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authority_n	act_n	aforesaid_a	enact_v	4,002	5	10.0897	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74298	An act declaring the grounds and causes of making prize the ships and goods that shall be taken from time to time by the Parliaments ships at sea, and for the encouragement of officers, mariners and seamen. Die Martis, 17 April, 1649. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this act be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliament'.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.	1649 (1649)	Thomason E1060_21; ESTC R208579	10,653	20

several and particular cases which they for their necessary preservation and other the weighty reasons aforesaid do Declare and Ordain to be just causes of seizure and adjudication for lawful prize together also with the other clauses and regulations hereafter in this Act set forth It is therefore Established Ordained and Enacted and be it Enacted by this present Parliament and by the authority of the same That it shall and may be lawful as well for any of the Parliament ships or other ships or vessels whatsoever set out or to be set out or employed by them in their service as also for any other ships vessels or private Men of War approved or to be approved thereto by the immediate authority of the Parliament or by the Councel of State established by Parliament to seize surprize and take not onely all and every the Revolted shipes that have treacherously betrayed their Trust and made defection from the Parliament but also all such other ships or vessels whatsoever and all the Ordnance Ammunition Provisions Victuals Wares Merchandizes and Goods whatsoever in the same ships or vessels belonging to any Foreigner or other person whatsoever that have or shall associate or joyn with the revolted ships or any of them or carry them any Arms Ammunition Victuals or Provisions or shall yield them any assistance against the Parliament and also all other ships and vessels whatsoever of this or any Foreign Nation whatsoever with all the Ordnance Ammunition Provisions and Goods whatsoever therein to be found which shal accept receive or take any Commission or Commissions or Letters of Marque or other authority from or under Charls Stuart son to the late deceased King of England or any other Son of the said late deceased King or from or under Prince Rupert calling himself Prince Palatine and also all the ships vessels and goods Commanders and Soldiers of the said Charls Stuart Son to the said late deceased King and of the said Prince Rupert and both and either of them And also all other ships and vessels with the Ordnance Ammunition Victuals Provisions Goods Wares and Merchandizes whatsoever of any of the people of these Nations or any Foraign Nation whatsoever therein carrying any maner of Contrabanda goods that shall be met withal in any port or place or inwards or outwards bound from any port or place within the Dominions of England and Ireland or Wales being or that then shall be in Hostility against the Parliament or that shall be found Trading or within the space of six moneths before the seizure to have Traded in the time of their defection within any such port or place aforesaid being as aforesaid in Defection or Hostility against the Parliament And also all the Ships Vessels Arms Ammunition and Goods whatsoever of any persons Foreigners of what Foreign Nation soever or other persons whatsoever which shall be going to any port or place then being in Hostility against the Parliament with Soldiers or Arms Ammunition or other Contrabanda goods for supply or assistance of any Forces raised or to be raised against the Parliament or which shall be designed sent or ordered to carry transport or bring any Commanders Soldiers Forces Arms or Ammunition into England to the disturbance of the Peace or prejudice thereof and also all the ships vessels provisions and goods of what kinde soever belonging to any Rebel or Rebels in Ireland All which and every of the particulars aforesaid shall be and shall in the High Court of Admiralty of England upon due proof and according to legal course in that case be adjudged and condemned for lawful prize And for that Ireland hath of long time been and still is dependant of England and subject to such Laws Orders Regulements and Constitutions as are or shall be made by the Parliament of England and for that not onely divers provinces ports and places in Ireland but even the province of Munster it self with all the ports and places under the command of the Lord Inchiquin have lately treacherously betrayed the trust reposed in them by the Parliament of England and made defection and Rebelled and are in rei veritate and so by the Laws of Nations ought to be accompted to be notorious Rebels that ought not to hold any maner of correspondency abroad nor to enjoy the liberty of commerce or traffique And for that the Parliament doth speedily intend by the assistance of God to use all lawful and just means for their suppression and punishment of their said Rebellion and reduction of all those ports provinces and places in Ireland to fidelity and due obedience and for the Reasons aforesaid doth declare and manifest That they prohibite and forbid all maner of Commerce Traffique and correspondency whatsoever to be used or held with any of the said Rebels in Ireland or within any of the Provinces Ports Harbors Rivers or places of Ireland in the possession or under the power of the Rebels to the Parliament of England Be it therefore further Enacted by this present Parliament and by the authority of the same that it shall and may be lawful to any of the Fleet or ships set forth or to be set forth or imployed by or under the Parliament or any private Men of War or ships to be allowed or approved by the immediate power of Parliament or the Councel of State established by Parliament To seize surprize take all and all maner of ships vessels and goods of what nature or kinde soever belonging to all persons whatsoever whether Foreign or other which shall be found or met withal in any Port Harbor Creek River or place in Ireland being in the possession of the said Rebels of Ireland or any of them or under their power and command or being in hostility against the Parliament of England and also all ships vessels and goods of what Nation soever that shal be going to or coming from any such port harbor or place in Ireland in the hands or possession of the said Rebels or any of them or in hostility against the Parliament of England as aforesaid And be it likewise Enacted by the authority aforesaid That whatsoever prize or prizes shall be so seized surprized or taken in all or any of the cases aforesaid by vertue of this Act shall be safely preserved and kept without pillaging spoiling imbezling or in any sort breaking of bulk until after judgement shall be given concerning the same in the High Court of Admiralty of England And that no Captain or any other officers or Mariners that shall so take such prize or prizes shall break bulk nor imbezle nor suffer to be imbezled purloined taken or stoln away any of the Tackles Apparel Furniture or Goods of or in any of the said ships or vessels so taken as prize but shall cause the same entire to be brought into some English Port where the same shall be secured by the chief Magistrate of that Port or such as he shal imploy for that purpose