four days the Goods to be appraised by two or more Inhabitants and to be sold and the overplus above the Assesment and Charges of Distress to be immediately restored to the Owner Churches I. STat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 14. For Compleating the Building and Adorning the Cathedral of St. Paul London and for Repairing the Cathedral of St Peter Westminster It is Enacted That for all Coals and Culm Imported into the Port of London from the 29th of September 1700. until the 29th of September 1716. there shall be paid for every Chalder of Coals or Culm One Shilling and for every Tun of such as are sold by Weight One Shilling which said Imposition of One Shilling shall be Levied and Paid in such manner and form and under such penalties as are exprest and directed by the Act 1 Jac. 2. cap. 15 The Articles Rules and Clauses of which Act except otherwise hereafter provided shall be of such force and effect as if the same were particularly set down and Enacted by this Act. II. All Moneys Levied by this Act shall be disposed as herein after mentioned And the Archbishop of Ganterbury the Bishop of London and Lord Mayor of London for the time being or any two of them shall have such Powers and Authorities unless otherwise herein after directed as they had by the said former Act. III. One Sixth part of all Moneys which shall be raised by virtue of this Act shall be appropriated and disposed to the Repairing of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster and the said Archbishop of Canterbury Bishop of London and Lord Mayor of London for the time being or any two of them shall during the Continuance of this Act pay or cause to be paid to the Chancellour of the Exchequer the Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench and the Dean of the said Church for the time being Commissioners hereby appointed for Repairing the said Church the said Sixth part of such Moneys by Quarterly Payments the first Payment to be made on the Thirtieth of December 1700. Which said Money shall be laid out and expended in Repairing the said Collegiate Church And the like Books of Accounts to be inspected by any person gratis shall be kept by the Commissioners and the like Abstract of such Books of Accounts shall be yearly transmitted into the Exchequer in such manner as is directed to the said Archbishop Bishop and Lord Mayor in the aforesaid Act. IV. The said Archbishop Bishop and Lord Mayor may deduct yearly out of the sums to be by them paid as aforesaid one Sixth part to their Deputies and Officers for their Collecting the Duties hereby continued and Inspecting the Coal-Meters V. The said Commissioners or any Two of them may by Indenture under their hands and seals engage the Profits arising out of the sums hereby Granted towards the Repairing of the said Collegiate Church as a Security for Money by them to be borrowed for the intent and purpose aforesaid which Money is to be imployed accordingly VI. A sum not exceeding Three thousand Pounds part of the Duty hereby Granted shall in Four Years be paid towards the Building the Parish-Church of St. Thomas in Southwark according to such Directions as the President Treasurer and Governours of the Hospital there with allowance of the foresaid Archbishop Bishop and Lord Mayor or any two of them shall approve and allow VII After the 29th of September 1697. the Stipend or Allowance of the Surveyor General of the Building of the said Cathedral of St. Paul shall be paid one Moiety yearly and the other Moiety in one intire sum within Six Months after the finishing the said Cathedral and not before Coin I. STat. 8 W. 3. cap. 1. The Act past in the First Sessions of this present Parliament Intituled An Act for taking off the Obligation and Encouragement for Coining Guineas for a certain time therein mentioned and all things therein contained except what relates to the Recompences by the said Act appointed to be applied to the Silver Mints and what concerns the African Company shall be Repealed and utterly made Void and all persons may freely Import into this Kingdom Guineas and Half-Guineas as they might before the making the said Act. II. The Master and other Officers of the Mint in the Tower of London shall on or before the Tenth day of November 1696. prepare and set apart one or more Mill or Mills with other Conveniencies to be imployed for the Coinage of Gold which shall be brought thither by any persons Natives or Foreigners to be Received in Coined and Delivered out in such manner as by the Statute made 18 Car. 2. is directed so that the Course in Coinage of Gold and Silver be kept in distinct Accounts and not interfere and such Coining and Delivering out of Gold in a distinct Course although there be Silver remaining there Uncoined shall not be interpreted any undue Preference any thing in the said Statute of 18 Car. 2. notwithstanding III. Stat. 8 W. 3. cap. 2. All Hammered Silver Money Clipped or Unclipped as shall be brought to any of his Majesties Mints between the Fourth of November 1696. and the First of July 1697. shall be received there at the Rate of 5 s. 4 d. per Ounce Troy IV. All his Majesties Receivers or other Officers concerned in the Receipt or Collection of his Majesties Aids Taxes or other Revenues or of any Loans shall and are hereby required to receive in payment all such Hammered Silver Coin as shall be Tendred for any Aids Taxes or other Revenues or upon Loans at any time after the Fourteenth of November 1696. until the First of February next following as to Loans and all Arrears of Aids Taxes or Revenues due before the said First of February and until the First of June then next following as to all future Aids Taxes and other Revenues at the Rate of 5 s. 8 d. per Ounce And the Tender Payment or Loan of every Ounce of such Hammered Silver Coin shall be as good for the sum of 5 s. 8 d. as if the said sum of 5 s. 8 d. had been Tendred Paid or Lent in Lawful Current Coin V. After the First of December 1696. no Hammered Silver Coin of this Kingdom shall be Current in any Payment except such as before mentioned otherwise than by Weight only after the Rate of 5 s. 2 d. per Ounce of Sterling Silver VI. All such Hammered Money consisting only of Pieces having both the Rings or the greatest part of the Letters or Six Pences of Sterling Silver not Clipt within the innermost Ring as have been before the Eighteenth Day of November 1696. actually received by any Commissioner Receiver General or other Receiver or Collector by Tale for any Publick Tax or Revenue whatsoever shall and may be paid by them by Tale and not by Weight within the times hereafter following viz. Every particular Receiver or Collector shall have time to make his Payments to the Head Collector
the Uses aforesaid as there shall be cause And the Mayor of the said Borough is to Administer an Oath to the Collectors and persons imployed for the faithful Executing their Offices in and about the Premisses V. The said Collectors shall be allowed for their pains in Executing the said Office out of the Money by them received so much as the said Mayor c. in Common Council assembled shall think fit not exceeding one Shilling in the Pound VI. The said Collectors may at seasonable times Enter into any Ship or Vessel within the said Port of Bridgwater to see what Goods shall be in the same Unlading And in case the sums of Money appointed to be paid as aforesaid shall not be paid by the Master or other person having the Command of any Ship or Vessel Unlading as aforesaid then the said Collectors may by Warrant from the Mayor or Aldermen of the said Borough or one of them Distrain such Ship or Vessel and all Tackle Apparel and Furniture thereunto belonging and keep the same till they be satisfied and paid the sums Imposed by this Act which if not paid within Ten days next after such Distress then the said Collectors may sell the said Distress and therewith satisfie themselves for the Duty so unpaid and also for keeping such Distress rendring the Overplus VII The said Mayor c. in Common Council assembled may by Indenture under their Common Seal Convey the Duties Granted by this Act or heretofore payable as a security for any sums of Money by them to be borrowed for the ends and purposes of this Act to any persons that have advanced or shall advance any Moneys upon such security All which Money to be borrowed shall be imployed towards the Inlarging Preserving and Repairing the said Bridge or Key of Bridgwater aforesaid VIII The Keys or Wharfs now standing on each side of the River below the Bridge of Bridgwater aforesaid or that shall be Inlarged or Repaired not exceeding in length on each side of the said River 150 Yards are and shall be taken for lawful Keys or Wharss for the Landing or Laying on Shore any sort of Goods and Merchandizes whatsoever IX From and after the Expiration of the Years hereby Granted the ancient Duties of Keyage Pontage and Cranage shall be demanded and paid as heretofore Brokers I. Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 32. For Restraining the III practice of Brokers and Stock-jobbers It is Enacted That after 1 May. 1697. No person whatsoever shall use or exercise the Office or Imployment of a Broker or deal as such in London Westminster or Southwark or the Limits of the Weekly Bills of Mortality in making or concluding Bargains between Merchant and Merchant or others concerning Wares and Merchandizes or Moneys to be taken up by Exchange or concerning any Talleys or Orders Bills of Credit or Tickets payable at the Exchequer or any publick Office or concerning any of the Bank-Bills or Notes or Stock of the Bank or Stock of any Company or Society that is or shall be Incorporated until such person shall be admitted and licensed by the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of London II. Upon admittance of any such Broker he shall take an Oath to the effect following viz. That he will truly and faithfully execute and perform the Office and Imployment of a Broker between party and party in all things appertaining to the Duty of the said Office and Imployment without Fraud or Collusion to the best of his skill or knowledge and according to the Tenour and Purport of the Act Intituled An Act to Restrain the Number and Ill practice c. III. And every such person within Three Months after such Admittance shall in the Court of Chancery or Kings-Bench or Quarter Sessions take the Oaths appointed in the Act 1 W. M. cap. 8. and Subscribe the Association appointed by the Act made 7 W. 3. cap. 27. And every such person shall at his Admittance give Bond to the Lord Mayor Citizens and Commonalty of London in the Penalty of 500 l. with Condition That if he do and shall well and truly Vse Execute and Perform the Office and Imployment of a Broker between Party and Party without Fraud Covin or any Corrupt or Crafty Devices according to the Purport true Intent and Meaning of the Statute in that case lately made and provided then the Obligation to be void IV. The Number of such Brokers shall not at one time exceed 100. and the Fees upon Admittance into the said Imployment shall not exceed 40 s. V. The Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall cause the Names of such Brokers as shall be Admitted by Virtue of this Act and their places of habitation to be publickly affixt on the Royal Exchange in Guildhall and in such other publick places in London as they shall think fit VI. If any person shall act as a Broker after the time aforesaid not being admitted according to this Act he shall forfeit 500 l. over and above such other Forfeitures as he shall any ways incur by virtue of this Act and if any person after the time aforesaid shall knowingly Imploy any person to deal for him as a Broker or Stock-jobber not being admitted and sworn as aforesaid such person shall forfeit the sum of 50 l. and if any person after the time aforesaid not being a sworn Broker according to this Act shall act and deal as a Broker in Discounting Talleys or Bills or in Stock-jobbing in selling Bank-stock or any other Securities upon any Fund granted by Parliament such person shall Forfeit 500 l. and stand in the Pillory in some publick place in London three several Days for the space of one Hour in the Morning VII After the time aforesaid every sworn Broker shall keep a Book or Register in which he shall enter all Contracts and Bargains that he shall make between any persons within three days after the Contract with the parties Names and for omitting so to do he shall forfeit 50 l. VIII If any such Broker after the time aforesaid shall directly or indirectly take above 10 s. per Cent. for Brokage he shall for every such Offence forfeit 10 l. IX Every sworn Broker after his Admittance as aforesaid shall carry about him a Silver Medal having the Kings Arms on one side and the Arms of the City of London with his own Name on the other side which he shall produce at the concluding of every Bargain to the Parties concern'd upon pain to forfeit 40 s. for every Omission X. If any such Broker after the time aforesaid shall deal for himself in the Exchange or Remittance of Moneys or Buy any Talleys Orders Bills or Shares in any Joint-stock for his own use or buy Goods or Merchandizes to sell again or make any profit in buying or selling any Goods more than the Brokage allowed by this Act he shall forfeit the sum of 200 l. and be for ever incapable to act as a Broker XI Every
for the Defendant he shall have double Costs XII Persons passing the Place where Toll is taken and returning the same day shall not Pay Toll twice nor shall Persons pay who pass with Carriages from any next adjoyning Parish going to Market or in Matters of Husbandry nor Soldiers upon their March nor Persons Riding Post XIII Persons Chargeable by Law towards Repairing of the said High-ways shall still remain so XIV This Act shall be of force no longer than for Twenty years and if the said Lanes shall be sooner amended and so adjudged by the Justices at their Quarter Sessions then after payment of the Money Borrowed the aforesaid Toll shall cease XV. The Justices of Surrey and also the Justices of Sussex shall yearly at the Epiphany Quarter Sessions if they think fit appoint Three Persons of each County to view the said Lanes and examine the Surveyors Accounts and in case they find any misapplication of the Moneys Levied by this Act to certifie the same to the Judges at the next Assizes for the County of Surrey who are to hear and finally determine the same XVI Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 16. For enlarging Common High-ways It is Enacted that the Justices of Peace of any County City c. or the major Part of them Five at least at their Quarter Sessions may enlarge or widen any High-ways in their respective Counties c. So that the Ground to be taken into the said High-ways do not exceed Eight Yards in Breadth and that they do not pull down any House nor take away any Ground from Garden Orchard Court or Yard XVII For Satisfaction of the Owners the said Justices shall Impannel a Jury and Administer an Oath to them that they will Assess such Damages and Recompence to the Owners or others Interested in the Ground not exceeding 25 Years Purchase as they shall think reasonable c. And upon payment of the said Money so Awarded or leaving it in the Hands of the Clerk of the Peace of the County for the Use of the Owner the Interest of the said Owner shall be divested out of him and the said Ground shall be esteemed a Publick High-way to all Intents whatsoever XVIII And the said Justices shall order Assessments to be made and Levied upon all such persons that ought to Repair the said High-way and the Money thereby Raised shall be Imploy'd towards Purchasing the Land to enlarge the said High-ways and making Ditches and Fences The said Assessments to be Levied by the Overseers of the High-ways by Distress and Sale of Goods if not paid within Ten Days after Demand XIX No such Assessment shall in one Year exceed the Rate of 6 d. in the Pound for Lands nor 6 d. in the Pound for personal Estates XX. The said Justices at the Request of any Person for enlarging High-ways shall at their Quarter Sessions Issue out their Precepts to the Owners of Ground to be Laid to the said High ways to Appear and shew Cause why the said High-ways should not be enlarged XXI After an Order or Decree is made for the Laying out of Ground for enlarging High-ways the Owner hath Liberty in Eight Months after to Cut down any Wood or Timber growing upon the said Ground or upon neglect the Justices shall Sell it and deliver to the Owner the Value XXII Persons Agrieved by Order of the Justices may Appeal to the Judges of Assize at the next Assize only who may Affirm or Reverse the same and if they see cause to affirm to Award Costs against the Appellant XXIII Where any Common High-way shall be enclosed after a Writ of Ad quod Damnum Issued and Executed any person Injured or Agrieved by such Inclosure may Complain to the Justices at the Quarter Sessions next after such Inquisition who may hear and finally determine the same c. But if no such Appeal be made then the said Inquisition and Return Recorded by the Clerk of the Peace to be for ever Binding XXIV Justices of Peace at their respective special Sessions to be held by Virtue of the Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 12. in such Cases as they shall think necessary shall direct their Precepts to the Surveyors of the High-ways where Two or more Cross High-ways meet requiring them to erect where such Ways joyn a Stone or Post with an Inscription directing to the next Market Town to which each of the said Cross Ways lead And in case the Surveyor or Surveyors neglect or refuse so to do for the space of Three Months every such Offender shall Forfeit 10 s. to be Levied by Warrant of one Justice directed to the Constable requiring him to Distrain and Sell the Goods of such Offender and Imploy the Money to the said Purpose XXV Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 18. The Justices of Peace at the Quarter Sessions for the County of Gloucester or any Five of them next after 1 May 1698. may then and every Year nominate and appoint Surveyors of the ruinous High-way and Road from the Town of Birdlipp and the Top of Crickley-Hill in the County of Gloucester to the City of Gloucester for the Year ensuing out of the Inhabitants of the adjacent Parishes who within one Week after Notice given them of their Election are to meet in their several Divisions to Survey the same and consider the best Method for Repair thereof and Certifie the same to the Justices at the next Quarter Sessions who thereupon shall make such Orders about the same as to them shall seem good which shall be observed by the said Surveyors and all others concerned in putting this Act in Execution XXVI The said Surveyors may appoint such Carts and Persons within the said adjacent Parishes to come and Work in the said respective Places as they shall think needful for which the Surveyors shall pay the usual Rate of the Countrey in case they shall be required to Work beyond the times limited by the Statutes XXVII Where there is not sufficient Gravel Sand or Stones in any Parish or Hamlet where the said ruinous places lye to Repair the same the said Surveyors and such as they shall appoint may dig and carry away any Gravel Sand or Stones out of the Waste or Common of any Neighbouring Parish or Hamlet without paying for the same and in Default thereof may dig the same in any persons Grounds not being an House Garden Orchard Yard or Meadow or Avenue to an House making only such reasonable satisfaction to the Owner or Occupier of such Ground as the Damage sustained thereby XXVIII The said Justices at the Quarter Sessions may appoint Receivers or Collectors of the Toll to be paid towards the said Work viz. For every Horse One Peny Every Stage Coach or Hackney Coach One Shilling Every other Coach Calash or Chariot One Shilling Every Wagon Six Pence Every Cart Six Pence Every Score of Hogs or Pigs Three Pence and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity not under
Appeal shall be Determined or to whom such notice had been given such Costs and Charges as the said Justices shall think reasonable and if the person order'd to pay such Costs shall live out of the Jurisdiction any Justice of the Peace where such person shall Inhabit may and shall upon request and a true Copy of the Order for payment produced and proved upon Oath cause the Money mentioned in that Order to be Levied by Distress and in case no Goods can be found to Commit the person to Prison for Twenty Days IV. No unmarried person not having Child or Children lawfully hired into any Parish or Town for one year shall be deemed to have a good Settlement in such Parish unless he shall continue in the same Service during one whole year V. Where any poor Children shall be Appointed to be bound Apprentices pursuant to the Act of 43 Eliz. cap. 2. the Persons to whom they are appointed to be bound shall receive and provide for them according to the Indenture and upon refusal so to do upon Oath thereof made by a Churchwarden or Overseer before Two Justices he or she so Offending shall Forfeit 10 l. to be Levied by Distress and Sale of Goods to be Applied to the use of the Poor of the Parish where such Offence was Committed Saving to such persons their Appeal to the next Quarter Sessions for that County whose Order therein shall be final VI. After the 1 of May 1697 the Appeal against any Order for the Removal of any Boor person shall be had at the Quarter Sessions of the County or Division wherein the Parish or Place from whence such Person shall be removed doth lie and not elsewhere VII Nothing in this Act to extend to make void any promise already made to receive and take back any persons in case they should become poor or want Relief VIII Nor be construed to hinder the Justices of Peace within the Liberty of St. Albans from Hearing and Determining Appeals in their Quarter Sessions as they might have done before the making this Act. IX Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 11. For Explaining the Act made the last preceding Session Intituled An Act for supplying some Defects in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom whereby it was Enacted That such persons as after 1 May 1697. shall come into any Parish or Place to Inhabit or Reside should at the same time deliver to the Church-wardens or Overseers of the Poor there a Certificate as by the Act directed It is Declared That no persons who shall come into any Parish by any such Certificate shall be adjudged by any Act whatsoever to have procured a legal Settlement in such Parish unless such persons shall bona fide take a Lease of a Tenement of 10 l. per Annum or shall legally be placed in and execute some Annual Office in such Parish Prisons and pretended Privileged Places I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 27. After 1 May 1697. All Prisoners in the Kings Bench or Fleet on Contempt Mesne Process or Execution shall be actually detain'd within the said Prisons or the Rules of the same till discharged by Law II. If after 1 May 1697. the Keeper of any Prison suffer any Prisoner Committed on Mesne Process or Execution to be out of the Rules except on a Habeas Corpus or Rule of Court it shall be deem'd an Escape III. After 1 May every person obtaining Judgment in an Action of Escape against the Marshal or Warden of the said Prisons of the Kings Bench and Fleet shall have not only the Remedies already allowed by Law but if such Judgment was obtain'd without fraud upon a real Debt the profits of the said Marshal or Warden or some fit part thereof shall be Sequestred towards Satisfaction of the said Debt with Costs and Damages IV. And after the said 1 May such Marshal or Warden Suing forth a Writ of Error for delay only shall put in special Ball or no Execution shall be stayed V. If the Keeper of any Prison take Money to connive at any Escape he shall Forfeit 500 l. and his Office VI. This Act shall not make void the Securities given by Prisoners for their Lodgings without the said Prisons of the Kings Bench and Fleet being within the Rules of the same VII After the said 1 May No Retaking shall be given in Evidence in an Action of Escape unless specially Pleaded and Oath made by the Keeper of the Prison That such Escape was without his Consent But if such Affidavit prove false such Keeper shall Forfeit 500 l. VIII If after 1 May any Prisoner in Execution Escape the Creditor may retake such Prisoner by any New Capias or may Sue forth any other kind of Execution IX Every Keeper's refusing after one days notice to shew the Prisoner in Execution to the Creditor or his Attorney shall be judged an Escape X. Persons desiring to Charge any Person with an Action or Execution shall at their request have a Note in Writing from the Keeper of the Prison whether such person be a Prisoner or not under Forfeiture of 50 l. And such Note shall be sufficient Evidence XI All Conveyances and Mortgages of the Inheritance of the said Prisons of Kings Bench and Fleet and their Appurtenances and all Leases thereof and the Titles of the Marshal and Warden or other Proprietor thereunto and all Trusts and Declarations of Trust touching the same shall be Inrolled before the 24 of June 1697. viz. That of the Kings Bench in the Kings Bench Court and that of the Fleet in the Common Pleas and also all such Conveyances c. for the future within six Months after executing the same or else to be void XII After the said 1 May the Offices of Marshal of the Kings Bench Prison and Warden of the Fleet shall be Executed by the Persons to whom the Inheritance of those Prisons c. belongs or their sufficient Deputies for whom the persons having such Inheritances shall be answerable and the said Inheritances and Profits shall be subject to make satisfaction upon Escapes and the Misdemeanors of such Deputies XIII After the said 1 May any Person having Cause of Action against the Warden of the Fleet may File a Bill in the Common Pleas or Exchequer and a Rule being given to Plead thereto within Eight Days Judgment shall be Sign'd against the said Warden if he Plead not within Three Days after such Rule is out XIV After the said 1 May Any person having Cause of Action against any Prisoner in the Fleet entring a Declaration and delivering a Copy thereof to such Prisoner in any personal Action or to the Turn-key or Porter of the Fleet after a Rule to Plead to be out at Eight Days and Oath made before a Judge of the Delivery of such Declaration may Sign Judgment against such Prisoner or Defendant XV. After the said 1 May No Prisoners shall pay Chamber Rent in the Kings Bench
the Action shall not abate if such Action might be originally Prosecuted against his Executors or Administrators and the Executors or Administrators of such Plaintiff after such Interlocutory Judgment may have a Scire facias against the Defendant if Living or if Dead against his Executors or Administrators to shew cause why Damages should not be Assest and Recovered against him or them and if he or they do not appear at the Return and shew sufficient Cause to Arrest the Final Judgment or being Returned Warned or upon Two Writs of Scire facias it being Return'd that the Defendant had nothing whereby to be Summon'd or could not be found a Writ of Enquiry of Damages shall be Awarded which being Executed and Return'd Judgment final shall be given for the said Plaintiff his Executors or Administrators VII If there be Two or more Plaintiffs or Defendants and one dye if the cause of Action survive to the surviving Plaintiff or against the surviving Defendant the Writ or Action shall not abate but such Death being suggested upon the Record the Action shall proceed VIII In all Actions after the said 25 day of March Prosecuted in any of the Kings Courts of Record upon any Bond or Penal Sum for Non-performance of Covenants the Plaintiff may Assign as many Breaches as he shall think fit and the Jury at the Tryal shall and may Assess Damages for such of the said Breaches so Assigned as the Plaintiff at the Tryal shall prove Broken and the like Judgment shall be Entred on such Verdict as hath been usually done in such Actions And if Judgment be given for the Plaintiff upon Demurrer Confession or Nihil dicit the Plaintiff upon the Roll may suggest as many Breaches as he shall think fit upon which shall Issue a Writ to Summon a Jury to Appear at the Assizes of that respective County to inquire of the truth of every one of those Breaches and to Assess Damages accordingly and the Justices of Assize shall make a Return thereof to the Court from whence the same Issued In case the Defendant after such Judgment Entred and before Execution Executed shall pay into Court such Damages so Assessed and Costs of Suit a stay of Execution shall be Entred upon Record Or if by reason of Execution Executed the Plaintiff or his Executors or Administrators shall be fully paid all such Damages together with his Costs and reasonable Charges the Body Lands and Goods of the Defendant shall be forthwith discharg'd and the Satisfaction enter'd upon Record Yet shall such Iudgment stand and be as a further Security to Answer to the Plaintiff his Executors c. such Damages as shall or may be sustain'd for further Breach of any Covenant in the same Deed or Writing contain'd upon which the Plaintiff c. may have a Scire facias upon the said Judgment against the Defendant his Heir Terre-Tenants Executors or Administrators suggesting other Breaches and to Summon them to shew Cause why Execution shall not be Awarded upon the said Judgment upon which there shall be the like Proceedings as aforesaid and upon payment of Damages and Costs Proceedings to be again stay'd and so toties quoties and the Defendant discharg'd out of Execution Taxes I. STat. 8 W. 3. cap. 6. All persons of what estate degree age sex or condition soever within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed not receiving Alms shall pay unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors within the space of One Year from 25 Jan. 1696. the sum of 4 s. 4 d. by Monthly payments of 4 d. per Month reckoning 28 days to each Month the first payment to be 22 Feb. 1696. II. Over and above which Duty of 4 d. per Month all Servants and Journeymen except Day-Labourers having 4 l. per ann Wages or upwards and not exceeding 8 l. per ann shall pay for the same 13 d. per l. for One Year by like Monthly payments of 1 d. per l. And for more than 8 l. per annum Wages and not exceeding 16 l. per ann the sum of 2 s. 2 d. per l. by like Monthly payment of 2 d. per l. And for more than 16 l. per ann Wages the sum of 4 s. 4 d. per l. by like Monthly payments of 4 d. per l. III. All persons having or claiming any Pension Annuity Stipend or other yearly payment out of the Exchequer or any Branch of his Majesties Revenue except Rents issuing out of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or charged upon the same and such Annuities as are or shall be exempted by Act of Parliament shall pay for the same 4 s. 4 d. per l. for One Year by like Monthly payments of 4 d. per l. IV. All persons that have or are to have receive or enjoy any Salary Fee or Wages or any Perquisites Allowances Poundage Gratuities Rewards Emoluments Income or Profits whatsoever arising by any Commissions Offices or Imployments Ecclesiastical Civil or Military under his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or under the Queen Dowager the Prince or Princess of Denmark or under Lords of Manors or any other persons and all their Clerks Deputies Assistants and Substitutes except Military Officers in Muster in the Army Navy or Ordnance shall pay for the same 4 s. 4 d. per l. for One Year by like Monthly payments of 4 d. per l. V. All Sergeants at Law Barristers Attorneys Sollicitors Publick Notaries Scriveners Chancellors Commissaries Officials Registers Advocates Proctors Apparitors or practising as such Brokers to Merchants Factors and other persons acting by Commission from Merchants All Practicers in Physick and Chirurgery Apothecaries and all other Professions not charged by the last foregoing Clause shall pay 4 s. 4 d. for One Year for every 20 s arising by their Practices or Professions by like Monthly payments of 4 d. per l. VI. All persons having any Estate in Ready Money or in Debts at Interest within or without the Realm or owing upon Mortgages Judgments Statutes Recognizances Bonds Bills Notes or other Securities for Money at Interest except Loans and Debts from his Majesty and Arrears of Rent shall pay 25 s. for One Year for every such 100 l. by Twelve Monthly payments of 2 s. 1 d. for every 100 l. and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Sum a Farthing per l. each Month the first payment to be 25 Febr. 1696. And thenceforth the 25th day of each Kalendary Month deducting only such Debts as are really and bona fide owing from such person or persons at Interest VII All persons using or exercising any Trade Mystery Occupation or business of Merchandising Shopkeeping or other Buying or Selling by wholesale or Retail shall pay 50 s. for One Year for every 100 l. value in Goods Wares Merchandizes Commodities Manufactures or Vendible Stock and proportionably for a greater or lesser Value by Twelve like Kalendary Monthly payments of a Halfpeny for every Pound value or 4 s. 2 d. for every
not of the Yearly Value of 20 s. in the whole LXVIII A Proviso that the Chancery Officers within the Liberty of the Rolls shall be there Assessed LXIX Collectors keeping any Moneys in their Hands or not paying the same as the Act directs are to forfeit 10 l. and the Head Collectors for the like offence 40 l. LXX If after the Assessment any Persons remove to a Place where they were not Rated the Commissioners are to Summon such Persons before them and cause them to be duly Rated and to pay the same or such part as shall be unpaid unless the party produces a Certificate that he hath been Rated and Paid elsewhere LXXI The Kings Bench Prison with the Lands c. and the Rents and Profits of the Marshal thereof and the Prison House Lands c. of the Marshalsea Prison and Offices and Perquisites of the Marshals Court shall be Assessed in the Parish of St. George in Southwark LXXII Any person acting as a Commissioner before he hath taken the Oaths forfeits 500 l. to the King LXXIII The Water-works in Southwark are to be Rated by the Commissioners and Assessors of Surrey and those in Westminster by the Commissioners and Affessors for Westminsler LXXIV Receivers General neglecting or refusing to return Duplicates of the Assessments into the Exchequer by the times prefixt shall forfeit 50 l. and be incapable of any Trust from his Majesty LXXV All Auditors and Receivers are to allow 3 s. in the Pound out of any Fee Farm or other Chief Rents payable to his Majesty or the Queen Dowager or any others by Grant or Purchase from the Crown under the Penalty of 10 l. LXXVI A Proviso that Rectories Vicaridges or Curacies under 40 l. per Annum shall not be Taxed if the Rector Vicar or Curate resides upon the Place or personally serves the Cure LXXVII No Tenant of Houses or Lands belonging to Colleges Halls Hospitals Alms-houses or Schools who by their Contracts are obliged to pay all Taxes shall be Discharged LXXVIII The Allowance of Three Half-pence in the Pound to the Commissioners Clerks is not to be paid till they have transmitted the Duplicates into the Remembrancers Office and have a Certificate thereof LXXIX Members of Parliament are to be Assessed for their Personal Tax of 4 d. per Month and for their ready Money and Debts where they usually reside in the Intervals of Palriament Provided that if their usual Residence be not within the Cities of London and Westminster or 20 Miles of the same they shall not be Assessed for their Money Debts Stock in Trade or upon Lands until 20 Days after the rising of the Parliament And Servants attending the said Members are not to be Assessed for their Wages until the time aforesaid LXXX A Proviso That upon Oath before the Commissioners that any Debts contained in the Specifications required by this Act are desperate the Commissioners are to inform themselves and to Charge or Discharge the same as they see cause which Discharge is to be noted upon the said Specification and Duplicates thereof LXXXI Persons giving an Account in their Specifications of the Money they owe at Interest the Commissioners being satisfied therewith by Oath or otherwise shall make a proportionable Allowance or Deduction out of the Tax LXXXII Provided That where Lands c. are and from 29 Sept. 1696. have been in the actual possession of any Person for Debts to which the same were liable such Debts are not to be charged by this Act. LXXXIII All or any part of the Monthly payments in this Act may be paid for the whole year or any Months thereof before hand in Hammer'd Silver Money at 5 s. 8 d. per oz. at any time before 1 June 1697. LXXXIV If the Assessors neglect the Commissioners are to take care That Papists and persons not taking the Oaths be doubly charged LXXXV Persons beyond Sea and Minors having Moneys at Interest in this Kingdom their Trustees or Guardians are to pay the Duties LXXXVI Receivers General are to keep a distinct Account of the 3 s. in the Pound upon Lands Tenements Hereditaments c. And every such Receiver General or his Deputy misapplying any part of the Moneys arising by the said Pound Rate of 3 s. in the Pound shall Forfeit 500 l. LXXXVII The Commissioners of the Treasury or Lord Treasurer are not to direct any Warrant for payment of any Moneys arising by the said Pound Rate of 3 s. otherwise than into the Exchequer nor to the Officers of the Exchequer for striking any Talleys of Pro or Anticipation upon the same nor shall any Teller charge himself with any of the said Moneys till he has actually received it LXXXVIII No stay of Process shall be made for any of the Penalties by this Act inflicted LXXXIX Loans on Credit of Contributions for Annuities pursuant to an Act 7 W. 3. remaining unsatisfied to be in the first place Transferred to the Register appointed for the Tax of 3 s. in the Pound And in the next place all Moneys lent upon Credit of the Exchequer in general between 1 July 1696. and 1 Febr. 1696. which Transferred Orders of Loan shall be Assignable XC Any persons Natives or Foreigners may lend his Majesty any Sums not exceeding 1500000 l. including the Sums Transferred at the rate of 8 l. per Cent. on Credit of the Tax of 3 s. in the Pound and the Moneys so lent on this Act are not to be Taxed XCI A distinct Register is to be kept in the Exchequer of the produce of the 3 s in the Pound And the Interest for Moneys lent thereon shall be paid in course every three Months without any undue preference by the Officers of the Exchequer as they will avoid the Penalties inflicted by the Act. XCII Orders of Loan by Virtue of this Act being Entred are made assignable XCIII The Commissioners of the Treasury or High Treasurer may issue Bills at the Exchequer for any Sums not exceeding 1500000 l. for the use of the War Which Bills shall be Current in all Payments for any Aids or Supplies for the War for the year 1697 except in the 3 s. in the Pound XCIV And the Receivers and Collectors out of the Mill'd Money or Gold in their Hands are to pay such Bills as shall be brought to them under Penalty of forfeiting double the Sum. Which Receivers upon Payment of any of the said Bills into the Exchequer are to have Talleys for their Discharge And the Bills so paid in to be immediately Cancelled XCV And the Money paid into the Exchequer for any Supplies for the Year 1697. Except for the 3 s. Aid shall be applied to the taking up and cancelling such Bills But if the Supplies for the Year 1697. Except for the 3 s. Aid be Deficient of 1500000 l. Authorized to be Issued in Bills such Deficiency is to be in the first place made Good out of any Moneys that shall be Raised by any Act of next Session of
or Wire or Plate ready wrought for the covering of Silk or Thread shall be Imported into this Kingdom on pain of being forfeited and burnt XLIX Of the several Penalties in this Act one Moiety shall be to the King the other to them that shall sue for the same in any the Courts of Record at Westminster L. If any Person be sued for what he shall do in Execution of this Act he may plead the General Issue and give the Special Matter in Evidence and upon a Non-suit Discontinuance or Verdict against the Plaintiff the Defendant shall have treble Costs LI. No Penalty shall be inflicted on any Person exposing to sale any Silver Wire or Silver or Gold Thread or Lace or Fringe on or before 29 Sept. 1699 though not made according to this Act provided it be proved by Oath before a Justice of Peace of the Place that such Goods were made on or before 24 July 1698. LII Every Prosecution upon this Act shall be commenced within Six months after the Offence committed LIII This Act shall continue for Three years and thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament LIV. Stat. 9 10 W. 3. Cap. 42. Whereas by an Act 7 8 W. 3. Intituled An Act for Preventing Frauds and Regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade It is Enacted That after the 25th of March 1698. No Ship or Vessel shall pass as a Ship of the built of England Ireland Wales Berwick Guernsey Jersey or any His Majesties Plantations in America so as to Trade to or from the said Plantations till Registred as enacted by the said Act And yet several Merchants Trading to the Plantations have sent out several Ships and Vessels thither but through madvertency only have omitted to Register them It is Enacted That all Ships and Vessels of the Built of England Ireland Wales Berwick Guernsey Jersey or any His Majesties Plantations in America being English Property shall have Nine months longer from the said 25th of March 1698. for Registring such Ships which being Registred within the said Nine months shall have the advantage of the saie Act as if Registred before the said 25 Mar. 1698. LV. Stat. 9 10 W. 3. Cap. 43. After 1 July 1698. no Foreign Silks known by the name of Alamodes or Lustrings shall be Imported into this Kingdom but into the Port of London only and Notice shall be given to the Commissioners or Chief Managers of the Customs there of the Quality and Quantity with the Marks Numbers and Package of all such Silks intended to be Imported with the Name of the Importer and of the Ship and her Burthen and of the Master and Commander on which they are to be Laden and the Port where the same are to be taken on Board And a Licence shall be taken under the Hands of the said Commissioners or Chief Managers of the Customs or any three of them for the Importing of the same which Licence is to be granted without Fee or Reward LVI The said Commissioners or Chief Managers of the Customs shall cause to be marked and sealed all such Alamodes and Lustrings which shall be Imported after the said 1st of July according to this Act and cause a dissinct Registry thereof to be kept in the Custom-House to be made without Fee or Reward before the Goods be delivered out of the Custom House Warchouse And if any of the said Silks shall be Imported into this Realm other where than in the Port of Londen or Imported without such Notice and Licence and the Duties paid for the same or shall not be so sealed and marked such Silks or the sull value thereof shall be forfeited And the Silks which shall be seised and forfeited by virtue of this or any former Act shall be sold and exported pursuant to the Rules mentioned in an Act of 8 9 W. 3 Intituled An Act for the further Encouragement of the Manufacture of Lustrings and Alamedes within this Realm LVII All Persons who shall Import or bring into this Kingdom any Alamodes or Lustrings contrary to this Act or knowingly receive the same into their Custody or sell or offer to sale any such Foreign Silks so fraudulently Imported and their Aiders Abettors and Assistants knowing thereof shall forfeit 500 Pounds LVIII If any Commission or Warrant Officer or other Person in the Service of His Majesty and having the Command of any Ship or Vessel shall Import or Convey or procure or suffer to be Imported or take on Board any Alamodes or Lustrings in Order to be Imported into this Kingdom or shall Unship or suffer to be Unshipt into any Boat or Vessel any such Silks knowing thereof shall over and above the Forfeitures and Penalties in this or any other Act be ipso facto rendred uncapable of serving His Majesty by Sea or Land or of receiving any Advantage by virtue of such Service And if any Seaman Mariner or other belonging to any Ship or Vessel shall discover any Alamodes or Lustrings so Imported or Unshipt in order to be Imported contrary to this Act such Persons shall over and above their part of the Forfeitures by this Act be discharged from on Board such Ship or Vessel if they desire the same and the Captain or Master shall immediately give them a Ticket Intituling them to their Wages on Board such Ship or Vessel LIX If any Persons shall afterwards Counterfeit or Misapply any of the Seals or Marks now used at the Custom House for Sealing and Marking Alamodes and Lustrings according to this or any other Act or the Seals or Marks of the said Company for Marking and Sealing their Goods they their Aiders and Abettors shall for every such Offence forfeit 500 Pounds and stand in the Pillory two Hours And all Persons who shall buy or fell or have in their Possession any Alamodes or Lustrings with a Counterfeit Seal or Mark or with the Custom-House or Companies Seal or Mark not lawfully affixed thereto knowing thereof and not discovering the same shall forfeit the Goods and 100 Pounds Any Persons with a Writ of Assistance from the Exchequer or with a Constable or Officer and a Justice of Peace's Warrant may in the day time Enter into any House Shop Warehouse or other place to search for and seize any Alamodes or Lustrings Imported contrary to this or any other Act or Sealed or Marked as aforesaid And in case of Resistance to break open Doors Chests and other Package to bring thence to his Majesties Ware house any such Silks And the Justices of Peace are to grant such Warrants to Credible Persons making Oath they suspect there are such Silks where they intend to Search And upon Dispute whether such Silks were Manufactured beyond the Seas or Imported contrary to this Act the Proof shall lie upon the Importer or Owner and not upon the Prosecutor LX. All Officers of the Customs or in Corporations or elsewhere shall be assisting in the Execution of this Act and if any Officer
in the Act 2 W. M. for an Aid of 2 s. in the pound for the speedy Payment of Money into the Exchequer and misapplication thereof are hereby Revived CXLIX After 10 July 1698. The Commissioners of the Treasury if it consist with his Majesties Service may direct Bank Bills to be Received in all Payments to the King until the end of next Session of Parliament but not when they are at any Discount Treason I. Stat 8 W. 3. cap. 4. For the Treasons and other Causes in the Preamble recited at large Enacted That Sir John Fenwick Baronet be Convicted and Attainted of High Treason and shall suffer the Pains of Death and incur all Forseitures as a Person Atainted of High Treason II. Stat. 8 W. 3. cap. 5. Enacted That if Sir George Barclay Knight Johnson alias Harrison Durant alias Durance Michael Hare Major George Holmes Philip Handford alias Brown Richard Richardson John Maxwell Bryerly Plowden Hungate shall not before 25 March 1697. Render themselves to the Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench or one of the Secretaries of State in order to their Trials for the Tieason wherewith they are charged then such of the said Persons as shall not so render themselves shall Stand and be Convicted and Attainted of High Treason and shall suffer the Pains of Death and all Forfeitures and Penalties as Traytors Convicted of High Treason III. And Counter John Bernardi Robert Cassells Robert Meldrum James Chambers and Robert Blackbourn and such other Persons who shall hereafter render themselves or shall be apprehended against whom there shall be Evidence upon Oath of being concerned in the said Conspiracy of Assassinating his Sacred Majesty shall be detained in Custody without Bail till the first day of January 1697 unless they shall be sooner Bailed by order of Councel signed by six Privy Councellors IV. Stat. 9 W. 3. cap. 1. Every of His Majesties Subjects who since 11 Decemb. 1688. have voluntarily gone into France or any of the French Kings Dominions in Europe without Licence from his Majesty or the late deceased Queen Mary or who have during the late War with France born Arms in the Service of the French King by Sea or Land or who have since 13 Feb. 1688. been in Arms under the Command or in the Service of the late King James in Europe and shall after 14 Jan. 1697. return into this Kingdom or any other his Majesties Dominions without Licence under the Privy Seal shall be Guilty of High Tieason and suffer and forseit accordingly V. Every of his Majesties Subjects who after 14 Jan. 1697. shall without Licence from his Majesty within this Realm or without in order to give any Aid or Assistance to the late King James hold or keep any Intelligence or Correspondence by Letters Messages or otherwise with the late King James or with any Person Imployed by Him knowing such Person to be so Imployed or shall without Licence from his Majesty by Bill of Exchange or otherwise remit or pay any Sums of Money for the Use or Service of the late King James knowing such Money to be for such Use or Service shall be Guilty of High Treason and suffer and forfeit accordingly VI. Any of the Offences against this Act committed out of this Realm may be laid and tried in any County of this Realm VII The Clause in an Act of 3 4 W. M. Intituled An Act against Corresponding with their Majesties Enemies whereby it was Enacted That if any of his Majesties Subjects should after 10 March 1691. without Licence from their Majesties voluntarily go or Imbark in any Vessel with intent to go into France or any Dominions of the French King should be Guilty of High Treason is declared to be intended only during the War with France and is now of no force VIII Provided That if any Person who since 11 Dec. 1688. went into France or any of the French Kings Dominions without Licence or who had been in Arms under the late King James or the French King or in either of their Services since 13 Feb. 1688. and hath returned into this Realm without Licence such Person shall depart this Realm by the first of Febr. 1697. unless before that time such Person obtain his Majesties Licence for staying here And every such Person not departing this Realm by 1 Febr. 1697. or after such departure returning into this Realm without his Majesties Licence shall be Guilty of High Treason and suffer and forfeit accordingly IX No person shall pay for any such Licence above 10 s. in each Office through which such Licence shall pass and Persons receiving more shall forfeit 20 l. to the Party grieved X. All Persons who after 6 Jan. 1697. shall procure or accept any Charter of Pardon or Grant of any Title of Honour or other matter or thing in England or Ireland from the late King James or shall claim any Benefit thereby or by any Writing purporting any such Pardon or Grant shall be Guilty of High-Treason and suffer and forfeit accordingly And whosoever hath since 11 Decemb. 1688. accepted such Pardon or Grant shall by the 13 of Febr. 1697. deliver such Pardon or Grant to his Majesty in Council or to one of the Secretaries of State before two Witnesses or be Guilty of High Treason and suffer and forfeit accordingly XI Any Person who having accepted or concealed any such Pardon or Grant shall discover and deliver up the same by the said 13 Febr. shall not be punished for procuring accepting or concealing thereof but be wholly Indempnified for the same XII All Persons Indicted for any thing made Treason by this Act shall have the benefit of the Act 7 W. 3. Intituled An Act for Regulating of Tryals in cases of Treason and Misprision of Treason XIII All Grants of any Estate forseited by Virtue of this Act shall be utterly void Wool I. Stat. 9 10. W. 3. cap 40. The Act made 7 W. 3. Intituled An Act for the more effectual Preventing the Exportation of Wool and for Incouraging the Importation of Wool from Ireland and every thing therein contained except what is hereby otherwise altered shall continue and be in full force II. After 24 Jun. 1698. No Fullers Earth or Scouring Clay shall be Exported out of this Kingdom into Ireland Scotland or any other Foreign parts but the Exporter shall forfeit 1 s. for every pound weight III. All Owners of Wool Shorn Housed or Lodged within 10 Miles of the Sea side in Kent and Sussex shall give an Exact Account in Writing within 3 days after Sheering of the number of Fleeces and where lodged or housed to the next adjoyning Port or Officer of the Customs and the like notice before Removing thereof and the Name and Abode of the Persons to whom disposed and where intended to be carried and shall take a Certificate of such Entry on forfeiture of the Wool not Entred or otherwise Disposed of and a penalty of 3 s. per pound for such