part of any Book or Books Form or Forms without the like consent upon pain of loss and forfeiture of the same The Penalty and of being procéeded against as an Offender against this present Act and upon the further penalty and forfeiture of Six shillings eight pence for every such Book or Books or part of such Book or Books Copy or Copies or Form or Forms of any such blank Bills or Indentures so Imprinted or Imported bound Stitched or put to Sale The Moiety of which said forfeiture and forfeitures shall be to the use of our Soveraign Lord the King His Heirs and Successors and the other Moyety to the use of the Owner or Owners Proprietors of such Copy or Copies Book or Books or Form of such blank Bills or Indentures if he or they shall sue for the same within Six moneths next after such Imprinting Importing Binding Stitching or putting to Sale And in default of such Suit by the Owner or Owners Proprietor or Proprietors commenced within the said Six moneths Then the same Moiety shall be to the use and behoof of such other person or persons as within the space of one year next after the said Offence committed shall sue for the same to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record held at Westminster called the Kings Bench Common-Pleas or Exchequer wherein no Essoign Wager of Law or Protection shall be allowed to the Defendant or Defendants And be it further Enacted and Declared Printers of Books c. shall put to their Names That every person and persons that shall hereafter Print or cause to be Printed any Book Ballad Chart Pourtraiture or any other thing or things whatsoever shall thereunto or thereon Print and set his or their own Name or Names and also shall declare the Name of the Author thereof if he be thereunto required by the Licenser under whole Approbation the Licensing of the said Book Ballad Chart or Pourtraiture shall be Authorized and by and for whom any such Book or other thing is or shall be Printed upon pain of Forfeiture of all such Books Ballads Charts Penalty Pourtraitures and other thing or things Printed contrary to the Tenor hereof And the Presses Letters and other Instruments for Printing wherewith such Book Ballads Pourtraiture or other thing or things shall be so Imprinted or Set or prepared for the Printing thereof to be defaced and made unserviceable And that no person or persons shall hereafter Print or cause to be Imprinted nor shall forge put or counterfeit in or upon any Book or Pamphlet the Name Title Mark or Vinnet of any other person or persons which hath or shall have lawful Priviledge Authority or Allowance of sole Printing the same without the frée consent of the person and persons so priviledged first had and obtained upon pain that every person and persons so offending shall forfeit and lose all such Books and Pamphlets upon which such counterfeit Name or Mark shall be Imprinted and shall further be procéeded against as an Offender against this present Act. Who only may buy barter and sell books in London and market Towns And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Haberdasher of Small-Wares Iron-monger Chandler Shop-kéeper or other person or persons whatsoever not being Licensed in that behalf by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese wherein such Book or Books shall be nor having béen Seven years Apprentice to the Trade of Book-seller Printer or Book-binder nor being a Fréeman of the City of London by Patrimonial Right as Son of a Book-seller Printer or Book-binder nor being a Member of the said Company of Stationers shall within the City or Suburbs of London or any other Market-Town or elsewhere receive take or buy to barter sell again change or do away any Bibles Testaments Psalm-books Common-Prayer-books Primers Abcées Licensed Almanacks Grammar School-books or other Book or Books whatsoever upon pain of forfeiture of the same Printing an Art and Manufacture And for that Printing is and for many years hath béen an Art and Manufacture of this Kingdom Therefore for the better encouraging thereof and the prevention of divers Libels Pamphlets and Seditious Books Printed beyond the Seas in English and thence Transported into this Realm Be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That no Merchant Book-seller No English books may be imprinted or imported from beyond Sea or other person or persons whatsoever shall Imprint or cause to be Imprinted beyond the Seas nor shall Import or bring nor knowingly assist or consent to the Importation or bringing from beyond the Seas into this Realm any English Book or Books or part of any Book which is or shall be or the greater part thereof is or shall be English or of the English Tongue whether the same Book Books or part of such Book have béen here formerly Printed or not upon pain of forfeiture of all such English Books so Imprinted or Imported contrary to the tenour hereof And that no Alien or Foreigner whatsoever shall hereafter bring in or be suffered to vend here within this Realm The Penalty any Book or Books Printed beyond the Seas in any Language whatsoever either by himself or his Factor or Factors except such only as be Frée-Printers or Stationers of London or such as have béen brought up in that Profession without the special License of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London for the time being or one of them who are hereby authorized to grant Licenses for that purpose upon like pain of forfeiture of all such Books as shall be so Imprinted or Vended contrary to the purport and true intent hereof Presses and Printing in and about London not to be set up but upon notice to the Company of Stationers And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons within the City of London or the Liberties thereof or elsewhere shall erect or cause to be erected any Press or Printing-House nor shall knowingly demise or let or willingly suffer to be held or used any House Vault Cellar or other Room whatsoever to or by any person or persons for a Printing-House or place to Print in unless he or they who erect such Press or shall so knowingly demise or let such House Cellar Vault or Room or willingly suffer the same to be used shall first give notice to the Master or Wardens of the said Company of Stationers for the time being of the erecting of such Press or of such demise or suffering to work or Print in such House Vault Cellar or Room And that no Ioyner Carpenter or other person shall make any Printing-Press no Smith shall forge any Iron-work for a Printing-Press no Founder shall cast any Letters which maybe used for Printing for any person or persons whatsoever neither shal any person or persons bring or cause to be brought in from any parts
Goal of the same County City or Town Corporate accordingly Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Common Prayer to be read before every Lecture and the Lecturer to be present That at all and every time and times when any Sermon or Lecture is to be Preached the Common Prayers and Service in and by the said Book appointed to be Read for that time of the day shall be openly publickly and solemnly Read by some Priest or Deacon in the Church Chappel or place of Publick Worship where the said Sermon or Lecture is to be Preached before such Sermon or Lecture be preached And that the Lecturer then to Preach shall be present at the Reading thereof Provided nevertheless That this Act shall not extend to the Vniversity Churches Proviso for Sermons and Lectures in the Vniversities in the Vniversities of this Realm or either of them when or at such times as any Sermon or Lecture is Preached or Read in the said Churches or any of them for or as the publick Vniversity Sermon or Lecture but that the same Sermons and Lectures may be preached or read in such sort and manner as the same have béen heretofore preached or read this Act or any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the several good Laws The Lawes and Statutes formerly made for Vniformity of Common Prayer confirmed and to be executed for punishing offendors against this Law and Statutes of this Realm which have béen formerly made and are now in force for the Vniformity of Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments within this Realm of England and places aforesaid shall stand in full force and strength to all intents and purposes whatsoever for the establishing and confirming of the said Book Intituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the form or manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons herein before mentioned to be joyned and annexed to this Act and shall be applied practised and put in ure for the punishing of all offences contrary to the said Lawes with relation to the Book aforesaid and no other Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Letanies and Collects relating to the King Queen c. That in all those Prayers Letanies and Collects which do any way relate to the King Quéen or Royal Progeny the Names be altered and changed from time to time and fitted to the present occasion according to the direction of lawful Authority True printed Copies of the Book of Common Prayer to be provâ—ded in all Parishes and Churches Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That a true Printed Copy of the said Book Entituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the form and manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons shall at the costs and charges of the Parishioners of every Parish-Church and Chappelry Cathedral Church Colledg and Hall be attained and gotten before the Feast-day of St. Bartholomew in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two upon pain of forfeiture of thrée pounds by the moneth for so long time as they shall then after be unprovided thereof by every Parish or Chappelry Cathedral Church Colledge and Hall making default therein Proviso for the Bishops of Hereford St. Davies Asaph Bangor Landaff Provided alwayes and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Bishops of Hereford St. Davies Asaph Bangoâ— and Landaff and their Successors shall take such order among themselves for the souls health of the Flocks committed to their Charge within Wales That the Book hereunto annexed be truly and exactly Translated into the Brittish or Welsh Tongue and that the same so Translated and being by them or any thrée of them at the least viewed perused and allowed be Imprinted to such number at least so that one of the said Books so Translated and Imprinted may be had for every Cathedral Collegiate and Parish Church and Chappel of Ease in the said respective Diocesses and places in Wales where the Welsh is commonly spoken or used before the First day of May One thousand six hundred sixty five And that from and after the Imprinting and publishing of the said Book so Translated the whole Divine Service shall be used and said by the Ministers and Curates throughout all Wales within the said Diocesses where the Welsh Tongue is commonly used in the Brittish or Welsh Tongue in such manner and form as is prescribed according to the Book hereunto annexed to be used in the English Tongue differing nothing in any order or form from the said English Book for which Book so Translated and Imprinted the Church-Wardens of every the said Parishes shall pay out of the Parish-money in their hands for the use of the respective Churches and be allowed the same on their Accompt And that the said Bishops and their Successors or any thrée of them at the least shall set and appoint the price for which the said Book shall be sold And one other Book of Common Prayer in the English Tongue shall be bought and had in every Church throughout Wales in which the Book of Common Prayer in Welsh is to be had by force of this Act before the First day of May One thousand six hundred sixty and four and the same Book to remain in such convenient places within the said Churches that such as understand them may resort at all convenient times to read and peruse the same and also such as do not understand the said Language may be conferring both Tongues together the sooner attain to the knowledg of the English Tongue Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding and until Printed Copies of the said Book so to be Translated may be had and provided The Form of Common Prayer established by Parliament before the making of this Act shall be used as formerly in such parts of Wales where the English Tongue is not commonly understood And to the end that the true and perfect Copies of this Act and the said Book hereunto annexed may be safely kept and perpetually preserved and for the avoiding of all disputes for the time to come True and perfect Copies of this Act and the Book of Common Prayer by whom and how to be had and kept Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective Deans and Chapters of Every Cathedral or
Government Books belonging to particular persons nor any Book or Books the right of Printing whereof doth solely and properly belong to any particular person or persons without his or their Consent first obtained in that behalf Every Licenser shall have a written copy of the Book licenced And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person and persons who by vertue of this present Act are or shall be appointed or authorized to License the Imprinting of Books or Reprinting thereof with any Additions or Amendments as aforesaid shall have one written Copy of the same Book or Books which shall be so Licensed to be Imprinted or Reprinted with the Titles Epistles Prefaces Tables Dedications and all other things whatsoever thereunto annexed How and where the said Copy shall be kept which said Copy shall be delivered by such Licenser or Licensers to the Printer or Owner for the Imprinting thereof and shall be solely and intirely returned by such Printer or owner after the Imprinting thereof unto such Licenser or Licensers to be kept in the publick Registries of the said Lord Archbishop or Lord Bishop of London respectively or in the Office of the Chancellor or Vice-Chancellor of either the said Vniversities or with the said Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper of the great Seal for the time being English Books how to be Licensed or Lords Chief Iustices or Chief Baron or one of them or the said Principal Secretaries of State or with the Earl Marshal or the said Kings of Armes or one of them of all such Books as shall be Licensed by them respectively And if such Book so to be Licensed shall be an English Book or of the English Tongue there shall be two Written Copies thereof delivered to the Licenser or Licensers if he or they shall so require one Copy whereof so Licensed shall be delivered back to the said Printer or Owner and the other Copy shall be reserved and kept as is aforesaid to the end such Licenser or Licensers may be secured that the Copy so Licensed shall not be altered without his or their privity And upon the said Copy Licensed to be Imprinted he or they who shall so License the same shall Testifie under his or their hand or hands That there is not any thing in the same contained that is contrary to the Christian Faith or the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of England or against the State or Government of this Realm or contrary to good life or good manners or otherwise as the nature and subject of the Work shall require which License or Approbation shall be Printed in the beginning of the same Book with the Name or Names of him or them that shall Authorize or License the same All Books from beyond Sea shall be brought to the Port of London only for a Testimony of the allowance thereof And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Merchant of Books and person and persons whatsoever who doth or hereafter shall Import or bring any Book or Books into this Realm from any parts beyond the Seas shall Import the same in the Port of London only and not elsewhere without the special License of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London for the time being or one of them who are hereby authorized to grant Licenses for that purpose and shall before such time as the same Book or Books or any of them be delivered forth or out of his or their hand or hands or exposed to Sale give and present a true Note or Catalogue in writing of all and every such Book or Books unto the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Bishop of London for the time being or to one of them and no Merchant or other person or persons whatsoever which shall import or bring any Book or Books into the Port of London aforesaid from any parts beyond the Seas shall presume to open any Dry-Fats Bales And not to be opened or uttered until viewed by the Archbishop of Canterbury Bishop of London or some other by one of them appointed Packs Maunds or other Fardles of Books or wherein Books are nor shall any Searcher Waiter or other Officer belonging to the Custom-house upon pain of losing his or their place or places suffer the same to pass or to be delivered out of his or their hands or Custody before such time as the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Bishop of London for the time being or one of them shall have appointed some Scholar or learned man with one or more of the said Company of Stationers and such others as they shall call to their Assistance to be present at the opening thereof and to view the same And if there shall happen to be found any Heretical Seditious Scandalous Schismatical or other dangerous or offensive Book or Books or any part of such Book or Books Printed in English they shall forthwith be brought to the said Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Bishop of London for the time being or to one of them or to some publick place to be assigned and chosen by the said Lord Archbishop Hereticall Seditious or dangerous Books Imprinted upon ported how to be proceeded upon and Lord Bishop for the time being to the end the person and persons which Importeth or causeth the said Offensive Books to be Imported may be procéeded against as an offender against this present Act And also that such further course may be taken concerning the same offensive Book or Books as by the said Lord Archbishop and Bishop for the time being shall be thought fitting for the suppressing thereof And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons shall within this Kingdom or elsewhere Imprint or cause to be Imprinted nor shall Import or bring in or cause to be Imported or brought into this Kingdom from or out of any other His Majesties Dominions nor from any other parts beyond the Seas any Copy or Copies Book or Books or part of any Book or Books or Forms of blank Bills or Indentures for any His Majesties Islands Printed beyond the Seas or elsewhere Copies of Books Forms of blank Bills or Indenturs whereof any have Letters Patents for sole Printing which any person or persons by force or vertue of any Letters Patents granted or assigned or which shall hereafter be granted or assigned to him or them or where the same are not granted by any Letters Patents by force or vertue of any Entry or Entries thereof duly made or to be made in the Register Book of the said Company of Stationers or in the Register Book of either of the Vniversities respectively have or shal have the right Priviledge Authority or Allowance solely to Print without the consent of the Owner or Owners of such Book or Books Copy or Copies Form or Forms of such blank Bills nor shall Binde Stitch or put to Sale any such Book or Books or
used by Act of Parliament holden in the said first year of the said late Quéen 2 El. cap. 2. Entituled An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer and Service in the Church and Administration of the Sacraments very comfortable to all good people desirous to live in Christian conversation and most profitable to the Estate of this Realm upon the which the Mercy Favour and Blessing of Almighty God is in no wise so readily and plentifully poured as by Common Prayers due using of the Sacraments and often Preaching of the Gospel with Devotion of the Hearers And yet this notwithstanding a great number of people in divers parts of this Realm following their own sensuality and living without knowledg and due fear of God do Wilfully Schismatically abstain and refuse to come to their Parish-Churches and other publick places where Common Prayer Administration of the Sacraments and preaching of the Word of God is used upon the Sundays and other days ordained and appointed to be kept and observed as Holy-days And whereas by the great and scandalous neglect of Ministers in using the said Order or Liturgy so set forth and enjoyned as aforesaid great mischiefs and inconveniences during the times of the late unhappy Troubles have arisen and grown and many people have béen led into Factions and Schisms to the great decay and scandal of the Reformed Religion of the Church of England and to the hazard of many souls For prevention whereof in time to come for setling the Peace of the Church and for allaying the present distempers which the indisposition of the time hath contracted The Kings Declaration and Commission for reviewing the Book of Common Prayer and Alterations to be propounded therein The Kings Majesty according to his Declaration of the Five and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred and sixty granted his Commission under the Great Seal of England to several Bishops and other Divines to review the Book of Common Prayer and to prepare such Alterations and Additions as they thought fit to offer And afterwards the Convocations of both the Provinces of Canterbury and York being by His Majesty called and assembled and now sitting His Majesty hath béen pleased to Authorize and require the Presidents of the said Convocations and other the Bishops and Clergy of the same to re-view the said Book of Common Prayer and the Book of the Form and manner of the Making and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons And that after mature consideration they should make such Additions and Alterations in the said Books respectively as to them should séem méet and convenient And should exhibit and present the same to his Majesty in writing for his further allowance or confirmation since which time upon full and mature deliberation they the said Presidents Bishops and Clergy of both Provinces have accordingly re-viewed the said Books and have made some Alterations which they think fit to be inserted to the same and some Additional Prayers to the said Book of Common Prayer to be used upon proper and emergent occasions And have exhibited and presented the same unto his Majesty in writing in one Book Entituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the Form and Manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons All which His Majesty having duly considered hath fully approved and allowed the same and recommended to this present Parliament that the said Books of Common Prayer and of the Form of Ordination and Consecration of Bishops Priests and Deacons with the Alterations and Additions which have béen so made and presented to His Majesty by the said Convocations be the Book which shall be appointed to be used by all that Officiate in all Cathedral and Collegiate Churches and Chappels and in all Chappels of Colledges and Halls in both the Vniversities and the Colledges of Eaton and Winchester and in all Parish-Churches and Chappels within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and by all that Make or Consecrate Bishops Priests or Deacons in any of the said places under such Sanctions and Penalties as the Houses of Parliament shall think fit Now in regard that nothing conduceth more to the setling of the Peace of this Nation which is desired of all good men nor to the honour of our Religion and the propagation thereof The Peace and Honour of Religion much advanced by Vniform agreement in the Publique Worship of God then an Vniversal argréement in the publique Worship of Almighty God and to the intent that every person within this Realm may certainly know the rule to which he is to conform in Publique Worship and Administrations of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England and the manner how and by whom Bishops Priests and Deacons are and ought to be Made Ordained Consecrated Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by the Advice and with the Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and singular Ministers in any Cathedral Collegiate or Parish-Church or Chappel or other place of Publique Worship within this Realm of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed The Book of Common Prayer shall be used shall be bound to say and use the Morning Prayer Evening Prayer Celebration and Administration of both the Sacraments and all other the Publique and Common Prayer in such order and form as is mentioned in the said Book annexed and ioyned to this present Act and Entituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the form or manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons And that the Morning and Evening Prayers therein contained shall upon every Lords Day and upon all other dayes and occasions and at the times therein appointed be openly and solemnly Read by all and every Minister or Curate in every Church Chappel or other place of publique Worship within this Realm of England All Parsons Vicars and Ministers to read and declare their assent to use the same and places aforesaid And to the end that Vniformity in the publique Worship of God which is so much desired may be spéedily effected Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Parson Vicar or other Minister whatsoever who now hath and enjoyeth any Ecclesiastical Benefite or Promotion within this Realm of England or places aforesaid shall in the Church Chappel or place of publique
Provided also That no person or persons Indebted for any the Duties aforesaid shall thereby be priviledged as a Debtor or Debtors to His Majesty His Heirs or Successors No priviledg to sue in the Exchequer Nor assign a Debt to the King to sue any person or persons in the Court of Exchequer or to assign any Debt to His Majesty His Heirs or Successors towards satisfaction of the same 15 Car. 2. ca. 13. 16 Car. 2. ca. 3. CAP. XI Frauds and abuses in His Majesties Customs prevented and Regulated 12 Car. 2. cap. 19. FOrasmuch as it appears that several unlawful and indirect means and devices are daily put in practise to Export and Import Goods and merchandizes prohibited by the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom as also to defraud the Kings most Excellent Majesty of His Dues Customs and Subsidies as well by secret and deceitful designs as by open force and violence used against the Kings Majesties Officers imployed in the Affairs of the Customs For the better preventing of which frauds and violences in time to come It is Enacted and Ordained by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled and be it Enacted and Ordained by the Authority thereof That no Ship or Vessel arriving from the parts beyond the Seas Ships and Vessels arriving from beyond the Seas at Grave-end shall be above thrée days coming from Graves-end to the place of her discharge within the River of Thames without touching or staying at any Wharf Key or place adjoyning to either Shoar betwéen Graves-end and Chesters-Key unless apparently hindred by contrary Winds Draught of Water or other just impediment to be allowed by such person or persons as are or shall be appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs the Collectors Inwards or other principal Officers of the Customs and then or before the Master or Purser for that voyage of such Ship or Vessel shall make a just and true Entry upon Oath of the Burthen Contents and Lading of every such Ship or Vessel True Entries of Lading to be made upon Oath with the particular Marks Numbers Qualities and Contents of every parcel of Goods therein Laden to the best of his knowledge also where and in what Port she took in her Lading of what Countrey built how manned who was Master during the Voyage and who are Owners thereof and in all Out-Ports or Members to come directly up to the place of Vnlading The Penalty as the condition of the Port requires and will admit and making Entries as aforesaid upon the penalty of the forfeiture of One hundred pounds And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Captain Master Purser or any other person or persons taking charge of any Ship or Vessel bound for the parts beyond the Seas The duty of Captains Master and others taking charge of Ships and Vessels bound for parts beyond the Seas or into the Kingdom of Scotland whether the same Ship or Vessel shall have Commission from or belong unto the Kings Majesty that now is His Heirs or Successors or shall belong to or have Commission from any forrein Prince or State or otherwise shall take in or suffer to be taken into or laden aboard any such Ship or Vessel any English Goods Wares or Merchandize to be Exported into the parts beyond the Seas or into the Kingdom of Scotland until such Captain Master Purser or other person as aforesaid shall have entered such Ship or Ships in the Book of the Commissioners To take in no English goods till Entry thereof be made at the Custom-house Customer or Collector and Comptroller Outwards of such Port where he shal Load or take in Goods together with the Name of such Captain or Master the Burden of such Ship or Vessel the Number of Guns and Ammunition she carries and to what Port or Place she intends to pass or Sail and before he or they shall depart with his or their Ship or Vessel out of such Port or Place shall bring and deliver unto the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs the Customer or Collector and Comptroller of such Port or Place a Content in Writing under his or their Hands of the Names of every Merchant and other person or persons that shall have laden and put on Board any such Ship or Vessel any such Goods or Merchandize together with the Marks and Numbers of such Goods and Merchandize and shall likewise publickly in the open Custom-house upon his Corporal Oath to the best of his knowledge have answered to such question or questions as shall be demanded of him by the said person or persons which are or shal be appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs the Customer or Collector and Comptroller or their Deputies concerning such Goods and Merchandize as shall be aboard such Ship or Vessel upon pain of Forfeiture of One hundred pounds Ships or Vessels of War bringing goods And that no such Captain Master Purser or other person or persons taking charge of any Ship or Vessel of War as aforesaid wherein any Goods Wares or Merchandizes shall have béen laden or brought from the Ports beyond the Seas or out of the Realm of Scotland shall unload or put on board any Lighter Boat or Bottom or lay on land or suffer to be discharged or put into any Lighter Boat or Bottom or to be laid on land out of any Ship or Vessel as aforesaid any Goods Wares or Merchandize whatsoever before such Captain Master Purser or other person taking charge of the Ship or Merchants Goods for that Voyage as aforesaid shall have signified and declared in writing under his or their Hands unto the person or persons which are or shall be appointed by his Majesty for managing the Customs the Customer or Collector and Comptroller Inwards of the Port where he arriveth the Names of every Merchant or Lader of any Goods or Merchandizes aboard the said Ship or Vessel together with the Number and Marks and the quantity and quality of every Parcel of Goods and Merchandizes to the best of his knowledg and shall have answered upon his or their Corporal Oath to such Questions concerning such Goods and Merchandizes as shall be publickly administred unto him in the open Custom-house by such person or persons which are or shall be appointed for Managing the Customs Customer or Collector and Comptroller or their Deputies and shall be liable to all Searches and other Rules which Merchants Ships are subject unto by the usage of his Majesties Custom-house victualling Bills and Entring excepted upon pain to forfeit One hundred pounds and upon refusal to make such Entries as aforesaid as well Outwards as Inwards the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed for managing the Customs and Officers of His Majesties Customs and their Deputies shall
Commissioner Farmer No Commissioner or other may act until he have taken the Oath in the Act of 12 Car. 2. cap. 23. Sub-Commissioner or other person imployed or to be imployed in the Farming Collecting or taking Accompts for the Duty of Excise do after the First day of September next take upon him or them any such Office or procéed in execution of any such Imployment until he or they have first taken the Oaths appointed to be taken by the Act of Parliament Entituled A Grant of certain Impositions on Beer Ale and other Liquors for the increase of His Majesties Revenue during His life before the respective persons appointed in the said Act of Parliament and have Entred his Certificate for taking the said Oaths with the Auditor for Excise under the penalty of Fifty pounds for every Moneth he or they shall so neglect to take the same CAP. XII An Explanatory Act for Recovery of the Arrears of Excise BE it Declared and Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That where any Commissioner Sub-Commissioner Treasurer In what cases Sureties for Excise shall be answerable for the arrears 12 Car. 2. cap. 11. and all other Officers which were heretofore imployed in the Receipt of the Excise Farmer or Collector of Excise which are and standeth charged with or accomptable for any Duties of Excise by him or them received farmed or detained or any ways due from the persons before named or any of them and not pardoned by the late Act Entituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion That there and in such case all and every the Sureties of such person and persons charged or chargeable as aforesaid shall be deemed and taken to be liable and answerable according to the nature of their respective Securities Any doubt or question made touching the Construction of the said late Act of Frée and General Pardon to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where the Commissioners of Excise for the time being or the major part of them have Issued out any Summons or Warning which hath béen left at the house or usual place of residence or with the Wife Child or menial Servant of any the aforesaid person or persons Chargeable or Accomptable as aforesaid The same shall be déemed and adjudged a good and sufficient Summons and as legal and effectuall a notice as if the same had béen actually delivered to the proper hands of such person or persons to whom the same was directed Any doubt or question thereof made to the contrary notwithstanding CAP. XIII An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Revenue arising by Hearth-Money VVHereas the Revenue Setled on His Majesty His Heirs and Successors by a late Act 14 Car. 2. cap. 10. Entituled An Act for Establishing an Additional Revenue upon His Majesty His Heirs and Successors for the better support of His and their Crown and Dignity hath béen much obstructed for want of true and just Accompts under the hands of the respective Occupiers of Houses Edifices Lodgings and Chambers as by the said Act is required and by the negligence of Constables and other Officers intrusted with the Taking and Reforming such Accompts Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the Iustices of the Peace of the respective Counties How the Iustices of the Peace shall cause accompts to be taken of the number of Hearths Corporations Places and Limits within their respective Iurisdictions at the next Sessions to be held after the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next ensuing or the major part of them then present shall issue out Warrants under their Hands and Seals to the respective High Constables or other like next Officer who shall issue the like Warrants unto the Petty Constables Head-boroughs and Tythingmen requiring them on the next Sunday after Morning-Service ended to give publick notice in the Church or Chappel generally to all the Inhabitants and also to give notice publickly in the Church and particularly as aforesaid to every Inhabitant within their respective Precincts that shall then be Occupier of any House Edifice Lodging or Chamber That within Ten days next after such notice he give a true and just account in writing under his hand of all Hearths and Stoves in such respective House Edifice Lodging and Chamber unto such respective Constable Head-borough and Tythingman who upon receipt of such Accompt shall with Two other substantial Inhabitants of the said respective Precinct whom they are hereby Authorized to Charge for that purpose in the day-time enter into the respective House Edifice Lodging and Chamber and upon his own view compare such Accompt and sée whether the same be truly made or not and endorse the same Accompt accordingly to what he finds upon his view which Accompt so received and endorsed shall be by him transmitted within twenty dayes after such Receipt to the respective High-Constable or other like Officer as aforesaid together with a Book or Roll fairly written wherein shall be Two Columes The one containing the Names of the persons and number of Hearths and Stoves in their respective Possessions that are chargeable by the said Act and the other the Names of the persons and number of Hearths and Stoves in their respective possessions which are not chargeable by the said Act Which being so received by such respective High Constable or other like Officer as aforesaid and compared together shall within six dayes after such Receipt be transmitted to the two next respective Iustices of the Peace who are hereby impowred to examine the said respective High-Constable or other like Officer as aforesaid Petty Constable Headborough or Tythingman upon Oath concerning the truth and faithfulness of their actings in the premisses which being done the said Iustices shall within ten days after such examination Sign and Transmit the said Book and Roll together with the said Original Accounts so endorsed as aforesaid and filed together unto the respective Clerk of the Peace who shall within Twenty days after receipt thereof Engross the said Book or Roll in Parchment to be still kept in the respective County and Places aforesaid and shall also within Two Months Engross in Parchment a true Duplicate of the said Book or Roll which being Signed by him and by two Iustices of the Peace at least of the respective County and Places aforesaid shall be transmitted within one Month after such Engrossement into His Majesties Court of Exchequer Penalty for omitting any Hearth Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Occupier of any House Edifice
twenty hours give in his Post-entry and satisfie and pay the whole Duty for the surplusage of Coals appearing upon the unlading of such Ship or Vessel That then upon such payment the penalty aforesaid shall be discharged How the said Imposition shall be disposed And be it further Enacted That all and every such sum and sums of Money which shall be raised upon the Receipt of the said Imposition of Twelve pence for every Chaldron or Tun of Coals or by such additional Duty in case of concealment as aforesaid shall in the first place be applied and disposed unto and for the satisfaction of such persons whose Grounds shall by vertue and in pursuance of this Act be taken and imployed for the inlarging of the Stréets and narrow Passages within the said City And after satisfaction given for the same the residue of the said Moneys shall be applied and disposed unto and for the satisfaction of such persons whose Grounds shall be imployed for the making of Wharfs or Keys on the North-side of the River of Thames and upon each side of the Sewer called by the name or names of Bridewell-Dock Fleet-Ditch and Turnmill-Brook and also for the building and making such Prisons within the said City as shall be necessary for the safe Custody and Imprisonment of Felons and other Malefactors And the Accompts of Reâ—eiâ—s and disbursements thereof kept And to the end the Moneys to be raised upon the Imposition aforesaid may be duly applied to the uses for which the same is by this Act appointed Be it further Enacted That there shall from time to time be provided and kept in the Chamber of London one or more Book or Books of Vellam or Parchment in which all moneys thereupon to be received shall from time to time be entred and set down And also other like Book or Books wherein the Accompts of all Payments and Disbursements out of the same shall be likewise entred expressing the time when the occasion for which and the name of the person or persons to whom the same were so paid or disbursed And that it shall and may be lawful to and for all and every person and persons that shall or may be in any wise concerned so to do to have frée access unto and view the said respective Books of Receipts and Disbursements at all times when the Chamberlains Office is open without any Fée or Reward to be taken or demanded for the view or inspection thereof And that the Chamberlain of London for the time being before the end of Michaelmas Term in every year shall transmit and upon his Oath deliver into the Receipt of the Exchequer a true Copy or Duplicate of the aforesaid Books of Accompts containing the Receipts and Disbursements of all moneys which shall be raised and paid by or out of the said Imposition upon Coals in the year preceding and ending upon the Four and twentieth day of June next before there to be received gratis by the proper Officer and kept amongst the Records of the said Court where it shall also be lawful for any person or persons who shall be in any wise concerned so to do to have access thereunto and to view and peruse the said Books of Accompts without any Fée or Reward to be taken or received for the same Thomas Morris his Water-House Provided always That it shall and may be lawful for the Water-house called Mr. Thomas Morris his Water-house formerly adjoyning to London-Bridge to be rebuilt upon the place it formerly stood with Timber for the supplying the South-side of the City with water as it for almost this hundred years hath done Any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Water-Lane Street Provided also And it is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London may and shall open and inlarge a Stréet or Passage called Water-Lane leading from Fleetstreet to White-Friers-Dock by the River of Thames as also open and inlarge a Stréet or Passage to the said River from Cheap-side through Soper-Lane to Thames-Street and from the Three-Cranes to the Thames And open and inlarge one other Stréet or Passage through Mincing-Lane Mincing-Lane by St. Dunstans in the East to Thames-Street near the Custom-House And to make the said Stréets or Passages twenty four foot in breadth for the conveniency of Trade and better passage of Carts and other Carriages to and from the said River giving notice of what they shall herein resolve to the Proprietors and Persons concerned before the last day of May which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty seven and giving them satisfaction for their Ground according to the Rules and Directions of this Act for the inlarging of other Stréets and Places A Scheme of Proportions and Scantlings for Stories Walls and Timbers for the Building of lesser and larger Houses within the City of LONDON Brick Division of Story  Height of Story  Thickness of Walls   Bricks    Foot   Bricks   First sort being the least Houses fronting by-streets Lanes Cellars  6½  To the first floor 2  1½ 1 Story  9  2d 1½  1½ 2 Story  9  3d 1½  1½ Garrets      1  1   Where the Spring prevent not      2  Cellars  6 2 1  To the first Floor 2½  1½ Second sort Houses fronting all streets lanes of note and River of Thames 1 Story  10  2d 2 Thickness of Walls between House and House 1½ 2 Story  10 Thickness of Walls in Front and Reer from the Foundation 3d 2  3 Story Not less in height clear then 9 4th 1½ 1½  Garrets     1  1  1 Story  10  1st 2½  2 Third sort Houses fronting all High-streets and Lanes of note 2 Story  10½  2d 1½  1½ 3 Story  9  3d 1½  1½ 4 Story  8½  4th 1½  1½ Garrets     1  1 Scantlings of Timber for the first sort of Houses   Foot Inches  Inches For the Floors Summers under 15 12 and 8 Wall-plates  7 and 5   Foot at foot 8 6 Inches For the Roof Principal Rafters under 15 at top 5 Single Rafters 4 and 3 Inches  Length Foot Thickness  Depth Joysts to 10 3 7 Inches Garrets-floors  3  6 Scantlings of Timber for the other two sorts of Houses For the Floors Summers or Girders which bear in length from Foot  Foot Breadth Inches  Depth Inches  Thickness Inches Depth Inches 10 to 15 11 and 8 Joysts which bear 10 Foot 3 6 15  18 13  9 3 7 18  21 14  10 3 7 21  24 16  12 3 8 24  26 17