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A58642 The laws and acts of the second Parliament, of our most high and dread soveraign, Charles the Second by the grace of God, King of Scotland, England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith begun at Edinburgh, the 19. of October, 1669. By a noble Earl, John Earl of Lauderdail, Viscount Maitland, Lord Thirlestane, and Bolton, &c. His Majesties Commissioner for holding the same, by vertue of a commission under His Majesties Great Seal of this kingdom: with the special advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament. Extracted from the records of Parliament, be Sir Archibald Primerose of Chester, knight and barronet, clerk to His Majesties Council, Registers and Rolls.; Acts. Scotland.; Primrose, Archibald, Sir, 1616-1679. 1679 (1679) Wing S1272; ESTC R217871 33,600 49

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THE LAWS AND ACTS OF THE SECOND PARLIAMENT Of our most High and Dread SOVERAIGN CHARLES THE SECOND By the Grace of GOD King of Scotland England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith Begun at Edinburgh the 19. of October 1669. By a Noble Earl John Earl of Lauderdail Viscount Maitland Lord Thirlestane and Bolton c. His Majesties Commissioner for holding the same by vertue of a COMMISSION under His Majesties Great Seal of this Kingdom With the special Advice and Consent of the Estates of Parliament Extracted from the Records of Parliament be Sir ARCHIBALD PRIMEROSE of Chester Knight and Barronet Clerk to His Majesties Council Registers and Rolls Edinburgh Re-Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty Anno Dom. 1679. CVM PRIVELEGIO CR HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE LAWS and ACTS made in the second PARLIAMENT our our most High and Dread Soveraign CHARLES the Second by the Grace of GOD King of Scotland England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith I. ACT asserting His Majesties Supremacy over all Persons and in all Causes Ecclesiastical November 16. 1669. THe Estates of Parliament having seriously considered how necessar it is for the good and Peace of the Church and State That His Majesties Power and Authority in relation to Matters and Persons Ecclesiastical be more clearly asserted by an Act of Parliament Have therefore thought fit it be Enacted Asserted and Declared Likeas His Majesty with Advice and Consent of His Estates of Parliament do hereby Enact Assert and Declare That His Majesty hath the Supreme Authority and Supremacy over all Persons and in all Causes Ecclesiastical within this His Kingdom and that by vertue thereof the Ordering and Disposal of the External Government and Policy of the Church doth properly belong to His Majesty and His Successors as an inherent Right to the Crown And that His Majesty and His Successors may Settle Enact and Emit such Constitutions Acts and Orders concerning the Administration of the External Government of the Church and the Persons imployed in the same and concerning all Ecclesiastical Meetings and Matters to be proposed and determined therein as they in their Royal Wisdom shall think fit Which Acts Orders and Constitutions being recorded in the Books of Council and duly published are to be observed and obeyed by all His Majesties Subjects any Law Act or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding Likeas His Majesty with Advice and Consent foresaid doth Rescind and Annull all Laws Acts and Clauses thereof and all Customs and Constitutions Civil or Ecclesiastick which are contrary to or inconsistent with His Majesties Supremacy as it is hereby asserted And declars the same void and null in all time coming II. ACT concerning the Militia November 16. 1669. FOrasmuch as by divers ancient Laws an Acts of Parliament made in the Reigns of His Majesties Royal Ancestors it is Statute and Ordained That Weapon-showings be holden in ilke Shire several times in the year at which the Lieges are appointed to be harnished and armed according to their qualities and degrees as at length is specified in these Acts. And it being declared by the fifth Act of the first Session of His Majesties late Parliament That it is His Majesties Prerogative-Royal and undoubted Right to have the power of raising in Armes the Subjects of this Kingdom and of the commanding ordering and disbanding or otherwayes disposing thereof as He shall think fit As also the Estates of Parliament of this Kingdom in recognisance of His Majesties Royal Prerogative foresaid and in a further acknowledgement of their duty Having by the twenty fifth Act of the last Session of the foresaid Parliament made offer to His Majesty of twenty thousand Footmen and two thousand Horsemen sufficiently armed and furnished with fourty dayes provision to be raised from the several Shires of the Kingdom according to the proportion exprest in that Act to be in readiness as they shall be called for by His Majesty to march to any part of His Dominions of Scotland England or Ireland for any service wherein His Majesties Honour Authority or Greatness may be concerned And His Majesty finding it expedient that the foresaid number of Foot and Horse should be modelled and trained in military discipline to the effect they might be in greater readiness and fitness for His Majesties Service when they should be called for Having by advice of His Privy Council constituted and settled a Militia of Horse and Foot in many Shires of the Kingdom according to the proportions mentioned in the foresaid Act and in some other Shires a Militia of Horse only having thought fit in this exigent for important reasons to change their Foot into a proportion of Horse suteable to the charge of their proportion of Foot And having nominated and appointed the Collonels and Lieutenant-Collonels of Foot and Captains of Horse And the Lords of Prvy Council having by His Majesties Order and Warrand appointed Commissioners of the Militia in the several Shires ordered the election of the inferiours Officers appointed particular dayes of Rendezvous the way of listing of Foot-souldiers ordered fit allowances to be given to the Foot and Horsemen every day of the Rendezvous That Collours Standarts Drums and Trumpets be provided at the charge of the Shire and having given several other Orders and Instructions concerning the ordering and disposing of the Militia The Estates of Parliament do in all duty acknowledge His Majesties singular Wisdom and tender Care of this His ancient Kingdom in constituting and settling the foresaid Militia Likeas His Majesty with advice and consent of His Estates of Parliament doth Ratifie and Approve the constitution and model of the Militia as the same is established by His Majesty with advice of His Privy Council And particularly their appointing dayes for Rendezvous ordering fit allowances to be given to the Foot and Horsemen the saids dayes of their Rendezvous And all Acts Commissions Orders and Instructiones past and emitted by the Council concerning the Militia and their whole proceedings relating thereto And Statutes and Ordaines that in all time coming there be allowed to each Footman six shillings Scots and to each Horseman eighteen shillings Scots every day of the Rendezvous to be payed be the Heretors And that the said six shillings to be payed to the Footmen be refounded to the Heretors by the men-tennents and servants for whom the Footmen are put out and who are not listed in the Militia And also Statutes and Ordaines that the Rendezvous be punctually keeped that Horse and Foot be duely outreiked and sufficiently armed that Fractions with their proportions of the price of the Collours Drums Standarts and Trumpets be timeously payed Likeas His Majesty with advice foresaid doth give power and warrand to the Commissioners of the Militia in the respective Shires to fine parties for the Souldiers absence from the Rendeizvous not exceeding six pounds Scots for the Horsemen and two pounds Scots for the Footman absent
and Ordained that all and whatsover Commodities yearly exported forth of this Kingdom should be lyable to the payment of Bullion twelve denier fine according to the quantities contained in the Alphabet of Bullion thereto adjoyned and that for the yearly support of a stock of Coinage within the Kingdom and for supplying of His Majesties Mint being a part of His Prerogative Royal. And His Majesty and the Estates of Parliament being still willing to support and encourage the same and to provide for all necessary wayes and remedies for increasing the stock of Coinage within the Kingdom and especially those that may be of most advantage and may most encourage the Manufactories and the natural growth and native Commodities of the Kingdom And finding that the removing of the Bullion from the whole native Commodities and others exported forth of this Kingdom and that the imposing of the said Bullion upon the Commodities imported or some considerable part thereof may very much contribute thereto And being resolved that His Majesties Mint should be hereby encouraged and that no hurt or derogation should thereto occur by this change Therefore His Majesty with advice and consent of His Estates of Parliament Declares That all and whatsover native Commodities of this Kingdom and others that shall be exported forth thereof contained in the foresaid Alphabet of Bullion after the second day of February next to come one thousand six hundred and seventy years shall be free and are hereby discharged of the payment of all quantities of Bullion therein contained And the Customers and their Deputies are hereby prohibited and discharged to take surety or pledges or to use any other exaction upon the Merchants therefore under all highest pain And His Majesty with advice foresaid Rescinds and Annulls any Causes contained in the foresaid thirty seventh Act of the first Session of His Majesties first Parliament or in any other Acts of Parliament in so far allanerly as the same imposes Bullion upon the native Commodities of this Kingdom and others to be exported forth thereof and no further And in lieu and place thereof Statutes and Ordains That the imported Goods and Commodities under-written be lyable in payment of theseveral quantities of Bullion aftermentioned viz. Spanish Rhenish and Brandy-wines of all sorts each Tun twenty four ounces twelve denier fine French-wines of all sorts every Tun twelve ounces Loaf-suggar the hundred weight six ounces Playing-cards one ounce the gross Paper for Printing and Writing of all sorts one ounce every six rimms Gray-paper every twelve rimms one ounce Deals every thousand five ounces Single-trees every thousand five ounces Double-trees every thousand ten ounces Double-double-trees and all other greater Fir-timber every thousand twenty ounces Steel every hundred weight one ounce Iron and Iron-work beaten of all sorts every Tun two ounces Onions and Aples every two Barrals one ounce Mum-beer every Barral four ounces Prunes every Tun four ounces Raisins Currants and Figs every Tun ten ounces Iron-pots of all sorts every dozen one ounce Soap every Barrel two ounces Suggar-candy every hundred weight ten ounces Copper-kettles Brass-pans and all other made work in Brass or Copper Yetline or beaten every hundred weight four ounces Mader every thousand weight five ounces Hats of all sorts every three dozen two ounces Window-glass of all sorts every Chest one ounce Limons and Oranges each thousand one ounce Hops of all sorts every hundred weight one ounce Spanish-leather Marikin Tanned-leather Wild-leather and all other sorts of leather except Muscovia-leather every hundred weight one ounce Gloves of all sorts each dozen one ounce Whale-bane or Baline ilk two hundred weight one ounce And Statutes and Ordains that the Merchant or other importers of the abovewritten Commodities or any of them make ready payment of the foresaids quantities of Bullion hereby imposed to the Officers of His Majesties Mint for the time being of the fineness of twelve Deniers and being baser to be considered by weight and reckoning and that immediately upon the entry of the saids Goods And in case the said importer shall fail to pay in the saids Bullion at his entry he shall be holden and astricted to make payment of the sum of twelve Shillings Scots for ilk ounce thereof to the Collectors at the Port or Precinct where he enters the saids Goods and which money so payed by him at his entry shall be redeemable from the saids Collectors upon the payment of the foresaids quantities of Bullion in to the Officers of His Majesties Mint Provided alwayes such payment of Bullion be made within fourty dayes after the date of the entry of the Goods and not thereafter And it is hereby Declared That it shall not be lawful to the saids Tacks-men Collectors or their Deputies to permit the saids importers to break Bulk or to give them Transire's or other warrant thereanent till first the saids Importers report or produce the Mint-masters receipt of the due quantity or Bullion payed in specie or else that the Tacks-men Collectors or their Deputies receive payment of twelve Shillings Scots for ilk ounce of Bullion not delivered in to the Mint and for ilk ounce of Bullion of twelve Denier fine sopayed in to the Mint in specie by the Importer he is to have delivered back to him in His Majesties Coin three pounds ten pennies Scots and for ilk ounce of eleven Deniers fine he is to have delivered back to him fifty five shillings nine pennies Scots and so proportionably conform to the fineness of the Bullion given in and that in satisfaction of all Dues whatsover that can be acclaimed by the Officers of the Mint for His Majesty or otherwayes And whereas by the former Acts of Parliament made anent Bullion the general Tacks-men and Collectors of the Customs and their Deputies were bound and oblieged to take sicker Surety or Pledges such as they would be answerable for for the Bullion to be brought in and which then lay upon export and that what rested not delivered to the Mint the saids Tacks-men Collectors and their Deputies were to be answerable therefore And that by the constant practice of His Majesties Exchequer the saids Tacks-men and Collectors by their Tacks and Commissions given to them and Obligations granted by them are bound to make count reckoning and payment of the whole Bullion then arising upon the export of this Kingdom And lest His Majesty or his said Mint should sustain any hurt or prejudice or be at any uncertainty by loosing of those bonds or by this change Therefore it is hereby Statute and Ordained that all general Tacks-men of His Majesties Customs of this Kingdom general Collectors of the same and their Deputies present and to come shall be and are hereby bound and oblieged virtute Officii and by the acceptation of their Tack or Office to make count reckoning and payment to the Officers of His Majesties Mint of all and whatsoever quantities of Bullion that shall yearly arise upon the imported