Fifth Day of November 1688. or since or shall be before the Power for taking these Accounts be determined and of all
Books and Pamphlees and for regulating Printing and Printing Presses shall be in force for One year from the 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of â—arliament XVII All Jurors other then Strangers upon Tryals per medietatem linguae return'd upon Tryal of Issues joyn'd in the Kings-Bench Common-Pleas or Exchequer or before Justices of Assize or Nisi prius Oyer and Terminer Goal-delivery or General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace after the 1st Day of May 1693. within any County of England shall have in their own Name or in Trust for them within the same County 10 l. a year at least above Reprizes of Free-hold or Coppy-hold Lands or of Lands in ancient Demesne or in Rents in Fee-simple or Fee-tail or for their own or some other Persons Life And in every County of Wales such Jurors shall have 6 l. a year at least as aforesaid All which Persons having such Estates are hereby made liable to serve as aforesaid If any be return'd of lesser Estate it shall be good cause of Challenge and the Party return'd shall be discharged upon such Challenge or upon his own Oath Nor shall any Jury-man's Issues making default be saved but by special Order of the Court or Judges for some reasonable Cause proved upon Oath And the Ven. fac for Impannelling Juries in England shall run thus viz. Rex c. praecipimus c. quod Ven. fac coram c. duodecim liberos legales homines de vicineto de A quor ' quilibet habeat decem Librat terrae tenementor ' vel reddit ' per annum ad minus per quos c. qui nee c. and the residue after the ancient manner and the Writs for Returning Juries in Wales shall be in like manner altering only the Word decem for sex And Sheriffs Coroners and other Ministers returning in any such Pannel any Person not having 10 l. or 6 d. respectively by the Year as aforesaid shall forfeit for every such Person so Returned the Sum of Five Pounds to Their Majesties XVIII No Sheriff or Bayliff of any Liberty or their Ministers shall return any such Persons to have been Summoned by them unless they shall have been Summoned Six days at least before the Day on which they ought to make their Appearance nor shall take any Reward to excuse the Appearance of any Juror Summoned or Return'd on Pain to Forfeit for every such Offence 10 l. to Their Majesties XIX Saving to all Cities Boroughs and Towns Corporate their ancient Usage of returning Jurors in such manner as hath been accustomed XX. Provided that it shall be Lawful to Return Persons upon the Tales in any County within England who shall have 5 l. a year above Reprizes and within Wales 3 l. a year XXI No Fee or Reward shall be taken by any Person whatsoever upon the Account of any Tales return'd upon Pain to Forfeit 10 l. for every such Offence the one Moity to the Prosecutor and the other to Their Majesties XXII No Writ de non ponendis in Assisis Juratis shall be granted unless upon Oath made that the Suggestions are true XXIII So much of this Act as relates to the returning of Jurors to be in force for Three years from the 1st of May 1693. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament Corn. I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess I. cap. 12. When Malt or Barley Winchester Measure shall be at 24 s. per Quarter or under Rye at 32 s. per Quarter or under and Wheat at 48 s. per Quarter or under in any Port of this Kingdom or Wales Merchants and others who shall put on Ship-board in English Shiping the Master and Two thirds of the Mariners being Their Majesâ—ies Subjects any sorts of the Corn aforesaid to Export the same beyond Sea shall bring Certificates under their Hands containing the quantity and quality of the Corn shipped to the Persons appointed to Collect the Customs in any such Port and upon Proof made of such Certificate by one or more Credible Persons upon Oath and upon Bond given by such Merchant or other Person in â—00 l. for every hundred Tuns of Corn so shipped and so proportionably that the said Corn dangers of the Seas excepted shall be Exported into Parts beyond the Sea and not be landed in England Wales Guernsey Jersey or Berwick shall receive from the Persons appointed to Collect the Customs as aforesaid for every Quarter of Barley or Malt ground or unground 2 s. 6 d. for every Quarter of Rye 3 s. 6 d. for every Quarter of Wheat 5 s. and shall pay no Custom nor any Fee or Reward for Corn so laden to be Exported And upon Certificate under the Common Seal of the Chief Magistrate in any Place beyond Sea or under the Hand and Seals of Two known English Merchants upon the Place that such Corn was there Landed or upon Proof by Credible Persons that such Corn was taken by Enemies or Perished at Sea the Examination and Proof thereof being left to the Receivers of the Customs the Bond shall be delivered up to be Cancelled And the Moneys so paid shall be allowed as paid to Their Majesties Courts I. Stat. 1 W. M. Stss 1. cap. 27. Whereas by a Statute made in the 34th and 35th years of the Reign of King H. 8. Entituled An Act for certain Ordinances in the King's Majesties Dominion and Principality of Wales It is Enacted That there shall be and remain a President and Council in the said Dominion and Principality of Wales and the Matches of the same with all Officers Clerks and Incidents thereunto in Manner and Form as hath been heretofore used and accustomed Which President and Council shall have Power and Authority to Hear and Determine by their Wisdoms and Diseretions such Causes or Matters as be or hereafter shall be Assign'd to them by the King's Majesty as heretofore hath been accustomed and used Be it Enacted that the said Clause be Repealed and that the said Court before the President and Council be dissolved and taken away II The Justices of the Great Sessions in Wales shall yearly Nominate Three Persons for each Shire in their Circuits to be Sheriffs of the same and certifie the same to the Lords of the Privy Council Crastino animarum that Their Majesties may appoint one of them to be Sheriff for that year III. Errors in Pleas personal within Wales shall be redressed by Writ of Error as Errors in Pleas real and mixt are appointed to be redrest by the said Statute of 34 and 35 of King H 8. IV. Judgments and Decrees passed in the said Court before the 1st Day of June 1689. shall remain in force and execution upon them in the same State in which they were before the making this Act. Crown-Office I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 22. No Corporations Lords of Manors or others having Grants by Charter or other good Conveyances who have
600000 l. shall be paid to the States General of the United Provinces and all moneys to be levied by Virtue of this Act shall be applied to the Uses following viz. 570000 l. to the building and furnishing 27 Ships of War whereof 17 to be of the Third Rate and to contain 1100 Tuns and carry 80 Guns apiece and 10 to be of the Fourth Rate and to contain 900 Tuns and carry 60 Guns apiece The said Ships to be built and furnished with all convenient Expedition and the whole number to be compleat within 4 years from the 25th day of March 1691. LI. And that the said Sum of 570000 l. may be applied accordingly and Their Majesties be enabled to borrow upon the Credit of this Act any Sum not exceeding 1000000 l. for the Uses of the War Be it Enacted That after the payment of the said 600000 l. to the States General until the 18th day of Novemb. 1695. the Commissioners of Excise shall keep apart the Moneys arising by the said Act Entituled An Act for an Additional Duty of Excise c. and the Moneys arising by this Act and the Auditor or Comptroller of the Excise or their Deputies shall keep a distinct Account of the said Moneys to which all persons may have access without Fee and the said Commissioners of Excise shall pay the said moneys weekly into the Receipt of the Exchequer apart from other moneys LII And the Officers of the Receipt of the Exchequer shall keep the moneys paid in by Virtue of this Act or of the said former Act and the Account thereof apart and a particular Account of the building and furnishing the said Ships LIII Out of the moneys so from time to time paid in one third Part shall yearly be paid out towards the building and furnishing the said Ships and the Commissioners of the Treasury shall sign no Warrant for issuing out any Part of the said third Part to any but the Treasurer of the Navy or Treasurer or Paymaster of the Ordnance expressing therein that the same is for building and furnishing the said 27 Ships of War nor shall the Auditor of the Receipt draw any Order for issuing any Part thereof otherwise then as aforesaid nor shall he direct or the Clerk of the Pells record or the Teller pay any part thereof by Virtue of any Warrant or Order otherwise then as aforesaid LIV. The Treasurer of the Navy and Treasurer or Paymaster of the Ordnance may transfer any part thereof payable to them upon any Order by Endorsement upon such Order and such Assignee may assign toties quoties LV. The Treasurer of the Navy and Treasurer or Paymaster of the Ordnance shall keep such moneys apart and issue the same by Warrant from the principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy or Ordnance respectively or any three or more of them mentioning that it is for building and furnishing the said Ships Nor shall the said principal Officers and Commissioners sign any Warrant for paying any of the said money to any other Use or Purpose LVI Any Persons may lend moneys upon the Credit of two third Parts of the moneys to be brought in by Virtue of this Act not exceeding 1000000 l. and have Interest at the rate of 7 l. per Cent. LVII And if the Commissioners or Governours of the Excise refuse or neglect to pay in the said moneys as aforesaid or misapply any part thereof and if any Officer belonging to the Exchequer Navy or Ordnance shall offend against any Clause of this Act or misapply any money contrary to the intent thereof they shall lose their Places and be disabled to execute any Office or Place of Trust and shall pay the full Value of any Sum so misapplied to any person who will sue for the same in any of Their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster LVIII And no Stay of Prosecution shall be admitted by any Court in any Proceeding for the Recovery of any the Penalties by this Act inflicted or for or in order to the Conviction or disability of any person offending against this Act. LIX After the 25th Day of December 1690. during the continuance of the Act made this Session Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods and Manufactures and upon all wrought Silks c. and of one other Act Entituled An Act for the continuance of several former Acts therein mentioned for the laying several Duties upon Wines Vinegar and Tobacco there shall be within London an Office for the Receipt of the Moneys payable to Their Majesties by virtue of the said Acts In which such Moneys shall be paid to the Receivers General of the Customs to be appointed by Their Majesties who shall keep apart the Moneys payable by virtue of the said first mentioned Act and shall likewise keep apart the Moneys payable by the said Act next recited which Moneys shall remain from time to time after the Payments which shall be made thereout by any Laws in force upon Debentures for Goods that shall be Reshipt or for Corn Exported or upon Discounts upon Bonds and of such Allowances of damaged Goods and of Bills of Portage as have usually been made And the Comptroller General of the Accounts of the Customs shall keep distinct Accounts of the said respective Sums of Moneys to which all Persons may have resort without Fee and the said Receiver or Receivers General shall weekly pay the same into the Receipt of the Exchequer apart from other Moneys and if they neglect so to do or misapply the same they shall Forfeit their Office and be incapable of any Place of Trust and shall Pay the value of the Sum misapplied to him that will Sue for the same LX. Out of the Money which shall be paid by virtue of this Act into the Exchequer 700000 l. shall be Appropriated to the Payment of Seamen that shall serve in the Navy the Year 1691. and to the building of Three Ships of the Third Rate to contain each 1050 Tuns and for providing them Furniture and to the Paying for Stores and Victuals for the Navy and to the Expence of the Office of Ordnance with respect to Naval Affairs and to other necessary Uses of the Navy in the Time aforesaid And out of all other Money that shall be Paid into the Exchequer upon Loan or otherwise by virtue of this or any other Act of this Session for Granting Aids or Supplies for reducing Ireland or Prosecuting the War against France other then what is Appropriated by this Act and the Act For Granting an Aid to Their Majesties of the Sum of 751702 l. 18 s. for the Payment of Seamen c. the Sum of 1500000 l. shall be Appropriated to the payment of the Land Forces and other Charges relating thereunto And all other Moneys payable into the Exchequer by virtue of any of the said Acts shall be Applyed to the Prosecution of the War against France and Reducing of Ireland and the
shall be charged upon the Credit of the Exchequer in General and Tallies of Loan and Orders of Repayment levied which Orders shall be assignable LXXXV All Sums of Money so to be borrowed with Interest for the same not exceeding 7 l. per Cent. or so much thereof as shall not be repaid out of the Money that shall be advanced upon the Terms herein mentioned at or after the 24th day of June 1693. and before the 29th of September following all which Moneys to be advanced between the said 24th of June and 29th of September shall be appropriated for the discharging the Loans made upon this Act shall be satisfied to the Lenders out of any of the next Aids to be granted in Parliament and shall be transferrable as soon as such Aid shall be granted And in case no Aid be granted before the 2d of February 1693. the said Sums shall be satisfied out of any of Their Majesties Treasure not already appropriated by Act of Parliament LXXXVI And if the Sum of 500000 l. part of the said Sum of 1000000 l. be not advanced before the 1st of May 1693. Their Majesties may borrow upon Interest as aforesaid any Sum not exceeding 500000 l. to be paid out of such Moneys as shall be advanced upon this Act between the said 1st day of May and the said 29th day of September in case the Money so advanced be sufficient or otherwise so much thereof as the same shall extend to pay and the residue of the said Sum of 500000 l. shall be reckoned as part of the said Sum before directed to be paid out of the next Aids to be granted in Parliament LXXXVII If the whole Sum of 1000000 l. be not advanced before the said 1st day of May any persons after that day and before the 29th of September next following may advance any Sums not exceeding in the whole with what shall have been advanced before the said 1st day of May the Sum of 1000000 l. upon the Terms following viz. That every such Person out of the Duties arising by this Act shall have for every 100 l. a yearly Annuity of 14 l. for his own or any other Life to be by him nominated as aforesaid within 6 days after Payment which Annuities shall commence from the 29th of September 1693. and be paid at the Four most usual Feasts in the year And upon Payment of any such Sums the Persons paying the same shall have one or more Tallies importing the Receipt thereof and Orders for Payment c. to be sign'd as aforesaid and not to be revocable and to be assignable And the Moneys arising by the Duties hereby granted besides so much as shall bear proportion as aforesaid to the Sum which shall be advanced before the 1st day of May 1693. shall be appropriated to the Payment of the said Annuities and not be diverted under the like Penalties as are before appointed in case of misapplying c. The said Officers shall keep Books and make Entries of their Names who shall advance Money after the said 1st day of May and of the Sums advanced and the times of paying in and the Names of the Nominees without Reward to which Books all Persons concern'd shall have access under the Penalties and Disabilities aforesaid and they that shall advance any Sum after the said 1st of May shall have Interest for it till the 29th of Septem 1693. at the rate of 10 l. per Cent. LXXXVIII If any Contributor who shall have advanced any Sum before the said 1st of May shall before the said 29th of September be desirous in lieu of his Share in the Fonds to have an Annuity of 14 l. a year for any Sum of 100 l. by him advanced during the Life of his Nominee a Memorial thereof shall be entred in a Book for that purpose to be kept in the Receipt and the said Entry being sign'd by such Contributor he shall receive such Annuity as if the Moneys by him advanced had been paid in after the 1st day of May And such Contributors Share in the Fonds shall determine for Their Majesties Benefit LXXXIX The Surplus of any Money arising by this Act after the several Proportions of the Fonds and the Annuities and Interest paid shall be to the Use of Their Majesties XC No Moneys lent or payable by Virtue of this Act shall be charged with any Impositions whatsoever XCI Grants or Dispositions of any Money arising by this Act to be made by Their Majesties Their Heirs c. otherwise then by this Act is appointed shall be null and void Frauds I. STat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 14. All Wills concerning Lands or any Rents Profits Term or Charge out of the same whereof the Devisors shall be seiz'd in Fee-simple in Possession Reversion or Remainder or have power to dispose thereof after the 25th day of March 1692. shall be deemed only as against Creditors upon Bonds or other Specialties their Executors c. to be fraudulent and void II. And such Creditors shall have their Actions of Debt against the Heirs at Law and such Devisees joyntly and such Devisees shall be chargeable for a false Plea as any Heir should have been III. Where there shall have been any Devises of Lands for Payment of just Debts or Childrens Portions other then the Heir at Law in pursuance of any Marriage Agreement made in Writing bona fide before such Marriage they shall be in force IV. Where any Heir at Law shall be liable to pay the Debt of his Ancestor in regard of any Lands descending to him and shall make over the same before any Action brought such Heir shall be answerable for such Debts to the Value of the Land made over in which Cases all Creditors shall be preferred as in Actions against Executors and Administrators and Execution upon any Judgment so obtained shall be taken out against such Heir to the Value of the Land as if they were his own Debts saving that Lands bona fide aliened before the Action brought shall not be liable to such Execution V. Where any Action of Debt upon a Specialty is brought against an Heir he may Plead Riens per discent at the time of the Original Writ brought and the Plaintiff may Reply that he had Lands from his Ancestor before the Original Writ brought and if upon Issue joyn'd thereon it be found for the Plaintiff the Jury shall enquire of the Value of the Lands descended and thereupon Judgment shall be given and Execution awarded as aforesaid but if Judgment be given against such Heir by Confession without Confessing the Assets descended or upon demurier or nihil dicit it shall be for the Debt and Damages without any Writ to enquire of the Lands VI. Devisees made liable by this Act shall be Chargeable as the Heir at Law by force of this Act though the Lands Devised be Aliened before the Action brought VII This Act to continue for Three Years and to the End of the then
the Fourth It was Enacted That none from thenceforth should use to multiply Gold or Silver or use the Craft of Multiplication and if any the same do they should incur the pain of Felony Be it Enacted that the said Branch Article or Sentence be Repealed II. Provided that all Gold and Silver that shall be Extracted by the Art of Melting and Refining Metals and otherwise Improving them and their Ores shall be employed for the encrease of Moneys and no otherwise and that the Place hereby Appointed for the disposal thereof shall be the Mint in the Tower of London where they shall receive the Value of their Gold and Silver so Extracted III. No Mine of Copper Tin Iron or Lead shall hereafter be adjudged to be a Royal Mine though Gold or Silver may be Extracted out of the same Government I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 2. An Act for Impowring His Majesty to Apprehend and Detain such Persons as he shall find just cause to suspect are Conspiring against the Government EXP. II. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 7. An Act for Impowring His Majesty to Apprehend and Detain such Persons as he shall find just Cause to suspect are Conspiring against the Government III. Stat. Ann. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap 19. All Persons that shall be in Prison the 25th Day of May 1689. or after by Warrant of Their Majesties Privy Council Signed by Six of the Council for Suspicion of High Treason or Treasonable Practices may be detained in Custody without Bail or Main-prize till the 23d Day of October 1689. And no Judge or Court of Justice shall Bail or Try any such Persons without Order from Their Majesties Privy Council Signed by Six till the said 23d of October IV. From and after the said 23d of October such Persons shall have the Benefit of the Habeas Corpus Act and of all other Statutes providing for the Liberty of the Subjects V. Nothing in this Act shall extend to Prejudice the Ancient Rights and Priviledges of Parliament VI. A true Copy of every Warrant for such Commitment shall be Entred and Kept by the Clerks of the Privy Council in a Book apart and Signed by such of the Privy Council as shall Grant the Warrant and no Warrant not so Entred and Signed and Kept shall be adjudged to be a Warrant by Virtue of this Act. VII Stat. 2. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 6. Whensoever and as often as His Majesty shall be absent out of England It shall be Lawful for the Queen to Exercise and Administer the Regal Power and Government in the Names of both Their Majesties for such time only during Their Joint Lives as His Majesty shall be absent out of England VIII Nothing in this Act shall debar His Majesty during such absence from the Exercise of Administration of any Act or Acts of Regal Power or Government and neither the passing this Act nor His Majesties Royal Voyage or Absence shall Dissolve this present Parliament or determine any Commissions Granted by His Majesty nor avoid any other Act of Government executed or to be execured by him IX Provided That as often as His Majesty shall return into England the sole Administration of the Regal Power and Government shall be in His Majesty only Hair-Buttons I. STat. 4. 5. W. M. cap. 10. No Foreign Buttons made of Hair nor other Foreign Buttons whatsoever shall be Imported or Bartered Sold or Exchanged on pain to Forfeit the Buttons so Imported Bartered Sold or Exchanged and under such farther Penalties as are expressed in an Act made in the 14th year of the Reign of the late King Charles 2d Entituled An Act Prohibiting the Importation of Foreign Bone lace Cut-work Imbroidery c. One Moiety to Their Majesties and the other to the Informer II. The Justices of Peace within their respective Divisions shall have the same Authority and Power to issue their Warrants to seize all Foreign Buttons whatsoever that by the said Act is given them to seize Foreign Buttons made of Thread and Silk Hearth-Doney I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 10. An Act made in the Parliament begun at Westminster the 8th of May in the 13th year of King Charles 2d Entituled An Act for the Establishing an Additional Revenue upon His Majesty His Heirs and Successors for the better Support of His and Their Crown and Dignity And another Act made in the Second Session of the said Parliament in the 15th year of the said King's Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Revenue arising by Hearth-Money And another Act made in the 16th year of the said King's Reign Entituled An Act for Collecting the Duty arising by Hearth-Money by the Officers to be Appointed by His Majesty are hereby Repealed and made Void II. Nothing in this Act shall hinder or prejudice the Levying the said Revenue arising by Hearth-money which shall grow due on the 25th of March 1689. and all Arrears of the said Duty now due and payable by the said Acts. High-ways I. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 12. The Laws and Statutes in force touching the High ways not hereby altered or repealed shall be put in Execution II. Upon the 26th day of Decemb. yearly unless that day be Sunday and then on the 27th day the Constables Headboroughs Tything-men Churchwardens Surveyors of the High-ways and Inhabitants in every Parish shall assemble and the major Part of the Assembly shall make a List of the Names of a competent Number of the Inhabitants who have an Estate in Land in their own Right or their Wives of 10 l. per annum or a personal Estate of 100 l. or are Occupiers of Houses Lands c. of the yearly value of 30 l. if such there be and if not then a List of the most sufficient Inhabitants and return it to Two or more Justices of the Peace at a Special Sessions to be held for that purpose on the third day of January next following or within Fifteen days after For which purpose the Justices are required to hold a Special Sessions and to give notice to the Constables Headboroughs c. of every Parish within the Division Ten days before the holding of the same and out of the said Lists by Warrant under their Hands and Seals they shall nominate One Two or more to be Surveyor or Surveyors of the High-ways of every Parish within the Division or for any Hamlet Precinct Town c. of and in the same for the year ensuing Which Nomination shall by the Constables c. be notified to the persons nominated within six days by serving them with the Warrants or leaving the same or a Copy thereof at their Houses And if the Persons so nominated shall refuse or neglect to take upon them the said Office they shall forfeit 5 l. to be on their Goods by Distress and Sale thereof by Warrant of Two Justices of the Peace which Warrant the Justices are
declare That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take up Arms against the King and that I do abhor that traiterous Position of taking Arms by his Authority against his Person or against those that are commissioned by him Shall not from henceforth be required or enjoyned XII The Oaths required and intended by this Act are in these Words following viz. I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary So help me God c. I A. B. do swear That I do from my Heart abhor detest and abjure as impious and heretical that Damnable Doctrin and Position That Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope or any Authority of the See of Rome may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whomsoever And I do declare That no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Pre-eminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm So help me God c. XIII The Names of Persons and Officers that shall take the said Oaths in the Chancery Kings Bench or Quarter-Sessions shall in the said respective Courts be inroll'd with the day and time of their taking the same The Rolls for the Court of Chancery to be publickly hung up in the Petty-bag-Office for the Kings Bench in the Crown Office and in some publick place in every Quarter-Sessions every Term and every Quarter-Sessions No Fee or Reward above 12 d. to be given to any Officer belonging to any of the said Courts for such Entries XIV Whereas since the 11th day of December 1688. the said abrogated Oaths could not be taken by Persons elected into Offices of Magistracy Places of Trust c. Be it enacted That if any such Officer shall before the first of August 1689. take the Oaths herein mentioned and required before such Persons who ought to have administred the said Abrogated Oaths the same shall be adjudged as good and effectual as if he had taken the said Abrogated Oaths XV. And whereas since the Feast of St. Michael last past divers Persons have been admitted into Offices Imployments or Places of Trust and could not take the said Abrogated Oaths and subscribe the Declaration at such time and in such manner as is appointed by the Act of 25 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for preventing of Dangers that may happen from Popish Recusants Be it enacted That if any such Person shall before the end of Trinity-Term next in the Chancery or Kings Bench or before the first of August 1689. at the quarter-Quarter-Sessions c. take the Oaths hereby appointed to be taken and repeat and subscribe the said Declaration and take the Sacrament according to the usage of the Church of England and procure Certificate thereof as by the said Act is directed that such Person shall be indemnified from any Penalty or Disability that he might have incurred by the said Act. XVI It shall be left to the King to allow to such of the Clergy as shall refuse the Oaths prescribed by this Act as he shall think fit not exceeding twelve an allowance out of their Ecclesiastical Benefices c. for their Subsistence not exceeding a third part to continue during the Kings Pleasure XVII Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 25. If any Commission for Military Imployment shall be granted to any Person at more than twenty Miles distance from London such Persons may take the Oaths and make and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in an Act of this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths at the next Muster after the receipt of the said Commission before the Commissary of the Musters or his Deputy who shall send up a Certificate thereof under his Hand and Seal to the Person who issued such Commission XVIII If any Person receiving such Commission shall refuse to take the said Oaths c. he shall not be allowed upon the Musters but his Commission shall be void XIX Nothing in this Act contain'd shall extend to the Militia Papists I. STat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 9. The Lord Mayor of London for the time being and every Justice of Peace of London and for Westminster and Southwark and of the Counties of Middlesex Surry Kent and Sussex within their respective Limits shall cause to be brought before him every Person not being a Merchant Foreigner within the said Cities or within ten miles of the same as are reputed to be Papists and tender them the Declaration mentioned in the Statute of 30 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government c. And if any such Person after refusal to make and subscribe the same shall continue to be within the said City or Cities or within ten miles distant from the same he or she shall forfeit and suffer as a Popish Recusant convict II. The Justices of Peace shall certifie the Subscriptions taken before them by virtue of this Act and the Names of Refusers upon tender under their Hands and Seals into the Court of Kings Bench the next Term or else at the next quarter-Quarter-Sessions and if Persons so refusing and certified shall not within the next Term or Sessions after such refusal appear in the Court of Kings Bench or Sessions and in open Court make and subscribe the said Declaration and indorse his so doing upon the Certificate they shall be adjudged from the time of such their refusal as Popish Recusants convict III. This Act shall not extend to such as use any Trade or Manuel Occupation nor to such as within six months before the 13th of Febr. 1688. had their places of abode within the said Cities or ten miles compass not having any place of abode elsewhere so as before the said first day of August 1689. they certifie their Names Additions and Places of Abode at the Sessions of the Peace to be held for the said respective Cities Counties or Places the Clerk of the Peace to take but 2 d. for the entry of such Name Addition and Place of Abode IV. Nothing in this Act shall have any effect upon such Foreigners as are or shall be menial Servants to Ambassadors or Publick Agents V. Foreigners Servants to the Queen Dowager are likewise excepted not exceeding the number of thirty at any one time VI. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 15. It shall be lawful for any two or more Justices of the Peace who shall know or suspect any Person to be a Papist or shall be so informed to tender to such Person the Declaration expressed in an Act of Parliament made Anno 30 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government c. And if such Person shall not make and subscribe the said Declaration or shall refuse to appear upon notice left at his Place
mentioned and the making and subscribing the Declaration in the said Act of the 30th year of King Charles II. mentioned by the Members of each House from and after the first day of March next shall be effectual as if the said Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy had been taken c. And in all future Parliaments the Oaths herein after mentioned and the said Declaration shall be taken made and subscribed by every Member of either House as the said Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the said Declaration by the said Act of the 30th year of King Charles II. are appointed to be taken to enable them to sit and vote in Parliament IV. The Oaths above appointed by this Act to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy are these viz. I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary So help me God I A. B. do swear That I do from my Heart abhor detest and abjure as Impious and Heretical that damnable Doctrin and Position That Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope or any Authority of the See of Rome may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do declare That no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Power Jurisdiction Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm So help me God V. This present Parliament may be dissolved after the usual manner as if summoned by Writ VI. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 7. Whereas the late Lord-Wardens of the Cinque-Ports have claim'd a Power of nominating and recommending to each of the said Cinque-Ports the two ancient Towns and their Members one person whom they ought to elect as a Member of Parliament be it declared and enacted That all such Nominations and Recommendations were and are contrary to the Laws and Constitutions of this Realm and for the future shall be so deemed and they are hereby declared to be void Poor I. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 11. The Act made in the 13th and 14th years of the late King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the better Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom except what relates to the Corporations therein mentioned which was revived and continued with Alterations by an Act made in the first year of the late King James II. shall be in force from the first day of March 1691. II. The forty days continuance of a person intended by the said Acts to make a Settlement shall be accounted from the publication of a notice in writing which he or she shall deliver of the House of his or her Abode and number of his or her Family to the Church-warden or Overseer of the Poor which shall be read immediately after Divine Service in the Church or Chappel of the Place on the next Lords Day where there shall be Divine Service in the same the Church-warden or Overseer to Register such notice in the Book kept for the Poors Accounts III. No Souldier or other Person in their Majesties Service by delivery and publication of notice as aforesaid unless they be dismist the Service IV. Church-wardens or Overseers refusing to read or cause to be read such notice as aforesaid upon proof thereof by two Witnesses upon Oath before a Justice of Peace shall forfeit 40 s. to the use of the party grieved to be levied by distress and sale of Goods by Warrant of a Justice of Peace to the Constable and for want of a Distress shall be committed to Gaol for a month and if any Church-warden or Overseer shall neglect or refuse to Register such notice as aforesaid they shall forfeit 40 s. to be levied as aforesaid and for want of a Distress shall be committed as aforesaid V. If any person coming to inhabit in any Town or Parish shall on his own account execute any Publick annual Office or charge in the same during a year or pay his share towards the publick Taxes or Levies of such Town c. he shall be adjudged to have a legal Settlement without notice in Writing delivered c. VI. If any unmarried person not having Child or Children shall be lawfully hired for a Year such Service shall be deemed a good Settlement without notice c. VII Being bound Apprentice and inhabiting in a Town or Parish shall be adjudged a good Settlement VIII Persons agrieved by the determination of any Justices of the Peace may appeal to the next Quarter-Sessions who shall finally determine the same IX If any person be removed by virtue of this Act from one place to another by Warrant of two Justices of Peace the Church-wardens or Overseers of the place to which he shall be removed shall receive him and in case of refusal upon proof by two Witnesses upon oath before a Justice of Peace of the County Riding c. to which he shall be removed shall forfeit 5 l. to the use of the Poor of the Parish from which he shall be removed to be levied by distress and sale of Goods c. by Warrant of a Justice of Peace of the County c. to which he shall be removed to the Constable of the place where such Offender dwells and for want of a Distress shall be committed to Gaol for forty days X. Persons agrieved by the Judgment of the said two Justices may appeal to the next General Quarter-Sessions of the place from which the said person was removed XI There shall be kept in every Parish at the Parish Charge a Book or Books wherein the Names of persons receiving Collections shall be registred with the time when they were first admitted to have relief and the occasion of their necessity and yearly in Easter-Week or oftner the Parishioners shall meet and have such Books produced before them and the persons receiving Collections shall be called and the reasons of their taking relief examined and a new List be made and entred of such as they shall think fit to allow to receive collection and no other shall be allowed to receive Collection but by Authority under the Hand of a Justice of Peace residing in the Parish and if there be none in the Parts next adjoyning or by order of the Justices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions except in cases of Pestilential Diseases Plague or Small-pox in respect of Familes infected only XII In all Actions to be brought in the Courts at Westminster or at the Assizes for Monies mis-spent by the Church-wardens or Overseers the Evidence of the Parishioners other than such as receive Alms of the Parish where the Defendants are Inhabitants shall be taken and admitted Prisoners I. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 15. All persons in prison upon the 28th day of November 1690. for Debt or Damages or upon any Action or mean Process for Debt Account or Trespass upon the Case or who may have Judgments entred
upon Record against them or are charg'd in Execution or imprison'd upon Attachments for Debt or upon Outlawries for Debt or upon any Process in Law or Equity for Debt Damages or Costs only who shall take the Oath mentioned in the Act of 22 and 23 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for the Relief and Release of poor distressed Prisoners for Debt and the Oath in this Act following shall be released in manner and form as is mentioned in the said Act and in one other Act made in the 30th year of the said late King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the farther relief and discharge of Poor distressed Prisoners for Debt II. Justices of Peace who pursuant to the said Acts or to this present Act shall make any Order for the discharge of any poor Prisoner for Debt shall cause to come before them any Sheriff Gaoler or Keeper of Prison where such Prisoners are and administer to them this Oath viz. I A. B. do swear that J. S. was really and truly my Prisoner in my custody without any fraud or deceit in me or by any other to my knowledge at or upon the 28th day of November 1690. So help me God III. If any Sheriff Gaoler c. refuse to appear and take the said Oath he shall forfeit to such Prisoner so about to be discharged the value of the Debt for which he is imprisoned to be recovered by Action of Debt in any their Majesties Courts of Record and if any such Sheriff Gaoler c. shall forswear himself he shall suffer as a person convicted of perjury IV. Prisoners taking the benefit of this Act and taking the Oath in the first recited Act mentioned shall also before such Justice or Justices by whom such Oath is to be given take this Oath viz. I A. B. do swear That on the 28th day of November 1690. I was actually a Prisoner in the custody of the Gaoler or Keeper of D. Prison in the County of C. at the Suit of J.S. without my consent or procurement or by any Fraud or Collusion whatsoever So help me God V. Such Prisoners forswearing themselves besides the penalties now in force against persons convicted of Perjury shall suffer seven years imprisonment VI. This Act shall not extend to persons in Execution for a Fine impos'd for any Offence VII Taking the Oaths and giving the Creditors notice as by this Act is required in all other things for the discharge of any poor prisoner it shall be observed in form and method as is directed by the two before mentioned Acts. VIII None shall have the benefit of this Act who shall stand charged with more than 100 l. principal Mony or Damages or who shall stand charged with any Debt to their Majesties IX Notwithstanding the discharge of such Prisoners Judgments against them shall be good in Law against their Lands and Goods their wearing Apparel Bedding for them and their Familes and Tools for their Trade c. only excepted X. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 21. If any Defendants taken or charged in custody upon any Writ or Writs out of any of the Courts at Westminster and detained for want of Sureties for their appearance the Plaintiffs may before the end of the next Term after such Writ or Process shall be returnable declare against such Prisoners in the Court out of which the Writ shall issue and cause a Copy thereof to be delivered to such Prisoners or the Gaoler in whose custody he shall remain to which if the said Prisoners shall not appear and plead the Plaintiff shall have Judgment as if they had appeared and refused to answer or plead XI In all Declarations against Prisoners detained by virtue of any Process out of the Kings Bench it shall be alledged in custody of what Sheriff Bailiff c. such Prisoners are at the time of such Declaration which allegation shall be as effectual as if such Prisoners were in the custody of the Marshal or the Marshalsey c. Prizes I. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 4. An Act for preserving two Ships lading of Bay-Salt taken as Prize for the benefit of their Majesties Navy Religion I. SEat Anno 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 18. Neither the Statute made in the 23th year of Queen Elizabeth Entituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience nor that of the 29th of the said Queen Entituled An Act for the more speedy and due execution of certain Branches of the Statute made in the 23th year of the Queens Majesties Reign nor that Clause of a Statute made in the first year of the said Queens Reign Entituled An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer c. whereby all persons are required to resort to their Parish-Church or Chappel or some usual place of Common-prayer c. Nor the Statute made in the third year of the Reign of King James I. Entituled An Act for the better discovering and repressing Popish Recusants nor that other Statute made in the same year Entituled An Act to prevent and avoid Dangers which may grow by Popish Recusants nor any Statute made against Papists or Popish Recusants except the Statute made 25 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants and except the Statute made Anno 30 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government c. shall be construed to extend to any persons dissenting from the Church of England that shall take the Oaths mentioned in a Statute made this Parliament Entituled An Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes concerning the assembling and sitting of this Parliament and shall make and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in a Statute made in the 30th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act to prevent Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament which Oaths and Declaration the Justices of Peace at their General quarter-Quarter-Sessions are hereby required to administer and thereof to keep a Register no Fee or Reward to be paid above 6 d. for such Entry and that but once nor above the farther Sum of 6 d. for a Certificate thereof II. Persons already convicted or prosecuted in order to Conviction of Recusancy that shall take the said Oaths mentioned in the said Statute made in this Parliament and make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid in the Court of Exchequer or Assizes or General Quarter-Sessions c. to be thence certified into the Exchequer shall be discharged from all Penalties c. incurred by any the aforesaid Statutes III. All persons that shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration shall not be liable to any penalties mentioned in an Act of the 35th of Queen Elizabeth Entituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience nor in an Act made in the 22th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles nor shall be prosecuted in
suffer a Discontinuance or if a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover his double Costs II. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 13. All personal Actions Suits Indictments Informations and other Prosecutions for apprehending and imprisoning suspected Persons and seizing and using Horses and Arms and causing the greatest part of the Militia of this Kingdom to be raised and maintained otherwise than is authorized by the Acts made in the Reign of the late King Charles II. and to march and be quartered in divers places for their Majesties Service and the Safety of the Kingdom in pursuance of Orders from the Privy Council in this present year 1690. about the time that the Coasts of this Kingdom were invaded by the French be and are hereby discharged and made void and if any Suit hath been or shall be prosecuted the Defendant may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff become non-suit or forbear Prosecution or suffer a Discontinuance or a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover his double Costs III. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 19. Whereas in this present year 1692. there were great Preparations for an Invasion intended from France the Lords of the Council and others by their Authority having imprisoned several suspected Persons and seized Horses and Arms and caused some part of the Militia to be raised continued and maintained otherwise than is authorized by the Acts made in the Reign of King Charles II. and to march and be quartered in divers places that the Parties concerned in those Proceedings in that extraodinary juncture may be indemnified Be it enacted That all Prosecutions whatsoever by reason of the Premisses be discharged and made void And if any Action or Suit hath been or shall be commenced or prosecuted for the same the Person so sued may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff shall be non-suit or forbear Prosecution or suffer a Discontinuance or that a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover his double Costs Taxes I. STat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 3. An Act for granting a present Aid to their Majesties Exp. II. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 13. An Act for raising Mony by a Poll and otherwise towards the reducing of Ireland III. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 20. An Act for a Grant to their Majesties of an Aid of 12 d. in the pound for one year for the necessary defence of their Realms IV. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 31. An additional Act for the appointing Commissioners for the executing an Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for a Grant to their Majesties of an Aid of twelve pence in the pound for one year for the necessary defence of their Realms V. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 1. An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of one shilling in the pound for one year VI. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 5. An Act for a Grant to their Majesties of an additional Aid of twelve pence in the pound for one year VII Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 7. An Act for review of the late Poll granted to their Majesties and for an additional Poll towards the reducing of Ireland VIII Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 2. An Act for raising Mony by a Poll and otherwise towards the reducing of Ireland and prosecuting the War against France IX Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 1. Aâ— Act for granting an Aid to their Majesties of the Sum of 1651702 l. 18 s. Exp. X. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 5. An Act for granting an Aid to their Majesties of the Sum of sixteen hundred fifty one thousand seven hundred and two pounds eighteen shillings towards the carrying on a vigorous War against France XI Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 6. An Act for raising Mony by a Poll payable quarterly for one year for the carrying on a vigorous War against France XII Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 1. An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of four shillings in the pound for one year for carrying on a vigorous War against France XIII Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 14. All Persons who were not at all or not fully and duly assessed according to the intent of an Act made the last Session of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for raising Mony by a Poll c. shall be assessed and taxed as they ought to have been by the same XIV In order whereunto such as are or shall be qualified to act as Commissioners for putting in execution an Act of this Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of 4 s. in the pound c. shall be Commissioners for executing this Act within their several Divisions and shall have and execute the like Powers Rules and Directions as the Commissioners had or ought to have executed by virtue of the said Poll-Act And all Persons concerned in the assessing collecting receiving or paying any Monies by virtue of this Act shall have the like Benesits and be subject to the like Penalties in case of neglect or resusal to pay the Sums assessed or to perform their Duties as in such case any Person by virtue of the said Poll-Act ought to have or be subject to XV. Deputy-Lieutenants and other Officers of the Militia having Estates of such value as ought to find or contribute to a Horse shall pay for such Estates although they be not actually charged to find or contriâ—ute to find a Horse c. And all who at the time of the Execution of the said Poll-Act were or had been Justices of Peace Sheriffs or Deputy-Lieutenants or who were appointed Commissioners by virtue of the said Act being worth 300 l. and were not assessed 20 s. quarterly shall pay after that rate or so much as with what they have paid will make up 20 s. quarterly In like manner Clergy-men having in Estate Ecclesiastical or Temporal or both 60 l. per annum shall pay after the same rate and in all other things the said Act shall be fully executed XVI The respective Commissioners shall meet on the 4th of April 1693. and the said Sums shall be assessed and paid to the Receivers of the Counties on or before the 24th day of June 1693. and answered into their Majesties Exchequer on or before the 12th day of July 1693. XVII If upon the return of the Duplicates it shall appear that the said Sums of Mony do not amount to 300000 l. their Majesties may borrow by way of Loan any Sum or Sums which together with the amount of what shall be levied by virtue of this Act shall not exceed in the whole 300000 l. which Sum or Sums shall be charged upon the credit of their Majesties Exchequer in General and
treble Costs X. A Register shall be kept at the Custom-house London of all Wool imported from Ireland and of all Wool sent from one Port to another in this Kingdom the Weights and Numbers Ship Masters Name Owners Name and to whom consigned This Act to continue for three years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XI Any Persons may buy Cloth Stuffs Stockings or other Woollen Manufactures and export the same paying the usual Customs XII Nothing in this Act shall be construed to avoid the Charters granted to the Levant Eastland Russia or African Companies XIII It shall be lawful to transport from Southampton only for the use of the Inhabitants of Guernsey Jersey Alderney and Sark 1000 Tods of unkemb Wool for Guernsey 2000 for Jersey 200 for Alderney and 100 for Sark more than by the Act made in the 12th year of King Charles II. is provided for the same to be done according to the Directions and under the Penalties therein appointed and inflicted and on the farther Penalty of 20 l. for every Tod of Wool and forfeiture of the Wool it self one half to the King one Quarter to the Informer and one Quarter to the Poor of the said Islands in case of transporting or attempting to transport any of the said Wool from the said Islands for every Offence therein and that every Person so offending shall after the first Offence be incapable of any Grant of any Wool from the said Port of Southampton nor ever after have any Warrant granted him for that purpose the said Penalties to be recovered by him that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. Yarmouth I. STat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 11. The Powers Authorities and Benefits given to the Mayor Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty of Great Yarmouth by an Act made in the first year of the late King James Entituled An Act for clearing preserving maintaining and repairing the Haven and Rivers of Great Yarmouth are hereby vested in the Bailiffs Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty of the said Borough that now are and their Successors And the Powers Authorities and Benefits by the said Act given to the said Mayor are hereby vested in the Bailiff or Bailiffs for the time being and their Successors II. Officers Collectors Receivers and Commissioners to be appointed by the afore-mentioned or this Act may pursue the several Powers therein given and directed III. Monies directed by the said Act to be paid into the Hands of the Chamberlain of the said Borough shall be paid into the Hands of such as the Bailiffs Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty in Common Council assembled shall direct IV. If within the residue of the time by the said recited Act limited there shall be any alteration by any new Charters from Bailiffs to Mayors then the Mayor Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty shall execute the Powers c. in the recited Act mentioned as therein is expressed AN EXACT ABRIDGMENT Of all the STATUTES MADE In the fifth Session of this present Parliament in the fifth and sixth Years of the Reign of their MAJESTIES King William and Queen Mary AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE STATUTES MADE In the fifth Session of this present PARLIAMENT Accounts I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 17. Commissioners Names for stating Publick Accounts Robert Harley Esquire Sir Thomas Pope Blount Baronet Paul Foley Esquire Sir Thomas Clarges Knight Charles Hutchinson Esquire Sir Edward Abney Knight and Sir James Houblon Knight constituted Commissioners for examining and stating the Accounts of all the Mony and Publick Revenue of the Crown granted by one Act of Parliament made in the second year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for appointing and inabling Commissioners to examine take and state the Publick Accounts of the Kingdom Acts of 2d and 4th and 5th of W. and M. revived And one other Act in the 4th and 5th years of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for examining taking and stating the Publick Accounts of this Kingdom to be examined and stated by the Commissioners by the said Acts constituted or any five or more of them appointed by the said Acts or either of them and that the said Acts be revived from the 24th of April 1694. to the 25th of April which shall be in the year 1695. and shall be executed with all the Powers therein contained by the Commissioners herein named or any four or more of them and Allowances to be made to the said Commissioners and the Clerks and all other Charges from the Commissioners of the Treasury as in the first recited Act. Commissioners power to examine and state Accounts And the said Commissioners have Power to examine and state Accounts of all Monies granted to their Majesties by one Act made in this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of 4 s. in the Pound for one Year for carrying on a vigorous War against France and of all Monies that have or shall be granted their Majesties in this present Session and of all other their Majesties Treasure or publick Mony due to them on the 5th of November 1688. or at any time between the said 5th of November and the said 25th of April which shall be in the year 1695. not yet accounted for by virtue of the said Acts or either of them or the last Clause touching Publick Accounts made in an Act made in the third Year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for raising Mony by a Poll payable quarterly for one year for the carrying on a vigorous War against France II. Irish Accounts to be stated against and presented next Parliament And the said Commissioners are hereby required to summon the Commissioners appointed for the Transport Ships for the War of Ireland or any other Contractors or their Owners and Proprietors of the said Ships to state the Accounts and adjust the Debt due for the said Ships which Accounts so stared they are to prepare against the next Session of Parliament Coaches I. Commissioners for Hackney-Coaches STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 16. After the 10th of May 1694. their Majesties may appoint Commissioners not exceeding five in number for regulating and licensing Hackney-Coaches within the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs thereof and the Bills of Mortality and for regulating and licensing Stage-Coaches throughout England c. II. Licenses not to exceed 700. The said Commissioners shall give Licenses under their Hands and Seals to all Persons that shall keep any Coach or Coach-Horses within the Cities of London and Westminster or the Suburbs of the same or within the Weekly Bills of Mortality and that the number of all Hackney-Coaches so to be licensed shall not exceed 700 and for every such License so to be granted for each Coach there shall be paid to the Commissioners or some other Person to be appointed by their Majesties
this Act any Chamber-rent Fee or Reward for any thing relating to his Discharge above the Sum of 6 s. 6 d. in the whole upon pain of forfeiting the value of the Debt and upon pain of being proceeded against as an Extortioner any Law Act of Parliament or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding IV. The Justice of Peace his Clerks Fee And that no Justice of Peace his Clerk or Servant shall take of any Prisoner for signing his Warrant and Summons any Fee or Reward whatsoever nor any Clerk of the Papers or other Officer that shall make out any Copies of Causes for the said Prisoner shall take for the same above 4 d. upon pain to be proceeded against as Extortioners aforesaid V. No Debt contracted since Nov. 28. 1690. shall hereby be discharged Provided that no Debtor shall by virtue of this or the aforesaid Act be discharged of any Debt contracted by such Debtor since the 28th day of November which was in the Year 1690. Ships I. Builders of 3 Deck Ships within 10 years from first M. 1694. their allowance for Customs STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 18. Every Person that shall within ten years from and after the first of May 1694. build or cause to be built within any of their Majesties Dominions any Ships or Vessels of three Decks reckoning the Orlop for one with a Fore-castle Quarter-deck Round-house and six Foot between each Deck from Plank to Plank their Hawrses to be between Decks the said Ships to be of no less than 450 Tun and to have no less than ten Ports of a side between Decks mounted with 32 Pieces of Ordnance close of which 18 to be between Decks the said Guns upon the lower Deck to be Demy-Culverine of 3000 weight at least upon the Upper-deck Fore-castle and Steerage to be also Demy-Culverine of 2200 weight at least and those in the Cuddy to be 600 weight at least and other Ammunition proportionably shall for the first three Voyages which the said Ship or Ships shall make from their Majesties Dominions to any Foreign Parts receive to their own use and benefit one tenth part of the Customs commonly call'd or known by the name of the Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage that shall be paid to their Majesties for all such Goods and Merchandizes as shall be exported and imported on the said Ship or Ships to and from this Kingdom and the Commissioners and Officers of their Majesties Customs are hereby impowered to pay the same to the respective Owners accordingly II. The penalty if altered And if at any time after the end of the said three first Voyages any of the said Ships or Vessels so to be built as aforesaid shall be altered or put into another form of Building whereby they shall become or be made less defensible than they were at first building that then every such Ship or Vessel with all the Guns Tackle Ammunition and Apparel thereof shall be forfeited and lost I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 19. Offences done since 24 June 1694. may be tried in the Kings Bench or by Justices of Oyer and Terminer All Offences contrary to one Act made in the 13th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the establishing Articles and Orders for the regulating and better Government of his Majesties Navies Ships of War and Forces by Sea which shall be committed after the 24th of June 1694. may be tried and determined in the Kings Bench at Westminster or before Justices of Oyer and Terminer appointed by their Majesties which said Courts are hereby impowered to hear and determine the same according to the Common Law and to inflict such Penalties as are appointed by the said Act. II. Offences done out of the Realm c. Person tried by a Court Martial not to be tried again How long to continue Where any of the said Offences shall be committed out of this Realm the same may be alledged and laid in any County within this Realm III. Provided that no Person who shall be tried in a Court-Martial shall for the same Offence be again tried by virtue of this Act nor shall any Person tried by virtue of this Act be tried again by a Court-Martial IV. Provided also that this Act shall continue in force for three years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament Souldiers I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 9. The Act made in the last Session of this Parliament Entituled An Act for punishing Officers and Souldiers who shall mutiny and desert their Majesties Service and for punishing false Musters and for payment of Quarters shall continue and be in force until the first of March 1694. and no longer II. Who shall be accounted a listed Souldier No Person that shall be listed for the Land-Service after the first of March 1693. shall be esteemed a listed Souldier or be subject to any of the Pains and Penalties of this Act or any other Penalty for his Behaviour as a Souldier that shall not have been brought before a Justice of Peace not being an Officer in the Army or Chief Magistrate of some City or Town-Corporate or High Constable or Pety Constable in the Hundred or Division where the Person shall be listed and before such Justice Magistrate or High Constable or Pety Constable declare his free consent to be listed or mustred as a Souldier before he be listed or mustred or inserted in any Muster-Roll of a Regiment Troop or Company as aforesaid And every Military Officer that shall offend herein shall incur the like Penalty and Forfeiture as is by the said continued Act to be inflicted upon any Officer for making a false and untrue Muster Sureties I. St. 10 E. 3. for finding Sureties for Good Behavior repealed Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 7. The Statute the 10th year of King Edw. III. for finding Sureties for the Good abearing by him or her that hath a Pardon of Felony is hereby made void and repealed II. Provided At the Justices discretion that if any Charter of Pardon be pleaded by any Person for any Felony the Justices before whom such Pardon shall be pleaded may at their discretion remand or commit such Person to Prison there to remain until he or she shall enter into a Recognizance with two sufficient Sureties for his or her being of the Good Behaviour for any time not exceeding seven years III. Provided Feme-Covert or Infant to find Sureties if any such Charter of Pardon be pleaded by a Feme-Covert or Infant such Feme-Covert or Infant may find two sufficient Sureties who shall enter into a Recognizance for his or her being of the Good Behaviour as aforesaid Taxes Aid of 4 s. in the Pound I. STat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 1. 4 s. in the Pound to be paid for all personal Estates excepting desperate Debts and Houshold-stuff All and
said Commissioners shall from time to time if required and at the end of their Proceedings by virtue of this Act give an Account thereof in writing under Five or more of their Hands and Seals to the King and Queen and both Houses of Parliament at their next Meeting VII All Accountants shall make their Accounts in the Exchequer as formerly this Act notwithstanding VIII The Powers hereby Granted shall endure for one Year from the 25th day of January 1690. and no longer IX The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury shall pay 500 l. to each Commissioner for his Care and Pains herein X. The said Commissioners or any Five or more of them shall take an Account what Sums of Money were ordered and paid during the late King James his Reign for Repairing the Fleet and how the same hath been disposed of XI This Act shall give no Authority to the said Commissioners to demand an Account of Money paid to Their Majesties Privy Purse or expended for secret Service XII Nothing in this Act shall hinder the said Commissioners from requiring an Account upon Oath of Pensions Salaries and Sums of Moneys paid or payable to Members of Parliament XIII Stat. 4 5 W. M. c. 11. Sir Thomas Clarges Kt. Sir Peter Colliton Bar. Sir Samuel Barnardiston Bar. Sir Benjamin Newland Kt. Sir Matthew Andrews Kt. Paul Foley Esq and Robert Harley Esq or any four or more of them are hereby constituted Commissioners for taking an Account of the Publick Revenue of the Crown and all other Accounts which by an Act made in the Second Year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Appointing and Enabling Commissioners to Examine Take and State the Publick Accounts of the Kingdom were to be taken by Commissioners thereby constituted and the said Act is hereby revived and shall be in force from the 24th of April next to the 25th of April 1694. and be executed by the Commissioners herein named or any four or more of them And the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury shall issue and pay the like Allowances for Clerks and other Charges as the said Act directs and the like quarterly Payments to the Commissioners hereby constituted as by the said Act is appointed to the Commissioners therein named and the Commissioners hereby constituted shall take Accounts of all Their Majesties Revenue and other publick Moneys due and payable to them between the 5th day of November 1688. and the 25th day of April 1694 not yet accounted for by virtue of the said recited Act or the last Clause touching Publick Accounts in one Act in the Third Year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Raising Money by a Poll c. Admiralty I. Sat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. c. 2. All and singular Authorities Jurisdictions and Powers which by Act of Parliament or otherwise are vested in the Lord High Admiral of England for the time being have always appertained to and shall be used and executed by the Commissioners of the Admiralty as if they were Lord High Admiral II. Every Officer present upon Tryals of Offenders by Courts Martial to be held by virtue of any Commission granted by the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty shall before any proceeding to Tryal take this Oath to be administred by the Judge Advocate or his Deputy viz. You shall well and truly try and determine the matter now before you between our Sovereign Lord and Lady the King and Queens Majesties and the Prisoner to be tryed So help you God Bails I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. c. 4. The Judges of the Kings Bench or any two of them whereof the Chief Justice to be one for the Court of Kings Bench and the Judges of the Common-Pleas or any two of them whereof the Chief Justice to be one for the Court of Common-Pleas and the Barons of the Colf of the Exchequer or any two of them whereof the Chief Baron to be one for the Court of Exchequer may by Commissions under the Seals of the said respective Courts from time to time Impower such Persons other then common Attorneys and Solicitors as they shall think fit in all and every the Counties of England and Wales and Town of Berwick to take such Recognizances of Bails as any Persons shall be willing to make before them in any Action or Suit depending or to be depending in the said Courts in Manner and Form as the Justices and Barons of the said Courts have used to take the same Which Recognizances shall be transmitted to some one of the said Justices or Barons respectively who upon Affidavit made of the due taking thereof shall receive the same upon payment of the usual Fees Which Recognizance shall be of like effect as if it were taken de bene esse before any of the said Justices or Barons For taking which Recognizances the Persons impowered shall receive Two Shillings and no more II. The Justices and Barons respectively shall make such Rules for the justifying such Bails as to them shall seem meet so as the Cognizors be not compell'd to appear in person in any of the said Courts unless they live in London or Westminster or within ten Miles thereof to justifie themselves but the same is hereby directed to be determined by Affidavits taken before the Commissioners III. Any Judge of Assize may take such Recognizances which shall be transmitted and received as aforesaid without Oath upon payment of the usual Fees IV. Persons representing or personating others before any impowered by this Act to take Bails shall be adjudged Felons Beer c. I. Stat. Ann. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 22. From and after the twenty fourth of June 1689. any Person may ship off within any of the usual and allowed Ports by Law and at the common Keys and within the usual hours of Excise to be Exported into Foreign Parts in the presence of a sworn Officer to be appointed by the Farmers c. of Excise within the limits where the same shall be shipp'd any strong Ale strong Beer Cyder or Mum paying Custom for the same after the Rate of 1 Shilling per Tun and no other Duty Such Officer to certifie the quantity so shipp'd off to the Commissioners and Officers of Excise where the Entry thereof shall be made who are hereby required to make Allowance or repay the Excise of the Beer Ale Cyder or Mum so Exported to the Brewer or Maker thereof within one Month after such Exportation deducting Three pence per Tun for the Charges of their Officers II. If any Merchant Master of Vessel or other Person shall cause or suffer any Liquors so shipped to be laid on Land or put into any other Vessel within England Wales or the Town of Berwick he shall forfeit the same and 50 l. more for every Cask so unduly landed or put on Board any Vessel the one Moiety to the King and Queen the other to the Informer And Their Majesties Commissioners and Officers of the
Customs shall charge every Master of any Vessel in his Victualling Bill with so much Beer Ale Cyder or Mum and no more as such number of men use to spend in such Voyages the Excise whereof to be recovered according to the Laws established III. The said Rate of One Shilling the Tun for Beer c. Exported shall be levied and paid under such Rules and Penalties and for such time and in such manner as by the Laws of Tonnage and Poundage are ordained IV. No Mum Imported during the continuance of this Act shall have any part of the Custom or Excise repaid upon Exportation Butter and Cheese I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 7. After any Factor or Buyer hath bought Butter or Cheese and approved the same the Seller shall not afterwards be chargeable with any Penalties in the Act of the 14 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for Reforming Abuses in Weighing and false Packing of Butter II. Such Factor or Buyer shall set his Seal or Mark or Name at length on the Cask in which such Butter is and in case the same be afterward exchanged or opened and the Cask changed or bad Butter pack'd up and mix'd with good or any Fraud be committed by the Seller the Offender being convicted upon Oath before one or more Justices of Peace or upon his own Confession shall forfeit Twenty Shillings for every such Ferkin and Offence to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Offenders Goods restoring the Overplus after Charges defrayed And Constables of Parishes and Chief Constables of Hundreds are hereby authorized to levy the same by Warrant under Hand and Seal of such Justice or Justices III. Warehouse-keepers Weighers Searchers or Shippers of Butter and Cheese in any Port within this Kingdom shall receive all Butter and Cheese that shall be brought to them for any Cheesemonger free of the City of London or any other making the said Commodities and take care thereof till the same can be shipped and shall ship it successively as it comes to their hands on the next Vessel that shall come to lade Butter and Cheese for London Except the Owners order the contrary and shall receive of the Owners Two Shillings and Six pence for every Load and no more and so proportionably And if any such Persons or their Servants shall refuse to receive such Goods or to take due care thereof or to ship them successively as aforesaid they shall forfeit being convicted in manner aforesaid for every Ferkin of Butter Ten Shillings and for every Weigh of Cheese Five Shillings to be levied as aforesaid IV. Warehouse-keepers Weighers c. shall keep Books and enter therein all Butter and Cheese that shall be brought to them as it comes with the time when received the quantity and and Owners Name and when the Goods are shipp'd off shall make Entries of the time when shipped the Master's Name the Vessels Name and to whom consigned Which Book shall be open for all Persons to see and search gratis And if any Ware-house-keeper c. shall not keep such Book or not make Entries as aforesaid or undue Entries or refuse in the day-time to produce the Book to be searched such Offenders being convict in manner aforesaid shall forfeit for every Firkin of Butter Two Shillings and Six pence and for every Weigh of Cheese Two Shilling and Six pence and for every other the aforesaid Offences Two Shillings and Six pence to be levied as aforesaid and for want of Goods to levy the Penalty the Justice before whom such Conviction shall be made may commit the Offender to Goal till the Penalties be satisfied V. If Masters of Vessels coming to lade Butter and Cheese or their Servants refuse to take on Board any such Butter and Cheese as shall be tendred to be shipped by any such Warehouse-keeper c. before their Vessels be laden they shall forfeit being convict as aforesaid for every Firkin of Butter so refused Five Shillings and for every Weigh of Cheese Two shillings and Six pence to be levied as aforesaid VI. One half of the Forfeitures within this Act to go to the Poor of the Parish and the other half to the Informer VII This Act shall not exclude Cheesemongers free of the City of London from sending their own Vessels or such as they shall hire for their own Goods VIII Nothing in this Act shall extend to the Counties of Chester and Lancaster nor to the County of the City of Chester IX Persons aggrieved by the Determination of any Justice of Peace may appeal to the next General quarter-Quarter-Sessions whose Determination shall be final The Person appealing first giving to the Party accused a Bond of Twenty Pounds Penalty with one or more Sureties to the liking of the Justice of Peace to pay such Costs as shall be allowed in case the Appellant be not relieved the said Costs to be paid within a Month after the determining the Appeal Cattel I. Stat. 3 4 W. M cap. 8. It shall be lawful for any Persons native or foreign at any time to ship and transport into any part of the World in Amity with Their Majesties Beef Pork or Hogs-flesh Butter Cheese or Candles free from any Custom or Imposition whatsoever Chancellor I. Stat. Ann. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 21. Commissioners to be appointed to execute the Office of Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being may use and exercise all and every the same and like Offices Authority Jurisdiction and Execution of Laws and other Customs Priviledges Emoluments and Advantages which the Lord Chancellor of England or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of right ought to use have and execute as belonging to their Offices or otherwise and shall have and take place next after the Peers of this Realm and Speaker of the House of Commons unless any of them shall happen to be a Peer and then to take place accordingly II. Any one Commissioner may hear Motions and give Orders touching Interlocutory Proceedings so as such one Commissioner in the absence of the others shall not make Decrees or put the Great Seal to any thing unless there be two present III. The nominating and appointing of the Custos Rotulorum in all Shires and Counties shall be as is directed by a Statute made in the 37 year of K. Hen. 8. IV. The Custos Rotulorum or other person to whom of right it doth belong shall from time to time nominate and appoint the Clerk of the Peace V. If any Clerk of the Peace shall misdemean himself in his Office the Justices of Peace in their General Quarter-Sessions or the Major part of them upon Complaint in Writing exhibited against him may upon Examination and due Proof thereof suspend or discharge him And in such case the Custos Rotulorum or other person to whom of Right it shall belong shall appoint another person residing within such County c. to be Clerk of the Peace in
his room and in case of neglect or refusal to make such Appointment before the next General Quarter-Sessions after such refusal the Justices of Peace at their General Quarter-Sessions may appoint one VI. Provided always that he shall be liable to all the Penalties Conditions c. hereby mentioned and expressed and may be discharged by the said Justices as aforesaid VII No Custos Rotulorum or other person to whom it doth or shall belong to nominate a Clerk of the Peace shall sâ—ll the said Place directly or indirectly upon the Penalty that every Custos Rotulorum or other person so selling and every Clerk of the Peace so buying shall be disabled to hold their Places and forfeit double the Value of what shall be so given or taken to be recovered by him or them that will sue for the same to their own use by any Action of Debt Suit Bill Plaint or Information in any of Their Majesties Courts at Westminster VIII Every Clerk of the Peace before he enters upon his Office shall in open Sessions take this Oath viz. I A. B. do swear That I have not nor will pay any Sum or Sums of Money or other Reward whatsoever nor have given any Bond or other Assurance to pay any Money Fee or Profit directly or indirectly to any person or persons whomsoever for such Nomination or Appointment So help me God IX Nothing in this Act shall relate to the Clerk of the Peace for the Dutchy and County Palatine of Lancaster X. This Act to commence from the 1st day of May 1689. Churches I. Sat. 4 5 W. M. c. 12. Where any Churches have been or shall be united by virtue of an Act made in the 17th year of the Reign of the late K. Charles the Second and one of them at the time of such Union was or hereafter shall be demolished in such case whenever the Church to which the Union was or shall be made shall be out of Repair or want decent Ornaments the Parishioners of the Parish whose Church shall be down or demolished shall pay towards the Charge of such Repairs and Ornaments in proportion as the Archbishop or Bishop that shall make such Union shall direct and for want of such Direction shall bear one third part of the Charge Clergy I. Stat. 3 4 W. M c. 9. Such as shall rob any person or feloniously take away Goods being in a Dwelling-house the Owner or other person being there and put in fear or shall rob any Dwelling house in the day time any Person being therein or shall be accessary to any of the said Offences or to break any Dwelling-house Shop or Warehouse thereunto belonging or therewith used in the day time and feloniously take away Money or Goods to the value of 5 s. though no person be therein or shall counsel hire or command any person to commit any Burglary being thereof attainted or being indicted thereof shall stand mute or will not directly answer to the Indictment or shall peremptorily challenge above 20 Jurors shall not have the Benefit of their Clergy II. Persons indicted of any offence for which by virtue of any former Law they are excluded from Clergy if convicted by Verdict or Confession shall not be admitted to the Benefit thereof if they stand mute or will not answer directly to the Felony or shall challenge peremptorily above 20. III. Persons indicted for stealing any Goods in any County and thereof convicted or standing mute or not answering directly to the Indictment or challenging peremptorily above 20 shall be excluded from the Benefit of their Clergy if it appear upon Evidence that the said Goods were taken in any other County in such manner as if the said persons had been convicted by a Jury there they should have lost the Benefit of their Clergy IV. Persons buying or receiving stolen Goods knowing them to be stolen shall be deemed Accessaries to the Felony after the Fact V. If any persons shall steal any Chattels c. which by Contract or Agreement they are to use or shall be let to them in Lodgings such stealing shall be adjudged Larceny and Felony VI. If a Woman be convicted of an Offence for which a man might have the Benefit of his Clergy upon her Prayer to have the Benefit of this Statute Judgment of Death shall not be given against her but she shall suffer the same punishment that a man should suffer viz. shall be burnt in the Hand and farther be kept in Prison not exceeding a year VII A Transcript certified by the Clerk of the Crown of the Peace or of the Assizes containing the Tenor of the Indictment and of the persons having had the Benefit of his Clergy or of this Act to the Judges or Justices in any other County shall be a sufficient proof that such persons hath had the Benefit of his Clergy or of this Act. Coals I. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 7. An Act made in the 16th and 17th years of the Reign of the late K. Charles II. for Regulating the Measures and Prices of Coals is hereby revived and continued from the 1st day of December 1690. for the space of 7 years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament II. Owners of Vessels English built and belonging to the Subjects of England whereof the Master is an Englishman Trading with Coals to and from Newcastle or the Parts adjacent or to Wales to London or any part of England may navigate their Vessels with as many Foreign Seamen as the Master or Owners shall think fit during the present War any thing in an Act made in the 12th year of K. Charles II. Entituled An Act for Encouraging and Encreasing Shipping and Navigation to the contrary notwithstanding The Act of K. Charles the Second hereby Revived is as followeth viz. Stat. 16 17 Car. 2. From and after the 6th of March 1664. all Sea coal brought into the River of Thames and sold shall be sold by the Chaldron containing 36 Bushels heaped up and according to the Bushel sealed for that purpose at Guildhall and all other Coals commonly sold by Weight shall be sold after the proportion of 112 pounds to the Hundred of Avoir du pois on pain to forseit the Coals otherwise sold or exposed to sale and the double value thereof to be recovered by any who will sue for the same in any Court of Record or by Complaint to the Lord Mayor and Justices of Peace within London or any two of them or to the Justices of Peace of the several Counties and Places where such Coals shall be exposed to sale who are hereby empowered to convict the Offenders and to levy the Forfeitures by Warrant one half to the Prosecutor and the other half to the Use of the Poor or Repairing the Highways The Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen and the Justices of Peace of the several Counties c. or any Three of them whereof one to be of
for every 100 weight of Steel containing as aforesaid 5 s. 6 d. and so in proportion for every 100 weight of Anvils containing as aforesaid 9 s. 3 d. and so in proportion for every hundred of single white or black Plates 4 s. 4 d. and so in proportion For every hundred of double white or black Plates 8 s. 8 d. and so in proportion for every Harnessplate or Iron double 1 s. 4 d. for every 100 weight of Iron drawn or hammered less then three quarters of an Inch square and all other Iron Ware manufactured containing as aforesaid 5 s. Provided that no manufactured Iron Ware hereby charged to pay by the Piece or Hundred weight shall be liable to pay by the Tun. And for every 100 weight of Brass Latten or Copper-Wire containing as aforesaid 15 s. and so in proportion XXIV For every Last of Hemp-seed Cole-seed and Rape-seed 4 l. XXV For all Yarn of Flax or Hemp other then Cable-Yarn an additional Duty of as much as is now charged in the Book of Rates for every 100 weight of Cable-Yarn 5 s. and so in proportion XXVI For all manufactures of Glass except Rhenish and Muscovia Window-glass 3 s. for every 20 s. value above what is already charged XXVII For every 100 weight of Molosses containing as aforesaid imported from any other place then the English Plantations in America 8 s. XXVIII For every 100 weight of Tallow containing as aforesaid 5 s. and so in proportion for every 100 weight of Tallow-Candles containing as aforesaid 10 s. and so in proportion XXIX For every pound of Bever-wooll cut and comb'd except Wooll comb'd in Russia and imported thence in English Vessels 15 s. XXX For every Barrel of Pot-ashes containing 200 weight neat 8 s. and so in proportion XXXI For every 100 weight of Cordage ready wrought containing as aforesaid 5 s. and so in proportion XXXII For every Tun of Olive-Oyl imported 4 s. and so in proportion XXXIII For every Ream of Royal Paper 2 s. of Blue Paper Demy Paper and painted Paper 1 s. 6 d. for every Bundle of Brown Paper 2 d. and for all other Paper as much more as is now charged in the Book of Rates XXXIV For every 100 weight of Liquorice containing 112 pounds 18 s. and so in proportion for every such 100 weight of Liquorice Powder 1 l. 17 s. 4 d. for every pound weight of Juice of Liquorice 1 s. and so in proportion XXXV For every 100 weight of Barilla or Saphora containing 112 pound 2 s. 6 d. and so in proportion XXXVI For every 100 weight of Sope containing as aforesaid 10 s. and so in proportion XXXVII For all Earthen Ware not mentioned in the Book of Rates 2 s. 6 d. for every 20 s. value XXXVIII For every 100 weight of Starch containing ut supra 20 s. and so in proportion XXXIX For every 100 weight of Allom containing ut supra 2 s. 6 d. and so in proportion XL. For every 100 weight of Brimstone containing ut supra 4 s. 8 d. and so in proportion XLI For every 100 weight of Tin containing ut supra 30 s. and so in proportion XLII Where any Duties upon Goods and Merchandize hereby granted are to be levied according to the value the value shall be taken according to the Books of Rates if such Goods are particularly there rated if not the value shall be taken by the Importers Oath the Duties hereby imposed not to be reckon'd into the value XLIII For all additional Duties hereby imposed the Importer giving security shall have 12 Months time where the same is not otherwise limited for payment thereof by four quarterly payments or upon present payment shall have 10 l. per Cent. abated him And if such Goods or Merchandize be again exported within a Twelve Month the additional Duty shall be repaid and Security vacated XLIV The Duties hereby imposed shall not affect such foreign Stores as have been sold for the use of the Navy by Contract with the Navy-board or Commissioners for the victualling before the 15th day of November 1690. XLV The Duties hereby imposed shall be raised collected and paid in manner and form and by such Rules and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as are mentioned in the Act of Tonnage and Poundage Anno 12 Car. 2. and the Rules and Orders thereunto annexed XLVI Any persons may advance Money to Their Majesties upon the Security of this Act at 8 l. per Cent. for forbearance and no more XLVII All Moneys that shall be paid into the Exchequer by virtue of this Act shall be registred apart and distinct from all other Moneys payable upon any other Branch of the Revenue And they that lend Money on the Credit of this Act shall have Tallies of Loan struck for the same and Orders for repayment bearing date with their Tallies in which Orders there shall be Warrants for payment of Interest at the Rate of 8 l. per Cent. per Annum to be paid every Three Months such Orders to be registred in course without preference And all persons shall be paid in course according as their Orders stand entred No Fee Reward or Gratuity shall be taken for providing or making any such Registers Entries View or Search in or for payment of Money lent or the Interest by any of Their Majesties Officers their Clerks or Deputies on pain of payment of treble Damages to the Party grieved with Costs of Suit and the Officer demanding any such Fee shall lose his place And if any undue preference be made in point of Registry or Payment the Party offending shall be liable by Action of Debt or of the Case to pay the value of the Debt Damages and Costs to the Party grieved and shall be fore-judged his Place or Office XLVIII If several Tallies of Loan or Orders for payment bear date or be brought the same day to the Auditor of the Receipt it shall be no undue preference which he enters first so he enters all the same day XLIX Nor shall it be interpreted any undue preference if the Auditor direct and the Clerk of the Pells record and Tellers pay subsequent Orders of persons that come and demand their money and bring their Orders before others that do not come to demand theirs so as there be so much money left as will satisfie precedent Orders L. Moneys due by virtue of this Act After Order entred in the Register may by Endorsement of the Order be assigned and transferred and the Assignee may in like manner assign and so toties quoties But such Endorsement must be notified in the Office of the Auditor of Receipt and an Entry or Memorandum made thereof in the Book of Register for Orders LI. Sat. 2. W. M. Sess 2. cap 5. The several Impositions and Duties upon Wines and Vinegar granted by an Act made in the 1st year of the late King James II. shall be continued from the 23th of June 1693. until the 24th of June 1696.
l. for every 100 l. value CXXV For every dozen pounds of Thread Outnel 4 s. CXXVI For all Tapistry and Dornix except such as are manufactured in or brought from the French Kings Dominions 10 l. for every 100 l. value CXXVII For unwrought Inkle one Moiety more then what is now paid for the same CXXVIII For all Pan-tiles 8 s. the 1000. CXXIX For Dying-wood except Red Wood from Guinea Drugs and Logwood 5 l. for every 100 l. value CXXX For Bees-wax 5 l. for every 100 l. value CXXXI For every Tun of French Wine 8 l. above all Duties already charged CXXXII Upon all French Goods and Merchandize except Wine Brandy Salt and Vinegar 25 l. for every 100 l. value CXXXIII For Alamodes and Lutestrings 15 l. for every 100 l. value CXXXIV For Latten Brass or Copper-wire 6 s. 6 d. the 100 Weight containing 112 pounds CXXXV For Goods not particularly rated in the Book of Rates paying Duty at value 5 l. for every 100 l. value upon the Importer's Oath according to the Direction of the Book of Rates except such Goods as are particularly charged by this Act or an Act of this Parliament Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majâ—sties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods c. CXXXVI For every Gallon of Strong Water Aqua vitae or Brandy commonly called Single Brandy to be paid by the Importer before landing 2 s. above the Duties at any time before the Second year of Their Majesties Reign payable for the same CXXXVII For every Gallon of Strong Waters Spirits or Brandy above Proof called Double Brandy to be paid as aforesaid 4 s. CXXXVIII Two Clauses in an Act made the Second year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties several Additional Duties upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for Four Years c. concerning Single Brandy Spirits or Aqua vitae and Brandy Spirits or Aqua vitae above Proof shall from the 1st day of March 1692. be repealed CXXXIX The Rates and Impositions hereby imposed to be raised except where it is otherwise hereby directed according to the Act of Tonnage and Poundage and the Directions thereunto annexed or any other Laws now in force relating to the Customs CXL The several Rates and Duties upon Single and Double Brandy shall be levied according to the Directions of an Act made in the 12th year of K. Charles II. Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries c. and of another Act in the 15th year of His Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of Excise c. or of any other Law in force relating to the Excise CXLI The Importers giving Security at the Custom house shall have a Twelve Months time for paying the Additional Duties hereby imposed by 4 quarterly Payments and for ready Money shall have 10 l. per Cent. abated And if such Goods be again exported within a Twelve Month by any Merchant English or within 9 Months by Strangers the Duty shall be repaid or the Security vacated for what shall be exported all Brandy excepted CXLII The Duties hereby charged upon Amber-Beads Amber rough Coral-Beads and polished Coral and all Couries to be repaid to the Merchant exporting the same within 3 years after the Importation thereof CXLIII No Brandy shall be imported in any Vessel not containing 60 Gallons at the least on pain of forfeiting the same or the Value one half to Their Majesties and the other half to the Informer CXLIV The Officers concerned in levying the Duties arising by this Act shall keep a separate Account thereof and pay the same in specie into the Exchequer weekly and upon neglect or refusal shall forfeit their Places CXLV During the continuance of the said Act Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods c. the Sum of 5 l. only shall be paid for every 100 l. Value of Raisins above the Rates thereon charged in the Book of Rates and 50 s. for every 100 l. Value of Currans above the Rates in the Book of Rates any thing in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding the same to be Collected as by the said Act is directed CXLVI No piece of Calico Imported during the continuance of the said last recited Act of the breadth of One yard and a quarter shall exceed in length Ten yards and no Piece above that breadth shall exceed Six yards and Pieces exceeding those lengths shall be Rated according to the length of Ten yards and Six yards for each Piece and pay in that proportion according to the Sum rated in the Book of Rates and the Subsidy and additional Duty shall be Collected and Paid according to that Admeasurement CXLVII Linen of Prussia Polonia or any part of the East Countrey except Russia above the breadth of three quarters and half a quarter of a yard shall pay as broad Germany Linen and whited Hinderlands from the same Countries under that breadth shall pay as narrow East Countrey Linen CXLVIII During the continuance of an Act made in the First year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for charging and Collecting the Duties upon Coffee c. at the Custom-house there shall be paid to Their Majesties for every 100 Weight of Coffee Imported 56 s. and no more and for every Pound of Cocao Nuts Imported from any of our own Plantations 6 d. and no more and from any other Countries 8 d. and for every pound of Tea Imported from whence it Lawfully may 1 s. and no more and for every pound of Chocolate 1 s. and no more any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding CLXIX The Duties hereby charged upon Coffee Cocao Nuts Tea and Chocolate to be paid over and above the Duties Charged upon them in the Book of Rates CL. No Foreign Alamodes and Lutestrings shall be Imported after the 25 day of March 1693. but upon notice first given to the Commissioners or Farmers of the Customs of the Quality and Quantity Marks Numbers and Package thereof with the Name of the Ship and Master and the Place where they intend to import the same and taking a licence from the said Commissioners or Farmers or any Three of them for the Lading and Importing thereof which Licence shall be Granted without Fee the said Goods Imported without such Notice and Licence shall be Forfeited one Moiety to Their Majesties and the other Moiety to him that will seize or sue for the same CLI Officers of the Customs for passing any Debenture for Repayment of the Duties to be paid back on Exportation according to this or any other Act shall only receive such Fees as were payable for Debentures for the Repayment of the half Subsidy according to the Book of Rates and no more nor shall any Fee be taken for any Oath to be Administred at the Custom-house upon this Act. CLII. The Act made in the 3d Year
d. For every Barrel of Vinegar or Vinegar-Beer made of English Materials 1 s. 6 d. For every Barrel of Vinegar or Liquor prepared for Vinegar made for Sale of Foreign Materials 4 s. For every Barrel of Beer Ale or Mum Imported 3 s. For every Tun of Cyder or Perry Imported 4 l. For every Gallon of Single Brandy Spirits or Aqua vitae Imported 2 s. For every Gallon of Brandy Spirits or Aqua vitae above Proof Imported 4 s. For all Cyder and Perry made and sold by Retail to be paid by the Retailer for every Hogshead 1 s. and 3d. For Metheglin and Mead made for Sale to be paid by the Maker for every Gallon 3 d. II. If any Distiller or Maker of Low Wines shall after the 20th Day of July 1689. after an Account taken by the Gauger of the Quantity of his Wines dispose of the same without drawing them off a second time he shall Forfeit for every Gallon so disposed of 5 s. III. The Duties hereby Imposed shall be Raised in Manner and Form and under such Penalties as are mentioned in one Act of Parliament made in the 12th year of the Reign of the late King Charles 2d Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries c. and by one other Act made in the 15th year of the said King's Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duties of Excise c. or by any other Law now in force relating to the Excise not otherwise herein and hereby altered and provided against IV. Every Thirty four Gallons of Beer or Ale according to the Standard of the Ale-Quart Four whereof shall make the Gallon shall be reckon'd a Barrel of Beer or Ale And the Allowances appointed to be made within the Weekly Bills of Mortality for waste by filling and leakage shall be Two Barrels and a half upon every Twenty three Barrels and no more V. When it shall appear to the Gauger that any Worts are missing or not let fairly down into the Tun and the Gauger cannot find the same the Gauger shall charge the Brewer c. with so much Beer or Ale as the Worts missing would reasonably make VI. Gaugers may make their Returns and Charges upon warm Worts and make Allowance of a Tenth part thereof for Wash and Waste such Worts not to be afterwards charged with any Duty of Excise VII No Retailer of Beer or Ale shall during the continuance of this Act or of the Duties hereby imposed be impleaded for uttering Beer or Ale at any higher Prices then the Price heretofore appointed VIII In case any Distiller or Maker of Strong Waters Aquâ—vitae or Spirits shall upon request or demand made by the Gauger in the Day-time or the Night-time in the presence of a Constable refuse to permit the Gauger to enter his House c. he shall incur the Penalties by the said former Acts inflicted and the Prosecutor shall not be obliged to prove that such Offenders delivered out part of their Commodities before they had cleared the Duties IX Whereas it is Enacted by the said Act of the 15th of K. Charles II. That no common Brewer shall be prosecuted for any Misentry if within one Week after the delivery of the Copy of the Gauger's Return he certifie his Entry made for the Week for which such Copy is delivered according to such Return or otherwise discharge himself Be it Enacted That no Brewer shall have any benefit of that Proviso upon any Information if it shall appear upon Evidence that he did not bona fide shew to the Gauger all the Beer Ale and Worts of every Guile for such time for which such Copy of the Return was given Or if any apparent Fraud was acted to defraud Their Majesties of Their Duty X. Common Brewers and Retailers of Beer and Ale who contrary to the said Act made in the 15th year of K. Charles II. shall use any private Cellar c. shall forfeit 50 l. for every such Offence and for mixing concealing or conveying away any Worts contrary to the said Act shall forfeit 20 l. a Barrel XI True Notes in Writing of the last Gauges taken shall be left by the Gaugers with all Brewers c. containing the Quantity and Quality of the Liquors gauged on pain to forfeit 40 s. for every Neglect XII The Commissioners of Excise or Appeals or Justices of Peace upon Complaint made to them on behalf of the Brewers c. of any Overcharge return'd by the Gaugers shall hear and determâ—ne the same and examine Witnesses upon Oath on both sides XIII For the ease of the Inhabitants in the County of Anglesey living remote from the Market-Town there shall be Offices kept for making Entries and Payments in Holy-head Newborough and Llanerchthmeth as well as in Beaumaris XIV No Commissioner or other Person employed about the Excise shall demand or receive any Money or other Reward from any Person but Their Majesties on Pain to forfeit their Offices and being uncapable of executing any Office in the Excise XV. No Information shall be brought against any Brewer or other for any Misentry made after the 24th day of July 1689. but within 3 Months after the Offence committed and notice thereof shall be given to the Defendants in Writing or left at their Dwelling-houses within a Week after the Information entred XVI From the 1st day of September 1689. no Brewer or Retailer of Beer or Ale shall use in working any Beer or Ale any Molossus course Sugar Hony or Composition or Extract of Sugar on Pain to forfeit all such Liquors and the Sum of 100 l. one Moiety to Their Majesties and the other to the Informer so as the Suit be commenced within 6 Months after the Forfeiture incurred XVII When Malt or Barley shall be at 24 s. a Quarter or under and Rye at 32 s. or under and Wheat at 48 s. or under in Berwick Merchants and others who shall export the same in English Shipping the Master and two Thirds of the Mariners at least being English and shall pursue the Methods and Things prescribed in that behalf in an Act made this Session Entituled An Act for the Encouraging the Exportation of Corn shall have the benefit and Advantage of the said Act as if the said Corn had been shipp'd from any Port of England or Wales XVIII If any Merchant or other Person put on Ship-board any Scotch Corn at Berwick it shall be forfeited one Third part to Their Majesties another Third part to the Informer and a Third part to the Poor of the Town of Berwick XIX Stat. 2. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 3. The several Rates Duties and Impositions upon Beer Ale Cyder and other Liquors mentioned in an Act of Parliament made in the 12th year of the Reign of K. Charles II. Entituled A Grant of certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for the Encrease of His Majesties Revenue during His Life except such of them
concerning which it is otherwise provided by any Act of the last Parliament shall be paid to Their Majesties during Their Lives and the Life of the longer Liver of Them in such Manner and by such Rules and under such Penalties as are directed by the said Act and by another Act in the 15th year of the said late Kings Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of Excise and preventing Abuses therein or any other Law now in force relating to the Excise XX. And whereas Their Majesties are pleased that the Duties and Impositions hereby granted shall be a Fond of Credit for the raising a Sum not exceeding 250000 l. Be it Enacted That if Their Majesties should die before the 24th day of December 1693. the said several Duties and Impositions shall continue to be paid until the said 24th day of December subject to and chargeable with the Sum to be borrow'd as aforesaid XXI Any Persons may advance Money upon the Credit of this Act not exceeding 250000 l. in the whole at Interest for Money lent before the 10th of June of 8 l. per Cent. and for Money lent after 7 l. per Cent. XXII After the 1st day of Novemb. 1690. till the said 24th day of Decemb. 1693. the Commissioners of Excise shall separate and keep apart 3 Parts the whole in 4 Parts to be divided of the moneys arising by this Act And the Auditor and Comptroller of the Excise shall keep a distinct Account of the said 3 Parts to which Persons concerned may have access without Fee and the Commissioners and Governours of the Excise shall pay the same weekly into the Exchequer every Wednesday if it be not a Holy-day and then the next day after that is not a Holy-day distinct from other moneys XXIII And there shall be provided in the Exchequer in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipts one Book in which such moneys shall be entred apart and all Persons lending money upon the Credit of this Act shall have a Tally of Loan struck and an Order for repayment bearing date with the Tally in which shall be a Warrant for payment of Interest according to the Rates aforesaid to be paid every Three Months such Orders to be registred in course without Preference and all Persons shall be paid in course as their Orders stand entred and the said money not to be divertible to any other Use or Purpose and if the Commissioners or Governours of the Excise do not pay in the said moneys as aforesaid or misapply any Part thereof they shall forfeit their Offices and be uncapable of any Office or Place of Trust and pay the full Value of the Sum misapplied to him that will sue for the same No Fee Reward or Gratuity shall be demanded or taken for providing or making any such Registers Entries View or Search in or for payment of money lent or the Interest by any of Their Majesties Officers their Clerks or Deputies on Pain of Payment of Treble Damages to the Party grieved and Costs of Suit and the Officer taking such Fee c. shall lose his Place And if any undue Preference be made in point of Registry or Payment the Party offending shall be liable by Action of Debt or of the Case to pay the value of the Debt Damages and Costs to the Party grieved and shall be forejudged his Place if an Officer If a Deputy or Clerk only he shall for ever after be uncapable thereof And in case the Auditor shall not direct the Order or the Clerk of the Pells record or the Teller make payment according to each Persons Order they shall be adjudged to forfeit and their Deputies and Clerks offending to be liable to such Action Damages and Costs as aforesaid All which Penalties and Forfeitures to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. XXIV If several Tallies of Loan or Orders for payment bear date or be brought the same day it shall be no undue Preference which is entred first so as all be entred the same day Nor shall it be any undue Preference to direct order and pay subsequent Orders of Persons that come and demand their moneys and bring their Orders before others that do not come to demand theirs so as there be so much money left as will satisfie precedent Orders Interest upon Loan being to cease from the time that the money is kept in Bank for them XXV Moneys due by Virtue of this Act after Order entred in the Register may by Endorsement be transferr'd and the Assignee may in like manner assign in toties quoties but such Endorsement must be notified in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt and an Entry or Memorandum made thereof in the Book of the Register for Orders XXVI Nevertheless an Act made in the 1st year of the Reign of the late K. James Entituled An Act for settling the Revenue on His Majesty for his Life which was settled on His late Majesty for his Life is hereby repealed XXVII Their Majesties by Letters Patents under the Great Seal may grant to Princess Anne of Denmark the yearly Sum of 20000 l. to be issuing out of the Duties hereby granted during Their Majesties Lives and the Life of the Survivor of them freed from the Loans by this Act to be made payable quarterly at the Four most usual Feasts XXVIII If the said Princess shall depart this life in the life-time of Their Majesties or either of them Their Majesties may grant the said yearly Sum to the Prince of Denmark and the Issue of the Princess respectively in such proportions as Their Majesties shall think fit to be paid quarterly XXIX Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 3. An Act for doubling the Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors during the space of one Year EXP. XXX Sat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 9. From the 24th day of Decemb. 1690. until the 25th day of Decemb. 1695. there shall be paid by way of Excise for Low-wines or Spirits of the first Extraction the Rates following viz. XXXI For every Gallon of Low-wines drawn from Foreign or Imported Materials 8 d. XXXII For every such Gallon drawn from English Materials other then from Drink prepared from any sort of Malted Corn or from Perry or Cyder 12 d. XXXIII For every such Gallon drawn only from Drink brewed and made or any sort of malted Corn 1 d. XXXIV And for every such Gallon drawn from Cyder or Perry 3 d. XXXV Such as make Low-wines Spirits or Brandy from Corn shall cause their Corn to be made into wholsom Drink and from such drink without any mixture shall draw their Low-wines and the Gaugers of Excise may gauge and keep an Account of Liquors Worts and Drink made for the making Low-wines c. and see that they be made from Drink made of malted Corn entirely And if Distillers or others mix other Materials the Gaugers shall charge the
Payment of Debts that shall be incurred by reason of the War LXI The Three Ships afore mentioned to be built within a year from the Twentieth Day of March next LXII Their Majesties may use any Sum or Sums not exceeding 500000 l. in the whole Granted in this Session and not particularly Appropriated so as it be Repaid and Applied to the Carrying on the present War out of such Moneys as shall arise from Their Maieslies Revenue before the 24th Day of March 1691. LXIII Stat. 3. u. M. cap. 1. An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for One Year EXP. LXIV Stat. 3. W. M. cap. 15. No Corn Distiller or Maker of Low-wines Spirits or Strong-waters for Sale shall at any Time after the 1st Day of March 1691 Set up Use or Alter any Tun Cask or other brewing Vessel for brewing or making any Worts Wash Low-wines Spirits or Strongwaters for Sale or use any private or conceal'd Ware-house or other place for laying of any Wash Low-wines c. without giving Notice thereof to the next Office of Excise within the Limits where he inhabits on Pain to Forfeit 20 l. for every Tun c. so Set up Used or Altered and for every private Ware-house c. and every other Person in whose Occupation any House or other Place shall be where any such private Tun c. shall be found shall Forfeit 20 l. one Moiety to Their Majesties and the other Moiety to the Informer LXV If any such Corn Distiller c. shall Conceal or Convey away any Low-wines Spirits c. from the Sight or View of the Gaugers he shall Forfeit for every Gallon so Conceal'd or Convey'd 5 s. All which Penalties shall be Sued for and Recovered as by an Act made in the 12th Year of the Reign of the late King Charles 2 d Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries c. and another Act made in the Fifteenth Year of his Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duties of Excise c. or by any other Law in force Relating to the Revenue of Excise on Beer and Ale is directed LXVI Stat. 4. W. M. cap. 3. From and after the 25th Day of January 1692. there shall be paid to Their Majesties Their Heirs c. during the space of Ninety nine years for the Liquors herein after Expressed over and above all Duties now Chargeable upon the same For every Barrel of Beer or Ale above 6 s. the Barrel 9 d. For every Barrel of Beer or Ale of 6 s. or under 3 d. For every Barrel of English Vinegar 1 s. and 6 d. For every Barrel of Vinegar made with or passing through Foreign Materials or any mixture with Foreign Materials 4 s. For every Barrel of Beer Ale and Mum Imported 3 s. For every Tun of Cyder or Perry Imported 4 l. For every Gallon of Single-Brandy Imported 6 d. For every Gallon of Double Brandy 1 s. For all Cyder and Perry made and sold by Retail upon every Hogshead 1 s. and 3 d. For all Metheglin or Mead made for Sale by Retail or otherwise for every Gallon 3 d. LXVII The said Impositions to be paid to Their Majesties c. in the same Manner and Form and by such Rules and under such Penalties as are mentioned in the Act of 12 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries c. and in another Act made in the same year Entituled A Grant of certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for the Increase of His Majesties Revenue during his Life and in another Act made in the 15th year of the same Kings Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of Excise c. or by any other Law in Force relating to the Revenue of Excise LXVIII The Commissioners and Governours for the management of the Excise at the Head Office in London shall keep apart the moneys arising by the Duties hereby granted as the same shall be paid in and shall pay weekly every Wednesday if it be not a Holy-day and then the day after into the Exchequer all the said moneys distinct from the other moneys which they shall receive for Their Majesties Use LXIX There shall be kept in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipts one Book in which all the said weekly moneys shall be entred apart from other moneys LXX If the said Commissioners and Governours neglect or refuse to pay the said weekly Sums as aforesaid or misapply any of the same they shall forfeit their Offices and be incapable of any Office or Place of Trust and shall pay the full Value of any Sum or Sums so misapplied to any that will sue for the same LXXI The Sums appointed to be paid in weekly as aforesaid shall be the yearly Fond for the purposes hereafter mentioned LXXII Any persons Natives or Foreigners may contribute toward the advancing the said Sum of 1000000 l. at any time before the 1st day of May 1693. Sum or Sums and upon such Terms as are hereafter expressed viz. That out of the moneys arising by this Act the Sum of 100000 l. yearly till the 24th day of June 1700. be kept apart as the yearly Fond to be divided amongst the Persons so contributing and from and after that day 70000 l. shall be yearly kept apart as the yearly Fond to be divided as herein-after is mentioned That every Contributor shall advance 100 l. at least for which he is to name his own or some other life during which life he shall receive a Share of the said Fond as is hereafter expressed That every Contributor may advance as many Sums of 100 l. as he please for which he is to name one or more life or lives so as no more lives be named then there are distinct Hundred Pounds advanced during which life or lives he shall receive so many Shares of the said Fond as he shall have advanced Hundred Pounds all the said lives to be named within 14 days after the 24th of June 1692. That in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipts and of the Clerk of the Pells there be kept one or more Book or Books in which shall be entred the Contributors Names and the Names of those by whose hands they pay in the said moneys and the Sums paid and the time when and the Names of the Nominees To which the Contributors c. may have resort and inspect the same without Fee or Reward The Contributors and Nominees to be described by their Christian and Sirnames Additions Places of Abode c. Every Contributor shall have a Talley levied importing the Receipt of the money and an Order for payment bearing date with the Tally signed by the Commissioners of the Treasury or any three or more of them or by the Treasurer of the Exchequer which shall be valid notwithstanding the
next Session of Parliament VIII Stat. 4. 5. W. M. cap. 16. If any Persons shall borrow any Money or for any other valuable Consideration for the payment thereof shall acknowledge or suffer to be Entered against them a Judgment Statute or Recognizance and shall afterwards borrow any other Sum of any other Persons or for other valuable Consideration and for securing the Repayment or Discharge thereof shall morgage Lands to the Second or other Lender or Lenders or to any other Persons in Trust for him or them and shall not give notice to the Morgagee of such Judgment Statute or Recognizance in writing before the Execution of the said Morgage unless such Morgager or his Heirs upon notice given by the Morgagee in writing under Hand and Seal Attested by Two or more Witnesses of such former Judgment c. shall within Six Months Pay off and Discharge the same and cause the same to be vacated or discharged by Record such Morgager shall have no Benefit in Equity for Redemption of the Lands Morgaged IX If any Person who hath or shall once Morgage Lands for security of Money or for other valuable Considerations shall again Morgage the same Lands or any part thereof to any other Persons the former Morgage being in force and shall not discover to the Second Morgagee the First Morgage in writing such Morgager shall have no Relief or Equity of Redemption against the Second Morgagee X. But such Second or other Morgagees may Redeem any former Morgage XI This Act shall not extend to bar any Widow of any Morgager from her Dower who did not legally joyn with her Husband in such Morgage or otherwise Lawfully exclude her self Game I. STat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 23. All Laws and Statutes in Force for the better Preservation of the Game of this Kingdom and every Clause and thing therein not hereby Altered or Repealed shall be duly put in Execution II. Constables Head-boroughs and Tything men by a Justice of Peace his Warrant may and are Required to enter into and search in such manner as by An Act for the more effectual Discovery and Punishment of Deer-stealers made in the Third and Fourth Year of Their Majesties Reign is provided in Case of Venison or Skin of any Deer or Toyles Houses of Suspected Persons not qualified and in Case any Game shall be found the Offender shall be carried before a Justice of Peace and if he do not give a good Account how he came thereby or produce the Party of whom he bought it in some convenient Time or some Credible Person to depose upon Oath such Sale thereof he shall be Convicted of such Offence by the said Justice and Forfeit for every Hare Partridge c. or other Game any Sum not under 5 s. and not exceeding 20 One Moiety to the Informer and the other to the Poor of the Parish where the Offence was Committed to be Levied by Distress and Sale of his Goods rendring the Overplus and for want of a Distress shall be Committed to the House of Correction for any time not exceeding a Month nor less then Ten days there to be Whipt and Kept to Labour And if any Person not qualified by Law do keep or use any Bows Greyhounds Setting-dogs Ferrets Coney-dogs Hays Lurchers Netts Tunnels Low-bells Hare-pipes Snares or other Instruments for destruction of Game and shall be Convicted as aforesaid he shall be subject to the Pains and Penalties aforesaid And if any Person so Charged shall not before the same Justice give such Evidence of his Innocence as aforesaid he shall be Convicted thereof in like manner as the Person First Charged therewith is hereby directed to be and so from person to person till the First Offender be discovered III. Lords of Manors and other Royalties or any Authorized by them shall and may Oppose and Resist such Offenders in the Night time within their respective Manors and Royalties as if such Fact had been Committed in any ancient Chase Park or Warren Enclosed IV. No persons whatsoever shall after the 25th day of March 1693. keep any Net Angle Leap Piche or other Engine for taking Fish other then the Makers and Sellers thereof for their better convenience in the Sale thereof and other then the Owner or Occupier of a River or Fishery And Owners or Occupiers of Rivers and Fisheries and such as they shall Authorize may seize and keep to their own Use any such Engine which shall be found used by or in the possession of any Person whatsoever fishing in any River or Fishery without the consent of the Owner or Occupier And also any Person whatsoever Authorized by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of a Justice of Peace may search the Houses and other Places of Persons Prohibited and Suspected to have in their Custody any such Engines and the same to seize and keep to their own use or to destroy V. This Act shall not extend to abridge Fishermen or their Apprentices Lawfully Authorized to Fish in Navigable Rivers or Waters with Lawful Nets and Engines VI. No Certiorari shall be allowed to remove any Conviction or other Proceeding concerning any matter in this Act unless the Parties against whom such Conviction shall be shall before the Allowance thereof become bound to the Prosecutor in the Sum of 50 l. with Sureties to be Approved of by the Justice or Justices of Peace before whom such Offender was Convicted to pay to the Prosecutor within a month after such Conviction Confirmed or Proceedendo Granted their full Costs and Charges to be ascertain'd upon Oath VII Offenders Punished by force of this Act shall not incur the Penalty of any other Law for the same Offence VIII Persons prosecuted at Law for any thing done in pursuance of this Act may Plead the General Issue and give this Act or any other special Matter in Evidence and if the Verdict pass for the Defendants or the Plaintiffs become Non-suit or suffer a discontinuance the Defendants shall recover Treble Costs IX If any inferior Tradesman Apprentice or other dissolute Person shall Hunt Hawk Fish or Fowl unless in Company with the Master of such Apprentice qualified by Law they shall be subject to the Penalties of this Act and may be sued for Trespass in coming upon any persons Ground in which Suit the Plaintiff shall recover his Damages and full Costs X. For the better preserving the Red and Black Game of Growse commonly called Heath cooks or Heath-colts no person whatsoever on any Mountains Hills Heaths Moors Forests Chases or other Wasts shall burn between the Second Day of February and the Twenty fourth of June any Grig Ling Heath Furz Gross or Fern on pain of being Committed to the House of Correction for any Time not exceeding a Month nor under Ten Days there to be Whipt and kept to hard Labour Gold and Silver I. Sat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 30. Whereas by a Statute made in the 5th Year of King Henry
required to make upon the Information of One Credible Witness upon Oath the Moiety of such Forfeiture to the Informer the other to go towards the Repairing of the High-ways and in such case the Justices shall nominate some other fit Persons to perform the Office who shall upon like notice take upon them the Office under the same Penalty And Constables Headboroughs c. or some of them who shall not return such Lists of Names every one of them so neglecting shall forfeit 20 s. to be levied in the manner and imployed to the Uses aforesaid III. No Persons shall lay in any High-way not 20 Foot broad any matter whereby the same may be obstructed or annoyed on pain to forfeit 5 s. to be levied and disposed as aforesaid IV. If any Timber Stone Hay Straw Stubble or other Matter for making Dung or on any other Preâ—ence shall be laid in any such High-way the Possessors of the Lands next adjoyning shall remove and dispose of the same to their own Use And if they neglect to clear the way or to cleanse their Ditches c. adjoyning thereunto or to cause the earth taken thereout to be carried away and to lay sufficient Trunks or Bridges where there are Cart-ways into the said Grounds by the space of Ten days after notice given by any of the Surveyors they shall sorfeit 5 s. for every such Offence to be levied and disposed as aforesaid V. No tree Bush or Shrub shall be permitted to grow in any High way not 20 Foot-broad but shall be cut down by the Owner of the Land where it stands within Ten days after notice given by any of the Surveyors on pain to forfeit 5 s. to be levied and disposed as aforesaid VI. The Possessors of Lands adjoyning to High-ways not 20 Foot broad shall keep their Hedges pruned right up from the Roots VII Surveyors appointed as aforesaid shall within Fourteen days after their Acceptance of this Office and so from time to time every Four Months view the Roads Water-courses Bridges Cawseys c. within the Parish c. where he is a Surveyor that are to be repair'd by the Parish c. and present upon Oath in what Condition they find them to some Justice of Peace or to incur the same Penalty as if they had refused to execute the Office unless they have some reasonable Excuse to be allowed of by Two Justices of the Peace And what Defaults they shall find they shall the next Sunday after Sermon ended give publick notice of in the Parish-Church and if the same be not amended within Thirty days after such Surveyors shall within Thirty days amend the same and dispose of the Annoyances for the Repair of the High-ways and shall be reimbursed their Charges by the party who should have done the same And in case of refusal by the Party to pay such Charges the Surveyors shall apply themselves to a Justice of Peace and upon Oath before him made of notice to the Defaulter given as aforesaid the Surveyors shall be repaid such Charges as the Justice of Peace shall think reasonable to be levied as aforesaid VIII The Justices of Peace shall once in Four Months hold a Special Sessions and summon thereunto all the Surveyors of the High-ways and declare to them what they are obliged to do by Virtue of this or any former Act After which the Surveyors shall make a Presentment to them upon Oath of the state of the High-ways within their respective Parishes c. and what Offences and Neglects any are guilty of And before any Surveyor be discharged of his Office he shall at some such Special Sessions give an Account upon Oath of all Money that has come to his hands which ought to be imployed in amending the High-ways and how it has been disposed and if any remain in his hands he shall deliver it to the next Surveyors or in case of Failure shall forfeit double the Value to be levied and disposed as aforesaid IX Surveyors neglecting their Duty in any thing required by this Act shall forseit for every Ofence 40 s. to be levied and disposed as aforesaid X. If any Justice of Peace shall neglect or refuse to do what this Act requires he shall forfeit 5 l. one Moiety to the Prosecutor the other to be imployed for the Amendment of the High-ways where the Person who sues shall inhabit to be recovered in any of Their Majesties Courts of Record by Action of Debt c. XI Surveyors of the High-ways where the Ditches and Drains already made are not sufficient to carry off the water may make new ones through the Lands adjoyning and keep them open and come upon the Grounds with Workmen for so doing XII Upon notice given by the Surveyors to the Justices at their Special Sessions and Oath made of what Sums they have expended in Repairing the High-ways the Justices or any Two of them may by Warrant cause an equal Rate to be made to reimburse them where they are forced to lay out their Money according to the Methods prescribed in an Act made the 43 of Eliz. Entituled An Act for the better Relief of the Poor of this Ringdom and if any refuse to pay what shall be assessed on him the Surveyors shall levy the same by Distress or Sale of Goods XIII No Fine Issue Penalty or Forfeiture for not amending High-ways shall be returned into the Exchequer or other Court but shall be levied into the hands of the Surveyors to be applied towards the Amendment of such High-ways And if any such Fine c. imposed on any Parish c. for not repairing the High-ways shall be levied on one or more of the Inhabitants upon Complaint to the Justices of the Peace at their Special Sessions they or any two of them may by Warrant cause a Rate to be made to reimburse them which the Surveyors shall levy and pay within a Month after the making thereof XIV The Surveyors shall make every Cart-way leading to any Market-Town Eight Foot wide at least and as near as may be level XV. Inhabitants within the Weekly Bills of Mortality Brewers Scavengers and others imployed in carrying away the Dirt and Soil of the Streets c. may use any Cart Carr or Dray with Wheels shod with Iron and narrower then 6 Inches in the Fellies and drawn with more then Two Horses any Act Law or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding XVI Where the Justices of Peace at their General quarter-Quarter-Sessions shall be satisfied that the High-ways c. cannot be sufficiently amended without the help of this Act Assessments upon Persons usually rateable to the Poor shall be made and levied by such Persons and in such manner as the Justices at such Sessions shall direct and appoint the Money to be raised to be imployed according to their Orders for repairing the High-ways c. The said Assessments if not paid within Ten days after Demand to be levied by Distress and Sale of Goods rendring the
Overplus Charges deducted XVII No such Assessments to be made in any one year shall exceed 6 d. in the Pound of the yearly Value of Lands c. nor of 6 d. for 20 l. in personal Estate XVIII If any Persons find themselves aggrieved by such Assessments or any Act by the Justices of Peace the Justices of Peace at their General quarter-Quarter-Sessions shall take order therein which shall conclude all Parties XIX None shall be punished for any Offence against this Act unless he be prosecuted within six Months after the Offence committed nor shall any person punished by Virtue of this Act be punished for the same Offence by Virtue of any former Law XX. No Horse-cawsey shall be under Three Foot in breadth XXI The Justices of Peace for Middlesex may at their quarter-Quarter-Sessions make Rates for paving Kensington in such manner as is directed by an Act made in the second Year of Their Majesties Reign for Paving and Cleansing the Streets of London and Westminster XXII All matters concerning High-ways c. shall be determined in the County where they lie and not elsewhere and no Presentment Indictment or Order made by Virtue of this Act shall be removed by Certiorari out of the County XXIII The Justices of Peace of every County at their quarter-Quarter-Sessions after Easter yearly shall assess the Prices of all Land-Carriage of Goods to be brought into any place within their Jurifdictions by any common Waggoner or Carrier and shall certifie such Rates to the Mayors or other chief Officers of every Markeâ—-Town and Waggoners or Carriers taking more then what shall be so assessed shall forfeit for every such Offence 5 l. to be levied by Distress and sale of Goods by Warrant of Two Justices to the Use of the party grieved XXIV In Actions commenced against any persons authorized to put this Act in Execution the Defendants may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff be Non-suit or forbear prosecution or discontinue or a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover his double Costs XXV Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 9. The Toll mentioned in the Act made in the 15th year of the Reign of K. Charles II. Entituled An Act for Repairing the High-ways in the Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington And in an Act made in the 16th and 17th years of the said late King for Continuance of the said Act to be taken at Wades Mill in Hertford-shire shall be revived and taken again in the manner by the said Acts mention'd for Fifteen years the Moneys thereby arising to be employed according to the Tenor of the said Acts. XXVI Provided that if the said High ways before the end of Fifteen years be in sufficient Repair and an Adjudication be made thereof at the Assize or General quarter-Quarter-Sessions of the County as is provided by the said Statute of 16 and 17 Car. II. the said Toll shall from thenceforth cease XXVII The several Officers and Persons impowered by the said former Acts so far as relates to the County of Hertford shall have the like Powers by Virtue of this Act and all Clauses in the said Acts concerning the Collecting Paying Ingaging or Accounting for the said Toll shall by Virtue of this Act be renewed and put in Execution as if here again repeated High-way-men I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 8. Every Person who shall apprehend one or more High-way-men and prosecute them till they be convicted shall have from the Sheriff of the County where such Conviction shall be without paying any Fee 40 l. within a Month after such Conviction and Demand thereof made by Certificate under the Judges Hand before whom such Conviction shall be and if any Dispute arise between the persons apprehending such Felons touching their Right to the said Reward the Judges certifying shall in their Certificate direct the Reward to be paid amongst them in such Proportion as they shall think reasonable And if any such Sheriff shall die or be removed before the end of the Month the Reward being unpaid the succeeding Sheriff shall pay it within a Month after Demand and Certificate as aforesaid The Sheriff in case of Default of payment shall forfeit double the Sum he ought to pay to the Persons to whom the Reward is due to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. with treble Costs of Suit II. If any person shall happen to be killed by such High-way-man endeavouring to apprehend him his Executors or Administrators upon Certificate under Hand and Seal of a Judge of Assize for the County or of two next Justices of Peace shall receive the said Sum of 40 l. and in Failure of payment shall recover double the Sum with treble Costs of Suit as aforesaid III. The Sheriffs to be Allowed the said Sums of 40 l. upon their Accounts without Fee or Reward IV. If upon the Account of any Sheriff there shall not be sufficient in his Hands to Reimburse him the same shall be Paid by the Commissioners of the Treasury out of the Revenue of the Crown upon Certificate from the Clerk of the Pipe V. Persons Apprehending or Convicting such Robbers as a farther Reward shall have their Horses Furniture Arms Money and other Goods taken with them Provided that this Clause shall not take away the Right of any Persons from whom the same were before Feloniously taken VI. If any Persons out of Prison shall Commit any Robbery and shall afterwards discover Two or more Robbers who have or shall Commit any Robbery so as Two or more of them shall be Convicted such discoverer is hereby â—ntituled to Their Majesties Pardon which shall likewise be a good bar to any Appeal Informations I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 18. The Clerk of the Crown of the King's-Bench shall not without express Order in open Court Receive or File any Information for Trespasses Batteries and other Misdemeanours or issue any Process thereupon before he shall have taken or shall have delivered to him a Recognizance from the Informer with the Place of his Abode Title or Profession to be Entred to the Person Prosecuted in 20 l. Penalty to Prosecute with Effect and abide by such Order as the Court shall direct which Recognizance the Clerk of the Crown or a Justice of Peace of the Place where the Cause of any such Information shall arise may take and the Clerk of the Crown shall Enter the same upon Record and File a Memorandum thereof in some publick Place in his Office that all persons may resort thereunto without Fee And if the persons against whom such Informations shall be exhibited appear and plead to Issue and that the Prosecutor shall not at his own Charge within a year after Issue joyned procure a Tryal or if upon such Tryal a Verdict pass for the Defendant or the Informer procure a noli prosequi to be Entred the Court shall award the
Defendant Costs unless the Judge before whom it shall be Tryed shall at the Tryal in open Court certifie upon Record that there was a reasonable Cause for such Information And in case the Costs be nor paid within Three Months after they are Taxed the Defendants shall have the Benefit of the said Recognizance to compel the payment thereof II. No persons who are or shall be outlaw'd in the said Court for any thing except Treason or Felony shall be compelled to appear in Person to Reverse the same but may appear by Attorney and Reverse the same without Bail except where Special Bail shall be Ordered by the Court. III. And if any person so Outlaw'd be taken upon a Cap. Utlagatum the Sheriff who hath taken him in all Cases where Special Bail is not required by the said Court may take an Attorneys Engagement under his Hand to appear for him and to Reverse the Outlawry and thereupon may discharge the Defendant and where Special Bail is required the Sheriff may take Security of the Defendant by Bond with one or more Sureties in double the Sum for which Special Bail is required and no more for his Appearance at the Return of the Writ and to do and perform such things as shall be required by the Court and after such Bond taken may discharge him IV. If any person so Outlaw'd and Taken upon a Cap. Utlagatum shall not be able within the return of the said Writ to give Security whensoever such Prisoner shall find Surety for his Appearance by Attorney at some return in the Term then next following to Reverse the Outlawry c. the Sheriff may discharge him V This Act shall not extend to Informations in the Name of Their Majesties Coroner or Attorney commonly called the Master of the Crown-Office VI. Upon the Demise of any King or Queen of this Realm all Pleas to Informations shall stand without calling the Defendants to plead anew unless the Defendants request the Court for that purpose within Five Months after such Demise Ireland and Irish-men I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 29. No Ecclesiastical person Promoted or Beneficed in Ireland and who hath been forced to forsake that Kingdom being of the Protestant Religion who is or shall be presented c. to any Benefice or Promotion in England shall by acceptance thereof lose any Benefice or Promotion in Ireland but may hold the same till he may and shall be restored to his Promotion or Benefice in Ireland so as he may enjoy the same as before the troubles II. Provided that if such Ecclesiastical person so promoted here shall not within Three Months after the Courts of Justice in Ireland shall be open and furnished with Protestant Judges resign his Benefices and Preferments here and give notice thereof to the Patrons the same shall be void and the Patrons may Present or Collate again III. Such Ecclesiastical person so Promoted to any Benefice c. here shall be exempted from First-Fruits and Tenths IV. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 2. cap. 9. The persons now or of late Assembled at Dublin without any Authority derived from Their Majesties calling themselves a Parliament were not nor are a Parliament but an Unlawful and Rebellious Assembly and all Acts and Proceedings whatsoever Made Done or Passed in the said pretended Parliament shall be adjudged null and void and no Act Statute Judgment Outlawry Decree Sentence Order or other Proceedings since the 13th Day of February 1688. Had Made Passed Pronounced or Done or to be Had Made Passed Pronounced or Done by any persons whatsoever by colour of any Commission Writ Power or Authority in Ireland other then such as have been or shall be given by or derived from Their Majesties shall be of any Force or Effect V. All Cities Boroughs and Towns and all Bodies Corporate Ecclesiastical or Temporal in Ireland are hereby declared to be Restored to all Intents and Purposes as they were upon the 24th Day of June 1683. any Proceedings against them by Quo warranto Scire facias c. on any Proceedings Judgments or Executions thereon or any New Charter Grant Commission or any Surrender or other Acts since that time to the contrary notwithstanding All which Writs Suits Proceedings Judgments Seizures Executions Charters Grants Commissions and Surrenders are hereby declared Void VI. No persons whatsoever of the Protestant Religion shall be liable to any Loss Forseiture or Prejudice in Estate Office Person or otherwise by reason of their absence out of Ireland at any time since the 25th of December 1685. or for Non-payment of Rent or any other Duty due to Their Majesties or the Crown out or by reason of any Lands Tenements Rectories Tythes or Church Livings since the 25th of December 1688. till such time as the said Kingdom shall be declared by Their Majesties to be Reduced to Their Obedience VII The Protestants of Ireland shall be and are hereby Restored to all their Possessions Ecclesiastical and Temporal in such manner as they or those under whom they Claim had the same on the 25th Day of December 1688. and Pesons detaining such Possessions after a Demand by the Party grieved may be proceeded against as in a Case of a forcible Detainer VIII Stat. 3. 4. W. M. cap. 2. No person Residing in Ireland shall be obliged to take the Oath of Supremacy by virtue of the Statute of primo Eliz. but the Statute and every other Statute for so much as concerns the said Oath are hereby Repealed IX The Oaths Required by this Act to be taken after the 1st Day of January next 1691. shall be taken by the Persons herein after mentioned and such others as were Required by the said Act or any other Statute made in Ireland to take the said Abrogated Oath before such Persons and in such Court as is hereafter expressed viz. Archbishops and Bishops and others of or above the Degree of a Baron of Parliament there and others having any Promotion Office or Employment Ecclesiastical Civil or Military or receiving any Pay Salary Fee or Wages by reason of any Grant from the Crown or being Master Governor Head or Fellow of the University of Dublin or Master of any Hospital or School or Barrister at Law Clerk in Chancery Attorny or Professor of Law Physick or other Science residing in Dublin or within thirty Miles thereof in Hillary-Term next in the Court of Chancery or Kings Bench there between 9 and 12 in the Forenoon and all the said Persons inhabiting at a greater distance at the General Quarter-Sessions where they reside between 9 and 12 before the 25th of July next and shall make subscribe and repeat the Declaration herein after mentioned all which to be put upon Record paying 1 s. And Archbishops Bishops and others having any Ecclesiastical Promotion or being a Lecturer or Curate neglecting so to do shall be ipso facto deprived and be incapable to be Lecturer or Curate any where and others having any Office
Tax made by virtue of this Act or by the determination of the Justices c. may have recourse to the General quarter-Quarter-Sessions whose determination therein shall be final XXVIII And whereas there are many common High-ways in the said Parishes which cannot be sufficiently supported without the help of this Act Be it enacted That one or more Assessment or Assessments upon the Inhabitants and Occupiers of Lands c. and Persons usually ratable to the Poor shall from time to time be made and allowed by such Persons as the Justices at their quarter-Quarter-Sessions shall direct and the Mony thereby raised to be employed and accounted for according to their direction towards the supporting such High-ways such Assessments to be levied by distress and sale of goods in case of non-payment within fourteen days after demand rendring the overplus Charges deducted XXIX No such Assessments to be made in any one Year shall exceed 4 d. in the Pound of the yearly value of Lands c. nor 8 d. for every twenty pound in personal Estate XXX New Sewers made since the 12th Year of King Charles II. in any the said Parishes shall be subject to the Commissioners of Sewers and the said Commissioners may direct the making of new Sewers and alter or take away any Nusances therein and any cross Gutters and Channels in any of the Streets and Lanes in the said Parishes XXXI Housholders within the Weekly Bills of Mortality whose Houses adjoyn to the Street from Michaelmas to Lady-day yearly shall hang out Candles or Lights from the time that it grows dark till twelve a Clock at night on pain to forfeit 2 s. for every default except such as shall agree to make use of Lamps to be placed at such distances as shall be approved of by two or more Justices of the Peace XXXII Every Truss of old Hay bought or offered to sale within the Weekly Bills of Mortality between the last of August and the first of June shall weigh 56 pounds at least and between the first of June and the last of August being new Hay of that Summers growth shall weigh 60 pounds and being old Hay of any former years growth shall weigh 56 pounds the Person offering any Hay to be sold of less weight to forfeit for every Truss 18 d. XXXIII No Persons shall suffer their Waggons Carts c. to stand in any place within the Weekly Bills of Mortality loaden with Hay or Straw to be sold from Michaelmas to Lady-day after two a Clock in the Afternoon nor from Lady-day to Michaelmas after three a Clock on pain to forfeit 5 s. for every such Offence XXXIV Justices of Peace in the Places aforesaid within their respective Limits may upon their own View Confession of the Party or proof of one credible Witness upon Oath convict Persons of the said Offences one moiety of the Forfeitures to the Poor and the other to the Prosecutor and in case of a Conviction by the View of a Justice of Peace one half to the relief of the Poor and the other half if for a default of payment towards the repairing and cleansing the Streets to be paid to the Scavengers to be imployed to that use or otherwise to the relief of the Poor as aforesaid all the said Penalties to be levied by distress and sale of Goods by a Justices Warrant to the Constable c. and for want of a distress or in case of non-payment within six days after demand or notice in Writing left at the Offenders House by the Constable c. the Offender not being a Peer shall be committed to the Common Gaol till payment XXXV The Wheels of Carts Carriages or Drays within the said Places where the Streets are paved shall contain six Inches in the Felley and shall not be wrought about with any Iron-work nor drawn with above two Horses after they are up the Hills by the Water-side Owners of Carts c. the Wheels whereof shall not be of that breadth or shod with Iron or drawn with above two Horses as aforesaid shall forfeit 40 s. for every time such Cart c. shall be used for the Uses and to be levied as aforesaid XXXVI This shall not extend to Country Carriages bringing Goods to the said Places or carrying any Goods half a Mile beyond the paved Streets XXXVII No Persons shall keep Swine within the Houses or Back-sides of the paved Streets where the Houses are contiguous upon pain of forfeiting the same to the use of the Poor of the Parish And Church-wardens Overseers of the Poor Constables Beadles Headboroughs and Tythingmen may in the day-time by Warrant from the Lord Mayor of London or any Justice of Peace of the place search for Swine and drive them away to sell the Mony to be delivered to the Church-wardens or Overseers of the Poor of the Parish for the use of the Poor XXXVIII The cleansing the Streets Lanes and Passages within London and the Liberties thereof shall be managed according to the ancient usage of the City XXXIX The Lord Mayor or any Alderman may upon his own knowledge or view in the General Quarter-Sessions make presentment of any such Offence within the City and Liberties thereof and the Lord Mayor and Justices of the City shall at the same Sessions assess Fines for the same not exceeding 20 s. for every Offence to be paid to the Chamberlain of London for the use of the City XL. In Actions c. commenced for what any Person shall do in pursuance of an Act made in the 22 and 23 Years of King Charles II Entituled An Act for the better paving and cleansing the Streets and Sewers in and about the City of London or this Act the Defendant may plead the General Issue and give the said Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff or Prosecutor become Non-suit or suffer a Discontinuance or a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover treble Costs XLI The High-way leading from the East-side of Clerkenwell-Green to St. Johns Street shall be pav'd according to the direction of this Act. Militia I. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. c. 12. An Act for the raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the Year 1691. though the Months Pay formerly advanced be not paid II. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 7. An Act for raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the Year 1692. although the Months Pay formerly advanced be not repaid III. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 6. If at any time before the 25th day of March 1694. their Majesties shall think it necessary for the safety of this Kingdom to draw out the Militia into actual Service and the same be signified to the Lieutenants Deputy-Lieutenants and Warden of the Cinque-Ports It shall be lawful for them notwithstanding that one or more Months Pay before that time advanced be not reimbursed to draw out the Souldiers of the Militia into actual Service and to cause the Persons charged to
of Abode by any Person authorized in that behalf by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of the said two Justices such Person shall be liable to all the Penalties Forfeitures and Disabilities herein after mentioned VII The said Justices of the Peace shall certifie the Name Sirname and usual Place of Abode of Persons so refusing or neglecting and of all who shall make and subscribe the said Declaration at the next General Quarter-Sessions to be holden for the Shire Riding c. for which they shall be Justices to be there Recorded c. VIII No Papist or reputed Papist so refusing or making default shall keep in his House or elsewhere at his disposition any Arms Weapons Gun-powder or Ammunition other than such as shall be allowed him by order of a General Quarter-Sessions for the defence of his House and Person and any two or more Justices of the Peace may from time to time by Warrant under their Hands and Seals authorize Persons in the day-time with the assistance of the Constable or his Deputy Tythingman or Headborough to search for Arms c. in the House Custody or Possession of any such Papist or reputed Papist and seize the same for their Majesties use and shall at the next General Quarter-Sessions deliver them in open Court for the use aforesaid IX Every Papist or reputed Papist who shall not within ten days after such refusal or making default as aforesaid discover and deliver to some Justice of the Peace all Arms Weapons Gun-powder or Ammunition whatsoever which shall have in his House or elsewhere or shall hinder any Persons authorized to search as aforesaid to search and seize the same shall be committed to the Common Gaol by Warrant of any two Justices of Peace for three months without Bail or Mainprize and shall forfeit the said Arms and pay treble the value of them to the Kings use to be appraised by the Justices of Peace at their next General Quarter-Sessions X. Persons concealing or privy to the concealing of such Arms or that shall hinder any Persons authorized as aforesaid in searching for and seizing the same shall be committed to the Common Gaol by Warrant as aforesaid for three months without Bail or Mainprize and shall forfeit the treble value of the said Arms to their Majesties c. XI If any Persons shall discover any concealed Arms c. belonging to any refusing or making default as aforesaid so as the same may be seized the Justices of Peace upon delivery of the same at the General Quarter-Sessions shall allow as a Reward for such discovery the full value of the Arms c. so discovered the Sum to be by the said Justices of Peace at their Sessions and to be levied by distress and sale of the Offenders Goods rendring the overplus above the Sum assessed and the Charges of the Distress to the Owner XII Persons having refused or made default as aforesaid who shall afterward in open Court at the General Quarter-Sessions where their refusing or making default shall be certified make and subscribe the said Declaration and take the Oaths contained in an Act made in this Parliament Entituled An Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes concerning the assembling and sitting of this present Parliament shall from thenceforth be discharged of and from all Disabilities and Forfeitures which for the future they might be liable to for such refusal or default XIII No Papist or reputed Papist so refusing or making default shall after the 15th of May 1689. keep in his possession or to his use any Horse or Horses above the value of 5 l. to be sold and any two Justices of the Peace may from time to time by Warrant as aforesaid and with the assistance aforesaid authorize any Persons to search for and seize such Horses as aforesaid to their Majesties XIV Persons concealing or aiding in the concealing any such Horses shall be committed by Warrant as aforesaid for three months without Bail or Mainprize and shall forfeit treble the value of such Horses to be settled as aforesaid XV. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 17. Whereas in an Act of this Parliament Entituled An Act for the amoving Papists and reputed Papists from the Cities of London and Westminster c. the County of Sussex is by mistake inserted for the County of Essex Be it enacted That the Powers and Authorities by the said Act given to the Justices of the Peace of the County of Sussex be extended to the County of Essex and the Justices of Peace of the said County of Essex XVI Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 26. Persons refusing or neglecting to repeat and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in one Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for the better securing the Government by disarming Papists and reputed Papists when tendred by two or more Justices of the Peace or forbearing to appear before them upon notice given as the said Act directs and shall thereupon have their Names and Places of Abode certified and recorded at the General quarter-Quarter-Sessions as by the said Act is appointed shall be disabled to make any Presentation Collation Nomination or Donation or grant of any avoidance of any Benefice or Ecclesiastical Living as if such Person were a Popish Recusant convict and the Chancellors and Scholars of the two Universities respectively shall have the Presentation Nomination c. of and to every such Benefice c. being within their respective Counties Cities and other the Places and Limits mentioned in the Act of the third of King James I. Entituled An Act to prevent and avoid Dangers which may grow by Popish Recusants as in and by the said Act is directed and appointed XVII Persons seiz'd or possess'd of any Advowson right of Presentation Collation c. to any such Ecclesiastical Living Free-School or Hospital in trust for any Papist or Popish Recusant convicted or disabled according to the intent of the said Act of 1 Jac. 1. or of this Act shall likewise be disabled to present nominate or collate to any such Ecclesiastical Living c. or to grant any avoidance thereof and the Chancellors and Scholars of the Universities respectively shall have such Presentations c. as they should have in case such Recusant convict or disabled were seiz'd or possess'd thereof and if any Trustee Mortgagee or Grantee of any avoidance hereafter present c. or cause to be presented c. any Person to any such Living Free-School c. whereof the Trust shall be for a Recusant convict or disabled without giving notice in Writing to the Vice-Chancellor of the University to whom such Presentation c. shall belong according to the intent of this Act within three months after the avoidance he shall forfeit 500 l. to the respective Chancellors and Scholars of either University to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. XVIII Provided that the said Chancellor and Scholars shall not present or
next Justice of Peace by two Witnesses or upon Certificate under Hand of the Commissary of the Musters or Chief Magistrate as aforesaid made to such Justice shall be committed to the House of Correction for ten days and have his Ear cut off by the Gaoler or Keeper thereof If any Person lend a Horse to be mustered not belonging to the Troop such Horse shall be forfeited to the Informer if it belong to the Person lending if not the Lender shall forfeit 20 l. upon Oath made by two Witnesses before the next Justice of Peace XIV The said Forfeiture to be to the Informer to be paid out of the Arrears of such Officers Pay as shall so offend upon Conviction before a Court-Martial by Order of the said Court to the Pay-Master if such Officer have any Arrears and if there be no Arrear the Court-Martial shall give order to seize such Officers Goods and sell them rendring the overplus and if he have no Goods he shall be sent to the Common Gaol to remain there six months and the Court-Martial shall discharge such Informer if he be a Souldier from any farther Service if he demand it XV. If any Pay-Master Clerk or Agent of a Regiment Troop or Company shall for a month detain the Pay of any Officer or Souldier Cloaths and other Allowances deducted or if any Officers shall refuse to pay each Common Souldier their respective Pay when due if themselves have received it at the rate of 17 s. 6 d. a Week for a Corporal or light Horse 14 s. a Week for a Trumpeter and private Trooper 8 s. 2 d. a Week for a Dragoon 7 s. a Week to a Sergeant 5 s. a Week to each Corporal and Drummer and 4 s. a Week to each private Souldier of the two Regiments of Foot-guards and 6 s. a Week to each Sergeant 4 s. 6 d. a Week to each Corporal and Drummer and 3 s. a Week for each Foot Souldier in the Army and over and above the said 3 s. a Week shall at every two Months end account for 6 d. a Week to each Foot-Souldier upon proof thereof before a Court-Martial as aforesaid such Pay-Master c. shall be discharged from his Employment and forfeit 100 l. to the Informer to be raised as aforesaid and be disabled to hold any Civil or Military Office or Employment and the Informer if a Souldier shall be discharged of any farther Service if he demand it XVI The commanding Officer of every Troop or Company at Musters shall bring a Certificate of the Names of such as are sick or have leave to be absent of such as are dead or deserted since the last Muster and if such Certificate prove false the Officer signing it shall suffer the Penalties hereby inflicted for making false Musters XVII If any Officer shall Muster any Officers Servant or any Person by a wrong Name knowingly upon conviction thereof before a Court-Martial he shall suffer the Penalties hereby inflicted for making false Musters XVIII During the continuance of this Act Constables Tythingmen Headboroughs and other Chief Magistrates of Cities Towns and Villages may Quarter and Billet Officers and Souldiers in Inns Livery-Stables Ale-houses Victualling-houses Houses selling Brandy Strong-waters Sider or Metheglin by retail to be drunk in their Houses but in no private Houses Nor shall more Billets be ordered than there are effective Souldiers present to be quartered If any Magistrate shall Billet any Officer or Souldier in any private House without consent of the Occupier such Occupier shall have his Remedy at Law to recover his Damage sustained thereby And if any Military Officer shall take upon him to quarter Souldiers otherwise than is hereby allowed or shall use Menace or Compulsion upon any Civil Officers afore-mention'd to deter them from performing their Duty herein upon conviction by the Oaths of two Witnesses before two or more Justices of Peace and the said Justices Certificate thereof to the Judge Advocate who is hereby obliged to certifie the same to the next Court-Marshal such Officer shall be taken to the ipso facto cashiered and disabled to hold any Military Employment XIX Officers and Souldiers so billetted shall pay such reasonable prices as shall be appointed by the Justices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions and the Justices of Peace are required to set Rates for Provisions for one or more Nights in their marching and for the first Night only in Places appointed for their Residence XX. Officers taking Mony for excusing quartering shall be cashiered and made incapable of any Military Employment XXI From and after the 10th of March 1692. no Pay-Master or other Officer shall receive any Fees or make any Deductions out of the Pay of any Officer or Souldier which shall grow due after the said 10th day of March other than the usual Deductions for Cloathing and the 12 d. in the pound to be disposed as their Majesties think fit and one days Pay in the Year for the use of Chelsey-Colledge XXII This Act shall be read at the Head of every Regiment Troop or Company at every Muster that no Souldier may pretend Ignorance XXIII Officers receiving Pay or Subsistence-Mony for Regiments Troops or Companies shall upon the receipt of every Sum give notice to all Inn-keepers and other Persons where Officers and Souldiers are quartered and appoint them to repair to their Quarters at such times as they shall appoint for distribution thereof which shall be within four days after they have received it and such Inn-keepers and other Persons shall be paid off what Debts are owing to them before any part of the said Pay or Subsistence be distributed to the Officers or Souldiers XXIV Provided such Debts exceed not for a Commission Officer of Horse under the Degree of a Captain for Dyet and small Beer Hay and Straw per diem 2 s. and for such a Commission Officer of Dragoons 1 s. and 6 d. nor for such a Commission Officer of Foot 1 s. and if such Officers shall have a Horse or Horses for each Horse 6 d. per diem nor for one Light-horse-mans Dyet and small Beer and Hay and Straw per diem 1 s. nor for one Dragoon 9 d. nor for a Foot Souldiers Dyet and small Beer 4 d. and if any Officer shall not give notice as aforesaid and upon producing such Accounts pay the same upon Oath made thereof by two Witnesses at the next Quarter-Sessions the Pay-masters of their Majesties Forces are hereby required upon Certificate of the said Justices of the Sums due upon such Accounts and the Persons to whom owing to satisfie them out of the Arrears due to such Officer on pain to lose their Places and to be disabled to hold them for the future And if there be no Arrear the Pay-masters shall deduct what they shall pay pursuant to such Certificate out of the next Pay or Subsistence-Mony of the Regiment to which such Officer belongs and such Officer shall be ipso facto cashiered and when the
this Act in execution may plead the General Issue c. and if the Plaintiffs discontinue or delay prosecution or become non-suit or a Verdict or Judgment pass against them the Defendants shall recover their treble Costs XV. After the first day of September 1690. none of the Commodities hereby prohibited shall be imported from Guernesey Jersey Alderney Sark or Man into England Ireland Wales or Berwick under the Penalties and Forfeitures contain'd in this Act. XVI None shall sell at or demand a greater price for any French Wines or so reputed or other Wines mixt with French Wines after the 10th day of September 1689. to the 10th day of September 1690. than 12 d. by the Quart and after the 10th of September 1690. 6 d. by the Quart and no more on pain to forfeit for every Quart 5 l. for the first Offence to the Informer and 10 l. for the second and every other Offence to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. XVII After the 10th of Sept. 1689. no Retailer of Wines shall utter them other than in Measures made of Pewter and sealed according to the Statute on pain to forfeit 5 l. for every such Offence to the Informer to be recovered as aforesaid XVIII If any Merchant Vintner Wine-cooper or other Persons selling Wines by whole-sale or retail shall corrupt or adulterate any Wine or shall utter Wine corrupted or adulterated they shall forfeit 300 l. for every such Offence the one moiety to their Majesties and the other to him that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. and shall suffer three months Imprisonment XIX Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 14. If any Officer of the Customs or Prizes shall knowingly suffer any Goods or Manufactures imported as Prizes or otherwise contrary to an Act made in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Trade and commerce with France to be admitted to an Entry or to be embezil'd and not stav'd spilt burnt or destroy'd as the said Act directs he shall forfeit 500 l. one moiety to their Majesties the other to the Informer and shall be uncapable of executing any Office in their Majesties Revenue XX. If any Persons after the first of February 1690. shall utter by retail by Glass-Bottles or by any other Retail-measure not made of Pewter and seal'd according to Law any Wines or other Liquor or shall sell the same for a greater price than by the said Act is appointed and shall be convicted by confession or the Oath of two Witnesses before a Justice of Peace being prosecuted within thirty days after the Offence committed they shall forfeit 5 s. for every such Offence which if not paid upon demand shall be levied by distress and tale of Goods by such Justices Warrant to the Constable Headborough c. the Mony so levied to be given to the Informer and for want of a distress the Offender to be committed to the common Gaol till payment of the penalty and all necessary Costs to be taxed by the Justice or Justices before whom the Conviction was XXI Offenders punished by virtue of this Act shall not incur the Penalty of any former Law for the same Offence and no Writs of Certiorari shall supersede or remove any Proceedings by virtue of this Act. XXII Persons resisting abusing beating or wounding an Officer Informer or other Person impowred hereby or such as shall act in their Aid shall by the next Justice of Peace or other Magistrate be committed to prison till the next Quarter-Sessions where they shall be punished by Fine not exceeding 5 l. and the Offender to remain in prison till he be discharged of his Fine and Imprisonment by Order of the Justices or any two of them XXIII Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 17. A joint Stock of 40000 l. at least shall be raised by Subscriptions by Sir W.S. H.B. R.H. J.S. G.B. F.G. E.P. E.H. J.J. E.B. B.S. M.A. R.M. J.G. J.K. T.S. W.B. R.B. R.H. J.B. J.B. P.P. T.P. C.M. S.H. S.N. B.S. N.C. T.C. P.G. J.B. T.K. H.S. R.M. J.P. R.C. P.G. A.B. A.M. J.O. J.P. and T.G. on or before the first day of May next and shall be paid to the use of the Company established by this Act. XXIV And be it enacted That the said Sir W.S. H.B. and the rest of the Persons afore-named and all and every other Person and Persons subjects born or naturalized or endenizend who shall have any share in the said Joint-Stock shall be incorporated by the Name of the Company of Merchants of London trading to Greenland and shall have a common Seal and Ability to purchase Lands and Tenements in Succession so as the same exceed nor the yearly value of 100 l. and to do and execute all Matters and Things which any other Body Corporate may lawfully do or execute XXV The said Company during the continuance of the said Joynt-Stock shall freely use the Trade and Merchandize of catching Whales into and from Green land and the Green-land Seas and in all Seas and Places whatsoever except in the Seas belonging to their Majesties Colonies and Plantations in America without interruption or disturbance any Law Statute or other thing to the contrary notwithstanding XXVI A Governor Deputy-Governor and sixteen Committees shall be elected as followeth who shall have the management and direction of the said Trade XXVII A Book for Subscriptions shall be provided within ten days after the passing of this Act by the first five of the said Persons or any three of them in which shall be subscribed on or before the first day of May next by the Persons above-named or the Survivors of them the said Joint-Stock which shall not be less then 40000 l. no Subscriber to subscribe less than 500 l. nor more than 2000 l. XXVIII All Persons subscribing shall on or before the said first day of May pay down to such as the Persons before-named or the major-part of them shall appoint one fourth part of the Sums they subscribe and the remainder at such times and in such manner as shall be appointed by the Governor or Deputy-Governor and Court of Committees so as the whole Sum subscribed be paid within four years after the said first day of May. XXIX Defaulters in payment shall after such default have no other advantage by such Subscription than in proportion to such Sums as they shall have actually paid and farther shall forfeit to the use of the Adventurers in the said Joint-Stock 10 l. for every hundred pounds of such Sum as they shall omit to pay in to be deducted out of the Mony by them paid in XXX Before the 25th day of May next any thirteen of the said Persons before-named shall call a Court of all the Subscribers and others who shall then have any share in the said Joint-Stock who shall meet and chuse one fit Person having subscribed 1000 l. or upwards and paid in one
fourth part thereof to be the Governor and another Person so qualified to be Deputy-Governor and sixteen others having subscribed each 500 l. or upwards and paid in a fourth part to be Committees the said Governor Deputy-Governor and Committees to continue in Office till the 20th of Octob. 1694. XXXI Every Governor and Deputy-Governor before they be admitted to the execution of their Offices shall take this Oath viz. You swear That you shall assist and with all your Power support and maintain the Company of Merchants of London trading to Greenland and the Priviledges of the same having no respect to your self in derogation hinderance or prejudice of the good Government Order and Common-weal thereof The By-Laws and Ordinances which shall be made by Authority of this Company and which are not repugnant to the Laws of this Kingdom you shall uprightly and duly execute according to the knowledge thereof And to every Person you shall minister upright Justice And you shall not engage or oblige the said Company in any wise as Governor or Deputy-Governor of the said Company without agreement and consent of the Court of Committees of the said Company So help you Almighty God XXXII And every one of the sixteen Committees shall take this Oath viz. You shall swear to be faithful and true during the time of your Place of Trust as one of the Committees of the Company of Merchants of London trading to Greenland and their Successors The good Estate of the Adventurers in this present Joynt-Stock you shall favour and affect and the Priviledges granted unto them to your Power endeavour to maintain and preserve You shall be careful to see and provide that an equal and indifferent Hand be carryed in the Government of the Company and in the Affairs thereof to all the Adventurers that shall adventure or put in Stock and that an equal division from time to time be made to all the Adventurers according to the proportion of their several Stocks duly paid in So help you God XXXIII No Persons who shall subscribe or have less in the Stock than 500 l. shall have any Voice at a General Court of the Company every Person subscribing or having 500 l. in the Stock shall have one Vote and such as subscribe or have 1000 l. shall have two Votes and no more though they subscribe more than 1000 l. XXXIV All Persons subscribing or paying in any Mony shall be admitted into the Freedom of the Company gratis and shall take this Oath before the Governor or Deputy-Governor or any five of the Committees viz. You shall swear That you will assist and with all your Power support and maintain the Company of Merchants of London trading to Greenland The By-Laws and Ordinances which shall be made by Authority of this Company which are not repugnant to the Laws of this Kingdom You shall according to your knowledge thereof uprightly and duly keep and obey So help you God XXXV The Governor or Deputy-Governor or any five of the Committees for the time being shall before the said 20th day of Octob. 1694. between the 1st and the 20th of the said Month and so annually call a General Court of all the Members of the said Company who shall have subscribed 500 l. and paid in according to the directions of this Act and shall have taken the Oath of Admission to elect a Governor Deputy-Governor and sixteen Committees for one year next ensuing and if any of them happen to die within the year the Governor or Deputy-Governor or five of the Committees may call a General Court to chuse another in his place during the remainder of the year XXXVI The Governors Deputy-Governors and Committees shall also take the Oaths appointed to be taken in lieu of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance by an Act in the first year of their Majesties Reign The first Governor to take the said Oaths hereby appointed to be taken by the Governor before the Persons above-named or nine of them the first Deputy-Governor to take his Oaths before the first Governor and the first sixteen Committees to take theirs before the first Governor or the first Deputy-Governor and every succeeding Governor shall take the said Oaths before the last preceding Governor or any five or more of the last preceding Committees and every succeeding Deputy-Governor before the Governor or in case of his death and absence besore any five of the last preceding Committees and every Member of the succeeding Committees before the Governor or Deputy-Governor for the time being or any five or more of the last preceding Committees XXXVII After the said 20th of May next the said General Courts shall be summoned by the Governor or Deputy-Governor or five of the Committees at all which Courts the Governor or in his absence the Deputy-Governor shall be present and in case of equality of Votes shall have a casting Vote XXXVIII All Members having the Sum of 500 l. in the said Stock or having subscribed 500 l. and paid in according to the directions of this Act may assemble themselves at a General Court timely notice being given and make By-Laws as to them or the greater part of them shall seem meet for the good Government of the said Company and of all Persons employed in their Ships and Voyages and for the preservation and improvement of the said Trade which By-Laws shall be duly kept and observed under the Pains and Penalties therein limited so as they be not contrary to the Laws and Customs of the Realm nor to any Regulations made by this Act. XXXIX No private Contract for the sale of any Goods shall be made by the said Company to any Member thereof but all Goods belonging to the Company shall be sold publickly by Inch of Candle once a year at least of which Sales publick notice shall be given three Weeks before on the Royal Exchange and no Lot shall be exposed to sale of more than 300 l. value in the allotment and Monies arising by the sale of the said Companies Goods shall be applied to the advantage of the Joint-Stock and of the Persons therein concerned according to their proportions therein and not to the private advantage of any particular Person XL. Dividends of the Profits to be made in Mony only XLI Persons interested may transfer their Shares to Subjects born Persons naturalized or endenizen'd such Assignments to be entred in the Books of the Company which Books for assigning shall lie open for the view of all Persons concerned all other Assignments to be void except Devises by Will or where part of the Stock shall come to a Person as Executor or Administrator XLII No Persons shall agree for bargain or fell any greater part of the said Stock than such Sum only as they shall be possessed of bona fide and have standing in their own Names in the Companies Books XLIII All Agreements Contracts Bargains or Sales for any part of the said Stock not executed within ten days after
the Commissioners for the Prizes out of their Majesties share of Prizes LVIII Provided that if the Commissioners do not pay the same or give a Bill payable out of the first Monies that shall come to their Hands by three days after the same ought to be paid and demand thereof made free of all Charges and Deductions such Commissioners shall be uncapable of any Office in their Majesties Service for the future LIX The shares proportions and rewards given by this Act to Commanders Officers and Seamen shall be in lieu of all Shares in Prizes taken in Fight and otherwise during this War any thing in an Act made in the 13th Car. 2. Entituled Articles and Ordinances for the regulating and Government of their Majesties Navy Ships of War and Forces by Sea or any Declaration or Order of their Majesties to the contrary notwithstanding LX. If any Person shall imbezil any thing whatsoever upon or above the Gun-Deck or in any other place in any Ship taken or seiz'd on as Prize or retaken from the Enemy he shall forfeit his share and reward hereby allowed him and if he be an Officer he shall forfeit for every such Offence 500 l. one moiety to their Majesties the other to him that will sue for the same and shall be uncapable of any Office or Employment under their Majesties for seven years LXI Ships taken as Prize within the Streights of Gibraltar may be carryed into Cadiz or Alicant or Messma or Naplet and be put into the possession of such as shall be authorized by their Majesties to receive and preserve the same till by the Court of Admiralty of England they be adjudged lawful Prize or otherwise legally disposed of the Captors being hereby required to transmit with all speed the Papers taken therein or attested Copies thereof to the said Court LXII Ships taken as Prize in America may be carried into any of their Majesties Ports there and put into the possession of the Chief Governor to be kept as aforesaid till they be disposed of by such as shall be lawfully commissioned in that behalf LXIII Ships taken in any place beyond the Cape of Good Hope may be carried into the Port or Place where any English Factory is established and put into the possession of the Chief Person of the Factory to be kept as aforesaid till condemnation by such as shall be commissioned in that behalf LIV. Where any Vessel shall be taken as Prize by a Privateer in which Vessel there shall be no Goods of the growth or manufacture of the Dominions of the French King then after condemnation and payment of Customs and other Duties the Persons interested in such Privateer shall have the whole to their own use without deduction for Tenths or any other part to their Majesties or the Lord High Admiral LXV Where any Vessel shall be taken within any of their Majesties Ports Rivers or Havens by any Privateer such Prize shall belong to their Majesties as a Perquisite of the Admiralty of England and the Captors to have such part thereof as their Majesties shall think fit to allow LXVI If any Vessel taken as Prize or any Goods therein shall appear to belong to any of their Majasties Subjects continuing under their Majesties Protection and Obedience which were before taken by their Majesties Enemies and retaken such Vessels and Goods and every such part thereof belonging to their Majesties Subjects shall be restored by Decree of the Court of Admiralty to the former Owners they paying in lieu of Salvage if retaken by a Man of War an eighth part of the value which Salvage shall be answered to the Captains Officers and Seamen in the said Man of War to be divided as in this Act is directed touching the share of Prizes belonging to them where Prizes are taken by any of their Majesties Ships of War and if taken by a Privateer or other Vessel after having been in possession of the Enemy twenty four hours an eighth part of the value if above twenty four hours and under forty eight a fifth part if above forty eight hours and under ninety six a third part if above ninety six hours a moiety all which Payments to any Privateer or other Vessel to be made without deduction and if such retaken Ship shall appear to have been set forth by the Enemy as a Man of War the former Proprietors shall pay the full moiety of the true value for Salvage LXVII If any Vessel whereupon Wool is laden to be transported contrary to Law be taken by any Privateer on proof thereof in the Exchequer the Persons interested in the Privateer shall have a moiety of the Vessels and Goods and their Majesties the other moiety LXVIII The Lord High Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty shall express all things by this Act directed to be observed concerning Prizes c. in the Instructions by them to be given to Captains and Commanders of their Majesties Ships of War and to Commanders of Privateers LXIX All Goods of the growth or manufacture of France imported and seized shall be sued for and prosecuted in the Exchequer in manner and form as is provided by an Act made in the 14th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for preventing Frauds in his Majesties Customs two thirds thereof to be to the use of their Majesties c. they defraying the Charges of the Prosecution and one third to the Prosecutor and no composition to be made for their Majesties part such Goods to be secured and sold as Prize Goods are appointed by this Act to be secured and sold LXX If the Commissioners of the Prizes or of the Customs shall detain the Shares belonging to Persons interested in Privateers two days after the same ought to be paid and demand thereof made free from all Deductions except for Ware-house-room and 2 l. per Cent. for all other Charges they shall forfeit double the Sum so detained Treason I. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 13. If during the present War with France any Persons shall send load transport or deliver or cause to be sent loaden c. to or for the Use of the French King or any of his Subjects residing in his Dominions any Arms Ordinance Powder Bullets Pitch Tar Hemp Masts Cordage Iron Coals Lead or Salt-Peter such Offenders shall be adjudged Traytors II. If any during this War shall send load c. to the use of the French King or any of his Subjects residing c. any Goods or Merchandizes whatsoever other than the Goods herein before particularly mentioned they shall incur a Premunire III. If any of their Majesties Subjects shall after the 10th of March 1691. without their Majesties Licence voluntarily go or imbark in any Vessel with an intent to go into any the Dominions of the French King he shall be adjudged to be guilty of High-Treason IV. If any of their Majesties Subjects shall after the 25th of March 1692. voluntarily come or return from any of the
to receive the same for their Majesties use the Sum of 50 l. and no more 50 l. for each License and not to exceed 21 years and 4 l. Rent per Ann. at four quarterly Payments by way of Fine for such License which said 50 l. shall be paid by the Person so licensed before the License delivered to him the said Licenses to continue for twenty one years and no longer nor to be granted in Reversion after the determination of others And upon every the said Licenses there shall be reserved to their Majesties the yearly Rent or Sum of 4 l. payable quarterly the first at the Feast of St. Michael the Nativity of our Lord Christ the Annuntiation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Nativity of St. John Baptist with such Covenants as the Commissioners in their discretions shall think fit III. And the said Commissioners Stage-Coaches to pay 8 l. per Ann. the Leases to be renewed yearly or the major part of them are impowered under their Hands and Seals to license all Stage-Coaches kept or driven throughout England and that no License for any Stage-Coach shall continue longer than for one year and for every such License there be reserved to their Majesties the Rent or Annual Sum of 8 l. to be paid quarterly at the four most usual Feasts of the year with such Covenants as the Commissioners in their discretions shall think fit And that every one so licensed to keep or drive a Hackney or Stage-Coach Power to assign or devise may by Writing under his Hand and Seal assign or by his last Will in Writing devise his her or their Interest therein and in default of such Assignment or Devise their Executors shall be intituled to the residue of their Interest That an Entry shall be made of such Assignment in some Book kept by the Commissioners to which the Executors or Administrators may have recourse gratis and within sixty days after the decease of such Testator or Intestate they may produce Letters of Administration to intitle themselves IV. This Act to commence from the 24th of June 1694. Penalty 5 l. driving without License No Horse under 14 Hand No Person to keep above two Coaches Altering Mark or Figure 5 l. And that no Person after the 24th of June 1694. shall drive or let to hire any Hackney-Coach or Coach-Horses within the Cities of London or Westminster c. nor drive or let to hire any Stage-Coach or Coach-Horses within any part of England without such License first obtain'd as aforesaid upon pain to forfeit for every such Offence the Sum of 5 l. and that no Horse Gelding or Mare shall be used in any Hackney or Stage-Coaches under the size of fourteen Hands according to the Standard And that every Coach so licensed shall have a Mark of distinction by Figures or otherwise and that no Person shall be licensed to keep more than two Hackney-Coaches and that no Person shall put the same Figure or Mark upon his Coach that is appointed for another nor shall alter or obliterate the Figure or Mark of distinction upon pain of 5 l. V. And if any Commissioner shall grant Licenses for more than the number of 700 Hackney-Coaches as before directed or shall grant any License for any Hackney or Stage-Coach for any longer time than before directed Commissioners Offences 100 l. he shall forfeit for every such Offence 100 l. VI. The Rates for Hackny-Coachmen on penalty of 40 s. No Hackney-Coachman or Driver shall take for his Hire in London or ten Miles thereof above 10 s. for a Day reckoning twelve hours to the day and by the Hour not above 1 s. 6 d. for the first hour and 1 s. for every hour after and that no Person shall pay from any the Inns of Court or thereabouts to any part of St. James's or City of Westminster except beyond Tuttle-Street above 1 s. and the same Prizes from the same Places to the Inns of Court or thereabouts and from any of the said Inns of Court or thereabouts to the Royal Exchange 1 s. and if to the Tower of London or to Bishopgate-street or Aldgate or thereabouts 1 s. 6 d. and so from the said Places to the said Inns of Court as aforesaid and the like Rates from and to any place at the like distance with the places before-mentioned And if any Coachman shall refuse to go at or exact more for Hire than the Rates hereby limited he shall for every such Offence forfeit 40 s. VII Commissioners and Officers Oaths The said Commissioners and every Officer to be appointed under them shall take an Oath for the faithful execution of their respective Offices and shall likewise take the Oaths appointed by an Act made in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths and that no Person shall be able to execute the Powers by this Act granted till the taking the same VIII Offences how and where determinable All Offences against this Act other than the Offences of the Commissioners shall be determined by the Commissioners or any three of them upon Oath of one or more credible Witnesses the Party accused being summoned IX By-laws for the standing of Coaches in the Streets c. And for the better regulating such as shall be licensed to keep Hackney or Stage-Coaches as aforesaid and to prevent Inconveniences in the Streets where such Coaches stand and punishment thereof it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners or the major part of them to make By-laws to bind such Persons as have Licenses their Executors Administrators and Assigns and to annex reasonable Penalties for the breach thereof so as such By-laws be agreeable to the intent of this Act and not repugnant to the Laws of this Realm and so that such By-laws be approved by the Lord Chancellor Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal for the time being and by the two Chief Justices of either Bench and Chief Baron of the Exchequer or any three of them and after such allowance the same shall be published and the Penalties put in execution by any Justice of Peace or other Magistrate of the Place where the Offence is committed But no Person shall be punished twice for the same Offence X. The number to ply on Sundays It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to appoint 175 and no more of the said Hackney-Coaches to ply stand and drive on the Lords-Day within the Bills of Mortality only so as the whole number of 700 may be imployed successively XI And if after the said 24th of June The penalty for offending any Hackny-Coach shall ply stand or drive upon the Lords-Day other than such as shall be so appointed as aforesaid or any where else within the Bills of Mortality the Owner of such Coach shall forfeit 5 l. A List of Hackney-Coaches to
such Lights within the City and Liberties for one and twenty years from the 24th day of June 1694. at the Rent of six hundred pounds yearly to be reserved to be appropriated towards raising such a Fond and payment of the said Interest-mony And after that Term expired the Profits whatsoever that shall be made by granting Licenses to lighten the Streets shall be appropriated and applied to the uses aforesaid V. Every Apprentice after 24th of June 1694 to pay 2 s. 6 d. at his being bound to be transmitted to the Chamberlain on penalty of 5 l. 5 s. to be paid by every one admitted a Freeman 4 s. ê™ Tun on Wine imported The Collector to be appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen For the increase of the Fond every Apprentice after the 24th day of June 1694. when he is bound shall pay two shillings and six pence to the Master or Wardens of such Company as his Master is Member of to be by the said Master and Wardens transmitted to the Chamberlain of the City to be employed for the uses aforesaid upon the Penalty of five pounds for every Sum not so transmitted to be recovered in the Name of the Chamberlain And Books of Vellum or Parchment to be kept in the Common Halls of such Payments for any Person to inspect gratis VI. And every Person after the said 24th day of June 1694. when he is admitted a Freeman shall pay the Sum of five shillings the said several Sums of two shillings and six pence and five shillings to be paid over and above the usual Fees VII Also every Importer shall pay a Duty of four shillings per Tun upon all sorts of Wine imported after the said 24th day of June 1694. into the Port of the City of London or the Members thereof by way of Merchandize over and above the present Duties and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity The Collector to be appointed by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen And the said Imposition to be paid in the same manner and by such Rules and under such Penalties as are provided in an Act of Parliament made in the 12th year of King Charles II. Entituled A Subsidy granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage c. VIII 4 d. for meetage of every Chaldron of Coals after the 29th of June 1694 After the 29th of Sept. 1700 6 d. ê™ Chaldron or Tun to continue for 50 years To be paid by the Owner of the Vessel There shall be paid for all such sort of Coals or Culm as are usually sold by the Chaldron imported into the Port of London or Members thereof after the 24th day of June 1694. for every Chaldron thereof the Sum of four pence Meetage for ever over and above what is now paid to be paid as the present Duty of Meetage is And after the 29th day of September 1700. the farther Sum of six pence And for such Coals as are sold by the Tun for every Tun thereof containing two thousand Weight the like Sum of six pence which shall continue from the said 29th day of September for fifty year and no longer to be paid by the Master or Owner of the Ship or Vessel whereupon they are laden before they shall break Bulk or have a Meeter assigned at such place as the Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall appoint within the City or Liberties for Receipt thereof upon receipt whereof the Party appointed to receive the same shall without delay gratis deliver a Receipt which shall be a sufficient Discharge How to be collected And the same Imposition of six pence per Chaldron shall be collected and levied in such manner and in every respect as in and by one Act made in the 19th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the rebuilding the City of London the Imposition of Coals thereby granted was to be collected and levied And the Powers and Directions for that Act shall be exercised for the collecting of the said Duty of six pence as if particularly expressed in this during all the time it is payable The Monies to be paid into the receipt of the Chamber Collectors to give reasonable security All Sums of Mony as part of the said Fond are to be paid into the Receipt of the Chamber and are hereby appropriated for the raising the said Fond and applied towards the discharge of the said Debts And every Person that shall be concerned in the Receipt of any of the Sums so appropriate before he take upon him the execution of such Office shall find Sureties in such reasonable Sum as by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall be thought fitting for the faithful execution of such Office IX After the expiration of 6 d. per Chaldron the City revenues liable for 6000 l. ê™ ann besides the 8000 l. per ann The Mony raised by this Act to be applied for the payment of 4 l. per Cent. due the 25th of Dec. 1693 And also for the payment of 4 l. per Cent. from between the 25th of Dec. 1655 and the 25th of Dec. 1693 The payments to be made twice a year at St. Thomas and St. John Baptist or within 14 days after The perpetual Interest to be in full satisfaction of the principal Debt After the said Imposition of six pence shall determine all the Revenues of the City of London in possession or reverson shall stand and be charged with the full yearly Sum of six thousand pounds over and above the said yearly Sum of eight thousand pounds in like manner appropriated as the yearly Sum of eight thousand pound was X. And all the Rents Impositions and Sums of Mony by this Act applied to be charged raised or paid after reasonable Salaries and Allowances deducted for ever shall be applied for the payment of the Annual Sum of four pounds for the Interest of every hundred pound and proportionably for a greater or lesser Sum of the above-mentioned respective Debts and all the Interest thereof due on the 25th day of December 1693. to any Orphan of the City or the Executors c. of such Orphan And also for the payment of the like yearly Interest of four pounds for every hundred pound principal Mony and the Interest thereof to be computed as aforesaid due at any time between the said 25th day of December 1655. and the said 25th day of December 1693. upon Bond Bill or Note liable to pay Interest from the said City unto any Person or Persons or to so much thereof only as the Monies appointed by this Act to be raised and paid shall yearly amount unto to satisfie and pay towards the Interest to the said Orphans and Creditors equally in proportion to their respective Interests The Payments to be made twice in every year upon St. Thomas Day and St. John Baptists or within fourteen days after The first payment to be made on St. Thomas Day 1694. or within fourteen days after The said Monies to be
otherwise shall be null and void And the Mayor and Court of Aldermen out of the Revenue setled by this Act shall allow and pay to such Agents and Solicitors what they judge may be reasonable and that to be allowed in the Accompt of the said Revenue And if they demand or receive more than shall be so adjudged due to them they shall forfeit treble the Sum received to be recovered with Costs of Suit by such Persons as will sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster XX. New-River Water Thames Water and Shadwel Water-works excepted This Act shall not extend to the New-River Water or Profits thereof Nor shall be construed to hinder or obstruct the Governors and Company of Undertakers for raising of the Thames-Water in York Buildings nor the Governor and Company of the Water-work in Shadwel But they may raise and take the Water and lay Pipes and Branches in the Streets as before and enjoy all their Rights Nor shall this Act extend to the Water-works of Thomas Morris Th. Morris Water-works excepted at or near London-Bridge nor to the Profits or Benefits thereof other than the Rent reserved upon a Lease formerly made thereof by the City And Samuel Hutchinson Samuel Hutchinson or his Assigns paying their proportion of Stock to the Partners in the Convex Lights and covenanting to perform such Contracts and Agreements as are or shall be made by them before the 24th day of June 1695. may enjoy the same Interest and Benefit in the Premises as any of the Partners according to their respective Proportions XXI Priviledge of Persons sued upon this Act. Any Person sued for what he shall do in pursuance or in the execution of this Act may plead the General Issue and give upon Trial this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and in case of Non-suit forbearance of farther Prosecution Discontinuance or Verdict against the Plaintiff or Prosecutor the Defendant shall recover Costs and have like Remedy for them as when Costs by Law are given to the Defendants XXII This Act to be reputed a general Act. This Act shall be reputed a General Act and the Judges upon all occasions shall take notice as if it were a Publick Act of Parliament relating to the whole Kingdom XXIII For the space of seven years from the 29th day of September last past The City may use 2000 l. yearly for 7 years towards their necessary Expences provided the Orphans have their due otherwise to repay what is wanting to the Orphans by 2000 l. per ann it shall be lawful for the Mayor and Court of Aldermen to retain and apply and the Chamberlain to issue and pay towards the necessary Expences and Charges of the City any Sum not exceeding in the whole the Sum of two thousand pounds yearly out of the Monies hereby appointed to the use of the Orphans and Creditors But in case after the deduction and allowance of the said two thousand pounds during the seven years there shall not be raised and paid to the Orphans and Creditors out of the residue of the Profits of the aforesaid several Provisions and Fonds so much Mony as will fully satisfie all the said Orphans and Creditors Interest for all their several and respective Debts after the rate of four pounds per Cent. per Annum during the whole seven years that then the City shall repay into the Hands of the Chamberlain within seven years after the expiration of the said Term fourteen thousand pounds or so much thereof as they shall have made use of by two thousand pound per annum or such less yearly Sum as shall be proportionable to what they shall have so made use of until the same or so much thereof as shall make good the deficiency that shall appear in the satisfaction of the Interest of all the Monies due to the said Orphans and Creditors at the Rate aforesaid by reason of applying the said two thousand pounds per Annum or any part thereof to the use of the City for the Term aforesaid shall be satisfied And for securing the repayment thereof all the Estate Rents and Profits of any sort which at the expiration of the term of seven years shall belong to the Mayor The City Revenues liable for the same Commonalty and Citizens in their Politick Capacity only except the Revenues belonging to the Hospitals in or belonging to the same City or Borough of Southwark or for the Repairs of London-Bridge shall be and are charged and made subject and liable thereunto Prisoners I. STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 2. Act 2 W. M. revived That the Act made in the second year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Relief of Poor Prisoners for Debt and Damages be revived and that the Oath in the said Act shall be abolished and instead thereof the Oath herein mentioned shall be the Oath to be tendred to the Sheriffs Gaolers and Keepers of Prison I A. B. The Oath to be taken by Sheriffs and Gaolers do swear That I have examined the Commitments or Books belonging to the said Prison and that by them it doth appear that J. S. was really and truly a Prisoner in the Custody of the then Gaoler or Keeper of the Prison of D. Prison in the County of C. without any Fraud or Deceit by me or any other to my knowledge or belief at or upon the 28th day of November Anno Dom. 1690. II. And in case any Sheriff Penalty for refusing the Oath Gaoler or Keeper of Prison shall refuse to take the Oath herein appointed he being required unless it appear by the Commitment and Books of the said Prison that the Person for whom such Oath is required was not truly a Prisoner in the Custody of the said Gaoler and Keeper according to the said Act that otherwise the said Gaoler and Keeper so refusing to take the said Oath shall forfeit to such Prisoner the value of the Debt for which he shall be imprisoned And that in that case upon complaint of the Prisoner the Justices of Peace of the County or City where the Prison lies Prisoner may be discharged if he were in Custody 28 Nov. 1690 shall have power to examine the said Matter upon Oath of any other Persons which Oath they are hereby impowred to administer And if it shall appear to them that the said Prisoner was truly a Prisoner on the said 28th day of December 1690. then the said Justices may discharge the said Prisoner so as he may have full benefit of the said Act notwithstanding the Sheriffs Gaolers or Keepers refusing the said Oath any thing in the said Act notwithstanding III. The Sheriff or Gaolers Fee for discharge of a Prisoner And farther That no Sheriff Gaoler or Keeper of Prison nor any Clerk of the Peace or other Officer directly or indirectly shall take of any Prisoner to be discharged by
Person of the Age of sixteen years or upwards and being now withing this Realm who hath not taken the Oaths mentioned and upon Summons under the Hand and Seal of any two or more of the said Commissioners appointed by the first above-mentioned Act shall refuse to take the said Oaths at the time appointed in such Warrant or shall neglect to appear at such times before the Commissioners in order to take the said Oaths shall doubly be assessed the Rates above-mentioned XXVI Gentlemen to be taxed by a former Act and not paying the Penalty Every Gentleman or so reputed or owning or writing himself such or being above that Quality who by virtue of an Act made in the third year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for raising Mony by a Poll payable quarterly for one year for carrying on a vigorous War against France did pay or ought to have paid double the Sums charged by the said Act or were or ought to have been returned into the Exchequer for non-payment thereof who shall not voluntarily appear before the said Commissioners or any two or more of them within ten days after the first Meeting of the said Commissioners and take the said Oaths appointed by the said Act made the first year of their Majesties Reign shall be doubly assessed as above XXVII Quakers to subscribe the Declaration Provided nevertheless that whereas certain Persons called Quakers and now known to be such do scruple the taking of any Oath It shall be sufficient for every such Person to subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity contained in an Act of Parliament held in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws and every Person so doing shall not be chargeable with any of the double Rates aforesaid XXVIII Lands to be above 20 s per ann No Person shall be liable to the Pound-rate imposed by this Act upon Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whose Lands Tenements or Hereditaments are not of the yearly value of 20 s. in the whole XXIX Master of the Rolls c. where to be charged The Master of the Rolls Masters in Chancery Six Clerks Clerks of the Petty Bag Examiners Registers Clerks of the Inrolment Clerks of the Affidavits and Subpoena Office or any other the Officers of the High-Court of Chancery that execute their Offices in the Liberty of the Rolls are to be assessed there and not elsewhere XXX Penalty of Collectors detaining Mony If any Collector shall keep in his Hands any part of the Mony by him collected for any longer time than by this Act directed or pay any part thereof to any other Person than the Head-Collector or Receiver-General of such place every such Collector shall forfeit 10 l. And if any Head-Collector shall detain in his Hands or pay any Mony to any other than the Receiver-General of such Place every such Head-Collector shall forfeit 40 l. And if any Receiver-General or his Deputy shall pay such Monies or any part thereof paid to him by this Act to any Person whatsoever other than the Receipt of their Majesties Exchequer within the times limited by this Act such Receiver General or his Deputy shall forfeit the Sum of 1000 l. XXXI Changing Abode after Assessment If after Assessments on personal Estates according to this Act any Person shall remove to any place where such Person was not taxed the Commissioners acting within such place are hereby impowred to summon such Person before them and unless he or she shall produce a Certificate made according to the Directions of this Act whereby it may appear that he or she have paid all their precedent quarterly Payments the said Commissioners are hereby required to cause such Persons to be assessed for such quarterly Payments as remain unassessed to be assessed and paid according to the true intent of this Act. XXXII The King may borrow upon this Act at 7 l. per Cent. It shall and may be lawful for any Person Native or Foreigner Bodies Politick or Corporate to lend to their Majesties upon the security of this Act any Sums of Mony and to receive for the forbearance thereof any Sum not exceeding 7 l. per Cent. for one whole year and that no Mony so lent shall be rated by virtue of this Act. XXXIII No Rector or Vicar chargeable except above 30 l. per Ann. No Rector or Vicar who has the Cure of Souls and actually resides upon his Rectory or Vicaridge upon the account of such his Rectory and Vicaridge only shall be charged by this Act unless his Rectory or Vicaridge does really and truly exceed the value of 30 l. per annum or unless he hath more than one Rectory or Vicaridge Additional Supply for 118506 l. 5 s. 10 d. I. Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 5. That it shall and may be lawful for any Persons Natives or Foreigners to contribute towards the advancing the Sum of 118506 l. 5 s. 10 d. to make up the whole Sum of 1000000 l. granted to their Majesties by an Act made this present Parliament intended to be advanced by paying into their Majesties Exchequer at any time before the first day of May 1694. any Sum or Sums of Mony not exceeding in the whole the Sum of 118506 l. 5 s. 10 d. as followeth viz. That every Person out of the Rates and Duties of Excise granted by the said Act of 1000000 l. 14 l. per Cent. for own Life or Nominees shall have and receive for every Sum of 100 l. by them respectively advanced and paid a quarterly Annuity Rent or Payment of 14 l. and proportionably for a greater Sum for and during the life of such Person so advancing or paying the same or during any other life to be nominated by the Person advancing or paying any such Sum as aforesaid Within what time to be nominated the same to be nominated within six days after payment of such Sum which yearly Annuities Rents or Payments shall commence from the 24th of June next ensuing and shall be paid and payable at the four most usual Feasts of the year viz. The Annuntiation of the Blessed Virgin Mary the Nativity of St. John Baptist the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel and the Feast of the Birth of our Lord Christ and every Person on payment of such Sum or Sums as aforesaid Tallies to be given on receipt of the Monies and Orders thereon which may be transferred or assigned and not to be revoked shall immediately have one or more Tally or Tallies importing the receipt of the Consideration Mony and Orders for the Payment of the said Annuities bearing the same date with the Tally the said Tallies to be levied and the said Orders to be signed in the same manner as in the said Act is mentioned touching Tallies and Orders to be given to the Contributors for
Annuities upon the said Act and the said Orders not to be determinable revocable or countermandable as touching the afore-mentioned Orders in the said Act is enacted which said Orders shall be assignable and transferrable in such and the same manmer as is mentioned in the said Act touching Orders given to the Contributors in the said Act mentioned and all the Rates and Duties by the said Act granted over and beside so much as shall bear proportion at the Rates in the said Act mentioned to the whole Sum of 881493 l. 14 s. 2 d. already advanced by the Contributors upon the said Act are and shall be appropriated and applied and are hereby appropriated to and for the payment of the said Annuities yearly Rents or Sums after the rate of 14 l. per Cent. per Annum for every 100 l. to be advanced as aforesaid according to the true intent and meaning of this Act and shall not be diverted or divertible to any other use intent or purpose whatsoever under the like Penalties Forfeitures and Disabilities Penalty for misapplying the Monies given by this Act. Books and Registers to be kept in respect to all and every the Officers in the said Act mentioned as are in the said Act appointed in case of diverting or misapplying any part of the Monies which ought to be paid to the Contributors upon the said Act. And the said Officers are hereby required to keep Books and Registers and make Entries of the Names of all Persons who shall advance any Monies before the said first of May and of the several Sums so advanced and the times of paying in the same respectively and the Names of such Persons for whose Lives the several Annuities or yearly Payments are to be payable without Fee or Reward as in the said Act mentioned And every Person who shall advance or pay any such Sum as asoresaid Interest of 10 l. per Cent. from 1st of May to the 24th of June before the first of May as aforesaid shall receive out of the Mony granted by the said Act for all Mony so advanced by him and paid from the respective days of payment unto the 24th of June as aforesaid Interest at the rate of 10 l. per Cent. per Annum II. Mony payable to any Person by this Act to be free from Duties Surplus to be to the use of their Majesties Any Monies payable to any Person or Persons by virtue of this Act shall not be chargeable with any Rates Duties or Impositions whatsoever and in case there shall be any Surplus or Remainder of the Monies arising by the said Rates and Duties of Excise at the end of any year during the term of ninety and nine years granted therein by the said former Act after making all the Payments which by this or the said former Act are appointed to be paid within the same year or reserving Mony for the same such Surplus or Remainder shall be to the use of their Majesties their Heirs and Successors III. Upon demand of their shares a Certificate of the Life of the Nominee shall be produced Every Contributor upon this or the former Act his or her Executors Administrators or Assigns upon their demanding any half-yearly or quarterly Payment of their respective shares of either of the said Funds unless the Nominee appear in Person at the said Receipt shall produce a Certificate of the Life of his her or their respective Nominee signed by the Minister and Church-wardens of the Parish where such Nominee shall be then living as by the said Act is appointed or otherwise it shall and may be lawful to and for every Contributor his or her Executors Administrators or Assigns at his her or their Election to make Oath of the truth of his her or their respective Nominees Life on the day when the said Payments shall become due before any one or more Justices of the Peace of the respective County Riding City Town or Place wherein such Person at the time of the making the said Oath shall reside and the said Justice or Justices shall make a Certificate thereof without Fee the which shall be filed in the said Office or Receipt of Exchequer And if any Person shall be guilty of a false Oath Penalty of forging a Certificate or forging any Certificate touching the Premises and be thereof lawfully convicted he shall incur the Pains and Penalties to be inflicted upon Persons who commit wilful Perjury or Forgery And in case any Nominee shall at the time of such demand be resident in Scotland or beyond the Seas and any one or more of the Barons of the Exchequer for the time being shall certifie that upon proof to him or them made which proof is to be taken in a Summary way it doth seem probable to him or them that the said Nominee is living the said Certificate being filed as aforesaid shall be a sufficient Warrant for making the said quarterly Payment to the respective Contributors their Executors Administrators or Assigns And if any Person shall receive one or more quarterly Payments upon his her or their Annuity or Annuities for any time beyond the death of his her or their Nominee when the same ought to cease such Person shall forfeit treble the value of the Monies so received IV. And whereas several Persons who did contribute or pay several of the Sums of Mony which have been contributed upon the said recited Act for Shares Dividends Annuities or other Benefits in the said Act mentioned as well upon the benefit of Survivorship as upon the yearly Annuities of 14 l. per Cent. did not name to the Auditor of the Receipt or Clerk of the Pells in the Receipt of the Exchequer within the respective times by the said Act appointed the respective Lives during which such Dividends Shares Annuities or other Benefits respectively were to continue It is hereby enacted Benefit of Survivorship within what time the Lives to be named That if such Persons shall at any time before the first of March next nominate to the Auditor of the Receipt of Clerk of the Pells in the Exchequer the respective Lives their own or others during which such Dividends Shares Annuities or other Benefits should continue respectively that then his her or their Nominees shall be entred in the Books kept in the Receipt for the Nominees And every such Contributor his or her Executors Administrators and Assigns shall have receive and enjoy such and the like Dividends Shares and Annuities and other Benefits in respect of the Monies so contributed as he or she might have had received and enjoyed if the respective Lives for the same had been named within the respective times by the said Act prescribed V. The Surplus to their Majesties not to be charged with any Gift c. Provided that the Surplus or Remainder of the Monies arising by the said Rates and Duties appointed by the said Act be to the use of their Majesties their
their Agents which are possess'd of Fortunate Lots shall appear with the said numbred Tickets before the Managers that so the Managers may write down the Names of the Fortunate Lots and the several yearly Sums thereon written and to whom they belong Fortunate Tickets to be printed Differences to be determined c. Forging of Tickets Felony and the number of the Ticket against each Fortunate Ticket And for the better satisfaction of the Fortunate Adventurers the yearly Annuities shall be printed And if any Contentions shall arise the major part of the Commissioners shall determine the same All Forgers of Counterfeit Tickets knowing the same to be so and being thereof legally convict shall be punished as Felons XXIX The Managers to prepare a Parchment Book Names of Persons and Plates of Abode wherein shall be entred the Names and Sirnames of Persons entituled to Fortunate Tickets and their respective Places of Abode and the yearly Annuities they are to have This Book to be signed by the Managers and to be transmitted by the first day of March 1694. into the Office of the Auditor of the Receipts of the Exchequer and a Duplicate thereof shall be transmitted to the Officer of the Transfer Office herein after mentioned Annuities when to be paid The Annuities to be paid by half-yearly Payments viz. at Lady-day and Michaelmas or within twenty days after the first payment to be at lady-Lady-day 1695. The Lots which are not Fortunate shall have 20 s. per Annum paid every Michaelmas or twenty days after the first payment to be at Michaelmas XXX All Persons commissionated by their Majesties to be Managers and Directors in this Act shall before they act take the following Oath viz. The Managers Oath I A. B. do swear that I will faithfully execute the Trust reposed in me And that I will not use any indirect Art or Means or permit or direct any Person to use any indirect Art or Means to obtain a Prize or Fortunate Lot for my Self or for any other Person whatsoever And that I will do my utmost endeavour to prevent any smister or undue Practice to be done by any Person whatsoever And that I will to the best of my Judgment declare to whom any Prize Lot or Ticket of Right does belong according to the true intent of this Act. By whom to be administred The residue of the 140000 l. per Ann. imployed The said Oath may be administred by any two or more of the other Managers or Directors XXXI Out of the residue which in any case will not exceed 2500 l. per Annum of the said yearly Sum of 140000 l. per Annum after paying or leaving sufficient to pay all the said Annuities belonging to the Fortunate and other Lots it shall be lawful to reward the Managers Clerks and Officers as shall be thought fit by their Majesties or the Commissioners of the Treasury XXXII Allowance for paying before-hand He that pays his 10 l. before the 10th of September shall have allowance for Interest after 14 l. per Gent. from the time of payment till the 29th of September 1694. And the Receiver shall have allowance as the Commissioners of the Treasury shall think fit not exceeding 1 d. in the Pound XXXIII Transfer Office to be erected the Books and Tickets to be delivered there and how to be managed And for the due payment of the said Annuities and making them safe and easie to the Adventurers there shall be a Transfer Office erected in London and a Commissioner or Chief Officer appointed by their Majesties under the Great Seal of England After the adjusting the Fortunate Lots abovesaid by the said Managers all the Ticket-Books and Tickets which shall remain in the Hands of the Managers except that Book which is to be transmitted into the Exchequer shall be committed to the Commissioner of the Transfer Office who is also to receive in all the ten pound Tickets delivered out and to deliver out to the Bearer of each of those Tickets sixteen Vellom Tickets for the sixteen yearly Payments upon the Annuities of 20 s. per Annum and two and thirty Vellom Tickets for the two and thirty half-yearly Payments upon the higher Annuities To discover a Ticket to be disposed whether it be true or false And that Books upon a particular sort of Vellom or Paper on the backside clouded shall be printed to contain as many Tickets as be necessary for this purpose and that three of one sort be alike numbred and flourished That the middle Ticket of the three be cut off Indent-wise to be delivered out as aforesaid That one of the other three be bound up in a Book to remain in the Transfer Office for any Person to know whether the Ticket that is offered to be disposed be a true or false one And that the other of the three be bound up in a Book and delivered into the Exchequer to pay by How to make the payment easie to the Adventurers and safely to assign and transfer when the middle Ticket becomes payable And that the middlemost Ticket that shall be delivered to any one that shall be entituled to a Fortunate Lot be signed by the Commissioner of the Transfer Office or his Deputy And that at some time within forty days before the growing due of the payment of the said Annuities the Commissioner of the Transfer Office or his Deputy shall examine the Ticket for that particular Payment and if it answers the Counterpart in that Office he shall sign the Examination thereof without Fee and then the Officer of the Exchequer examining the same and finding it to answer the Counterpart lodged in his Office he shall take it up and the Contents thereof to the Bearer at the time appointed for the payment thereof without any farther Warrant or Order And that the Tickets for 20 s. per Annum shall be paid at the Exchequer without any farther Examination 20 s. Tickets where to be paid False Ticket to pay 5 l. Warrant or Order by the Commissioner of the Transfer Office And if a false Ticket be found that the Officer of the Transfer Office or Exchequer do cut a Slip out of it and the Person that brings it be liable to pay a Fine of 5 l. and for want of payment to be committed to prison XXXIV 1 d. for examining a Ticket The Fee for examining a Ticket in order to make a true Assignment or Transfer other than to obtain the Payment thereof in the Exchequer as aforesaid shall be 1 d. XXXV Counterfeit Ticket within what time to be proved If any Person takes a counterfeit Ticket and does not come to the Office to prove it within ten days after his receipt thereof in London or within ten miles of London or within thirty days after the receipt of it in any other part of England that then the Party that sold it shall not be liable to any damage or to
directed to any other use Monies for payment of Annuities not to be misapplied under the like Penalties Forfeitures and Disabilities in respect to all and every the Officers and other Persons in the recited Act mentioned as are in the said Act appointed and enacted in case of diverting or misapplying any part of the Monies which ought to be paid to the Contributors upon the said Act And the said Penalties and Forfeitures shall be sued for and recovered in such manner and form as the Penalties in the said recited Act are appointed to be sued for and recovered in which Suit no Protection Priviledge of Parliament or other Priviledge Wager of Law or more than one Imparlance shall be allowed Books to enter the Names of such as advance Mony before the 29th of Sept. And the said Officers shall keep Books and Registers and make Entries of the Names of all Persons who shall advance any Monies before the said 29th day of September and of all the Sums advanced and the times of paying in the same and the Names of such Persons for whose Lives the several Annuities are to be payable without Fee or Reward to which Book all Persons concerned shall have access as in the said Act also is directed All which the said Officers are to do under the like Penalties Forfeitures and Disabilities as in the said recited Act are mentioned 10 l. per Cent. for Monies advanced to the 29th of Sept. And every Person who shall advance and pay in any such Sum before the said 29th day of September shall receive out of the Mony granted by this Act for all Monies so advanced by him and paid from the respective day of payment unto the said 29th day of September Interest at the rate of 10 l. per Cent. per Annum And none of the Monies payable by this Act shall be charged with any Rates or Impositions whatsoever XXVI Infant a Nominee and Contributor within this Act. Any Guardian or Trustee of any Infant may advance and pay the Sum of 100 l. of the Monies of such Infant upon the respective Terms and Recompences herein mentioned And if it be upon an Annuity for Life he shall within the time before appointed for the naming of Lives name the said Infant to be a Nominee and such Infant upon payment of the Sum shall become a Contributor within the meaning of this Act and be entituled to have and receive a Proportion Guardian discharged as any other Contributor And the said Guardian and Trustee as to the said Sum of 100 l. so advanced is hereby discharged XXVII Contributor demanding Mony shall produce a Certificate of the life of the Nominee Every Contributor upon the Terms of having an Annuity for one two or three Lives his or her Executors Administrators and Assigns upon demanding any Payments unless the Nominee or Nominees or one of them appear in Person at the said Receipt shall produce a Certificate of the Life of his her or their Nominee or Nominees or one of them signed by the Minister or Church-warden of the Parish where such Nominee shall be then living Or make Oath or make Oath of the truth of the Life of his her or their respective Nominee or one of them upon the day when the payment shall become due before one or more Justices of the Peace of the County Riding City or Town wherein such Person at the time of making the said Oath shall reside which Oath the Act gives power to administer And the Justice or Justices shall make a Certificate thereof for which Oath and Certificate no Fee or Reward shall be required And the Certificate shall be filed in the Office of Receipt of Exchequer And if any Person shall be guilty of a false Oath Penalty of a false Oath or forging a Certificate and be thereof lawfully convict he shall incur the Penalties to be inflicted upon Persons who commit wilful Perjury or Forgery And in case any Nominee at the time of such demand be resident in Scotland or beyond the Seas and any one or more Barons of the Exchequer shall certifie that upon proof to him or them made which proof may be taken in a summary way it doth seem probable that the Nominee is living which Certificate is to be given and examination made without Fee or Charge the said Certificate being filed shall be a sufficient Warrant for making the said Payment And if any Person shall receive any payment after the death of his Nominee Penalty for receiving Mony after death of Nominee he shall forfeit treble the value of the Monies so received one half to their Majesties their Heirs and Successors the other half to the Party that will sue for the same XXVIII If the whole 1200000 l. be not paid how the deficiency to be supplied In case the whole Sum of 1200000 l. shall not be subscribed and paid into the Exchequer then so much of the said yearly Sum of 100000 l. hereby intended to answer the Recompence for the same as by such deficiency shall by this Act be undisposed is hereby appropriated so far as the same shall amount to pay any Person and Persons who shall advance and pay any Sums of Mony into the Exchequer before the first of February 1694. on account to have an Annuity or Annuities for one two or three Lives such respective Sums for such respective Life or Lives according to such rate and proportion and for such time and under such Rules and Directions as are herein before contained with relation to such as shall advance and pay the said 300000 l. XXIX If the whole 1500000 l. be not paid by the 1st of Octob. 1694. their Majesties may borrow so much as will make it up If the whole Sum of 1500000 l. be not paid into the Exchequer upon this Act before the first of October 1694. then their Majesties or their Officers in the Receipt of the Exchequer by their Command and Appointment may borrow for their Majesties use by way of Loan any Sum or Sums which together with the value of the Sums before the said first of October contributed shall not exceed the Sum of 1500000 l. which Sum or Sums so taken by way of Loan may be charged upon the Credit of their Majesties Exchequer in general and Tallies of Loan and Orders of repayment shall be levied and drawn accordingly which Orders shall be assignable and transferrable All Sums of Mony so borrowed not exceeding as aforesaid together with Interest for the same not exceeding 8 l. per Cent. per Annum At 8 l. per Cent. to be paid every three months until satisfaction of the Principal shall be payable and satisfied unto the Lender or Lenders his her or their Executors Administrators or Assigns out of the Monies brought into the Exchequer by Contributions upon this Act Aids granted by next Parliament to supply defects so far as the same shall extend
on which any Copies thereof shall be ingrossed or written 1 d. XLI Depositions Copies of Bills c. For every Skin c. on which any Depositions taken in the Court of Chancery or other Court of Equity except the Paper-draughts taken by the Commissioners before they are ingrossed which are not herein before charged or upon which any Copy of any Bill Answer Plea Demurrer Replication Rejoinder Interrogatories Depositions or other Proceedings whatsoever in any Court of Equity shall be ingrossed or written 1 d. XLII Copies of Wills For every Skin c. on which a Copy of any Will shall be ingrossed or written 1 d. XLIII Officers to mark the Writs Memorandums From and after the 28th of June 1694. every Officer or Clerk belonging to the Kings-Bench Common-Pleas or Exchequer who shall sign any Warrant or Process before Judgment to arrest any Person thereupon shall at the signing thereof set down upon such Writ or Process the Day and Year of his signing the same which shall be entred upon the Remembrance or in the Book where the Abstract of such Writ or Process shall be entred upon the Forfeiture of 10 l. XLIV Not to extend to single Bills This Act shall not charge any Bills of Exchange Accompts Bills of Parcels Bills of Fees or any Bills or Notes not sealed for payment of Mony at sight or upon demand or at the end of certain days of payment XLV Nor Seamen or Soldiers Will. Neither shall it charge the Probate of any Will or Letters of Administration of any common Seaman or Souldier who shall be slain or die in their Majesties Service upon Certificate made thereof XLVI Nor to Paupers None of the Rates or Impositions in this Act expressed shall be paid or payable to their Majesties by any Person or Persons that shall be admitted to sue or defend in Forma Pauperis XLVII Their Majesties to appoint Commissioners and they to appoint Under-Officers Their Majesties may under the Great Seal of England appoint Commissioners and Officers for the executing of this Act who are to keep their Head-Office in some convenient Place within the Cities of London or Westminster which said Commissioners or the major part are also impowered under their Hands and Seals to appoint Inferior Officers for the marking or stamping of Vellum Parchment and Paper and for levying and collecting the Duties Stamps to be made And the said Commissioners shall before the 28th day of June 1694. provide six several Marks or Stamps differing from each other with which all Vellum Paper and Parchment herein before charged shall be ingrossed or written shall be stampt or ingrossed viz. One Stamp for the Vellum Parchment and Paper charged with the payment of 40 s. for every Skin Piece or Sheet shall be stampt or markt One other Stamp or Mark with which all Vellum Parchment and Paper herein before charged with the payment of 5 s. for every Skin Sheet or Piece as aforesaid shall be markt or stampt and so respectively a different Mark or Stamp with which all Vellunâ— Paper and Parchment herein before charged with the several Duties of 2 s. 6 d. 1 s. 6 d. and 1 d. shall be severally and differently markt and stampt Published by Proclamation which said several Marks and Stamps shall be published by Proclamation under the Great Seal a convenient time before the said 28th day of June to the end all Persons may have due notice thereof And the said Marks and Stamps may be altered or renewed as their Majesties shall think fit publick notice being given thereof by Proclamation XLVIII The Vellum c. to be stamped before written All Vellum Parchment and Paper hereby intended to be charged with the several and respective Duties aforesaid shall before any thing ingrossed or written thereon be brought to the Head-Office or some other Sub-Commissioner or Officer to be appointed for the same to be stamped and marked who upon demand shall stamp or mark it upon payment of the respective Duties without other Fee which Stamp or Mark shall be a sufficient discharge for the respective Duties aforesaid XLIX Penalty of stamping before Duty paid If any Commissioner or Officer shall fix the Mark or Stamp before the respective Duties thereon charged shall be duly paid or secured he shall forfeit for every such Offence 100 l. L. Penalty of writing before it be stampt If any Person shall ingross or write or cause to be ingrossed or written upon any Vellum Parchment or Paper any thing for which the said Vellum c. is hereby charged before it shall be marked or stampt as aforesaid or upon which there shall not be some Stamp or Mark resembling the same Or shall ingross or write upon any Vellum Parchment or Paper that shall be marked or stamped for any lower Duty than the Duty by this Act payable the Offender for every such Offence shall forfeit 500 l. LI. Penalty on Officers Clerks or Attornies for fraudulent Practice Any Clerk or Officer who in respect of his publick Office or Imployment is or shall be entituled or intrusted to make ingross or write any Records Deeds Instruments or Writings by this Act chargable as aforesaid shall be guilty of any Fraud or Practice by making ingrossing or writing any such Record Deed Instrument or Writing upon Vellum Parchment or Paper not marked or upon which there shall not be some Stamp or Mark resembling the same or upon Vellum Parchment or Paper stamped with this Mark or Stamp which he shall know to be counterfeited or upon Vellum Parchment or Paper that shall be markt or stampt for a lower Duty as aforesaid every such Officer c. so guilty and thereof lawfully convicted shall over and above the Penalty aforesaid forfeit his Office Place or Imployment And if any Attorny shall be guilty thereof and convicted he shall be disabled for the future to practice as an Attorny And if any Deed Instrument or Writing shall be written or ingrossed by any Person not being a known Officer or of publick Imployment intituled to write or ingross the same upon Vellum Parchment or Paper not marked or stamped according to this Act or of a lower Duty as aforesaid Penalty of forging a Stamp in every such case there shall be due to their Majesties over and above the Duties aforesaid the Sum of 5 l. for every such Deed and no such Deed or Record shall be pleaded or given in Evidence in any Court either of Law or Equity till the said 5 l. be paid and the said Vellum Parchment or Paper be stampt with a lawful Mark which the Officer is to do upon payment of the said 5 l. And if any Person shall counterfeit or form any Stamp or Mark to resemble any Stamp provided by this Act or shall counterfeit or resemble the Impression of the same upon any Vellum Parchment or Paper to defraud their Majesties of the Duties hereby granted or
shall utter or sell any Vellum Parchment or Paper with such counterfeit Mark or Impression knowing such Mark or Impression to be counterfeit then every such Person so offending being thereof legally convict shall suffer Death as a Felon without benefit of Clergy LII Person to be appointed to inspect Vellum c. The Commissioners to appoint a fit Person to attend in any Court or Office to take notice of the Vellum Parchment or Paper upon which any thing aforesaid shall be ingrossed or written and of the Marks and Stamps thereupon and all other things tending to secure the Duties arising by this Act And the Judges in the several Courts to make good Orders for securing the said Duties And all Persons commissionated by this Act and every Person imployed under them for the marking or stamping of Vellum Parchment or Paper as aforesaid before his acting in marking or stamping of the same shall take the Oath following viz I A. B. do swear Commissioners and Offieers Oath That I will faithfully execute the Trust reposed in me pursuant to an Act of Parliament Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties several Duties upon Vellum Parchment and Paper for four years towards carrying on the War against France without Fraud or Concealment and shall from time to time true Account make of my doing therein and deliver the same to such Person or Persons as their Majesties their Heirs or Successors shall appoint to receive such Account and shall take no Fee Reward or Profit for the execution or performance of the said Trust or the Business relating thereunto from any Persons other than such as shall be paid or allowed by their Majesties their Heirs or Successors or by the Commissioners of their Majesties Treasury or three of them now being or by the Treasurer of the Exchequer or three or more of the Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being LIII All Parts of the Kingdom to be furnished with Vellum Stamps c. The Commissioners are to take special care that the several Parts of this Kingdom Wales and Berwick shall be furnished with Vellum Parchment and Paper stampt so as Persons may have their Election either to buy the same of the Officers or Persons to be employed by the Commissioners or to bring their own Vellum Parchment or Paper to be stampt LIV. All Deeds Writs c. to be writ as usually All Records Writs Pleadings and other Proceedings in Courts of Law and Equity and all Deeds Instruments and Writings whatsoever hereby charged shall be ingrossed and written in such manner as they have been usually accustomed to be written or are now written LV. Alteration of Stamp to be by Proclamation As often as their Majesties shall think fit to alter or renew the said Marks or Stamps then they unto whom any Blank Vellum Parchment or Paper inrolled with the old Stamp within sixty days after such intention of altering shall be published by Proclamation may bring it to the respective Officers to be appointed as aforesaid who shall deliver the like quantity of Vellum Parchment or Paper and as good stampt with the new Stamp without Fee under the Penalty of 100 l. And that which shall not be brought in in the time aforesaid the same shall be of no other effect than if it had been never stampt And all Persons who shall ingross or write any Matters chargable by the Act on such Vellum Parchment or Paper after that time shall forfeit as those that write or ingross on Vellum c. uâ—stampt at all LVI Time of notice of alteration of the Stamp The Proclamation for giving notice for the altering the Stamps shall within twenty days after the date thereof be sent to the Mayor Chief Magistrate or other Head-Officer of every City Corporation Borough or Market-Town which Officers shall cause the same to be published to the respective Inhabitants either on the next market-Market-day or the next Sunday in the Church immediately after Divine Service under the Penalty of 200 l. LVII And it shall be lawful for any Person Native or Foreigner Body Politick or Corporate to lend to their Majesties upon the Credit of this Act any Sum not exceeding the Sum of 330000 l. and to receive Interest for the same not exceeding the Rate of 8 l. per Cent. per Annum An Abstract of what Things are chargable by the ACT for granting Duties upon Vellum Parchment and Paper Grants of Honours Dignities Promotions Franchises Liberties or Priviledges under the Great Seal or D. Lancaster   Pardons Reprieve or Relaxation from Fines Corporal Punishments or Forfeitures  Grants of Mony above 100 l.  Grants of Offices or Employments above 50 l. per An. Lands in Fee or Leases for Years under the Great Seal  Grants of Exchequer D. Lancaster or Privy Seal 40 s. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper  Donations Dignities and Promotions Ecclesiastical above 10 l. per Ann. in the Kings Books   Degrees in Universities   Dispensations and Faculties for two Benefices  Admittance of every Physitian in Col. Med. London  Admittance of every Attorny Clerk Advocate Proctor Notary and other Officer in any Court  Appeals from Courts of Admiralty Arches and Prerogative  Inrolments of Conveyances Surrenders of Grants or Offices Releases or Deeds inrolled  Writs of Covenant for levying Fines  Writs of Entry for Common Recoveries   Exemplifications under Seal of any Court whatsoever   Institutions Licenses to preach or serve Cures  Writs of Error Certiorari or Habeas Corpus 5 s. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper  Appeals except to Delegates   Significavits pro Corporis deliberat   Sentences Attachments   Relaxations in Admiralty and Cinque Ports   Licenses or Certificates of Marriage   Letters of Mart.   Probate of Wills   Administrations above 20 l.   Statutes or Recognizances  Records of Nisi Prius or Postea  Records of Judgments signed in any Courts of Westminster   Commissions in Ecclesiast Courts   Warrants Monitions and Personal Decrees in Courts of Admiralty and Cinque Ports 2 s. 6 d. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper   Beneficial Warrants or Orders under Sign Manual except for Navy Army and Ordnance   Special Bails and Appearances  Ingrossments of Bills Answers Replications Rejoinders Interrogatories Depositions and other Pleadings in Chancery Exchequer and other Courts of Equity 1 s. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper Admissions into Corporations Companies Universities Inns of Courts and Inns of Chancery  Decrees and Dismissions In Chancery Exchequer D. Lancaster Chester Durham   Common Bails and Appearances Rules or Orders at Westminster  Copies of Rules Orders or Records  Copies of Citations Monitions Libels Allegations Depositions Answers Sentences Decrees
 Copies of Inventories in Courts of Admiralty Cinque Ports and Ecclesiastical Courts   Affidavits and Copies Indentures Leases Deed Polls 6 d. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper Writs Original Latitats Capias Subpoena Bill of Middlesex Quominus Ded. Potestatem and other Writs   Processes and Mandates in all Courts where Debt is above 40 s.   Actions in London and other Corporations above 40 s.   Charter Parties Pollicies of Assurance Pasports Bonds Releases Contracts Obligatory Instruments Protests Procurations Letters of Attorny or other Notarial Acts.  Copies of Declarations Pleas Replications Rejoinders Demurrers and other Pleadings in all Courts of Law and for Copies thereof 1 d. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper Copies of Depositions Bills Answers Pleas Demurrers Replications Rejoinders Interrogatories and other Proceedings in any Court of Equity Copies of Wills  Things Excepted Draughts of Depositions taken by Commissioners before they are ingrossed Seamens and Souldiers Wills and Administrations Paupers Bills of Exchange Accounts Bills of Parcels Bills of Fees Bills or Notes not sealed for Payment of Mony at sight or on demand or at the end of certain days of payment Trade I. Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 2. An Act for repealing such parts of several former Acts as prevent or prohibit the Importation of Foreign Brandy Aqua-vitae and other Spirits and Bacon except from France I. Importation of fine Thrown Silk Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 3. It shall be lawful to or for any Person or Persons residing within their Majesties Dominions to import within this Kingdom from any Port whatsoever excepting the Ports of France during the present War with France and three Months after fine Thrown-Silk of the growth or production of Italy Sicily or Naples II. Provided that this Act nor any thing herein contained What sorts to be imported shall extend to give liberty to bring over Land and import any Italian Thrown Silk courser than a sort thereof known and distinguished by the name of Third Bolonia nor any Sicilian Thrown Silk courser than a sort thereof known and distinguished by the name of Second Orsay nor any sorts of Silks commonly called Frams of the growth of Italy Sicily or Naples nor any other Thrown Silk of the growth or production of Turky Persia East-India or China The penalty under the Penalty and Forfeiture of all such Thrown Silk as shall be brought over land and imported contrary to the intent of this Act. III. And that all such fine Italian To be brought to the Custom-house Sicilian and Naples Thrown Silks as are allowed to be imported by this Act wheresoever landed shall be brought to their Majesties Custom-house London to the intent that no other sort may be imported over-land than those only allowed by this Act under the Penalties before-mentioned any thing to the contrary hereof notwithstanding I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 3. Whereas by an Act made in the 5th year of Q. Elizabeth Entituled An Act containing divers Orders for Artificers Labourers Servants in Husbandry and Apprentices It is enacted in these words following Provided always and be it farther enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Person or Persons using or exercising the Art or Mystery of a Woollen Cloath-Weaver other than such as be inhabiting within the Counties of Cumberland Westmorland Lancaster and Wales weaving Frizes Cottons or Houswifes Cloath only making and weaving Woollen-Cloath commonly sold or to be sold by any Cloathman or Clothier shall take and have any Apprentice or shall teach or in any-wise instruct any Person or Persons in the Science Art or Occupation of Weaving aforesaid in any Village Town or Place Cities Towns-Corporate and Market-Towns only excepted unless such Person be his Son or else that the Father or Mother of such Apprentice or Servant shall at the time of the taking of such Person or Persous to be an Apprentice or Servant or to be instructed have Lands or Tenements or other Hereditaments to the clear yearly value of 3 l. at the least of an Estate of Inheritance or Freehold to be certified under the Hands and Seals of three Justices of the Peace of the Shire or Shires where the said Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments do or shall lie The effect of the Indenture to be registred within three months in the Parish where such Master shall dwell and to pay for such registring 4 d. upon pain of forfeiture of 20 s. for every month that Person shall otherwise take any Apprentice or set any such Person on Work contrary to the meaning of this Article II. St. 5 Eliz. concerning Apprentices in Woollen Manufafacture repealed Now forasmuch as such part of the said Act before recited hath been found prejudicial to the Clothing-Trade It is hereby enacted That so much of the said Act as is before recited is hereby declared to be repeald and made void as if the same had never been made I. Salt-petre to be brought in for one year Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 10. It shall be lawful for any of their Majesties Subjects to import and bring Salt-petre into this Kingdom from any Place or Country now in Amity with their Majesties for the space of one year to be computed from and after the 25th day of March 1694. II. In what Ships Provided that such Salt-petre be brought in only in such Ships or Vessels as are English built and no other III. At what rate to be sold Provided that no Person importing Salt-petre by virtute of this Act nor any Retailer shall sell any part of the Salt-petre so to be imported at above the price of 70 l. per Tun not exceeding 18 per Cent. Refraction upon the Penalty of 50 l. per Tun. IV. Their Majesties Duty Provided that the Salt-petre which shall be imported by virtue of this Act shall pay to their Majesties the same Duty as if the same were directly imported from the East-Indies V. Salt-petre imported and mingled not to be sold at above 70 l. per Tun. If any Person shall mingle any Salt-petre imported by virtue of this Act with any other Salt-petre and sell the same so mingled at above the rate of 70 l. per Tun or shall by way of Barter or Exchange take or agree to take any other Commodity for Salt-petre imported by virtue of this Act whether by it self or mingled with other Salt-petre in any manner so as to have or receive for the same more than the rate of 70 l. per Tun accounting the Commodity so taken in exchange at the then currant Price That the sale of such Salt-petre so mingled and also such Barter or Exchange shall be construed and taken to be a Sale contrary to this Act. I. Iron Copper c. may be transported except to France during the War Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 11. It shall and may be lawful to and for any Person whatsoever Bodies Politick or Corporate to ship and export all and all manner of Iron Copper or Mundick Metal out of this Realm of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed except unto or for the use of the French King or any of his Subjects residing within his Dominions or in to or for any Port or Place within his said Dominions during the present War between their Majesties and the French King paying the Duties and Customs by Law payable for the same II. Excepting Port-Metal Gun-Metal c. Provided this Act shall not extend to the exportation of Port-Metal Gun-Metal or Shruff-Metal or any old Metal or any mixture therewith or any Copper or other Metal than what is made c. of English Ore only FINIS
years and from thence to the end of the Session of Parliament then next ensuing II. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 33. Every Hide Skin or Piece of tanned Leather shaved or liquored and well curried according to the Statute of 1 Jac. 1. shall be adjudged to be the made Ware and Manufacture of the Currier and subject to the view search and seizure of the Master of the several Mysteries of the Cordwainers Curriers Girdlers and Sadlers of the City of London or the major part of them as by the said Statute is provided and shall be liable to be seiz'd and subject to the same Penalties as other Wares insufficiently made of tanned Leather are liable and subject by the said Statute III. Nothing in this Act shall give any Power to the Master and Wardens of the Company of Curriers to search or seize any Leather Hide or Skin but such as shall be curried in London or within three Miles thereof by some Members of their own Company nor in any other Place but the open Market-place or in the Shops Houses or Ware-houses of such Curriers IV. All Persons whatsoever dealing or working in Leather may buy all sorts of Red tann'd Leather in any open Fair or Market curried or uncurried the same being first search't and seal'd according to Law and may sell the same again in their Shops or convert it into other made Ware V. Any Persons may buy or sell Leather Hides or Skins by weight London I. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 8. Whereas a Judgment was given in the Kings Bench in Trinity-Term in the 35th Year of King Charles II. in a Quo Warranto against the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of London that the Franchise of the said City should be seiz'd into the Kings Hands as forfeited which Proceedings were illegal and arbitrary Be it enacted That the said Judgment and every other Judgment given or recorded in the said Court for seizing the Franchise of the said City into the Kings Hands be revers'd and made void and Vacats entred upon the Rolls II. The Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of London to remain a Body Politick by the Name of Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London c. without any Seizure or Forejudger of the said Franchise c. upon pretence of any Forfeiture or Misdemeanor done or to be done and to have and enjoy all their Rights Charters c. which they lawfully had at the time of the recording or giving the said Judgment III. All Charters Letters Patents c. for incorporating the Citizens and Commonalty of the said City or any of them and all Charters c. concerning any of their Liberties c. Lands and Tenements c. Rights Title or Estates made since the said Judgment by the late King Charles II. or King James II. are hereby declared void IV. Yet no Recoveries Verdicts Judgments Statutes Recognizances Inquisitions Indictments Presentments Informations Decrees Sentences Executions nor any Plaints Process or Proceedings in Law or Equity had in any Court within the said City or Liberties thereof since the said Judgment shall be avoided for want of any legal Power in such as acted as Judges or Officers belonging to the same V. This Act shall not extend to discharge any Persons from any Penalties for not duly qualifying themselves to act upon such Charters Grants or Commissions VI. All Officers and Ministers of the City that rightfully held any Office or Place therein or in Southwark when such Judgment was given are hereby confirmed as fully as they held them then except such as have voluntarily surrendred or been removed for just cause and Persons admitted since the said Judgment into any Office or Employment within the said City upon the death surrender or removal as aforesaid of the former Officers are hereby confirmed as if they had been admitted therein according to ancient Custom VII Leases and Grants of Lands and other things before the said Judgment belonging to the City made since the said Judgment by the said late King Charles II. or King James II. or any taking upon them to be Trustees for the City upon pretence of any Commission from either of the said late Kings being made for a just and valuable consideration and whereupon the accustom'd yearly Rent or more hath been reserved shall be good upon the Terms therein contained and the Commonalty and Citizens shall have all benefit and advantage thereof VIII All Judgments Decrees and Sentences obtain'd by any Persons taking upon them to be Trustees as aforesaid concerning any Interests belonging to the City shall stand in force and be prosecuted and executed by and to the use of the City and all Persons natural-born Subjects or Denizens that have been admitted into the Freedom of the City since the said Judgment shall be free thereof as if admitted before IX The present Mayor Sheriffs Chamberlain and Common Council shall continue till new Elections and the Persons to be elected sworn the Election of a Mayor Sheriffs and Chamberlain to be on the 26th day of May 1690 and of the Common Council on the 10th day of June 1690. Persons so elected to continue till the usual time of electing such Officers according to usage and from thence to continue for the year ensuing X. If the Mayor Sheriffs Chamberlain and Common Council shall not be elected as aforesaid the Mayor Sheriffs Chamberlain and Common Council which were in being at the time of the said Judgment shall be and continue in those respective Offices till new Elections be made according to ancient usage XI All Persons so to be restored and continued shall take the Oaths appointed by an Act made in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths the next Term after such restitution under the Penalties and Disabilities in the said Act provided XII The Mayor Sheriffs and Chamberlain so to be elected shall be sworn in usual manner on or before the 20th day of June next XIII The several Companies and Corporations of the City shall stand and be incorporated by such Names and in such manner as they were at the time of such Judgment given and are hereby restored to the Lands c. Rights and Liberties which they lawfully had then And all Surrenders and Charters for new incorporating any of them and concerning any of their Liberties granted by either of the said late Kings since the said Judgment shall be void but no Person shall be prosecuted for any thing by him lawfully done in pursuance of such Charters c. XIV Provided that all Leases Terms and Estates granted by any of the said Companies since the said Judgment for just and valuable considerations and whereupon the accustomed yearly Rents or more are reserved shall be of force as if they had been granted by the said several Companies as hereby restored and the said Companies shall have all
employed to no other use and all the Orders or Warrants for the disposal thereof contrary to the intent of this Act to be void XI The provision hereby made for the payment of the said Interest-Mony for ever shall be in full satisfaction of the Debts and Interest thereof due to the said Orphans and Creditors and they are to acknowledge satisfaction of their respective Debts according to the usuall Custom paying such Fees to the Officers concerned as the Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall appoint not exceeding thirteen shillings and four pence for every thousand pounds The City hereby discharged Books to be kept of the Receipts and Disbursements Access thereto gratis from 9 to 12 in the Forenoon The Receipts and Payments to be yearly audited The Auditors Fees and the City and their Successors are hereby acquitted of the same XII The Chamberlain shall provide or keep one or more Book or Books of Vellum or Parchment of the Receipts and likewise of the Disbursements by virtue of this Act whereto all Persons may have free access to view the same between the hours of nine and twelve in the Forenoon without any Fee or Reward And the Receipts and Payments of all the Monies aforesaid shall be audited yearly upon Oath before one of the Auditors of the Imprest which Oath the said Auditors are hereby required to administer between Michaelmas Day and Saint Thomas the Apostle and for every thousand pounds the Accompts shall amount to the Auditor shall receive of the Chamberlain twenty shillings and no more The Accompts so audited shall be signed by the said Auditor and also allowed by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen and fairly entred and remain in the Chamber of the City to be perused and viewed XIII If any Chamberlain of the City Penalty of misimploying or other Person shall after Receipt of any the said Monies divert or misapply the same he shall forfeit treble the Sum so misapplied to be recovered by any the Orphans or Creditors that will sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts of Record XIV The Chamberlain and Common Serjeant of the City upon request shall give unto every of the said Orphans and Creditors and their respective Executors Administrators or Assigns Liberty of assigning a Bill or Note in Writing of the Principal Debt or Interest owing to them And any Person to whom any Mony is payable by this Act may by Writing under his Hand and Seal transfer his Right and Interest therein to be registred in a Book to be kept by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen and the Note or Bill of the said Debt being delivered up to the Officer appointed by the Court of Aldermen for that purpose he shall give his Note or Bill in Writing of the Debt so assigned to the Party to whom such Assignment is made and such Assignee shall be entituled to the benefit thereof and may assign toties quâ—â—ies Assignments irrevocable And it shall not be in the Power of such Persons who have made such Assignments to release or discharge the same or the Monies thereby assigned XV. Orphans not compellable to bring in their Mony to the Chamber No Person shall be obliged or compelled by virtue of any Custom within the said City or by Order or Process of the Court of Orphans to pay into the Chamber any Sum of Mony or Personal Estate due or to be due or belonging to an Orphan of any Freeman any Law or Usage inforcing the same notwithstanding But this not to be construed to extend to impeach or prevent Process upon any Recognizance already given according to the Custom XVI The City answerable for their Officers defaults If the Corporation of the City or any of their Officers or other Person by colour of any Warrant or Authority from them misapply or convert to their own use any of the Sums hereby appropriated the Corporation shall be answerable for the same out of their Revenues in any Action to be brought by any of the said Orphans or Creditors the Sum recovered to be to the uses aforesaid and the Costs to the Party suing The Amerciaments Fines on such Suits to the use of the City Fines and Distresses upon the Corporation upon the Account of such Suit to be to the uses aforesaid and not to be pardoned or acquitted by their Majesties XVII Provided on Application made to the Mayor and Court of Aldermen by the Executors or Administrators of the Father of such Orphan to pay in or lodge any Sum of Mony of such Orphan in the said Chamber and to have the benefit of the said provision hereby made It shall be lawful for the said Mayor and Aldermen to pay off the like Sum to such Person entituled to the said yearly Payments as aforesaid as they think fit not being Orphans under the Age of twenty one years of Age and giving three months notice to or for the Person so to be paid off at the end of which three months upon payment or tender of the said Monies due for Principal and Interest to or for the Person to whom such notice shall be given according to the provision hereby made at the Office of the said Chamberlain in Guildhall that from thenceforth the Annual Sum of Mony payable to such Person to whom such notice payment or tender shall be made shall cease and determine and the same shall become due and payable to or for the use of such Orphan who shall have paid in the Monies for the same and shall be registred accordingly and be assignable as aforesaid yet the Monies so tendred shall be paid to such Persons upon their demand of the same and assigning or giving a Discharge for the same And the provision hereby made shall remain a perpetual Fond for the benefit of the Orphans of the said City successively XVIII Debts mortgaged redeemable upon payment of Principal and Interest Provided it be within 3 years after this Session of Parliament If any such Debts due to any of the said Orphans have at any time before the said 25th day of December been mortgaged or covenanted to be so they are redeemable and shall be redeemed upon payment of the Principal Mony paid in consideration of making the Mortgage with the Charges and Interest for the same from the time of payment thereof after the rate of eight pounds per Cent. per Annum for one year discounting for what hath been received for the said Debt And upon payment or tender of Principal Interest and Charges the Security concerning the same to be void But such Redemption is to be made within three years after the end of this present Session of Parliament XIX Contracts with Solicitors void Solicitors to be paid at the discretion of the Mayor and Aldermen Their Forfeiture if they take more All Securities given by the Orphans to any Agents or Solicitors to obtain Payments of their Debts by Act of Parliament or
repay the value received for the same XXXVI Taking other Fees than by this Act forfeiture of Office If the Officers of the Exchequer shall take any other Fee or Reward than by this Act appointed for executing their respective Trusts and Offices they shall forfeit their Office and pay treble Damages with Costs of Suit to any Adventurer that will sue for the same without Essoign Protection or Priviledge of Parliament c. XXXVII Officer not liable though Ticket be forged unless he knew it If any Officer of the Transfer Office shall pass any Ticket for payment or any Officer of the Exchequer shall make any payment of any Shares of the said Fonds upon such Tickets as are above directed such Officer shall not incur any Penalty or be liable to any Action of the Adventurers though such Ticket be forged except he knew it to be so XXXVIII Mony lent to be free from Taxes Mony lent by or payable to any Persons by virtue of this Act shall not be chargeable with any Rates Duties or Impositions whatsoever XXXIX And to be imployed as the Act directs All Grants or Dispositions of Mony arising by this Act hereafter to be made by their Majesties to any other Person or in any other manner or for any longer Term or Interest than by this Act appointed shall hereby be made null XL. A distinct Office in the Exchequer for payment of Annuities There shall be in the said receipt of the Exchequer a distinct Office for paying the Annuities the said Office shall continue till all the Payments to grow due by this Act during the said Term of sixteen years shall be satisfied And an Officer or Officers shall be appointed hereunto by the Commissioners or the Treasurer of the Exchequer Officers to give security who shall take security of the Officers for the due paying and accounting the Monies they shall receive and for the faithful performance of their Office And the Monies which shall be brought into the Receipt of the Exchequer shall by the Commissioners of the Treasury or the Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer without any farther or other Warrant and such proportions from time to time Monies how to be issued Officers to be liable to account and be inspected as shall be necessary and sufficient to answer the respective Payments which shall grow due be issued or paid over from time to time to the Officers by way of Imprest and upon Account to and for the payment of the said Annuities by this Act appointed And such particular Officers shall be liable and subject to such Inspection Examination Comptrol and Audit and to such Rules as the Commissioners of the Treasury or the Treasurer and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer shall think fit XLI All Officers to observe the Commissioners directions The Managers Directors Commissioner and Officer of the Transfer Office Receivers and the particular Officer in the Exchequer and all the Clerks Ministers and Servants shall for the better execution of their Trusts observe and perform such Rules Methods and Orders as they shall from time to time receive from the Commissioners of the Treasury c. so as such Rules Methods and Orders be conducible to the ends and purposes in this Act. XLII The King enabled to borrow Mony upon this Act. If the whole Sum of 1000000 l. be not paid into the Exchequer upon this Act before the 24th of June 1694. then it shall be lawful for their Majesties by way of Loan to borrow so much as to make it up to be paid with Interest at 8 l. per Cent. out of the Monies after to be brought in by this Act And if the Monies shall not all come in then out of the next Supply granted by Parliament How the same to be repaid and if no such Supply shall be before the 2d of February 1694. then to be paid out of the Treasury If the 1000000 l. shall not be advanced then the Overplus of the Fond shall be disposed as hereafter shall be directed by Act of Parliament XLIII When the Receivers of the Salt Mony are to deliver in their Accompts The Receivers of the Salt Duty shall between the 25th of March 1695. and the 29th of September following and so yearly during the continuance of this Act deliver in their Accounts to the Auditors of the Imprest who shall examine them upon Oath what Sum was raised and what part paid into the Exchequer or by virtue of any Warrant of Privy Seal or Warrant of the Commissioners of the Treasury and to whom and for what Service and such Account so taken by the said Auditor to be declared before the Lord Treasurer or Lords Commissioners of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer XLIV No Member of the House of Commons to be concerned in the farming or managing those Duties except c. No Member of the House of Commons shall directly or indirectly be concerned in the farming collecting or managing any Duties granted by this Act or that shall be granted by any other Act except the Commissioners of the Treasury the Officers of the Customs and Excise and those appointed Commissioners for the Act of 4 s. in the Pound for one year as to their executing only the Authority of the said Act by which they are appointed Commissioners And also excepting Thomas Neale Esquire The Act upon Tunnage I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 14. It is enacted That for the Term of four Years commencing from the first day of June 1694. Duties upon Tunnage from the 1st of June 1694. there shall be throughout England Wales and the Town of Berwick levied and paid into and for the use of their Majesties their Heirs and Successors upon the Tunnage of all Ships and Vessels whereon during that time there shall be imported any Goods or Merchandize from the Places in the Act after mentioned or shall be carried Coast-wise from Port to Port within England Wales or the Town of Berwick these Duties and Impositions that is to say For every Tun of the Burthen or Contents of any Ship or Vessel importing Goods oâ— Merchandizes from the East-Indies or any Ports Southwards or Eastward of Cabo bona Speranza The several Rates the Sum of 30 s. From any Ports or Places in Italy or Turky 15 s. From any Ports or Places in Portugal or Spain 10 s. From any the Plantation Lands or Places in the West-Indies 10 s. From Holland or any the United Provinces Netherlands or Flanders 3 s. From Norway Hamborough or the Baltick Sea Enstland Gountries or any other Ports or Places North of Holland 5 s. From Ireland or Scotland 2 s. From any Port or Place in the Mediterranean Sea not otherwise charged in this Act 15 s. From the Ports or Coasts of Guinea or Africa without the Streights 20 s. From Hudsons Bay or any Place within the Limits of that Companies Charter 20 s. From the