years and from thence to the end of the Session of Parliament then next ensuing II. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 33. Every Hide Skin or Piece of tanned Leather shaved or liquored and well curried according to the Statute of 1 Jac. 1. shall be adjudged to be the made Ware and Manufacture of the Currier and subject to the view search and seizure of the Master of the several Mysteries of the Cordwainers Curriers Girdlers and Sadlers of the City of London or the major part of them as by the said Statute is provided and shall be liable to be seiz'd and subject to the same Penalties as other Wares insufficiently made of tanned Leather are liable and subject by the said Statute III. Nothing in this Act shall give any Power to the Master and Wardens of the Company of Curriers to search or seize any Leather Hide or Skin but such as shall be curried in London or within three Miles thereof by some Members of their own Company nor in any other Place but the open Market-place or in the Shops Houses or Ware-houses of such Curriers IV. All Persons whatsoever dealing or working in Leather may buy all sorts of Red tann'd Leather in any open Fair or Market curried or uncurried the same being first search't and seal'd according to Law and may sell the same again in their Shops or convert it into other made Ware V. Any Persons may buy or sell Leather Hides or Skins by weight London I. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 8. Whereas a Judgment was given in the Kings Bench in Trinity-Term in the 35th Year of King Charles II. in a Quo Warranto against the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of London that the Franchise of the said City should be seiz'd into the Kings Hands as forfeited which Proceedings were illegal and arbitrary Be it enacted That the said Judgment and every other Judgment given or recorded in the said Court for seizing the Franchise of the said City into the Kings Hands be revers'd and made void and Vacats entred upon the Rolls II. The Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of London to remain a Body Politick by the Name of Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London c. without any Seizure or Forejudger of the said Franchise c. upon pretence of any Forfeiture or Misdemeanor done or to be done and to have and enjoy all their Rights Charters c. which they lawfully had at the time of the recording or giving the said Judgment III. All Charters Letters Patents c. for incorporating the Citizens and Commonalty of the said City or any of them and all Charters c. concerning any of their Liberties c. Lands and Tenements c. Rights Title or Estates made since the said Judgment by the late King Charles II. or King James II. are hereby declared void IV. Yet no Recoveries Verdicts Judgments Statutes Recognizances Inquisitions Indictments Presentments Informations Decrees Sentences Executions nor any Plaints Process or Proceedings in Law or Equity had in any Court within the said City or Liberties thereof since the said Judgment shall be avoided for want of any legal Power in such as acted as Judges or Officers belonging to the same V. This Act shall not extend to discharge any Persons from any Penalties for not duly qualifying themselves to act upon such Charters Grants or Commissions VI. All Officers and Ministers of the City that rightfully held any Office or Place therein or in Southwark when such Judgment was given are hereby confirmed as fully as they held them then except such as have voluntarily surrendred or been removed for just cause and Persons admitted since the said Judgment into any Office or Employment within the said City upon the death surrender or removal as aforesaid of the former Officers are hereby confirmed as if they had been admitted therein according to ancient Custom VII Leases and Grants of Lands and other things before the said Judgment belonging to the City made since the said Judgment by the said late King Charles II. or King James II. or any taking upon them to be Trustees for the City upon pretence of any Commission from either of the said late Kings being made for a just and valuable consideration and whereupon the accustom'd yearly Rent or more hath been reserved shall be good upon the Terms therein contained and the Commonalty and Citizens shall have all benefit and advantage thereof VIII All Judgments Decrees and Sentences obtain'd by any Persons taking upon them to be Trustees as aforesaid concerning any Interests belonging to the City shall stand in force and be prosecuted and executed by and to the use of the City and all Persons natural-born Subjects or Denizens that have been admitted into the Freedom of the City since the said Judgment shall be free thereof as if admitted before IX The present Mayor Sheriffs Chamberlain and Common Council shall continue till new Elections and the Persons to be elected sworn the Election of a Mayor Sheriffs and Chamberlain to be on the 26th day of May 1690 and of the Common Council on the 10th day of June 1690. Persons so elected to continue till the usual time of electing such Officers according to usage and from thence to continue for the year ensuing X. If the Mayor Sheriffs Chamberlain and Common Council shall not be elected as aforesaid the Mayor Sheriffs Chamberlain and Common Council which were in being at the time of the said Judgment shall be and continue in those respective Offices till new Elections be made according to ancient usage XI All Persons so to be restored and continued shall take the Oaths appointed by an Act made in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths the next Term after such restitution under the Penalties and Disabilities in the said Act provided XII The Mayor Sheriffs and Chamberlain so to be elected shall be sworn in usual manner on or before the 20th day of June next XIII The several Companies and Corporations of the City shall stand and be incorporated by such Names and in such manner as they were at the time of such Judgment given and are hereby restored to the Lands c. Rights and Liberties which they lawfully had then And all Surrenders and Charters for new incorporating any of them and concerning any of their Liberties granted by either of the said late Kings since the said Judgment shall be void but no Person shall be prosecuted for any thing by him lawfully done in pursuance of such Charters c. XIV Provided that all Leases Terms and Estates granted by any of the said Companies since the said Judgment for just and valuable considerations and whereupon the accustomed yearly Rents or more are reserved shall be of force as if they had been granted by the said several Companies as hereby restored and the said Companies shall have all
and reserving the ancient Rent or such as hath been paid for the greater part of twenty years next before the Year 1660. to those that have the Inheritance or else a reasonable Rent not being under the twentieth part of the clear yearly value III. All Covenants Covenants good against them to whom the Interest shall afterward come Conditions and Agreements in every Lease made as aforesaid shall be good in Law according to the contents of the same not only against them to whom the Reversion of the said Lands shall come but against them to whom the Interest of the said Leases shall come as if their Majesties at the making such Covenants and Conditions were actually seized in Fee-simple of the same IV. Saving to all Persons and Bodies Politick Saving of Rights their Heirs and Successors saving the King and Queen and their Heirs the Dukes of Cornwal for the time being and their Heirs or whosoever shall enjoy the Dukedom by force of any Act of Parliament all such Rights and Demands whatsoever of in to or out of the said Offices or Lands or any of them as they had before the making this Act any thing herein notwithstanding V. Fees for passing Leases The Fees and Charges to be paid for passing and perfecting Leases of Tenements of small value where the Fine or Value of such Lease or Grant to be made or renewed shall not exceed 80 l. shall not exceed the Sum of 10 l. for every Lease and 4 l. for every Copy besides the said Fine or Value the said 10 l. and 4 l. to be divided among the Officers of the Exchequer imployed for the preparing and passing such Lease or Grant and if any Officer exceed the same he shall forfeit to the Party grieved so much as is exceeded by this Act and also 20 l. one moiety whereof shall be forfeited to the King and the other to the Party grieved Militia I. STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 13. An Act for raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the year 1694. although the Months Pay formerly advanced be not repaid Mines I. Lawful to dig in Mines notwithstanding pretended to be Royal. Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 6. All Persons Subjects of the Crown of England Bodies Politick or Corporate having or that shall have any Mine or Mines within the Kingdom of England or Wales wherein any Ore now is or shall be discovered or wrought in which there is Copper Tin Iron or Lead shall and may enjoy the same Mine or Mines and Ore and dig and work the said Mine or Mines or Ore notwithstanding they shall be pretended or claimed to be a Royal Mine or Mines II. Rates to be paid for Ore where Mines are pretended to be Royal Provided that their Majesties their Heirs and Successors and all claiming any Royal Mines under them may have the Ore of such Mines in any part of England or Wales other than in the Counties of Devon and Cornwal paying to the Owners of the said Mines wherein such Ore is or shall be found within thirty days after the said Ore is or shall be laid upon the Banks of the said Mines and before the same be removed thence the Rates following viz. For all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Copper 16 l. per Tun For all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Tin 40 s. per Tun And for all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Iron 40 s. per Tun And for all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Lead 9 l. per Tun and in default of payment of such respective Sums as aforesaid it shall be lawful for the Owners of the said Mines wherein such Ore shall be found to dispose of the said Ore to their own uses Orphans I. STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 4. Perpetual Fond to pay the Interest of 4 l. per Gent. unto Dec. 25th 1693. From the time first due to Dec. 25th 1683 at 5 l. per Cent. And from thence to Dec. 25th 1693. at 3 l. per Cent. 4 l. per Cent. from the 25th of Dec. 1655 to the 25 of Dec. 1693 and so proportionably The City Lands c. excepting the Revenues of the Hospitals and Repairs of London-Bridge for ever chargeable after the 24th of June 1694. for raising the Annual Sum of 8000 l. It is enacted That for the raising a perpetual Fond to pay the yearly Interest of four pounds for every hundred pound principal Mony and of all the Interest thereof due to any Orphan of the City or the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such Orphan unto the 25th day of December 1693. The Interest to be computed from the time first payable unto the 25th day of December 1683. at five pounds for the Interest of every hundred pounds for one year And from that time to the 25th day of December 1693. at three pounds and so proportionably for any greater or lesser Sum the Interest already received for such principal Mony to be deducted and to pay the like yearly Interest of four pounds for every hundred pounds of the principal Mony and Interest thereof to be computed as aforesaid due upon Bond Bill or Note liable to pay Interest between the 25th day of December 1655. and the same day of December 1693. or any other the Creditor of the same City or the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such Creditor on the said 25th day of December 1693. from the Chamber of the said City or from the Mayor Commonalty or Citizens thereof and so proportionably for any greater or lesser Sum the Manners Messuages Lands Markets and Fairs and other the Hereditaments and Revenues belonging to the same City in possession or reversion and the Improvements that shall be made thereof except such the Lands and Revenues belonging to the Hospitals of the same City or Borough of Southwark or such as are chargeable with the Repairs of London Bridge shall be yearly charged for ever after the 24th day of June 1694. for the raising the Annual Sum of eight thousand pounds to be appropriated for the raising such a perpetual Fond and be applied as aforesaid II. The Aqueducts belonging to the City The City Aqueducts liable and their Rents except the Profits of such Water as shall be for the Supply of the publick Conduits Hospitals Halls and Prisons shall be for ever appropriated and applied towards payment of the said Interest III. 2000 l. annually out of Personal Estates And for the raising such a perpertual Fond the Common Council may every year raise and assess the Sum of two thousand pounds upon the Personal Estates of the several Inhabitants within the City and Liberties and to distrain for default of payment IV. Leases of the Convex Lights for 21 years from June 24th 1694 600 l. per ann The City may Lease to the Persons concerned in the Convex Lights the sole use of
otherwise shall be null and void And the Mayor and Court of Aldermen out of the Revenue setled by this Act shall allow and pay to such Agents and Solicitors what they judge may be reasonable and that to be allowed in the Accompt of the said Revenue And if they demand or receive more than shall be so adjudged due to them they shall forfeit treble the Sum received to be recovered with Costs of Suit by such Persons as will sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster XX. New-River Water Thames Water and Shadwel Water-works excepted This Act shall not extend to the New-River Water or Profits thereof Nor shall be construed to hinder or obstruct the Governors and Company of Undertakers for raising of the Thames-Water in York Buildings nor the Governor and Company of the Water-work in Shadwel But they may raise and take the Water and lay Pipes and Branches in the Streets as before and enjoy all their Rights Nor shall this Act extend to the Water-works of Thomas Morris Th. Morris Water-works excepted at or near London-Bridge nor to the Profits or Benefits thereof other than the Rent reserved upon a Lease formerly made thereof by the City And Samuel Hutchinson Samuel Hutchinson or his Assigns paying their proportion of Stock to the Partners in the Convex Lights and covenanting to perform such Contracts and Agreements as are or shall be made by them before the 24th day of June 1695. may enjoy the same Interest and Benefit in the Premises as any of the Partners according to their respective Proportions XXI Priviledge of Persons sued upon this Act. Any Person sued for what he shall do in pursuance or in the execution of this Act may plead the General Issue and give upon Trial this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and in case of Non-suit forbearance of farther Prosecution Discontinuance or Verdict against the Plaintiff or Prosecutor the Defendant shall recover Costs and have like Remedy for them as when Costs by Law are given to the Defendants XXII This Act to be reputed a general Act. This Act shall be reputed a General Act and the Judges upon all occasions shall take notice as if it were a Publick Act of Parliament relating to the whole Kingdom XXIII For the space of seven years from the 29th day of September last past The City may use 2000 l. yearly for 7 years towards their necessary Expences provided the Orphans have their due otherwise to repay what is wanting to the Orphans by 2000 l. per ann it shall be lawful for the Mayor and Court of Aldermen to retain and apply and the Chamberlain to issue and pay towards the necessary Expences and Charges of the City any Sum not exceeding in the whole the Sum of two thousand pounds yearly out of the Monies hereby appointed to the use of the Orphans and Creditors But in case after the deduction and allowance of the said two thousand pounds during the seven years there shall not be raised and paid to the Orphans and Creditors out of the residue of the Profits of the aforesaid several Provisions and Fonds so much Mony as will fully satisfie all the said Orphans and Creditors Interest for all their several and respective Debts after the rate of four pounds per Cent. per Annum during the whole seven years that then the City shall repay into the Hands of the Chamberlain within seven years after the expiration of the said Term fourteen thousand pounds or so much thereof as they shall have made use of by two thousand pound per annum or such less yearly Sum as shall be proportionable to what they shall have so made use of until the same or so much thereof as shall make good the deficiency that shall appear in the satisfaction of the Interest of all the Monies due to the said Orphans and Creditors at the Rate aforesaid by reason of applying the said two thousand pounds per Annum or any part thereof to the use of the City for the Term aforesaid shall be satisfied And for securing the repayment thereof all the Estate Rents and Profits of any sort which at the expiration of the term of seven years shall belong to the Mayor The City Revenues liable for the same Commonalty and Citizens in their Politick Capacity only except the Revenues belonging to the Hospitals in or belonging to the same City or Borough of Southwark or for the Repairs of London-Bridge shall be and are charged and made subject and liable thereunto Prisoners I. STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 2. Act 2 W. M. revived That the Act made in the second year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Relief of Poor Prisoners for Debt and Damages be revived and that the Oath in the said Act shall be abolished and instead thereof the Oath herein mentioned shall be the Oath to be tendred to the Sheriffs Gaolers and Keepers of Prison I A. B. The Oath to be taken by Sheriffs and Gaolers do swear That I have examined the Commitments or Books belonging to the said Prison and that by them it doth appear that J. S. was really and truly a Prisoner in the Custody of the then Gaoler or Keeper of the Prison of D. Prison in the County of C. without any Fraud or Deceit by me or any other to my knowledge or belief at or upon the 28th day of November Anno Dom. 1690. II. And in case any Sheriff Penalty for refusing the Oath Gaoler or Keeper of Prison shall refuse to take the Oath herein appointed he being required unless it appear by the Commitment and Books of the said Prison that the Person for whom such Oath is required was not truly a Prisoner in the Custody of the said Gaoler and Keeper according to the said Act that otherwise the said Gaoler and Keeper so refusing to take the said Oath shall forfeit to such Prisoner the value of the Debt for which he shall be imprisoned And that in that case upon complaint of the Prisoner the Justices of Peace of the County or City where the Prison lies Prisoner may be discharged if he were in Custody 28 Nov. 1690 shall have power to examine the said Matter upon Oath of any other Persons which Oath they are hereby impowred to administer And if it shall appear to them that the said Prisoner was truly a Prisoner on the said 28th day of December 1690. then the said Justices may discharge the said Prisoner so as he may have full benefit of the said Act notwithstanding the Sheriffs Gaolers or Keepers refusing the said Oath any thing in the said Act notwithstanding III. The Sheriff or Gaolers Fee for discharge of a Prisoner And farther That no Sheriff Gaoler or Keeper of Prison nor any Clerk of the Peace or other Officer directly or indirectly shall take of any Prisoner to be discharged by
Tax made by virtue of this Act or by the determination of the Justices c. may have recourse to the General Quarter-Sessions whose determination therein shall be final XXVIII And whereas there are many common High-ways in the said Parishes which cannot be sufficiently supported without the help of this Act Be it enacted That one or more Assessment or Assessments upon the Inhabitants and Occupiers of Lands c. and Persons usually ratable to the Poor shall from time to time be made and allowed by such Persons as the Justices at their Quarter-Sessions shall direct and the Mony thereby raised to be employed and accounted for according to their direction towards the supporting such High-ways such Assessments to be levied by distress and sale of goods in case of non-payment within fourteen days after demand rendring the overplus Charges deducted XXIX No such Assessments to be made in any one Year shall exceed 4 d. in the Pound of the yearly value of Lands c. nor 8 d. for every twenty pound in personal Estate XXX New Sewers made since the 12th Year of King Charles II. in any the said Parishes shall be subject to the Commissioners of Sewers and the said Commissioners may direct the making of new Sewers and alter or take away any Nusances therein and any cross Gutters and Channels in any of the Streets and Lanes in the said Parishes XXXI Housholders within the Weekly Bills of Mortality whose Houses adjoyn to the Street from Michaelmas to Lady-day yearly shall hang out Candles or Lights from the time that it grows dark till twelve a Clock at night on pain to forfeit 2 s. for every default except such as shall agree to make use of Lamps to be placed at such distances as shall be approved of by two or more Justices of the Peace XXXII Every Truss of old Hay bought or offered to sale within the Weekly Bills of Mortality between the last of August and the first of June shall weigh 56 pounds at least and between the first of June and the last of August being new Hay of that Summers growth shall weigh 60 pounds and being old Hay of any former years growth shall weigh 56 pounds the Person offering any Hay to be sold of less weight to forfeit for every Truss 18 d. XXXIII No Persons shall suffer their Waggons Carts c. to stand in any place within the Weekly Bills of Mortality loaden with Hay or Straw to be sold from Michaelmas to Lady-day after two a Clock in the Afternoon nor from Lady-day to Michaelmas after three a Clock on pain to forfeit 5 s. for every such Offence XXXIV Justices of Peace in the Places aforesaid within their respective Limits may upon their own View Confession of the Party or proof of one credible Witness upon Oath convict Persons of the said Offences one moiety of the Forfeitures to the Poor and the other to the Prosecutor and in case of a Conviction by the View of a Justice of Peace one half to the relief of the Poor and the other half if for a default of payment towards the repairing and cleansing the Streets to be paid to the Scavengers to be imployed to that use or otherwise to the relief of the Poor as aforesaid all the said Penalties to be levied by distress and sale of Goods by a Justices Warrant to the Constable c. and for want of a distress or in case of non-payment within six days after demand or notice in Writing left at the Offenders House by the Constable c. the Offender not being a Peer shall be committed to the Common Gaol till payment XXXV The Wheels of Carts Carriages or Drays within the said Places where the Streets are paved shall contain six Inches in the Felley and shall not be wrought about with any Iron-work nor drawn with above two Horses after they are up the Hills by the Water-side Owners of Carts c. the Wheels whereof shall not be of that breadth or shod with Iron or drawn with above two Horses as aforesaid shall forfeit 40 s. for every time such Cart c. shall be used for the Uses and to be levied as aforesaid XXXVI This shall not extend to Country Carriages bringing Goods to the said Places or carrying any Goods half a Mile beyond the paved Streets XXXVII No Persons shall keep Swine within the Houses or Back-sides of the paved Streets where the Houses are contiguous upon pain of forfeiting the same to the use of the Poor of the Parish And Church-wardens Overseers of the Poor Constables Beadles Headboroughs and Tythingmen may in the day-time by Warrant from the Lord Mayor of London or any Justice of Peace of the place search for Swine and drive them away to sell the Mony to be delivered to the Church-wardens or Overseers of the Poor of the Parish for the use of the Poor XXXVIII The cleansing the Streets Lanes and Passages within London and the Liberties thereof shall be managed according to the ancient usage of the City XXXIX The Lord Mayor or any Alderman may upon his own knowledge or view in the General Quarter-Sessions make presentment of any such Offence within the City and Liberties thereof and the Lord Mayor and Justices of the City shall at the same Sessions assess Fines for the same not exceeding 20 s. for every Offence to be paid to the Chamberlain of London for the use of the City XL. In Actions c. commenced for what any Person shall do in pursuance of an Act made in the 22 and 23 Years of King Charles II Entituled An Act for the better paving and cleansing the Streets and Sewers in and about the City of London or this Act the Defendant may plead the General Issue and give the said Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff or Prosecutor become Non-suit or suffer a Discontinuance or a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover treble Costs XLI The High-way leading from the East-side of Clerkenwell-Green to St. Johns Street shall be pav'd according to the direction of this Act. Militia I. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. c. 12. An Act for the raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the Year 1691. though the Months Pay formerly advanced be not paid II. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 7. An Act for raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the Year 1692. although the Months Pay formerly advanced be not repaid III. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 6. If at any time before the 25th day of March 1694. their Majesties shall think it necessary for the safety of this Kingdom to draw out the Militia into actual Service and the same be signified to the Lieutenants Deputy-Lieutenants and Warden of the Cinque-Ports It shall be lawful for them notwithstanding that one or more Months Pay before that time advanced be not reimbursed to draw out the Souldiers of the Militia into actual Service and to cause the Persons charged to
French Kings Dominions in Europe into England during the said War without leave obtain'd they shall be kept in Prison without Bail or Mainprize during their Majesties pleasure for any time not exceeding twelve months Tythes I. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 3. All Persons that shall sow or cause to be sown any Hemp or Flax shall pay to every Parson Vicar or Impropriator of the Parish or Place for every Acre so sown pulled or drawn an annual Sum not exceeding 4 s. before it be carried off the Ground and so proportionably for the recovery of which such Parson c. shall have the common and usual Remedy II. This Act shall not charge any Lands discharged by any modus dâ—cimandi ancient Composition or otherwise III. This Law to continue for seven years and to the end of the then next Session of Parliament Wills I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 2. From and after the 26th day of March 1693. Persons inhabiting or who shall have any Goods within the Province of York may by their last Wills dispose of all their Personal Estate as they shall think fit and their Widows Children and other Kindred shall be barred to claim any part of the Personal Estate in other manner than as by their Wills shall be appointed II. This Act shall not extend to the Citizens of the Cities of York and Chester who are or shall be Freemen of the said Cities inhabiting within the same or the Suburbs thereof at the time of their death Wool I. Stat. 1 W. M Sess 1. cap. 32. Owners of Wool or their Agents that shall at any time carry or cause to be carried any Wool to any Port or Place on the Sea-Coasts to be conveyed to any other Port or Place in England Wales or Berwick from whence the same may be transported into Foreign Parts shall first cause a due entry thereof to be made at the Port from whence it shall be intended to be conveyed containing the Weights Marks and Numbers thereof before they carry it within five miles of any such Port or Place or else such Wool found and the Beasts and Carriages conveying it shall be forfeited and the Persons conveying driving or abetting the same shall forfeit and suffer as by the Laws and Statutes now in force against the exportation of Wool II. The forgoing Clause shall not extend to hinder any Person from carrying their Wool from the place of Shearing to their own Dwelling-house c. though within five miles of the Sea so as within ten days after Shearing and before they otherwise dispose of the same they certifie under their Hands to the Officers of the Customs in the next Port the quantity thereof viz. the number of the Fleeces and where housed and do not remove the same without first certifying the Officer of the next Port under their Hands of their intention to remove it three days at least before such removal the said Officers to keep and register such Certificate but Persons neglecting to certifie as aforesaid or removing their Wool before such Certificate of their intention shall be liable to the Penalties of the former Clauses III. Cocquets for carrying Wool from any Port in England Wales or Berwick shall be written upon Paper and sign'd by three Chief Officers of such Port at least and Certificates of landing them again at any other of the said Ports or from Ireland shall be so sign'd and all such Wool both at shipping and landing shall be weigh'd in the presence of the said Officers giving such Cocquets and Certificates and the Weight Marks and Numbers of such Wool shipped and landed shall be expressed in both Cocquet and Certificate IV. Officers not observing the Directions of this Act shall be adjudged Abettors of the Transportation and suffer the Penalties contain'd in the Statutes of the 12th and 14th years of King Charles II. against Transportation of Wool V. No Wool shall be shipt from Ireland but from Dublin Waterford Youghall Kinsale Cork and Drogheda nor imported from thence but into Leverpool Chester Bristol Minehead Barnstaple Bidford and Exeter VI. For the better execution of this and other Acts against the Exportation of Wool Sir Tho. P. Lord Mayor of London Sir H. G. Baronet Sir P. W. Kt. Sir B. N. Kt. Sir J. M. Kt. Sir P.R. Kt. Sir R.D. Sir W.P. Kt. and Bar. Sir H.A. Bar. Sir W.A. Kt. Sir R. N. Sir J. F. W. H. J. S. J. S. F. O. J. P. R. B. W. C. E. M. Esquires S. H. W. H. Senior J. P. J. V. J. G. B. C. Gentlemen Mr. M. of Horton Sir T. S. Bar. W. D. Esq J. A. of Woley Esq Sir W. L. Sir J. P. Kt. Sir B. A. Bar. Sir R. J. Kt. Sir J. L. Kt. Sir G. R. Kt. Sir S. D. Kt. Sir T. V. Kt. N. T. W.H. T.C. W.G. H.S. S.M. J.S. T.F. A.M. W.C. T.H. T.S. W. J. Esquires P. S. H. C. J. D. R. S. D. P. T. C. P. B. J. P. R. H. J. B. J. H. E. B. N. B. W. S. B. J. D. J. A. J. T. T. P. P. H. N. J. P. M. F. W. S. J. K. Senior J. M. Junior W.W. J.Y. R. F. J.L. T. P. W.B. J.U. J. S. J.M. or any five or more of them are hereby authorized for putting this and other the said Laws in execution and by their Substitutes to be appointed under the Hands and Seals of five or more of them to seize all Wools Woolfels and other Things above-mentioned which shall be endeavoured to be exported contrary to this Act and to prosecute Offenders against this or any the said Laws VII Owners of Ships Masters or Mariners knowing of the Exportation of any Sheeps-wool Wool-fells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks Fullers-earth or Tobacco-pipe Clay contrary to the meaning of this Act that shall within three months after their knowledge thereof or after their return into England Ireland Wales or Berwick give the first Information thereof and by whom where and in what Vessel upon Oath before any of the Barons of the Exchequer in England or Ireland or any three of the Commissioners appointed by this Act or the Head-Officer of the Port where they shall first arrive and shall be ready to justifie and prove the same shall not be subject to the Penalties of this or any other Act for the said Offence but shall recover and receive such benefit and advantages as are appointed by any precedent Act. VIII The Powers given to the said Commissioners shall not hinder any Persons lawfully authorized from seizing Wool or prosecuting Offenders against this or any former Act. IX If any Prosecution shall be against any Person for what he shall do in pursuance of this Act he may file a Common Bail or enter into a Common Appearance and plead the General Issue and give this Act in Evidence and if the Plaintiff be non-suit or discontinue or a Verdict pass against him or Judgment upon a Demurrer the Defendant shall recover
such Lights within the City and Liberties for one and twenty years from the 24th day of June 1694. at the Rent of six hundred pounds yearly to be reserved to be appropriated towards raising such a Fond and payment of the said Interest-mony And after that Term expired the Profits whatsoever that shall be made by granting Licenses to lighten the Streets shall be appropriated and applied to the uses aforesaid V. Every Apprentice after 24th of June 1694 to pay 2 s. 6 d. at his being bound to be transmitted to the Chamberlain on penalty of 5 l. 5 s. to be paid by every one admitted a Freeman 4 s. ê™ Tun on Wine imported The Collector to be appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen For the increase of the Fond every Apprentice after the 24th day of June 1694. when he is bound shall pay two shillings and six pence to the Master or Wardens of such Company as his Master is Member of to be by the said Master and Wardens transmitted to the Chamberlain of the City to be employed for the uses aforesaid upon the Penalty of five pounds for every Sum not so transmitted to be recovered in the Name of the Chamberlain And Books of Vellum or Parchment to be kept in the Common Halls of such Payments for any Person to inspect gratis VI. And every Person after the said 24th day of June 1694. when he is admitted a Freeman shall pay the Sum of five shillings the said several Sums of two shillings and six pence and five shillings to be paid over and above the usual Fees VII Also every Importer shall pay a Duty of four shillings per Tun upon all sorts of Wine imported after the said 24th day of June 1694. into the Port of the City of London or the Members thereof by way of Merchandize over and above the present Duties and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity The Collector to be appointed by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen And the said Imposition to be paid in the same manner and by such Rules and under such Penalties as are provided in an Act of Parliament made in the 12th year of King Charles II. Entituled A Subsidy granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage c. VIII 4 d. for meetage of every Chaldron of Coals after the 29th of June 1694 After the 29th of Sept. 1700 6 d. ê™ Chaldron or Tun to continue for 50 years To be paid by the Owner of the Vessel There shall be paid for all such sort of Coals or Culm as are usually sold by the Chaldron imported into the Port of London or Members thereof after the 24th day of June 1694. for every Chaldron thereof the Sum of four pence Meetage for ever over and above what is now paid to be paid as the present Duty of Meetage is And after the 29th day of September 1700. the farther Sum of six pence And for such Coals as are sold by the Tun for every Tun thereof containing two thousand Weight the like Sum of six pence which shall continue from the said 29th day of September for fifty year and no longer to be paid by the Master or Owner of the Ship or Vessel whereupon they are laden before they shall break Bulk or have a Meeter assigned at such place as the Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall appoint within the City or Liberties for Receipt thereof upon receipt whereof the Party appointed to receive the same shall without delay gratis deliver a Receipt which shall be a sufficient Discharge How to be collected And the same Imposition of six pence per Chaldron shall be collected and levied in such manner and in every respect as in and by one Act made in the 19th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the rebuilding the City of London the Imposition of Coals thereby granted was to be collected and levied And the Powers and Directions for that Act shall be exercised for the collecting of the said Duty of six pence as if particularly expressed in this during all the time it is payable The Monies to be paid into the receipt of the Chamber Collectors to give reasonable security All Sums of Mony as part of the said Fond are to be paid into the Receipt of the Chamber and are hereby appropriated for the raising the said Fond and applied towards the discharge of the said Debts And every Person that shall be concerned in the Receipt of any of the Sums so appropriate before he take upon him the execution of such Office shall find Sureties in such reasonable Sum as by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall be thought fitting for the faithful execution of such Office IX After the expiration of 6 d. per Chaldron the City revenues liable for 6000 l. ê™ ann besides the 8000 l. per ann The Mony raised by this Act to be applied for the payment of 4 l. per Cent. due the 25th of Dec. 1693 And also for the payment of 4 l. per Cent. from between the 25th of Dec. 1655 and the 25th of Dec. 1693 The payments to be made twice a year at St. Thomas and St. John Baptist or within 14 days after The perpetual Interest to be in full satisfaction of the principal Debt After the said Imposition of six pence shall determine all the Revenues of the City of London in possession or reverson shall stand and be charged with the full yearly Sum of six thousand pounds over and above the said yearly Sum of eight thousand pounds in like manner appropriated as the yearly Sum of eight thousand pound was X. And all the Rents Impositions and Sums of Mony by this Act applied to be charged raised or paid after reasonable Salaries and Allowances deducted for ever shall be applied for the payment of the Annual Sum of four pounds for the Interest of every hundred pound and proportionably for a greater or lesser Sum of the above-mentioned respective Debts and all the Interest thereof due on the 25th day of December 1693. to any Orphan of the City or the Executors c. of such Orphan And also for the payment of the like yearly Interest of four pounds for every hundred pound principal Mony and the Interest thereof to be computed as aforesaid due at any time between the said 25th day of December 1655. and the said 25th day of December 1693. upon Bond Bill or Note liable to pay Interest from the said City unto any Person or Persons or to so much thereof only as the Monies appointed by this Act to be raised and paid shall yearly amount unto to satisfie and pay towards the Interest to the said Orphans and Creditors equally in proportion to their respective Interests The Payments to be made twice in every year upon St. Thomas Day and St. John Baptists or within fourteen days after The first payment to be made on St. Thomas Day 1694. or within fourteen days after The said Monies to be
employed to no other use and all the Orders or Warrants for the disposal thereof contrary to the intent of this Act to be void XI The provision hereby made for the payment of the said Interest-Mony for ever shall be in full satisfaction of the Debts and Interest thereof due to the said Orphans and Creditors and they are to acknowledge satisfaction of their respective Debts according to the usuall Custom paying such Fees to the Officers concerned as the Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall appoint not exceeding thirteen shillings and four pence for every thousand pounds The City hereby discharged Books to be kept of the Receipts and Disbursements Access thereto gratis from 9 to 12 in the Forenoon The Receipts and Payments to be yearly audited The Auditors Fees and the City and their Successors are hereby acquitted of the same XII The Chamberlain shall provide or keep one or more Book or Books of Vellum or Parchment of the Receipts and likewise of the Disbursements by virtue of this Act whereto all Persons may have free access to view the same between the hours of nine and twelve in the Forenoon without any Fee or Reward And the Receipts and Payments of all the Monies aforesaid shall be audited yearly upon Oath before one of the Auditors of the Imprest which Oath the said Auditors are hereby required to administer between Michaelmas Day and Saint Thomas the Apostle and for every thousand pounds the Accompts shall amount to the Auditor shall receive of the Chamberlain twenty shillings and no more The Accompts so audited shall be signed by the said Auditor and also allowed by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen and fairly entred and remain in the Chamber of the City to be perused and viewed XIII If any Chamberlain of the City Penalty of misimploying or other Person shall after Receipt of any the said Monies divert or misapply the same he shall forfeit treble the Sum so misapplied to be recovered by any the Orphans or Creditors that will sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts of Record XIV The Chamberlain and Common Serjeant of the City upon request shall give unto every of the said Orphans and Creditors and their respective Executors Administrators or Assigns Liberty of assigning a Bill or Note in Writing of the Principal Debt or Interest owing to them And any Person to whom any Mony is payable by this Act may by Writing under his Hand and Seal transfer his Right and Interest therein to be registred in a Book to be kept by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen and the Note or Bill of the said Debt being delivered up to the Officer appointed by the Court of Aldermen for that purpose he shall give his Note or Bill in Writing of the Debt so assigned to the Party to whom such Assignment is made and such Assignee shall be entituled to the benefit thereof and may assign toties quâ—â—ies Assignments irrevocable And it shall not be in the Power of such Persons who have made such Assignments to release or discharge the same or the Monies thereby assigned XV. Orphans not compellable to bring in their Mony to the Chamber No Person shall be obliged or compelled by virtue of any Custom within the said City or by Order or Process of the Court of Orphans to pay into the Chamber any Sum of Mony or Personal Estate due or to be due or belonging to an Orphan of any Freeman any Law or Usage inforcing the same notwithstanding But this not to be construed to extend to impeach or prevent Process upon any Recognizance already given according to the Custom XVI The City answerable for their Officers defaults If the Corporation of the City or any of their Officers or other Person by colour of any Warrant or Authority from them misapply or convert to their own use any of the Sums hereby appropriated the Corporation shall be answerable for the same out of their Revenues in any Action to be brought by any of the said Orphans or Creditors the Sum recovered to be to the uses aforesaid and the Costs to the Party suing The Amerciaments Fines on such Suits to the use of the City Fines and Distresses upon the Corporation upon the Account of such Suit to be to the uses aforesaid and not to be pardoned or acquitted by their Majesties XVII Provided on Application made to the Mayor and Court of Aldermen by the Executors or Administrators of the Father of such Orphan to pay in or lodge any Sum of Mony of such Orphan in the said Chamber and to have the benefit of the said provision hereby made It shall be lawful for the said Mayor and Aldermen to pay off the like Sum to such Person entituled to the said yearly Payments as aforesaid as they think fit not being Orphans under the Age of twenty one years of Age and giving three months notice to or for the Person so to be paid off at the end of which three months upon payment or tender of the said Monies due for Principal and Interest to or for the Person to whom such notice shall be given according to the provision hereby made at the Office of the said Chamberlain in Guildhall that from thenceforth the Annual Sum of Mony payable to such Person to whom such notice payment or tender shall be made shall cease and determine and the same shall become due and payable to or for the use of such Orphan who shall have paid in the Monies for the same and shall be registred accordingly and be assignable as aforesaid yet the Monies so tendred shall be paid to such Persons upon their demand of the same and assigning or giving a Discharge for the same And the provision hereby made shall remain a perpetual Fond for the benefit of the Orphans of the said City successively XVIII Debts mortgaged redeemable upon payment of Principal and Interest Provided it be within 3 years after this Session of Parliament If any such Debts due to any of the said Orphans have at any time before the said 25th day of December been mortgaged or covenanted to be so they are redeemable and shall be redeemed upon payment of the Principal Mony paid in consideration of making the Mortgage with the Charges and Interest for the same from the time of payment thereof after the rate of eight pounds per Cent. per Annum for one year discounting for what hath been received for the said Debt And upon payment or tender of Principal Interest and Charges the Security concerning the same to be void But such Redemption is to be made within three years after the end of this present Session of Parliament XIX Contracts with Solicitors void Solicitors to be paid at the discretion of the Mayor and Aldermen Their Forfeiture if they take more All Securities given by the Orphans to any Agents or Solicitors to obtain Payments of their Debts by Act of Parliament or
out and returning home The Lord High-Admiral or Commissioners for executing that Office shall exhibit to the Commons assembled in Parliament at the next Session of this or any other Parliament which shall happen after the first of August 1694. a Certificate in Writing under his or their Hands respectively of the Ships set out in pursuance of the said recited Clause expressing therein the Name and Rates of the Ships set out the times when ordered as also the Stations to which they were directed and the times how long they were continued at Sea in that Service XXXVI Fees of the Officers of the Exchequer 1 d in the Pound The Officers of the Receipt of the Exchequer may receive and take for their Fees one peny in the pound and no more for all or any the Sums of Mony to be issued or paid to any their Majesties Garrisons Land-Forces and Armies and other Charges incident to the same out of the Mony arising by this or any other Act and Grant of this Session or any other Session of Parliament during this present War to be distributed in such proportion as the Lord Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury shall appoint XXXVII No Collector Gauger or Officer of Excise shall give his Vote for Parliament Man After the first day of May 1694. no Collector Supervisor Gauger or other Officer or Person whatsoever concerned in the Excise or any Branch or Part thereof shall by Word Message or Writing or in any other manner whatsoever endeavour to perswade any Elector to give or disswade any from giving his Vote for the Choice of any Person to be a Knight of the Shire Citizen Burgess or Baron of any City Borough or Cinque-Port to serve in Parliament and every Officer or other Person offending shall forfeit 100 l. one moiety to the Informer The Penalty for offending the other to the Poor of the Parish where such Offence shall be committed to be recovered by any Person that shall sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts at Westminster and every Person convict on any such Suit of the said Offence shall be disabled and incapable of ever executing any Office relating to the Duty of Excise or other Office or Place of Trust whatsoever under their Majesties their Heirs or successors XXXVIII Gaugers to leave Notes in Writing True Notes in Writing of the last Gauges made or taken by the Gaugers shall be left by them with Brewers Makers or Retailers of Beer Ale or other Excisable Liquors or some of their Servants at the times of taking their said Gauges Penalty for neglecting containing the quantity and quality of the Liquors so gauged upon the Penalty of 5 l. for every Offence or Neglect to be recovered by any Person that shall sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster An Act upon Parchment c. I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 15. The Act when to commence From the 28th of June 1694. shall be paid the several Duties upon Vellum Parchment and Paper for four Years thence ensuing viz. For every Skin or piece of Vellum or Parchment Letters Patents on which any Grants or Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England or the Seal of the Dutchy or County Palatine of Lancaster or of any Honour Dignity Promotion Franchise Liberty or Priviledge to any Person or Persons Bodies Politick or Corporate or Exemplifications of the same shall be ingrossed or written the Sum of 40 s. II. Pardons Reprieves Relaxations For every Skin or piece of Vellum Parchment or Sheet of Paper on which are ingrossed or written any Pardon of any Crime or of any Mony or Forfeiture or of any Warrant or Reprieve or Relaxation from any Fines Corporal Punishments or other Forfeiture shall pay 40 s. III. Grants of Mony by their Majesties For every Skin c. upon which any Grant from their Majesties of any Sum of Mony exceeding 100 l. which shall pass the Great Seal or Privy not directed to the Great Seal shall be engrossed or written 40 s. IV. Offices above 50 l. per Ann. For every Skin c. upon which any Grant of any Office or Imployment which shall be above the value of 50 l. per Annum shall be ingrossed or written 40 s. V. Grants of Lands in Fee for years c. For every Skin c. upon which any Grant of Lands in Fee Lease for Years or other Grant of Profit not herein particularly charged that shall pass the Great Seal Exchequer Seal Seal of the Dutchy or County Palatine of Lancaster or Privy Seal not directed to the Great Seal shall be ingrossed or written 40 s. VI. Ecclesiastical Promotions For every Skin c. upon which any Presentation or Donation under the Great Seal Collation by Archbishop or Bishop Presentation or Donation by any Patron to any Benefice Dignity or Spiritual Promotion such Benefice Dignity or Spiritual Promotion being 10 l. value or above in the Kings Books shall be ingrossed or written 40 s. VII Register Entry Testimonial c. For every Skin c. on which any Register Entry Testimonial or Certificate of any Degree taken in the Universities or Inns of Court shall be engrossed or written 40 s. VIII Dispensations Ecclesiastical For every Skin c. on which any Dispensation to hold two Ecclesiastical Dignities or Benefices or both a Dignity and a Benefice or any other Dispensation or Faculty from the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Master of the Faculties shall be ingrossed or written 40 s. IX Admittance of a Fellow of the Colledge c. For every Skin c. on which an Admittance of any Fellow of the Colledge of Physitians or of any Attorny Clerk Advocate Proctor Notary or other Officers in any Court whatsoever shall be ingrossed or written 40 s. X. Appeals from the Admiralty c. For every Skin c. on which any Appeals from the Court of Admiralty Arches Prerogative Court of Canterbury or York shall be ingrossed or written 40 s. XI Deeds inrolled For every Skin c. on which any Conveyances Surrenders of Grants or Offices Release or other Deed whatsoever enrolled in any Court of Westminster or other Court of Record or by any Custos Rotulorum or Clerk of the Peace shall be ingrossed or written 5 s. XII Writs of Covenant and Entry For every piece c. on which any Writ of Covenant for levying of Fines or Writs of Entry for suffering Recoveries shall be ingrossed or written 5 s. XIII Exemplifications For every Skin c. on which any Exemplification of whatever nature that shall pass the Seal of any Court whatsoever shall be ingrossed or written 5 s. XIV Decrees Dismissions For every Skin c. on which any Decree or Dismission made by or in the Chancery Exchequer Dutchy-Court or Courts of Lancaster Chester Durham or other