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A84524 A collection of the statutes made in the reigns of King Charles the I. and King Charles the II. with the abridgment of such as stand repealed or expired. Continued after the method of Mr. Pulton. With notes of references, one to the other, as they now stand altered, enlarged or explained. To which also are added, the titles of all the statutes and private acts of Parliament passed by their said Majesties, untill this present year, MDCLXVII. With a table directing to the principal matters of the said statutes. By Tho: Manby of Lincolns-Inn, Esq.; Public General Acts. 1625-1667 England and Wales.; Manby, Thomas, of Lincolns-Inn. 1667 (1667) Wing E898; ESTC R232104 710,676 360

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thousand six hundred sixty one exercise the Trade or Occupation of a Merchant or Factor in any the said places upon pain of the Forfeiture and Loss of all his Goods and Chattels or which are in his possession one third to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors one third to the Governour of the Plantation where such person shall so offend and the other third to him or them that shall inform or sue for the same in any of his Majesties Courts in the Plantation where such offence shall be committed And all Governours of the said Lands Islands Plantations or Territories and every of them are hereby strictly required and commanded and all who hereafter shall be made Governours of any such Islands Plantations or Territories by his Maiesty his Heirs or Sucéessors shall before their entrance into their Government take a Solemn Oath to do their utmost that every the aforementioned clauses and all the matters and things therein contained Governors c. of Plantations to take an Oath for the observance of the aforementioned clauses shall be punctually and bona fide observed according to the true intent and meaning thereof And upon complaint and proof made before His Majesty his Heirs or Successors or such as shall be by Him or them thereunto authorized and appointed that any the said Governours have béen willingly and wittingly negligent in doing their Duty accordingly that the said Governour so offending shall be removed from his Government And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Goods or Commodities whatsoever of the growth production or manufacture of Africa Asia or America or of any part thereof or which are described or laid down in the usual Maps or Cards of those places be imported into England Ireland or Wales Islands of Guernsey and Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed in any other Ship or Ships Vessel or Vessels whatsoever but in such as do truly and without fraud belong only to the people of England or Ireland Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or of the Lands Islands Plantations or Territories in Asia Africa or America to His Majesty belonging as the proprietors and right owners thereof and whereof the Master and thrée Fourths at least of the Mariners are English under the penalty of the Forfeiture of all such Goods and Commodities and of the Ship or Vessel in which they were Imported with all her Guns Tackle Furniture Ammunition and apparel one Moyety to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them who shall seize inform or sue for the same in any Court of Record by Bill Information Plaint or other Action wherein no Essoin Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid No Goods of forreign groweth or manufacture shall be brought into England c. in English Ships but onely from the places of their said growth c. That no Goods or Commodities that are of forreign Growth Production or Manufacture and which are to be brought into England Ireland Wales the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed in English-built shipping or other shipping belonging to some of the aforesaid places and Navigated by English Mariners as abovesaid shall be shipped or brought from any other Place or Places Countrey or Countreys but onely from those of the said Growth Production or Manufacture or from those Ports where the said Goods and Commodities can onely or are or usually have béen first shipped for transportation and from none other Places or Countreys under the penalty of the Forfeiture of all such of the aforesaid Goods as shall be Imported from any other Place or Country contrary to the true intent and meaning hereof as also of the Ship in which they were Imported with all her Guns Furniture Ammunition Tackle and Apparel one Moyety to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that shall seize inform or sue for the same in any Court of Record to be recovered as is before exprest All ling stockfish c. oyl c. Whale ●ins c. imported not caught in vessels by the proprietors themselves c. shall pay double Aliens custom And it is further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That any sort of Ling Stockfish Pilchard or any other kind of dryed or salted fish usually fished for and caught by the People of England Ireland Wales Town of Barwick upon Tweed or any sort of Codfish or Herring or any Oyl or Blubber made or that shall be made of any kind of fish whatsoever or any Whale-fins or Whale-bones which shall be imported into England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed not having béen caught in Vessels truly properly belonging thereunto as Proprietors and right Owners thereof and the said Fish cured saved and dryed and the Oyl and Blubber aforesaid which shall be accompted and pay as oyl not made by the people thereof and shall be imported into England Ireland or Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed shall pay double Aliens custom No goods to be ●a●ed or carryed from one part of England to another in the vessel of any Alien not denizend c. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That from henceforth it shall not be lawfull to any person or persons whatsoever to Load or cause to be Loaden carried in any Bottom or Bottoms Ship or Ships Vessel or Vessels whatsoever whereof any Stranger or Strangers born unless such as be Denizens or Naturalized be Owners Part-owners or Master and whereof thrée fourths of the Mariners at least shall not be English any Fish Victual Wares Goods Commodities or things of what kind or Nature soever the same shall be from one Port or Créek of England Ireland Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed to another Port or Créek of the same The penalty or of any of them under penalty for every one that shall offend contrary to the true meaning of this branch of this present Act to forfeit all such goods as shall be loaden and carried in any such Ship or Vessel together with the Ship or Vessel and all her Guns Ammunition Tackle Furniture and Apparel one Moyety to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other Moyety to him or them that shall Inform Ease and abatement in the book of rates to extend only where three parts of the Marriners be English Seize or Sue for the same in any Court of Record to be recovered in manner aforesaid And it is further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That where any Ease Abatement or Priviledge is given in the Book of Rates to goods or Commodities Imported or Exported in English built Shipping that is to say shipping built in England Ireland Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or town of Berwick upon Tweed or in any the Lands Islands Dominions and
Collegiate Church within England and Wales shall at their proper costs and charges before the Twenty fifth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty two obtain under the Great Seal of England a true and perfect printed Copy of this Act and of the said Book annexed hereunto to be by the said Deans and Chapters and their Successors kept and preserved in safety for ever and to be also produced and shewed forth in any Court of Record as often as they shall be thereunto lawfully required And also there shall be delivered true and perfect Copies of this Act and of the same Book into the respective Courts at Westminster and into the Tower of London to be kept and preserved for ever among the Records of the said Courts and the Records of the Tower to be also produced and shewed forth in any Court as néed shall require which said Books so to be exemplified under the Great Seal of England shall be examined by such persons as the Kings Majesty shall appoint under the Great Seal of England for that purpose and shall be compared with the Original Book hereunto annexed and shall have power to correct and amend in writing any Error committed by the Printer in the Printing of the same Book or of any thing therein contained and shall certifie in writing under their Hands and Seals or the hands and seals of any thrée of them at the end of the same Book that they have examined and compared the same Book and find it to be a true and perfect Copy which said Books and every one of them so exemplified under the Great Seal of England as aforesaid shall be déemed taken adjudged and expounded to be good and available in the Law to all intents and purposes whatsoever and shall be accounted as good Records as this Book it self hereunto annexed Any Law or Custome to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for the Kings Professor of Law in Oxford Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be prejudicial or hurtful unto the Kings Professor of the Law within the Vniversity of Oxford for or concerning the Prebend of Shipton within the Cathedral Church of Sarum united and annexed unto the place of the same Kings Professor for the time being by the late King James of blessed memory Provided alwayes Proviso concerning the 3●th Article agreed in the Convocation Anno 1562. That whereas the Six and thirtieth Article of the Nine and thirty Articles agréed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy holden at London in the year of our Lord One thousand five hundred sixty two for the avoiding of diversities of Opinions and for establishing of consent touching true Religion is in these words following viz. That the Book of Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops and Ordaining of Priests and Deacons lately set forth in the time of King Edward the Sixth and confirmed at the same time by Authority of Parliament doth contain all things necessary to such Consecration and Ordaining neither hath it any thing that of it self is superstitious and ungodly And therefore whosoever are Consecrated or Ordered according to the Rites of that Book since the second year of the aforenamed King Edward unto this time or hereafter shall be Consecrated or Ordered according to the same Rites We decree all such to be rightly orderly and lawfully Consecrated and Ordered It be Enacted And be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Subscriptions hereafter to be had or made unto the said Articles by any Deacon Priest or Ecclesiastical person or other person whatsoever who by this Act or any other Law now in force is required to subscribe unto the said Articles shall be construed and be taken to extend and shall be applied for and touching the said Six and thirtieth Article unto the Book containing the form and manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons in this Act mentioned in such sort and manner as the same did heretofore extend unto the Book set forth in the time of King Edward the Sixth mentioned in the said Six and thirtieth Article Any thing in the said Article or in any Statute Act or Canon heretofore had or made to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided also That the Book of Common Prayer The Common Prayer used by Authority of Parliament 1. Eliz. to be used untill Bartholomew Day 1662. EXP. and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of this Church of England together with the form and manner of Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons heretofore in use and respectively established by Act of Parliament in the First and Eighth years of Quéen Elizabeth shall be still used and observed in the Church of England until the Feast of St. Bartholomew which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two EXP. as to this last Clause CAP. V. For Regulating the Making of Stuffs in Norfolk and Norwich WHereas divers abuses and deceipts have of late years béen had and used in the making of Worsteds and other Stuffs commonly called Norwich Stuffs and in the Réeling of Yarnes whereof the said Stuffs are either wholly or in part made which tends to the debasing of the said Manufacture unto the prejudice of the publique which said Trade of Weaving of Stuffs hath of late times béen very much increased and great variety of new sorts of Stuffs have béen invented 7 E. 4. cap. 1. so that the Power given by the Statute of the Seventh of Edward the Fourth Chapter the First is not sufficient for the Regulating of the same And that the number of the Wardens by the same Act appointed being but Eight are too few for the Governing and Ordering the same Trade by which means the same Manufacture will soon be lost if not prevented and carried into forreign Nations to the great diminution of His Majesties Customs and turning out of the work many thousands of poor people For prevention of which abuses deceipts and evils The number of Wardens and Assistants of Master Weavers in Norwich how and when to be chosen It is Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled in Parliament and by the Authority of the same That there shall be Twelve Wardens and Thirty Assistants all which are to be Master-Weavers within the County of the City of Norwich and County of Norfolk sir of which said Wardens and fiftéen of the said Assistants shall be chosen the first Monday after Pentecost in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two and from thenceforth yearly and every year on the next Monday after Pentecost at some publique place by the Master-Weavers or the greater part of them present of the said City and County of Norwich And the other six
are hereby impowered to hear and examine the said Offence and to commit the said Offender and Offenders to the Common Gaol of the County where he or they shall be apprehended And no Master Printer or Master Founder of Letters for Printing shall from henceforth imploy either to work at the Case or Press or otherwise about his Printing any other person or persons then such only as are English-men and Fréemen or the Sons of Fréemen or Apprentices to the said Trades or Mysteries of Printing or Founding of Letters for Printing respectively And for the better discovering of Printing in Corners without License Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That one or more of the Messengers of his Majesties Chamber Who may search houses and Shops for suspected Books and Papers by Warrant under his Majesties Sign Manual or under the Hand of one or more of his Majesties Principal Secretaries of State or the Master and Wardens of the said Company of Stationers or any one of them shall have power and authority with a Constable to take unto them such assistance as they shall think néedful and at what time they shall think fit to search all Houses and Shops where they shall know or upon some probable reason suspect any Books or Papers to be printed bound or stitched especially Printing-Houses Book-sellers Shops and Ware-houses and Book-binders Houses and Shops and to view there what is imprinting binding or stitching and to examine whether the same be Licensed and to demand a sight of the said License and if the said Book so imprinting binding or stitching shall not be Licensed then to Seize upon so much thereof as shall be found imprinted together with the several Offenders and to bring them before one or more Iustices of the Peace who are hereby authorized and required to commit such Offenders to prison there to remain until they shall be tried and acquitted or convicted and punished for the said Offences And in case the said Searchers shall upon their said Search find any Book or Books or part of Books unlicensed which they shall suspect to contain matters therein contrary to the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of England or against the State and Government Then upon such suspition to seise upon such Book or Books or part of Book or Books and to bring the same unto the said Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Bishop of London for the time being or one of them or to the Secretaries of State or one of them respectively who shall take such further course for the suppressing thereof as to them or any of them shall séem fit And be it Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Printer and Printers of Books Founder and Founders of Letters for Printing and all and every other person and persons working in or for the said Trades Offenders against this Act how to be punished who from and after the Tenth day of June in in the year One thousand six hundred sixty and two shall offend against this present Act or any Article Clause or Thing herein contained and shall be thereof Convicted by Verdict Confession or otherwise shall for the first offence be dis-enabled from exercising his respective Trade for the space of thrée years and for the second offence shall for ever thence-after be disabled to use or exercise the Art or Mystery of Printing or of Founding Letters for Printing shall also have and receive such further punishment by Fine Imprisonment or other Corporal Punishment not extending to Life or Limb as by the Iustices of the Court of Kings Bench or Iustices of Oyer and Terminer or Iustices of Assize in their several Circuits or Iustices of the Peace in their several Quarter Sessions shall be thought fit to be inflicted The which said Iustices of the Peace in their several Quarter Sessions shall have full power and authority to hear and determine all and every offence and offences that shall be committed against this Act or against any branch thereof upon Indictment or Information by any person or persons to be taken before them in their Sessions of Peace respectively and shall yearly certifie into the Court of Exchequer as in other like Cases they are bound to do the Fines by them imposed for any the offences aforesaid and shall and may also by vertue hereof award process and execution for the taking or punishing such Offenders as in any other Case they lawfully may do by any the Laws and Statutes of this Realm Printed Copies to be sent to his Majesties Library and the two Vniversities And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Printer shall reserve thrée printed Copies of the best and largest Paper of every Book new printed or reprinted by him with Additions and shall before any publick Vending of the said Book bring them to the Master of the Company of Stationers and deliver them to him one whereof shall be delivered to the Kéeper of His Majesties Library and the other two to be sent to the Vice-Chancellors of the two Vniversities respectively for the use of the publick Libraries of the said Vniversities Proviso for the priviledges of the two Vniversities Provided always That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to extend to the prejudice or infringing of any the just Rights and Priviledges of either of the two Vniversities of this Realm touching and concerning the Licensing or Printing of Books in either of the said Vniversities Peers Houses Provided always That no Search shall be at any time made in the House or Houses of any the Péers of this Realm or of any other person or persons not being frée of or using any of the Trades in this Act before mentioned but by special Warrant from the Kings Majesty under His Sign Manual or under the Hand of one or both of His Majesties Principal Secretaries of State or for any other Books then such as are in printing or shal be printed after the Tenth of June 1662. And thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for Book-sellers and Stationers London Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to prohibit any Book-seller who hath served seven years and is frée of the Company of Stationers London from importing or bringing into this Realm any Books ready bound not formerly prohibited which have been printed ten years before the said Importation Any thing in this or any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding Persons selling books in Westminster-Hall Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall be construed to prohibit any person or persons to Sell Books or Papers who have sold Books or Papers within Westminster-Hall the Palace of Westminster or in any Shop or Shops within Twenty yards of the great Gate of Westminster-Hall aforesaid before
the Twentieth day of November One thousand six hundred sixty and one but they and every of them may sell Books and Papers as they have or did before the said Twentieth day of November One thousand six hundred sixty one within the said Hall Palace and Twenty yards aforesaid but not elsewhere Any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for the rights and Priviledges of printing granted to any persons by the King Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to prejudice the just Rights or Priviledges granted by His Majesty or any of His Royal Predecessors to any any person or persons under His Majesties Great Seal or otherwise but that such person or persons may exercise and use such Rights and Priviledges as aforesaid according to their respective Grants Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Proviso for John Streater Stationer Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to prohibit John Streater Stationer from printing Books and Papers but that he may still follow the Art and Mystery of Printing as if this Act had never béen made Any thing therein to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to restrain the kéeping and using of a Printing-Press in the City of York Proviso for the City of York so as all Books of Divinity there printed be first Licensed by the Archbishop of York for the time being or such person or persons whom he shall appoint and all other Books whatsoever there Printed be first Licensed by such persons respectively to whom the Licensing thereof doth or shall appertain by the Rules herein before mentioned and so as no Bibles be there printed nor any other Book whereof the Original Copy is or shall be belonging to the Company of Stationers in London or any Member thereof and so as the Archbishop or Lord Mayor of York for the time being do execute within the said City which they are hereby impowred to do all the Powers and Rules in this Act concerning Searchers for unlicensed Books and impose and levy the said penalties in the like cases Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided That this Act shall continue and be in force for two years The continuance of this Act. to commence from the Tenth of June One thousand six hundred sixty and two and no longer Continued 16 Car. 2. cap. 8. Anno XV. Caroli II. Regis CAP. I. For Repairing the High-ways within the Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington WHereas the ancient High-way and Post-Road leading from London to York The High-way from London to York and Scotland Hertford Cambridge Huntington and so into Scotland and likewise from London into Lincolnshire lieth for many miles in the Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington in many of which places the Road by reason of the great and many Loads which are wéekly drawn in Waggons through the said places as well by reason of the great Trade of Barley and Mault that cometh to Ware and so is conveyed by water to the City of London as other Carriages both from the North parts as also from the City of Norwich Saint Edmunds-Bury and the Town of Cambridge to London is very ruinous and become almost impassible insomuch that it is become very dangerous to all His Majesties Liege people that pass that way And for that the ordinary course appointed by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm is not sufficient for the effectual repairing and amending of the same neither are the Inhabitants through which the said Road doth lie of ability to Repair the same without some other provision of moneys to be raised towards the putting the same into good and sufficient Repair For remedy whereof and to the intent the said High-ways at or in the Counties aforesaid may be forthwith effectually repaired and amended and from time to time hereafter kept in good repair May it please your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That for the Surveying Ordering Repairing and kéeping in Repair of the said High-way in the Counties aforesaid Four Iustices of the Peace for each of the said several and respective Counties dwelling next to the said High-ways respectively or any two of them for the year One thousand six hundred sixty thrée and until the Quarter-Sessions then next ensuing and from thenceforth the Iustices of Peace at the Sessions to be holden next after Easter every year for the said respective Counties from time to time shall and are hereby impowred to nominate and appoint Nine sufficient and able persons residing and inhabiting within the said several and respective Counties Who may appoint Surveyors of the High-ways for Hartfordshire yearly Cambridg-shire Huntington-shire to be Surveyors of the several places in the said High-way for the year from thence next ensuing The Iustices of the Peace for the County of Hertford to appoint Surveyors for the High-way lying in the said several Towns and Parishes of the said County and the Iustices of the Peace in the County of Cambridge to appoint Surveyors for the several Towns and Parishes within their said County of Cambridge And the Iustices of Peace for the County of Huntington to appoint Surveyors for the several Towns and Parishes of the said County And that the said Iustices or Surveyors aforesaid shall not act or do any thing towards the Repairs of the said High-ways but in their own several and respective Counties The power of the Iustices of the Peace in their several Counties And that the said Iustices in their several Counties shall cause notice to be given to the several Surveyors so chosen in writing of their said choice which said Surveyors and every of them having no lawful impediment to be allowed by the said Iustices by whom they shall be chosen in manner as aforesaid within one wéek next after such notice to them given of their Election shall and are hereby required to méet and assemble themselves together that is to say the Surveyors for the County of Hertford in some convenient place within the County of Hertford Hertford Cambridge Huntington And the Surveyors chosen for the County of Cambridge in some convenient place within their County and the Surveyors chosen for the County of Huntington in some convenient place within their said County to be appointed by the several Iustices of the said Counties at their several Quarter-Sessions to the intent to view and Survey the said High-way and places aforesaid The Power of the Surveyors in the said several Counties To appoint Receivers and Collectors of Toll and other needful Officers and shall consider what Reparations