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 with the abridgment of such as stand repealed or expired.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

Parliament or of or from any Convention or Assembly called or reputed or taking the Name of the Kéepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament Or by vertue or colour of any Writ Commission Letters Patents Instruction or Instructions of or from any person or persons Tituled reputed or taken to be Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging or Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereto belonging or assuming the authority or reputed to be chief Magistrate of the Commonwealth or Commander in chief of the Forces or Armies of this Nation by Sea or Land or by any pretence Warrant or Command whatsoever from them or any of them or their or either of their respective Councils or Council or any Member of such Council or Councils or from any person or persons whatsoever deriving or pretending to derive Authority from them or any of them be pardoned Released Indempnified discharged and put in utter Oblivion And that all and every the person and persons Acting Advising Assisting Abetting and Counselling the same they their Heirs Executors and Administrators except as before is excepted be and are hereby pardoned Released Acquitted Indempnified and discharged from the same And of and from all pains of Death and other Pains Iudgments Indictments Convictions Attainders Outlawries Penalties Escheats and Forfeitures therefore had or given or that might accrew for the same And that all such Iudgments Indictments Convictions Attainders Outlawries Penalties Escheats and Forfeitures and every of them and all Grants thereupon made and all Estates derived under the same be and are hereby Declared and Enacted to be from henceforth Null and void And that all mean profits not yet received by such Grantées shall be and are hereby discharged And that all and every person and persons Bodies Politick and Corporate their and every of their Heirs Executors Administrators and Successors shall be and are hereby restored to all and every their Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods Chattels and other things forfeited which to His Majesty do or shall appertain by reason of any offence herein before mentioned and not hereafter in this present Act Excepted and Foreprised All Appeals personal Actions and Suits pardoned And be it further Enacted That all Appeals and all personal Actions Suits Molestations and Prosecutions whatsoever for or by reason of any Act of Hostility Trespass Assault Imprisonment or breach of the Peace Advised Counselled commanded Appointed Happened Acted or done by reason of the late troubles or the late Wars in his Majesties Dominions or relating thereunto and Iudgments and Executions thereupon had before the first day of May in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fifty eight stand and be from henceforth discharged But not to restore to any Person or Persons any sums of money mean Profits or Goods already received or taken upon such Execution or to give any accompt for the same And be it likewise Enacted That all Appeals and all personal Actions and causes of such Actions Suits Molestations and Prosecutions whatsoever for or by reason of any Act or thing advised counselled commanded Acted or done by vertue or colour of any Authority or Commission granted by His late Majesty or his Majesty that now is or by vertue or colour of any Order or Ordinance of one or both Houses of Parliament sitting at Westminster Or by any Act or order made by any Persons assuming the name of a Parliament and sitting as a Parliament at Westminster after the death of the late King CHARLES the First Or by the Authority of the said kéepers of the Liberties of England Or by any Ordinance by either of the late Protectors and Council Or by or upon any Commission Writ Process or Warrant by them or any of them or by Authority derived from them or any of them And all demands of Arrearages of Rents and mean Profits of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments heretofore incurred or grown due which have béen paid received or disposed by vertue or colour of any the Authorities or pretended Authorities aforesaid other then such Arrearages or mean profits as are or shall be otherwise disposed by any Act. or Acts of this present Session of Parliament be from henceforth discharged And it is further by the Authority aforesaid Enacted in the second place That all and every the Subjects of these His Majesties Realms of England and Ireland the Dominion of Wales the Isles of Jersey and Garnsey and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed and other His Majesties Dominions the Heirs Executors and Administrators of them and every of them and all and singular Bodies in any manner of wise corporated Cities Burroughs Shires Ridings Hundreds Lathes Rapes Wapentakes Towns Villages Hamlets and Tythings and every of them and the Successor and Successors of every of them shall be and are by the authority of this present Parliament Acquitted Pardoned Released Indempnified and Discharged against the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and every of them of and from all manner of Treasons Misprisions of Treason Felonies Offences Contempts Trespasses Entries Wrongs Deceits Misdemeanors Forfeitures penalties and sums of Money Intrusions Mean profits Wardships Marriages Reliefs Liveries Ouster le mains Mean Rates Respits of Homage Fines and Seisures for Alienation without License Arrearages of Rents other then the Arrearages of Rents due from the late Farmers or pretended Farmers of of the Excise or Customs respectively other then such Arrearages of Rents or Mean profits as are or shall be otherwise disposed by any Act or Acts of this present Parliament and of and from all Arrearages of Tenths and First-Fruits Fines post-fines Issues and Amerciaments and all Recognizances Bonds or other Securities given for payment of them or any of them concealments of Customs and Excise Arrearages of purveyance and of compositions for the same and of and from all pains of Death pains corporal and pecuniary and generally of and from all other Things Causes Quarrels Suits Iudgments and Executions in this present Act hereafter not Excepted nor Foreprized which may be or can be by his Majesty in any wise or by any means pardoned before and unto the twenty fourth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty to every or any of his said Subjects Wardships and Mean Profits unreceived Bodies Corporate Cities Burroughs Shires Ridings Hundreds Lathes Rapes Wapentakes Towns Villages and Tithings or any of them And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Grants and Patents since the twenty fifth of March One thousand six hundred forty one touching the Wardship and Custody of the Body and Lands or touching the marriage of any Heir within age and all mean profits yet unreceived All things not excepted shall be by the general words of this Act as well as it particularly named and demandable by reason thereof shall be

appraised value upon loss of his Office Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid No person employed about managing the customs may take any bride or reward to connive at any Entry That if any of the Kings Majesties Officers or other persons appointed to manage His Majesties Customs Searchers Waiters or other person or persons whatsoever deputed and appointed by and under them or any of them or any other Authority whatsoever and imployed in or about the Affairs of the Kings Customs and Subsidies shall directly or indirectly take or receive any bribe recompence or reward in any kind whatsoever or connive at any false Entry of any Goods or Merchandizes whereby the Kings Majesty His Heirs or Successors shall be defrauded or hindred in or of His Customs and Subsidies or other Sums of money or Goods prohibited by the Law to be Imported or Exported into or out of the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales Town and Port of Berwick be suffered to pass either by way of Importation or Exportation the person or persons therein offending shall forfeit the sum of One hundred pounds The Penalty and be for ever afterwards incapable of any Office or Imployment under the Kings Majesty His Heirs or Successors or any Authority derived from them as also the Merchant Mariner or other person or persons whatsoever who shall give or pay any such Bribe Recompence or Reward as aforesaid shall forfeit the sum of Fifty pounds Provided nevertheless that if any person or persons offending as aforesaid Persons revealing their own offences within two months to be acquitted shall reveal and make known such his or their Offence in Two moneths time to the Treasurer of England the Chancellor Vnder-Treasurer or Barons of the Exchequer he shall for that Offence be clearly acquitted and discharged And be it further Enacted Forreign goods where to be landed and how weighed and numbred That all forreign Goods and Merchandize which by the person or persons which are or shall be appointed by his Majesty for the managing of the Customs and the Customer Collector and Comptroller shall be permitted to be landed and taken up by Bills at sight Bills at view or sufferance shall be landed at the most convenient Keys or Wharfs where the said person or persons so to be appointed Customer or Collector or Comptroller shall appoint and not elsewhere and there or in his Majesties Store-house of the respective Ports at the Election of the said person or persons so to be appointed and Officers shall be measured weighed and numbred by and in the presence of the Officers to be thereunto particularly appointed which said Officers so appointed shall perfect the Entry and thereunto shall subscribe their Names and the next day following shall give Accompt and make report of every respective Entry so perfected as aforesaid to the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed to manage his Majesties Customs Customer or Collector and Comptroller aforesaid without reasonable cause to be allowed by the said person or persons or Officers aforesaid or in default thereof shall forfeit the sum of One hundred pounds Be it also Enacted That no Ship Vessel or Boat Vessels appointed for carrying Letters may not import nor export Merchandise appointed and imployed ordinarily for the Carriage of Letters and Pacquets shall unless it be in such Cases as shall be allowed by the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed to manage his Majesties Customs or Officers aforesaid Import or Export any Goods or Merchandize into or out of the parts beyond the Seas upon the Penalty of the forfeiture of One hundred pounds to be paid by the Master of the said Vessel or Boat with the loss of his place and all Goods and Merchandize that shall be found on Board any such Ship Vessel or Boat shall be forfeited and lost And whereas some Doubts and Disputes have arisen concerning the said late Act For encresing and encouraging of Shipping and Navigation An Explanation of 12 Car. 2. cap. 18. of goods prohibited to be brought from Holland about some of the Goods therein prohibited to be brought from Holland and the Parts and Ports thereabouts Be it Enacted and Declared That no sort of Wines other then Rhenish no sort of Spicery Grocery Tobacco Pot-ashes Pitch Tarr Salt Rozen Deal-Boards Firr Timber or Olive-Oyl shall be imported into England Wales or Berwick from the Netherlands or Germany upon any pretence whatsoever in any sort of Ships or Vessels whatsoever upon penalty of the loss of all the said Goods as also of the Ships and furniture And whereas also by the said Acts For incouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation 12 Car. 2. c. 18. Imposition of 5 s. per Tun upon French Vessels an Imposition of Five shillings per Tun is laid upon all Ships or Vessels belonging to any Subjects of the French King which shall come into any Port Harbour Créek or Road of England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and shall there lade or unlade any Goods or take in or set on shore any Passengers Yet notwithstanding there is great difficulty in recovering the said Duty because small Shallops come not into Harbours where Officers are but either put their Goods and Passengers on shore or Boats come out of Harbours which privately convey them on shore there being no penalty in the Act against such Offenders Be it therefore Enacted How to be recovered and the penalty That any such Ship or Vessel upon which the above-said Imposition of Five shillings per Tun is due and payable which shall either put on shore or put over into any Boat any Goods or Passengers without payment of Custom and Imposition of Tunnage at any time returning into any Harbour Port or Creek of England or Ireland shall not only pay the Duties formerly due but forfeit the sum of Ten pounds And whatsoever Pilot Water-man or Boat-man which shall from any Harbour Port or Créek go out and bring any Goods from on board such Vessel shall not only be liable to pay the Duty of Tunnage which the said Vessel should have paid but forfeit the sum of Forty pounds Be it also hereby Enacted That Vinegar Perry Rape Cider and Cider-eager of any sort or kind whatsoever Tunnage upon V negar Perry Rape Cyder and Cyder eager Imported from and after the four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty and two from Forreign Parts is hereby Rated to pay to the Kings Majesty a Subsidy of Tunnage of Four pounds Ten shillings per Tun Imported by English and Six pounds Imported by Stangers according to the Rate already imposed and set upon French Wines to be Collected and Levied for such time and in such manner as by the Act of Tunnage and Poundage is directed and appointed And the same are by vertue of this Act exonerated and discharged of all further and other Sums heretofore set or

to spare any person from making such carriage by Land or by Water or shall injuriously charge or grieve any person or persons through envy hatred or evil will who ought not to make such carriage or shall impress more carriages then the necessity of the service shall require or then he shall be commanded to impress by his Superiours That then upon due proof and conviction thereof the party so offending shall forfeit the sum of Ten pounds to the party thereby grieved The penalty and how to be recovered who may sue for the same to be recovered by Action of Debt in any of his Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed And in case any person or persons shall presume to take upon him or them to impress any Horses None may impress other then persons impowered as aforesaid The penalty Oxen Wayns or Carriages for Land or any Ships Hoys Lighters Boats or other Vessel for the service of his Majesties Navy or Ordnance other then the Persons so impowered as aforesaid then he or they so offending shall upon due conviction of the said offence incur and suffer the punishment in the first recited Act. Ships and vessels fraighted by charter-party exempted Provided always and be it Enacted That no Ship Hoy Barque or any other Vessel whatsoever that shall be really and bona fide fraighted by Charter-Party if there be other Vessels in the Port fitting for the Service nor any Vessel quarter laden with any Goods Wares or Merchandises outward bound shall be lyable to be Impressed for any the Services aforesaid Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding The continuance of this Act. Provided That this Act and the Powers therein contained shall continue and be in force untill the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer Any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Inhabitants of the new Forest of Southampton Provided nevertheless That in regard of the more then ordinary charge and burden which the Inhabitants of New-Forest in the County of Southampton will be liable unto by reason of the great quantities of Timber usually felled and carried thence for the use of His Majesties Navy It shall and may be lawful for the Iustices of the Peace who shall by Warrant summon the Carts and Carriages within the Division of the New-Forest in the County of Southampton aforesaid to have power as to the Carriage of Timber onely to allow as aforesaid to the several Owners of such Carts and Carriages not excéeding Four pence per mile for so many miles as any Cart or Carriage so summoned shall go empty to the place of its lading Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding CAP. XXI For preventing the unnecessary Charge of Sheriffs and for ease in passing their Accompts WHereas the Office of Sheriff as well by reason of the great and unnecessary Charges in the time of Assises and other publick méetings as by the tedious attendance and charge of Sheriffs in passing of their Accompts in the Exchequer hath of late years béen very burthensome to the Gentry of this Your Realm who in the late times of Tyranny and Oppression have béen great Sufferers and thereby much Impoverished in their Estates and Fortunes for remedy wherein Your Majesties most Loyal Subjects the Knights Citizens and Burgesses assembled in Parliament do most humbly beseech Your most Excellent Majesty that it may be Declared and Enacted And be it Declared and Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That no Person or Persons being duly sworn into the Office of Sheriff for any County or Shire within this Your Majesties Realm shall from and after the First day of February next ensuing Sheriffs at the Assises may keep no tables for others then of their own Family and Retinue Nor make no present or gift to any Iudge of Assise The number of Servants with Liveries in England Wales Penalty of 200 l. in the time of the Assises held for the said County or Shire during his or their Sherifalty kéep or maintain or cause to be kept or maintained one or more Table or Tables for Receipt or entertainment of any person or persons resorting to the said Assises other then those that shall be of his own Family or Retinue nor shall make or send in any Present to any Iudge or Iudges of Assise for his or their provision nor give any gratuity to his or their Officers or Servants or any of them And also that no Sheriff shall after the said first day of February have more then Forty Men-servants with Liveries attending upon him in the time of the said Assises nor under the number of Twenty Men-servants in any County whatsoever within the Kingdom of England nor under the number of Twelve Men-servants in any County within the Dominion of Wales upon pain that every Sheriff offending in any of the premisses contrary to the true meaning hereof shall forfeit for every default the sum of two hundred pounds Provided that nothing before in this Act contained shall in any wise extend unto Proviso for Sheriffs of London Middlesex Westmerland and Cities Counties or any ways concern the Sheriffs of the City of London and Middlesex and the Sheriff of Westmerland or either of them or any of the Sheriffs of or belonging to any City and County or Town and County within this Realm but that the same Sheriff or Sheriffs shall or may do as heretofore hath béen used or accustomed within the said County of Middlesex and Cities of London and Westminster and such other Cities and Counties or Towns and Counties aforesaid Any thing herein before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding How Sheriffs shall be eased in passing their accompts in the Exchequer And to the end that Sheriffs may for the time future be eased of the great charge and trouble which they heretofore have béen put to in passing their Accounts in the Exchequer occasioned partly in regard that divers sums of money have stood charged upon them in gross without expressing from what persons for what cause or out of what Lands or Tenements the same are to be particularly levied or out of what particulars the said sums in gross do arise whereby it cometh to pass that the said Sheriffs do still stand charged in gross with divers sums of money which were heretofore payable by Abbots Priors persons attainted and such other persons whose Estates have since come to the Crown or are otherwise discharged or illeviable and partly by the Accompt of Seizures or Foreign Accompt and by the exaction of undue Fées of Sheriffs upon their apposal concerning the same For the preventing whereof and for the future

ease of Sheriffs in passing their Accompts Seizures of Lands remaining charged Michaelmas 1660. Be it Enacted and Declared That from henceforth every Seizure for or concerning any Lands Tenements and Hereditaments now remaining charged in the Foreign accompt of any Sheriff or Sheriffs within the Kingdom of England for the year ended at Michaelmas One thousand six hundred and sixty shall be from the said Foreign accompt charged particularly in the great Roll of the Exchequer And that the several Remembrancers of the said Court or their respective Deputies do in their respective Officers forthwith Seizures hereafter taken or returned and so from time to time for the future write and make true and perfect Copies of all and every such other Seizure and Inquisition as already are or hereafter shall be certified into their respective Offices without certifying the Copy of the Writ or Commission at large upon which such Seizure or Inquisition is or shall be so taken or returned mentioning only in brief the Date of the said Writ or Commission and shall deliver the said Copies well and truly examined and attested under his or their Hands to the Engrosser of the said great Roll And that all such of the said Seizures and Inquisitions as now are returned into any of their respective Offices shall be delivered before the first day of February next coming And that all such other seizures as shall hereafter be returned or certified into their respective Offices shall be delivered so examined and attested as aforesaid to the said Engrosser before the first day of the next Term after the said Remembrancers shall have received the same so as the same may be charged in the great Roll To the end that the Processe of the Court may from thence issue for levying the Issues and Profits thereof to the use of the Crown unto which said Remembrancers or their Deputies shall be from time to time paid for every Sheet which they or their respective Clerks shall so write and deliver the sum of eight pence Fees to the Remembrancers the same to be paid unto them by the aforesaid respective Sheriffs who shall be allowed the same by the Barons upon their respective Accompts out of the Issues and Profits arising out of the Premisses so seized and no Sheriff or Sheriffs for this persent year One thousand six hundred sixty and one Sheriffs shall not answer illeviable seizures Farm Rents c. nor any Sheriff or Sheriffs to be hereafter made or appointed within this Kingdom of England shall be charged in accompt to answer any illeviable Seizure Farm Rent or Debt or other Seizure Farm Rent Debt matter or thing whatsoever which was not writ in Processe to him or them to be levied wherein the persons of whom or the Lands or Tenements out of which together with the cause for which the same shall be so levied shall be plainly and particularly expressed but shall be thereof wholly discharged without Petition Plea or other trouble or charge whatsoever And it is hereby further Enacted and Declared Seizures before 1 Jac. and divers others to be left out of the Sheriffs accompt That all Seizures heretofore made before the first Year of the Reign of the late King James of ever blessed memory now remaining in the Accompts of the Sheriffs and all Seizures and Debts which are pardoned shall be and are hereby fully discharged And that the same and every of them shall hereafter be left out of Sheriffs accompts without further Order Plea Petition or other Charge to any Sheriff or Sheriffs whatsoever And that no Processe shall from henceforth be written forth to any Sheriff for the levying of the same or any of them nor for any other Rent or Farm which cannot be explained by setting forth the particulars thereof or which have been unanswered by the space of forty years last past And that all other dead Farms and Seizures and all desperate illeviable and unintelligible Debts shall be removed out of the Annual Roll and Sheriffs Charge into the Exannual Roll there to remain untill by Commission they shall be revived and made answerable Process for Debts to be sent forth in convenient time And to the end that all new Debts arising and coming into the Exchequer for the future may be sent forth in Processe within convenient time Be it also Enacted and Declared That the aforesaid several Remembrancers do forthwith inrol and certify to the said Ingrosser of the great Roll all such Debts as any Sheriff or Sheriffs of this Realm are or hereafter shall be charged withall either by vertue of their respective Retorns made to the Barons of the said Exchequer upon his Majesties Writs of Fieri facias Levari facias Capias or other Processe and also of all Fines and Amerciaments which are or shall be set and imposed by the Court of Exchequer upon any Sheriff or Sheriffs for his or their contempts or neglects that is to say That all and every such Debts Fines and Amerciaments as now are returned set or imposed in any of the said Offices shall be delivered as aforesaid before the First day of February next ensuing And all such Debts Fines and Amerciaments as shall hereafter be returned set or imposed in any of the respective Offices shall be also delivered by the First day of the next Term after such Retorns made The penalty upon officers for doing any thing against this Act. or such Fines or Amerciaments so set or imposed that so they may be all charged in the Sheriffs Accompts respectively and comprehended within his or their Quietus est upon pain that every Officer or Officers in the said Exchequer who shall in any thing offend contrary to this present Act shall forfeit the sum of Forty pounds for every such offence whereof one moyety shall be to the King his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to the party or parties who shall be thereby agrieved to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of his Majesties Courts at Westminster wherein no Essoin Protection Priviledge or Wager of Law shall be allowed or admitted 9 E. 2. St. Lincoln 4 E. 3. cap. 9. 5 E. 3. cap. 4. And it is hereby further Provided and Ordained That no person shall be assigned to be Sheriff of any County within this Realm except such as have Lands within the same County sufficient to answer the King and his people And whereas by an Act made in the One and twentieth year of the Reign of our late Soveraign Lord King James over England 21 Jac. cap. 5. It was provided That whensoever any Sheriff upon passing his Accompts A Quietus est to be a sufficient discharge for a Sheriff if not questioned within four years after grant thereof should have his Quietus est that he should be thereby absolutely discharged of all sums of Money by him Levied and Received and pretended not to be accompted for