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book_n	act_n	king_n	parliament_n	3,039	5	6.6283	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71352	Mercurius publicus: comprising the sum of forraign intelligence ...[no.31 (26 July-2 Aug 1660)]; Mercurius publicus (London, England : 1659)	Muddiman, Henry, fl.1659-1666, editor.; Dury, Giles editor.; Newcomb, Thomas, d. 1681 or 2, publisher.	1660 (1660)	Thomason E186_24	11,943	16

natural born subject Denizen and Alien of every 20 s. valued according to the Book of Rates ●2 d. and of every 20 s. value of any native commodity or manufacture wrought of native commodity carried out by any Merchant alien 12 d. over above the 12 d. aforesaid excepting Old Draperies Wines limited to pay Tonage c. in the Books of Rates Custom-free There is likewise granted a further Subsidy to continue from the 24. of June inclusively during his Majesties life for every short Woolen cloth not above 28 yards long and 64 l. weight exported by any natural born subject of 3 s. 4 d. and of every Cloth of greater length and weight proportionably and of every short Cloth of lesser length and weight accounting so much to a short Cloth according to the Book of Rates 3 s. 4 d. if exported by strangers 6 s. 8 d. It is further enacted That if any goods be put in a vessel to be exported or unshipp'd to be laid on land Duties being unpaid and no agreement for them in the Custom-house the goods shall be forfeited one moye●ie to his Majesty the other to him that seiseth or sueth for them It is further enacted That if the goods of any Merchant born Denizen after the said 24. of June shall be taken by Pyrates or perished at sea during his Majesties life the duties and Subsidies being formerly paid and due proof be made thereof the same Merchant his executors or administrators may ship so much goods as were lost without paying any thing for the same And that every Merchant Denizen that shall ship any goods in a Carrack or Gally shall pay as an Alien Provided notwithstanding that all Herrings and Sea-fish taken on the sea by his Majesties subjects may be transported out of this Realm in vessels of his Majesties subjects without payment of Custom Subsidy or Poundage during his Majesties life It is further enacted that the Rates intended in this Act are those mentioned in a booke entituled The Rates of Merchandise subscribed with the hand of Sir Harbottle Grimston Baronet which booke is to remaine during His Majesties life It is further enacted that where the goods amount to the value of 5 l. or more no other fees shall be received than such as were taken in the fourth year of the late King James without further Authority of Parliament Provided that no person who betwixt the 24 of June and the 24 of July 1660. hath received or paid any duties or Customes according to the Rates used in April 1660. shall be molested for such receipt or payment And it is declared that no person who hath shipped any goods in the same time shall be lyable to the payment of any other duties than such as were used in April 1660. It is likewise enacted that it may be lawfull to transport Ishn Armor Bandileers Bridle-Bits Halbert-Heads and harpes Muskets Carbines Fowling-pieces Pistols Pike●eads Sword or Rapier Blades Saddles Snaffles Stirrops Calveskins dressed or undressed Geldings Oxen Sheep-skins dressed without the Wool and all Manufactures made of Leather as also Gunpowder when the price doth not exceed 5 l. the Barrel Wheat when at 40 s. the quarter Rye Beans and Pease at 24 s. the quarter Barley and Mault at 20 s. the quarter Oates at 10 s. the Quarter Beefe at 5 l. a B●rrel Porke at 6 l. 10 s. a Barrel Bacon at 6 d. a pound Butter at 4 l. 10 s. the Barrel Cheese at 1 l. 10 s. the hundred Candles at 5 s. a dozen pound at the Ports when they are laden any law to the contrary notwithstanding Provided that it be free for his Majesty notwithstanding this Act to prohibit at any time the transporting of Gunpowder or any Armes or Ammunition It is further enacted that besides the former Rates there shall be paid to his Majesty out of every Tun of Wine of the growth of France Germany Portugal or Mardera 3 l. of other Wine 4 l within 9 moneths after the importing for which security shall be given but if the same Wines shall be exported within 12 moneths the security he shall be discharg'd or if he hath paid money he shall be allowed at 10 per Cent for a year It is farther enacted that after the 24 of July all Wines shall be discharged from the Imposition of Excise It is further provided that the prize Wines ought not to pay or be charged with any Custome Subsidy c. In the Act for continuing the Excise the Imposition of Excise is continued to be collected paid as also arrears unpardoned to the Commissioners that now Collect the same from the 24 of June inclusively 1660. to the 24 of August the same year provided all sorts of Oyles Wines c. imported after the 24 of July 1661 be discharged from that duty In the Act for Commissioners of Sewers It is enacted that Commissions of Sewers shall and may be directed at any time before the 23 of October next ensuing not after according to the manner and forme expressed in the Statute of the 23 of King Henry the 8 as the Lord Chancellor Lord ComCommissioner of the Treasury the Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster Lord Cheif Baron of the Exchequer and the Justices of either Bench or any 3 of them wket●of the Lord Chancellor to be one shall appoint and that they shall have full power to execute as any Commissioners of Sewers ot any time before Advertisements REader pray take notice that in His Majesties Proclamation lately set forth for dayes of holding the Assises in the several Counties of this Kingdom there is a great mistake for the day of holding the Assises for the County of Cornwal which is there said to be Wednesday the Fifteenth day of September whereas it should have been Wednesday the Nineteenth day of September of which all persons may take notice THere was lost between Bishops gatestreet and Grayes-Inn a black box somwhat square wherein there were Parchments written in Latine Sealed If any one can give notice thereof to Mr. Skelion a Bookseller in Duck-lane at the sign of the hand and bible he shall be well rewarded If any person have found a small Almanack of Gold smiths bound in Blew Leather with gilt Leaves and Claspes lost either in Whitehal or Westminster upon Saturday the twenty eighth of this Mouth they are desired to leave it at Mr. Charles Toveys house an Apothecary at the sign of the Horshooe near the New-Exchange and they shall be rewarded for their pains Paris the 30 of July S. N. Saturday last the Queen mother was at Mass in the Church of Notre Dame from whence she came to the Castle of Vicennes and dined there with the King On Monday the Cardinal was very ill of the Gout and Gravel but by vertue of some remedy which was given him he vo●ded two stones since which he hath been pretty well The King visits him every day with great care and so doth the Queen Mother Prayers