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A82435	Anno Regni Caroli II. Regis Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, duodecimo. At the Parliament begun at Westminster, the five and twentieth day of April, an. Dom. 1660 In the twelfth year of the reign of our most gracious soveraign lord Charles, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); England and Wales. Parliament.	1661 (1661)	Wing E1095; Thomason E1075_27	58,399	149

the said Post-master General shall forfeit the summ of One hnndred pounds Sterling The one moiety to his Majestie his Heirs and Successors and the other moiety to him or them who shall sue for the same in any Court of Record to be recovered by Bill plaint or other Information wherein no Essoign Protection or other Wager in Law shall be allowed Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons shall be capable of having using or exercising the Office of Post-master General or any other imployment relating to the said Office unless he or they shall first take the Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy before any two Iustices of the Peace of the respective Counties wherein such person or persons are or shall be resident which said Iustices are hereby authorized to administer the said Oathes accordingly Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That a Letter or pacquet-post shall twice every week come by the way of Trurow and Penrin to the Town of Ma●ketiew alias Marhasion in the County of Cornwall and once a week to Kendal by the way of Lancaster and to the town of Penrith in Cumberland by the way of Newcastle and Carssile and to the City of Lincoln and the Burrough of Grimoby in the County of Lincolne Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such Post-master Generall to be from time to time appointed by his Majesty His Heirs and Successors as aforesaid shall continue constant posts for carriage of Letters to all places though they lie out of the post-Roads as hath been used for the space of three years last past at the rates herein before mentioned under pain of forfeiture for every omission Five pounds to be recovered by Action suite or plaint in any his Majesties Courts of Record the one moiety to the use of his Majesty the other moeity to the use of the Informer And for the better management of the said Post-Office and that the people of these Kingdomes may have their intercourse of Commerce and Trade the better maintained and their Letters and Advises conveyed carried recarried with the greatest speed security and convenience that may be Be it further Enacted That the said Post-Master General so nominated appointed and constituted as aforesaid and his Deputies shall from time to time observe and follow such Orders Rules Directions and Instructions for and concerning the settlement of convenient Posts and Stages upon the several Roads in England Scotland and Ireland and other his Majesties Dominions and the providing and keeping of a sufficient Number of Horses at the said several Stages as well for the carrying and conveying of the said Letters and Pacquets as for the Horsing of all Thorow-Posts and persons Riding in Post by Warrant or otherwise as aforesaid as his Majestie his Heires and Successors shall from time to time in that behalf make and ordaine And that his Majesty his Heires and Successors may grant the said Office of Post-Master General together with the powers and Authorities thereunto belonging the several Rates of Portage above mentioned and all profits priviledges fees perquisites Emoluments thereunto belonging or to belong either for Life or Term of Years not exceeding One and twenty Years to such person or persons and under such Covenants Conditions and Yearly Rents to his said Majesty his Heires and Successors reserved as His said Majesty His Heirs and Successors shall from time to time think fit for the best advantage and benefit of the Kingdome Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Athority aforesaid That no person shall have power to take use or seize any Horses for the service mentioned in this Act without the consent of the Owners thereof Any usage or pretence or any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Inland letters sent by any Packet-post established by this Act as aforesaid do and shall pay the rates and prices before mentioned at such Stage where they are last delivered only unless the party that delivers the Letters desireth to pay elswhere Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always That all Letters and other things may be sent or conveyed to or from the two Vniversities in manner as heretofore hath been used Any thing herein to the contrary notwithstanding Anno XII CAROLI IJ. Regis An Act impowering the Master of the Rolls for the time being to make Leases for years in order to new Build the old Houses belonging to the Rolls WHereas the Mansion-House Ground and Tenements with the Appurtenances belonging to the Master of the Rolls as Master of the Rolls are much out of Repair and not capable of Improvement in regard the former Masters of the Rolls were not enabled to grant such Leases and for such Terms as might encourage Tenants to Build and to Repair Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Master of the Rolls for the time being and his Successors Masters of the Rolls shall have good right full power and lawful Authority during the time he or they shall continue Master of the Rolls by writing indented under Hand and Seal to Grant and make Leases for one and forty years or for any lesser term to commence from the making of any such Leases of all and singular the Premisses or any part thereof the Chappel of the Rolls with a convenient Mansion-house Court Yard Garden Stable Coach-house and other Our-houses and Buildings fit for the use and habitation of the Master of the Rolles onely excepted which Lease and Leases so to be made shall be good and effectuall in Law to all intents and purposes as if such Master of the Rolls for the time being as shall so make the same had beén seized of the premisses of a good Estate in Feé simple Provided That in Leases where provision is made for new building of Houses or Tenements that the yearly Rent of Twenty shillings at the least shall be reserved upon every Lease of such a quantity of the said Premisses as shall be set out and Assigned by the Master of the Rolls for the time being for any one house or Tenement to be built upon And that in Leases where there is no provision for new building the like usual Rent that hath beén paid or reserved for the greater part of seven years now last past or more shall be yearly reserved Provided also That the Master of the Rolls for the time being or any succeéding Master of the Rolls after the Prenusses have beén once Letten according to the power given as abovesaid shall not grant or make any new or concurrent Lease untill within seven years of the expiration of the Lease then in being nor for any lesser Rent then was reserved upon the former Lease nor for any longer term then for the term of one and twenty years from the making of such new Lease Jo Browne Cleric Parliamentorum 1. AN Act for the restoring of Henry Lord Arundel of Warder to the possession of his estate 2. An Act for restitution of Thomas Earl of Arundel Surrey and Norfolk to the Dignity and Title of Duke of Norfolk 3. An Act to restore to Wentworth Earl of Roscomon of the Kingdom of Ireland all the Honors Castles Lordships Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Ireland whereof James Earl of Roscomon his Great-Grand Father or Iames Earl of Roscomon his Father c. 4. An Act for restoring of Sir George Hamilton unto his Lands and Estate in Ireland 5. An Act for maintenance of the Vicar for the time being of the Vicaridge of Royston in the Counties of Hertford and Cambridge and of his Successors Vicars of the said Vicaridge 6. An Act for enabling Sir William VVray to sell Lands for payment of his debts and raising of Portions for his younger Children 7. An Act for naturalizing of Gerrard Vanheuthusen Daniel Demetrius and others 8. An Act for enabling of Iohn Newton the younger and William Oakeley to make sale of Lands for payment of debts and raising of Portions c. 9. An Act for the levying of certain moneys due upon the collection for the Protestants of Piedmont 10. An Act for the Naturalization of John Boreell Esq Eldest Son of Sir William Borreell Knight and Baronet 11. An Act for the Naturalization of Abraham Watchtor born beyond the Seas 12. An Act for restoring of Sir Thomas Crimes Baronet to his Estate 13. An Act for enabling George Fawnt of Foston in the County of Leicester Esq to sell and conveigh part of his Lands for payment of several Debts and Legacies charged upon his Estate by Sir William Fawnt Knight deceased aud for the raising of Portions for his younger children and making his Wife a Joynture 14. An Act for Naturalizing Francis Hide and others 15. An Act to enable Joseph Micklethwaite an Infant and his Trustees to sell Lands for payment of his Fathers Debts 16. An Act for raising portions and making provision for maintenance for the younger children of Sir Edward Gostwicke 17. An Act for confirming the Sale of the Mannor of Hitcham sold to Charles Doe by Sir Iohn Clarke Knight and Baronet and for setling and disposing other the Lands of the said Sir Iohn Clarke and Dame Philadelphia his Wife 18. An Act for the setling of some of the Mannors and Lands of the Earl of Cleaveland in Trustees to be sold for the satisfying of the Debts of the said Earl and of Thomas Lord VVentworth his Son 19. An Act for the disappropriating of the Rectory appropriate of Preston uniting and consolidating of the said Rectory and of the Vicaridge of the Church of Preston and for assuring of the Advowson and right of Patronage of the same unto the Master Fellows and Scholars of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge and their Successors 20. An Act for making the Precinct of Covent Garden Parochial LONDON Printed by John Bill Printer to the KING ' s most Excellent MAJESTY 1660. At the KING'S Printing-House in Black-Fryars

Anno Regni CAROLI IJ. REGIS Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae DUO DECIMO At the Parliament begun at Westminster the Five and twentieth day of April An. Dom. 1660. In the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Our most Gracious Soveraign Lord CHARLES By the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. LONDON Printed by JOHN BILL Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1660. CUM PRIVILEGIO Anno XII CAROLI II. Regis An Act for the better ordering the selling of Wines by Retail and for preventing Abuses in the Mingling Corrupting and Vitiating of Wines and for setting and limiting the prices of the same FOr the better Ordering of Selling of Wines by Retail in Taverns and other places and for preventing of abuses therein Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the consent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That no person or persons whatsoever from and after the Five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty one unless he or they be authorised and enabled in manner and form as in this present Act is prescribed and appointed shall sell or utter by retail that is by the Pint Quart Pottle or Gallon or by any other greater or lesser retail measure any kinde of Wine or Wines to be drunk or spent within his or their Mansion-house or houses or other place in his or their tenure or occupation or without such Mansion-house or houses or such other place in his or their tenure or occupation by any colour craft or mean whatsoever upon pam to forfeit for every such offence the sum of Five pounds the one moyety of every such penalty to be to our Soveraign Lord the King the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of the Kings Courts of Record in which Action or Suit no Ess●ign Wager of Law or Protection shall be allowed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty His Heirs and Successors from time to time to issue out under His or their Great Seal of England one or more Commission or Commissions directed to two or more persons thereby authorizing them to Licence and give Authority to such person and persons as they shall think sit to sell and utter by retail all and every or any kinde of Wine or Wines whatsoever to be drunk and spent as well within the house or houses or other place in the tenure or occupation of the party so Licenced as without in any City Town or other place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town and Port of Berwick upon Twede and such persons as from time to time or at any time hereafter shall be by such Commission or Commissions as aforesaid in that behalf appointed shall have power and authority and hereby have power and authority to treat and contract for licence authority and dispensations to be given and granted to any person or persons for the selling and uttering of Wines by retail in any City Town or other place as aforesaid according to the rules and directions of this present Act and the true Intent and meaning thereof and not otherwise any Law Statute usage or custome to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such persons as shall be commissioned and appointed by his Majesty His Heirs or Successors as aforesaid shall be and be called His Majesties Agents for granting Licences for the selling and uttering of Wine by retail And his Majesties said Agents are hereby authorized and enabled under their Seal of Office the same to be appointed by his Majesty to grant Licence for the selling and uttering of Wines by retail to any person or persons and for any time or terme not exceeding One and Twenty years if such person and persons shall so long live and for such yearly rent as they can or shall agree and think fit so as no Fine be taken for the same But that the Rent and summs of Money agreed upon and reserved be payed and answered half yearly by equal portions during the whole Term. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such Licence shall not be given or granted but to such who shall personally use the Trade of selling or uttering of Wines by retail or to the Landlord and owner of the house where the person useing such Trade shall sell and utter Wine by retail nor shall the same be assignable nor in any wise beneficial or extensive to indempnifie any person against the penalties of this present Act except the first taker And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall may be lawful to and for his Majesty his Heirs Successors to constitute and appoint such and so many other Officers and Ministers as a Receiver Register Clerk Controller Messenger or the like for the better carrying on of this service as He and they shall think fit so as the Sallaries and Wages of all such Officers to be appointed together with the Sallary or Wages of His Majesties said Agents do not exceed six pence in the pound of the Revenue that shall hence arise And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Rents Revenues and sums of Money hence arising except what shall be allowed for the Wages and Sallaries of such Officers and Ministers which is not to exceed Six pence out of every Pound thereof shall be duly and constantly paid and answered into His Majesties Receipt of Exchequer and shall not be particularly charged or chargeable either before it be paid into the Exchequer or after with any Gift or Pension And His Majesties said Agents are hereby enjoyned and required to return into the Court of Exchequer every Michaelmas and Easter Terms upon their Oaths which Oaths the Barons of the Exchequer or any one of them are hereby authorized to administer a Book fairly written containing a true full account of what Licences have been granted the preceding half year and what Rents and sums of money are thereupon reserved and have been paid or are in arrear together with the Securities of the persons so in arrear to the end due and speedy Process may be made out according to the course of the Exchequer for the recovery of the same Provided always That this Act nor any thing therein contained shall not in any wise be prejudicial to the priviledge of the two Vniversities of the Land or either of them nor to the Chancellors or Scholars of the same or their successors but that they may use and enjoy such priviledges as heretofore they have lawfully used and enjoyed any thing herein to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend

or be prejudicial to the Master Wardens Freemen and Commonalty of the Mystery of V●●tners of the City of London or to any other City or Town-Corporate but that they may use and enjoy such Liberties and Priviledges as heretofore they have lawfully used and enjoyed any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not in any wise extend to debar or hinder the Major and Burgesses of the Burrough of St. Albans in the County of Hertford or their successors from enjoying using and exercising of all such Liberties Powers and Authorities to them heretofore granted by several Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England by Queen Elizabeth and King James of famous memories for the Erecting Appointing and Licensing of Three several Wine-Taverns within the Burrough aforesaid for and towards the maintenance of the Free-School there but that the same Liberties Powers and Authorities shall be and are hereby established and confirmed and shall remain and continue in and to the said Major and Burgesses and their successors to and for the Charitable use aforesaid and according to the tenor of the Letters Patents aforesaid as though this Act had never been made any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Provided also That it shall not nor may be lawful to or for any Officer or Officers to be appointed by His Majesty for the carrying on of this service to take demand or recei●e any Fees Rewards or summs of money whatsoever for or in respect of this Service other then Five shillings for a Licence Four pence for an Acquittance and Six pence for a Bond under the ●enalty of Ten pounds one moiety thereof to the Kings Majesty the other moiety to the person or persons who shall sue for the same by action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Wager of Law Essoign or Protection shall be allowed Any thing herein or any other matter or thing to the contrary notwithstanding And it is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Merchant Vintuer Wine-Cooper or other person selling or retailing any Wine shall mingle or utter any Spanish Wine mingled with any French Wine or Rh●●ish Wine Sider Perry Hony Sugar Syrops of Sugar Molasses or any other Syrops whatsoever nor put in any Isinglass Brimstone Lime Raisins Iuice of Raisins Water nor any other Liquor nor Ingredients nor any Clary or other herb nor any sort of Flesh whatsoever And that no Merchant Vintner Wine-Cooper or other person selling or retailing any Wine shall mingle or utter any French Wines mingled with any Rhinish Wines or Spanish Wines Sider Perry Stummed Wine Vitriol Hony Sugar Syrop of Sugar Molasses or any Syrops whatsoever nor put in any Isinglass Brimstone Lime Raisins Iuice of Raisins Water nor any other Liquor or Ingredients nor any Clary or other herb nor any sort of flesh whatsoever And that no Merchant Vintner Wine-Cooper or other person selling or retailing any Wine shall mingle or utter any R●inish Wine mingled with any French Wines or Spanish Wines Sider Perry Stummed Wine Vitriol Hony Sugar Syrops of Sugar Molasses or any other Syrops whatsoever nor put in any Isinglass Brimstone Lime Raisins Iuice of Raisins Water nor any other Liquor or Ingredients nor any Clary or other herb nor any sort of flesh whatsoever And that all and every person and persons committing any of the offences aforesaid shall incur the pains and penalties herein after mentioned That is to say Every Merchant Wine-Cooper or other person selling any sort of Wines in gross mingled or abused as aforesaid shall forfeit and lose for every such offence One hundred pounds And that every Vintner or other person selling any sorts of Wine by retail mingled or abused as aforesaid shall forfeit and lose for every such offence the sum of Forty pounds of which forfeitures one moyety shall go unto the Kings Majesty His Heirs and successors the other moyety to the Informer to be recovered in any Court of Record by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoigne Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed Provided always and be it Enacted That from and after the First day of September One thousand six hundred sixty and one no Canary Wines Muskie or Alegant or other Spanish or sweet Wines shall be sold or uttered by any person or persons within His Majesties Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Twede by retail for above Eighteen pence the quart And that no Gascoigne or French Wines whatsoever shall be sold by retail above Eight pence the quart And that no Rhinish Wines whatsoever shall be sold by retail above Twelve pence the quart And according to these Rates for a greater and lesser quantity all and every the said Wines shall and may be sold upon pain and penalty that every such person and persons who shall utter or sell any of the said Wines by retail that is to say by Pint Quart Pottle or Gallon or any other greater or lesser retail-measure at any rate exceeding the rates hereby limited do and shall forfeit for every such Pint Quart Pottle Gallon or other greater or lesser quantity so sold by retail the sum of Five pounds the one moyety of which forfeiture shall be to our Soveraign Lord the King His Heirs and successors and the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same to be recovered in manner and form as aforesaid Provided nevertheless That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Chancellor of England Lord Treasurer Lord President of the Kings Council Lord Privy Seal and the two Chief Iustices or Five Four or Three of them And they are hereby Authorized yearly and every year between the Twentieth day of November and the last day of December and no other times to set the Prises of all and every the said Wines to be sold by retail as aforesaid at higher or lower rates then are herein contained so that they or any of them cause the Prises by them set to be written and open Proclamation thereof to be made in the Kings Court of Chancery yearly in the Term time or else in the City Burrough or Towns Corporate where any such Wines shall be sold And that all and every the said wines shall and may be sold by retail at such Prises as by them or any Five Four or Three of them shall be set as aforesaid from time to time for the space of one whole year to commence from the First day of February next after the setting thereof and no longer and no greater prises under the pains and penalties aforesaid to be recovered as aforesaid and afterwards And in default of such setting of prises by the said Lord Chancellor of England Lord Treasurer Lord President of the Kings Council Lord Privy Seal and the Two Chief Iustices or Five

Act or any thing therein contained shall not be construed to take away any greater pains or penalties inflicted or to be inflicted for any the offences aforesaid by vertue of any former Act of Parliament now in force And be it also further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That every offence that shall be done or committed contrary to this Act shall and may be inquired of and heard examined tryed and determined in the County where such Sheep Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Wool-flocks Fullers-earth or Fulling-clay respectively shall be so packed loaden or laid aboard as aforesaid contrary to this Act or else in the County where such offenders shall happen to be apprehended or arrested for such offence in such manner and form and to such effect to all intents and purposes as if the same offence had been wholly and altogether done and committed at and in such County Provided alwaies and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid That no person or persons whatsoever shall at any time hereafter be impeached for any offence aforesaid unless such person or persons shall be prosecuted within the space of one year next ensuing such offence committed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull to and for any person or persons to seize take and challenge to his or their own use and behoof and to the use of the King his Heirs and Successors all and all manner such Sheep Wool Woolfels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks Fullers-earth and Fulling clay as he or they shall happen to see finde know or discover to be laid aboard in any Ship or other Vessel or Boat or to be brought carried or laid on shore at or near the Sea or any Navigable River or Water to the intent or purpose to be exported transported or conveyed out of the Kingdoms of England or Ireland Town of Berwick Isles or Dominion aforesaid contrary to the true meaning of this Act or to be packed or loaden upon any ●●orse Cart or other Carriage to the intent or purpose to be conveyed or carried into the Kingdome of Scotland aforesaid and that such person or persons as shall happen so to seize take or challenge any such Sheep Wooll Wool-fells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay as aforesaid shall have the full moiety thereof to all intents and purposes Provided alwayes That such person or persons as shall make any such seizure or Challenge as aforesaid to his or their own use shall not be admitted or allowed to give in Evidence upon his or their Oath or Oathes against any person or persons which shall happen to be indicted accused or questioned by vertue of this Act or any thing therein contained And furthermore be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Ship Vessel Hulke Barge or Boat of what kinde soever whereof any Alien born or whereof any naturall born Subjects not inhabiting within the Realm of England shall be owner or part owner and wherein any Sheep Wooll Wool-fells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Wooll-flocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay shall happen to be Shipped put or laid aboard contrary to the true meaning of this Act shall be forfeited to the Kings Majestie his Heirs and Successors Provided alwayes That this Act shall not extend to any Lamd skin ready drest and prepared fit and usefull for Furr or Lynings Provided also That this Act shall not in any wise extend to the transporting carrying or conveying away of any such Wool-fells or Pelts with such VVooll upon them or to any Beds stuffed with Flocks which shall be carryed or imployed in any Ship or other vessel for necessary use onely of and about the Ordnance or other thing in or concerning such Ship or Vessel or onely for the necessary use of any the persons in such Ship or Vessell passing or being and which shall not be sold or uttered in any Foreign parts out of the Kingdomes of England or Ireland or Town of Berwick Istes or Dominion aforesaid nor to the exporting transporting carrying or conveying of any Weather-sheep or of the VVooll growing upon any such VVeather-sheep to be carryed alive in any Ship or other Vessell for and towards the onely necessary food or diet of or for the Company or Passengers or other persons therein and for and towards none other purpose Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to any such Wooll to be exported or transported out of or from the Port of Southampton onely unto the aforesaid Isles of Jersey and Guernzey by or for the onely use or behoof of any the Inhabitants of the said Isles of Jersey and Guernzey or either of them or to any such VVooll to be shipped or loaden aboard in any ship or other vessel by or for the only use or behoof of any the Inhabitants of the said Isles of Jersey or Guernsey or either of them in the Port aforesaid to be exported and transported into the said Isles of Jersey or Guernzey or either of them so as such person and persons that shall so ship or lay aboard such Wooll into any ship or other vessel do before the shipping or laying aboard such VVooll deliver unto the Customer Comptroller Surveyor or Searcher of the Port of Southampton aforesaid out of which the same VVooll is to be exported a writing under the Seal or Seals of the respective Governors of the same Isles of Jersey and Guernzey unto which the said Wool is to be transported or of his or their Deputy or Deputies respectively the which writing shall purport and express that the party named in such writing is authorised and appointed to export or to cause to be exported out of the Port aforesaid so much Wooll expressing the number of the Tods to the same Isle to be used or manufactured in one of the same Isles or in some of the members or parts of the same and that such party so authorised and appointed to export or cause to be exported that Wool hath before the making and sealing of that writing entred sufficient Bond to his Majesties use for the landing of the said Wool in that Isle And to the intent that the quantity of Wooll to be exported out of the Port of Southampton aforesaid into the said Isles or either of them in any one year accompting the year to begin from the first day of January next ensuing and so yearly from the first day of January may not exceed the Quantity hereunder specified that is tosay unto the Isle of Jer●ey Two thousand Tods and no more of unkeamed Wool and unto Guernzey One thousand Tods and no more of unkeamed Wool and unto Alderny Two hundred Tods and no more of unkeamed Wool and unto Sarke One hundred Tods of unkeamed Wool and no more every Tod not exceeding thirty two pounds And be it enacted

employment of a very considerable part of its Shipping and Seamen and of the vent of very great quantities of its Native Commodities and Manufactures as also of its supply with several considerable Commodities which it was wont formerly to have onely from Forraigners and at far dearer Rates And forasmuch as Tobacco is one of the main products of several of those Plantations and upon which their welfare and subsistence and the Navigation of this Kingdom and vent of its Commodities thither do much depend and in regard it is found by experience That the Tobaccoes Planted in these parts are not so good and wholsome for the Takers thereof And that by the Planting thereof your Majesty is deprived of a considerable part of Your Revenue arising by Customes upon Imported Tobacco Do most humbly pray that it may be Enacted by your Majesty And it is hereby Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That no person or persons whatsoever shall or do from and after the first day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty Set Plant improve to grow make or cure any Tobacco either in Seed Plant or otherwise in or upon any Ground Earth Field or Place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or in the Kingdom of Ireland under the penalty of the Forfeiture of all such Tobacco or the value thereof and of the sum of forty shillings for every Rod or Pole of Ground to Planted Set or Sowen as aforesaid and so portionablely for a greater or 〈◊〉 quantity of Ground One Moyety thereof to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors And the other Moyety to him or them that shall Sue for the same to be recovered by Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed And it is hereby further Enacted That all Sheriffs Iustices of the Peace Maiors Bailiffs Contrables and every of them upon Information or Complaint made unto them or any of them by any the Officers of the Customes or by any other person or persons whatsoever That there is any Tobacco Set Sowen Planted or growing within their Iurisdictions or Precincts contrary to this Act shall within Ten days after such Information or Complaint cause to be burnt plucked up consumed or utterly destroyed all such Tobacco so Set Sowen Planted or Growing And it is hereby further Enacted That in case any person or persons shall resist or make forcible opposition against any person or persons in the due and through Execution of this Act that every such person or persons for every such offence shall forfeit the sum of five pounds to be divided and recovered in manner aforesaid And in case any person or persons shall not pay the sums of money by them to be paid by vertue of this Act That in every such case Destress shall be made and Sale thereof returning the Over-plus to the Owners And in case no Destress be to be found That then every such party shall be committed to the Common Gaol in the County where such Offence shall be committed there to remain for the space of two Moneths without Bail or Main-prize Provided always and it is hereby Enacted That this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to the hindring of the Planting of Tobacco in any Physick Garden of either University or in any other private Garden for Physick or Chirurgery onely so as the quantity so Planted exceed not one half of one Pole in any one place or Garden Anno XII CAROLI II. Regis An Act for erecting and establishing a Post-Office WHereas for the maintenance of mutual Correspondencies and prevention of many Inconveniences happening by private Posts severall publique Post-Offices have been heretofore erected for carrying and recarrying of Letters by Posts to and from all parts and places within England Scotland and Ireland and severall parts beyond the Seas the well-ordering whereof is a matter of general concernment and of great advantage as well for preservation of Trade and Commerce as otherwise To the end therefore that the same may be managed so that speedy and safe dispatches may be had which is most likely to be effected by ere●ting one general Post-Office for that purpose Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That there be from henceforth one general Letter-Office erected and established in some convenient place within the City of Lond●n from whence all Letters and Pacquets whatsoever may be with speed and expedition sent unto any part of the Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland or any other of his Majesties Dominions or unto any Kingdome or Countrey beyond the Seas at which said Office all Returns and Answers may be likewise received And that one Master of the said General Letter-Office shall be from time to time appointed by the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors to be made or constituted by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England by the name and style of his Majesties Post-Master Generall which said Master of the said Office and his Deputy and Deputies by him thereunto sufficiently authorised and his and their Servants and Agents and no other person or persons whatsoever shall from time to time have the receiving taking up ordering dispatching sending Post or with speed and delivering of all Letters Pacquets whatsoever which shall from time to time be sent to and from all and every the parts and places of England Scotland and Ireland and other his Majesties Dominions and to and from all and every the Kingdomes and Countreys beyond the Seas where he shall settle or cause to be setled Posts or running Messengers for that purpose Except such Letters as shall be sent by Coaches common known Carryers of Goods by Carts Waggons or Packhorses and shall be carried along with their Carts Waggons and Packhorses respectively And except Letters of Merchants and Masters which shall be sent by any Masters of any Ships Barques or other Vessel of Merchandize or by any other person imployed by them for the Carriage of such Letters aforesaid according to the respective directions And also except Letters to be sent by any private Friend or Friends in their wayes of journey or travel or by any Messenger or Messengers sent on purpose for or concerning the private affairs of any person or persons And also except Messengers who carry and recarry Commissions or the Return thereof Affidavits Writs Process or Proceedings or the Returnes thereof issuing out of any Court And be it furtther Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such Postmaster Generall for the time being as shall from time to time be made and constituted by His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the respective Deputies

s d Rouen Single o vi Double i o Treble i vi Ounce i vi     s d Paris Single o ix Double i vi Treble i iii Ounce i o     s d Dunkirk Ostend Lille Ipte Courtrey Gheandt Bruxells Bridges Antwerp all other parts of Flanders Single o viii Double i iv Treble ii o Ounce ii o     s d Sluis Flushing Middleburgh Amsterdā Roterdam Delph Hagh and from all other parts of Holland Zealand Single o viii Double i iv Treble ii o Ounce ii o Provided alwayes That all Mercha●●●● Accompts not exceeding one sheet of paper and all Bills of Exchange Invoyces and Bills of Lading are and shall hereby be understood to be allowed without Rate in the Price of the Letters and likewise the Covers of Letters not exceeding one fourth part of a sheet of Paper sent to Marseilles Venice or Ligorne to be sent forward to Turky shall be understood to be allowed to pass without Rate or payment for the same and according to the same Rates and proportions for the port of Letters Packquets parcels to or from any of the parts or places beyond the Seas where Posts have not been heretofore setled and may hereafter be setled by the said Post-Master General for the time being his Executors or Assignes And it shall and may be lawful to and for such Post-Master General his Deputy and Deputies to ask demand take and receive of every person that he or they shall furnish and provide with Horses Furniture and Guide to ride ost in any of the Post-roardes as aforesaid Three pence of English money for each Horses Hire or Postage for every English Mile and Foure pence for the Guide for every Stage And whereas upon the arrival of Ships from parts beyond the Seas into several Ports within his Majesties Dominions many Letters directed to several Merchants and others have been detained long to the great damage of the Merchants in want of that speedy advice and intelligence which they might have had if the same had been forthwith dispatched by the s●●●d posts and sometimes such Letters have been delivered by the Masters or Passengers of s●●h Ships to ignorant and loose hands that understand not the way and means of speedy conveyance and delivery of Letters whereby great prejudice hath accrued to the affairs of Merchants and others as well by the miscarryage of many Letters so brought as oftentimes by the opening of the same to the discovery of the correspondencies and secrets of the Merchant Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Letters and Pacquets that by any Master of any Ship or Vessel or any of his Company or any Passengers therein shall or may be brought to any Port-Town within his Majesties Dominions or any of the Members thereof other then such Letters as are before excepted or may be sent by common known Carriers in manner aforesaid or by a friend as aforesaid shall by such Master Passenger or other person be forthwith delivered unto the Deputy or Deputies only of the said Post-Master General for the time being by him appointed for the said Port-Town and by him or them to be sent Post unto the said General Post-Office to be delivered according to the several and respective directions of the same And be it further Enacted by the aforesaid Authority That no person or persons whatsoever or Body politick or Corporate other then such Post-Master General as shall from time to time be nominated and appointed by his Majesty his Heires or Successors and constituted by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England as aforesaid and his Deputy and Deputies or Affignes shall presume to carry recarry deliver Letters for Hi●e other then as before excepted or to set up or imploy any Foot-post Horse-post Coach-post or Pacquet-Boat whatsoever for the conveyance carrying and recarrying of any Letters or Pacquets by Sea or Land within his Majesties Dominions or shall provide and maintaine Horses and Furniture for the horsing of any Thorow-posts or persons riding in Post with a Guide and Horne as usuall for hire upon paine of forfeiting the summe of Five pounds of English money for every severall offence against the Tenor of this present Act And also of the forfeiture of the summe of One Hundred pounds of like English money for every weeks time that any Offender against this Act shall imploy maintaine and continue any such Foot-post Horse-post Coach-post or Pacquet-Boat as aforesaid which said several and respective Forfeitures shall and may be sued for and recovered by Action or Actions of Debt Plaint or Information in any of his Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Essoigne Priviledge protection or Wager of Law shall be admitted and the said several and respective Forfeitures that shall happen from time to time to be recovered shall be and remaine the one moiety thereof to his Majestie his Heires and Successors and the other moiety thereof to such person or persons who shall or will inform against the Offender or Offenders against this present Act and shall or will sue for the said Forfeitures upon the same Provided alwayes That if any Post-Master of any respective place doth not or cannot not furnish any person or persons riding in Post with sufficient Horses within the space of one half hour after demand That then such person or persons are hereby understood to be left at liberty to provide themselves as conveniently they can And the persons who shall furnish such horses shall not therefore be liable to any Penalties or Forfeitures contained in this Act. Provided alwayes That if through default or neglect of the Post-Master Generall aforesaid any person or persons riding in Post shall fail as aforesaid of being furnished with a sufficient Horse or Horses for his or their use after demand as aforesaid That in every such case the said Post-master Generall shall forfeit the summ of Five pounds sterling the one moiety to his Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other moiety to him or them who shall sue for the same in any Court of Record to be recovered by Bill plaint or other Information wherein no Essoigne Protection or other Wager in Law shall be admitted Provided alwayes and be it Enacted That nothing herein contained shall be understood to prohibit the carrying or recarrying of any Letters or pacquets to or from any Town or place to or from the next respective Post-road or Stage appointed for that purpose But that every person shall have free liberty to send and imploy such persons as they shall think fit for to carry the said Letters or Pacquets as aforesaid without any forfeiture or penalty therefore Any thing contained in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes That if the Pacquet or Maile shall be carried out of England into any part beyond the Seas in any Ship or Vessel which is not of English built and navigated with English Seamen That in every such case