and are hereby from henceforth Discharged And also the Kings Majesty is contented That it be further Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this His said Frée Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion shall be as good and effectual in the Law to every of his said Subjects Bodies Corporate and others before rehearsed in for and against all things which be not hereafter in this present Act Excepted and Foreprized as the same Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion should have béen if all Offices Contempt Forfeitures Causes Matters Suits Quarrels Iudgments Executions Penalties and all other things not hereafter in this present Act Excepted and Foreprized had béen particularly singularly especially and plainly named rehearsed and specified and also pardoned by proper and express Words and Names in their Kinds Natures and Qualities by Words and Terms thereunto requisite to have béen put in and expressed in this present Act of Frée Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion And that his said Subjects nor any of them nor the Heirs Executors or Administrators of any of them nor the said Bodies Corporate and others before named and rehearsed nor any of them be nor shall be Sued Vexed or Inquieted by or on the behalf of the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors in their Bodies Goods Chattels Lands or Tenements for any manner of Matter Cause Contempt Misdemeanor Forfeiture Trespass Offence or any other thing Suffered Done or committed before the said twenty fourth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty against His late Majesty King Charles or His Majesty that now is His Crown Dignity Prerogative Laws or Statutes but onely for such Matters Causes and Offences as be Excepted and Foreprized by this present Act out of the same any Statute or Statutes Laws Customs or Vsages heretofore had made or used to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And that all and every the Kings said Subjects and all and singular Bodies Corporate and others before rehearsed may by him or themselves or by his or their Deputy or Deputies or by his or their Attorney or Attorneys according to the Laws of this Realm plead and minister this present Act of Frée Pardon for his or their Discharge of or for any thing that is by vertue of this present Act Pardoned Discharged Given or Granted without any Fée or other thing paying to any person or persons for wriiing or entry of the Iudgements or other cause concerning such Plea Writing or Entry but onely sixtéen pence to be paid to the Officer or Clerk that shall enter such Plea Matter or Iudgement for the Parties Discharge in that behalf any Law Statute Vsage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding And furthermore the Kings Majesty is contented and pleased that it be Enacted This Pardon c. to be expounded in all Courts most beneficial for the Subject and be it Enacted by the authority aforesaid That this His said Frée Pardon Indemntty and Oblivion by the general Words Clauses and Sentences before rehearsed shall be reputed déemed adjudged expounded allowed and taken in all manner of Courts of his Highness and elsewhere beneficial and available to all and singular the said Subjects Bodies Corporate and others before rehearsed and to every of them in all things not in this present Act excepted or foreprized without any ambiguity question or other delay whatsoever it shall be to be made pleaded objected or alleadged by the King our Soveraign Lord His Heirs or Successors or by His or any of their general Attorney or Attorneys or by any person or persons for his Highness or any of His Heirs or Successors And furthermore be it Enacted by the King our Soveraign Lord The Penalty of any Officer c. that shall go about to disquiet or trouble any person pardoned by this Act. and the authority aforesaid That if any Officer or Clerk of any of His Highness Courts commonly called the Chancery Kings-Bench and Common-pleas or of his Exchequer or any other Officer or Clerk of any other of His Highness Courts within this Realm at any time of the passing of this present Act make out or write out any manner of Writs Process Summons or other Precepts whereby any of the said Subjects or of the said Bodies Corporate or others before rehearsed or any of them shall be in any wise arrested attached distrained summoned or otherwise vexed inquieted or grieved in his or their Bodies Lands Tenements Goods or Chattels or in any of them for or because of any manner of thing pardoned or discharged by vertue of this Act of Frée Pardon Or if any Sheriff or Escheator or any of their Deputy or Deputies or any Bayliff or other Officer whatsoever by colour of his or their Office or otherwise after the passing of this present Act do levy receive take or withhold of or from any person or persons any thing pardoned or discharged by this Act That then every such person so offending and thereof lawfully convicted or condemned by any sufficient testimony witness or proof shall yield and pay for recompence thereof to the party so grieved or offended thereby his or their treble damages besides all costs of the Suit and shall also forfeit and lose to the Kings Majesty for every such default ten pounds And nevertheless all and singular such Writs Process and Precepts so to be made for or upon any manner of thing pardoned or discharged by this present Act of Frée Pardon Indemnity and Oblivion shall be utterly void and of none effect Except and alwayes foreprized out of this Frée and General Pardon Exceptions out of his Pardon All Murder not comprised in the first clause of this Pardon excepted Pyracy excepted Buggery Rapes and wilful taking away any Maid excepted all Murders done or committed by any person or persons other then such which are pardoned and discharged in the first clause of pardon above mentioned And also excepted and alwayes foreprized out of this General and Frée Pardon all and every the offences of Piracy and Robbery upon the Seas not done in relation to the Diffrences and Wars aforesaid and every procuring or abetting of any such Offendors and the comforting and receiving of them or any of them or any goods taken by way of such Piracy or Robbery upon the Seas as aforesaid And also excepted the detestable and abominable Vice of Buggery committed with Mankind or Beast And also excepted all Rapes and carnal Ravishments of Woman And also excepted all Ravishments and wilful taking away or marrying of any Maid Widow or Damsel against her will or without the assent or agréement of her Parents or such as then had her in custody and also all Offences of aiding comforting procuring and abetting of any such Ravishment wilful taking or Marrying had committed or done And also excepted all Offences made Felony by a certain Act made and ordained Entiuled Double Marriages excepted Witchcraft excepted Accompts of certain Treasurers and Receivers
Relief of such Persons as by Sickness or other Impediment were disabled from subscribing the Declaration in the Act of Uniformity and explanation of part of the said Act cap. 6. fol. 183. 7 An Act for the encouragement of Trade cap. 7. fol. 184. 8 An Act to prevent the Selling of live fat Cattel by Butchers Cap. 8. fol. 188. 9 An Act for granting Four intire Subsidies to His Majesty by the Temporalty Cap. 9. fol. 188. EXP. 10 An Act for Confirming of Four Subsidies granted by the Clergy Cap. 10. fol. 188. 11 An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of Excise and preventing the Abuses therein Cap. 11. fol. 188. 12 An Explanatory Act for Recovery of the Arrears of Excise Cap. 12. fol. 193. 13 An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Revenue arising by Hearth-money Cap. 13. fol. 193. 14 An Act for Setling the Profits of the Post-Office and Power of granting Wine-Licenses on his Royal Highness the Duke of York and the Heirs Males of his Body Cap. 14. fol. 195. 15 An Act for Encouraging the Manufactures of Making Linnen Cloth and Tapistry Cap. 15. fol. 198. 16 An Act for Regulating the Herring and other Fisheries And for Repeal of the Act concerning Madder Cap. 16. fol. 199. 17 An Act for Setling the Draining of the Great Level of the Fenns called Bedford Level Cap. 17. fol. 200. Private Acts. AN Act to enable Edward Marquess of Worcester to receive the benefit and profit of a Water-commanding Engine by him invented one Tenth part whereof is appropriated for the benefit of the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors An Act for setling an Annuity of Three hundred pounds per Annum upon Charles Earl of Portland and for the benefit of Willoughby Whitelock Bulstrode Whitelock and Charleton Whitelock Infants and for confirming of agreements made to compose Suits in Law against them An Act for Setling the Charitable Gift of John Guest An Act to enable Sir John Packington and his Trustees to sell or otherwise dispose of certain Lands for the payment of his Debts and raising Portions for his younger children An Act to enable Edward Chaloner Esq to make provision for Anne his Wife and his younger children An Act for the Naturalizing of Charlottee Hessen Killegrew and others An Act to Impower Sir John Drake and others to make sale of Lands for payment of the Portion of Ellen Brisco Widow An Act to enable the Sale of the Lands of Richard Senior and Anthony Senior deceased for payment of some of their Debts An Act for the Setling of the Lands of the Earl of Kent and the Lord Lucas on the Marriage of the said Earl with the Daughter and Heir apparent of the Lord Lucas An Act for the Setling of a Free School in Witney in the County of Oxon being Erected and Endowed by Henry Box Citizen and Grocer of London deceased An Act to enable the Bishop of Winchester to Lease out the Tenements now built upon scite of his Mansion-House in the Parish of Saint Saviours in Southwark in the County of Surrey and the two Parks and other Demesns at Bishops Waltham and other Lands in the County of Southampton An Act for Repairing and better preserving the Key of the Port of Wells in the County of Norfolk An Act for the Governing of the Hospital of Saint Oswalds in the County of Worcester An Act to Enable Sir Francis Boynton Baronet and Richard Robinson Esquire to Sell certain Lands of John Robinson Esq for payment of Debts and Leasing of other Lands for making Provision for his younger Children An Act for making void certain Conveyances made by Caryll Lord Molleneux in the late times An Act to Confirm a Deed made by Charles Pitcarne Esquire An Act for the Naturalization of Dame Elizabeth Jacob and others An Act for the Naturalizing of George Willoughby and others An Act for Confirming an Act for Naturalizing of Peter de la Pierre alias Peters and John de la Pierre alias Peters Anno Decimo sexto Caroli Secundi Regis c. 1 AN Act for the Assembling and holding of Parliaments once in Three years at the least And for the Repeal of an Act Entituled An Act for the preventing of Inconveniences happening by the long Intermission of Parliaments Cap. 1. fol. 213. 2 An Act for preventing of Abatements of Writs of Errour upon Judgments in the Exchequer Cap. 2. fol. 213. 3 An Act for Collecting the Duty arising by Hearth Money by Officers to be appointed by His Majesty Cap. 3. fol. 214. 4 An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles Cap. 4. fol. 216. 5 An Act to prevent the Disturbances of Sea-men and others And to preserve the Stores belonging to His Majesties Navy-Royal Cap. 5. fol. 220. 6 An Act to prevent the delivering up of Merchants Ships Cap. 6. fol. 221. 7 An Act against deceitful disorderly and excessive Gaming Cap. 7. fol. 222. 8 An Act for Continuance of a former Act for Regulating the Press Cap. 8. fol. 223. Private Acts. AN Act for Vacating certain Conveyances made by Sir John Packington Baronet to Christopher Henn and others An Act for the sale of the Mannor of Ingoldesby and divers Lands in Ingoldesby in the County of Lincoln for raising Portions for the two Daughters and Co-heirs of Sir William Armin the younger Baronet deceased An Act for the sale of certain Lands for payment of the Debts of Sir Sackvile Glemham An Act to enable Trustees for Sir William Kyte to sell Lands for the payment of Debts An Act for Confirmation of the Inclosure and Improvement of Malvirne Chace An Act for Setling the Charitable Gift of Abraham Colfe Clerk for Erecting and Endowing Two Free-Schools and an Almes-house at Lewisham in Kent An Act for Naturalizing Dame Katherine Sayer and others An Act to inable Francis Cottington or Charles Cottington to Settle and Dispose of Lands in Joynture for any Wife or Wives they shall take in Marriage An Act to inable Charles Cotton Esquire to make Leases of Lands for payment of Debts An Act for the making of the Church Erected at Falmouth a Parish-Church and no part of the Parish of Gluvias of Chapelry of St. Budock Anno 16 17 Caroli II. Regis Angliae c. 1 AN Act for granting a Royal Aid unto the Kings Majesty of Twenty four hundred threescore and seventeen thousand and five hundred pounds to be Raised Levied and Paid in the space of Three years cap. 1. fol. 224. 2 An Act for Regulating the Measures and Prices of Coals cap. 2. fol. 253. 3 An Act for the Returning of able and sufficient Jurors cap. 3. fol. 254. 4 An additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of EXCISE cap. 4. fol. 255. 5 An Act to prevent Delays in extending Statutes Judgments and Recognizances cap. 5. fol. 256. 6 An Act for Repealing of part of an Act of Parliament intituled An Act directing the prosecution of such as are accomptable
Patents Indentures or other Writings under his great Seal of England or Seal of the Court of Exchequer of any Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments parcel of the possessions of the said Dutchy of Cornwall or annexed to the same shall be good and effectual in Law according to the purport and content of the said Leases against our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Maiesty his Heirs and Successors and against all and every person or persons that shall hereafter have inherit or enjoy the said Dukedom of Cornwall by force of any Act of Parliament or other limitation whatsoever Except they be made for above 3â— years or 3 lives c. Provided alwayes That every such Lease so to be made of any Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in possession shall be made but for thrée Lives or fewer or for one and thirty years or under or some other tearm of years determinable upon one two or thrée lives and not above And if such Leases be made in reversion That then the same together with the Estates in possession do not excéed thrée Lives or the terme of one and thirty years and not in any wise dispunishable of waste The ancient Rent to be reserved and if none anciently a reasonable Rent And so as upon every such Lease shall be reserved the ancient or most usual rent or such rent as hath béen yielded or payed for the greater part of twenty years next before the making of the said Leases and shall be reserved due and payable by or to him or her that shall have the Inheritance or other Estate of the said Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments And where no such rent hath béen reserved or payable that then upon every such Lease there shall be reserved a reasonable rent not being under the twentieth part of the clear yearly value of the Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments contained in such Lease All covenants c. contained in such Leases shall be good And be it further Ordained and Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament That all Covenants Conditions and Reservations and other Agréements contained in every Lease so to be made as aforesaid shall be good and effectual in Law according to the words and contents of the same as well for and against them to whom the reversion of the same Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments shall come as for and against them to whom the said Leases shall come respectively As if our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesty at the time of the making of such Covenants Conditions and Reservations and other Agréements were seized of an absolute and indefeizible Estate in Fée-simple in the same Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments Saving always to all and every person and persons The right of others saved bodies Politick and Corporate their heirs and successors executors administrators and assigns other then our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Majestie and his Heirs and all and every person and persons that shall hereafter have inherit or enjoy the said Dukedom of Cornwall by force of any Act of Parliament or other limitation whatsoever all such rights titles estates customs interests terms claims and demands whatsoever of what kind nature or quality soever of in to or out of the said Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or any of them as they or any of them had or ought to have had before the making of this Act to all intents and purposes and in as large and ample manner and form as if this Act had never béen had or made This Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding CHAP. III. An Act for the Ease in obtaining of Licenses of Alienation and in the Pleading of Alienations with Licence or of Pardons of Alienations without Licence in the Court of Exchequer or elsewhere Stat. 12. Car. 2. cap. 24. All Fines Seizures and Pardons for Alienations and all incidents thereunto are taken away and discharged CHAP. IV. Forreigners as well as Inhabitants shall not be permitted to tipple in Inns Ale-houses c. 21 Jac. 5. WHereas in the last Parliament it was Enacted That if any person or persons whatsoever his or their haâ—itation or abiding be should after be found upon view or his own confession or proof of one witness to be tippling in any Inn Ale-house or Victualling-house 1 Jac. 5. 4 Jac. 5. such person or persons should be thenceforth adjudged and construed to be within the Statutes of the first and fourth years of the late Kings Majesties reign King James of famous memory The one intituled An Act to restrain the inordinate haunting of tippling in Inns Ale-houses and other Victualling-houses And the other intituled An Act to repress the odious and loathsom sin of Drunkenness as if he or they had inhabited and dwelled in the City Town Corporate Market town Village or Hamlet where the Inn Alehouse or Victualling-house was or should be where he or they should be so found tippling should incur the like penalty and the same to be in such sort levied and disposed as in the said Act is expressed concerning such as there inhabit but no punishment by any or either the said Acts or by any other Statute is inflicted upon the Inn-kéeper Alehouse-kéeper or Victualler that permits or suffers such person or persons not there inhabiting to tipple in his Inn Ale-house or Victualling-house The Inn-keeper c. that permits a forreigner to tipple in his house shall â—â—eâ—r the penalty provided by 2 Jac. â— For remedy whereof Be it Enacted That every Inn-kéeper Alehouse-kéeper and other Victualler that at any time after the end of this Session of Parliament shall permit and suffer any person or persons not inhabiting in the City Town Corporate Market town Village or Hamlet where such Inn Alehouse or Victualling-house is or shall be to tipple in the said Inn Alehouse or Victualling-house contrary to the true intent of any or either of the said former Statutes the said Inn-kéeper Alehouse-kéeper and Victualler so offending shall incur the same penalty and in such manner to be proved levied and disposed as in the former Statute of the first year of his said late Majesties reign is appointed for permitting such to tipple as dwell in the same City Town corporate Market town Village or Hamlet And be it further enacted That the kéepers of Taverns Vintners and Victuallers to be within this and the other Statutes and such as do sell Wine in their houses and do also kéep Inns or Victualling in their houses shall be taken to be within the said two former Statutes and also within this Statute CAP. V. Three entire Subsidies granted by the Spiritualty EXP. CAP. VI. Two entire Subsidies granted by the Temporalty EXP. CAP. VII This Session of Parliament by reason of the encrease of the Sickness and other inconveniencies of the season requiring a speedy Adjournment nevertheless shall not determine by his Majesties Royal assent to this and some other Acts. EXP. ANd
This Act to continue to the end of the first Session of the next Parliament St. 1 Car. 1. Continued and made perpetual 17 Car. cap. 4. CAP. II. A restraint of passage or sending any person beyond the Seas to be Popishly bred FOrasmuch as divers ill affected persons to the true Religion established within this Realm have sent their children into foreign parts to be bred up in Popery 1. Jac. 4. He that goes himself or sends any other beyond the seas to be trained up in Popery c. shall be disabled to sue c. and shall lose all his goods and shal forfeit all his lands c. for life Stat. 27 El. 2. Stat. 3 Jac. 5. notwithstanding the restraint thereof by the Statute made in the first year of the reign of our late Soveraign Lord King James of famous memory Be it Enacted That the said Statute shall be put in due execution And be it further Enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That in case any person or persons under the obedience of the King his heirs and Successors at any time after the end of this Session of Parliament shall pass or go or shall convey or send or cause to be sent or conveyed any Childe or other person out of any of the Kings Dominions into any the parts beyond Seas out of the Kings obedience to the intent and purpose to enter into or be resident or trained up in any Priory Abbey Nunnery Popish Vniversity Colledge or School or House of Iesuits Priests or in any private Popish Family and shall be there by any Iesuite Seminary Priest Friar Monk or other Popish person instructed perswaded or strengthned in the Popish Religion in any sort to profess the same or shall convey or send or cause to be conveyed or sent by the hands or means of any person whatsoever any sum or sums of Money or other thing for or towards the maintenance of any Childe or other person already gone or sent or to go or to be sent and trained and instructed as is aforsaid or under the name or colour of any Charity Benevolence or Alms towards the relief of any Priory Abbey Nunnery Colledge School or any Religious House whatsoever Every person so sending conveying or causing to be sent and conveyed as well any such Childe or other person as any sum or sums of Money or other thing and every person passing or being sent beyond the Seas being thereof lawfully convicted in or upon any Information presentment or Indictment as is aforesaid shall be disabled from thenceforth to sue or use any Action Bill Plaint or Information in course of Law or to prosecute any Suit in any Court of Equity or to be Committée of any Ward or Executor or Administrator to any person or capable of any Legacy or Déed or Gift or to bear any Office within the Realm and shall lose and forfeit all his Goods and Chattels and shall forfeit all his Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Rents Annuities Offices and Estates of Fréehold for and during his natural life A convert shall not incur the penalties aforesaid Stat. 27. El. 2. Provided always That no person sent or conveyed as aforesaid that shall within six moneths after his return into this Realm conform himself unto the present Religion established in this Church of England and receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper according to the Statutes made concerning Conformity in other cases required from Popish Recusants shall incur any the penalties aforesaid And it is enacted That all and every of the Offences against this Statute may be inquired heard and determined before the Iustices of the Kings-Bench or Iustices of Assise or Gaol-delivery or of Oyer and Terminer of such Counties where the Offendors did last dwell or abide or whence they departed out of this Kingdom or where they were taken Provided also That if any person or Childe so passing or sent or now being beyond the Seas shall after his return into this Realm conform himself to the present Religion established in this Church of England and receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper according to the Statutes made for or concerning Conformity in other cases required from Popish Recusants for and during such time as he or she shall so continue in such Conformity and obedience according to the true intent and meaning of the said Laws and Statutes shall have his or her Lands restored to them again CAP. III. The Forfeiture and Punishment of him that keeps an Alehouse without License VVHereas by an Act made in the fifth year of the reign of King Edward the sixth of famous memory intituled an Act for kéepers of Alehouses to be bound by Recognizance amongst other things ◠6. Ed. 6. 25 it is enacted That if any person or persons other then such as should be from thenceforth admitted and allowed by the Iustices mentioned in the said Act should after the day in the said Act limited obstinately and upon his own authority take upon him or them to kéep a common Alehouse or Tippling-house or should contrary to the commandment of the said Iustices or two of them use commonly selling of Ale or Béer That then the said Iustices of Peace or two of them whereof one to be of the Quorum should for every such offence commit every such person or persons so offending to the Common Gaol within the same Shire City Borough Town corporate Franchise or Liberty there to remain without bayl or mainprise by the space of thrée days And before his or their deliverance the said Iustices shall take recognizance of him or them so committed with two Sureties that he or they should not kéep any common Alehouse Tippling-house or use commonly selling of Ale or Béer as by the discretion of the said Iustices should séem convenient And the said Iustices should make Certificate of every such Recognizance and Offence at the next Quarter Sessions that should be holden within the same Shire City Borough Town corporate Franchise or Liberty where the same should be committed or done which Certificate should be a sufficient Conviction in Law of the same Offence And the said Iustices of Peace upon the said Certificate made should in open Sessions assess the Fine for every such Offence at twenty shillings as by the said Act may appear Which Law hath not wrought such Reformation as was intended for that the said Fine of twenty shillings is seldom levied and for that many of the said Offendors by reason of their poverty are neither able to pay the said Fine of twenty shillings nor yet to bear their own Charges of conveying them to the Gaol And moreover do leave a great charge of Wife and Children upon the Parishes wherein they live In regard whereof the Constables and other Officers are much discouraged in presenting them and the Offendors become
other intituled an Act for the bringing in of Clapboard from the parts beyond the Seas 35 El. 11. and the restraining of the transporting of wine Casks for the sparing and preserving of Timber within the Realm And so much of one Act made in the five and thirtieth year of the Reign of the said late Quéen Elizabeth intituled an Act to retain the Quéens Majesties Subjects in their due obedience 35 El. 2. as hath not béen since repealed by any other Statute And the several Acts hereafter mentioned 39 El. 4. made in the nine and thirtieth year of the Reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth that is to say an Act intituled an Act for the punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars with the provision annexed thereunto 2 Jac. 25. 39 El. 10. by one Act made in the first year of the reign of the late King James intituled an Act for continuing and reviving of divers Statutes and for repealing of some others An Act intituled St. 23 El. 7. 39 El. 14. an Act for the increase of Mariners and for maintenance of Navigation repealing a former Act made in the thrée and twentieth year of her said Majesties Reign bearing the same title an Act intituled an Act prohibiting the bringing into the Realm of forreign Cards for Wool an Act intituled St. 23 El. 7. 39 El. 14. 39 El. 16. 39 El. 17. 43 El. 3. 43 El. 5. 43 El. 2. 1 Jac. 25 an Act for restraining the excessive making of Mault an Act against lewd and wandring persons pretending to be Souldiers or Mariners And the several Acts hereafter mentioned made in the thrée and fortieth year of the said late Quéen Elizabeth that is to say an Act intituled an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners an Act intituled an Act to avoid trifling and frivolous Suits in Law in her Majesties Courts at Westminster an Act intituled An Act for relief of the Poor with the addition thereunto made by an Act made in the first year of the reign of the late King James intituled an Act for continuing of divers Statutes and for repeal of some others and with this further addition And be it Enacted The Overseers of â—oâ— Poor may put out Apprentices The Church-wardens c. may set up any Trade to â—â—nâ— the poor work 43 El. 10. 43 El. 5. 1 Jac. 7. St. 39 El. 4. 1 Jac. 8. 1 Jac. 22. That all persons to whom the Overséers of the Poor shall according to the said Act binde any children Apprentices may take and receive and kéep them as Apprentices And also that the Churchwardens and Overséers of the Poor mentioned in the said Act made in the said thrée and fortieth year may by and with the consent of two or more Iustices of the Peace whereof one to be of the Quorum within their respective limits wherein shall be more Iustices than one and where no more shall be than one with the assent of that one Iustice of the Peace set up use and occupy any Trade Mystery or Occupation only for the setting on work and better relief of the Poor of the Parish Town or Place of or within which they shall be Church-wardens or Overséers of the Poor any former Statute to the contrary notwithstanding An Act intituled an Act for the true making and working of Woollen Cloth an Act intituled an Act to prevent Perjury and subornation of Perjury and unnecessary expence in Suits of Law And the several Acts made in the first year of the reign of the late King James after mentioned One Act intituled an Act for continuance and explanation of the Statute made in the nine and thirtieth year of the reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth intituled an Act for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars another intituled an Act to take away the benefit of Clergy for some kind of Man-slaughter another intituled an Act concerning Tanners Curriers Shoo-makers and other Artificers occupying the cutting of Leather saving for such part thereof as is repealed by one other Act St. 4 Jac. 6. 1 Jac. 27. made in the fourth year of his said late Maiesties reign of England in that behalf Another intituled an Act for the better execution of the intent and meaning of former Statutes made against shooting in Guns and for the preservation of the Game of Pheasants and Partridges and against the destroying of Hares with Hare-pipes 1 Jac. 18. 1 Jac. 6. St. 5 El. 4 1 Jac. 31. and tracing Hares in the Snow an Act intituled an Act for avoiding of Deceit in Selling Buying or spending corrupt and unwholsome Hops an Act intituled an Act for explanation of the Statute made in the fifth year of the late Quéen Elizabeths reign concerning Labourers an Act for the charitable relief and ordering of persons infected with the Plague And the several Acts made in the third year of the Reign of the late King James after mentioned That is to say 3 Jac. 9. 3 Jac. 10. 3 Jac. 11. one Act intituled an Act for relief of such as lawfully use the Trade and Handy-craft of Skinners Another Act intituled an Act for rating and levying of the charges for conveying of Malefactors and Offendors to the Gaol Another Act for transporting of Béer over the Seas 3 Jac. 13. 4 Jac. 11. One other intituled an Act against unlawful hunting and stealing of Déer and Conies And one Act made in the fourth year of the reign of the said late King James intituled an Act for the better provision of Meadow and pasture for the necessary maintenance of Husbandry and Tillage in the Mannors 7 Jac. 1. Lordships and Parishes of Merden alias Mawarden Boddenham Wellington Sutton Saint Michael Sutton Saint Nicholas Murton upon Lugge and the Parish of Pipe 7 Jac. 4. 7 Jac. 12. and every of them in the County of Hereford And the several Acts made in the seventh year of the Reign of the late King James after mentioned the one intituled an Act for the better execution of Iustice and suppressing of criminal Offenders in the North parts of the Kingdome of England 7 Jac. 12. 7 Jac. 13. Another intituled an Act for the due execution of divers Laws and Statutes heretofore made against Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars and other lewd and idle persons St. 3 Jac. 23. 7 Jac. 18. Another intituled an Act to prevent the spoil of Corn and Grain by untimely hawking and for the better preservation of Pheasants and Partridges One other Intituled an Act to avoid the double payment of Debts One other Intituled An Act for the explanation of one Statute made in the second Session of that present Parliament intituled an Act against unlawful hunting of Déer and Conies And one other Act intituled an Act for the taking landing and carrying of Sea-sand for the bettering of grounds 25 H. 8. 11. and for the increase of Corn and Tillage within the Counties of Devon and Cornwall And that
the Land and if any thing be done to the contrary it shall be void in Law and holden for error And by another Statute made in the six and thirtieth year of the same King Edward the Third 36 E. 3. c. 15. It is amongst other things Enacted That all pleas which shall be pleaded in any Courts before any the Kings Iustices or in his other places or before any of his other Ministers or in the Courts and places of any other Lords within the Realm shall be entred and inrolled in Latine And whereas by the Statute made in the third year of King Henry the seventh 3 H. 7. cap. 1. power is given to the Chancellor the Lord Treasurer of England for the time being and the Kéeper of the Kings Privy Seal or two of them calling unto them a Bishop and a Temporal Lord of the Kings most Honourable Councel and the two Chief Iustices of the Kings Bench and Common Pleas for the time being or other two Iustices in their absence to procéed as in that Act is expressed for the punishmâ—â—â— of some particular offences therein mentioned And by the Statute made in the One and tâ—â—ntieth year of King Henry the Eighth 21 H. 8. cap. 20 The President of the Councel is associated to joyn with the Lord Chancellor and other Iudges in the said Statute of the third of Henry the seventh mentioned But the said Iudges have not kept themselves to the points limited by the said Statute but have undertaken to punish where no Law doth warrant and to make Decrées for things having no such Authority and to inflict heavier punishments then by any Law is warranted All matters â—â—â—minable in 〈◊〉 Star-Chamber maâ— be â—â—â—â—â—nable and 〈◊〉 â—â—o by the Common Law And forasmuch as all matters examinable or determinable before the said Iudges or in the Court commonly called the Star-Chamber may have their proper remedy and redress and their due punishment and correction by the Common Law of the Land and in the Ordinary course of Iustice elswhere and forasmuch as the reasons and motives inducing the erection and continuance of that Court do now cease and the procéedings Censures and Decrées of that Court have by experience been found to be an intolerable burthen to the Subject and the means to introduce an Arbitrary Power and Government And forasmuch as the Councel-Table hath of late times assumed unto it self a power to intermeddle in Civil causes and matters only of private interest betwéen party and party and have adventured to determine of the Estates and Liberties of the Subiect contrary to the Law of the Land and the Rights and Priviledges of the Subject by which great and manifold mischiefs and inconveniencies have arisen and happened and much incertainty by means of such procéedings hath béen conceived concerning Mens Rights and Estates For setling whereof and preventing the like in time to come Be it Ordained and Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament Court of Star-Chamber and all its powers dissolved That the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber and all Iurisdiction Power and Authority belonging unto or exercised in the same Court or by any the Iudges Officers or Ministers thereof be from the first day of August in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred forty and one clearly and absolutely dissolved taken away and determined and that from the said first day of August neither the Lord Chancellor or Kéeper of the Great Seal of England the Lord Treasurer of England the Kéeper of the Kings Privy-Seal or President of the Councel nor any Bishop Temporal Lord Privy-Councellor or Iudg or Iustice whatsoever shall have any power or authority to hear examine or determine any matter or thing whatsoever in the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber or to make pronounce or deliver any Iudgment Sentence Order or Decrée or to do any Iudicial or Ministerial Act in the said Court And that all and every Act and Acts of Parliament and all and every Article clause and sentence in them and every of them by which any Iurisdiction power or Authority is given limited or appointed unto the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber or unto all or any the Iudges Officers or Ministers thereof or for any procéedings to be had or made in the said Court or for any matter or thing to be drawn into question examined or determined there shall for so much as concerneth the said Court of Star-Chamber and the power and authority thereby given unto it be from the said first day of August repealed and absolutely revoked and made void And be it likewise Enacted Like Iurisdiction in several other Courts repealed and taken away That the like Iurisdiction now used and exercised in the Court before the President and Councel in the Marches of Wales and also in the Court before the President and Councel established in the Northern parts And also in the Court commonly called the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster held before the Chancellor and Councel of that Court And also in the Court of Exchequer of the County Palatine of Chester held before the Chamberlain and Councel of that Court The like Iurisdiction being exercised there shall from the said first day of August One thousand six hundred forty and one be also repealed and absolutely revoked and made void any Law prescription custome or usage Or the said Statute made in the third year of King Henry the seventh Or the Statute made the One and twentieth of Henry the Eigth Or any Act or Acts of Parliament heretofore had or made to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And that from henceforth no Court Councel No Court or Councel to have the like Iurisdiction or place of Iudicature shall be erected ordained constituted or appointed within this Realm of England or Dominion of Wales which shall have use or exercise the same or the like Iurisdiction as is or hath béen used practised or exercised in the said Court of Star-Chamber Be it likewise declared and Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament The King nor his privy Councel shall have no Iurisdiction over any mans estate That neither his Majesty nor his Privy-Councel have or ought to have any Iurisdiction power or authority by English Bill Petition Articles Libel or any other Arbitrary way whatsoever to examine or draw into question determine or dispose of the Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods or Chattels of any the Subjects of this Kingdome But that the same ought to be tryed and determined in the ordinary Courts of Iustice and by the ordinary course of the Law And be it further provided and Enacted That if any Lord Chancellor Penalties upon great Officers and others for the first offence or Kéeper of the Great Seal of England Lord Treasurer Kéeper of the Kings Privy Seal President of the Councel Bishop Temporal Lord Privy Councellor Iudg or Iustice whatsoever shall offend or do
time wherein the said offence shall be committed CAP. XI A Repeal of the Branch of a Statute primo Elizabethae concerning Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical VVHereas in the Parliament holden in the first year of the reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth late Quéen of England there was an Act made and established Intituled An Act restoring to the Crown the antient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual St. 1 Eliz. 2 and abolishing all Forreign Power repugnant to the same In which Act amongst other things there is contained one Clause Branch Article or Sentence whereby it was Enacted to this effect Namely That the said late Quéens Highness her Heirs and Successors Kings or Quéens of this Realm should have full power and authority by vertue of that Act by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of England to assign name and authorite when and as often as her Highness her Heirs or Successors should think méet and convenient and for such and so long time as should please her Highness her Heirs or Successors such person or persons being natural born Subjects to her Highness her Heirs or Successors as her Majesty her Heirs or Successors should think méet to exercise use occupy and execute under her Highness her Heirs and Successors all manner of Iurisdictions Priviledges and preheminence in any wise touching or concerning any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction within these her Realms of England and Ireland or any other her Highnesse Dominions and Countries and to visit reform redresse order correct and amend all such errors heresies schismes abuses offences contempts and enormities whatsoever which by any manner Spiritual or Ecclesiastical power Authority or Iurisdiction can or may lawfully be reformed ordered redressed corrected restrained or amended to the pleasure of Almighty God the increase of vertue and the conservation of the Peace and Vnity of this Realm And that such person or persons so to be named assigned authorized and appointed by her Highness her Heirs or Successors after the said Letters Patents to him or them made and delivered as aforesaid should have full power and Authority by vertue of that Act and of the said Letters Patents under her Highness her Heirs or Successors to exercise use and execute all the Premisses according to the tenor and effect of the said Letters Patents any matter or cause to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And whereas by colour of some words in the aforesaid Branch of the said Act High Commission Court whereby Commissioners are Authorized to execute their Commission according to the tenor and effect of the Kings Letters Patents and by Letters Patents grounded thereupon the said Commissioners have to the great and insufferable wrong and oppression of the Kings Subjects used to fine and imprison them and to exercise other Authority not belonging to Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction restored by that Act and divers other great mischiefs and inconveniences have also ensued to the Kings Subjects by occasion of the said Branch and Commissions issued thereupon and the executions thereof Therefore for the repressing and preventing of the aforesaid abuses mischiefs and inconveniencies in time to come Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty The said branch of the stat 1 El. c. 2. repealed and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That the foresaid Branch Clause Article or Sentence contained in the said Act and every word matter and thing contained in that Branch Clause Article or Sentence shall from henceforth be repealed annulled revoked annihilated and utterly made void for ever any thing in the said Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Rep. St. 13 Car. 1. cap. 11. And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that no Archbishop Bishop Power taken away from Archbishops Bishops and other Ecclesiastical persons and Courts Exp. St. 13. Car. 2. c. 12. nor Vicar-General nor any Chancellor Official nor Commissary of any Arch-bishop Bishop or Vicar-General nor any Ordinary whatsoever nor any other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Iudg Officer or Minister of Iustice nor any other person or persons whatsoever exercising Spiritual or Eccesiastical Power Authority or Iurisdiction by any Grant License or Commission of the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors or by any power or authority derived from the King his Heirs or Successors or otherwise shall from and after the first day of August which shall be in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred forty and one award impose or inflict any pain penalty fine amerciament imprisonment or other corporal punishment upon any of the Kings Subjects for any contempt misdemeanor crime offence matter or thing whatsoever belonging to Spiritual or Ecclesiastical cognizance or Iurisdiction Oath ex officio St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 12. or shall ex officio or at the instance or promotion of any other person whatsoever urge enforce tender give or minister unto any Churchwarwarden Sydeman or other person whatsoever any corporal Oath whereby he or she shall or may be charged or obliged to make any presentment of any crime or offence or to confess or to accuse himself or her self of any crime offence delinquency or misdemeanor or any neglect matter or thing whereby or by reason whereof he or she shall or may be lyable or exposed to any censure pain penalty or punishment whatsoever upon pain and penalty that every person who shall offend contrary to this Statute Penalty treble damages and one hundred pounds shall forfeit and pay treble damages to every person thereby grieved and the sum of One hundred pounds to him or them who shall first demand and sue for the same which said Treble damages and sum of One hundred pounds shall and may be demanded and recovered by Action of Debt Bill or Plaint in any Court of Record wherein no priviledg Offendors convicted disabled from any office or imployment by the Kings Letters Patents Essoin protection or wager of Law shall be admitted or allowed to the Defendant And be it further Enacted That every person who shall be once convicted of any act or offence prohibited by this Statute shall for such act or offence be from and after such conviction utterly disabled to be or continue in any office or imployment in any Court of Iustice whatsoever or to exercise or execute any power authority or jurisdiction by force of any Commission or Letters Patents of the King his Heirs or Successors And be it further Enacted That from and after the said first day of August No new Court to be erected with the like power no new Court shall be erected ordained or appointed within this Realm of England or Dominion of Wales which shall or may have the like power jurisdiction or Authority as the said High Commission Court now hath or pretendeth to have But that all and every such Letters Patents Commissions and Grants made or to be made by his
shall graciously be pleased to pardon him And if his Majesty shall grant his pardon to any Péer of this Realm or Commoner convicted of any offence against this Act after such Pardon granted the Péer or Commoner so pardoned shall be restored to all intents and purposes as if he had never béen convicted any thing in this Law to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding CAP. II. An Act of Parliament Entituled An Act for dis-enabling all persons in Holy Orders to exercise any Temporal Jurisdiction or Authority Repealed WHereas at the Parliament begun at Westminster the Third day of November in the Sixtéenth year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles of blessed memory since deceased an Act of Parliament was made Entituled An Act for dis-enabling all persons in Holy Orders to exercise any Temporal Jurisdiction or Authority Stat. 17 Car. 1. cap. 27. Rep. Which Act hath made several alterations prejudicial to the constitution and ancient Rights of Parliament and contrary to the Laws of this Land and is by experience found otherwise inconvenient Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the said Act Entituled An Act for dis-enabling all persons in holy Orders to exercise any Temporal Jurisdiction or Authority and every clause matter and thing therein contained shall be and is hereby from henceforth repealed annulled and made void to all intents and purposes whatsoever CAP. III. All such Monies Goods and other things which were Received Levied or Collected in these late Times and are remaining in the hands or possession of any Treasurers Receivers Collectors or others not pardoned by the Act of Oblivion declared to be Vested and setled in His Majesty WHereas divers Doubts have béen made whether or no the Monies Goods Chattels and other things excepted to be accounted for in the Act of Frée and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion made and passed in the Parliament begun at Westminster the Five and twentieth day of April in the Twelfth year of your Majesties Raign do belong unto and of right are in your Majesty for that the same were not levied received collected or taken by your Majesties Authority or to your Majesties use For remedy and clearing whereof Goods and Monies levied since the 30. of Ian. 1642. and not pardoned are vested in his Majesty We the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament humbly beséech your Majesty that it may be Enacted and be it Declared Enacted and Ordained by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament and by the Authority thereof That all and every sum and sums of Money Goods Plate Iewels Horses Arms Ammunition and other things whatsoever levied received or taken sithence the Thirtieth of January One thousand six hundred forty two by any of the late pretended Authorities or by pretence or colour of any Power or Authority derived or pretended to be derived from them or any of them for any publick use which are not pardoned by the said Act which are not otherwise vested and setled in the Kings Majesty and all Bonds Obligations Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 11. and other Securities entred into for the same or any part thereof be and are hereby vested and setled in the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and that his Sacred Majesty his Heirs and Successors may from time to time and at all times hereafter have demand sue for and recover the same of all and every person and persons their Heirs Executors and Administrators who are accountable for the same or in whose hands or possessions soever the same were or are as if the same had béen levied received collected or taken in his Majesties Name by Authority from his Majesty or to his Majesties use any Law or Statute Vsage or Custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person or persons which have received any the aforesaid sum or sums of money from any Treasurer or Receiver for any publick use by way of Imprest to be accounted for which are not pardoned or discharged by the aforesaid Act shall be liable to account and called to account in such manner and form as if they had received the same out of his Majesties Exchequer or any other publick Treasury The Revenues of the Churches in Wales and particularly those persons that have received or collected the Revenues of any Churches or Vicarages in Wales or in the County of Monmouth since the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty eight Provided they have all due allowances in their accounts as all such persons whose accounts are excepted in the Act of Oblivion have or ought to have And to the end his Majesty may be the better enabled to discover Commissions for discovery and sue for all such Monies Goods and other things invested in his Maiesty by this Act it is further ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That His Majesty His Heirs and Successors shall and may from time to time issue forth such and so many Commissions to such and so many persons as his Majesty shall think fit either under the great Seal of England or the Seal of his Majesties Exchequer for the better discovering levying receiving and discharging the same Persons accountable enabled to sue for and levy all arrears And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all persons accountable to his Majesty by this Act shall have full power and Authority and are hereby enabled to sue for Levy and recover from the parties from whom the same was and is due and for which they are hereby accomptable all sums of Money and Arrears in such manner and form as they might have recovered and levyed the same when they first grew due Provided this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to call any person to account or to question any person for Goods or other things remaining in his hands which shall not be called to account Proviso none to be questioned but upon some prosecution begun before the 24 of Iune 1662. or some Information against him either in the Exchequer or Commissioners to be appointed as aforesaid before the four and twentieth of June which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty two and that the said Information be prosecuted with effect within twelve moneths after the Exhibition thereof CAP. IV. An Act for a free and Voluntary present to his Majesty EXP. Proviso declaring no commissions of this nature but by authority of Parliament ANd be it hereby Declared That no Commissions or Aids of this nature can be issued out or levied but by Authority of Parliament And that this Act and supply hereby granted shall not
in Parliament in the Twelfth year of His Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite and by Knights Service and Purveyance and for setling a Revenue upon His Majesty in lieu thereof It was amongst other Things Enacted for the Reasons and Recompence therein expressed That from thenceforth no person or persons by any Warrant Commission or Authority under the Great Seal or otherwise by colour of buying or making Provision or Purveyance for his Majesty or any Quéen of England for the time being or of any the Children of any King or Quéen of England that shall be or for his their or any of their Houshold shall take any Cart Carriage or other thing whatsoever of any of the Subjects of His Majesty his Heirs or Successors without the frée and full consent of the Owner or Owners thereof had and obtained without Menace or enforcement nor shall summon warn take use or require any the said Subjects to furnish or find any Horses Oxen or other Cattel Carts Ploughs Wayns or other Carriages for the use of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or of any Quéen of England or of any Child or Children of any the Kings or Quéens of England for the time being for the Carrying the Goods of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or the said Quéens or Children or any of them without such full and frée consent as aforesaid any Law Statute Custome or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding which Act may prove very prejudicial and inconvenient to the Kings Majesty in his Royal Progresses upon his necessary occasions to several parts of this Realm in case any person or persons shall obstinately refuse voluntarily to provide sufficient Carriages for Royal service at ordinary and usual Rates for such Carriages as are paid by others of his Subjects in such places contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said Act. Clerk or chief Officer of his Majâ—sties carriages by Warrant from the Green-cloath to provide Carts c. for his Majesties use Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That the Clark or chief Officer of his Majesties Carriages shall thrée dayes at least before his Majesties Arrival by Warrant from the Gréen cloth give notice in writing to two or more of his Majesties Iustices of the Peace next adjoyning to provide such a number of Carts and Carriages from the places next adjacent as His Majesty shall have present use of expressing the certainty of that number as also the time and place when and where the said Carts and Carriages are to attend which Carriages shall consist of four able Horses or six Oxen or four Oxen and two Horses for each of which Cart or Carriage Penalty for refusing to furnish his Majesty the respective Owners shall receive six pence for each Mile they shall go laden And that in case any of his Majesties Subjects of this Realm shall refuse to provide and furnish His Majesty that now is or His Quéen that shall be or His or Her Houshold in their Progress or removals with such sufficient and necessary carriages for their Wardrobe and other necessaries for ready monies tendred to them or shall without just and reasonable cause refuse to make their appearance with such sufficient Carts and Carrâ—â—ges as are before exprest that then upon due proof and conviction of such neglect and refusal by the Oath of the Constable or other Officer or two other credible Witnesses before the said Iustices of the Peace of the County or Mayor or other chief Officer of the City or Corporation where he or they inhabit which Oath they shall have power to administer the party so refusing shall for such his refusal and neglect forfeit the sum of Forty shillings to the King's use to be forthwith levied by distress and sale of his Goods and Chattels rendring to the parties the overplus upon every such sale if there shall be any by Warrant from the said Iustices of the Peace Mayor or other chief Officer Provided alwayes That no Horses Oxen Cart or Wain No horses or carriages to travel above a dayes journey nor without pay of ready money shall be enforced to travel above one dayes journey from the place where they receive their Lading and that ready payment shall be made in hand for the said Carriages at the place of Lading without delay according to the aforesaid Rates And in case any Iustice of the Peace Mayor chief Officer or Constable shall take any Gift or Reward to spare any person or persons from making such Carriage or shall injuriously charge or grieve any person through envy hatred or evill will who ought not to make such Carriage or shall Impress more Carriages then he shall be directed from the Gréen Cloth to do That then upon due proof and conviction thereof the party so offending shall forfeit the sum of Ten pounds to the party thereby grieved or any other who shall sue for the same to be recovered by Action of Debt in any of his Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Protection Essoin Penalty for wrongfull charging any person or Wager of Law shall be allowed And in case any person or persons shall presume to take upon him or them to Impress any horses Oxen cart wain or carriages for his Majesties service other then the person so impowered then he or they so offending shall upon due conviction of the said offence incur and suffer the punishment contained in the first recited Act. And whereas of late in his Majesties Progresses excessive Rates and Prices have béen exacted from his Maiesties servants for lodging horse-meat stable-room and other accomodations Rates for horse-meat and diet for his Majesties Servants Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That none of his Majesties said Servants shall be compelled to pay above one shilling by the night for every bed that they shall use for their servants And that in all such houses where any of his Majesties said servants shall pay for their dyet or for hay and provender for their horses convenient lodging shall be provided for themselves and their Servants without paying any thing for the same And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Rates Prices to be set down by two Iustices of the Peace that any two or more of the Iustices of the Peace near adjoyning to the Road through which his Majesty is to pass shall immediately after notice in writing from the said Gréen Cloth and Avenor under their hands and seals set down and appoint such reasonable Rates and Prices to be paid during his Majesties abode there both for hay oats and other accomodations for horses as they in their discretion shall think méet which Rates one day at the least before his Majesties coming to such place the said Iustices
for six moneths and there to be put to hard labour or to the Common-Gaol for one whole year without Bail or Main-prize at the Discretion of the Iustices of the Peace before whom such Conviction shall be and not to be discharged from thence till he or they have given sufficient Sureties for their Good-behaviour for one whole year next ensuing after his or their inlargement Provided that where any Offender shall be punished by force of this Act that he shall not be prosecuted nor incur the penalty of any other Law or Statute for the same offence 19 H. 7. c. 11. 3 Jac. c. 13. 7 Jac. c. 13. CAP. XI The Confirmation of Three Acts therein mentioned BE it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the several Acts herein after mentioned made or mentioned to be made upon or since the Twenty fifth day of April in the Twelfth year of his said Majesties Reign by his said Majesty by and with the advice or consent of the Lords and Commons Assembled at Westminster upon the said 25th of April and there continued until the 29th day of December then next following and then dissolved which said Acts are herein after particularly mentioned and expressed by the several and respective Titles following St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 29 St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 33. St. 12 Car. 2. â—ap 14. That is to say One Act Entituled An Act for the raising of Seventy thousand pounds for the further Supply of his Majesty And one other Act entituled An Act for Confirmation of Marriages and one other Act entituled An Act for a perpetual Anniversary shanksgiving on the Twenty ninth day of May and all and every the Clauses Sentences and Articles in them and every of them contained shall be and hereby are Ratified and Confirmed and Enacted and Declared to have the full force and strength of Acts of Parliament according to the tenor and purport thereof and so shall be adjudged déemed and taken to all intents and purposes whatsoever and as if the same had béen made declared and Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament CAP. XII Explanation of a Clause contained in an Act of Parliament made in the Seventeenth Year of the late King Charles Entituled An Act for Repeal of a Branch of a Statute Primo Elizabethae concerning Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical VVHereas in an Act of Parliament made in the Seventeenth year of the late King Charles Entituled An Act for Repeal of a Branch of a Statute Primo Elizabethae concerning Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical St. 17 Car. 1. cap. 11. it is amongst other things Enacted That no Arch-bishop Bishop nor Vicar-General nor any Chancellor nor Commissary of any Arch-Bishop Bishop or Vicar-General nor any Ordinary whatsoever nor any other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Iudg Officer or Minister of Iustice nor any other person or persons whatsoever exercising Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Power Authority or Iurisdiction by any Grant License or Commission of the Kings Majesty His Heirs or Successors or by any Power or Authority derived from the King His Heirs or Successors or otherwise shall from and after the first day of August which then should be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred forty one Award Impose or Inflict any Pain Penalty Fine Amerciament Imprisonment or other Corporal punishment upon any of the Kings Subjects for any contempt misdemeanor crime offence matter or thing whatsoever belonging to Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Cognizance or Iurisdiction whereupon some doubt hath béen made that all ordinary power of Coertion and Procéedings in Causes Ecclesiastical were taken away whereby the ordinary course of Iustice in Causes Ecclesiastical hath béen obstructed Be it therefore declared and Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled The ordinary power of Archbishops c. not taken away and by the Authority thereof That neither the said Act nor any thing therein contained doth or shall take away any ordinary Power or Authority from any of the said Arch-Bishops Bishops or any other person or persons named as aforesaid but that they and every of them exercising Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction may procéed determine sentence execute and exercise all manner of Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction May use Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction and all Censures and Coertions appertaining and belonging to the same before the making of the Act before recited in all causes and matters belonging to Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction according to the Kings Majesties Ecclesiastical Laws used and practised in this Realm in as ample manner and form as they did and might lawfully have done before the making of the said Act. The Stat. 17. Car. 1. cap. 11. Rep. as to all except what concerns the High Commiss on Court Proviso And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the afore recited Act of Decimo septimo Caroli and all the Matters and Clauses therein contained excepting what concerns the High Commission-Court or the new erection of some such like Court by Commission shall be and is hereby repealed to all intents and purposes whatsoever Any thing clause or sentence in the said Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and it is hereby Enacted That neither this Act nor any thing herein contained shall extend or be construed to revive or give force to the said Branch of the said Statute made in the said first year of the Reign of the said late Quéen Elizabeth mentioned in the said Act of Parliament made in the said seventéenth year of the Reign of the said King Charles but that the said Branch of the said Statute made in the said first year of the Reign of the said Quéen Elizabeth shall stand and be repealed in such sort as if this Act had never béen made Provided also and it is hereby further Enacted That it shall not be lawful for any Arch-Bishop Proviso touching the oath Ex Officio Bishop Vicar-General Chancellor Commissary or any other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Iudg Officer or Minister or any other person having or exercising Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction to tender or administer unto any person whatsoever the Oath usually called the Oath Ex Officio or any other Oath whereby such person to whom the same is tendred or administred may be charged or compelled to confess or accuse or to purge him or her self of any criminal matter or thing whereby he or she may be lyable to any censure or punishment Any thing in this Statute or any other Law Custom or Vsage heretofore to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding Proviso not to give any other Iurisdiction to any Archbishop c. than they had by law before the year 1639. The Kings Supremacy in Ecclesiastical matters Canons Ecclesiastical Provided
Coronor Steward or Bailiff of any Franchise or Liberty or by any other Officer Minister Vnder-bailiff or other person or persons whatsoever within this Realm having or pretending to have Authority or Warrant in that behalf by force or colour of any Writ Bill or Process issuing or to be issuing out of His Majesties said Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas or either of them in which said Writ Bill or Process the certainty and true cause of Action is not expressed particularly and for which the Defendant or Defendants in such Writ Bill or Process named is and are bailable by the Statute in that behalf made in the thrée and twentieth year of the Reign of the late King Henry the sixth shall be forced or compelled to give security or to enter into Bond with Sureties 23 H. 6. ca. 10. for the Appearances of such person or persons so arrested at the day and place in the said Writ Bill or Process specified or contained in any penalty or sum of money excéeding the sum of Forty pounds of lawful money of England to be conditioned for such Appearances and that all Sheriffs and other Officers and Ministers aforesaid shall let to bail and deliver out of Prison and from their and every of their Custodies respectively all and every person and persons whatsoever by them or any of them arrested upon any such Writ Bill or Process wherein the certainty and true cause of Action is not particularly expressed upon Security in the sum of Forty pounds and no more given for Appearance of such person or persons so arrested unto the said Sheriff or Officer aforesaid according to the said Statute in the said thrée and twentieth year of the Reign of the said late King Henry the sixth in that behalf made and provided And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That upon Appearance to be Entred in the Term wherein such Writ Bill or Process is retornable with the respective Officer in that behalf for the said person or persons by Attorney or Attorneys in the said respective Courts from whence the said Writ Bill or Process issued unto such Writ Bill or Process the Bond or Bonds so given for Appearance thereunto Bonds given for discharged upon appearance Nonsuit for want of a Declaration before the end of the next term after appearance and judgment and costs against the Plaintiff be and are hereby satisfied and dischargeed And that after such Appearance so entred no Amerciaments be set or Estreted upon or against any Sheriff or other Officer aforesaid or any other person whatsoever concerning the want of such Appearance and unless the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs in any such Writ Bill or Process named shall put into the Court from whence such Writ Bill or Process did issue his or their Bill or Declaration against the person or persons so Arrested in some personal Action or Ejectione firmae of Lands or Tenements before the end of the Term next following after Appearance That then a Non-suit for want of a Declaration may be Entred against the said Plaintiff or Plaintiffs in the said Courts respectively And that every Defendant in every such Writ Bill or Process named shall or may have Iudgment to recover Costs against every such Plaintiff or Plaintiffs to be Assessed Taxed and Levied in such manner and according as it is provided by the Statute for Costs made in the thrée and twentieth year of the Reign of the late King Henry the Eighth 23 H. 8. ca. 15. any former or other Act Statute Ordinance Law Custome Order Course or Vsage of either of the said Courts to the contrary thereof heretofore had made admitted or used in any wise notwithstanding Provided alwayes that this Act nor any Clause or thing herein before specified or contained shall not extend Arrests upon Capias utlagatum Attachments upon Rescous Contempts and of Priviledg excepted nor be construed or taken to extend unto any Arrests hereafter to be made upon or by Vertue of any Writ of Capias utlagatum Attachment upon Rescous or Attachment upon any Contempt or of any Attachment of Priviledge at the Suit of any priviledged person or of any other Attachment for Contempt whatsoever issuing or to be issing out of either of the said Courts although there be no particular certainty of the cause of Action expressed or contained in the said Writs But that nevertheless no Sheriff nor Vnder-sheriff nor any of the Officers or Ministers aforesaid shall discharge any person or persons taken upon any Writ of Capias utlagatum out of Custody without a lawful Supersedeas first had and received for the same and that upon the said Writs of Attachment such lawful course be taken for Security for Appearance therein as hath béen heretofore used any thing herein before expressed to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And whereas many persons out of ill intent to delay their Creditors from recovering their Iust Debts continue Prisoners in the Fléet who cannot be procéeded against in such manner as they might be if they were at Large Now for the better enabling all persons to recover their just Debts and Demands against such Prisoners How Persons having cause of action may proceed against Prisoners in the Fleet. Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person or persons whatsoever who now hath or have or which at any time hereafter shall have cause of any personal Action against any person being a Prisoner in the prison of the Fléet may Sue forth an Original Writ upon his or their cause of Action And that a Writ of Habeas Corpus be granted to every such person or persons being Plaintiff or Plaintiffs desiring the same to be directed to the Warden of the same Prison to have the Body of such prisoner before the Iustices of the Common Pleas at some certain day in any Term to answer the said Plaintiff or Plaintiffs upon his or their said Cause of Action And that if the said Plaintiff or Plaintiffs at the said day put into the said Court his or their Declaration according to the said Original Writ against the said prisoner being present at the Barr the said prisoner shall be bound to appear in person or to put in an Attorney to appear for him in the said Action And unless the said Defendant plead upon a Rule given to be out at eight daies at the least after such Appearance Iudgment by Nihil dicit may be entred against such Defendant as appearing in person which shall be good and effectual in Law And such charge in Court by Declarations signified by Rule unto the said Warden shall be a good cause of detention of such prisoner in his Custody from which he shall not be discharged without a lawful Supersedeas or Rule of Court And if the said Warden shall do otherwise he shall be Responsible to the Court and to the party grieved for Damages by Action upon the case to be brought
cap. 29. have béen held by sundry Leases thereof made for years and for one two and thrée lives by means whereof the Tenants have fixed Estates have béen encouraged to improve and manure the same and have improved the same and therein laid out great sums of Money in Building and otherwise to the great advantage of the Publick And whereas for Twenty years and more now last past no such Leases have béen legally made so that it is probable most of the Tenants Estates will be determined or near determination ere that there can be any Estates well and legally renewed unless remedy therefore be provided by means whereof Waste Spoil and Dilapidation are likely to happen the Lands worn out and decayed and great disturbance and impoverishment to the Tenants And whereas on the like consideration King Charles the First was by special Law enabled to make such Leases Be it Enacted by our Soveraign Lord the King by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by authority of the same That all Leases or Grants already made Leases by the King of Lands c. of the Dutchy of Cornwall made good or hereafter to be made within the space of thrée years now next ensuing by our said Soveraign Lord the King by Letters Patents Indentures or other Writings under His Great Seal of England or Seal of the Court of Exchequer or by Copy of Court-Roll according to the Customs of the respective Mannors of any Offices Parks Lands Tenements or Hereditaments other then Honors Lordships or Mannors parcel of the possessions of the said Dutchy of Cornwall or annexed to the same shall be good and effectual in Law according to the Purport and Contents of the said Leases Grants and Copies against our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and against all and every person or persons that shall hereafter have inherit or enjoy the said Dukedome of Cornwal by force of any Act of Parliament or other limitation whatsoever Leases for above 31 years or three lives excepted Provided alwayes That every such Lease so to be made of any Parks Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in Possession shall be made but for thrée lives or fewer or for one and thirty years or under or some other term of years determinable upon one two or thrée lives and not above And if such Leases be made in Reversion That then the same together with the Estates in Possession do not excéed thrée lives or the term of one and thirty years and not in any wise dispunishable of Waste Not to be diâ—punishable of Waste The ancient rent to be reserved and so as upon every such Lease shall be reserved the ancient or most usual rent or more or such Rent as hath béen yielded or paid for the greater part of twenty years next before the making of the said Leases and shall be reserved due and payable by or to him or her that shall have the Inheritance or other Estate of the said Parks Lands Tenements or Hereditaments and where no such Rent hath béen reserved or payable That then upon every such Lease there shall be reserved a reasonable Rent not being under the fourth part of the clear yearly value of the Parks Lands Tenements or Hereditaments contained in such Lease Covenants conâ—â—sions in such leases grants or c. shall be good And be it further Ordained and Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament That all Covenants Conditions and Reservations and other Agréements contained in every Lease Grant or Copy heretofore made or hereafter so to be made as aforesaid shall be good and effectual in Law according to the words and contents of the same as well for and against them to whom the Reversion of the same Lands Tenements or Hereditaments shall come as for and against them to whom the Interest of the said Leases Grants or Copies shall come respectively as if our Soveraign Lord the Kings Maiesty at the time of the making of such Covenants Conditions and Reservations and other agréements were seised of an absolute Indefeasible Estate in Fée-simple in the same Lands Saving of others Rights Tenements or Hereditaments Saving alwayes to all and every person and persons Bodies Politick and Corporate their Heirs and Successors Executors Administrators and Assigns other then our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Maiesty and his Heirs and all and every person and persons that shall hereafter have inherit or enjoy the said Dukedom of Cornwall by force of any Act of Parliament or other limitation whatsoever all such Rights Titles Estates Customs Interests Terms Claims and demands whatsoever of what kind nature or quality whatsoever or in to or out of the said Offices Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or any of them as they or any of them had or ought to have had before the making of this Act to all intents and purposes and in as large and ample manner and form as if this Act had never béen had or made this Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding ACTS made in the Parliament begun and holden the 8th of May Anno 13 Caroli Secundi Regis And Continued to the 19th of May 14 Caroli Regis And thence Prorogued to the 18th of February then next following CAP. I. Certain Persons called Quakers and others refusing to take lawful Oaths VVHereas of late times certain persons under the names of Quakers and other names of Separation Quakers seperations denying to take an Oath have taken up and maintained sundry dangerous Opinions and Tenents and amongst others that the taking of an Oath in any case whatsoever although before a lawful Magistrate is altogether unlawful and contrary to the Word of God and the said persons do daily refuse to take an Oath though lawfully tendred whereby it often happens that the truth is wholly suppressed and the Administration of Iustice much obstructed And whereas the said Persons under a pretence of Religious Worship do often assemble themselves in great numbers in several parts of this Realm to the great endangering of the Publick Peace and Safety and to the terror of the People by maintaining a secret and strict correspondence amongst themselves and in the mean time separating and dividing themselves from the rest of his Majesties good and loyal Subjects and from the Publick Congregations and usual places of Divine Worship For the redressing therefore and better preventing the many Mischiefs and dangers that do and may arise by such dangerous Tenents and such unlawful Assemblies Be it Enacted by the Kings Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled in Parliament and by Authority of the same That if any person or persons who maintain that the taking of an Oath in any case whatsoever although before a lawfull Magistrate is altogether unlawful The penalty for refusing
Collegiate Church within England and Wales shall at their proper costs and charges before the Twenty fifth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty two obtain under the Great Seal of England a true and perfect printed Copy of this Act and of the said Book annexed hereunto to be by the said Deans and Chapters and their Successors kept and preserved in safety for ever and to be also produced and shewed forth in any Court of Record as often as they shall be thereunto lawfully required And also there shall be delivered true and perfect Copies of this Act and of the same Book into the respective Courts at Westminster and into the Tower of London to be kept and preserved for ever among the Records of the said Courts and the Records of the Tower to be also produced and shewed forth in any Court as néed shall require which said Books so to be exemplified under the Great Seal of England shall be examined by such persons as the Kings Majesty shall appoint under the Great Seal of England for that purpose and shall be compared with the Original Book hereunto annexed and shall have power to correct and amend in writing any Error committed by the Printer in the Printing of the same Book or of any thing therein contained and shall certifie in writing under their Hands and Seals or the hands and seals of any thrée of them at the end of the same Book that they have examined and compared the same Book and find it to be a true and perfect Copy which said Books and every one of them so exemplified under the Great Seal of England as aforesaid shall be déemed taken adjudged and expounded to be good and available in the Law to all intents and purposes whatsoever and shall be accounted as good Records as this Book it self hereunto annexed Any Law or Custome to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for the Kings Professor of Law in Oxford Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be prejudicial or hurtful unto the Kings Professor of the Law within the Vniversity of Oxford for or concerning the Prebend of Shipton within the Cathedral Church of Sarum united and annexed unto the place of the same Kings Professor for the time being by the late King James of blessed memory Provided alwayes Proviso concerning the 3â—th Article agreed in the Convocation Anno 1562. That whereas the Six and thirtieth Article of the Nine and thirty Articles agréed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy holden at London in the year of our Lord One thousand five hundred sixty two for the avoiding of diversities of Opinions and for establishing of consent touching true Religion is in these words following viz. That the Book of Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops and Ordaining of Priests and Deacons lately set forth in the time of King Edward the Sixth and confirmed at the same time by Authority of Parliament doth contain all things necessary to such Consecration and Ordaining neither hath it any thing that of it self is superstitious and ungodly And therefore whosoever are Consecrated or Ordered according to the Rites of that Book since the second year of the aforenamed King Edward unto this time or hereafter shall be Consecrated or Ordered according to the same Rites We decree all such to be rightly orderly and lawfully Consecrated and Ordered It be Enacted And be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Subscriptions hereafter to be had or made unto the said Articles by any Deacon Priest or Ecclesiastical person or other person whatsoever who by this Act or any other Law now in force is required to subscribe unto the said Articles shall be construed and be taken to extend and shall be applied for and touching the said Six and thirtieth Article unto the Book containing the form and manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons in this Act mentioned in such sort and manner as the same did heretofore extend unto the Book set forth in the time of King Edward the Sixth mentioned in the said Six and thirtieth Article Any thing in the said Article or in any Statute Act or Canon heretofore had or made to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided also That the Book of Common Prayer The Common Prayer used by Authority of Parliament 1. Eliz. to be used untill Bartholomew Day 1662. EXP. and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of this Church of England together with the form and manner of Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons heretofore in use and respectively established by Act of Parliament in the First and Eighth years of Quéen Elizabeth shall be still used and observed in the Church of England until the Feast of St. Bartholomew which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two EXP. as to this last Clause CAP. V. For Regulating the Making of Stuffs in Norfolk and Norwich WHereas divers abuses and deceipts have of late years béen had and used in the making of Worsteds and other Stuffs commonly called Norwich Stuffs and in the Réeling of Yarnes whereof the said Stuffs are either wholly or in part made which tends to the debasing of the said Manufacture unto the prejudice of the publique which said Trade of Weaving of Stuffs hath of late times béen very much increased and great variety of new sorts of Stuffs have béen invented 7 E. 4. cap. 1. so that the Power given by the Statute of the Seventh of Edward the Fourth Chapter the First is not sufficient for the Regulating of the same And that the number of the Wardens by the same Act appointed being but Eight are too few for the Governing and Ordering the same Trade by which means the same Manufacture will soon be lost if not prevented and carried into forreign Nations to the great diminution of His Majesties Customs and turning out of the work many thousands of poor people For prevention of which abuses deceipts and evils The number of Wardens and Assistants of Master Weavers in Norwich how and when to be chosen It is Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled in Parliament and by the Authority of the same That there shall be Twelve Wardens and Thirty Assistants all which are to be Master-Weavers within the County of the City of Norwich and County of Norfolk sir of which said Wardens and fiftéen of the said Assistants shall be chosen the first Monday after Pentecost in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two and from thenceforth yearly and every year on the next Monday after Pentecost at some publique place by the Master-Weavers or the greater part of them present of the said City and County of Norwich And the other six
by their industry and labour have attained and gained so great skill and dexterity in the making thereof that they make as good of all sorts thereof as is made in any Forreign parts by reason whereof they have béen heretofore able to relieve their poor Neighbours and maintained their Families and also enabled to set on work many poor children and other persons who have very small means or maintenance of living other then by their labours and endeavours in the said Art And whereas the persons so imployed in the said Mystery have heretofore served most parts of this Kingdom with Bonelace Band-strings Buttons Néedlework and Imbroidery And for the carrying on and managing of the said Trade they have procured great quantities of Thread and Silk to be brought into the Kingdom from Foreign parts whereby his Majesties Customs and Revenues have béen much advanced until of late that great quantities of Foreign Bonelace Band-strings Néedlework Cut-work Fringe Silk Bonelace Buttons and Imbroidery were brought into this Kingdom by Foreigners and Inhabitants of this Kingdom and sold to Shop-kéepers and others Dealers in the said Commodity as well by Whole-sale as Retail without ever entring of the same in any of his Majesties Custom-houses or paying any Duty or Custom for the same by means whereof the said Trade and calling is of late very much decayed those imployed in the said Calling very much impoverished the Manufacture much decreased and great quantities thereof already made left on their hands that make it His Majesty defrauded and deceived in his Customs and many thousand poor people formerly kept on work in the said Art like to perish for want of imployment there being daily great sums of money exported out of this Kingdom for the buying and fetching in of the said Commodity to the great impoverishment of the Nation by the Consumption of the Bullion and Treasure thereof and contrary to several Statutes made in the first of King Richard the Third 1 R. 3. cap. 12. 3 E. 4. cap. 4. 19 H. 7. cap. 21 5 Eliz. cap. 7. in the third of King Edward the fourth in the ninetéenth of King Henry the Seventh and the fifth of Quéen Elizabeth and to a late Proclamation made by his Majesty that now is dated the twentieth day of November last for the putting the said Laws in execution For redress whereof and prevention of the like mischiefs for the future and the better relief comfort and subsistence of those imployed in the said Art and Manufacture And for the quickning reviving explaining amending and more effectual execution of the said Statutes Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That no person or persons whatsoever shall from and after the Twenty fourth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty two sell or cause to be sold or offer to sale within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales or export any Foreign Bonelace Cut-work Foreign bone-lace cut-work imbroidery fringe band-strings prohibited to be sold or imported from beyond Sea Imbroidery Fringe Band-strings Buttons or Néedlework made of Thread Silk or any or either of them in parts beyond the Seas or Import bring in send or convey or cause to be brought in sent or conveyed into the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales any such Foreign Bonelace Cut-work Fringe Imbroidery Band-strings Buttons or Néedlework made of Thread Silk or any or either of them beyond the Seas after the first day of May which shall be in the said year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two upon pain that all and every person or persons who shall sell or cause to be sold or offer to sale any such Foreign Bonelace Cut-work Imbroidery Fringe Band-strings Buttons or Néedlework shall forfeit and lose for every offence by him committed contrary to this Act the sum of Fifty pounds and the whole Bonelace Cut-work Imbroidery Fringe Band-strings Buttons or Néedlework so sold or caused to be sold or offered to sale And upon further pain That all and every person or persons who shall Import bring in send or convey or cause to be brought in sent or conveyed into this Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales any such Bonelace Cut-work The penalty Imbroidery Fringe Band-strings Buttons or Néedlework shall forfeit and lose for every offence by him committed contrary to this Act the sum of One hundred pounds and the whole Bonelace Cut-work Imbroidery Fringe Band-strings Buttons or Néedle-work so Imported brought in sent or conveyed or caused to be Imported brought in sent or conveyed contrary to the form and effect of this present Act as aforesaid One moyety to the King the other to the prosecutor The Moyeties of all which Forfeitures to be to the use of our Sovereign Lord the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other Moyety to him or them that shall sue for the same in any of the Kings Courts of Record by Bill Plaint Action of Debt Information or otherwise wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed at every time and as often as any person shall be found to offend in selling importing conveying or bringing in as aforesaid Every Iustice of Peace may grant Warrants to search for Manufactures prohibited by this Act And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for the preventing of the Importing of the said Manufactures as aforesaid upon complaint and Information given to the Iustices of the Peace or any or either of them within their respective Counties Cities and Towns Corporate at times reasonable he or they are hereby authorized and required to issue forth his or their Warrants to the Constables of their respective Counties Cities and Towns Corporate to enter and search for such Manufactures in the Shops being open or Ware-houses and dwelling-houses of such person or persons as shall be suspected to have any such Foreign Bonelaces Imbroidery Cut-work Fringe Band-strings Buttons or Néedlework within their respective Counties Cities and Towns-Corporate and to seize the same any Act Statute or Ordinance to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding The time limited for actions upon this Act. Provided always and be it hereby Enacted and Declared That all Informations Actions and Suits that shall be commenced for any offence committed against this Law shall be brought and commenced within twelve Moneths after the discovery of such offence Any former Act or Law to the contrary notwithstanding CAP. XIV Direction for Prosecution of such as are Accountable for Prize-Goods 12 Car. 2. c. 11 VVHereas in the Act of Frée and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion made in the Twelfth Year of your Majesties Reign and since confirmed by another Act Intituled An Act for confirming Publick Acts 13 Car. 2. c. 7. made in the thirtéenth year of your
Corporation or upon any part thereof by the way of an Acre-Tax Anno XVI Caroli II. Regis CAP. I. Parliaments shall be held once in Three years at the least And an Act for the preventing of Inconveniences happening by the long Intermission of Parliaments Repealed WHereas the Act made in the Parliament begun at Westminster the Third day of November in the Sixtéenth year of the Reign of our late Soveraign Lord King Charles of blessed memory Entituled 16 Car. 1. cap. 1. An Act for the preventing of Inconveniences happening by the long Intermission of Parliaments is in derogation of his Majesties just Rights and Prerogative inherent to the Imperial Crown of this Realm for the Calling and Assembling of Parliaments And may be an occasion of manifold mischiefs and inconveniencies and much endanger the Peace and Safety of his Majesty and all his Liege People of this Realm Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That the said Act entituled A Repeal of the said Act. An Act for the preventing of Inconveniences happening by the long Intermission of Parliaments And all and every the Articles Clauses and Things therein contained is shall be and are hereby wholly Repealed Annulled and utterly made Void And are hereby declared to be Null and Void to all intents and purposes whatsoever as if the said Act had never béen had or made Any thing in the said Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And because by the Ancient Laws and Statutes of this Realm 4 E. 3. cap. 14. 36 E. 3. cap. 10. made in the Reign of King Edward the Third Parliaments are to be held very often Your Majesties humble and Loyal Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled most humbly do beséech Your most Excellent Majesty That it may be Declared and Enacted And be it Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That hereafter the sitting and holding of Parliaments shall not be intermitted or discontinued above Thrée years at the most but that within Thrée years from and after the determination of this present Parliament and so from time to time within Thrée years after the determination of any other Parliament or Parliaments or if there be occasion more oftner Your Majesty Your Heirs and Successors do issue out Your Writs for calling assembling and holding of another Parliament to the end there may be a frequent calling assembling and holding of Parliaments once in Thrée years at the least CAP. II. An Act for preventing of Abatements of Writs of Error upon Judgments in the Exchequer WHereas by a Statute made in the One and thirtieth year of the Reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth It is Enacted That the not coming of the Lord Chancellor 31 El. cap. 1. and Lord Treasurer or either of them at the day of Adjournment in any Suit of Error depending 31 E 3. cap. 12. by vertue of the Statute of the One and thirtieth year of the Reign of King Edward the Third therein mentioned concerning Error made in the Exchequer shall not be any Discontinuance of any such Writ of Error But if both the Chief Iustices of either Bench or any one of the said great Officers the Lord Chancellor or Lord Treasurer shall come to the Exchequer-Chamber and there be present at the day of Adjournment in such Suit of Error It shall be no Discontinuance but the Suit shall procéed in Law to all intents and purposes as if both the Lord Chancellor and Lord Treasurer had come and béen present at the day and place of Adjournment Which Statute doth not provide a Remedy in case the said Lord Chancellor and Lord Treasurer or either of them shall not be present at the Days and Times of the Returns of such Writs of Error although it be within the same mischief Iustice being delayed And the parties in such Cases being put to begin new Suits to their great Charges and prejudice by reason of the absence and not coming of the said great Officers Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same The not comâ—ing of the Lord Chancellor or Lord Treasurer That the not coming of the Lord Chancellor and Lord Treasurer or either of them at the day of Return of any Writ of Errour to be sued forth by vertue of the said Statute made in the said One and thirtieth year of the Reign of the said King Edward the Third shall not cause any Abatement or Discontinuance of any such Writ of Error But if both the Chief Iustices of either Bench or either of them or any one of the said great Officers the Lord Chancellor or Lord Treasurer shall come to the Exchequer-Chamber and there be present at the day of Return of any such Writ of Error it shall be no Abatement or Discontinuance But the Suit shall procéed in Law to all intents and purposes as if both the Lord Chancellor and Lord Treasurer had come and béen present at the day and place of Return of such Writ Provided always That no Iudgment shall be given in any such Suit or Writ of Error unless both the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Treasurer shall be present thereat CAP. III. For Collecting the Duty arising by Hearth-Money by Officers to be appointed by His Majesty 14 Car. 2. cap. 10. WHereas by an Act made in the Parliament begun at Westminster the Eighth day of May in the Thirtéenth year of his Majesties Reign that now is Entituled An Act for Establishing an Additional Revenue upon His Majesty his Heirs and Successors for the better Support of His and their Crown and Dignity And by another Act made in the second Session of the said Parliament 15 Car. 2. cap. 14. in the Fiftéenth year of the Reign of his said Majesty Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Revenue arising by Hearth-money It was Enacted and Ordained That from and after the Five and twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two every Dwelling and other House and Edifice and all Lodgings in Inns of Court Inns of Chancery Colledges and other Societies that are or hereafter shall be erected within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed other then such as are therein excepted shall be and are charged with the Annual payment to the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors for every Fire-Hearth and Stove within every such House Edifice Chambers and Lodgings the sum of Two shillings by the year to be paid yearly at the Feasts of Saint Michael the Arch-Angel and of the
or for the same or any part thereof shall be utterly void and of none effect And that the person or persons so winning the said moneys or other things The Penalty shall forfeit and lose treble the value of all such sum and sums of money or other thing and things which he shall so win gain obtain or acquire above the said sum of One hundred pounds the one moyety thereof to our said Soveraign Lord the King his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety thereof to such person or persons as shall prosecute or sue for the same within one year next after the time of such offence committed And to be sued for by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of his Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed And that every such Plaintiff or Plaintiffs Informer or Informers shall in every such suit and prosecution have and receive his treble Costs against the person and persons offending and forfeiting as aforesaid Any Law Custom or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding CAP. VIII A former Act for Regulating the Press Continued BE it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That an Act made in the Fourtéenth year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord the King that now is entituled An Act for preventing the frequent abuses in Printing Seditious Treasonable 14 Car. 2 cap. 3. and unlicensed Books and Pamphlets and for Regulating of Printing and Printing-Presses shall be continued and remain in force until the end of the next Session of Parliament 16 17 Car. 2. cap. 7. Anno XVI XVII Caroli II. Regis CAP. I. A Royal Aid unto the Kings Majesty of Twenty four hundred threescore and seventeen thousand and five hundred pounds to be Raised Levied and Paid in the space of Three years WE Your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons Assembled in Parliament taking into consideration the great and apparent Dangers which now threaten this Kingdom and that for prevention thereof Your Majesty hath found Your Self obliged to Equip and Set out to Sea a Royal Navy for the preservation of Your Majesties ancient and undoubted Soveraignty and Dominion in the Seas and the Trade of Your Majesties Subjects And having duly weighed and considered the several ways and means by which Your Majesty hath béen enforced to make these Preparations at so vast an Expence And acknowledging with all humility and thankfulness Your Majesties abundant Care for our preservation and being déeply sensible of that extraordinary Charge and Expence with which Your Majesties present Engagement ought to be supported and of those inconveniences which must néeds befall the Nation if we should be wanting to our selves in this so weighty and important occasion Have chéerfully and unanimously given and granted and do hereby give and grant unto Your most Excellent Majesty the Sum of Twenty four hundred thréescore and seventéen thousand and five hundred pounds to be raised and levied in manner following And do humbly beséech Your Majesty That it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That for the Righting of Your Majesty and Your Majesties Subjects against the Dutch the Sum of Twenty four hundred thréescore and seventéen thousand and five hundred pounds shall be raised levied and paid unto Your Majesty within the space of thrée years in manner following that is to say the sum of Thréescore and eight thousand eight hundred and ninetéen pounds and nine shillings by the Moneth for thirty six Moneths beginning from the Five and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty four shall be assessed taxed collected levied and paid by twelve quarterly payments in the several Counties Cities Burroughs Towns and places within England and Wales and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed according to the several rules and proportions and in such manner as is hereafter expressed That is to say For every Moneth of the said Thirty six Moneths For the County of Bedford the sum of Eight hundred ninety six pounds seventéen shillings and nine pence The County of Berks the sum of One thousand One hundred thirty two pounds six shillings and seven pence The County of Bucks the sum of One thousand thrée hundred and fiftéen pounds six shillings and five pence The County of Cambridge the sum of One thousand and twenty pounds The Isle of Ely the sum of Thrée hundred forty nine pounds seventéen shillings and eleven pence The County of Chester with the City and County of the City of Chester the sum of Eight hundred and one pounds five shillings and six pence The County of Cornwall the sum of One thousand five hundred and forty pounds eightéen shillings and thrée pence The County of Cumberland the sum of One hundred sixty eight pounds six shillings and a peny The County of Derby the sum of Eight hundred sixty two pounds eight shillings and four pence The County of Devon the sum of Thrée thousand two hundred twenty nine pounds ninetéen shillings and two pence The City and County of the City of Exon the sum of One hundred and sixtéen pounds seven shillings and four pence The County of Dorset the sum of One thousand thrée hundred forty four pounds ten shillings and five pence The Town and County of Pool the sum of Ten pounds ninetéen shillings and eight pence The County of Durham the sum of Thrée hundred twenty thrée pounds sixtéen shillings and nine pence The County of York with the City and County of the City of York and Town and County of Kingstone upon Hull the sum of One thousand four hundred sixty nine pounds five shillings and two pence The County of Essex the sum of Thrée thousand ninety eight pounds eight shillings and ten pence The County of Gloucester the sum of One thousand eight hundred and eight pounds ten shillings and thrée pence The City and County of the City of Gloucester the sum of Thirty nine pounds eight shillings The County of Hereford the sum of One thousand one hundred thirty one pounds thirtéen shillings and four pence The County of Hertford the sum of One thousand thrée hundred forty five pounds sixtéen shillings and thrée pence The County of Huntington the sum of Six hundred thirty thrée pounds fourtéen shillings and two pence The County of Kent with the City and County of the City of Canterbury the sum of Thrée thousand thrée hundred twenty six pounds eightéen shillings and eight pence The County of Lancaster the sum of One thousand and six pounds thirtéen shillings and six pence The County of Leicester the sum of One thousand eighty four pounds fourtéen shillings and thrée pence The
HONI · SOIT · QVI MAL · Y · PENSE DIEV · ET · MON · DROIT · A COLLECTION OF THE STATUTES Made in the REIGNS of King Charles the I. AND King Charles the II. With the ABRIDGMENT of such as stand Repealed or Expired Continued after the Method of Mr. PULTON WITH Notes of References one to the other as they now stand Altered Enlarged or Explained TO WHICH ALSO ARE ADDED The Titles of all the Statutes and Private Acts of PARLIAMENT Passed by their said MAJESTIES untill this present Year M.DC.LXVII With a TABLE directing to the Principal Matters of the said STATUTES By THO MANBY of Lincolns-Inn Esq LONDON Printed by John Streater James Flesher and Henry Twyford Assigns of Richard Atkyns and Edward Atkyns Esquires Anno Dom. 1667. Cum Gratia Privilegio Regiae Majestatis A View and Digest of the Heads and Titles of the several STATUTES from the First Year of King CHARLES the First untill this present time according to the Order of Statutes in this Book mentioned Anno Primo CAROLI primi nuper Regis Angliae c. 1 AN Act for punishing of divers Abuses on the Lords Day called Sunday Cap. 1. Fol. 1. 2 An Act to enable the King to make Leases of Lands parcel of his Highness Dutchy of Cornwal or annexed to the same Cap. 2. fol. 1. 3 An Act for the Ease of obtaining Licences of alienation and in the pleading of alienations with Licence or of Pardons of alienations without Licence in the Court of Exchequer or elsewhere Cap. 3. fol. 2. See Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. 4 An Act for the further Restraint of Tipling in Inns Ale-houses and other Victualling-houses Cap. 4. fol. 2. 5 An Act for the Confirmation of the Subsidies granted by the Clergy Cap. 5. fol. 3. EXP. 6 An Act for the Grant of two entire Subsidies granted by the Temporalty Cap. 6. fol. 3. 7 An Act that this Session of Parliament shall not determine by his Majesties Royal Assent to this and some other Acts Cap. 7. fol. 3. Anno Tertio Caroli Primi Regis c. THe Petition exhibited to his Majesty by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled concerning divers Rights and Liberties of the Subject with the Kings Majesties Royal Answer thereunto in full Parliament Folio 3. 1 An Act for the further Reformation of sundry abuses committed on the Lords Day commonly called Sunday Cap. 1. fol. 5. 2 An Act to Restrain the passing or sending of any to be Popishly bred beyond the Seas Cap. 2. fol. 5. 3 An Act for the better suppressing of Unlicensed Ale-house-keepers Cap. 3. fol. 6. 4. An Act for Continuance of divers Statutes and for Repeal of divers others Cap. 4. fol. 7. 5 An Act for the establishing of the Estates of the Tenants of Bromfeild and Yale in the County of Denbigh and of the Tenures Rents and Services thereupon reserved according to a late composition made for the same with the Kings Majesty then Prince of Wales Cap. 5. fol. 11. 6 An Act for Confirmation of the Subsidies granted by the Clergy Cap. 6. fol. 11. EXP. 7 An Act for the grant of Five entire Subsidies granted by the Temporalty Anno Quarto Caroli Regis Cap. 7. fol. 11. Anno Decimo sexto decimo septimo Caroli Primi Regis c. 1 AN Act for the preventing of Inconveniences happening by the long intermission of Parliaments Cap. 1. fol. 11. Rep. and Alt. 16 Car. 2. cap. 1. 2 An Act for the Relief of his Majesties Army and the Northern Parts of this Kingdom Cap. 2. fol. 11. EXP. 3 An Act for the Reforming of some things mistaken in the late Act made in this Parliament for the granting of Four Subsidies Entituled An Act for the Relief of his Majesties Army in the Northern Parts c. Cap. 3. fol. 11. EXP. Anno decimo septimo Caroli Primi Regis c. 4 AN Act for the further Relief of his Majesties Army in the Northern Parts of this Kingdom Cap. 4. Fol. 11. 5 An Act for the better raising and levying of Marriners Saylers and others for the present Guarding of the Seas Cap. 5. fol. 12. EXP. 6 An Act concerning the limitation and abbreviation of Michaelmas Term Cap. 6. fol. 12. 7 An Act to prevent Inconveniences which may happen by the untimely Adjourning Proroguing or dissolving of this present Parliament Cap. 7. fol. 14. EXP. 8 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other sums of money payable upon Merchandizes Exported and Imported Cap. 8. fol. 14. EXP. 9 An Act for the speedy Provision of Money for Disbanding of the Army and setling the Peace of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland Cap. 9. fol. 14. EXP. 10 An Act for Regulating the Privy Council and taking away the Court commonly called the Star-Chamber Cap. 10. fol. 14. 11 An Act for Repeal of a Branch of a Statute 1 Eliz. concerning Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical Cap. 11. fol. 16. 12 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of money payable upon Merchandise Exported and Imported Cap. 12. fol. 17. EXP. 13 An Act for securing of Moneys due or to be due to the Inhabitants of the County of York and other adjoyning Counties wherein his Majesties Army is or hath been Billited c. Cap. 13. fol. 18. EXP. 14 An Act Declaring unlawful and void the late proceeding touching Ship-Money and for the vacating of all Records and Process concerning the same Cap. 14. fol. 18. 15 An Act against divers Incroachments and oppressions in the Stannary Courts Cap. 14. fol. 19. 16 An Act for the certainty of Forrests and of the Meers Meets Limits and Bounds of the Forest Cap. 6. fol. 21. 17 An Act for the Confirmation of the Treaty of Pacification of England and Scotland Cap. 17. fol. 22. EXP. 18 An Act for securing the Publique Faith the remainder of the friendly assistance and relief promised to our Brethren of Scotland Cap. 18. fol. 22. EXP. 19 An Act for the Regulating of the Clerk of the Market and for the Reformation of false Weights and Measures Cap. 19. fol. 22. 20 An Act to prevent vexatious proceeding touching the Order of Knight-hood Cap. 20. fol. 24. 21 An Act for the free bringing in Gun-powder and Salt-Peter from foreign Parts and for the free making of Gun-powder in this Realm Cap. 21. fo 24 22 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of money payable upon Merchandise Exported and Imported Cap. 22. fol. 25. 23 An Act for the Raising of Mariners and Saylers for the Guarding of the Seas and his Majesties Dominions Cap. 23. fol. 25. EXP. 24 An Act to relieve Captives taken by the Turks and to prevent the taking of others hereafter Cap. 24. fol. 25. EXP. 25 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of money payable upon Merchandizes Exportable and Importable Cap. 25.
fol. 25. EXP. 26 An Act for the Raising of Mariners and Saylers for the Guarding of the Seas and his Majesties Kingdoms Cap. 26. fol. 25. EXP. 27 An Act for the dis-enabling all persons in Holy Orders to exercise any Temporal Jurisdiction or Authority Cap. 27. fol. 25. Rep. 13 Car. 1. cap. 2. 28 An Act for the Raising of Souldiers for the defence of England Ireland Cap. 28. fol. 25. EXP. 29 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of money payable upon Merchandizes Exportable and Importable Cap. 29. fol. 25. EXP. 30 An Act for a Contribution and Loan for the distressed people of Ireland Cap. 30. fol. 25. EXP. 31 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of money payable upon Merchandise Cap. 31. fol. 25. EXP. 32 An Act for the Raising of 400000 l. for the Defence of England and Ireland and for payment of Debts undertaken by the Parliament Cap. 32. fol. 25. EXP. 33 An Act for the Reducing the Rebels in Ireland to their obedience to his Majesty and the Crown of England Cap. 33. fol. 25. EXP. 34 An Act for Explanation of a former Act for Reducing the Rebels in Ireland Cap. 34. fol. 25. EXP. 35 An Act to enable Corporations to adventure in Ireland Cap. 35. fol. 25. EXP. 36 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of money payable upon Merchandise to be Exported and Imported Cap. 36. fol. 25. EXP. 37 An Act for the further Reducing the Rebels in Ireland to their obedience to the King and Crown of England Cap. 35. fol. 25. EXP. Anno Duodecimo Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae c. 1. AN Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes concerning the Assembling and Sitting of this present Parliament Cap. 1. Fol. 26. 2 An Act for putting in Execution an Ordinance mentioned in the said Act for an Assessment of 70000 l. per mensem for 3. moneths EXP. Cap. 2. fol. 26. 3 An Act for the continuance of Process and Judicial proceedings cap. 3. fol. 27. 4 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other sums of money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported Cap. 4. fol. 28. 5 An Act for continuing the Excize until the 20th of August 1660. Cap. 5. fol. 30. EXP. See 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. 6 An Act for the present nominating of Commissioners of Sewers Cap. 6. fol. 30. 7 An Act for Restoring unto James Marquess of Ormond all his Honors Manors Lands and Tenements whereof he was in Possession on the 23th day of October 1641. or at any time since Cap. 7. fol. 30. PR 8 An Act for continuing of the Excise till the 25th day of Decemb. 1660. Cap. 8. fol. 31. EXP. See 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. 9 An Act for the speedy Provision of Money for Disbanding and Paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea Cap. 9. fol. 31. EXP. 10 An Act for Supplying and Explaining certain Defects in an Act Entituled An Act for the speedy Provision of Money for Disbanding and Paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea Cap. 10. fol. 31. 11 An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion Cap. 11. fol. 31. 12 An Act for Confirmation of Judicial Proceedings Cap. 12. fol. 39. 13 An Act for Restraining the taking of Excessive Usury Cap. 13. fol. 42. 14 An Act for a perpetual Anniversary Thanksgiving on the 29th day of May Cap. 14. fol. 42. 15 An Act for the speedy Disbanding of the Army and Garrisons of this Kingdom Cap. 15. fol. 43. 16 An Act for enabling the Souldiers of the Army now to be Disbanded to Exercise Trades Cap. 16. fol. 43. 17 An Act for the Confirming and Restoring of Ministers Cap. 17. fol. 44. 18 An Act for the Encouraging and Increasing of Shipping and Navigation Cap. 18. fol. 44. 19 An Act to prevent Frauds and Concealments of His Majesties Customs and Subsidies Cap. 19. fol. 49. 20 An Act for raising Sevenscore thousand pounds for the compleat Disbanding of the whole Army and paying off some part of the Navy Cap. 20. fol. 49. EXP. See Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 6. 21 An Act for the speedy raising of Seventy thousand pounds for the present supply of his Majesty Cap. 21. fol. 49. EXP. See 13 Car. 2. cap. 6. 10. 22 An Act for the Regulating the Trade of Bay-making in the Dutch Bay-Hall in Colchester Cap. 22. fol. 49. 23 A Grant of certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for the encrease of his Majesties Revenue during life Cap. 23. fol. 49. 24 An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite and by Knights-Service and Purveyance and for setling a Revenue upon his Majesty in lieu thereof Cap. 24. fol. 54. 25. An Act for the better Ordering the selling of Wines by Retayl and for preventing abuses in the mingling corrupting and vitiating of Wines and for setting and limiting the prices of the same Cap. 25. fol. 61. 26 An Act for the Levying of the arrears of the Twelve moneths Assessment commencing the 24th of June 1659. and the Six moneths Assessments commencing the 25th of December 1659. Cap. 26. fol. 63. EXP. See 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. 27 An Act for granting unto the Kings Majesty Four hundred and twenty thousand pounds by an Assessment of Threescore and ten thousand pounds by the moneth for 6 moneths for Disbanding the remainder of the Army and paying off the Navy Cap. 27. fol. 63. EXP. 28 An Act for further Supplying and Explaining certain defects in an Act Entituled An Act for the speedy Provision of Money for Disbanding and Paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea Cap. 28. fol. 63. EXP. 29 An Act for the Raising of Seventy thousand pounds for the further Supply of his Majesty Cap. 29. fol. 63. EXP. 30 An Act for the Attainder of several persons guilty of the horrid Murther of his late Sacred Majesty King Charles the First Cap. 30. fol. 64. 31 An Act for Confirmation of Leases and Grants from Colledges and Hospitals Cap. 31. fol. 67. 32 An Act for Prohibiting the Exportation of Wooll Woolfells Fullers Earth or any kinds of scouring Earth Cap. 32. fol. 67. 33 An Act for Confirmation of Marriages Cap. 33. fol. 69. 34 An Act for Prohibiting the Planting Setting or Sowing of Tobacco in England and Ireland Cap. 34. fol. 70. 35 An Act for Erecting and Establishing a Post-Office Cap. 35. fol. 71. 36 An Act impowring the Master of the Rolls for the time being to make Leases for years in order to new build the old Houses belonging to the Rolls Cap. 36. fol. 74. 37 An Act for making the Precinct of Covent-Garden Parochial PR Cap. 37. fol. 74. Private Acts. AN Act for the restoring of Henry Lord Arundel of Warder to the possession of his estate An Act for the restitution of Thomas Earl
of Arundel Surrey and Norfolk to the Dignity and Title of Duke of Norfolk An Act to restore to Wentworth Earl of Roscomon of the Kingdom of Ireland all the Honors Castles Lordships Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Ireland whereof James Earl of Roscomon his Great-Grand Father or James Earl of Roscomon his Father c. An Act for restoring of Sir George Hamilton unto his Lands and Estate in Ireland An Act for maintenance of the Vicar for the time being of the Vicaridge of Royston in the Counties of Hertford and Cambridge and of his Successors Vicars of the said Vicaridge An Act for enabling Sir William Wray to sell Lands for payment of his debts and raising of Portions for his younger Children An Act for naturalizing of Gerard Vanhenthusen Daniel Demetrius and others An Act for enabling of John Newton the younger and William Oakeley to make sale of Lands for payment of debts and raising of Portions c. An Act for the levying of certain moneys due upon the Collection for the Protestants of Piedmont An Act for the Naturalization of John Boreel Esq Eldest Son of Sir William Boreel Knight and Baronet An Act for the Naturalization of Abraham Watchtor born beyond the Seas An Act for restoring of Sir Thomas Grimes Baronet to his Estate An Act for enabling George Fawnt of Foston in the County of Leicester Esq to sell and conveigh part of his Lands for payment of several Debts Legacies charged upon his Estate by Sir William Fawnt Knight deceased and for the raising of Portions for his younger children and making his Wife a Joynture An Act for Naturalizing Francis Hide and others An Act to nable Joseph Micklethwaite an Infant and his Trustees to sell Lands for payment of his Fathers Debts An Act for raising portions and making provision for maintenance for the younger children of Sir Edward Gostwick An Act for confirming the Sale of the Mannor of Hitcham sold to Charles Doe by Sir John Clark Knight and Baronet and for setling and disposing other the Lands of the said Sir John Clerke and Dame Philadelphia his Wife An Act for the setling of some of the Mannors and Lands of the Earl of Cleaveland in Trustees to be sold for the satisfying of the Debts of the said Earl and of Thomas Lord Wentworth his Son An Act for the disappropriating of the Rectory appropriate of Preston and uniting and consolidating of the said Rectory and of the Vicaridge of the Church of Preston and for assuring of the Advowson and right of Patronage of the same unto the Master Fellows and Scholars of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge and their Successors An Act for making the Precincts of Covent Garden Parochial Anno Decimo tertio Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae c. AN Act for Safety and Preservation of his Majesties Person and Government against Treasonable and Seditious Practices and Attempts Cap. 1. fol. 75. 2 An Act for Repeal of an Act of Parliament Entituled An Act for disenabling all persons in Holy Orders to receive any Temporal Jurisdiction or Authority Cap. 2. fol. 77. 3 An Act for the Declaring Vesting and Setling of all such Moneys Goods and other things in his Majesty which were Received Levied or Collected in these late times and are remaining in the hands or possession of any Treasurers Receivers Collectors or others not pardoned by the Act of Oblivion Cap. 3. fol. 77. 4 An Act for a Free and Voluntary Present to his Majesty Cap. 4. fol. 78. 5 An Act against Tumults and Disorders upon pretence of preparing or presenting Publike Petitions or other Addresses to his Majesty or the Parliament Cap. 5. fol. 78. 6 An Act Declaring the Sole Right of the Militia to be in the King and for the present Ordering and disposing the same Cap. 6. fol. 78. 7 An Act for Confirming Publike Acts Cap. 7. fol. 79. 8 An Act for Providing necessary Carriages for his Majesty in his Royal Progress and Removals Cap. 8. fol. 80. 9 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 Cap. 9. fol. 81. 10 An Act to prevent the Unlawful Coursing Hurting or Killing of Deer Cap. 10. fol. 85. 11 An Act for Confirming three Acts therein mentioned Cap. 11. fol. 85. 12 An Act for Explanation of a Clause contained in an Act of Parliament made in the 17th year of the late King Charles Entituled An Act for Repeal of a Branch of a Statute Primo Elizabethae concerning Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical Cap. 12. fol. 86. 13 An Act for Vesting the Arrears of the Excise and New Impost in his Majesty Cap. 13. fol. 87. 14 An Act for Confirming an Act Entituled An Act for Encouraging and Increasing of Shipping and Navigation and several other Acts both Publike and Private mentioned therein Cap. 14. fol. 87. 15 An Act Declaring the Pains Penalties and Forfeitures imposed upon the Estates and Persons of certain notorious Offenders Excepted out of the Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion Cap. 15. fol. 88. Private Acts. An Act for ascertaining and Establishing the Fees of the Masters of the Chancery in Ordinary An Act for Confirming a Sale made by Sir Thomas Prestwich and others of the Mannor of Holm and certain Lands in the Parish of Manchester in the County of Lancaster unto Sir Edward Mosley Baronet An Act for Restoring of Thomas Radcliffe Esq to all his Lands and Possessions in England and Ireland An Act enabling John Harbin Esq to settle sell and dispose of several Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances in the County of Somerset and Dorset therein mentioned for Payment of his Debts and to make provision for his younger Children An Act to enable the Sale of some of the Lands of Thomas Hunt Esq and John Hunt Gent. for the payment of their Debts An Act for setling the Mannors Knoll Seal and Kempsing in the County of Kent upon the Earl of Dorset and his Heirs and charging the Mannor of Bexhill and the Mannor or Farm of Cawding and other Lands in the County of Sussex with a Rent charge of One hundred and thirty pounds per annum in lieu thereof An Act for Confirmation of the Charter and Priviledges of the Master Wardens and Commonalty of Weavers Fullers and Clothiers in the City of Worcester An Act for Setling of several Lands late of Sir Edward Baesh Knight upon Sir Ralph Baesh Knight of the Bath Heir of the said Sir Edward and his Heirs An Act for Confirmation and Explanation of an Act for the Setling of some of the Mannors and Lands of the Earl of Cleaveland in Trustees to be sold for the satisfying of the Debts of the said Earl and Thomas Lord Wentworth his Son An Act for the Uniting the Parsonages of St. Andrews and St. Mary Witton in Droitwich in the County of Worcester An Act to enable John Lord Abergavenny Son and Heir of
Henry late Lord Abergavenny to sell certain Lands for payment of his Debts and Preferment of his Brother and Sisters An Act for the Naturalizing of Francis Brudenel Esq Son and Heir Apparent of the Right Honourable Robert Lord Brudenel and of the Right Honourable Anna Maria Countess of Shrewsbury Daughter of the said Lord Brudenell and now Wife of the Right Honourable Francis Earl of Shrewsbury An Act for the Reviving a Settlement of certain Lands on John Orlibeare for life the Remainder to the Sons of the said John successively and the Heirs Males of their Bodies c. An Act for Confirming and Continuing an Act for the necessary Maintenance of the Work of Draining the great Level of the Fens An Act for Confirming of an Inclosure of Land formerly used for a Common High-way from Parsons Green to Southfield in Fulham and the Setling of other Land for a Common High-way in lieu thereof An Act enabling Trustees to sell certain Lands and Tenements in the Counties of Suffolk and Norfolk for payment of the Debts of Richard Gipps Esq and providing Portions for his younger Children Anno decimo tertio Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae c. The Second Meeting of the Parliament 1 AN Act for the well governing and regulating of Corporations Cap. 1. fol. 90. 2 An Act for prevention of Vexations and Oppressions by Arrests and of delayes in Suits of Law Cap. 2. fol. 91. 3 An Act for granting unto the Kings Majesty Twelve hundred and threescore thousand pounds to be Assessed and Levied by an Assessment of Threescore and ten thousand pounds by the moneth for Eighteen moneths Cap. 3. fol. 93 EXP. 4 An Act to Enable the Kings Majesty to make Leases Grants and Copies of Offices Lands Tenements and Hereditaments parcel of his Highness Dutchy of Cornwal or annexed to the same and for Confirmation of Leases and Grants already made Cap. 4. fol. 93. Private Acts. AN Act for Confirming an Act for Restoring of the Marquess of Hertford to the Dukedom of Somerset An Act for Confirming an Act for Restitution of Thomas Earl of Arundel Surrey and Norfolk to the Dignity and Title of Duke of Norfolk An Act for Confirming of Private Acts. An Act for dividing Trinity Church in Kingston upon Hull from Hasle An Act to enable Algernon Peyton Doctor of Divinity to make Sale of part of his Lands for payment of Debts Anno Decimo tertio decimo quarto Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae c. 1 AN Act for preventing the mischiefs and dangers that may arise by certain Persons called Quakers and others refusing to take lawful Oaths Cap. 1. fol. 94. 2. An Act for Repairing the High-ways and Sewers and for Paving and keeping clean of the Streets in and about the Cities of London and Westminster and for reforming of Annoyances and Disorders in the Streets of places adjacent to the said Cities and for the Regulating and Licensing of Hackney Coaches and for the enlarging of several strait inconvenient Streets and Passages Cap. 2. fol. 95. Anno Decimo quarto Caroli Secundi Regis c. 3 AN Act for Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdome Cap. 3. fol. 102. 4 An Act for the Uniformity of Publike Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies And for Establishing the Form of Making Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons in the Church of England Cap. 4. fol. 108. 5 An Act for Regulating the Making of Stuffs in Norfolk and Norwich Cap. 5. fol. 115. 6 An Act for Enlarging and Repairing common High-ways Cap. 6. fol. 119. 7 An Act to Restrain the Exportation of Leather and Raw Hides out of the Realm of England Cap. 7. fol. 123. 8 An Act for Distribution of Threescore thousand pounds amongst the Truly Loyal and Indigent Commission-Officers and for Assessing of Offices and Distributing moneys thereby raised for their further supply Cap. 8. fol. 125. EXP. 9 An Act for the relief of poor and maimed Officers and Souldiers who have faithfully served His Majesty and his Royal Father in the late Wars cap. 9. fol. 125. 10 An Act for establishing an Additional Revenue upon his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for the better support of His and Their Crown and Dignity cap. 10. fol. 126. 11 An Act for preventing Frauds and regulating abuses in his Majesties Customs cap. 11. fol. 130. 12 An Act for the better Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom cap. 12. fol. 138. 13 An Act prohibiting the Importation of Forreign Bonelace Cut-Work Imbroidery Fringe Bandstrings Buttons and Needlework cap. 13. fol. 143. 14 An Act directing the Prosecution of such as are accountable for Prize-Goods cap. 14. fol. 144. 15 An Act for Regulating the Trade of Silk-Throwing cap. 15. fol. 145. 16 An Act for the more speedy and effectual bringing those persons to Account whose Accounts are excepted in the Act of Oblivion cap. 16. fol. 147. 17 An Act for relief of Collectors of Publick Moneys and their Assistants and Deputies cap. 17. fol. 148. 18 An Act against exporting of Sheep Wooll Wooll-fells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Wooll-flocks Fullers-Earth Fulling-Clay and Tobacco-pipe-clay cap. 18. fol. 148. 19 An Act against Importing of Forreign Wooll-cards Card-wire or Iron-wire cap. 19. fol. 150. 20 An Act for providing Carriage by Land and by Water for the use of his Majesties Navy and Ordnance cap. 20. fol. 151. 21 An Act for preventing the unnecessary Charge of Sheriffs and for ease in passing their Accounts cap. 21. fol. 152. 22 An Act for preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England cap. 22. fol. 155. 23 An Additional Act concerning matters of Assurance used amongst Merchants cap. 23. fol. 156. 24 An Act declaratory concerning Bankrupts cap. 24 fol. 458. 25 An Act for the restoring of all such Advowsons Rectories Impropriate Gleab-lands and Tythes to his Majesties Loyal Subjects as were taken from them and making void certain Charges imposed on them upon their Compositions for Delinquency by the late Usurped Powers cap. 25. fol. 158. 26 An Act for reforming of Abuses committed in the weight and false packing of Butter cap. 26. fol. 159. 27 An Act for repairing of Dover Harbor cap. 27. fol. 161. 28 An Act for the regulating of the Pilchard Fishing in the Counties of Devon and Corn-wall cap. 28. fol. 162. 29 An Act for the reversing the Earl of Strafford his Attainder cap. 29. fol. 163. 30 An Act for the Importing of Madder pure and unmixed cap. 30. fol. 163. Rep. 15. Car. 2. cap. 16. 31 An Act to prevent the Inconvenience arising by melting the Silver-Coyn of this Realm cap. 31. fol. 164. 32 An Act for the better Regulating of the Manufacture of Broad Woollen Cloth within the West-riding of the County of York cap. 32. fol. 164. 33 An Act for preventing the frequent abuses in Printing Seditious Treasonable and unlicensed Books and Pamphlets and for Regulating of Printing and Printing Presses cap. 33. fol.
167. Private Acts. AN Act for setling of the Estate of James late Duke of Richmond and Lenox according to agreement of Charles Duke of Richmond and Lenox Mary Dutchess Dowager of Richmond and Lenox and the Lady Mary her Daughter and the Trustees of the said Lady Dutchess An Act for confirmation of certain Letters Patents made and to be made to the Right Noble Lord George Duke of Albemarle of several Honors Mannors and Hereditaments granted or mentioned to be granted to him by His Majesty An Act for confirming the Estate of John Marquess of Winchester in certain Mannors and Lands whereof the Deeds and Evidences were burnt and lost at the taking of the Castle of Basing An Act to confirm the sale of certain Lands sold by Ferdinando late Earl of Huntingdon for the payment of his own and his Fathers debts An Act for setling a Capital Messuage or Mansion House with the Appurtenances in Kensington in the County of Middlesex upon Baptist Viscount Campden and his Heirs An Act for confirming an Act for restoring to Thomas Lord Culpeper Son and Heir and sole Executor of John Lord Culpeper Baron of Thorsway and Master of the Rolls deceased all his Honors Mannors Lands and Tenements Leases not determined and Hereditaments whatsoever whereof the said John Lord Culpeper was in possession on the twentieth of May 1642. or at any time after which have not been since sold or aliened by the said John late Lord Culpeper by Acts or Assurances to which himself was party and consenting An Act to enable the Bishop of London to lease out the Tenements now built upon the Scite of his Palace in London An Act for the Naturalizing of Philadelphia Wife to the Right Honorable Thomas Lord Wentworth An Act for confirming several Acts therein mentioned An Act for confirming of two Acts therein mentioned An Act for the Endowment of several Churches by the Lord Viscount Scudamore of Sligo in the Realm of Ireland An Act for the disuniting the Hundreds of Dudston and Kings Barton from the County of the City of Gloucester and restoring them to be part of the County of Gloucester An Act for making Navigable of the Rivers of Stower and Salwerp and the Rivulets and Brooks running into the same in the Counties of Worcester and Stafford An Act for the making Navigable of the Rivers of Wye and Lugg and the Rivers and Brooks running into the same in the Counties of Hereford Gloucester and Monmouth An Act for setling certain Mannors and Lands late of Sir James Enyons Baronet on Sir Henry Puckering alias Newton Baronet and Sir Charles Aderly Knight his surviving Trustees to sell for payment of Debts An Act for confirmation of certain Decrees of Sewers made by the Commissioners for the limits of the Level of the River of Ancholm in the County of Lincoln An Act for confirming a Decree made on the behalf of Thomas Derham Esq and the Improvements Exchanges and Allotments therein mentioned An Act for the enabling Sir Thomas Lee Baronet to exchange some Lands setled upon the Marriage of Dame Anne Lee his now Wife in consideration of another Settlement of Lands of equal value in lieu thereof An Act for discharging the Mannors of Stodscomb and Holwell and other Lands in the County of Devon from the trust of one hundred and fifty years made unto John Earl of Exeter John Earl of Bridgwater and Oliver Earl of Bolingbrook An Act for supplying a supposed defect of the words Stand and be seized in a Deed for setling of divers Mannors and Lands on Sir Henry-Frederick Thynne An Act for confirming the Copy-hold Estates of divers of his Majesties Copy-hold Tenants within the Honor of Clitherow in the County Palatine of Lancaster parcel of the Dutchy of Lancaster according unto several Decrees in the Court of Dutchy Chamber of the said County Palatine An Act for confirmation of the Estates of several Tenants and Copy-holders of the Mannors of Rannes Irchester Rushden and several other Mannors parcels of the Dutchy of Lancaster An Act for confirming explaining and enlarging an Act intituled An Act for the levying of certain Moneys due upon the Collection for the Protestants of Piedmont An Act to enable the sale of some of the Lands of William Milward Esq for payment of some of his Debts An Act vesting certain Lands in Bleasby in Sir John Mounson the younger Robert Thorold Esq and Anthony Eyre the elder Esq and their Heirs to sell for payment of the debts of Sir Robert Dallison and William Dallison An Act to enable the Trustees of Henry Nevil Esq to sell certain Mannors Lands and Tenements in the Counties of York and Leicester for payment of his and his Son William Nevils debts and likewise to confirm and strengthen the sale of such Lands as they have already sold in the County of York An Act for the making void certain Fines unduly procured to be levied by Sir Edward Powel Knight and Baronet and Dame Mary his wife An Act for sale of Sir Robert Slingsby deceased his Lands for payment of his debts An Act to enable Sir Anthony Brown to sell Lands for payment of debts An Act to enable Anthony Etrick to sell Lands for payment of his Debts An Act for the Naturalizing of Anna Ferrers and several other persons named therein An Act for the Naturalizing of Mark Le Pla and others An Act for the Repairing of Bengworth Bridge in the County of Worcester An Act to enable Rowland Okeover Esq to sell certain Lands in the County of Derby An Act to enable Mrs. Clemence Rivers and Mrs. Rose Rivers to sell certain Lands and Houses for payment of the Debts of Edward Rivers Esq deceased and provision for his younger children An Act to enable Thomas Peck Esq to sell a Mannor and some Lands in the County of Norfolk for the payment of his Debts and other uses An Act for confirmation of Agreements made between Thomas Bushel Esq and the Miners of Rowpits in Somersetshire for recovering their drowned and deserted works An Act for the setling certain Lands belonging unto Francis Tindal Gentleman upon Trustees to be sold for the payment of Debts An Act for confirmation of three Acts therein mentioned Anno decimo quinto Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae c. 1 AN Act for repairing the High-ways within the Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntingdon cap. 1. fol. 173. 2 An Act for the punishment of unlawful cutting or stealing or spoiling of Wood and Underwood and Destroyers of young Timber-Trees cap. 2. fol. 176. 3 An Act to explain and supply a former Act for distribution of threescore thousand pounds amongst the truly Loyal and Indigent Commission-Officers and for assessing of Offices and distributing the moneys thereby raised for their further supply cap. 3. fol. 179. EXP. 4 An additional Act for the better ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom cap. 4. fol. 179. 5 An Act for Regulating select Vestries cap. 5. fol. 182. 6 An Act for
for Prize-goods cap. 6. fol. 256. 7 An Act for continuance of a former Act for Regulating the Press cap. 7. fol. 258. 8 An Act to prevent Arrests of Judgment and Superseding Executions cap. 8. fol. 258. 9 An Act to impower the Chancellour of the Dutchy to grant Commissions for taking Affidavits within the Dutchy-Liberty cap. 9. fol. 259. 10 An Act for continuance of a former Act for Repairing the High-wayes within the County of Hertford cap. 10. fol. 259. 11 An Act for Draining of the Fenn called Deeping-Fenn and other Fenns therein mentioned cap. 11. fol. 261. 12 An Act for making the River Avon Navigable from Christ-Church to the City of New-Sarum cap. 12. fol. 270. Private Acts. AN Act to enable Sir Edward Hungerford Knight of the Bath to sell certain Lands in the County of Devon An Act for the enabling of Trustees to sell part of the estate of Samuel Sandys the elder Esquire and of his son Samuel Sandys for payment of debts An Act for confirming a Deed of Settlement between the Earl of Thanet and his younger Brothers An Act to enable the Bishop of Winchester to convey One hundred Acres of Land lying in the great disparked Park of Bishops-Waltham in the Parish of Bishops-Waltham in the County of Southampton upon the Rector of the said Parish-Church of Bishops-Waltham and his Successors in lieu of all Tythes and Payments for Tythes due to the said Rector and his Successors for Waltham-Parks An Act to enable the Lord Henry Powlet George Withers and John Mompesson to sell the Mannor of Abbots-Anne in the County of Southampton An Act to enable Henry Lord Loughborough to make the River and Sewer Navigable from or near Bristow Causey in the County of Surrey into the River of Thames An Act to enable Trustees for the Lord Strangford to sell Lands for payment of Debts An Act for restoring of Sir Charles Stanley in blood An Act for the setling of several Mannors Lands and Tenements of Sir Jacob Astley lying in the Counties of Norfolk and Warwick An Act for setling the Estate of Sir Robert Carr Baronet An Act for making the River of Medway Navigable in the Counties of Kent and Sussex An Act for making divers Rivers Navigable or otherwise passable for Boats Barges and other Vessels An Act for setling of Differences between the Towns of Great and Little Yarmouth touching the lading and unlading of Herrings and other Merchandises and Commodities An Act for the Naturalizing of Dederic alias Richard Comes and others An Act for confirming of an Act intituled An Act to enable Joseph Micklethwaite an Infant and his Trustees to sell Land for payment of his Fathers debts An Act for the inabling of Thomas Juckes of Treliddan in the County of Mountgomery Esquire to sell Lands for the payment of his Debts and raising of younger childrens portions An Act to enable Francis Lee Esquire to sell Lands for payment of Debts and to make provision for his children Anno Decimo septimo Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae c. 1 AN Act for granting the sum of Twelve hundred and fifty thousand pounds to the Kings Majesty for His present further Supply cap. 1. fol. 273. 2 An Act for Restraining Non-Conformists from Inhabiting in Corporations cap. 2. fol. 278. 3 An Act for Uniting Churches in Cities and Towns Corporate cap. 3. fol. 279. 4 An Act for Continuance of a former Act for Regulating the Press cap. 4. fol. 280. 5 An Act for attainting Thomas Dolman Joseph Bampfeild and Thomas Scott of High-Treason if they render not themselves by a day cap. 5. fol. 281. 6 An Act for taking away of Damage Cleere cap. 6. fol. 281. 7 An Act for a more speedy and effectual proceeding upon Distresses and Avowries for Rents cap. 7. fol. 282. 8 An Act for avoiding Unnecessary Suits and Delays cap. 8. fol. 283. 9 An Act for granting One moneths Assessment to His Majesty cap. 9. fol. 283. A Private Act. An Act for the Naturalization of Lewis Blanquefort and others Anno decimo octavo Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae c. 1 AN Act for Raising Moneys by a Poll and otherwise towards the Maintenance of the present War cap. 1. fol. 286. 2 An Act against Importing Cattel from Ireland and other parts beyond the Seas and Fish taken by Forreigners cap. 2. fol. 298. 3 An Act to continue a former Act for preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England cap. 3. fol. 299. 4 An Act for Burying in Woollen only cap. 4. fol. 299. 5 An Act for encouraging of Coynage ca. 5. fol. 300. Private Acts. AN Act for enlarging the time given by a former Act for Redemption of Mortgages made by the Earl of Cleveland An Act for Naturalizing of Isabella of Nassau Wife of the Right Honourable the Lord Arlington one of His Majesties Principal Secretaries of State An Act for Supply of part of the Joynture of the Lady Elizabeth Neell An Act for Setling the Estate of John Bodvell Esquire deceased An additional Act for Enabling the Sale of Lands to pay the Lord Strangford's Debts Anno decimo nono Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae c. 1 AN Act Explanatory of the Act for Raising Moneys by a Poll and otherwise towards the Maintenance of this present War cap. 1. fol. 302. 2 An Act for Erecting a Judicature for Determination of Differences touching Houses Burned or Demolished by reason of the late Fire which happened in LONDON cap. 2. fol. 303. 3 An Act for Rebuilding the City of LONDON cap. 3. fol. 304. 4 An Act for Relief of poor Prisoners and setting of them on work cap. 4. fol. 315. 5 An Act extending a former Act concerning Replevins and Avouries to the Principality of Wales and the County Palatines cap. 5. fol. 316. 6 An Act for Redress of Inconveniencies by want of Proof of the Deceases of Persons beyond the Seas or absenting themselves upon whose Lives Estates do depend cap. 6. fol. 316. 7 An Act to prevent the Disturbances of Seamen and others and to preserve the Stores belonging to His Majesties Navy Royal cap. 7. fol. 316. 8 An Act for granting the sum of Twelve hundred fifty six thousand three hundred forty seven pounds thirteen shillings to the Kings Majesty towards the Maintenance of the present War Private Acts. AN Act for Naturalizing of Hesther le Lov the Daughter and Co-heir of Gideon le Lou Lord of Coliumbers in Normandy the now Wife of the Right Honourable Denzill Lord Hollis of Ifield An Act for Confirming Explaining and Enlarging an Act Entituled An Act to Enable John Lord Abergaveny Son and Heir of Henry late Lord Abergaveny to Sell certain Lands for Payment of his Debts and Preferment of his Brother and Sisters An Act for the Illegitimation of the Children of the Lady Anne Roos An Act for Sale of a Messuage in Chiswick for Payment of the Debts of Edward Russel Esquire An Act for Confirmation of a Settlement of the Estate of
obstinate and incorrigible For remedy whereof Be it Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament That if any person or persons He that keeps an Alehouse c. without license shall forfeit 20. s after forty days next ensuing the end of this present Session of Parliament shall upon his own authority not being thereunto lawfully licensed take upon him or them to kéep a common Alehouse or Tippling house or use commonly selling of Ale Béer Syder or Perry That then every such person or persons shall for every such Offence forfeit and lose the sum of twenty shillings of currant money of England to the use of the poor of the Parish where such offence shall be committed The same offence being viewed and séen by any Mayor Bailiff or Iustice of Peace or other head Officer within the several limits or confessed by the party so offending or proved by the oath of two witnesses to be taken before any Mayor Bailiff or other head Officer or any one or more Iustice or Iustices of the Peace The Constables or Church-wardens shall levy the said forf to the use of the Poor who by vertue of this Act shall be authorised to minister the said oath to any person or persons that can or will justifie the same being within the limits of their said Commission The said penalty to be levyed by the Constables or Church-wardens of the parish or parishes where the said offence shall be committed Who shall be accountable therefore to the use of the poor of the said parish by way of distress to be taken and detained by warrant or precept from the said Mayor Bailiff Iustice or Iustices or other head Officer by whom the said offence shall be viewed or before whom the same shall be confessed or proved as aforesaid and for default of satisfaction within thrée daies next ensuing The party that is not able to pay the forf shall be whipped the said distress to be by the said Constables or Church-wardens apprised and sold and the overplus to be delivered to the party or parties offending and this to be only for the first offence And if such offender or offenders shall not have sufficient Goods and Chattels whereby the said twenty shillings may be levyed by way of distress as aforesaid or shall not pay the said sum of twenty shillings within six daies after such conviction as aforesaid That then the said Mayor Bailiff Iustice or Iustices or other head Officer before whom the said Offender shall be convicted as aforesaid shall commit all and every the said offender or offenders to some Constable or Constables or other inferiour Officer or Officers of the City Borough Town Parish or Hamlet where the offence shall be committed or the party apprehended to be openly whipped for the said offence as the said Iustice or Iustices shall limit or appoint And be it Enacted by the authority aforesaid The officer neglecting to punish the offender shall be imprisoned or pay ten shillings That if any Constable or inferiour Officer shall neglect to execute the said precept or warrant or do refuse or do not execute by himself or some other to be by him appointed upon the offender the punishment limited by this Statute that in that case it shall and may be lawful for the said Mayor Bailiff Iustice or Iustices of Peace or other head Officer to commit the Constable or other inferiour Officer so refusing or not executing the said punishment by himself or some other to the common Gaol of the said County City or Town corporate there to remain without bail or mainprise untill the said Offender or Offenders shall be by the said Constable or Constables or other inferiour Officer so refusing or not executing the said punishment or some by his or their procurement punished and whipped as is above limited and declared or untill he or they so neglecting or refusing shall have paid the sum of forty shillings of lawful money of England unto the use of the poor of the parish for their said contempt And be it further Enacted For the second and third offence the offender shall be committed to the house of correction that if the said Offender or Offenders being an unlicensed Alehouse-keeper shall offend in any of the premisses the second time and be thereof lawfully convicted in manner and forme aforesaid That then the said Mayor Bailiff Iustice or Iustices of the Peace or other head Officer shall commit him her or them unto the house of Correction there to remain for the space of one moneth and be dealt withall as idle lewd and disorderly persons And if such Person or Persons shall again offend and shall be thereof convicted as aforesaid that then the said offender and offenders for every such offence shall be committed unto the said house of Correction as aforesaid there to remain until by the order of the Iustices in their general Sessions for the County City Borough or Franchise he she or they shall be delivered from thence Provided alwayes that such offender or offenders as shall be punished by vertue of this act The offender punished by this act shall not be again punished by 5 6 Ed. 6. 25. contra Alehouses kept in the time of Fairs excepted shall not be punished again for the same offence by the former Act made in the fifth year of King Edward the sixth aforementioned And that such offender or offenders as shall be punished by vertue of the before mentioned Act made in the fifth year of King Edward the sixth shall not be punished again for the same offence by vertue of this present Act nor any thing therein contained Provided alwayes That in such Towns and places where any Fair or Fairs shall be kept that for the time only of the same Fair or Fairs it shall be lawful for every person or persons to use common selling of Ale or Béer in Booths or other places there for the relief of the Kings Subjects that shall repair unto the same in such like manner and sort as hath béen used and done in times past this Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding St. 11 H. 7. 2. 1 Jac. 9. 4 Jac. 10. 21 Jac. 7. 1 Car. 4. CAP. IV. Divers Statutes made perpetual others continued and some others repealed 1 El. 17. When Corn may be transported c. BE it Enacted by the authority of this present Parliament That one Act made in the first year of the reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth intituled An Act for the preservation of spawn and fry of fish except the proviso in the said Act mentioned that the same Act shall not extend to the Rivers of Twéed nor Waters or Rivers whereof the Quéen was answered of any yearly rent or profit nor to Farmers Owners or Occupiers of the Rivers of Wye Vske 13 El. 20. and other Rivers in the said proviso mentioned or contained One Act made in the thirteenth year
of the reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth intituled An Act touching leases of Benefices and other Ecclesiastical livings with Cure together with all and every explanations additions 27 El. not printed and alterations thereof or of any of them or to any of them made by several Statutes in the fourtéenth eightéenth 3 Jâ—c 8. The four acts above mentioned made perpetual and thrée and fortieth years of her said late Maiesties reign And one Act made in the seven and twentieth year of the reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth intituled An Act for the maintenance of the Péer and Cobb of Lyme Regis in the County of Dorset 21 Jac. 17. made perpetual And one Act made in the third year of the reign of the late King James intituled An Act for the avoiding of unnecessary delayes of executions be by authority of this present Parliament made perpetual and shall from henceforth stand in full force and effect and be put in due execution for ever hereafter And be it also enacted by the same authority That one Statute made in the one and twentieth year of the reign of the late King James intituled An Act against Vsury which act was to continue for the space of seven years from the four and twentieth day of June which then should be in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred twenty and five and so to the end of the first Session of Parliament then next following be also by authority of this Parliament made perpetual 2â— H. 12. And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid That one Act made in the one and twentieth year of the reign of the late King Henry the eighth intituled an Act for the true making of Cables Halters and Ropes And that part of one Act made in the Parliament holden at Westminster by prorogation the fourth day of November 3 4 Ed. 6. 1â— and continued untill the first day of February next after in the third and fourth years of the reign of the late King Edward the sixth by which it is ordained and enacted That no Person or Persons after the time in the said Act mentioned shall sell again alive Cattel in the said act mentioned at or in the Market or Fair wherein he bought the same during the time of the same Fair or Market under the pains therein contained And that no person being a Butcher and using the craft or mystery of Butchery shall at any time after the said feast buy any fat Oxen Stéers Ronts Kine Heifers Calves or Shéep and sell or cause to be sold the same again alive upon pain of forfeiture of every such Ox Stéer Ront 3 4 Ed. 6. 21. Cow Heifer Calves or Shéep bargained or sold contrary to the forme of that Act One other Act made in the same Parliament intituled an Act for the buying and selling of Butter and Chéese together with one Statute made in the Parliament holden in the one and twentieth year of the reign of the late King James 21 Jac. 22. intituled an Act for the explanation of the Statutes made in the third and fourth and fifth years of the reign of the said late King Edward the sixth concerning the traders of Butter and Chéese â— El 5. And so much of an Act made in the fifth year of the Reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth intituled an Act touching certain politick constitutions made for the maintenance of the Navy as is not repealed by any later Statute nor doth concern the eating of flesh or using of fish upon the Wednesday Nor the transportation of herring or other Sea fish Nor fréedom of subsidy Custome or Tonnage for the same Nor Transportation of Corn nor the prohibiting the bringing into this Realm any Cod or Ling in Barrels or other Casks together with all and every other additions explanations and alterations made thereunto or thereof or of any part thereof by any Statute or Statutes made sithence the making of the said last mentioned Act and in force the last day of the Session of Parliament that was in the one and twentieth year of the Reign of the late King James 5 El. 7. And one other Act made in the said fifth year intituled an Act for avoiding divers forreign wares made by handy-crafts Men beyond the Seas 8 El. 10. And an Act made in the eighth year of the Reign of the said late Quéen Elizabeth intituled an Act for Bowyers and the prices of Bows 13 El. 21. And one Act made in the thirtéenth year of the Reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth intituled an Act that Purveyors may take Corn and Victuals within five miles of Cambridge and Oxford in certain cases 14 El. 5. And so much of an Act made in the fourtéenth year of the Reign of the said late Quéen Elizabeth intituled an Act for the punishment of Vagabonds and the relief of the poor and impotent as concerneth the taxing rating levying and imploying of Gaol-mony â—8 El. 3. And so much of an Act made in the eightéenth year of the Reign of the said late Quéen Elizabeth intituled an Act for the setting the poor on work and avoiding Idleness as concerneth Bastards begotten out of lawful Matrimony with this that all Iustices of the Peace within their several limits and precincts and in their several Sessions may do and execute all things concerning that part of the said Statute that by Iustices of the Peace in the several Counties are by the said Statute limited to be done 18 El. 20. And an Act made in the said eightéenth year of the reign of the said late Quéen Elizabeth intituled an Act for repairing and amending the Bridges and High-wayes near unto the City of Oxford 2â— El. not printed And one Act made the seven and twentieth year of the Reign of the said late Quéen Elizabeth intituled an Act for the good Government of the City or Borough of Westminster 27 El. 14 3 4 Ed. 6. 20. 27 El 28. And two other Acts made in the said seven and twentieth year of the Reign of the said late Quéen Elizabeth the one intituled an Act for reviving of a former Statute for the true making of Mault together with the Statute by the said Act revived and the other intituled an Act for the kéeping of the Sea banks and Sea works in the County of Norfolke And one Act made in the one and thirtieth year of the Reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth 31 El. 8. intituled an Act for the true gawging of Vessels brought from beyond the Seas converted by Brewers for the utterance and sale of Ale and Béer And two Acts made in the five and thirtieth year of her said late Maiesties Reign 35 El. 10. the one intituled an Act for the Reformation of sundry abuses in Cloaths called Devonshire Kersies or Dozens according to a Proclamation of the four and thirtieth year of her said Maiesties Reign the
one part of the Statute made in the five and twentieth year of the Reign of the late King Henry the eighth intituled an Act for the destruction of wild fowl which was repealed by a later Act in the Parliament holden in the third and fourth years of the reign of the late King Edward the sixth Sâ— 3 4. El. â— 7. Sâ— 21. Jac. 28. â— M. 5. and revived in the Parliament holden in the one and twentieth year of the Reign of the late King James and one Act made in the first year of the Reign of the late Quéen Mary for and concerning the making repairing and amendment of the common high-way and Causey in the Counties of Dorset and Sommerset betwéen the Towns of Shaftsbury and Sherborn St. â—1 â—â— â—8 21 â—ac 6. 21 Jac. 18 in the County of Dorset and revived in the said one and twentieth year And also the several Acts hereafter mentioned made in the said one and twentieth year of the Reign of the late King James That is to say an Act intituled an Act concerning Women convicted of small felonies 4 Jac. 2. 21 Jac. 20. 21 Jac. 27. and one Act intituled an Act for the continuance of a former Statute made in the fourth year of the Reign of the said late King James intituled an Act for the true making of woollen clothes The 5â— Statutes above mentioned continued untill the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and for some addition and alterations in and to the same together with so much of one Act made in the said fourth year as was in force the last day of the Session of Parliament holden in the said one and twentieth year and one other Act intituled an Act to prevent and reform prophane swearing and cursing and one Act intituled an Act to prevent the destroying and murdering of bastard Children by vertue of this Act shall be and continue until the end of the first Session of the next Parliament in force and effect as the same were the first day of the Session of Parliament 1 Car. 1. Continued Continued til some other Act be made for continuance or discontinuance of the said Act. Mat. 17 Car. cap. 4. When Corn may be transported Start 21 Jac. 28. holden in the first year of the reign of our Soveraign Lord the King that now is And be it also Enacted that one Statute made in the said first year of his Majesties Reign that now is intituled an Act for punishing of divers abuses committed on the Lords day shall continue in force untill the end of the next Session of Parliament Provided nevertheless that so much of every of the said Act as by any new Act made in this Session of Parliament are or shall be explained altered or repealed shall for so much thereof from the end of this Session of Parliament stand be in force as by those other Acts shall be ordained Provided also and be it further Enacted by the authority of this present Parliament That when the prises of Corn or Grains at the times Havens and Places when and where the said Corn or Grain shall be bought shipped or laden excéed not the rates hereafter following viz. the quarter of Wheat at thirty and two shillings the quarter the quarter of Rye at twenty shillings the quarter of Pease and Beans at sixteen shillings the quarter of Barley or Mault at sixtéen shillings of currant English money That then it shall be lawful for all and every person and persons being Subjects of the Kings Maiesty His Heirs and Successors and born within this Realm to carry and transport of his own and to buy to sell again in Markets and out of Markets and to kéep or sell or carry and transport any of the said Corns and Grains from the places where they shall be of such prices unto any part beyond the Seas in amity with his Majesty as Merchandize in Ships Crayers or other Vessels whereof any English born Subject or Subjects then shall be the owner or owners or the same to carry and sell in other places within this Realm or Dominion thereof Any Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary hereof notwithstanding And that the Kings Majesty The Custom and Punsdage of Corn. his Heirs and Successors shall have and receive by the Customers and Officers of his Ports for the Custom or Poundage of every quarter of Wheat to be transported by force of this Statute out of this Realm two shillings of every quarter of other grain sixtéen pence which said several sums so to be had and taken as Custom or Poundage shall be in full satisfaction of all manner of Custom or Poundage for the said Corn or Grain by any Constitution Order Statute Law or Custom heretofore made used or taken for transporting of any such manner of Corn or Grain or made in this present Session of Parliament or hereafter to be made The Kings Proclamation may restrain transportation of Corn. Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the authority of this present Parliament That the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors may at all times by his and their Writ of Proclamation to be published generally in the whole Realm or in any of the Counties of this Realm where any Ports are command that no person shall by vertue of this Act transport or convey any manner of Grain out of his Highness Dominions generally or out of any special Ports to be in the said Proclamation particularly named for such time as shall be therein limited and appointed And it shall not be lawful for any person to carry out any such Grain contrary to the tenor of the said Proclamation upon such pains and forfeitures as by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm are and have béen provided and ordained in that behalf This Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Welsh Cottons Provided also and be it Enacted that no person or persons shall incur any penalty for want of length breadth or weight of Welsh Cottons under the price of 15 d. the yard or 2 s. the goad so as they be not mixed with hair or other deceitful stuff nor for any others above that price except they shall be mixed as aforesaid or shall shrink above the rate of half a yard in 12 yards of length or weigh less than fourteen ounces the yard or hold not full three quarters of a yard broad 16 E. â— â— And be it also Enacted by the authority aforesaid That that part of one Statute made in the fiâ—teenth year of the reign of the late King Richard the second by which it is ordained that no manner of Spicery after that it be brought into the Realm shall be carried out of the same Realm by Aliens nor by Denizens upon pain of forfeiture thereof And one Statute made in the sixteenth year of the reign of the late King Richard the second concerning Liveries 16 R. 2.
4. 20 R. 2. 2. and one other Statute made in the twentieth year of the reign of the late King Richard the second by which it is ordained that no Vaclets called Yeomen nor other of lesser estate than an Esquire shall use or bear any sign of Livery called Livery of Company of any Lord within the Realm And one Statute made in the first year of the reign of the late King Henry the fourth concerning giving of Liberies 7 H. 4. 7. 6 H. 4. 14. 13 H. 4. 3. 8 H. 6. 4. 8 Ed. 4. 2. 3 H. 7. 1. 3 H. 7. 12. A repeal of the 9 Statutes last mentioned And one statute made in the 7th year of the reign of the late King Hen. the 4th concerning giving of Liveries And one other Statute made in the 13th year of the reign of the late King Henry the fourth concerning giving of Liveries And one Statute made in the eighth year of the reign of the late King Henry the sixth concerning Liveries And one Statute made in the eighth year of the reign of the late King Edward the fourth concerning Liveries and so much of one Statute made in the third year of the reign of the late King Henry the seventh concerning the Star-Chamber as toucheth or concerneth the punishment of those that shall give or take Liveries And one other Statute made in the said third year concerning taking of Liveries by the Kings Officers and Farmers be from henceforth repealed And be it also enacted by authority of this Parliament 7 Jac. 20. continued untill the next Parliament that one Act of Parliament made in the seventh year of the reign of the late King James intituled An Act for the speedy recovery of many thousand Acres of marsh grounds and other grounds within the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk lately surrounded by the rage of the Sea in divers parts of the said Counties and for the prevention of the danger of the like surrounding hereafter be continued and shall stand in force untill the end of the next Session of Parliament 17 Car. cap. 4. CAP. V. The Estates of the Tenants of Bromfield and Yale in the County of Denbigh and of the Tenures Rents and Services thereupon reserved according to the late composition made for the same with the Kings most Excellent Majesty then Prince of Wales ratified and confirmed PR CAP. VI. Five Subsidies granted by the Spiritualty EXP. CAP. VII Five Subsidies granted by the Temporalty Anno quarto Caroli Regis EXP. Anno Regni Caroli Regis Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Decimo Sexto AT the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of Novemb. An. Dom. 1640. In the sixteenth year of the Reign of CHARLES the first by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. To the High pleasure of Almighty God and to the weal publick of this Realm were Enacted as followeth CAP. I. Parliaments to be called and held every third year REP. ALT 16 Car. 2. cap. 1. CAP. II. A Grant of four entire Subsidies for the Relief of His Majesties Army and the Northern parts of the Kingdom EXP. CAP. III. Some things mistaken in the last Act reformed and the Acts of the Commissioners and other Officers by them appointed made good EXP. Anno decimo septimo Caroli Regis CAP. IV. A Grant of two Subsidies for the further Relief of His Majesties Army and the Northern parts of the Kingdom EXP. And divers Statutes continued ANd be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the passing of this present Act Divers Statutes continued or of any other Act or Acts or his Majesties Royal Assent to them or any of them in this present Session of Parliament shall not be any determination of the said Session 3 Car. cap. 4. continued further and that all Statutes and Acts of Parliament which have their continuance or were by an Act of Parliament made in the third year of the Reign of his Majesty that now is intituled An Act for the Continuance and Repeal of divers Statutes continued untill the end of the first Session of the then next Parliament shall by vertue of this Act be adiudged ever since the Session of Parliament in the said third year to have been of such force and effect as the same were the last day of that Session and from thenceforth until some other Act of Parliament be made touching the continuance or discontinuance of the said Statutes and Acts in the said Act of the third year of his Majesties Reign continued as aforesaid CAP. V. The Lord Admiral and others by his authority may Raise and Impress Mariners Sailers and others for the present guarding of the Seas and necessary Defence of the Realm EXP. CAP. VI. Michaelmas Term abbreviated Inconvenience◠Michaelmas term being so soon after the feast of Saint Michael VVHereas the Term of S. Michael commonly called Michaelmas Term doth begin so soon after the Feast of Saint Michael that it is generally found to be very inconvenient to His Majesties Subjects both Nobles and others as well for the keeping of the Quarter Sessions next after the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and the keeping of their Léets Law-dayes and Court-Barons which they can by no means attend in regard of the necessity of their coming to the said Term so spéedily after the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel to appear upon Iuries and to follow their Causes and Suits in the Law the same time being the chief time of all the year for the sowing of Land with Winter Corn and for the disposing and setting in order of all their Winter Husbandry and business and for the receiving and paying of Rents And in many parts of this Kingdom Harvest is seldom or never Inned till three wéeks after the said Feast Therefore the Kings most Excellent Majesty out of the Princely care that he hath of all his loving Subjects having a special care to the encrease and continuance of their wealth and good Estates by the assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same Ordaineth Enacteth and Establisheth That in the said Michaelmas Term there shall be six common dayes of Return only and not above that is to say The first day of Return thereof shall be and be called A die Sancti Michaelis in tres Septimanas In Michaelmas term shall be lie common dayes of Return only The second day of Return of the same Term shall be and be called A die Sancti Michaelis in unum mensem The third day of Return of the same Term shall be and be called In Crastino animarum The fourth day of Return of the same Term shall be and be called In Crastino Sancti Martini The fifth day of Return of the same Term shall be and be called In Octabis Sancti Martini And the sixth day of Return of the said
The Essoin dayes and the Essoin day of the Return of Crastino Sanctae Trinitatis And be it further enacted Writs in personal actions hauing day from tres Michaelis till Crastino Ascentionis good Proviso for writs returnable 1641. Exp. That all Writs and Process in personal Acttions hereafter to be made out of any of his Majesties said Courts at Westminster and having day from tres Michaelis untill Crastino Animarum shall be good and effectual in Law notwithstanding there be not fiftéen dayes betwixt the quarto die of the said tres septimanas sancti Michaelis and the dayes of Essoin of Crastino Animarum Any Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary heretofore notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be if further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all writs and Process to be made from and after the Feast of Easter in the year of our Lord God 1641. Returnable in Octabis or Quindena sancti Michaelis now next ensuing or having dayes betwixt any of the said Returns shall by force of this Act have day unto tres septimanas sancti Michaelis next and the parties to the said writs and Process shall then appear and plead and procéed thereupon to all intents and purposes as if the said Writs and Process had béen made returnable a die sancti Michaelis in tres septimanas And whereas before the making of this Act Writs of summons ad Warrantizandum upon common recoveries and writs of Right of Advowson abridged to five Returns all Writs of Summons ad Warrantizand against the Vouchées upon Common Recoveries had in writs of Entry and writs of Right of Advowson were made for nine Returns inclusive Now for the more spéedy perfecting of such Recoveries Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that from and after the said Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next all and every such writs of Summons ad Warrantizand upon the appearance of the Tenant to every such writ of Entry and writ of Right of Advowson shall and may be made and abridged to five Returns as writs of Summons ad Warrantizand in writs of Dower unde nihil habet heretofore have been used and accustomed And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all common writs and Process Common writs process to keep the aforesaid returns as well personal as mixt which shall fortune to be returnable in the said Michaelmas Term shall have and kéep the said Returns of A die sancti Michaelis in tres septimanas a die sancti Michaelis in unum mensem in Crastino animarum in Crastino Sancti Martini in Octabis Sancti Martini and a die Sancti Martini in Quindecem dies or any of them Provided alwayes And it is further Enacted by the authority aforesaid Special dayes may be appointed as have been used Dayes in assise of Darrein presentment and in plea of quare impedit and in attaint not contrary hereto shall be firm that in such and like cases and Process as special dayes have béen used to be appointed and assigned and given for the returning of writs and Process It shall be lawful to the Iustices of every of the Kings said Courts of Record for the time being in all the Process by them awarded to assign and appoint special dayes of Returns as by their discretions shall be thought convement Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the dayes in Assise of Darrein presentment and in Plea of Quare Impedit limited and appointed by the Statute of Marlebridge and also the dayes to be given in Attaint limited in the Statute made in the fifth year of the Reign of the Noble King Edward the third And also in the Statute made in the thrée and twentieth year of the Raign of the late King Henry the eighth of worthy memory being not contrary to the Tenours of this Act shall be holden firm and stable and shall stand in their full force and effect CAP. VII 1 Stat. 12. Car. 2. cap. 1. This Parliament shall not be Dissolved Prorogued or Adjourned but by Act of Parliament EXP. CAP. VIII Tunnage and Poundage A Subsidy Granted to the King of Tunnage Poundage and other sums of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported from the 25th of May 1641. to the 14th of July next EXP. CAP. IX Provision of Money for the speedy Disbanding the Armies and setling the Peace of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland by raising and charging several sums of Money upon persons according to their Ranks Dignities Offices Callings Estates and Qualities therein mentioned and Commissioners to issue for levying the same EXP. CAP. X. For Regulating the Privy Councel and for taking away the Star-Chamber-Court Recital of Maâ—â—-Châ—rlâ— and several Statutes St. 3. li. 7. 1. 5 E. 3. cap. 9. VVHereas by the Great Charter many times confirmed in Parliament It is Enacted That no Fréeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised of his Fréehold or Liberties or Frée Customs or be Outlawed or exiled or otherwise destroyed and that the King will not pass upon him or condemn him but by lawful Iudgment of his Péers or by the Law of the Land And by another Statute made in the fifth year of the Reign of King Edward the Third It is Enacted That no man shall be attached by any accusation nor fore-judged of life or limb nor his Lands Tenements Goods nor Chattels seised into the Kings hands against the form of the Great Charter and the Law of the Land and by another Statute made in the five and twentieth year of the Reign of the same King Edward the Third 25 E. 3. cap. 4. Stat. 5. It is accorded assented and established that none shall be taken by petition or suggestion made to the King or to his Councel unless it be by Indictment or Presentment of good and lawful people of the same Neighbourhood where such Déeds be done in due manner or by Process made by Writ Original at the Common Law and that none be put out of his Franchise or Free-hold unless he be duly brought in to answer and foreiudged of the same by the course of the Law and if any thing be done against the same it shall be redressed and holden for none 28 E. 3. cap. 3. And by another Statute made in the eight and twentieth year of the reign of the same King Edward the Third It is amongst other things Enacted That no man of what Estate or condition soever he be shall be put out of his Lands or Tenements nor taken nor imprisoned nor disinherited without being brought in to answer by due process of Law And by another Statute made in the two and fortieth year of the Reign of the said King Edward the Third 42 E. 3. c. 3. It is Enacted That no man be put to answer without presentment before Iustices or matter of Record or by due process and writ original according to the Old Law of
any thing contrary to the purport true intent and meaning of this Law Then he or they shall for such offence forfeit the sum of Five hundred pounds of lawful Money of England unto any party grieved his Executors or Administrators who shall really prosecute for the same and first obtain Iudgment thereupon to be recovered in any Court of Record at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoin Protection Wager of Law Aid-Prayer Priviledg Injunction or Order of restraint shall be in any wise prayed granted or allowed nor any more then one Imparlance And if any person against whom any such Iudgment or Recovery shall be had as aforesaid shall after such Iudgment or Recovery offend again in the same then he Second offence or they for such offence shall forfeit the sum of One thousand pounds of lawful money of England unto any party grieved his Executors or Administrators who shall really prosecute for the same and first obtain Iudgment thereupon to be recovered in any Court of Record at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in which no Essoin Protection Wager of Law Aid-Prayer Priviledg Iniunction or Order of Restraint shall be in any wise prayed granted or allowed nor any more then one Imparlance And if any person against whom any such second Iudgment or Recovery shall be had as aforesaid shall after such Iudgment Third offence or recovery offend again in the same kind and shall be thereof duly convicted by Indictment Information or any other lawful way or means that such person so convicted shall be from thenceforth disabled and become by vertue of this Act incapable Ipso facto to bear his and their said Office and Offices respectively and shall be likewise disabled to make any Gift Grant Conveyance or other disposition of any of his Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods or Chattels or to take any benefit of any Gift Conveyance or Legacy to his own use And every person so offending shall likewise forfeit and lose unto the party grieved Treble damages to the party grieved by any thing done contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Law his treble damages which he shall sustain and be put unto by means or occasion of any such Act or thing done the same to be recovered in any of his Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoin Protection Wager of Law Aid-Prayer Priviledg Injunction or Order of Restraint shall be in any wise Prayed Granted or Allowed nor any more then one Imparlance Every person committed contrary to this Act shall have an Habea◠Corpus And be it also provided and Enacted That if any person shall hereafter be committed restrained of his Liberty or suffer imprisonment by the Order or Decrée of any such Court of Star-Chamber or other Court aforesaid now or at any time hereafter having or pretending to have the same or like Iurisdiction power or authority to commit or imprison as aforesaid Or by the command or Warrant of the Kings Maiesty his Heirs or Successors in their own Person or by the command or Warrant of the Councel-board or of any of the Lords or others of his Majesties Privy Councel That in every such case every person so committed restrained of his liberty or suffering imprisonment upon demand or motion made by his Counsel or other imployed by him for that purpose unto the Iudges of the Court of Kings Bench or Common Pleas in open Court shall without delay upon any pretence whatsoever for the ordinary Fées usually paid for the same have forthwith granted unto him a Writ of Habeas Corpus to be directed generally unto all and every Sheriffs Gaoler Minister Officer or other person in whose custody the party committed or restrained shall be and the Sheriffs Gaoler Minister Officer or other person in whose custody the party so committed or restrained shall be shall at the return of the said Writ and according to the command thereof upon due and convenient notice thereof given unto him at the charge of the party who requireth or procureth such Writ and upon security by his own bond given to pay the charge of carrying back the prisoner if he shall be remanded by the Court to which he shall be brought as in like cases hath béen used such charges of bringing up and carrying back the prisoner to be alwayes ordered by the Court if any difference shall arise thereabout bring or cause to be brought the body of the said party so committed or restrained unto and before the Iudges or Iustices of the said Court from whence the same Writ shall issue in open Court and shall then likewise certify the true cause of such his detainer or imprisonment and thereupon the Court within thrée Court-dayes after such return made and delivered in open Court shall procéed to examine and determine whether the cause of such commitment appearing upon the said return be iust and legal or not and shall thereupon do what to Iustice shall appertain either by delivering bailing or remanding the prisoner And if any thing shall be otherwise wilfully done or omitted to be done by any Iudg Iustice Officer or other person aforementioned contrary to the direction and true meaning hereof That then such person so offending shall forfeit to the party grieved Treble damages in default his treble damages to be recovered by such means and in such manner as is formerly in this Act limited and appointed for the like penalty to be sued for and recovered To what Courts this Act shall extend Provided alwayes and be it Enacted That this Act and the several clauses therein contained shall be taken and expounded to extend only to the Court of Star-Chamber and to the said Courts holden before the President and Councel in the Marches of Wales and before the President and Councel in the Northern parts and also to the Court commonly called the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster holden before the Chancellor and Councel of that Court And also in the Court of Exchequer of the County Palatine of Chester held before the Chamberlain and Councel of that Court And to all Courts of like Iurisdiction to be hereafter erected ordained constituted or appointed as aforesaid And to the Warrants and directions of the Councel-boards and to the commitments restraints and imprisonments of any person or persons made commanded or awarded by the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors in their own person or by the Lords and others of the Privy Councel and every one of them Offenders of this Act shall be impleaded within two years after any offence And lastly provided and be it Enacted That no person or persons shall be sued impleaded molested or troubled for any offence against this present Act unless the party supposed to have so offended shall be sued or impleaded for the same within two years at the most after such
and letting to Ferme the said Office of Clerk of the Market and the Execution thereof in and through all or the most of the several Counties of this Kingdome for great sums of Money which the said Fermours or Grantées by their unjust and undue procéedings in the said Office do extort from his Majesties Subjects again to their great impoverishment and yet little or no redress at all in their said Weights or Measures or any benefit thereby accruing to his Majesty For remedy whereof and for regulating of all Weights and Measures according to the true intent of this Statute and the other Statutes in the behalf formerly made and provided and preventing the said inconveniencies There shall be but one measure one weight and one yard St. 9 H. 3 25. 14 E. 3. 12. 27 E. 3. 10. Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Lords and Commons of this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That from henceforth there shall be but one Weight one Measure and one Yard according to the Standard of the Exchequer throughout all the Realm as well in places priviledged as without Any usage or custome to the contrary notwithstanding And that every Measure of Corn shall be striked without heap And whosoever shall sell by or kéep any other Weight Measure or Yard then as aforesaid whereby any Corn Grain or other thing is bought or sold after six moneths after the end of this present Session of Parliament shall forfeit for every such offence five shillings Forfeiture being thereof lawfully convicted by the Oath of one sufficient Witness before any Iustice of Peace Mayor or other head Officer of the County City or Town Corporate respectively where the said Offence shall be committed Who by vertue of this Act shall have power to administer an Oath in that behalf How to be levyed Which said sum or penalty of five shillings shall be levyed by the Church-wardens and Overséers of the Poor of the Parish or some or one of them where such Offence is or shall be committed to the use of the Poor of the same Parish of the Goods and Chattels of such Offenders by way of Distress and Sale of the Offenders Goods rendring the Overplus to the party so offending And in default of such Distress it shall be lawful for any Iustices of Peace Mayor or other head Officer of the County City or Town corporate respectively to commit the said party to the Prison or Gaol there to remain without Bail or Mainprise untill he shall pay such sums of Money forfeited as aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Clerk of the Market his limits That no Clerk of the Market of the Kings House which now is or hereafter shall be or of the Prince His Highnesse His Heirs or Successours which is or shall be Duke of Cornewall or His or Their Deputy or Deputies shall hereafter execute his or their said Office or Offices respectively in any part of the Kingdom but only within the Verge of the Kings Court where it shall then reside for the time being And that it shall be alwayes hereafter lawful for any Mayor Mayor head Officer and Lords of Liberties have power as clerks of the Market or other head Officer of any City Burrough or Town Corporate or for any Lord or Lords of Liberty Liberties or Franchises his or their Deputy or Deputies or Agents according to their several Liberties and Iurisdictions to have full power to execute the said Offices respectively as they ought or might have done before the making of this Act And for the more ease of his Majesties Subjects Be it further Enacted Forfeiture of â—lerke of the Market for offences That if any Clerk of the Market within his aforesaid precincts and limits of the Verge of the Kings house only or any Mayor or other Officer whatsoever who by vertue of this Act shall have power to inquire of any abuses in Weights and Measures shall seal or give allowance unto any other Weight or Measure Weights or Measures other then according to the said Standard of the Exchequer or shall upon reasonable request and warning refuse to seal or give allowance unto such Weight or Measure Weights or Measures as are according to the said Standard of the Exchequer paying only such Fée or Fées for such allowance as by the Statute or Statutes or by ancient custome are in that behalf formerly provided and allowed and no more That then the said Clerk of the Market Mayor and other Officer or Officers of such City Burrough or Town and the said Lord and Lords of Liberty or Liberties and his and their Deputy and Deputies and Agents respectively shall forfeit for every such offence five pounds to be levyed as aforesaid to the use of the poor of the parish where such offence is or shall be committed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if the Clerk of the Market Forfeiture for taking unlawful fines or fees his Deputy or Deputies or Agents within the Verge aforesaid or any Mayor or any other Officer or Officers of any City or Town or any Lord or Lords of Liberties his or their Deputy or Deputies Agents or Assigns respectively shall take or receive of any of his Majesties Subjects by colour of the said Office any common Fine or Fines or any Fées other then are formerly allowed by the Statute or Statutes or ancient custome in that behalf made or used shall take any Fée or Fées or other sum of money Reward or consideration for the making Signing or Examination of any Weights or Measures which have béen formerly Marked or Sealed or shall Impose or Assess or cause to be Imposed or Assessed any Fine or Amerciament Fines or Amerciaments without a due and legal trial of the Offences for which the said Fine or Fines Amerciament or Amerciaments are Imposed or Assessed or shall otherwise misdemean himself in the execution of his said Office and be thereof lawfully convicted He shall forfeit for the first Offence whereof he shall also be so lawfully convicted five pounds And for the second offence ten pounds And for the third offence and every other offence afterwards twenty pounds to be levyed as aforesaid to the use of the pâ—or of the Parish where such offence shall be committed And be it Enacted That whosoever shall be fined or amerced by vertue of this Act St. 13 R. 1. 4. Persons â—ined by this Act not to be â—ined upon any former law Rents of ferms of corn excepted shall not be again fined or amerced for the same offence by vertue of any former Law or Statute Provided alwayes That this Act or Statute shall not extend to the Rents of Ferms or Lands or any Corn or Grain due or payable to any Lord or Lords or any Colledges Houses or other Societies by vertue of any â—ease or Leases or other Covenant or Agreement
hundred fourty and one shall put in execution any Letters Patents Proclamation Edict Act Order Warrant Restraint or other Inhibition whatsoever whereby the Importation of Gun-powder Salt-peter Brimstone or other the materials aforementioned or any of them from Forraign parts or the making of Gun-powder within this Realm shall be any way prohibited or restrained That then the said person and persons so offending shall incur and sustain the pains penalties and forfeitures contained and provided in the Statute of provision and premunire made in the Sixtéenth year of King Richard the Second CAP. XXII A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage Poundage and other sums of Money Tunnage Poundage payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported from the 9th of August 1641. to the first of December next EXP. CAP. XXIII An Act for the better raising and Levying of Mariners Sailers and others Mariners for the present guarding of the Seas EXP. CAP. XXIV For Relief of Captives taken by Turkish and other Pyrats Captive and one per Cent. on Customable goods for three years to be paid and received by the Lord Mayor and Chamberlain of London for that purpose EXP. CAP. XXV A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage Poundage c. from the last of November 1641. Tunnage Poundage to the first of February next and the like until the second of July 1642. EXP. CAP. XXVI For the better Raâ—sing and Levying of Mariners Sailers and others Mariners for the present guarding of the Seas EXP. CAP. XXVII Persons in Holy Orders shall not exercise certain temporal powers and authorities Persons in Holy Orders REP. Stat. 13 Car. 1. cap. 2. CAP. XXVIII For the better Raising and Levying of Souldiers for the present defence of the Kingdoms of England and Ireland Souldiers EXP. CAP. XXIX A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage Tunnage Poundage and other sums of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported from the last of January 1641. to the 25th of March next ensuing EXP. CAP. XXX A Contribution and Loan towards the Relief of Ireland Contribution EXP. CAP. XXXI A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage Tunnage Poundage and other sums of Money payable upon Merchandize exported and imported from the second of May 1642. to the second of July next following EXP. CAP. XXXII For the Raising and Levying of Moneys for the necessary defence and great affairs of the Kingdoms of England and Ireland and for the payment of Debts undertaken by the Parliament Ireland EXP. CAP. XXXIII An Act for the speedy and effectual reducing of the Rebels in Ireland EXP. CAP. XXXIV Certain Clauses explaining another Act for the reducing the Rebels in Ireland EXP. CAP. XXXV Corporations and Bodies Politick enabled to partake of the benefit of an Act for reducing the Rebels in Ireland EXP. CAP. XXXVI A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage Poundage and other sums of Money Tunnage Poundage payable upon Merchandize exported and imported from the 14th of March 1641. to the third of May next ensuing EXP. CAP. XXXVII For the further advancement of an effectual and speedy Reduction of the Rebels in Ireland EXP. Anno Regni Caroli II. Regis Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Duodecimo AT the Parliament begun at Westminster the Five and twentieth day of April Anno Dom. 1660. In the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Our most Gracious Soveraign Lord CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. And there continued until the Nine and twentieth day of December then next following and then Dissolved by his Majesty To the high pleasure of Almighty God and to the weal publick of this Realm were Enacted as followeth CAP. I. The Assembling and Sitting of this present Parliament St. 17 Car. 1. cap. 7. St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 1. The Parliament begun 3 Nov. 16 Car. declared to be dissolved St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 1 The Lords and Commons now sitting declared to be the two Houses of Parliament FOr the preventing all Doubts and Scruples concerning the Assembling Sitting and Procéeding of this present Parliament Be it Declared and Enacted and it is Declared and Enacted by the King our Soveraign Lord and by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same That the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the third day of November in the Sixtéenth year of the Reign of the late King CHARLES of blessed Memory is fully Dissolved and Determined And that the Lords and Commons now sitting at Westminster in this present Parliament are the Two Houses of Parliament and so shall be and are hereby Declared Enacted and Adjudged to be to all Intents Constructions and purposes whatsoever notwithstanding any want of the Kings Majesties Writ or Writs of Summons or any Defect or Alteration of or in any Writ or Writs of Summons or any other Defect or Default whatsoever as if this Parliament had béen Summoned by Writ or Writs in his Majesties Name according to the usual Form and as if His Majesty had béen present in person at the Assembling and Commencement of this present Parliament Provided alwayes That this Parliament may be dissolved by his Majesty after the usual manner as if the same had béen summoned by Writ or Writs in his Majesties Name The Kings assent to this Act shall not determine this Session Provided also and it is hereby Enacted That His Majesties Royal Assent to this Bill shall not determine this present Session of Parliament CAP. II. An Act for putting in Execution an Ordinance mentioned in the said Act for an Assessment of 70000 l. per mensem for three Months EXP. CAP. III. Process and Judicial Proceedings Continued WHereas the four first Returns of Easter Term in the year One thousand six hundred sixty of late called from Easter day in fiftéen dayes from Easter day in thrée wéeks from Easter day in one Moneth and from Easter day in five wéeks or any of them cannot be conveniently kept or holden Now for avoiding all manner of discontinuances whatsoever which by occasion thereof should or might happen or be in any Matter or cause whatsoever Process Writs c. shall not be discontinued for not holding certain dayes of Return in any the Courts at Westminster Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament That no Pleas Writs Bills Actions Suits Plaints Process Precepts or other thing or things whatsoever Pleaded Returned or Depending or having day or dayes in any of the said Courts in or at the said several Returns or any of them or at any other day or dayes certain after any of the said Returns shall be in any wise discontinued or put without day for or by reason of the not kéeping or holding of the said Returns or dayes or any of them but that all
Great Seal of Lands Liberties Honours or Offices do or may issue in the Kings Majesties Name in the same manner as was usual before the making of the said first recited pretended Act any thing in this present Act to the contrary thereof before expressed in any wise notwithstanding St. 13. Car. 2. cap. 12. CAP. IV. A Subsidie granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage and other some of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported The Causes and Trusts upon granting the Subsidies of Tonnage and Poundage THe Commons assembled in Parliament reposing Trust and Confidence in Your Majesty in and for the Guarding and Defending of the Seas against all persons intending or that shall intend the disturbance of Your said Commons in the intercourse of Trade and the invading of this Your Realm For the better defraying the necessary Expences thereof which cannot otherwise be effected without great charge to Your Majesty Do by and with the advice and consent of the Lords in this Your present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same Defending the Seas to the intent aforesaid Give and Grant unto You our Supreme Liege Lord and Soveraign A Subsidy of Tonnage granted to the King one subsidy called Tonnage That is to say Of every Ton of Wine of the growth of France or of any the Dominions of the French King or Crown of France that shall come into the Port of London and the Members thereof by way of Merchandize by your Natural born Subjects the sum of Four Pounds and ten shillings of currant English Money and so after that Rate and by Strangers and Aliens Six pounds of like money And of every Ton of the like Wine which shall be brought into all and every the other Ports and places of this Kingdome and the Dominions thereof by way of Merchandize by Your Naturall Born Subjects the sum of Thrée pounds and by Aliens Four pounds and ten shillings And of every Butt or Pipe of Muscadels Malmseys Cutes Tents Allicants Bastards Sacks Canaries Malligoes Maderoes and other Wines whatsoever commonly called Swéet Wines of the growth of the Levant Spain Portugal or any of them or of any the Islands or Dominions to them or any of them belonging or elsewhere that shall come or be brought into the Port of London by your Natural born Subjects the sum of Fourty five shillings of currant English money and so after that Rate And by Strangers and Aliens Thrée pounds of like money And of every Butt and Pipe of the like Wine which shall come or be brought into all every or any the other Ports and Places of this Kingdom and Dominions thereof by way of Merchandize by Your Natural Born Subjects the sum of Thirty shillings and by Strangers Forty five shillings And of every Awm of Rhenish Wine or Wine of the growth of Germany that shall be brought into this your Realm and the Dominions thereof by your Natural Born Subjects The sum of twenty shillings of currant English money and strangers and Aliens Twenty and five shillings which several Rates are the same which are expressed in a certain Book of Rates herein after mentioned and referred unto And also one other Subsidy called Poundage That is to say of all manner of Goods and Merchandize of every Merchant A subsidy of poundage Natural Born Subject Denizen and Alien to be carryed out of this Realm or any your Majesties Dominions to the same belonging or to be brought into the same by way of Merchandize of the value of every twenty shillings of the same Goods and Merchandizes according to the several and particular Rates and values of the same goods and Merchandizes as the same are particularly and respectively Rated and Valued in the said Book of Rates herein after mentioned and referred unto Twelve pence and so after that Rate And of every Twenty shillings value of any the Native Commodities of this Realm or Manufactures wrought of any such Native Commodities to be carried out of this Realm by every or any Merchant Alien according to the Value thereof in the said book expressed Twelve pence over and above the Twelve pence aforesaid Except and foreprized out of this Grant of Subsidy of Poundage all manner of Woollen Clothes made or wrought or to be made or wrought within this Realm of England commonly called Old Draperies and all Wines before limited to pay subsidy of Tonnage and all manner of Fish English taken and brought by English bottoms into this Realm and all manner of fresh Fish and bestial that shall come into this your Realm and all other Goods and Merchandizes which in the said book of rates are mentioned to be custome-frée Exceptions out of the subsidy of poundage And further We your said Commons by the advice Assent and Authority aforesaid do give and grant unto You Our said Liege Lord and Soveraign for the causes aforesaid One other Subsidy That is to say of and for every short woollen cloth to be exported by Your Natural Born Subjects of this your Realm and the Dominions thereof called broad Cloth not excéeding twenty eight yards in length and thréescore and four pounds in weight the sum of thrée shillings and four pence of Currant English money and for every Cloth of short cloth of old Drapery of lesser length and weight accounting so many pieces to a short cloth as limited and appointed thereunto by the said Book of Rates to be likewise exported by your said natural born Subjects the like sum of of thrée shillings four pence and so after that rate and by Strangers and Aliens six shillings and eight pence for every short cloth accounted as aforesaid which several Rates are accordingly expressed in the said Book of Rates herein after mentioned and referred unto A subsidy of strangers Aliens To have hold take enjoy and perceive the Subsidies aforesaid and every of them and every part and parcel of them unto your Majesty from the four and twentieth day of June inclusively The said subsidies granted to the King during his life in the Twelfth year of your Majesties Reign for and during your Majesties life which God long preserve And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Wines Goods The penalty for not paying the subsidy or other Merchandize whereof the Subsidies aforesaid are or shall be due shall at any time after be shipped or put into any Boat or Vessel to the intent to be carried into the parts beyond Seas or else be brought from the parts beyond the Seas into any Port Place or Créek of this Realm or other your Majesties Dominions by way of Merchandize and unshipped to be laid on Land the Subsidy Customes and other duties due or to be due for the same not paid or lawfully tendred to the Collector thereof or his Deputy with the consent and agréement of the Comptroller and Surveyor there or one of them at the least nor agréed with
his Majesty that now is and not accompted for and discharged Iesuites Seminary and Romish Priests excepted And also excepted out of this Pardon all and every offence and offences committed or done by any Iesuit Seminary or Romish Priest whatsoever contrary to the Tenor or effect of the Statute made in the Seven and twentieth year of the Reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth Entituled An Act against Jesuits Seminaries Priests and other disobedient persons or of any part thereof and all out-lawries procéedings Iudgments and executions for the same offences or any of them Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the authority aforesaid Writs of Cap. Utlagat may be diâ—â—â—ed against any person That it shall and may be lawfull to and for all and every Clerk and other Officer of the Courts at Westminster to award and make Writs of Capias Utlagatum at the suit of the party plaintiff against such persons out-lawed as be pardoned by this Act to the intent to compel the Defendant or Defendants to make answer to the plaintiff or plaintiffs at whose suit he or they were outlawed And that every person so out-lawed The party out-lawed may sue one a scire fac as against the Plaintiff shal sue a Writ of Scire facias against the party or parties at whose Suit he or they were so out-lawed before this pardon in that behalf shall be allowed him or them so out-lawed Provided and be it Enacted by the authority aforesaid That this Act of general pardon shall not in any wise extend to pardon any Out-lawries upon any Writ of Capias ad Satisfaciendum untill such time as the party so out-lawed shall satisfie Persons out-lawed upon capias ad satisfaciendum c. or otherwise agrée with the party at whose suit the same person was so out-lawed or condemned And also excepted out of this pardon all informations and other procéedings depending concerning any common Highwayes or Bridges and all issues returned upon any process concerning the same since the Thirtieth day of January Informations and proceedings concerning high-waies c excepted One thousand six hundred forty eight Except also all Recognizances Obligations and other securities given or entred into Since the five and twentieth of March One thousand six hundred and forty by any Receiver Réeve Bayliffe Collector or other accountant in the Court of the publick Exchequer and their sureties and their acounts respectively Provided alwayes and be it Enacted that this Act or any thing therein Contained Obligation and recognizance not yet forfeited shall not extend or be construed to Pardon or discharge any Recognizance Obligation or Bond which is not yet forfeited And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Acts of Hostility and Injuries All acts of hostility injuries c. between the King and his Parliament to be put in perpetual oblivion whether betwéen the late King and the Lords and Commons then in Parliament assembled or betwéen any of the People of this Nation which did arise upon any Action Attempt Assistance Counsell or Advice having Relation unto or falling out by reason of the troubles or in the late Wars or publick differences betwéen the late King and Parliament or betwéen His now Majesty or any of Subjects and which are not in this Act excepted That the same and whatsoever hath ensued thereupon whether trenching upon the Laws and Liberties of this Nation or upon the Honor of His Majesty or upon the Honor or Authority of the Parliament or to the prejudice of any particular or private Person shall in no time from and after the four and twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty be called in question whatsoever be the quality of the person or of whatsoever kind or Degrée Civil or Criminal the Inâ—ury is supposed to be And that no mention be made thereof in time to come in Iudgment or in Iudicial procéedings And to the intent and purpose that all names and terms of Distinction may be likewise put into utter Oblivion Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid The penalty upon any person that shall within 3. years use any words of reproach or disgrace tending to revive the memory of the late differences That if any person or Persons within the space of Thrée years next ensuing shall presume maliciously to call or alledge of or object against any other person or persons any Name or Names or other Words of Reproach any way tending to revive the Memory of the late Differences or the Occasions thereof That then every such person so as aforesaid Offending shall forfeit and pay unto the party grieved in case such party Offending shall be of the Degrée of a Gentleman or above Ten pounds and if under that Degrée The sum of forty shillings to be recovered by the party grieved by Action of Debt to be therefore brought in any of His Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Essoin protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed or any more then one Imparlance so as the same Action be commenced or prosecuted within six Moneths next after the Offence Committed And if the Iury sworn to try any Issue or Issues that shall be joyned in such Action shall find for the plaintiff they shall likewise give to every such Plaintiff Forty shillings Damages over and above the penalty aforesaid Provided alwayes that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not Extend Persons plotting or signing the Irish Rebellion excepted or give any benefit unto any person or persons who have had any hand in the Plotting Contriving or designing the great and heinous Rebellion in Ireland mentioned in one Act passed in the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November in the sixtéenth year of King Charles entituled An Act for the speedy and effectual Reducing of the Rebels in His Majesties Kingdom of Ireland to their due obedience to His Majesty and Crown of England Or in Aiding Assisting or Abetting the same Other then such as by another Act intended hereafter to be passed shall be therein Named mentioned or Expressed to be pardoned nor to Enure to Restore to any person or persons bodies politick or corporate other then the Marquess of Ormond Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold and other the Protestants of Ireland and their Heirs and such other person and persons as in and by an Act intended hereafter to be passed shall be therein Named Mentioned or Expressed in that behalf any Estate Liberties Franchises or Hereditaments in England or Ireland sold or disposed of by both or either Houses of Parliament or any Convention assuming the Stile or Name of a Parliament or any person or persons deriving authority from them or any of them or which was approved or confirmed by them or any of them Nor to the Mean Profits Rents or Contingencies of advantage of the same Every person pardoned may plead the general Issue
And it is further provided and Enacted That every person or persons hereby pardoned may plead the General Issue without special pleading of this Pardon and give this Act of Pardon in evidence for his discharge and that the same shall be thereupon allowed and the advantage thereof had as fully to all intents and purposes as if the same had béen fully and well pleaded And in such manner as any Iustice of the peace Constable or other Officer questioned for matters acted by them as Officers or in execution of their Offices may have advantage of the matter of their Iustification upon the General Issue by them pleaded by the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom Thefts and Felonies since the fourth of March 16â—9 excepted Provided also That this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend or be interpreted to extend to pardon any person or persons whatsoever for any Theft or Stealing of any Goods or other Felonies since the fourth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred fifty and nine any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding This Act not to extend to goods to be restored upon an Act for Repeal of two Acts for Sequestrations Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to acquit or discharge any person or persons from making restitution of all such Rents sums of Money Horses Cattel or other Goods which by a certain Act or pretended Act lately made intituled An Act for Repeal of two Acts for Sequestrations are required to be restored to those from whom they were taken Nor shall this present Act be construed to Disable or Bar the respective Owners or Proprietors of and from their several and respective Actions or Suits at Law or in equity for or by reason of the said or any other Rents Moneys Horses Cattle or Goods which since the five and twentieth day of Iuly one thousand six hundred fifty and nine have béen by any person or persons wrongfully received or taken away and for which the said Wrong-doers are not in any wise Indempnified by the said or any other Act of Repeal Goods c. sequestred and actually paid in to any publicks Treasury And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That no person or persons who by vertue of any Order or Warrant mediately or immediately derived from his late Majesty or His Majesty that now is or by vertue of any Act Ordinance or Order of any or both Houses of Parliament or any of the authorities aforesaid or any Committée or Committées acting under them or any of them have seized sequestred levied advanced or paid to any publick use or into any publick Treasury within this Kingdom any Goods Chattels Debts Rents sum or sums of money belonging to any person or persons whatsoever shal hereafter be sued molested or drawn into question for the same but that they and every of them shall be discharged against all persons for so much and no more of the said Goods Chattels Debts Rents sum or sums of money as their several and respective Orders of discharge or acquittances extend unto Persons who have received money privately for his Majesties supply to accompt Provided also That nothing herein contained shall extend to discharge any person or persons who have béen by private order or Instructions imployed and intrusted or have undertaken the imployment to receive any sum or sums of money for the Kings Majesties Service or Supply since the year one thousand six hundred forty and eight from making their accompts for the same Provided also That this Act shall not extend to pardon or discharge from accompts to the Kings Majesty any person or persons for any sum or sums of money received for that Illegal Tax of Decimation Moneys received upon Decimation not pardoned or upon the accompt of any Militia setled or acted in since one thousand six hundred forty and eight and not accompted for or paid over or discharged to or by any that had authority or pretended authority to discharge the respective Receivers of the same Provided also That if any person or persons being His Majesties Menial Servant or Servants or having or pretended to have received particular Instructions or Directions from his Majesty have during the time of such his or their relation unto his Majesty or whilst he or they were acting or pretending to Act for His Majesties Interest in pursuance of the said Instructions or directions Wilfully Maliciously and Trayterously held Intelligence with any forreign Prince or Princes Persons that have had Directions or Instruction from his Majestie and have betrayed their trust or his Majesties Councels excepted State or States or with any person or persons usurping Supreme authority in this Kingdom or other his Majesties Dominions or with their or either of their Ministers or Agents and without his Majesties license and to the intent to betray His Majesties person or Councels or have received any sum or sums of money or pension for such Treachery that then such person or persons as to the offence in this proviso mentioned shall be and is hereby excepted out of this Act any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding so as such person or persons be out-lawed or otherwise legally convicted of such offence or offences within the space of two years from the five and twentieth day of April one thousand six hundred and sixty Duties upon Excise and from Farmers thereof excepted Provided That this Act of General Pardon of any thing therein contained shall not extend to the pardoning or discharging of any Debts or Sums of money due to or for the Excise of any Goods or Merchandize whereof any Entries have béen made in the Custom-house which have grown due since the twenty fifth day of March one thousand six hundred fifty and eight or to the pardoning or discharging of any Debts or Sums of money due to the Farmers or pretended Farmers of Excise since the twenty fifth day of March one thousand six hundred fifty and seven Persons excepted by name Provided also that this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to pardon discharge or give any other benefit whatsoever unto John Lisle William Say Sir Hardress Waller Valentine Wauton Tho. Harrison Edward Whalley Wil. Heveningham Isaac Penington Henry Martin John Barkstead Gilbert Millington Edmund Ludlow Sir Michael Livesey Robert Titchbourn Owen Row Robert Lilburn Adrian Scroop John Okey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner John Carew John Jones Miles Corbet Henry Smith Gregory Clement Thomas Wogan Edmond Harvey Thomas Scot William Cawley John Downs Nicholas Love Vincent Potter Augustine Garland John Dixwel George Fleetwood Simon Meyn James Temple Peter Temple Daniel Blagrave Thomas Wait John Cook Andrew Broughton Edward Dendy William Hewlet Hugh Peters Francis Hacker Daniel Axtel nor any of them nor of those two persons or either of
them who being disguised by Frocks and Vizors did appear upon the Scaffold erected before Whitehal upon the thirtieth of Ianuary one thousand six hundred forty and eight All which persons for their execrable Treason in sentencing to death or signing the Instrument for the horrid Murder or being instrumental in taking away the precious Life of our late Sovereign Lord Charles the first of Glorious Memory are left to be procéeded against as Traytors to His late Majesty according to the Laws of England and are out of this present Act wholly excepted and foreprized But ingard the said Owen Row Augustine Garland Edmond Harvey Henry Smith Persons that appeared and rendred themselves Henry Martin Sir Hardress Waller Robert Titchbourn George Fleetwood James Temple Thomas Wait Simon Meyn William Heveningham Isaac Penington Peter Temple Robert Lilburn Gilbert Millington Vincent Potter Thomas Wogan and John Downs have personally appeared and rendred themselves according to the Proclamation bearing Date the sixth day of Iune one thousand six hundred and sixty to Summon the persons therein named who gave Iudgement and Assisted in the said Horrid and Detestable Murther of our said late Sovereign to appear and render themselves and do pretend thereby to some favour upon some conceived doubtful Words in the said Proclamation Be it Enacted by this present Parliament and the Authority of the same upon the humble desires of the Lord and Commons in Parliament assembled That if the said Owen Row Augustine Garland Edmond Harvey Henry Smith Henry Martin Sir Hardress Waller Robert Titchburn George Fleetwood James Temple Tho. Wait Simon Meyn William Heveningham Isaac Penington Peter Temple Robert Lilburn Gilbert Millington Vincent Potter Thomas Wogan and John Downs or any of them shall be legally Attainted for the Horrid Treason and Murther aforesaid That then nevertheless the Execution of the said person and persons so Attainted shall be supended until his Majesty by the Advice and Assent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament shall order the Execution by Act of Parliament to be passed for that purpose Except also out of this present Act Oliver Cromwel deceased Henry Ireton deceased John Bradshaw deceased and Thomas Pride deceased Provided That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to discharge the Lands Tenements The Lands and Goods of the persons rendring themselves not excepted St. 13 Car. 2. ca. 15. Goods Chattels Rights Trusts and other the Hereditaments late of the said O. Cromwel Henry Ireton John Bradshaw and Thomas Pride or of Isaac Ewer deceased Sir John Danvers deceased Sir Thomas Maleverer Baronet deceased William Purefoy deceased John Blackiston deceased Sir William Constable Baronet deceased Richard Dean deceased Francis Allen deceased Peregrin Pelham deceased John Moor deceased John Aldred alias Alured deceased Humphry Edwards deceased Sir Gregory Norton Baronet deceased John Venn deceased Thomas Andrews Alderman deceased Anthony Stapely deceased Thomas Horton deceased John Fry deceased Thomas Hamond deceased Sir John Bourchier deceased of and from such pains penalties and forfeitures as by one other Act of Parliament intended to be hereafter passed for that purpose shall be expressed and declared And also excepted out of this present Act William Lord Mounson James Challoner Persons excepted for other penalties not extending to life St. 13. Car. 2. ca. 15. Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington John Phelps and Robert Wallop All which persons did Act and sit in that Trayterous Assembly which in the moneth of Ianuary one thousand six hundred forty eight Acted and procéeded against the Life of our late Sovereign King Charles the first of blessed Memory and are therefore reserved to such pains penalties and forfeitures not extending to Life as by another Act intended to be passed for that purpose shall be imposed on them And also except Sir Arthur Hesilrig for and in respect onely of such pains penalties and forfeitures not extending to Life as by one Act intended to be hereafter passed for that purpose shall be inflicted and imposed Provided alwayes That John Hutchinson Esquire and Francis Lassels Persons made incapable of any Offices shall be and are hereby made for ever incapable to Execute any Place or Office of Trust Civil or Military within this Kingdom And that the said Francis Lassels shall pay unto our Sovereign Lord the King one full years value of his Estate Any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained Sir Henry Vane Iohn Lambert excepted shall not extend to the pardoning or to give any other benefit whatsoever unto Sir Henry Vane John Lambert or either of them but that they and either of them are and shall be out of this present Act wholly excepted and foreprized Penalty of certain persons if they shall after the first of September 1660. accept any Office Provided That if William Lenthal William Burton Oliver Saint-John John Ireton Alderman Colonel William Sydenham Colonel John Desborow John Blackwel of Moreclake Christopher Pack Alderman Richard Keeble Charles Fleewood John Pyne Richard Dean Major Richard Creed Philip Nye Clerk John Goodwyn Clerk Sir Gilbert Pickering Colonel Thomas Lister and Colonel Ralph Cobbet shall after the first day of September one thousand six hundred and sixty accept or exercise any Office Ecclesiastical Civil or Military or any other publique employment within this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed that then such person or persons as do so accept or execute as aforesaid shall to all intents and purposes in Law stand as if he or they had béen totally excepted by name in this Act. Persons that gave Sentence upon any in the illegal High Courts of Iustice Provided likewise That all those who since the fifth of December one thousand six hundred forty eight did give sentence of death upon any person or persons in any of the late Illegal and Tyrannical High Courts of Iustice in England or Wales or Signed the Warrant for Execution of any person there Condemned except Colonel Richard Ingolsby and Colonel Matthew Thomlinson shall be and are hereby made incapable of bearing any Office Ecclesiastical Civil or Military within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales or of serving as a Member in any Parliament after the first day of September one thousand six hundred and sixty Provided also and it is Enacted That all and every the persons appointed Trustées in a late pretended Act or Ordinance made in the year of our Lord Persons intrusted by Ordinance 1649. about Tithes shall be accomptable one thousand six hundred forty nine for and concerning Tithes appropriate Oblations Obventions Pensions Portions of Tithes appropriate Offerings Fée-farm Rents issuing out of the Tithes therein mentioned First-fruits and other things and Enacted or mentioned to be Enacted to be vested setled adjudged or déemed to be in the actual sesin or possession of such person and persons in the said pretended Act or Ordinance mentioned
and their heirs shall accompt for and be responsible for all Rents and Profits of the premisses which came to their hands and have not béen by the said Trustées or their Order disbursed disposed or imployed for the maintenance of Ministers or other uses according to the said pretended Act or Ordinance or some other Act Order or Ordinance made in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred fifty one thousand six hundred fifty four and one thousand six hundred fifty six by any assembly called or reputed a Parliament or assuming the power of a Parliament according to the intention of such Act Acts or Ordinances And the Agents and Receivers under the Order of the said Trustées and the Occupiers and Tenants of the Premisses who have taken the premisses or profits thereof into their hands without agréement to pay Rent therefore and have made no accompt or satisfaction to the Trustes aforesaid or to some other by their Order and also the persons who have held the same or taken the profits thereof under any agréement to pay Rent or Money for the same and have not paid the same shall respectively accompt pay and make satisfaction for so much of the premisses and profits of the premisses as are unsatisfied or unaccounted for as aforesaid and pay such Arrearages of Rents or Money as by such agréement remaineth unpaid by them all which payments and accompts shall be made to such persons and in such manner as in Parliament shall be directed Nevertheless it is not hereby intended that any Minister Schoolmaster or other person for whose benefit and maintenance the said pretended Acts or Ordinances were made shall be accomptable or lyable to make satisfaction for any Profits Rents or Sums of money paid to or taken by them respectively by vertue or colour of any Order or Appointment of the said Trustées or any of them or otherwise Bonds taken in his Majesties name before May 1642. for securities of any his Majesties Receivers not pardoned c. Provided also That this Act do not extend to pardon any Bond taken in his late Majesties Name before the month of May one thousand six hundred forty two for securing the proper Debt of any Servant or Receiver of the Revenue of his said late Majesty that hath not béen paid to or by order of some Lawful or Pretended authority And whereas by an Order of the Six and twentieth day of May in the year One thausand six hundred forty one the then House of Commons in Parliament did accept the sum of One hundred and fifty thousand pounds as a Composition from the Farmers of several Customs voted to be illegally taken and some of the said Farmers did procure and pay the said whole sum of One hundred and fifty thousand pounds at the desire of the said House of Commons and upon their Declaration That such of the said Farmers as did not pay their Proportions should not be pardoned but proceeded against and out of their Fines satisfaction should be made to those who had paid the said One hundred and fifty thousand pounds and in pursuance thereof did on the First of June then next following Resolve That the Estates of such persons living or dead as have by colour of any Patent received monies from the Subject under pretence of such Customs or have béen under-Sharers with the Patentées ought to be made liable to restitution Payments upon proportions of 150000 l. upon the customes It is therefore Provided That this Act shall not extend nor be construed to extend to Pardon or Indempnifie any person or persons their Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns who have not paid their Proportions of the said One hundred and fifty thousand pounds or ought to have béen contributory thereunto from or against misdemeanors or offences relating to the said Customes or from payment of their Proportions But that the Estates of the dead as well as of the living of such who ought to have béen contributory in whose possession soever Purchasers Bona fide and upon valuable Considerations only excepted shall Continue and be charged and chargeable with the payment of their Proportions to all intents and purposes as if this Act had not béen made any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to pardon or discharge any sum or sums of money due and Arrear for Excise of Béer Ale Arrears of Excise upon Beer and Ale or other Native or Inland Commodity since the twenty fourth day of June One thousand six hundred fifty and nine Provided also That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to the pardoning Monies due for free quarter or discharging of any sum or sums of money due from any Officers or Souldiers to any of the Subjects of this Kingdom for frée-quarter since the second day of July One thousand six hundred fifty and nine or to discharge any monies borrowed by any Officers for preventing of frée-quarter Provided alwayes And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Conveyance Purchasers bona fide of Lands other then the Kings c. to enjoy their purchases Assurance Grant Bargain Sale Charge Lease Assignment of Lease Grants and Surrenders by Copy of Court-Roll Estate Interest Trust or Limitation of any Vse or Vses of any Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments not being the Lands nor Hereditaments of the late King Quéen Prince or of any Archbishops Bishops Deans Deans or Chapters nor being Lands or Hereditaments sold or given or appointed to be sold or given for the Delinquency or pretended delinquency of any person or persons whatsoever by vertue or pretext of any Act Order or Ordinance or reputed Act Order or Ordinance since the first day of January One thousand six hundred forty and one Nor any Statute Iudgment or Recognizance had made acknowledged or suffered to any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate before the Nine and twentieth day of September One thousand six hundred fifty and Nine By any of the persons before in this Act by name excepted or their Heirs or by any other person or persons claiming by from or under them or any of them other then the Wife or Wifes child children heir and heirs of such person and persons or any of them for money bona fide to them or any of them paid or lent nor any conveyance assurance grant or estate made before the Five and twentieth day of April One thousand six hundred and sixty By any person or persons to any such person excepted by Name as aforesaid in trust and for the benefit of any other person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate not excepted by name as aforesaid shall be impeached defeated made void or frustrated hereby or by the attainder or conviction of any such excepted person or persons but that the same shall be held and enjoyed by the Purchasers Grantées Lessées Assigns Cestuy
que use Cestuy que trust and every of them their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively as if this Act had not béen made and as if the said person or persons had not béen excepted attainted or convicted Any Law Statute Vsage or Custome to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided alwayes That this Act nor any thing therein contained Fabric◠Lands Church Goods and Vtensils shall not extend to Indempnifie any person or persons whatsoever who have entred into any Messuage Lands Tenements and Hereditaments called Fabrick Lands or possest themselves of any Rent or Revenues given for the repair of any Cathedral or other Church or who have Sacrilegiously enriched themselves by converting the Plate or Vtensils and Materials of or belonging to such Churches to their own private use and advantage for or in respect of the said Crimes onely Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XII Which Judicial Proceedings shall be good and effectual in Law and which not BE it Enacted and it is Enacted by His Majesty and the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That no Fines nor final Concords Which Acts and Proceedings shall not be avoided Chirographs nor Proclamations of Fines nor any Recoveries Verdicts Iudgments Statutes Recognizances nor Inrolments of any Déeds or Wills or of any such Fines Proclamations Recoveries Verdicts Iudgments Statutes or Recognizances nor any Exemplifications of them nor any of them nor any Inquisitions Indictments Presentments Informations Decrées Sentences Probats of Wills nor Letters of Administration nor any Writs or Actings on or Returns of Writs Orders or other Procéedings in Law or Equity had made given taken or done or depending in the Courts of Chancery Kings-Bench Vpper Bench Common-Pleas and Court of Exchequer and Courts of Exchequer-Chamber or any of them sitting at Westminster or in the Courts of the Great Sessions in Wales the Courts of any Counties Palatine or Dutchy of Lancaster or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or in any other inferiour Courts of Law or Equity or by any the Iudges Clerks Officers Sheriffs Coroners or Ministers or others Acting in Obedience to them or any of them or by any the Courts of Admiralty Delegates Iustices of Assize Nisi Prius Oyer and Terminer Gaol-Delivery Iustices of the Peace Commissioners of Sewers Bankrupts or Charitable Vses nor any Actings Process Procéedings nor Executions thereupon had made given done or suffered in the Kingdom of England since the First of May One thousand six hundred forty two shall be avoided for want or defect of any Legal Power in the said Courts Iudges Commissioners Iustices or any of them or for or by reason that the Premisses or any of them were commenced prosecuted had made held or used in the Name Stile or Title of the late King or in the Name Stile Title or Test of Custodes Libertatis Angliae Authoritate Parliamenti Or in the Name Stile Title or Test of The Keepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament Or in the Name Stile Title or Test of Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging Or of Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging Or the Name Stile Title or Test of Richard Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging or for or by reason of any alteration of the said Names Stiles or Titles Or for that the said Fines Recoveries Process Pleadings Procéedings and other things before mentioned Or the Entry and Enrolment of them or any of them were in the Latine or English But that all and every such Fines Recoveries and other things above mentioned and the Actings Doings and Procéedings thereupon shall be of such and of no other Force Effect and Vertue then as if such Courts Iudges Iustices Commissioners Officers and Ministers had acted by vertue of a True Iust and Legal Authority and as if the same and the Entry and Enrolment thereof were in Latine and as if the several Acts and Ordinances or pretended Acts or Ordinances made by both or either Houses of Parliament or any Convention assembled under the name of a Parliament or by Oliver Cromwell late stiled Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereto belonging and his Council Warranting or Directing such Procéedings had béen Good True and Effectual Acts of Parliament Fines Levied without Entry of Licentia concordandi And whereas since the death of the late King several Fines have béen Levied without any Entry or due Entring of any sum paid pro licentia concordandi commonly called the Kings Silver and without Entry or due Entry of any sum given to the party for the Concord And also whereas in the Term of St. Michael last past several Fines were Levied and Recorded in the Court of Common Pleas before one Iudge onely of the said Court Be it Enacted That the said Fines and Proclamations thereupon and every of them shall be good and effectual notwithstanding the defects aforesaid Fines and Recoveries of Lands in Com Palatin Durham And be it also further Enacted That all Fines Proclamations of Fines Recoveries and other Iudicial procéedings in the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster since the death of His late Majesty King Charles the First Had Levied or Suffered of any Lands lying in the County Palatine of Durham shall be good and effectual notwithstanding the said Lands were lying in the said County Palatine The Illegal Acts and Proceedings of that High Court of Iustice not allowed Provided That this Act or any thing there in contained shall not be Construed Deemed or Adjudged to make good allow confirm or countenance any the Procéedings in the late Illegal and Vn-warranted High Courts of Iustice or so called or any of them And whereas since the first day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty one and before the Five and twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty there were divers persons that Adhered to both Houses of Parliament who for or in respect of such their adherence were Indicted Charged or Impeached of Treason And whereas since the said first Day of May in the Year of our Lord One thousand six Hundred Forty one and before the said Five and twentieth day of April in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty divers persons who adhered to His Majesty or to the late King were for such their adherence Charged Impeached or Indicted of High Treason Indictments c. and all Grants thereupon made void Be it further Provided and Enacted That the said Charges Impeachments Indictments and all Exigents Outlawries Convictions and Attainders thereupon and all Letters Patents and Grants thereupon made of any Manors Lands Tenements or
Hereditaments Escheated or Forfeited by reason of such Attainder and all Title to any Measne Profits by reason of such Conviction Outlawry Attainder or Grant be from henceforth repealed and discharged And that all Escheats Forfeitures and Confiscations by reason of such Outlawries Conviction or Attainder Be and are hereby restored unto such persons so Outlawed Convicted or Attainted their Heirs Executors and Administrators respectively as if no such Attainder had béen Sales made by Ordinance of Parliament Provided Nevertheless And be it Enacted That this Act or any thing herein contained shall not extend to avoid or confirm any Sales or Estates made by vertue or pretence of any Act Order or Ordinance or reputed Act Order or Ordinance of Parliament since the first day of May in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty two nor any Confirmation thereof made or to be made thereof in this present Parliament but that such sales stand and be in the same plight and condition as they should or might have done if this Act had not béen made Recognizances Obligations c. in the names of the late Protector And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Recognizances Obligations or other Securities made or given to the Kéepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament or to Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging or to Oliver Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging Or to Richard Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging and not pardoned or discharged by any Act passed or to be passed this present Parliament or otherwise other then such Recognizances Obligations and Securities as have béen made and given to any the pretended power or persons aforesaid or to any deriving or pretending to derive Authority from them by any person or persons for or by reason of their adherence to His Majesty or His said late Royal Father or relating to or arising only upon or in respect of the late Troubles All which are hereby declared to be void and to be delivered up to be Cancelled And all Iudgments Extents Inquisitions Executions and Seizures had for the said Kéepers or Protectors or any of them and not likewise pardoned or discharged other then as aforesaid shall and may be had and prosecuted in the name and to the use of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors and also excepting all Obligations Bonds or Recognizances entred into to the said Kéepers or Protectors or any of them by any person or persons by Order or Direction of any Council of State Committée of Safety Major Generals Decimators or any Officer or other person under them or any other Military power all which Obligations Bonds and Recognizances are hereby discharged and declared to be null and void to all intents and purposes Provided also and be it Enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained Iustices Serjeants c. Commissioners of Sewers shall not extend to continue after the Eighth day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty any Iustice or Iustices of one Bench or the other or Barons of the Exchequer Serjeants at Law Commissions of Sewers Commissions of Bankrupts or of charitable uses made or constituted by or in the Name or Stile of any the late pretended powers or authorities Provided alwayes That it shall and may be lawful to and for every person and persons Writs of Errour may be brought who shall find themselves grieved or damnified by any Iudgment Fine Recovery Decrée or Sentence given made levied granted or pronounced in any of the said Courts to procéed in due form of Law either by Writ of Errour Bill of Review Appeal or other lawful remedy for the Reversing Annulling or Revoking of the same in such manner as they might at any time heretofore have done if the said Courts had béen established by lawful Authority other then for those Errours and Defects which are remedied or provided for by this Act. Provided alwayes And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Non-claim upon Fines of lands sold by Ordinance of Parliament That no Non-claim upon or after any Fine or Fines hereby made good or confirmed shall extend or be construed to Bar or Prejudice any person or persons their Heirs or Successors or their Feoffées or Trustées other then the parties to the said Fines and their Heirs general and special and his and their Trustées as concerning such Right Claim and Interest as they had in or to any Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments which by colour of any Act Order or Ordinance of both or either Houses of Parliament or any Convention sitting at Westminster under the Name or Stile or assuming the Name or Stile of a Parliament since the First day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and two and before the Five and twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty were Sold Conveyed or Disposed as then or late the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the King Quéen or Prince or of Archbishops Bishops Deans Deans and Chapters or other Ecclesiastical persons or as the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of any other persons for their Adherency to the late King or his Majesty that now is or for any their Actings relating to or in respect of the late Troubles so alwayes that the said person or persons aforesaid their Heirs or Successors pursue their Title Claim or Interest by way of Action or lawful Entry within five years next after the Nine and twentieth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty And although in this Confirmation of Iudicial Procéedings The late Government declared to be usurped it was necessary to mention Divers pretensed Acts and Ordinances by the Names and Stiles which those Persons then Vsurped who took upon them to pass the same Namely some by the Stile and Name of the Kéepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament and others by the Name and Stile of Protectors of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging Yet this present Parliament doth Declare and it is further Enacted by Authority of the same That the Names and Stiles aforesaid and every of them are most Rebellious Wicked Trayterous and Abominable Vsurpations Detested by this present Parliament Recognition of his Majesties just title as Opposite in the Highest Degrée to His Sacred Majesties most Iust and Vndoubted Right to whom and to his Heirs and Lawful Successors the Imperial Crowns of the Realms of England Scotland and Ireland with their and every of their Dominions and Territories do of Right appertain and as violating and Infringing the just Rights and
assembled and by the Authority of the same and it is hereby Enacted The Court of Wards and Liveries Primer-Seisin c. taken away That the Court of Wards and Liveries and all Wardships Liveries Primer-Seisins and Ouster-le-mains Values and forfeitures of Marriages by reason of any Tenure of the Kings Majesty or of any other by Knights-service and all mean Rates and all other Gifts Grants Charges incident or arising for or by reason of Wardships Liveries Primer-Seisins or Ouster-le-mains be taken away and discharged and are hereby Enacted to be taken away and discharged from the said twenty fourth day of February One thousand six hundred forty five any Law Statute Custom or Vsage to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding Fines for alienations c. taken away 1 Car. 1. cap. 3. And that all Fines for Alienations Seizures and Pardons for Alienations Tenure by Homage and all Charges incident arising for or by reason of Wardship Livery Primer-Seisin or Ouster-le-main or Tenure by Knights-service Escuage and also Aide pur file marrier pur faier fits Chivalier and all other Charges incident thereunto be likewise taken away and discharged from the said Twenty fourth day of February One thousand six hundred forty and five any Law Tenures by Knights service taken away Statute Custom or Vsage to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding And that all Tenures by Knights-Service of the King or of any other person and by Knights-Service in Capite and by Soccage in Capite of the King and the Fruits and consequents thereof happened or which shall or may hereafter happen or arise thereupon or thereby be taken away and discharged Any Law Statute Custome or usage to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding And all Tenures of any Honors Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or any Estate of Inheritance at the Common-Law held either of the King or of any other person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate are hereby Enacted to be turned into frée and common Soccage to all intents and purposes from the said Twenty fourth day of February One thousand six hundred forty five and shall be so construed adjudged and déemed to be from the said Twenty fourth day of February One thousand six hundred forty five and for ever thereafter turned into frée and common Soccage Any Law Statute Custome or usage to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding Tenures by domage escuage c. discharged And that the same shall for ever hereafter stand and be discharged of all Tenure by Homage Escuage Voyages-Royal and charges for the same Wardships incident to Tenure by Knights-Service and values and forfeitures of marriage and all other charges incident to tenure by Knights-service And of and from Aide pur file marrier and Aide pur faier fitz Chivalier any Law Statute Vsage or Custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And that all Conveyances and Devises of any Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments made since the said 24th of February shall be expounded to be of such effect as if the same Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments had béen then held and continued to be holden in frée and common Soccage only any Law Statute Custome or usage to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding And be it further ordained and enacted by the authority of this present Parliament The Acts of 32 H. 8. cap. 6. 33 H 8. cap. 22. repealed That one act made in the reign of King Henry the 8th Entituled An Act for the establishment of the Court of the Kings Wards And also one Act of Parliament made in the 33. year of the reign of the said King Henry the 8th concerning the Officers of the Court of Wards and Liveries and every Clause Article and Matter in the said Acts contained shall from henceforth be repealed and utterly void And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid All tenures to be created by the King hereafter shall be free and common soccage That all tenures hereafter to be created by the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors upon any gifts or grants of any Mannors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments of any Estate of Inheritance at the common law shall be in frée and common soccage and shall be adjudged to be in free and common soccage only and not by Knights Service or in Capite and shall be discharged of all Wardship value and forfeiture of marriage Livery Primer-Seizin Ouster le main Aide pur faier fits Chivalier and pur file marrier any Law Statute or reservation to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided nevertheless and be it Enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained Proviso for rents certain herriots c. shall not take away nor be construed to take away any Rents certain Herriots or Suits of Court belonging or incident to any former Tenure now taken away or altered by vertue of this Act or other Services incident or belonging to Tenure in common Soccage due or to grow due to the King Majesty or mean Lords or other private person Fines for Alienations due by particular customs of Mannors or the fealty and distresses incident thereunto And that such relief shall be paid in respect of such Rents as is paid in case of the death of a Tenant in common Soccage Provided always and be it enacted That any thing herein contained shall not take away nor be construed to take away any Fines for Alienation due by particular customs of particular Mannors places other then fines for alienations of lands or Tenem holden immediately of the K. in Capite Provided also and be it further Enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained Tenures in Frank Almoigne Copy of court Roll. shall not take away or be construed to take away Tenures in Frank Almoigne or to subiect them to any greater or other services then now are nor to alter or change any Tenure by Copy of Court Roll or any services incident thereunto nor to take away the honorary services of Grand Serjeanty other then of Wardship Marriage and value of Forfeiture of Marriage Escuage Voyages Royal and other charges incident to Tenure by Knights Service Honorary services and other then Aide pur faier fitz Chivalier and Aide pur file marrier And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That where any person hath or shall have Parents may dispose of the custody of children during their mâ—nority and Child or Children under the age of 21 years and not married at the time of his death That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Father of such child or children whether born at the time of the decease of the Father or at that time in ventre sa mere or whether such Father be within the age of 21 years or of full age by his Deed executed in his life time or by his last Will and Testament in writing in the presence of
offending to Gaol till the next Sessions there to be indicted and procéeded against for the same and that the Officers and Inhabitants of the Village or Parish where such offence shall happen shall be assistant therein and moreover the party grieved shall have his Action or Actions against such offender or offenders and therein recover his treble damages and treble costs In which Action no Essoin Wager of Law Aid-prayer Priviledge Protection Imparlance Iniunction or Order of Restraint No action upon this Statute to be stayed but by Order of the Court where such action depends shall be granted or allowed And if any person or persons shall after notice given that the Action depending is grounded upon this Statute cause or procure any Action at the common Law grounded on this Statute to be delayed or stayed before Iudgment by colour or means of any Order Power Warrant or Authority save onely of the Court where such Action shall be brought and depending or after Iudgment had upon such Action shall cause or procure Execution of such Iudgment to be stayed or delayed by colour or means of any Order Warrant Power or Authority save only by Writ of Errour or Attaint or Order of such Court where such Writof Errour or Attaint shall be depending That then the person so offending shall incur the pains penalties Premunire and forfeitures ordained and provided by the Statute of Provision and Premunire made in the sixtéenth year of the Reign of King Richard the second Provided alwayes That this Act extend not to prejudice any of His Majesties Rights Titles or Duties of in or to or out of any Tinne in the Stannaries of Devon and Cornwall Proviso for the Stannaries Butserage Prisage nor to prejudice the ancient Duties of Butlerage and Prizage of Wines but that the same shall be in the same plight that the same were before the making of this Act any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Recompence to his Majesty for the Court of Wards and Purveyances And now to the intent and purpose that His Majesty His Heirs and Successors may receive a full and ample Recompence and Satisfaction as well for the profits of the said Court of Wards and the Tenures Wardships Liveries Primer-Seizins Ousterlemaines and other the Premisses and Perquisites incident thereunto and for all Arrears any way due for the same as also for all and all manner of Purveyance and Provisions herein before mentioned and intended to be taken away and abolished and all sums of money due or pretended to be due or payable for and in respect of any compositions for the same 12 Car. 2. cap. 23. Rates of the Excise Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That there shall be paid unto the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors for ever hereafter in recompence as aforesaid the several Rates Impositions Duties and Charges herein after expressed and in manner and form following that is to say For every Barrel of Beer or Ale above six shillings the barrel brewed by the Common Brewer or any other Person or Persons who doth or shall sell or tap out beer or Ale publickly or privately to be paid by the common Brewer or by such other person or persons respectively and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity One shilling three pence XV. d. For every barrel of Six shillings Beer or Ale or under brewed by the common Brewer or any other person or persons who doth or shall sell or tap out such Beer or Ale publickly or privately to be paid by the said common Brewer or by such other person or persons respectively as aforesaid and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity three pence iij. d. For all Syder and Perry made and sold by retail upon every Hogshead to be paid by the Retayler thereof and so proportionably for a greater or lesser measure One shilling three pence XV. d. For all Metheglin or Mead sold whether by Retail or otherwise to be paid by the maker thereof upon every Gallon One half-penny Ob. For every Barrel of Beer commonly called Vinegar-Beer brewed by any common Brewer in any common Brew-house six pence Vi. d. For every Gallon of Strong-water or Aquavitae made and sold to be paid by the maker thereof One penny i. d. For every barrel of Beer or Ale Imported from beyond the Seas Three Shillings iij. s. For every Tun of Syder or Perry Imported from beyond the Seas and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity Five shillings V. s. For every gallon of Spirits made of any kind of Wine or Syder Imported Two pence ij d. For every gallon of Strong-water perfectly made Imported from beyond the Seas Four pence iiij d. For every Gallon of Coffee made and sold to be paid by the maker Four pence iiij d. For every gallon of Chocolatte Sherbet and Tea made and sold to be paid by the maker thereof Eight pence Viij d. And be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the several Rates Rates of Excise upon forreign Liquors imported to be paid in money before landing Duties and Charges of Excise or New Impost above mentioned hereby set or imposed upon all and every the said Forreign Liquors which shall be Imported or brought into all or any the Ports of this Kingdom and Dominions thereof aforesaid from and after the five and twentieth day of December next shall be from time to time satisfied and paid by the Merchant or Merchants Importer or Importers of the same in ready money upon his or their Entry or Entries made and before the landing thereof And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Entries to be made at the Office of Excise by Common Brewers Inn-keepers c. That all common Brewers of Béer and Ale shall once in every Wéek And all Inn-kéepers Alehouse-kéepers Victuallers and other Retaylers of Béer Ale Syder Perry Metheglin or Strong-water Brewing Making or Retailing the same shall once in every moneth make true and particular Entries at the Office of Excise within the limits of which the said Commodities and Manufactures are made of all Béer Ale Perry Syder Metheglin Strong-Water or other the Liquors aforesaid which they or any of them shall Brew make or Retail in that Wéek and Moneth respectively as aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all such common Brewers The penalty for not making Entries who do not once a Wéek make due and particular Entries shall forfeit ten pounds And that every such Inn-kéeper who doth not make true and particular Entries once a Moneth shall forfeit five pounds And that every Alehouse-kéeper Victualler or other Retailer who doth not once a moneth make due and particular Entries shall forfeit twenty shillings And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Common Brewer The penalty for not paying who shall not pay and clear off
and fifty pounds or any part thereof by him advanced upon the Credit of several Orders of this present Parliament and by them charged on the receipt of the Grand Excise that is to say the sum of Five thousand pounds payable to his Majesties Surveyor-General for the repair of his Majesties houses charged by vertue of an Order of the sixth of September 1660. with Interest for the same the sum of ten thousand pounds advanced to her Highness the Princes Royal being charged with Interest by an Order of the 13th of September 1660. the sum of ten thousand pounds payable to her Majesty the Quéen of Bohemia being charged together with Interest by an Order of the 13th of September 1660. the sum of thrée thousand four hundred and fifty pounds payable for Provisions for Dunkirk by Order of the 26th of November 1660. which sum of twenty eight thousand four hundred and fifty pounds together with Interest for the same according to the tenor of the said Orders after the rate of six per Cent. shall be paid to the said Edward Backwell or his Assigns out of the Grand Excise and the Arrears thereof in course as is by the said Orders appointed and in case the same shall fall short in payment by the Twenty fifth of December One thousand six hundred and sixty that then the remainder shall continue secured to him out of the whole Excise in course as aforesaid and that no other payments be made out of the Excise but what is appointed by this present Parliament in course to precede the same untill the said debt due to the said Edward Backwell be satisfied and that in case any part of the monies due to Alderman Backwell be paid out of that part of the Excise which shall grow due to the Kings Majesty that then his Majesty shall be reimbursed the same out of the first monies that shall come in of the Arrears of Excise that will be due the said twenty fifth of December Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XXV The Selling of Wines by Retail and for preventing Abuses in the Mingling and Corrupting of Wines and for setting the Prices thereof FOR the better Ordering of Selling of Wines by Retail in Taverns and other places and for the preventing of Abuses therein Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the consent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That no person or persons whatsoever from and after the Five and twentieth day of March one thousand six hundred sixty one unless he or they be authorized and enabled in manner and form as in this present Act is prescribed and appointed shall sell or utter by retail that is by the Pint Quart Pottle or Gallon or by any other greater or lesser retail measure any kind of Wine or Wines to be drunk or spent within his or their Mansion-houses or houses or such other place in his or their tenure or occupation or without such Mansion-house or houses or such other place in his or their tenure or occupation by any colour craft or mean whatsoever The penalty of unlawful uttering wine by retail upon pain to forfeit for every such offence the sum of five pounds the one moyety of every such penalty to be to our Soveraign Lord the King the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of the Kings Courts of Record in which Action or Suit no Essoign Wager of Law or Protection shall be allowed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for his Majesty his Heirs and Successors from time to time His Majesty may issue out Commissions to license the uttering wine to issue out under His or their Great Seal of England one or more Commission or Commissions directed to two or more persons thereby Authorizing them to License and give Authority to such person or persons as they shall think fit to sell and utter by retail all and every or any kind of Wine or Wines whatsoever to be drunk and spent as well within the house or houses or other place in the tenure or occupation of the party so Licensed as without in any City Town or other place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town and Port of Berwick upon Tweed and such persons as from time to time or at any time hereafter shall be by such Commission or Commissions as aforesaid in that behalf appointed shall have power and authority and hereby have power and authority to treat and contract for License authority and dispensations to be given and granted to any person or persons for the selling and uttering of Wines by retail in any City Town or other place as aforesaid according to the rules and directions of this present Act and the true intent and meaning thereof and not otherwise any Law Statute Vsage or Custome to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid His Majesties Agents for granting wine Licenses may grant Licenses not exceeding 21 years if the person so long live Rent reserved but no â—ine to be taken That such persons as shall be Commissioned and appointed by his Majesty his Heirs or Successors as aforesaid shall be and be called His Majesties Agents for granting Licenses for the selling and uttering of Wine by retail And his Majesties said Agents are hereby authorized and enabled under their Seal of Office the same to be appointed by his Majesty to grant Licence for the selling and uttering of Wines by retail to any person or persons and for any time or term not excéeding 21 years if such person and persons shall so long live and for such yearly rent as they can or shall agrée and think fit so as no Fine be taken for the same But that the rent and sums of money agréed upon and reserved be paid and answered half yearly by equal portions during the whole Term. Licenses only to such as personally use the Trade And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such Licence shall not be given or granted but to such who shall personally use the Trade of selling or uttering of Wines by retail or to the Landlord and owner of the house where the person using such Trade shall sell and utter Wine by retail Wine Licenses not assignable The King may appoint Officers as he shall think fit nor shall the same be assignable nor in any wise beneficial or extensive to indemnify any person against the penalties of this present Act except the first taker And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for his Majesty His Heirs and Successors to constitute and appoint such and so many other Officers and Ministers as a Receiver Register Clerk Controller Messenger
Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed by retail for above Eightéen pence the quart And that no Gascoigne or French Wines whatsoever shall be sold by Retail above eight pence the quart And that no Rhenish Wines whatsoever shall be sold by retail above Twelve pence the quart And according to these rates The Penalties for a greater and lesser quantity all and every the said Wines shall and may be sold upon pain and penalty that every such person or persons who shall utter or sell any of the said Wines by retail that is to say by Pint Quart Pottle or Gallon or any other greater or lesser Retail-measure at any rate excéeding the Rates hereby limited do and shall forfeit for every such Pint Quart Pottle Gallon or other greater or lesser quantity so sold by retail the sum of Five pounds the one moyety of which forfeiture shall be to our Soveraign Lord the King His Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that shall sue for the same to be recovered in manner and form as aforesaid Provided nevertheless The Lord Chancellor c. may set the Prises of Wines yearly or alter the same That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Chancellor of England Lord Treasurer Lord President of the Kings Councel Lord Privy Seal and the two Chief Iustices or Five Four or Thrée of them And they are hereby Authorized yearly and every year betwéen the twentieth of November and the last day of December and no other times to set the Prises of all and every the said Wines to be sold by retail as aforesaid at higher or lower rates then are herein contained so that they or any of them cause the Prises by them set to be written and open Proclamation thereof to be made in the Kings Court of Chancery yearly in the Term time or else in the City Burrough or Towns Corporate where any such Wine shall be sold And that all and every the said Wines shall and may be sold by retail at such prises as by them or any Five Four or thrée of them shall be set as aforesaid from time to time for the space of one whole year to commence from the first day of February next after the setting thereof and no longer and no greater prises under the pains and penalties aforesaid to be recovered as aforesaid and afterwards And in default of such setting of prises by the said Lord Chancellor of England Lord Treasurer Lord President of the Kings Councel Lord Privy Seal and the two Chief Iustices or Five Four or Thrée of them as aforesaid at the respective Rates and Prises set by this Act and under the penalties as aforesaid to be recovered as aforesaid Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XXVI The levying of the Twelve Moneths Assessment commencing the 24th of June 1659. and the six Moneths Assessment commencing the Twenty Fifth of December 1659. EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XXVII Four hundred and twenty thousand pounds by an Assessment of Threescore and ten Thousand pounds by the Moneth Granted for Six Moneths for Disbanding the Remainder of the Army and paying off the Navy with Rules and Instructions for the same EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XXVIII Further supplying and explaining certain defects in an Act Intituled An Act for the provision of money for Disbanding and paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XXIX Seventy thousand pounds to be raised for the further supply of His Majesty EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XXX The Attainder of several persons Guilty of the Horrid Murther of His late Sacred Majesty King Charles the First IN all humble manner shew unto Your most Excellent Majesty Your Majesties most dutiful and loyal Subjectts the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled That the Horrid and Execrable Murther of Your Majesties Royal Father The horrid murder of King Charles the first how first contrived and plotted our late most Gracious Soveraign Charles the First of ever blessed and glorious memory hath béen committed by a party of wretched men desperately wicked and hardned in their Impiety who having first plotted and contrived the ruine and destruction of this excellent Monarchy and with it of the true Reformed Protestant Religion which had béen so long protected by it and flourished under it found it necessary in order to the carrying on of their pernicious and traiterous designs to throw down all the Bullwarks and Fences of Law and to subvert the very being and constitution of Parliament that so they might at last make their way open for any further attempts upon the Sacred Person of his Maiesty himself And that for the more easy effecting thereof they did first seduce some part of the then Army into a compliance and then kept the rest in subjection to them partly for hopes of preferment and chiefly for fear of losing their imployments and arrears untill by these and other more odious arts and devices they had fully strengthened themselves both in power and faction which being done they did declare against all manner of Treaties with the person of the King even then while a Treaty by advice of both Houses of Parliament was in being Remonstrate against the Houses of Parliament for such procéedings seize upon his Royal person while the Commissioners were returned to the House of Parliament with his Answer and when his Concessions had béen Voted a ground for peace seize upon the House of Commons seclude and imprison some Members force out others and there being left but a small remnant of their own Creatures not a tenth part of the whole did séek to shelter themselves by this weak pretence under the name and Authority of a Parliament and in that name laboured to prosecute what was yet behind and unfinished of their long intended Treason and Conspiracy To this purpose they prepared an Ordinance for erecting a prodigious and unheard of Triennal which they called An High Court of Justice for Tryal of his Majesty and having easily procured it to pass in their House of Commons as it then stood moulded ventured to send it up from thence to the Péers then sitting who totally rejected it whereupon their rage and fury increasing they presume to pass it alone as an Act of the Commons and in the name of the Commons of England and having gained the pretence of Law made by a power of their own making pursue it with all possible force and cruelty until at last upon the thirtieth day of January one thousand six hundred forty and eight His Sacred Majesty was brought unto a Scaffold and there publickly Murthered before the Gates of his own Royal Palace And because by this Horrid action the Protestant Religion hath received the greatest wound and reproach and the people of England the most insupportable shame and infamy that was
That all and every the Goods Debts and other the Chattels personal whatsoever of them the said Oliver Cromwell Henry Ireton John Bradshaw Thomas Pride whereof at the time of their respective deaths they or any of them or any other in trust for them or any of them stood possessed in Law or Equity All their goods personal estate forfeited vested in his Majesty and all the Goods Debts and other the Chattels personal whatsoever of them the said John Lisle William Say Valentine Wauton Edward Whalley John Barkstead Edmond Ludlow Sir Michael Livesey John Okey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner William Cawley Miles Corbet Nicholas Love John Dixwell Andrew Broughton Edward Dendy Thomas Harrison Adrian Scroop John Carew John Jones Thomas Scot Gregory Clement Hugh Peters Francis Hacker John Cook Daniel Axtel Sir Hardress Waller William Heveningham Isaac Penington Henry Martin Gilbert Millington Robert Titchbourn Owen Row Robert Lilburn Henry Smith Edmond Harvey John Downs Vincent Potter Augustine Garland George Fleetwood Simon Meyne James Temple Peter Temple Thomas Wayte Whereof they were possest or any for them 11 Feb. 1659. whereof upon the eleventh day of February One thousand six hundred fifty nine they or any of them or any other in trust for them or any of them stood possessed either in Law or Equity shall be déemed and adjudged to be forfeited unto and are hereby vested and put into the actual and real possession of Your Majesty without any further Office or Inquisition thereof hereafter to be taken or found Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Conveyance Proviso for conveyances by any of the offenders Assurance Grant Bargain Sale Charge Lease Assignment of Lease Grants and Surrenders by Copy of Court-Roll Estate Interest Trust or limitation of any Vse or Vses of or out of any Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments not being the Lands nor Hereditaments of the late King Quéen or Prince or of any Arch-bishops Bishops Deans Deans and Chapters nor being Lands or Hereditaments sold or given for the Delinquency or pretended Delinquency of any person or persons whatsoever by vertue or pretext of any Act Order Ordinance or reputed Act Order or Ordinance since the first day of January One thousand six hundred forty one nor any Statute Statutes Iudgments c. before the 9th of Sept. 1659. Iudgment or Recognizance had made acknowledged or suffered to any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate before the twenty ninth day of September One thousand six hundred fifty nine by any of the Offenders before in this Act mentioned or their Heirs or by any other person or persons claiming by from or under them or any of them other then the wife or wives For money bona fide lent c. Conveyances in trust made before the â—â— of April 166â— to any the said Offenders child or children heir or heirs of such person or persons or any of them for money bona fide to them or any of them paid or lent nor any Conveyance Assurance Grant or Estate made before the twenty fifth of April One thousand six hundred and sixty by any person or persons to any of the Offenders aforesaid in Trust and for the benefit of any other person or persons not being any of the offenders aforesaid or in trust for any Bodies Politick or Corporate shall be impeached defeated made void or frustrated hereby or by any of the Convictions and Attainders aforesaid but that the same shall be held and enioyed by the Purchasers Grantées Lessées Assigns Cestuy que use Cestuy que trust and every of them their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively as if this Act had not béen made and as if the said Offenders had not béen by this Act or by any other course or procéedings of Law convicted or attainted so as the said Conveyances Such conveyances to be enrolled in the Court of Exchequer before the first of Ian. 1662. and all and every the Grants and Assurances which by vertue of this Act are and ought to be held and enjoyed as aforesaid shall before the first of January which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty two be entred and enrolled of Record in His Majesties Court of Exchequer and not otherwise Any thing in this Act herein before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for the Marquess of Worcester c. Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and singular the Manors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which at any time heretofore were the Lands and possessions of Henry late Marquess of Worcester and Edward now Marquess of Worcester and Henry Lord Herbert Son and Heir apparent of the said Edward Marquess of Worcester or any of them whereof or wherein the said Oliver Cromwell or any other person or persons in trust for him or to his use or any other the persons attainted by this Act or otherwise or any person or persons in trust for them or any of them had or claimed or pretended to have any Estate Right Title Possession or Interest at any time before or since the decease of the said Oliver Cromwell shall be and hereby are vested and setled in and shall be held and enjoyed by the said Marquess of Worcester and the said Henry Lord Herbert in such manner and form and for such Estate and Estates with such powers and priviledges as they formerly had in the same respectively Any thing in this present Act contained or any Act Conveyance or Assurance heretofore made or acknowledged by the said Edward Marquess of Worcester and Henry Lord Herbert or either of them unto the said Oliver Cromwell or any other person or persons in trust for or to the use of the said Oliver Cromwell or any Act or Conveyance made or done by the said Oliver Cromwell or by any in trust for him to any person whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding Saving alwayes to all and every person and persons Saving Bodies Politick and others their respective Heirs Successors Executors and Administrators all such Right Title and Interest in Law and Equity which they or any of them have or ought to have of into or out of any the Premisses not being in trust for any the said Offenders nor derived by from or under the said Offenders since the twenty fifth day of March which was in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty six And that they the said person and persons Bodies Politick and other their respective Heirs Successors Executors and Administrators and every of them in all and every such case where his and their Entry was lawful upon such Offender or Offenders or the Heirs or Assigns of such Offender or Offenders in or upon the said twenty fifth day of March one thousand six hundred forty and six or at any time since may without Petition Monstrans
true intent of this Act shall be forfeited and that every offender and offenders therein shall forfeit twenty shillings for every such Shéep and thrée shillings for every pound weight of such Wooll Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woollflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay And also the Owners of the said Ships or Vessels knowing such offence shall forfeit all thei◠Interest in the said Ships or Vessels with all their Apparrel and Furniture to them and every of them belonging And that the Master and Mariners thereof knowing such offence and wittingly and willingly aiding and assisting thereunto shall forfeit all their Goods and Chattels and have Imprisonment for the same thrée moneths without Bail or Main-prise the one moyety of which said penalties and forfeitures shall be to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record or before the Iustices of Assize or in the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace In which Suit no Essoyn protection or wager of Law shall be allowed The penalty upon any Merchant that shall transport woolls c. And be it further Enacted That if any Merchant or other person or persons shall after the said fourtéenth day of January transport or cause to be transported any Shéep Wooll Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Woollen Yarn Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay contrary to the true intent of this Act and be thereof lawfully convicted That then he shall be disabled to require any Debt or Accompt of any Factor or others for or concerning any Debt or Estate properly belonging to such offender Proviso Provided alwayes and it is nevertheless declared That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be construed to take away any greater pains or penalties inflicted or to be inflicted for any the offences aforesaid by vertue of any former Act of Parliament now in force Offences against this Act where to be tryed And be it also further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That every offence that shall be done or committed contrary to this Act shall and may be inquired of and heard examined tryed and determined in the County where such Shéep Wooll Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay respectively shall be so packed loaden or laid aboard as aforesaid contrary to this Act or else in the County where such Offenders shall happen to be apprehended or arrested for such offence in such manner and form and to such effect to all intents and purposes as if the same offence had béen wholly and altogether done and committed at and in such County They to be Prosecuted within a year after the offence committed Any person may seize goods contrary to this Act loaded with intent to be transported and shall have the moyety thereof Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons whatsoever shall at any time hereafter be impeached for any offence aforesaid unless such person or persons shall be prosecuted within the space of one year next ensuing such offence committed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for any person or persons to seize take and challenge to his or their own use and behoof and to the use of the King His Heirs and Successors all and all manner such Shéep Wooll Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woollflocks Fullers Earth and Fulling Clay as he or they shall happen to sée finde know or discover to be laid aboard in any Ship or other Vessel or Boat or to be brought carried or laid on shore at or near the Sea or any Navigable River or Water to the intent or purpose to be exported transported or conveyed out of the Kingdoms of England or Ireland Town of Berwick Isles or Dominion aforesaid contrary to the true meaning of this Act or to be packed or loaden upon any Horse Cart or other Carriage to the intent or purpose to be conveyed or carried into the Kingdom of Scotland aforesaid and that such person or persons as shall happen so to seize take or challenge any such Shéep Wooll Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay as aforesaid shall have the full moyety thereof to all intents and purposes Proviso such person shall not be evidence against the offender Provided alwayes That such Person or Persons as shall make any such Seizure or challenge aforesaid to his or their own use shall not be admitted or allowed to give in Evidence upon his or their Oath or Oaths against any Person or Persons which shall happen to be indicted accused or questioned by vertue of this Act or any thing therein contained Forfeiture of the ship if the owner be an Alien or not Inhabiting in England And furthermore be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every ship Vessel Hulk Barge or Boat of what kind soever whereof any Alien born or whereof any natural born Subjects not inhabiting within the Realm of England shall be owner or part-owner and wherein any Shéep Wooll Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay shall happen to be shipped put or laid aboard contrary to the true meaning of this Act shall be forfeited to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors Provided alwayes That this Act shall not extend to any Lamb Skin ready drest and prepared fit and useful for Furr or Lynings Proviso Provided also That this Act shall not in any wise extend to the transporting carrying or conveying away of any such Woolfells or Pelts with such Wooll upon them or to any Beds stuffed with Flocks which shall be carried or imployed in any Ship or other Vessel for necessary use only of and about the Ordnance or other thing in or concerning such Ship or Vessel or only for the necessary use of any the Persons in such Ship or Vessel passing or being and which shall not be sold or uttered in any Forreign parts out of the Kingdoms of England or Ireland Ireland Berwick or Town of Berwick Isles or Dominion aforesaid nor to the exporting transporting carrying or conveying of any Wether-shéep or of the Wooll growing upon any such Wether-shéep to be carried alive in any Ship or other Vessel for and towards the only necessary food or diet of or for the Company or Passengers or other Persons therein and for and towards none other purpose Proviso Southampton Jersey Guernsey Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to any such Wooll to be exported or transported out of or from the Port of Southampton only unto the aforesaid Isles of Jersey and Guernsey by or for the only use or behoof of any the Inhabitants of
the said Isles of Jersey and Guernsey or either of them or to any such wooll to be shipped or loaden aboard in any ship or other vessel by or for the only use or behoof of any the Inhabitants of the said Isles of Jersey or Guernsey or either of them in the Port aforesaid to be exported and transported into the said Isles of Jersey or Guernsey or either of them so as such person and persons that shall so ship or lay aboard such wool into any ship or other Vessel do before the shipping or laying aboard such wool deliver unto the Customer Comptroller Surveyor or Searcher of the Port of Southampton aforesaid out of which the same wooll is to be exported a writing under the Seal or Seals of the respective Governors of the same Isles of Jersey and Guernsey unto which the said wooll is to be transported or of his or their Deputy or Deputies respectively the which writing shall purport and express that the party named in such writing is authorised and appointed to export or to cause to be exported out of the Port aforesaid so much wooll expressing the number of the Tods to the same Isle to be used or manufactured in one of the same Isles or in some of the members or parts of the same and that such party so authorised and appointed to export or cause to be exported that wooll hath before the making and sealing of that writing entred into sufficient Bond to his Majesties use for the landing of the said wooll in that Isle And to the intent that the quantity of wooll to be exported out of the Port of Southampton aforesaid into the said Isles or either of them in any one year accompting the year to begin from the first day of January next ensuing and so yearly from the first day of January may not excéed the quantity hereunder specified that is to say unto the Isle of Jersey Two thousand Tods and no more of unkeamed wooll and unto Guernsey Alderney Sarke One thousand Tods and no more of unkeamed wooll and unto Alderney Two hundred Tods and no more of unkeamed wooll and unto Sarke One hundred Tods of unkeamed wooll and no more every Tod not excéeding thirty two pounds And be it Enacted by the authority aforesaid That the Governor of the said Isle of Jersey or his Deputy for whom he will answer shall not make to any Person or Persons any writing or writings such as is above specified to authorise or appoint such Person or Persons as aforesaid to fetch export or transport out of the Port of Southampton aforesaid unto the said Isle of Jersey in one year accompting the year from the first day of January One thousand six hundred and sixty aforesaid any greater quantity of wooll then Two thousand Tods in any one year and that the Governor of the said Isle of Guernsey or his Deputy for whom he will answer shall not make to any Person or Persons any writing or writings such as is above specified to authorize and appoint such person or persons as aforesaid to fetch export or transport out of the Port above specified unto the said Isles of Guernsey with Alderney and Sarke in any one year accompting the year from the first day of January aforesaid any greater quantity of wooll then one thousand Tods for Guernsey Two hundred Tods for Alderney and one hundred Tods for Sarke in any one year and that the Customer of the Port of Southampton aforesaid shall kéep a true accompt of all the said quantity of Woolls so by him permitted to be loaden by vertue of this Act and shall not permit any greater quantity of Woolls to be loaden then by this Act is prescribed in any one year to either of the said Islands respectively under any pretence whatsoever upon the penalty of the forfeiture of his place and the sum of One hundred pounds in money one moyety whereof to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same in any Court of Record wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed And if any of the Governors aforesaid or any of their or either of their Deputy or Deputies of the said Isles or either of them shall give grant or make any Licence or Licences for exporting from Southampton aforesaid into the said Isles respectively of any greater quantity of such Wooll then is before by the true meaning of this Act limited and appointed in that behalf That then the respective Governor or Governors of such of the said Isles shall forfeit and pay to Kings Majesty His Heirs or Successors the sum of Twenty pounds of lawful money of England for every Tod of Wooll which shall be so licensed to be exported over and above the rate or porportion of Wooll in and by this Act or the true meaning thereof limited or appointed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective Governors aforesaid or their respective Deputies or any their Clerks Officers or Servants for the granting making or sealing of every such writing of Licence as is aforesaid and for the entring a Remembrance of the same into some Book which they shall have and kéep for that purpose may have and take the sum of Twelve pence and no more upon pain of forfeiting to the party grieved the sum of Five shillings for every penny which shall be taken over and above the said sum of twelve pence in and by this Act allowed to be taken and so after that proportion the said penalty or Forfeiture for the taking above Twelve pence as aforesaid to be recovered by Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record at Westminster or elsewhere wherein no Injunction Protection Priviledge Essoyne or Wager of Law shall be admitted or allowed St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 13. CAP. XXXIII The Confirmation of Marriages VVHereas by vertue or colour of certain Ordinances or certain pretended Acts or Ordinances divers marriages since the beginning of the late troubles have béen had and solemnized in some other manner then hath béen formerly used and accustomed Marriages since the ◠May 1642. confirmed Now for the preventing and avoiding of all doubts and questions touching the same It is Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the advice and assent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That all Marriages had or Solemnized in any of his Majesties Dominions since the first day of May in the year of Our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and two before any Iustice of Peace or reputed Iustice of Peace of England or Wales or other his Majesties Dominions and by such Iustice or reputed Iustice so pronounced or declared And all Marriages within any of His Majesties Dominions since the same first day of May in the year of Our Lord One thousand six hundred forty two had or Solemnized according to the
Car. 1. cap. 7. The Parliament begun 3. of No. 1640. not in being Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 1. And to the end that no man hereafter may be misled into any seditious or unquiet demeanor out of an opinion that the Parliament begun and held at Westminster upon the third day of November in the year of Our Lord One thousand six hundred and forty is yet in being which is undoubtedly dissolved and determined and so is hereby declared and adjudged to be fully dissolved and determined or out of an opinion that there lies any obligation upon him from any Oath Covenant or Engagement whatsoever No Legislative power in either or both Houses of Parliament without the King to endeavour a change of Government either in Church or State or out of an Opinion that both Houses of Parliament or either of them have a Legislative Power without the King All which Assertions have béen seditiously maintained in some Pamphlets lately Printed and are daily promoted by the active enemies of our Peace and Happiness Be it therefore further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person or persons at any time after the Four and twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and one shall malitiously and advisedly by writing Printing Preaching or other speaking express publish utter declare or affirm That the Parliament begun at Westminster upon the Third day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and Forty is not yet dissolved or is not determined or that it ought to be in being or hath yet any continuance or existence or that there lies any Obligation upon him or any other person from any Oath Covenant or Engagement whatsoever to endeavour a change of Government either in Church or State or that both Houses of Parliament or either House of Parliament have or hath a Legislative Power without the King Premunire or any other words to the same effect That then every such person and persons so as aforesaid offending shall incur the danger and penalty of a Premunire mentioned in a Statute made in the Sixtéenth year of the Reign of King Richard the Second The Solemn League and Covenant unlawful and illegally imposed Certain Orders and Ordinances of both or either Houses of Parliament declared void Proviso the said Orders c. may be made use of according to the Act of Indempnity Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 11. And it is hereby also declared That the Oath usually called the Solemn League and Covenant was in it self an unlawfull Oath and imposed upon the Subjects of this Realm against the Fundamental Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom and that all Orders and Ordinances or pretended Orders and Ordinances of both or either Houses of Parliament for imposing of Oaths Covenants or Engagements Levying of Taxes or Raising of Forces and Arms to which the Royal assent either in Person or by Commission was not expresly had or given were in their first creation and making and still are and so shall be taken to be null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever Provided nevertheless That all and every person and persons Bodies Politick and Corporate who have béen or shall at any time hereafter be questioned for any thing acted or done by colour of any the orders or Ordinances herein before mentioned and declared to be null and voyd and are Indempnified by an Act entituled An Act of free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion made in the Twelfth year of His Majesties Reign that now is or shall be Indempnified by anâ— Act of Parliament shall and may make such use of the said Orders and Ordinances for their Indempnity according to the true intent and meaning of the said Act and no other as he or they might have done if this Act had not béen made any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding No person to be prosecuted for any offences in this Act other then Treason unless by special order from his Majesty And within six moneths after the offence committed Treasons and offences within this Act to be proved by two witnesses viva vâ—â—â— Provided alwayes That no person be prosecuted for any of the offences in this Act mentioned other then such as are made and declared to be high Treason unless it be by Order of the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors under his or their Sign Manual or by Order of the Council Table of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors directed unto the Attorney-General for the time being or some other of the Council learned to his Majesty his Heirs or Successors for the time being nor shall any person or persons by vertue of this present Act incur any of the penalties herein before mentioned unless he or they be prosecuted within six moneths next after the Offence committed and indicted thereupon within thrée moneths after such prosecution any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it Enacted That no person or persons shall be indicted arraigned condemned convicted or attainted for any of the Treasons or Offences aforesaid unless the same Offender or Offenders be thereof accused by the Testimony and deposition of two lawful and credible Witnesses upon Oath which witnesses at the time of the said Offender or Offenders arraignment shall be brought in person before him or them face to face and shall openly avow and maintain upon Oath what they have to say against him or them concerning the Treason or Offences contained in the said Indictment unless the party or parties arraigned shall willingly without violence confess the same Proviso for the Priviledg at Debates in Parliament For repeal or alteration of Laws or redressing publick Grievances Provided likewise and be it Enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to deprive either of the Houses of Parliament or any of their Members of their just ancient Fréedom and Priviledg of debating any matters or business which shall be propounded or debated in either of the said Houses or at any Conferences or Committées of both or either of the said Houses of Parliament or touching the repeal or alteration of any old or preparing any new Laws or the redressing of any publick Grievance but that the said Members of either of the said Houses and the Assistants of the House of Péers and every of them shall have the same fréedom of spéech and all other Priviledges whatsoever as they had before the making of this Act any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it Ordained and Enacted Proviso for Peerage and Peers That no Péer of this Realm shall be tryed for any offence against this Act but by his Péers And further That every Péer who shall be convicted of any offence against this Act after such conviction be disabled during his life to sit in Parliament unless his Majesty
be drawn into example for the time to come 1 R. 3. ca. 2. CAPr V. For preventing Tumults and Disorders upon pretence of preparing or presenting publick Petitions or other Addresses to his Majesty or the Parliament Tumultuous and disorderly preparing petitions a great occasion of the late wars and calamities VVHereas it hath béen found by sad experience that Tumultuous and other Disorderly solliciting and procuring of Hands by private Persons to Petitions Complaints Remonstrances and Declarations and other Addresses to the King or to both or either Houses of Parliament for alteration of matters established by Law redress of pretended grievances in Church or State or other publick Concernments have béen made use of to serve the ends of Factious and Seditious persons gotten into power to the violation of the publick Peace and have béen a great means of the late unhappy Wars Confusions and Calamities in this Nation for preventing the like mischief for the future No person after the 1 Aug. 1661. shall sollicite or procure any petition c. for altering any established law in Church or state Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Maiesty by and with the consent of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament and by the Authority of the same That no person or persons whatsoever shall from and after the first of August One thousand six hundred sixty and one Sollicite Labour or procure the getting of Hands or other Consent of any persons above the number of twenty or more to any Petition Complaint Remonstrance Declaration or other Address to the King or both or either Houses of Parliament for alteration of matters established by Law in Church or State unless the matter thereof have béen first consented unto and Ordered by thrée or more Iustices of the County or by the Major part of the Grand Iury of the County or division of the County where the same matter shall arise at their publick Assizes or General Quarter Sessions or if arising in London by the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons in Common Councel assembled And that no person or persons whatsoever shall repair to his Majesty or both or either of the Houses of Parliament upon pretence of presenting or delivering any Petition Complaint Remonstrance or Declaration or other Addresses accompanied with excessive number of People nor at any one time with above the number of Ten persons upon pain of incurring a penalty not excéeding the sum of one hundred pounds in money and thrée moneths Imprisonment without Bail or Mainprize for every offence to be prosecuted at the Court of Kings Bench or at the Assizes or General Quarter Sessions within six moneths after the offence committed and proved by two or more credible witnesses Proviso Provided alwayes that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be construed to extend to debar or hinder any person or persons not excéeding the number of Ten aforesaid to present any publick or private Grievance or Complaint to any Member or Members of Parliament after this Election and during the continuance of the Parliament or to the Kings Majesty for any Remedy to be thereupon had nor to extend to any Address whatsoever to his Majesty by all or any of the Members of both or either Houses of Parliament during the sitting of Parliament but that they may enjoy their fréedom of Access to his Majesty as heretofore hath béen used CAP. VI. The Militia declared to be in the King and for the present Ordering and Disposing the same The command of the Militia by Sea and land the undoubted right of his Majesty FOrasmuch as within all His Majesties Realms and Dominions the sole Supream Government Command and Disposition of the Militia and all Forces by Sea and Land and of all Forts and Places of strength is and by the Laws of England ever was the undoubted Right of His Majesty and his Royal Predecessors Kings and Quéens of England and that both or either of the Houses of Parliament cannot nor ought to pretend to the same nor can nor lawfully may raise or levy any War Offensive or Defensive against His Majesty his Heirs or lawful Successors and yet the contrary thereof hath of late years béen practised almost to the Ruine and Destruction of this Kingdom and during the late usurped Governments many evil and Rebellious Principles have béen distilled into the minds of the People of this Kingdom which unless prevented may break forth to the disturbance of the Peace and Quiet thereof And whereas an Act is under consideration for exercising the Militia An Act under consideration touching the Militia with most safety and case to the King and his People which Act cannot as yet be perfect Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament That the Militia and Land-Forces of this Kingdgom and of the Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed now under the Power of Lieutenants or their Deputies shall be exercised ordered and managed until the Five and twentieth day of March next ensuing in such manner as the same now is actually exercised ordered and managed according to such Commissions and Instructions as they formerly have or from time to time shall receive from his Majesty And whereas since the Twenty fourth of June One thousand six hundred and sixty there have béen Insurrections by occasion whereof divers of his Majesties good Subjects have béen murthered and for the securing the Peace of the Nation and preventing further disorders divers persons suspected to be Fanaticks Sectaries or Disturbers of the Peace have béen Assaulted Arrested Detained or Imprisoned and divers Arms have béen seised and Houses searched for Arms or suspected persons Be it therefore further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person and persons who have or shall have acted Persons who have Acted by commission of Lieutenancy or done any thing in execution of any Commission or Commissions of Lieutenancy issued by the Kings Majesty that now is or by colour of them or any of them touching or concerning the same or any of them or relating thereunto shall be and are hereby saved harmless and indempnified in this behalf And also all Magistrates Iustices of the Peace Officers and Ministers of Iustice and all persons that have or shall have acted by or under them or by their or any of their Commands since the said Twenty fourth day of June One thousand six hundred and sixty until the twentieth day of July One thousand six hundred sixty and one as to any assaulting arresting detaining or imprisoning any person suspected to be Fanatick Sectary or Disturber of the Peace or seising of Arms or searching of Houses for Arms or for suspected persons shall be and are hereby saved harmless and indempnified in that behalf Provided That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained Proviso shall after the Five
and twentieth of March next be prejudicial to any County City or Place within this Kingdom which are overcharged with Men and Arms beyond their ancient proportion Provided That neither this Act nor any matter or thing therein contained shall be déemed construed or taken to extend to the giving or declaring of any Power for the transporting of any the Subjects of this Realm or any way compelling them to march out of this Kingdom otherwise then by the Laws of England ought to be done Provided That no person whatsoever shall be capable of acting as a Lieutenant No person may be Lieutenant or Deputy Lieutenant that hath not taken the Oaths of Allegiance and supremacy or Deputy-Lieutenant or other Officer or Souldier by Vertue of this Act who hath not already taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy since the Return of his Majesty into England until he shall take the same according to the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdome Which Oaths the Lords of His Privy Council or any six of them are hereby impowred to administer to any Péer of this Realm who shall be Commissionated by Vertue of this Act and the Deputy-Lieutenants or any two of them in their respective Counties to any Commoner 14 Car. 2. cap. 3. 8. 15 Car. 2. cap. 4. Stat. 3. CAP. VII Publick Acts Confirmed WHereas during the late Difficulties and Exigencies of Affairs in the absence of His most Excellent Majesty and in reference to his Return from beyond the Seas into these His Majesties Dominions The Lords and Commons being assembled at Westminster the Five and twentieth day of April in the Twelfth Year of his Majesties Reign were from thence and after his Majesties Return continued until the Nine and twentieth day of December then next following and now last past and then Dissolved by his Majesty In which time several Acts were Passed by his Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords and Commons Assembled as aforesaid which being of necessary use are fit to be Continued and Confirmed although the manner of the said Assembling enforced by the Difficulties and Exigencies aforesaid which then lay upon the Nation is not to be drawn into Example Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and the Authority of the same That all and singular the Acts made or mentioned to be made by His said Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords and Commons upon or since the said Five and twentieth day of April herein after particularly mentioned and expressed That is to say One Act Entituled Stat. 12. Car. 2. cap. 11. Stat. 12. Car. 2. cap. 4. Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 5. Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 8. Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 9. Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 12. Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 15. Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 10. Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 19. Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 20. Stat 12 Car. 2. cap. 23. Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 25. Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 26. Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 27. An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion One other Act Entituled A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported One other Act Entituled An Act for continuing the Excise until the Twentieth of August One thousand six hundred and sixty One other Act Entituled An Act for Continuing the Excise till the Five and twentieth Day of December One thousand six hundred and sixty One other Act Entituled An Act for the speedy Provision of Money for Disbanding and Paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea One other Act Entituled An Act for Confirmation of Judicial Proceedings One other Act Entituled An Act for the speedy Disbanding of the Army and Garrisons of this Kingdom One other Act Entituled An Act for Supplying and Explaining certain Defects in an Act Entituled An Act for the speedy Provision of Money for Disbanding and Paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea One other Act Entituled An Act to prevent Frauds and Concealments of His Majesties Customs and Subsidies One other Act entituled An Act for Raising Sevenscore Thousand Pounds for the compleat Disbanding of the whole Army and Paying off some part of the Navy One other Act entituled A Grant of certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for the Increase of His Majesties Revenue during his Life One other Act entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite and by Knights Service and Purveyance and for Setling a Revenue upon his Majestie in lieu thereof One other Act entituled An Act for the better Ordering the Selling of Wines by Retail and for preventing Abuses in the mingling corrupting and vitiating of Wines and for setting and limiting the Prices of the same One other Act Entituled An Act for the Levying of the Arrears of the Twelve Moneths Assessment commencing the Four and Twentieth day of June One Thousand Six Hundred Fifty and Nine and the Six Moneths Assessment commencing the Five and Twentieth of December One Thousand Six Hundred Fifty and Nine One other Act entituled An Act for Granting unto the Kings Majesty Four Hundred and Twenty Thousand Pounds by an Assessment of Threescore and Ten Thousand Pounds by the Moneth for Six Moneths for Disbanding the Remainder of the Army and Paying off the Navy Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 28. Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 29. Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 30. Sâ—at 12 Car. 2. cap. 35. Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 2. One other Act entituled An Act for the further Supplying and Explaining certain Defects in an Act Entituled An Act for the speedy Provision of money for Disbanding and Paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea One other Act entituled An Act for the Raising of Seventy Thousand Pounds for the further Supply of His Majesty One other Act entituled An Act for the Attainder of several Persons guilty of the Horrid Murder of his late Sacred Majesty King CHARLES the First One other Act Entituled An Act for Erecting and Establishing a Post-Office One other Act entituled An Act for putting in Execution an Ordinance mentioned in thâ—s Act and all and every the Clauses Sentences and Articles in them and every of them contained shall be and hereby are Ratified and Confirmed and Enacted and Declared to have the full Force and Strength of Acts of Parliament according to the tenor or purport thereof and so shall be adiudged déemed and taken to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever and as if the same had béen made declared and Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament CAP. VIII Necessary Carriages to be provided for His Majesty in his Royal Progress and Removals Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. WHereas by an Act made
shall cause to be proclaimed in the Market Town next to such place Penalty for taking more then limited for lodging c. and in such of the Neighbouring Towns and Villages as to them shall séem méet to the end that notice may be taken of such Rates and Prices And if any person shall take any other sum then what is or shall be so limited either for Lodging Horse-meat Stable-room or other such accomodations and be thereof convicted by confession of the party or by the Oath of one credible witness before any one Iustice of the Peace which Oath the said Iustice of the Peace is hereby authorized to administer That then in such case every person so offending shall forfeit and pay to the party grieved the sum of Forty shillings the same to be levied by distress by Warrant from the said Iustice of the Peace and sale thereof returning the overplus to the party the charge of the distraining being first deducted This Act to have continuance till the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer CAP. IX Articles and Orders for the regulating and better Government of His Majesties Navies Ships of War and Forces by Sea FOr the regulating and better Government of his Majesties Navies Ships of War and Forces by Sea wherein under the good Providence and Protection of God the Wealth Safety and Strength of this Kingdom is so much concerned Articles to be observed Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority thereof That all and every the Articles and Orders in this Act mentioned shall be duely and respectively put in Execution observed and obeyed in manner hereafter mentioned I. The publick Worship of God THat all Commanders Captains and other Officers at Sea shall cause the publick Worship of Almighty God according to the Liturgy of the Church of England established by Law to be solemnly orderly and reverently performed in their respective Ships And that prayers and preachings by the respective Chaplains in holy Orders of the respective Ships be performed diligently and that the Lords Day be observed according to Law II. Swearing Drunkenness c. Every person and persons in his Majesties pay using unlawful and rash Oaths Cursings Execrations Drunkenness Vncleanness or other Scandalous Actions in derogation of Gods Honour and corruption of good manners shall be punished by Fine Imprisonment or otherwise as the Court-Martial shall think fit III. Holding any forreign Intelligence If any Officer Mariner Souldier or other person in the Fléet shall give hold or entertain Intelligence to or with any King Prince or State being Enemy to or any persons in Rebellion against his Majesty his Heirs and Successors without direction or leave from the Kings Majesty the Lord High Admiral Vice-Admiral or Commander in Chief of any Squadron every such person or persons so offending shall be punished with death IV. Letters or Messages from any forreign Prince c. Enemy to the King If any Letter or Message from any King Forrein Prince State or Potentate being an Enemy to the Kings Majestie his Heirs and Successors or on their behalf be conveyed to any Inferiour Officer Mariner or Souldier or other in the Fléet and the said Officer Mariner Souldier or other as aforesaid do not within twelve hours having opportunity so to do acquaint the Superiour Commander with it or if a Superiour Officer or Mariner being acquainted therewith by an Inferiour Officer Mariner or other or himself in his own person receiving a letter or message from any such Enemy or Rebel and shall not in convenient time reveal the same to the Admiral Vice-Admiral or the Commander of the Squadron every such person shall be punished with death or such other punishment as the Court-Martial shall think fit V. Relieving of any Enemy No person or persons of the Fléet shall relieve an Enemy or Rebel in time of War with money Victuals Powder Shot Arms Ammunition or any other Supplies whatsoever directly or indirectly upon pain of death or such other punishment as the Court-Martial shall think fit to impose VI. Papers Charter-Parties c. taken in any Ship seised as Prize All the Papers Charter-Parties Bills of Lading Pasports and other Writings whatsoever that shall be taken seized or found aboard any Ship or Ships which shall be surprised or seised as Prize shall be duly preserved and not torn nor made away but the very Originals sent up intirely and without fraud to the Court of Admiralty or such other Commissioners as shall be appointed for that purpose there to be viewed made use of and procéeded upon according to Law upon pain of loss of all the shares of the Takers and such further punishment to be inflicted upon the Offenders therein as the quality of their offence and misdemeanor shall be found to deserve and the Court-Martial shall impose VII Prize Ships or Goods seised for prize None in his Majesties pay shall take out of any Prize or Ship or Goods seized on for Prize any Money Plate Goods Lading or Tackle before Iudgment thereof first past in the Admiralty Court but the full and intire accompt of the whole without imbezelment shall be brought in and Iudgment past intirely upon the whole without fraud upon pain of such punishment as shall be imposed by a Court-Martial or the Court of Admiralty excepting That it shall be lawful for all Captains Sea-men Souldiers and others serving as aforesaid to take and to have to themselves as Pillage without further or other accompt to be given for the same all such Goods and Merchandizes other then Arms Ammunition Tackle Furniture or Stores of such Ship as shall be found by them or any of them in any Ship they shall take in fight or prize upon or above the Gun-deck of the said Ship and not otherwise VIII Imbezeling any Cables Anchors c. None shall imbezle steal or take away any Cables Anchors Sails or any of the Ships Furniture or any of the Powder or Arms or Ammunition of the Ship upon pain of death or other punishment as the quality of the offence shall be found by a Court-Martial to deserve IX Forrein ships taken as prize not making resistance If any Forrein Ship or Vessel shall be taken as prize that shall not fight or make resistance that in that case none of the Captains Masters or Mariners being Forreiners shall be stripped of their Clothes or in any sort pillaged beaten or evil entreated upon pain That the person or persons so offending shall forfeit double Damages but the said Forrein Ships and all the Goods so taken shall be preserved intire to receive Iudgment in the Admiralty Court according to Right and Iustice X. Every Captain or Commander who upon signal or order of fight or view The duty of Captains c. upon signal of
care be taken in the Conducting and Stéering of the Ships that through wilfulness negligence or other defaults none of his Majesties Ships be stranded or run upon any Rocks or Sands or split or hazarded upon pain that such as shall be found guilty therein be punished by Fine Imprisonment or otherwise as the offence by a Court-Martial shall be adjudged to deserve XXVI Burning a Ship All persons that shall willingly burn or set fire on any Ship or Magazine or Store of Powder or Ship Boat Ketch Hoy or Vessel or Tackle or Furniture thereto belonging not appertaining to an Enemy or Rebel shall be punished with death XXVII Sleeping upon Watch. No Man in or belonging to the Fléet shall sléep upon his Watch or negligently perform the Duty imposed on him or forsake his station upon pain of death or other punishment as the circumstances of the Case shall require XXVIII Murthers All Murthers and wilful Killing of any persons in the Ship shall be punished with death XXIX Robbery and Theft All Robbery and Theft committed by any person in or belonging to the Fléet shall be punished with death or otherwise as the Court-Martiall upon consideration of circumstances shall find méet XXX Provost-Marâ—ial prisoners No Provost-Marshal belonging to the Fléet shall refuse to receive or kéep any Prisoner committed to his charge nor suffer him to escape being once in his custody nor dismiss him without order upon pain of being lyable to the same punishment which should have béen inflicted upon the party dismissed or permitted to escape or such other punishment as the Court-Martial shall think fit XXXI Apprehending offenders All Captains Officers and Sea-men shall do their endeavours to detect apprehend and bring to punishment all offenders and shall assist the Officers appointed for that purpose therein upon pain to be procéeded against and punished by the Court-Martial at discretion XXXII Sodomy If any person or persons in or belonging to the Fléet shall commit the unnatural and detestable sin of Buggery or Sodomy with Man or Beast he shall be punished with death without mercy XXXIII Misdemeanors and Disorders at Sea All other Faults Misdemeanors and Disorders committed at Sea not mentioned in this Act shall be punished according to the Laws and Customs in such Cases used at Sea XXXIV And it is hereby further Enacted The Lord High Admirals power to grant Commissions to call Court Martialls That the Lord High Admiral for the time being shall by vertue of this Act have full power and Authority to grant Commissions to inferiour Vice-Admirals or Commander in chief of any Squadron of Ships to call and assemble Court-Martials consisting of Commanders and Captains and no Court-Martial where the pains of death shall be inflicted shall consist of less then five Captains at least the Admirals Lieutenant to be as to this purpose estéemed as a Captain and in no case wherein sentence of Death shall pass by vertue of the Articles aforesaid or any of them except in case of Mutiny there shall be execution of such Sentence of Death without the leave of the Lord High Admiral if the offence be committed within the Narrow-Seas But in case any of the offences aforesaid be committed in any Voyage beyond the Narrow-Seas whereupon Sentence of death shall be given in pursuance of the aforesaid Articles or of any of them then Execution shall not be done but by Order of the Commander in chief of that Fléet or Squadron wherein Sentence of death was passed XXXV And be it further Enacted and Declared That the Iudge-Advocate of any Fléet Iudg Advocate of any fleet to administer an oath for tryal of offences Court Martiall for the time being shall have full power and Authority to administer an Oath to any person or witness in order to the Examination or Tryal of any of the offences aforesaid and in the absence of a Iudg-Advocate the Court-Martial shall have full power and Authority to appoint any person to administer an Oath to the purpose aforesaid Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Proviso touching the powers of the Lord Admiral That this Act or any thing or things therein contained shall not in any manner of wise extend to give unto the Lord Admiral of England for the time being or to any his Vice-Admirals Iudg or Iudges of the Admiralty his or their Deputy or Deputies or to any other the Officers or Ministers of the Admiralty or to any others having or claiming any Admiral Power Iurisdiction or Authority within this Realm and Wales or any other the Kings Dominions any other power right Iurisdiction Preheminence or Authority then he or they or any of them lawfully have hath or had or ought to have and enjoy before the making of this Act other then for such of the offences specified in the several Articles contained in this Act as hereafter shall be done upon the main Sea or in Ships or Vessels being and hovering in the main Stream of great Rivers only beneath the Bridges of the same Rivers nigh to the Sea within the Iurisdiction of the Admiralty and in none other places whatsoever and committed only by such persons as shall be in actual Service and pay in His Majesties Fléet or Ships of War CAP. X. For preventing the unlawfull Coursing Hunting or Killing of Deer For the better preventing of the unlawful Coursing Hunting Taking or Killing of Déer Vnlawfull hunting or killing of Deer by many Idle Loose and disorderly persons Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and by the advice and Consent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That if any person or persons shall from and after the first day of August next unlawfully course kill hunt or take away any Red or Fallow Déer in any Forrest Chase Purleiw Paddock Wood Park or other Ground where Déer are or have béen usually kept within the Realm of England or Dominion of Wales without the consent of the Owner or person chiefly intrusted with the custody thereof or shall be aiding or assisting therein and shall be convicted thereof by the confession of the party or by the Oath of one or more credible witnesses before one or more Iustices of the Peace who are hereby impowred to administer an Oath to that purpose such person being prosecuted for such offence within six moneths after such offence done that then every person so offending shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of Twenty pounds to be levied by way of Distress upon the Goods and Chattels of every such Offender by Warrant under the Iustices hand before whom such conviction shall be made The Penalty the one moyety of the said Twenty pounds to be given to the Informer and the other moyety to the Owner of the Déer And for want of sufficient Distress the Offender shall be committed to the House of Correction
alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend to give unto any Arch-Bishop Bishop or any other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Iudg Officer or other person or persons aforesaid any power or authority to exercise execute inflict or determine any Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction Censure or Coertion which they might not by Law have done before the year of our Lord 1639 nor to abridg or diminish the Kings Majesties Supremacy in Ecclesiastical Matters and Affairs nor to confirm the Canons made in the year 1640. nor any of them nor any other Ecclesiastical Laws or Canons not formerly confirmed allowed or Enacted by Parliament or by the established Laws of the Land as they stood in the year of the Lord 1639. CAP. XIII The Arrears of the Excise and New Impost vested in His Majesty BE it Declared and Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty All Moneys owing upon Excise by any Laws or Ordinances vested in his Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament and by the Authority thereof That all and every sum and sums of money any wayes due or owing from or by any person or persons whatsoever for or touching the Imposition or Duty called the Excise heretofore imposed and made payable upon Béer Ale or any other Commodities by any Laws or pretended Laws or Ordinances and all Debts therefore owing whether by Obligation or upon Accompt from Farmers of Excise or any other person or persons whatsoever or any of their Securities and not pardoned by his Majesties most Gratious Act of Pardon and Oblivion be and are hereby vested and setled in the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and that his Sacred Majesty his Heirs and Successors may from time to time and at all times hereafter have demand sue for and recover the same of all and every person and persons their Heirs Executors and Administrators having Assets who are any way accomptable for the same or any part thereof and from his and their respective Sureties and Securities as if the same Duties of Excise had béen lawfully Assessed Imposed and Collected and as if the several pretended Acts Orders and Ordinances Assessing and Imposing the same had béen good true legal and effectual Acts of Parliament and had in express words given and granted all and every the said Duties of Excise or new Impost unto his Majesty and as if the Obligations and Recognizances entred into by the respective Sureties and Securities had at the time of entring into the same béen taken in his Majesties Name according to the form prescribed in the Statute made in the Thrée and thirtieth year of the Reign of King Henry the Eight 33 H. 8. c. 39. Provided alwayes That all and every person and persons accomptable by vertue of this Act Proviso for allowances St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 11. shall have all such due allowance in his or their accompts as all such persons whose accompts are accepted in an Act Intituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion have or ought to have Provided alwayes Proviso no person to be questioned unless he be such before the 25 of December 1662. All persons accomptable shall have authority to levy and recover all Arrears That no person shall be questioned or molested for any of the Duties herein or hereby vested in his Majesty unless he shall be sued or prosecuted with effect before the Five and twentieth day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty two Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all persons accomptable to his Majesty by this Act shall have power and authority and are hereby enabled to sue for levy and recover from any person or persons who do stand indebted unto them in any sum of money for the Duty or Impost of Excise for which they are hereby accomptable all sums of money and Arrears unsatisfied in as full and ample manner and form as they might have received and levied the same when they first grew due CAP. XIV The Confirmation of an Act Entituled An Act for Encouraging and Increasing of Shipping and Navigation and several other Acts both Publick and Private mentioned therein WHereas during the late difficulties and exigencies of affairs in the absence of his most Excellent Majesty and in reference to his return from beyond the Seas into these his Majesties Dominions The Lords and Commons being assembled at Westminster the Five and twentieth day of April in the twelfth year of his Majesties Reign were from thence and after his Majesties return continued untill the nine and twentieth day of December then next following and now last past and then dissolved by his Majesty in which time several Acts were passed by his Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the said Lords and Commons assembled as aforesaid which being of necessary use are fit to be continued and confirmed although the manner of the said assembling enforced by the difficulties and exigencies aforesaid which then lay upon the Nation is not to be drawn into example Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and singular the Acts made or mentioned to be made by his said Majesty by and with the advice or consent of the Lords and Commons upon or since the said Five and twentieth day of April herein after particularly mentioned and expressed that is to say One Act Entituled An Act for the encouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation One other Act St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 18. St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 32. St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 36. St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 34. St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 13. St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 6. Entituled An Act for Prohibiting the Exportation of Wooll Wool-fells Fullers Earth or any kind of Scouring Earth One other Act Entituled An Act Impowring the Master of the Rolls for the time being for to make Leases for years in order to new build the old Houses belonging to the Rolls One other Act Entituled An Act for prohibiting the Planting Setting or Sowing of Tobacco in England and Ireland One other Act Entituled An Act for restraining the taking of Excessive Usury One other Act Entituled An Act for the present nominating of Commissioners of Sewers One other Act Entituled An Act for the Incorporating of the Master and Wardens of the Company of Haberdashers LONDON to be Governors of the Free-School and Alms-houses in Newport in the County of Salop of the Foundation of William Adams and for Setling of Lands and Possessions on them for maintenance thereof and other charitable Uses And all and every the Clauses Sentences and Articles in them and every of them contained shall be and hereby are Ratified and Confirmed and Enacted and Declared
to have the full force and strength of Acts of Parliament according to the tenor and purport thereof and so shall be adjudged déemed and taken to all intents and purposes whatsoever and as if the same had béen Made Declared and Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament CAP. XV. The Pains Penalties and Forfeitures Imposed upon the Estates and Persons of certain notorious Offenders excepted out of the Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 11. The Lands and Tenements of the persons deceased not discharged by the Act of General Pardon VVHereas in a certain Act passed in the late assembly held at Westminster in the Twelfth year of His Majesties Reign and confirmed by the Authority of this present Parliament Entituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion amongst other things it is provided that nothing therein contained should extend to discharge the Lands Tenements Goods Chattels Rights Trusts and other the Hereditaments late of Isaac Ewer deceased Sir John Danvers deceased Sir Thomas Maleverer Baronet deceased William Purefoy deceased John Blakiston deceased Sir William Constable Baronet deceased Richard Dean deceased Francis Aleyn deceased Peregrin Pelham deceased John Moore deceased John Aldred alias Alured deceased Humphrey Edwards deceased Sir Gregory Norton Baronet deceased John Venn deceased Thomas Andrews Alderman deceased Anthony Stapley deceased Thomas Horton deceased John Fry deceased Thomas Hammond deceased and Sir John Bourchier deceased of and from such pains penalties and forfeitures as by one other Act of Parliament intended to be afterwards passed for that purpose should be expressed and declared All which persons before mentioned were whilst they lived notoriously known to have béen wicked and active Instruments in the prosecution and compassing of that horrid and Execrable Treason the Murther of our late Soveraign Lord King CHARLES the First of ever blessed memory And whereas William Lord Mounson James Challoner Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington John Phelps and Robert Wallop who in the moneth of January One thousand six hundred forty eight did act and fit in that Traiterous Assembly which procéeded against the Person and Life of our said late Soveraign Lord King CHARLES the First and Sir Arthur Haslerig who in his life did commit many horrid and Traiterous Crimes against the Person Crown and Dignity of his late Majesty of glorious memory and his Majesty that now is are all of them excepted out of the said Act and reserved to future Pains Penalties and Forfeitures not extending to life since the passing of which Act so as aforesaid confirmed Sir Arthur Haslerig and James Challoner died and no Act hath yet passed for the inflicting of due Pains Penalties and Forfeitures upon the Persons and Estates of the Offenders aforesaid We therefore the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembed do beséech your Majesty That it may be enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled The Mannors Lands c. of the persons named and by authority of the same That all and every the Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements Rents Reversions Remainders Possessions Rights Conditions Interests Offices Fées Annuities and all other the Hereditaments Leases for years Chattels Real and other things of what nature soever they be of them the said Isaac Ewer Sir John Danvers Sir Thomas Maleverer William Purefoy John Blakiston Sir William Constable Richard Dean Francis Aleyn Peregrin Pelham John Moore John Aldred alias Alured Humphrey Edward Sir Gregory Norton John Venn Thomas Andrews Of which they were seised the 20th of March 1646. or since forfeited and vested in his Majesty The goods debts Chattels of which the persons named were possessed at the time of their death forfeited to his Majesty The goods c. of which William Lord Mounson Sir Hen. Mildmay Sir James Harrington John Phelps and Rob. Wallop were possessed the 11. of Feb. 1659. forfeited and vested in his Majesty Anthony Stapley Thomas Horton John Fry Thomas Hammond Sir John Bourchier William Lord Mounson James Challoner Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington John Phelps Robert Wallop and Sir Arthur Haslerig which they or any of them or any other person or persons to their or any of their uses or in trust for them or any of them had the five and twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and six or at any time since shall stand and be forfeited unto your Majesty your Heirs and Successors and shall be déemed vested and adjudged to be in the actual and real possession of Your Majesty without any Office or Inquisition thereof hereafter to be taken or found And also that all and every the Goods Debts and other the Chattels personal whatsoever of them the said Isaac Ewer Sir John Danvers Sir Thomas Maleverer William Purefoy John Blakiston Sir William Constable Richard Dean Francis Aleyn Peregrin Pelham John Moore John Aldred alias Alured Humphrey Edwards Sir Gregory Norton John Venn Thomas Andrews Anthony Stapley Thomas Horton John Fry Thomas Hammond Sir John Bourchier James Challoner and Sir Arthur Haslerig whereof they or any of them at the time of their respective deaths or any other in Trust for them or any of them stood possessed or interessed in Law or Equity and all the Goods Debts and other the Chattels personal whatsoever of them the said William Lord Mounson Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington John Phelps Robert Wallop whereof upon the eleventh day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fifty and nine they or any of them or any other in trust for them or any of them stood possessed either in Law or Equity shall be déemed and adjudged to be forfeited and are hereby vested and put into the actual and real possession of your Majesty without any further Office or Inquisition thereof hereafter to be taken or found Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Conveyance Assurance Grant Bargain Sale Charge Lease Assignment of Lease Grants Proviso for conveyances and assurances c. made bona fide before the 29. of September and Surrenders by Copy of Court-Roll Estate Interest Trust or Limitation of any use or uses of or out of any Mannors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments not being the Lands nor Hereditaments of the late King Quéen or Prince or of any Archbishops Bishops Deans Deans and Chapters nor being Lands or Hereditaments sold or given for the Delinquency or pretended Delinquency of any person or persons whatsoever by vertue or pretext of some Act Order Ordinance or reputed Act Order or Ordinance since the First day of January one thousand six hundred forty and one nor any Statute Iudgment or Recognizance had made acknowledged or suffered to any person or persons Bodies politick or Corporate before the Nine and Twentieth day of September one thousand
six hundred fifty and nine by any of the Offenders before in this Act mentioned or their Heirs or by any other person or persons claiming by from or under them or any of them other then the Wife or Wives Child or Children Heir or Heirs of such person or persons or any of them for money bona fide to them or any of them paid or lent or other valuable consideration nor any conveyance assurance Conveyances and assurances made before the 25th of April 1660. grant or Estate made before the five and twentieth day of April One thousand six hundred and fifty by any person or persons to any of the Offenders aforesaid in trust and for the benefit of any other person or persons not being any of the Offenders aforesaid or in Trust for any Bodies politick or Corporate shall be Impeached defeated made voide or frustrated hereby or by any of the Convictions and Attainders aforesaid But that the same shall be held and enjoyed by the Purchasers Grantées Lessées Assigns Cestuy que use Cestuy que trust and every of them their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively as if this Act had not béen made so as the said Conveyances and all and every the Grants and Assurances which by vertue of this Act are and ought to be held and enjoyed as aforesaid shall before the first day of January which shall be in the year of our Lord So as they be inrolled in the Exchequer before the first of Ian. 1662. One thousand six hundred sixty and two be entred and enrolled of Record in his Majesties Court of Exchequer and not otherwise any thing in this Act herein before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That William Lord Mounson William Lord Mounson Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington Robert Wallop and John Phelps degraded Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington Robert Wallop Esquire and John Phelps and every of them shall be and are hereby degraded from and made uncapable of all and every the Titles of Honour Dignities and Preheminences which they or any of them now have or which at any time hereafter may descend unto them And that neither they nor any of them shall at any time hereafter have hear or use the Name Stile Addition or Title of Lord Baronet Knight Esquire or Gentleman or any of them nor shall use or have any Coats or Escutcheons of Arms whatsoever nor any other legal Title or addition whatsoever but shall be for ever reputed and are hereby declared to be Persons of Dishonour and Infamy And further That they the said William Mounson Henry Mildmay James Harrington William Mounsor Hen◠Mildmay James Harrington Robert Wallop John Phelps shall be drawn to Tyburn as persons executed for treason Robert Wallop and John Phelps and every of them shall upon the seven and twentieth day of January which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty one or so soon after as they shall be apprehended carried to the Tower of London and from thence drawn upon sledges with Ropes about their Necks and according to the manner of persons executed for High Treason quite through the stréets of London unto the Gallowes at Tiburn and from thence in like manner be brought back again to the Tower of London and there or in such other Prison as his Majesty shall think fit continue Prisoners and suffer pains of Imprisonment for and during the Term of their Natural Lives Provided alwayes Proviso for executors of the said persons and legacies That no Executor or Administrator to any of the dead Persons whose Estate is forfeited by this Act shall at any time hereafter be sued or molested for any Debt or Legacy by them paid as Executor or Administrator to any person or persons to whom the same was due or bequeathed and was by the said Executor or Administrator paid bona fide but the respective Legatées who have received any such Legacies from the said Executors shall be accomptable to the Kings Majesty for all such Legacies as they have respectively received and shall pay the same to the Kings most Excellent Maiesty Provided alwayes That nothing in this Act shall be construed to forfeit the Term Estate Proviso for Sir William Lewes or Interest which Sir William Lewes of Borden in the County of Southampton Baronet had or hath in the custody of the Park called East-mean Park in the aforesaid County and in the game of Conies therein for the term of thrée years to come from our Lady-day last being the remaining years of a greater term he the said Sir William being formerly possessed thereof by an Assignment made by John Allen Executor of the said Francis Allen the which said Park and Premisses being part of the Possessions of the Bishop of Winchester the said Sir William Lewes hath surrendred unto the said Bishop and hath now taken a new Lease thereof for thrée lives from the Bishop of Winchester the which said Lease for thrée lives so made by the said Bishop unto the said Sir William Lewes shall for and notwithstanding this Act or any thing therein contained remain firm and good unto the said Sir William Lewes according to the true meaning of his said Lease saving alwayes to all and every person and persons Bodies politick and others their respective Heirs Successors Executors and Administrators all such Estate Right and Title and Interest in Law and Equity which they or any of them have or ought to have of in to or out of any the Premisses not being in Trust for any the said Offenders nor derived by from or under the said offences since the five and twentieth day of March one thousand six hundred forty six saving alwayes and reserving to Cuthbert Collingwood Esquire and George Collingwood Gent. his Son their or either of their Heirs and Assigns and the Farmers and Tenants of the said Cuthbert and George Collingwood or either of them and of their Heirs and Assigns all such Right Title of Entry and Action Vse Interest and Possession which they or any of them or any in trust for them or any of them have or had or ought to have of in to or out of the Mannors Townships Villages Hamlets and Precincts of Islington Whitingham Barton Throunton Fawden Keynton West-Brunton East-Brunton Dunnington Blakedon alias Blagdon and Wetslade or any of them in the County of Northumberland and of in to or out of the Lands Tenements Hereditaments Rights Members and Appurtenances to them or any of them belonging or appertaining as if this Act had never béen made Proviso for Rachel Powre Provided also that this Act nor any thing herein contained shall extend to preiudice the Estate and Interest in Law or Equity of Rachel Powre Widow of in and to one Copyhold Messuage and Mill thereunto belonging with their Appurtenances Scituate lying and being in Chepmansford in the
against him for discharging such prisoner Delayes in Suites by reason of 15 dayes between the Teste and Retorn of writs remedyed in actions personall And whereas very many Suits Commenced by Original Writs have béen protracted and long delayed from Iudgment and Execution by reason of the necessity of having fiftéen dayes at the least betwéen the dayes of the Teste and the dayes of Return of Writs now used in personal Actions and also in Actions of Ejectione Firmae for Lands and Tenements For remedy thereof and for the more easie expediting Trials and the better and more spéedy executing of Iudgments for the time to come Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in all Actions of Debt and all other personal Actions whatsoever and also in all Actions of Ejectione firmae Ejectione firmae for Lands or Tenements now depending or which at any time hereafter shall be depending by Original Writ in either of His Majesties Courts aforesaid after any issue therein ioyned to be tried by a Iury and also after any Iudgment had or obtained or to be had or obtained in either of the Courts aforesaid Venire facias Habeas Corpora Jurator Distringas Jurator Fieri fac Capias ad satisfaciendum Capias ad satisfaciendum where Exigent lyeth after Iudgment or to make the Bail appear excepted 3. Jac. cap. 8. Touching staying executions by Supersedeas or Writs of Errour and what actions it may be stayd There shall not néed to be fiftéen dayes betwéen the Teste day and the day of Retorn of any Writ or Writs of Venire facias Habeas Corpora Juratorum or Distringas Juratores Writs of Fieri facias or Writs of Capias ad satisfaciendum and that the want of Fiftéen dayes between the Teste day and the day of Retorn of any such Writ shall not be nor shall be assigned taken or adjudged to be any matter or Cause of Errour any Law Custome Statute Course or Vsage to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided nevertheless that this Act nor any thing therein contained shall not Extend or be construed to Extend to any Writ of Capias ad Satisfaciendum whereon a Writ of Exigent after Iudgment is to be awarded nor to Capias ad Satisfaciendum against the Defendant in Order to make any Bail liable but that the same continue and be as if this Act had never béen made And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the third year of the Reign of our late Soveraign Lord King James of Blessed Memory a very good Law was made for avoiding unnecessary delayes of Execution Whereby it is Enacted That no Execution shall be stayed or delayed upon or by any Writ of Errour or Supersedeas thereupon to be sued for the reversing of any Iudgment to be given in any Action or Bill of Debt upon any single Bond for Debt or upon any Obligation with Condition for payment of money onely or upon Action or Bill of Debt for Rent or upon any Contract sued in any of His Highness Courts of Record at Westminster or in the Counties Palatine of Chester Lancaster or Durham or in His Highness Courts of Great Sessions in any of the Twelve Shires of Wales unless such person or persons in whose name or names such Writ of Error shall be brought with two sufficient Sureties such as the Court wherein such Iudgment is or shall be given shall allow of shall first before such stay made or Supersedeas to be awarded be bound to the party for whom any such Iudgment was or should be given by Recognizance to be acknowledged in the same Court in double the sum adiudged to be recovered by the said former Iudgment to prosecute the said Writ of Error with effect and also to satisfie and pay if the said Iudgment shall be affirmed all and singular the Debts Damages and Costs adjudged or to be adjudged upon the former Iudgment And all Costs and Damages to be also awarded for the same delaying of Execution which Law hath béen found by experience to be very good and beneficial to the Common-Wealth And forasmuch as divers other Cases within the same mischief by delayes and staying of Execution by Writs of Error and Supersedeas thereupon are not provided for by the said Statute For further remedy against delayes and staying of Executions in the several Actions hereafter specified Be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid In what Actions execution may be stayed by writ of Error by this Statute That from and after the twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and one no Execution shall be stayed in any of the Courts aforesaid by any Writ or Writs of Error or Supersedeas thereupon after any Verdict and Iudgment thereupon obtained in any Action of Debt grounded upon the Statute made in the second year of the Reign of the late King Edward the sixth for not setting forth of Tythes nor in any Action upon the Case upon any promise for payment of money Actions sur Trover Action of Covenant Detinue and Trespass unless such Recognizance and in such manner as by the said recited former Act is directed shall be first acknowledged in the said Court where such Iudgment is given And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid The Defendant to have double Costs for delays of his Execution by writ of Error That if any person or persons after the said day shall Sue or Prosecute any Writ or Writs of Error for Reversal of any Iudgment whatsoever given after any Verdict in any of the Courts aforesaid and the said Iudgment shall afterwards be affirmed then every such person or persons shall pay unto the Defendant or Defendants in the said Writ or Writs of Error his or their double Costs to be assessed by the Court where such Writ of Error shall be depending for the delaying of Execution Provided nevertheless that this Act nor any thing therein contained Popular actions or upon a penal Law Indictments c. not within this Statute shall not extend to any Action Popular nor unto any other Action which is or hereafter shall be brought upon any penal Law or Statute except Debt for not setting out Tythes as aforesaid nor to any Indictment Presentment Inquisition Information or Appeal any thing herein before expressed to the contrary thereof notwithstanding CAP. III. An Act for Granting unto the Kings Majesty Twelve hundred and threescore thousand pounds to be Assessed and Levied by an Assessment of Threescore and ten thousand pounds by the Moneth for Eighteen Moneths EXP. CAP. IV. For enabling the Kings Majesty to make Leases Grants and Copies of Offices Lands Tenements and Hereditaments parcel of his Highness Dutchy of Cornwall or annexed to the same and for Confirmation of Leases and Grants already made WHereas a great part of the Lands part of and annexed to the Dutchy of Cornwall Stat. 22 Jac.
before set that then it shall and may be lawful to and for the same Wardens and Assistants or any two of them to seize the same Yarns and bring the same within twenty days next after the Seisure thereof to Tryal by a Iury and to be proceeded in and fined in such manner and form as in this present Act is limited and appointed for defective Stuffs which said Iury shall have and hereby have power to set such fine or fines upon the said Yarns as they shall in their discrections sée cause the same fines not to excéed the moyety of the Yarn so found defective and the same fines to go to the Poor of the same Trade and Manufacture as aforesaid Provided alwayes That no person or persons shall be doubly punished for any one offence touching Yarns that is to say by this and the former clause in this Act. And it is hereby further Enacted That all sorts of Stuffs whether woven of Woollen onely All Woollen Stuffs and Weavers to be under the Government of the said Wardens and Assistant or of Wooll and other Materials within the City and County of Norwich and the County of Norfolk and the Makers and Weavers of the same Stuffs shall be under the power Government and Regulation of the said Wardens and Assistants in such manner as by this and other Acts of Parliament and the By-laws made and to be made by vertue thereof are or shall be established except such Stuffs as are under the Regulation of the Wardens and Fellowship of the mystery of Russel-Sattens Sattens Reverses and Fustians of Norwich-making within the City of Norwich And that all Stuffs made and to be made under the Regulation aforesaid before the same shall be offered or put to sale shall be brought to Weavers-Hall for the time being Good and sufficient shall be Sealed within the County of the City of Norwich to be viewed and searched by the said Wardens or any two of them And if the same shall be found to be well and sufficiently made and wrought according to the Rules and Ordinances of the said Trade then all such Stuffs shall be by the Wardens or any two of them Sealed and allowed accordingly without any sum of money paid or to be paid for the same And if upon search and veiw thereof any such Stuffs shall be found Defective Stuffs shall be sâ—ized and tryed by a Iury. and appear to be defective contrary to the Rules and Ordinances of the said Wardens and Assistants then all such defective Stuffs shall be seized by the said Wardens or any two of them and tried by a Iury of Twelve Artificers of the said Regulation of Worsted-weavers Six whereof to be of the City of Norwich and Six to be of the County of Norfolk who shall be from time to time Impanelled by a Precept under the Hand and Seal of the Mayor of the City of Norwich for the time being or his Deputy And if any who shall be so Impanelled shall fail in appearance the number to be made up either of the Master-weavers of the City of Norwich or of the County of Norfolk by a Precept from the said Mayor which Iury so Impanelled or taken and Sworn before the Mayor of the said City for the time being shall try the said Stuffs and find whether they be made according to this Act and the By-laws and Ordinances made by vertue thereof or of any other Act of Parliament and shall have power to impose a moderate fine according to the nature of the offence not excéeding the moyety of the value of the defective Stuffs so seized and tried the same fines to go to the use of the Trade and Manufacture And those Stuffs which shall be found defective to be detained until the fine or fines set upon them by the Iury be paid which if the Owner of the same Stuffs shall not pay to the said Wardens or some of them within fourty days after the Trial then the same Stuffs to be sold by any two of the said Wardens and the overplus of the moneys thereof coming after the fines deducted to be restored to the Owner upon demand And it is further Enacted That if any Warden or Wardens shall at any time seal The penalty for Sealing defective Stuffs or cause to be sealed any Stuffs made under the said Regulation which shall afterwards be discovered by any person to be defective contrary to this present Act and the By-laws Rules and Ordinances thereupon made or hereafter to be made or any of them and found so to be by a Iury of the twelve Artificers of the said Trade from time to time to be Impanelled and Sworn before the said Mayor or his Deputy and the said Steward of the Dutchy of Lancaster for the time being if he be there present And if the said Steward be absent then before the said Mayor or his Deputy onely of which Iury six shall be of the said City Weavers and the other six of the said Countrey-Weavers who shall have and hereby have power to set and impose a fine upon the Warden or Wardens of the said Trade offending for every piece of defective Stuff so sealed as the same Iury in their discretions shall think fit the same fine not excéeding the sum of Fourty shillings which shall be to the use of the Kings Majesty And that the same Iury or any other such like Iury from time to time to be Impanelled by and sworn before the persons aforesaid or any of them shall likewise enquire into all and every other the frauds abuses and miscarriages of the Wardens and Assistants and every of them in the execution of their Offices and correct and punish them and every of them for their several offences in such manner as is herein before mentioned to be done against any other offendors who are under the said Regulation Provided That if the said Wardens or any of them shall be unjustly molested Persons unjustly molested to have double damages and that if such Stuffs upon tryal shall be found by the Iury to be good and duely made or that they or the Assistants or any of them are not guilty of any such frauds miscarriages or abuses as they are complained of for the person or persons so causlesly molesting shall pay to the Wardens or Assistents or any of them so unjustly molested double the damages they or any of them shall or may sustain by any such molestation And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid None may buy Stuffs unsealed That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to buy any piece or pieces of Stuffs before the same be sealed by the Wardens of the said Trade saving to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors all such right of Customs Subsidies and Aulnage of Norfolk and Norwich-Stuffs or Worsteds or any of them as he or they might lawfully have claimed before the making of this Act Saving
for the Kings Aulnage And that if any piece or pieces of Stuffs shall be found in the possession of any person or persons unsealed except in the possession of the first Owner or Maker thereof the person or persons in whose custody the same shall be found shall be adjudged guilty of deceit and shall forfeit for every such piece of Stuff which be so found in his or their possession unsealed as aforesaid the sum of Four shillings The penalty for buying unsealed Stuffs And the Maker and Seller of the same who shall deliver the same out of his or their possession before the same be sealed shall likewise forfeit for every such piece other Four shillings to the use of the Poor of the said Trade and Manufacture And that if any person shall counterfeit any Seal of the said Trade or shall seal any piece of Stuff under the Regulation with any counterfeit Seal The penalty for counterfeiting any seale of the said Trade or shall remove a Seal off one piece and set it unto another piece which hath not béen sealed by the Wardens every person so offending and being thereof convicted by his own confession or by the Oath of two or more Witneses to be taken before the Mayor of the said City or his Deputy or any one Iustice of the Peace of the City of Norwich or County of Norfolk who respectively have hereby power to administer an Oath for that purpose shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of twenty pounds of lawful English money to the use of the Kings Majesty None may use the said Trade but such as have been apprentices 7. years And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons shall use or exercise the same Trade as a Weaver unless he hath served to the same Trade as an Apprentice by the space of seven years upon pain of forfeiting Fourty shillings for every moneth he shall use or exercise the same Trade not having served thereunto as aforesaid the one half thereof to the Kings Majesty and the other half thereof to the person or persons who will sue or prosecute for the same by Action of Debt The penalty Bill Plaint Indictment or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record Every one shall weave his own marke in his Stuff And that every person under the said Regulation shall weave his proper Stuff-Mark into every piece of Stuff which he shall weave or cause to be woven at the head end of the same piece upon pain of forfeiting thrée shillings for every piece that shall be woven without such Mark to the use of the poor of the said Trade and Manufacture The Wardens and Assistants may enter houses Work houses and ware houses to search for Stuffs And the said Wardens and Assistants or any two or more of them shall have and hereby have power to enter into and search the Houses and Work-houses of any Artificers within the City of Norwich and County of Norfolk under the Regulation of the said Wardens and Assistants and the Shops House and Ware-houses of any Merchant common buyer dealer in and retailer of any the said Stuffs and into the house and Work-house of any Dier Shéer-man Callender or other workmans house and place of sale and dressing of the said Stuffs at all times of the day and usual times of working and may there search and view the Stuffs there found whether they be ordered and made according to this present Act Faulty and defective Stuffs to be seized and tryed and the Laws Orders and Ordinances of the said Trade And that if any such Stuff as aforesaid shall be found faulty or defective That then they or any two of them shall seize take and carry away the same to be ordered and brought to Tryal and procéeded against in manner and form as is before in this present Act mentioned and appointed for defective Stuffs Proviso for poor Iourneymen And for the better providing that poor Iourneymen who have served in the said Trade and are not able to set up for themselves may be Imployed in work It is hereby Enacted that whatsoever person under the Regulation of the said Trade who shall Imploy two Apprentices in the said Trade shall likewise Imploy and set on work two Iourneymen in the said Trade during the time he imploys two Apprentices And that no Master-weaver under the Regulation of the said Trade shall at any time have imploy or set on work above two Apprentices or any wéek-boy to weave in a Loom in the said Trade in Worsted-weaving upon pain that every person shall forfeit for every moneth so offending as aforesaid the sum of five pounds to the use of the Kings Majesty Obedience and conformity to this Act. And be it further Enacted That all persons who are or may be concerned in any thing contained in this present Act are hereby strictly enjoyned and required to yield due obedience thereunto according to the true intent and meaning of this present Act And that if any person or persons shall refuse Penalty upon such as shall refuse or hinder the Execution hinder or will not permit the said Wardens or Assistants or any two or more of them to execute their Office according to the Tenor of this Act That then every person so offending being thereof Convicted by the Oath of one or more credible Witnesses before the Mayor of the said City or his Deputy or any one Iustice of Peace of the said City of Norwich or County of Norfolk respectively who are hereby Authorized to administer such Oath shal forfeit the sum of Forty shillings to the use of the Kings Majesty And if any person lawfully Summoned to appear upon any Iury or Trial according to the Tenor of this Act The penalty for not appearing upon a Iury or tryall shall refuse or neglect to appear and procéed upon the same every person so refusing or neglecting shall forfeit for every such neglect or refusal the sum of Five shillings to to the use of the Poor of the said Trade and Manufacture which said penalties and forfeitures together with all other Fines and Penalties which are appointed to go to the poor of the Trade and Manufacture or for the use thereof mentioned in this Act the means of Recovery of which is not already otherwise herein provided and set forth shall be levied by distress and sale of the Offenders Goods and Chattels by warrant to be granted by the said Mayor or his Deputy for the time being or any one Iustice of Peace of the City of Norwich or County of Norfolk rendring the Overplus of such distress to the Owner thereof if any shall be and the same shal be by him demanded or otherwise to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint Indictment or Information in any His Majesties Courts of Record wherein no wager of Law Essoyn or Protection shall be allowed to
the Defendant as aforesaid And whereas the Custom hath béen retained time out of mind and found expedient that there should be a cessation of weaving every year in the time of Harvest in regard the Spinners of Yarn which the said Weavers do use No weaving of Stuffs in time of Harvest are at that time chiefly imployed in Harvest-work Be it Enacted That no Weaver under the Regulation of the said Trade and Manufacture shall set any Loom on work for the weaving of any Stuffs under the said Regulation in the time of Harvest yearly from the Fiftéenth day of August in every year until the Fiftéenth day of September then next following upon pain of forfeiting to the Kings Majesty the sum of Forty Shillings for every Loom which shall be used in work within the said time And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Trut accompts to be made at the 4 assemblies of all fines and forfeitures That a true accompt shall be made at the four Assemblies to be held quarterly as aforesaid by the Wardens before the Mayor of the City of Norwich for the time being and one of the Iustices of the Peace of the said City and County of Norwich and two Iustices of the Peace of the County of Norfolk of all such Fines and Forfeitures as shall be received and had belonging to the said Trade and Manufacture and of the necessary Charges and Disbursements touching the same Trade and Manufacture and that the Over-plus which shall remain after the said necessary Charges and Disbursments are deducted shall be devided into two equal parts the one Moyety thereof to be disposed of by the Wardens and Assistants of the said City of Norwich or the greater part of them and the other Moyety thereof by the Wardens and Assistants of the said County of Norfolk or the greater part of them for the use of the Poor of the said Trade and Manufacture in such manner as the said Mayor and Iustices aforesaid respectively shall order and direct and no other any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And that all Mayors Iustices Sheriffs Bayliffs Constables and all other Officers All Mayors bayliffs c. to be ayding and assisting shall be aiding and assisting to the said Wardens and Assistants or any of them as often as they shall be thereunto required and in all Actions and Suits that shall be brought against any person or persons for Acting in any thing according to the true intent and meaning of this Act the person or persons so sued or molested shall or may plead the general Issue of not guilty In Action the defendant may plead the general issue and give the special matter in Evidence and shall recover double Costs in every such case if the Verdict pass for such person or persons or that the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs be Nonsuit therein Provided alwayes That this Act nor any thing therein contained Double costs shall extend to compel the Weavers of the Towns of Great Yarmouth and Lyn in the said County of Norfolk to bring their Wares to Notwich to be Sealed or be prejudicial to the Weavers of the said Towns Proviso for the Weavers of Great Yarmouth and Lyn. or either of them to deprive them or either of them of such Liberties or Priviledges as are granted unto them by an Act of Parliament made in the Fourtéenth Year of King Henry the Eight or by any other Act of Parliament or Grant or Charter whatsoever This Act to begin and take effect from the Fiftéenth day of May One thousand six hundred sixty and two CAP. VI. For Enlarging and repairing of Common High-ways VVHereas the former Laws and Statutes for the Mending and Repairing of the Common and publick High-wayes of this Realm have not béen found so effectual as is desired by means whereof and the extraordinary Burthens carried upon Wagons and other Carriages divers of the said High-ways are become very dangerous and almost unpassable For remedy whereof Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by Surveyors of the High-wayes to be chosen yearly the Munday or Tuesday in Easter week and with the advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the Church-wardens and Constables or Tything-men of every Parish Town Village or Hamlet for the time being within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed shall upon Munday or Tuesday in the Easter wéek yearly whereof notice shall be publickly given the Sunday foregoing in the Church immediately after the end of Morning Prayer with the advice and consent of the major part of the Inhabitants which shall be then present choose Two or more sufficient and able persons residing and inhabiting within their Parish Town Village or Hamlet to be Surveyors of their High-ways for the year next ensuing and give notice thereof in writing to the persons chosen and for default of such choice so to be made as aforesaid The penalty the Church-wardens Constables or Tything-men and Inhabitants of every such Parish Town Village or Hamlet shall forfeit and lose the sum of Five pounds And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Surveyor and Surveyors The duty of the Surveyors within twenty days next after notice given unto him or them of his and their Election as aforesaid or of the publication of this Act shall upon the penalty of Five pounds Veiw and Survey all the Common and Publick High-ways and Bridges within the Parish Town Village or Hamlet wherein he or they are respective Surveyor or Surveyors and all Water-courses Causeys and Pavements therein which are to be Repaired and Amended at a Publick Charge of the said Parish Town Village or Hamlet and shall consider what reparations shall be néedful to be made and what sum or sums of money will be requisite to be raised for the Amending Repairing and Enlarging of the same over and above what will be done by the other Laws made for the Amending of the said High-ways and thereupon shall together with two or more substantial Housholders of the said Parish Town Village or Hamlet called by the Surveyors to their Assistance within ten days after such Survey made lay one or more Assessment or Assessments How and upon whom to lay Assessment for mending or Enlarging the High-wayes upon every Inhabitant rated to the Poor and upon every Occupier of Lands Houses Tythes Impropriate or Appropriat Portions of Tythes Coal-mines and other Mines saleable Vnderwoods Stock Goods or other personal Estate not being Houshold-stuff within the said said Parish Town Village or Hamlet for the Repairing Amending and Enlarging of the said publick and common High-ways as they the said Surveyors and other the substantial Housholders or the Major part of them shall think fit méet and necessary which said Assessment
Act to the contrary notwithstanding And the said Sheriffs shall deduct out of their payments Four pence in the pound whereof Thrée pence to be for themselves and One penny for the Clerk of the Peace to be recovered as aforesaid Officers of the Exchequer shall discharge persons who pay the duties without any Fee And that His Majesties Officers in his said Court of Exchequer shall discharge all such persons who paid their respective Duties without taking any Fées for the same and shall also issue out Process to levy the said duty upon such persons who shall fail in payment thereof where no distress can be found to be taken according to this Act. The said Revenue shall be paid into the Exchequer And not charged with any grant or Pension And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Revenue and Sum of money arising by vertue of this Act Except what shall be allowed to the aforesaid Officers and Ministers for Collecting the same shall be duly and constantly paid and answered into His Majesties Court of Exchequer and shall not be particularly charged or chargeable either before it be paid into the Exchequer or after with any Gift Grants or Pension whatsoever And that all and every Grants of any such Pensions and all and every clause of Non obstante therein contained shall be and is hereby declared to be utterly void and all and every the persons to whom such Grants are passed shall be and are hereby made Accomptants unto His Majesty Grantees of the same shall be accomptanes His Heirs and Successors and shall pay back all sums of money received by pretence of such Grant and the Court of Exchequer shall be and is hereby enjoyned to Issue out Process accordingly And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Action Bill Plaint Suit Persons acting upon this Statute being sued therefore may plead the general Issue or Information shall be Commenced or Prosecuted against any person or persons for what he or they shall do in pursuance or execution of this Act such person or persons so Sued shall and may plead the general Issue Not guilty And upon Issue joyned may give this Act and the special matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff or Prosecutor shall become Nonsuit or suffer discontinuance or if a Verdict pass against him or if upon a Demurrer Iudgement pass against him Treble Costs to the Defendants the Defendant shall recover treble Costs for which there shall be like remedy as in any case where Costs by Law are given to the Defendants And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Increases of Hearths or Stoves which may happen That where any Increase or Decrease of such Hearths or Stoves shall hereafter happen that an account in writing of the same shall be had and made in like manner as the same is directed to be first taken returned and inrolled by this Act and a Duplicate thereof sent into the Exchequer in such sort as is before directed Decreases how discharged And from thenceforth the Owner or Occupier of such House where such Decrease is shall be discharged proportionably without any further pleading in the Exchequer Provided always That no person or persons shall be charged prosecuted Arrerages not to be charged or sued for but within 2 years next after they become due or brought to account for the Arrerages of any Duty or Arrerages of Revenue raised by this Act unless the said Suit shal commence within two years and be brought to a Iudgement within four years and the Duty levied within five years next after the same shall grow due Provided always That no person who by reason of his poverty Poor people exempted or the smallness of his Estate is exempted from the usual Tares Payments and Contributions towards the Church and Poor shall be charged or chargeable with any the Duties by this Act Imposed Any thing herein before to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and be it hereby Enacted That if the Church-wardens and Overséers of the Poor of the Parish together with the Minister of the same or any two of them whereof the Minister to be one shall in writing under their hands yearly certifie their belief that the house wherein any person doth Inhabit is not of greater value then of Twenty shillings per annum upon the full improved Rent And that neither the person so Inhabiting nor any other using the same Messuage hath useth or occupieth any Lands or Tenements of their own or others of the yearly value of Twenty shillings per annum nor hath any Lands Tenements Goods or Chattels of the value of Ten pounds in their own possession or in the possession of any other in trust for them That then in such case upon such Certificate made to the two next Iustices of Peace and allowed for which Certificate and allowance no Fée shall be paid the person on whose behalf such Certificate is made shall not be returned by the Constable or other Officer And the said house is hereby for that year discharged of and from all the Duties by this Act imposed Any thing herein to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person or persons Further Penalty upon any person that shall accept or procure any pension Gift or grant for years c. bodies Politick or Corporate shall at any time hereafter procure or accept of from the Kings Majesty His Heirs or Successors any Pension Gift or Grant for years life or any other Estate or any sum or sums of money out of the Revenue arising by vertue of this Act that then such person or body Politick or Corporate procuring or accepting the same shall forfeit double the value of such Pension Gift or Grant The one moyety of which forfeiture shall be to the use of the poor of the Parish or Parishes where the said Offenders be or inhabit to be recovered by the Church-wardens the other moyety to him that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information Provided that this Act Blowing houses Stamps Furnaces Kilns Ovens Hospitals or any thing herein contained shall not extend to charge any Blowing-house and Stamp Furnace or Kiln or any private Oven within any of the houses hereby charged nor any Hearth or Stove within the scite of any Hospital or Alms-house for the relief of poor people whose Endowment and Revenue doth not excéed in true value the sum of One hundred pounds by the year Provided The payments and duties charged only upon the Occupiers That the payments and duties hereby charged shall be charged only on the Occupier for the time being of such Hearth or Stove dwelling in such house whereto such Hearth or Stove shall be belonging his Executors or Administrators and not on the Landlord who Let or Demised the same his Heirs Executors or Assigns
One hundred pounds and the Cocquet Certificate or Return shall be invalid and of none effect and if any Goods Wares or Merchandizes brought or coming into any Port Haven or Créek within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick from any other Port Haven or Créek within the Kingdom of England or Dominions aforesaid by Port Cocquet Transire Let-pass or Certificate in Ships or Vessels shall be landed or put on shore before such Cocquet Transire Let-pass or Certificate shall be delivered to such Person or Persons which are or shall be appointed by his Majesty for manageing his Customs the Customer or Collector and Comptroller of the Port or Place of their Arrival or to their Deputy or Deputies and a Warrant or Sufferance made and given from such person or persons Customer or Collector and Comptroller or their Deputy and Deputies aforesaid for the landing and discharging thereof And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Goods Wares Goods secretly conveyed beyond Sea uncustomed and undiscovered by the officers or Merchandizes for which the Duties of Subsidy or Custom are due and payable to the Kings Maiesty shall be secretly conveyed on Board any Ship or Vessel before the Custom and Subsidy thereof be duly answered and paid and shall escape the discovery thereof by the Officers of the Customs or others and be carried into the parts beyond the Seas in such case the Owners or Proprietors of such Goods Wares or Merchandizes or other person or persons who shall have so shipped or caused the same to be shipped and transported shall forfeit the double value of the Goods The penalty computed according to the Book of Rates Except for Coal which so secretly Exported as aforesaid shall pay double the Custom and Duty to be Collected and Levied in such manner as by the Act of Tunnage and Poundage is directed and appointed Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid For preventing frauds in louring strangers goods That for preventing of frauds in colouring of strangers Goods and otherwise every Merchant or other passing any Goods Wares or Merchandizes Inwards or Outwards shall by himself or his known servant Factor or Agent subscribe one of his Bills of every Entry with the mark number and contents of every parcel of such Goods as are rated to pay by the piece or measure and weight of the whole parcel of such Goods as are rated to pay by the weight without which the Officers of the Customs shall not suffer any Entry to pass And that no children of aliens under the age of Twenty one years be permitted to be Traders or any Goods or Merchandizes to be entred in their names Be it also hereby Enacted That upon any Actions There shall be no party Iury in actions or suits concerning customs Suits and Informations that shall be brought commenced or entred upon any Law or Statute concerning the Kings Majesties Subsidies of Tunnage and Poundage or Ships or Goods to be forfeited by reason of unlawful Importation or Exportation there shall not be any Party Iury but such only as are the natural and frée-born Subjects of the King his Heirs or Successors And whereas allowances given to Merchants and others for defects and damages upon Goods Allowances for defects and damages in goods how to be made and Five per centum generally upon all Goods Imported and Twelve per centum upon Wines every Merchant or others having the aforesaid allowances inwards shall in person upon Oath by himself or by his known Servant or Factor demand and receive the moneys due upon Debenturs for such forreign Goods Exported by such Certificate with such abatements and allowances as were made and given to him upon the Importation and if he be found fraudulently to ship out less in quantity or value then is expressed in his Certificate the Goods therein mentioned or the value thereof shall be forfeited and the Owner or Merchant shall lose the benefit of receiving back any part of the Subsidy for those Goods and if any Goods shipped out by Certificate as aforesaid shall be landed again in the same or any other Port or Place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town and Port of Berwick unless in case of Distress to save the Goods from perishing which shall be presenly made known to the Person or Persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty to manage His Customs and Principal Officers of the Port no allowance shall be demanded or made for those Goods and the said Goods or value thereof shall be forfeited and lost Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Goods Goods brought from or carried into Scotland by land shall pass through Barwick or Carliâ—e Wares or Merchandize that shall be brought out of or carried into the Kingdom of Scotland by Land into or out of the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick shall pass and be carried by and through some of the Towns and Passages hereafter named that is to say by and through Berwick or Carlile and then and there pay the Custom and Subsidy granted and due to the Kings Majesty by an Act of this present Parliament Entituled 12 Car. 2. cap. 4. A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported And if any Goods Wares or Merchandize prohibited or uncustomed coming out of Scotland into England or going out of England into Scotland shall pass by or beyond the Towns Ports and Places aforenamed without due entry and payment of the Customs That then all such Goods Wares and Merchandize or the value thereof shall be forfeited and lost And whereas in and by an Act of Parliament in the First year of Quéen Elizabeth 1 El. cap. 11. When and where Merchandize shall be landed and custom paid of famous memory directing when and where Merchandize shall be landed and Customs paid it is amongst divers other things Enacted and Ordained That no Goods Wares or Merchandize shall be shipped or loaden aboard any Ship or Vessel or landed or discharged out of or from any Ship or Vessel but in or upon some such open Place Key or Wharf Places Keys or Wharfs Except the Port of Hull as her Highness her Heirs and Successors should therefore assign or appoint by vertue of her Highness Commission or Commissions within the Port of London and in all Ports Creeks Havens or Roads as in and by the said Act doth and may at large appear And whereas notwithstanding the aforesaid Act there are some Ports Créeks and places where Customers Collectors and Comptrollers and Searchers their servants had then time out of mind béen resident to which no such Commissions were sent nor places keys nor wharfs appointed as by the said Act was directed And whereas also since that time by reason of the alteration of
appraised value upon loss of his Office Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid No person employed about managing the customs may take any bride or reward to connive at any Entry That if any of the Kings Majesties Officers or other persons appointed to manage His Majesties Customs Searchers Waiters or other person or persons whatsoever deputed and appointed by and under them or any of them or any other Authority whatsoever and imployed in or about the Affairs of the Kings Customs and Subsidies shall directly or indirectly take or receive any bribe recompence or reward in any kind whatsoever or connive at any false Entry of any Goods or Merchandizes whereby the Kings Majesty His Heirs or Successors shall be defrauded or hindred in or of His Customs and Subsidies or other Sums of money or Goods prohibited by the Law to be Imported or Exported into or out of the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales Town and Port of Berwick be suffered to pass either by way of Importation or Exportation the person or persons therein offending shall forfeit the sum of One hundred pounds The Penalty and be for ever afterwards incapable of any Office or Imployment under the Kings Majesty His Heirs or Successors or any Authority derived from them as also the Merchant Mariner or other person or persons whatsoever who shall give or pay any such Bribe Recompence or Reward as aforesaid shall forfeit the sum of Fifty pounds Provided nevertheless that if any person or persons offending as aforesaid Persons revealing their own offences within two months to be acquitted shall reveal and make known such his or their Offence in Two moneths time to the Treasurer of England the Chancellor Vnder-Treasurer or Barons of the Exchequer he shall for that Offence be clearly acquitted and discharged And be it further Enacted Forreign goods where to be landed and how weighed and numbred That all forreign Goods and Merchandize which by the person or persons which are or shall be appointed by his Majesty for the managing of the Customs and the Customer Collector and Comptroller shall be permitted to be landed and taken up by Bills at sight Bills at view or sufferance shall be landed at the most convenient Keys or Wharfs where the said person or persons so to be appointed Customer or Collector or Comptroller shall appoint and not elsewhere and there or in his Majesties Store-house of the respective Ports at the Election of the said person or persons so to be appointed and Officers shall be measured weighed and numbred by and in the presence of the Officers to be thereunto particularly appointed which said Officers so appointed shall perfect the Entry and thereunto shall subscribe their Names and the next day following shall give Accompt and make report of every respective Entry so perfected as aforesaid to the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed to manage his Majesties Customs Customer or Collector and Comptroller aforesaid without reasonable cause to be allowed by the said person or persons or Officers aforesaid or in default thereof shall forfeit the sum of One hundred pounds Be it also Enacted That no Ship Vessel or Boat Vessels appointed for carrying Letters may not import nor export Merchandise appointed and imployed ordinarily for the Carriage of Letters and Pacquets shall unless it be in such Cases as shall be allowed by the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed to manage his Majesties Customs or Officers aforesaid Import or Export any Goods or Merchandize into or out of the parts beyond the Seas upon the Penalty of the forfeiture of One hundred pounds to be paid by the Master of the said Vessel or Boat with the loss of his place and all Goods and Merchandize that shall be found on Board any such Ship Vessel or Boat shall be forfeited and lost And whereas some Doubts and Disputes have arisen concerning the said late Act For encresing and encouraging of Shipping and Navigation An Explanation of 12 Car. 2. cap. 18. of goods prohibited to be brought from Holland about some of the Goods therein prohibited to be brought from Holland and the Parts and Ports thereabouts Be it Enacted and Declared That no sort of Wines other then Rhenish no sort of Spicery Grocery Tobacco Pot-ashes Pitch Tarr Salt Rozen Deal-Boards Firr Timber or Olive-Oyl shall be imported into England Wales or Berwick from the Netherlands or Germany upon any pretence whatsoever in any sort of Ships or Vessels whatsoever upon penalty of the loss of all the said Goods as also of the Ships and furniture And whereas also by the said Acts For incouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation 12 Car. 2. c. 18. Imposition of 5 s. per Tun upon French Vessels an Imposition of Five shillings per Tun is laid upon all Ships or Vessels belonging to any Subjects of the French King which shall come into any Port Harbour Créek or Road of England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and shall there lade or unlade any Goods or take in or set on shore any Passengers Yet notwithstanding there is great difficulty in recovering the said Duty because small Shallops come not into Harbours where Officers are but either put their Goods and Passengers on shore or Boats come out of Harbours which privately convey them on shore there being no penalty in the Act against such Offenders Be it therefore Enacted How to be recovered and the penalty That any such Ship or Vessel upon which the above-said Imposition of Five shillings per Tun is due and payable which shall either put on shore or put over into any Boat any Goods or Passengers without payment of Custom and Imposition of Tunnage at any time returning into any Harbour Port or Creek of England or Ireland shall not only pay the Duties formerly due but forfeit the sum of Ten pounds And whatsoever Pilot Water-man or Boat-man which shall from any Harbour Port or Créek go out and bring any Goods from on board such Vessel shall not only be liable to pay the Duty of Tunnage which the said Vessel should have paid but forfeit the sum of Forty pounds Be it also hereby Enacted That Vinegar Perry Rape Cider and Cider-eager of any sort or kind whatsoever Tunnage upon V negar Perry Rape Cyder and Cyder eager Imported from and after the four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty and two from Forreign Parts is hereby Rated to pay to the Kings Majesty a Subsidy of Tunnage of Four pounds Ten shillings per Tun Imported by English and Six pounds Imported by Stangers according to the Rate already imposed and set upon French Wines to be Collected and Levied for such time and in such manner as by the Act of Tunnage and Poundage is directed and appointed And the same are by vertue of this Act exonerated and discharged of all further and other Sums heretofore set or
or other the Kings Officers thereof shall before the First day of June next take their respective Corporal Oath and Oaths for the true and faithful execution and discharge to the best of their knowledge and power of their several Trusts and Imployments committed to their charge and inspection And that no person or persons shall hereafter be imployed or put in trust in the business of the Customs untill he shall first have taken his Oath as aforesaid And the Commissioners and principal Officers in the Port of London and the principal Officers in all other the out-ports or any two of them are hereby authorized to administer and give to all and every person or persons such Oath and Oaths as aforesaid and to cause the same to be Entred and Registred in the Custom-house of every respective Port where the person so taking the Oath as aforesaid shall have his residence and imployment Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Persons imployed about the Customs shall demand nor take any more then the fees due by Law That if any person imployed in his Majesties Customs shall demand or take any other or greater sum of money then by Law is now due or hereafter shall become due or shall put any Merchant or other person out of his turn without express order before or immediate approbation after from the person or persons who are or shall be appointed by his Majesty to manage his Customs or the superior Officers for the Customs or shall illegally detain the goods of any person or shall neglect or refuse to make re-payments and allowances which are or shall be due since the Four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred and sixty or shall not after notice given give out and execute his Warrant shall be lyable to double Costs and Damages And for the better increase of good and serviceable shipping Of what sise and burden Merchants Ships shall be and what men and ammunition they shall carry and securing the publick Trade and Commerce Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Merchant or other person that shall after the Nine and twentieth day of September One thousand six hundred sixty and two Export any Goods or Merchandizes from any Port of this Kingdom capable of a Ship or Vessel of two hundred Tun upon an ordinary full Sea to any part or place of the Mediterranean Sea beyond the port of Malaga or Import any Goods or Merchandize from the ports or places aforesaid to any port of this said Kingdom in any Ship or Vessel that hath not two Decks and doth carry less then sixtéen pieces of Ordnances mounted together with two men for each Gun and other Ammunition proportionable shall pay to our Sovereign Lord the King for all and every the Wares and Merchandizes so Exported or imported One per centum over and above the Rates and Duties of Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage otherwise due and payable for the same Any thing in this Act before contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always Proviso for Ships exporting Fish that it shall and may be lawful to export from any of his Majesties Dominions Fish into any of the Ports of the Mediterranean Sea aforesaid in any English Ship or Vessel whatsoever Provided that one moyety of her full lading be Fish only and in such case to Import any Wares or Merchandize in the same Ship for that Voyage without paying any other Rates or Duties of Tonnage or Poundage for the same then were heretofore accustomed And for the better encouragement of building good and Defensible Ships Be it Enacted Encouragemen◠for Building good and defensible Ships That all and every person or persons that shall within the space of Seven years from and after the Five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty two build or cause to be built within any of his Majesties Dominions any Ship or Vessel of Thrée Decks or Two Decks and a half with a Fore-Castle and Five foot betwéen each Deck mounted with thirty pieces of Ordnance at least and other Ammunition proportionable shall for the first two Voyages which the said Ship or Ships make from his Majesties Dominions to any forreign parts have and receive to his and their own proper use and benefit one Tenth part of the Customs that shall be paid to His Majesty for all such Goods or Merchandizes as shall be Exported or Imported on the said Ship or Ships to and from this Kingdome And the Commissioners and Officers of His Majesties Customs are hereby impowered and required to pay the same to the Owner or Owners of the said Ship or Ships accordingly Salt brought out of Scotland to pay ob a Gallon Provided alwayes and be it hereby Declared and Enacted That from and after the Four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty two All Salt which shall be brought out of the Kingdom of Scotland into this Kingdom the Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed shall yield and pay and is hereby made chargeable to yield and pay unto the Kings Majesty One half penny upon every Gallon of such imported Salt of Winchester measure at the landing thereof Any thing in this present Act or any former or other Law Statute or Order to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding CAP. XII For the better Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom The occasion of increase of Poor WHereas the necessity number and continual increase of the Poor not only within the Cities of London and Westminster with the Liberties of each of them but also through the whole Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales is very great and excéeding burthensome being occasioned by reason of some defects in the Law concerning the setling of the Poor and for want of a due provision of the regulations of relief and imployment in such parishes or places where they are legally setled which doth enforce many to turn incorrigible Rogues and others to perish for want together with the neglect of the faithfull execution of such Laws and Statutes as have formerly béen made for the apprehending of Rogues and Vagabonds and for the good of the Poor For remedy whereof and for the preventing the perishing of any the Poor whether young or old for want of such supplies as are necessary May it please your most Excellent Majesty that it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Poor people going from one Parish to another and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That whereas by reason of some defects in the Law poor people are not restrained from going from one Parish to another and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those Parishes where there is the best Stock the largest Commons or Wastes to
or persons which he hath forfeited by the Statute aforesaid made in the nine and thirtieth year of the Quéen And whereas Constables Headboroughs or Tithingmen are or may be at great charge in relieving conveying with Passes and in carrying Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars to Houses of Correction or the Work-houses herein mentioned and as yet have no power by Law to make Rates to reimburse themselves Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Constables Headboroughs and Tithingmen so out of purse as aforesaid together with the Church-wardens and Overséers of the poor and other Inhabitants of the said Parish shall hereby have power and Authority to make an indifferent Rate Power to make rates and to tax all the Occupiers of Lands and Inhabitants and all other persons chargeable by the Statute of the thrée and fortieth of Elizabeth concerning the Office and Duty of Overséers for the poor within the said Parish which Rate being confirmed under the hands and Seals of any two Iustices of Peace 43 El. cap. 2. as aforesaid the said Constable Headborough or Tithingmen shall have power by Warrant under the hands and Seals of two Iustices of Peace to levy by distress and sale of the goods of any person or persons refusing to pay the same rendring the overplus to the Owner if any shall be Putative fathers of Bastard-children running away how to be proceeded against And whereas the putative Fathers and lewd Mothers of Bastard-Children run away out of the Parish and somtimes out of the County and leave the said Bastard children upon the charge of the Parish where they are born although such putative Father and Mother have Estates sufficient to discharge such Parish Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful for the Church-wardens and Overséers for the poor of such Parish where any Bastard-Child shall be born to take and seise so much of the Goods and Chattels and to receive so much of the Annual Rents or profits of the Lands of such putative father or lewd mother as shall be ordered by any two Iustices of Peace as aforesaid for or towards the discharge of the Parish to be confirmed at the Sessions for the bringing up and providing for such Bastard-Child And thereupon it shall be lawful for the Sessions to make an Order for the Church-wardens or Overséers for the poor of such Parish to dispose of the goods by Sale or otherwise or so much of them for the purposes aforesaid as the Court shall think fit and to receive the rents and profits or so much of them as shall be ordered by the Sessions as aforesaid of his or her Lands Persons sued for matters in this Act may plead the General Issue And if any person or persons shall be sued for any matter or thing which he shall do in execution of this Act he may plead the General Issue and give the special matter in Evidence And if the Verdict shall pass for the Defendant or if the Plaintiff be Nonsuited or Discontinue his Suit the Defendant shall recover treble Damages Lancashire Cheshire Derbyshire Yorkshire Durham Cumberland Westmerland 43 El. cap. 2. Whereas the Inhabitants of the Counties of Lancashire Cheshire Derbyshire Yorkshire Northumberland the Bishoprick of Durham Cumberland and Westmerland and many other Counties in England and Wales by reason of the largeness of the Parishes within the same have not nor cannot reap the benefit of the Act of Parliament made in the thrée and fortieth year of the Reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth for relief of the poor Therefore be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the poor néedy impotent and lame person and persons within every Township or Village within the several Counties aforesaid shall from and after the passing of this Act be maintained kept provided for and set on work within the several and respective Township and Village wherein he she or they shall inhabit or wherein he she or they was or were last lawfully setled according to the intent and meaning of this Act and that there shall be yearly chosen and appointed according to the rules and directions in the said Act of the thrée and fortieth year of Quéen Elizabeth mentioned two or more Overséers of the poor within every of the said Townships or Villages who shall from time to time do perform and execute all and every the Acts powers and authorities for the necessary relief of the poor within the said Township or Village and shall lose forfeit and suffer all such pains and penalties for non-performance thereof as is limited mentioned and appointed in and by the said in-part-recited Act. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Iustices of Peace within the said Counties shall have and enjoy such and the like powers and authorities to raise and levy moneys and to do and execute all and every such other Act and thing whatsoever within every Township or Village within the said County where they are Iustices as is given limited and appointed unto and for them to do and execute within any Parish or Parishes in and by the said Act made in the said thrée and fortieth year of the said late Quéen Elizabeth under such and the like pains and penalties for the non-performance of their Duties to be levyed and disposed of as is nominated and expressed in the said Act. Power of the Iustices to transport rogues and vagabonds Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull for the Iustices of Peace in any of the Counties of England and Wales in their Quarter-Sessions Assembled or the major part of them to Transport or cause to be Transported such Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars as shall be duly convicted and adjudged to be incorrigible to any of the English plantations beyond the Seas Proviso for the Dean and chapter of Westminster Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to be or be construed expounded or taken to the prejudice or infringement of any the franchises rights liberties or priviledges heretofore granted by the Kings and Quéens of this Realm his Majesties Royal Predecessors to the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster The continuance of divers parts of this Act. Provided always That this Act as to all the matters therein contained excepting what relates unto the Corporations mentioned and constituted thereby shall extend and be in force untill the nine and twentieth day of May One thousand six hundred sixty five and the end of the first Session of the next Parliament then next ensuing and no longer CAP. XIII Importation of Forreign Bonelace Cut-work Imbroidery Fringe Band-strings Buttons and Needle-work prohibited VVHereas great numbers of the Inhabitants of this Kingdom are imployed in the making of Bonelace Band-strings Buttons Néedlework Fringe and Imbroideries who
or within twenty miles compass of them or either of them all such grants powers priviledges and authorities as by this present Act or in or by the said Letters Patents of Incorporation are given or granted or mentioned to be given or granted for or concerning the regulation exercise or government of the said Trade Art or Mystery or any matter or thing relating thereunto or of such person or persons as do or shall exercise the same Any thing in the said Letters Patents or any Act Statute or other matter or thing to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And whereas there is a necessity lying upon the Silk-throwers to deliver their Winders or Doublers considerable quantities of silk which being of a good value is by evil disposed persons many times unjustly deceitfully and falsly purloined imbezeled pawned sold and detained to the great damage and somtimes the utter undoing of the Thrower who employs the said persons Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every such Silk-winder and doubler The punishment of silk-winders that imbezel goods delivered to them who shall at any time hereafter unjustly or deceitfully and falsly purloin imbezel pawn sell or detain any part of Silk delivered or to be delivered by any Silk-thrower or other person to them or any of them to wind or double that in every such case and cases as well the Winder or Iourneyman so offending as the Buyer and Buyers Receiver and Receivers of such Silk being thereof lawfully convicted by confession of the party or parties so offending or by one witness upon Oath before one or more of the Iustices of Peace of the County or Liberty where the same offence or offences shall be committed or if it be within any City or Town-Corporate before the Mayor Bailiff or chief Officer of the said City or Town-Corporate who by force of this Act are impowred and authorized to minister the same Oath and finally to hear and determine all and every the Offences aforesaid and to give and make to the party and parties grieved such recompence and Satisfaction for such their Dammage and Loss and Charges thereabouts as by the said Iustice or Iustices or Chief Officers shall be Ordered and Appointed Provided that no more damage be given or awarded then the party grieved shall prove he is damnified and hath expended in looking after the same And if the party or parties so offending shall not be able or sufficient to make recompence or satisfaction for the said Offence nor do make Recompence or Satisfaction for the same Offence or Offences within fourtéen dayes next after such conviction in such manner and form as by the Iustice or Iustices or Chief Officers shall be ordered and appointed as aforesaid then the party or parties so offending for the first Offence shall be apprehended and Whipped or set in the Stocks in the place where the Offence is committed or in some Market Town in the said County near unto the place where the Offence or Offences aforesaid shall be committed as shall be limited and appointed by the said Iustice or Iustices of the Peace or Chief Officers and for the second Offence to incur the like or such further punishment by whipping or being put in the stocks as the said Iustice or Iustices of the Peace or chief officers shall in their discretion think fit and convenient And be it likewise Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Persons receiving such imbezeled goods how to be punished That all and every Receiver and Receivers Buyer and Buyers of any silk or such as take to pawn any silk imbezeled or purloined contrary to the meaning of this Act matter of fact being proved shall make satisfaction within the time aforesaid or else shall be subject to like punishment as by this Act is inflicted or provided to be inflicted upon such person so imbezeling or purloyning any such Silk as aforesaid Provided always What persons may be imployed not having served as apprentices that it shall and may be lawful to and for any Fréeman of the said Company of Silk-throwers to set on work and imploy any person or persons being native Subjects to his Majesty and no others whether they be men women or children to turn the Mill tye threads double silk and wind silk as formerly they have used to do although such person or persons who shall be so set on work and imployed in the works and services aforesaid shall not have served or béen bred up as Apprentices to the trade of Silk-throwing by the space of seven years and that all and every the said person and persons who shall be set so on work and imployed by any Fréeman of the said Company in the works and services aforesaid shall and may be imployed by any Fréeman of the said Company in the works and services aforesaid or any of them without any let or molestation Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided The said Corporation may not set rates upon their workmen and be it Enacted that the said Corporation of Silk-throwers shall not by vertue of this Act nor any thing therein contained make any Orders Ordinances or By-Laws to set any rates or prizes whatsoever upon the Throwing of Silk to bind or inforce their members to work at but that their respective members shall be left at liberty to contract with their respective Imployers and also with the persons that they imploy at such rates as they and their imployers and the persons imployed shall agree upon any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding CAP. XVI For the more speedy and effectual bringing those persons to Account whose Accounts are excepted in the Act of Oblivion BE it Enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and every person and persons who are accountable to the Kings Majesty and their Accounts are not pardoned but excepted by the late Act of Frée and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion 12 Car. 2. c. 11 The penalty against such persons as shall not within a certain time perfect their Accounts 33 H. 8. c. 39. and against whom there is any charge now remaining in his Majesties Exchequer and shall through their default not perfect his or their Account before the end of Trinity Term in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two That then the charge against all and every such person or persons shall be taken as a Debt by Writing Obligatory or Recognizance taken or acknowledged to the Kings Majesty according to the Statute of the thrée and thirtieth of King Henry the Eighth Chapter 39. And that all and every other person or persons whose Accounts are excepted in the said Act of Oblivion and have or shall have a Charge or Information against them in
his Majesties Exchequer before the four and twentieth of June one thousand six hundred sixty and two and have or shall have notice thereof by Process out of the Court of Exchequer or otherwise served upon his person or left at his house or last known place of Habitation before the nine and twentieth of September one thousand six hundred sixty and two and shall not before the first day of Easter Term then next ensuing perfect their Accounts touching the said Charge that then the Charge against all and every such person or persons shall be taken as a Debt by Writing Obligatory or Recognizance taken and acknowledged to the Kings Majesty according to the Statute aforesaid and that in both the said Cases Process shall be awarded as is used for recovery of debts due to his Majesty according to the Statute as aforesaid against him or them and against all and every their Sureties not pardoned or discharged by the said Act of Oblivion and his and their respective Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels and Debts and the said Charge to continue in force only until the Accounts shall be perfected and the Accountants discharge them thereof in due manner in the said Court of Exchequer with such allowances as are given by the said Act of Oblivion and untill payment made unto his Majesty of all such sums of money as shall be found due upon the determination of his or their Accounts CAP. XVII Relief of Collectors of Publick Moneys and their Assistants and Deputies BE it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in Parliament now assembled and by Authority of the same Collectors others imployed in levying money by vertue of any Act of Parliament being sued may plead the general issue That all Collectors and other Persons who have levied or Collected or shall Levy or Collect any sum or sums of money or other act done or shall do in order to the same by vertue of any Act of Parliament now in force or of any other Act Order or Ordinance allowed to be put in Execution by any such Act of Parliament as aforesaid and who is or shall be sued for or concerning the same by any other then the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors he and they may plead the General Issue and thereon give the special matter in evidence for his excuse and justification And that all and every person or persons already sued or impleaded for any the Causes aforesaid may notwithstanding any plea or demurrer already made by any such Defendant have liberty to change such his Plea and to plead the General Issue if he shall think fit so to do Provided always that neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to authorize the levying or collecting of any sum or sums of money which are pardoned by the late Act 12 Car. 2. c. 11 Entituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion CAP. XVIII Exporting of Sheep Wool Wool-fells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks Fullers-Earth Fulling-Clay and Tobacco-pipe-Clay Prohibited WHereas against the Laws of this Kingdom great number of Shéep and great quantities of Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks Fullers Earth or Fulling-Clay are secretly Exported Transported carried and conveyed out of the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales the Town of Berwick upon Tweed and Kingdom of Ireland into the Kingdom of Scotland and into Foreign parts to the great decay of the Woollen Manufactures the ruine of many Families and the destruction of the Navigation and Commerce of the Kingdoms Town and Dominion aforesaid which is like daily to increase if some further remedy be not provided and further penalties imposed upon the Offenders therein Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That if any person or persons shall from and after the first day of August Exporting or carrying of sheep wooll woolfels mortlings shorlings yarn woolflocks Fullers earth Fulling clay out of England Wales or Ireland One thousand six hundred sixty and two directly or indirectly Export Transport Carry or Convey or shall cause to be Exported Transported Carryed or Conveyed out of or from the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or after the first day of January One thousand six hundred sixty and two out of the Kingdom of Ireland into any parts or places out of the Kingdoms or Dominion aforesaid or into the Kingdome of Scotland any Shéep or Wool whatsoever of the bréed or growth of the Kingdoms or Dominion aforesaid or any Wool-fells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks or any Fullers Earth or Fulling-Clay whatsoever or shall directly or indirectly pack or load or cause to be packed or loaden upon any horse Cart or other Carriage or shall load or lay on board or cause to be loaden or laid on board in any Ship or other Vessel in any place within the Kingdoms of England or Ireland Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed aforesaid any such Shéep Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Wool-flocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay to the intent or purpose to Export Transport Carry or convey the same or to cause the same to be Exported Transported Carryed or conveyed out of the Kingdoms of England or Ireland the Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed aforesaid into the Kingdom of Scotland or into any Foreign parts that then every such offence shall be adjudged Felony Made Felony and the Offender or Offenders being duly Convicted shall suffer and forfeit as in case of Felony Aiders and assisters therein shall be adjudged Felons And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Owner of any such Ship or other Vessel every owner of every horse Cart or Carriage upon which any Shéep Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay shall be so Exported Transported carryed or conveyed as aforesaid or to any such intent or purpose as aforesaid knowing thereof and being wittingly and willingly aiding assisting or consenting thereunto and also every Master and Mariner of or in such Ship or other Vessel wherein any such Shéep Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay shall be so exported transported carryed or conveyed or loaden or laid on Board as aforesaid to any such intent or purpose as aforesaid knowing thereof and being wittingly and willingly aiding assisting or consenting thereunto and also every Factor or servant or other person whatsoever and every Customer Comptroller Waiter Searcher Surveyor or other Officer or person whatsoever knowing thereof and being wittingly or willingly
ease of Sheriffs in passing their Accompts Seizures of Lands remaining charged Michaelmas 1660. Be it Enacted and Declared That from henceforth every Seizure for or concerning any Lands Tenements and Hereditaments now remaining charged in the Foreign accompt of any Sheriff or Sheriffs within the Kingdom of England for the year ended at Michaelmas One thousand six hundred and sixty shall be from the said Foreign accompt charged particularly in the great Roll of the Exchequer And that the several Remembrancers of the said Court or their respective Deputies do in their respective Officers forthwith Seizures hereafter taken or returned and so from time to time for the future write and make true and perfect Copies of all and every such other Seizure and Inquisition as already are or hereafter shall be certified into their respective Offices without certifying the Copy of the Writ or Commission at large upon which such Seizure or Inquisition is or shall be so taken or returned mentioning only in brief the Date of the said Writ or Commission and shall deliver the said Copies well and truly examined and attested under his or their Hands to the Engrosser of the said great Roll And that all such of the said Seizures and Inquisitions as now are returned into any of their respective Offices shall be delivered before the first day of February next coming And that all such other seizures as shall hereafter be returned or certified into their respective Offices shall be delivered so examined and attested as aforesaid to the said Engrosser before the first day of the next Term after the said Remembrancers shall have received the same so as the same may be charged in the great Roll To the end that the Processe of the Court may from thence issue for levying the Issues and Profits thereof to the use of the Crown unto which said Remembrancers or their Deputies shall be from time to time paid for every Sheet which they or their respective Clerks shall so write and deliver the sum of eight pence Fees to the Remembrancers the same to be paid unto them by the aforesaid respective Sheriffs who shall be allowed the same by the Barons upon their respective Accompts out of the Issues and Profits arising out of the Premisses so seized and no Sheriff or Sheriffs for this persent year One thousand six hundred sixty and one Sheriffs shall not answer illeviable seizures Farm Rents c. nor any Sheriff or Sheriffs to be hereafter made or appointed within this Kingdom of England shall be charged in accompt to answer any illeviable Seizure Farm Rent or Debt or other Seizure Farm Rent Debt matter or thing whatsoever which was not writ in Processe to him or them to be levied wherein the persons of whom or the Lands or Tenements out of which together with the cause for which the same shall be so levied shall be plainly and particularly expressed but shall be thereof wholly discharged without Petition Plea or other trouble or charge whatsoever And it is hereby further Enacted and Declared Seizures before 1 Jac. and divers others to be left out of the Sheriffs accompt That all Seizures heretofore made before the first Year of the Reign of the late King James of ever blessed memory now remaining in the Accompts of the Sheriffs and all Seizures and Debts which are pardoned shall be and are hereby fully discharged And that the same and every of them shall hereafter be left out of Sheriffs accompts without further Order Plea Petition or other Charge to any Sheriff or Sheriffs whatsoever And that no Processe shall from henceforth be written forth to any Sheriff for the levying of the same or any of them nor for any other Rent or Farm which cannot be explained by setting forth the particulars thereof or which have been unanswered by the space of forty years last past And that all other dead Farms and Seizures and all desperate illeviable and unintelligible Debts shall be removed out of the Annual Roll and Sheriffs Charge into the Exannual Roll there to remain untill by Commission they shall be revived and made answerable Process for Debts to be sent forth in convenient time And to the end that all new Debts arising and coming into the Exchequer for the future may be sent forth in Processe within convenient time Be it also Enacted and Declared That the aforesaid several Remembrancers do forthwith inrol and certify to the said Ingrosser of the great Roll all such Debts as any Sheriff or Sheriffs of this Realm are or hereafter shall be charged withall either by vertue of their respective Retorns made to the Barons of the said Exchequer upon his Majesties Writs of Fieri facias Levari facias Capias or other Processe and also of all Fines and Amerciaments which are or shall be set and imposed by the Court of Exchequer upon any Sheriff or Sheriffs for his or their contempts or neglects that is to say That all and every such Debts Fines and Amerciaments as now are returned set or imposed in any of the said Offices shall be delivered as aforesaid before the First day of February next ensuing And all such Debts Fines and Amerciaments as shall hereafter be returned set or imposed in any of the respective Offices shall be also delivered by the First day of the next Term after such Retorns made The penalty upon officers for doing any thing against this Act. or such Fines or Amerciaments so set or imposed that so they may be all charged in the Sheriffs Accompts respectively and comprehended within his or their Quietus est upon pain that every Officer or Officers in the said Exchequer who shall in any thing offend contrary to this present Act shall forfeit the sum of Forty pounds for every such offence whereof one moyety shall be to the King his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to the party or parties who shall be thereby agrieved to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of his Majesties Courts at Westminster wherein no Essoin Protection Priviledge or Wager of Law shall be allowed or admitted 9 E. 2. St. Lincoln 4 E. 3. cap. 9. 5 E. 3. cap. 4. And it is hereby further Provided and Ordained That no person shall be assigned to be Sheriff of any County within this Realm except such as have Lands within the same County sufficient to answer the King and his people And whereas by an Act made in the One and twentieth year of the Reign of our late Soveraign Lord King James over England 21 Jac. cap. 5. It was provided That whensoever any Sheriff upon passing his Accompts A Quietus est to be a sufficient discharge for a Sheriff if not questioned within four years after grant thereof should have his Quietus est that he should be thereby absolutely discharged of all sums of Money by him Levied and Received and pretended not to be accompted for
within the said Accompt whereupon he had his Quietus est unless such Sheriff should be called in question for such sums of Money so pretended to be Levied and not Accompted for within four years after the time of such Accompt and Quietus est which Act notwithstanding divers Sheriffs and their Heirs upon such pretences have béen molested and troubled many years after their Accompts and Quietus est and have had Process sent out against them contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said Act It is hereby further Provided and Enacted That when any Sheriff or Sheriffs within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales upon passing their Accompts shall have their Quietus est that then such Sheriff and Sheriffs their Heirs Executors and Administrators Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels shall be thereby absolutely discharged of all manner of sum or sums of Money whatsoever by them Levyed and Received notwithstanding any such pretence that the same were not accompted for or other pretence whatsoever unless such Sheriff or Sheriffs shall be called in question and that Iudgment shall be given against him or them for the same within four years next after such Accompt or Quietus est and that every Officer or Minister by whom or by whose default any Writ or Process contrary to this Act shall be sent out shall incur the like Forfeitures and Penalties to be recovered and inflicted by such persons and in such manner as by the aforesaid Act is provided Provided alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to the Counties of Chester Chester Lancaster Durham Wales Lancaster Durham or the Counties in Wales being County-Palatines as to their manner of accompting but that the Sheriffs therein shall accompt as formerly before the respective Auditors only and not elsewhere Proviso touching the Kings Remembrancer Lord Treasurers Remembrancer Provided That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to enjoyn His Majesties Remembrancer or the Lord Treasurers Remembrancer to transcribe and deliver to the Ingrosser of the great Roll any Inquisitions or Seisures but such as have béen formerly charged in the Foreign Accompts of the Sheriffs but for all Inquisitions upon Attainders or other Forfeitures to the Crown the same shall be put in charge as heretofore they have béen according to the constant usage and Decrée of the Court of Exchequer Nor shall this Act or any thing therein contained extend to exclude His Majesties said Remembrancer of or from the writing forth Process for or upon any His Majesties Debts Duties Outlawries or other charge whatsoever or Process of Levari facias at the prosecution of any person or persons to levy the Issues or Profits of any Lands or Tenements seised or to be seised into the Kings hands or Process of Venditioni exponas for Goods seised or to be seised upon any Debt to His Majesty His Heirs or Successors or upon any Outlawry or to alter or change the Pleadings or other Procéedings heretofore used and accustomed in the said Office upon any Pleadings touching the said Debts Duties and Seisures or any of them whatsoever And that no Debt Duty Fine Amerciament or Seisure whatsoever which shall be charged in the said great Roll of the Pipe upon any person whatsoever by or from any Record Process or Procéeding had made filed or recorded in the Office of His Majesties Remembrancer of his Exchequer nor any Process or Procéeding thereupon to be had or made by vertue of this Act shall be respited stayed mitigated extenuated compounded or otherwise discharged but by Order Warrant or Iudgment made filed or entred in the said Office of His Majesties Remembrancer where the original of such Debt Duty or Charge as aforesaid is and remaineth And that in case any Process of Summons of the Pipe have béen or shall be awarded for or upon any such Debt Duty Fine Amerciament or Seisure whatsoever and the same Debt Duty Fine Amerciament or Seisure shall not upon such Summons of the Pipe be levied or answered unto His Majesty That then the Clerk of the Pipe or Engrosser of the Great Roll shall the next Term after the return of such Summons certifie the same in a Schedule into the Office of His Majesties Remembrancer aforesaid to the end that further Process may be from thence written forth for the Levying and Answering thereof And that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend unto nor be construed to be prejudicial to His Majesties Remembrancer in His Exchequer in any just ancient and lawful Fées by him claimed or belonging or incident to His Office and usually had and received by him or his Predecessors Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding The conttnuance This Act to continue to the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer CAP. XXII For Preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England VVHereas a great number of Lewd Disorderly and Lawless Persons being Thieves and Robbers who are commonly called Moss-Troopers have successively for many and sundry years last past béen bred resided in and frequented the borders of the two respective Counties of Northumberland and Cumberland and the next adjacent parts of Scotland and they taking the opportunity of the large waste Grounds Heaths and Mosses and the many intricate and dangerous Wayes and By-paths in those parts do usually after the most notorious Crimes committed by them escape over from the one Kingdom into the other respectively and so avoid the hand of Iustice in regard the Offences done and perpetrated in the one Kingdom cannot be punished in the other And whereas since the time of the late unhappy distractions such Offences and Offenders as aforesaid have excéedingly more increased and abounded and the several Inhabitants of the said respective Counties have béen for divers years last past necessitated at their own frée and voluntary charge to maintain several Parties of Horse for the necessary defence of their Persons Families and Goods and to the end the aforesaid evil and pernicious members might be apprehended and brought to Iudgment And whereas the most part of the Inhabitants of the said Counties being more remote from the Borders then other parts and consequently not so much exposed to imminent dangers as others are therefore unwilling to contribute their proportionable parts of the aforesaid Charge and yet notwithstanding it cannot probably or possibly be avoided but that those Inhabitants of the respective Counties who hold themselves most secure must certainly sustain much damage and detriment in their Goods and Estates in case the aforesaid Moss-Troopers be not timely suppressed but suffered to grow numerous strong and potent which they must néeds do in case there be no restraint upon them Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled
and by Authority thereof that from and after the Feast of St. Michael the Arch-angel which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two for and during the term of Five years next ensuing the date of this present Act it shall and may be lawful for the respective Iustices of Peace of the said respective Counties or the major part of them at any General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said Counties respectively on the behalf of the said Counties or either of them from time to time as they shall sée occasion to make an Order in open Court of Sessions for charging according to their several Proportions all and every the several Inhabitants of the said respective Counties for the safeguard and securing of the said severall Counties and Inhabitants thereof from all injury violence spoil and rapine of the Moss-Troopers aforesaid Provided That the said County of Northumberland be not by force of this Act at any time charged above the sum of Five hundred pounds in the year nor the said County of Cumberland charged above the sum of two hundred pounds in the year And for this end and purpose the said several Iustices of Peace of the respective Counties aforesaid are hereby impowred and authorized at any their General Quarter Sessions aforesaid to appoint and imploy from time to time if occasion require any person or persons to have the Conduct and Command of a certain number of men not excéeding the number of Thirty men in the County of Northumberland and Twelve in the County of Cumberland whereby the Malefactors aforesaid may be searched out discovered pursued apprehended and brought to tryal of the Law And all and every the said Iustices of Peace of the respective Counties aforesaid or the major part of them at any General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said Counties or either of them respectively are hereby further impowred and authorized by force of this present Act to make and issue forth their respective Warrants under their hands for the levying and collecting any sum or sums of money ordered to be paid for and towards the safeguard and securing of the said Counties respectively as aforesaid and to give full power to the several Constables and other Officers to raise levy and collect the said money and all and every the Inhabitants of the said several Counties according to their respective proportionable Estates in Lands or Goods by Distress and Sale of Goods rendering the overplus if there be any to the respective Owner or Owners And the said Iustices of Peace in the said several Counties or any one of them respectively are hereby also authorized to examine any Complaint made against the Collectors and Constables or any other Officers or Ministers of Iustice whatsoever or any of them or any other refractory person or persons whatsoever that at any time hereafter shall refuse neglect or fail to give obedience to this Act or shall do any act or acts in disturbance or obstruction thereof and to bind over such person or persons to the next Quarter Sessions according to the known Laws of the Land to the end such person or persons may be procéeded withall according to Iustice And the said respective Iustices of Peace as aforesaid are hereby further Impowred and Authorized on behalf of the said several Counties respectively to appoint a Treasurer to receive from the said Collectors the Moneys by them Collected and to pay over the same according to the Orders they shall receive from the said Iustices at the General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said respective Counties And the said Iustices are also Impowred to agrée and article with such person or persons yearly as they shall think fit to imploy in the said Service and to take sufficient Security of them for the faithful and most effectual performance thereof for the best safeguard advantage and benefit of the people according to the true intent and meaning of this Act. And in case any person or persons shall in pursuance of this Act be imployed in the Border-Service and shall at any time hereafter wilfully and corruptly or for any sinister respect whatsoever neglect or forbear to Discover or Apprehend or to bring to Tryal any of the said persons called Moss-Troopers as aforesaid and shall be convicted thereof according to Law he or they shall from thenceforth be disabled and made uncapable for ever after to manage or take upon him or them the said Imployment and to suffer such Fine and Imprisonment according to the quality of his or their offence as the Iustices of Peace at their General Sessions shall think fit to inflict Provided nevertheless and be it hereby Declared That it shall be lawful for the Iustices of Peace of either of the said Counties as aforesaid respectively at any time hereafter to moderate or lessen the said charge if they sée cause Provided that this Act shall continue and be in force for five years and no longer Provided always and be it further Enacted by Authority aforesaid That for better suppression and punishment of the said Moss-Troopers flying out of England into Scotland or out of Scotland into England 4 Jac. cap. 1. 7 Jac. cap. 1. the Statutes made in the several Sessions of Parliament in the Fourth and Seventh years of King James shall be revived and put in execution according to their true intent 18 Car. 2. cap. 3. Continued for Seven years from the expiration of this Act. CAP. XXIII An Additionall Act concerning matter of Assurance used amongst Merchants WHereas by an Act of Parliament made in the Thrée and fortieth year of the Reign of Quéen Elizabeth of happy memory 43 El. cap. 12. Entituled An Act concerning matters of Assurances used amongst Merchants Encouragement of Merchants and Trade The Parliament then taking into Consideration by all good means to comfort and encourage the Merchants of this Kingdome thereby to advance and increase the Wealth of this Realm her Majesties Customs and the strength of shipping and for preventing of divers mischiefs in the said Act mentioned It was Enacted That it should and might be lawful for the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being to award forth under the Great Seal of England one general or standing Commission to be renewed yearly at the least and otherwise so often as unto the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper should séem méet for the hearing and determining of Causes arising on Policies of Assurance such as then were or then after should be entred within the Office of Assurance of the City of London which Commissions should be directed to the Iudge of the Admiralty for the time being the Recorder of London for the time being Two Doctors of the Civil Law Two Common Lawyers and eight grave or discréet Merchants or any five of them which Commissioners or the greater part of them which
respective shores upon the penalty of forfeiture of the said Nets so imployed or the full value thereof and one moneths Imprisonment without Bail or Mainprize Pilchards and Fumathoes to be bought of the Owners and Adventurers in Fishing And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person or persons being neither Owners Partners or Adventurers in the Craft of Fishery and in the Boats and Saynes thereunto belonging or shall presume from and after the day before limited to make or cause to be made any Pilchards or Fumathoes in Cask to be Sold or Transported except he or they shall openly buy the aforesaid Fish of the respective Owners Partners and Adventurers in the said Pilchard Craft or with their express allowance leave and consent that they shall in such case forfeit all and singular such Pilchards and Fumathoes so made and every Cask thereof or their full value the one half to the King and the other half to him or them that shall so sue for the same by Bill Plaint or other Information and upon Legal proof recover the same And be it further Enacted That if any Owner Partner or Company or any other person or persons whatsoever shall fraudulently purloyn imbezel hide convey carry away or dispose by sale or otherwise or cause to be purloyned imbezelled hidden conveyed carried away or disposed out of the Nets Boats or Cellars any Pilchard Fish without the express leave consent and allowance of the proper Owner and major part of the Company respectively that then every such person and persons that shall offend therein upon legal evidence shall pay treble the value in satisfaction to the parties so wronged and be sent to the House of Correction for thrée moneths And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Idle and suspicious flocking about Pilchard Boats to depart upon warning That if any idle or suspicious person or persons shall in the night assemble and flock together about the Boats Nets or Sellars belonging to any Pilchard-Craft upon any the Coasts of Cornwal or Devon having no business there to do and being warned by the Company or Owner of such Boats or Sellars to be gone that then upon complaint made unto any one Iustice of the Peace every such person or persons refusing so to do shall pay Five shillings to the poor of the Parish where such offence was committed or shall be set in the Stocks for the space of Five hours CAP. XXIX An Act for the Reversing of the Earl of Strafford his Attainder WHereas Thomas late Earl of Strafford was Impeached of High Treason The Reasons and Grounds of Repealing the Attainder upon pretence of endeavouring to Subvert the Fundamental Laws and called to a publick and solemn Arraignment and Trial before the Péers in Parliament where he made a particular Defence to every Article objected against him insomuch that the Turbulent party then séeing no hopes to effect their unjust designs by any ordinary way and method of procéedings did at last resolve to attempt the destruction and Attainder of the said Earl by an Act of Parliament to be therefore purposely made to Condemn him upon accumulative Treason none of the pretended Crimes being Treason apart and so could not be in the whole if they had béen proved as they were not and also adjudged him guilty of constructive Treason that is of levying War against the King though it was onely the commanding an Order of the Council-Board in Ireland to be executed by a Serjeant at Arms and Thrée or Four Souldiers which was the constant practice of the Deputies there for a long time To which end they having first presented a Bill for this intent to the House of Commons and finding there more opposition then they expected they caused a multitude of Tumultuous persons to come down to Westminster Armed with Swords and Staves and to fill both the Palace-Yards and all the Approaches to both Houses of Parliament with fury and clamour and to require Iustice spéedy Iustice against the Earl of Strafford And having by these and other undue practices obtained that Bill to pass in the House of Commons they caused the Names of those resolute Gentlemen who in a case of innocent blood had fréely discharged their consciences being Nine and fifty to be posted up in several places about the Cities of London and Westminster and stiled them Straffordians and Enemies to their Countrey hoping thereby to deliver them up to the fury of the people whom they had endeavoured to incense against them and then procured the said Bill to be sent up to the House of Péers where it having sometime rested under great deliberation at last in a time when a great part of the Péers were absent by reason of the Tumults and many of those who were present protested against it the said Bill passed in the House of Péers And at length his late Majesty King Charles the First of Glorious memory granted a Commission for giving his Royal assent thereunto which nevertheless was done by his said Majesty with excéeding great sorrow then and ever remembred by him with unexpressible grief of heart and out of His Majesties great Piety he did pulickly express it when his own Sacred life was taken away by the most detestable Traitours that ever were For all which causes Be it Declared and Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That the Act Entituled An Act for the Attainder of Thomas Earl of Strafford of High Treason and all and every Clause Article and thing therein contained being obtained as aforesaid is now hereby repealed revoked and reversed And to the end that right be done to the memory of the deceased Earl of Strafford aforesaid Be it further Enacted That all Records and procéedings of Parliament relating to the said Attainder be wholly cancelled and taken off the File or otherwise defaced and obliterated to the intent the same may not be visible in after-ages or brought into example to the prejudice of any person whatsoever Provided That this Act shall not extend to the future questioning of any person or persons however concerned in this business or who had any hand in the Tumults or disorderly procuring the Act aforesaid Any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding CAP. XXX Madder shall be Imported pure and unmixed REP. 15 Car. 2. cap. 16. CAP. XXXI The Inconvenience by Melting the Silver Coyn of this Realm prevented 9 E. 3. cap. 3. WHereas by an Act made in the Ninth year of King Edward the Third it is Enacted That no sterling Half-peny or Farthing shall be moulten to make Vessel or any other thing by Goldsmiths or any other upon pain of forfeiture of the moneys so moulten 17 R. 2. cap. 1. Whereas by one other Statute made in the Seventéenth year of King Richard the Second
are hereby impowered to hear and examine the said Offence and to commit the said Offender and Offenders to the Common Gaol of the County where he or they shall be apprehended And no Master Printer or Master Founder of Letters for Printing shall from henceforth imploy either to work at the Case or Press or otherwise about his Printing any other person or persons then such only as are English-men and Fréemen or the Sons of Fréemen or Apprentices to the said Trades or Mysteries of Printing or Founding of Letters for Printing respectively And for the better discovering of Printing in Corners without License Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That one or more of the Messengers of his Majesties Chamber Who may search houses and Shops for suspected Books and Papers by Warrant under his Majesties Sign Manual or under the Hand of one or more of his Majesties Principal Secretaries of State or the Master and Wardens of the said Company of Stationers or any one of them shall have power and authority with a Constable to take unto them such assistance as they shall think néedful and at what time they shall think fit to search all Houses and Shops where they shall know or upon some probable reason suspect any Books or Papers to be printed bound or stitched especially Printing-Houses Book-sellers Shops and Ware-houses and Book-binders Houses and Shops and to view there what is imprinting binding or stitching and to examine whether the same be Licensed and to demand a sight of the said License and if the said Book so imprinting binding or stitching shall not be Licensed then to Seize upon so much thereof as shall be found imprinted together with the several Offenders and to bring them before one or more Iustices of the Peace who are hereby authorized and required to commit such Offenders to prison there to remain until they shall be tried and acquitted or convicted and punished for the said Offences And in case the said Searchers shall upon their said Search find any Book or Books or part of Books unlicensed which they shall suspect to contain matters therein contrary to the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of England or against the State and Government Then upon such suspition to seise upon such Book or Books or part of Book or Books and to bring the same unto the said Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Bishop of London for the time being or one of them or to the Secretaries of State or one of them respectively who shall take such further course for the suppressing thereof as to them or any of them shall séem fit And be it Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Printer and Printers of Books Founder and Founders of Letters for Printing and all and every other person and persons working in or for the said Trades Offenders against this Act how to be punished who from and after the Tenth day of June in in the year One thousand six hundred sixty and two shall offend against this present Act or any Article Clause or Thing herein contained and shall be thereof Convicted by Verdict Confession or otherwise shall for the first offence be dis-enabled from exercising his respective Trade for the space of thrée years and for the second offence shall for ever thence-after be disabled to use or exercise the Art or Mystery of Printing or of Founding Letters for Printing shall also have and receive such further punishment by Fine Imprisonment or other Corporal Punishment not extending to Life or Limb as by the Iustices of the Court of Kings Bench or Iustices of Oyer and Terminer or Iustices of Assize in their several Circuits or Iustices of the Peace in their several Quarter Sessions shall be thought fit to be inflicted The which said Iustices of the Peace in their several Quarter Sessions shall have full power and authority to hear and determine all and every offence and offences that shall be committed against this Act or against any branch thereof upon Indictment or Information by any person or persons to be taken before them in their Sessions of Peace respectively and shall yearly certifie into the Court of Exchequer as in other like Cases they are bound to do the Fines by them imposed for any the offences aforesaid and shall and may also by vertue hereof award process and execution for the taking or punishing such Offenders as in any other Case they lawfully may do by any the Laws and Statutes of this Realm Printed Copies to be sent to his Majesties Library and the two Vniversities And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Printer shall reserve thrée printed Copies of the best and largest Paper of every Book new printed or reprinted by him with Additions and shall before any publick Vending of the said Book bring them to the Master of the Company of Stationers and deliver them to him one whereof shall be delivered to the Kéeper of His Majesties Library and the other two to be sent to the Vice-Chancellors of the two Vniversities respectively for the use of the publick Libraries of the said Vniversities Proviso for the priviledges of the two Vniversities Provided always That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to extend to the prejudice or infringing of any the just Rights and Priviledges of either of the two Vniversities of this Realm touching and concerning the Licensing or Printing of Books in either of the said Vniversities Peers Houses Provided always That no Search shall be at any time made in the House or Houses of any the Péers of this Realm or of any other person or persons not being frée of or using any of the Trades in this Act before mentioned but by special Warrant from the Kings Majesty under His Sign Manual or under the Hand of one or both of His Majesties Principal Secretaries of State or for any other Books then such as are in printing or shal be printed after the Tenth of June 1662. And thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for Book-sellers and Stationers London Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to prohibit any Book-seller who hath served seven years and is frée of the Company of Stationers London from importing or bringing into this Realm any Books ready bound not formerly prohibited which have been printed ten years before the said Importation Any thing in this or any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding Persons selling books in Westminster-Hall Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall be construed to prohibit any person or persons to Sell Books or Papers who have sold Books or Papers within Westminster-Hall the Palace of Westminster or in any Shop or Shops within Twenty yards of the great Gate of Westminster-Hall aforesaid before
the Twentieth day of November One thousand six hundred sixty and one but they and every of them may sell Books and Papers as they have or did before the said Twentieth day of November One thousand six hundred sixty one within the said Hall Palace and Twenty yards aforesaid but not elsewhere Any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for the rights and Priviledges of printing granted to any persons by the King Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to prejudice the just Rights or Priviledges granted by His Majesty or any of His Royal Predecessors to any any person or persons under His Majesties Great Seal or otherwise but that such person or persons may exercise and use such Rights and Priviledges as aforesaid according to their respective Grants Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Proviso for John Streater Stationer Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to prohibit John Streater Stationer from printing Books and Papers but that he may still follow the Art and Mystery of Printing as if this Act had never béen made Any thing therein to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to restrain the kéeping and using of a Printing-Press in the City of York Proviso for the City of York so as all Books of Divinity there printed be first Licensed by the Archbishop of York for the time being or such person or persons whom he shall appoint and all other Books whatsoever there Printed be first Licensed by such persons respectively to whom the Licensing thereof doth or shall appertain by the Rules herein before mentioned and so as no Bibles be there printed nor any other Book whereof the Original Copy is or shall be belonging to the Company of Stationers in London or any Member thereof and so as the Archbishop or Lord Mayor of York for the time being do execute within the said City which they are hereby impowred to do all the Powers and Rules in this Act concerning Searchers for unlicensed Books and impose and levy the said penalties in the like cases Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided That this Act shall continue and be in force for two years The continuance of this Act. to commence from the Tenth of June One thousand six hundred sixty and two and no longer Continued 16 Car. 2. cap. 8. Anno XV. Caroli II. Regis CAP. I. For Repairing the High-ways within the Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington WHereas the ancient High-way and Post-Road leading from London to York The High-way from London to York and Scotland Hertford Cambridge Huntington and so into Scotland and likewise from London into Lincolnshire lieth for many miles in the Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington in many of which places the Road by reason of the great and many Loads which are wéekly drawn in Waggons through the said places as well by reason of the great Trade of Barley and Mault that cometh to Ware and so is conveyed by water to the City of London as other Carriages both from the North parts as also from the City of Norwich Saint Edmunds-Bury and the Town of Cambridge to London is very ruinous and become almost impassible insomuch that it is become very dangerous to all His Majesties Liege people that pass that way And for that the ordinary course appointed by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm is not sufficient for the effectual repairing and amending of the same neither are the Inhabitants through which the said Road doth lie of ability to Repair the same without some other provision of moneys to be raised towards the putting the same into good and sufficient Repair For remedy whereof and to the intent the said High-ways at or in the Counties aforesaid may be forthwith effectually repaired and amended and from time to time hereafter kept in good repair May it please your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That for the Surveying Ordering Repairing and kéeping in Repair of the said High-way in the Counties aforesaid Four Iustices of the Peace for each of the said several and respective Counties dwelling next to the said High-ways respectively or any two of them for the year One thousand six hundred sixty thrée and until the Quarter-Sessions then next ensuing and from thenceforth the Iustices of Peace at the Sessions to be holden next after Easter every year for the said respective Counties from time to time shall and are hereby impowred to nominate and appoint Nine sufficient and able persons residing and inhabiting within the said several and respective Counties Who may appoint Surveyors of the High-ways for Hartfordshire yearly Cambridg-shire Huntington-shire to be Surveyors of the several places in the said High-way for the year from thence next ensuing The Iustices of the Peace for the County of Hertford to appoint Surveyors for the High-way lying in the said several Towns and Parishes of the said County and the Iustices of the Peace in the County of Cambridge to appoint Surveyors for the several Towns and Parishes within their said County of Cambridge And the Iustices of Peace for the County of Huntington to appoint Surveyors for the several Towns and Parishes of the said County And that the said Iustices or Surveyors aforesaid shall not act or do any thing towards the Repairs of the said High-ways but in their own several and respective Counties The power of the Iustices of the Peace in their several Counties And that the said Iustices in their several Counties shall cause notice to be given to the several Surveyors so chosen in writing of their said choice which said Surveyors and every of them having no lawful impediment to be allowed by the said Iustices by whom they shall be chosen in manner as aforesaid within one wéek next after such notice to them given of their Election shall and are hereby required to méet and assemble themselves together that is to say the Surveyors for the County of Hertford in some convenient place within the County of Hertford Hertford Cambridge Huntington And the Surveyors chosen for the County of Cambridge in some convenient place within their County and the Surveyors chosen for the County of Huntington in some convenient place within their said County to be appointed by the several Iustices of the said Counties at their several Quarter-Sessions to the intent to view and Survey the said High-way and places aforesaid The Power of the Surveyors in the said several Counties To appoint Receivers and Collectors of Toll and other needful Officers and shall consider what Reparations
the said Burrough and Liberties shall deliver unto the said Bailiff Duplicates of all Accompts of Hearths and Stoves and do all other things in such manner as by the said Acts they ought to have done unto the said Sheriffs Any thing in the said former or this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord High Treasurer of England Allowance to Clerks of the the Peace of the several Counties and the Chancellor of His Majesties Court of Exchequer or either of them to give and make such further allowance unto the Clerks of the Peace of the respective Counties of this Kingdom for their labour and pains in and about the Writing Engrossing and Returning into His Majesties Court of Exchequer the Duplicates and Returns of the several Constables in Parchment over and besides what is allowed by the said first recited Act as the said Lord High Treasurer and Chancellor or either of them shall think méet and convenient the same allowance not excéeding One penny in the pound by the year Any thing in the said former or in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding CAP. XIV The Profits of the Post-Office and Power of Granting Wine-Licenses setled on His Royall Highnesse the Duke of York and the Heirs Males of his Body WHereas the Lords and Commons being assembled at Westminster the Five and twentieth day of April Anno Domini One thousand six hundred and sixty in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of our most Gracious Sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. were there continued untill the Nine and twentieth day of December next following and then Dissolved In which time a certain Act was made Entituled 12 Car. 2. cap. 25. An Act for the better Ordering the selling of Wines by Retail and for preventing Abuses in the mingling corrupting and vitiating of Wines and for setling and limiting the prices of the same Whereby it was Enacted That no person or persons whatsoever from and after the Five and twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and one unless he or they should be authorized and enabled in manner and form as by the said Act is appointed shall sell or utter by Retail any kind of Wine or Wines to be spent in his or their Mansion-house or Houses or other place by any means whatsoever upon pain of forfeiting for every such offence the Sum of Five pounds the one moyety thereof to the King and the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same And it was further thereby Enacted That it should be lawful for His Majesty his Heirs and Successors from time to time to issue out under his or their Great Seal of England One or more Commission or Commissions directed to two or more persons thereby authorizing them to license and give authority to such person or persons as they should think fit to sell and utter by Retail all and every or any kind of Wine or Wines to be drunk and spent as well within the house or houses or other place in the Tenure or Occupation of the party so Licensed as without in any City Town or other place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and such Commissioners are to Contract for selling and uttering of Wines by Retail in any City or other place as aforesaid in such manner and form and under such Provisoes as in the said Act is mentioned And it is further provided by the said Act That the Rents Revenues and Sums of money arising by the said Act should be duly and constantly paid and answered into His Majesties Receipt of Exchequer and not be charged or chargeable either before it be paid into the Exchequer or after with any Gift or Pension as by the said Act amongst divers other Provisoes and Clauses may more at large appear And also one other Act was at the same time made Entituled An Act for Erecting and Establishing a Post-Office 12 Car. 2. cap. 34. Whereby it is Enacted That from thenceforth there should be one general Letter-Office erected and established in some convenient place within the City of London from whence all Letters and Pacquets may be sent into any part of the Kingdom of England Scotland and Ireland or other of His Majesties Dominions or unto any Kingdom or Country beyond the Seas And that one Master of the said General Letter-Office shall be from time to time appointed by the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors by His or their Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England The Office of Post-Master General by the name and stile of His Majesties Post-Master-General which said Post-Master and his Deputy and Deputies by him thereunto sufficiently authorized and his and their Servants and Agents and no other person shall have the receiving ordering or sending Post of all Letters and Pacquets whatsoever to be sent to and from the places aforesaid except as therein and thereby is excepted And it was thereby provided That such Post-Master-General and his Deputy and Deputies may demand have receive and take for the Portage of all such Letters which he shall convey as aforesaid and for the providing and furnishing horses for thorough-Posts according to the Rates therein mentioned And that His Majesty His Heirs and Successors may Grant the said Office of Post-Master-General with the Powers and Authorities thereunto belonging and the several Rates of Portage therein mentioned and all Profits Priviledges Fées Perquisits and Emoluments thereunto belonging either for life or term of years not excéeding One and twenty years to such person and persons and under such Covenants Conditions and yearly Rents to His said Majesty His Heirs and Successors reserved as he or they shall from time to time think fit As by the said Act amongst divers other Clauses and Provisoes therein contained may more at large appear Both which Acts have béen confirmed by this present Parliament Now forasmuch as the Kings most Excellent Majesty is graciously pleased out of His Princely care and great love and affection to His most entirely beloved Brother James Duke of York for and towards the Maintenance and Support of the said Duke his State and Dignity to Grant and Assign all and every the Power and Powers Authority and Authorities of giving License to any person or persons to Sell or Vtter by Retail all and every or any kind of Wine or Wines whatsoever with all Rents Sum or Sums of Money Revenues Profits and Emoluments whatsoever that shall or may arise from or out or by reason of such power of Licensing the Retailing of Wines or Forfeitures for Retailing of Wines without such Licenses unto the said James Duke of York and to the Heirs males of his Body begotten or to be
begotten And also all the Rents Sum and Sums of money and Revenues that shall arise grow and become due of or from the said General Letter-Office or Post-Office or Office of Post-Master-General unto the said James Duke of York and the Heirs males of his Body begotten or to be begotten Be it therefore Enacted and Declared by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled The Powers of granting Wine Licenses entailed upon the Duke of York and by the Authority of the same That the said James Duke of York and the Heirs males of his Body begotten or to be begotten shall have all and every the Powers and Authorities aforesaid to give and grant Licenses to such person or persons as he or they shall think fit to Sell and Vtter by Retail all and every or any kind of Wine or Wines whatsoever to be drunk and spent as well within the house and houses or other place in the Tenure or Occupation of the party so Licensed as without in any City Town or other place whatsoever within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town and Port of Berwick upon Tweed Together with all Benefits and Profits thereof And also that the said Duke and the Heirs males of his Body begotten or to be begotten shall have that moyety of the Forfeitures and Penalties which by the said recited Act is given to his Majesty His Heirs and Successors And it is hereby further Declared That all and every other person or persons which from time to time or at any times hereafter shall be by the said James Duke of York and the Heirs males of his Body begotten or to be begotten appointed authorized or deputed Agent or Agents Commissioner or Commissioners to Treat and Contract for giving Licenses and Dispensations to any person or persons for the Selling and Vttering Wines by Retail in any City or Town or other place as aforesaid shall have the full and sole power and authority to Treat and Contract for giving Licenses to any person or persons for the Selling and Vttering Wines by Retail in any City Town or other place as aforesaid any Law Statute Grant Vsage or Custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding in as full and ample manner as the Kings Agents or Commissioners might do by vertue of the said recited Act. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such person or or persons as shall be appointed by the said James Duke of York or the Heirs males of his body begotten or to be begotten under his or their Hand and Seal for granting Licences for Selling and Vttering Wines by Retail are hereby enabled under such Seal as the said Duke or the Heirs males of his Body begotten or to be begotten shall appoint to grant Licenses for the Selling and Vttering Wines by Retail to any person or persons or for any time or times not excéeding One and Twenty years if such persons shall so long live and for such Yearly Rents and under such Conditions as they shall think fit so as no Fine be taken for the same but that the Rents or Sums of money so agréed for and reserved shall be duly paid at the times and places agréed for the payment thereof for which Rents so reserved in case the same shall not be paid the said Duke and the Heirs males of his Body begotten or to be begotten shall and may have power by this Act to sue for the same by Bill Plaint or Action of Debt in any of His Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster or elsewhere in his own Name or to sue for the same in His Majesties Name in the Court of the Exchequer at the Election of the said Duke and the Heirs males of his body begotten or to be begotten And that the discharge of the said James Duke of York and of the Heirs males of his body begotten or to be begotten or of his or their Receiver General for the time being shall be a full and effectual discharge to all intents and purposes for all such moneys as have or shall be received by vertue of the Act for Wine-Licenses Provided always That the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors shall not during the continuance of the said Estate Tayl by himself or Agents grant any Commission or Commissions License or Licenses for the Selling or Vttering of any Wines by Retail And also Provided That nothing in this Act contained shall make void any Contracts Leases or Agréements that have béen made by His Majesties Agents for granting Licenses for Selling and Vttering Wines by Retail in pursuance of the said Act but the same Contracts Leases and Agréements shall remain in such force as they were before the making of this Act and that the Rents thereupon reserved and all Arrears thereof shall be paid unto the said Duke and to the Heirs males of his Body begotten or to be begotten And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all the yearly Rents Rents and profits arising by the Letter-Office Sum or Sums of money Revenues Issues and Profits whatsoever that shall grow due accrew or be payable unto His Majesty His Heirs and Successors for or by reason of the said general Letter-Office or Post-ffice or Office of Post-Master General or annexed incident or belonging to the said Post-Office or general Letter-Office or Office of Post-Master-General or Issuing out of the same or accrewing or growing due for or by reason of the same shall be and hereby are vested and setled by vertue of this Act upon the said James Duke of York and the Heirs males of his Body begotten or to be begotten with full and sole power from time to time for the said Duke and the Heirs males of his Body begotten or to be begotten his and their Receivers-General to receive all and every the said Rents Issues and Profits accrewing for or issuing out of the said Office and from time to time to give Discharges for the money so received Provided always And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Not to be paid into the Exchequer That none of the said yearly Rents Issues and Profits arising growing due accrewing or issuing out of the said general Letter-Office or Post-Office or Office of Post-Master-General shall for and during the said Estate Tail be paid into the Exchequer but only to the said Duke and to the Heirs males of his Body begotten or to begotten his or their Receiver-General for the time being And also that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Duke and for the Heirs males of his Body begotten or to be begotten in the name of His Majesty How to be recovered his Heirs or Successors or in his or their own name to sue for the same by Bill Plaint Information Action of Debt or otherwise in any Court or Courts
and imposed by vertue of this Act for preservation of the said Great Level from drowning And whereas the persons now in possession of the said last mentioned Shares Lots Parts and Proportions of the said Ninety five thousand acres whereof pretended Estates and Conveyances were taken contracted for or accepted of as aforesaid do pretend that they or those under whom they do respectively claim and derive their right title or pretensions to the said Shares Lots Parts and Proportions respectively have laid out and disbursed for Taxes for and towards the maintenance preservation and repair of the works of the said Great Level heretofore Erected by the Earl Francis and his Participants and for and towards their erection of new and necessary works for the better and more effectual Dreyning of the said Great Level and for building upon the said Shares Lots Parts and Proportions more moneys then the cléer rents issues and profits of the said Shares Lots Parts and Proportions have amounted to since the said respective pretended Estates and Conveyances were first taken contracted for accepted as aforesaid Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid And it is hereby Enacted That the Chief Iustice of the Court of Kings Bench the Chief Iustice of the Court of Common-Pleas The Chief Iustice of the Kings bench and others made a Iudicature to hear and determine differences the Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer and the Iustices of the said Court of Common-Pleas for the time being or any two or more of them are hereby constituted appointed and erected a Iudicature or Commissioners to Hear Order Iudge Decrée and Determine upon Bills and Answers to be Exhibited or otherwise as they shall think fit betwéen the said persons who are now in the Possession of the said respective Shares Lots Parts and Proportions and the respective Heirs and Assigns of the said persons now in possession as aforesaid And the said Sir Richard Onslow and other the said Assignées and Trustées of the said Henry late Earl of Arundel and Surrey deceased Arthur Earl of Anglesey Thomas Lord Culpepper the said Samuel Sandys the elder or his Trustées Sir William Terringham Robert Phillips Robert Scawen and the said other persons Participants of the said Earl Francis and their respective Heirs and Assigns who are now out of the possession of the said Shares Lots Parts and Proportions respectively and to whom respective Estates are by vertue of this Act to be executed of the same as aforesaid And the said Iudicature or Commissioners or any two or more of them are hereby authorized out of the said Shares Lots Parts and Proportions to Order Adjudge Decrée and Determine to either of the said Parties respectively such recompence and allowance as they the said Iudicature or Commissioners or any two or more of them shall see cause And for the better enabling the said Iudicature or Commissioners to procéed to the hearing ordering adjudging decréeing and determining and for putting in due and spéedy execution such Order Iudgement Decrée and Determination as they or any two or more of them shall make betwéen the said parties It is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That they the said Iudicature or Commissioners or any two or more of them shall have such and the like power and authority as the High Court of Chancery hath in cases before the said Court depending and for putting in execution the Decrées of the said Court. The power and authority of the said Iudicature And to the end that the said Iudicature may be the better enabled to Iudge of the Rights and Pretensions of either party Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in every Decrée or Determination which they shall make by vertue and in pursuance of this Act they shall have regard to the sum and sums of money actually disbursed and expended by either party in the Works of Dreyning the said Great Level Directions for their decrees and proceedings and in the preservation and reparation of the same and also to the respective Times of such Disbursements and expence defalking thereout such sum and sums of money as have béen received by either party their Tenants or Assigns for the Rents Issues and Profits of the same and abating out of the Interest of the Money disbursed by either party so much as the Interest of the Money received by such party for the Rents Issues and Profits of the same doth amount unto And to the intent that the persons who by the true intent and meaning of this Act are to be put into possession of any part of the said Eighty thrée thousand acres may not by undue delayes or by any other means or pretensions be kept out of the possession of the same Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That at any time or times after the expiration of Six moneths after the Passing of this Act it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Samuel Sandys the elder and his Trustées for him Sir Richard Onslow and others the Assignées and Trustées of Henry late Earl of Arundel and Surrey deceased Arthur Earl of Anglesey Thomas Lord Culpepper Sir William Terringham Robert Phillips and Robert Scawen their and every of their respective Heires and Assigns and to and for the Participants of the said Earl Francis Parties to the said Indenture of Fourtéen parts their and every of their respective heirs and assigns whose Lands Shares Lots Parts and Proportions of and in the said Ninety five thousand acres were sold or pretended to be sold for non-payment of Taxes by vertue of the said pretended Act of the Nine and twentieth day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and nine to bring their respective Action or Actions of Trespass or Trespass and Ejectment in His Majesties Court of Kings Bench or Court of Common-Pleas at Westminster against any person or persons whatsoever possessing withholding or occupying the same although the said Governour Bayliffs and Conservators or so many and such of them as are thereunto authorized by this present Act have not or shall not execute estates pursuant to this present Act to such person or persons hereby enabled to bring such Action or Actions and such person or persons shall recover such Lands Shares Lots Parts and Proportions of the said Ninety five thousand acres as they respectivly shall make and derive title and claim unto as Participants of the said Francis Earl of Bedford parties to the said Indenture of Fourtéen parts or as the respective Heirs or Assigns of the said respective Participants parties to the said Indenture of Fourtéen parts as if the said Governour Bayliffs and Conservators had duely executed respective Estates of such respective Lands Shares Lots parts and Proportions of the said Ninety five thousand acres according to the true intent and meaning of this Act And such person or persons his and their respective Heirs and Assigns shall have and
be lawful for the said Commissioners for the time being or any seven or more of them from time to time and at all times to Assess Taxes or Sums of Money upon the said Ninety five thousand Acres for the raising money for Draining the same again in such proportion as they or any seven or more of them shall think fit together with a penalty for not paying the said Taxes the said penalty not excéeding a third part of such Tax How lands may be sold for non-payment of Taxes or penalties And for default of payment of the said Taxes or Sums of money and penalties Be it Enacted That the Lot and Share of such Participant or Adventurer of and within the said Ninety five thousand Acres as shall be in arrear for the said Tax sum of money or penalty and unpaid by the space of two moneths next after the day appointed for payment by the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them or so much thereof as they shall think fit shall be Sequestred by the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them for or towards the payment of such Tax sum of money or penalty so in arrear restoring the overplus of the money for which such Lot or Share or any part thereof shall be Sequestred if any be Which Sequestration shall be made in writing under the hands and seals of the said Commissioners for the time being or any seven or more of them Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case the said Governor Bayliffs and Corporation constituted by this Act shall neglect or refuse to pay such Tax or Taxes and penalties sum or sums of money as shall from time to time hereafter be taxed and imposed by the said Commissioners before named or to be named by vertue of this Act or any seven or more of them pursuant to the Powers given them by this Act whereupon the Goods and Chattels of any person or persons his or their Tenant or Tenants of and in the said Ninety five thousand acres or any part thereof shall be distrained or sold or his or their Lands Sequestred for the payment thereof or that such person or persons his or their Tenant or Tenants shall thereupon pay the said Tax and Taxes and penalties so assessed and imposed as aforesaid That then the said Governour Bayliffs and Corporation immediately from and after notice to him or them given thereof shall Assess and Tax the whole Ninety five thousand Acres for the satisfaction and payment of the Tax Taxes and penalties sum and sums of money and all damages that such person or persons his or their Tenant or Tenants hath or have paid born or sustained as aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if the said Governour Bayliffs and Corporation shall not within six moneths next after demand made by such person or persons his and their Heirs Executors and Administrators whose own or Tenant or Tenants Goods and Chattels shall be distrained or sold or Lands sequestred as aforesaid pay and satisfie unto him or them such sum and sums of money and damages as he or they and his and their respective Tenant or Tenants have respectively paid born and sustained That then and from thenceforth such person and persons his and their Heirs and Assigns shall and may bring his and their Action or Actions of Debt in any of the Kings Majesties Courts at Westminster against the said Governour Bayliffs and Corporation for the recovery thereof and by vertue of this Act shall recover the same and be allowed Costs of Suit expended therein And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners so constituted or to be hereafter constituted as aforesaid or any seven or more of them for the better execution of the Powers hereby given shall may inform themselves by examining Witnesses upon Oath which hereby they or any seven or more of them shall have power to administer due execution of all every or any the Powers or Authorities hereby given them for the doing Iustice therein accordingly The Commissioners to take an Oath Provided always That the said Commiâ—â—ioners and every of them before he or they take upon him or them the execution of any the Powers or Authorities hereby given them other then the administring the Oath following to one another which they shall have authority by this present Act to administer to one another shall take the Oath following viz. I A. B. shall and will without favour or affection hatred or malice truly and impartially according to the best of my skill and knowledg execute and perform all and every the Powers and Authorities established by this Act of Parliament Which Oath any one of the said Commissioners are hereby authorized to administer And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Iudgments Orders Decrées Determinations Alterations Changes Restaurations and other Acts done by the said Commissioners hereby constituted or hereafter to be constituted as aforesaid or of any seven or more of them respectively pursuant to the Powers and Authorities by this Act given shall be final And that the first time and place of their Méeting shall be at or before the Two and twentieth day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and thrée at Ely And that afterwards the usual places where the said Commissioners shall sit to Hear Order The Places where the Commissioners shall sit and Determine the Matters to them referred by this Act shall from the 29th of September to the 26th day of March in every year be at the Town of Huntington and from the 25th day of March till the 30th day of September in every year be at Ely unless the said Commissioners hereby constituted or hereafter to be constituted as aforesaid or any seven or more of them shall appoint some other place or places being a Market Town or Towns And the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them shall by Warrant under their hands and seals declare the places and times of their after-méeting which Warrant shall be published in the open Market of such respective places where they last sate betwéen the hours of Twelve Two upon some Market day one moneth at the least before the said time or times of méeting To the end all persons concerned may have sufficient time and notice to make their appearance before them upon any cause of complaint or other occasion And shall have power and authority by Warrant under the hands and seals of any seven or more of them to summon Parties and Witnesses to appear before them Provided That none of the said Commissioners hereby constituted or hereafter to be constituted as aforesaid shall Vote or give his Iudgment or Determination in any matter or thing which concerns the Division and Bounds of the County of or for which he is appointed Commissioner Provided also That no person who
Majesty and the Quéen◠Majesty their Heirs Successors and Assigns to continue in the possession usage disposal of the Bank called Dousedale Bank being on the south side of His Majesties Demean Lands Dousedale Bank called Port sand belonging to their Mannor of Crowland being part therof and to have such ancient Passages and Currents as of right have béen used and accustomed for the avoidance of water through the same into the River South Eae as if this Act had never béen made Provided always and be it Enacted by the authority aforesaid How and for what time Archbishops Bishops c. may make leases That it shall and may be lawful to and for every Archbishop Bishop Dean and Chapter and all Colledges and Halls in either Vniversity and all Bodies Politique and Corporate who are or shall be Lords of Mannors or have or shall have right of Soil or Common in the Wastes within this said Level or within such other Towns Parishes and Places into which the Works of the Dreyning aforesaid do or shall extend and who are by this Act impowred to improve set out inclose divide and sever such proportion or proportions as to them shall or may respectively belong or appertain out of the said Commons and Wastes within the said Level to demise by Indenture all and every the said such proportion or proportions as to them shall or may respectively belong or appertain out of the said Commons or Wastes within the said Level which have not by express Words and under any particular Rent béen at any time formerly demised for any Term or Number of Years not excéeding One and twenty Years so as upon every such Demise or Lease be reserved the fourth part of the true Yearly value to be ascertained by the Commissioners aforesaid or any seven of them due and payable Yearly during the said Term to him or them and his and their Successors Provided always and be it Declared by and with the consent of all Parties concerned That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to alter the possession of Thomas Chicheley Esquire of or from Six hundred seventy one acres parcel of the Lot now claimed to belong to the said Trustées of Henry late Earl of Arundel and Surrey and Two hundred thirty one acres Parcel of the Lot now cliamed to belong to the said Sir William Terringham or from any part thereof by him the said Thomas Chicheley now enjoyed under Purchasers by Sales for non-payment of Taxes upon the dispute betwéen the old and new Adventurers But that the said Corporation shall execute Conveyances of the said respective proportion unto the said Thomas Chicheley his Heirs and Assigns Any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided always and be it Enacted That all such Right or Rights as any Lord or Lords of any Mannor or Mannors Liberties Hundred or half hundred have heretofore had within their respective Mannor or Mannors Liberties Hundred or half hundred within or without the said Level to Waifes Strayes Felons Goods Priviledges of Arrests Escheats and all other Royalties not prejudicial to the Dreining be hereby saved to them their Heirs Successors and Assigns severally and respectively Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Provided always That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be interpreted to infringe or any way to weaken an Act made the Fourth year of the Reign of King James 4 Jac. cap. 13. Entituled An Act for the Dreining of certain Fenns and Low Grounds within the Isle of Ely subject to hurt by Surrounding containing about Six thousand acres compassed about with certain Banks commonly called and named The Ring of Waltersea and Coldham but the said Act shall stand in full force and vertue Any thing in this present Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also That whereas divers Lands in and near adjoyning unto the said Great Level have béen cut through for the better conveying of the Waters from the same and for upholding or repairing the Banks and Workes there without making satisfaction to the respective Owners of the said Lands for the damage they have sustained by such cutting Be it further Enacted That the said Commissioners for the time being or any seven or more of them upon complaint to them made of such damage sustained as aforesaid without recompence for the same shall be and are hereby impowered to award and Decrée such recompence and satisfaction to the party and parties grieved according to their respective damages sustained by such cutting as to the said Commissioners for the time being or any seven or more of them shall be adjudged reasonable the said recompence and satisfaction to be made and given by the said Corporation within six moneths next after such Award or Decrée made and in default thereof the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them shall and may and are hereby impowered to Rate and Tax the said 95. thousand Acres and to Distrain thereupon for the payment of such Rate or Tax and the Distress taken thereupon to sell or dispose as they shall think fit rendring the overplus if any be to the Owners for the payment and satisfaction of such moneys and damages as shall be so Awarded Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Provided nevertheless That in case the Iudicature hereby established The Barons of the Exchequer impowred to hear and determine differences between parties shall not within Twelve moneths from the First day of August next hear and determine all the matters by this Act to them referred concerning the said 95000. acres all and every such person and persons whose Complaints shall be then undetermined may make their applications to the Barons of His Majesties Court of Exchequer who are hereby established a Court of Iudicature and sufficiently authorized to hear and determine all such controversies and differences betwéen the said parties in as large and ample manner to all intents and purposes as the Iudicature hereby established might have done and such Iudgment Order or Decrée of the said Court of Exchequer shall be in all things observed and be effectual as if the said Barons had béen made the only Iudicature by this Act. Lessees of the King Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lessées of the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors of the said Ten thousand Acres or of any part thereof and the Assigns of such Lessées and every or any of them shall be capable to be elected and chosen into the Office or Place Offices or Places of Governor Bayliffs and Conservators aforesaid and to vote in such elections and choice and in all other matters as fully to all intents and purposes as any other Members of the Corporation Owners of any part of the said Ninety five thousand acres may be elected and chosen vote in
that purpose And that the respective Sheriffs shall be allowed or paid from the King upon their respective Accompts in the Exchequer all such charges by them expended for Conveying Embarquing and Transporting of such persons which shall be allowed by the said respective Courts from whence they received their respective Warrants and which shall not have béen by any of the ways aforementioned paid secured or reimbursed unto them as aforesaid How the offender may be discharged upon payment of 100 l. Provided always and be it further Enacted That in case the offender so Indicted and Convicted for the said Third offence shall pay into the hands of the Register or Clerk of the Court or Sessions where he shall be Convicted before the said Court or Sessions shall be ended the sum of One hundred pounds That then the said offender shall be discharged from Imprisonment and Transportation and the Iudgement for the same Punishment of offenders after the third offence And be it further Enacted That the like Imprisonment Indictment Arraignment and Procéedings shall be against every such offender as often as he shall again offend after such Third offence Nevertheless is dischargeable and discharged by the payment of the like sum as was paid by such offender for his or her said offence next before committed together with the additional and increased sum of One hundred pounds more upon every new offence committed the said respective sums to be paid as aforesaid and to be disposed of as followeth viz The one Moyety for the Repair of the Parish Church or Churches How the said penalty of 100 l. shall be disposed Chappel or Chappels of such Parish within which such Conventicle Assembly or Méeting shall be held and the other Moyety to the Repair of the High-ways of the said Parish or Parishes if néed require or otherwise for the amendment of such High-ways as the Iustices of the Peace at their respective Quarter-Sessions shall direct and appoint And if any Constable Headborough or Tythingman shall neglect to execute any the said Warrants made unto them for Sequestring Distraining and Selling any of the Goods and Chattels of any offender against this Act for the Levying such sums of money as shall be imposed for the first or second offence he shall forfeit for every such neglect the sum of Five pounds of lawful money of England the one moyetie thereof to the King and the other moyetie to him that will sue for the same in any of the Kings Courts of Record as is aforesaid And if any person be at any time Sued for putting in Execution any of the powers contained in this Act Persons sued for executing this Act may plead the General issue and recover treble Costs such person shall and may plead the general Issue and give the special matter in evidence And if the Plaintiff be Non-suit or a Verdict pass for the Defendant thereupon or if the Plaintiff discontinue his Action or if upon Demurrer Iudgement be given for the Defendant every such Defendant shall have his or their treble Costs Felony to escape after conviction or to returne after Transportation And be it further Enacted That if any person against whom Iudgement of Transportation shall be given in manner aforesaid shall make escape before Transportation or being Transported as aforesaid shall return unto this Realm of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed without the special License of His Majesty His Heirs and Successors in that behalf first had and obtained That the party so escaping or returning shall be adjudged a Felon and shall suffer death as in case of Felony without benefit of Clergy and shall forfeit and lose to His Majesty all his or her Goods and Chattels for ever and shall further lose to His Majesty all his or her Lands Tenements and Hereditaments for and during the life only of such offender and no longer And that the wife of any such offender by force of this Act shall not lose her Dower nor shall any Corruption of blood grow or be by reason of any such offence mentioned in this Act But that the heir of every such offender by force of this Act shall and may after the death of such offender have and enjoy the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of such offenders as if this Act had not béen made Seditious and Tumultuous Meetings and Conventicles And for better preventing of the mischiefs which may grow by such Seditious and Tumultuous Méetings under pretence of Religious Worship Be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That the Lieutenants or Deputy-Lieutenants or any Commissioned Officers of the Militia or any other of His Majesties Forces with such Troops or Companies of Horse or Foot And also the Sheriffs and Iustices of Peace and other Magistrates and Ministers of Iustice or any of them joyntly or severally within any of the Counties or Places within this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed with such other assistance as they shall think méet or can get in readiness with the soonest on Certificate made to them respectively under the hand and seal of any one Iustice of the Peace or Chief Magistrate as aforesaid of his particular Information or knowledge of such unlawful Méetings or Conventicles held or to be held in their respective Counties or places And that he with such assistance as he can get together is not able to suppress or dissolve the same shall and may and are hereby required and enjoyned to repair unto the place where they are so held or to be held and by the best means they can to dissolve and dissipate or prevent all such unlawful Méetings and take into their custody such of those persons so unlawfully assembled as they shall judge to be the Leaders and Seducers of the rest and such others as they shall think fit to be procéeded against according to Law for such their Offences The penalty of suffering Conventicles in private houses And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person who shall wittingly and willingly suffer any such Conventicle unlawful Assembly or Méeting aforesaid to be held in his or her House Out-house Barn or Room Yard or Back-side Woods or Grounds shall incur the same penalties and forfeitures as any other Offender against this Act ought to incur and be procéeded against in all points in such manner as any other offender against this Act ought to be procéeded against Gaolers may not let priso-committed upon this Act to go at large Provided also And be it Enacted by the authority aforesaid That if any Kéeper of any Gaol or House of Correction shall suffer any person committed to his custody for any offence against this Act to go at large contrary to the Warrant of his Commitment according to this Act or shall permit any person who is at large to joyn with any person committed to his Custody by vertue of
executed in such manner as Iudgement of Transportation by this Act is to be executed But in case such person shall take the said Oath then he shall thereupon be discharged Peers offending how to be proceeded against Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Péer of this Realm shall offend against this Act he shall pay Ten pounds for the first offence and Twenty pounds for the second offence to be levied upon his Goods and Chattels by Warrant from any two Iustices of the Peace or Chief Magistrate of the Place or Division where such Peer shall dwell and that every Péer for the third and every further offence against the tenour of this Act shall be tried by his Péers and not otherwise The continuance of this Act. Provided also and be further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this Act shall continue in force for Thrée years after the end of this present Session of Parliament and from thenceforward to the end of the next Session of Parliament after the said Thrée years and no longer CAP. V. Against Disturbances of Sea-men and others and to preserve the Stores belonging to His Majesties Navy Royal. WHereas divers fightings quarrellings and disturbances do often happen in and about His Majesties Offices Yards and Stores for His Majesties Royal Navy and frequent differences and disorders are occasioned in the Office of His Majesties Treasury of the Navy on Pay-days in London Portsmouth and other places of méeting for the service of the said Navy and that either by the unreasonable turbulency of Sea-men and others attending on or relating to that Service or their Creditors or by the rudeness of the Officers intrusted with His Majesties Stores on Land or in his Royal Ships when they are questioned by the principal Officers and Commissioners of the said Navy either for neglect or imbezelment of His Majesties Provisions Ammunitions or other Equipage of the Navy under their charge And that not only to the disturbance of the Peace but sometimes to the danger and hindrance of His Majesties Service both in point of Husbanding His Majesties Revenue and also in dispatch of the Ships on which the honour and safety of His Majesty and Kingdom so much depends which Inconveniences require a spéedier Remedy then the ordinary attendance on the Sessions of the Peace can give the parties accused or offending being many times bound to Sea And the principal Officers and Commissioners for want of authority to suppress such Insolencies and determine such Cases being necessitated to pass by many offences in which His Majesty might be righted if their necessary attendance on that Important Service would permit the prosecution of the Offenders before other ordinary Iudicatures Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same That the Treasurer Comptroller Surveyour Clerk of the Acts and the Commissioners of the Navy for the time being Who may punish disturbances by Sea-men and others relating to the Navy Office or any two or more of them have power and Authority to examine and punish all such person and persons whom they upon their enquiry examination or on view in their presence shall find hereafter to make or have made any disturbance fighting or quarrelling in the Yards Stores or Offices aforesaid at Pay-days or on other occasions relating to the Naval Services in such manner as followeth that is to say That they or any two or more of them may punish any the said offences by Fine Imprisonment or either of them the Fine not excéeding twenty shillings and the Imprisonment not excéeding one wéek and have power in such cases to commit such persons to the next Gaol or to the custody of the Messenger or Messengers for the time being attendant on them who respectively are to receive and detain such person so offending And that the said principal Officers Commissioners or the greater number of them then present have power to discharge such Fine or Imprisonment if they so think fit And for non-payment of the Fine so Imposed and not remitted to imprison the party offending until payment thereof which said Fines shall be paid to the Clerk of the Chest for the use of the maimed Sea-men and that the examination of witnesses be upon oath before them which they any two or more of them are accordingly impowred to administer And it is further by the Authority aforesaid Enacted That the said Officers and Commissioners or any two or more of them in Cases where greater example or punishment is néedful may also bind the person and persons offending to their good behaviour with or without Securities as occasion shall be Imbezilling of Stores and Ammunition And whereas divers of His Majesties Stores and Ammunition pertaining to his Navy and Shipping or service thereof are Imbezelled and Filched away It is by like Authority Enacted That the said principal Officers and Commissioners or any two or more of them by warrant under their hands and seals have power in like manner to enquire and search for the same in all places as Iustices of the Peace may do in case of Felony and punish the Offenders by such Fine and Imprisonment as aforesaid and cause the Goods to be brought in again And if th◠offence be of such nature as doth require a higher and severer punishment Then that they or any two or more of them may commit such offenders to the next Gaol or to the custody of their Messenger or Messengers aforesaid till he or they so offending enter into Recognizance with Surety or Sureties according to the nature of the offence to appear and answer to the same in his Majesties Court of Exchequer or other Court where his Majesty shall question him or them for the same within one year following on process duly served for that purpose on such offender or offenders And it is Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That they the said principal Officers and Commissioners or any two or more of them may put in use the said powers on the Offenders as aforesaid in all places where they hold an Office for his Majesty as well within Liberties as without Any Law Statute Ordinance Charter or Priviledge to the contrary notwithstanding This Act to continue for two years from the First day of June The continuance of this Act. 19 Car. 2. cap. 7. One thousand six hundred sixty and four And from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament CAP. VI. To prevent the delivering up of Merchants Ships WHereas it often happeneth that Masters and Commanders of Merchants Ships do suffer their Ships to be boarded and the goods to be taken out by Pyrats and Sea-Rovers notwithstanding they have sufficient force to defend themselves whereby not only the Merchants are much prejudiced but the honour of the English Navigation
and for ever hereafter superseded surceased stayed and discharged And that none of the said Admirals Vice-Admirals Captains or Officers of Ships or Vessels Seamen or Mariners shall from henceforth by vertue force or colour of any Process or procéedings whatsoever in any of His Majesties said Courts or elsewhere be in any wise Arrested disquieted questioned or troubled either in their Persons Lands or Goods for or by reason of the said Act or any thing therein contained But that all and every the said Admirals Vice-Admirals Captains and Officers of Ships or Vessels and all Seamen and Mariners and every of them shall by vertue of this Act stand and be for ever discharged and acquitted in all Courts and Places and of and from all Suits and Proceedings whatsoever sued or begun or to be sued or begun against them or any of them for any manner of Prizes Ships or Goods whatsoever by them or any of them seised surprized or any ways taken betwixt the said thirtieth of January One thousand six hundred forty two and the nine and twentieth of May One thousand six hundred sixty and of and from all Accompts Troubles Articles and Suits whatsoever concerning the same And that this Act shall be taken and expounded in the most large and beneficial manner for the said Admiralls Vice-Admirals Commanders Captains and Officers of Ships and Vessels and Seamen and Mariners and every of them and for their best advantage for the final free and absolute acquitting and discharging of them and every of them of and from all the said Prizes and every part thereof and all Ships and Vessels and Goods whatsoever or of what nature or kind soever by them or any of them seized surprised or in any sort taken betwixt the said thirtieth of January One thousand six hundred forty two and the said nine and twentieth of May One thousand six hundred sixty Provided always And be it Enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained The said Act not repealed as to any Collectors Treasurers c. of such Prize-goods shall not extend or be construed to extend to discharge any other persons whatsoever but onely the said Admirals Vice-Admirals Commanders Captains of Ships and Officers of Ships or Vessels and Seamen and Mariners but that all and every Collectors and Treasurers Sub-Collectors and Vnder-Treasurers of Prize-Goods Commissioners and Sub-Commissioners of Prize-Goods and all and every their Casheers Deputies Officers and Receivers other then such person or persons who are discharged by the Act of Frée and General-Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion that have not yet truly accompted or paid in the Provenues of the Prizes or Moneys arising thereout seized or taken betwixt the said thirtieth of January One thousand six hundred forty two and the said nine and twentieth of May One thousand six hundred sixty and all and every other person and persons by whom or to whom or to or for whose use any Prizes or Prize-Ships Plate Iewels Arms Ammunition Wares Merchandizes or any manner of Goods whatsoever seized or taken for Prize betwixt the said thirtieth of January One thousand six hundred forty two and the said nine and twentieth of May One thousand six hundred sixty were disposed or sold or to whose hands they came and who had and enjoyed the same or any part thereof and are still behind and have not paid in the moneys contracted for and arising or due upon such Sales or Dispositions or any of them and all securities by them and every of them given for or touching the premisses or any thing concerning the said Prizes or any of them shall be chargeable to Your Majesty for the said premisses and all the dependencies thereof respectively in the said Court of Admiralty or Exchequer and shall be procéeded upon in the said Court of Admiralty or Exchequer in Your Majesties Name and to and for Your Majesties use according to the said Act directing the prosecution of such as are accomptable for Prize-Goods and as fully and entirely as if this Act had never béen Any thing in this present Act notwithstanding CAP. VII A former Act for Regulating Printing continued BE it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That an Act made in the fourteenth year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord the King that now is Entituled An Act for preventing abuses in Printing Seditious Treasonable and unlicensed Books and Pamphlets and Regulating of Printing and Printing-Presses shall be continued and remain in force untill the end of the next Session of Parliament continued 17 Car. 2. cap. 4. CAP. VIII Arrests of Judgment and superseding Executions prevented WHereas great delay trouble and vexation hath béen and still is occasioned to the people of this Realm as well by arresting and reversing of Iudgments as by staying Executions by Writs of Error and Supersedeas For remedy thereof Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That if any Verdict of Twelve men shall be given in any Action In what court and cases Iudgment after verdict shall not be stayed for default of form in pleading Suit Bill or Demand to be commenced from and after the Five and twentieth day of March which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and five in any of His Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster or in the Courts of Record in the Counties-Palatine of Chester Lancaster or Durham or in His Majesties Courts of the Great Sessions in any of the twelve Shires of Wales Iudgement thereupon shall not be stayed or reversed for default in form or lack of form or by reason that there are not Pledges or but one Pledge to prosecute returned upon the Original Writ or because the Name of the Sheriff is not returned upon such Original Writ or for default of entring Pledges upon any Bill or Declaration or for default of alledging the bringing into Court of any Bond Bill Indenture or other Déed whatsoever mentioned in the Declaration or other Pleading or for default of Allegation of the bringing into Court of Letters Testamentary or Letters of Administration or by reason of the omission of Vi armis or Contra pacem or for or by reason of the mistaking of the Christian Name or Sirname of the Plaintiff or Defendant Demandant or Tenant sum or sums of Money Day Moneth or Year by the Clerk in any Bill Declaration or Pleading where the right Name Sirname Sum Day Moneth or Year in any Writ Plaint Roll or Record preceding or in the same Roll or Record where the Mistake is committed is or are once truly and rightly alledged whereunto the Plaintiff might have demurred and shewn the same for Cause nor for want of the Averment of Hoc
it shall and may be lawful to and for the Iustices of Assize for the said County of Hertford to make such Adjudication which being entred with the Clerk of the Assizes shall be estéemed a good Adjudication of the amendment of the said Highways And that then and from thenceforth the said Debt being fully satisfied to such as shall have advanced any moneys thereupon the said Toll shall cease and determine any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And whereas in this present Act it is provided That all and every person and persons who by Law are chargeable towards the repairing of the said High-ways and places aforesaid shall still remain so chargeable and pay six pence in the pound yearly according to the true value of their Estates for and towards the repair of the said High-ways during the time of the continuance of the said Toll Be it therefore Provided and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the aforesaid sum of six pence in the pound shall be paid unto the Treasurer appointed to receive the aforesaid Toll How the said six pence in the pound shall be paid and â—evied in like manner as the said Toll is appointed to be paid by the aforesaid Act And for default of payment of the said Rate of six pence in the pound in manner as aforesaid by the space of six dayes after demand made That it shall and may be lawful for the Surveyors of the High-ways for the time being and they are hereby impowred to levy the same by Distress and Sale of the Goods of the party refusing to pay the same acccordingly restoring the Overplus if any be to the Owner CAP. XI For Draining of the Fenn called Deeping-Fenn and other Fenns therein mentioned WHereas at a Session of Sewers holden at Bourne in the County of Lincoln the twentieth day of August in the one and fortieth year of the Reign of Quéen Elizabeth for the recovery and Draining of certain Fenns in Holland and Kestiven in the County of Lincoln called or known by the names of Deeping-Fenn Pinchbeck and Spalding South-Fenn Thurlby-Fenn Deeping Pinchbeck Thurlby Bourn and Croyland fens Bourn-South-Fenn and Croyland-Fenn alias Goggushland It was by the Commissioners then and there assembled Ordered and Decréed That the sum of twelve thousand pounds should be levied and gathered upon the Lords and Inhabitants of certain Towns in Kestiven and Holland Commoners in the said Fenns for Draining the same and should be paid in to certain persons therein nominated to receive the same at or before the tenth day of September then next ensuing which said sum being neglected to be paid the said Fens by reason thereof could not be Drained acccording to the Form by the said Law intended The said Commissioners therefore well tendring the great profit that would arise to all persons concerned and to the Commonwealth in general if the same might be Drained at several Sessions of Sewers held at Market-Deeping the twentieth day of September in the said one and fortieth year of Quéen Elizabeth and at Market-Dâ—â—ping aforesaid the twentieth day of August in the two and fortieth year of the Reign of the said Quéen did Ordain and Decrée That the said Fens and Marsh-Grounds should be forthwith taken in hand to be Drained and that Thomas Lovell Esquire a man skilful in works of that nature should be admitted to undertake the same under the Covenants therein mentioned And in pursuance thereof the said Thomas Lovell did undertake the said Works and made some progress therein and afterwards one third part of the said several Fens were by the said Commissioners of Sewers set out by Metes and Bounds and allotted to the said Thomas Lovell in recompence of his costs charges and endeavours applied and expended therein And after A third part assigned and set out to Thomas Lovel the said third part was by the said Commissioners of Sewers decréed to the said Thomas Lovell and his heirs in recompense of his said work of Draining and of his charges and expences therein to have and to hold to the said Thomas Lovell his heirs and assigns for ever And whereas by an Act of Parliament made at Westminster in the first year of King James Intituled An Act for relief of Thomas Lovell Esquire the above recited Decrées of Sewers were Ratified and Confirmed And the said third part of the said Fens and Marsh-grounds as they were allotted and set out by the said Commissioners were by the said Act Ordained Enacted and Established to be held by the said Thomas Lovel his Heirs and Assigns for ever under the Provisoes Conditions and Appointments in the said Decrées and Act of Parliament mentioned and expressed as by the said Act of Parliament and Decrées of Sewers more fully may appear And whereas the said Thomas Lovel immediately after the making the said Act of Parliament entred into the said Lands set out and assigned as a third part of the said several Fens and by vertue of the said Decrées and Act of Parliament became seised thereof and he and his heirs and Assigns have ever since till of late years held and enjoyed the same untill by some neglect in the Assigns of the said Thomas Lovel and failer in the Maintaining Scowring and Cleansing the said Banks Rivers Sewers and other Works necessary thereunto occasioned by some differences arising betwéen the said Assigns of the said Thomas Lovel and the Lords Owners and Commoners of the said Fens about the enjoyment of some additional recompence allotted to the said Assigns of the said Thomas Lovel by a subsequent Law of Sewers made at Spalding not onely the said Fens and Marsh-grounds are returned into their antient condition of being hurtfully surrounded and annoyed with waters but a great and considerable part of some adjacent Towns of Holland have béen overflowed and laid desolate and many habitations and families who formerly lived comfortably there utterly ruined and destroyed thereby and yet continue in manifest danger in all seasons of wet weather and flouds to fall into the said calamities which great mischief is by long and indubitable experience found to arise principally from several imperfections in the said Decrées and Acts of Parliament To the end therefore that the said Countrey being in its own nature very rich and fertile and wherein the King and Quéens Majesty his Mother have large Possessions and many ancient Families and Inhabitants their whole subsistence may not longer remain in such manifest danger of being utterly lost nor the Commonwealth continue longer deprived of those advantages which would arise from the performance of the said Works Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Maiesty by and with the consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the said Decrées and Act of Parliament above mentioned and every Clause Article and Thing therein contained A certain Act and decrees
have a Mayor and Aldermen and particular Iustices of the Peace by Charter or Commission or Bayliff or Bayliffs or other Chief Officer or Officers and other Assistants by like Charter and where two or more Churches or Chappels or a Church a Chappel the Parishes thereunto belonging do lie within the said Corporation or Liberties thereof convenient to be united In such cases the Bishop of the Diocese where such Parish and Parishes are with the consent of the Mayor Aldermen and Iustices of the Peace Bayliff or Bayliffs or other Chief Officer or Officers or the major part of them and of the Patron or Patrons of such Church or Churches Chappel or Chappels shall or may according to due form of Law unite the said Churches or Chappels or Church and Chappel or any of them and shall appoint at which Church or Chappel Churches or Chappels the said Parishioners and Inhabitants of the said Parishes or places to which the said Churches or Chappels or Church and Chappel do belong shall usually méet for the worship of God and which of the said Churches or Chappels or Church or Chappel shall be united and annexed unto the other which shall be the Church Presentative unto which all Presentations shall thereafter be only made unto which the Parishioners shal resort as their proper Church And after such Order made the said Churches or Chappels or Church and Chappel shall accordingly for ever stand united And the Parishioners Landholders and Inhabitants of the said Parishes and places belonging to such Churches or Chappels or Church and Chappel so united and annexed shall as they or any of them become void and from thenceforward pay all such Tythes and other Duties as belong or did belong to the Incumbent of any of the said Churches or Chappels or Church and Chappel so united and annexed unto the Incumbent of the said Presentative Church or Chappel unto which the said other Churches or Chappels or Church or Chappel shall be so united and annexed Parishes shall remain distinct notwithstanding such Vnion of Churches And it is hereby also Enacted That notwithstanding any such Vnion to be made by vertue hereof each of the Parishes so united shall continue distinct as to all Rates Taxes Parochial Rites Charges and Duties and all other Priviledges Liberties and respects whatsoever other then what is herein before mentioned and specified And Churchwardens shall be elected and appointed for each Parish as they were before such union made How and when such Vniting shall take effect And it is further Enacted and Provided That where one or more of the said Churches or Chappels or Church and Chappel so united and annexed shall be full at the time of making such Vnion That then the said Vnion shall take effect for every such Church or Chappel And how severall Patrons shall present upon the first Avoidance after such Vnion made And that the several Patrons of the said Churches and Chappels so Vnited shall and may present by turns to that Church onely which shall remain and be presentative from time to time in such order as the said Bishop with the consent of the said Mayor Aldermen and Iustices of Peace Bayliff or Bayliffs or other chief Officer or Officers within such Parishes or the major part of them and of the Patron or Patrons of such Church or Churches Chappel or Chappels shall determine and decrée for the preservation of their respective Rights therein respect being therein had to the difference of the values of the yearly Maintenance belonging to such Churches or Chappels or any of them Saving unto the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors all the Tenths and First-Fruits of all such Churches and Chappels so to be Vnited according to the rates and valuations at which the said Churches and Chappels are Rated and Valued in the Office of First-Fruits and Tenths in His Majesties Court of Exchequer And also reserving all Procurations and Pensions to all persons to whom they are now and have béen formerly or shal be hereafter due and payable Any thing herein contained notwithstanding How Vnions must be registred Provided always That no Vnion of Parishes or places to be made by vertue of this Act shall commence or be effectual in Law until it be Registred in the Register Book of the Bishop of the Diocese which the Register is hereby required to do Parishes having 10 l. maintenance may not be Vnited Provided always That no Vnion made by vertue hereof shall be good and effectual where the setled Maintenance belonging to the Parsons Vicars and Incumbents of the Church or Chappel or Churches or Chappels so Vnited shall excéed the sum of One hundred pounds per annum cléer and above all Charges and Reprises unless the respective Parishioners or the major part of them under their hands desire otherwise Incumbents oâ— sâ—ch Vnited Pâ—â— shes must be graduates of the Vniversity Provided always And be it Enacted That every Minister setled as aforesaid the Incumbent of any Church or Chappel or Churches or Chappels united according to this Act shall be the full and lawful Incumbent thereof to all intents and purposes so as such Minister be a Graduate in one of the Vniversities of this Kingdom Owners of Impropriations may bestow and annex mâ—intenance to the Churches where they lie And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Owner or Proprietor Owners or Proprietors of any Impropriation Tythes or Portion of Tythes in any Parish or Chappelry within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales is are and shall be by vertue of this Act inabled and impowred to give or bestow unite and annex the same or any part thereof unto the Parsonage or Vicarage of the said Parish Church or Chappel where the same do lie or arise or settle the same in Trust for the benefit of the said Parsonage or Vicarage or of the Curate and Curates there successively where the Parsonage is Impropriate and no Vicar indowed according to his or their respective Estates Without license of Mortmain without any License of Mortmain Any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding Parsons and Vicars not having setled means of 100 l. per annum may purchase and annex lands or rents without license in Mortmain And be it further Enacted That if the setled Maintenance of such Parsonage Vicarages Churches and Chappels so united or of any other Parsonage or Vicarage with Cure in the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales shall not amount to the full sum of One hundred pounds per annum cléer and above all charges and reprises That then it shall be lawful for the Parson Vicar and Incumbent of the same and his successors to take receive and purchase to him and his successors Lands Tenements Rents Tythes or other Hereditaments without any License of Mortmain Any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding CAP. IV. A Former Act for Regulating the Press
Continued BE it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That an Act made in the Fourtéenth year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord the King that now is 14 Car. 2. cap. 23. Entituled An Act for preventing Abuses in Printing Seditious Treasonable and Unlicensed Books and Pamphlets and for Regulating of Printing and Printing Presses shall be continued with the Alterations and Additions made in and by this Act and shall remain in force until the end of the First Session of the next Parliament And be it further Enacted That from and after the Six and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty five Three printed Copies of every Book in London how to be disposed Every Printer within the City of London or in any other place except the Two Vniversities shall reserve Thrée Printed Copies of the best and largest Paper of every Book new Printed or reprinted by him with Additions and shall before any publick Vending of the said Book bring them to the Master of the Company of Stationers and deliver them to him One whereof shall by the said Master of the said Company of Stationers within Ten days after he hath so received the same be delivered to the Kéeper of His Majesties Library and the other two within the said ten days to be sent to the Vice-Chancellour of the two Vniversities respectively for the use of the publick Libraries of the said Vniversities Books printed in the Vniversities And it is further Enacted That the Printers in the said Vniversities and every of them respectively from and after the said Six and twentieth day of December shall deliver one such Printed Copy as aforesaid of every Book so new Printed or reprinted in the said Vniversities or in either of them to the Kéeper of His Majesties Library as aforesaid as also to the Vice-Chancellour of either of the said Vniversities for the time being two other such Printed Copies for the use of the publick Libraries of the said Vniversities respectively And if any of the printers aforesaid or the said Master of the Company of Stationers shall not observe the direction of this Act therein That then he and they so making default in not delivering the said printed Copies as aforesaid shall severally forfeit besides the value of the said printed Copies the sum of Five pounds for every Copy not so delivered as also the value of the said printed Copies not so delivered The same to be recovered by His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and by the Chancellour Masters and Scholars of either of the said Vniversities respectively by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster wherein no Essoyn Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed CAP. V. Thomas Dolman Joseph Bampfeild and Thomas Scot attainted of High Treason if they render not themselves by a Day IN all humble manner shew unto Your most Excellent Majesty Your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled in Parliament That whereas it is notoriously known that Thomas Dolman Joseph Bampfeild alias Stepner and Thomas Scot Son of Thomas Scot lately Executed as a Most execrable Traitor one of the horrid bloudy murderers of His late Royal Majesty King Charles the First of ever blessed memory contrary to the duty of their Allegiance have most traiterously and wickedly adhered and still do adhere to Your Majesties Enemies beyond the Seas where they as yet remain and commit divers Treasonable acts without any sense of loyalty to Your Majesty or of natural affection to their native Country May it therefore please Your most Excellent Majesty That it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the consent and advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That if the said Thomas Dolman Joseph Bampfeild alias Stepner and Thomas Scot Thomas Dolman Joseph Bampfeild Thomas Scot. shall not return into the Realm of England and render themselves to some or one of His Majesties Iustices of the Peace for the County wherein he or they shall first arrive at or before the first day of February next ensuing and also abide their Legal Trial for such their Treasons Then every of them the said Thomas Dolman Joseph Bampfeild alias Stepner and Thomas Scot not rendering himself as aforesaid or not abiding his Trial aforesaid shall from and after the said First day of February stand and be adjudged attainted of High Treason to all intents and purposes whatsoever and shall suffer and forfeit as a person attaint of High Treason by the Laws of the Land ought to suffer and forfeit And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Persons beyond Sea by Proclamation are required to return into England That all and every person and persons who now are or hereafter shall be beyond the Seas and whom His Majesty by any of His Royal Proclamations to be issued under the Great Seal of England during the continuance of this War with the States of the United Provinces shall name and require to return into England and render themselves by a certain day therein to be mentioned to some or one of His Majesties Iustices of the Peace for the County wherein he or they shall first arrive and shall not return and render themselves accordingly and abide their legal Trial shall from and after the day to them to be prefixed by such Proclamation stand and be attainted of High Treason to all intents and purposes and shall suffer such pains and penalties and undergo all such forfeitures as persons attainted of High Treason ought to do The time by such Proclamation Three moneths at least Provided That the time to be prefixed by such Proclamation for the persons therein to be named to render themselves be not less then the time and term of Thrée Calendar moneths from and after the Date of such Proclamation And be it further Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Persons Serving the States of the Vnited Provinces during the War That all and every His Majesties Subjects who from and after the First day of February next ensuing shall at any time during the continuance of the said War serve the States of the United Provinces either by Land or Sea as a Souldier or Seaman on this side the Straights Or from and after the First day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and six within the Straights Or from and after the First day of August in the said year One thousand six hundred sixty six in Africa or America or any where beyond the Straights on this side the Equinoctial Or from and after the First day of February in the said year One thousand six hundred sixty six in
upon this Act may be Assigned over And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person or persons to whom any moneys shall be due by vertue of this Act after Warrant or Order entred in the Book of Register aforesaid for payment thereof his Executors Administrators or Assigns by Indorsement of his Order or Warrant may assign and transfer his Right Title Interest and Benefit of such Warrant or Order or any part thereof to any other which being notified in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt aforesaid and an entry and memorial thereof also made in the Book of Registry aforesaid for Warrants which the Officers shall on request without Fée or charge accordingly make shall intitle such Assignée his Executors Administrators and Assigns to the benefit thereof and payment thereon And such Assignée may in like manner Assign again and so Toties quoties and afterwards it shall not be in the power of such person or persons who have made such Assignments to make void release or discharge the same or any the moneys thereby due or any part thereof Persons sued for executing this Act may plead the general issue And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Action Plaint Suit or Information shall be commenced or prosecuted against any person or persons for what he or they shall do in pursuance or in execution of this Act such person or persons so sued in any Court whatsoever shall or may plead the general Issue Not guilty and upon any Issue joyned may give this Act and the special matter in Evidence And if the Plaintiff or Prosecutor shall become Nonsuit or forbear further prosecution or suffer Discontinuance or if a Verdict pass against him the Defendant and Defendants shall recover their treble Costs for which they shall have the like remedy as in any Case where Costs by the Law are given to Defendants CAP. II. Cattel may not be imported from Ireland and other parts beyond the Seas nor Fish taken by Foreigners WHereas by an Act of this present Parliament entituled An Act for the Encouragement of Trade amongst other things some Provision was made for the preventing of coming in of vast Numbers of Cattel 1◠Car. 2. cap. 5. Stat. 3. whereby the Rents and Values of the Land of this Kingdome were much fallen and like dayly to fall more to the great Prejudice Detriment and Impoverishment of this Kingdom which nevertheless hath by experience béen found to be ineffectual and the continuance of any Importation either of the Lean or Fat Cattel dead or alive herein after specified not onely Vnnecessary but very Destructive to the welfare of this Kingdome Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That such Importation from and after the second day of February Importation of Cattel a common Nusance in this present year One thousand six hundred sixty and six is a publick and common Nusance and shall be so adjudged déemed and taken to be to all intents and purposes whatsoever And that if any great Cattel Shéep or Swine or any Béef Pork or Bacon except for the necessary Provision of the respective Ships or Vessels in which the same shall be brought not exposing the same or any part thereof to Sale shall from and after the said second day of February by any wise whatsoever be Imported or brought from beyond Seas into this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed That then it shall and may be lawful for any Constable The Penalty Tything-man Headborough Church-wardens or Overséers of the Poor or any of them within their respective Liberties Parishes or Places to take and seize the same and kéep the same during the space of Eight and fourty hours in some publick or convenient place where such Seizure shall be made within which time if the Owner or Owners or any for them or him shall make it appear unto some Iustice of the Peace of the same County where the same shall be so seized by the Oath of two credible Witnesses which Oath the said Iustice of Peace is hereby impowred and required to administer That the same were not Imported from Ireland or from any other place beyond the Seas not herein after Excepted after the said second day of February Then the same upon the Warrant of such Iustice of Peace shall be delivered without delay But in default of such Proof and Warrant then the same to be forfeited One half thereof to be disposed to the use of the Poor of the Parish where the same shall be so found or seized the other half to be to his or their own use that shall so seize the same And for the better encouragement of the Fishery of this Kingdom Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Ling Herring Cod or Pilchard fresh or salted Encouragement of Fishery dryed or bloated or any Salmons Eels or Congers taken by any Foreigners Aliens to this Kingdom shall be Imported uttered sold or exposed to sale in this Kingdom That then it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons to take and seize the same The one half thereof to be disposed of to the use of the Poor of the Parish where the same shall be so found or seized the other half to his or their own use which shall so seize the same Provided always That nothing in this Act shall be construed to hinder the Importation of Cattel from the Isle of Man in this Kingdom of England Isle of Man so as the number of the said Cattel do not excéed Six hundred Head yearly And that they be not of any other Bréed then of the Bréed of the Isle of Man And that they be landed at the Port of Chester or some of the Members thereof and not elsewhere This Act to continue until the end of Seven years and from thence to the end of the First Session of the next Parliament CAP. III. A former Act for preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England Continued WHereas an Act was made in the Fourtéenth year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord the King that now is entituled 14 Car. 2. cap. 22. An Act for preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England which Act is very near expiring and hath béen found very necessary for the preservation of those places from that great number of Lewd Disorderly and Lawless persons that usually frequented thereabouts Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That the said Act and every Clause and Clauses therein contained and all and every the Powers and Authorities thereby given be continue and remain
are for the use and service aforesaid to be kept in His Majesties Office of Receipt in the said Mint or Mints under the usual Keys of the Warden Master and Worker and Comptroller for the time being and issued out thence from time to time according to the manner and course of the said Mint or Mints respectively And it is hereby further Enacted That there shall not be issued out of the Exchequer of the said moneys in any one year for the Fées and Salaries of the Officers of the Mint or Mints and towards the providing maintaining and repairing of the Houses Offices and Buildings and other necessaries for Assaying Melting down and Coyning above the sum of Thrée thousand pounds Sterling money And the overplus of the said moneys so kept or to be kept as aforesaid shall be imployed for and towards the expence waste and charge of assaying melting down and Coynage and buying in of Gold and Silver to Coyn The continuance of this Act. and not otherwise And lastly Be it Enacted And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this Act shall continue and be in force until the Twentieth day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy one and until the end of the first Session of Parliament then next following Proviso and no longer Provided always and be it further Enacted That where His Majesty in and by his Letters Patents under his Great Seal dated at Westminster the Twentieth day of August in the Twelfth year of his Reign Dame Barbara Villiers did for divers good causes and considerations Him moving give and grant to Dame Barbara Villiers Widow the sum of Two pence by tale out of every pound weight Troy of Silver moneys which from thenceforth should be Coyned by vertue of any Warrant or Indenture made and to be made by His Majesty his Heirs and Successors To have hold receive perceive and take the same unto the said Dame Barbara Villiers her Executors Administrators and Assigns from the Ninth day of the then instant August wéekly as the said moneys should be Coyned for and during the term of One and twenty years as by the same doth appear That His Majesty may out of the moneys leviable by this Act appoint and cause reasonable satisfaction to be made yearly to the said Dame Barbara Villiers her Executors and Administrators for her Interest in the Premisses not excéeding the sum of Six hundred pounds in any one year Anno Regni CAROLI II. Regis Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Decimo Nono AT the Parliament begun at Westminster the Eighth day of May Anno Dom. 1661. In the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord CHARLES by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. And there continued by several Prorogations to the 18th day of September 1666. And then continued to the 8th of February following And thence Prorogued to the 10th of October 1667. were Enacted as followeth CAP. I. An Act Explanatory of the Act for Raising Moneys by a Poll and otherwise towards the Maintenance of this present War 18 Car. 2. cap. 1. WHereas by an Act of this present Session of Parliament Intituled An Act for Raising Moneys by a Poll and otherwise towards the Maintenance of this present War It is Enacted That all and every person and persons shall pay unto His Majesty the sum of Twelve pence over and above the other Rates charged upon them by the said Act To prevent all doubts that may arise in the execution thereof Be it Enacted and Declared by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That the said sum of Twelve pence shall be charged upon and be paid by every person of what age sex or condition soever within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed other then such persons who receive Alms from the Parish and the Children of any person remaining in his or her family who by reason of their poverty doth not contribute unto the Rates for Church and Poor and which are under the age of sixtéen years and are therefore exempted by the said Act. And be it further Enacted That the respective Parents Guardians and Tutors of every person under the age of One and twenty years shall upon default of payment by such person and upon demand pay Twelve pence for every such person residing in their family or under their Tuition and not exempted as aforesaid And be it Enacted That every person and persons charged or appointed to make any payment by vertue of this present Act shall be compellable by the Commissioners appointed by the before recited Act or any two or more of them to pay the same according unto the Rules and Methods and under the Penalties for paying the Rates expressed in the said recited Act. And be it further Enacted and Declared That every person or persons charged by the said recited Act for his or their Profession Office or in respect of any other capacity chargeable by this or the aforesaid Act who shall find him or themselves overcharged shall and may upon his or their Appeal before the Commissioners in the said Act mentioned or any two or more of them upon his or their several Oaths discharge him or themselves in such manner and form as persons over-rated for their personal Estates are by the said Act enabled And be it Enacted That all persons not being Housholders nor having a certain place of abode and all Servants shall be taxed at the places where they shall be resident at the time of the execution of the said Act and not otherwhere CAP. II. A Judicature erected for Determination of Differences touching Houses Burned or Demolished by reason of the late Fire which happened in London WHereas the greatest part of the Houses in the City of London and some in the Suburbs thereof have béen burnt by the dreadful and dismal Fire which happened in September last Many of the Tenants Vnder-tenants or late Occupiers whereof are liable unto Suits and Actions to compel them to repair and rebuild the same and to pay their Rents as if the same had not béen burned and are not relieveable therein in any ordinary course of Law and great Differences are like to arise concerning the said Repairs and new Building of the said Houses and payment of Rents which if they should not be determined with all spéed and without charge would much obstruct the rebuilding of the said City And for that it is just that every one concerned should bear a proportionable share of the loss according to their several Interests wherein in respect of the multitude of cases varying in their circumstances no certain general rule can be prescribed Be it
shall or may repair to view the same and thereout to take Copies of all such Iudgements and Determinations as shall relate to him her and them And that none of the said Iustices and Barons shall take any Fée or Reward whatsoever directly or indirectly for any thing to be done by them by vertue or colour of this present Act. Officers And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for a reward of the Officers to be imployed herein A Table of Fees the said Iustices and Barons or any thrée or more of them as aforesaid are hereby enabled to order and direct a Table of such reasonable Fées to be made as may carry on and effect the purport and intent of this Act. This Act to continue till the last day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and eight The continuance of this Act. and no longer Proviso touching the renewing and reversing Orders or Decrees Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where any such Order or Decrée as aforesaid shall be made by a lesser number of Iustices and Barons then Seven it shall be lawful for any person agrieved by such Order or Decrée to present his Exceptions to the same in writing within seven days next after such Order or Decrée made to the Chief Iustices and Chief Baron for the time being or any two of them who shall forthwith communicate the same to the rest of the said Iustices and Barons who are hereby required to hear the Parties and examine and consider the said Exceptions And if any Seven or more of them shall subscribe thereunto that they find probable cause of complaint Then it shall and may be lawful to and for any Seven or more of the said Iustices Barons within Twenty days next following such Exceptions delivered to review the said former Order or Decrée And thereupon to reverse Confirm Enlarge Diminish or otherwise alter any such Order or Decrée as in their wisdoms they shall think fit Any thing herein contained notwithstanding CAP. III. For Rebuilding the City of London FOrasmuch as the City of London being the Imperial Seat of His Majesties Kingdoms and renowned for Trade and Commerce throughout the World by reason of a most dreadful Fire lately happening therein was for the most part thereof burnt down and destroyed within the compass of a few days and now lies buried in its own Ruines For the spéedy Restauration whereof and for the better Regulation Vniformity and Gracefulness of such new Buildings as shall be erected for Habitations in order thereunto And to the end that great and outragious Fires through the blessing of Almighty God so far forth as humane Providence with submission to the Divine pleasure can foresée may be reasonably prevented or obviated for the time to come both by the matter and form of such Building And further to the intent that all Incouragement and Expedition may be given unto and all Impediments and Obstructions that may retard or protract the undertaking or carrying on a work so necessary and of so great Honour and Importance to His Majesty and this Kingdom and to the rest of His Majesties Kingdoms and Dominions may be removed Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the Rules and Directions hereafter in this Act prescribed be duely observed by all persons therein concerned And first That no Building or House for Habitation whatsoever Rules and directions to be observed in building be hereafter Erected within the limits of the said City and Liberties thereof but such as shall be pursuant to such Rules and Orders of Building and with such materials as are herein after particularly appointed and according to such Scantlings as are set down and prescribed in a Table in this present Act hereafter specified And if any person or persons shall presume to Build contrary thereunto and be convicted of the same by the Oaths of two or more credible witnesses to be taken before the Lord Mayor for the time being or any two or more of the Iustices of the Peace for the said City Penalty who are hereby impowred to administer the same Oaths that then and in such case the said House so irregularly built as aforesaid shall be déemed as a common Nusance and the Builder and Levier thereof shall enter into a Recognizance in such sum as the said Mayor and Iustices respectively in their Discretions shall appoint for abatement and demolishing the same in convenient time or otherwise to amend the same according to such Rules and Orders as aforesaid and in default of entring into such Recognizance the Offender shall be committed to the common Gaol of the said City there to remain without Bail or Mainprize till he shall have abated or demolished or otherwise amended the same or else such irregular House shall or may be demolished or abated by Order of the Court of Aldermen And that the said irregular Buildings may be the better prevented or more effectually discovered Prevention of irregular buildings Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council of the said City shall and may at their will and pleasure elect nominate and appoint one or more discréet and intelligent person or persons in the Art of Building to be the Surveyors or Supervisors to sée the said Rules and Scantlings well and truly observed And that it shall be lawful for the said Mayor Aldermen and Common Council or for the Mayor and Aldermen in their Court of Aldermen to administer to all the said Surveyors or Supervisors an Oath upon the holy Evangelists for the true and impartial execution of their Office in that behalf and to appoint the several Precincts which shall be under their several Surveys And to the end that all Builders may the better know how to provide and fit their materials for their several Buildings Be it Enacted That there shall be onely Four sorts of Buildings There shall be four sorts of buildings only and no more and that all manner of Houses so to be erected shall be of one of those four sorts of Buildings and no other that is to say The First and least sort of Houses fronting By-Lanes the Second sort of Houses fronting Stréets and Lanes of note the Third sort of Houses fronting high and principal Stréets the Fourth and largest sort of Mansion-houses for Citizens or other persons of extraordinary quality not fronting either of the thrée former ways And the Roofs of each of the first three sorts of Houses respectively shall be Vniform And for avoiding any uncertainty to the Builders or others herein Be it further Enacted Powers of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council to declare Streets
Authority aforesaid as followeth viz. That whereas there is already provided a strong and sufficient Messuage in the Parish of S. Thomas the Apostle near the City of Exon for the purpose aforesaid Exon City and One thousand pounds more by certain Trustees upon Proposals and Agréements made by them with cetain Gentlemen Iustices of the Peace for the County of Devon Devon who have also provided One thousand pounds more in order to purchase Lands of Inheritance for the good purposes hereafter mentioned Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Two thousand pounds be laid out in purchase of Lands of Inheritance by Order of the General Sessions of the Peace hereafter at any time to be held in the name of such persons as by such Order shall be appointed Item That the said House with the Grounds therewith inclosed be had and used as a Common Gaol and Workhouse for the said County in manner as is after expressed Item That an Overséer be therein placed by like Order and by like Order be removeable from time to time which Overseer shall have the charge custody and government of the Prisoners to him committed according to this Act and shall have Fifty pounds per annum during the execution of his Office and Ten pounds per annum for his Deputy but shall therefore take no fées for receiving delivering or doing any other service relating to the Prisoners from or of any the said Prisoners Item That the said Iustices by like Order from time to time shall and may by approbation of the Ordinary provide and appoint some méet and discréet Minister to read Divine Service according to the Orders of the Church of England unto the Prisoners at least four days in the wéek That is to say on the Lords day each Wednesday and each Friday and Saturday and oftner if the said Iustices shall appoint and to take pains in instructing them each Lords day at the least for which they may allow him Thirty pounds per annum or after that rate the rest of the Profits to be for Repairing the House and towards finding a Stock for to set the Prisoners on work Item That any person charged with such offence onely for which Clergy is allowable if so be he be néedy and indigent and not likely to maintain himself in Gaol may by Warrant of the Iustice or Iustices of the Peace to whom Iurisdiction in that behalf appertaineth be committed to the said Workhouse in order to his Trial and if any person shall be committed to the ordinary Gaol who shall be or become so indigent he may by Warrant of thrée Iustices of Peace whereof one to be of the Quorum be removed from the ordinary Common Gaol to the said House All which Prisoners so committed or removed shall be in the custody of the Overséer and be ordered and demeaned in the said House and conveyed to the Sessions or to the Gaol-delivery by like Warrant way and means as the Prisoners in other Gaols by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm are to be ordered and demeaned And because the said Workhouse is distant from the Ordinary Common Gaol the Prisoners by Order from the Sessions or Gaol-delivery may in order to their Trials be removed to the Common Gaol to be the more ready for their Trials Item That the said Overséer shall give Security for the Stock and be liable to such Regulations and Orders for Accompts and otherwise as the Sessions shall from time to time make for setting the poor Prisoners on work there which shall be obeyed and observed That a convenient Stock be from time to time raised at the Charge of the County Item That the said Iustices of the County in Devon may put in ure all the powers in this Act as other Iustices may in any other County by vertue thereof Saving to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors and to every other person and persons and their Heirs Successors Executors and Administrators all Rights Titles Claims and Demands whatsoever into or out of the said Messuages and Premisses as if this Act had never béen made CAP. V. A former Act concerning Replevins and Avowries to extend to the Principality of Wales and the County Palatines 1. Car. 2. cap. 7. WHereas by an Act of Parliament Entituled An Act for the more speedy and effectual proceeding upon Distresses and Avowries for Rents Provision is made where any Plaintiff shall Nonsuit before Issue joyned in any Suit or Replevin by Plaint or Writ lawfully returned removed or depending in any of the Kings Courts at Westminster Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That the said Act and all the Powers and Provisions thereby made for causes of Replevins depending in His Majesties Courts of Westminster shall be extended and be of the same force and efficacy in all causes of Replevin which are or shall be depending in His Majesties Court of Common Pleas for the County Palatine of Lancaster Lancaster Wales Chester the Courts of the Great Sessions of His Majesties Principality of Wales the Court of Great Sessions or Assizes for the County Palatine of Chester and the Court of Common Pleas for the County Palatine of Durham as fully and as amply for and during the continuance of the said Act as if the said Courts had been mentioned therein CAP. VI. A Redress of Inconveniencies by want of Proof of the Deceases of Persons beyond the Seas or absenting themselves upon whose Lives Estates do depend VVHereas divers Lords of Mannors and others have used to grant Estates by Copy of Court-Roll for one two or more life or lives according to the Custome of their several Mannors and have also granted Estates by Lease for one or more life or lives or else for years determinable upon one or more life or lives And it hath often happened that such person or persons for whose life or lives such Estates have béen granted have gone beyond the Seas or so absented themselves for many years that the Lessors and Reversioners cannot find out whether such person or persons be alive or dead by reason whereof such Lessors and Reversioners have béen held out of possession of their Tenements for many years after all the lives upon which such Estates depend are dead in regard that the Lessors and Reversioners when they have brought Actions for the recovery of their Tenements have béen put upon it to prove the death of their Tenants when it is almost impossible for them to discover the same For remedy of which mischief so frequently happening to such Lessors or Reversioners Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same Persons beyond the Seas or absenting
themselves for seven years That if such person or persons for whose life or lives such Estates have béen or shall be granted as aforesaid shall remain beyond the Seas or elsewhere absent themselves in this Realm by the space of Seven years together and no sufficient and evident proof be made of the lives of such person or persons respectively in any Action commenced for recovery of such Tenements by the Lessors or Reversioners in every such case the person or persons upon whose life or lives such Estate depended shall be accounted as naturally dead And in every Action brought for the recovery of the said Tenements by the Lessors or Reversioners their Heirs or Assigns The Iudges before whom such Action shall be brought shall direct the Iury to give their Verdict as if the person so remaining beyond the Seas or otherwise absenting himself were dead What shall be a good challenge to Iurors upon tryal of Lives in being And be further Enacted That in any such Action wherein the life or death of any such person or persons shall come in question betwéen the Lessor or Reversioner and the Tenant in possession it shall and may be lawful for the Lessor or Reversioner to take exception to any of the Iurors returned for the trial of that cause that the greatest part of the real Estate of any of such Iurors is held by Lease or Copy for lives who upon proof thereof shall be set aside as in case of other legal challenges Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Proviso for Lands held by lives of certain Traytors attainted That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to any Lands held by the life or lives of any person or persons attainted of Treason for the horrid murder of his late Majesty of blessed memory who now conceal or hide themselves which Lands are or have béen vested in His Majesty and are now granted to his Royal Highness the Duke of York but that the course of Evidence heretofore used in such cases shall be had and used Any thing to the contrary in this Act notwithstanding Provided always and be it Enacted Proviso for persons evicted by this not being in truth dead That if any person or persons shall be evicted out of any Lands or Tenements by vertue of this Act and afterwards if such person or persons upon whose life or lives such Estate or Estates depend shall return again from beyond the Seas or shall on proof in any Action to be brought for recovery of the same be made appear to be living or to have béen living at the time of the Eviction That then and from thenceforth the Tenant or Lessée who was outed of the same his or their Executors Administrators or Assigns shall or may re-enter re-possess have hold and enjoy the said Lands or Tenements in his or their former Estate for and during the life or lives or so long term as the said person or persons upon whose life or lives the said Estate or Estates depend shall be living and also shall upon Action or Actions to be brought by him or them against the Lessors Reversioners or Tenants in possession or other persons respectively which since the time of the said Eviction received the Profits of the said Lands or Tenements recover for damages the full Profits of the said Lands or Tenements respectively with lawfull Interest for and from the time that he or they were outed of the said Lands or Tenements and kept or held out of the same by the said Lessors Reversioners Tenants or other persons who after the said Eviction received the Profits of the said Lands or Tenements or any of them respectively aswell in the case when the said person or persons upon whose Life or Lives such Estates or Estates did depend are or shall be dead at the time of bringing of the said Action or Actions as if the said person or persons were then living CAP. VII Disturbances of Seamen and others prevented and to preserve the Stores belonging to His Majesties Navy Royal. WHereas divers Fightings Quarrelings and Disturbances do often happen in about His Majesties Offices Yards and Stores for His Majesties Royal Navy 16 Car. 2. cap. 5. and frequent Differences and Disorders are occasioned in the Office of His Majesties Treasury of the Navy on Pay-days in London Portsmouth and other places of méeting for the Service of the said Navy And that either by the unreasonable Turbulency of Seamen and others attending on Turbulency of Seamen or relating to that Service or their Creditors or by the rudeness of the Officers intrusted with His Maiesties Stores on Land or in His Royal Ships when they are questioned by the Principal Officers and Commissioners of the said Navy either for neglect or Imbezelment of His Majesties Provisions Ammunition or other Equipage of the Navy under their Charge and that not onely to the disturbance of the Peace but sometimes to the danger and hindrance of His Majesties Service both in point of husbanding His Majesties Revenue and also on the dispatch of the Ships on which the Honour and Safety of His Majesty and Kingdom so much depends Which inconveniencies require a spéedie remedy then the ordinary attendance on the Sessions of Peace can give the Parties Accused or Offending being many times bound to Sea and the Principal Officers and Commissioners for want of Authority to suppress such Insolencies and determine such Cases being necessitated to pass by many Offences in which His Majesty might be righted if their necessary attendance on that important Service would permit the prosecution of the Offenders before other ordinary Iudicatures Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same Who may examine and punish offences and disturbances committed by Seamen relating to the Navy That the Treasurer Comptroller Surveyor Clerk of the Acts and the Commissioners of the Navy for the time being or any one or more of them have power and authority to examine and punish all such person and persons whom they upon their enquiry examination or on view in their presence shall find hereafter to make or have made any Disturbance Fighting or Quarrelling in the Yards Stores or Offices aforesaid at Pay-days or on other occasions relating to the Naval Services in such manner as followeth That is to say That they or any one or more of them may punish any the said Offences by Fine Imprisonment or either of them the Fine not excéeding Twenty shillings and Imprisonment not excéeding one week And have power in such cases to commit such persons to the next Gaol or to the custody of the Messenger or Messengers for the time being attendant on them who respectively are to receive and detain such person so offending And that the said principal Officers and Commissioners or the greater number
their respective Deputies and Clerks herein offending be lyable to such Action Debt Damages and Costs in such manner as aforesaid Provided always and it is hereby declared That if it happen that several Tallies of Loan or Certificates for Wares delivered or Orders for Payments from his Majesty as aforesaid bear date or be brought the same day to the Auditor of the Exchequer to be Registred then it shall be interpreted no undue preference which of these he enters so he enter them all the same day Provided also That it shall not be interpreted any undue preference to incur any penalty in point of payment if the Auditor direct and the Clerk of the Pells Record and the Teller do pay subsequent Orders of persons that come to demand their money and bring their Orders before other persons that did not come to demand their money and bring their Orders in their course so as there be so much money reserved as will satisfy their Orders which shall not be otherwise disposed but kept for them Interest upon Loan being to cease from the time the money is so reserved and kept in Bank for them And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person or persons to whom any money shall be due by vertue of this Act after Warrant or Order entred for payment thereof his Executors Administrators or Assigns by Indorsement of his Order or Warrant may assign and transfer his interest and benefit of such Warrant to any other which being notified and an Entry and Memorial thereof also made in the said Registry for Warrants which the Officer shall on request without Fees or Charge accordingly make shall entitle such an Assignée his Executors Administrators and Assigns to the benefit thereof and payment thereon And such Assignée may in like manner assign again and so Toties quoties And afterwards it shall not be in the power of such person or persons who have made such Assignments to make void release or discharge the same or the moneys thereby due or any part thereof Provided always and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the sum of three hundred and eighty thousand pounds shall be charged and registred in the Book of Register appointed by this Act to be kept in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer to be paid to the Treasurer of the Navy for the time being out of the money payable for the last ten moneths of the eleven moneths Assessment granted by this Act for the Salaries and Wages of such Officers Seamen Mariners and Souldiers as are or shall be imployed aboard your Majesties Navy for this present Winter beginning at the first day of January one thousand six hundred sixty six and aboard your Majesties Navy for the Summer in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty seven The said three hundred and eighty thousand pounds to be charged and registred as aforesaid in manner and form following that is to say When Orders shall be first registred for one hundred thousand pounds for the Service of the War to be paid out of the money arising upon the said ten moneths in course as is by this Act directed and prescribed That then and immediately after one or more Orders shall be registred for the payment of two hundred thousand pounds part of the three hundred and eighty thousand pounds above mentioned to the Treasurer of the Navy to be by him imployed for the paying of the Wages of Officers Mariners Seamen and Souldiers as is above mentioned And when Orders shall be registred for one hundred thousand pounds more for the Service of the War upon the said ten moneths then and immediately after one or more Orders shall be registred for the sum of one hundred thousand pounds more in further part of the three hundred and eighty thousand pounds above mentioned And when Orders shall be registred for one hundred thousand pounds more for the Service of the War then and immediately after one or more Orders shall be registred for the sum of eighty thousand pounds in full of the three hundred and eighty thousand pounds above mentioned Which said sums of two hundred thousand pounds one hundred thousand pounds and eighty thousand pounds shall be paid in course as they stand registred according to the rules and directions and under the penalties upon the Officers of the Exchequer their Deputies and Clerks prescribed and contained in the Proviso of this Act for Registring and paying in course And it is hereby further Enacted That if the Treasurer of the Navy do divert or imploy the said three hundred and eighty thousand pounds or any part thereof to any use or service whatsoever other then for the payment of the Salaries and Wages of such Officers Seamen Mariners and Souldiers as shall be imployed aboard your Majesties Navy as aforesaid until the said Wages and Salaries shall be fully and entirely paid and discharged That then and in such case he shall forfeit treble the value of the money diverted or imployed contrary to the intent and meaning hereof to be recovered in any of his Majesties Courts at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoin Protection Wager of Law Aid Prayer Priviledg Injunction or Order of Restraint shall be in any wise granted or allowed nor any more then one Imparlance One moyety whereof to be to such person as shall sue for the same and the other moyety to your Majesty your Heirs and Successors Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That whatever moneys shall be wanting or fall short of the twelve hundred and fifty thousand pounds granted by an Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for granting the sum of Twelve hundred and fifty thousand pounds to the Kings Majesty for his present further Supply towards the paying in course the several sums of money registred for the Service of the present War according to the Power and Direction of the said Act shall be supplied and paid out of the first moneys granted by this Act and payable for and in the first moneth therein mentioned and granted Any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Treasurer of his Majesties Navy for himself his Deputies and Clerks shall receive and retain only the sum of one peny in the pound and no more And the Lieutenant or Treasurer of his Majesties Ordnance for himself and his Clerk shall likewise receive and retain onely one peny in the pound and no more out of all the moneys raised borrowed and paid unto and issued out by either of them to any person or persons by vertue and in pursuance of this Act to be allowed in their respective Accounts thereof Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person being a Receiver of moneys due upon any former Act of this present
measures and prices of Coals and how the same shall be set 17 Car. 2. 2. Collectors 1 What Collectors be accomptants to the King 13 Car. 2. 3. 2 All persons imployed in Collecting or gathering publique moneys by vertue of any Act of Parliament being sued may plead the general Issue 14 Car. 2. 17. See Excise Conventicles 1 How Seditious Conventicles shall be suppressed and the several penalties for the same 16 Car. 2. 4. Corporation 1 Who onely may be chosen Officers in Corporations 13 Car. 2. 1. 2 Non-Conformists restrained from inhabiting Corporations 17 Car. 2. 2. 3 How Churches and Chappels in Corporations may be United 17 Car. 2. 2. Corn. 1 The Duty and Customs payable upon Corn and when Corn may be transported 3 Car. 1. 4. 2 The King by Proclamation may restrain transportation of Corn 3 Car. 1. 4. 3 How and when Corn may be Exported or Imported and what Custome to be paid for the same 15 Car. 2. 7. Cornwall See Leases Covent-Garden 1 The Precincts thereof made Parochial 12 Car. 2. 37. PR Coyâ—age of money 1 Encouragement for bringing Gold and Silver into the Mint to be Coyned 18 Car. 2. 5. Customs See Tunnage and Poundage Subsidies 1 The penalties upon such as shall convey away any Goods without entry and agreement for the Customes 12 Car. 2. 19. 2 Frauds and abuses in his Majesties Customes prevented 14 Car. 2. 11. 3 The penalty for beating or abusing Officers of the Customes Ibid. Damage Cleer 1 DAmage Cleer shall not be taken after the 29. Sept. which shall be in the year 1671. 17 Car. 2. 6. Death 1 The death of Plaintiff or Defendant after Verdict shall not be Error in nor stay of Judgment 17 Car. 2. 8. 2 See Burials Deer 1 The penalty for unlawful hunting or killing of Deer in any Forest Park or Chase 13 Car. 2. 10. Delays 1 Delays in Suits by not giving a Declaration before the end of the next Term after appearance 13 Car. 2. 2. Stat. 2. 2 Delays by reason of the Teste or return of the Writ remedied Ibidem 3 Delayes occasioned by staying Execution by Supersedeas in Writs of Error remedied ibid. 4 Delays by Arrest of Judgment for Jeofails and superseding Executions remedied 17 Car. 2. 8. Distresses 1 A more speedy and effectual proceeding upon Distresses and Avowries for Rents 19 Car. 2. 5. Dover Harbour 1 Certain sums of money granted for Repairing of Dâ—â—er Harbour 14 Car. 2. 27. Drapery See Cloath Manufacture Dutchy of Lancaster 1 The Chancellor of the Dutchy impowred to grant Commissions for taking Affidavits within the Dutchy Liberty 16 and 17 Car. 2. 9. 2 Of Cornwall see Leases See Lancaster Ecclesiastical matters persons and Jurisdictions 1 THe high Commission Court taken away and a branch of the Stat. of 1 Eliz. concerning the same repealed 17 Car. 1. 11. 2 No new Court with the like power may be Erected Ibid. 3 Certain Ministers confirmed and others restored 12 Car. 2. cap. 17. 4 Persons in holy orders inabled to exercise Temporal Jurisdiction 13 Car. 2. 2. 5 None may Sollicite or procure any petition c. for altering any Established law in Church or State 13 Car. 2. 5. 6 The ordinary power of Arch-Bishops and Bishops c. in matters Ecclesiastical 13 Car. 2. 12. 7 Uniformity of Common Prayer Administration of Sacraments and Consecrating and Ordaining Bishops Priests and Deacons Established 14 Car. 2. 4. Error 1 Abatement of Writs of Error in the Exchequer Chamber remedied 16 Car. 2. 2. 2 In what actions onely execution may be stayed by Writ of Error 13 Car. 2. 2. Stat. 2. See Delayes where Execution shall not be Superseded but upon Entring Bail 16 and 17 Car. 2. 8. Estates 1 How such as claim Estates for others Lives must prove the Lives in being 19 Car. 2. 6. Excise 1 Certain impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors granted to His Majesty for the Encrease of His Revenue for His Majesties life 12 Car. 2. cap. 13. 2 How the same shall be collected levyed and accompted for Ibid. 3 See wards and Wardships 4 All money owing upon Excise and new impost vested in the King 13 Car. 2 13. 5 The manner ordering and collecting the duty of Excise and prevention of abuses therein 15 Car. 2. 9. 6 In what cases Sureties shall be answerable for the duty of Excise 15 Car. 2. 12. 7 Additional powers given to Farmers for collecting the Excise 16 and 17 Car. 2. 4. 8 Farmers of the Excise have like power as Commissioners of the Excise Ibid. Executors See Administrators Extents and Executions 1 Delayes in Extending Statutes and in Executions of Judgements and Recognizances remedyed 16 and 17. Car. 2. 5. 2 See Delayes Fenns 1 The great Level of the Fens called Bedford Level how to be bounded and drayned and the several Officers interests and concernments there 15 Car. 2. 17. 2 The Drayning of the Fens called Deeping Fens and other Fens 16 and 17 Car. 2. 11. Fines 1 Fines recoveries c. Confirmed 12 Car. 2. 12. Fishing 1 How and what times Fishing for Pilchards and Fumathoes in Cornwall and Devon 14 Car. 2. 28. 2 See Cattel 3 Encouragement of Fisheries 15 Car. 2. 7. 4 Certain Duties to be paid upon Salted and dryed Fish 15 Car. 2. 7. 5 The Regulation of Herring and other Fisheries 15 Car. 2. 16. 6 The manner of Vessels for and packing of Fish Island Westmony Newfound Land Greenland c. ibid. Forrests 1 What shall be the metes and bounds of Forrests 17 Car. 1. 16. 2 No place where no Justice Seat Swainmote Court of attatchment c. hath been within 20 years shall be accompted Forrest Ibid. 3 Tenants and owners of Lands excluded shall enjoy their Common and profits as formerly Ibid. 4 The penalty for vnlawful hunting and killing of Deer 13 Car. 2 10. Fullers Earth See Wooll c. Gaming THe penalty for deceitful and disorderly Gaming 16 Car. 2. 7. Gardians 1 Parents may appoint Gardians to their Children by their last Will and Testament 12 Car. 2. 14. Gun-Powder 1 The mischief by prohibiting importation of Gun-powder 17 Car. 1. 21. 2 Any person may import Gun-powder or Salt-Peter from Foreign Parts or freely make Gun-powder in this Realm 17 Car. 1. 21. 3 Tâ—e penalty for putting in Execution any Letters Patents Proclamation c. for restraint of Importing Gun-powder Brimstone Salt-peter c. ibid. 4 The King by Proclamation may prohibit transporting of Gunpowder 12 Car. 2. 4. HAbeas Corpus See Privy Councill Hearth-money 1 Every Fire-Hearth and Stove charged with the yearly payment of 2 s. to the King for ever 14 Car. 2. 10. 2 The manner of charging levying and accompting for the same ibid. 3 Additional powers for better ordering and collecting the same 15 Car. 2. 13 4 Hearth-money to be collected by Officers appointed by the King 16 Car. 2. 3. High-Commission Court See Ecclesiastical Matters Persons and Jurisdictions High-wayes 1 How the High-ways Street-Paving
and Sewers about London and Westminster shall be repaired and kept and several Streets enlarged 13 Car. 2. 2. Stat. 3. 2 The repairing and enlarging High-ways throughout the Kingdom 14 Car. 2. 6. How the High-ways in the Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington shall be repaired 15 Car. 2. 1. 16 17 Car. 2. 10. Hospitals See Leases Hunting See Forest and Deer JEoâ—ailes See Delays Indempnity See Pardon Ireland 1 Several Statutes for Reducing the Rebels in Ireland 17 Car. 1. 33. c. EXP. Judgment See Execution Delays Error Judicial proceedings 1 Which Process Judicial proceedings in the late times be made good and which not 12 Car. 2. 3. 12 Car. 2. 12. Jurors 1 Of what ability in Free-hold Lands Jurors for tryal of Issues shall be 16 17 Car. 2. 3. 2 No party-Jurors in tryals for Customs due upon Merchandize 14 Car. 2.11 3 Challenges of Jurors who are Lessees for lives ibid. 4 Issues lost by Jurors shall not be saved but by Order of the Judge 16 17 Car. 2. 3. See Lancaster King WHat Rates Inn-keepers shall take for provisions for the Kings Retinne in his Progress 13 Car. 2. 8. 2 See Carriages Knighthood 1 None shall be compelled to take the Order of Knighthood 17 Car. 1. 20. 2 The Kings Person and Government preserved against Treason and Seditious persons 13 Car. 2. 1. See Treason Lancaster 1 HOw Jury-men shall be summoned in the Dutchy of Lancaster 16 17 Car. 2. 3. See Dutchy Leases 1 What Leases to be made by the King of the Dutchy Lands in Cornwal shall be good and confirmed 1 Car. 1. 2. 2 Leases and Grants from Colledges and Hospitals confirmed 12 Car. 2. 31. 3 Leases made by the Master of the Rolls shall be good 12 Car. 2. 36. 4 Leases by the King of Lands and Tenements of the Dutchy of Cornwall confirmed and made good 13 Car. 2. 4. Stat. 2. See Estates Leather 1 The Exportation of Leather and Raw Hides out of England restrained 14 Car. 2. 7. 2 Exportation of Leather declared a Common Nusance ibid. 3 Leather used within London or 3. miles shall be searched and allowed by the Wardens of the Curriers ibid. Liberties 1 Petition and Declaration of divers Liberties of the People called the Petition of Right 3 Car. 1. London 1. Lights shall be hanged forth by the Inhabitants in the Streets in Winter 14 Car. 2. 2. 2. A judicature erected for hearing and determining all differences touching Houses burned and demolished in the Fire there 19 Car. 2. 2. 3. Rules setting forth the order and form to be observed in the Street and re-building of the City of London 19 Car. 2. 3. Madder 1 THe Statute for importing Madder pure and unmixed repealed 15 Car. 2. 16. Manufactures 1 Importing of Forreign Bonelace Cutwork imbroidery Fringe Bandstrings Buttons and Needle-work prohibited 14 Car. 2. 13. 2 The Silk-throwers London incorporated by Patent and the making of the manufacture regulated 14 Car. 2. 5. 3 The manufacture of making Linnen Cloth and Tapistry encouraged 15 Car. 2. 5. Marriages 1 The confirmation of divers Marriages and how issues upon such Marriages shall be joyned and tryed 12 Car. 2. 33. Marriners and Seamen See Ships and shipping Muket See Clerk of the Market Master of the Rolls See Leases Measures See Weights Merchants and Merchandize 1 Merchants strangers shall be well entreated 12 Car. 2. 4. 2 No Tax may be imposed upon Merchandize but by authority of Parliament ibid. 3. Aliens may not exercise the Trade of Merchants or Factors in Asia Africa or America 12 Car. 2. 8. 4 Encouragement of Merchants and Trade 14 Car. 2. 23. 5 Additional matters concerning pollicies of assurance amonst Merchants 14 Car. 2. 23. 6 Aliens Infants may not be Merchants 14 Car. 2. 11. See Ships and shipping Militia See Souldiers Minister 1 Certain Ministers confirmed and others restored to their Benefices 12 Car. 2. 17. Money 1 The penalty for melting currant Silver money 14 Car. 2. 31. 2 How Forreign Coyn and Bullion may be exported 15 Car. 2. 7. 3 Silver-plate or Gold brought to the Mint may be coyned gratis See Coynage Mos -Troopers See Scotland NAvy and Navigation See Ships and Shipping Norwich Stuffs 1. The making Stuffs in Norfolk and Norwish regulated 14 Car. 2. 5. Nusances 1 Nusances in High-ways to be removed 14 Car. 2. 6. 2 Transporting of Leather and Raw-hides declared a common Nusance 18 Car. 2. 1. 3 Importation of Cattel out of Ireland declared a common Nusance 14 Car. 2. 7. Oath THe Oath Ex officio taken away 17 Car. 1. 11. and 13 Car. 2. 12. 2 Certain penalties upon persons refusing to take a lawful oath 13 Car. 2. 1. stat 3. See Quakers See Dutchy Orders and Ordinances of Parliament See Parliament Pardon 1 THe Kings most gracious free and general Pardon indemnity and oblivion 12 Car. 2. 11. 2 All moneys and goods received in late usurpation not pardoned vested in the King 13 Car. 2. 3. 3 The pains and forfeitures upon divers offenders excepted in the act of general pardon 13 Car. 2. cap. 15. 4 The penalties upon Accomptants to the King not pardoned by the Act of Oblivion who shall not proceed and perfect their Accompts within a certain time 14 Car. 2. 16. Parliament 1 The Parliament begun 3 Nov. 16 Car. 1. declared to be dissolved and the penalty upon persons that shall hold or declare the contrary 12 Car. 2. 1. 2 Orders or ordinances of one or both houses of Parliament how not binding without the King 13 Car. 2. 1. 3 Priviledges of debates in Parliament for repeal or alteration of Laws or redress of publique greivances 13 Car. 2. 1. 4 Parliaments shall be held once in three years at the least 16 Car. 2. 1. 5 The Parliament of 12 Car. 2. confirmed 12 Car. 2. 1. Petition 1 The Petition of Right 3 Car. 1. 2 See Ecclesiastical c. Num. 5. 3 None may make unlawful Assemblies upon pretence of petitioning the King or Parliament to alter the Law c. 13 Car. 2. 5. Pilchard Fishing See Fishing Plague See Prisoners Poor 1 The occasion of the encrease of Poor and for their better relief 14 Car. 2. 12. 2 A Work-house at Exeter for relief of the poor there 19 Car. 2. 19. 3 Poor Officers and Souldiers relieved 14 Car. 2. 9. Poll-Money 1 Poll-money according to several Dignities and Degrees granted to His Majesty 18 Car. 2. 1. 19 Car. 2. 6. Pollices of Assurances See Merchants Ports See Dover Post-Office 1 A Post-Office erected for carriage and the several Prices of Letter from Inland and forreign places 12 Car. 2. 35. 2 The penalty upon Post-masters and Officers neglecting or not doing their Duties ibid. 3 The profits of the Post-Office setled upon his Royal Highness the Duke of York in tail 15 Car. 2. 14. Poundage See Tunnage Printing See Books Prize-Goods 1 Direction for prosecution of such as are accomptable for prize-goods 14 Car. 2. 14. 16