the Fourth It was Enacted That none from thenceforth should use to multiply Gold or Silver or use the Craft of Multiplication and if any the same do they should incur the pain of Felony Be it Enacted that the said Branch Article or Sentence be Repealed II. Provided that all Gold and Silver that shall be Extracted by the Art of Melting and Refining Metals and otherwise Improving them and their Ores shall be employed for the encrease of Moneys and no otherwise and that the Place hereby Appointed for the disposal thereof shall be the Mint in the Tower of London where they shall receive the Value of their Gold and Silver so Extracted III. No Mine of Copper Tin Iron or Lead shall hereafter be adjudged to be a Royal Mine though Gold or Silver may be Extracted out of the same Government I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 2. An Act for Impowring His Majesty to Apprehend and Detain such Persons as he shall find just cause to suspect are Conspiring against the Government EXP. II. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 7. An Act for Impowring His Majesty to Apprehend and Detain such Persons as he shall find just Cause to suspect are Conspiring against the Government III. Stat. Ann. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap 19. All Persons that shall be in Prison the 25th Day of May 1689. or after by Warrant of Their Majesties Privy Council Signed by Six of the Council for Suspicion of High Treason or Treasonable Practices may be detained in Custody without Bail or Main-prize till the 23d Day of October 1689. And no Judge or Court of Justice shall Bail or Try any such Persons without Order from Their Majesties Privy Council Signed by Six till the said 23d of October IV. From and after the said 23d of October such Persons shall have the Benefit of the Habeas Corpus Act and of all other Statutes providing for the Liberty of the Subjects V. Nothing in this Act shall extend to Prejudice the Ancient Rights and Priviledges of Parliament VI. A true Copy of every Warrant for such Commitment shall be Entred and Kept by the Clerks of the Privy Council in a Book apart and Signed by such of the Privy Council as shall Grant the Warrant and no Warrant not so Entred and Signed and Kept shall be adjudged to be a Warrant by Virtue of this Act. VII Stat. 2. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 6. Whensoever and as often as His Majesty shall be absent out of England It shall be Lawful for the Queen to Exercise and Administer the Regal Power and Government in the Names of both Their Majesties for such time only during Their Joint Lives as His Majesty shall be absent out of England VIII Nothing in this Act shall debar His Majesty during such absence from the Exercise of Administration of any Act or Acts of Regal Power or Government and neither the passing this Act nor His Majesties Royal Voyage or Absence shall Dissolve this present Parliament or determine any Commissions Granted by His Majesty nor avoid any other Act of Government executed or to be execured by him IX Provided That as often as His Majesty shall return into England the sole Administration of the Regal Power and Government shall be in His Majesty only Hair-Buttons I. STat. 4. 5. W. M. cap. 10. No Foreign Buttons made of Hair nor other Foreign Buttons whatsoever shall be Imported or Bartered Sold or Exchanged on pain to Forfeit the Buttons so Imported Bartered Sold or Exchanged and under such farther Penalties as are expressed in an Act made in the 14th year of the Reign of the late King Charles 2d Entituled An Act Prohibiting the Importation of Foreign Bone lace Cut-work Imbroidery c. One Moiety to Their Majesties and the other to the Informer II. The Justices of Peace within their respective Divisions shall have the same Authority and Power to issue their Warrants to seize all Foreign Buttons whatsoever that by the said Act is given them to seize Foreign Buttons made of Thread and Silk Hearth-Doney I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 10. An Act made in the Parliament begun at Westminster the 8th of May in the 13th year of King Charles 2d Entituled An Act for the Establishing an Additional Revenue upon His Majesty His Heirs and Successors for the better Support of His and Their Crown and Dignity And another Act made in the Second Session of the said Parliament in the 15th year of the said King's Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Revenue arising by Hearth-Money And another Act made in the 16th year of the said King's Reign Entituled An Act for Collecting the Duty arising by Hearth-Money by the Officers to be Appointed by His Majesty are hereby Repealed and made Void II. Nothing in this Act shall hinder or prejudice the Levying the said Revenue arising by Hearth-money which shall grow due on the 25th of March 1689. and all Arrears of the said Duty now due and payable by the said Acts. High-ways I. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 12. The Laws and Statutes in force touching the High ways not hereby altered or repealed shall be put in Execution II. Upon the 26th day of Decemb. yearly unless that day be Sunday and then on the 27th day the Constables Headboroughs Tything-men Churchwardens Surveyors of the High-ways and Inhabitants in every Parish shall assemble and the major Part of the Assembly shall make a List of the Names of a competent Number of the Inhabitants who have an Estate in Land in their own Right or their Wives of 10 l. per annum or a personal Estate of 100 l. or are Occupiers of Houses Lands c. of the yearly value of 30 l. if such there be and if not then a List of the most sufficient Inhabitants and return it to Two or more Justices of the Peace at a Special Sessions to be held for that purpose on the third day of January next following or within Fifteen days after For which purpose the Justices are required to hold a Special Sessions and to give notice to the Constables Headboroughs c. of every Parish within the Division Ten days before the holding of the same and out of the said Lists by Warrant under their Hands and Seals they shall nominate One Two or more to be Surveyor or Surveyors of the High-ways of every Parish within the Division or for any Hamlet Precinct Town c. of and in the same for the year ensuing Which Nomination shall by the Constables c. be notified to the persons nominated within six days by serving them with the Warrants or leaving the same or a Copy thereof at their Houses And if the Persons so nominated shall refuse or neglect to take upon them the said Office they shall forfeit 5 l. to be on their Goods by Distress and Sale thereof by Warrant of Two Justices of the Peace which Warrant the Justices are
treble Costs X. A Register shall be kept at the Custom-house London of all Wool imported from Ireland and of all Wool sent from one Port to another in this Kingdom the Weights and Numbers Ship Masters Name Owners Name and to whom consigned This Act to continue for three years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XI Any Persons may buy Cloth Stuffs Stockings or other Woollen Manufactures and export the same paying the usual Customs XII Nothing in this Act shall be construed to avoid the Charters granted to the Levant Eastland Russia or African Companies XIII It shall be lawful to transport from Southampton only for the use of the Inhabitants of Guernsey Jersey Alderney and Sark 1000 Tods of unkemb Wool for Guernsey 2000 for Jersey 200 for Alderney and 100 for Sark more than by the Act made in the 12th year of King Charles II. is provided for the same to be done according to the Directions and under the Penalties therein appointed and inflicted and on the farther Penalty of 20 l. for every Tod of Wool and forfeiture of the Wool it self one half to the King one Quarter to the Informer and one Quarter to the Poor of the said Islands in case of transporting or attempting to transport any of the said Wool from the said Islands for every Offence therein and that every Person so offending shall after the first Offence be incapable of any Grant of any Wool from the said Port of Southampton nor ever after have any Warrant granted him for that purpose the said Penalties to be recovered by him that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. Yarmouth I. STat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 11. The Powers Authorities and Benefits given to the Mayor Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty of Great Yarmouth by an Act made in the first year of the late King James Entituled An Act for clearing preserving maintaining and repairing the Haven and Rivers of Great Yarmouth are hereby vested in the Bailiffs Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty of the said Borough that now are and their Successors And the Powers Authorities and Benefits by the said Act given to the said Mayor are hereby vested in the Bailiff or Bailiffs for the time being and their Successors II. Officers Collectors Receivers and Commissioners to be appointed by the afore-mentioned or this Act may pursue the several Powers therein given and directed III. Monies directed by the said Act to be paid into the Hands of the Chamberlain of the said Borough shall be paid into the Hands of such as the Bailiffs Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty in Common Council assembled shall direct IV. If within the residue of the time by the said recited Act limited there shall be any alteration by any new Charters from Bailiffs to Mayors then the Mayor Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty shall execute the Powers c. in the recited Act mentioned as therein is expressed AN EXACT ABRIDGMENT Of all the STATUTES MADE In the fifth Session of this present Parliament in the fifth and sixth Years of the Reign of their MAJESTIES King William and Queen Mary AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE STATUTES MADE In the fifth Session of this present PARLIAMENT Accounts I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 17. Commissioners Names for stating Publick Accounts Robert Harley Esquire Sir Thomas Pope Blount Baronet Paul Foley Esquire Sir Thomas Clarges Knight Charles Hutchinson Esquire Sir Edward Abney Knight and Sir James Houblon Knight constituted Commissioners for examining and stating the Accounts of all the Mony and Publick Revenue of the Crown granted by one Act of Parliament made in the second year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for appointing and inabling Commissioners to examine take and state the Publick Accounts of the Kingdom Acts of 2d and 4th and 5th of W. and M. revived And one other Act in the 4th and 5th years of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for examining taking and stating the Publick Accounts of this Kingdom to be examined and stated by the Commissioners by the said Acts constituted or any five or more of them appointed by the said Acts or either of them and that the said Acts be revived from the 24th of April 1694. to the 25th of April which shall be in the year 1695. and shall be executed with all the Powers therein contained by the Commissioners herein named or any four or more of them and Allowances to be made to the said Commissioners and the Clerks and all other Charges from the Commissioners of the Treasury as in the first recited Act. Commissioners power to examine and state Accounts And the said Commissioners have Power to examine and state Accounts of all Monies granted to their Majesties by one Act made in this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of 4 s. in the Pound for one Year for carrying on a vigorous War against France and of all Monies that have or shall be granted their Majesties in this present Session and of all other their Majesties Treasure or publick Mony due to them on the 5th of November 1688. or at any time between the said 5th of November and the said 25th of April which shall be in the year 1695. not yet accounted for by virtue of the said Acts or either of them or the last Clause touching Publick Accounts made in an Act made in the third Year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for raising Mony by a Poll payable quarterly for one year for the carrying on a vigorous War against France II. Irish Accounts to be stated against and presented next Parliament And the said Commissioners are hereby required to summon the Commissioners appointed for the Transport Ships for the War of Ireland or any other Contractors or their Owners and Proprietors of the said Ships to state the Accounts and adjust the Debt due for the said Ships which Accounts so stared they are to prepare against the next Session of Parliament Coaches I. Commissioners for Hackney-Coaches STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 16. After the 10th of May 1694. their Majesties may appoint Commissioners not exceeding five in number for regulating and licensing Hackney-Coaches within the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs thereof and the Bills of Mortality and for regulating and licensing Stage-Coaches throughout England c. II. Licenses not to exceed 700. The said Commissioners shall give Licenses under their Hands and Seals to all Persons that shall keep any Coach or Coach-Horses within the Cities of London and Westminster or the Suburbs of the same or within the Weekly Bills of Mortality and that the number of all Hackney-Coaches so to be licensed shall not exceed 700 and for every such License so to be granted for each Coach there shall be paid to the Commissioners or some other Person to be appointed by their Majesties
AN EXACT Abridgment Of all the STATUTES OF King WILLIAM AND Queen MARY Now in Force and Vse By J. Washington Esq LONDON Printed by the Assigns of the Kings Printers And by the Assigns of R. Atkins and E. Atkins Esquires And are to be sold by M. Gilliflower S. Keble D. Brown W. Rogers T. Goodwin A. Churchill and J. Walthoe 1694. THE TITLES Of all the STATUTES Contained in this ABRIDGMENT Now in Force and Vse 1. AN Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes concerning the assembling and sitting of this present Parliament 2. An Act for reviving of Actions and Process lately depending in the Courts at Westminster and discontinued by the not holding of Hillary-Term and for supplying other Defects relating to Proceedings at Law 3. An Act for establishing the Coronation Oath 4. An Act for the abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths 5. An Act for the removing Papists and reputed Papists from the Cities of London and Westminster and ten Miles distance from the same 6. An Act for the taking away the Revenue arising by Hearth-Mony 7. An Act for the explaining and making effectual a Statute made in the first Year of King James II. concerning the Haven and Piers of Great Yarmouth 8. An Act for the encouraging the Exportation of Corn. 9. An Act for preventing Doubts and Questions concerning the collecting the Publick Revenue 10. An Act for the better securing the Government by disarming Papists and reputed Papists 11. An Act That the Simoniacal Promotion of one Person may not projudice another 12. An Act for rectifying a Mistake in a certain Act of this present Parliament For the amoving Papists from the Cities of London and Westminster 13. An Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws 14. An Act for enabling Lords Commissioners for the Great Seal to execute the Office of Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper 15. An Act for the Exportation of Beer Ale Syder and Mum. 16. An Act for reviving two former Acts for exporting of Leather 17. An Act to regulate the Administration of the Oaths required to be taken by Commission or Warrant Officers employed in their Majesties Service by Land by virtue of an Act made this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for the abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths 18. An Act to vest in the two Universities the Presentations of Benefices belonging to Papists 19. An Act for taking away the Court holden before the President and Council of the Marches of Wales 20. An Act for appropriating certain Duties for paying the States General of the United Provinces their Charges for his Majesties Expedition into this Kingdom and for other Uses 21. An Act for Relief of the Protestant Irish Clergy 22. An Act to repeal the Statute made in the fifth Year of King Henry IV. against the multiplying of Gold and Silver 23. An Act for the better preventing the Exportation of Wooll and encouraging the Woollen Manufactures of this Kingdom 24. An Act for explaining part of an Act made in the first Year of King James I. concerning Tanned Leather 25. An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France 26. An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown 27. An Act for preventing all Doubts and Questions concerning the collecting the Publick Revenue 28. An Act for the charging and collecting the Duties upon Coffee Tea and Chocolate at the Custom-house 29. An Act for preventing venatious Suits against such as acted in order to the Bringing in their Majesties or for their Service 30. An Act for the better Security and Relief of their Majesties Protestant Subjects of Ireland 31. An Act for Recognizing King William and Queen Mary and for avoiding all Questions touching the Acts made in the Parliament assembled at Westminster the thirteenth day of February 1688. 32. An Act for granting to their Majesties for their Lives and the Life of the Survivor of Them certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors 33. An Act for granting to their Majesties a Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of Mony payable upon Merchandizes exported and imported 34. An Act for enabling the Sale of Goods distrained for Rent in case the Rent be not paid in a reasonable time 35. An Act for the Exercise of the Government by Her Majesty during his Majesty's Absence 36. An Act to declare the Right and Freedom of Election of Members to serve in Parliament for the Cinque Ports 37. An Act for reversing the Judgment in a Quo Warranto against the City of London and for restoring the City of London to its ancient Rights and Priviledges 38. An Act for the discouraging the Importation of Thrown-Silk 39. An Act for the King and Queens most Gracious General and Free Pardon 40. An Act concerning the Commissioners of the Admiralty 41. An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods and Manufactures and upon all Wrought Silks and several other Goods and Merchandize to be imported after the 25th day of December 1690. 42. An Act for the continuance of several former Acts therein mentioned for the laying several Duties upon Wines Vinegar and Tobacco 43. An Act for reviving a former Act for regulating the Measures and Prices of Coals 44. An Act for paving and cleansing the Streets in the Cities of London and Westminster and Suburbs and Liberties thereof and Out-Parishes in the County of Middlesex and in the Borough of Southwark and other Places within the Weekly Bills of Mortality in the County of Surry and for regulating the Markets therein mentioned 45. An Act for the encouraging the Distilling of Brandy and Spirits from Corn and for laying several Duties on Low-Wines or Spirits of the first Extraction 46. An Act for granting to their Majesties several additional Duties of excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for four Years from the time that an Act for doubling the Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors during the space of one Year doth expire 47. An Act for preventing vexatious Suits against such as acted for their Majesties Service in Defence of the Kingdom 48. An Act for the more effectual putting in Execution an Act Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France 49. An Act for Relief of poor Prisoners for Debt or Damages 50. An Act for abrogating the Oath of Supremacy in Ireland and appointing other Oaths 51. An Act for the better ascertaining the Tithes of Hemp and Flax. 52. An Act for the Encouragement of the Breeding and Feeding of Cattle 53. An Act to take away Clergy from some Offenders and to bring others to punishment 54. An Act for the more effectual discovery and Punishment of Deer-stealers 55. An Act for the better explanation and supplying the Defects of the former Laws for the
said Commissioners shall from time to time if required and at the end of their Proceedings by virtue of this Act give an Account thereof in writing under Five or more of their Hands and Seals to the King and Queen and both Houses of Parliament at their next Meeting VII All Accountants shall make their Accounts in the Exchequer as formerly this Act notwithstanding VIII The Powers hereby Granted shall endure for one Year from the 25th day of January 1690. and no longer IX The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury shall pay 500 l. to each Commissioner for his Care and Pains herein X. The said Commissioners or any Five or more of them shall take an Account what Sums of Money were ordered and paid during the late King James his Reign for Repairing the Fleet and how the same hath been disposed of XI This Act shall give no Authority to the said Commissioners to demand an Account of Money paid to Their Majesties Privy Purse or expended for secret Service XII Nothing in this Act shall hinder the said Commissioners from requiring an Account upon Oath of Pensions Salaries and Sums of Moneys paid or payable to Members of Parliament XIII Stat. 4 5 W. M. c. 11. Sir Thomas Clarges Kt. Sir Peter Colliton Bar. Sir Samuel Barnardiston Bar. Sir Benjamin Newland Kt. Sir Matthew Andrews Kt. Paul Foley Esq and Robert Harley Esq or any four or more of them are hereby constituted Commissioners for taking an Account of the Publick Revenue of the Crown and all other Accounts which by an Act made in the Second Year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Appointing and Enabling Commissioners to Examine Take and State the Publick Accounts of the Kingdom were to be taken by Commissioners thereby constituted and the said Act is hereby revived and shall be in force from the 24th of April next to the 25th of April 1694. and be executed by the Commissioners herein named or any four or more of them And the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury shall issue and pay the like Allowances for Clerks and other Charges as the said Act directs and the like quarterly Payments to the Commissioners hereby constituted as by the said Act is appointed to the Commissioners therein named and the Commissioners hereby constituted shall take Accounts of all Their Majesties Revenue and other publick Moneys due and payable to them between the 5th day of November 1688. and the 25th day of April 1694 not yet accounted for by virtue of the said recited Act or the last Clause touching Publick Accounts in one Act in the Third Year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Raising Money by a Poll c. Admiralty I. Sat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. c. 2. All and singular Authorities Jurisdictions and Powers which by Act of Parliament or otherwise are vested in the Lord High Admiral of England for the time being have always appertained to and shall be used and executed by the Commissioners of the Admiralty as if they were Lord High Admiral II. Every Officer present upon Tryals of Offenders by Courts Martial to be held by virtue of any Commission granted by the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty shall before any proceeding to Tryal take this Oath to be administred by the Judge Advocate or his Deputy viz. You shall well and truly try and determine the matter now before you between our Sovereign Lord and Lady the King and Queens Majesties and the Prisoner to be tryed So help you God Bails I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. c. 4. The Judges of the Kings Bench or any two of them whereof the Chief Justice to be one for the Court of Kings Bench and the Judges of the Common-Pleas or any two of them whereof the Chief Justice to be one for the Court of Common-Pleas and the Barons of the Colf of the Exchequer or any two of them whereof the Chief Baron to be one for the Court of Exchequer may by Commissions under the Seals of the said respective Courts from time to time Impower such Persons other then common Attorneys and Solicitors as they shall think fit in all and every the Counties of England and Wales and Town of Berwick to take such Recognizances of Bails as any Persons shall be willing to make before them in any Action or Suit depending or to be depending in the said Courts in Manner and Form as the Justices and Barons of the said Courts have used to take the same Which Recognizances shall be transmitted to some one of the said Justices or Barons respectively who upon Affidavit made of the due taking thereof shall receive the same upon payment of the usual Fees Which Recognizance shall be of like effect as if it were taken de bene esse before any of the said Justices or Barons For taking which Recognizances the Persons impowered shall receive Two Shillings and no more II. The Justices and Barons respectively shall make such Rules for the justifying such Bails as to them shall seem meet so as the Cognizors be not compell'd to appear in person in any of the said Courts unless they live in London or Westminster or within ten Miles thereof to justifie themselves but the same is hereby directed to be determined by Affidavits taken before the Commissioners III. Any Judge of Assize may take such Recognizances which shall be transmitted and received as aforesaid without Oath upon payment of the usual Fees IV. Persons representing or personating others before any impowered by this Act to take Bails shall be adjudged Felons Beer c. I. Stat. Ann. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 22. From and after the twenty fourth of June 1689. any Person may ship off within any of the usual and allowed Ports by Law and at the common Keys and within the usual hours of Excise to be Exported into Foreign Parts in the presence of a sworn Officer to be appointed by the Farmers c. of Excise within the limits where the same shall be shipp'd any strong Ale strong Beer Cyder or Mum paying Custom for the same after the Rate of 1 Shilling per Tun and no other Duty Such Officer to certifie the quantity so shipp'd off to the Commissioners and Officers of Excise where the Entry thereof shall be made who are hereby required to make Allowance or repay the Excise of the Beer Ale Cyder or Mum so Exported to the Brewer or Maker thereof within one Month after such Exportation deducting Three pence per Tun for the Charges of their Officers II. If any Merchant Master of Vessel or other Person shall cause or suffer any Liquors so shipped to be laid on Land or put into any other Vessel within England Wales or the Town of Berwick he shall forfeit the same and 50 l. more for every Cask so unduly landed or put on Board any Vessel the one Moiety to the King and Queen the other to the Informer And Their Majesties Commissioners and Officers of the
the Quorum shall set prices of Coals to be sold by Retail And if any Ingrosser or Retailer of Coals refuse to sell as aforesaid the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Justices of Peace respectively shall impower whom they think fit to enter into any place where such Coals are stored up and in case of refusal taking a Constable to force Entrance and to sell the said Coals at the prices set as aforesaid rendring the Money to the Owner Charges deducted This Act to continue for 3 years and to the end of the next Session of Parliament No person sued by virtue of this Act shall be sued upon any other for the same Offence and if any Action be prosecuted for any thing done by colour hereof the Defendant may plead the General Issue and give the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Verdict be found for him or the Plaintiff become Nonsuit he shall recover his Damages and double Costs No Person having any Interest in a Wharf used for Coals or Trading in Coals in his own or any others name or engrossing the same in order to sell them shall intermeddle in the setting the price of Coals Continuance I. Stat. 4. 5. W. M. cap. 24. Entituled An Act for Providing Carriages by Land and by Water for the use of His Majesties Navy and Ordnance shall be in force for Seven years from the 13th day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the First Session of Parliament then next ensuing II. An Act Entitused An Act for encouraging of Coynage made in the 18th Year of King Charles 2. And another Act made in the 25th Year of the same King Entituled An Act for continuing a former Act concerning Coynage shall be in force from the 13th Day of February 1692 and to the end of the First Session of Parliament then next ensuing III. An Act made in the 2â—th and 23th Years of the Reign of the same King Entituled An Act for the better and more certain recovery of Fines and Forfeitures due to His Majesty shall be in force and is hereby made perpâ—tual IV. All Officers to whom it belongeth to make returns of Estreats into the Court of Exchequer shall upon the delivery in of all and every such Estreat and Estreats take this Oath viz. You shall Swear that these Estrates now by you delivered are trult and carefully made up and examined and that all Fines Issues Americaments Recognizances and Forfeitures which were Set Lost Imposed or Forfeited and in right and due course of Law ought to be estreated into the Court of Exchequer are to the best of your Knowledge and Understanding therein contained And that in the same Estreats are also contained and expressed all such Fines as have been paid into the Court from which the said Estreats are made without any wilful or fraudalent Discharge Omission Misnomer or Defect whatsoever So help you God Which Oath any of the Barons of the Exchequer shall Administer V. An Act made in the 22th and 23th Year of the same King Entituled An Act to prevent the Planting of Tobacco in England and for Regulating the Plantation Trade shall be in full force for Seven Years from the said 13th Day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament VI. An Act made in the 19th Year of the same King Entituled An Act for Assigning Orders in the Exchequer shall be in force for Seven years from the said 13th Day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament VII Whereas an Act made in the 22th and 23th years of the same King Entituled An Act to revice an Act Entituled An Act to prevent the disturbance of Seamen and others and to preserve the Stores belonging to His Majesties Navy Royal with some Alterations and Additions was by an Act made in the 1st Year of the Reign of the late K. James Enacted to be in force for Seven years and from thence to the end of the 1st Session of the next Parliament The said last mentioned Act shall be continued for Seven years from the said 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament VIII An Act made in the 22d and 23d of the said K. C. 2. Entituled An Act to prevent Frauds in the buying and selling of Cattle in Smithfield and elsewhere together with a Proviso in an Act made the 1st year of the late K. James for the Reviving and Continuance thereof That the said Act should not extend to Salesmen or Factors employed by Farmers or Feeders shall be in force for Seven years from the 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament IX An Act made in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for the better preventing the Exportation of Wooll and encouraging the Woollen Manufacture of this Kingdom except such part thereof as relates to the free Exportation of the Woollen Manufacture shall be in force for Three years from the said 13th day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament X Provided that no Wooll shall be Imported from Ireland into the Port of Exeter any thing in this or any former Act to the contrary notwithstanding XI An Act made the 13th and 14th years of the late King Charles 2. Entituled An Act for the better relief of the Poor of this Kingdom as to all Parts other then what relates to the Corporations thereby Constituted shall be in force for Seven years from the said 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XII An Act made in the 30th year of the late K. Charles 2. Entituled An Act to enable Creditors to recover their Debts of the Executors and Administrators of Executors in their own wrong shall be perpetual XIII And further Executors and Administrators of Executors or Administrators of Right who shall waste or convert to their own Use the Goods or Estate of his Testator or Intestate shall be chargeable as their Testator or Intestaâ—e should or might have been XIV If any Woman hath been or shall be Convicted of any Felony for which a Man might have the Benefit of Clergy and hath once had or shall have the Benefit of an Act made at the last Session of this present Parilament Eâ—â—â—ed Aâ— Act to take away Clergy from some Offenders and to being others to punishment and shall be again Convicted of any other Felony such Woman thall be totally excluded from having any other benefit of the said Act. XV. The said last mentioned Act to continue for Three years from the said 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XVI An Act made in the 13th and 14th years of the Reign of the late King Charles 2. Entituled An Act for preventing abuses in Printing Seditions Treasonable and Unlicensed
of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for one year so far as it relates to Elections of Members to serve in Parliament and leaving true Notes in Writing of the last Gauges with the Penalties relating thereunto shall from the First Day of March next be revived and continue during the continuance of this Act and from thence to the End of the next Session of Parliament CLIII It shall be Lawful to Lend and Advance to Their Majesties upon the Credit of this Act any Sum or Sums not exceeding in the whole 510000 l. and to receive for forbearance 8 l. per Cent. per Aanum CLIV. Officers concerned in Levying the Duties arising by this Act shall keep a separate account thereof and pay the same in specie into the Exchequer every Wednesday unless it be a Holyday and then the day after and upon neglect or refusal shall incur the Penalties c. that other Officers of the Exchequer before mentioned shall be liable to which Moneys shall be applied to the Uses mentioned in this Act. CLV Out of the Money which shall be paid into the Exchequer upon Loan or otherwise by Virtue of this or any other Act of this Session of Parliament for Granting Aids and Supplies c. other then an Act Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties an Aid of Four Shillings in the Pound c. the Sum of 1226516 l. shall be Appropriated for the payment of Officers and Seamen and for Stores Provisions and Victuals for the Navy and to the Expences of the Ordnance in respect to Naval Affairs and other necessary Uses for the Navy And if any Officer belonging to the Revenue Exchequer Navy or Ordnance wittingly divert any Part of the Money hereby Appropriated to any other purpose he shall lose his Place and be disabled to execute any Office whatsoever CLVI The additional Duties imposed by this Act shall not affect such Foreign Stores as have been sold to the use of the Navy by Contract with the Navy-board before the First of January 1692. so as a Certificate be given by the Commissioners of the Navy that such Stores have been so Contracted for and so as the Importer make Oath of the Truth of the Contract and that he will deliver them into their Majesties Stores accordingly CLVII Commissioners and Patent-Officers their Deputies Clerks and Servants who have or shall have any Imployment about the Customs shall before the 19th Day of April next or at their admissions hereafter take their Oaths for the true Execution to the best of their Knowledge and Power of their several Trusts and Employments and that they will take no Reward or Gratuity but their respective Salaries and what is or shall be allow'd them by the Crown or the Regular Fees Established by Law for any Service done or to be done in the Execution of their Employments CLVIII Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 15. The several Impositions and Duties upon Wines and Vinegar Granted by an Act made the First year of the late King James 2d Entituled An Act for Granting His Majesty an Imposition upon all Wines and Vinegar Imported between the 24th of June 1685. and the 24th of June 1693. Which by an Act of this present Parliament was continued from the said 24th of June 1693. to the 24th of June 1696. shall be farther continued until the 24th of June 1698. CLIX. The Rates Duties and Impositions for Tobacco Granted by an Act in the 1st Year of the Reign of the said late King James 2d Entituled An Act for Granting to His Majesty an Imposition upon all Tobacco and Sugar Imported between the 24th day of June 1685. and the 24th day of June 1693. which said Act as concerning Impositions upon Tobacco only by an Act of this present Parliament was farther continued unto the 24th day of June 1696. shall be continued from the said 24th day of June 1696. to the 24th of June 1698. CLX The Additional and other Impositions and Duties upon several sorts of Goods and Merchandize Granted by an Act of this present Parliament in the Second year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East India Goods and Manufactures and upon all wrought Silks c. to be Imported after the 25th day of Decemb. 1690. and which were to have continuance to the 10th day of Novemb. 1695. shall be continued from the 9th day of November 1695. to the 10th day of November 1697. CLXI Any Persons may advance Moneys upon the Security of this Act not exceeding in the whole 500000. l. and to have any Sum for forbearance nor exceeding 8 l. per Cent. per Annum CLXII There shall likewise be paid to Their Majesties 5 l. for every 100 l. of the Joynt-Stock of the East-India Company the said Stock being valued at 744000 l. The same to be paid by the Governour and Treasurer of the Company by Four Quarterly Payments the First on the 25 of March 1693. and to be deducted upon the next Dividend CLXIII And for every Share in the Joynt-Stock of the African Company as the Number of Shares are now reckoned there shall be paid to Their Majesties the Sum of 20 s. by the Governour and Treasurer of that Company by Four Quarterly Payments the First to be made on the said 25th of March 1693. and to be deducted as aforesaid CLXIV And for every Share in the Joynt-Stock of the Hudson's Bay Company as the number of Shares are now reckon'd there shall be paid the Sum of 5 l. by the Governour and Treasurer of that Company ut supra And for default of Payment at the Days and Times aforesaid the Charter of such Company respectively shall be void CLXV From and after the Sixth Day of April 1693. none shall be admitted to swear to a Debanture for any Duties to be drawn back upon Re-exportation but he who is the true Exporter as being either Interested in the Goods or Employed by Commission CLXVI All Persons who by way of Insurance or otherwise shall undertake to deliver any Goods Imported from beyond Sea without paying the Duties payable for the same or any Prohibited Goods and shall deliver or cause to be delivered the same as aforesaid knowing thereof and all their Abbettors shall for every such offence forfeit 500 l. above the Forfeitures to which they are already liable CLXVII And all who shall agree to pay any Money for the Insuring or Conveying any Goods Imported without paying the Duties or any Prohibited Goods or shall receive such prohibited Gods or such other Goods before the Duties are paid knowing thereof shall also Forseit for every offence 500 l. the one Moiety of the said Forfeitures to Their Majesties and the other to the Informer CLXVIII And if the Insurer or Manager of such Fraud be the Discoverer he shall not only keep the Insurance Money given him and be discharged of
d. For every Barrel of Vinegar or Vinegar-Beer made of English Materials 1 s. 6 d. For every Barrel of Vinegar or Liquor prepared for Vinegar made for Sale of Foreign Materials 4 s. For every Barrel of Beer Ale or Mum Imported 3 s. For every Tun of Cyder or Perry Imported 4 l. For every Gallon of Single Brandy Spirits or Aqua vitae Imported 2 s. For every Gallon of Brandy Spirits or Aqua vitae above Proof Imported 4 s. For all Cyder and Perry made and sold by Retail to be paid by the Retailer for every Hogshead 1 s. and 3d. For Metheglin and Mead made for Sale to be paid by the Maker for every Gallon 3 d. II. If any Distiller or Maker of Low Wines shall after the 20th Day of July 1689. after an Account taken by the Gauger of the Quantity of his Wines dispose of the same without drawing them off a second time he shall Forfeit for every Gallon so disposed of 5 s. III. The Duties hereby Imposed shall be Raised in Manner and Form and under such Penalties as are mentioned in one Act of Parliament made in the 12th year of the Reign of the late King Charles 2d Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries c. and by one other Act made in the 15th year of the said King's Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duties of Excise c. or by any other Law now in force relating to the Excise not otherwise herein and hereby altered and provided against IV. Every Thirty four Gallons of Beer or Ale according to the Standard of the Ale-Quart Four whereof shall make the Gallon shall be reckon'd a Barrel of Beer or Ale And the Allowances appointed to be made within the Weekly Bills of Mortality for waste by filling and leakage shall be Two Barrels and a half upon every Twenty three Barrels and no more V. When it shall appear to the Gauger that any Worts are missing or not let fairly down into the Tun and the Gauger cannot find the same the Gauger shall charge the Brewer c. with so much Beer or Ale as the Worts missing would reasonably make VI. Gaugers may make their Returns and Charges upon warm Worts and make Allowance of a Tenth part thereof for Wash and Waste such Worts not to be afterwards charged with any Duty of Excise VII No Retailer of Beer or Ale shall during the continuance of this Act or of the Duties hereby imposed be impleaded for uttering Beer or Ale at any higher Prices then the Price heretofore appointed VIII In case any Distiller or Maker of Strong Waters Aquâ—vitae or Spirits shall upon request or demand made by the Gauger in the Day-time or the Night-time in the presence of a Constable refuse to permit the Gauger to enter his House c. he shall incur the Penalties by the said former Acts inflicted and the Prosecutor shall not be obliged to prove that such Offenders delivered out part of their Commodities before they had cleared the Duties IX Whereas it is Enacted by the said Act of the 15th of K. Charles II. That no common Brewer shall be prosecuted for any Misentry if within one Week after the delivery of the Copy of the Gauger's Return he certifie his Entry made for the Week for which such Copy is delivered according to such Return or otherwise discharge himself Be it Enacted That no Brewer shall have any benefit of that Proviso upon any Information if it shall appear upon Evidence that he did not bona fide shew to the Gauger all the Beer Ale and Worts of every Guile for such time for which such Copy of the Return was given Or if any apparent Fraud was acted to defraud Their Majesties of Their Duty X. Common Brewers and Retailers of Beer and Ale who contrary to the said Act made in the 15th year of K. Charles II. shall use any private Cellar c. shall forfeit 50 l. for every such Offence and for mixing concealing or conveying away any Worts contrary to the said Act shall forfeit 20 l. a Barrel XI True Notes in Writing of the last Gauges taken shall be left by the Gaugers with all Brewers c. containing the Quantity and Quality of the Liquors gauged on pain to forfeit 40 s. for every Neglect XII The Commissioners of Excise or Appeals or Justices of Peace upon Complaint made to them on behalf of the Brewers c. of any Overcharge return'd by the Gaugers shall hear and determâ—ne the same and examine Witnesses upon Oath on both sides XIII For the ease of the Inhabitants in the County of Anglesey living remote from the Market-Town there shall be Offices kept for making Entries and Payments in Holy-head Newborough and Llanerchthmeth as well as in Beaumaris XIV No Commissioner or other Person employed about the Excise shall demand or receive any Money or other Reward from any Person but Their Majesties on Pain to forfeit their Offices and being uncapable of executing any Office in the Excise XV. No Information shall be brought against any Brewer or other for any Misentry made after the 24th day of July 1689. but within 3 Months after the Offence committed and notice thereof shall be given to the Defendants in Writing or left at their Dwelling-houses within a Week after the Information entred XVI From the 1st day of September 1689. no Brewer or Retailer of Beer or Ale shall use in working any Beer or Ale any Molossus course Sugar Hony or Composition or Extract of Sugar on Pain to forfeit all such Liquors and the Sum of 100 l. one Moiety to Their Majesties and the other to the Informer so as the Suit be commenced within 6 Months after the Forfeiture incurred XVII When Malt or Barley shall be at 24 s. a Quarter or under and Rye at 32 s. or under and Wheat at 48 s. or under in Berwick Merchants and others who shall export the same in English Shipping the Master and two Thirds of the Mariners at least being English and shall pursue the Methods and Things prescribed in that behalf in an Act made this Session Entituled An Act for the Encouraging the Exportation of Corn shall have the benefit and Advantage of the said Act as if the said Corn had been shipp'd from any Port of England or Wales XVIII If any Merchant or other Person put on Ship-board any Scotch Corn at Berwick it shall be forfeited one Third part to Their Majesties another Third part to the Informer and a Third part to the Poor of the Town of Berwick XIX Stat. 2. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 3. The several Rates Duties and Impositions upon Beer Ale Cyder and other Liquors mentioned in an Act of Parliament made in the 12th year of the Reign of K. Charles II. Entituled A Grant of certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for the Encrease of His Majesties Revenue during His Life except such of them
Exchequer and their Sureties and all Recognizances and Conditions for the payment of Mony XXV This Act shall not discharge any Recognizance c. not yet forfeited nor any forfeited Recognizanc c. whereof the Farmers of the Excise or any part of the Revenue ought to receive benefit nor any Debt due by Recognizance c. to any Persons endebted to their Majesties which hath been seiz'd in Aid nor any Debt whereupon any enstalment or seizure hath been made upon which any thing is or since the 25th of March hath been answered and paid nor to discharge any Forfeitures or Sums of Mony due to their Majesties by any Statute which Forfeitures c. since the said 25th of March are converted into the nature of a Debt or have been install'd or any seizure made for them upon which any thing has been paid since the said 25th of March. XXVI But all Recognizances c. forfeited since the said 25th of March for non-payment in any Court or other place or not keeping the Peace or not being of the Good Behaviour are discharged except Recognizances granted to or in trust for the Lord Almoner XXVII And except all Issues Fines and Amerciaments lost or assessed since the said 25th day of March being totted or received by any Officer before the last day of this Session of Parliament and all Issues c. lost or assess'd since the said 25th day of March affeered taxed estreated or entred severally touching any one or more Persons joyntly or severally above 6 l. and except Issues Fines c. set in any Court of Record at Westminster within a year before the first day of this Parliament XXVIII But all other Fines as well pro lic concord as others set or entred before that time and Issues and Amerciaments as well real as others set or entred before the time aforesaid and which do not exceed 6 l. whether estreated or not estreated whether turn'd into Debt or not and not being totted or received by any Officer before the first day of this Parliament shall be discharged yet nevertheless the estreats of such Fines c. already estreated out of the Exchequer and remaining in the Sheriffs Hands shall upon the return of such Estreats be charged and delivered by Scrowes into the Pipe-Office as hath been accustomed and yet Sheriffs and other Accountants upon Petition to have allowance for such Fines c. as are pardoned shall have their Petition allowed without Fee XXIX This Act shall not pardon any who by Name are excepted out of the Act of Oblivion made 12 Car. 2. nor to those two Persons who appeared in Vizors upon the Scaffold when King Charles I. was murther'd XXX Nor shall this Act restore any Ability to exercise Offices or to serve in Parliament c. to persons disabled by any other Laws XXXI Nor shall this Act discharge any person who if he after the first day of September 1660. has exercised any Office is by the said Act of 12 Car. 2. to stand as if excepted out of the said Act by Name XXXII And except all persons attainted by Act of Parliament or otherwise for any Rebellion levying of War or any Conspiracy thereof in any of their Majesties Dominions and all persons attainted or outlawed for any other Treason Petit Treason Murder wilful Poysoning or Burglary XXXIII And except all persons who by any former Act are by Name made liable to any penalties whatsoever XXXIV And except persons who after conviction or attainder for any Felony have desired to be transported XXXV And except persons who being excepted out of the said general Act of 12 Car. 2. have had any pains or penalties imposed on them by any subsequent Act. XXXVI And except all penalties of 500 l. which shall by any Act of this Session be inflicted for holding Offices contrary to an Act of Parliament made in the 25th of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants XXXVII And except William Marquiss of Powis Theophilus Earl of Huntington Robert Earl of Sunderland John Earl of Melfort Roger Earl of Castlemain the Lord Thomas Howard Nathaniel Lord Bishop of Durham Thomas Lord Bishop of St. Davids Henry Lord Dover William Molineux Sir Edward Hales Sir Edward Herbert Sir Francis Wythens Sir Richard Holloway Sir Edward Lutwich Sir Richard Heath Sir Thomas Jenner Sir Roger l'Estrange Sir Nicholas Butler Edward Petre Thomas Tindesley Townly Rowland Tempest Edward Morgan Obadiah Walker Robert Brent Richard Graham Philip Burton Robert Lundy Matthew Crone and George Lord Jefferies deceased XXXVIII And also except all Offences committed by Jesuits and Romish Priests contrary to the Statute made in the 27th year of Queen Elizabeth Entituled An Act against Jesuits Seminary Priests and other disobedient Persons and except all Convictions of Popish Recusants XXXIX No Process of Outlawry at the Suit of any person Plaintiff shall by virtue of this Act be stay'd unless the Defendant appear and put in Bail where the Law requires it and take out a Seirs Fac Nor shall this Pardon discharge any Outlawry after Judgment till satisfaction or agreement with the party XL. Persons hereby pardoned may plead the Ceneral Issue and give this Act in Evidence XLI This Act shall be of as good force to pardon and discharge the Premisses against such as claim the same by any Grant from the Crown as against their Majesties themselves XLII Nothing in this Act shall discharge any person from abetting or procuring the raising War or Rebellion against their Majesties or adhering to their Enemies since the 13th day of February 1688. unless such person shall before the 20th day of July next or sooner if required take this Oath in such Court as shall have power to administer the same viz. I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary So help me God Parliament I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 1. The Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons conven'd at Westminster the 22th day of January 1688. and there sitting on the 13th day of February following are the two Houses of Parliament to all intents and purposes notwithstanding the want of any Writs of Summons or other defect of Form and this Act and all other Acts to which the Royal Assent shall be given before the next Prorogation shall be adjudged to commence upon the said 13th day of February II. The Act made in the 30th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government by disabling of Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament and all other Acts of Parliament as to so much of them as concerns the taking the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy or either of them by any Member of either House of Parliament with relation to their sitting and voting there are hereby repealed III. And the taking the Oaths herein after
mentioned and the making and subscribing the Declaration in the said Act of the 30th year of King Charles II. mentioned by the Members of each House from and after the first day of March next shall be effectual as if the said Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy had been taken c. And in all future Parliaments the Oaths herein after mentioned and the said Declaration shall be taken made and subscribed by every Member of either House as the said Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the said Declaration by the said Act of the 30th year of King Charles II. are appointed to be taken to enable them to sit and vote in Parliament IV. The Oaths above appointed by this Act to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy are these viz. I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary So help me God I A. B. do swear That I do from my Heart abhor detest and abjure as Impious and Heretical that damnable Doctrin and Position That Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope or any Authority of the See of Rome may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do declare That no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Power Jurisdiction Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm So help me God V. This present Parliament may be dissolved after the usual manner as if summoned by Writ VI. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 7. Whereas the late Lord-Wardens of the Cinque-Ports have claim'd a Power of nominating and recommending to each of the said Cinque-Ports the two ancient Towns and their Members one person whom they ought to elect as a Member of Parliament be it declared and enacted That all such Nominations and Recommendations were and are contrary to the Laws and Constitutions of this Realm and for the future shall be so deemed and they are hereby declared to be void Poor I. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 11. The Act made in the 13th and 14th years of the late King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the better Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom except what relates to the Corporations therein mentioned which was revived and continued with Alterations by an Act made in the first year of the late King James II. shall be in force from the first day of March 1691. II. The forty days continuance of a person intended by the said Acts to make a Settlement shall be accounted from the publication of a notice in writing which he or she shall deliver of the House of his or her Abode and number of his or her Family to the Church-warden or Overseer of the Poor which shall be read immediately after Divine Service in the Church or Chappel of the Place on the next Lords Day where there shall be Divine Service in the same the Church-warden or Overseer to Register such notice in the Book kept for the Poors Accounts III. No Souldier or other Person in their Majesties Service by delivery and publication of notice as aforesaid unless they be dismist the Service IV. Church-wardens or Overseers refusing to read or cause to be read such notice as aforesaid upon proof thereof by two Witnesses upon Oath before a Justice of Peace shall forfeit 40 s. to the use of the party grieved to be levied by distress and sale of Goods by Warrant of a Justice of Peace to the Constable and for want of a Distress shall be committed to Gaol for a month and if any Church-warden or Overseer shall neglect or refuse to Register such notice as aforesaid they shall forfeit 40 s. to be levied as aforesaid and for want of a Distress shall be committed as aforesaid V. If any person coming to inhabit in any Town or Parish shall on his own account execute any Publick annual Office or charge in the same during a year or pay his share towards the publick Taxes or Levies of such Town c. he shall be adjudged to have a legal Settlement without notice in Writing delivered c. VI. If any unmarried person not having Child or Children shall be lawfully hired for a Year such Service shall be deemed a good Settlement without notice c. VII Being bound Apprentice and inhabiting in a Town or Parish shall be adjudged a good Settlement VIII Persons agrieved by the determination of any Justices of the Peace may appeal to the next Quarter-Sessions who shall finally determine the same IX If any person be removed by virtue of this Act from one place to another by Warrant of two Justices of Peace the Church-wardens or Overseers of the place to which he shall be removed shall receive him and in case of refusal upon proof by two Witnesses upon oath before a Justice of Peace of the County Riding c. to which he shall be removed shall forfeit 5 l. to the use of the Poor of the Parish from which he shall be removed to be levied by distress and sale of Goods c. by Warrant of a Justice of Peace of the County c. to which he shall be removed to the Constable of the place where such Offender dwells and for want of a Distress shall be committed to Gaol for forty days X. Persons agrieved by the Judgment of the said two Justices may appeal to the next General Quarter-Sessions of the place from which the said person was removed XI There shall be kept in every Parish at the Parish Charge a Book or Books wherein the Names of persons receiving Collections shall be registred with the time when they were first admitted to have relief and the occasion of their necessity and yearly in Easter-Week or oftner the Parishioners shall meet and have such Books produced before them and the persons receiving Collections shall be called and the reasons of their taking relief examined and a new List be made and entred of such as they shall think fit to allow to receive collection and no other shall be allowed to receive Collection but by Authority under the Hand of a Justice of Peace residing in the Parish and if there be none in the Parts next adjoyning or by order of the Justices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions except in cases of Pestilential Diseases Plague or Small-pox in respect of Familes infected only XII In all Actions to be brought in the Courts at Westminster or at the Assizes for Monies mis-spent by the Church-wardens or Overseers the Evidence of the Parishioners other than such as receive Alms of the Parish where the Defendants are Inhabitants shall be taken and admitted Prisoners I. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 15. All persons in prison upon the 28th day of November 1690. for Debt or Damages or upon any Action or mean Process for Debt Account or Trespass upon the Case or who may have Judgments entred
upon Record against them or are charg'd in Execution or imprison'd upon Attachments for Debt or upon Outlawries for Debt or upon any Process in Law or Equity for Debt Damages or Costs only who shall take the Oath mentioned in the Act of 22 and 23 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for the Relief and Release of poor distressed Prisoners for Debt and the Oath in this Act following shall be released in manner and form as is mentioned in the said Act and in one other Act made in the 30th year of the said late King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the farther relief and discharge of Poor distressed Prisoners for Debt II. Justices of Peace who pursuant to the said Acts or to this present Act shall make any Order for the discharge of any poor Prisoner for Debt shall cause to come before them any Sheriff Gaoler or Keeper of Prison where such Prisoners are and administer to them this Oath viz. I A. B. do swear that J. S. was really and truly my Prisoner in my custody without any fraud or deceit in me or by any other to my knowledge at or upon the 28th day of November 1690. So help me God III. If any Sheriff Gaoler c. refuse to appear and take the said Oath he shall forfeit to such Prisoner so about to be discharged the value of the Debt for which he is imprisoned to be recovered by Action of Debt in any their Majesties Courts of Record and if any such Sheriff Gaoler c. shall forswear himself he shall suffer as a person convicted of perjury IV. Prisoners taking the benefit of this Act and taking the Oath in the first recited Act mentioned shall also before such Justice or Justices by whom such Oath is to be given take this Oath viz. I A. B. do swear That on the 28th day of November 1690. I was actually a Prisoner in the custody of the Gaoler or Keeper of D. Prison in the County of C. at the Suit of J.S. without my consent or procurement or by any Fraud or Collusion whatsoever So help me God V. Such Prisoners forswearing themselves besides the penalties now in force against persons convicted of Perjury shall suffer seven years imprisonment VI. This Act shall not extend to persons in Execution for a Fine impos'd for any Offence VII Taking the Oaths and giving the Creditors notice as by this Act is required in all other things for the discharge of any poor prisoner it shall be observed in form and method as is directed by the two before mentioned Acts. VIII None shall have the benefit of this Act who shall stand charged with more than 100 l. principal Mony or Damages or who shall stand charged with any Debt to their Majesties IX Notwithstanding the discharge of such Prisoners Judgments against them shall be good in Law against their Lands and Goods their wearing Apparel Bedding for them and their Familes and Tools for their Trade c. only excepted X. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 21. If any Defendants taken or charged in custody upon any Writ or Writs out of any of the Courts at Westminster and detained for want of Sureties for their appearance the Plaintiffs may before the end of the next Term after such Writ or Process shall be returnable declare against such Prisoners in the Court out of which the Writ shall issue and cause a Copy thereof to be delivered to such Prisoners or the Gaoler in whose custody he shall remain to which if the said Prisoners shall not appear and plead the Plaintiff shall have Judgment as if they had appeared and refused to answer or plead XI In all Declarations against Prisoners detained by virtue of any Process out of the Kings Bench it shall be alledged in custody of what Sheriff Bailiff c. such Prisoners are at the time of such Declaration which allegation shall be as effectual as if such Prisoners were in the custody of the Marshal or the Marshalsey c. Prizes I. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 4. An Act for preserving two Ships lading of Bay-Salt taken as Prize for the benefit of their Majesties Navy Religion I. SEat Anno 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 18. Neither the Statute made in the 23th year of Queen Elizabeth Entituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience nor that of the 29th of the said Queen Entituled An Act for the more speedy and due execution of certain Branches of the Statute made in the 23th year of the Queens Majesties Reign nor that Clause of a Statute made in the first year of the said Queens Reign Entituled An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer c. whereby all persons are required to resort to their Parish-Church or Chappel or some usual place of Common-prayer c. Nor the Statute made in the third year of the Reign of King James I. Entituled An Act for the better discovering and repressing Popish Recusants nor that other Statute made in the same year Entituled An Act to prevent and avoid Dangers which may grow by Popish Recusants nor any Statute made against Papists or Popish Recusants except the Statute made 25 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants and except the Statute made Anno 30 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government c. shall be construed to extend to any persons dissenting from the Church of England that shall take the Oaths mentioned in a Statute made this Parliament Entituled An Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes concerning the assembling and sitting of this Parliament and shall make and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in a Statute made in the 30th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act to prevent Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament which Oaths and Declaration the Justices of Peace at their General Quarter-Sessions are hereby required to administer and thereof to keep a Register no Fee or Reward to be paid above 6 d. for such Entry and that but once nor above the farther Sum of 6 d. for a Certificate thereof II. Persons already convicted or prosecuted in order to Conviction of Recusancy that shall take the said Oaths mentioned in the said Statute made in this Parliament and make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid in the Court of Exchequer or Assizes or General Quarter-Sessions c. to be thence certified into the Exchequer shall be discharged from all Penalties c. incurred by any the aforesaid Statutes III. All persons that shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration shall not be liable to any penalties mentioned in an Act of the 35th of Queen Elizabeth Entituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience nor in an Act made in the 22th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles nor shall be prosecuted in
XVII This Act shall give no ease to Papists or Popish Recusants nor to any that in preaching or writing shall deny the Trinity XVIII If any persons after the 10th day of June come into any Church Chappel or Congregation permitted by this Act and disturb the same or misuse the Teacher upon proof thereof by two Witnesses before a Justice of Peace they shall find two Sureties to be bound by Recognizance in 50 l. and in default thereof be committed to prison till the next Quarter-Sessions and upon conviction of such Offence at the General or Quarter-Sessions shall forfeit 20 l. XIX No Assembly for Religious Worship shall be allowed by this Act till the place of meeting be certified to the Bishop of the Diocess or the Arch-deacon or to the Justices of Peace at the General or Quarter-Sessions and registred or recorded there respectively and a Certificate thereof given without Fee c. Revenue I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 14. The Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of Mony payable upon Merchandise and the several Impositions Duties and Charges upon Liquors Manufactures and other Things and all and singular the Revenue and Revenues except Hearth-mony other than the Duties thereby arising at or before the 25th of March 1689. granted and payable to the two late Kings or either of them which remained and had continuance on the 5th day of November last and all Arrears of the same shall be answered and paid to their Majesties until the 25th day of December 1689. II. All persons who have received or collected any part of the publick Revenue since the said 5th day of November are hereby indemnified against all persons of whom they received or collected the same to be answerable nevertheless to their Majesties III. Seizures and Distresses made or to be made by any persons authorized and all Forfeitures and Penalties for any Offence against any Law concerning the Customs or Excise or relating to the Transportation of Wool or importation or exportation of prohibited Goods incurred since the 11th day of December and before the 13th of February 1688. shall be prosecuted as well by any Informer for the King and Queen and himself as by the Attorny General in manner and form as if such Seisures Distresses and Offences had been made and committed after the said 13th day of Febr. IV. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 28. Part of the Mony accruing to their Majesties by one Act of Parliament made in the first year of the Reign of the late King James II. Entituled An Act for granting to his Majesty an Imposition upon all Tobacco and Sugar imported between the 24th day of June 1685. and the 24th day of June 1693. not exceeding in the whole 60000 l. shall be applyed to the payment of the Wages due to the Servants of the late King Charles II. which were his Servants at the time of his decease to be paid them within three years from the 24th day of Dec. 1689. by three equal payments and in such manner and proportion and to such of them as his Majesty shall direct and the residue of the Mony arising by the said Act and the Mony arising by two other Acts of the said first year of the said late King James the one entituled An Act for granting his Majesty an imposition upon all Wines and Vinegar imported between the 24th day of June 1685. and the 24th of June 1693. and the other An Act for granting an aid to his Majesty by an imposition on all French Linnens and all East-India Linnen and several other Manufactures of India and on all French wrought Silks and Stuffs and on all other wrought Silks and on all Brandies imported after the first day of July 1685. and before the first day of July 1690. and by one other Act of this Parliament Entituled An Act for an additional Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors shall be applied from the 29th of September 1689. during the continuance of the said Acts in the first place towards the payment of 600000 l. to the States of the United Provinces for their assistance to his Majesty in coming into this Nation in such manner as his Majesty shall direct and the residue towards the subduing the Rebellion of Ireland and other Charges of the War against France V. Accounts of the said Monies to be kept apart from other Monies payable to their Majesties that such as the States of the United Provinces shall appoint and other persons concerned may see how the said additional Duty and other Impositions are from time to time paid into the Exchequer VI. No Mony shall be paid to any of the late King Charles II's Servants but to such as before the first day of February next shall have taken the Oaths and made and subscribed the Declaration mentioned in an Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths at the General Quarter-Sessions of the County or Place where they reside and shall produce a Certificate thereof attested by the Clerk of the Peace VII Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 3. An Act for preventing all Doubts and Questions concerning the collecting the publick Revenue Exp. Rights and Liberties I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 2. Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons assembled at Westminster lawfully fully and freely representing all the Estates of the People of this Realm did upon the thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred eighty eight present unto their Majesties then called and known by the Names and Stile of William and Mary Prince and Princess of Orange being present in their proper Persons a certain Declaration in Writing made by the said Lords and Commons in the Words following viz. Whereas the late King James II. by the assistance of divers evil Councellors Judges and Ministers employed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom By assuming and exercising a Power of dispensing with and sus-spending of Laws and the Execution of Laws without consent of Parliament By committing and prosecuting divers worthy Prelates for humbly petitioning to be excused from concurring to the said assumed Power By issuing and causing to be executed a Commission under the Great Seal for erecting a Court called The Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes By levying Mony for and to the use of the Crown by pretence of Prerogative for other time and in other manner than the same was granted by Parliament By raising and keeping a standing Army within this Kingdom in time of Peace without consent of Parliament and quartering Souldiers contrary to Law By causing several good Subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when Papists were both armed and employed contrary to Law By violating the freedom of Election of Members to serve in Parliament By
settlement of the Poor 56. An Act for the better repairing and amending the High-ways and for settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods 57. An Act against corresponding with their Majesties Enemies 58. An Act for the Relief of Creditors against fraudulent Devises 59. An Act for the better ordering and collecting the Duty upon Low-Wines and Strong-Waters and for preventing the Abuses therein 60. An Act that the Inhabitants in the Province of York may dispose of their Personal Estates by their Wills notwithstanding the Custom of that Province 61. An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Rates and Duties of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of ten hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France 62. An Act for taking Special Bails in the Country upon Actions and Suits depending in the Courts of Kings-Bench Common-Pleas and Exchequer at Westminster 63. An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Additional Impositions upon several Goods and Merchandizes for the prosecuting the present War against France 64. An Act to prevent Abuses committed by the Traders in Butter and Cheese 65. An Act for encouraging the apprehending of High-way Men. 66. An Act for reviving two former Acts of Parliament for the repairing the High-ways in the County of Hertford 67. An Act for prohibiting the Importation of all Foreign Hair Buttons 68. An Act to make Parishioners of the Church United Contributors to the Repairs and Ornaments of the Church to whom the Union is made 69. An Act for punishing Officers and Souldiers who shall Mutiny or Desert their Majesties Service and for Punishing false Musters and for the Payment of Quarters 70. An Act for continuing certain Acts therein mentioned and for charging several Joynt-Stocks 71. An Act to prevent Frauds by Clandestine Mortgages 72. An Act for the regaining encouraging and settling the Greenland Trade 73. An Act to prevent malicious Informations in the Court of Kings-Bench and for the more easie reversal of Outlawries in the same Court 74. An Act for preventing Suits against such as acted for their Majesties Service in Defence of the Kingdom 75. An Act for the better Discovery of Judgments in the Courts of Kings-Bench Common-Pleas and Exchequer at Westminster 76. An Act for delivering Declarations to Prisoners 77. An Act for regulating the Proceedings in the Crown-Office of the Court of Kings-Bench at Westminster 78. An Act for the more easie discovery and conviction of such as shall destroy the Game of this Kingdom 79. An Act for reviving continuing and explaining several Laws therein mentioned which are expired and near expiring 80. An Act for continuing the Acts for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France and for the Encouragement of Privateers 81. An Act for repealing such parts of several former Act as prevent or prohibit the importation of Foreign Brandy Aqua Vitae and other Spirits and Bacon except from France 82. An Act for the importation of fine Italian Sicilian and Naples Thrown Silk 83. An Act to repeal a Clause in the Statute made in the four and thirtieth and five and thirtieth Years of King Henry the eighth by which Justices of Peace in Wales are limited to eight in each County 84. An Act to supply the Deficiency of the Mony raised by a former Act Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Rates and Duties of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of ten hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France 85. An Act to prevent Disputes and Controversies concerning Royal Mines 86. An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Rates and Duties upon Salt and upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of ten hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France 87. An Act for the explaining and for the more effectual Execution of a former Act for the Relief of poor Prisoners 88. An Act for repeal of a Clause in the Statute of the fifth Year of Queen Elizabeth containing divers Orders for Artificers and others which relates to Weavers of Cloath 89. An Act for Relief of the Orphans and other Creditors of the City of London 90. An Act to prevent Delays of Proceedings at the Quarter-Sessions of the Peace 91. An Act to take away the Process for the Capiatur Fine in the several Courts at Westminster 92. An Act to repeal the Statute made in the tenth Year of King Edward III. for finding Sureties for the good abearing by him or her that hath a Pardon of Felony 93. An Act for continuing the Act for punishing Officers and Souldiers who shall Mutiny or Desert their Majesties Service and for punishing false Musters and for the payment of Quarters for one Year longer 94. An Act for the importation of Salt-Petre for one Year 95. An Act for the exportation of Iron Copper and Mundick Metal 96. An Act for enabling their Majesties to make Grants Leases and Copies of Offices Lands and Hereditaments parcel of their Dutchy of Cornwal or annexed to the same and for confirmation of Leases and Grants already made 97. An Act for raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the Year 1694. although the Months Pay formerly advanced be not repaid 98. An Act for granting to their Majesties several Rates and Duties upon Tunnage of Ships and Vessels and upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily Advance the Sum of fifteen hundred thousand pounds towards carrying on the War against France 99. An Act for granting to their Majesties several Duties upon Vellum Parchment and Paper for four Years towards carrying on the War against France 100. An Act for the licensing and regulating Hackney-Coaches and Stage-Coaches 101. An Act for appointing and enabling Commissioners to examine take and state the Publick Accounts of the Kingdom 102. An Act for building good and defensible Ships 103. An Act for the better Discipline of their Majesties Navy Royal. AN EXACT ABRIDGMENT Of all the STATUTES OF King William Queen Mary IN Force and Use until the 14th of March in the Fifth Year of Their Reign An. Dom. 1692 3. Accounts I. STat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. c. 9. Sir Robert Rich Sir Thomas Clarges Paul Foley Robert Austen Sir Matthew Andrews Sir Benjamin Newland Sir Samuel Barnardiston Sir Peter Colliton and Robert Harley or any Five or more of them shall be Commissioners for taking the Accounts of the Publick Revenues of the Crown which were in the Receipt of the Exchequer on the Fifth Day of November 1688. or since or shall be before the Power for taking these Accounts be determined and of all
Books and Pamphlees and for regulating Printing and Printing Presses shall be in force for One year from the 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of â—arliament XVII All Jurors other then Strangers upon Tryals per medietatem linguae return'd upon Tryal of Issues joyn'd in the Kings-Bench Common-Pleas or Exchequer or before Justices of Assize or Nisi prius Oyer and Terminer Goal-delivery or General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace after the 1st Day of May 1693. within any County of England shall have in their own Name or in Trust for them within the same County 10 l. a year at least above Reprizes of Free-hold or Coppy-hold Lands or of Lands in ancient Demesne or in Rents in Fee-simple or Fee-tail or for their own or some other Persons Life And in every County of Wales such Jurors shall have 6 l. a year at least as aforesaid All which Persons having such Estates are hereby made liable to serve as aforesaid If any be return'd of lesser Estate it shall be good cause of Challenge and the Party return'd shall be discharged upon such Challenge or upon his own Oath Nor shall any Jury-man's Issues making default be saved but by special Order of the Court or Judges for some reasonable Cause proved upon Oath And the Ven. fac for Impannelling Juries in England shall run thus viz. Rex c. praecipimus c. quod Ven. fac coram c. duodecim liberos legales homines de vicineto de A quor ' quilibet habeat decem Librat terrae tenementor ' vel reddit ' per annum ad minus per quos c. qui nee c. and the residue after the ancient manner and the Writs for Returning Juries in Wales shall be in like manner altering only the Word decem for sex And Sheriffs Coroners and other Ministers returning in any such Pannel any Person not having 10 l. or 6 d. respectively by the Year as aforesaid shall forfeit for every such Person so Returned the Sum of Five Pounds to Their Majesties XVIII No Sheriff or Bayliff of any Liberty or their Ministers shall return any such Persons to have been Summoned by them unless they shall have been Summoned Six days at least before the Day on which they ought to make their Appearance nor shall take any Reward to excuse the Appearance of any Juror Summoned or Return'd on Pain to Forfeit for every such Offence 10 l. to Their Majesties XIX Saving to all Cities Boroughs and Towns Corporate their ancient Usage of returning Jurors in such manner as hath been accustomed XX. Provided that it shall be Lawful to Return Persons upon the Tales in any County within England who shall have 5 l. a year above Reprizes and within Wales 3 l. a year XXI No Fee or Reward shall be taken by any Person whatsoever upon the Account of any Tales return'd upon Pain to Forfeit 10 l. for every such Offence the one Moity to the Prosecutor and the other to Their Majesties XXII No Writ de non ponendis in Assisis Juratis shall be granted unless upon Oath made that the Suggestions are true XXIII So much of this Act as relates to the returning of Jurors to be in force for Three years from the 1st of May 1693. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament Corn. I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess I. cap. 12. When Malt or Barley Winchester Measure shall be at 24 s. per Quarter or under Rye at 32 s. per Quarter or under and Wheat at 48 s. per Quarter or under in any Port of this Kingdom or Wales Merchants and others who shall put on Ship-board in English Shiping the Master and Two thirds of the Mariners being Their Majesâ—ies Subjects any sorts of the Corn aforesaid to Export the same beyond Sea shall bring Certificates under their Hands containing the quantity and quality of the Corn shipped to the Persons appointed to Collect the Customs in any such Port and upon Proof made of such Certificate by one or more Credible Persons upon Oath and upon Bond given by such Merchant or other Person in â—00 l. for every hundred Tuns of Corn so shipped and so proportionably that the said Corn dangers of the Seas excepted shall be Exported into Parts beyond the Sea and not be landed in England Wales Guernsey Jersey or Berwick shall receive from the Persons appointed to Collect the Customs as aforesaid for every Quarter of Barley or Malt ground or unground 2 s. 6 d. for every Quarter of Rye 3 s. 6 d. for every Quarter of Wheat 5 s. and shall pay no Custom nor any Fee or Reward for Corn so laden to be Exported And upon Certificate under the Common Seal of the Chief Magistrate in any Place beyond Sea or under the Hand and Seals of Two known English Merchants upon the Place that such Corn was there Landed or upon Proof by Credible Persons that such Corn was taken by Enemies or Perished at Sea the Examination and Proof thereof being left to the Receivers of the Customs the Bond shall be delivered up to be Cancelled And the Moneys so paid shall be allowed as paid to Their Majesties Courts I. Stat. 1 W. M. Stss 1. cap. 27. Whereas by a Statute made in the 34th and 35th years of the Reign of King H. 8. Entituled An Act for certain Ordinances in the King's Majesties Dominion and Principality of Wales It is Enacted That there shall be and remain a President and Council in the said Dominion and Principality of Wales and the Matches of the same with all Officers Clerks and Incidents thereunto in Manner and Form as hath been heretofore used and accustomed Which President and Council shall have Power and Authority to Hear and Determine by their Wisdoms and Diseretions such Causes or Matters as be or hereafter shall be Assign'd to them by the King's Majesty as heretofore hath been accustomed and used Be it Enacted that the said Clause be Repealed and that the said Court before the President and Council be dissolved and taken away II The Justices of the Great Sessions in Wales shall yearly Nominate Three Persons for each Shire in their Circuits to be Sheriffs of the same and certifie the same to the Lords of the Privy Council Crastino animarum that Their Majesties may appoint one of them to be Sheriff for that year III. Errors in Pleas personal within Wales shall be redressed by Writ of Error as Errors in Pleas real and mixt are appointed to be redrest by the said Statute of 34 and 35 of King H 8. IV. Judgments and Decrees passed in the said Court before the 1st Day of June 1689. shall remain in force and execution upon them in the same State in which they were before the making this Act. Crown-Office I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 22. No Corporations Lords of Manors or others having Grants by Charter or other good Conveyances who have
Inrolled and had the same allowed by the Court of King's-Bench shall be compelled to Plead the same to any Inquisition returned by any Coroner And if any Corporations Lords of Manors or others have or shall have such Grants from the Crown for Felons Goods Deodands and other Forfeitures they shall not be compelled to enrol their whole Charters or Grants but such part thereof as may express the Grants of such Felons Goods Deodands and Forfeitures and no more for doing whereof the Clerk of the Crown shall receive 20 s. for his Fee and no more and from and after such Enrolment they shall not be compelled to Plead the same to any inquisition II. If any Clerk of the Crown shall hereafter issue out any Process against such Grantees after such Enrolment he shall forfelt for every such Offence to the Party grieved the Sum of 5. l. III. But the Clerk of the Crown shall incur no Penalty mentioned in this Act for issuing Process against any persons who shall not upon every purchase of the Title of such Felons Goods c. Inrol and Plead the said Purchase in the said Court nor against any Devisee who shall not Enrol or Plead such Devise nor against any Heir who shall not Inrol his or her Right by descent and till after such Pleas have been allowed of by the said Court nor where by any Inquest of any Coroner the Goods of any Felon or Felons or Decodands shall not be found to be in the Hands of such Purchaser Devisee or Heir IV. Upon issuing of any Exigent for any Criminal Matter before Conviction there shall issue a Writ of Proclamation bearing the same Teste and Return to the Sheriff of the County City or Town where the persons in the Record of the said Proceedings are mentioned to inhabit according to the form of the Statute made Anno. 31 Eliz. which Writ shall be delivered to the Sheriff Three Months before the return thereof V. This Act to continue for Three years from the 25th Day of March 1693. and to the end of the then next Session of Parliament Customs I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 6. After the 29th Day of September 1689. so much of every Act of Parliament as requires the Levying the Duties arising by those Acts by way of Excise upon Coffee Chocolate and Tea shall cease and determine and is hereby Repealed II. And be it farther Enacted that after the 25th Day of December 1689. the Duties and Charges hereafter mentioned shall be Collected and Received at the Custom-house upon Coffee-berries Tea in the Leaf and Cacao-nuts and upon Chocolate ready made and according to the Proportions herein after mentioned besides what is now payable for the same at the Custom house viz. Upon every 100 Weight of Coffee Imported containing One hundred and twelve pound 5 l. 12 s. Upon every 100 Weight of Cacao Nuts containing as aforesaid 8 l. 8 s. Upon every pound weight of Tea 5 s. and upon every pound Weight of Chocolate 5 s. and so proportionably III. If any of the said Commodities shall be unshipt or laid on Land the Duties not paid or lawfully tendred to the Collector or his Deputy with the consent and agreement of the Comtroller and Surveyor there nor agreed with for the same in the Custom-house they shall be forfeited the one Moiety to Their Majesties the other to the Informer This Act to continue for Five years and no longer IV. Merchants and others having paid the Duties and Impositions by this Act appointed who shall within Six Months after Importation again transport the said Goods or any part thereof shall be repaid Two thirds of the Duties by them paid of so much of the said Goods as they shall export V. It shall be lawful to Import Nutmegs Cinnamon Cloves and Mace in any English Ships One third part of the Mariners whereof to be English from any parts beyond the Seas paying double the Sums the same are charged with in the Book of Rates so as notice be first given to the Commissioners or Farmers of the Customs of the Quality and Quantity thereof with the Name of the Ship and Master and the place where they intend to Import the same and taking a Licence under their Hands or of any Three of them for the Lading and Importing thereof as aforesaid which Licence shall be given without Fee or Reward I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 4. The Commons assembled in Parliament do hereby Give and Grant to your Majesties the Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage and other Sums of Money Granted to the late K. Charles 2. in the Twelfth year of his Reign by an Act Entituled A Subsidy granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage c. according to the Rates therein mention'd and the Rules and Orders thereunto annexed other then such concerning which it is otherwise provided by any Act made in the last Parliament and pray that it may be Enacted and be it Enacted that the said Subsidy and other Sums of Money be paid to Their Majesties for Four years from the 24th Day of December 1690. and that the aforesaid Act and an Order of the House of Commons made in pursuance of the Rules and Orders annexed thereunto for settling Officers Fees Dated the 17 of May 1662. ans Signed by Sir Edward Turnor then Speaker shall be of force during the said Four years VII An Act made in the 12th year of the said K. Charles 2. Entituled An Act to prevent Frauds and Concealments of His Majesties Customs and Susidies and an Act made in the 14th year of his Reign Entituled An Act for preventing Frands and regulating Abuses in His Majesties Customs and an Act made in the 22d year of His Reign Entituled An Act for Improvement of Tillage and the breed of Battel and another Act made in the 25th year of His Reign Entituled An Act for taking off Aliens Duties upon Commodities of the Growth Product and Manufacture of the Nation and another Act made in the said 25th year of his Reign Entituled An Act for the encouragement of the Greenland and East-land Trades and for the better securing the Plantation Trade and one other Act made in the First year of the late King James 2. Entituled An additional Act for the Improvement of Tillage shall be in force during the said Term of Four years VIII Nothing herein shall be Construed to determine any Clauses in the said Acts which were intended to be perpetual IX It shall be lawful for any persons to advance upon the Credit of this Act any Sums of Money not exceeding 500000 l. in the whole at the Interest for such Money as shall be lent before the 10th of June 1690. of 8 l. per Cent. and for Money lent after 7 l. per Cent. X. After the First Day of Novemb. 1690. during the continuance of this Act there shall be continued within London an Office for the Receipt of the Subsidies and other Sums hereby
concerning which it is otherwise provided by any Act of the last Parliament shall be paid to Their Majesties during Their Lives and the Life of the longer Liver of Them in such Manner and by such Rules and under such Penalties as are directed by the said Act and by another Act in the 15th year of the said late Kings Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of Excise and preventing Abuses therein or any other Law now in force relating to the Excise XX. And whereas Their Majesties are pleased that the Duties and Impositions hereby granted shall be a Fond of Credit for the raising a Sum not exceeding 250000 l. Be it Enacted That if Their Majesties should die before the 24th day of December 1693. the said several Duties and Impositions shall continue to be paid until the said 24th day of December subject to and chargeable with the Sum to be borrow'd as aforesaid XXI Any Persons may advance Money upon the Credit of this Act not exceeding 250000 l. in the whole at Interest for Money lent before the 10th of June of 8 l. per Cent. and for Money lent after 7 l. per Cent. XXII After the 1st day of Novemb. 1690. till the said 24th day of Decemb. 1693. the Commissioners of Excise shall separate and keep apart 3 Parts the whole in 4 Parts to be divided of the moneys arising by this Act And the Auditor and Comptroller of the Excise shall keep a distinct Account of the said 3 Parts to which Persons concerned may have access without Fee and the Commissioners and Governours of the Excise shall pay the same weekly into the Exchequer every Wednesday if it be not a Holy-day and then the next day after that is not a Holy-day distinct from other moneys XXIII And there shall be provided in the Exchequer in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipts one Book in which such moneys shall be entred apart and all Persons lending money upon the Credit of this Act shall have a Tally of Loan struck and an Order for repayment bearing date with the Tally in which shall be a Warrant for payment of Interest according to the Rates aforesaid to be paid every Three Months such Orders to be registred in course without Preference and all Persons shall be paid in course as their Orders stand entred and the said money not to be divertible to any other Use or Purpose and if the Commissioners or Governours of the Excise do not pay in the said moneys as aforesaid or misapply any Part thereof they shall forfeit their Offices and be uncapable of any Office or Place of Trust and pay the full Value of the Sum misapplied to him that will sue for the same No Fee Reward or Gratuity shall be demanded or taken for providing or making any such Registers Entries View or Search in or for payment of money lent or the Interest by any of Their Majesties Officers their Clerks or Deputies on Pain of Payment of Treble Damages to the Party grieved and Costs of Suit and the Officer taking such Fee c. shall lose his Place And if any undue Preference be made in point of Registry or Payment the Party offending shall be liable by Action of Debt or of the Case to pay the value of the Debt Damages and Costs to the Party grieved and shall be forejudged his Place if an Officer If a Deputy or Clerk only he shall for ever after be uncapable thereof And in case the Auditor shall not direct the Order or the Clerk of the Pells record or the Teller make payment according to each Persons Order they shall be adjudged to forfeit and their Deputies and Clerks offending to be liable to such Action Damages and Costs as aforesaid All which Penalties and Forfeitures to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. XXIV If several Tallies of Loan or Orders for payment bear date or be brought the same day it shall be no undue Preference which is entred first so as all be entred the same day Nor shall it be any undue Preference to direct order and pay subsequent Orders of Persons that come and demand their moneys and bring their Orders before others that do not come to demand theirs so as there be so much money left as will satisfie precedent Orders Interest upon Loan being to cease from the time that the money is kept in Bank for them XXV Moneys due by Virtue of this Act after Order entred in the Register may by Endorsement be transferr'd and the Assignee may in like manner assign in toties quoties but such Endorsement must be notified in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt and an Entry or Memorandum made thereof in the Book of the Register for Orders XXVI Nevertheless an Act made in the 1st year of the Reign of the late K. James Entituled An Act for settling the Revenue on His Majesty for his Life which was settled on His late Majesty for his Life is hereby repealed XXVII Their Majesties by Letters Patents under the Great Seal may grant to Princess Anne of Denmark the yearly Sum of 20000 l. to be issuing out of the Duties hereby granted during Their Majesties Lives and the Life of the Survivor of them freed from the Loans by this Act to be made payable quarterly at the Four most usual Feasts XXVIII If the said Princess shall depart this life in the life-time of Their Majesties or either of them Their Majesties may grant the said yearly Sum to the Prince of Denmark and the Issue of the Princess respectively in such proportions as Their Majesties shall think fit to be paid quarterly XXIX Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 3. An Act for doubling the Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors during the space of one Year EXP. XXX Sat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 9. From the 24th day of Decemb. 1690. until the 25th day of Decemb. 1695. there shall be paid by way of Excise for Low-wines or Spirits of the first Extraction the Rates following viz. XXXI For every Gallon of Low-wines drawn from Foreign or Imported Materials 8 d. XXXII For every such Gallon drawn from English Materials other then from Drink prepared from any sort of Malted Corn or from Perry or Cyder 12 d. XXXIII For every such Gallon drawn only from Drink brewed and made or any sort of malted Corn 1 d. XXXIV And for every such Gallon drawn from Cyder or Perry 3 d. XXXV Such as make Low-wines Spirits or Brandy from Corn shall cause their Corn to be made into wholsom Drink and from such drink without any mixture shall draw their Low-wines and the Gaugers of Excise may gauge and keep an Account of Liquors Worts and Drink made for the making Low-wines c. and see that they be made from Drink made of malted Corn entirely And if Distillers or others mix other Materials the Gaugers shall charge the
Payment of Debts that shall be incurred by reason of the War LXI The Three Ships afore mentioned to be built within a year from the Twentieth Day of March next LXII Their Majesties may use any Sum or Sums not exceeding 500000 l. in the whole Granted in this Session and not particularly Appropriated so as it be Repaid and Applied to the Carrying on the present War out of such Moneys as shall arise from Their Maieslies Revenue before the 24th Day of March 1691. LXIII Stat. 3. u. M. cap. 1. An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for One Year EXP. LXIV Stat. 3. W. M. cap. 15. No Corn Distiller or Maker of Low-wines Spirits or Strong-waters for Sale shall at any Time after the 1st Day of March 1691 Set up Use or Alter any Tun Cask or other brewing Vessel for brewing or making any Worts Wash Low-wines Spirits or Strongwaters for Sale or use any private or conceal'd Ware-house or other place for laying of any Wash Low-wines c. without giving Notice thereof to the next Office of Excise within the Limits where he inhabits on Pain to Forfeit 20 l. for every Tun c. so Set up Used or Altered and for every private Ware-house c. and every other Person in whose Occupation any House or other Place shall be where any such private Tun c. shall be found shall Forfeit 20 l. one Moiety to Their Majesties and the other Moiety to the Informer LXV If any such Corn Distiller c. shall Conceal or Convey away any Low-wines Spirits c. from the Sight or View of the Gaugers he shall Forfeit for every Gallon so Conceal'd or Convey'd 5 s. All which Penalties shall be Sued for and Recovered as by an Act made in the 12th Year of the Reign of the late King Charles 2 d Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries c. and another Act made in the Fifteenth Year of his Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duties of Excise c. or by any other Law in force Relating to the Revenue of Excise on Beer and Ale is directed LXVI Stat. 4. W. M. cap. 3. From and after the 25th Day of January 1692. there shall be paid to Their Majesties Their Heirs c. during the space of Ninety nine years for the Liquors herein after Expressed over and above all Duties now Chargeable upon the same For every Barrel of Beer or Ale above 6 s. the Barrel 9 d. For every Barrel of Beer or Ale of 6 s. or under 3 d. For every Barrel of English Vinegar 1 s. and 6 d. For every Barrel of Vinegar made with or passing through Foreign Materials or any mixture with Foreign Materials 4 s. For every Barrel of Beer Ale and Mum Imported 3 s. For every Tun of Cyder or Perry Imported 4 l. For every Gallon of Single-Brandy Imported 6 d. For every Gallon of Double Brandy 1 s. For all Cyder and Perry made and sold by Retail upon every Hogshead 1 s. and 3 d. For all Metheglin or Mead made for Sale by Retail or otherwise for every Gallon 3 d. LXVII The said Impositions to be paid to Their Majesties c. in the same Manner and Form and by such Rules and under such Penalties as are mentioned in the Act of 12 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries c. and in another Act made in the same year Entituled A Grant of certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for the Increase of His Majesties Revenue during his Life and in another Act made in the 15th year of the same Kings Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of Excise c. or by any other Law in Force relating to the Revenue of Excise LXVIII The Commissioners and Governours for the management of the Excise at the Head Office in London shall keep apart the moneys arising by the Duties hereby granted as the same shall be paid in and shall pay weekly every Wednesday if it be not a Holy-day and then the day after into the Exchequer all the said moneys distinct from the other moneys which they shall receive for Their Majesties Use LXIX There shall be kept in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipts one Book in which all the said weekly moneys shall be entred apart from other moneys LXX If the said Commissioners and Governours neglect or refuse to pay the said weekly Sums as aforesaid or misapply any of the same they shall forfeit their Offices and be incapable of any Office or Place of Trust and shall pay the full Value of any Sum or Sums so misapplied to any that will sue for the same LXXI The Sums appointed to be paid in weekly as aforesaid shall be the yearly Fond for the purposes hereafter mentioned LXXII Any persons Natives or Foreigners may contribute toward the advancing the said Sum of 1000000 l. at any time before the 1st day of May 1693. Sum or Sums and upon such Terms as are hereafter expressed viz. That out of the moneys arising by this Act the Sum of 100000 l. yearly till the 24th day of June 1700. be kept apart as the yearly Fond to be divided amongst the Persons so contributing and from and after that day 70000 l. shall be yearly kept apart as the yearly Fond to be divided as herein-after is mentioned That every Contributor shall advance 100 l. at least for which he is to name his own or some other life during which life he shall receive a Share of the said Fond as is hereafter expressed That every Contributor may advance as many Sums of 100 l. as he please for which he is to name one or more life or lives so as no more lives be named then there are distinct Hundred Pounds advanced during which life or lives he shall receive so many Shares of the said Fond as he shall have advanced Hundred Pounds all the said lives to be named within 14 days after the 24th of June 1692. That in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipts and of the Clerk of the Pells there be kept one or more Book or Books in which shall be entred the Contributors Names and the Names of those by whose hands they pay in the said moneys and the Sums paid and the time when and the Names of the Nominees To which the Contributors c. may have resort and inspect the same without Fee or Reward The Contributors and Nominees to be described by their Christian and Sirnames Additions Places of Abode c. Every Contributor shall have a Talley levied importing the Receipt of the money and an Order for payment bearing date with the Tally signed by the Commissioners of the Treasury or any three or more of them or by the Treasurer of the Exchequer which shall be valid notwithstanding the
Overplus Charges deducted XVII No such Assessments to be made in any one year shall exceed 6 d. in the Pound of the yearly Value of Lands c. nor of 6 d. for 20 l. in personal Estate XVIII If any Persons find themselves aggrieved by such Assessments or any Act by the Justices of Peace the Justices of Peace at their General Quarter-Sessions shall take order therein which shall conclude all Parties XIX None shall be punished for any Offence against this Act unless he be prosecuted within six Months after the Offence committed nor shall any person punished by Virtue of this Act be punished for the same Offence by Virtue of any former Law XX. No Horse-cawsey shall be under Three Foot in breadth XXI The Justices of Peace for Middlesex may at their Quarter-Sessions make Rates for paving Kensington in such manner as is directed by an Act made in the second Year of Their Majesties Reign for Paving and Cleansing the Streets of London and Westminster XXII All matters concerning High-ways c. shall be determined in the County where they lie and not elsewhere and no Presentment Indictment or Order made by Virtue of this Act shall be removed by Certiorari out of the County XXIII The Justices of Peace of every County at their Quarter-Sessions after Easter yearly shall assess the Prices of all Land-Carriage of Goods to be brought into any place within their Jurifdictions by any common Waggoner or Carrier and shall certifie such Rates to the Mayors or other chief Officers of every Markeâ—-Town and Waggoners or Carriers taking more then what shall be so assessed shall forfeit for every such Offence 5 l. to be levied by Distress and sale of Goods by Warrant of Two Justices to the Use of the party grieved XXIV In Actions commenced against any persons authorized to put this Act in Execution the Defendants may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff be Non-suit or forbear prosecution or discontinue or a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover his double Costs XXV Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 9. The Toll mentioned in the Act made in the 15th year of the Reign of K. Charles II. Entituled An Act for Repairing the High-ways in the Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington And in an Act made in the 16th and 17th years of the said late King for Continuance of the said Act to be taken at Wades Mill in Hertford-shire shall be revived and taken again in the manner by the said Acts mention'd for Fifteen years the Moneys thereby arising to be employed according to the Tenor of the said Acts. XXVI Provided that if the said High ways before the end of Fifteen years be in sufficient Repair and an Adjudication be made thereof at the Assize or General Quarter-Sessions of the County as is provided by the said Statute of 16 and 17 Car. II. the said Toll shall from thenceforth cease XXVII The several Officers and Persons impowered by the said former Acts so far as relates to the County of Hertford shall have the like Powers by Virtue of this Act and all Clauses in the said Acts concerning the Collecting Paying Ingaging or Accounting for the said Toll shall by Virtue of this Act be renewed and put in Execution as if here again repeated High-way-men I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 8. Every Person who shall apprehend one or more High-way-men and prosecute them till they be convicted shall have from the Sheriff of the County where such Conviction shall be without paying any Fee 40 l. within a Month after such Conviction and Demand thereof made by Certificate under the Judges Hand before whom such Conviction shall be and if any Dispute arise between the persons apprehending such Felons touching their Right to the said Reward the Judges certifying shall in their Certificate direct the Reward to be paid amongst them in such Proportion as they shall think reasonable And if any such Sheriff shall die or be removed before the end of the Month the Reward being unpaid the succeeding Sheriff shall pay it within a Month after Demand and Certificate as aforesaid The Sheriff in case of Default of payment shall forfeit double the Sum he ought to pay to the Persons to whom the Reward is due to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. with treble Costs of Suit II. If any person shall happen to be killed by such High-way-man endeavouring to apprehend him his Executors or Administrators upon Certificate under Hand and Seal of a Judge of Assize for the County or of two next Justices of Peace shall receive the said Sum of 40 l. and in Failure of payment shall recover double the Sum with treble Costs of Suit as aforesaid III. The Sheriffs to be Allowed the said Sums of 40 l. upon their Accounts without Fee or Reward IV. If upon the Account of any Sheriff there shall not be sufficient in his Hands to Reimburse him the same shall be Paid by the Commissioners of the Treasury out of the Revenue of the Crown upon Certificate from the Clerk of the Pipe V. Persons Apprehending or Convicting such Robbers as a farther Reward shall have their Horses Furniture Arms Money and other Goods taken with them Provided that this Clause shall not take away the Right of any Persons from whom the same were before Feloniously taken VI. If any Persons out of Prison shall Commit any Robbery and shall afterwards discover Two or more Robbers who have or shall Commit any Robbery so as Two or more of them shall be Convicted such discoverer is hereby â—ntituled to Their Majesties Pardon which shall likewise be a good bar to any Appeal Informations I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 18. The Clerk of the Crown of the King's-Bench shall not without express Order in open Court Receive or File any Information for Trespasses Batteries and other Misdemeanours or issue any Process thereupon before he shall have taken or shall have delivered to him a Recognizance from the Informer with the Place of his Abode Title or Profession to be Entred to the Person Prosecuted in 20 l. Penalty to Prosecute with Effect and abide by such Order as the Court shall direct which Recognizance the Clerk of the Crown or a Justice of Peace of the Place where the Cause of any such Information shall arise may take and the Clerk of the Crown shall Enter the same upon Record and File a Memorandum thereof in some publick Place in his Office that all persons may resort thereunto without Fee And if the persons against whom such Informations shall be exhibited appear and plead to Issue and that the Prosecutor shall not at his own Charge within a year after Issue joyned procure a Tryal or if upon such Tryal a Verdict pass for the Defendant or the Informer procure a noli prosequi to be Entred the Court shall award the
custody or stood upon Bail on the said 13th day of February shall be proceeded against as if the said Crimes had been committed before the said 11th day of December and all Persons for any Matter arisen since the said 11th day of December and before the said 13th day of February shall be liable to any Action and it shall be sufficient in all Indictments and Informations for any such Crimes and in all Actions and Declarations for any such Cause to alledge the Year of our Lord instead of the Year of the King and in such Indictments Informations or Actions wherein Conclusions used to be contra Pacem Domini Regis to conclude contra Pacem Regni and Indictments for Felonies committed within that time shall be good having the words contra Pacem Regni though the words Domini Regis Coronam Dignitatem be omitted X. Recognizances Statutes and Obligations made since the said 11th day of December and before the said 13th day of February in the Name of and to the late King James II. shall be good and may be sued in their Majesties Names and all Persons who were bound by Recognizance to the said late King to appear in the Court of Kings Bench at any time in Hill Term or at the next Assizes Oyer and Terminer General Gaol-delivery or of the Peace shall be obliged to appear in the said Court of Kings Bench on the first day of Easter-Term 1689. and at the next Assizes Sessions of Oyer and Terminer c. under the Penalty of forfeiting the said Recognizance c. XI Writs and Process issuing out of any of the Courts of Westminster as of Mich. Term 1688. that have been executed before they were returnable and all Bills Plaints Judgments and Proceedings in any Inferior Court and Executions thereupon since the said 11th day of December and before the said 13th day of February shall be good as if the said late King had continued so XII Bail Bonds taken by Sheriffs c. though not lawfully qualified since the first day of November 1687. and Recognizances of Bail taken since the said 11th day of December before any Person who upon the first day of December last was Justice of the Kings Bench Common Pleas or Baron of the Exchequer shall be good and may be inroll'd in Easter-Term 1689. and all Commitments to prison on any Writ or Process by the said Judges since the said 11th day of December shall be good in Law XIII No part of the time from the 10th of December 1688. until the 12th of March 1688. shall be accounted as part of the six months from the time of the avoidance of any Church in which any Person is bound to bring his darrein Presentment or Quare impedit or as any part of the time in which any Person by virtue of any Statute of Limitation ought to bring his Action Iudgments I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 20. The Clerk of the Essoins of the Court of Common Pleas every Clerk of the Doggets of the Court of Kings Bench and the Master of the Office of Pleas in the Exchequer shall before the end of every Easter-Term put into an Alphabetical Dogget by the Defendants Names a particular of all Judgments for Debt by Confession non sum Informatus or nihil dicit entred in the said respective Courts of the Term of St. Hillary preceding containing the Names of the Plaintiffs and Defendants their Places of Abode Title Trade or Profession if any such be in the Record and the Debt Damages and Costs recovered thereby and where the Actions were laid and the Number-roll of the Entry thereof and every Clerk of the Judgments and other Clerk of the Courts of Common Pleas and Kings Bench shall within ten days before the said time bring to the Clerks of the Doggets Notes in Writing of all the Judgments by them entred of the said Term of St. Hillary upon Verdicts Writs of Enquiry Demurrer and every other Judgment for Debt or Damages in all things as aforesaid and that the Clerk of the Judgments and every other Clerk of the Exchequer shall within the time aforesaid bring unto the Master of the Office or Pleas the like Note in Writing of all the like Judgments by him entred to the end they may be respectively entred and the respective Officers and Clerks shall before the last day of the Term of St. Michael make the like Doggets containing all Judgments of the Terms of Easter and Trinity in all things as aforesaid and before the last day of every Hillary-Term the like Doggets of Judgments in Michaelmass-Term The said Doggets to be kept in Books in Parchment to be searched and viewed by all Persons at reasonable times paying for every Terms search 4 d. and no more on pain that every Clerk of the Essoins of the Court of Common Pleas Clerk of the Doggets of the Kings Bench and Master of the Office of Pleas in the Exchequer and every Clerk before-mentioned shall for every Term in which he shall neglect his Duty forfeit 100 l. one moiety to the Party grieved and the other moiety to the Prosecutor II. No Judgment not doggetted as aforesaid shall affect any Lands as to Purchasers or Mortgagees or have any preference against Heirs Executors or Administrators in the administration of their Ancestors Testators or Intestates Estates III. The Plaintiffs in every of the said Judgments shall pay to the Clerks of the Judgments for every Judgment entring 4 d. over and above the Fees now due IV. This Act to continue for one year from the 25th day of March 1693. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament King and Queen I. STat. 2 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 1. The Lords and Commons publish declare and enact in Parliament that they do recognize and acknowledge that their Majesties are and of Right ought to be by the Laws of this Realm their Soveraign Liege Lord and Lady King and Queen of England France and Ireland c. in and to whose Princely Persons the Royal State Crown and Dignity of the said Realms with all Honors Prerogatives c. are fully rightfully and entirely invested incorporated united and annexed II. All and singular the Acts made in the Parliament assembled the 13th day of Febr. 1688. were and are the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom and as such ought to be reputed taken and obeyed Leather I. STat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 23. Whereas an Act made in the 20th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for giving liberty to buy and export Leather and Skins tanned or dressed was revived by another Act made in the first year of the Reign of the late King James II. Entituled An Act for reviving a former Act for exporting Leather which Act will expire at the end of this Sessions Be it enacted that the said two Acts be revived and continue in force from the end of this Session of Parliament for seven
Tax made by virtue of this Act or by the determination of the Justices c. may have recourse to the General Quarter-Sessions whose determination therein shall be final XXVIII And whereas there are many common High-ways in the said Parishes which cannot be sufficiently supported without the help of this Act Be it enacted That one or more Assessment or Assessments upon the Inhabitants and Occupiers of Lands c. and Persons usually ratable to the Poor shall from time to time be made and allowed by such Persons as the Justices at their Quarter-Sessions shall direct and the Mony thereby raised to be employed and accounted for according to their direction towards the supporting such High-ways such Assessments to be levied by distress and sale of goods in case of non-payment within fourteen days after demand rendring the overplus Charges deducted XXIX No such Assessments to be made in any one Year shall exceed 4 d. in the Pound of the yearly value of Lands c. nor 8 d. for every twenty pound in personal Estate XXX New Sewers made since the 12th Year of King Charles II. in any the said Parishes shall be subject to the Commissioners of Sewers and the said Commissioners may direct the making of new Sewers and alter or take away any Nusances therein and any cross Gutters and Channels in any of the Streets and Lanes in the said Parishes XXXI Housholders within the Weekly Bills of Mortality whose Houses adjoyn to the Street from Michaelmas to Lady-day yearly shall hang out Candles or Lights from the time that it grows dark till twelve a Clock at night on pain to forfeit 2 s. for every default except such as shall agree to make use of Lamps to be placed at such distances as shall be approved of by two or more Justices of the Peace XXXII Every Truss of old Hay bought or offered to sale within the Weekly Bills of Mortality between the last of August and the first of June shall weigh 56 pounds at least and between the first of June and the last of August being new Hay of that Summers growth shall weigh 60 pounds and being old Hay of any former years growth shall weigh 56 pounds the Person offering any Hay to be sold of less weight to forfeit for every Truss 18 d. XXXIII No Persons shall suffer their Waggons Carts c. to stand in any place within the Weekly Bills of Mortality loaden with Hay or Straw to be sold from Michaelmas to Lady-day after two a Clock in the Afternoon nor from Lady-day to Michaelmas after three a Clock on pain to forfeit 5 s. for every such Offence XXXIV Justices of Peace in the Places aforesaid within their respective Limits may upon their own View Confession of the Party or proof of one credible Witness upon Oath convict Persons of the said Offences one moiety of the Forfeitures to the Poor and the other to the Prosecutor and in case of a Conviction by the View of a Justice of Peace one half to the relief of the Poor and the other half if for a default of payment towards the repairing and cleansing the Streets to be paid to the Scavengers to be imployed to that use or otherwise to the relief of the Poor as aforesaid all the said Penalties to be levied by distress and sale of Goods by a Justices Warrant to the Constable c. and for want of a distress or in case of non-payment within six days after demand or notice in Writing left at the Offenders House by the Constable c. the Offender not being a Peer shall be committed to the Common Gaol till payment XXXV The Wheels of Carts Carriages or Drays within the said Places where the Streets are paved shall contain six Inches in the Felley and shall not be wrought about with any Iron-work nor drawn with above two Horses after they are up the Hills by the Water-side Owners of Carts c. the Wheels whereof shall not be of that breadth or shod with Iron or drawn with above two Horses as aforesaid shall forfeit 40 s. for every time such Cart c. shall be used for the Uses and to be levied as aforesaid XXXVI This shall not extend to Country Carriages bringing Goods to the said Places or carrying any Goods half a Mile beyond the paved Streets XXXVII No Persons shall keep Swine within the Houses or Back-sides of the paved Streets where the Houses are contiguous upon pain of forfeiting the same to the use of the Poor of the Parish And Church-wardens Overseers of the Poor Constables Beadles Headboroughs and Tythingmen may in the day-time by Warrant from the Lord Mayor of London or any Justice of Peace of the place search for Swine and drive them away to sell the Mony to be delivered to the Church-wardens or Overseers of the Poor of the Parish for the use of the Poor XXXVIII The cleansing the Streets Lanes and Passages within London and the Liberties thereof shall be managed according to the ancient usage of the City XXXIX The Lord Mayor or any Alderman may upon his own knowledge or view in the General Quarter-Sessions make presentment of any such Offence within the City and Liberties thereof and the Lord Mayor and Justices of the City shall at the same Sessions assess Fines for the same not exceeding 20 s. for every Offence to be paid to the Chamberlain of London for the use of the City XL. In Actions c. commenced for what any Person shall do in pursuance of an Act made in the 22 and 23 Years of King Charles II Entituled An Act for the better paving and cleansing the Streets and Sewers in and about the City of London or this Act the Defendant may plead the General Issue and give the said Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff or Prosecutor become Non-suit or suffer a Discontinuance or a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover treble Costs XLI The High-way leading from the East-side of Clerkenwell-Green to St. Johns Street shall be pav'd according to the direction of this Act. Militia I. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. c. 12. An Act for the raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the Year 1691. though the Months Pay formerly advanced be not paid II. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 7. An Act for raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the Year 1692. although the Months Pay formerly advanced be not repaid III. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 6. If at any time before the 25th day of March 1694. their Majesties shall think it necessary for the safety of this Kingdom to draw out the Militia into actual Service and the same be signified to the Lieutenants Deputy-Lieutenants and Warden of the Cinque-Ports It shall be lawful for them notwithstanding that one or more Months Pay before that time advanced be not reimbursed to draw out the Souldiers of the Militia into actual Service and to cause the Persons charged to
provide each their Souldier with pay in Hand not exceeding one Months Pay as if all the Pay before advanced and provided had been re-imbursed Oaths I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 6. The Oath herein after mentioned shall be administred to King William and Queen Mary at the time of their Coronation viz. The Archbishop or Bishop shall say Will you solemnly promise and swear to Govern the People of this Kingdom of England and the Dominions thereunto belonging according to the Statutes in Parliament agreed on and the Laws and Customs of the same The King and Queen shall say I solemnly promise so to do Archbishop or Bishop Will you to your Power cause Law and Justice in mercy to be executed in all your Judgments King and Queen I will Archbishop or Bishop Will you to the utmost of your Power maintain the Laws of God the true Profession of the Gospel and the Protestant reformed Religion established by Law And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of this Realm and to the Churches committed to their charge all such Rights and Priviledges as by Law do or shall appertain unto them or any of them King and Queen All this I promise to do After this the King and Queen laying his and her Hand upon the Holy Gospels shall say King and Queen The Things which I have here before promised I will perform and keep So help me God Then the King and Queen shall kiss the Book II. The said Oath shall be in like manner administred to every King or Queen who shall succeed III. Stat. Anno 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 8. Henceforth no Persons shall be obliged to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy or either of them by force of the Acts of 1 Eliz. or 3 Jac. or any other Statute and the said Oaths are hereby abrogated II. The Oaths appointed by this present Act to be taken and the Declaration appointed by this Act to be made c. shall be taken made repeated and subscribed by such as were required by any Act to take the said abrogated Oaths or either of them before such Persons as hereafter is expressed viz. Archbishops and Bishops and all above the Degree of a Baron of Parliament in the Court of Chancery or Kings Bench between the hours of 9 and 12 in the Forenoon before the end of Trin. Term next or at the General Quarter-Sessions for that County or Place where they shall be or reside between the said hours before the first day of August next IV. Other such Persons shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration before such Persons as by any Act were authorized to tender the said abrogated Oaths V. All Persons other than such concerning whom other provision shall be made in this Act or Session of Parliament that shall be admitted into any Office or Imployment Ecclesiastical or Civil or come into any capacity by reason whereof they should have been obliged to take the said abrogated Oaths or either of them shall take the Oaths hereby appointed in such manner as they ought to have taken the former Oaths and under the same Penalties Forfeitures Disabilities and incapacities VI. If any Person now having any such Office or Imployment neglect or refuse to take the said Oaths before the first day of August next or sooner if required by order of Council such Office and Imployment shall be void VII Archbishops or Bishops and other Persons now having any Ecclesiastical Dignity Benefice c. neglecting or refusing to take the said Oaths before the first day of August next shall be suspended for six months from the said first of August and if they shall not within the said space of six months take the said Oaths they shall be ipso facto deprived and are hereby adjudged to be deprived VIII Governors Heads or Fellows of Colledges or Halls in either University or of any other Colledge Masters of Hospitals or Schools Professors of Divinity Law Physick or other Science in either University or in London neglecting or refusing as aforesaid before the first day of August next shall be suspended six months to be accounted as aforesaid and if they shall not within the said space of six months take the said Oaths their Offices Imployments Masterships Governments Fellowships and Professorships shall be void IX Other Persons refusing to take the said Oaths being lawfully tendred shall be committed by the Persons tendring the same to the Common Gaol or House of Correction for three months without Bail or Mainprize unless such Offenders shall pay down 40 s. or such lesser Sum as the Persons tendring the said Oaths shall require which Mony shall go to the relief of the Poor of the Parish or Place where such Offender did last reside and if at the end of three months such Persons shall again refuse c. they shall be committed as aforesaid for six months unless they shall pay down such Sum of Mony as the Persons tendring the said Oaths shall require not exceeding 10 l. nor under 5 l. the said Mony to be disposed as aforesaid and unless such Offenders shall become bound with two Sureties to be of the Good Behaviour and appear at the next Assizes or General Gaol-delivery for the place where they shall reside at which Assizes or Gaol-delivery the said Oath shall be again tendred in open Court and upon refusal the Persons refusing shall be adjudged incapable of any Office Civil or Military and be bound to their Good Behaviour till they take the said Oaths and if such Persons shall refuse to make and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in the Statute of the 30th Year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government c. they shall be taken and deemed Popish Recusants convict to all intents and purposes X. Commission-Officers and Non-Commission or Warrant-Officers now employed by Sea or Land shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the last mentioned Declaration before the Lord Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty or their Deputies or such as their Majesties shall appoint to administer them And all Persons hereafter to be put into any such Imployment shall before the delivery of their Commission or Warrant take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration before the Lord Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty or their Deputies or such as shall issue such Commission or Warrant or such as shall be authorized to administer the same as aforesaid and in case of refusal shall be incapable of taking or executing such Office or Imployment XI The Oath appointed by the Statute of 13 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for the ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom And so much of a Declaration prescribed in another Act made in the same Year Entituled An Act for the Uniformity of Publick Prayers c. as is expressed in these Words viz. I A. B.
declare That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take up Arms against the King and that I do abhor that traiterous Position of taking Arms by his Authority against his Person or against those that are commissioned by him Shall not from henceforth be required or enjoyned XII The Oaths required and intended by this Act are in these Words following viz. I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary So help me God c. I A. B. do swear That I do from my Heart abhor detest and abjure as impious and heretical that Damnable Doctrin and Position That Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope or any Authority of the See of Rome may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whomsoever And I do declare That no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Pre-eminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm So help me God c. XIII The Names of Persons and Officers that shall take the said Oaths in the Chancery Kings Bench or Quarter-Sessions shall in the said respective Courts be inroll'd with the day and time of their taking the same The Rolls for the Court of Chancery to be publickly hung up in the Petty-bag-Office for the Kings Bench in the Crown Office and in some publick place in every Quarter-Sessions every Term and every Quarter-Sessions No Fee or Reward above 12 d. to be given to any Officer belonging to any of the said Courts for such Entries XIV Whereas since the 11th day of December 1688. the said abrogated Oaths could not be taken by Persons elected into Offices of Magistracy Places of Trust c. Be it enacted That if any such Officer shall before the first of August 1689. take the Oaths herein mentioned and required before such Persons who ought to have administred the said Abrogated Oaths the same shall be adjudged as good and effectual as if he had taken the said Abrogated Oaths XV. And whereas since the Feast of St. Michael last past divers Persons have been admitted into Offices Imployments or Places of Trust and could not take the said Abrogated Oaths and subscribe the Declaration at such time and in such manner as is appointed by the Act of 25 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for preventing of Dangers that may happen from Popish Recusants Be it enacted That if any such Person shall before the end of Trinity-Term next in the Chancery or Kings Bench or before the first of August 1689. at the Quarter-Sessions c. take the Oaths hereby appointed to be taken and repeat and subscribe the said Declaration and take the Sacrament according to the usage of the Church of England and procure Certificate thereof as by the said Act is directed that such Person shall be indemnified from any Penalty or Disability that he might have incurred by the said Act. XVI It shall be left to the King to allow to such of the Clergy as shall refuse the Oaths prescribed by this Act as he shall think fit not exceeding twelve an allowance out of their Ecclesiastical Benefices c. for their Subsistence not exceeding a third part to continue during the Kings Pleasure XVII Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 25. If any Commission for Military Imployment shall be granted to any Person at more than twenty Miles distance from London such Persons may take the Oaths and make and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in an Act of this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths at the next Muster after the receipt of the said Commission before the Commissary of the Musters or his Deputy who shall send up a Certificate thereof under his Hand and Seal to the Person who issued such Commission XVIII If any Person receiving such Commission shall refuse to take the said Oaths c. he shall not be allowed upon the Musters but his Commission shall be void XIX Nothing in this Act contain'd shall extend to the Militia Papists I. STat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 9. The Lord Mayor of London for the time being and every Justice of Peace of London and for Westminster and Southwark and of the Counties of Middlesex Surry Kent and Sussex within their respective Limits shall cause to be brought before him every Person not being a Merchant Foreigner within the said Cities or within ten miles of the same as are reputed to be Papists and tender them the Declaration mentioned in the Statute of 30 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government c. And if any such Person after refusal to make and subscribe the same shall continue to be within the said City or Cities or within ten miles distant from the same he or she shall forfeit and suffer as a Popish Recusant convict II. The Justices of Peace shall certifie the Subscriptions taken before them by virtue of this Act and the Names of Refusers upon tender under their Hands and Seals into the Court of Kings Bench the next Term or else at the next Quarter-Sessions and if Persons so refusing and certified shall not within the next Term or Sessions after such refusal appear in the Court of Kings Bench or Sessions and in open Court make and subscribe the said Declaration and indorse his so doing upon the Certificate they shall be adjudged from the time of such their refusal as Popish Recusants convict III. This Act shall not extend to such as use any Trade or Manuel Occupation nor to such as within six months before the 13th of Febr. 1688. had their places of abode within the said Cities or ten miles compass not having any place of abode elsewhere so as before the said first day of August 1689. they certifie their Names Additions and Places of Abode at the Sessions of the Peace to be held for the said respective Cities Counties or Places the Clerk of the Peace to take but 2 d. for the entry of such Name Addition and Place of Abode IV. Nothing in this Act shall have any effect upon such Foreigners as are or shall be menial Servants to Ambassadors or Publick Agents V. Foreigners Servants to the Queen Dowager are likewise excepted not exceeding the number of thirty at any one time VI. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 15. It shall be lawful for any two or more Justices of the Peace who shall know or suspect any Person to be a Papist or shall be so informed to tender to such Person the Declaration expressed in an Act of Parliament made Anno 30 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government c. And if such Person shall not make and subscribe the said Declaration or shall refuse to appear upon notice left at his Place
of Abode by any Person authorized in that behalf by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of the said two Justices such Person shall be liable to all the Penalties Forfeitures and Disabilities herein after mentioned VII The said Justices of the Peace shall certifie the Name Sirname and usual Place of Abode of Persons so refusing or neglecting and of all who shall make and subscribe the said Declaration at the next General Quarter-Sessions to be holden for the Shire Riding c. for which they shall be Justices to be there Recorded c. VIII No Papist or reputed Papist so refusing or making default shall keep in his House or elsewhere at his disposition any Arms Weapons Gun-powder or Ammunition other than such as shall be allowed him by order of a General Quarter-Sessions for the defence of his House and Person and any two or more Justices of the Peace may from time to time by Warrant under their Hands and Seals authorize Persons in the day-time with the assistance of the Constable or his Deputy Tythingman or Headborough to search for Arms c. in the House Custody or Possession of any such Papist or reputed Papist and seize the same for their Majesties use and shall at the next General Quarter-Sessions deliver them in open Court for the use aforesaid IX Every Papist or reputed Papist who shall not within ten days after such refusal or making default as aforesaid discover and deliver to some Justice of the Peace all Arms Weapons Gun-powder or Ammunition whatsoever which shall have in his House or elsewhere or shall hinder any Persons authorized to search as aforesaid to search and seize the same shall be committed to the Common Gaol by Warrant of any two Justices of Peace for three months without Bail or Mainprize and shall forfeit the said Arms and pay treble the value of them to the Kings use to be appraised by the Justices of Peace at their next General Quarter-Sessions X. Persons concealing or privy to the concealing of such Arms or that shall hinder any Persons authorized as aforesaid in searching for and seizing the same shall be committed to the Common Gaol by Warrant as aforesaid for three months without Bail or Mainprize and shall forfeit the treble value of the said Arms to their Majesties c. XI If any Persons shall discover any concealed Arms c. belonging to any refusing or making default as aforesaid so as the same may be seized the Justices of Peace upon delivery of the same at the General Quarter-Sessions shall allow as a Reward for such discovery the full value of the Arms c. so discovered the Sum to be by the said Justices of Peace at their Sessions and to be levied by distress and sale of the Offenders Goods rendring the overplus above the Sum assessed and the Charges of the Distress to the Owner XII Persons having refused or made default as aforesaid who shall afterward in open Court at the General Quarter-Sessions where their refusing or making default shall be certified make and subscribe the said Declaration and take the Oaths contained in an Act made in this Parliament Entituled An Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes concerning the assembling and sitting of this present Parliament shall from thenceforth be discharged of and from all Disabilities and Forfeitures which for the future they might be liable to for such refusal or default XIII No Papist or reputed Papist so refusing or making default shall after the 15th of May 1689. keep in his possession or to his use any Horse or Horses above the value of 5 l. to be sold and any two Justices of the Peace may from time to time by Warrant as aforesaid and with the assistance aforesaid authorize any Persons to search for and seize such Horses as aforesaid to their Majesties XIV Persons concealing or aiding in the concealing any such Horses shall be committed by Warrant as aforesaid for three months without Bail or Mainprize and shall forfeit treble the value of such Horses to be settled as aforesaid XV. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 17. Whereas in an Act of this Parliament Entituled An Act for the amoving Papists and reputed Papists from the Cities of London and Westminster c. the County of Sussex is by mistake inserted for the County of Essex Be it enacted That the Powers and Authorities by the said Act given to the Justices of the Peace of the County of Sussex be extended to the County of Essex and the Justices of Peace of the said County of Essex XVI Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 26. Persons refusing or neglecting to repeat and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in one Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for the better securing the Government by disarming Papists and reputed Papists when tendred by two or more Justices of the Peace or forbearing to appear before them upon notice given as the said Act directs and shall thereupon have their Names and Places of Abode certified and recorded at the General Quarter-Sessions as by the said Act is appointed shall be disabled to make any Presentation Collation Nomination or Donation or grant of any avoidance of any Benefice or Ecclesiastical Living as if such Person were a Popish Recusant convict and the Chancellors and Scholars of the two Universities respectively shall have the Presentation Nomination c. of and to every such Benefice c. being within their respective Counties Cities and other the Places and Limits mentioned in the Act of the third of King James I. Entituled An Act to prevent and avoid Dangers which may grow by Popish Recusants as in and by the said Act is directed and appointed XVII Persons seiz'd or possess'd of any Advowson right of Presentation Collation c. to any such Ecclesiastical Living Free-School or Hospital in trust for any Papist or Popish Recusant convicted or disabled according to the intent of the said Act of 1 Jac. 1. or of this Act shall likewise be disabled to present nominate or collate to any such Ecclesiastical Living c. or to grant any avoidance thereof and the Chancellors and Scholars of the Universities respectively shall have such Presentations c. as they should have in case such Recusant convict or disabled were seiz'd or possess'd thereof and if any Trustee Mortgagee or Grantee of any avoidance hereafter present c. or cause to be presented c. any Person to any such Living Free-School c. whereof the Trust shall be for a Recusant convict or disabled without giving notice in Writing to the Vice-Chancellor of the University to whom such Presentation c. shall belong according to the intent of this Act within three months after the avoidance he shall forfeit 500 l. to the respective Chancellors and Scholars of either University to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. XVIII Provided that the said Chancellor and Scholars shall not present or
any Ecclesiastical Court for not conforming to the Church of England IV. Provided always that if any Assembly of Persons dissenting from the Church of England shall be had in any place for Religious Worship with the Doors locked barred or bolted the persons that shall be at such Meetings shall receive no benefit from this Law V. Nothing herein contained shall exempt any Persons from paying Tithes or other Parochial Duties to the Church or Minister nor from any prosecution in any Ecclesiastical Court or elsewhere for the same VI. If any person dissenting from the Church of England shall be chosen or appointed to any Parochial or Ward-Office and shall scruple to take it upon him in regard of the said Oaths or any other thing required by Law such person may execute his Office by a Deputy that shall comply with the Laws in that behalf such Deputy to be allowed and approved as such Officer himself should have been VII No person dissenting from the Church of England in Orders or pretended Orders nor any Preacher or Teacher in any Congregation of Dissenting Protestants that shall make and subscribe the Declaration and take the Oaths aforesaid at the General Quarter-Sessions held for the Parts where he lives and shall declare his approbation of and subscribe the Articles of Religion mentioned in a Statute made in the 13th year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth except the 34th 35th and 36th Articles and these words of the 20th Article viz. The Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies and Authority in Controversies of Faith and yet shall be liable to any of the Pains or Penalties mentioned in an Act made in the 17th year of the Reign of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for restraining Non-conformists from inhabiting in Corporations nor the Penalties mentioned in the said Act of the 22th of the said Kings Reign for preaching at any Meeting for exercise of Religion nor to the penalty of 100 l. mentioned in an Act made in the 13th and 14th of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the uniformity of Publick Prayers and administration of Sacraments c. for officiating in any Congregation allowed by this Act. VIII The making and subscribing the said Declaration and taking the said Oaths and making the Declaration of approbation and subscription to the said Articles shall be recorded at such Quarter-Sessions for which 6 d. shall be paid and no more IX Such persons shall not preach in any place but with Doors not locked barred or bolted X. And whereas some dissenting Protestants scruple the Baptizing of Infants Be it enacted That every person pretending to Holy Orders who shall subscribe the said Articles of Religion except before excepted and also except part of 27th ARticle touching Infant-Baptism and shall take the Oaths and make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid as aforesaid shall enjoy all the Priviledges Benefits and Advantages which any other dissenting Minister might enjoy by virtue of this Act. XI Ministers Preachers or Teachers of Congregations that shall take the Oaths and make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid and subscribe such of the Articles of the Church as are hereby required shall be exempt from serving upon Juries or from being chosen or appointed to any Parochial or Ward-Office or any other Office in any Hundred Shire City Town c. XII Every Justice of Peace may require any person that goes to any Meeting for exercise of Religion to make and subscribe the said Declaration and take the said Oaths or Declaration of Fidelity hereafter mentioned in case such person Scruple the taking an Oath and upon refusal shall commit such person to prison and certifie his Name at the next General or Quarter-Sessions and if upon a second tender at next General or Quarter-Sessions he refuse as aforesaid he shall be recorded and taken for a Popish Recusant convict XIII And whereas there are other Dissenters who scruple the taking any Oath such persons shall make and subscribe the said Declaration and this Declaration of Fidelity viz. I A. B. do sincerely promise and solemnly declare before God and the World That I will be ture and faithful to King William and Queen Mary And I do solemnly promise and declare That I do from my Heart abhor detest and renounce as Impious and Heretical that damnable Doctrin and Position That Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope or any Authority of the See of Rome may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other what soever And I do declare That no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Power Jurisdiction Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm and shall subscribe a profession of their Christian Belief in these Words viz. I A. B. profess Faith in God the Father and in Jesus Christ his eternal Son the true God and in the Holy Spirit one God blessed for evermore and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration which Declarations and Subscriptions shall be recorded at the General Quarter-Sessions and Persons making and subscribing the two Declarations and Profession aforesaid shall be exempted from the penalties of the Laws against Popish Recusants or Protestant Non-conformists and from the penalties of an Act made in the 5th year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Entituled An Act for the assurance of the Queens Royal Power over all Estates and Subjects within her Dominions by reason of their refusing to take the Oath mentioned in the said Act and from the penalties of an Act made in the 13th and 14th years of King Charles II. Entitutled An Act for preventing Mischiefs that may arise by certain Persons called Quakers refusing to take lawful Oaths and enjoy the Benefits Priviledges and Advantages which other Dissenters ought to enjoy by virtue of this Act. XIV Persons refusing to take the said Oaths when tendred shall not be admitted to make and subscribe the said two Declarations though required by a Justice of Peace at a General oâ— Quarter-Sessions unless within 31 days after such tender of the Declarations to them they produce two Protestant Witnesses to testifie upon Oath that they believe him to be a Protestant Dissenter or a Certificate under the Hands of four Protestants who are conformable to the Church of England or have taken the Oaths and subscribed the Declaration aforesaid and a Certificate under the Hands and Seals of six or more of the Congregation to which he belongs owning him to be one of them XV. Till such Certificate or Witnesses be produced the Justice of Peace shall take a Recognizance with two Sureties in 50 l. for producing the same and for want of security shall commit him to prison till he produces the same XVI All the Laws made for frequenting Divine Service on the Lords-day shall be still in force against all persons except they come to some Assembly of Religious Worship allowed by this Act.
the two Houses of Parliament should continue to sit and with their Majesties Royal Concurrence make effectual Provision for the Settlement of the Religion Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom so that the same for the future might not be in danger again of being subverted to which the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons did agree and proceed to act accordingly Now in pursuance of the Premisses the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled for the ratifying confirming and establishing the said Declaration and the Articles Claâ—ses Matters and Things therein contained by the force of a Law made in due form by Authority of Parliament do pray that it may be declared and enacted That all and singular the Rights and Liberties asserted and claimed in the said Declaration are the true ancient and indubitable Rights and Liberties of the People of this Kingdom and so shall be esteemed allowed adjudged deemed and taken to be and that all and every the particulars aforesaid shall be firmly and strictly holden and observed as they are expressed in the said Declaration and all Officers and Ministers whatsoever shall serve their Majesties and their Successors according to the same in all Times to come And the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons seriously considering how it hath pleased Almighty God in his marvellous Providence and merciful Goodness to this Nation to provide and preserve their said Majesties Royal Persons most happily to Reign over us upon the Throne of their Ancestors for which they render unto him from the bottom of their Hearts their humblest Thanks and Praises do truly firmly assuredly and in the sincerity of their Hearts think and do hereby recognize acknowledge and declare That King James II. having abdicated the Government and their Majesties having accepted the Crown and Royal Dignity as aforesaid their said Majesties did become were are and of Right ought to be by the Laws of this Realm our Soveraign Liege Lord and Lady King and Queen of England France and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging in and to whose Princely Persons the Royal State Crown and Dignity of the said Realms with all Honours Stiles Titles Regalities Prerogatives Powers Jurisdictions and Authorities to the same belonging and appertaining are most fully rightfully and intirely invested and incorporated united and annexed And for preventing all Questions and Divisions in this Realm by reason of any pretended Titles to the Crown and for preserving a certainty in the Succession thereof in and upon which the Unity Peace Tranquility and Safety of this Nation doth under God wholly consist and depend The said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do beseech their Majesties that it may be enacted established and declared That the Crown and Regal Government of the said Kingdoms and Dominions with all and singular the Premisses thereunto belonging and appertaining shall be and continue to their said Majesties and the Survivor of them during their Lives and the Life of the Survivor of them and that the entire perfect and full exercise of the Regal Power and Government be only in and executed by his Majesty in the Names of both their Majesties during their joynt Lives and after their deceases the said Crown and Premisses shall be and remain to the Heirs of the Body of her Majesty and for default of such Issue to Her Royal Highness the Princess ANNE of Denmark and the Heirs of her Body and for default of such Issue to the Heirs of the Body of his said Majesty and thereunto the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do in the Name of all the People aforesaid most humbly and faithfully submit themselves their Heirs and Posterities for ever and do faithfully promise That they will stand to maintain and defend their said Majesties and also the Limitation and Succession of the Crown herein specified and contained to the utmost of their Powers with their Lives and Estates against all Persons whatsoever that shall attempt any thing to the contrary And whereas it hath been found by Experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant Kingdom to be governed by a Popish Prince or by any King or Queen marrying a Papist the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do farther pray that it may be enacted That all and every Person and Persons that is are or shall be reconciled to or shall hold Communion with the See or Church of Rome or shall Profess the Popish Religion or shall Marry a Papist shall be excluded and be for ever uncapable to inherit possess or enjoy the Crown and Government of this Realm and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging or any part of the same or to have use or exercise any Regal Power Authority or Jurisdiction within the same and in all and every such Case or Cases the People of these Realms shall be and are hereby absolved of their Allegiance and the said Crown and Government shall from time to time descend to and be enjoyed by such Person or Persons being Protestants as should have inherited and enjoyed the same in case the said Person or Persons so reconciled holding Communion or Professing or Marrying as aforesaid were naturally dead And that every King and Queen of this Realm who at any time hereafter shall come to and succeed in the Imperial Crown of this Kingdom shall on the first day of the meeting of the first Parliament next after His or Her coming to the Crown sitting in His or Her Throne in the House of Peers in the presence of the Lords and Commons therein assembled or at His or Her Coronation before such Person or Persons who shall administer the Coronation Oath to Him or Her at the time of His or Her taking the said Oath which shall first happen make subscribe and audibly repeat the Declaration mentioned in the Statute made in the thirteenth year of the Reign of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government by disabling Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament But if it shall happen that if such King or Queen upon His or Her Succession to the Crown of this Realm shall be under the Age of twelve years then every such King or Queen shall make subscribe and audibly repeat the said Declaration at His or Her Coronation or the first day of the meeting of the first Parliament as aforesaid which shall first happen after such King or Queen shall have attained the said age of twelve years All which their Majesties are contented and pleased shall be declared enacted and established by Authority of this present Parliament and shall stand remain and be the Law of this Realm for ever and the same are by their said Majesties by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same declared enacted and established accordingly And be it
Tallies of Loan and Orders for repayment shall be levied which Orders shall be assignable XVIII Every Sum and Sums so to be borrowed with Interest not exceeding 8 l. per Cent. to be paid every three months shall be payable to the Lenders out of any the next Aids or Supplies to be granted to their Majesties in Parliament and shall be transferred thereunto as soon as such Aid shall be granted and in case no such Aid or Supply shall be granted before the second day of February 1693. then such Sum or Sums shall be paid to the Lenders out of any of their Majesties Treasure not already appropriated by Act of Parliament XIX Whoever shall refuse to take in payment crack't Mony being the currant Coin of this Kingdom shall for every such Offence forfeit 5 l. and be liable to such other Punishments as by any Law may now be inflicted for such Offences XX. Every Receiver-General appointed by the said Poll-Act shall prepare a Duplicate in Parchment of the whole Sum charged in any of the Parishes and Places whereof he is Receiver General to be subscribed by two or more of the Commissioners and return it into the Exchequer before the last day of Easter-Term next with a Schedule containing the Names Sirnames and Places of Abode of every Person within their Collection that hath not paid and every Receiver General not making such returns except the same have been returned pursuant to the said Poll-Act shall forfeit 50 l. and be uncapable of any Office or Place of Trust in their Majesties Service XXI No Fees shall be taken by any Officer of the Exchequer or in any Office wherein any Receiver General is concerned in taking out his Commission passing his Accounts taking out his Quietus for receiving or paying any Mony granted by this or any other Act of this Parliament for Aids to their Majesties but such ancient Fees as shall be allowed by the Barons of the Quoif and the said Barons shall deliver a Table of the Fees by them allowed to the Lords and Commons in Parliament at the next Session Trade and Commerce I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 34. From the 24th day of August 1689. No Goods or Commodities of the Product or Manufacture of the Dominions of the French King or made of or mixed with any such Goods or Commodities shall during three years or before the end of the first Session of Parliament after such three years expired be imported into England Ireland Wales Berwick or the Isles of Jersey Guernsey Alderney Sark or the Isle of Man and all Importations vending or uttering of any French or other Commodities contrary to this Act are hereby declared to be a common Nusance and the Commodities so imported may be seized by any Person and carried into their Majesties Ware-house of the Port or Place where they are seized or to the Ware-house of the next Port Member or Creek to the place of Seizure and Persons claiming the same shall tender good Security to answer the Penalties of this Act and to make their claim within twenty days after seizure to the Collector or Customer or his Deputy where there is no other Collector established or to the Commissioners of the Custom in time of vacation or within ten days in Term-time by delivery of a Bill to such Officer subscribed with his Name Addition and Place of Abode with the particulars of the Goods claimed and the date of the Claim and the Names of his Sureties they being worth 500 l. a-piece at least and to give Bond to their Majesties in double the value of the Goods and the Penalties in this Act to answer the value of the Goods and other the said Penalties and after such Security given the Claim and Sureties Names and the Sum and date of the Bonds to be registred and subscribed by the Claimer Collector or Customer to whom such Bill shall be delivered and for want of giving Security and making Claim as aforesaid the Goods shall be adjudged to be imported contrary to this Act and be forfeited and within seven days after such default shall be destroyed as hereafter is appointed but if such Security be given and Claim made as aforesaid an Information shall the next Term or sooner be exhibited in the Exchequer and no Writ of Delivery or Restitution shall be granted till the Cause be determined by the Verdict of a Jury to be returned by the proper Officers in the presence of a Commissioner of the Customs in London and of the principal Officer in any Out-port which Jury upon the taste or view of the Goods oâ— upon proof shall judge the quality and value thereof and whether imported contrary to this Act and in what Vessels imported and by whom imported or sold and in whose custody they were when seized and if the Jury shall find that they were of the Product or Manufacture of the French Kings Dominions or mixt with any Goods of such Product or Manufacture then all such liquid Commodities shall be adjudged to be staved and spilt and other Commodities to be publickly burnt in the presence of one of the Sheriffs of London in the Port of London and of the chief Magistrate in any other Port who are required to be present and assisting in the destruction thereof and to view taste and examine them according to the first Entry made in the Warehouse-Book and to join with the Collector c. who are also required to be present at the destruction thereof in a Certificate to be entred in the said Book of the day of the destruction thereof no Persons to take away or save any of the said Commodities on pain to forfeit 40 s. above the value of the said Goods II. Importers thereof shall forfeit the full value according to the Rates hereafter mentioned and Persons in whose custody they shall be found when seiz'd or who shall sell or retail them shall for the first Offence forfeit the value thereof as aforesaid and for the second Offence double the value and be disabled to bear or execute any Office or Employment relating to the Customs or any part of the Revenue or any other Office whatsoever and if any such Commodities imported contrary to this Act shall within the time aforesaid upon any pretence be sold retailed or uttered or be found within England Ireland c. any Persons may seize them and like Information and Judgment for destruction thereof shall be had and given as aforesaid III. They in whose custody such Goods shall be found shall incur the Forfeitures and Penalties aforesaid and if any dispute or doubt shall arise whether the said Goods were of the Product or Manufacture of the French Kings Dominions or imported contrary to this Act the proof shall lie on the Importer Claimer Vender c. and not on the Informer and if any Informer shall by Fraud or Collusion desist or delay Prosecution he shall forfeit 500 l. All Officers belonging to the Customs and
the Commissioners for the Prizes out of their Majesties share of Prizes LVIII Provided that if the Commissioners do not pay the same or give a Bill payable out of the first Monies that shall come to their Hands by three days after the same ought to be paid and demand thereof made free of all Charges and Deductions such Commissioners shall be uncapable of any Office in their Majesties Service for the future LIX The shares proportions and rewards given by this Act to Commanders Officers and Seamen shall be in lieu of all Shares in Prizes taken in Fight and otherwise during this War any thing in an Act made in the 13th Car. 2. Entituled Articles and Ordinances for the regulating and Government of their Majesties Navy Ships of War and Forces by Sea or any Declaration or Order of their Majesties to the contrary notwithstanding LX. If any Person shall imbezil any thing whatsoever upon or above the Gun-Deck or in any other place in any Ship taken or seiz'd on as Prize or retaken from the Enemy he shall forfeit his share and reward hereby allowed him and if he be an Officer he shall forfeit for every such Offence 500 l. one moiety to their Majesties the other to him that will sue for the same and shall be uncapable of any Office or Employment under their Majesties for seven years LXI Ships taken as Prize within the Streights of Gibraltar may be carryed into Cadiz or Alicant or Messma or Naplet and be put into the possession of such as shall be authorized by their Majesties to receive and preserve the same till by the Court of Admiralty of England they be adjudged lawful Prize or otherwise legally disposed of the Captors being hereby required to transmit with all speed the Papers taken therein or attested Copies thereof to the said Court LXII Ships taken as Prize in America may be carried into any of their Majesties Ports there and put into the possession of the Chief Governor to be kept as aforesaid till they be disposed of by such as shall be lawfully commissioned in that behalf LXIII Ships taken in any place beyond the Cape of Good Hope may be carried into the Port or Place where any English Factory is established and put into the possession of the Chief Person of the Factory to be kept as aforesaid till condemnation by such as shall be commissioned in that behalf LIV. Where any Vessel shall be taken as Prize by a Privateer in which Vessel there shall be no Goods of the growth or manufacture of the Dominions of the French King then after condemnation and payment of Customs and other Duties the Persons interested in such Privateer shall have the whole to their own use without deduction for Tenths or any other part to their Majesties or the Lord High Admiral LXV Where any Vessel shall be taken within any of their Majesties Ports Rivers or Havens by any Privateer such Prize shall belong to their Majesties as a Perquisite of the Admiralty of England and the Captors to have such part thereof as their Majesties shall think fit to allow LXVI If any Vessel taken as Prize or any Goods therein shall appear to belong to any of their Majasties Subjects continuing under their Majesties Protection and Obedience which were before taken by their Majesties Enemies and retaken such Vessels and Goods and every such part thereof belonging to their Majesties Subjects shall be restored by Decree of the Court of Admiralty to the former Owners they paying in lieu of Salvage if retaken by a Man of War an eighth part of the value which Salvage shall be answered to the Captains Officers and Seamen in the said Man of War to be divided as in this Act is directed touching the share of Prizes belonging to them where Prizes are taken by any of their Majesties Ships of War and if taken by a Privateer or other Vessel after having been in possession of the Enemy twenty four hours an eighth part of the value if above twenty four hours and under forty eight a fifth part if above forty eight hours and under ninety six a third part if above ninety six hours a moiety all which Payments to any Privateer or other Vessel to be made without deduction and if such retaken Ship shall appear to have been set forth by the Enemy as a Man of War the former Proprietors shall pay the full moiety of the true value for Salvage LXVII If any Vessel whereupon Wool is laden to be transported contrary to Law be taken by any Privateer on proof thereof in the Exchequer the Persons interested in the Privateer shall have a moiety of the Vessels and Goods and their Majesties the other moiety LXVIII The Lord High Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty shall express all things by this Act directed to be observed concerning Prizes c. in the Instructions by them to be given to Captains and Commanders of their Majesties Ships of War and to Commanders of Privateers LXIX All Goods of the growth or manufacture of France imported and seized shall be sued for and prosecuted in the Exchequer in manner and form as is provided by an Act made in the 14th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for preventing Frauds in his Majesties Customs two thirds thereof to be to the use of their Majesties c. they defraying the Charges of the Prosecution and one third to the Prosecutor and no composition to be made for their Majesties part such Goods to be secured and sold as Prize Goods are appointed by this Act to be secured and sold LXX If the Commissioners of the Prizes or of the Customs shall detain the Shares belonging to Persons interested in Privateers two days after the same ought to be paid and demand thereof made free from all Deductions except for Ware-house-room and 2 l. per Cent. for all other Charges they shall forfeit double the Sum so detained Treason I. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 13. If during the present War with France any Persons shall send load transport or deliver or cause to be sent loaden c. to or for the Use of the French King or any of his Subjects residing in his Dominions any Arms Ordinance Powder Bullets Pitch Tar Hemp Masts Cordage Iron Coals Lead or Salt-Peter such Offenders shall be adjudged Traytors II. If any during this War shall send load c. to the use of the French King or any of his Subjects residing c. any Goods or Merchandizes whatsoever other than the Goods herein before particularly mentioned they shall incur a Premunire III. If any of their Majesties Subjects shall after the 10th of March 1691. without their Majesties Licence voluntarily go or imbark in any Vessel with an intent to go into any the Dominions of the French King he shall be adjudged to be guilty of High-Treason IV. If any of their Majesties Subjects shall after the 25th of March 1692. voluntarily come or return from any of the
French Kings Dominions in Europe into England during the said War without leave obtain'd they shall be kept in Prison without Bail or Mainprize during their Majesties pleasure for any time not exceeding twelve months Tythes I. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 3. All Persons that shall sow or cause to be sown any Hemp or Flax shall pay to every Parson Vicar or Impropriator of the Parish or Place for every Acre so sown pulled or drawn an annual Sum not exceeding 4 s. before it be carried off the Ground and so proportionably for the recovery of which such Parson c. shall have the common and usual Remedy II. This Act shall not charge any Lands discharged by any modus dâ—cimandi ancient Composition or otherwise III. This Law to continue for seven years and to the end of the then next Session of Parliament Wills I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 2. From and after the 26th day of March 1693. Persons inhabiting or who shall have any Goods within the Province of York may by their last Wills dispose of all their Personal Estate as they shall think fit and their Widows Children and other Kindred shall be barred to claim any part of the Personal Estate in other manner than as by their Wills shall be appointed II. This Act shall not extend to the Citizens of the Cities of York and Chester who are or shall be Freemen of the said Cities inhabiting within the same or the Suburbs thereof at the time of their death Wool I. Stat. 1 W. M Sess 1. cap. 32. Owners of Wool or their Agents that shall at any time carry or cause to be carried any Wool to any Port or Place on the Sea-Coasts to be conveyed to any other Port or Place in England Wales or Berwick from whence the same may be transported into Foreign Parts shall first cause a due entry thereof to be made at the Port from whence it shall be intended to be conveyed containing the Weights Marks and Numbers thereof before they carry it within five miles of any such Port or Place or else such Wool found and the Beasts and Carriages conveying it shall be forfeited and the Persons conveying driving or abetting the same shall forfeit and suffer as by the Laws and Statutes now in force against the exportation of Wool II. The forgoing Clause shall not extend to hinder any Person from carrying their Wool from the place of Shearing to their own Dwelling-house c. though within five miles of the Sea so as within ten days after Shearing and before they otherwise dispose of the same they certifie under their Hands to the Officers of the Customs in the next Port the quantity thereof viz. the number of the Fleeces and where housed and do not remove the same without first certifying the Officer of the next Port under their Hands of their intention to remove it three days at least before such removal the said Officers to keep and register such Certificate but Persons neglecting to certifie as aforesaid or removing their Wool before such Certificate of their intention shall be liable to the Penalties of the former Clauses III. Cocquets for carrying Wool from any Port in England Wales or Berwick shall be written upon Paper and sign'd by three Chief Officers of such Port at least and Certificates of landing them again at any other of the said Ports or from Ireland shall be so sign'd and all such Wool both at shipping and landing shall be weigh'd in the presence of the said Officers giving such Cocquets and Certificates and the Weight Marks and Numbers of such Wool shipped and landed shall be expressed in both Cocquet and Certificate IV. Officers not observing the Directions of this Act shall be adjudged Abettors of the Transportation and suffer the Penalties contain'd in the Statutes of the 12th and 14th years of King Charles II. against Transportation of Wool V. No Wool shall be shipt from Ireland but from Dublin Waterford Youghall Kinsale Cork and Drogheda nor imported from thence but into Leverpool Chester Bristol Minehead Barnstaple Bidford and Exeter VI. For the better execution of this and other Acts against the Exportation of Wool Sir Tho. P. Lord Mayor of London Sir H. G. Baronet Sir P. W. Kt. Sir B. N. Kt. Sir J. M. Kt. Sir P.R. Kt. Sir R.D. Sir W.P. Kt. and Bar. Sir H.A. Bar. Sir W.A. Kt. Sir R. N. Sir J. F. W. H. J. S. J. S. F. O. J. P. R. B. W. C. E. M. Esquires S. H. W. H. Senior J. P. J. V. J. G. B. C. Gentlemen Mr. M. of Horton Sir T. S. Bar. W. D. Esq J. A. of Woley Esq Sir W. L. Sir J. P. Kt. Sir B. A. Bar. Sir R. J. Kt. Sir J. L. Kt. Sir G. R. Kt. Sir S. D. Kt. Sir T. V. Kt. N. T. W.H. T.C. W.G. H.S. S.M. J.S. T.F. A.M. W.C. T.H. T.S. W. J. Esquires P. S. H. C. J. D. R. S. D. P. T. C. P. B. J. P. R. H. J. B. J. H. E. B. N. B. W. S. B. J. D. J. A. J. T. T. P. P. H. N. J. P. M. F. W. S. J. K. Senior J. M. Junior W.W. J.Y. R. F. J.L. T. P. W.B. J.U. J. S. J.M. or any five or more of them are hereby authorized for putting this and other the said Laws in execution and by their Substitutes to be appointed under the Hands and Seals of five or more of them to seize all Wools Woolfels and other Things above-mentioned which shall be endeavoured to be exported contrary to this Act and to prosecute Offenders against this or any the said Laws VII Owners of Ships Masters or Mariners knowing of the Exportation of any Sheeps-wool Wool-fells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks Fullers-earth or Tobacco-pipe Clay contrary to the meaning of this Act that shall within three months after their knowledge thereof or after their return into England Ireland Wales or Berwick give the first Information thereof and by whom where and in what Vessel upon Oath before any of the Barons of the Exchequer in England or Ireland or any three of the Commissioners appointed by this Act or the Head-Officer of the Port where they shall first arrive and shall be ready to justifie and prove the same shall not be subject to the Penalties of this or any other Act for the said Offence but shall recover and receive such benefit and advantages as are appointed by any precedent Act. VIII The Powers given to the said Commissioners shall not hinder any Persons lawfully authorized from seizing Wool or prosecuting Offenders against this or any former Act. IX If any Prosecution shall be against any Person for what he shall do in pursuance of this Act he may file a Common Bail or enter into a Common Appearance and plead the General Issue and give this Act in Evidence and if the Plaintiff be non-suit or discontinue or a Verdict pass against him or Judgment upon a Demurrer the Defendant shall recover
to ply on Sundays XII The Commissioners for the better discovery of Offenders herein shall publish a List or Account of all the particular Numbers of such Hackney-Coaches as shall be appointed for every Lords-Day successively through the Year Fines I. STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 6. Six shillings and eight pence shall be paid upon signing Judgment to the proper Officer who signeth the same in full satisfaction of the Capiatur Fine and all Fees due for or concerning the same which said Officer shall make an increase to the Plaintiff of so much in his Costs to be taxed against the Defendant Iustices of Peace I. Justices of Peace in Wales limited to eight in each County repealed STat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 4. Whereas by a Statute made the 34th and 35th of H. 8. Entituled An Act for certain Ordinances in the Kings Majesties Dominion and Principality of Wales there is a Clause contained in these Words viz. That there shall not exceed the number of eight Justices of the Peace in any of the said Shires over and above the President Council and Justices aforesaid and the Kings Attorny and Solicitor which President Council Justices and the Kings Attorny and Solicitor shall be put in every Commission of Peace in every of the said twelve Shires And whereas this Clause is found inconvenient Be it enacted That the said Clause be repealed And that it may be lawful to and for the King and Queen by Commission under the Great Seal to constitute nominate and appoint any such number of Persons to be Justices of Peace in any of the said Counties of Wales as they shall think fitting according to such Ways and Methods as are commonly used for the constituting nominating and appointing of Justices of Peace for any County of England And that the Persons so constituted nominated and appointed shall have power and authority to act and do any thing appertaining to the Office of a Justice of Peace in as large and ample manner as any Justice of Peace within the Dominion of Wales might or ought to have done before the making of this Act any Law c. to the contrary notwithstanding I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 5. Certiorari to remove Indictment That in Term-time no Certiorari at the Prosecution of any Party indicted shall be granted out of the Court of Kings Bench to remove any Indictment before Trial had and from before the Justices of the General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace unless such Certiorari shall be granted upon Motion of Council and Rule of Court in open Court and that the Parties indicted prosecuting such Certiorari shall find two Manucaptors before one or two Justices of the County in 20 l. to plead to the said Indictment in the Kings Bench and at their own Charges to procure the Issue that shall be joyned upon the said Indictment to be tried at the next Assizes held for the County where the said Indictment was found after such Certiorari shall be returnable if not in London Westminster or Middlesex and if in the said Cities or County then to cause it to be tried the next Term after such Certiorari shall be granted or at the sitting after the said Term if the Kings Bench shall not appoint any other time and if any other time then notice to be given to the Prosecutor and the said Recognizance and Certiorari to be certified into the Kings Bench and there filed and the name of the Prosecutor to be indorsed and if the Party prosecuting such Certiorari being the Defendant shall not before allowance thereof procure such Manucaptors to be bound in a Recognizance the Justices of Peace may try the said Indictment at the said Sessions notwithstanding such Certiorari so delivered II. Costs against Prosecutor of a Certiorari And if the Defendant prosecuting such Certiorari be convicted then the Kings Bench shall give reasonable Costs to the Prosecutor to be taxed according to the course of the said Court and within ten days after demand upon Oath and refusal thereof he shall have an Attachment against the said Defendant by the Court for his Contempt and the Recognizance not to be discharged till the Costs so taxed shall be paid III. Certioraries grantable in vacation Nevertheless in the Vacation Writs of Certiorari may be granted by any of the Justices of the Kings Bench whose Names shall be endorsed and the Name of the Party at whose instance it is granted and before the allowance of such Writ the Party indicted prosecuting such Certiorari shall find such Sureties as before-mentioned in this Act. IV. Certioraries in Cheshire Lancaster and Durham And also upon every Certiorari granted within Chester Lancaster and Durham to remove Indictments as aforesaid the Parties indicted prosecuting such Certiorari shall find Sureties to try the said Indictments at the next Assizes or General Gaol-delivery and if convicted shall be liable to like Costs to be taxed as by this Act provided where the same are granted out of the Kings Bench. V. For repairing High-ways c. Provided if any Indictment be against any Person for not repairing High-ways Cawsies Pavements or Bridges and the Title to repair the same may come in question upon such Suggestion and an Affidavit made thereof a Certiorari may be granted to remove the same into the Kings Bench any Law to the contrary notwithstanding VI. Sureties Provided that the Parties prosecuting such Certiorari shall find two Manucaptors to be bound in a Recognizance with Condition as aforesaid Leases I. Leases of Lands part of the Dutchy of Cornwal STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 16. All Leases and Grants made by the late King Charles II. or by the late King James or by their present Majesties or to be made within seven years next ensuing by Letters Patents or Indentures under the Great Seal of England or Seal of the Court of Exchequer or Copy of Court-Roll according to the Custom of the respective Manors of the said Dutchy or thereunto annexed of any Offices Messuages Parks Lands Tenements or Hereditaments parcel of the said Dutchy of Cornwal or annexed to the same other than of Honours Lordships or Manors shall be effectual in Law according to the purport of the same Copies Leases and Grants against the present King and Queen their Heirs and Successors and against every Person that shall have or enjoy the said Dutchy by force of any Act of Parliament or by any other Limitation II. Provided For one two or three lives or thirty one years that such Lease be not for more than one two or three Lives or thirty one Years or for some Term determinable upon one two or three Lives and not above And if such Leases be made in Reversion that then the same with the Estate in possession do not exceed three Lives or thirty one Years not dispunishable of Waste
and reserving the ancient Rent or such as hath been paid for the greater part of twenty years next before the Year 1660. to those that have the Inheritance or else a reasonable Rent not being under the twentieth part of the clear yearly value III. All Covenants Covenants good against them to whom the Interest shall afterward come Conditions and Agreements in every Lease made as aforesaid shall be good in Law according to the contents of the same not only against them to whom the Reversion of the said Lands shall come but against them to whom the Interest of the said Leases shall come as if their Majesties at the making such Covenants and Conditions were actually seized in Fee-simple of the same IV. Saving to all Persons and Bodies Politick Saving of Rights their Heirs and Successors saving the King and Queen and their Heirs the Dukes of Cornwal for the time being and their Heirs or whosoever shall enjoy the Dukedom by force of any Act of Parliament all such Rights and Demands whatsoever of in to or out of the said Offices or Lands or any of them as they had before the making this Act any thing herein notwithstanding V. Fees for passing Leases The Fees and Charges to be paid for passing and perfecting Leases of Tenements of small value where the Fine or Value of such Lease or Grant to be made or renewed shall not exceed 80 l. shall not exceed the Sum of 10 l. for every Lease and 4 l. for every Copy besides the said Fine or Value the said 10 l. and 4 l. to be divided among the Officers of the Exchequer imployed for the preparing and passing such Lease or Grant and if any Officer exceed the same he shall forfeit to the Party grieved so much as is exceeded by this Act and also 20 l. one moiety whereof shall be forfeited to the King and the other to the Party grieved Militia I. STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 13. An Act for raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the year 1694. although the Months Pay formerly advanced be not repaid Mines I. Lawful to dig in Mines notwithstanding pretended to be Royal. Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 6. All Persons Subjects of the Crown of England Bodies Politick or Corporate having or that shall have any Mine or Mines within the Kingdom of England or Wales wherein any Ore now is or shall be discovered or wrought in which there is Copper Tin Iron or Lead shall and may enjoy the same Mine or Mines and Ore and dig and work the said Mine or Mines or Ore notwithstanding they shall be pretended or claimed to be a Royal Mine or Mines II. Rates to be paid for Ore where Mines are pretended to be Royal Provided that their Majesties their Heirs and Successors and all claiming any Royal Mines under them may have the Ore of such Mines in any part of England or Wales other than in the Counties of Devon and Cornwal paying to the Owners of the said Mines wherein such Ore is or shall be found within thirty days after the said Ore is or shall be laid upon the Banks of the said Mines and before the same be removed thence the Rates following viz. For all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Copper 16 l. per Tun For all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Tin 40 s. per Tun And for all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Iron 40 s. per Tun And for all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Lead 9 l. per Tun and in default of payment of such respective Sums as aforesaid it shall be lawful for the Owners of the said Mines wherein such Ore shall be found to dispose of the said Ore to their own uses Orphans I. STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 4. Perpetual Fond to pay the Interest of 4 l. per Gent. unto Dec. 25th 1693. From the time first due to Dec. 25th 1683 at 5 l. per Cent. And from thence to Dec. 25th 1693. at 3 l. per Cent. 4 l. per Cent. from the 25th of Dec. 1655 to the 25 of Dec. 1693 and so proportionably The City Lands c. excepting the Revenues of the Hospitals and Repairs of London-Bridge for ever chargeable after the 24th of June 1694. for raising the Annual Sum of 8000 l. It is enacted That for the raising a perpetual Fond to pay the yearly Interest of four pounds for every hundred pound principal Mony and of all the Interest thereof due to any Orphan of the City or the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such Orphan unto the 25th day of December 1693. The Interest to be computed from the time first payable unto the 25th day of December 1683. at five pounds for the Interest of every hundred pounds for one year And from that time to the 25th day of December 1693. at three pounds and so proportionably for any greater or lesser Sum the Interest already received for such principal Mony to be deducted and to pay the like yearly Interest of four pounds for every hundred pounds of the principal Mony and Interest thereof to be computed as aforesaid due upon Bond Bill or Note liable to pay Interest between the 25th day of December 1655. and the same day of December 1693. or any other the Creditor of the same City or the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such Creditor on the said 25th day of December 1693. from the Chamber of the said City or from the Mayor Commonalty or Citizens thereof and so proportionably for any greater or lesser Sum the Manners Messuages Lands Markets and Fairs and other the Hereditaments and Revenues belonging to the same City in possession or reversion and the Improvements that shall be made thereof except such the Lands and Revenues belonging to the Hospitals of the same City or Borough of Southwark or such as are chargeable with the Repairs of London Bridge shall be yearly charged for ever after the 24th day of June 1694. for the raising the Annual Sum of eight thousand pounds to be appropriated for the raising such a perpetual Fond and be applied as aforesaid II. The Aqueducts belonging to the City The City Aqueducts liable and their Rents except the Profits of such Water as shall be for the Supply of the publick Conduits Hospitals Halls and Prisons shall be for ever appropriated and applied towards payment of the said Interest III. 2000 l. annually out of Personal Estates And for the raising such a perpertual Fond the Common Council may every year raise and assess the Sum of two thousand pounds upon the Personal Estates of the several Inhabitants within the City and Liberties and to distrain for default of payment IV. Leases of the Convex Lights for 21 years from June 24th 1694 600 l. per ann The City may Lease to the Persons concerned in the Convex Lights the sole use of
such Lights within the City and Liberties for one and twenty years from the 24th day of June 1694. at the Rent of six hundred pounds yearly to be reserved to be appropriated towards raising such a Fond and payment of the said Interest-mony And after that Term expired the Profits whatsoever that shall be made by granting Licenses to lighten the Streets shall be appropriated and applied to the uses aforesaid V. Every Apprentice after 24th of June 1694 to pay 2 s. 6 d. at his being bound to be transmitted to the Chamberlain on penalty of 5 l. 5 s. to be paid by every one admitted a Freeman 4 s. ê™ Tun on Wine imported The Collector to be appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen For the increase of the Fond every Apprentice after the 24th day of June 1694. when he is bound shall pay two shillings and six pence to the Master or Wardens of such Company as his Master is Member of to be by the said Master and Wardens transmitted to the Chamberlain of the City to be employed for the uses aforesaid upon the Penalty of five pounds for every Sum not so transmitted to be recovered in the Name of the Chamberlain And Books of Vellum or Parchment to be kept in the Common Halls of such Payments for any Person to inspect gratis VI. And every Person after the said 24th day of June 1694. when he is admitted a Freeman shall pay the Sum of five shillings the said several Sums of two shillings and six pence and five shillings to be paid over and above the usual Fees VII Also every Importer shall pay a Duty of four shillings per Tun upon all sorts of Wine imported after the said 24th day of June 1694. into the Port of the City of London or the Members thereof by way of Merchandize over and above the present Duties and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity The Collector to be appointed by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen And the said Imposition to be paid in the same manner and by such Rules and under such Penalties as are provided in an Act of Parliament made in the 12th year of King Charles II. Entituled A Subsidy granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage c. VIII 4 d. for meetage of every Chaldron of Coals after the 29th of June 1694 After the 29th of Sept. 1700 6 d. ê™ Chaldron or Tun to continue for 50 years To be paid by the Owner of the Vessel There shall be paid for all such sort of Coals or Culm as are usually sold by the Chaldron imported into the Port of London or Members thereof after the 24th day of June 1694. for every Chaldron thereof the Sum of four pence Meetage for ever over and above what is now paid to be paid as the present Duty of Meetage is And after the 29th day of September 1700. the farther Sum of six pence And for such Coals as are sold by the Tun for every Tun thereof containing two thousand Weight the like Sum of six pence which shall continue from the said 29th day of September for fifty year and no longer to be paid by the Master or Owner of the Ship or Vessel whereupon they are laden before they shall break Bulk or have a Meeter assigned at such place as the Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall appoint within the City or Liberties for Receipt thereof upon receipt whereof the Party appointed to receive the same shall without delay gratis deliver a Receipt which shall be a sufficient Discharge How to be collected And the same Imposition of six pence per Chaldron shall be collected and levied in such manner and in every respect as in and by one Act made in the 19th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the rebuilding the City of London the Imposition of Coals thereby granted was to be collected and levied And the Powers and Directions for that Act shall be exercised for the collecting of the said Duty of six pence as if particularly expressed in this during all the time it is payable The Monies to be paid into the receipt of the Chamber Collectors to give reasonable security All Sums of Mony as part of the said Fond are to be paid into the Receipt of the Chamber and are hereby appropriated for the raising the said Fond and applied towards the discharge of the said Debts And every Person that shall be concerned in the Receipt of any of the Sums so appropriate before he take upon him the execution of such Office shall find Sureties in such reasonable Sum as by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall be thought fitting for the faithful execution of such Office IX After the expiration of 6 d. per Chaldron the City revenues liable for 6000 l. ê™ ann besides the 8000 l. per ann The Mony raised by this Act to be applied for the payment of 4 l. per Cent. due the 25th of Dec. 1693 And also for the payment of 4 l. per Cent. from between the 25th of Dec. 1655 and the 25th of Dec. 1693 The payments to be made twice a year at St. Thomas and St. John Baptist or within 14 days after The perpetual Interest to be in full satisfaction of the principal Debt After the said Imposition of six pence shall determine all the Revenues of the City of London in possession or reverson shall stand and be charged with the full yearly Sum of six thousand pounds over and above the said yearly Sum of eight thousand pounds in like manner appropriated as the yearly Sum of eight thousand pound was X. And all the Rents Impositions and Sums of Mony by this Act applied to be charged raised or paid after reasonable Salaries and Allowances deducted for ever shall be applied for the payment of the Annual Sum of four pounds for the Interest of every hundred pound and proportionably for a greater or lesser Sum of the above-mentioned respective Debts and all the Interest thereof due on the 25th day of December 1693. to any Orphan of the City or the Executors c. of such Orphan And also for the payment of the like yearly Interest of four pounds for every hundred pound principal Mony and the Interest thereof to be computed as aforesaid due at any time between the said 25th day of December 1655. and the said 25th day of December 1693. upon Bond Bill or Note liable to pay Interest from the said City unto any Person or Persons or to so much thereof only as the Monies appointed by this Act to be raised and paid shall yearly amount unto to satisfie and pay towards the Interest to the said Orphans and Creditors equally in proportion to their respective Interests The Payments to be made twice in every year upon St. Thomas Day and St. John Baptists or within fourteen days after The first payment to be made on St. Thomas Day 1694. or within fourteen days after The said Monies to be
this Act any Chamber-rent Fee or Reward for any thing relating to his Discharge above the Sum of 6 s. 6 d. in the whole upon pain of forfeiting the value of the Debt and upon pain of being proceeded against as an Extortioner any Law Act of Parliament or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding IV. The Justice of Peace his Clerks Fee And that no Justice of Peace his Clerk or Servant shall take of any Prisoner for signing his Warrant and Summons any Fee or Reward whatsoever nor any Clerk of the Papers or other Officer that shall make out any Copies of Causes for the said Prisoner shall take for the same above 4 d. upon pain to be proceeded against as Extortioners aforesaid V. No Debt contracted since Nov. 28. 1690. shall hereby be discharged Provided that no Debtor shall by virtue of this or the aforesaid Act be discharged of any Debt contracted by such Debtor since the 28th day of November which was in the Year 1690. Ships I. Builders of 3 Deck Ships within 10 years from first M. 1694. their allowance for Customs STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 18. Every Person that shall within ten years from and after the first of May 1694. build or cause to be built within any of their Majesties Dominions any Ships or Vessels of three Decks reckoning the Orlop for one with a Fore-castle Quarter-deck Round-house and six Foot between each Deck from Plank to Plank their Hawrses to be between Decks the said Ships to be of no less than 450 Tun and to have no less than ten Ports of a side between Decks mounted with 32 Pieces of Ordnance close of which 18 to be between Decks the said Guns upon the lower Deck to be Demy-Culverine of 3000 weight at least upon the Upper-deck Fore-castle and Steerage to be also Demy-Culverine of 2200 weight at least and those in the Cuddy to be 600 weight at least and other Ammunition proportionably shall for the first three Voyages which the said Ship or Ships shall make from their Majesties Dominions to any Foreign Parts receive to their own use and benefit one tenth part of the Customs commonly call'd or known by the name of the Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage that shall be paid to their Majesties for all such Goods and Merchandizes as shall be exported and imported on the said Ship or Ships to and from this Kingdom and the Commissioners and Officers of their Majesties Customs are hereby impowered to pay the same to the respective Owners accordingly II. The penalty if altered And if at any time after the end of the said three first Voyages any of the said Ships or Vessels so to be built as aforesaid shall be altered or put into another form of Building whereby they shall become or be made less defensible than they were at first building that then every such Ship or Vessel with all the Guns Tackle Ammunition and Apparel thereof shall be forfeited and lost I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 19. Offences done since 24 June 1694. may be tried in the Kings Bench or by Justices of Oyer and Terminer All Offences contrary to one Act made in the 13th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the establishing Articles and Orders for the regulating and better Government of his Majesties Navies Ships of War and Forces by Sea which shall be committed after the 24th of June 1694. may be tried and determined in the Kings Bench at Westminster or before Justices of Oyer and Terminer appointed by their Majesties which said Courts are hereby impowered to hear and determine the same according to the Common Law and to inflict such Penalties as are appointed by the said Act. II. Offences done out of the Realm c. Person tried by a Court Martial not to be tried again How long to continue Where any of the said Offences shall be committed out of this Realm the same may be alledged and laid in any County within this Realm III. Provided that no Person who shall be tried in a Court-Martial shall for the same Offence be again tried by virtue of this Act nor shall any Person tried by virtue of this Act be tried again by a Court-Martial IV. Provided also that this Act shall continue in force for three years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament Souldiers I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 9. The Act made in the last Session of this Parliament Entituled An Act for punishing Officers and Souldiers who shall mutiny and desert their Majesties Service and for punishing false Musters and for payment of Quarters shall continue and be in force until the first of March 1694. and no longer II. Who shall be accounted a listed Souldier No Person that shall be listed for the Land-Service after the first of March 1693. shall be esteemed a listed Souldier or be subject to any of the Pains and Penalties of this Act or any other Penalty for his Behaviour as a Souldier that shall not have been brought before a Justice of Peace not being an Officer in the Army or Chief Magistrate of some City or Town-Corporate or High Constable or Pety Constable in the Hundred or Division where the Person shall be listed and before such Justice Magistrate or High Constable or Pety Constable declare his free consent to be listed or mustred as a Souldier before he be listed or mustred or inserted in any Muster-Roll of a Regiment Troop or Company as aforesaid And every Military Officer that shall offend herein shall incur the like Penalty and Forfeiture as is by the said continued Act to be inflicted upon any Officer for making a false and untrue Muster Sureties I. St. 10 E. 3. for finding Sureties for Good Behavior repealed Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 7. The Statute the 10th year of King Edw. III. for finding Sureties for the Good abearing by him or her that hath a Pardon of Felony is hereby made void and repealed II. Provided At the Justices discretion that if any Charter of Pardon be pleaded by any Person for any Felony the Justices before whom such Pardon shall be pleaded may at their discretion remand or commit such Person to Prison there to remain until he or she shall enter into a Recognizance with two sufficient Sureties for his or her being of the Good Behaviour for any time not exceeding seven years III. Provided Feme-Covert or Infant to find Sureties if any such Charter of Pardon be pleaded by a Feme-Covert or Infant such Feme-Covert or Infant may find two sufficient Sureties who shall enter into a Recognizance for his or her being of the Good Behaviour as aforesaid Taxes Aid of 4 s. in the Pound I. STat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 1. 4 s. in the Pound to be paid for all personal Estates excepting desperate Debts and Houshold-stuff All and
said Collector his Heirs or Executors XIII Controversies among Commissioners how to be determined If any Controversie arising concerning the assessment or payment thereof which concerns any of the Commissioners by this Act appointed the Commissioners so concerned in the said Controversie shall have no Voice but shall with-draw at the time of the Debate until it be determined by the rest and in default thereof that the Commissioners present may impose upon such Commissioners so refusing to with-draw what to them seems fit not exceeding 20 l. the same to be paid as other Fines in this Act. XIV Colledges Halls and Persons c. excepted No Colledge or Hall in either of the two Universities or the Colledges of Windsor Eaton Winchester or Westminster or the Corporation of the Governors of the Charity for Relief of poor Widows and Children of Clergy-men or the Colledge of Bromley or any Hospital for or in respect of the Scites of the said Colledges Halls or Hospitals or any Master Fellow or Scholar of any such Colledge or Hall or any Reader Officer or Minister of the said Universities Colledges or Halls or any Master or Usher of any School for or in respect of any Stipend Wages or Profits whatsoever arising or growing due to them in respect of the said several Places or Imployments in the said Universities Colledges Halls or Schools shall be assessed by this Nor shall any the Houses or Lands belonging to Christs Hospital St. Bartholomews Bridewel St. Thomas or Bethlehem in the City of London and Borough of Southwark or the Corporation of the Governors of the Charity for Relief of poor Widows and Children of Clergy-men or the Colledge of Bromley be assessed by virtue of this Act. No Alms-men or Alms-women or other poor Person inhabiting within any other Hospital or Alms-House for or in respect of any Rents or Revenues payable to them for their immediate use and relief and whose annual Maintenance and Profits doth not exceed in the whole the Sum of 20 l. But nevertheless all the Houses and Lands which are held by Lease or Grant from the said Corporation or any of the said Hospitals or Alms-houses for so much as they are yearly worth over and above the Rents reserved and payable to the said Corporation or to the said Hospitals or Alms-houses to be received and disbursed for the immediate support and relief of the Poor in the said Hospitals or Alms-houses are liable to be assessed by this Act. XV. No Covenants hereby avoided Provided that nothing in this Act contained shall change or make void any Covenants or Agreements whatsoever between Landlord and Tenant or any others touching the payment of Taxes any thing herein mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding XVI Guardians and Parents liable for Infants Where any Persons chargeable with any Rates by this Act shall be under the Age of twenty one years in such case the Parents Guardians and Tutors of such Infants upon default of payment by such Infants shall be hereby liable to and charged with the Payments which such Infants ought to have made and upon default or neglect of such Parents Guardians or Tutors as aforesaid they shall be proceeded against as any other Persons making default in this Act. XVII Where a Person shall be taxed in respect of Employment Every Person rated or assessed for his Office or Imployment shall pay for the same in the place where such Office is executed And every Person rated in respect of his personal Estate shall be rated at such place where he shall be resident at the time of the execution of this Act. And if any Person who ought to be taxed by this Act for his personal Estate shall at the time of his Assessment be out of the Realm such Person shall be rated therefore in such place where he was last abiding within the Realm XVIII Where in respect of his Estate Shifting his Residence the Penalty If any Person having several Mansion-houses shall be doubly charged by this Act in respect of his personal Estate then upon Certificate under the Hands and Seals of two or more Commissioners for that place of the Sum charged upon him and upon Oath made before a Justice of Peace of such Certificate the Person so doubly charged shall for so much as shall be so certified be discharged in every other place And if any that ought to be taxed by this Act for his personal Estate shall by changing his place of Residence or any other fraud escape from being taxed and the same be proved before any two of the Commissioners or a Justice of Peace of the place where such Person resideth at any time within one year after such Tax every Person so escaping shall be charged at the double value of so much as he should be taxed by this Act the same to be certified into the Exchequer and levied upon his Lands and Goods XIX Housholder to give Account of his Lodgers Commissioners to assess each other New River Water Thames Water-works c. excepted Every Housholder shall upon demand of the Assessors give an Account of the Names and Qualities of all Lodgers in their Houses under penalty of forfeiting 20 l. to their Majesties XX. The Commissioners in their several Limits shall assess each other for their personal Estates and Imployments respectively and also shall assess each Assessor within their several Divisions No Persons shall be assessed for having any share or interest in the New-River Water brought to the North-parts of London commonly called the New-River or in the Thames Water-works or in the Hide-Park or Marybone Waters or any Rents or Profits arising thereby Nor any Person having any share or interest in the Stock for printing of Books in the Kings Printing-house nor any Companies of Merchants in London for their respective Shares aforesaid and the aforesaid Stock XXI Scotland Ireland c. excepted Provided this Act shall not extend to the Inhabitants of Scotland Ireland Jersey or Guernsey for and concerning any such personal Estate which they or any to their use have within the places aforesaid XXII Exemptions from Taxes void No Letters Patents granted to any Persons or Corporations of any manner of Liberties or Exemptions from Taxes or Aids shall be construed to exempt them from the Sums of Mony granted by this Act. XXIII No Commissioner shall act by virtue of this Act before he hath taken the Oaths appointed by an Act made in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled Commissioners Oath An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and appointing other Oaths upon the pain of 500 l. XXIV Every Papist or reputed Papist Papist not swearing to be doubly charged being of the Age of sixteen years or upwards who hath not taken the Oaths in the last Act mentioned to be taken as there expressed shall be doubly charged the Rates above mentioned XXV Penalty of any Person refusing the Oath Every
Person of the Age of sixteen years or upwards and being now withing this Realm who hath not taken the Oaths mentioned and upon Summons under the Hand and Seal of any two or more of the said Commissioners appointed by the first above-mentioned Act shall refuse to take the said Oaths at the time appointed in such Warrant or shall neglect to appear at such times before the Commissioners in order to take the said Oaths shall doubly be assessed the Rates above-mentioned XXVI Gentlemen to be taxed by a former Act and not paying the Penalty Every Gentleman or so reputed or owning or writing himself such or being above that Quality who by virtue of an Act made in the third year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for raising Mony by a Poll payable quarterly for one year for carrying on a vigorous War against France did pay or ought to have paid double the Sums charged by the said Act or were or ought to have been returned into the Exchequer for non-payment thereof who shall not voluntarily appear before the said Commissioners or any two or more of them within ten days after the first Meeting of the said Commissioners and take the said Oaths appointed by the said Act made the first year of their Majesties Reign shall be doubly assessed as above XXVII Quakers to subscribe the Declaration Provided nevertheless that whereas certain Persons called Quakers and now known to be such do scruple the taking of any Oath It shall be sufficient for every such Person to subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity contained in an Act of Parliament held in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws and every Person so doing shall not be chargeable with any of the double Rates aforesaid XXVIII Lands to be above 20 s per ann No Person shall be liable to the Pound-rate imposed by this Act upon Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whose Lands Tenements or Hereditaments are not of the yearly value of 20 s. in the whole XXIX Master of the Rolls c. where to be charged The Master of the Rolls Masters in Chancery Six Clerks Clerks of the Petty Bag Examiners Registers Clerks of the Inrolment Clerks of the Affidavits and Subpoena Office or any other the Officers of the High-Court of Chancery that execute their Offices in the Liberty of the Rolls are to be assessed there and not elsewhere XXX Penalty of Collectors detaining Mony If any Collector shall keep in his Hands any part of the Mony by him collected for any longer time than by this Act directed or pay any part thereof to any other Person than the Head-Collector or Receiver-General of such place every such Collector shall forfeit 10 l. And if any Head-Collector shall detain in his Hands or pay any Mony to any other than the Receiver-General of such Place every such Head-Collector shall forfeit 40 l. And if any Receiver-General or his Deputy shall pay such Monies or any part thereof paid to him by this Act to any Person whatsoever other than the Receipt of their Majesties Exchequer within the times limited by this Act such Receiver General or his Deputy shall forfeit the Sum of 1000 l. XXXI Changing Abode after Assessment If after Assessments on personal Estates according to this Act any Person shall remove to any place where such Person was not taxed the Commissioners acting within such place are hereby impowred to summon such Person before them and unless he or she shall produce a Certificate made according to the Directions of this Act whereby it may appear that he or she have paid all their precedent quarterly Payments the said Commissioners are hereby required to cause such Persons to be assessed for such quarterly Payments as remain unassessed to be assessed and paid according to the true intent of this Act. XXXII The King may borrow upon this Act at 7 l. per Cent. It shall and may be lawful for any Person Native or Foreigner Bodies Politick or Corporate to lend to their Majesties upon the security of this Act any Sums of Mony and to receive for the forbearance thereof any Sum not exceeding 7 l. per Cent. for one whole year and that no Mony so lent shall be rated by virtue of this Act. XXXIII No Rector or Vicar chargeable except above 30 l. per Ann. No Rector or Vicar who has the Cure of Souls and actually resides upon his Rectory or Vicaridge upon the account of such his Rectory and Vicaridge only shall be charged by this Act unless his Rectory or Vicaridge does really and truly exceed the value of 30 l. per annum or unless he hath more than one Rectory or Vicaridge Additional Supply for 118506 l. 5 s. 10 d. I. Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 5. That it shall and may be lawful for any Persons Natives or Foreigners to contribute towards the advancing the Sum of 118506 l. 5 s. 10 d. to make up the whole Sum of 1000000 l. granted to their Majesties by an Act made this present Parliament intended to be advanced by paying into their Majesties Exchequer at any time before the first day of May 1694. any Sum or Sums of Mony not exceeding in the whole the Sum of 118506 l. 5 s. 10 d. as followeth viz. That every Person out of the Rates and Duties of Excise granted by the said Act of 1000000 l. 14 l. per Cent. for own Life or Nominees shall have and receive for every Sum of 100 l. by them respectively advanced and paid a quarterly Annuity Rent or Payment of 14 l. and proportionably for a greater Sum for and during the life of such Person so advancing or paying the same or during any other life to be nominated by the Person advancing or paying any such Sum as aforesaid Within what time to be nominated the same to be nominated within six days after payment of such Sum which yearly Annuities Rents or Payments shall commence from the 24th of June next ensuing and shall be paid and payable at the four most usual Feasts of the year viz. The Annuntiation of the Blessed Virgin Mary the Nativity of St. John Baptist the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel and the Feast of the Birth of our Lord Christ and every Person on payment of such Sum or Sums as aforesaid Tallies to be given on receipt of the Monies and Orders thereon which may be transferred or assigned and not to be revoked shall immediately have one or more Tally or Tallies importing the receipt of the Consideration Mony and Orders for the Payment of the said Annuities bearing the same date with the Tally the said Tallies to be levied and the said Orders to be signed in the same manner as in the said Act is mentioned touching Tallies and Orders to be given to the Contributors for
Annuities upon the said Act and the said Orders not to be determinable revocable or countermandable as touching the afore-mentioned Orders in the said Act is enacted which said Orders shall be assignable and transferrable in such and the same manmer as is mentioned in the said Act touching Orders given to the Contributors in the said Act mentioned and all the Rates and Duties by the said Act granted over and beside so much as shall bear proportion at the Rates in the said Act mentioned to the whole Sum of 881493 l. 14 s. 2 d. already advanced by the Contributors upon the said Act are and shall be appropriated and applied and are hereby appropriated to and for the payment of the said Annuities yearly Rents or Sums after the rate of 14 l. per Cent. per Annum for every 100 l. to be advanced as aforesaid according to the true intent and meaning of this Act and shall not be diverted or divertible to any other use intent or purpose whatsoever under the like Penalties Forfeitures and Disabilities Penalty for misapplying the Monies given by this Act. Books and Registers to be kept in respect to all and every the Officers in the said Act mentioned as are in the said Act appointed in case of diverting or misapplying any part of the Monies which ought to be paid to the Contributors upon the said Act. And the said Officers are hereby required to keep Books and Registers and make Entries of the Names of all Persons who shall advance any Monies before the said first of May and of the several Sums so advanced and the times of paying in the same respectively and the Names of such Persons for whose Lives the several Annuities or yearly Payments are to be payable without Fee or Reward as in the said Act mentioned And every Person who shall advance or pay any such Sum as asoresaid Interest of 10 l. per Cent. from 1st of May to the 24th of June before the first of May as aforesaid shall receive out of the Mony granted by the said Act for all Mony so advanced by him and paid from the respective days of payment unto the 24th of June as aforesaid Interest at the rate of 10 l. per Cent. per Annum II. Mony payable to any Person by this Act to be free from Duties Surplus to be to the use of their Majesties Any Monies payable to any Person or Persons by virtue of this Act shall not be chargeable with any Rates Duties or Impositions whatsoever and in case there shall be any Surplus or Remainder of the Monies arising by the said Rates and Duties of Excise at the end of any year during the term of ninety and nine years granted therein by the said former Act after making all the Payments which by this or the said former Act are appointed to be paid within the same year or reserving Mony for the same such Surplus or Remainder shall be to the use of their Majesties their Heirs and Successors III. Upon demand of their shares a Certificate of the Life of the Nominee shall be produced Every Contributor upon this or the former Act his or her Executors Administrators or Assigns upon their demanding any half-yearly or quarterly Payment of their respective shares of either of the said Funds unless the Nominee appear in Person at the said Receipt shall produce a Certificate of the Life of his her or their respective Nominee signed by the Minister and Church-wardens of the Parish where such Nominee shall be then living as by the said Act is appointed or otherwise it shall and may be lawful to and for every Contributor his or her Executors Administrators or Assigns at his her or their Election to make Oath of the truth of his her or their respective Nominees Life on the day when the said Payments shall become due before any one or more Justices of the Peace of the respective County Riding City Town or Place wherein such Person at the time of the making the said Oath shall reside and the said Justice or Justices shall make a Certificate thereof without Fee the which shall be filed in the said Office or Receipt of Exchequer And if any Person shall be guilty of a false Oath Penalty of forging a Certificate or forging any Certificate touching the Premises and be thereof lawfully convicted he shall incur the Pains and Penalties to be inflicted upon Persons who commit wilful Perjury or Forgery And in case any Nominee shall at the time of such demand be resident in Scotland or beyond the Seas and any one or more of the Barons of the Exchequer for the time being shall certifie that upon proof to him or them made which proof is to be taken in a Summary way it doth seem probable to him or them that the said Nominee is living the said Certificate being filed as aforesaid shall be a sufficient Warrant for making the said quarterly Payment to the respective Contributors their Executors Administrators or Assigns And if any Person shall receive one or more quarterly Payments upon his her or their Annuity or Annuities for any time beyond the death of his her or their Nominee when the same ought to cease such Person shall forfeit treble the value of the Monies so received IV. And whereas several Persons who did contribute or pay several of the Sums of Mony which have been contributed upon the said recited Act for Shares Dividends Annuities or other Benefits in the said Act mentioned as well upon the benefit of Survivorship as upon the yearly Annuities of 14 l. per Cent. did not name to the Auditor of the Receipt or Clerk of the Pells in the Receipt of the Exchequer within the respective times by the said Act appointed the respective Lives during which such Dividends Shares Annuities or other Benefits respectively were to continue It is hereby enacted Benefit of Survivorship within what time the Lives to be named That if such Persons shall at any time before the first of March next nominate to the Auditor of the Receipt of Clerk of the Pells in the Exchequer the respective Lives their own or others during which such Dividends Shares Annuities or other Benefits should continue respectively that then his her or their Nominees shall be entred in the Books kept in the Receipt for the Nominees And every such Contributor his or her Executors Administrators and Assigns shall have receive and enjoy such and the like Dividends Shares and Annuities and other Benefits in respect of the Monies so contributed as he or she might have had received and enjoyed if the respective Lives for the same had been named within the respective times by the said Act prescribed V. The Surplus to their Majesties not to be charged with any Gift c. Provided that the Surplus or Remainder of the Monies arising by the said Rates and Duties appointed by the said Act be to the use of their Majesties their
the Duties payable for the same 00 00 09 Excise upon Liquors Every Barrel of Beer or Ale at or under 6 s. the Barrel by the Common Brewer or Seller over the Duties payable for the same 00 00 03 Every Barrel of Vinegar or Vinegar Beer brewed or made of English Materials for sale over and above the Duties payable for the same 00 01 06 Every Barrel of Vinegar or Liquor prepared for Vinegar made or mixed with Foreign Materials made for sale 00 04 00 Every Barrel of Beer Ale or Mum imported from beyond Sea or from Guernsey or Jersey and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity 00 03 00 Every Tun of Cyder or Perry and so proportionably imported from beyond Sea to be paid before landing over and above the Duties payable for the same 04 00 00 Every Gallon of single Brandy Spirits or Aqua-vitae imported from beyond Sea to be paid before landing 00 02 00 Every Gallon of double Brandy Spirits or Aqua-vitae above proof imported from beyond Sea 00 04 00 Every Hogshead of Cyder or Perry made and sold by Retail by the Retailer 00 01 00 Every Gallon of Metheglin or Mead made for sale by retail or otherwise 00 00 03 XXV The said several Rates and Duties to be levied Duties how to be collected collected and paid over and above the Duties payable for the same and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity for sixteen years in the same manner and form and under such Penalties as are mentioned in an Act of 12 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite c. and by another Act in the same year Entituled A Grant of certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors c. and by another Act made 15 Car. 2. Entituled An additional Act for the better ordering and collecting the Duty of Excise c. And that the said Acts as to the Impositions upon Beer Ale c. by this Act granted shall be of full force to all intents during the said Term of sixteen years as if the same were particularly set down in the Body of this Act. XXVI The Commissioners for Receipt of Excise and the Duties upon Salt Commissioners of Excise to manage theDuty upon Salt paid weekly shall at the Head-Office in London keep the Mony hereby raised apart by it self and shall pay the same weekly viz. on Wednesday in every Week if it be not a Holiday and if it be then the next day after that is not a Holiday into the Exchequer distinct and apart from other Mony A Book for entring the same And there shall be a Book kept in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt wherein the Weekly Mony paid into the Exchequer shall be entred apart and distinct XXVII The Commissioners refusing or neglecting to pay the said Weekly Sums Penalty upon the Commissioners for neglecting c. Salaries Charges how to be paid or misapplying them shall forfeit their Offices and be made incapable of any Office of Trust whatsoever and shall be liable to pay such Sums misapplied to any Person who will sue for the same The Salaries and incident Charges to be paid by the King out of the Duties upon Salt XXVIII The Head Office of Excise established by this Act shall be continued in London Head Office of Excise where to be kept or within ten Miles of it to be executed by a sufficient number of Commissioners by their Majesties to be appointed And also a Comptroller who shall keep a distinct Account in Books fairly written of all the Monies arising by this Act as shall be brought into the said Office Resort to the Books gratis to which Books all Persons shall have free access gratis Nor shall the Commissioners receive any other Salary or Fee than by this Act appointed XXIX The yearly Sum of 140000 l. out of Duties hereby granted shall be the yearly Fond The yearly Fond what and how much it shall be reckoning the first year to commence from the 25th of March 1694. to be brought in Weekly into the Exchequer And if the Weekly Payments will not amount to 140000 l. per Annum yet so far as it will extend shall be part of it towards the answering the purposes herein mentioned If deficient how to be supplied And if the Weekly Payments fall short of satisfying the said 140000 l. or to discharge the Annuities or other Benefits hereby charged that then the Commissioners of the Treasury or Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer shall apply so much of their Majesties Revenue not being appropriated to any particular use by Act of Parliament to supply the defect of the said Recompences of Annuities XXX Foreigners as well as Natives may contribute towards advancing the Sum of 1000000 l. Adventurers when to pay in their Mony by paying at or before the 10th of September 1694. to any Receiver hereby appointed the Sum of 10 l. each or divers intire Sums of 10 l. each and for every 10 l. to receive a Share or Dividend of the said yearly Fond for sixteen years XXXI Their Majesties under their Broad Seal shall appoint Managers of the Tickets or Lots who shall meet from time to time at some publick Office in London or Westminster for the execution of their Powers and Trusts The Books and Columns how to be ordered and shall prepare Books wherein every Leaf shall be divided into three Columns and upon the innermost of the said Columns shall be printed 100000 Tickets numbred 1 2 3 c. Upon the middle Column shall be printed 100000 Tickets of the same length breadth and form and numbred in like manner And in the extream Column of the said Book shall be printed a third Rank of Tickets of the same number and the several Tickets shall be of an oblong Figure joined within oblique Lines and every Ticket in the third or extream Column shall have these Words written or imprinted thereon or this effect viz. Inscriptions on the Tickets This Ticket Entitles the Bearer to an Annuity of one Pound or by chance to a greater yearly Sum for sixteen years XXXII The Commissioners of the Treasury Commissioners to appoint Receivers or any three of them to appoint Receivers taking reasonable Securities of them to pay the Monies received into the Exchequer And that the Managers shall carefully examine the Books with the Tickets therein Managers to examine the Books and Tickets and deliver the same to the Receivers taking from each a Writing acknowledging the Receipt of such Books and Tickets that so the Receiver may be answerable for every 10 l. for every Ticket in the extream Column or for so many of them as he shall not return back Tickets how to be ordered upon receipt of the Mony and the Receiver upon receiving of every 10 l. of every Adventurer shall cut out of the Book through the
repay the value received for the same XXXVI Taking other Fees than by this Act forfeiture of Office If the Officers of the Exchequer shall take any other Fee or Reward than by this Act appointed for executing their respective Trusts and Offices they shall forfeit their Office and pay treble Damages with Costs of Suit to any Adventurer that will sue for the same without Essoign Protection or Priviledge of Parliament c. XXXVII Officer not liable though Ticket be forged unless he knew it If any Officer of the Transfer Office shall pass any Ticket for payment or any Officer of the Exchequer shall make any payment of any Shares of the said Fonds upon such Tickets as are above directed such Officer shall not incur any Penalty or be liable to any Action of the Adventurers though such Ticket be forged except he knew it to be so XXXVIII Mony lent to be free from Taxes Mony lent by or payable to any Persons by virtue of this Act shall not be chargeable with any Rates Duties or Impositions whatsoever XXXIX And to be imployed as the Act directs All Grants or Dispositions of Mony arising by this Act hereafter to be made by their Majesties to any other Person or in any other manner or for any longer Term or Interest than by this Act appointed shall hereby be made null XL. A distinct Office in the Exchequer for payment of Annuities There shall be in the said receipt of the Exchequer a distinct Office for paying the Annuities the said Office shall continue till all the Payments to grow due by this Act during the said Term of sixteen years shall be satisfied And an Officer or Officers shall be appointed hereunto by the Commissioners or the Treasurer of the Exchequer Officers to give security who shall take security of the Officers for the due paying and accounting the Monies they shall receive and for the faithful performance of their Office And the Monies which shall be brought into the Receipt of the Exchequer shall by the Commissioners of the Treasury or the Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer without any farther or other Warrant and such proportions from time to time Monies how to be issued Officers to be liable to account and be inspected as shall be necessary and sufficient to answer the respective Payments which shall grow due be issued or paid over from time to time to the Officers by way of Imprest and upon Account to and for the payment of the said Annuities by this Act appointed And such particular Officers shall be liable and subject to such Inspection Examination Comptrol and Audit and to such Rules as the Commissioners of the Treasury or the Treasurer and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer shall think fit XLI All Officers to observe the Commissioners directions The Managers Directors Commissioner and Officer of the Transfer Office Receivers and the particular Officer in the Exchequer and all the Clerks Ministers and Servants shall for the better execution of their Trusts observe and perform such Rules Methods and Orders as they shall from time to time receive from the Commissioners of the Treasury c. so as such Rules Methods and Orders be conducible to the ends and purposes in this Act. XLII The King enabled to borrow Mony upon this Act. If the whole Sum of 1000000 l. be not paid into the Exchequer upon this Act before the 24th of June 1694. then it shall be lawful for their Majesties by way of Loan to borrow so much as to make it up to be paid with Interest at 8 l. per Cent. out of the Monies after to be brought in by this Act And if the Monies shall not all come in then out of the next Supply granted by Parliament How the same to be repaid and if no such Supply shall be before the 2d of February 1694. then to be paid out of the Treasury If the 1000000 l. shall not be advanced then the Overplus of the Fond shall be disposed as hereafter shall be directed by Act of Parliament XLIII When the Receivers of the Salt Mony are to deliver in their Accompts The Receivers of the Salt Duty shall between the 25th of March 1695. and the 29th of September following and so yearly during the continuance of this Act deliver in their Accounts to the Auditors of the Imprest who shall examine them upon Oath what Sum was raised and what part paid into the Exchequer or by virtue of any Warrant of Privy Seal or Warrant of the Commissioners of the Treasury and to whom and for what Service and such Account so taken by the said Auditor to be declared before the Lord Treasurer or Lords Commissioners of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer XLIV No Member of the House of Commons to be concerned in the farming or managing those Duties except c. No Member of the House of Commons shall directly or indirectly be concerned in the farming collecting or managing any Duties granted by this Act or that shall be granted by any other Act except the Commissioners of the Treasury the Officers of the Customs and Excise and those appointed Commissioners for the Act of 4 s. in the Pound for one year as to their executing only the Authority of the said Act by which they are appointed Commissioners And also excepting Thomas Neale Esquire The Act upon Tunnage I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 14. It is enacted That for the Term of four Years commencing from the first day of June 1694. Duties upon Tunnage from the 1st of June 1694. there shall be throughout England Wales and the Town of Berwick levied and paid into and for the use of their Majesties their Heirs and Successors upon the Tunnage of all Ships and Vessels whereon during that time there shall be imported any Goods or Merchandize from the Places in the Act after mentioned or shall be carried Coast-wise from Port to Port within England Wales or the Town of Berwick these Duties and Impositions that is to say For every Tun of the Burthen or Contents of any Ship or Vessel importing Goods oâ— Merchandizes from the East-Indies or any Ports Southwards or Eastward of Cabo bona Speranza The several Rates the Sum of 30 s. From any Ports or Places in Italy or Turky 15 s. From any Ports or Places in Portugal or Spain 10 s. From any the Plantation Lands or Places in the West-Indies 10 s. From Holland or any the United Provinces Netherlands or Flanders 3 s. From Norway Hamborough or the Baltick Sea Enstland Gountries or any other Ports or Places North of Holland 5 s. From Ireland or Scotland 2 s. From any Port or Place in the Mediterranean Sea not otherwise charged in this Act 15 s. From the Ports or Coasts of Guinea or Africa without the Streights 20 s. From Hudsons Bay or any Place within the Limits of that Companies Charter 20 s. From the
Ganaries Maderas or any the Western Islands 10 s. From any Ports or Places in Greenland Muscovia or Russia 10 s. For every Tun of the Burthen of any Ship or Vessel in the Coasting Trade from Port to Port in England Wales or Berwick 6 d. II. Contents of Ships to be taken by the Officers in the Ports where they arrive Ships to be entred and Duties paid before the unlading or Security given Rebate where Duties paid down Forfeiture for not paying Duties The several Duties imposed shall be accounted and paid according to the Measure of such Ships or Vessels which shall be made by their Majesties Officers in the respective Ports or Places where they shall arrive And the Masters Owners or Freighters at the Port or Place of the discharge or unlading of their Ships or Vessels shall cause them to be entred in the Custom-house belonging to such Port or Place and at the time of the entry or before any unlading shall pay down in ready Mony to their Majesties Officers of the Customs the said Duties or give Security by Bond to their Majesties with Sureties to be approved by the said Officers of the Customs to pay the Duties within the space of one Month next after clearing of the Ship Where the Duties shall be paid down there shall be a rebate or deduction out of the same after the rate of 10 l. per Cent. per Annum for every hundred pound the Duty shall amount unto And where any Goods shall be unshipped to be laid on Land before the Duty paid or Security given the Ship or Vessel out of which they shall be unladen together with the Guns Tackle Ammunition and Apparel shall be forfeited and lost one moiety to their Majesties and the other to the Party that will sue or seize for the same to be recovered in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster And over and besides the Owner Master or Freighters shall be chargeable with the said Duties of Tunnage III. Duties by whom to be paid and how The Duties upon the Tunnage of Ships importing Goods or Merchandizes from Parts beyond the Seas or Scotland shall be paid and born by the Merchant-Freighters and by the Master and Owners of such Ships by way of Average amongst themselves two third parts by the Merchants and Freighters according to their Shares in the Freight and the other third part by the Masters or Owners And the Duties upon Ships employed in the Coasting Trade shall be paid and born by the Master or Owners of such Ships IV. Greenland and New-found-land Ships to pay for their lading not Tunnage What French Goods are to pay if Peace be made during this Act. Ships belonging to the Company of Merchants of London trading to Greenland shall pay 10 s. per Tun only for their own Blubber Whale-Fins or any other Merchandize and not be obliged to pay according to the Shipping And so likewise Ships trading to New-found-land shall pay only for their Train-Oyl and other Merchandize 10 s. per Tun and not for their measure of their Shipping V. If Peace be made betwixt their Majesties and the French King during the continuance of this Duty of Tunnage then all Ships importing Goods and Merchandizes from any of the French Kings Territories in Europe without the Streights shall pay the like Duty as any Ships importing Goods from Portugal are charged with by this Act over and above all Duties payable for such Ships VI. Barges c. not chargeable This Act shall not extend to charge or lay any Duty uponany Barges imployed in carrying Sand Lime or Slate-Stone from Port to Port within England or Wales for and in respect of such lading only VII Ships and Vessels how to be measured All Ships and Vessels liable to these Duties shall be gauged and measured by the length of the Keel taken within Board so much as she treads upon the Ground And the breadth to be taken within Board by the Midship Beam from Plank to Plank And the depth of the Hold to be taken from the Plank below the Kelsey to the under part of the Upper Deck Plank and the length and breadth as before Then multiply the length by the breadth and the Product thereof by the depth and divide the whole by 94 and the Quotient will give the true Contents of the Tunnage And the Duties of Tunnage thereby shall be computed and collected VIII The several Duties of Excise upon Liquors after 17 of May 1697 After the 17th of May 1697. there shall be throughout England Wales and the Town of Berwick raised collected and paid unto their Majesties their Heirs and Successors by way of Excise over and above all Impositions by any former Act then unexpired For every Barrel of Beer or Ale above 6 s. the Barrel exclusive of the Duty of Excise brewed by the common Brewer or any other Person who doth sell or tap out Beer or Ale publickly or privately to be paid by the common Brewer or any such other Person and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity over and above the Duties payable for the same 9 d. For every Barrel of Beer or Ale of 6 s. the Barrel or under brewed or sold as aforesaid and so proportionably to be paid by such common Brewer or other Person respectively 3 d. For every Barrel of Vinegar or Vinegar Beer brewed or made of any English Materials by any common Brewer or any other Person for sale to be paid by the Maker thereof and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity over and above the Duties of Excise payable for the same 1 s. 6 d. If it run through Rape or be made with or passing through Foreign Materials or any mixture with them 4 s. per Barrel and so proportionably For every Barrel of Beer Ale or Mum imported from beyond the Seas or Islands of Guernsy to be paid by the Importers before landing and so proportionably for the quantity over and above for the Duties payable for the same 3 s. For every Tun of Cyder or Perry imported from beyond the Seas and so proportionably to be paid by the Importer before landing over and above the Duties payable for the same 4 l. For every Gallon of single Brandy Spirits or Aqua-vitae imported from beyond the Seas to be paid by the Importer before landing over and above the Duties payable for the same 6 d. and of double above proof 1 s. For every Hogshead of Cyder and Perry made and sold by retail to be paid by the Retailer and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Measure over and above the Duties payable for the same 1 s. 3 d. For every Gallon of Metheglin or Mead made for sale whether by retail or otherwise to be paid by the Maker 3 d. And these Duties shall be levied The several Duties how to be collected collected and paid in the same manner and form and by such Rules and under
such Penalties and Forfeitures as in the Acts made in the 12th year of King Charles II. and the 15th of the same King are mentioned or by another Law in force relating to the said Revenue of Excise and the Clauses in the said Acts to be of force for and concerning the Duties hereby granted as if particularly recited in the Body of this Act. IX The Commissioners of the Excise Monies arising by these Duties to be kept apart and the Commissioners and other Officers of the Customs at the Head-Office in London shall separate and keep apart all the Monies arising by these Duties as the same shall from time to time arise or be paid into the said Office of Excise or unto the Receiver-General of the Customs and the Comptroller of the Excise and of the Customs or their respective Deputies shall keep a distinct account in Books fairly written of all those Rates and Duties to which all Persons shall have free access at all reasonable times gratis Holidays no pay-days And the Commissioners of the Excise and Customs are to pay weekly upon every Week if it be not a Holiday and then the next day after that is not a Holiday Monies how to be paid these Monies into the Receipt of the Exchequer distinct and apart from other Monies they shall receive and in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt one Book shall be kept in which all the said Weekly Monies shall be entred apart Commissioners neglecting or misapplying their Forfeiture And if the Commissioners shall refuse or neglect to pay into the Exchequer all or any of the said Weekly Sums in such manner as hereby required or shall divert or misapply any part of the same or if such Comptroller shall neglect his Duty in keeping such Accounts then he or they shall forfeit their respective Places and be incapable of any Place of Trust or Office whatsoever and such Commissioner shall be liable to pay the full value of any Sum diverted or misapplied to any Person that shall sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster Necessary Charges to be deducted Their Majesties out of the Duties may allow Salaries and incident Charges as shall be necessary for receiving collecting and managing the same Duties Head-Office to continue in London or within ten miles The Head-Office of Excise now in London shall be continued there for ever or within ten miles thereof And likewise for ever shall be continued there or within the same distance a Comptroller of the Excise the Commissioners of Excise and Comptroller to be appointed by their Majesties their Heirs and Successors X. What shall be the yearly Fond. That yearly and every year reckoning the first year to begin from the 1st of June 1694. the full Sum of 140000 l. out of these Monies by the said Duties of Tunnage and Excise and to be brought into the Receipt of the Exchequer by weekly payments in case the weekly payments shall extend thereunto shall be the whole and intire yearly Fond. In case of deficiency how to be supplied And in case the said weekly payments shall not amount to so much then as far as they will extend shall be part of the yearly Fond for and towards the answering and paying of the Annuities and other Purposes in this Act after mentioned And in case of deficiency by the said Duties of Tunnage and Excise to discharge and satisfie the Annuities and other Benefits and Advantages by this Act appointed or intended to be paid within any one year to be reckoned as aforesaid or if they shall not amount in their weekly payments to so much as 140000 l. within such time then the deficiency shall be made good out of any Treasure or Revenue belonging to their Majesties their Heirs or Successors not being appropriated to any particular Uses by any Act of Parliament and that to be issued and paid without any farther or other Warrant but to be done by virtue of this Act towards the discharging and paying of the said Annuities and Benefits as together with the Monies brought into the said Receipt for the Duties hereby granted shall compleatly pay off the same within the year respectively grown due And the yearly Sum of 140000 l. arising by and out of the said Impositions and Duties hereby granted shall be kept separate and apart in the Receipt of the Exchequer to be paid from time to time unto such Person or Persons and in such manner proportion and form as is herein after directed XI Their Majesties to appoint Commissioners to take Subscriptions Their Majesties by Commission under the Great Seal of England may authorize and appoint any number of Persons to take and receive all such voluntary Subscriptions as shall be made on or before the first day of August 1694. by any Person or Persons Natives or Foreigners Bodies Politick or Corporate for and towards the raising and paying into the Receipt of the Exchequer the Sum of 1200000 l. part of the Sum of 1500000 l. And that the yearly Sum of 100000 l. part of the said yearly Sum of 140000 l. rising by the said Duties and Impositions shall be applied issued and directed and is hereby appropriated to the use of such Persons and Bodies Politick as shall make such voluntary Subscriptions and Payments their Heirs Successors or Assigns in the proportion hereafter mentioned that is to say The Monies how to be divided and proportioned That each weekly or other payment rising out of the Duties and Impositions by this Act granted shall by the Auditor of the Receipt of Exchequer from time to time as the same shall be paid in be separated and divided into five seventh parts and two seventh parts which is according to the proportion of the said yearly Sum of 100000 l. to the said yearly Sum of 140000 l. which five seventh parts of the said several payments arising by the Duties of this Act and so set apart are appropriated towards the payment of the said yearly Sum of 100000 l. and shall from time to time be issued and paid to the uses of the Subscribers and Contributors towards the raising and paying into the Receipt of Exchequer the Sum of 1200000 l. XII The 200000 l. and 100000 l. to be assigned or transferred Their Majesties by Letters Patents under the Great Seal may limit direct and appoint in what manner and proportions and under what Rules and Directions the said Sum of 200000 l. and the said yearly Sum of 100000 l. and every or any part or proportion thereof may be assignable or transferrable assigned or transferred to such Person or Persons only as shall freely and voluntarily accept of the same and not otherwise The Contributors to be incorporated and to incorporate all and every such Subscribers and Contributors their Heirs Successors and Assigns to be one Body Corporate and Politick by the Name of Governor and
 Copies of Inventories in Courts of Admiralty Cinque Ports and Ecclesiastical Courts   Affidavits and Copies Indentures Leases Deed Polls 6 d. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper Writs Original Latitats Capias Subpoena Bill of Middlesex Quominus Ded. Potestatem and other Writs   Processes and Mandates in all Courts where Debt is above 40 s.   Actions in London and other Corporations above 40 s.   Charter Parties Pollicies of Assurance Pasports Bonds Releases Contracts Obligatory Instruments Protests Procurations Letters of Attorny or other Notarial Acts.  Copies of Declarations Pleas Replications Rejoinders Demurrers and other Pleadings in all Courts of Law and for Copies thereof 1 d. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper Copies of Depositions Bills Answers Pleas Demurrers Replications Rejoinders Interrogatories and other Proceedings in any Court of Equity Copies of Wills  Things Excepted Draughts of Depositions taken by Commissioners before they are ingrossed Seamens and Souldiers Wills and Administrations Paupers Bills of Exchange Accounts Bills of Parcels Bills of Fees Bills or Notes not sealed for Payment of Mony at sight or on demand or at the end of certain days of payment Trade I. Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 2. An Act for repealing such parts of several former Acts as prevent or prohibit the Importation of Foreign Brandy Aqua-vitae and other Spirits and Bacon except from France I. Importation of fine Thrown Silk Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 3. It shall be lawful to or for any Person or Persons residing within their Majesties Dominions to import within this Kingdom from any Port whatsoever excepting the Ports of France during the present War with France and three Months after fine Thrown-Silk of the growth or production of Italy Sicily or Naples II. Provided that this Act nor any thing herein contained What sorts to be imported shall extend to give liberty to bring over Land and import any Italian Thrown Silk courser than a sort thereof known and distinguished by the name of Third Bolonia nor any Sicilian Thrown Silk courser than a sort thereof known and distinguished by the name of Second Orsay nor any sorts of Silks commonly called Frams of the growth of Italy Sicily or Naples nor any other Thrown Silk of the growth or production of Turky Persia East-India or China The penalty under the Penalty and Forfeiture of all such Thrown Silk as shall be brought over land and imported contrary to the intent of this Act. III. And that all such fine Italian To be brought to the Custom-house Sicilian and Naples Thrown Silks as are allowed to be imported by this Act wheresoever landed shall be brought to their Majesties Custom-house London to the intent that no other sort may be imported over-land than those only allowed by this Act under the Penalties before-mentioned any thing to the contrary hereof notwithstanding I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 3. Whereas by an Act made in the 5th year of Q. Elizabeth Entituled An Act containing divers Orders for Artificers Labourers Servants in Husbandry and Apprentices It is enacted in these words following Provided always and be it farther enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Person or Persons using or exercising the Art or Mystery of a Woollen Cloath-Weaver other than such as be inhabiting within the Counties of Cumberland Westmorland Lancaster and Wales weaving Frizes Cottons or Houswifes Cloath only making and weaving Woollen-Cloath commonly sold or to be sold by any Cloathman or Clothier shall take and have any Apprentice or shall teach or in any-wise instruct any Person or Persons in the Science Art or Occupation of Weaving aforesaid in any Village Town or Place Cities Towns-Corporate and Market-Towns only excepted unless such Person be his Son or else that the Father or Mother of such Apprentice or Servant shall at the time of the taking of such Person or Persous to be an Apprentice or Servant or to be instructed have Lands or Tenements or other Hereditaments to the clear yearly value of 3 l. at the least of an Estate of Inheritance or Freehold to be certified under the Hands and Seals of three Justices of the Peace of the Shire or Shires where the said Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments do or shall lie The effect of the Indenture to be registred within three months in the Parish where such Master shall dwell and to pay for such registring 4 d. upon pain of forfeiture of 20 s. for every month that Person shall otherwise take any Apprentice or set any such Person on Work contrary to the meaning of this Article II. St. 5 Eliz. concerning Apprentices in Woollen Manufafacture repealed Now forasmuch as such part of the said Act before recited hath been found prejudicial to the Clothing-Trade It is hereby enacted That so much of the said Act as is before recited is hereby declared to be repeald and made void as if the same had never been made I. Salt-petre to be brought in for one year Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 10. It shall be lawful for any of their Majesties Subjects to import and bring Salt-petre into this Kingdom from any Place or Country now in Amity with their Majesties for the space of one year to be computed from and after the 25th day of March 1694. II. In what Ships Provided that such Salt-petre be brought in only in such Ships or Vessels as are English built and no other III. At what rate to be sold Provided that no Person importing Salt-petre by virtute of this Act nor any Retailer shall sell any part of the Salt-petre so to be imported at above the price of 70 l. per Tun not exceeding 18 per Cent. Refraction upon the Penalty of 50 l. per Tun. IV. Their Majesties Duty Provided that the Salt-petre which shall be imported by virtue of this Act shall pay to their Majesties the same Duty as if the same were directly imported from the East-Indies V. Salt-petre imported and mingled not to be sold at above 70 l. per Tun. If any Person shall mingle any Salt-petre imported by virtue of this Act with any other Salt-petre and sell the same so mingled at above the rate of 70 l. per Tun or shall by way of Barter or Exchange take or agree to take any other Commodity for Salt-petre imported by virtue of this Act whether by it self or mingled with other Salt-petre in any manner so as to have or receive for the same more than the rate of 70 l. per Tun accounting the Commodity so taken in exchange at the then currant Price That the sale of such Salt-petre so mingled and also such Barter or Exchange shall be construed and taken to be a Sale contrary to this Act. I. Iron Copper c. may be transported except to France during the War Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 11. It shall and may be lawful to and for any Person whatsoever Bodies Politick or Corporate to ship and export all and all manner of Iron Copper or Mundick Metal out of this Realm of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed except unto or for the use of the French King or any of his Subjects residing within his Dominions or in to or for any Port or Place within his said Dominions during the present War between their Majesties and the French King paying the Duties and Customs by Law payable for the same II. Excepting Port-Metal Gun-Metal c. Provided this Act shall not extend to the exportation of Port-Metal Gun-Metal or Shruff-Metal or any old Metal or any mixture therewith or any Copper or other Metal than what is made c. of English Ore only FINIS
for every 100 weight of Steel containing as aforesaid 5 s. 6 d. and so in proportion for every 100 weight of Anvils containing as aforesaid 9 s. 3 d. and so in proportion for every hundred of single white or black Plates 4 s. 4 d. and so in proportion For every hundred of double white or black Plates 8 s. 8 d. and so in proportion for every Harnessplate or Iron double 1 s. 4 d. for every 100 weight of Iron drawn or hammered less then three quarters of an Inch square and all other Iron Ware manufactured containing as aforesaid 5 s. Provided that no manufactured Iron Ware hereby charged to pay by the Piece or Hundred weight shall be liable to pay by the Tun. And for every 100 weight of Brass Latten or Copper-Wire containing as aforesaid 15 s. and so in proportion XXIV For every Last of Hemp-seed Cole-seed and Rape-seed 4 l. XXV For all Yarn of Flax or Hemp other then Cable-Yarn an additional Duty of as much as is now charged in the Book of Rates for every 100 weight of Cable-Yarn 5 s. and so in proportion XXVI For all manufactures of Glass except Rhenish and Muscovia Window-glass 3 s. for every 20 s. value above what is already charged XXVII For every 100 weight of Molosses containing as aforesaid imported from any other place then the English Plantations in America 8 s. XXVIII For every 100 weight of Tallow containing as aforesaid 5 s. and so in proportion for every 100 weight of Tallow-Candles containing as aforesaid 10 s. and so in proportion XXIX For every pound of Bever-wooll cut and comb'd except Wooll comb'd in Russia and imported thence in English Vessels 15 s. XXX For every Barrel of Pot-ashes containing 200 weight neat 8 s. and so in proportion XXXI For every 100 weight of Cordage ready wrought containing as aforesaid 5 s. and so in proportion XXXII For every Tun of Olive-Oyl imported 4 s. and so in proportion XXXIII For every Ream of Royal Paper 2 s. of Blue Paper Demy Paper and painted Paper 1 s. 6 d. for every Bundle of Brown Paper 2 d. and for all other Paper as much more as is now charged in the Book of Rates XXXIV For every 100 weight of Liquorice containing 112 pounds 18 s. and so in proportion for every such 100 weight of Liquorice Powder 1 l. 17 s. 4 d. for every pound weight of Juice of Liquorice 1 s. and so in proportion XXXV For every 100 weight of Barilla or Saphora containing 112 pound 2 s. 6 d. and so in proportion XXXVI For every 100 weight of Sope containing as aforesaid 10 s. and so in proportion XXXVII For all Earthen Ware not mentioned in the Book of Rates 2 s. 6 d. for every 20 s. value XXXVIII For every 100 weight of Starch containing ut supra 20 s. and so in proportion XXXIX For every 100 weight of Allom containing ut supra 2 s. 6 d. and so in proportion XL. For every 100 weight of Brimstone containing ut supra 4 s. 8 d. and so in proportion XLI For every 100 weight of Tin containing ut supra 30 s. and so in proportion XLII Where any Duties upon Goods and Merchandize hereby granted are to be levied according to the value the value shall be taken according to the Books of Rates if such Goods are particularly there rated if not the value shall be taken by the Importers Oath the Duties hereby imposed not to be reckon'd into the value XLIII For all additional Duties hereby imposed the Importer giving security shall have 12 Months time where the same is not otherwise limited for payment thereof by four quarterly payments or upon present payment shall have 10 l. per Cent. abated him And if such Goods or Merchandize be again exported within a Twelve Month the additional Duty shall be repaid and Security vacated XLIV The Duties hereby imposed shall not affect such foreign Stores as have been sold for the use of the Navy by Contract with the Navy-board or Commissioners for the victualling before the 15th day of November 1690. XLV The Duties hereby imposed shall be raised collected and paid in manner and form and by such Rules and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as are mentioned in the Act of Tonnage and Poundage Anno 12 Car. 2. and the Rules and Orders thereunto annexed XLVI Any persons may advance Money to Their Majesties upon the Security of this Act at 8 l. per Cent. for forbearance and no more XLVII All Moneys that shall be paid into the Exchequer by virtue of this Act shall be registred apart and distinct from all other Moneys payable upon any other Branch of the Revenue And they that lend Money on the Credit of this Act shall have Tallies of Loan struck for the same and Orders for repayment bearing date with their Tallies in which Orders there shall be Warrants for payment of Interest at the Rate of 8 l. per Cent. per Annum to be paid every Three Months such Orders to be registred in course without preference And all persons shall be paid in course according as their Orders stand entred No Fee Reward or Gratuity shall be taken for providing or making any such Registers Entries View or Search in or for payment of Money lent or the Interest by any of Their Majesties Officers their Clerks or Deputies on pain of payment of treble Damages to the Party grieved with Costs of Suit and the Officer demanding any such Fee shall lose his place And if any undue preference be made in point of Registry or Payment the Party offending shall be liable by Action of Debt or of the Case to pay the value of the Debt Damages and Costs to the Party grieved and shall be fore-judged his Place or Office XLVIII If several Tallies of Loan or Orders for payment bear date or be brought the same day to the Auditor of the Receipt it shall be no undue preference which he enters first so he enters all the same day XLIX Nor shall it be interpreted any undue preference if the Auditor direct and the Clerk of the Pells record and Tellers pay subsequent Orders of persons that come and demand their money and bring their Orders before others that do not come to demand theirs so as there be so much money left as will satisfie precedent Orders L. Moneys due by virtue of this Act After Order entred in the Register may by Endorsement of the Order be assigned and transferred and the Assignee may in like manner assign and so toties quoties But such Endorsement must be notified in the Office of the Auditor of Receipt and an Entry or Memorandum made thereof in the Book of Register for Orders LI. Sat. 2. W. M. Sess 2. cap 5. The several Impositions and Duties upon Wines and Vinegar granted by an Act made in the 1st year of the late King James II. shall be continued from the 23th of June 1693. until the 24th of June 1696.
and the said Act and all Clauses therein shall be of force until the said 24th of June 1696. LII And the Rates and Duties for all sorts of Tobacco granted by an Act made in the 1st year of the said K. James shall be continued in like manner And the said last mentioned Act shall be of force till then LIII Provided that this Act shall not extend to repeal or alter an Act made in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France LIV. It shall be lawful to advance as well upon the security of this Act as upon the security of the said two former Acts from and after the payment of the Sum of 600000 l. to the States General of the United Provinces any Sum or Sums of Money at the Interest of 8 l. per Cent. LV. All Monies c. as in Paragraph 47. LVI If several Tallies c. as in Paragraph 48. LVII Nor shall it be c. as in Paragraph 49. LVIII Moneys due c. as in Paragraph 50. LIX Nothing in this Act shall extend to defeat or obstruct the Provision made by an Act in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign for payment of Wages due to the Servants of the late K. Charles II. in such manner as by the said Act is directed LX. Stat. 4 5 W. M. c. 5. There shall be paid to Their Majesties over and above the Duties already payable LXI For every 100 l. value of Amber Beads imported after the 1st day of March 1692. and before the 1st of March 1696. 20 l. for Amber rough 10 l. for every 100 l. value for Amber-Oyl 10 l. for every 100 l. value LXII For Anchovies the little Barrel not exceeding sixteen pounds of Fish for every 100 l. value 5 l. LXIII For Wood Weed or Sope-Ashes 6 s. the Last LXIV For Barbers Aprons and Cheques 8 d. the Piece LXV For every 100 weight of Battery Bashrones or Kettles containing 112 pounds 5 s. LXVI For every such 100 weight of Mettle prepared for Battery 5 s. LXVII For every such 100 weight of Books unbound 4 s. LXVIII For Lamp-black 20 l. for every 100 l. value LXXIX For Boutel Reins 10 l. for every 100 l. value LXX For every Gross of Bracelets or Neck laces of Glass 2 s. 6 d. LXXI For Brass wrought 5 l. for every 100 l. value LXXII For Buckrums 5 l. for every 100 l. value LXXIII For Hair-buttons 10 l. for every 100 l. value LXXIV For Bristles drest and undrest 5 l. for every 100 l. value LXXV For every pound of Bacon 4 d. LXXVI For Calves Skins 5 l. for every 100 l. value LXXVII For Carpets 5 l. for every 100 l. value LXXVIII For every Gross of Catlings and Lutestrings 18 d. LXXIX For Scotch Coals 5 l. for every 100 l. value LXXX For every 1000 of walking Canes 25 s. LXXXI For Canes called Rattans 5 s. the 1000. LXXXII For every 100 weight of Cast-Copper containing 112 pounds 7 s. 6 d. LXXXIII For every 100 weight of Copper part wrought or raised containing 112 pounds 12 s. 6 d. LXXXIV For every such 100 weight of Copper fully wrought 17 s. 6 d. LXXXV For Coral Beads and all polish'd Coral 20 l. for every 100 l. value LXXXVI For all Manufactures of Cotton only Except Dimity not brought from East-India or China 5 l. for every 100 l. value LXXXVII For every 100 l. value of Couries 10 l. LXXXVIII For Elephants Teeth 10 l. for every 100 l. value LXXXIX For Flax rough 5 l. for every 100 l. value XC For Flax dressed or wrought 15 l. for every 100 l. value XCI For every 100 l. value of Tow 5 l. XCII For every Yard of Flannel 2 d. XCIII For every Yard of Frieze 3 d. 2 q. XCIV For every 100 l. value of Furs 5 l. XCV For Gold and Silver Thread and Wire 5 l. for every 100 l. value XCVI For every pound of Goats Hair called Carmenia Wooll 4 d. XCVII For every pound of Goats Hair of any other sort 2 d. XCVIII For Hides of all sorts drest and underst except Buff and Losh 5 l. for every 100 l. value XCIX For every Buff-hide 2 s. C. For every Losh-hide 1 s. CI. For Hemp rough 5 l. for every 100 l. value CII For Jewels and pretious Stones 20 s. for every 100 l. value upon the Importer's Oath in lieu of all Duties now payable for the same CIII For every pound of Indico of foreign Plantation not being of the Growth of any the Dominions or Plantations belonging to the Crown of England 4 d. CIV For every pound of Indico of the Growth of our own Plantations 2 d. CV For all Iron Iron-pots Kettles c. and all other Iron Wares imported from Ireland the same Duties as are laid on Iron and Iron Wares imported from any foreign Part by an Act of the Second Year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods and Manufactures c. CVI. For Latten shaven black Latten and round Bottoms 10 l. for every 100 l. value CVII For Leather of all sorts 5 l. for every 100 l. value CVIII For all Lime and Lemmon-Juice 20 l. for every 100 l. value CIX For Litmus 5 l. for every 100 l. value CX For all Lapis Calaminaris 20 s. for every Tun. CXI For Madder 5 l. for every 100 l. value CXII For Orchal 5 l. for every 100 l. value CXIII For Pintadoes not brought from East-India or China 5 l. for every 100 l. value CXIV For Pitch not being of the Product of the Dominions or Plantations of the Crown of England or Scotland one Moiety more then is charged in the Book of Rates CXV For all sorts of Plate of Silver gilt or ungilt 5 l. for every 100 l. value CXVI For Rice 5 l. for every 100 l. value CXVII For Rosin except French Rosin not being of the Product or Plantations belonging to the Crown of England or Scotland 10 l. for every 100 l. value CXVIII For every Weight of Salt except such as shall be used in curing Fish 5 s. CXIX For Silk thrown of all sorts in the Gum 5 l. for every 100 l. value CXX For every pound of Silk wrought other then Alamodes and Lutestrings 2 s. more then the same is already charged in the Book of Rates or by an Act in the Second year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods c. CXXI For Silk-ferret or Floret one Moiety more then the same is charged with in the Book of Rates CXXII For Skins of all sorts 5 l. for every 100 l. value CXXIII For all Tarr not being of the Product of the Dominions or Plantations belonging to the Crown of England or Scotland one Moiety more then is charged in the Book of Rates CXXIV For Ticks and Tickings except Scottish 5
Heirs and Successors and shall not be charged or chargeable with any Gift Grant or Pension whatsoever The Lottery Act. I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 1. From and after the 25th day of March 1694. there shall be raised levied collected and paid unto their Majesties until the 17th day of May which shall be in the year 1697. and no longer for Salt the Rates and Duties following viz. II. Foreign Salt 3 d. per Gallon Three pence shall be paid by the Importer for every Gallon of Salt not being of the Product or Manufacture of this Kingdom that shall be imported after the said 25th of March over and above the present Duties now payable for Salt imported III. Forfeiture and how to be racovered The Duty hereby set on all foreign and imported Salt shall be paid in ready Mony upon Entry made before the landing and if any be landed before due entry with the Collector or before the Duty satisfied or without a Warrant for the landing the same first signed by the Collector in the Port the same or the value to be forfeited and to be recovered in such manner as any Forfeiture is to be recovered mentioned in an Act of 12 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for the taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite Allowance for payment in ready Mony c. or by any other Statute now in force relating to the Revenue of Excise Nevertheless such Importer of Foreign Salt shall have six months time for the payment giving security to the Collector but if he pay ready Mony he shall have 10 l. per Cent. abated IV. Inland Salt 1 d ob per Gallon Every Gallon of Salt and Rock-Salt made within this Kingdom shall pay one peny half-peny and after that rate for a greater or lesser quantity V. Duties by whom to be managed The Duties upon Salt shall be managed by the Commissioners of the Excise and the Collectors shall be appointed under their Hands and Seals VI. All Makers and Proprietors of Salt and Rock-Salt shall make true Entries with the Officers hereby appointed of the Quantities of Salt by them made or taken out of the Pits and shall have a Warrant gratis under the Hand and Seal of the Officer impowering such Maker or Proprietor to carry away the same before it shall be removed Allowance for present payment of Inlandy Salt the said Warrant to be given upon payment or security of payment within six months after such entry Provided if any Person at the time of entry and delivery shall pay down the Duty hereby imposed he shall be allowed at the rate of 10 l. per Cent. VII It shall be lawful for the Officers by this Act appointed to seize all such Salt which shall be conveyed away before entry made without Warrant of the Commissioners or other Collectors And the Salt that shall be so seized Seizure for default of Entry shall be brought to the Office next the place where such Salt shall be so seized and there detained And if the same be not claimed by the true Owner within ten days after seizure it shall be forfeited and sold by the next general day of Sale to be appointed by the Commissioners or their Officers one moiety to the use of their Majesties the other to him that seized the same And if the Owner shall claim the same within ten days and shall not make it appear before the next Justice of Peace in the County where such seizure was by the Oath of one or more Witnesses that the Salt was duly entred and that there was a Warrant for carrying away the same then it shall be forfeited and disposed as aforesaid and he that carried or caused it to be conveyed away shall forfeit double the value VIII Retailer shipping off Salt No Retailer shall be permitted to ship off any Salt to be sent to any Port in England or Wales or to Berwick before he hath made it appear by Oath or otherwise before the Commissioners or their Officers or some or one of them that the Duty of such Salt is paid or secured or that it was bought of some other Retailer or Shop-keeper that hath paid the Duty IX Masters of Ships Duty for transporting Salt from one Port to another in this Kingdom The Master and Commander of any Ship or Vessel that shall after the 25th day of March aforesaid transport any Salt from one Port to another in England Wales or Berwick shall before landing it deliver to the Collector of this Duty in the said Port a true particular of the quantity thereof signed by the Collectors of this Duty and the Officers of the Customs in that Port from whence the Vessel came and that then the Master or his Mate or the Boat-swain of such Ship or Vessel shall make Oath before the Commissioners or their Officers or one of them that to his knowledge there hath not been taken into the said Ship any Salt since he or they came from such Port and if such Ship be to deliver her Salt part at one Port and part at another then the Collectors of this Duty and the Officers of the Customs where such part shall be delivered shall gratis certifie on the Cocket Transire or other Warrant or by Certificate under Hand and Seal of the Officer what quantity of the Salt mentioned in the Cocket whence such Ship came hath been there landed upon forfeiture of double the value of the Salt that shall be otherwise delivered X. For all such Fish hereafter mentioned as shall be exported during the continuance of the Duty upon Salt by this Act from any Port or Place in England Wales and Berwick into Parts beyond the Seas shall be paid these Rates viz. Â l. s. s. Every Vessel of Pilchards or Scads containing 50 Gallons 00 12 00 Duties upon Fish exported beyond Sea Every Barrel of White Herrings 00 02 06 Every Barrel of Red Herrings 00 02 00 Every Barrel of Salmon 00 05 00 Every Hundred of Cod-fish Ling Conger or Hake 00 15 00 And so proportionably for a greater or smaller number or quantity How and by whom to be paid shall be paid by the Officer appointed to collect the Duties upon Salt payable by this Act in the same Port from whence any such Fish shall be exported within thirty days after demand thereof on a Debenture to be prepared by the Collector of the Customs where such Fish shall be exported and verified by the Searcher there as to the quantity of Fish actually shipped and the Oath of the Exporter shall be first taken before the principal Officer of the said Port The Exporters Oath to be taken before the Debenture be allowed that the Fish in really exported to Parts beyond Seas and not intended to be relanded in England Wales or Berwick And if the Officer have not Mony in his Hands to pay the same then upon