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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09017	Anno regni Gulielmi et Mariæ, regis & reginæ Anglia, Scotia, Francia & Hibernia, tertio at the Parliament begun at Westminster the twentieth day of March, Anno Dom. 1689, in the second year of the reign of our sovereign Lord and Lady, William and Mary by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, king and queen, defenders of the faith, &c., and from thence continued by several prorogations and adjournments to the two and twentieth day of October, 1691 being the third session of this present parliament.	England and Wales. Laws, statutes, etc.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary).	1691 (1691)	Wing E1037E; ESTC R223324	6,170	20

Anno Regni GULIELMI ET MARIAE REGIS REGINAE Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae TERTIO At the Parliament begun at Westminster the Twentieth Day of March Anno Dom. 1689. In the Second Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord and Lady WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King and Queen Defenders of the Faith c. And from thence Continued by several Prorogations and Adjournments to the Two and twentieth Day of October 1691. being the Third Session of this present Parliament DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE LONDON Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb Deceas'd Printers to the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties MDCXCI Anno Tertio GULIELMI MARIAE An ACT for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for One Year Most Gracious Sovereigns WE Your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons in Parliament Assembled having entred into a serious Consideration of the Extraordinary Expences in which Your Majesties are Engaged for the necessary Defence of Your Realms and for the Effectual carrying on the War against France and being desirous to raise Aids and Supplies proportionable to the greatness of the Occasions have towards the Ends and Purposes aforesaid found it Expedient to Grant for One other Year certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors And have Vnanimously Given and Granted and do hereby Give and Grant unto Your Majesties the several Additional Rates Duties and Charges upon Beér Ale and other Liquors herein after Expressed and do most humbly beseech Your Majesties that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the King and Queéns most Excellent Majesties by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That from and after the Seventeénth Day of November in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and ninety one there shall be throughout this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed Raised Levied Collected and Paid unto Their Majesties and Their Successors during the Space and Term of One Year commencing from the Seventeénth Day of November aforesaid and no longer for Beér Ale Cyder and other Liquors Brewed Made Imported or Sold by way of Excise over and above all other Duties Charges and Impositions by any former Act or Acts Set and Imposed the several Duties Charges and Impositions herein after mentioned and in manner and form following that is to say For every Barrel of Beér or Ale above Six shillings the Barrel which from and after the said Seventeénth Day of November and before the Five and twentieth day of July One thousand six hundred and ninety two shall be Brewed by the Common Brewer or any other Person who doth or shall Sell or Tap out Beér or Ale Publickly or Privately or at Fairs Wakes Chutes Bydrinkings or otherwise to be paid by the Common Brewer or such other Person or Persons respectively and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity One shilling Nine pence And for every Barrel of such Beér or Ale Brewed on or after the said Five and twentieth Day of July and before the Eighteénth Day of November One thousand six hundred and ninety two Two shillings Six pence For every Barrel of Beér or Ale of Six Shillings the Barrel or under which from and after the said Seventeenth day of November and before the Five and twentieth day of July One thousand six hundred and ninety two shall be Brewed by the Common Brewer or any other Person or Persons who doth or shall Sell or Tap out Beér or Ale Publickly or Privately to be Paid by the said Common Brewer or by such other Person or Persons respectively as aforesaid and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity Threé pence And for every Barrel of such Beér or Ale Brewed on or after the said Four and twentieth day of July and before the said Eighteenth day of November One thousand six hundred ninety two Six pence And for every Barrel of Vinegar or Vinegar-Beér Brewed or Made on or after the said Five and twentieth day of July and before the said Eighteenth day of November One thousand six hundred ninety two of any English Materials by any Common Brewer or Vinegar Maker or other Persons for Sale to be Paid by the Maker thereof and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity One shilling For every Barrel of Beér Ale or Munt Imported After the said Seventeénth day of November and before the said Five and twentieth day of July from beyond the Seas or from the Islands of Guernsey or Jersey and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity to be Paid by the Importers before Landing Threé shillings And for every Barrel of such Beér Ale or Mum Imported on or after the said Five and twentieth day of July and before the said Eighteenth day of November One thousand six hundred ninety two Six shillings For every Tun of Cyder or Perry Imported on or after the said Five and twentieth day of July and before the said Eighteenth day of November One thousand six hundred ninety two from beyond the Seas and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity to be Paid by the Importer before Landing Ten shillings For every Hogshead of Cyder and Perry Made and Sold by Retail after the said Seventeénth day of November and before the said Five and twentieth day of July One thousand six hundred and ninety two to be Paid by the Retailer thereof One shilling Three pence and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Measure And for every Hogshead of Cyder and Perry Made and Sold as aforesaid on or after the said Five and twentieth day of July One thousand six hundred ninety and two and before the said Eighteénth day of November One thousand six hundred ninety and two Two shillings Six pence and so proportionably for any greater or lesser Measure For all Metheglin or Mead made for Sale whether by Retail or otherwise on or after the said Five and twentieth day of July and before the said Eighteénth day of November One thousand six hundred ninety and two to be Paid by the Maker for every Gallon One penny And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the several Rates and Duties of Excise hereby Imposed on the Liquors aforesaid shall be Raised Levyed Collected Recovered and Paid unto Their Majesties and Their Successors during the term before mentioned and in the same Manner and Form and by such Rules Deductions Allowances Ways and Means and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as are mentioned Expressed and Directed in and by one Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth Year of the late King Charles the Second Entituled A Grant of certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for the Increase of His Majesties Revenue

during His Life And one other Act made in the said Twelfth year of the Reign of the said late Kings Charles the Second Entituled An Act for Taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite and by Knight Service and Purveyance and for Settling a Revenue upon His Majesty in lieu thereof And also in and by one other Act of Parliament made in the Fifteenth year of His said late Majesties Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of Excise and preventing the Abuses therein or in one Act of Parliament made in the First year of the Reign of Their present Majesties Entituled An Act for an Additional Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors or by any Law now in Force Relating to the Revenue of Excise And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Persons who do or shall usually Entertain or Lodge any Waggoners Carriers Strangers or Wayfaring Men shall be taken and esteemed Retailers within the meaning of this Act. And that Their Majesties may not be prevented of the Duties hereby Granted by any Frauds or Practices to lessen the same Be it further Enacted That no Person or Persons Except Victuallers Retailers and Common Brewers Inhabiting in any Market Town or in any City or Suburbs of the same or in any Town Corporate or in parts Adjoyning to any City or Suburbs Town Corporate or Market Town where there is or shall be a Common Brewer or Brewers Brewing Making or Selling Strong Beér or Ale and Small Beer who within the space of One year next before the Seventeenth of November in the Year One thousand six hundred and ninety did not Brew or Make the Strong Beer Small Beer or Ale Drunk Consumed Spent or Sold in his or their respective Houses Out-houses or other places shall not during the Term aforesaid Brew or Make any Strong Beer Strong Ale Small Beer or Ale to be Drunk Consumed or Spent in his or their respective Houses or Families under pain to Forfeit for every such Offence Twenty pounds Provided That in case any Person within the space of a year before the said Seventeenth Day of November One thousand six hundred and ninety did usually Brew the Strong Beer Small Beer and Ale Drunk and Spent in the House or Houses where he and his Family have Inhabited for the use of himself and his Family and shall remove his Family to any other House It shall and may be Lawful to and for such Person to Brew his own Ale or Beer as he did before and not be liable to the said Penalty And be it further Enacted That it shall and may be Lawful to and for the Commissioners of Excise and Iustices of Peace respectively upon any Information exhibited before them for any Offence committed against the Laws of Excise to Summon any Person or Persons other then the Party or Parties Accused to Appear before them at a certain day time and place to be inserted in such Summons and to give Evidence for Discovery of the matter in Controversie before them and in case of Neglect or Refusal to Appear or if upon Appearance such Person or Persons shall refuse to give Evidence when he shall be thereunto required Every such Person so making Default shall Forfeit and Lose for every such Offence any Sum or Sums of Money not exceéding Fourty shillings to be Imposed Recovered Levied and Disposed in manner as herein after is mentioned And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Fines Penalties and Forfeitures by this Act Imposed shall be Sued for Recovered and Levied by such Ways Means and Methods as any other Fine Penalty or Forfeiture is or may be Recovered by any Law or Laws of Excise or by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of Their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster And that one Moiety of such Forfeiture or Penalty shall be to Their Majesties Their Heirs and Successors and the other Moiety to him or them that shall Discover Inform or Sue for the same Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That upon any Person or Persons Exporting any sort of Strong Beer Strong Ale Cyder or Mum according to the true intent and meaning and pursuant to the Directions of an Act made in the First Year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for the Exportation of Beer Ale Cyder and Mum The Commissioners and Officers of Excise where the Entry thereof shall be made are required to make Allowance or Repay as well the Additional Duty of Excise by this Act Imposed upon all such Beer Ale Cyder and Mum as the Duty in the said Act mentioned unto the Brewer or Maker thereof within One Month after such Exportation deducting the Three pence per Tun for the Charges of their Officers by the said before mentioned Act directed to be deducted And to the end Their Majesties may be duly answered the Rates and Duties hereby Granted and intended in the Proportions designed Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Brewer or Victualler who doth or shall Sell and Deliver Beer or Ale to any of their Customers in Cask do or shall without giving Notice to the Supervisor or Gauger Appointed for the Place and Division where such Brewer or Victualler doth or shall Inhabit Cleanse Carry off or convey away any part of his or their Guile of Beér or Ale before the whole of such Guile shall be Brewed off and be in the Tuns Backs or Coolers and until such Officers shall or might have taken an Account of the same and of the distinct Qualities thereof in their respective Vessels At which time the Brewer or Victualler or his or their Servants working the same in case he or they intend to make a party Guile thereof shall declare to such Gauger or Officer how much thereof he intends to make into Strong Beér or Strong Ale and how much into Small upon Penalty of Forfeiting Twenty shillings for every Barrel of Beér Ale or Worts he shall so Cleanse Carry off or Convey away over and above the Penalties already Imposed for Conveying away or Concealing Beer or Ale And in case such Brewer or Victualler or their respective Servants Brewing such Beer or Ale shall refuse to Declare to such Officers how much of their Guile or Brewing they intend to make into Strong Beer or Ale and how much into Small It shall be Lawful for such Officer to Return and Charge the whole of such Guile to be Strong and such Brewer or Victualler shall Pay the Duties thereof accordingly And in case after such Gauge taken or Declaration made such Brewer or Victualler shall make any Increase of the Strong Drink so Gauged or Declared by any ways or means whatsoever such Increase shall be Deémed and Taken to be and proceed from mixing Small Beer with such Strong Beer or Ale and such Brewer or Victualler shall Forfeit Twenty shillings for