compound with any Defendant before answer nor then but by consent of Court in pain of 10 l. and the Pillory VI. Where the Informer delayes or discontinues his suit or otherwise is non-suit or overthrown the Court shall assign costs to the Defendant to be immediately levied by execution issuing out of the same Court VII Justices of Oyer and Terminer Assize and Peace in their Sessions have power to hear and determine these offences VIII This Act shall not restrain Actions brought for Maintenance Champerty buying of title or Imbracery nor any certain person or body Politique to whom any forfeiture or penalty is specially limited nor certain Officers who have lawfully used to exhibit informations IX Stat. 29 El. 5. in fine If any shall be sued upon any penal Law in the King's Bench Common Pleas or Exchequer where such person is bailable by law or may appear by Attorney the person so sued shall at the day contained in the first process appear by Attorney to defend the same and shall not be urged to personal apparence or to put in bail to answer the same X. Stat. 31 Eliz. 10. The said clause of 29 Eliz. 5. shall only extend to natural born subjects or free Denizons and none others ☞ Inrolments I. Stat. 6 R. 2.4 Deeds that were inrolled and late torn or imbezeled by Rebels in the late Insurrection being exemplified shall be of the same force as the deeds themselves would have been if they had been extant II. Stat. 27 H. 8.16 Bargains and sales to raise an use of Inheritance or free-hold must be by deed indented and inrolled within six moneths after the date thereof in some Court of Record at Westminster or in the County where the land lyeth before the Custos Rotulorum two Justices of Peace and the Clerk of the Peace or two of them whereof the Clerk to be one And here the fee to be paid for such inrolment when the land is not worth 40 s. per annum is 2 s. and when it is more 10 s. to be equally divided betwixt the Justice or Justices then present and the Clerk of the Peace who ought to inroll them in parchment and to deliver them unto the Custos Rotulorum within one year after III. This Act shall not extend to lands tenements or hereditaments in Corporations where an Officer or Officers there have lawfully used to inrol deeds or other writing IV. Stat. 34. 35 H. 8.22 All Recoveries deeds inrolled and releases acknowledged or taken before any Officer or Officers of any Corporation having authority to receive the same shall remain in force notwithstanding the Statute of 32 H. 8.28 which see in Leases V. Stat. 5 El. 26. All inrolments of such writings indented as are mentioned in the Statute of 27 H. 8.16 of lands c. in the Counties of Lancaster Chester and the Bishoprick of Durham being inrolled within six moneths after the Date thereof viz. those in Lancashire in the Chancery at Lancaster or before the Justices of Assize there those in Cheshire in the Exchequer at Chester or before the Justices of Assize there and those in the Bishoprick in the Chancery at Durham or before the Justices of Assize there shall be as good in law as if they were inroled in any of the Courts at Westminster Intrusion I. Prerog Beg. Cap. 13. 17 E. 2. When the King's Tenant in chief dies and his heir enters into the land before he hath done homage to or received seisin of the King he shall thereby gain no free-hold and if he die seized during that time his wife shall not be endowed thereof as it fell out in the case of the wife of Mansel the Marshal II. Stat. 21 Jac. 14. When the King or any claiming under his title shall be out of possession or not have received the profits of lands c. within the space of 20 years before any information of Intrusion brought to recover the same In this case the Defendant shall plead the general issue if he think fit and shall not be pressed to plead especially and shall also retain the possession thereof until the title be found for the King III. Where an information of Intrusion may fitly be brought on the King's behalf no Scire facias shall issue whereunto the subject shall be forced to a special pleading and be derprived of the grace intended by this Act. Ipswich I. Stat. 13 El. 21. The streets of Ipswich in the County of Suffolk and of the Suburbs thereof shall be paved with good paving stone and for ever repaired by the Owners Landlords or Terre-tenants along from and against their houses lands and tenements adjoyning to the street viz. so much of the said street in length as his house lands c. so adjoyning extend unto and in breadth during all the length to the Channel or to such place as the Channel there shall be appointed by the Bailiffs to extend unto in pain to forfeit for every yard square not sufficiently repaired 8 d. II. The Bailiffs of Ipswich and the Portmen there the Church-wardens and four of every Parish shall have authority to tax upon every house ground and tenement there free and copy reasonable summs of money to be yearly paid as well towards the finding of a convenient stipendary Minister within every Parish as for the reparation of the Churches Ireland I. In the Book of Magna Charta is an Ordinance for Ireland concerning divers matters intituled Ordinatio pro statu terrae Hiberniae II. Stat. 17 E. 1. cap. 1. The King's officers in Ireland shall purchase no land there without the King's licence III. Cap. 2. King's Officers in Ireland shall make no purveyance there but by writ out of the Chancery there or in England that in time of necessity onely and by the advice of the Council there IV. Cap. 3. All kind of Merchandizes may be exported out of Ireland except to the King's enemies and if any Officer restrain them he shall satisfie double damages to the party grieved and be also punished by the King V. Cap. 4. The fees for every Bill of grace in Ireland under the seal of the Justice there shall be 4 d. for the Bill and 2 d. for the writing thereof VI. Cap. 5. The Marshal's fee for a Prisoner when he shall be delivered is 4 d. VII Cap. 6. No pardon of the death of a man or other felony or for flying for the same shall be granted by the Justices there but onely at the King's command and under his seals VIII Cap. 7. No Officers there shall receive any original writ which is not sealed by the seal of Ireland or by the Exchequer-seal there of things concerning that Court. IX Cap. 8. The Justice of Ireland shall not delay or adjourn Assize of Novel disseisin there save onely in the County where he is and while he shall remain there X. Stat. 34 E. 3.17 All kind of Merchandize may be exported and imported out of and into Ireland as
here provided for the Lessee for years VI. Stat. 34 35. H. 8.20 No feigned recovery hereafter to be had by assent of parties against any tenant or tenants in tail of any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whereof the reversion or remainder at that time of such recovery had shall be in the King shall bind or conclude the Heirs in tail whether any condition or Voucher be had in any such feigned recovery or not but that after the death of every such tenant in tail against whom such recovery shall be had the heirs in tail may enter hold and enjoy the lands tenements and hereditaments so recovered according to the form of the gift in tail the said recovery notwithstanding VII And here the heirs of every such Tenant in tail against whom any such recovery shall be had shall take no advantage for any recompence in value against the Voucher or his heirs VIII This Act shall not extend to prejudice the Lessee or Lessees of any such Tenant in tail made in writing indented of any Mannors Lands c. for 21 years or three lives or under whereupon the accustomed rent or rents is or shall be yearly reserved during the same Term or Terms but the same Lessee or Lessees shall injoy his or their Term or Terms according to the Statute of 32 H. 8.28 which see in Leases this Act notwithstanding IX Stat. 14 El. 8. All recoveries had or prosecuted by agreement of the parties or by covin against Tenants by the curtesie Tenants in tail after possibility of issue extinct for term of life or lives or of estates determinable upon life or lives or of any lands tenements or hereditaments whereof such particular tenant is so seised or against any other with Voucher over of any such particular tenant or of any having right or title to any such particular estate shall from henceforth as against the reversioners or them in remainder and against their heirs and successors be clearly void X. This Act shall not prejudice any person that shall by good title recover any lands c. without fraud by reason of any former right or title Also every such recovery had by the assent and agreement of the person in reversion or remainder appearing of record in any of the Queens Courts shall be good against the party so assenting Re-disseisin I. Merton 3. 20 H. 3. If any be disseised of their fee-hold and before the Justices in Eyre hath recovered seisin by Assise of Novel disseisin or by confession of the disseisors and hath had seisin delivered by the Sheriff if afterwards the same disseisors disseise the Plaintiff of the same free-hold and be thereof convict they shall be imprisonod until the King hath discharged them by redemption recognition of Assize Judgement or some other way II. This is the form of punishing of such convict persons The Plaintiff shall procure a Writ from the Kings Court directed to the Sheriff and containing the plaint of disseisin done upon disseisin By this Writ the Sheriff shall be commanded that he taking with him the Keepers of the Pleas of the Crown and other lawful Knights shall in proper person go to the Land or Pasture whereof the plaint was made where if they find him disseised again the Sheriff is to do as is above provided but if not the Plaintiff shall be amerced and the other shall go quit Howbeit the Sheriff shall not execute any such plaint without the Kings special Command III. There is the like Law for such as recover their seisin by Assise of Mortdancester or by Enquests if they be re-disseised by the first disseisors IV. Marlb 8. 52 H. 3. Persons imprisoned for re-disseisin shall not be delivered with the Kings special command and shall make fine to the King for their trespass And if the Sheriff deliver any contrary to this Ordinance he shall be grievously amerced and yet the persons so delivered shall be also grievously punished for their trespass V. West 2.26 13 E. 1. In Writs of re-disseisin double damages shall be awarded and the re-disseisors shall not be repleviable by the common Writ VI. Those that recover by default redition or otherwise without recognition of Assises or Juries shall have Writs of re-disseisin as well those which recover by Assise of Novel disseisin Mortdancester or other Juries provided for by the Statute of Merton 20. Relief I. Magna Cart. 2. When Lands holden of the King in chief by Knight-service descend to an heir of full age The reliefs are as followeth For an Earldom 100 l. For a Barony 100 Marks For one whole Knights fee 100 s. And he that hath less shall give less according to the old custom of the fees Religion * I. Stat. 14. Ca. 2. Ca. 4. The Stat. of 1 Eliz. Ca. 2. recited for uniformity of Common Prayer and considered by certain Commissioners appointed by the King for reviewing and altering the same and afterward being also reviewed by the Convocation The said Book of Common Prayer so altered c. is allowed and recommended to the Parliament by the King to be used under such sanctions and penalties as the Houses of Parliament shall think fit the same is enjoyned to be red in all Churches Chappels and places of publick Worship in England Wales and Town of Barwick upon Tweed in such order as is enjoyned by the said Book annexed to the said Act. II. Every Parson Vicar or other Minister in possession of any Ecclesiastical Benefice enjoyned to read the Common Prayer upon some Lords day morning and evening before the Feast of St. Bartholomow 1662. and after such reading the same make the Declaration verbatim as followeth I. A. B. do here declare my unfained assent and consent to and every thing contained and prescribed in and by the Book intituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England 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 Upon penalty there being no lawful impediment and within one month after such impediment removed of being deprived ipso facto as if the person neglecting or refusing so to do were dead III. All Parsons Vicars and Ministers to be after presented or put into any Ecclesiastical Benefice enjoyned to read the Common Prayer as aforesaid and to make the aforesaid Declaration within two months after they shall be in actual possession upon the same penalty as aforesaid IV. All Incumbents that reside upon their livings and keep Curates shall once every month themselves read the said Common Prayer upon pain of forfeiture of 5 l. to the use of the poor of the upon conviction by two credible Witnesses before two Justices of the Peace to be levyed by distress and sale of the offendors goods by Warrant from the said
intent to put the Defendants from their law that the same was found before their Apprentices or servants as Auditors assigned therein it shall be in the Judges discretion upon examination of the Attorneys or whom else they please to receive the Defendants to their law or to try the same by Inquest ☞ Wales I. The second Volume of the Book of Old Statutes is a long Act made Anno 12 E. 5. entituled Statuta Walliae whereby it appeareth that Wales was then incorporated and united to England and there you shall also find many good Laws concerning the division of Wales into Counties Trials and Division of Actions together with divers forms of Writs and the proceeding thereupon much like to the Laws of England For all which see there that Act at large II. Stat. 28 ◠3.2 All Lords of the Marches of Wales shall be perpetually attending and annexed to the Crown of England as they and their Ancestors have been in times past and not to the Principality of Wales in whose hands soever the same shall come III. Stat. 9 H. 4.4 No Thief or Felon in Wales openly known shall be suffered to disclaim out of the Seigniory where the Felony was committed But such manner of disclaimer shall be from henceforth utterly put out and such Thieves shall be put to answer to Indictments and other accusations in the Seigniory where they are taken without being delivered by disclaiming or Letters of Marque IV. Stat. 2 H. 5. Stat. 2.5 If a Welsh-man that doth forcibly take and detain an English-man until he be ransomed will not upon process awarded against him by the Justices appear and answer the same untill he be outlawed the Justices shall certifie the same under their seals to the Officers of the Seigniories where such outlaw is who shall apprehend and do execution upon him according to the Law But this is now altered by 27 H. 8.26 which see after V. Stat. 26 H. 4.8 Forthwith upon the charge given to an Enquest in Wales or the Marches thereof upon any traverse against the King or trial of any recognizance broken or any forfeiture due to the King or upon trial of any murderer felon or accessary an officer or other person shall be deputed and sworn in open Court for the true keeping of the Jurors who without special order of the Court shall not suffer them to have any bread drink meat fire or light nor to speak to any person whatsoever nor speak to them himself before they are agreed upon their verdict unless it be only to ask them whether or no they are agreed and all this such◠Keeper shall observe in pain to be imprisoned and fined at the discretion of the Court. VI. Here if the Jurors give any untrue verdict against the King contrary to good and pregnant evidence or otherwise misdemean themselves the Lord President and Council upon complaint thereof have power to convent them before the said Council and to punish them at their discretions VII ☞ Stat. 26 H. 8.6 All persons dwelling in VVales or the Marches thereof upon warning of any Court to be kept within their respective limits shall appear there in proper person to do their service in pain of such Fines forfeitures and amerciaments as shall be assessed upon them by the respective Courts where they owe such service to be levied by distress to the use of the King within his Lordships there and of other Lords marchers within theirs VIII If any Steward or other Officer there do feign any untrue surmise against any person that shall so appear as aforesaid and thereupon commit him to prison contrary to Law or the custom of that Lordship the Commissioners or Council upon complaint have power to send for such Steward or Officer and if upon good proof it be found that the party was so imprisoned without lawful cause they shall assess such Steward or Officer to pay him 6 s. 8 d. for every day of his imprisonment or more at their discretions as the damage shall deserve the Commissioners shall also fine him to the Kings use whether he appear or not and may compell him by imprisonment to pay such fines and penalties both to the King and the party grieved IX None in VVales or the Marches thereof coming to any Sessions or Court there shall bring or cause to be brought thither or to any other place within two miles thereof or to any Town Church Fair Market or other Congregation except upon a Hue and Cry or into the High-way affray of the Peace of the Kings People any Bill Low-Bow Cross-bow hand-gun Sword Staff Dagger Halbert Morespike Spear or any other Weapon Privy Coat or Armour in pain to forfelt the same unless it be by the command or license of the Justices a Steward or other Officer or of the Commissioners or Council there X. None without the Commissioners license in writing shall there or in the Counties thereto adjoyning require or levy any Commorth Bydal Tenants Ale or other collection or exact any money goods or other thing under colour of marriage or suffering of their children saying or finging their first Masses or Gospels of any Priests or Clerks or for the redemption of any murder or other felony or for any other cause whatsoever or shall make or procure to be made any games of running wrastling leaping or any other games the game of shooting only excepted in pain to suffer a years imprisonment and to be fined at the discretion of the Commissioners who shall by this Act have power to hear and determine the said offences Neither shall any cast any Arthell into any Court there by reason whereof it may be letted or discontinued at that time in pain to suffer a years imprisonment XI Courts in Wales and the Marches thereof shall be kept in the most sure and peaceable places of each Lordship Marcher where the Justice Steward or other Officer thereof shall appoint XII Justices of Peace and Goal-delivery in the Counties next adjoyning to VVales where the Kings Writ runneth may hear and determine the offences of counterfeiters washers clippers or diminishers of Coin and all felonies and their accessaries committed in VVales or the Marches thereof And acquittal or fine making for any of the said offences in any Lordship marcher shall be no barr for any person or persons indicted for the same within 2. years next after such offence committed XIII The said Justices of Peace and Goal-delivery have power to award all manner of Process as well of Outlawry as otherwise against every such offender and shall send to the Lord or Officer of the Lordship where the offender is resiant a Certificate under the seals of two of them at least of any such outlawry or attainder commanding him under the pain of 100 l. to be forfeited to the King to apprehend or cause to be apprehended the body of such offender and safely to keep him untill such convenient time before the next Goal-delivery of the
from Church without any lawfull cause impugned the Queen's authority in causes Ecclesiastical or frequented Conventicles or persuaded others so to do under pretence of exercise of Religion they shall be committed to prison and there remain untill they shall conform themselves and make such open submission as hereafter shall be prescribed And if within three moneths after such conviction they refuse to conform and submit themselves being thereunto required by a Justice of Peace they shall in open Assize or Sessions abjure the Realm ☞ and if such abjuration happen to be before Justices of Peace in Sessions they shall make certificate thereof at the next Assize or Gaol-delivery LXXI If such an offender refuse to abjure or going away accordingly doth return without the Queen's license he shall be adjudged a felon and shall not enjoy the benefit of Clergie but if before he be required to abjure he makes his submission the penalties aforesaid shall not be inflicted upon him LXXII The form of the Submission is as followeth I A. B. do humbly confess and acknowledge that I have grievously offended God in contemning her Majestie 's godly and lawfull government and authority by absenting my self from Church and from hearing Divine Service contrary to the godly Statutes and Laws of this Realm and in using and frequenting disordered and unlawfull Conventicles and Assemblies under pretence of Exercise of Religion and I am heartily sorry for the same and do acknowledge and testifie in my conscience that no other person hath or ought to have any power or authority over her Majesty And I do promise and protest without any dissimulation that from henceforth I will from time to time obey and perform her Majestie 's Laws and Statutes in repairing to the Church and hearing Divine Service and do my utmost endeavour to maintain and defend the same LXXIII The Minister of the Parish where the submission is made shall presently enter the same in a Book and within ten days after certifie it to the Bishop of the Diocess LXXIV The offender that after such submission falleth into a relapse shall take no benefit thereby LXXV The forfeitures of this Act and of 23 Eliz. 1. may be recovered by action of debt LXXVI The third part of the penalties which accrue by this Act shall be disposed as those of 29 El. 6. LXXVII A feme covert shall not be compelled to abjure but any other offender that abjures or being required refuseth so to do shall forfeit all his goods and his land during life Howbeit here shall be no corruption of bloud loss of Dower or disherison of heir * LXXVIII Stat. 35 El. 2. Popish Recusants above 16 years of age shall within 40 days after their conviction repair to their usual dwelling and not remove above 5 miles from thence in pain to forfeit all their goods and their lands and annuities during life ☞ And if they have no certain abode then are they to repair to the place where they were born or where their father or mother dwells and within 20 days after their arrival there to give their names in writing to the Minister Constables and Headboroughs which Minister is to enter them in a Book to be kept for that purpose and he together with the said Constables and Headboroughs is to certifie the same to the next Quarter-Session where the Justices of Peace shall cause them to be inrolled LXXIX A Copiholder shall in this case also forfeit his estate during life if his estate continue so long to the Lord of the Mannor if he be no Recusant convict nor seized or possessed in trust to the use of a Recusant for then the Queen shall have the forfeiture LXXX A Popish Recusant being no feme covert not having lands worth 20 marks per annum or goods worth 40 l. which within the time above limited doth not repair to the place of his abode or doth depart above five miles thence or within three moneths after his arrival there doth not make the submission hereafter following being required so to do by the Bishop a Justice of Peace or the Minister there shall before two Justices of Peace or the Coroner abjure the Kingdom which abjuration shall be by the said Justices or Coroner certified in at the next Assize or Gaol-delivery LXXXI If such Popish Recusant depart not the Realm within the time limited by the said Justices or Coroner or return without the Queen's license he shall be adjudged a felon without Clergie LXXXII A Jesuit or Priest refusing to answer shall be committed to prison and there remain till he will answer the questions whereupon he was before examined LXXXIII This Act shall not restrain a Recusant urged by process or summons without fraud to travel without the abovesaid limits so he return again in a convenient time neither him that is compelled to render his body to the Sheriff LXXXIV If such an offender before conviction upon a Sunday or some Festival day repair to Church and there hear Divine Service and before the Gospel make the Confession following he shall be discharged of the penalties inflicted by this Act. The Confession is this LXXXV I A. B. do humbly confess and acknowledge that I have grievously offended God in contemning her Majestie 's godly and lawful government and authority by absenting my self from Church and from hearing Divine Service contrary to the godly Laws and Statutes of this Realm and I am heartily sorry for the same and do acknowledge and testifie in my conscience that the Bishop and See of Rome hath not nor ought to have any power or authority over her Majesty within any of her Majestie 's Realms or Dominions And I do promise and proceed without dissimulation that from henceforth I will from time to time obey and perform her Majestie 's Laws and Statutes in repairing to the Church and hearing Divine Service and do my utter most endeavour to maintain and defend the same LXXXVI The Minister of the Parish where such submission is made shall presently enter the same in a Book and within ten days after certifie it to the Bishop of the Diocess LXXXVII The offender that after such submission falleth into a relapse shall take no benefit thereby LXXXVIII Every married woman shall be bound by this Act save onely by the clause of abjuration LXXXIX Stat. 1 Ja. 1. A Recognition that upon Queen Elizabeth's death the Crown of England and all the Kingdomes Dominions and rights belonging to the same did by lawfull birth-right and succession descend to King James XC Stat. 1 Ja. 1. All the aforesaid Statutes made in the time of Queen Elizabeth shall be duely put in execution against all such as do not conform themselves as aforesaid XCI Where the Ancestor dies a Recusant the heir being none or conforming himself and taking the Oath of Supremacie before the Arch-bishop or Bishop of the Diocess the land shall be freed from all penalties XCII If an heir within age after he shall have
Coroner shall do his office and inrol it And what cannot be determined by the Steward before the Kings departure shall be remitted to the Common Law so that Exigents Outlawries and Presentments shall be made thereupon in Eyre by the Coroner of the County as in case of other Felonies done out of the Verge â— Howbeit they shall not omit by reason hereof to make attachments freshly upon the Felonies done IV. Stat. 5. E. 3.2 Pars inde and 10 E. 3. Stat. 2.2 Inquests before the Steward and Marshal of the Kings house shall be taken by men of the Countrey thereabouts and not by men of the Kings house except it be contracts covenants or trespasses when both parties are of the same house and in the house V. Stat. 9. R. 2.5 Priests and others of the Holy Church taken in the Marshalsey shall pay such fees as Lay-people pay and no more VI. Stat. 13. R. 2. Stat. 1.3 The jurisdiction of the Steward and Marshal of the Kings house shall extend no further then 12 miles from the Kings lodging VII Stat. 4. H. 2.23 The fees of the Marshal of the Kings house shall be as in times past and no more viz. for him that cometh in by Capias 4 d. and if he be bailed 3 d. more of the defendant in trespass that findeth bail to answer the suit 2 d. for every commitment by judgment 4 d. oâ— every one delivered of Felony and of a Felon bailed by the Court 4 d. And if the Marshal or his Officers take more they shall lose their Offices and pay treble damages to the party grieved and that the party grieved have his suit before the Steward of the same Court VIII Here a server of bills shall take no more then 1 d. for every mile distant from the Court to the place where he doth his office but when he serves a vâ—nire facias or a distringas he shall have the double If such an Officer takes more he shall be imprisoned make a Fine to the King at the discretion of the Steward and be from thenceforth fore-judged the Court. IX Stat. 15. H. 6.1 In a suit commenced before the Steward and Marshal of the Kings house the defendant shall not be estopped to plead that the Plaintiff or he are not of the Kings house but his averment thereof shall be received notwithstanding any record of the same Court to be produced to the contrary Marshes Fens c. I. Stat. 4. Jac. 8. An Act for winning from Inundation the drowned grounds and Marshes of Lesnes and Fants in Kent by the 10. of October 1609. See the Statute II. Stat. 4. Jac. 13. Another for draining the Fens and low grounds in the Isle of Ely containing about 6000. Acres compassed about with banks called the Ring of Waldersey and Coldham See also the Statute III. Stat. 7. Jac. 20. A mean to recover a great quantity of ground lately surrounded in Norfolk and Suffolk by the Sea and to prevent the like for the future See the Statute IV. Stat. 15. Car. 2. cap. 17. An Act for setling the draining the great level of the Fens called Bedford Level See the Act at large V. Stat. 16. 17. Car. 2. cap. 11. An Act for draining of the Fen called Deeping Fen and other Fens therein mentioned See the Act at large Masons I. Stat. 3. H. 6.1 It shall be felony to plot confederacies amongst Masons and such as assemble upon such confederacies shall suffer Imprisonment and make fine and ransome at the Kings will ☞ Matrimony and Marriage I. Stat. 32. H. 8.38 Pars inde All Marriages shall be adjudged lawful that are not prohibited by Gods Law II. Stat. 23. E. 6.21 All Laws Canons Constitutions and Ordinances which prohibit marriage to spiritual persons who by Gods Law may marry and all pain and forfeitures therein contained shall be void III. Provided that this Act shall not give liberty to marry without asking in the Church and other Ceremonies appointed by the Book of Common Prayer IV. Degrees and divorces heretofore made are saved V. Stat. 5. E. 6.12 The Marriage of Priests and other spiritual persons shall be lawful and their Children legitimate and inheritable likewise they to be tenants by the Curtesy and their Wives nowable VI. Stat. 1. Jac. 11. A Bigamus shall suffer death as a felon unless he or she have had no notice that the husband or wife was living within seven years before or the marriage be severed by divorce VII This felony shall cause no corruption of blood or loss of dower or inheritance VIII Stat. 12. Car. 2. ca. 33. All Marriages had and solemnized in any of the Kings Dominions since the 1. of May 1642. before any Justice of Peace of England or other his Dominions and so pronounced and declared or had and solemnized according to Act or Ordinance of Parliament or any Convention having that style shall be adjudged good and valid in Law as if the same had been solemnized according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England Mesne I. Stat. Westm 2.9 13. E. 1. The tenant distrained by the Chief Lord may have a writ of Mesne in the County where he is distreined against the Mesne who having land in that County and not appearing till the Grand distress day shall be given in the Grand distress so as two Counties may be holden before the return wherein the Sheriff shall proclaim that he come to answer the tenant at the day at which day if he come not he loseth his service and then the tenant shall answer to the Chief Lord such services as he ought to have done to the Mesne II. The Chief Lord shall not distrein the tenant so long as he offers him the services due and if the Lord exact more then the Mesne ought to do the tenant may have such remedy as the Mesne might have had III. Upon a return that the Mesne hath nothing to be summoned by an attachment shall go out and then upon a Nihil returned the Gâ—aâ—d distress with Proclamation as before IV. The Mesne having no lâ—nd in that County but in another upon such a return by the Sheriff the party shall have a Writ judicial to summon the Mesne in that County where it is testified that he hath lands and both there and in the other County shall proceed to the Grand distress Proclamation and Judgment as before V. The Mesne comming into the Court and acknowledging or being adjudged to acquit the Tenant and not doing it the Tenant shall thereupon have a judicial writ of acquittal whereupon if the Mesne come in and the Tenant can aver that a Mesne hath not acquitted him he shall be satisfied his damages be quit of the Mesne and hold of the chief Lord And here also if the Mesne come not at the first distress then another distress shall go out Proclamation shall be made and Judgment had as before VI. This Statute extendeth only where there is but one Mesne
Justices to the Churchwardens or Overseers of the poor if not paid within ten dayes V. All Deanes Canons Prebendaries Masters Fellows of Colledges c. Parsons Vicars Lecturers Schoolmasters c. enjoyned to take and subscribe the Declaration following J. A. B. do declare that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King and that I do abhor that trayterous position of taking Arms by his Authority against his Person or against those that are Commissioned by him And that I will conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England as it is now by Law established And I do declare that I do hold there lies no obligation upon me or any other person from the Oath commonly called the Solemn League and Covenant to endeavour any change or alteration of Government either in Church or State And that the same was in it self an unlawful Oath and imposed upon the Subjects of this Realm against the known Laws and liberties of the Kingdom The same shall be subscribed by the Heads of Colledges c. in the Universities before the Vicechancellor or his Deputy And before the Archbishop or Ordinary of the Diocess by every other person upon pain of forfeiture and loss of their places as if dead VI. Schoolmasters or Tutors that shall teach any youth in any private house without licence from the Archbishop or Ordinary of the Diocess shall for the first offence suffer 3 months imprisonment for every second or other 3 months imprisonment and forfeit 5 l. VII Every Parson Vicar Curate and Lecturer after subscription made shall procure a Certificate under the hand and seal of the Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocess and publickly read the same together with the said Declaration upon some Lords day within 3 months then next following in his Parish Church where he is to officiate in the presence of the Congregation there assembled in the time of Divine Service upon pain of being deprived ipso facto and his place void as if dead VIII After the 25th of March 1662. the words following part of the Declaration shall be omitted viz. And I do declare that I do hold there lies no obligation on me or any other person from the Oath commonly called the Solemn League and Covenant to endeavour any change or alteration of Government either in Church or State and that the same was in it self an unlawful Oath and imposed upon the Subjects of this Realm against the known Laws and liberties of this Kingdom and none shall thenceforth subscribe or read the same IX No person not ordained according to the form of Episcopal Ordination shall hold any Benefice with cure or Ecclesiastical promotion nor be capable of any such benefice nor administer the Sacrament not being ordained a Priest according to the form of the foresaid Book upon pain to forfeit for every offence 100 l. one moyety to the King the other moyety to the party that will sue for the same X. Provided the penalties in this Act extend not to Aliens of foreign reformed Churches allowed by the King XI Provided no title of laps accrue by any avoidance or deprivation by this Act but after 6 months after notice given by the Ordinary to the Patron or such sentence of deprivation openly read in the Parish Church becoming void by this Act. XII No other Form of Common Prayer shall be used in any Church Chappel or publick place Colledge or Hall of the Universities And all Governors and Heads of Colledges in the Universities shall within a month after admission to his place openly in the Church Chappel or publick place of the Colledge in the presence of the Fellows and Scholars of the same subscribe the 39 Articles of Religion mentioned in the Stat. 13 El. Ca. 12. and declare his approbation of the said Book of Common Prayer And all the said Governours or Heads shall read the morning Prayer according to the said Book once every quarter publickly in their Church Chappels or other publick place upon pain of suspension for 6 months from their place and if he shall not subscribe to the said Articles and Book within the said 6 months then the place to be void Provided the said Book may be used in Latine in Colledges XIII None shall preach or read as a Lecturer without Licence of the Archbishop or Bishop of the Diocess And all Lecturers shall declare their consent to the 39 Articles aforesaid and shall openly read the Common Prayers and declare their approbation thereof and shall read the same the first Lecture-day of every month and after reading declare their approbation thereof upon pain to be disabled to preach or read any Lecture until he shall conform XIV Provided it shall suffice that Lecturers in Cathedral Churches only declare their assent to the said Book XV. If any person so disabled shall preach any Lecture or Sermon the person so offending shall suffer 3 months imprisonment in the common Goal And any two Justices of the Peace and the Mayor or other chief Officer of any City or Town Corporate upon Certificate from the Ordinary of the place made to him or them of the offence committed shall commit the person offending to the Goal accordingly XVI The Common Prayer shall be read before every Sermon or Lecture and the Lecturer that shall preach shall be present at the same Provided this Clause extend not to Sermons or Lectures preached as publick University Sermons XVII The several Laws and Statutes formerly made for uniformity of Prayer and now in force shall be put in ure for punishment of offences against the Book established by this Act 1 El. Ca. 2. 23 El. Ca. 1. Proviso the names of the King and Queen be fitted in the Prayers Letanies and Collects according to the present occasion XVIII The Books of Common Prayer shall be provided by every Parish Chapelry Cathedral Church Colledge and Hall upon penalty of 3 l. a month for lack thereof for every month after St. Bartholmews day 1662. XIX Provisoe that the Bishops of Hereford St. Davids St. Asaph Bangor and Landoff do take care for translating the said Book into the Welsh Tongue for Printing and providing the same in every Parish there XX. True Copies of the said Book of Common Prayer shall be exemplified under the great Seal of England and kept in the several Courts of Westminster and Tower of London to be produced and shewed forth in Court as need shall be XXI Provided this Act be not prejudicial to the Kings Professor of Law in the University of Oxford concerning the Prebend of Shipton in the Cathedral Church of Sarum united to the said Professors place by King James XXII Proviso whereas the clause in the 36th Article mentions the Book established by K. E. 6. It shall extend to the Book of Common-prayer established by this Act. See the precedent Laws of this matter Title Crown and Title Service and Sacraments XXIII Stat. 15. Car. 2. Ca. 6. Stat.
six weeks after conviction shall suffer instead thereof three months imprisonment without bail for the second time offending shall forfeit 20 l. or that not paid within six weeks as aforesaid shall suffer six months imprisonment without bail and the third time shall forfeit all their goods and suffer imprisonment during life IX Justices of Oyer and Terminer and Justices of Assize have power to hear and determine these offences unto whom the Archbishop or Bishop of the Diocess may associate himself if he please X. This shall not restrain any private man or publick Colledges to use the said Service in such Tongues as they understand the holy Communion only excepted or any other to use Psalms or Prayers taken out of the Bible at convenient times not letting thereby the said Service XI The offences aforesaid shall be prosecuted at the next Assize or Sessions of Oyer and Terminer after they are committed And here tryal of Deers shall be by Peers XII Chief Officers of Cities and Corporations shall also hear and determine these offences within their several Precincts and so likewise shall Ecclesiastical Magistrates Howbeit none shall be punished above once for one offence XIII Stat. 5. 6 E. 6.1 Every person shall resort to his parish-Parish-Church or Chappel or upon just let to go to some other every Sunday and Holiday in pain to be punished by the Censure of the Church XIV The common-prayer-Common-Prayer-Book now made perfect and annexed to this Act together with the addition of consecrating Archbishops Bishops Priests and Deacons shall be used and esteemed as by the Statute of 2. 3 E. 6.1 is ordained under the pains in that Statute expressed XV. If any shall be convicted by Verdict of twelve men before Justices of Assize Oyer Terminer or Peace in Sessions to have wittingly heard or have been present at any other form of Common-Prayer Administration of Sacraments making of Ministers or other rites then what are expressed in the said Book or which are contrary to the said Statute of 2. and 3 E. 6.1 shall for the first offence suffer six months imprisonment without bail for the second twelve months imprisonment and for the third imprisonment during life XVI Stat. 1. M. Sess 2. cap. 3. If any shall disturb a Preaches lawfully licensed he shall be by the Constables or Churchwardens of the Parish brought before a Justice of Peace who upon due accusation shall presently commit him to safe custody and within six dayes after together with another Justice shall diligently examine the fact who if they find cause shall commit him to the common Goal there to remain for three months and from thence to the next Quarter-Sessions at which upon the parties reconciliation and entring into Bond for good behaviour for one whole year at the discretion of the Justices in Sessions he shall be released but if he persist still in his obstinacy he shall remain in prison without bail untill he shall reconcile and be penitent for his offence XVII He that rescues an offender in this kind shall suffer like imprisonment as aforesaid and besides shall forfeit 5 l. to the Queen XVIII The Inhabitants of a Town that suffer such an offender to escape shall forfeit 5 l. being presented before the Justices of Peace in Sessions within the County or Corporation where the escape was made XIX Justices of Peace Assize and Oyer and Terminer and Mayor and Head-officers of Corporations have power to hear and determine these offences and to impose the fines aforesaid XX. This Act shall not restrain the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Laws Howbeit none shall be punished here for one offence XXI Stat. 1 El. 1. Every Minister shall use the Church-Service in such form as is mentioned in the Book of Common-Prayer established by 5. 6 E. 6.1 together with the addition of certain Lessons to be used on every Sunday in the year and the form of the Letany altered and corrected and two Sentences only added in the delivery of Sacrament to Communicants XXII If any Minister shall be convicted by the Verdict of twelve men his own confession or notorious evidence of the fact to have refused to use the Church-Service or to have used any other rite Ceremony Order Form or manner then is set forth in the said Book or to have depraved the same Book or any thing therein contained he shall forfeit being a Beneficed man fon the first offence one whole years profit of all his Spiritual promotions and suffer fix months imprisonment for the second shall be deprived ipso facto whereupon every Patron may present and shall suffer one whole years imprisonment And for the third shall be also deprived as aforesaid and suffer imprisonment during life And if he be not Beneficed for the first offence he shall suffer one whole years Imprisonment and for the second imprisonment duâ—ng life XXIII If any shall be convicted to have by Enterludes Playes Songs Rhymes or otherwise depraved the said Book or to have compelled or procured the Minister to sing or say any other Church-Service or in any other form then as aforesaid or by any such means have interrupted or let the Minister to sing or say the said Service they shall for the first offence forfeit 100 Marks to the Queen or that not paid within six weeks after conviction shall suffer instead thereof six months imprisonment for the second offence shall forfeit 400 Marks or that not paid within six weeks as aforesaid shall suffer one whole years imprisonment and for the third offence shall forfeit all their goods and chattels and suffer imprisonment during life XXIV Every person shall resort to their Parish Church or upon let thereof to some other every Sunday and holiday upon pain to be punished by censures of the Church and also to forfeit 12 d. to be levied by the Churchwardens there for the use of the poor upon the offenders goods by way of distress XXV Justices of Oyer and Terminer and of Assize and Mayors and Head-officers of Corporations have power to hear and determine these offences unto whom the Archbishop or Bishop of the Diocess may associate himself if he please howbeit Note that by the Statute of 23 El. 1. Justices of Peace have also power to meddle therein which see in title Crown XXVI None shall be impeached by this Act unless the offence be presented at the next Sessions of Oyer and Terminer or Assize after it is committed and here tryal of a Peer shall be by Peers XXVII This Act shall not restrain Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction howbeit none shall be punished twice for one offence XXVIII Such Ornaments and Ministers of the Church shall be retained as were to be in the Church of England by the Statute of 2. 3 El. 6.1 untill the Queen shall take other order by the advice of Commissioners by her to be appointed under the Great Seal or by the advice of the Metropolitan of this Realm XXIX If any contempt or irreverence be used in the
Ceremonies or Rites of the Church by mis-using the Orders appointed in the Book of Common-Prayer the Queen by like advice of the said Commissioners or Metropolitan may ordain such further Ceremonies or Rites as may be most for Gods glory the edifying of the Church and reverence of Christs holy Ministeries and Sacraments XXX All other Laws made for other service shall be void XXXI Stat. 5 El. 28. An Act for translating of the Bible and Book of Common-Prayer into the Welsh Tongue Also there shall be an English Bible and Book of Common Prayer in every Church of Wales XXXII Stat. 3 Jac. 1. All Ministers in every Cathedral and Parish Church or other usual place for Common Prayer within the Kings Dominions shall alwayes upon the fifth day of November say morning Prayer and give thanks to God for the happy deliverance of the King Queen Prince and both Houses of Parliament upon that day XXXIII Every person within the Kings Dominions shall alwayes upon that day diligently resort to his Parish Church or Chappel or to some usual Church or Chappel where the said Common Prayer Preaching and other service of God shall be used and there orderly abide during the said solemnity XXXIV Every Minister shall give warning publickly in the Church at morning Prayer the Sunday before every such fifth of November for the due observation of the said day and after morning Prayer or Preaching upon the said fifth day of November shall read publickly and distinctly this present Act. See more Title Religion Severn I. Stat. 34. 35 H. 8.9 A penalty for casting any Ballast or Robul in King-rode in any part of the Haven in Bristol II. None shall load any Corn in any Vessel by the water of Severn to be transported beyond Sea before he be bound to the Customer of Bristol to bring it first to Bristol to be there viewed by the Mayor there for the time being in pain to forfeit both the grain and Vessel III. The penalty where one bringeth more Corn to Bristol to be measured and thence to be transported then is contained in his Cocket or License which is to be delivered unto him by the said Mayor when he takes bond of him as aforesaid IV. The penalty for denying to measure the Corn at Bristol is five pounds for every time to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor See the Statute at large ☞ Sewers I. Stat. 6 H. 6.5 During ten years several Commissions of Sewers shall be made to divers persons by the Chancellor of England to be sent into all parts of the Realm where need shall be according to the form in the said Statute expressed for which see the Statute at large being here omitted because a latter Commission was afterwards ordained by the Statute of 23 H. 8.5 which see after in the proper place II. Stat. 8 H. 6.3 Commissioners of Sewers shall have power to do ordain and execute all such Statutes Ordinances and other things as shall be made according to the effect and purport of the Commission of Sewers ordained by the Statute of 6 H. 6.5 III. Stat. 18 H. 6.10 Commission of Sewers shall be awarded where need shall require during ten years IV. Stat. 23 H. 6.9 The Chancellor of England may grant Commissions of Sewers during fifteen years V. Stat. 12 E. 4.6 The Chancellor of England may grant Commissions of Sewers for 15 years where need shall require VI. Stat. 4 H. 7.1 Commissions of Sewers shall be granted during 25 years VII Stat. 6 H. 8.10 Commissions of Sewers shall be granted during ten years according to the Statute of 6 H. 6.5 and 4 H. 7.1 VIII Stat. 23 H. 8.5 Commissions of Sewers shall be directed into all parts of the Realm from time to time where and when need shall require according to the manner form and tenor hereafter following to such substantial and indifferent persons as shall be named by the Lord Chancellor and Lord Treasurer of England and the two Chief Justices or any three of them whereof the Lord Chancellor is to be one IX Henry the eighth c. Know ye that forasmuch as the walls ditches banks gutters Sewers Gates Calcies Bridges streams and other defences by the Coasts of the Sea and Marsh-ground being and lying within the limits of A. B. and C. in the County or Counties of 〈…〉 or in the borders or confines of the same by rage of the Sea flowing and re-flowing and by means of the trenches of fresh water descending and having course by divers wayes to the Sea be so dirupt lacerate and broken And also the common passages of Ships Ballengers and Boats in the rivers streams and other floods within the limits of A. B. and C. in the County or Counties of 〈…〉 or in the borders or confines of the same by mean of setting up erecting and making streams mills bridges ponds fishgarths mill-dams locks habbing-wears hecks flood-gates or other lets impediments or annoyances be letted or interrupted so that great and inestimable damago for default of reparation of the said Walls Ditches Banks Fences Sewers Gates Gutters Calcies Bridges and streams and also by mean of setting up and erecting making and enlarging of the said fish-garths mill-dams locks hebbing-wears hecks flood-gates and other annoyances in times past hath happened and yet is to be feared that far greater hurt loss and damage is like to ensue unless that speedy remedy be provided in that behalf X. We therefore for that by reason of our Dignity and Prerogative Royal we be bound to provide for the safety and preservation of our Realm of England willing that speedy remedy be had in the premisses have assigned you and six of you of the which we will that A. B. and C. shall be three to be our Justices to survey the said Walls Streams Ditches Banks Gutters Sewers Gates Calcies Bridges Trenches Mills Mill-dams Flood-gates Ponds Locks Hebbing-wears and other impediments lets and annoyances aforesaid and the same cause to be made corrected repaired amended put down or reformed as cause shall require after your wisdomes and discretions And therein as well to ordain and do after the tenor form and effect of all and singular the Statutes and Ordinances made before the first day of March in the three and twentieth year of Our Reign touching the premisses or any of them as also to enquire by the oaths of the honest and lawful men of the said Shire or Shires place or places where such defaults or annoyances be as well within Liberties as without by whom the truth may the rather be known through whose default the said hurts and damages have happened and who hath or holdeth any lands or tenements or common of Pasture or profit of fishing or hath or may have any hurt loss or disadvantage by any manner of means in the said places as well near to the said dangers lets and impediments as inhabiting or dwelling thereabouts by the said walls ditches banks gutters gates sewers trenches and
III. Stat. 9 R. 2.2 Because divers Villeins and Neifs did fly to London and other enfranchised places and there did feign divers suits against their Lords with intent to make themselves free by their Lords answers it was ordained that from henceforth no Lord should be barred of his Villein because of his answer in Law Union and severing of Churches I. Stat. 37 H. 8.21 An Union or Consolidation of two Churches in one or of a Church and a Chappel in one the one of them not being above the yearly value of 6 l. in the Kings books nor distant from the other above a mile may be had and made by the assent of the Ordinary the Incumbents and all such as have a just right title and interest to the Patronages thereof being of full age And all such Union and Consolidation shall remain as good in Law as if it had been so declared by writing under the seals of such Ordinary Incumbents and Patrons II. All such Unions heretofore made are confirmed Howbeit the Kings tenths and First-Fruits of such Churches and Chappels already or hereafter to be so consolidated are saved III. Such consolidations shall not be in Corporate Towns without the consent of the Magistrates thereof declared in writing under their Common Seal IV. Provided that where the Inhabitants of any such Parish or the more part of them within a year after such Union by their writing sufficient in Law shall assure the Incumbent there and his successors so much money yearly which together with the value thereof in the Kings books shall amount to 8 l. that then such union shall be void Howbeit this proviso shall not extend to any such Union made before this Statute V. Stat. 1 E. 6.9 An Act for uniting certain Churches in York with divers clauses concerning that matter VI. Stat. 1 M. Parl. 1.14 An Act for re-edifying the Church of St. Ellens in Stangate in York which was demolished by the former Statute See these Statutes at large Universities I. Stat. 2 3 P. M. 15. No Purveyor Taker Badger Loader or other Minister shall take or Bargain for any Victual or Grain in the Markets of Oxford or Cambridg or in any part of the said City and Town or within five miles compass of either of them without the consent of the owner nor shall take away or bargain for any such commodity bought or provided within the said five miles by any common Minister of any Colledg or Hall there to be spent in such Colledg or Hall in pain to forfeit the quadruple value thereof and to suffer three Monthes imprisonment without bail II. The Chancellor or Vice-Chancellor or his Commissary in either of the said Universities with two Justices of Peace of the County adjacent have power to inquire hear and determine the said offences III. The forfeitures shall be divided betwixt the University where such offence is committed and the prosecutor and may be recovered in any Court of Record or before the said Chancellor Vice-Chancellor or Commissary and two Justices IV. This Act shall be suspended during the Queens presence her Heirs and Successors or within seven miles distance therefrom V. The Liberties of the Mayors Bailiffs and Communalties of Oxford and Cambridg are saved * VII Stat. 13 El. 21. No Purveyor Taker Badger Loader Poulterer or other Minister of the Queen her heirs and successors shall take or Bargain for any grain or other victual in either of the said Universities nor within the compass of five miles from either of them without licence of either of the said Chancellors or Vice-Chancellors in writing under the seal of their Office and not otherwise then as in the said licence is expressed and so as the same give unto them no further power then they may lawfully use in other parts of the Countrey without the said five miles neither shall they take away or bargain for any such commodity bought and provided for any Colledg or Hall to be spent within the same without such licence as aforesaid upon such pains and forfeitures as by the Statute of 2 3 P. M. 15. are ordained and to like uses as are therein limited VII The said Chancellors or Vice-Chancellors with two Justices of Peace of the Universities City Town or County shall inquire hear and determine the said offences as by the Statute of 2.3 P. M. is appointed VIII If any person within the said five miles refuse to serve the Universities then it shall be lawful for the Queens Purveyors to provide for the Queens use any corn or victual of any such person within the said five miles as shall be declared to the said Purveyors to be persons not worthy of the said priviledge for not serving the Universities by the Chancellor or Vice-Chancellor with the consent of two such Justices as aforesaid under the hands and seals of the said Chancellor or Vice-Chancellor and two Justices in such sort as the said Purveyors lawfully may in any other place without the said five miles and not otherwise IX This Act shall be in suspence during the Queens presence there or within seven miles distance X. The Liberties of the Majors Bailiffs and Communalties of Oxford and Cambridge are saved Voucher I. Marlbr 29. 52 H. 3. None vouched to Warranty before Justices in Eyre in plea of land shall be amerced because he was not present when he was vouched except it be the first day of the comming of the Justices but if the party be within the County the Sheriff shall cause him to come in within three or four dayes and if out of the County he shall have summons of 15 dayes at least II. West 1.39 3. E. 1. In Writs of Possession as Mortdancester Cosinage Ayel nuper obiit intrusion or the like whereby land is demanded which ought to descend revert remain or Escheat by the death of any Ancestor or otherwise if the tenant vouch to Warranty and the demandant will counter-plead him and aver by assize or by the Countrey as the Court shall award that the tenant or his Ancestor whose heir he is was the first that entred after the death of him of whose seisin he demandeth this averment shall be received if the tenant will abide thereupon but if not he shall be compelled to another answer unless he have his Warrantor present who will immediately enter into the Warranty And then also the demandant may have the like exception against the Vouchee as he had against â—he first tenant III. In a Writ of Entry in the degrees none shall vouch out of the line IV. In Writs of right and of possession as before it is also a good counter-plea that neither the Vouchee nor his Ancestors had ever seisin of the land or any thing in the services by the hand of the tenant or his ancestors from the time of the seisin whereof the demandant declares until the Writ purchased so that he might a feofment make to the tenant or his ancestors and this averment of the
the Chancery in one case a Writ is found and in another case falling under like law and requiring like remedy there is found none the Clerks of the Chancery shall agree in making the Writ or the Plaintiffs may adjourn it untill the next Parliament and then the cases being written in which they cannot agree let them refer themselves to the next Parliament where by the consent of men learned in the Law a Writ shall be framed lest the Kings Court should fail to administer Justice to complainants II. West 2.49 13 E. 1. Pars inde Where the Law faileth lest Suitors should depart from the Kings Court without remedy Writs shall be provided in their cases III. Stat. 6 R. 2. Stat. 1.2 If in Writs of debt accompt and the like it shall be declared that the contract thereof was made in another County then is contained in the original Writ such Writ shall be abated Vid. Title Arrests Numb 4. Yarn I. Stat. â— H. 6.23 NOne shall export any Thrums or Woollen Yarn under colour of Thrums in pain to forfeit the double value thereof York I. Stat. 29 H. 6.3 All Letters Parents granted to Citizens of York to be exempt of the offices of Mayoralty Sherifwick Chamberlain Collector of Dismes and Quinzims and Citizen for the Parliament shall be void and the Citizen who purchaseth or taketh such exemption shall forfeit 40 l. to the King and Mayor and Citizens of York II. Stat. 34 35 H. 8.10 An Act for making of Coverlets within York and none shall be made to be put to sale in Yorkshire but onely in the Town of York together with divers other good provisions touching that subject For which see the Statute at large The New ACTS lately made at Oxon. Anno 17º Caroli Secundi Regis Abridged and here added by way of APPENDIX Non-conformists I. Stat. 17 Car. 2. Cap. 1. apud Oxon. ENacted That all Parsons Vicars Curates Lecturers and other persons in or pretending to serve in Holy Orders and all Stipendaries or other persons who have been possessed of any Ecclesiastical or Spiritual Promotion and who have not declared their assent and subscribed the Declaration mentioned in the ACT of 14 Car. 2. For Uniformity of Publique Prayers c. And shall not take and subscribe the Oath following I A. B. Do swear That it is not lawfull upon any pretence what soever to take up Arms against the King And that I do abhor that Trayterous Position of taking Arms by his Authority against his Person or against those that are Commissionated by him in pursuance of such Commissions And that I will not at any time endeavour any alteration of Government either in Church or State II. And all such persons who shall take upon them to preach in any unlawful assembly conventicle or meeting under colour or pretence of any exercise of Religion contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom shall not at any time after the 24th of March 1665 unless in passing upon the Road come or be within five miles of any City or Town Corporate or Borough that sends Burgesses to the Parliament within England Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or within five miles of any Parish Town or Place wherein he or they have since the Act of Oblivion been Parson Vicar Curate Stipendary or Lecturer or taken upon them to preach in any unlawful Assembly Conventicle or Meeting under colour or pretence of any exercise of Religion contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom before he or they have taken and subscribed the said Oath before the Justices of the Peace at their Quarter-Sessions to be holden at the Division next to the Corporat on City or Borough Parish Place or Town in open Court which the said Justices are impowred to administer upon forfeiture for every such offence the sum of forty pounds one third thereof to his Majesty and his Successors the other third part to the poor of the Parish where the offence is committed the other third part to the person that will sue for the fame by Action of Debt Plaint Bill or Information in any Court of Record at Westminster or before any Justices of Assize Oâ—er and Terminer or Goal Delivery Justices of the Counties Palatine of Chester Laâ—caster or Durham Great Sessions in Wales or Justices of the Peace in their Quarter-Sessions no Essoin Protection or Wager of Law to be allowed III. It shall not be lawfull for any person or persons restrained from coming to any City Town Corporate Burrough Parish Town or Place as aforesaid or for any other person or persons as shall not first take and subscribe the said oath and as shall not frequent Divine Service established by the Law of this Kingdom and carry him or her self reverently there to teach any publique or private School or take any Boarders or Tablers to be taught or instructed by him or her self or any other upon pain of forty pounds for every offence to be recovered and distributed as aforesaid IV. Any two Justices of the Peace in the respective County upon oath to them of any offence against this Act which oath they are impowred to administer may commit the offender for six moneths without Bail unless before such Commitment he shall before the said Justices of the Peace swear and subscribe the said Oath and Declaration Provided That appearance to any Subpoena Warrant or Process whereby persoâ—al appearance is required shall not be construed an offence within this Act. Churches and Chappell 's I. An Act for uniting Churches and Chappels in Towns Corporate See 27 Car. 2. Cap. 3. Apud Oxon. Books and Printing I. Stat. 17 Car. 2. Cap. 4. apud Oxon. The Act for preventing abuses in Printing Seditions Treasonable and unlicensed Pamphlets and for regulating Printing continued in force untill the end of the first Session of the next Parliament II. And further That after the 26. of September 1665. every Printer within London or any other places except the two Universities shall reserve three printed Copies of the best and largest Paper of every Book new printed or reprinted with additions and shall before any publique sale of the said Book bring them to the Master of the Company of Stationers and deliver them to him one whereof shall within ten dayes after be delivered to the Keeper of his Majesties Library and the other two within the said ten dayes to be sent to the Vice-Chancellors of the Two Universities respectively for the use of their publique Libraries III. And the Printers in the said Universities respectively after the said 26th of December shall deliver one such printed Copy as aforesaid so new printed or reprinted in the said Universities to the Keeper of the Kings Library as aforesaid as also to the Vice-Chancellors of either of the said Universities for the time being two other such printed Copies for their publique respective Libraries And for default of so doing by the Printer or Master of the Company of Stationers