Copies of Offices Lands Tenements and Hereditaments parcel of the Dutchy of Cornwall and a confirmation of such as be made not exceeding 31 years or 3 lives Leather and Hides I. Stat. 14 Car. 2. cap. 7. None shall transport beyond Seas any raw Leather or Hides tanned or untanned and for the regulating abuses in Leather and the Stat. 18 El. cap. 9. 8 El. cap. 14. 5 El. cap. 22. and 1 Jac. cap. 22. mentioned and the exportation of Hides declared a common nusance The Act not to extend to prohibit the transporting of Bootes and Shooes nor Hides and Leather to be necessarily used in any Ship See Title Cordwainers Curriers c. Lee-River I. Stat. 13 E. 18. For making the River of Lee Navigable from Ware to London See the Statute Leet I. Stat. 18 E. 2. The Articles of the charge in a Leet II. Stat. 1 Jac. 5. No Steward or Deputy Steward of any Leet or Court Baron shall make benefit to the value of 12 d. or more by colour of any Grant made of the profits or perquisites of any such Courts whereof he is Steward in pain to be disabled for ever after to be Steward of any Court and besides to forfeit 40 l. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor Libel I. Stat. 2 H. 5.3 A Copy of a Libel grantable in the Ecclesiastical Court shall be presently delivered upon the defendants apparance Limitation I. Merton 25 H. 3.8 Seisin of ones Ancestor in writ of right shall be from the time of H. 2. In a Mortdancester writ of Neife and of Entry from the last return of King John out of Ireland and in an Assize of Novel disseisin from Henry the third's first Voyage into Gascoign II. West 1. 3 E. 1.38 Seisin of of ones Ancestor in a writ of right shall be from the time of R. 1. In an Assise of Novel disseisin and Nuper obiit from H. 3. his voyage into Gascoign and in a Mortdancester Cosenage Ayal and Neife from the Coronation of H. 3. III. Stat. 32 H. 8.2 Seisin in a writ of right shall be within 60 years before the Teste of the same writ IV. In a Mortdancester Cosinage Ayal writ of Entry sur disseisin or any other possessory Action upon the possession of his Ancestor or Predecessor it shall be within 50 years before the Teste of the original of any such writ V. In a writ upon the parties own seisin or possession it shall be within 30 years before the Teste of the original of the same writ VI. In an Avowry or Cognisance for rent suit or services of the seisin of his Ancestor predecessor or his own or of any other whose estate he pretends to have it shall be within 40 yeares before the making of such Avowry or Cognisance VII Formedons in reverter or remainder and scire facias upon fines shall be sued within 50 years after the title or cause of Action accrued and not after VIII The party demandant Plaintiff or Avowant that upon Traverse or denier by the other party cannot prove actual possession or seisin within the times above limited shall be for ever after barred in all such writs actions avowries cognisance prescription c. IX Provided that in any of the said actions avowries prescriptions c. the party grieved may have an attaint upon a false verdict given X. Stat. 1 M. 1. Parl. 2. Sess Cap. 5. The Statute of 32 H. 8.2 shall not extend to a writ of right of Advowson Quare impedit Assize of Darrein presentment Jure patronatus writ of right of ward writ of ravishment of ward nor to the seisor of the wards body or estate but the time of the seisin to be alledged in such cases shall be as it was at the Common law before the making of the said Statute XI Stat. 21 Jac. 2. The King his heirs or successors shall recover no concealed Mannors Lands Tenements Rents Tithes or Hereditaments other then Liberties and Franchises and the issues and profits which concern the same nor make any Right Claim or Demand of in or to the same by reason of any right or title accrued 60 years and more and now in esse unless the King or some of his Predecessors or some other under whom he claims have been answered by force of such right or title the Rents issues and profits thereof within 60 years next before the begining of this Parliament Or that the same have been duly in charge to the King or Queen Elizabeth or have stood in super of record within the said time XII This Act shall not extend to impeach the King 's right or title to any reversion or remainder nor to alter the tenures or services of Lands And here also the right of all others save of the King is saved XIII Neither shall this Act extend to annul the custome of two pence paid for every Chaldron of Sea-Coals at Newcastle upon Tine XIV Provided that no putting in charge standing in super or answering the rents or profits of any Lands or Hereditaments by force or colour of any Letters Pattents Grants of Concealments or defective Titles or of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments out of charge or by force or colour of any inquisions presentments upon any Commission or other authority to find out Concealments Defective Titles or Lands Tenements or Hereditaments out of charge shall be deemed or taken to be a putting in charge standing in super or answering the rents or profits to the King or his predecessors unless thereupon such Lands Tenements or Hereditaments have been upon any informatian or suit on the behalf of the King or his Predecessors upon any lawful verdict given or demurrer in Law adjudged and upon a hearing ordered or decreed to the King or his predecessors within the said time of 60 years XV. This Act shall not extend to lands for which composition is or shall be made before the end of this Parliament XVI Stat. 21 Jac. 16. All Writs of Formedon in Descender Remainder or Revertor for any title or cause now in esse shall be sued within 20 years next after this present Session of Parliament and for any title or cause hereafter accruing within 20 years after such title or cause so accruing Otherwise such title shall be for ever after barred and the party claiming utterly excluded from entry XVII None now having any right or title of entry into any Mannors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments now held from him or them shall thereinto enter but within 20 years next after the end of this Sessions of Parliament or within 20 years next after any other title accrued And none shall at any time hereafter make any entry into any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments but within 20 years next after his or their right or title which shall hereafter first descend or accrue to the same XVIII The Titles of any Infant Feme covert non compos mentis one imprisoned or beyond sea are saved so as they commence their suit
their fees for keeping of Castles Houses Parks Chases Forrests or Block-houses shall be void when the cause of exercising such Offices is determined XI Provided also that this Act shall not extend to revive any Letters Patents or any Office granted by the King which have been made void by Authority of Parliament Judgement Decree or otherwise XII This Act shall not be prejudicial to any Letters Patents Indentures or Writings made after the said 4th of February and before the 28th of April in the 28th year of the Kings Reign or to any other Statute made for the corroboration of such Letters Parents Indentures or Writings XIII Stat. 1. E. 6.8 Such another Statute made for the confirmation of all Grants made and to be made by E. 6. from the 28th of January in the first year of his Reign and so during his life with such provisoes and limitations as in the former Act of 34 35. of H. 8. are contained See the Statute XIV Stat. 7. E. 6.3 A confirmation of the Kings Letters Patents notwithstanding his non-age or any Statute heretofore made for the reservation of Tenures Rents or Tenths XV. Stat. 4.5 P. M. 1. Another like Act made for the confirmation of all Grants made and to be made to or by the Queen or the King and Queen from the first of July in the first year of her Reign and so during her life with such provisoes and limitations as in the said former Acts of H. 8. and E. 6. are contained XVI Stat. 18. E. 2. Another like confirmation of all Grants made to for or by the Queen or to be so made within 7. years next after the end of this Session with like provisoes and limitations as in the former Statutes XVII Stat. 35 El. 3. All Abby-lands which came to the hands of H. 8. shall be adjudged to have been in his actual and lawful possession notwithstanding any defect want or insufficiency of or in any Surrender Grant or Conveyance thereof or of any part thereof made to the said King or any other matter or cause whatsoever whereby he might have been entitled thereunto XVIII All Letters Patents made by him since the fourth of February in the 25. year of her Reign for the foundation of any Dean and Chapter or Colledge shall be adjudged good XIX The right of all others except of Abbots Priors c. is saved XX. Stat. 43. El. 1. All grants made to the Queen since the 8th of February in the 27th year of his Reign except by Ecclesiastical persons or bodies politique not having power or ability to make such grants are confirmed XXI The right of all others is saved except of the parties and privies of such grants XXII All grants made by the Queen to others since the said time as also all others that should be made by force of a Commission then on foot before the end of this Session or within one year after shall be good XXIII The Letters Patents of all such grants shall be expounded most beneficial to the Patentees any mis-naming mis-recital non-recital c. notwithstanding XXIV This Act shall not extend to Letters Patents of Offices nor of concealments except such concealments onely as are sold by Commissioners XXV Neither shall this Act extend to make good any Letters Patents heretofore adjudged void by any Court of Record at Westminster or by Act of Parliament neither yet those of Monopolies or for toleration of any offence prohibited by any penal Law nor of Lands where there is an estate tail in the Queen unless such estate be duly received XXVI Here also the right of others is saved XXVII Stat. 21 Jac. 25. The King nor any other claiming from by or under him shall hereafter take advantage against the Kings Patentees or Tenants for default of payment of Rent or other duty to be performed so as the rent be paid or such duty performed before such advantage taken or any Commission awarded to enquire or other process shall be issued for such forfeiture XXVIII Stat. 21 Jac. 29. All Leases made and to be made by Prince Charles of the Dutchie Lands of Cornwall shall be good XXIX Howbeit they shall not be good unless they be in possession and granted only for 31 years or 3 lives or estates determinable upon 31 years or 3 lives and thereupon also the accustomable Rent for the greatest part of 20 years before shall be reserved and where no such Rent hath been payable a reasonable Rent shall be reserved not under the twentieth part of the clear yearly value neither shall such Leases be dispunishable of waste XXX All Covenants and other agreements contained in such Leases shall be good XXXI The right of others except of the King and Prince and their Successors is saved XXXII 1 Car. 2. Such another Act for Leases to be made of the said Dutchie Lands within three years with such Clauses and Provisoes as in the Act of 21 Jac. 29. ☞ Paving I. Stat. 24 H. 8.11 The Street-way between Charing-Cross and Stroad-Cross shall be sufficiently paved at the charge of the owners of the Lands adjoyning to the same and shall also be afterwards repaired by them in pain to forfeit to the King 12 d. for every yard square not so paved and repaired and 25 H. 8. for Holborn and Southwark * II. Stat. 32 H. 8.17 All persons having lands betwixt Algate and White-Chappel Church or in Chancery-Lane Grays-Inn-Laneâ— Shooe-lane Fetter-lane or the way betwixt Holborn-bars and High-Holborn as far as any houses are there built shall before the 24 of June 1542. sufficiently pave so much of the Streets and Lanes aforesaid as are next adjoyning to their said lands and continue them in good repair in pain to forfeit for every yard square not so paved or repaired 6 d. III. The Mayor Aldermen and Justices in London and the Justices of Peace in Middl sex have power within their respective Jurisdictions to enquire hear and determine in Sessions the defaults And in case the said Justices shall be found remiss therein they shall respectively forfeit 5 l. IV. The Clerk of the Peace in Middlisex shall duly estreat into the Exchequer the Fines and forfeitures happening upon this Act in pain of 5 l. to be divided betwixt the king and the prosecutor V. Any three Justices in London whereof the Mayor is to be one have power to set Fines upon such as do not pave or repair any Street or Lane in London or the liberties thereof to be levied by distress plaint or action by the Chamberlain to the use of the Mayor and Communalty of the said City VI. The inhabitant paving his part in the said Streets or Lanes may defaulk so much of his rent from his lessor as the charge thereof shall amount unto unless it be otherwise agreed betwixt them VII Stat. 35 H. 8.12 Another like Statute for the paving and repairing of Whitâ—-Cross-Street Cheswel-streâ—t Golding-Lane Grub-street Goswel-street Long-Lane Saint Johns-street the streets there leading
remainder to such as the King by his Letters Patents or last will in writing should limit * IV. Stat. 1 El. 1. No forein Potentate or person shall exercise any power within any of the Queen's Dominions and all Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction is annexed to the Crown so that the Queen and her successors by Letters Patents may authorize any Subject born to exercise the same V. For the better observance of this Act every Ecclesiasticall person and every officer both Ecclesiastical and Temporal and all the Queen's servants are enjoyned to take the Oath following VI. I. A. B. do utterly testifie and declare in my conscience that the Queen's Highness is the onely Supreme Governour of this Realm and of all other her Highness Dominions and Countreys as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or cases as Temporal and that no forein Prince person Prelate or Potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction power supremacie preeminencie or authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm and therefore do utterly renounce and forsake all forein jurisdiction powers superiorities and authorities and do promise that from henceforth I shall bear faith and true allegiance to the Queen's Highness her heirs and lawfull successors and to my power shall assist and defend all jurisdictions priviledges preeminencies and authorities granted or belonging to the Queen's Highness her heirs and successors or united and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm So help me God and by the Contents of this Book VII He that refuseth this oath shall forfeit his Spiritual or Temporal promotion or Office during his life And every person before he be admitted to any such promotion or Office shall take the said oath before such persons as shall have authority to minister the same and in case he refuse it he shall be adjudged uncapable of such promotion or office VIII Every person suing Livery or Oustre le main doing homage to the Queen received into the Queen's service taking orders or degrees in the Universitie shall take the said oath the first three before the Lord Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seal the fourth before the Ordinary or Commissary and the last before the Chancellor or Vice-chancellor or their Deputies IX Provided if any having a Temporal Office of inheritance shall at first refuse to take the said oath and yet doth afterwards take it he shall be restored to his office X. None shall affirm or maintain the power or jurisdiction of any forein Prelate or Potentate within the Queen's Dominions in pain to forfeit all his goods and chattels and if he be not worth 20 l. at the time of his conviction he shall forfeit all he hath and besides suffer one whole year's imprisonment without bail and here for the second offence he shall incurre a praemunire and for the third shall be adjudged guilty of High Treason but this offence must be prosecuted within one year after it is committed and if the offence be by preaching teaching or words onely the prosecution by indictment shall be within six months otherwise the offender shall be set at liberty XI If he be a Clergie-man beneficed upon the first conviction all his spiritual promotion shall be void XII A Peer of the Realm guilty of such an offence shall be tried by his Peers XIII No Act for any matter of Religion or cause Ecclesiastical made by this Parliament shall be adjudged any errour heresie or Schism neither shall any person to whom the Queen her heirs and successors shall give authority to execute spiritual jurisdiction have power to adjudge any matter to be Heresie save onely such as have been so adjudged by Can. Scripture or by one or more of the General Councils or shall be so adjudged by the Parliament with the assent of the Clergie in their Convocation XIV No person shall hereafter be indicted or arraigned for any of the offences made by this Act but by two or more sufficient witnesses to be produced viva voce to testifie the same XV. No person shall be questioned for relieving aiding or comforting any such offender unless it be testified by two witnesses at least that at the time of such relief c. he had notice of the offence committed XVI Stat. 1 El. 3. The Parliament acknowledge the Queen to be right heir to the Crown and promise to defend her and the heirs of her body in that estate XVII The limitation of the Crown contained in 35 H. 8.1 shall stand and remain Law for ever and all clauses of Statutes and other things heretofore passed against the same shall be void * XVIII Stat. 5 Eliz. 1. None shall maintain the jurisdiction of the Bishop or See of Rome within any of the Queen's Dominions in pain to incurre a Praemunire both they and their accessaries ☞ XIX Justices of Assize and Just of Peace in Sessions or any two of them 1 Qu. have power to hear and determine this offence and are to certifie such presentments into the King's Bench within 40 days after they receive them if it shall be then Term-time if not then the first day of the Term then next ensuing in pain of 100 l. The Justices of the King's Bench also as well upon such certificate as also before themselves have power to hear and determine the same offence XX. All persons appointed to take the Oath of Supremacie by 1 El. 1. and all other Persons taking orders preferred to any degree in the Universities School-masters publick and private all persons taking any degree of Learning in the Laws in the Innes of Court or Chancery all Attorneys Protonotaries Philizers Sheriffs Escheators Feodaries all persons admitted to any Ministry or Office belonging to the Common Law or other Law or Laws and all Officers and ministers of every Court shall take the said Oath verbatim before they be admitted to exercise their Office ministry or profession which Oath shall be administred in open Court unto the Officers and Ministers of Courts and unto such as belong not to any Court in some open place in the presence of a convenient assembly and before other person authorized to give it by common use commission or otherwise XXI Archbishops and Bishops have power to minister the said Oath within their proper Diocess XXII The Lord Chancellor or Keeper without further warrant may direct Commissions to tender it XXIII None compellable to take this Oath by this Act or that of 1 Eliz. shall refuse to take it in pain to incurre a Praemunire so that they be indicted or presented for such default within a year XXIV Every person having authority to tender this Oath shall within 40 days after the refusal thereof if it be then Term-time if not then the first day of the next Term certifie under his hand and seal the name place and degree of the person so refufing unto the King's Bench in pain of 100 l. And the Sheriff of the County shall impannel a Jury of the same County to inquire
there without any such assistance to enter in the day time into any dwelling or other house edifice lodgings and chambers And search and examine whether there be any more Fire-hearths and Stoves in the same then formerly returned and certified and what Fire-hearths or Stoves increased or decreased since the former Certificate and after to make the like search yearly And if they shall finde any variance in the number returned both the Officer and Officers appointed by his Majesty and the Constable or Tything-man or other Officer as aforesaid to certifie the same under his or their hands to the Clark of the Peace And after a probation thereof by the said Justices at their Sessions the same to be certified to his Majestie 's Remembrancer in the Exchequer and the Officer so appointed by the King unto the same shall after the 24 of June 1664 have power to collect and levy the revenue and duties aforesaid and all arrears of the same XXXVI The said duties shall from time to time be paid after the Feast of St. Michael the Arch-angel and our Lady-day yearly unto the Officers appointed by this Act to receive the same upon demand by such Officer or his Deputy at the house chamber or place where the same duty shall grow due And in case of refusal or default of payment by the space of an hour after such demand such Officer or his deputy may with the assistance of a Constable or other officer as aforesaid in the day time levy the said duty and all arrears thereof by distress and sale of the partie 's goods so refusing or making default restoring the overplus above the said duty and arrears and necessary charges for distraining the said charges not to exceed a moiety of the duty and arrears so levyed XXXVII Provided and enacted no person be distrained or molested for the said duty or any arrears after two years next after the same shall become due nor for any arrears already incurred after 2 years from the 24 of June 1664. * XXXVIII And in case of violent opposition or injury done by any person or persons to any such Officer or his deputy in the due execution of this Act the same proved by Oath before any one Justice of the Peace or chief Magistrate of the City Town or place dwelling near the place who are hereby impowred to administer the said oath It shall be lawful for any such Justice of the Peace or Magistrate to punish such Offendors by imprisonment in the Common Gaol for any time not exceeding one moneth And after the 24 of June 1664. All former Officers appointed to collect the said duty are discharged And the Officers appointed by this to collect the same shall pay the same into the Exchequer to the ends in the former Acts mentioned XXXIX Provided none be employed as aforesaid but upon security first given to the King for due collecting and paying the said Revenue and taking an oath before one of the Barons of the Exchequer or before such persons as shall be authorised to take such security and oath by Commission from the said Court of Exchequer for the due and faithful execution thereof according to the laws enacted to that purpose and that they shall demand no fee but onely from the King upon pain of being disabled to execute the said office or imployment and upon legal conviction to render treble dammages to the party grieved and shall sign and deliver acquittances for money by them received without any fee or reward whatsoever and such acquittances shall be a final discharge as in the first Act provided XL. If any person leave any house lodging or chamber before any half-year Feast whereon the said duty ought to be paid the next occupier shall be chargeable with the same for the said half year And if any person shall fraudulently stop up deface cover or conceal any chimney-hearth or Stove chargeable by the said Act the same to be proved either by confession of the party or upon oath before any Justice of the Peace or chief Magistrate or by their view he shall pay double the value of the duty for the same to be levied as aforesaid XLI Houses let apart from lands belonging to them or divided into several dwellings and let to persons who upon poverty may pretend exemption from payment shall pay the duty as they should have done before And no person except almes-houses inhabiting in any City Burrough Corporation Market-Town or Parish which hath above two Chimneys Fire-hearths or Stoves shall be exempted from payment If any question or difference shall arise about the taking any distress or levying any money by virtue of this Act the same shall be heard and finally determined by one or more of the Justices of the Peace near adjoyning or chief Magistrate of the Peace respectively upon complaint in that behalf XLII Every Collector appointed by virtue of this Act shall pay all moneys received into the receit of the Exchequer half yearly within 3 moneths after the Feasts of Michaelmas and our Lady-day upon pain of losing his office and all Justices of the Peace Constables and Officers are to assist the Officers in collecting and levying the said duty XLIII Provided no person be questioned for any arrears due on or before our Lady-day 1664. who shall produce to the Collector a certificate to be approved by the two next Justices of the Peace for their exemption from the said duty for that time according to the Rules in the first recited Act nor any person who hath truly paid the said duty and shall if required make proof thereof before any one Justice of the Peace or other chief Magistrate of the place XLIV All officers to be appointed by the King for collecting and receiving the said duty shall allow to the Petit Constables and Clarks of the Peace all allowances for their pains by former Acts appointed Knights I. Stat. De milit 1 E. 2. Divers causes for which a man may be excused from taking upon him the order of Knighthood See the Statute at large II. Stat. 16 17 Ca. 20. None shall be hereafter compelled by writ or otherwise to take upon him the order of Knight-hood and all proceeding concerning the same shall be void ☞ Labourers Artificers Servants and Apprentices * I. Stat. 2 3 E. 6.15 ARtificers Workmen and Labourers that conspire together concerning their work or wages every of them so conspiring shall forfeit for the first offence 10 l. to the King and if he pay it not within six days after conviction by witness confession or otherwise he shall suffer 20 days imprisonment and during that time shall have no sustenance but bread and water for the second offence he shall forfeit 20 l. and that not paid within 6 days as aforesaid shall suffer the Pillory and for the third offence shall forfeit 40 l. and that not paid within the said time shall again suffer the Pillory lose one of his ears and be
between the Lord that distraineth and the tenant the Mesne also being of full age and the Tenant Tenant in fee-simple Militia See Captains and Souldiers Numb XXXIX Ministers I. Stat. 12. Car. 2. cap. 17. An Act for confirming some and restoring other Ministers to their Benefices Monasteries Abbeys Priories Colledges Free-Chappels Hospitals Chanteries their Governours and Possessions and also all other Religious persons I. Marlb 28. 52. H. 3. If wrongs or trespasses be done to Abbots or other Prelates of the Church and they dye before Judgment given thereof whether or no the suit be commenced in their life-time yet their successors shall have actions to demand the goods of their Church out of the hands of such trespassers II. The successors shall also have a writ to recover seisin of their lands intruded into in time of vacation and therein damages shall be awarded them as in Assizes of Novel disseisin is used III. West 1.1 3. E. 1. The Peace of the Church and Realm shall be duly kept and Religious houses shall not entertain any at the charge of the house save only the Founders c. neither shall any charge them in pain of imprisonment to make fine and to be otherwise punished at the Kings will IV. No purveyance shall be made of a Prelate without his consent V. The Sheriff shall not ride with above 5 or 6 horse nor indamage Religious persons by lodging too often at their houses or Mannors VI. Artic. Cleri 11. 9. E. 2. Religious houses shal not be charged by compulsion with Corodies Pensions resort or taking of their Horses or Carts upon the pains ordained by the Statute of West 2. VII Stat. 1. E. 3. Stat. 2.10 There shall be no more grants of Pensions Prebends Churches or Corodies at the Kings request by Bishops Abbots Priors Abbesses or Prioresses VIII Stat. 27. H. 8.28 All Monasteries Priories and other Religious Houses of Monks Canons and Nuns which have not above the clear yearly value of 200 l. per annum are given to the King and his heirs to have and hold the same in as large and ample manner as they injoyed them And all grants thereof made or to be made by the King to others are confirmed The right of others having any profit out of the same being saved IX Fraudulent Conveyances made by Governours of such houses within one year next before the making of this Act shall be void Howbeit all Leases upon the accustomed rents and grants of accustomed Offices Fees or Corodies are saved X. All Ornaments Jewels Goods and Debts which they had the first of March 1535 or at any time since are also given to the King XI The King shall have the actual and real possession of the said houses without inquisition of office so that he may lawfully grant them at his will and pleasure XII Cels which are only obediencers to the Abbies and Priories dissolved by this Act shall still remain undissolved notwithstanding this Act The right also of Founders Patrons and Donors is saved XIII Stat. 27 H. 8.27 Pars inde Upon the grant of Abbey Lands in fee a tenure in Capite shall be reserved to the King and also a yearly payment of the tenth part of the yearly value mentioned in the Letters Patents XIV Stat. 31 H. 8.13 The King and his heirs shall have all the Monasteries Abbies Priories Nunneries Colledges Hospitals houses of Friers and other religious houses and places together with their estates which since the 4. of Feb. 27 H. 8. have been dissolved suppressed renounced relinquished forfeited given up or by any other means are come into the Kings hands in as large and ample manner as the Governors thereof held them in right of the said houses XV. All Religious houses dissolved and to be dissolved together with the revenues to them belonging shall be in the actual possession of the King XVI These Abbey lands except such of them as shall come to the King by attainder of Treason shall be within the survey of the Court of Augmentations XVII Here the right of all others is saved save only for Rents-service Rents-seck and all other services and suits which are excepted out of the said saving XVIII Provided that all Leases of any such Religious or Ecclesiastical house or of any hereditaments thereunto belonging granted within one year next before the dissolution thereof which hath not heretofore been usually demised or whereof there was a former Lease in being or whereupon such ancient yearly rent is not reserved as hath been usually paid for the same twenty years next before the beginning of this Parliament and also wood-sales made within one year as aforesaid shall be void XIX Also all Feofments Fines and Recoveries of such Lands whereof the King was Founder made acknowledged or suffered by the Governours or Governesses thereof without the Kings Licence within one year next before such dissolution shall be void XX. The like provision is made for making void Leases and Wood-sales of Lands belonging to such Religious or Ecclesiastical houses as are hereafter to be dissolved Also all Feofments fines and Recoveries of such lands where the King is Founder made acknowledged or suffered by the Governours or Governesses thereof shall likewise be void XXI Leases for years not exceeding 21 made a year before this Parliament or the dissolution of such house and whereupon the accustomed rent is reserved and where a former term therein is not expired at the making of such Lease shall be good notwithstanding this Actiso also is a Lease for life or lives granted a year before dissolution to the old tenant or the former lease for life o◠〈◊〉 being not expired and the accustomed rent being reserved XXII Grants also for life by Copy of Court-Roll according to the custom where the old rent is reserved shall be good XXIII Leases examined inrolled decreâ—d or affirmed in the Court of Augmentations albeit they be made within the year shall be good XXIV Where any hath paid money for wood and by this Act is abridged from having his bargain he shall be relieved therein by the Chancellor and other Officers of the said Court or any three of them whereof the Chancellor is to be one and if any other hath taken the Wood he shall make satisfaction for the same to the party grieved XXV Grants to other persons by such Religious persons with the Kings consent and licence under the great Seal shall be good Howbeit here the right of others is saved XXVI A confirmation of the Kings exchanges and purchases since the fourth of February 27 H. 8. Howbeit here also the right of all persons but the exchangees and bargainees is saved rents-service rents-seck and other services excepted XXVII The Kings Letters Patents of Lands or other hereditaments granted since the fourth of February 27 H. 8. and within three years after the making of this Act shall be sufficient notwithstanding mis-recital non-recital mis-nosmer cause consideration or thing material to the
of Peace in the Counties of Glocester and Sun merset in Sessions shall bind Keepers of Ferriers over Severn by Recognizance with good Sureties that they shall not transport any passenger or cattel out of England into Wales or the Forrest of Dean or from either of those places into England before Sun-rising or after Sun-set unless such as they know and will answer for And besides the parties so offending shall there by incur fine and imprisonment VI. Stat. 2. and 3. P.M. 16. At the first Court of Aldermen in London next after the first of March out of the Watermen betwixt Gravesend and Win sor there shall be 8. chosen for Overseers which shall have power to keep good order amongst the rest VII Two Water-men shall not carry any but where one of them hath exercised that profession two years before that time and hath been allowed by the greater part of the said Overseers under the known Seal in pain to be committed to one of the Counters by the said Overseers for one moneth or for less time as the offence shall deserve VIII No single man which is no housholder nor retained as an Apprentice or as a servant for one year at least shall exercise that profession betwixt the places aforesaid in pain of like punishment IX The Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London and the Justices of Peace within the Counties adjoyning to the River of Thames upon complaint of any two of the Overseers or of any Watermans Master have power not onely to hear and determine any offences committed against this Act and to enlarge any Waterman unjustly punished by the said Overseers but likewise to inflict punishment upon the Overseers themselves in case they unjustly punish any person by colour of this Act. X. A Wherry that is not two foot and a half long and 4 foot and an half broad in the Mid-ship and sufficient to carry two persons on one side right shall be forfeit in which case the King and Queen shall have the one Moity and the Informer the other XI The Water-man that withdraws himself in time of pressing it being proved by two witnesses before the said Mayor Aldermen or Justice and two of the said Overseers shall suffer a fortnights imprisonment and shall be prohibited to row any more upon the Thames for a year and a day after XII The Overseers shall not onely call the Water-men before them direct them and register their names but likewise examine their Boats before they be lanched whether they have due proportion and goodness according to this Act. XIII If the Overseers refuse or neglect their Office they shall forfeit 5 l. whereof the King and Queen shall have the one Moity and the informer the other XIV The Court of Aldermen shall assess the fares of Watermen which being subscribed by two of the Privy Council at least shall be set up in Guild-Hall Westminster-Hall c. And the Water-man that takes more then according to the Fare so assessed shall for every such offence suffer half a years imprisonment and forfeit 40 s. to be divided as before XV. Stat. 1. Jac. 16. No Water-man shall retain any servant or Apprentice unless he himself hath been an Apprentice to a Water-man by the space of five years before and not an Apprentice under the age of 18 years or for less time then seven years in pain to forfeit for every such offence 10 l. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor XVI This Act shall not restain Water-mens Sonnes of convenient growth and strength and formerly trained up in rowing but that they may be allowed to serve as Apprentices and to carry passengers from place to place at the age of 16 years XVII The eight Overseers shall yearly upon the first of March and the first of September cause openly to be read in their common Hall all their Orders made or to be made in pain that every of them for every such default shall forfeit 20 nobles to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor XVIII Stat. 21 Jac. 32. The River of Thames shall be made Navigable for Barges Boats and Lighters from the Village of Bercot in the County of Oxon unto the University and City of Oxon See the Statute at large Patents I. Prerog Reg. Cap. 65.17 E. 2. The Kings gift or grant of Land or Manor cum pertinentiis conveyeth not Knights Fees Advowsons or Dowers without express words II. Stat. 11. R. 2.8 All annuities and other things given or granted by the King his Father or Grandfather with this Clause Quousque prostatu suo aliter duxerimus ordinandum shall be void if other things have been afterwards accepted by the Grantees thereof III. Stat. 1 H. 4.6 To the intent that the King might not hereafter be deceived in his Grants he is content by the assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and at the request of the Commons to be hereafter concluded by the wife men of his Council in things touching the estate of him and his Realm saving alwayes his liberty IV. In a Petition to the King for Lands Annuities Offices c. their value shall be therein exprest otherwise the Letters Patents thereupon had shall be void V. Stat. 18. H. 6.1 All Letters Patents which beat not date the day of the delivery of the Kings Warrant into the Chancery shall be void VI. Stat. 6. H. 8.15 If any make suit to the King for lands offices or other things formerly granted to any person during the Kings pleasure the first Patentee being still in life the last Grantee shall express in his Petition or Patent the former Patent and the determination of his pleasure concerning the same otherwise the last grant shall be void VII Stat. 34 35. H. 8.21 The King shall hold and enjoy all Honours Manors Lands and other Hereditaments which he hath obtained since the fourth of February in the 27. year of his Reign or shall hereafter obtain within seven years next after the making of this Act by bargain exchange or purchase Notwithstanding any mis-recitall non-recitall or not naming of the said Honours c. or of the places where they lie or of any part thereof or any other matter or cause whatsoever VIII The right of others is saved save only for rents services and rents secks IX All Letters Patents and Grants made by the King since the said 4th of February or which shall be hereafter made by him within 7 years next after the making of this Act shall be good Notwithstanding in any mis-naming mis-recitall non-recitall not finding of Offices mis-recital or non-recital of Leases uncertainly miscasting rating or setting forth of the yearly values or rate of the things granted or of the yearly Rents thereof want of Attornment and Livery of Seisin or the mis-naming of the places where the things granted do lie or of the Tenants or Farmers of them or any of them X. Provided that notwithstanding this Act the Kings Grants of Offices and
XXI The Justices impowred to appoint a Treasurer to receive the said moneys and make payment thereof according to their orders and may agree and article with persons by them employ'd and take security of them for safe-guarding the said Counties XXII If any persons imployed in Border-Service upon this Act shall wilfully or corruptly neglect to apprehend or bring to tryall any persons called Moss-Troopers they shall be uncapable of being imployed in the said service and further fine and imprisonment as the Justices shall think fit XXIII The Justice may lessen the charge if they see cause this Act to continue 5. years The Stat. 4 Jac. cap. 1. 7 Jac. cap. 1. touching tryal of offenders flying out of England into Scotland et è contra revived and to be put in execution ☞ Rome * I. Stat. 25 H. 8.19 The Convocation shall be assembled by the Kings Writs and shall not enact any Constitutions or Ordinances without the Kings assent II. No Canons shall be executed which be repugnant to the Kings Prerogative or to the Customs Laws or Statutes of this Realm III. There shall be no appeals to Rome but from henceforth they shall be according to the Statute of 24 H. 8.12 Which see in Appeals to Rome IV. Appeals from the Courts of Archbishops of this Realm shall be to the King in his Chancery out of which shall thereupon issue out a Commission under the Great Seal to certain persons to be named by the King who shall thereby have power to hear and definitively to determine all such appeals and the causes concerning the same and from whose decree or sentence therein there shall be no farther appeal V. If any sue for an Appeal to Rome he shall incur a Praemunire but this is made Treason by 13 El. 2. which see in Crown VI. Appeals from places exempt which were before to the See of Rome shall be henceforth into the Chancery and shall be determined before the Commissioners as aforesaid VII Provided That all Canons Constitutions Ordinances and Synodals Provincial not repugnant to the Kings Prerogative nor to the Customs Laws or Statutes of this Kingdom shall be still used and executed notwithstanding this Act. * VIII Stat. 25 H. 8.20 No man shall be presented to the See of Rome for the Dignity of an Archbishop or Bishop neither shall Annates or First-fruits be paid to the same See IX Concerning the Election of Archbishops and Bishops the King may send to the Prior and Covent or Dean and Chapter of the place shall be void his Letters missive containing his conge d'eslire or license to elect the person named in the said Letters missive which person they are to choose for their Archbishop or Bishop and none other X. In case they fail to make election accordingly the King shall nominate such an Archbishop or Bishop by his Letters Patents and if it be a Bishop he shall present him to the Archbishop or in case that See be then void to any other Archbishop within his Dominion but if it be an Archbishop then to an Archbishop and two other Bishops or else to four other Bishops to be nominated by the King XI When any Archbishop or Bishop is elected or presented as aforesaid they are in due form to be invested and consecrated viz. a Bishop by the Archbishop of that Province or in case of vacation by any other within the Kings Dominions and an Archbishop by some other Archbishop ond two Bishops or else by four Bishops without suing for any Bulls Letters or other things from the See of Rome for the same And such Archbishop or Bishop betwixt his election and consecration shall be called the Lord Elect of such a Dignity XII Such election or presentment of an Archbishop or Bishop shall be lawful and make them capable to do and execute all things that concern the said Dignities XIII If the Prior and Covent or the Dean and Chapter within 20 days after the receipt of the Kings Conge d'eslire do not proceed to election and certifie the same to the King or if the Archbishop or Bishops unto whom the King presents any such person to be invested and consecrated as aforesaid do not perform the same accordingly within 20 days after such presentment or if any person or persons de admit obey or execute any Censures Excommunicotions Interdictions Inhibitions or any other Process or Act in derogation of this Act that then all and every person and persons offending shall incurre a Praemunire XIV Stat. 25 H. 8.21 No imposition shall be paid to the Bishop or See of Rome neither shall any person sue for any dispensation or license to the Bishop of Rome XV. The Archbishop of Canterbury may grant dispensations to the King and likewise licenses to all others of things formerly used to be licensed Howbeit of causes not used to be licensed no dispensations shall be granted without the approbation of the King and his Councill XVI Here Licenses of things whereof the tax did heretofore extend at Rome to 4 l. shall be also confirmed by the Kings Great Seal and likewise enrolled in Chancery by a Clerk thereto appointed but all others may be granted by the Archbishop without such confirmation unless the party desire to have it enrolled and then the Fee for the Seal shall be 5 s. and not above And all Acts done by such licenses shall be good in Law XVII All children procreated after Marriage to be had or done by such licenses or dispensation shall in all Courts be admitted Legtiimate and Inheritable XVIII There shall be a Clerk assigned by the Archbishop to register Dispensations and another by the King to enroll Confirmations XIX There shall be two Books made wherein the taxes of Dispensation shall be written whereof the one shall remain with the said Register of the Dispensations and the other with the said Clerk of the Confirmations XX. None shall pay for dispensation greater taxes then shall be set down in the said Books and if any Officer takes more he shall forfeit ten times so much to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor Howbeit where they are Arbitrary the Archbishop and the Lord Chancellor and Keeper shall rate them and here also is set down how the money received shall be divided For which see the Statute at large XXI This Act shall not inhibit the Archbishop of York nor other Bishops to dispence as they were wont to do by the Common Law and custome of this Realm XXII During the vacation of the See of Canterbury the Guardian of the Spiritualities shall grant Dispensations Here is also a remedy provided where the Archbishop or Guardian refuse to grant Dispensations viz. by a Commission from the King to impower two other Prelates to perform the same For which see the Statutes at large XXIII All Religious Houses heretofore exempt from the Visitation of the Archbishop shall still remain so notwithstanding this Act and shall be under the Visitation of
no Essoin Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed See more under the Title of Calves and Cattel And see Tanner n. 25. Also see Title Victuallers Butler of the King I. Stat. 25 E. 3. cap. 21. The Steward of the house and Treasurer of the Wardrobe shall give notice how much wine shall be taken by the Butler or his Lievtenant in every Port which number shall not be exceeded II. A Certificate shall be made by the Mayor and Bailiffs there under their seals by Indenture betwixt them and such takers of wine to the said Steward and Treasurer how much wine is so taken III. If the Butler or his Lievtenant take more wine or any reward or delay any by colour of his office as by arrest he shall forfeit double dammages to the party grieved lose his office be imprisoned and be ransomed at the King's will * IV. Stat. 43 E. 3.3 The King's Butler or his Lievtenant shall take no more wine then he shall be commanded in pain to be imprisoned and ransomed at the King's will and after ten days the merchant may sell the residue notwithstanding their arrest ☞ Butter and Cheese I. Stat. 3 H. 6.4 The Lord Chancellor may grant licence under the Great Seal to any to convey Butter and Cheese to any other place besides the Staple which then was of Calais II. Stat. 18 H. 6.3 Butter and Cheese may be conveyed to any place out of the Realm being in the King's amity without licence * III. Stat. 3 and 4 E. 6.21 None except Inholders and Victuallers in their houses shall buy any Butter or Cheese to sell again save onely by retail in open Shop Fair or Market and so not above a Wey of Cheese or a Barrel of Butter at one time without fraud in pain to forfeit the double value to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor * IV. Stat. 21 Jac. 22. The Statute of 3 and 4 E. 6.21 and so much of the Statute of 5 and 6 E. 6.14 as concerns the buying and retailing Butter and Cheese which see in Fore-stallers shall not extend to the retailers of Cheese in London Westminster or Southwark having served seven years in that Trade not uttering above four wey of Cheese or four barrels of Butter at one time without fraud V. Justices of Peace in Sessions have power to restrain the retailing of Butter and Cheese during which restraint those that rerail shall be liable to the penalties of 3 and 4 E 6.21 and 5 and 6 E. 6.14 * VI. Stat. 14 Car. 2. ca. 26. Every kilderkin of Butter shall contain 132 pound the Cask 20 l. the Firkin 56 of good butter the Pot 14 pound besides the Casks and Pots and Farmers shall use no fraudulent dealings in packing weighing with unwarrantable weights mixing old bad and decayed butter with new or whey butter or unreasonably salting the same and a cask of butter shall be of the same sort upon pain of forfeiture of the value of the butter false packed and six times the value of what shall be wanting in weight VII Cheesemongers and others selling butter shall deliver the full quantity of Kilderkins Firkins Casks and Pots and the due quality thereof and none shall repack butter for sale upon forfeiture of the double value for such repacking VIII Farmers and others shall pack their butter in sufficient and well-seasoned Casks which shall be marked with the first letters of the Christian-names and Surnames of the sellers and the weight of the butter upon penalty of forfeiture of 10 s. for every 100 weight of butter not so marked IX Potters shall mark their pots with their names and the weight of the Pot and set the first letter of their Christian name and Surname at length upon pain for every default 12 d. and farmers shall not sell butter packed in other pots upon pain of 2 s. for every default X. Offences against this Act shall be heard and determined in the Sessions of the Peace for the County City or liberty where committed by action of Debt Indictment Information or Presentment and one half of the penalty to the poor of the Parish where the offence is committed to be paid to the Church-wardens or Overseers the other half to the Prosecutor XI All Suits upon this Act shall be commenced within 4 months after the sale of such butter Cables Halsors and Ropes I. Stat. 21 H. 8.12 AN Act for true making of Cables Halsors and Ropes in Burport and within five miles thereof See the Statute at large * II. Stat. 35 Eliz. 8. None shall make or cause to be made any Cables of old stuff which shall contain seven inches in compass in pain to forfeit four times the value of every Cable so made neither shall any tar or cause to be tarred any Halsors or other Cordage made of old stuff being of lesser Assise nor put the same to sale in pain to forfeit the treble value of every such Cable Halsor or other Cordage of lesser Assize then seven inches made and tarred as aforesaid III. The said forfeitures are to be divided betwixt the Queen and the prosecutor ☞ Calves and other Cattel I. Stat. 3 and 4 E. 6.19 No Cattel shall be bought but in open Fair or Market and those not sold again in the same Fair or Market in pain to forfeit the double value II. No Butcher shall buy any Cattel and sell the same again alive in pain to forfeit them * III. Stat. 2 and 3 P. and M. 3. He that keepeth above 120 sheep or 20 beasts upon every pasture-ground apt for Milch-kine and not commonable shall yearly for every 60 sheep or 10 beasts keep one Milch-cow and for every 120 sheep or 20 beasts rear up one Calf in pain to forfeit for every Cow or Calf not so kept or reared 20 s. viz. the one half to the King and Queen and the other to the prosecutor if he commence his suit within one year after the offence committed IV. Justices of Peace in Sess have power to hear and determine the breach of this Statute V. This Act shall not binde such as keep sheep or feed beasts onely for their own provision VI. Stat. 7 Jac. 8. The Statute of 2 3 P. and M. 3. shall also extend to grounds which since the said Act have been or shall be made several See more Title Butchers Cambridge and Cambridge-shire I. Stat. 34 35 H. 8.24 An Act for the assurance of certain lands to John Hinde then Serjeant at Law and his heirs paying yearly 10 l. toward the charges and wages of the Knights of the Parliament for Cambridge-shire for ever II. Stat. 35 H. 8.15 An Act for paving the streets in Cambridge See these Statutes at large ☞ Captains and Souldiers I. Stat. 5 R. 2.10 The Covenants of such as shall serve the King in his Wars or Embassies shall be recorded in the Exchequer as also the repeal of their retinue to the end a just account may be
Stat. 3. LXVIII Stat. 14 Car. 2. ca. 9. Officers souldiers and mariners maimed indigent and aged which continued faithful to the King and the Widows and Orphans of such as have died in the King's service shall be provided for by pensions or otherwise by the Justices of the Peace in every County See the Statute at large LXIX Stat. 15 Car. 2 ca. 4. Stat 3. For better ordering the forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom The several Lievtenants nominated by his Majesty his Heirs and Successors within their limits and in their absence their Deputy-Lievtenants or any two of them may lead and exercise or by warrants under their hands and seals cause to be led or put in readiness all persons raised arraied or weaponed according to the said Act and this Act. LXX All persons charged upon pain of forfeiting 5 s. shall pay and allow 2 s. 6 d. by the day to every trouper for maintenance of the man and horse and upon pain of 2 s. shall allow 1 s. by the day for so many daies as they shall be absent by occasion of Muster unless agreement be made to the contrary the said penalty to be paid to the Souldier to whom such pay is denied to be demanded within 6 weeks after default or at or before the next Muster and not afterwards LXXI If any persons charged according to the said Acts refuse or neglect by a reasonable time to be appointed to provide and furnish Foot-souldiers and Arms as charged upon them the Lievtenants and Deputy-Lievtenants or any 3 of them may inflict a penalty not exceeding 5 l. for every such offence to be levied as followeth and imployed to the same uses in default whereof the same was imposed LXXII The Lievtenants and Deputy-Lievtenants or any 3 of them may appoint the Constables of every Parish to provide upon penalties not exceeding 40 s. for every omission so many sufficient Foot-arms with wages and other incidents as they shall think fit according to the rules and proportions of the said Acts upon revenues under 50 l. per annum and personal estates under 600 l. within their Parishes LXXIII If any person charged shall refuse or neglect to find a Foot-souldier or pay him according to the rate signed by the Lievtenants Deputy-Lievtenants or any 3 of them the Constables by warrant for that purpose may levy the same by distress and sale of the offender's goods restoring the overplus the charges of distraining deducted and the Tenant may pay the same for any Land-lord and deduct the same out of his Rent and in default the Tenant's goods may be distrained and sold for the same LXXIV Once in every year every Souldier shall pay the Muster-master such summ not exceeding 1 s. an horse-man and 6 d. a Foot-souldier as the Lievtenants or Deputy-Lievtenants or any 3 of them under their hands and seals shall direct which may be levied by distress and sale and every Muster-master shall be an Inhabitant of the respective County LXXV Every Musketier shall bring to every Muster half a pound of powder and half a pound of bullets and if serving with a match-lock 3 yards of match and every horse-man a quarter of a pound of powder and as much of bullets at the charges of the persons charged with the said horse or foot-arms upon pain of 5 s. for every omission thereof LXXVI The Lievtenants or Deputy-Lievtenants or any 3 of them may for 3 years from the 24 of July 1663. summon and continue together the said trained forces so long as they shall judg convenient in lieu of certain daies appointed for musters by the said Act entitled An Act for ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom LXXVII Provided any Troop or Company may be kept upon such duty by virtue hereof 14 daies and no longer in any one year LXXVIII Provided every commissioned Foot-officer in the Trained bands or Militia be excused from finding and contributing for horse and foot-souldier and arms for his whole estate if he be charged but with one horse c. LXXIX Each Constable or other officer upon pain of 40 s. by virtue of any Warrant to them from the Deputy-Lievtenants or any three of them shall levy all arrears and proportions of money unpaid charged for raising of forces as aforesad by virtue of the said Act by distress and sale of the offenders goods LXXX Every Trouper and foot-souldier shall be subject to such exercise and duty as others charged by the said Act and observe order upon like pains and penalties for any offences and to be levied by the same waies and means as in the said Act. LXXXI The Lievtenants and Deputy-Lievtenants or any 3 of them may dispose of so much of the 4th part of one moneths assessment mentioned to be levied by the said Act yearly to the inferiour officers for their pains as to them shall seem expedient LXXXII Every person sued for any thing done in execution of this Act may plead the general issue and upon non-suit or discontinuance of the Plaintiff recover double costs and no action shall be brought against any such unless laid in the proper County and commenced within six moneths after cause of action LXXXIII All forfeitures penalties and payments in case of defaults may be levied and recovered by warrants under the hands and seals of the Lievtenants and Deputy-Lievtenants or any 3 of them by sale of the goods of the offenders and for want of goods by imprisonment until satisfaction LXXXIV All persons which since the 25 of March 1662. have acted or done any thing in dismantling of any Cities or Towns or demolishing of walls or relating thereunto are indemnified LXXXV No person who hath an Estate of 200 l. per annum or personal estate of 2000 l. shall be charged towards finding any foot and any person who hath 100 l. per annum and under 200 l. per annum or a personal estate of 1200 l. and under 2000 l. may be chargeable towards horse or foot as the Deputy-Lievtenants or any three of them shall think fit this not to extend to Cities Corporations and Port-towns LXXXVI Provided the Warden of the Cinque-Ports and their members in absence of the Lievtenants and Deputy-Lievtenants may execute this Act and the members thereof not to be charged for their estates lying out LXXXVII Proviso as in the former Act touching the Parish of St. Martin called Stamford Baron in the Borough of Stamford Com. Lincoln LXXXVIII Seamen Vid. Ships num 83. Captives I. Stat. 16 17 Car. 24. An Act for the relief of them taken by Turkish Moorish and other Pirates and to prevent the taking of others in time to come See the Stat. at large Castles and Fortresses I. Magna Charta 19. No Constable of Castle or his Bailiff shall take provision of a stranger without ready money and one that dwelleth where the Castle is shall be paid for it within fourty dayes II. Magna Charta 20. A Knight shall
pain of 40 s. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor and if the Treasurer or Receiver or their Clerks make and sign one they shall take but 4 d. for it in pain to forfeit 20 s. for every acquittance for which they take more to be divided as aforesaid and every acquittance shall be a sufficient discharge according to the tenor thereof XV. If any Receiver or his Clerk pay a pension or other annuity or rent and have a sufficient acquittance signed sealed and delivered unto him by the party that is to receive such payment he shall take nothing for such acquittance in pain to forfeit 20 s. and if the Receiver or Clerk provide such acquittance he shall not take above 4 d. for the same in pain to forfeit also 20 s. neither shall the Receiver or his Deputy take above the rate of 4 d. in the pound for money which he shall so pay in pain to forfeit 6 s. 8 d. for every peny he takes above The said forfeitures are to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor XVI The Auditor that takes above 3 s. 4 d. for enrolling any Patent Decree or Grant shall forfeit 6 s. 8 d. for every peny so taken to be divided as aforesaid and he shall enroll them being tendred unto him or as much thereof as concerns his office XVII Auditors shall cause Proclamation to be made in four Market-towns twenty days at least before their coming into the County to keep their Audit in pain of 5 l. XVIII Auditors shall send out their Precepts for the Audit betwixt Michaelmas and Christmas XIX An Accomptant that after notice doth not appear at the Audit or appearing refuseth to accompt or accompting defers to pay his charge to the Receiver above three weeks after or conceals or withdraws any rent or other profit shall forfeit his Office and fee and for concealing or withdrawing shall forfeit three times so much as is concealed or withdrawn proof of the said defaults being made to the Head-officer of any of the said Courts and the said Courts shall thereupon award process in the nature of Attachments for remedy thereof XX. In all actions for debts accruing to the King upon attainder outlawry forfeiture gift or other collateral way it shall be sufficient to shew generally that the party unto whom such debt did belong such year and day did give it to the King or was attainted outlawed or other act committed whereby it came to the King without alledging the particular circumstances And in such case the King shall be preferred both in suit and execution before any other person whatsoever XXI Lands of inheritance which were the King's debtor's are chargeable with the King's debts unto whomsoever after the debtor's death they shall descend remain or come XXII The King's debts are payable by the heir though he be not named in the Recognisance Bond or other Specialtie and notwithstanding the land which comes unto him be intailed XXIII The Executor and Administrator are also chargeable if they have Assets XXIV This Act shall not prejudice any who claim the lands chargeable by any just and former title without fraud XXV Upon sufficient cause shewed why the lands should not be charged the Court shall discharge them of the King's debt XXVI If the lands chargeable be in several mens tenures they shall be intirely charged and not severally XXVII This Act shall not diminish any of the Liberties or Privileges of the Dutchie or County Palatine of Lancaster XXVIII All Processes and Executions for debts growing in the Exchequer shall be made by the Officers of that Court but in such kind as is limited by this Act. XXIX Stat. 1 M. Parl. 1.10 The Queen may by her letters Patents alter dissolve or reduce into one or more the Courts of Augmentations First-fruits and Tenths Wards Surveyors and the Dutchie or may annex any of them together or unto any other Court of Record or erect of the same any other new Court or Courts XXX Provided that nothing in the said Letters Patents to be contained shall charge the Subject otherwise then as he ought to have been charged before the second day of this Parliament and that the Officers of the said Courts shall not hold Plea but onely where the Queen is party against any of her Subjects XXXI Provided also that if the Queen shall annex any of the said Courts to the Exchequer all things within the survey of the Court or Courts so annexed shall be ordered the Exchequer-way saving to all persons their Offices Rents Annuities and Fees to be paid out of any of the Queen's Courts where there shall be sufficient revenue to answer the same XXXII Stat. 16 Car. 10.17 cap. 10. The Court of Star-Chamber the Court holden before the Presidents and Councils in the Marches of Wales and the Northern parts the Court of the Dutchie of Lancaster holden before the Chancellor and Council of that Court the Court of Exchequer of the County Palatine of Chester holden before the Chamberlain and Council of that Court and all other Courts of like Jurisdiction and also all Warrants and Directions of the Council-board for commitments restraints or imprisonments awarded by the King or his Council are absolutely dissolved annulled and made void See the Statute at large XXXIII Stat. 16.17 Car. 15. An Act made against divers incroachments and oppressions in the Stannary Courts See the Statute at large XXXIV Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. The Court of Wards and Liveries and all Wardships Tenures in capite liveries Primer seisins Ouster le maines c. and other dependencies upon the said Court taken away and discharged and the Act of 32 H. 8. cap. 6. 33 H. 8. cap. 22. repealed XXXV Proviso Not to take away any rents heriots or suits of Court or other services belonging to tenures now taken away or in common soccage or to grow due to the King mean Lord or other private persons or the fealty and distress incident thereunto and such relief shall continue in respect of such rent as is paid in case of death of tenant in common soccage XXXVI Nor to take away any fines for alienations due by particular customes of particular mannors and places other then for lands held of the King in capite XXXVII Nor to take away tenures in frank-almoign nor alter any tenures by copy of Court-Roll nor any services of Grand-sergeanty other then Wardship Marriage and aids aforesaid XXXVIII Parents may dispose of the custody of their children untill they attain the age of 21 years Courts and Jurisdictions Ecclesiastical I. Stat. 17 Car. 1. cap. 11. A recital of the branch of the Stat. 1. El. cap. 1. whereby the high-Commission Court was erected for visiting reforming and correcting all Heresies Schisms c. and a Repeal of the same And enacted that no new Court be erected with like Power Jurisdiction or Authority but all Letters patents for that purpose and all authorities thereby granted to be void
II. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 2. Reciting the Act of 17 Car. 1. cap. 27. for disinabling all persons in holy orders to exercise any temporal jurisdiction or authority and that the same having made several alterations prejudicial to the ancient rights of Parliament and contrary to the laws of the land and by experience is found inconvenient doth repeal and adnull the said recited Act to all intents and purposes whatsoever III. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 12. An explanation of a clause contained in the Act of 17 Car. 1. cap. 11. touching the repeal of a branch of the Statute of 1 El. cap. 2. viz. It is declared That neither the said Act nor any thing therein contained doth take away any ordinary power or authority from the said Arch-bishops Bishops or persons therein named but that they may use all Ecclesiastical jurisdiction as formerly in causes belonging to the same IV. Proviso and enacted that it shall not be lawfull for any Arch-Bishop Bishop Chancellor or other Ecclesiastical Judge Officer or person having or exercising spiritual or Ecclesiastical jurisdiction to tender or administer unto any person whatsoever the oath Ex officio or any other oath whereby such persons to whom the same is administred may be charged or compelled to confess or accuse or purge him or her self of any criminal matter or thing whereby he or she may be liable to censure or punishment V. Proviso Not to give any other jurisdiction to any Arch-Bishops c. then they had by law before the year 1639. nor to abridge or diminish the King's supremacy in Ecclesiastical matters nor to confirm the Canons made in the year 1640. nor any laws or Canons not formerly confirmed or enacted by Parliament or established by the Laws as they stood in the year 1639. ☞ Cross-bows and Hand-guns * I. Stat. 33 H. 8.6 None shall shoot in or keep in his house any Cross-bow Hand-gun Hagbut or Demihake unless his lands be of the value of 100 l. per annum in pain to forfeit 10 l. for every such offence II. None shall shoot in or have any Hand-gun under the length of one yard nor Hagbut or Demihake under the length of three quarters of a yard in pain to forfeit 10 l. And it shall be lawfull for any man having lands of 100 l. per annum to seize any such Gun or any Cross-bow used or kept contrary to the form of this Statute but then he ought to break them within 20 days after in pain of 40 s. III. None shall travell with a Cross-bow bent or Gun charged except in time of war or shoot within a quarter of a mile of a City Borough or Market-Town except for the defence of himself or his house or at a dead mark in pain of 10 l. IV. None shall command his servant to shoot in any Gun or Cross-bow except at a dead mark or in time of war in pain of 10 l. V. The penalties abovesaid shall be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor VI. Howbeit the followers of Lords Spiritual or Temporal Knights Esquires Gentlemen and the inhabitants of Cities Burroughs or Market-towns may keep in their houses and use to shoot but at a dead mark onely with Guns not under the lengths abovesaid so may the Owner of a Ship for the defence of his Ship and also he that dwells two furlongs distant from a Town or within five miles of the Sea-coast and this last may shoot at any wilde beast or fowl save onely Deer Heron Shovelard Fesant Partridge wild Swan or wilde Elke VII Those which have power from the King to take away Guns and Cross-bows in Forests Parks and Chases may retain the same notwithstanding this Act so likewise may Smiths and Merchants that make or sell them the several lengths abovesaid being duly observed ☞ VIII It shall be lawfull for any person to convey the party offending against this Act before the next Justice of Peace who upon due examination and proof shall have power to commit him to prison there to remain till he hath satisfied the penalty which in this case shall be divided betwixt the King and the party that so takes the offender IX Every Placart granted by the King which expresseth not at what beasts or fowl the Grantee shall shoot and where the Grantee entreth not into a Recognisance of 20 l. in the Chancery to shoot at no other shall be adjudged void X. Justices of Peace in Sessions and Stewards of Leets have power to hear and determine these offences XI When the conviction is in Sessions the whole forfeiture is to be levied to the King's use when in a Leet the one half is the King 's and the other half ought to be divided betwixt the Lord and the prosecutor XII Here if a Jury shall willingly conceal any thing the Justices or Steward have power to impannel another Jury by whom if the first Jury be found guilty of concealment they shall forfeit 20 s. a piece viz. to the King if it be in Sessions but if in a Leet then the one half to the Lord and the other half to the prosecutor XIII Forfeitures arising by this Act shall be sued for viz. by the King within one year and by a common person within six months otherwise they shall be lost XIV A servant upon command may use his Master's Cross-bow or Gun not prohibited by this Act so as he shoot at no fowl Deer or other game and may also by a license in writing carry it to any place to be mended * ☞ XV. Stat. 2. 3. E. 6.14 None under the degree of a Baron shall shoot in any Hand-gun within any City or Town at any fowl whatsoever or with any hail-shot in pain of 10 l. and 3 months imprisonment XVI This Act shall not restrain those who according to the value of their land are authorized to shoot by 33 H. 8.6 so that they forbear to use any hail-shot and all other that presume to shoot shall present their own names viz. in a Corporation to the Mayor or Head-officer and in the County to the next Justice of Peace in pain of 20 s. and the said Justice or Head-officer is to see them recorded at the next Sessions in like pain of 20 s. which forfeitures are to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor Crosses I. West 2.33 13 E. 1. Lands where Crosses be set with purpose that the tenants thereof should defend themselves against the chief Lord or Lords by the Privileges of Templars and Hospitallers shall be forfeited as lands aliened in Mortmain ☞ Crown I. Stat. 14 E. 3. The Realm and people of England shall not be subject or obedient to the King or kingdom of France II. Stat. 7 H. 4.2 The Crown of England and France were intailed to the King and his four sons by name III. Stat. 35 H. 8.1 The Crown of England is intailed to the King's daughter the Lady Mary the remainder to the Lady Elizabeth the
upon such refusal which Jury may upon evidence indict the party refusing as well as if the indictment were preferred in the proper county XXV If any refuse to take this Oath upon the second tender or being formerly convicted of maintaining the jurisdiction of the Bishop or See of Rome as aforesaid do commit the like offence the second time in both cases both they and their accessaries shall suffer as in case of High Treason But here there shall be no corruption of bloud disheriting of any heir forfeiture of Dower or prejudice to the right of any save onely of the offender during his life and then the party next in reversion or remainder may enter without any Oustreâ—le main to be sued Here also none shall be deemed an accessary for giving of alms in charity to the offender without fraud XXVI This Oath shall be expounded in such form as is set forth in an admonition annexed to the Queen's Injunctions published in the first year of her reign viz. to acknowledge in her Majesty her heirs and successors such authority as was challenged and used by H. 8. and E. 6. and none other XXVII This Act shall be published every Quarter-sessions by the Clerk of the Peace and at every Leet by the Steward there and once every Term in the open hall of every Inns of Court and Chancery at such times and by such persons as shall be appointed by the Lord Chancellor or Keeper for the time being XXVIII Every member of the Commons House before he shall have a voice there shall take this Oath before the Lord Steward or his Deputy and if he enter the House before he take it he shall incurre such penalties as he who presumes to sit there without election return or authority XXIX None of or above the degree of a Baron shall be compelled to take this Oath and a Peer offending this Act shall be tried by his Peers XXX Provided that none shall be compellable to take this Oath upon a second tender or be in danger by refusal thereof to incurre the penalty of High Treason save onely Clergie-men Officers of Ecclesiastical Courts or such as shall not observe the rites of Divine service do deprave by words or writing the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England or do use to say or hear private Mass XXXI It shall not be lawfull to slay one attainted in a Praemunire XXXII Saving the due execution of every person attainted upon judgment lawfully given by reason of this Statute or otherwise saving all such pains of death or other punishment as heretofore might without danger of Law be done upon any person that shall send or bring into the Queen's Dominions or within the same execute any process against any person from the Bishop or See of Rome XXXIII None shall be hereafter indicted as an accessary for any of the said offences without such sufficient proof as may satisfie the Jury that are to indict him * XXXIV Stat. 13 El. 2. If any shall obtain or put in ure any Bull of absolution or reconciliation from the Bishop of Rome or absolve or be absolved thereby they and their accessaries before the fact shall be adjudged guilty of High Treason XXXV The comforters and maintainers of such offenders shall incurre a Praemunire and their concealers misprision of Treason unless within six weeks they discover them to some of the Privie Council or to one of the Presidents or Vice-Presidents of the Councils established in the North or Marches of Wales XXXVI Provided no person shall be impeached of misprision of treason for any offence made treason by this Act other then such as are hereby declared to be in case of misprision of Treason XXXVII If any shall bring into any of the Queen's Dominions any Agnus Dei Crosses Pictures Beads or any such vain or superstitious thing or deliver or offer the same to any person to be used both the person so doing and the person so receiving the same shall incurre a Praemunire Howbeit if the party unto whom tender thereof shall be made apprehend the party tendring the same and carry him before the next Justice of Peace or not being able so to do within three days after discloseth his name and the place of his abode or resort unto the Ordinary or some Justice of Peace within the same County or having received the same doth within one day after deliver it to some such Justice of Peace then shall he not incurre any Prejudice by reason of this Act. XXXVIII A Justice of Peace shall disclose the offences aforesaid to the Privy Council within fourteen days after he shall have notice thereof in pain of incurring a Praemunire XXXIX Here the trial of Peers shall be by their Peers XL. The right of others saved * XLI Stat. 23 El. 1. It shall be high Treason to have or pretend to have power or to put in practice to absolve perswade or withdraw any within the Queen's Dominions from their natural obedience to her Majesty or to withdraw them for that intent from the Religion now established to the Romish Religion and they also who shall be willingly so withdrawn or reconciled as aforesaid together with the procurers and Counsellors of such offenders shall be adjudged guilty of the same offence ☞ XLII Also their aiders and maintainers who do not discover them within twenty days to some Justice of Peace or higher Officer shall be adjudged guilty of misprision of Treason XLIII None shall say or sing Masse in pain to forfeit 200 marks to suffer one year's imprisonment and not to be enlarged thence untill the fine be paid And none shall hear Masse in pain of one year's imprisonment and a hundred marks * XLIV Every person not repairing to Church according to the Statute of 1 El. 2. which see in Service and Sacraments shall forfeit 20 l. for every moneth they so make default and if they so forbear by the space of twelve months after certificate thereof made by the Ordinary into the King's Bench a Justice of Assize Gaol-delivery or Peace of the County where they dwell shall binde them with two sufficient sureties in 200 l. at least to the good behaviour from which they shall not be released untill they shall repair to Church according to the said Statute XLV None shall keep a Schoolmaster which absents himself from Church or is not allowed by the Bishop or Ordinary in pain of 10 l. for every moneth he so keeps him and such Schoolmaster shall be for ever after disabled to teach youth and shall suffer one whole year's imprisonment without bail ☞ XLVI The offences against this Act and the Acts of the first fifth and thirteenth years of the Queen's reign touching the acknowledging of her supreme Government in causes Ecclesiasticall the service of God coming to Church or establishment of true Religion within this Realm shall be inquirable before Justices of Oyer and Terminer Assize Gaol-delivery and Peace in their Circuits
shall receive and allow the same also all deeds and obligations made to the King's use which concern the said lands may be there inrolled without fee. XXXVI Provided that the King's Officers may keep Court within the Verge and his Clerk of the Market and none other execute his office there notwithstanding any grant c. Neither shall this act be prejudicial to the City of London XXXVII The lands of the late Monastery of Furnes and of the late Monasteries and Priories of Cartmele Coningshed Barstrough and Holland and the Liberties and Franchises belonging thereunto shall be in the Government of the Officers of the Dutchy of Lancaster and the Officers of those liberties shall be liable to accompt as other Officers of the Dutchy have used to be they shall also be attendant on the King's Courts and the Sheriff and other officers are prohibited to intromit into those Liberties XXXVIII This act shall not annul or diminish any of the liberties belonging to the said Dutchy or to the five Forts or the members thereof XXXIX The Petition of Right 3 Car. None shall be compelled to make or yield any gift loan benevolence tax or such like charge without consent by Act of Parliament nor upon refusal so to do shall be called to make answer take any oath not warranted by Law give attendance or be confined or otherwise molested concerning the same or for refusall thereof Neither shall any Free-man be imprisoned or detained without cause shewed XL. The subject shall not be burthened by the quarter of Souldiers or Marriners and all Commissions for proceeding by Martial Law shall be annulled neither shall any of like nature be issued out hereafter lest the subject by colour thereof be destroyed or put to death contrary to the Laws and Franchise of the Land XLI What hath been done to the prejudice of the Subject in any of the premisses shall not hereafter be drawn into consequence of example and the King declares his pleasure to be that in the things aforesaid all his Officers and Ministers shall serve him according to the Laws and Statutes of the Realm ☞ Fraudulent Conveyances I. Stat. 50 E. 3.6 Fraudulent assurances of lands or goods to deceive Creditors shall be void and the Creditors shall have execution thereof as if no such gift had been made * II. Stat. 13 El. 5. All fraudulent Conveyances of lands tenements hereditaments goods or chattels and all such bonds suits judgments and executions made to avoid the debt or duty of others shall as against the party onely whose debt or duty is so endeavoured to be avoided their heirs successors executors or assigns be utterly void any pretence feigned Consideration or c. notwithstanding III. Every of the parties to such a fraudulent conveyance bond suit judgment or execution who being privy thereunto shall wittingly justifie the same to be done bonâ fide and upon good consideration or shall alien and assign any lands lease or goods so to them conveyed as aforesaid shall forfeit one years value of the lands lease rent common or other profit out of the same and the whole value of the goods and also so much money as shall be contained in such covenous bond and being thereof convicted shall suffer half a years imprisonment without bail And here the said forfeitures are to be divided betwixt the Queen and the party grieved IV. Common Recoveries against the tenants of the free-hold shall be good notwithstanding this Act. And so shall all estates made for the procuring of a Voucher in Formedon Neither shall this Act extend to grants made bonâ fide and upon good consideration to persons not privy to such Collusion V. Stat. 27 El. 4. Every conveyance grant charge incumbrance and limitation of use or uses of in or out of any lands or other hereditaments made to defraud any purchaser of the same in fee for tail for life or years shall as against such purchaser onely and every other person lawfully claiming from by or under him be utterly void the said purchaser having obtained the same for money or some other good consideration VI. Every of the parties to such fraudulent conveyances or being privy thereunto who shall justifie the same to be made bonâ fide and on good consideration to the disturbance or hinderance of the purchaser or of any other lawfully claiming from by or under him shall forfeit one years value of the lands or other hereditaments so purchased or charged to be divided betwixt the Queen and the party grieved and being thereof convicted shall suffer half a years imprisonment without bail VII Conveyances made upon good consideration and bonâ fide shall be good notwithstanding this Act. VIII If lands be first conveyed with clause provision or condition of revocation determination or alteration and afterwards sold or charged for money or other good consideration before the first conveyance was revoked altered or made void according to the power given thereby In this case such first conveyances shall be void against the vendee and all others lawfully claiming from by or under him Howbeit no lawful mortgage made bonâ fide without fraud shall be impeached by this Act. IX All Statutes Merchant and of the Staple shall within six moneths after their acknowledgment be entred in the office of the Clerk of Recognizances taken according to the Stat. of 23 H. 8.6 and the Clerk there upon shewing the same shall make entry thereof for which he shall have 8 d. and no more X. Every such Statute which is not within four moneths after the acknowledgment thereof delivered to be entred accordingly shall be void against the purchaser of the lands chargeable therewith and against his heirs successors executors and assigns XI The said Clerk shall within the said six moneths make entry of every Statute to him delivered as aforesaid and shall indorse thereupon the day and year of such his entry with his own name in pain to forfeit for every Statute so brought unto him and not entred as aforesaid 20 l. to be divided betwixt the Queen and the Prosecutor XII The Clerk shall take for the search of a Statute but 2 d. for every years search in pain to forfeit to the party grieved twenty times so much as he takes above to be recovered in any Court of Record by action of debt c. XIII Provided that this Act shall not extend to make good any purchase made void by reason of any former conveyance so as the party so making void the same his heirs or assignes were the first day of this Parliament in actual possession of the lands out of which any such Purchase Lease Charge or Profit was made Free-hold I. Marlb Cap. 22. 52 H. 3. None shall distrain his free-holders to answer for their Free-holds or for any thing touching the same without the King 's Writ nor cause his Free-holders to swear against their wills for none may do that without the King's commandment II. Stat. 15 R.
forfeited is saved XXXV The Act shall not extend to any Sheriff or Minister of a Corporation so that they return like issues as before are limited XXXVI Stat. 4 5 P.M. 7. A Tales de circumstantibus may upon request for the King or Queen by any authorized thereunto or assigned by the Court or upon request by the Prosecutor or his Attorney and by the command of the Justices of Assize of Nisi prius be granted in a suit commenced upon a penal Statute XXXVII The Stat. of 35 H. 8.6 shall be interpreted to give like advantages to the king Queen and prosecutor as it doth there to the Plaintiff as if such suits for the King had been there particularly mentioned XXXVIII Stat. 5 El. 25. Tales de circumstantibus shall be grantable in the 12 Counties of Wales and the Counties Palatine of Chester Lancaster and Durham being of the same effect with the Statute of 35 H. 8.6 See the Statute at large XXXIX Stat. 14 El. 9. In case the Plaintiff or Defendant forbear or refuse to pray a Tales it shall be granted by the Justices of Nisi prius in England or those of Oyer or Assize in Wales Chester Lancaster and Durham at the prayer of the Defendant or Tenant and that as well in suits upon penal Laws as upon other trials XL. Stat. 27 El. 6. The ability of Jurors returned upon trials ordained by the Statutes of 2 H. 5. Stat. 2. cap. 3. and 35 H. 8.6 to be 40 s. per annum is increased to 4 l. per annum upon the like pain of 20 s. to be forfeited by the Sheriff or other Officer for every Juror otherwise returned and in that respect the writs shall be Quorum quilibet habet quatuor libras c. XLI Here the issues to be returned shall be as followeth viz. upon the first writ 10 s. upon the second 20 s. upon the third 30 s. and the double of 30 s. afterwards until a full Jury be sworn or the process otherwise cease in pain that the Sheriff or other Officer shall forfeit 5 l. for every Juror returned with less issues set upon him XLII Upon issues lost by a failer of lawful summons the Sheriff or other Officer shall forfeit the double issues XLIII The Sheriff or other Officer that takes a bribe and agrees to take it directly or indirectly for the sparing of a Juror shall forfeit 5 l. to be divided betwixt the Queen and the prosecutor XLIV Upon any trial two Hundreders shall be hereafter deemed sufficient notwithstanding any challenge hereafter to be made against the same XLV All lawful challenges shall be admitted notwithstanding this Act neither shall it extend to Juries in Corporations or Wales XLVI Stat. 16 17 Car. 2. cap. 3. All Jurors other then strangers upon trials Per medietatem linguae returnable for trial of issues in the King's Bench Common Pleas or Exchequer Justices of Assize or Nisi prius Oyer and Terminer Gaol-delivery or General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace after the 25 of April 1665 in any County of England shall have in their own name or in trust for them within the same County 20 l. per annum at least in their own or their wives right ultra Reprisas of Freehold lands or ancient Demesne or rents in Fee Fee-Tail or for life And in every County of Wales every such Jurors shall have 8 l. per annum as aforesaid And if any be returned otherwise it shall be a good cause of challenge and the party discharged upon his own allegation and oath thereof XLVII No Jury man's issues for default shall be saved but by special order of the Judges for good cause proved before the Judge where the issue is to be tried XLVIII The writs of ven fac to be made out accordingly and the Sheriff or other persons to make out pannels shall not return any persons but such as aforesaid upon pain for every person returned not having such estate the summe of 5 l. to the King his heirs and successors XLIX And for discovering such persons and estates every Sheriff shall on the first day of every Sessions after Easter yearly deliver to the Justices of the Peace then fitting the names of all such persons as are to be returned for Jury men to be by the said Justices or greater part of them approved for Jury men for the year then next ensuing and the said Justices may adde such others as are omitted by the Sheriff to serve of Juries for the said year And the Sheriff to incurre no penalty for returning any persons added by the Justices in case his estate be of less value then aforesaid L. No Sheriff or other shall return any person unless duly summoned by the space of six days at least before their days of apparance And have left with or for such persons in writing the names of all the parties in the causes in which they are to serve as Jurors nor shall take any reward to excuse the apparance of any Juror upon pain to forfeit 10 l. for every offence Saving to Cities and Towns Corporate their ancient usage in returning Jurors of such estate as hath been accustomed LI. Writs of ven fac ' Hab. Corpora or distringas in the County Palatine of Lancaster shall be sued out like as is used in other Counties in England returnable at the then next Assizes and like issues returned upon Jurors and to be Estreated as above provided LII And the Sheriff of the said County of Lancaster for the time being shall cause 12 lawful men so qualifyed as before appointed by this Act out of every of the six hundreds there to be duly summoned ten days before every Assizes to appear the first day of every Assizes there to attend all the said Assizes as Jurors in such causes between party and party upon pain to forfeit 10 l. to the use of the poor of the Town where such party offending doth inhabit to be levied as other issues of Jurors be levied LIII This Act to continue 3 years and to the end of the next Sesison of Parliament and no longer ☞ Justice and right and Justices I. Stat. 2 E. 3.8 No command shall be made under the great or little seal to disturb or delay common right and the Justices shall proceed to do right notwithstanding such commands II. Stat. 18 E. 3. Stat. 3.1 The oath to be given to Justices when they take their places to this effect viz. to serve the King in their Offices warn him of any damage do Justice take no bribe give no councel where he is a party maintain no suit nor deny right though by command from the King to procure the King's profit and to be answerable to the King in body lands and goods if found in default III. Stat. 20 E. 3.1 The King's Justices shall do right to all without respect of persons notwithstanding the King's letters or commands to the contrary wherewith if any be they shall acquaint
Officer there or unto the Lord Treasurer Chancellor under-Treasurer or one of the Barons of the Exchequer or unto the Attorney-general he shall forfeit 100 l. LXXIV Customers Controllers and Searchers have power to make Deputies in Ports Creeks and Roads and both they and their Deputies shall duly and faithfully execnte their offices in pain of a 100 l. and to lose their places LXXV Such custom shall be paid for sweet Wines as hath formerly been paid for Malmseys LXXVI This Act shall not infringe the liberties granted to the Isle of Anglesey and the Counties of Flint and Carnarvan so as they pay the due Customs and Subsidies and lade and discharge within the times and hours above mentioned LXXVII Stat. 43 El. 12. The Lord Chancellor or Keeper shall award a standing Commission to be renewed yearly or as often as to him shall seem meet for the hearing and determining of all such causes arising and policies of assurances as shall be entred in the office of Assurance in London LXXVIII This Commission shall be directed to the Judge of the Admiralty the Recorder of London two Doctors of the Civil Law 2 common Lawyers and 8 grave and discreet Merchants or to any 5 of them which Commissioners or the greater part of them shall have power to hear and examine order and decree all such causes in a brief and summary course as to their discretion shall seem meet without formality of pleadings or proceedings LXXIX The Commissioners have also power to summon the parties examine witnesses upon oath and commit to prison such as contemn or disobey their orders or decrees they shall meet and sit once a week at least in the office of Assurances or some other convenient publick place for the execution of the said Commission And no fees at all shall be there exacted by any person whatsoever LXXX If any be grieved by their sentence or decree he may exhibit his bill in Chancery for the re-examination thereof so as he first satisfie the sentence so awarded or deposit with the Commissioners the summ awarded and then albeit he be imprisoned he may be inlarged and here the Lord Chancellor or Keeper hath power to reverse or affirm every such sentence or decree and in case it be affirmed to award the party assured double cost LXXXI No Commissioner shall meddle in the execution of this Commission in any cause wherein himself is party Assurer or Assured not until he hath taken his corporal oath before the Mayor and Court of Aldermen to proceed uprightly and indifferently between party and party onely the Judg of the Admiralty and Recorder are excused from such oath LXXXII Stat. 3 Jac. 6. All the Kings subjects shall have free trade into and from Spain Portugal and France notwithstanding the late grant of an Incorporation to prohibit the same or any other Act or thing whatsoever to the contrary LXXXIII Provided that this Act shall not give liberty for any person to go beyond Sea who by Law is restrained from going without licence LXXXIV Stat. 3 Jac. 9. No merchant or other shall dress or cause to be dressed in his house or by any workman being no Skinner appointed by him for that purpose any black Cony-skins of this Realm nor transport any such or pack them to be transported before they be tawed and duly wrought by such as are Artizan Skinners or Tawers under them in pain to forfeit them or the value thereof LXXXV No Merchant shall buy or contract for any Cony-skins or Lambs-skins under the number of 1000 black Cony-skins 3000 grey Cony-skins and 2000 Lambs-skins at one and the same time to be so bought and delivered intirely together and not by parcels except they be bought of the Artizan-skinners neither shall the Merchant sell them again in less parcels then as aforesaid unless to the said Artizan-skinners in pain to forfeit the same or the value thereof LXXXVI None shall retain any Servant Journey-man or Apprentice to work in the trade of a Skinner unless he himself hath served 7 years as an Apprentice in the same trade in pain to forfeit the double value of his ware so wrought LXXXVII The forfeitures aforesaid are to be divided betwixt the King and the seisor or prosecutor LXXXVIII Stat. 4 Jac. 9. The general Statute of 3 Jac. 6. neither doth nor shall dissolve or impeach the Charter of Incorporation granted by Queen El. to certain Merchants of Exeter and their successors LXXXIX Stat. 14 Car. 2. ca. 23. Upon some defects in the Statute 43 Eliz. ca. 12. recited It is enacted That the Lord Chancellor or Keeper of the Great-Seal shall yearly issue out one standing Commission authorising Commissioners or any 3 of them whereof a Doctor of the Civil-Law or a Barrister at Common-law of 5 years standing to be always one to make a Court of Pollicies of Assurance and act as any 5 before might have done XC The said Commissioners or any 3 of them impowred to summon parties and witnesses and upon Contempts or delay in the witnesses upon first summons and tender of reasonable charges and in the parties upon second summons to imprison offendors or give costs every Commissioner having taken the oath before the Lord Mayor of London to proceed uprightly in execution of the said Commission XCI Commissions may issue out of the Court of Admiralty for examining witnesses beyond Sea or in remote place by direction of the said Commissioners or any 3 of them And decrees may be made against the body and goods and against the Executors c. and execution accordingly and assess costs of suit as to them shall seem just XCII Any of the Commissioners may administer an oath to any witness legally summoned so as the adverse party have timely notice to the end witnesses be truly examined XCIII Provided Execution in no case be against body and goods for the same debt XCIV Provided An Appeal may be to the Chancery as in the said former Act. Marshalsey I. Artic. super Cart. 3. 28. E. 1. The Stewards and Marshals of the Kings house shall not hold plea of freehold debt covenant or contract but only trespass done in the house or Verge or of contracts and covenants when both parties are of the house and the plea of trespass shall be determined before the Kings departure from the Verge where the trespass was committed and therefore the plea thereof shall be speedy de die in diem and if the plea cannot be determined in time the Plaintiff shall in such case have recourse to the Common Law II. The Steward shall from henceforth take no conusance of debt or other things but of the people of the same house nor shall hold plea by obligation made at the distress of the said Stewards or Marshals And if any thing be done contrary to this Act it shall be holden void III. In case of death within the Verge where the Coroner is to make view the Coroner of the County together with the Kings
in pain to forfeit the same or the value thereof XXII Hoys and Plats may cross the Seas as far as Cane in Normandy or Eastward as far as Norway notwithstanding the Statute of 1 El. 13. XXIII All Cod and Ling shall be brought into this Realm loose and not in barrel in pain to forfeit the same or the value thereof XXIV No Wine of the growth of France or any Woad of Tholouse shall be imported into this Realm in any other vessell then English in pain to forfeit the same according to the Statute of 4 H. 7.10 Only into Wales Rochel Wines may be otherwise imported XXV Owners of Ships and all others using the trade of the Sea-fishing or otherwise and every Gunner and Ship-wright may take Apprentices to be bound for ten years or under by Indenâ—â—re to be inrolled in the same Corporation if the Master dwell in â—â—e but if not in the next XXVI So much of the Statutes of 5 6. E. 6.14 which see in Forestallers and of all other Statutes as concerts the buying of Sea-fish unsalted or mud-fish or any wine oil or salt to be brought in an English vessell to any Port within this Realm shall be void XXVII None shall eat flesh upon dayes usually observed as fish dayes in pain of 3 l. or three months imprisonment without bail And they that wittingly suffer any such offence to be done in their house and do not discover it to an Officer that may punish it shall forfeit 40 s. XXVIII These forfeitures shall be divided into three parts whereof the Queen shall have one the poor of the Parish another and the informer the third XXIX Notwithstanding this Act licenses may be granted upon just causes on these conditions following v z. To a Peer or his Lady if he pay yearly for it to the poor of the Parish where he dwells 26 s. 8 d. To a Knight or his Lady if he pay 13 s. 4 d. and to any other infâ—râ—our person if he pay 6 s. 8 d. But here no license shall extend to the eating of Beef at any time or to the eating of Veal betwixt Michaelmas and May-day XXX The Minister of the Parish may grant a license to a sick person during the time of his sickness and if the sickness continue above eight dayes he shall in the presence of one of the Churchwardens register the same and have 4 d. for the registring of it But here if he grant the license without just cause he shall forfeit 5. Marks XXXI Wines shall be sold by retail at such prizes as shall be limited by the Queens Proclamation with the assent of such Lords and others as by the Statute of 18 H. 8.14 which see in Wines are authorized to set price on Wines in gross XXXII The Statute of 28 H. 6.19 which see in Captains ordained against souldiers shall extend to Mariners and Gunners XXXIII These offences shall be heard and determined as followeth viz. being committed upon the main Sea without the limits of the Cinque Ports by the Lord Admiral his Lievtenant or Deputies or by Justices of Oyer and Terminer according to the Statute of 28 H. 8.15 which see in Tryal but if without any Port and yet within the Jurisdiction of any of the Cinque Ports then by the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports or his substitute or by Justices of Oyer and Terminer according to the Statute of 28 H. 8. Oâ—â—f in a Port or elswhere upon the main land then the Justices of Peace or other chief Officers in Sessions within their several Jurisdictions And here the tryal may be by the oaths of twelve men or otherwise by information And for levying the said forfeitures the said Officers and Justices may issue out Process at their discretion XXXIV The time limited for the prosecution of this Action is for a Subject six months and for the Queen a whole year XXXV Every such person licensed to eat flesh as aforesaid except for sickness age or other impediment shall have at his Table for every dish of flesh one dish of fish upon like pain as for eating flesh upon Fishdayes XXXVI If any shall by Preaching or otherwise avouch or notisy that any eating of flesh or forbearing of flesh is necessary for the saving of the soul or the service of God otherwise then as other politick Laws be shall be punished as a spreader of false news which see in News XXXVII Fishermen or Mariners shall not be compellable to serve as souldiers otherwise then as Mariners unless for some special exploit or to withstand an Invasion or subdue a Rebellion or bound so to do by tenure custome or covenant XXXVIII The Liberties and Rights of others are saved XXXIX Provided that no Fishermen using the Sea shall be taken by the Queens Commission to serve as a Mariner at Sea unless the said Commission be first brought by the Queens Taker to the two next Justices of Peace to the end they may choose and return such sufficient number of able men as in the same Commission shall be contained XL. The Liberties of the Cinque Ports and great Yarmouth are saved other then for buying of strangers and taking of toll as the same are before prohibited XLI This act shall not prejudice the authority or jurisdiction of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports XLII Wine may be imported into the Isle of Man and Chepstow in strangers bottoms not exceeding an hundred Tunn in one year in each of them notwithstanding this Act. The like may also be done in all other Ports of Wales besides the Rochel-Wines before permitted so as the quantity exceed not an hundred Tun in one year as before XLIII The Queens duties for the three hundred Tun mentioned in the last clause are saved XLIV The â—ord Admiral or his substitutes shall have no greater authority then they had before this Act save only for punishment of offences as aforesaid XLV Stat. 8 El. 3. None shall transport Sheep beyond Sea in pain to forfeit all his goods to suffer one years imprisonment and to have his hand cut off in some open Market and for the second offence to suffer death as a Felon XLVI This Act shall not extend to corruption of bloud or forfeiture of Dower XLVII Justices of Goal-delivery and of Peace have power to hear and determine this offence XLVIII The aforesaid goods forfeited shall be divided betwixt the Queen and the Prosecutor XLIX Stat. 13 El. 11. So much of the Statute of 5 El. 5. as concerns the transporting of Herring and Sea-fish by the Subjects born and for not paying of Custome for the same shall be revived so as it be ' n vessels with cross sails L. No vessel called Catch Mongers or Picard shall upon the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk between the 14 of September and the 14 of November from Sun-setting to Sun-rising anchor upon the Main Sea or in the trade of fishing in pain to forfeit their vessel or the value thereof
Vessel than belonging to the places of France c. and manned as aforesaid shall be adjudged aliens goods and pay Custonis and Duty to the Town or Port where they shall be imported And all Masts Timber-boards c. of the growth of Spain Canary Islands Portugal Madera Western Islands Muscovy or Russia imported in any other Ships than of the said places And all Turky Commodities otherwise imported than as aforesaid shall pay Customes as Aliens goods LXXII Officers of the Custome may not allow any the Priviledges aforesaid to foreign built ships nor English built ships for forein goods without certificate and proof by oath taken before them and examination whether the Master and 3 fourths of the Mariners be English or of the Countrey from whence the goods come upon pain to forfeit their places LXXIII Proviso to exempt coming from the Straights or Levant though not of the very growth of the said places LXXIII Proviso Not to restrain the importing any East-India Commodities in English-built shipping manned with Mariners as aforesaid from usual places in those Seas to the Southward though not of the said growth LXXIV Proviso That the People of England Ireland Wales Guernsey and Jersey Islands and Berwick may bring in English Ships manned as aforesaid from any Ports of Spain or Portugol or Western Islands called Azores or Madera or Canary Islands all sorts of Commodities of their growth manufacture or Plantations LXXV Proviso Not to extend to Bullion or Goods taken by reprisal by any Ship of England Ireland Wales Guernsey Jersey Islands or Berwick Navigated as aforesaid and having Commission from the King LXXVI Proviso Not to extend to lay Aliens duties upon Corn and certain other goods of Scotland imported in Scotch Ships Navigated by 3 fourths of the Kings Subjects nor to Seal Oyls of Kussia LXXVII Proviso Imposing duties upon certain French Ships to continue so long as a certain duty of 50 Soulz per Tun upon English by the French shall be payable and 3 months after and no longer LXXVIII Sugars Tobacco Cotton Wooll Indico Ginger Fustick or other dying Wood of the production of America Asia or Africa shall not be shipt or conveyed from any the said Plantations but such other as belong to the King or to England Ireland or Wales and there laid on shore upon pain of forfeiture one moity to the King the other moity to the Informer LXXIX Ships of England Ireland or VVales sailing to any English Plantation in America Asia or Africa shall give sufficient sureties to bring goods there laded into England Ireland VVales or Berwick upon Tweâ—d And likewise Ships coming from other Plantations shall give the like Sureties and shall bring Certificates to the respective Governors of the said Plantations from the Officers of the Custome-House of England c. of their having given suâ—h Bonds upon pain of forfeiture of the Ships offending their Goods Tacklings c. And the said respective Governors to return the Bonds so taken twice every year to the chief Officers of the Custome-House of London LXXX Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 9. Articles to be observed for the Publique Worship of God punishing certain offences and for the regulating and better governing of the Kings Navies Ships of War and Forces by Sea And impowring the Lord Admiral to grant Commissions to call Court-Marshals LXXXI All faults misdemeanors and disorders committed aâ— Sea not mentioned in the Act to be punished according to the Laws and Customs in such cases used at Sea LXXXII Proviso Not to extend to give the Lord Admiral of England or other his Officers any other Power Jurisdiction or Authority then they ought to have before this Act other then touching the said offences mentioned in the said Articles done upon the main Sea or in Ships or Vessels in the main stream of great Rivers only beneath the Bridges nigh the Sea within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty and committed only by such persons as be in actual service and pay in the Kings Fleet or Ships at Sea LXXXIII Stat. 16 Car. 2. cap. 7. An Act to prevent the disturbance of Seamen and others and to preserve the Stores belonging to his Majesties Navy Royal. Vid. the Act being but upon continuance for two years from the First of June 1664. And from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament LXXXIV Stat. 16 Car. 2. cap. 8. An Act to prevent the delivering up of Merchants ships to Pyrats and Sea-Rovers having sufficient to defend themselves Vid the Act being but upon Continuance for 3 years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament and no longer Silk * I. Stat. 19 H. 7.21 None shall bring or cause to be brought into England any Silk wrought by it self or with other stuff out of England in Riband Laces Girdles Corses Calles Corses or Tissues or Points in pain to forfeit the same or the value thereof to be divided betwixt the King and the seisor or prosecutor But all other Silk both wrought and raw may be imported and sold at pleasure II. Stat. 14 Car. 2. cap. 15. An Act incotporating and for regulating ordering and managing the Trade and Mystery of Silk-throwing See the Act. Southampton I. Stat. 11 H. 7.5 Every man may pull down the Wears and Engines in the Haven of Southampton between Calshord and Rebridge And whosoever levieth any other there shall pay 100 l. to the King II. Stat. 14 H. 8.13 A confirmation of 11 H. 7.5 and the same made perpetual III. Stat. 4 Jac. 10. An Act was made for the confirmation of some part of a Charter granted by H. 6. to the Mayor Bailiffs and Burgesses of Southampton and for the relief of the Town See the Statute at large Spice I. Stat. 1. 19 Jac. 19. All Spice Drugs and other Merchandize Garbleable shall for the fees usually allowed be sufficiently cleansed and Garbled and afterwards sealed by the Garbler thereto appointed or his Deputy before they be sold in pain to forfeit them or the value thereof Also such as after Garbling shall be again mixed with Garble shall likewise be forfeit II. It shall be lawful for the said Garbler to search in Shops Cellars Ware-houses and other places for wares ungarbled and if he find any such to cause them to be Garbled III. The forfeitures of this Act are to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor IV. Spices or other Garbleable Merchandize imported and afterwards within eight months exported without being sold or Garbled shall not be within the danger of this Act. Spiritual Laws I. Stat. 13 El. 12. Every Spiritual person under the degree of a Bishop pretending to be a Priest or Minister of the Word by any other form of Institution or Consecration then that established by E. 6. or now used shall before Christmas next in the presence of the Bishop or Guardian of the Spiritualties of the Diocess where he hath his Benefice declare his assent and subscribe to the Articles of Religion
he should think fit LVI Stat. 33 H. 13. Hope Asaph Hawarden Moldesale Mereford and Osâ—lâ—y shall be reputed to be within the County of Flint as part thereof and not in any other County Howbeit they shall pay their taxes with the Inhabitants of such Shire or Shires as hath been formerly accustomed LVII Also Hope Modesdale Mereford Oseley and Hawarden shall be called the Hundred of Modesdale in the County of Flint and Asaph shall be reputed parcel of the Hundred of Ruthland in the same County LVIII Stat. 34 35. H. 8.26 VVales shall be divided into twelve Counties whereof eight were ancient Counties viz. Glamorgan Caermarthen Pembroke Cardigan Flint Carnarvan Anglesey and Merioneth also four other were made by the Stat. of 27 H. 8.26 viz. Radnor Breknoke Mountgomery and Denbigh besides the County of Monmouth and divers Lordships united to the Counties of Salop Hereford and Glocester LIX The limitations of Hundreds lately made within the said Counties by Commission out of the Chancery and again returned thither shall stand in force except such of the same as have been since altered by any Act and shall be altered by this LX. There shall remain a President and Council in VVales and the Marches thereof with officers and incidents thereunto as hath been used which President and Council shall hear and determine such causes as shall be assigned to them by the King as heretofore hath also been used LXI Sessions shall be kept twice a year in the Counties of Glamorgan Breknoke Radnor Caermarthen Pembroke Cardigan Mountgomery Denbigh Carnarvan Flint Merioneth and Anglesey which Sessions shall be called the Kings great Sessions LXII The Justices of Chester shall hold Sessions twice a year in the Counties of Denbigh Flint and Mountgomery for his old Fee of 100 l. per Annum LXIII The Justices of North-VVales shall do the like in the Counties of Carnarvan Merioneth and Anglesey and shall have a Fee of 50 l. per annum LXIV A person learned in the Law to be appointed by the King shall be Justice in the Counties of Radnor Breknoke and Glamorgan and shall likewise hold Sessions twice a year and have for his Fee 50 l. per annum LXV Another such person to be appointed as aforesaid shall be Justice in the Counties of Caermarthen Pembroke and Cardigan and shall hold Sessions and have fee as aforesaid LXVI The said Justices shall have Commissions under the great Seal for their Offices to be executed by themselves or their Deputies LXVII These Justices may hold pleas for the Crown in as large manner as the Lord chief Justice or the other Justices of that Bench may do and also pleas of Assizes and all other pleas and actions real personal and mixt in as large manner as the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas or the other Justices of that Court may do LXVIII They shall also enquire hear and determine all criminall offences whatsoever committed within their several limits and administer common justice to all the Kings Subjects there according to the Laws Statutes and Customs of England and this present Ordinance LXIX The said Sessions shall each of them hold six days as hath been used in North-wales and notice thereof shall be given by Proclamation fifteen days at least before they keep the same LXX Dayes shall be given in all Pleas Plaints Process and adjournments from day to day and Sessions to Sessions at the discretion of the said Justices for the good and speedy administration of Justice LXXI The seal for the three Counties of North Wales viz. Merioneth Carnarvan and Anglesey shall remain in the custody of the Chamberlain of North-Wales The seal for Carmarthen Pembroke and Cardigan with the Chamberlain of South-Wales That for Breknoke Radnor and Glamorgan with the Steward and Chamberlain of Breknoke That for Denbigh and Mountgomery with the Steward and Chamberlain of Denbigh And that for Flint with the Chamberlain of Chester LXXII The said Stewards and Chamberlains shall with the Seals Seal all Original Writs and Process returnable before the Justices at the Sessions as aforesaid and shall answer the profits thereof to the King But none of them or any Chancellor shall by occasion of keeping such Seals compel any person inhabiting in any of the said 12 Shires to appear before themselves or their Deputies or hear or determine any pleas or causes whatsoever otherwise then as by this Ordinance is limited And such writs and process shall be returned before the said Justices as hath been used before the Justice of North-Wales LXXIII All that shall be Stewards Chamberlains or Chancellors within any of the said twelve Shires having Offices of Receipt Collection or account of any of the Kings Rents Revenues or profits there may direct process under the said Seal being in their charge within the limits of their Authorities against Bailiffs Reeves Farmers and other Ministers accomptant to appear before themselves for any such Rents Revenues Farms or Profit as hath been heretofore used But for nothing else nor to any other person LXXIV The Steward 's also may hold Leets Law-dayes or Court Barons of the Lordships whereof they are Stewards and also pleas by plaint under 40 s. in every such Court-Baron and have and enjoy all authorities and profits thereunto belonging notwithstanding any Law or Custome in Wales to the contrary Howbeit neither they nor Sheriffs shall have power to enquire of Felonies in any such Leet Law-day or Turn Neither shall they keep any Leet or Law-day but in such places where they were used to be kept before the Statute of 26 H. 8.6 So as the place be convenient for the keeping of such Courts LXXV Mayors Bailiffs and Head-Officers of Corporate towns in Wales may hold pleas and determine Actions so as they observe the Laws of England and not Welsh Laws or Customs They may also try issues by six men as in divers places hath been used notwithstanding this Act. LXXVI The King may within seven years dissolve Boroughs in Wales and erect others there by his Letters Pattents LXXVII Officers certain fees appearing in the Kings Letters Pattents shall continue but not their casual fees claimed by colour of their offices any Custome in Wales or this Act to the contrary notwithstanding LXXVIII Each Justice shall also have a judicial seal to seal all bills and judicial processes sued before them in the Sessions whereof the first shall remain with the Justice of Chester for Flint Denby and Mountgomery The second with the Justice of North Wales The third with the Justice of Glamorgan Breknoke and Radnor And the fourth with the Justice of Pembroke Caermarthen and Cardigan Also every such Justice shall accompt and answer to the King the profits of the seal in his custody as shall be hereafter declared And the Teste of every bill and process that passeth under such seal shall be under the name of the Justice that issueth it out as is used in the Common-Pleas in England LXXIX All Actions real