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A39473 An exact abridgment of all the statutes of King William and Queen Mary now in force and use / by J. Washington.; Laws, etc. England and Wales.; Washington, Joseph, d. 1694. 1694 (1694) Wing E913; ESTC R23866 210,071 247

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provide each their Souldier with pay in Hand not exceeding one Months Pay as if all the Pay before advanced and provided had been re-imbursed Oaths I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 6. The Oath herein after mentioned shall be administred to King William and Queen Mary at the time of their Coronation viz. The Archbishop or Bishop shall say Will you solemnly promise and swear to Govern the People of this Kingdom of England and the Dominions thereunto belonging according to the Statutes in Parliament agreed on and the Laws and Customs of the same The King and Queen shall say I solemnly promise so to do Archbishop or Bishop Will you to your Power cause Law and Justice in mercy to be executed in all your Judgments King and Queen I will Archbishop or Bishop Will you to the utmost of your Power maintain the Laws of God the true Profession of the Gospel and the Protestant reformed Religion established by Law And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of this Realm and to the Churches committed to their charge all such Rights and Priviledges as by Law do or shall appertain unto them or any of them King and Queen All this I promise to do After this the King and Queen laying his and her Hand upon the Holy Gospels shall say King and Queen The Things which I have here before promised I will perform and keep So help me God Then the King and Queen shall kiss the Book II. The said Oath shall be in like manner administred to every King or Queen who shall succeed III. Stat. Anno 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 8. Henceforth no Persons shall be obliged to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy or either of them by force of the Acts of 1 Eliz. or 3 Jac. or any other Statute and the said Oaths are hereby abrogated II. The Oaths appointed by this present Act to be taken and the Declaration appointed by this Act to be made c. shall be taken made repeated and subscribed by such as were required by any Act to take the said abrogated Oaths or either of them before such Persons as hereafter is expressed viz. Archbishops and Bishops and all above the Degree of a Baron of Parliament in the Court of Chancery or Kings Bench between the hours of 9 and 12 in the Forenoon before the end of Trin. Term next or at the General Quarter-Sessions for that County or Place where they shall be or reside between the said hours before the first day of August next IV. Other such Persons shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration before such Persons as by any Act were authorized to tender the said abrogated Oaths V. All Persons other than such concerning whom other provision shall be made in this Act or Session of Parliament that shall be admitted into any Office or Imployment Ecclesiastical or Civil or come into any capacity by reason whereof they should have been obliged to take the said abrogated Oaths or either of them shall take the Oaths hereby appointed in such manner as they ought to have taken the former Oaths and under the same Penalties Forfeitures Disabilities and incapacities VI. If any Person now having any such Office or Imployment neglect or refuse to take the said Oaths before the first day of August next or sooner if required by order of Council such Office and Imployment shall be void VII Archbishops or Bishops and other Persons now having any Ecclesiastical Dignity Benefice c. neglecting or refusing to take the said Oaths before the first day of August next shall be suspended for six months from the said first of August and if they shall not within the said space of six months take the said Oaths they shall be ipso facto deprived and are hereby adjudged to be deprived VIII Governors Heads or Fellows of Colledges or Halls in either University or of any other Colledge Masters of Hospitals or Schools Professors of Divinity Law Physick or other Science in either University or in London neglecting or refusing as aforesaid before the first day of August next shall be suspended six months to be accounted as aforesaid and if they shall not within the said space of six months take the said Oaths their Offices Imployments Masterships Governments Fellowships and Professorships shall be void IX Other Persons refusing to take the said Oaths being lawfully tendred shall be committed by the Persons tendring the same to the Common Gaol or House of Correction for three months without Bail or Mainprize unless such Offenders shall pay down 40 s. or such lesser Sum as the Persons tendring the said Oaths shall require which Mony shall go to the relief of the Poor of the Parish or Place where such Offender did last reside and if at the end of three months such Persons shall again refuse c. they shall be committed as aforesaid for six months unless they shall pay down such Sum of Mony as the Persons tendring the said Oaths shall require not exceeding 10 l. nor under 5 l. the said Mony to be disposed as aforesaid and unless such Offenders shall become bound with two Sureties to be of the Good Behaviour and appear at the next Assizes or General Gaol-delivery for the place where they shall reside at which Assizes or Gaol-delivery the said Oath shall be again tendred in open Court and upon refusal the Persons refusing shall be adjudged incapable of any Office Civil or Military and be bound to their Good Behaviour till they take the said Oaths and if such Persons shall refuse to make and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in the Statute of the 30th Year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government c. they shall be taken and deemed Popish Recusants convict to all intents and purposes X. Commission-Officers and Non-Commission or Warrant-Officers now employed by Sea or Land shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the last mentioned Declaration before the Lord Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty or their Deputies or such as their Majesties shall appoint to administer them And all Persons hereafter to be put into any such Imployment shall before the delivery of their Commission or Warrant take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration before the Lord Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty or their Deputies or such as shall issue such Commission or Warrant or such as shall be authorized to administer the same as aforesaid and in case of refusal shall be incapable of taking or executing such Office or Imployment XI The Oath appointed by the Statute of 13 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for the ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom And so much of a Declaration prescribed in another Act made in the same Year Entituled An Act for the Uniformity of Publick Prayers c. as is expressed in these Words viz. I A. B.
all Sheriffs Mayors Bailiffs Constables and other Officers are required to be aiding in the execution of this Act No Officer whatsoever relating to the Customs shall sign suffer or allow of any Warrant or Order for delivering of any Goods prohibited by this Act to any Person or into any Place other than into one of their Majesties Ware-houses there to remain till Judgment pass according to this Act nor shall any Person whatsoever relating to the Customs by virtue or colour of any Warrant or Order take up or deliver any the said Goods or suffer them to be carried to any other place than one of the Kings Ware-Houses there to remain as aforesaid And such Goods brought into the Kings Ware-houses shall be forthwith viewed in the presence of two or more principal Officers of that Port whereof the Collector Customer or Customers Deputy to be one and the marks and numbers of each Vessel or Package and the quality and quantity of the said Goods and the time when brought in and of their delivery out of the said Ware-houses shall by special direction of the Commissioners or other Chief Officers of the Customs be registred in a Book to be kept for that purpose and for entry of Claims which examination shall be repeated and entred as aforesaid after condemnation at the delivery of them out to be destroyed and compared with the first Entry to prevent Fraud or Imbezilment and if any such be found the same to be entred and subscribed in the said Book by the principal Officer of the Port not having charge of the Ware-house and Copies of the Entries Examinations and Claims and a true Certificate of the deduction of the said Goods shall be transmitted to the Commissioners of the Customs with monthly Abstracts of the said Ports of which a distinct account shall be kept by the Officers of the Seizures in the Port of London IV. Such Goods shall not be delivered out of any the said Ware-houses till a Judgment or Condemnation have passed upon them otherwise than to be produced at a Trial to be had touching the unlawful importing the same or for the recovery of any Penalty incurred thereby V. If any Person not being a known Merchant Vintner or Shop-keeper shall after the first day of September 1689. sell or expose to sale any of the Commodities hereby prohibited they shall over and above the Penalties aforesaid suffer twelve months Imprisonment VI. Vessels with all their Guns and Furniture in which any such Commodities shall after the said 24th day of August be imported and every Bark Lighter or other Vessel out of which they shall be put on Shore shall be forfeited and the Master or other Person taking care of such Vessel for the Voyage or out of which any of the said Commodities shall be unshipt into any Hoy c. to be put on Shore shall forfeit 500 l. and also being apprehended by a Justice of Peace's Warrant and the Fact proved before one or more Justices by the Oath of two Witnesses shall be committed to the next Gaol for twelve months and Seamen Watermen Carmen and other Persons assisting in the landing or conveying any of the said Commodities by Land or Water shall upon examination and proof as aforesaid be subject to like Imprisonment or be publickly whipt at the Justices discretion and the Carts Teams Carriages Horses and Oxen made use of in such Carriages or Conveyance may be seiz'd and stay'd and upon proof before Justice of Peace by the Oaths of two Witnesses that they were made use of in moving or conveying any Goods hereby prohibited to be imported they shall be forfeited the one half to the use of the Poor of the Parish the other to his use that shall seize the same and if the Master or other Person belonging to any Vessel laden or part laden with any the said Commodities shall after the said 24th day of August unship or wittingly suffer to be unshipt any the said prohibited Goods either at Sea or in any Harbor Creek or Bay of the Kingdoms aforesaid he shall forfeit 500 l. and suffer Imprisonment as aforesaid VII No Brandy Aqua-vita Spirits or distilled Waters of any place whatsoever shall after the said 24th of August be imported in England or Ireland or any the said Islands on pain to forfeit the fame and the Ship or Vessel in which it shall be imported VIII The values and prices of the said Goods shall be reckoned as followeth viz. A Tun of Wines 30 l. a Tun of Brandy 40 l. and so proportionably Other Commodities aforesaid that are valued in the Book of Rates shall be esteemed according to their value there and the Prices of Commodities not rated there shall be determin'd by the Jury that shall try the cause or shall be empannelled to enquire whether the Goods were of the Product or Manufacture of the French Kings Dominions and in case of Condemnation by default the value to be determin'd by a Jury return'd before the Mayor or Bailiff of the City or Town Corporate or before the next Justice of Peace where the Goods shall be brought IX Persons prosecuting shall be rewarded with one third part of the value of the Goods prosecuted to condemnation and destruction to be Owners X. And the residue of the Forfeitures and Penalties before mentioned and not before disposed of shall be divided into three parts two thirds to their Majesties and one third to such as shall seize or sue for the same the Charge of such Prosecution to be born by their Majesties and issued by the Receiver General of the Customs by Warrant from the Commissioners XI No Foreigner or other Person shall be admitted to claim any of the said Goods till security given to the satisfaction of the Collector to answer to such Penalties as shall be incurred by him as the Importer or which the Owner Importer or Possessor thereof is shall or may be liable to by this Act. XII If any Person belonging to the Customs shall connive at the Importation of any the said Commodities he shall not only forfeit 500 l. to be recovered as aforesaid but be made incapable of any Office or Imployment under their Majesties and forfeit the Penalties of their Bonds for true performance of their Trust XIII Any Persons by Writ of Assistance under the Seal of the Exchequer may take a Constable or other publick Officer and in the day-time enter into any House Shop Cellar Ware-house c. and in case of resistance may break open Doors Trunks or other Package to seize and bring to their Majesties Ware-house any of the said Commodities XIV The Attorny General and other Persons seizing and prosecuting as aforesaid may use such method and course of proceeding as may be used about the seizing trying and prosecuting any Goods or Commodities for non-payment of Customs or other Duties or any Persons for offending against the Laws relating to Customs and Persons prosecuted for any thing done about the putting