Kestell Thomas Trefrie Michael Vivian Anthony Chinoweth Francis Burges Richard Carter John Sylly Richard Tippet Thomas Carew Christopher Billet Chamon Greenvile Samuel Langford Reynald Hawkey Walter Vincent James Robins Humphrey Burlace Francis Lutterel and James Eresy Esquires the Mayor of Truro for the time being Martin Madrin Gent. Cumberland For the County of Cumberland Edward Lord Morpeth Son and Heir apparent to Charles Earl of Carlisle Sir Philip Musgrave Sir William Dalston Sir George Fletcher Sir John Lowther senior Sir John Lowther junior Sir Edward Musgrave Baronets Sir Thomas Dacres Sir William Hudlestone Sir Wilfred Lawson Sir William Carleton Sir Philip Howard Sir Francis Salkeld Sir John Dalston Knights John Lamplough Richard Skelton William Musgrave William Layton Christopher Musgrave John Agleonby Robert Scawen George Denton Thomas Denton Richard Towlson Andrew Hudleston Robert Highmour George Towry and the Mayor of Carlisle for the time being Daniel Fleming Edward Stanley William Pennington Wrightington Senhouse Esquires Derby For the County of Derby Henry Viscount Mansfield Son and heir apparent to William Marquis of Newcastle William Lord Cavendish son and heir apparent to William Earl of Devonshire Anchitell Grey George Pierpoint Esquires Sir Thomas Gresley Sir Francis Burdet Sir John Harper Sir John Curson Sir Edward Cooke Sir Henry Every Sir William Boothby Baronets Sir John Harper Sir Samuel Sleigh Knights John Frechveille German Poole John Ferrers George Vernon Charles Agard John Munday Richard Cook John Milward William Fitzherbert Charles Cotton Walter Horton Gilbert Hacker Henry Gilbert Robert Eyre William Revel Godfrey Clark William Bullock William Woolly Nicholas Wilmot Iohn Shalcross Ravel Ashenhurst Francis Mennel Thomas Milward George Sitwel Henry Wigfall James Abnye Esquires George Tayler Iohn Spaleman William Wright Francis Barker Gentleman the Mayor of Derby for the time being Roger Allestre Iohn Dalton Simon Degg Hugh Bateman Esquires Iohn Shore Doctor of Physick Thomas Freeman Gent. Mr. Charles Agard of Foston and Iohn Daundridge Alderman Devon For the County of Devon Arthur Earl of Donegal in the Kingdom of Ireland Sir Hugh Pollard Baronet Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold Sir George Carteret Vice-Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold Sir William Morice Principal Secretary of State Sir William Courtney Baronet John Ashburnham Esquire Sir Edward Seymour Sir George Chudleigh Sir Peter Prideaux Sir Thomas Hele Sir Chichester Wrey Sir Courtney Pool Sir Coplestone Bampfield Sir John Norcote Sir John Chichester Sir Edmund Fowel Sir VVilliam Morice Sir John Drake Sir Thomas Carew Sir John Davy Sir Walter Young Sir Edmund Fortescue Baronets Sir Edward Wise Sir John Rolle Sir Edward Hungerford Sir Nicholas Slaning Knights of the Bath Sir John Chichester Sir Henry Carew Sir Richard Prideaux Sir Peter Ball Sir James Smith Sir Robert Cary Sir William Strode Sir Thomas Clifford Sir Thomas Higgons Sir John Skelton Knights Edward Seymour Peter Prideaux John Fowel Pierce Edgecomb Arthur Basset Thomas Fulford Francis Drew Robert Fortescue John Carew of Studly Edmund Tremain John Harris John Gifford of Brightly George Yeo Thomas Carew of Bowghill John Bury John Pollarde Richard Cabel John Arscott Nicholas Duck George Howard Jonathan Sparke Henry Ford Robert Duke Matthew Hele John Hale William Bastard William Martin Samuel Trelawny George Reynalds Henry Northleigh Nicholas Dennis Josias Calmady Richard Coffin Edmund Waldrond Thomas Bere VVilliam Walrond John Davy of Ruxford John Young of Coalbrook Samuel Sainthil Henry Stevens Henry Newt John Tanner John Willoughby John Tuckfield Peter Fortescue Christopher Clobery Shilston Calmady John Kelland Thomas Reynolds Thomas Gibbons Balthasar Bere James Clifford John Fownes William Bogan James Rodde Esquires the High Sheriff of Devon for the time being and the Mayors of Totnes Barnstable Plymouth Dartmouth and Tiverton for the time being City of Exon. For the City and County of the City of Exon Allen Senny Mayor the Mayor for the time being Sir Peter Ball Recorder Sir James Smith Knight Robert Walker Esquire John Martin Christopher Lethbridge Henry Gaudy John Butler Anthony Salter Aldermen the Sheriff for the time being Nicholas Isaacke John Acland Thomas Walker Stephen Oliphue John Gibbons Merchants John Bidgood Doctor of Physick Henry Walker Thomas Shapcot Samuel Isaacke Gentlemen and the Receiver of the City for the time being Dorset For the County of Dorset John Lord Digby Son and Heir apparent to George Earl of Bristol Sir Edward Nicholas one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council Sir William Portman Knight and Baronet Sir John Morton Sir Gerard Naper Baronets Sir Richard Strode Sir John Strangwayes Sir Walter Earle sir Ralph Bâ—ncks sir Francis Hollis Knights sir John Nicholas Knight of the Bath sir John Fitz-James sir John Rogers sir Nathaniel Napper Knights Giles Strangwayes Esquire sir John Strode sir John Loweâ— sir Winston Churchil Knights Hugh Wyndham Sergeant at Law Thomas Freak of Shroton John Strangwayes John Tregonwel of Milton John Tregonwel of Anderson Thomas Trenchard Thomas Fownes Humphrey Bishop John Rives of Damree John Churchill James Gould Henry Witaker Bullen Reymes Henry Henly Robert Swayne Sheriff Robert Coker Edward Hooper George Fulford Robert Lawrence Thomas Baynard Henry Egers Henry Hastings Esquires Colonel Francis Wyndham Matthew Davis John Rieves William Thomas John Hoskins George Hussey Robert Naper William Ogden Henry Butler George Savage John Saintlow George Gray Robert Seymour Maximilian Mohun George Browne Wolley Miller Anthony Etricke Michael Harvey George Trenchard Robert Tyderligh William Floyer John Ironside John Gould of Upway John Michel Peter Hoskins John Abington John Jeffery George Strangways Iohn Harden Iohn Every Arthur Fooks John Hardy William Ellesden Thomas Hussey Thomas Thornex Richard Green George Style William Chaldecot George Johnson John Bennet and John Runnet Esquires Poole For the Town and County of Pool sir John Morton Baronet sir John Fitz-James Knight Anthony Etrick Esquire Recorder Peter Hall Major William Skut Robert Lewen Gentlemen Robert Cleeves Peter Hily Edward Man and Samuel Bramble Durham For the County Palatine of Durham sir Thomas Davison High Sheriff of the County sir Francis Goodrick Temporal Chancellor of the County Palatine Doctor Burwell Chancellor of the Diocese of Durham sir Christopher Conyers sir Nicholas Cole sir Gilbert Gerard Knights and Baronets sir James Clavering Baronet sir Francis Anderson sir William Blakiston Knights John Heath Iohn Swinburn Iohn Tempest Ralph Carr Esquires Baron Hilton Henry Lambton Esquire Iames Darcy Iohn Eden Colonel Anthony Bierley Ralph Davison Ralph Cole Major Bellasis Samuel Davison Cuthbert Carr William Blakiston Thomas Shalforth Charles Gerrard Thomas Fetherstonhaugh Lodowick Hall Esquires The Mayor of the City of Durham for the time being Thomas Swinburne Esquire Gabriel Iackson Iohn Morland Iohn Arden Miles Stapleton Gentleman and Captain Henry Barnes Thomas Haggerston Esquire and Iohn Grey of Moreton Gent. for Norham and Islandshire Essex For the County of Essex Sir Edward Turner Knight Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Harbotle Grimstone Baronet Master of the Rolls Robert Lord Willoughby of Earsby Son and Heir apparent to Mountague
Thurban Gentleman and George Bowerman Esquire Sir John Henden Knight William Campion William Hammon John Andrews Edward Gulstone Reynald Peckham Esquires The Mayor of Sandwich for the time being Tobias Cleere Phineas Elwood John Verrier Valentine Jekin Jeoffrey Wells Jeoffrey Saket The Mayor of Dover for the time being Richard Jacob Nicholas Eaton William Eaton John Watson John Loome Richard Barley Walter Brames Esquires The Mayor of Rumney for the time being Robert Winill Jeremy Stanford Stephen Brett Thomas Chalcross The Mayor of Heith for the time being John Finch James Pashlie The Mayor of Feversham for the time being John Trouts Esquire John Upton Robert Watson Thomas Southouse The Mayor of Tenderden for the time being Edward Finch Esquire Captain Plomer Thomas Short The Bayliff of Lydd for the time being John Bateman Thomas Bedingfield Michael Childwicke The Mayor of Folkeston for the time being The Mayor of Fordwitch for the time being Thomas Bigg William Norton senior Thomas Norton junior Esquires and John Luckin Canterbury For the City of Canterbury The Mayor for the time being Sir William Man Sir Edward Master Knights Thomas Hardresse Esquire Recorder of the said City John Best Edward Master Squire Beverton Esquires William Stanley Henry Twyman Avery Hills and Leonard Browne Alderman Lancaster For the County of Lancaster Charles Earl of Ancram in the Kingdom of Scotland VVilliam Stanley William Spencer Esquires Sir Richard Houghton Sir George Midleton Sir Robert Binloss Sir Edward Stanley Sir Edward Mosley Sir Ralph Ashton of Whaley Sir Ralph Ashton of Midleton Baronets Sir Gilbert Ireland Sir Roger Bradsheigh Sir Henry Slater Sir Jeoffery Shakerley Sir John Heath Knights John Mollineux Richard Kirkby Roger Nowell Edward Fleetwood Henry Bainstre VVilliam Farrington Robert Holt Laurence Rawstorne Hugh Dickenson William Radley Nicholas Townley John Parker Nathaniel West Thomas Preston John Girlington Daniel Fleming Robert Rawlinson Jeoffrey Rishton Alexander Osbaldeston Alexander Rigby of Middleton John Lightbonne Edward Rigby Francis Lindley Thomas Bradill Christopher Parker Thomas Norres Richard Legh Richard Penington Richard Fleetwood of Rossall Thomas Butler Nicholas Mosley John Halsted of Banckhouse Major John Byrom Robert Heywood James Duckenfeild Matthew Richardson Peers Legh John Entwisley John Risley Cuthbert Ogle Henry Houghton John Birch of Ordsdall Bartholomew Hesketh Captain Byrom Thomas Ashton George Hilton Henry Porter Thomas Caruss William Fife Thomas Greenehalgh Thomas Holt junior Roger Keâ—non VVilliam Daniel Peter Adlington Ambrose Ludsay Thomas Ashurst VVilliam Kirkby William Banckes junior Richard Leigh Esquires John Aynsworth Thomas Leigh Nicholas Fezackerly Captain Brabin Captain Longworth Nicholas Pennington William Wall Seth Blackhurst James Hodgkinson Joseph Rigby Luke Hodgkinson Ralph Mercer Alexander Woodward Alexander Rigby of Layton John Tatlock Gentleman Edward Dobson Esquire The Mayor of Wiggan for the time being The Mayor of Lancaster for the time being The Mayor of Leverpoole for the time being The Mayor of Preston for the time being John Chandler Gent. Leicester For the County of Leicester Thomas Lord Beaumont of the Kingdom of Ireland John Lord Roos son and heir apparent to John Earl of Rutland Bennet Lord Sherard of the Kingdom of Ireland John Grey Esquire Sir George Villiers Sir Erasmus de la Fountain Sir Tho. Halford Sir Thomas Cave Sir Jeoffry Palmer Sir Woolstan Dixie Sir Henry Hudson sir George Prettyman Baronets sir William Hartop sir John Heath Knights John Crew Philip Sherard Henry Neville George Faunt Tho. Menye Matthew Babington William Noell William Boothby Samuel Jarvis John Fountaine Walter Rudings Thomas Armstone Roger Roe William Whalley Richard Brudenell William Roberts Captain Burton VVilliam Hartop Richard Orton John Needham of Osbaston John Morton Thomas Bradgate Richard Bradgate William Streete William Halford John Turvile William Belgrave John Needham VVilliam Skevington Iohn Hackett Thomas Stavely George Ashby Richard Verney John Cave Stanhope Whalley William Leake Iohn Danvers Thomas Bennet William Bent Roger Smith William Trimnel Henry Farneham Francis Chamberlain Robert Barnard Iohn Barwel Henry Bigland Neale Hewett William Cole Esquires Leicester For the Borough of Leicester William Callis Mayor of Leicester Sir John Prittiman Baronet Sir William Hartopp Knight Walter Rudeings Esquire Richard Palmer Richard Lincoln Alexander Coats Thomas Freeman Thomas Overing Thomas Brown Daniel Abney John Franks Francis Noble Gent. and Thomas Stavely Esquire Lincoln For the County of Lincoln and City and County of the City of Lincoln George Lord Viscount Castleton of the Kingdome of Ireland Robert Lord Willoughby of Earsby Son and Heir apparent to Mountague Earl of Lindsey Lord Great Chamberlain of England William Mountague William Pierpoint Esquires Sir Philip Tyrwhitt Sir Edward Barkham Sir Humphry Winch Sir Henry Massingbord Baronets Sir Francis Goodrick Sir John Moreton Sir Francis Dallison Knights Philip Tyrwhit Henry Fines William Metham Willam Marwood George Sanderson John Ogle Edward Merberry Esquires William Willoughby Esquire Sir John Mounson senior Sir John Bolles Sir William Hickman Sir Robert Dallison Sir Edward Lake Sir John Anderson Baronets Sir John Mounson junior Knight of the Bath Sir Thomas Meres Knight Charles Pelham senior Edward Tourney senior Cycil Turwhitt William Godfrey William Brownlow George Healey William Anderson John Farmary of Northrop Edward Tourney junior John Stow Esquires Sir Henry Bellasis Knight of the Bath Sir Thomas Bernardiston Sir William Wray Sir George Wynne Baronets Sir Edward Aiscough Knights Charles Pelham junior Jervas Hollis Master of Requests William Wentworth William Broxholme Marmaduke Dorrel junior William Bard Alexander Emerson John Nelthrop John Boswel Charles Newcomen Esquires Sir Thomas Ellis Baronet Sir Adrian Scroop Knight of the Bath Sir Martin Lister Sir Robert Christopher Knights John South John Bolles William Fitz-William John Hanby Isaac Knight Charles Radley William Woley William Ballet senior Robert Long Thomas Ely Dymocke Walpoole George Osney Henry Midlemore Esquires Sir Francis Fane Knight of the Bath George Sherard Esquire Sir Thomas Hussey Sir William Thorold Sir John Newton Sir Richard Rothwel Baronets Sir John Walpoole Knight Charles Dymocke Lewis Palmer Anthony Thorold Molleneux Disney Christopher Nevil Richard Brownlow Thomas Ellis William Lister John Hobson Richard Ryley Thomas Petchel Stephen Rothwel John Wilson Henry Stone Anthony Williams VVilliam Thornton VVilliam Rivett Esquires Robert Laming John Colthurst John Trafford Gentlemen Sir Michael Armin Sir John Brownlow Sir Robert Markham Sir VVilliam Brownlow Sir VVilliam Trollop Sir John Bucke Baronets Sir Thomas Orpe sir Christopher Clapham Knights Thomas Hatcher William Stafford Erasmus De Ligne John Hatcher Thomas Harrington William Blyth John Saunders William Savile Edward Skipwith Francis Wingfield Thomas Trollop Adam Cleypoole Philip Dalloe Thomas Skipwith William Hyde William Trollop William VVelby Lister Teigh Esquires Robert Garland Gentleman Thomas Grantham Peregrine Berley sir Anthony Oldfield Baronet sir Henry Heron Knight of the Bath sir Anthony Irby sir Robert Carr Knights sir VVilliam Humble Baronet sir John Brown Knight Thomas Thory Thomas Hall John Jay Charles Skipwith John Lockton Esquires Thomas Brown Gentleman Matthew VVoolmer
Anthony Oldefield Esquires John Empson Esquire Joseph VVhiting Charles Rushworth Samuel Jackson Anthony Hall Doctor Sturton Richard Balder Robert Bisle VVilliam Dickinson Gentlemen Adlard VVelby David Bonnel Esquires John Jelson Daniel Rhodes George Caverne Henry Morley Israel Jackson Gentlemen Thomas Marham Doctor Richer Robert Melish Esquires Richard Milner Gentleman the Mayor of the City of Lincoln for the time being and the four senior Aldermen viz. VVilliam Bishop Edward Blowe Richard Wetherel Robert Wrose the Mayor and the thrée senior Aldermen of Boston viz. John Ellis George Slee Samuel Beeston the Mayors of Stamford and Great Grimsby and the Alderman of Grantham for the time being Doctor Thomas Saunderson William Perkins and Richard Leemine Daniel Thorowgood Richard Butcher George Hill Gentlemen John Humphreys Esquire Charles Bawds Stephen Mason Esquire Samuel Burton John VVimberly Gent. London For the City of London sir John Lawrence Knight Lord Mayor and the Lord Mayor for the time being sir Thomas Adams sir Richard Brown sir Thomas Alleyn sir John Robinson sir VVilliam VVild Recorder Knights and Baronets sir Richard Chiverton sir John Frederick sir Anthony Bateman sir Thomas Soame sir Thomas Bludworth sir VVilliam Bolton sir VVilliam Peake sir VVilliam Turner sir Richard Ford sir Richard Reeves sir VVilliam Thompson sir Theophilus Biddulph sir John Shaw sir VVil. VVale Knights Francis Meynel Samuel Sterling Robert Hanson VVilliam Hooker Thomas Bonfoy Roger Hatton Nicholas Bonfoy John Bence Richard Shelbury Aldermen and the Aldermen and Recorder of the said City for the time being George Waterman Charles Doe Sheriffs and the Sheriffs for the time being John Jones John Jolliffe Thomas Thurgis Henry Dunstar VValter Lap Esquires James Abernoite Middlesex Sir Edward Turnor Knight Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons sir Thomas Ingram Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster Hugh Lord Colrain in the Kingdom of Ireland sir Orlando Bridgman Chief Iustice of the Common-Pleas Henry Lord Cornebury son and heir apparent to Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England Edward Russel George Mountague Christopher Hatton Thomas Coventry William Mountague Robert Spencer Henry Seymour Esquires sir Henry Bennet Principal Secretary of State John Ashburnham esquire one of his Majesties Bedchamber Edward Progers esquire one of his Majesties Bedchamber Thomas Elliot esquire one of his Majesties Bedchamber sir Harbottle Grimston Baronet Master of the Rolls sir Heneage Finch Knight and Baronet his Majesties Solicitor General sir Gilbert Gerard sir Thomas Fisher sir Henry Wood sir John Robinson sir Jeremy Whichcot sir William Waller sir Richard Franklin sir Joseph Ash sir Reginold Foster sir William Roberts sir Hugh Smithson Baronets sir John Brampston sir Robert Atkins sir John Bennet Knights of the Bath sir Henry Herbert sir Thomas Allen sir Nicholas Crisp sir Thomas Roe sir William Bateman sir Lancelot Lake sir Henry Wroth sir Francis Gerard sir John Glyn sir John Maynard sir John Heath Attorney of the Dutchy sir Winston Churchil sir John Cropley sir Charles Harbord sir Robert Hyde Lord Chief Iustice of the Kings Bench sir Edmond Boyer sir Thomas Clergies sir James Smith sir Ellis Leighton sir Thomas Player junior sir Thomas Byde sir William Rider sir Clifford Clifton sir Gilbert Gerard of Harrow sir Gilbert Gerard of St. James sir John Nicholas sir Philip Warwick sir Christopher Eyres sir John Birkenhead one of his Majesties Masters of Requests sir Cycil Wich sir Robert Car sir Edmond Barker sir John Colliton sir Edmond Peirce sir Justinian Lewin sir Thomas Escourt sir Edward Wingfield sir Henry Wernon sir Paul Painter Knights William Ashburnham Cofferer of his Majesties Houshold Sergeant Wynham Sergeant Waller Charles Cornwallis Humphrey Weld Francis Crawley Edmond Waller George Pit Sydney Bere John Carey Henry Barker John Brown Edwin Rich Francis Bloomer Joseph Ayloffe Thomas Swallow Richard Peacock Charles Cheyne John Trevor Francis Philips Robert Jacob William Hill John Heydon George Day George Marsh William Page Andrew Ellis John Page William Meggs Thomas Collet Ralph Hawtry Thomas Povey Giles Hungerford Thomas Lake Richard Dunton James Hawley Erasmus Moise Charles Pitfield Thomas Kendal Thomas Harrison Thomas Wharton John Jones Henry Osborn John Smith William Goldsborough Richard Abel John Wilford David Walter Richard Cheney Richard Procter James Norfolk John James John Fetherley William Northrey John Philips Auditor Edmund Warcup Roger Jennings Robert Child William Marshall Thomas Ardin Jasper Churchil Daniel Procter John Baldwin VVilliam Bowles VValter Bâ—othby Nicholas Ranton John Gouldsmith Henry Murrey John Hutchinson Edward Rich Robert Peyton Pawlet St. John VVilliam Dormer Edmond Draper Doctor VVilliam Quarterman esquires sir Thomas Bird one of the Masters of Chancery sir Frederick Hyde Sergeant at Law Robert Hanson Lestrange Colthrop esquires sir Charles Cotterel sir John Birkenhead Richard Atkins James Hambleton one of his Majesties Bed-chamber Edward Trussel Maximilian Bard VVilliam Harpham esquires Mr. Bathurst of Edmonton John Layney John Pawlet Mr. VVood of Littleton Mr. Roberts of Hayes John VValker Mr. Thomas Diconson of Hillingdon Robert Hampton Robert Shoredith Gentlemen Captain Harrington of Staynes Major John Bill Michael Holman Henry Row esquires Mr. Leigh of Greenford Mr. Claxton of Sudbury Mr. Brigginshal of Hayes Mr. Chute of VVilsdon Thomas Nevet Mr. Farrington of South-mims VVilliam Bockenham John Thorp John Norwood John Lloyd Gentlemen sir Richard Napier Robert Napier Tho. Henshaw Griffith Bodurda esquires sir Thomas Thorowgood Knight Frederick Cornwallis Francis Cornwallis and Henry Murrey Esquires Westminster For the City of VVestminster Thomas Lord Richardson Baron Cramond in the Kingdom of Scotland sir VVilliam Morrice Knight Principal Secretary of State sir Henry Bennet Principal Secretary of State sir Edward Nicholas Knight one of his Majesties most honourable Privy Councel George Mountague esquire sir Heneage Finch Knight and Baronet his Majesties Solicitor-General sir VVilliam Plaiters Baronet sir Robert Long sir Lancelot Lake sir Robert Pye sir Charles Harbord sir Cycil VVich Knights sir Edmond Pye Knight and Baronet sir John Cotton Baronet sir Henry Herbert sir John Nicholas Knight of the Bath sir Philip VVarwick sir Richard Everard sir Edward Filmer sir Allen Apsley sir Henry VVood sir Thomas Mâ—res sir John Talbot sir Charles Cotterel sir Thomas Higgons Knights sir Thomas Littleton Baronet sir VVilliam Poultney Knight sir John Bennet Knight of the Bath sir VVilliam VVheeler Baronet sir Thomas Clergies Knight sir John Birkenhead one of his Majesties Masters of Requests sir VVilliam Clerke sir Anthony Iâ—by sir Robert Howard Knights sir Edward Greavers Baronet sir John Baber Knight sir John Collaton Knight and Baronet sir Edward Broughton Baronet Iohn Ashburnham Bernard Greenvile Stephen Fox Cecil Tufton Iohn Trevor sir Richard Oately Reignald Graham Doctor VVilliam Quarterman esquires sir Theodore le Vaux sir Hugh Carteret Knights Colonel VVhitley George Pitts Richard Newman Mr. Dolbin Steward of VVestminster Robert Scawen Iohn Browne Thomas Povey Richard Atkins Richard Mason Thomas Coppin VVilliam Glascock Bulleyn Reymes Edmond-Bury Godfrey Francis Lucy Thomas Morrice Robert Filmer Matthew Lock Thomas Russel
shillings Canon Prebendary Every person of the Degrée of a Canon or Prebendary of any Cathedral or Collegiate Church excepting such sole Prebendary who is a sole Corporation and his Prebend not Rated in the Exchequer at above Thirty pounds Doctor of Divinity Law Physick shall pay the sum of Fifty shillings Every person of the Degrée of a Doctor in Divinity Law or Physick shall pay the sum of Five pounds Doctors of Divinity not beneficed Provided always That no Doctor of Divinity not having any Benefice or Ecclesiastical preferment shall be charged for his Title or Dignity of Doctor by vertue of this Act nor the Widow of any Ecclesiastical person shall be charged for the third part according to the Title or Dignity of her late Husband And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for the better Assessing Ordering and Levying of the several sums of money so as aforesaid limited and appointed to be paid and for the more effectual putting of this present Act in execution such persons shall by vertue of this Act be Commissioners for the several and respective Counties Who shall be Commissioners to execute this Act. Cities Boroughs Towns and Places within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed as are nominated and appointed Commissioners for putting in execution the Powers in a former Act of this Parliament 16 17 Car. 2. cap. 1. entituled An Act for granting a Royal Ayd unto the Kings Majesty of Twenty four hundred threescore and seventeen thousand and five hundred pounds to be raised levied and paid in the space of Three years And be it further Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That these persons hereafter named shall be added Commissioners for the several Counties Places and Precincts respectively and shall exercise the same power as if they had béen named in the said former Act Viz. Bedford For the County of Bedford Villiers Charnock Humphrey Monox John Beecher Thomas Daniel John Gardiner Esquires _____ Horne Peter Harman Gent. Berks. For the County of Berks Sir William Craven Knight John Kingsmill Esquire John Withwick Edward Keat Charles Fettiplace William Bowles senior Esquires John Munday William Packer Richard House Gent. _____ Gilly Esquire Hugh Barker Doctor of Physick Bucks For the County of Bucks Sir Charles Clever Knight Sir Timothy Tyrrel Knight and Baronet Sir Frederick Hyde Thomas Catesby Edward Stafford Esquires Matthew Archdel Gent Sir John Busby For the Town of Buckingham George Robbins Cambridge For the County of Cambridge Sir John Jacob Baronet Sir Ralph Bovey Baronet Roger Pepys Esq Gerrard Russel Esq For the Town of Cambridge Rowland Simpson Alderman Ely For the Isle of Ely William Legat Anthony Fisher Peter Diamond Esquires Chester For the City and County of the City of Chester Thomas Cooper Alderman Edward Bradshaw Esq Richard Burd Alderman Richard Minshal Richard Taylor John Poolie Robert Harvy Aldermen Cornwall For the County of Cornwall John Trelawney of Trelawen Thomas Vivian John Moulesworth Esquires William Inch Abel French Nicholas Trebarfoot Edward Herle Edward Hoblin Nicholas Herle Walter Leech George Spry William Bond Thomas Dodson Iohn Arundel Iohn Tregygle William Thomas Anthony Tanner John Barret Thomas Penhallow Iohn Tamlin Iohn Verman Richard Williams Iohn Williams Esquires William Kegwin Henry Edwards Arthur Painter Gent. Cumberland For the County of Cumberland John Warwick Richard Lamplugh Miles Penington Joseph Patrickson Iohn Senhouse William Orphaur Ferdinando Hudleston Leonard Dykes Hugh Ascue Richard Patrickson John Punsonbee Esquires Devon For the County of Devon Christopher Lord Torington Richard Duke Gydeon Heydon Richard Lee Richard Hillersdon Samuel Roll Arthur Ashford John Bluet William Bragg Matthew Halls Edmund Parker John Mallet Esquires Sir Iohn Stowel Iohn Chichester Esquire Exon. For the City and County of Exon John Mallet Esquire Doctor Edward Masters Chancellor of the Diocess Eustace Budgell Gent. Derby For the County of Derby George Savile Robert Ashton John Gell Iohn Low Iohn Du◠Esquires Andrew Clayton Robert Moore Gent. Richard Merchant Alderman Edward Abney Esquire Dorset For the County of Dorset Robert Cullyford William Frampton Robert Williams Henry Henly junior Humphrey Weld Esquires the High Sheriff for the time being Iohn Ellesdon Salomon Andrews Iohn Gallop Gentlemen Pool For the Town and County of Pool the Mayor for the time being William Okeden Allen Skutt Gentlemen Durham For the County Palatine of Durham Sir George Fletcher Baronet Robert Shaftoe Humphrey Wharton Thomas Craddock Christopher Saunderson John Jeffreyson Esquires Robert Newhouse Edward Arden Gent. Essex For the County of Essex Sir John Archer one of the Iustices of the Common Pleas Philip Saltenston Thomas Cullum Esquires Timothy Midleton Esq Sir James Russet Edward Shelton Francis Mildmay Colchester For the Town of Colchester Sir Harbotle Grimstone Baronet Master of the Rolls John Eldred senior Iohn Eldred junior Esquires Harwich For the Town of Harwich and Dover-Court the Mayor for the time being Sir Cappel Luckin Knight and Baronet Iohn Eldred junior Esquire Mr. George Coleman Daniel Smith Captain Hunter Alderman Sack Samuel Newton Alderman Robinson Alderman Garriot Alderman Hawks Gloucester For the County of Gloucester Sir John Treacy Sir William Juckson Sir Iohn Newton Baronets Sir Francis Fane Knight of the Bath Sir Iohn Poynts Knight John Merideth Iohn Vaughan Thomas Carpender William Oldesworth John Browning Thomas Veel of Simons Hall Edward Smith George Brett Roger Lingan Robert Loggin Esquires VVilliam Hancock Conway Whitton Thomas Smith Richard Jones of Hanham Thomas Wise Richard Hart Gent. City of Gloucester For the City and County of the City of Gloucester Sir Bainham Throckmorton Knight and Baronet Mr. Thomas Aram Merchant Mr. Iohn Marston Colonel Richard Atkins William Cook Esquire Hereford For the County of Hereford James Pitts Francis Pember of Elsdon Robert Minors of Treagoe Edward Scrimshaw Iohn Bridge of Priors-Court Esquires John Burch of Garnston Iohn Curver of Upton Henry Milbourne William Driver Gilbert Hare Gent. City of Hereford Bridstock Herford Esquire Humphrey Diggs Humphrey Howarth James Wellington Gent. Hertford For the County of Hertford Sir Thomas Brograve Sir Robert Joscelyne Baronets Sir John Witterong Knight and Baronet Sir Charles Cleaver Knight Robert Dicer Iohn Cesar Ralph Radcliffe Francis Shalcross Edward Chester Thomas Tooke Esquires Richard Taverner King of Hempstead Joseph Edmonds Charles Cesar George Nodes George Poyner Joseph Hatch Charles Crouch Thomas James Iohn Dagnoll Gentlemen VVilliam Glascock Esquire Saint Albons For the Burrough of Saint Albans Joshua Lomax Edward Crosby Thomas Rotheram William Rugg William Rance Aldermen Iohn Dogget Huntington For the County of Huntington Sir Iames Beverly Iohn Dryden Anthony Hammon Major Dean of Godmanchester Kent For the County of Kent Sir Thomas Monins Sir Thomas Peirse Baronets Sir Iohn Shaw Knight and Baronet Sir Nicholas Strode Knight Edward Master Elwin VVyat William VViseman Esquires The Mayor of Maidstone for the time being Canterbury For the City and County of Canterbury William
Kingslys Esquire Dover For the Cinque-Port of Dover Iames Wyon Esquire William Stocks Iurat Sandwich For the Cinque-Port of Sandwich William Freeman Esquire Iames Thorban junior Gent. Lancaster For the County of Lancaster The High Sheriff for the time being Edmond Ashton of Chatterton Christopher Bainister Esquires Mr. Richard Shuttleworth of Gawthrop junior Iohn Hartley Miles Dodding George Fell Esquires Captain William Fleming Richard Kenerdine Doctor in Physick Leicester For the County of Leicester Richard Lister William Gilbert George Pochin Esquires John Farrington Esquire Leicester Town For the Burrough of Leicester Daniel Deacon William Stubins William Callis Iohn Cleark Gent. Lincoln For the County of Lincoln Carr Scrope Richard Newton Richard Pell William Darwyn Redmayn Burral Thomas Brown George Lucas William Basset Iohn Bishop Iohn Butlar William Skipwith Henry Meller Thomas Friston Peregrine Bartu Esquires Augustine Cawdron Anthony Newlove William Perkins Miles Long Andrew Sloe John Brown Francis Johnson of Spaulding Charles Massingbeard John Green of Dusby Gent. For the Bail of Lincoln Richard Craycroft Lawrence Stampford Gent. Middlesex For the County of Middlesex William Ashburnham Cofferer of His Majesties Houshold Sir Nicholas Strode of St. Johns Mark Cotle John Hawtry Edward Palmer Nicholas Townley junior Matthew Bluck William Richardson Charles Porter Ralph Piggott Esquires Sir John Dethick Doctor Cox Thomas Stringer John Vincent VVilliam Thursby Thomas Robinson Esquires Sir Mundeford Bramston Knight John Jolliff Lancelot Johnson junior Esquires London For the City of London Sir William Bolton Lord Major Sir John Langham Sir Iohn Lawrence Sir Richard Reeves Sir Robert Hanson Sir William Hooker Sir George Waterman Sir Charles Doe Matthew Bluck Esquire Iohn Moore Henry Partridge Thomas Blackerby Aldermen Sir Robert Viner Sir Joseph Sheldon Sheriffs Edward Arris Esq Westminster For the City of Westminster Sir Thomas Clifford Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold Sir William Doylie Sir Oliver Botler Sir George Downing Baronets Sir Robert Carr Sir James Smith Thomas Exton Doctor at Law Lawrence Squibb William Louing Iohn Louing Henry Wynn Philip Warwick junior George Bennet Esquires Doctor Troutbeck Esq Henry Aldrich Gent. Thomas Tyndal Iohn Chace Philip Hanbury VValter Brydal Bryan Barnby Iohn Jeffes David Walter Iohn Carance Esquires Samuel Barrow Doctor in Physick Henry Monck Thomas Owen Peregrine Bartu Ambrose Scudamore Thomas Milward Esquires William Carr Esquire Thomas Cromp Robert Stockdale Gentlemen Henry Slingsby Esquire Henry Peck junior Esq Mr. Richard Pagett Mr. George Plucknett Mr. Michael Arnold Mr. Nicholas Edlyn Ralph Pygott Esquire Henry Brunkar Esquire Northampton For the County of Northampton Edward Palmer John Parkhurst of Catesby Esquires Norfolk For the County of Norfolk John Bayspool of Hadcos William Richardson Edmund Bell Francis Bell Iohn Bashpool Gascoyn Weld Esquires Norwich For the County and City of Norwich Iohn Richers Richard Wenman Aldermen Newcastle upon Tyne For the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne William Blacket Esquire Mayor for the time being Sir Nicholas Cole Sir James Clavering Baronets Sir Francis Lyddel Knight Robert Shaftoe Esquire Recorder Mark Milbanck John Emmetson Henry Maddison Esquires Aldermen Richard Stots Esquire The Sheriffs for the time being Robert Marley Esquire Nottingham For the County of Nottingham Francis Lork Esquire Mr. Robert Atkinson both of Newark Harvy Stanton of Stanton Esquire Oxon. For the County of Oxon Sir Thomas Hampson Baronet Robert Withers James Chamberlain Henry Brunkar Esquires Vincent Barry Esquire Salop. For the County of Salop Henry Davenport Esquire Edmund Pearce of Wilcot Gent. Southampton For the County of Southampton Sir Charles Wyndham John Smith Esquire Sir John Cloberry William Stephens Nicholas Dorrel Esquires James Worsley Gent. Carew Reynel Esq Henry Doyley Thomas Knight Gentlemen For the Town of Portsmouth Benjamin Johnson and Hugh Salisbury Gent. Winton For the City of Winton Sir Robert Mason Nicholas Darel Esquire Somerset For the County of Somerset Sir John Stowel Knight James Prowse Cadwallader Jones William Strode Edward Strode Richard Dauadge James Stedman John Baber Hugh Tynt Esquires Thomas Dyke Richard Musgrave Gentlemen Bristol For the City and County of the City of Bristol Sir Humphrey Hook Knight Joseph Creswick Thomas Stephens Henry Lloyd Gent. Bath For the City Bath Henry Chapman John Peirce Gent. Stafford For the County of Stafford Jonas Grosvenor Esquire Suffolk For the County of Suffolk Francis Burwell William Ferneley Esquires Thomas Arris Doctor in Physick Doctor Bryan Smith Mr. Edward Spencer Edward Man Iohn Cordell Esquire William Hamon Gent. Thomas Edgar of Ipswich Esquire Barodel Milleson of Norton Gent. Iohn Duke Esq Ambrose Duke Gent. Sudbury For the Town of Sudbury Nathaniel King John Cook Christopher Petit Thomas King Aldermen Sussex For the County of Sussex John Ashburnham Edward Blaker Henry Brunkar Esquires George Edmonds Captain Iohn Eversfeild Iohn Blackshal Gent. Edward Cooper Esquire Iohn Machell Francis Gratwick Esquires Hastings For the Cinque-Port of Hastings Benjamin Polsted Iohn Hyde Gent. Rye For the Cinque-Port of Rye William Holman John Martin Gent. Surry For the County of Surry Sir Francis Duncomb Baronet Sir Cyril Wiche Sir Thomas Thynn Sir William Throckmorton junior Rowland Jucks Edward Cooper Will. Chislet Richard Mountney Edward Freeman Esquires Stephen Harvy Henry Houghton Esquires Southwark For the Burrough of Southwark Sir Edward Bromfield Baronet Sir Thomas Clarges Knight Edmund Clay Thomas Lenthal John Child Esquires Richard How William Sherlock senior William Adams Jeremy Baynes John Appleby Richard Smith Gent. Warwick For the County of Warwick John Stratford Fulwood Skipwith Henry Pudsey Esquires Westmerland For the County of Westmerland Christopher Crakenthrope Christopher Dalston Christopher Teasdell William Dawes Robert Philipson William Midleton Henry Wilson Robert Braithwait Richard Ducket William Guy Esquires Wilts For the County of Wilts Sir Robert Howard Knight Giles Hungerford Esquire The Mayor of Marlborough for the time being the Mayor of the Devises for the time being Thomas Gunter Esquire Mr. Edmund James Mr. John Jacob Mr. Thomas Vilet Mr. Giles Aleworth Mr. Charles York George Johnson Esquire Sarum For the City of New Sarum Thomas Gunter Esquire Alderman Slaune George Vennard James Harris Doctor Hurst Worcester For the County of Worcester William Washbourne Robert Staynor Esquires William Dowdeswell Gent. Worcester City For the City of Worcester the Mayor and Aldermen and Sheriffs for the time being Sir John Packington Baronet Sir Rowland Berkley Knight Samuel Sandys senior Thomas Hall Thomas Street Esquires Samuel Johnsons Matthew Skinner Doctor of Physick Robert Wilde Humphrey Wildey Richard Bedoes Edward Cooksey VVintour Harris John Bearecroft Humphrey Tyrer Thomas Twitty John Tyas Gent. York For the North-Riding in the County of York Mr. Geldart of VViggenthorp Richard Turner of Tunstall Roger Tockitts John VVentworth William Hustler Esquires William Dawson Gent. Sir John Hewley Roger Colvell Gent. Ralph Stephenson William Palines Edward Challoner Esquires John Hill of Thormanby Gent. York East-Riding For the East-Riding in the County of York John VVentworth John Hern Ralph VVarton James Moyser Esquires Edward
County of Lincoln with the City and County of the City of Lincoln the sum of Two thousand five hundred seventy five pounds two shillings The City of London with the Liberty of S. Martins le grand the sum of Five thousand ninety one pounds eleven shillings and four pence The County of Middlesex with the City and Liberty of VVestminster the sum of Two thousand two hundred and forty pounds ten shillings The County of Monmouth the sum of Thrée hundred and ninety pounds The County of Northampton the sum of One thousand four hundred and thirtéen pounds eightéen shillings and two pence The County of Nottingham with the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham the sum of Eight hundred seventy thrée pounds eight shillings The County of Norfolk the sum of Thrée thousand thrée hundred seventy pounds twelve shillings The City and County of the City of Norwich the sum of One hundred and eighty pounds The County of Northumberland with the Towns of Newcastle and Berwick upon Tweed the sum of Thrée hundred seventy two pounds fiftéen shillings and eight pence The County of Oxon the sum of Eleven hundred thirty five pounds ten shillings and eight pence The County of Rutland the sum of Two hundred and forty pounds eight shillings and eleven pence The County of Salop the sum of One thousand two hundred and thrée pounds fourtéen shillings and two pence The County of Stafford the sum of Eight hundred fifty two pounds eleven shillings and eight pence The City and County of the City of Litchfield the sum of Thirtéen pounds The County of Somerset the sum of Two thousand seven hundred seventy one pound ten shillings and eight pence The City and County of the City of Bristol the sum of One hundred ninety nine pounds eight shillings and four pence The County of Southampton with the Town and County of Southampton and Isle of VVight the sum of Two thousand one hundred eighty nine pounds eight shillings and eight pence The County of Suffolk the sum of Thrée thousand two hundred ninety eight pounds ten shillings and eight pence The County of Surry with the Burrough of Southwark the sum of One thousand five hundred ninety seven pound and two pence The County of Sussex the sum of One thousand eight hundred twenty one pounds seven shillings and nine pence The County of VVarwick with the City and County of the City of Coventry the sum of One thousand one hundred ninety two pounds eight shillings and nine pence The County of Worcester the sum of One thousand fifty thrée pounds and ninetéen shillings The City and County of the City of VVorcester the sum of Fifty five pounds nine shillings and six pence The County of Wilts the sum of One thousand nine hundred sixty six pounds seventéen shillings and seven pence The County of Westmerland the sum of One hundred and sixtéen pounds The Isle of Anglesey the sum of One hundred twenty five pounds thirtéen shillings and eight pence The County of Brecknock the sum of Two hundred eighty two pounds ten shillings and five pence half-peny The County of Cardigan the sum of One hundred and five pounds fiftéen shillings and nine pence half-peny The County of Carmarthen the sum of Two hundred seventy two pounds six shillings and eight pence The County of Carnarvan the sum of One hundred forty six pounds twelve shillings and two pence The County of Denbigh the sum of Two hundred twenty thrée pounds ten shillings and seven pence The County of Flint the sum of One hundred and eightéen pounds seventéen shillings and four pence The County of Glamorgan the sum of Thrée hundred seventy eight pounds seventéen shillings and ten pence The County of Merioneth the sum of One hundred pounds sixtéen shillings and a peny The County of Mountgomery the sum of Two hundred seventy six pounds twelve shillings and two pence The County of Pembrook the sum of Thrée hundred twenty six pounds and ten shillings The County of Radnor the sum of One hundred seventy four pounds six shillings and eight pence The Town of Haverford West the sum of Fiftéen pounds thrée shillings and five pence And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the persons hereafter named shall be Commissioners of and for the severall and respective Counties Cities Burroughs Towns and places hereafter named that is to say Bedford For the County of Bedford William Russel Esquire Sir Beauchampe St. John Knight Sir Samuel Brown Knight one of the Iustices of the Common Pleas Sir John Keeling Knight one of the Iustices of the Kings Bench Sir John Cotton Sir Lodowick Dyer Sir John Napler Sir Roger Burgoine Sir Thomas Alstone Sir Humphrey Winch Sir Humphrey Monox Sir St. John Charnock Baronets Sir Henry Chester Knight of the Bath Sir Will. Fleetwood Sir Will. Palmer of Warden-street Sir Will. Palmer of Hill Sir John Duncombe Sir William Beecher Sir Edward Cater Sir George Blundel sir Clement Armiger sir John Huxley Knights Pawlet St. John Richard Tayler Stephen Anderson Will. Spencer Oliver Luke Francis Crawley St. John Thompson Thomas Snagg William Boteler John Keeling John Osbourne John Vaux John Alston John Coppen Francis Wingate William Gerey Walter Carey Francis Dive William Franklin George Wyan Gaius Squire James Mountague Samuel Cotton John Neale John Cockane Thomas Cheyne John Ventris Robert Crompton Thomas Rolt Robert Audley Matthew Denton Simon Grey Matthew Dennis William Foster Richard Orlibee the elder Thomas Cobb Jasper Edwards Samuel Bedford Esquires For the Town of Bedford The Mayor of Bedford for the time being William Russel Esquire Sir Humphrey Winch Sir John Napier Baronets Pawlet St. John Richard Tayler William Foster John Gardiner Esquires Thomas Cristy William Risely Simon Becket Robert Beverley William Scot John Beaumont Thomas Fitzhugh Alderman Crawley Richard Elmes John Cobb and John Spencer the elder Gentlemen Berks. For the County of Berks Charles Earl of Ancram in the Kingdom of Scotland Sir George Cartwright Baronet Vice-Chamberlain to his Majesty John Lovelace Esquire Sir George Stonehouse Sir George Prat Sir Richard Braham Sir Thomas Draper Sir Thomas Rich Sir Henry Winchcombe Sir William Backhouse Sir Anthony Craven Sir Caesar Colclough Sir John Fettyplace Sir Thomas Clergys Baronets Sir Richard Powle Knight of the Bath Sir Edmond Sawyer Sir Robert Pye Sir William Armorer Sir Thomas Dolman Sir John Davis Sir Richard Bishop Knights Richard Nevil Humphrey Hyde Richard Harrison William Barker George Purifoy Peregrin Hobby Robert Packer Richard Aldworth Thomas Fettiplace George Fettiplace John Harrison Anthony Barker Henry Procter John Blagrave Francis Piggot Hungerford Dunch William Trumbal William Dormar John Elwes Thomas Garret John Southby William Wilmot William James William Barker of Hurst Edward Keale William Nelson Hartgell Baron Richard Jones William Tayler Edward Dalby Paul Calton Thomas Sanders Charles Whitacre Humphrey Hide senior of Hurst Humphrey Hide junior of Kingston Edward Hobby Richard Palmer John Hartsey Esquires William Offley Doctor in
Laws Francis Hungerford Doctor of Physick William Hamersley George Blagrave John Kendrick John Allen Robert Leigh Nicholas Hide Peregrin Wilcox Thomas Southby William Langton John Due Francis Peacock Michael Mallet Henry Murrey Esquires Iohn Peacock Robert Goston James Heron Philip Weston Henry Barker Iohn Powney Roger Draper Richard Lovelace William Hussey Roger Knight Charles Pierce Richard Punt Gentleman the Mayor of Reading for the time being the Mayor of Abington for the time being the Mayor of Newbury for the time being the Mayor of Windsor for the time being the Mayor of VVallingford for the time being Bucks For the County of Bucks Charles Earl of Ancram in the Kingdom of Scotland Philip Lord Wainman Viscount Tuam in the Kingdom of Ireland James Herbert Esquire Sir Thomas Tirrel one of the Iustices of the Common Pleas Sir Richard Temple Knight of the Bath and Baronet Sir Toby Tyrrel Sir John Burlace Sir Anthony Chester Sir Thomas Proby Sir William Bowyer sir William Smith sir Ralph Varney sir William Drake sir Thomas Hampson sir Henry Andrews sir John Croke Baronets Sir William Tyrringham sir Richard Ingoldsby sir Robert Gayer Knights of the Bath Sir Edmond Pye Knight and Baronet sir Thomas Lee sir Richard Napper sir Richard Pigget sir Henry Herbert sir John Dormer sir Thomas Cleyton sir Robert Croke Sir Thomas Clergies Sir George Tash Knights William Fleetwood Charles Cheyne Edmond Waller senior Edmond Waller junior William Penn Edmond West Brett Norton Thomas Duncombe Thomas Hackett William Lane John Eglestone Richard Barringer Edward Nicholas Thomas Farrers senior Caesar Cranmore Thomas Risley Roger Price Peter Dorrel Thomas Saunders Francis Ingoldsby Edmond Dorrel George Russel Richard Winwood Richard Greenvile Robert Scawen Bud Wase Thomas Tirrel Robert Napper Edmond Hampden Iohn Clark Robert Croke Richard Hampden William Burlace Bazil Brent William Hill Thomas Farrer junior Ambrose Bennet James Low Thomas Stafford Robert Levet Charles Doe Robert Tompkins Bernard Tourney Thomas Egleton Robert Dormer Francis Tyrringham George Wyan William Cleaver William Abraham Captain Robert Style John Grubbe Esquires Iohn Green Henry Allnot James Perrat George Gosnal Gentlemen the Bayliff of Buckingham for the time being John Risley Roger Price Peter Dorrel junior Esquires John Smith William Lambert and John Tournour Gentlemen Cambridge For the County of Cambridge William Lord Allington of the Kingdom of Ireland Sir Dudley North Knight of the Bath Sir Thomas Hatton Sir John Cotton Sir Thomas Willis Sir John Cutts Sir George Downeing Baronets Sir Thomas Wendy Knight of the Bath Sir Thomas Dayrel Sir Isaac Thornton Sir Robert Cotton Knights Thomas Chichley Levinus Bennet John Millisent Samuel Fortrey Thomas Storey Thomas Ducket William Sayer Humphrey Gardner George Pepis Thomas Dodd Mildmay Dowman Jeoffrey Nightingal William Aloff _____ Pike Thomas Bucke _____ Dalton John Bing Thomas Martin and William Legate Esquires For the Vniversity and Town of Cambridge the Vice-Chancellor the Mayor for the time being William Lord Allington of the Kingdom of Ireland Theophilus Dillingham James Fleetwood Richard Minshal Doctors of Divinity Robert King Doctor of the Laws Thomas Crouch Clement Nevile Esquires Roger Pepis Esquire Recorder Samuel Spalding John Ewen William Wells John Herring Aldermen Sir Thomas Slater Baronet Robert Eade Edward Stoyte Doctors of Physick and Nicholas Jacob Esquire Isle of Ely For the Isle of Ely Richard Lord Gorges of the Kingdom of Ireland William Colvile Thomas March Matthew Wren Charles Wren Edward Partherich William Fisher Thomas Steward Robert Steward Henry Hitch Doctor of Law Robert Balam Thomas Castel Laurence Oxborough John Towers Anthony Backworth John Childe junior William Balam Thomas Edwards William March Michael Holman Matthew Taylor Roger Jenings and John Delavall Esquires Chester For the County of Chester Robert Lord Cholmundeley of the Kingdom of Ireland VVilliam Lord Brereton of the Kingdom of Ireland Sir Thomas Delves Sir Willoughby Aston Sir Thomas Powel Sir George Warberton Sir Peter Leicester Sir Thomas Manwaring Sir Thomas Smith junior Sir John Bellet Sir Peter Pindor Sir Richard Brooks Sir William Stanley Baronets Sir John Booth Sir Philip Egerton Sir Peter Brooks Sir John Ardern Sir Robert Cotton Sir Foulk Lucy Sir Jeoffrey Shakerley Knights Peter Venables Baron of Kinderton Thomas Needham Thomas Cholmundeley George Vernon Robert Patton Henry Bunbury Henry Leigh Thomas Leigh of Adlington Richard Leigh of Lyme John Crew of Crew Thomas Marbury Edward Warren Edward Leigh Edward Hyde John Crew of Utkinton Roger Wilbraham Nathaniel Booth Peter Dutton John Daniel Randel Dodd John Leech Richard Wathal Edward Glegg Roger King John Davenport of Widford Thomas Glasier Somerford Oldfeild Edward Swettenham Peers Legh John Ward Ralph Wilbraham William Brock John Hulstone John Shalcrosse Edward Downs of Worth Ralph Baskerfeild of Winnington and Thomas Ley Esquires City of Chester For the City and County of the City of Chester The Mayor for the time being Sir Thomas Smith Baronet Sir Thomas Smith Knight Richard Leiveing Esquire Recorder of Chester John Radcliff Esquire Thomas Throppe William Crumpton Thomas Cook Cowper William Street and _____ Ince Aldermen Cornwall For the County of Cornwall Sir William Morice Principal Secretary of State Robert Robertes Hender Robertes Esquires Sir Chichester Wrey Sir John Trelawney Knights and Baronets Sir John Carew Baronet Sir Edward Vivian Knight and Baronet Sir John Coryton Sir William Godolphin Baronets Sir Francis Godolphin Sir Richard Edgecombe Sir Nicholas Slanning Knights of the Bath Sir Peter Killigrew Sir Peter Courtney Sir John Arundle Sir Samuel Coswarth Sir James Smith Sir Walter Moyle Knights Henry Seymour Jonathan Trelawney Richard Arundle Pearce Edgecombe Hugh Boscawen Francis Buller Charles Trevanion Charles Roscarrock John Specket John Elliot John Tanner Francis Edgecombe Nathaniel Moyle Bernard Greenvile John Trelawney William Pendarvis William Scawen William Trevisa William Bond Edward Boscawen Christopher Cooke Nicholas Glyn Thomas Herle Viol Vivian James Praed John Jonock Samuel Trelawnye John St. Aubin John Nichols of Trewane John Nicoll of Littlewood Arthur Fortescue John Vivian Oliver Saule William Mohun Hanibal Bugins Lewis Tremane Richard Hawkes Colan Blewett John Bleigh Henry Spoure senior Jonathan Rashley senior Jonathan Rashley junior John Rashley Robert Hoblin Christopher Bond Thomas Burell Thomas Robinson John Thomas Richard Erisey Christopher Harris Francis Grigger Humphrey Courtney John Buller Charles Boscawen Robert Scawen Thomas Waddon Tristram Arscott William Cotton Edward Nosworthy George Heale John Polwheele Digory Polwheele Nicholas Arundle John Arundle of Sythney Hugh Jones John Penrose Edmond Prideaux Joseph Tredinnam James Bond William Godolphin Edward Elliot Richard Hoblyn Richard Pendarvis Hugh Trevanion junior Nathaniel Trevanion Francis Penrose John Fowel Ezekiel Arundle Richard Rouse Walter Kendall John Kendall Walter Langdon senior Walter Langdon junior Iohn Battersbye Henry Spoure senior Joseph Nicholls Charles Grills Arthur Sprye John Vacye William Sprye Francis Calmadie Humphry Noye John Harris Edward Harris Nicholas Courtney Thomas Achim William Painter Thomas Hawkey Andrew Corye Michael Hill of Wendron John Carnesewe Samuel Ennis John
Earl of Lindsey Lord Great Chamberlain of England Robert Bâ—tie Edward Russel Bannestre Maynard Esquires Sir John Barrington Knight and Baronet Sir Henry Appleton Sir William Ailoffe Sir William Hicks Sir Andrew Jennour Sir William Wiseman Sir Richard Everard Baronets Sir Capel Luckin Knight and Baronet Sir Martin Lumley Baronet Sir Thomas Abdy Sir Robert Abdy Sir William Wiseman Knights and Baronets Sir Thomas Smith Sir Thomas Cambel Baronets Sir James Altham Sir John Bramstone Knighâ—s of the Bath Sir John Tyrel Sir Erasmus Delafontain Sir Thomas Bowes Sir Cranmer Herris Sir Henry Clarke Sir Edmond Pierce one of the Masters of the Chancery Sir Anthony Brown Sir Richard Wiseman Sir William Battin Sir John Shaw Sir Robert Brooke sir Richard Everard sir Thomas Littleton sir Robert Barington sir Thomas Gardner sir Moundeford Brâ—mstone sir William Glascock two of the Masters of the Chancery sir Thomas Fanshaw sir Thomas Byde sir William Hicks sir Edward Beaucock Knights John Bendish Charles Fytche Gamaliel Capel Richard Samms Thomas Meade Peter Soame John Tyrrel Thomas Argâ—l Oliver Reymond John Atwood Henry Woolaston Henry Pert John Eldred senior John Eldred junior John Paschall John Godbolt Robert Joselyn William Glascock Tristram Conyers Thomas Luther VVilliam Umphrevil Thomas Roberts John James George Pert William Colecroft William Webb Robert Leigh William Appleton John Berners Robert Clerk John Turner Richard Kirkby Carew Harvy Mildmay Robert Cheeke Francis Bramstone Edward Bullock Stephen Smith Robert Mildmay Henry Weight Gilbert Pierce _____ Hare of Lee James Norfolk Cutbert Martin Thomas Talcot Esquires Philip Eldred Henry Ailoff George James Thomas King VVilliam Harris John Thorowgood William Palmer Richard Stanss Alexander Prescot Thomas Legate John Sorrel Edward Glascock William Ashley Gentlemen Thomas Wharton Anthony Maxie and Thomas Garret Esquires Anthony Knightbridge of Writtle Gent. Captain Richard Stams sir Richard Browne Knight and Baronet and Jeremy Lacy. Colchester For the Town of Colchester the Mayor for the time being sir John Shaw Knight Recorder Sir Edmond Peirce Knight Gilbert Peirce Thomas Talcot Esquires Thomas Reynalds Andrew Fromanteel Henry Lambe Robert Legg William Moore Aldermen John Robinson George Sandford James Norfolke Esquires and Thomas Creffeild Alderman Maldon For the Town of Maldon The Bailiffs for the time being Reuben Robinson Samuel Plumbe Francis Gourney James Starling John Hart Aldermen and Bartholomew Brickwood Harwich For the Town of Harwich The Mayor for the time being Sir Capel Luckin Baronet George Colman Richard Fuller Henry Wright Aldermen _____ Gerard Daniel Smith Thomas King Anthony Woolward Samuel Newton and Miles Hobart Gentlemen Gloucester For the County of Gloucester Henry Lord Herbert of Ragland son and heir apparent to Edward Marquis of Woâ—cester James Earl of Newburgh in the Kingdom of Scotland John Viscount Scudamore of the Kingdom of Ireland John Viscount Tracy of the Kingdome of Ireland Sir Matthew Halâ— Knight Lord Chief Baron of His Majesties Court of Exchequer Sir Henry Capell Knight of the Bath sir Bainham Throckmorton Knight and Baronet sir Henry Frederick Thynne sir William Ducy sir Richard Ashfeild sir Edward Bathurst sir Robert Jenkinson sir John Howe sir Christopher Guise sir Edward Fulse sir William Keyte sir Richard Cox Baronets sir William Moreton Knight one of His Majesties Serjeants at Law sir Robert Poâ—â—â— sir Robert Atkins Knights of the Bath sir William Catchmay sir Edward Bray sir Edward Masâ—ey sir Thomas Stephens Sir Thomas Overbury Sir Gabriel Lowe sir John Newton sir Humphrey Hooke sir Thomas Howe Knights John Grubham Howe Esquire Evan Seyes Sergeant at Law Francis Baber Doctor of Law George Mountague VVilliam Dutton William Cooke John Chamberlaine John Stephens William Cope John Codrington Richard Atkins Henry Powle William Selwyn Duncombe Cholcester Hen-Benedicte Hall Thomas Masters Thomas Escourt John George John Smith Richard Stephens William Morgan Edward Rich Andrew Barker Richard Whitemore William Stafford John Winter Fleetwood Dormer Samuel Codrington Thomas Chester Henry Syms Philip Shepard Richard Sackevil Giles Fettiplace Thomas Thynne Robert Pleydal Thomas James William Stratford Richard Dowdeswell Miles Rutter Thomas Horton Sylvanus Wood William Leigh Francis Norwood David Williams John Berrowe Tho. Seymour Will. Try Will. Bourchier Charles Cox John Guyse Rich. Berkley Rich. Daston Will. Jones Robert Oldsworth Richard Baugh John Robins Thomas Marriott Esquires Thomas Riche William Hinson VVilliam Lawrence William Dowdeswell Henry Browne Robert Heydon Nicholas Veale John Wyniat Thomas Walle William Thorpe John Driver Conway Whitterne VVilliam Winter Richard Machen John Coles Thomas Ayleway James Hawkins Christopher Woodward and the Bailiffs of Tewkesbury for the time being Anthony Sambich William Batson Sir John Baker Knight William Stafford junior City of Gloucester For the City and County of the City of Gloucester Henry Lord Herbert of Ragland Son and Heir apparent of Edward Marquis of Worcester Robert Feilding the present Mayor and the Mayor for the time being Sir William Morton Knight one of His Majesties Sergeants at Law Recorder of the said City Sir Edward Massey Knight Evan Seys Sergeant at Law John Grubham-Howe Edward Nurse Thomas Williams Esquires Henry Cugley James Stephens William Russel John Powel Thomas Yate Thomas Price John Woodward Anthony Arnold Henry Ockold John Wagstaffe and Henry Fowler Aldermen Hereford For the County of Hereford Henry Lord Herbert of Ragland son and heir apparent to Edward Marquis of Worcester John Lord Viscount Scudamore of the Kingdome of Ireland James Scudamore Wallop Brabazon Esquires Sir James Bridges Sir John Kerle Sir William Powell Sir Thomas Morgan Baronets Sir Thomas Hanbury Knight Sir Edward Harley Knight of the Bath Sir John Scudamore Baronet Sir Herbert Perrot Knight Sir Edward Hopton Sir Thomas Tomkins Sir Job Charleton Knights Fitz-William Coninsby Thomas Cornwall Thomas Whitney Herbert Aubrey senior John Price senior Thomas Price Walter Pye Roger Vaughan Herbert Westfaling Herbert Aubrey junior John Scudamore senior Humphrey Cornwall John Scudamore junior John Barnaby de Canon Pyon Reynald Graham Thomas Cox Edward Cornwall John Skippe Bennet Hoskins Richard Hopton Giles Bridges Thomas Geers Thomas Carpenter John Hoskins de Harewood Humphrey Howorth William Gregory Francis Unett John Hanford Humphrey Baskervill John Birch John Barnaby de Brockhampton John Vaughon John Booth de Hereford Thomas Harley Ambrose Elton Robert Pye Budhale Gwilline Richard Wigmore John Nourse Nicholas Walwyn VVilliam Whittington Thomas Rod John Booth de Braynton Thomas Wigmor William Westfaling Robert Rod Richard Reed Timothy Coles VVilliam Brydges Henry Milbourne Herbert Masters William Brome John Dancy John Gwyllym de Wellington Richard Walwyn de Hellens Humphrey Tayler de Withington John Kidley de Bromeley Thomas Marrer de Kings Capel Thomas Gomond de Kilpeck George Carver de Buthouse Esquires the Bailiff for the Borough of Leominster for the time being John Tomkins Richard Rodd de Rodd Edward Rodd Thomas Blaney Edward Freeman Thomas French and Thomas Duppa de Earsley Esquires City of Hereford For the City of Hereford Robert Simonds Esquire the present Mayor and the Mayor for the time
Francis Cory Christopher Jay Suckling Jay Leonard Mapes Henry Clifton Clement Herne Nathaniel Showldham Richard Nixon Edmond Doyley John Thugton John Cock Tho. Browne of Elsing Tho. Corey John Kendall Lawrence Oxburgh John Shadwell Robert Coney Rob. Haughton Rich. Godfrey John Anguish Anthony Fisher Edward Barber Tho. Drury Nich. Rookewood Anth. Drury Robert Drury Tho. Talbot Nich. Styleman Jacob Preston Bassingbourne Gaudy Charles Gaudy VVilliam Davy of Ellingham Nathaniel Knevet Edmond Britiff Simon Britiff Tho. Wright of Kilverston Munford Spelman Edmond de Grey Tho. Wright of Ovington William Brampton and Robert Buxton Gentlemen Kings Lynn For the Burrough of Kings Lynn The Mayor for the time being Robert Steward Recorder Walter Kerby John Basset Thomas Greene John Bird Benjamin Holly Henry Bell William Wharton Thomas Robinson Thetford For the Borough of Thetford The Mayor for the time being sir John Holland and sir Will. Gaudy Baronets sir Allen Apsly Knight Maurice Shelton Esq John Kendall Robert Tyrrell Edmund Hunt Burrage Martin and Osmond Clerk Gentlemen Great Yarmouth For the Burrough of Great Yarmouth The Bayliffs for the time being sir Thomas Meadow Thomas Pufflet John Cubitt Richard Jermin John Hall Abraham Castell Thomas Gooch Nathaniel Ashby John Row George England John Woodroff Edmund Thaxter Arthur Bacon Aldermen For the City of Norwich The Mayor for the time being sir Joseph Payne Knight Francis Cory Esquire Recorder Hen. Watts John Rayley Bernard Church John Man John Salter Christopher Jay Richard Wenman John Osborne John Croshold Will. Haward Esquires The two Sheriffs for the time being Augustine Briggs Tho. Wisse Robert Bendish Richard Couldham John Larrance Hen. Hirne Francis Norris Matthew Markham John Manser Henry VVoods Henry VVatts junior Thomas Thacker Thomas Chickeringe Northumberland For the County of Northumberland Henry Lord Viscount Mansfeild Son and Heir apparent to William Marquess of Newcastle Thomas Grey Ralph Grey Edward VVidrington Esquires sir VVilliam Fenwick sir Ralph Delaval Baronets sir VVilliam Forster sir Henry VViddrington sir Francis Lyddal Knights Edward Grey of Heaton Robert Delaval Cuthbert Heron Ralph Grey of Bradford Thomas Forster of Etherston VVilliam VVidrington William Fenwick of Beywell Ralph Heborn of Heborn John Clark Robert Shafto of Benwell Ralph Jenison John Salkeld the elder of Rock Thomas Benwick of the Closhouse Daniel Collingwood of Branton Richard Stote VVilliam Delaval of Benwick John Rodham of Little Houghton Nicholas Whitehead and Ralph Anderson Esquires VVilliam Warren and Michael Widrington of Morpeth Gentlemen For the Town of Berwick upon Tweed Colonel Edward Grey the Mayor for the time being Thomas Watson Andrew Moore Mark Armorer John Duglas Aldermen and Anthony Afton Bailiff For the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tine the Mayor for the time being sir John Marley and sir Francis Anderson Knights John Clarke and Henry Brabant Esquires Oxon. For the County of Oxon Thomas Earl of Downe in the Kingdome of Ireland Henry Lord Viscount Cornebury son and heir apparent to Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England Philip Lord Wenman Viscount Tuam in the Kingdom of Ireland James Herbert John Lovelace Esquires sir Anthony Cope sir Henry Lee sir Thomas Spencer sir Thomas Penniston sir William Walter sir Anthony Craven sir Thomas Cleyton Warden of Merton Colledge sir Thomas Chamberlain sir Compton Read Baronets sir VVilliam Fleetwood sir VVilliam Morton one of his Majesties Sergeants at Law sir John Glyn one of his Majesties Sergeants at Law sir Francis Wenman sir Edward Norris sir Henry Jones sir John Robinson Lieutenant of the Tower sir Timothy Terryl sir Thomas Tipin sir John Clarke sir Edmund Bray sir George Croke sir Littleton Osbaldiston sir Robert Jenkinson sir Allen Apsly sir VVilliam Glyn sir Philip Harecourt sir Thomas Cob sir Samuel Jones Knights sir Edward Hungerford Knight of the Bath James Herbert John Lovelace David Walter one of the Grooms of his Majesties Bed-chamber Lewellin Jenkins Doctor of Laws Principal of Jesus Colledge Broome Whorwood Richard Crooke William Cope James Hyde Doctor of Physick President of Magdalen Colledge Thomas Willis Doctor of Physick Thomas Saunders Anthony Libb Vincent Barry Henry Allnut John Stone Francis Martin Edmund Lenthal John Clarke VVilliam Lenthal VVilliam Legg one of the Grooms of his Majesties Bed-chamber VVilliam Dormer John Cartwright George Chamberlain Thomas Wheate VVilliam Sheppard William Cartwright Rowland Lacy Arthur Jones Henry Allworth Doctor of Laws Richard Hollaway Counsellour at Law John Clitherow Gentleman Robert Dormer Raynald Bray William Bayley Thomas Hord John Doyley Charles Hollaway Sergeant at Law Charles Hollaway Thomas Coventry Matthew Skinner Doctor of Physick Samuel Sandys junior William Gamcock Robert Vesey Robert Perrot junior _____ Sheppard of Rosewright Edward Vernon John West William Oakeley Esquires William Wright and John VVickham Gentlemen The Mayor of VVoodstock for the time being Master Alexander Johnson the Mayor of Banbury the Warden of Henley the Bailiffs of Burford and Chipping-Norton and the chief Magistrates to act in their several Corporations only For the Vniversity and City of Oxford the Vice-Chancellor and the two Proctors for the time being sir Thomas Cleyton Knight Warden of Merton Colledge Richard Bayley Doctor of Divinity President of St. Johns Colledge John Fell Doctor of Divinity Dean of Christ-Church John Meredith Doctor of Divinity Warden of All-Souls Colledge Thomas Barlow Doctor of Divinity Provost of Queens Colledge Thomas Yates Doctor of Divinity Principal of Brazen-Nose Colledge Walter Blandford Doctor of Divinity Warden of Wadham Colledge Luellin Jenkins Doctor of the Laws Principal of Jesus Colledge Joseph Crowther Doctor of Divinity Principal of Saint Mary Hall James Hyde Doctor of Physick Principal of Magdalen Hall Richard Lydal Doctor of Physick Thomas Elliot Doctor of Physick Henry Alworth Doctor of Laws Benjamin Cooper Master of Arts Richard Witt Batchelor of Law Nicholas Vilet Batchelor of Law Richard Holway Esquires Martin Lipyard John Cross VVilliam Flexney John Haslewood Joseph Goodwin William Day Richard Davis William Finch Matthew Leech The Mayor of the City for the time being sir Anthony Cope and sir Francis Wenman Baronets sir William Morton sir Sampson White Knights Broom Whorwood Sergeant Hollaway Charles Hollaway Richard Cooke Recorder George Low Esquires Francis Harris Leonard Bowman William Wright Roger Griffin and John White Aldermen John Harris William Bayley Francis Grenoway Francis Heyward John Townsend William Cornish Henry Mallory John Painton Town-clerk Robert Whorwood John Lamb Thomas Rowney Richard Prat and Edward Astin Gentlemen Rutland For the County of Rutland John Lord Roos Son and Heir apparent to John Earl of Rutland Bennet Lord Sherard of the Kingdom of Ireland Edward Noel Henry Noel Philip Sherard Esquires sir Thomas Mackworth Baronet sir Edward Heath Knight of the Bath sir Francis Mackworth sir Edward-Maria Wingfield sir Eusebius Pelsant Knights William Palmes Alexander Noell Christopher Browne Beaumont Bodenham Richard Halford Abel Barker Samuel Brown VVilliam Hyde Edward Faukner Robert Mackworth Esquires Charles Halford Ezekiel Johnson Gentlemen Salop. For the County of Salop VVilliam Pierripont
Andrew Newport Esquires Sir Thomas Woolrich sir VVilliam Whitmore sir Francis Lawley sir Walter Acton sir Henry-Frederick Thinne sir Vincent Corbet sir Thomas Littleton sir Francis Edwards sir Henry Vernon sir Humphrey Briggs Baronet sir Thomas Whitmore Knight of the Bath sir Richard Prince sir John Weld sir Richard Ottly sir VVilliam Child and sir Henry Herbert Knights sir Job Charleton Sergeant at Law and Chief Iustice of Chester Timothy Littleton Sergeant at Law VVilliam Fowler Timothy Turner Philip Eyton Richard Scriven Francis Thornes Charles Mannering James Laten Robert Sandford Roger Kinneston Thomas Bawdwine Robert Leighton Philip Prince Francis Charlton Thomas Owen of Cow-dover Edward Kynerstone Samuel Wingfield Thomas Whitmore George Weld George Ludlow Thomas Rocke Charles Baldwin Robert Charleton Henry Barnard Thomas Powis Thomas Kettelesby Robert Corbet of the Hall of Hussey Thomas Holland John Coates VVilliam Oakeley Edmond Waring of Owldbury Somerset Fox Richard Fowler John Walcot Adam Ottly Thomas Walcot Robert Cresset John Cole Robert Owen Edward Powel Thomas Lloyd Thomas Lockier Thomas Smalman John Lacon Thomas Lockard John Kynestone VVilliam Owen of Porkington John Newton Thomas Kynnersley of Badger VVilliam Cotton Richard Mitton Francis Forester VVilliam Jones of Sandford Rowland Hill Vincent Edwards Henry Goodrick John Trevor Thomas Ireland Thomas Jones Richard Creswel Thomas Harris John Corbet of Adderley Edward Vernon Thomas Acton Thomas Jobber Samuel Baldwin Henry Sprat Thomas Crump Henry Griffiths Richard Ridley Jonathan Langley James Beck Henry Mitton of Shipton Esquires The Mayor of the Town of Salop for the time being the Bailiffs of Ludlow Bridge-North Wenlock and Bishops-Castle for the time being Daniel Wicherley Francis Smith Richard Walker John Whitacre Richard Clarke Andrew Viners Richard Tayler John Harding Arthur Hinckes John Baugh Edward Wollaston Alexander Middleton Samuel Lloyd Richard Davis of Ludlow Roger Gough Benjamin Buckley of Somerset-Hall Robert Betton Thomas Jones of Sheet Richard Charleton Richard Hosier Capt. Philip Jenings Andrew Hill Richard Prichard John Haynes George Hosier John Stanyer Edward Owen Roger Harris Robert Vernon Capt. Richard Philips Rowland Hill of Hackoston Gentlemen Richard Cooling Esquire Robert Gorton sir Clement Clarke and Richard Jenkins Gentleman Stafford For the County of Stafford Sir John Wirley Knight High Sheriff sir Edward Littleton sir Edward Baggot sir Thomas Wilbraham sir Walter Rotesley sir Charles Woolceley and sir Francis Lawley Baronets sir Bryan Broughton and sir John Bowyer Knights and Baronets sir Theophilus Bidolph sir Thomas Whitgrave and sir VValter Littleton Knights Randolph Egerton VValter Chetwind senior VVilliam Sneyd Henry Grey John Lane VValter Chetwynd junior George Digby Broom VVhorwood Rowland Okeover Edward Mainwaring John Skrymshire Gerard Skrymshire Colonel Harvy Bagot Edward Vernon Charles Cotton Richard Congreave Robert Milward VVilliam Chetwind Thomas Kynnersby John Piercehouse John Swynfen Robert Levison Francis Levison Rowland Cotton Henry Archbold Jonathan VVoodnorth Jonathan Cope Henry Vernon George Parker John Shelton Francis VVightwick John VVhitehal William Talbot George Vernon Charles Agard Richard Aderley Edward Arablaster William Orme John Noble Edward Birch Edward VVard William VVard William Trafford and Dan. VVatson Esquires Richard Bracegirdle William Trafford John Gough William Farmer John Coleclough of Burslem John Felton Henry Haworth and Thomas Bagnal Gentlemen The Mayor of Stafford for the time being The Mayor of Newcastle for the time being The Mayor of VValsal for the time being and the Bailiffs of Tamworth for the time being Lichfield For the City and County of the City of Lichfield Thomas Caterbanck Bailiff the Bailiffs for the time being Sir Theophilus Bydolph Knight Colonel John Lane Michael Bydolph Richard Dyot John Hill Sherington Talbot Esquires Doctor Hinton Doctor Hewet James Allen Thomas Minors John Burnes William Jesson Gentlemen and the Sheriff for the time being Somerset For the County of Somerset John Lord Digby Son and Heir apparent to George Earl of Bristol Francis Lord Hawley of the Kingdom of Ireland sir Charles Berkley Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold John Pawlet Francis Pawlet Amias Pawlet Esquires sir Thomas Mallet one of the Iustices of the Kings Bench sir William Portman sir John Sydenham sir Maurice Berkley sir Hugh Smith sir William Windham sir John VVorton sir George Trevilian sir Charles Pim and sir John Newton Baronets sir John Coventry and sir Edward Hungerford Knights of the Bath sir Henry Berkley sir Thomas Bridges sir Hugh VVindham sir George Norton sir John VVarr sir Thomas Gore sir George Horner and sir VVilliam Basset Knights John Merefield Sergeant at Law Alexander Popham George Scowel Edward Philips Edmund VVindham George Speake Francis Lutterel Henry Rogers Peregrine Palmer Samuel Gorges John Mallet Francis Wyndham William Hellyer of Coker William Prynne Thomas Heale Edward Berkley Henry Waldron William Bull John Buckland Thomas Warr Robert Hunt Thomas Piggot Francis Roll John Harrington John Tynt Warwick Brampfield William Lacy John Churchil Henry Henly Edward Court Henry Bull William Carrant Francis Baker Richard Jones George Sydenham Robert Hawley Michael Mallet Edward Philips junior Anthony Pawlet Henry Light John Harbin Roger Bourne Edward Bampfield Angel Grey Ralph Stowel Iohn Moore Hugh Norris William Speake William Hilliar of Sea Iohn St. Albons Iohn Fitz-Herbert Iohn How William Bawn Iohn Cridland Kingsmel Lucy Peter Roymon VVilliam Harbord Roger Newburrough Maidley Samborne Francis Vaughan Iohn Fody VVilliam Coward Iohn Hunt Iohn Goodwin Henry Dunster Edward Clarke Thomas Farwel and VVilliam Clarke and James Hayes Esquires And for the City of Wells and Town of Bridgewater the respective Mayors for the time being for the City of Bath the Mayor for the time being VVilliam Prynne Esquire Walter Gibbs Alderman Robert Pearce Doctor in Physick Walter Bayley Edward Parker John Sherstone and Simon Sloper Gentlemen Bristoll For the County and City of Bristoll The Mayor for the time being John Lawford Esquire sir Robert Atkins Knight of the Bath Recorder sir Henry Creswick and sir John Knight Knights John Lock Richard Balman Nathaniel Cale Walter Sandy John Willoughby Thomas Langton Aldermen Ralph Olliffe John Hicks John Wright John Bradway and Richard Streamer Gentlemen Southampton For the County of Southampton Charles Lord St. John of Basing son and heir apparent to John Marquess of Winchester the Lord Henry Pawlet sir George Carteret Vice-Chamberlain of the Kings Houshold sir Robert Howard sir Henry Worseley sir John Mills sir John Norton sir VVilliam Lewis sir Hugh Stewkley sir VVilliam Mewx sir Thomas Badd sir Nicholas Steward sir Andrew Henley sir John Trot sir Robert Dillington Baronets sir Humphrey Bennet sir John Leigh sir Robert Mason sir Thomas Higgons sir John Dingley sir Robert Worseley sir Mundiford Brampston sir Thomas Tompkins Knights Richard Norton Thomas Neale Richard Goddard Lawrence Hyde Henry Wallop John Button Thomas Knollis VVilliam Oglander Robert Dillington Tho. Jervice John Richards Charles West VVill. Legg Hen. Whitehead Geo. Pit Tho. Brook Leonard Bilson Francis Rolle John Hooke Tho. Cole Philip Leigh James May Rich. Compton Benj. Ruddiard Giles Hungerford Francis
Thomas Nutt sir George Courthop sir Henry Peckham sir Henry Onslow and sir William Craven Knights George Parker George Nevil Thomas Sackvil Henry Goring Percy Goring VVilliam Garway Iohn May Herbert Morley John Eversfeild junior Nisel Rivers Anthony Shurley John dela Chambers Charles Bret John Peckham John Garway Samuel Gott Edward Polhill Roger Showswell Robert Anderson John Forrington Brewen Bichley Edward Morley Allen Carr Richard Bridges Peter Courthop Edward Keeling Henry Shelley Benjamin Culpeper Henry Bill VVilliam Spence Edward May Mr. Simon Smith Alexander Jermin of Luddington Robert Fowle Thomas Collings Walter Everden William Dyke Sackvil Graves Nicholas Gildridge Thomas Foster Henry Chown Edward Payne Henry Bish Edward Michelburn Philip Packer John Steward John Baker of Withiam William Gratwick Richard Shepherd Stephen French and Thomas Henshaw junior of Billinghâ—rst Esquires Richard May Abraham Chapman Thomas Palmer Richard Cooper Thomas Bebsworth Matthew Young Thomas Levit Richard Young Alderman John Luxford of Ocley Ambrose Trayton Henry Shelley William Lane William Vinal John Oliver Thomas Peckham John Fuller of VValdron Robert Pickering John Baker junior John Hay of Glindborn Roger Bish Robert Palmer Francis Gratwick William Palmer Richard Nash William Westbrook Christopher Coles John Munck Thomas Barnard Thomas Payne John Payne Arthur Lovet Thomas Bromfeild senior Richard Alchorn Thomas Bromfeild junior Bray Chown Anthony Eversfeild Edward Chowney John Gratwich of Eatons Joseph Newington John Dive William Hartridge Alexander Stapeley Robert Brooke senior Gentlemen The respective Mayors of Chichester Arundel Hasting Rye and Winchelsey for the time being The Bailiffs of Seaford and Davensey for the time being Thomas Middleton Gent. John King and Henry King Esquires Warwick For the County of Warwick Sir Francis Compton Knight Foulk Grevil Charles Leigh Esquires Sir Robert Holt Sir Richard Temple Sir Henry Puckering alias Newton Sir Edward Boughton Sir Roger Burgoyne Sir John Knightley Sir Clement Fisher Sir Herbert Price Sir Thomas Norton Baronets Sir William Bromley Sir Stephen Hales Knights of the Bath Sir George Devereux Sir Francis Willoughby Sir Charles Adderley Sir Charles Lee Sir William Palmer Sir Arthur Caley Sir VVilliam Underhil Sir Comb Wagstaffe Sir Richard Hopkins Sir Richard Bishop Sergeant at Arms Knights Amos Walrond Walter Chetwin senior VVilliam Booth of Witton John Bridgeman John Ferrers Richard Lucy Thomas Archer Clement Throckmorton VVilliam Somervile Francis Willoughby Seabright Rippington VVilliam Dilkes Havey Bagot George Fielding Richard Newdigate Serjeant at Law Thomas Flint Thomas Temple Thomas Boughton John Rous VVilliam Purifoy John Clopton Henry Ferrers Charles Newsham John Lisle of Moxal Richard Verney of Kingston Charles Bentley Giles Palmer Nicholas Overby Edward Underhill Thomas Marriot Humphrey Jennings Thomas Corbin John Fetherston George Sacheverel James Prescut Thomas Rawlins of Stratford Esquires The Mayor of Warwick for the time being The Mayor of Stratford for the time being The Bayliffs of Tamworth for the time being Coventry For the City and County of the City of Coventry The Mayor for the time being Sir Thomas Norton Baronet Sir Clement Fisher Sir Arthur Caley Sir Richard Hopkins Sir Charles Adderley Knights Thomas Flint Edmund Palmer Esquires Henry Smith Matthew Smith Julius Billers Aldermen Humphrey Burton Coroner Worcester For the County of Worcester Sir John Packington Sir William Russel Sir Henry Littleton Sir Edward Seabright Sir William Kyte Sir Thomas Rouse Baronets Sir Ralph Clare Knight of the Bath Sir Henry Herbert Sir Rowland Berkley Sir John Talbot Sir John Windford Knights Colonel Samuel Sandys Samuel Sandys junior William Sandys Sharington Talbot Tho. Savage Edward Pitts Francis Russel Francis Finck Edward Carey Joseph Welch VVilliam Wasborn Thomas Child Henry Townshend Thomas Wild John Nanfan Thomas Street Henry Parker Leonard Simpson Theophilus Andrews Richard Dowdeswel Henry Bromley of Upton William Mucklo Littleton Clent Edward Bushel Richard Vernon Charles Cornwallis Walter Savage Thomas Jolliffe Thomas Symmons Humphrey Littleton Thomas Foley Philip Parsons Anth. Crump William Baldwin Henry Evett William Hancock John Charlet Thomas Watson of Bengworth Henry Spiller VVilliam Ligon Henry Bromley of Holt Edward Dingly Henry Jefferies Broom Whorwood Philip Brace Francis Sheldon John Bearcroft Bridges Nanfan Esquires The Mayor of Evesham for the time being The Bailiffs of Droitwich for the time being The Bailiffs of Bewdly for the time being John Barnaby of Bockleton Esquire Worcester City For the City and County of the City of Worcester The Mayor Aldermen and Sheriff for the time being Sir John Packington Baronet sir Rowland Berkley Knight sir William Moreton Knight one of his Majesties Sergeants at Law Thomas Hall Thomas Street Thomas Wild Tho. Vernon Thomas Harris Esquires Humphrey Wildy Richard Beddoes Thomas Harrison Wintour Harris John Bearcroft Francis Hughes Humphry Tirer Gent. Wilts For the County of Wilts Henry Lord Herbert Son and Heir apparent to Edward Marquess of Worcester the Lord John Seymour VVilliam Lord Herbert of Cardiffe Son and Heir apparent to Philip Earl of Pembrooke and Mountgomery Henry Viscount Cornbury Son and Heir apparent to Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England Sir Edward Nicholas Knight one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council Sir Robert Hyde Knight Chief Iustice of the Kings-Bench Edward Howard Philip Howard Esquires Sir Walter St. John Sir Seymour Pile Sir George Grubham-How Sir Walter Ernle Sir Giles Tooker Baronets Sir John Coventry Sir John Nicholas Sir Edward Hungerford Sir Edward Baynton Knights of the Bath Sir Wadham Windham Knight one of the Iustices of the Kings Bench Sir Iames Thynne Sir John Eveline Sir Iohn Talbot Sir Edward Pool Sir George Hungerford Sir John Weld Sir John Low Sir Tho. Escourt Sir Henry Coker Sir Tho. Ivy Sir William Cawley Sir Tho. Mompesson Sir John Ernle Sir VVilliam Eyre Knights Alexander Popham Edward Seymour Richard Grâ—bham-How Robert Phillips Francis Wroughton John Pleyddal William Glanvile Henry Clarke William Jordan John Hall Esquires John Morton Baronet Richard Lewis George Ailiffe Edward Nicholas Edward Hungerford Edw. Hyde Ralph Freak Wil. Pawlet Wil. Ducket Tho. Mompesson William Broncker Walter Backland Henry Hungerford Henry Baynton Walter Long George Bond Gilbert Rawleigh Edmund Warneford Richard Harrison Richard Aldworth Alex. Thislethwart junior William York Stephen Fox Edward Goddard of Standen Thomas Bennet of Salthrop James Long Thomas Wancklin Jeoffrey Danyel John Collins John Kent Thomas Gore VVilliam Willoughby John Foyle John Norden Henry Long James Ash Edward Topp Thomas Hawles Joseph Stockman Giles Eyre Joseph Eyre Samuel Eyre Iohn Long Iohn Bowles Richard Bowles William Kent Edward Manning William Swanton Thomas Lambert Thomas Pile Robert Chaundler Thomas Hungerford VVilliam Bowles John Eyre Richard Southby Seymour Bowman Richard Escourt Rowland Plott Edward Goddard of Ogbourn John Danvers John Glanvile Henry Wallis Doctor Hierst John Escourt Benjamin Gifford Nevil Masculine Oliver Nicholas Edmund Webb Isaac Burgis Richard Long John Mompesson Henry Trenchard Symon Spatchurst Richard Davy George Ivy Samuel Ash John Davenant John Bennet Robert Challoner William Sadler Robert Hippesly Ephraim Westley
Matth. Bennet Richard Green Humph. Hyde Edm. Ansley Christ Gardiner _____ Crouch Thomas Hunt Thomas Chaffin Ferrers Gresley George Parrey Thomas Clarke Henry Clarke junior Anthony Trotman John Ellet Walter Dowse John Duke junior William Cusse John Young Walter Sharpe George Sadler Thomas Escourt Thomas Gape William Levet Christ Willoughby John Fitz-Herbert Esquires the Mayor of Wilton for the time being New-Sarum For the City of New-Sarum Sir Robert Hyde Knight Chief Iustice of the Kings Bench Sir Wadham Windham Knight one of the Iustices of the Kings Bench the Mayor for the time being Richard Coleman Recorder William Joyce Thomas Oviate Morrice Green Thomas Williams Edward Edmonds Thomas Gardiner Thomas Cutler James Harwood Thomas Ray Aldermen Sir John Low Sir Thomas Mompesson Knights Thomas Hawles William Swanton Richard Davy John Holt Thomas Chaffin Thomas Dorrel Stephen Fox Seymour Bowman Symon Spatchurst Francis Sambrooke Nicholas Johnson and Giles Clutterbook Esquires Westmerland For the County of Westmerland Sir Philip Musgrave Sir VVilliam Dalston Sir Richard Sandford Sir John Lowther senior Sir John Lowther junior Baronets Sir Thomas Strickland Sir George Dalston Knights Richard Musgrave John Lowther Allen Bellingham John Dalston James Ducket Daniel Fleming Richard Brathwayte Robert Hilton Tho. Brathwayte John Otway Nicholas Fisher Edward Nevison Lancelot Machel Thomas Gabetas Nathaniel West Edward Wilson Esq the Mayor of Appleby for the time being the Mayor of Kendal for the time being York For the West Riding of the County of York George Viscount Castleton of the Kingdom of Ireland Henry Viscount Irwin of the Kingdom of Scotland Thomas Lord Fairfax of the Kingdom of Scotland Sir Francis Fane VVilliam Earl of Dumfreeze in the Kingdom of Scotland Knight of the Bath Conyers Darcy Esquire sir Francis Wortley sir George Savil sir Thomas Osborne sir John Goodrick sir Richard Maleverer sir John Rersby sir John Key sir John Armitage sir VVilliam Ingleby sir Solomon Swaile sir VVilliam Rokesby sir Godfrey Copley sir George Wynn sir Gervas Cutler sir John Jackson sir John Lewis sir Thomas Slingsby sir George Cook Baronets sir Tho. Wharton sir Francis Fane junior Knights of the Bath sir Richard Tankred sir Jordan Crossand sir Thomas Beaumond sir Thomas Wentworth sir John Dawney sir Miles Stapleton sir William Lowther sir Francis Goodrick sir Edmund Jenings sir William Ingram sir Christopher Clapham sir Ralph Knight sir Thomas Yarborough Knights Richard Hutton Thomas Danby Walter Hawkesworth Henry Arthington Welbury Norton Charles Tancred Ambrose Pudsey Francis Rockley Robert Wirvel Walter Strickland Anthony Adeyre Francis Nevil VValter Calverley Henry Eyre Doctor of Physick Iohn Wentworth of Ellinshel John Savile of Heathly Henry Goodrick John Wentworth of VVolly Bradwardin Tindal John Vincent John Richard William Lowther Iohn Bilby Richard VVashington Richard Mountney VVilliam Hammond William Adams Thomas Yarborough VValter Lister VVilliam Drake Inglebert Leeds Cuthbert VVade Robert Harrison James Moseley John Stanhop Nicholas Stable Benjamin Norcliffe Roger Portington Edward Lewis John Thornhil William VVomble Thomas Stringer Henry Atkinson Francis VVhite Will. Spencer of Attercliffe William Godfrey Thomas Lister of Maningham Thomas Lister of Bawtree Thomas Haber John Ottway John Major Thomas Staveley Doyley Gower Thomas Fawkes Esquires Henry Cook Thomas Edmonds Jonathan Jenings John Atkinson John Preston William Witham Benjamin Wade John Dodsworth William Roundel George Clarke Jervas Bosvile Thomas Gill Richard Graham Gentlemen the Mayor of Rippon the Mayor of Doncaster the Mayor of Pontefract the Mayor of Leeds for the time being Robert Walters of Owsbourn George Fothergil Esquires For the North-Riding Charles Lord St. John of Basing Son and Heir apparent to John Marquess of Winchester Coniers Darcy Esquire sir Henry Bellasis Henry Darcy James Darcy Esqs sir Christopher Wivel sir Thomas Gower sir John Goodrick sir Metcalf Robinson sir Solom Swail sir Henry Stapleton sir David Fowles sir John Lowther sir John Napier sir Roger Langley sir William Caley sir George Marwood sir Richard Graham sir William Frankland sir Christ Wandesford Baronets sir Robert Strickland sir Richard Tancred sir Thomas Strickland sir Jordan Crossland sir William Dalton sir John Dawney sir James Pennyman sir Thomas Ingram Chancellor of the Dutchy sir Henry Cholmley sir Thomas Hebblethwaite sir Joseph Craddock sir Henry Franckland sir William Craven Knights William Wivel Edward Gower Henry Marwood James Medcalfe Matth. Hutton Robert Layton William Caley John How Thomas Danby Walter Strickland John Beverley Thomas Rookeby James Moyser John Calverley Edward Croft Thomas Robinson VVilliam Weddil John Tourner Isaac Fairfax John Wivel of Osgerby Humphrey Wharton Charles Bellasis Edward Hutchinson of Wickham Reynold Graham Major Norton Henry Bethel Roger Talbot Charles Tanckred Thomas Jackson Henry Harrison William Feilding VVilliam Robinson Edward Trotter Robert Belt Thomas Hutton James Morley Thomas Hassel Timothy Maleverer Capt. Leonard Robinson John Dodsworth William Thompson Thomas Wickham Anthony Lowther Thomas Norton VVilliam Metcalfe Henry Blackson Walter Lister John Gibson Charles Allanson Edward Gower William Gower John Coltson Esquires James Moore George Norton Francis Driffeild John Smith Thomas Waite William Spinke Allan Chamber John Hill of Thorndon John Earnley Ralph Jackson of Lazenby junior Christ Keld Henry Crosseland VVilliam Lampley William Truman Francis Cumin Robert Bushel Richard Harland Major Redman Gentlemen the Aldermen of Richmond and the Bailiffs of Scarborough for the time being For the East-Riding Sir Francis Cob Knight High Sheriff of the County Charles Lord Viscount Dungarven in the Kingdom of Ireland Sir John Hotham sir Francis Boynton sir Robert Hilyard sir John Bucke sir Watkinson Paler sir Thomas Rudston sir John Ledgerd Baronets sir Tho. Nortliffe sir Philip Mountaine sir Thomas Daniel sir Matthew Appleyard sir Thomas Renington sir Hugh Bethel sir Thomas Heblethwait sir William Cob Knights Tobias Jenkins Michael Wharton Robert Bucke Thomas Grantham Durand Hotham Hugh Lister John Constable John Lister Henry Sandys Henry Holmes Christopher Hillyard Walter Bethel George Mountain John Vavasor Jonathan Atkins Ralph Warton William Osbaldston VVilliam Grimstone Robert Sotheby Richard Robinson Thomas Crâ—mpton Samford Nevil William Gee Richard Ledgeard William Baynton Stephen Thompson Richard Thompson Henry Hillyard James Moyser Edward Bernard Thomas Hesket Gregory Creyke William Harpham Thomas Anlaby Alexander Rokeby Henry Hillyard John Stapleton Henry Portington Philip Saltmarsh John Acraid Esquires Thomas Swan Leonard Robinson VVilliam Blount John Pierson Lewis Lewins Francis Bushel Robert Constable John Belton William Dobson William Thompson Ralph Higden Richard Graham Thomas Sytheron Christopher Baukins Gentlemen the Mayor of Hedon and the Mayor of Beverly for the time being York City For the City of York and the County of the same Edward Elwicke Lord Mayor Thomas Lord Fairefax of the Kingdom of Scotland Sir Metcalfe Robinson Sir Thomas Osburne Sir Roger Langley Sir Iohn Goodrick Sir George Rive Sir Thomas Slingsby Baronet Sir Iohn Lewis Knight and Baronet Sir Miles Stapleton Knight James Brooke Christopher Topham George Lamplough George Mancklyns Richard Hewett Henry Thompson Cressey Bournet Christopher Brery
167. Private Acts. AN Act for setling of the Estate of James late Duke of Richmond and Lenox according to agreement of Charles Duke of Richmond and Lenox Mary Dutchess Dowager of Richmond and Lenox and the Lady Mary her Daughter and the Trustees of the said Lady Dutchess An Act for confirmation of certain Letters Patents made and to be made to the Right Noble Lord George Duke of Albemarle of several Honors Mannors and Hereditaments granted or mentioned to be granted to him by His Majesty An Act for confirming the Estate of John Marquess of Winchester in certain Mannors and Lands whereof the Deeds and Evidences were burnt and lost at the taking of the Castle of Basing An Act to confirm the sale of certain Lands sold by Ferdinando late Earl of Huntingdon for the payment of his own and his Fathers debts An Act for setling a Capital Messuage or Mansion House with the Appurtenances in Kensington in the County of Middlesex upon Baptist Viscount Campden and his Heirs An Act for confirming an Act for restoring to Thomas Lord Culpeper Son and Heir and sole Executor of John Lord Culpeper Baron of Thorsway and Master of the Rolls deceased all his Honors Mannors Lands and Tenements Leases not determined and Hereditaments whatsoever whereof the said John Lord Culpeper was in possession on the twentieth of May 1642. or at any time after which have not been since sold or aliened by the said John late Lord Culpeper by Acts or Assurances to which himself was party and consenting An Act to enable the Bishop of London to lease out the Tenements now built upon the Scite of his Palace in London An Act for the Naturalizing of Philadelphia Wife to the Right Honorable Thomas Lord Wentworth An Act for confirming several Acts therein mentioned An Act for confirming of two Acts therein mentioned An Act for the Endowment of several Churches by the Lord Viscount Scudamore of Sligo in the Realm of Ireland An Act for the disuniting the Hundreds of Dudston and Kings Barton from the County of the City of Gloucester and restoring them to be part of the County of Gloucester An Act for making Navigable of the Rivers of Stower and Salwerp and the Rivulets and Brooks running into the same in the Counties of Worcester and Stafford An Act for the making Navigable of the Rivers of Wye and Lugg and the Rivers and Brooks running into the same in the Counties of Hereford Gloucester and Monmouth An Act for setling certain Mannors and Lands late of Sir James Enyons Baronet on Sir Henry Puckering alias Newton Baronet and Sir Charles Aderly Knight his surviving Trustees to sell for payment of Debts An Act for confirmation of certain Decrees of Sewers made by the Commissioners for the limits of the Level of the River of Ancholm in the County of Lincoln An Act for confirming a Decree made on the behalf of Thomas Derham Esq and the Improvements Exchanges and Allotments therein mentioned An Act for the enabling Sir Thomas Lee Baronet to exchange some Lands setled upon the Marriage of Dame Anne Lee his now Wife in consideration of another Settlement of Lands of equal value in lieu thereof An Act for discharging the Mannors of Stodscomb and Holwell and other Lands in the County of Devon from the trust of one hundred and fifty years made unto John Earl of Exeter John Earl of Bridgwater and Oliver Earl of Bolingbrook An Act for supplying a supposed defect of the words Stand and be seized in a Deed for setling of divers Mannors and Lands on Sir Henry-Frederick Thynne An Act for confirming the Copy-hold Estates of divers of his Majesties Copy-hold Tenants within the Honor of Clitherow in the County Palatine of Lancaster parcel of the Dutchy of Lancaster according unto several Decrees in the Court of Dutchy Chamber of the said County Palatine An Act for confirmation of the Estates of several Tenants and Copy-holders of the Mannors of Rannes Irchester Rushden and several other Mannors parcels of the Dutchy of Lancaster An Act for confirming explaining and enlarging an Act intituled An Act for the levying of certain Moneys due upon the Collection for the Protestants of Piedmont An Act to enable the sale of some of the Lands of William Milward Esq for payment of some of his Debts An Act vesting certain Lands in Bleasby in Sir John Mounson the younger Robert Thorold Esq and Anthony Eyre the elder Esq and their Heirs to sell for payment of the debts of Sir Robert Dallison and William Dallison An Act to enable the Trustees of Henry Nevil Esq to sell certain Mannors Lands and Tenements in the Counties of York and Leicester for payment of his and his Son William Nevils debts and likewise to confirm and strengthen the sale of such Lands as they have already sold in the County of York An Act for the making void certain Fines unduly procured to be levied by Sir Edward Powel Knight and Baronet and Dame Mary his wife An Act for sale of Sir Robert Slingsby deceased his Lands for payment of his debts An Act to enable Sir Anthony Brown to sell Lands for payment of debts An Act to enable Anthony Etrick to sell Lands for payment of his Debts An Act for the Naturalizing of Anna Ferrers and several other persons named therein An Act for the Naturalizing of Mark Le Pla and others An Act for the Repairing of Bengworth Bridge in the County of Worcester An Act to enable Rowland Okeover Esq to sell certain Lands in the County of Derby An Act to enable Mrs. Clemence Rivers and Mrs. Rose Rivers to sell certain Lands and Houses for payment of the Debts of Edward Rivers Esq deceased and provision for his younger children An Act to enable Thomas Peck Esq to sell a Mannor and some Lands in the County of Norfolk for the payment of his Debts and other uses An Act for confirmation of Agreements made between Thomas Bushel Esq and the Miners of Rowpits in Somersetshire for recovering their drowned and deserted works An Act for the setling certain Lands belonging unto Francis Tindal Gentleman upon Trustees to be sold for the payment of Debts An Act for confirmation of three Acts therein mentioned Anno decimo quinto Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae c. 1 AN Act for repairing the High-ways within the Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntingdon cap. 1. fol. 173. 2 An Act for the punishment of unlawful cutting or stealing or spoiling of Wood and Underwood and Destroyers of young Timber-Trees cap. 2. fol. 176. 3 An Act to explain and supply a former Act for distribution of threescore thousand pounds amongst the truly Loyal and Indigent Commission-Officers and for assessing of Offices and distributing the moneys thereby raised for their further supply cap. 3. fol. 179. EXP. 4 An additional Act for the better ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom cap. 4. fol. 179. 5 An Act for Regulating select Vestries cap. 5. fol. 182. 6 An Act for
and letting to Ferme the said Office of Clerk of the Market and the Execution thereof in and through all or the most of the several Counties of this Kingdome for great sums of Money which the said Fermours or Grantées by their unjust and undue procéedings in the said Office do extort from his Majesties Subjects again to their great impoverishment and yet little or no redress at all in their said Weights or Measures or any benefit thereby accruing to his Majesty For remedy whereof and for regulating of all Weights and Measures according to the true intent of this Statute and the other Statutes in the behalf formerly made and provided and preventing the said inconveniencies There shall be but one measure one weight and one yard St. 9 H. 3 25. 14 E. 3. 12. 27 E. 3. 10. Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Lords and Commons of this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That from henceforth there shall be but one Weight one Measure and one Yard according to the Standard of the Exchequer throughout all the Realm as well in places priviledged as without Any usage or custome to the contrary notwithstanding And that every Measure of Corn shall be striked without heap And whosoever shall sell by or kéep any other Weight Measure or Yard then as aforesaid whereby any Corn Grain or other thing is bought or sold after six moneths after the end of this present Session of Parliament shall forfeit for every such offence five shillings Forfeiture being thereof lawfully convicted by the Oath of one sufficient Witness before any Iustice of Peace Mayor or other head Officer of the County City or Town Corporate respectively where the said Offence shall be committed Who by vertue of this Act shall have power to administer an Oath in that behalf How to be levyed Which said sum or penalty of five shillings shall be levyed by the Church-wardens and Overséers of the Poor of the Parish or some or one of them where such Offence is or shall be committed to the use of the Poor of the same Parish of the Goods and Chattels of such Offenders by way of Distress and Sale of the Offenders Goods rendring the Overplus to the party so offending And in default of such Distress it shall be lawful for any Iustices of Peace Mayor or other head Officer of the County City or Town corporate respectively to commit the said party to the Prison or Gaol there to remain without Bail or Mainprise untill he shall pay such sums of Money forfeited as aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Clerk of the Market his limits That no Clerk of the Market of the Kings House which now is or hereafter shall be or of the Prince His Highnesse His Heirs or Successours which is or shall be Duke of Cornewall or His or Their Deputy or Deputies shall hereafter execute his or their said Office or Offices respectively in any part of the Kingdom but only within the Verge of the Kings Court where it shall then reside for the time being And that it shall be alwayes hereafter lawful for any Mayor Mayor head Officer and Lords of Liberties have power as clerks of the Market or other head Officer of any City Burrough or Town Corporate or for any Lord or Lords of Liberty Liberties or Franchises his or their Deputy or Deputies or Agents according to their several Liberties and Iurisdictions to have full power to execute the said Offices respectively as they ought or might have done before the making of this Act And for the more ease of his Majesties Subjects Be it further Enacted Forfeiture of â—lerke of the Market for offences That if any Clerk of the Market within his aforesaid precincts and limits of the Verge of the Kings house only or any Mayor or other Officer whatsoever who by vertue of this Act shall have power to inquire of any abuses in Weights and Measures shall seal or give allowance unto any other Weight or Measure Weights or Measures other then according to the said Standard of the Exchequer or shall upon reasonable request and warning refuse to seal or give allowance unto such Weight or Measure Weights or Measures as are according to the said Standard of the Exchequer paying only such Fée or Fées for such allowance as by the Statute or Statutes or by ancient custome are in that behalf formerly provided and allowed and no more That then the said Clerk of the Market Mayor and other Officer or Officers of such City Burrough or Town and the said Lord and Lords of Liberty or Liberties and his and their Deputy and Deputies and Agents respectively shall forfeit for every such offence five pounds to be levyed as aforesaid to the use of the poor of the parish where such offence is or shall be committed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if the Clerk of the Market Forfeiture for taking unlawful fines or fees his Deputy or Deputies or Agents within the Verge aforesaid or any Mayor or any other Officer or Officers of any City or Town or any Lord or Lords of Liberties his or their Deputy or Deputies Agents or Assigns respectively shall take or receive of any of his Majesties Subjects by colour of the said Office any common Fine or Fines or any Fées other then are formerly allowed by the Statute or Statutes or ancient custome in that behalf made or used shall take any Fée or Fées or other sum of money Reward or consideration for the making Signing or Examination of any Weights or Measures which have béen formerly Marked or Sealed or shall Impose or Assess or cause to be Imposed or Assessed any Fine or Amerciament Fines or Amerciaments without a due and legal trial of the Offences for which the said Fine or Fines Amerciament or Amerciaments are Imposed or Assessed or shall otherwise misdemean himself in the execution of his said Office and be thereof lawfully convicted He shall forfeit for the first Offence whereof he shall also be so lawfully convicted five pounds And for the second offence ten pounds And for the third offence and every other offence afterwards twenty pounds to be levyed as aforesaid to the use of the pâ—or of the Parish where such offence shall be committed And be it Enacted That whosoever shall be fined or amerced by vertue of this Act St. 13 R. 1. 4. Persons â—ined by this Act not to be â—ined upon any former law Rents of ferms of corn excepted shall not be again fined or amerced for the same offence by vertue of any former Law or Statute Provided alwayes That this Act or Statute shall not extend to the Rents of Ferms or Lands or any Corn or Grain due or payable to any Lord or Lords or any Colledges Houses or other Societies by vertue of any â—ease or Leases or other Covenant or Agreement
Parliament or of or from any Convention or Assembly called or reputed or taking the Name of the Kéepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament Or by vertue or colour of any Writ Commission Letters Patents Instruction or Instructions of or from any person or persons Tituled reputed or taken to be Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging or Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereto belonging or assuming the authority or reputed to be chief Magistrate of the Commonwealth or Commander in chief of the Forces or Armies of this Nation by Sea or Land or by any pretence Warrant or Command whatsoever from them or any of them or their or either of their respective Councils or Council or any Member of such Council or Councils or from any person or persons whatsoever deriving or pretending to derive Authority from them or any of them be pardoned Released Indempnified discharged and put in utter Oblivion And that all and every the person and persons Acting Advising Assisting Abetting and Counselling the same they their Heirs Executors and Administrators except as before is excepted be and are hereby pardoned Released Acquitted Indempnified and discharged from the same And of and from all pains of Death and other Pains Iudgments Indictments Convictions Attainders Outlawries Penalties Escheats and Forfeitures therefore had or given or that might accrew for the same And that all such Iudgments Indictments Convictions Attainders Outlawries Penalties Escheats and Forfeitures and every of them and all Grants thereupon made and all Estates derived under the same be and are hereby Declared and Enacted to be from henceforth Null and void And that all mean profits not yet received by such Grantées shall be and are hereby discharged And that all and every person and persons Bodies Politick and Corporate their and every of their Heirs Executors Administrators and Successors shall be and are hereby restored to all and every their Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods Chattels and other things forfeited which to His Majesty do or shall appertain by reason of any offence herein before mentioned and not hereafter in this present Act Excepted and Foreprised All Appeals personal Actions and Suits pardoned And be it further Enacted That all Appeals and all personal Actions Suits Molestations and Prosecutions whatsoever for or by reason of any Act of Hostility Trespass Assault Imprisonment or breach of the Peace Advised Counselled commanded Appointed Happened Acted or done by reason of the late troubles or the late Wars in his Majesties Dominions or relating thereunto and Iudgments and Executions thereupon had before the first day of May in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fifty eight stand and be from henceforth discharged But not to restore to any Person or Persons any sums of money mean Profits or Goods already received or taken upon such Execution or to give any accompt for the same And be it likewise Enacted That all Appeals and all personal Actions and causes of such Actions Suits Molestations and Prosecutions whatsoever for or by reason of any Act or thing advised counselled commanded Acted or done by vertue or colour of any Authority or Commission granted by His late Majesty or his Majesty that now is or by vertue or colour of any Order or Ordinance of one or both Houses of Parliament sitting at Westminster Or by any Act or order made by any Persons assuming the name of a Parliament and sitting as a Parliament at Westminster after the death of the late King CHARLES the First Or by the Authority of the said kéepers of the Liberties of England Or by any Ordinance by either of the late Protectors and Council Or by or upon any Commission Writ Process or Warrant by them or any of them or by Authority derived from them or any of them And all demands of Arrearages of Rents and mean Profits of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments heretofore incurred or grown due which have béen paid received or disposed by vertue or colour of any the Authorities or pretended Authorities aforesaid other then such Arrearages or mean profits as are or shall be otherwise disposed by any Act. or Acts of this present Session of Parliament be from henceforth discharged And it is further by the Authority aforesaid Enacted in the second place That all and every the Subjects of these His Majesties Realms of England and Ireland the Dominion of Wales the Isles of Jersey and Garnsey and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed and other His Majesties Dominions the Heirs Executors and Administrators of them and every of them and all and singular Bodies in any manner of wise corporated Cities Burroughs Shires Ridings Hundreds Lathes Rapes Wapentakes Towns Villages Hamlets and Tythings and every of them and the Successor and Successors of every of them shall be and are by the authority of this present Parliament Acquitted Pardoned Released Indempnified and Discharged against the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and every of them of and from all manner of Treasons Misprisions of Treason Felonies Offences Contempts Trespasses Entries Wrongs Deceits Misdemeanors Forfeitures penalties and sums of Money Intrusions Mean profits Wardships Marriages Reliefs Liveries Ouster le mains Mean Rates Respits of Homage Fines and Seisures for Alienation without License Arrearages of Rents other then the Arrearages of Rents due from the late Farmers or pretended Farmers of of the Excise or Customs respectively other then such Arrearages of Rents or Mean profits as are or shall be otherwise disposed by any Act or Acts of this present Parliament and of and from all Arrearages of Tenths and First-Fruits Fines post-fines Issues and Amerciaments and all Recognizances Bonds or other Securities given for payment of them or any of them concealments of Customs and Excise Arrearages of purveyance and of compositions for the same and of and from all pains of Death pains corporal and pecuniary and generally of and from all other Things Causes Quarrels Suits Iudgments and Executions in this present Act hereafter not Excepted nor Foreprized which may be or can be by his Majesty in any wise or by any means pardoned before and unto the twenty fourth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty to every or any of his said Subjects Wardships and Mean Profits unreceived Bodies Corporate Cities Burroughs Shires Ridings Hundreds Lathes Rapes Wapentakes Towns Villages and Tithings or any of them And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Grants and Patents since the twenty fifth of March One thousand six hundred forty one touching the Wardship and Custody of the Body and Lands or touching the marriage of any Heir within age and all mean profits yet unreceived All things not excepted shall be by the general words of this Act as well as it particularly named and demandable by reason thereof shall be
and others Commissioners may treat with persons concerned for their Interests in houses obstructing such passage Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Mayor of the City of London the Recorder and Aldermen for the time being together with such other Commissioners as his Majesty shall appoint under the Great Seal of England or any five of them shall have full Power and Authority to receive all Subscriptions and payments of voluntary contributions of money or other endowments towards the Amendment and Enlargement of the Stréets and Places before-named or so much of them or any of them as the said Commissioners or any five or more of them shall judg fit and necessary And are hereby further impowred to treat and agree with the Owners and Occupiers of any such Houses as they shall judg fit to be removed rebuilt or pulled down or any part of them and upon payment of such sum or sums of money so agréed upon are hereby authorized to appoint Workmen to pull the said houses down or cause the said Owners or Occupiers to rebuild accordingly and this Act shall be sufficient to indempnify the said Commissioners and all persons authorized by them against the Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns of any the said Owners or Occupiers as if the same had béen sold by Déed Feoffment Bargain and Sale or other Assurance in the Law and done by Fine and Recovery or any other way whatsoever And if there shall be any persons Bodies Corporate or Collegiate that shall wilfully refuse to treat and agrée as aforesaid or through any disability by Non-age Coverture or a special Entail or other Impediment cannot That in such Cases the said Commissioners are hereby authorized by vertue of this Act to issue out Warrant or Warrants to the Sheriffs of London who are hereby required accordingly to impannel and return a Iury before the said Commissioners or any five of them which Iury upon their Oaths to be administred by the said Commissioners are to enquire and assess such damage and recompence as they shall judg fit to be awarded to the Owners and Occupiers or either of them of any such houses or any part thereof for their respective Estates and Interests in the same as by the said Commissioners shall be adjudged fit to be pulled down for the purposes aforesaid and such Verdict of the Iury and Iudgment of the said Commissioners thereupon and the legal payment or tender of the sum or sums of money so awarded and adjudged shall be binding to all intents and purposes against the said Parties their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns and others claiming any Title or Interest in the said Houses or in the ground whereupon they stand or thereunto belonging and shall be a full Authority for the said Commissioners or any five of them to cause the same to be executed and the said Houses accordingly to be removed and pulled down And whereas the Houses that shall remain standing on the other side the said Stréet or Stréets or behind the said houses that shall be so pulled down as aforesaid will receive much advantage in the value of their Rents by the liberty of Ayr and frée recourse for Trade and other conveniencies by such enlargement It is also Enacted by Authority aforesaid That in case of refusal or in capacity What may be done in case of refusal to compound with the Commissioners as aforesaid of the Owners or Occupiers of the said houses to agrée and compound with the Commissioners for the same thereupon a Iury shall and may be Impanelled in manner and form aforesaid to Iudg and Assess upon the Owners and Occupiers of such houses such competent sum or sums of money or Annual Rent in consideration of such Improvement and Melioration as in reason and good Conscience they shall judg and think fit which said sum and sums of money or Rent shall be paid to the Chamberlain of the City of London for the time being and such other Treasurer or Treasurers as shall be appointed by the said Commissioners or any five or more of them who are hereby enabled from time to time to receive and recover the same by Action at Law and whose Receipt shall be a good discharge to the said Owners and Tenants and who are hereby appointed to receive and pay and be accomptable for the same according to such directions as shall from time to time be given them by the said Commissioners and the moneys so raised or Rents so received shall be expended upon the Purchasing or Re-building houses on the other side the Stréet and upon Paving and amending of the Ways and Stréets aforesaid according to the purport of this Act. And the said Verdict of the Iury and Iudgment of the Commissioners in the cases aforesaid shall be sufficient and conclusive in Law to all intents and purposes against the said Owners and Occupiers their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns Every Commissioner to take an Oath for the faithful performance of this Act. Provided alwayes And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person shall be enabled to act as a Commissioner to the intents and purposes aforesaid untill he shall first have taken his Corporal Oath before the Lord Chancellor or Lord High Treasurer of England for the time being for the due and impartial execution of the Trusts by this Act committed to him Lord Mayor and Aldermen to be commissioners in London The Dean High steward Deputy-steward and two High Burgesses in Westm The continuance of this Act. Provided also That the Lord Mayor Recorder and Aldermen of the City of London for the time being shall be and are hereby authorized to be Ioynt-Commissioners and to exercise all the Powers of this Act to all the ends and purposes thereof which are to be ordered done or executed within the said City or the Liberties thereof And likewise That the Dean of Westminster the High Steward and his Deputy-Steward and the two High Burgesses of the said City of Westminster for the time being shall be and are hereby authorized to be Ioynt-Commissioners and to exercise all the Powers of this Act to all the ends and purposes thereof which are to be ordered done or executed within the said City of Westminster or the Liberties thereof Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding This Act to continue and be in force untill the end of the First Session of the next Parliament Anno XIV Caroli II. Regis CAP. III. For Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdome The sole and supream power and command of the Militia in the Kings Majesty his heirs and Successors 13 Car. 2. cap. 6. FOrasmuch as within all His Majesties Realms and Dominions the sole and Supream Power Government Command and Disposition of the Militia and of all Forces by Sea and Land and of all Forts and places of Strength is and by the Laws of England ever was the undoubted
Collegiate Church within England and Wales shall at their proper costs and charges before the Twenty fifth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty two obtain under the Great Seal of England a true and perfect printed Copy of this Act and of the said Book annexed hereunto to be by the said Deans and Chapters and their Successors kept and preserved in safety for ever and to be also produced and shewed forth in any Court of Record as often as they shall be thereunto lawfully required And also there shall be delivered true and perfect Copies of this Act and of the same Book into the respective Courts at Westminster and into the Tower of London to be kept and preserved for ever among the Records of the said Courts and the Records of the Tower to be also produced and shewed forth in any Court as néed shall require which said Books so to be exemplified under the Great Seal of England shall be examined by such persons as the Kings Majesty shall appoint under the Great Seal of England for that purpose and shall be compared with the Original Book hereunto annexed and shall have power to correct and amend in writing any Error committed by the Printer in the Printing of the same Book or of any thing therein contained and shall certifie in writing under their Hands and Seals or the hands and seals of any thrée of them at the end of the same Book that they have examined and compared the same Book and find it to be a true and perfect Copy which said Books and every one of them so exemplified under the Great Seal of England as aforesaid shall be déemed taken adjudged and expounded to be good and available in the Law to all intents and purposes whatsoever and shall be accounted as good Records as this Book it self hereunto annexed Any Law or Custome to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for the Kings Professor of Law in Oxford Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be prejudicial or hurtful unto the Kings Professor of the Law within the Vniversity of Oxford for or concerning the Prebend of Shipton within the Cathedral Church of Sarum united and annexed unto the place of the same Kings Professor for the time being by the late King James of blessed memory Provided alwayes Proviso concerning the 3â—th Article agreed in the Convocation Anno 1562. That whereas the Six and thirtieth Article of the Nine and thirty Articles agréed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy holden at London in the year of our Lord One thousand five hundred sixty two for the avoiding of diversities of Opinions and for establishing of consent touching true Religion is in these words following viz. That the Book of Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops and Ordaining of Priests and Deacons lately set forth in the time of King Edward the Sixth and confirmed at the same time by Authority of Parliament doth contain all things necessary to such Consecration and Ordaining neither hath it any thing that of it self is superstitious and ungodly And therefore whosoever are Consecrated or Ordered according to the Rites of that Book since the second year of the aforenamed King Edward unto this time or hereafter shall be Consecrated or Ordered according to the same Rites We decree all such to be rightly orderly and lawfully Consecrated and Ordered It be Enacted And be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Subscriptions hereafter to be had or made unto the said Articles by any Deacon Priest or Ecclesiastical person or other person whatsoever who by this Act or any other Law now in force is required to subscribe unto the said Articles shall be construed and be taken to extend and shall be applied for and touching the said Six and thirtieth Article unto the Book containing the form and manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons in this Act mentioned in such sort and manner as the same did heretofore extend unto the Book set forth in the time of King Edward the Sixth mentioned in the said Six and thirtieth Article Any thing in the said Article or in any Statute Act or Canon heretofore had or made to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided also That the Book of Common Prayer The Common Prayer used by Authority of Parliament 1. Eliz. to be used untill Bartholomew Day 1662. EXP. and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of this Church of England together with the form and manner of Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons heretofore in use and respectively established by Act of Parliament in the First and Eighth years of Quéen Elizabeth shall be still used and observed in the Church of England until the Feast of St. Bartholomew which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two EXP. as to this last Clause CAP. V. For Regulating the Making of Stuffs in Norfolk and Norwich WHereas divers abuses and deceipts have of late years béen had and used in the making of Worsteds and other Stuffs commonly called Norwich Stuffs and in the Réeling of Yarnes whereof the said Stuffs are either wholly or in part made which tends to the debasing of the said Manufacture unto the prejudice of the publique which said Trade of Weaving of Stuffs hath of late times béen very much increased and great variety of new sorts of Stuffs have béen invented 7 E. 4. cap. 1. so that the Power given by the Statute of the Seventh of Edward the Fourth Chapter the First is not sufficient for the Regulating of the same And that the number of the Wardens by the same Act appointed being but Eight are too few for the Governing and Ordering the same Trade by which means the same Manufacture will soon be lost if not prevented and carried into forreign Nations to the great diminution of His Majesties Customs and turning out of the work many thousands of poor people For prevention of which abuses deceipts and evils The number of Wardens and Assistants of Master Weavers in Norwich how and when to be chosen It is Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled in Parliament and by the Authority of the same That there shall be Twelve Wardens and Thirty Assistants all which are to be Master-Weavers within the County of the City of Norwich and County of Norfolk sir of which said Wardens and fiftéen of the said Assistants shall be chosen the first Monday after Pentecost in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two and from thenceforth yearly and every year on the next Monday after Pentecost at some publique place by the Master-Weavers or the greater part of them present of the said City and County of Norwich And the other six
build Cottages and the most Woods for them to burn and destroy and when they have consumed it then to another Parish and at last become Rogues and Vagabonds to the great discouragement of Parishes to provide Stocks where it is liable to be devoured by strangers Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful How to be setled coming to any Tenement under ten pounds yearly value upon complaint made by the Church-wardens or Overseers of the poor of any Parish to any Iustice of Peace within Forty dayes after any such person or persons coming so to settle as aforesaid in any Tenement under the yearly value of Ten pounds for any two Iustices of the Peace whereof one to be of the Quorum of the Division where any person or persons that are likely to be chargeable to the Parish shall come to inhabit by their Warrant to remove and convey such person or persons to such Parish where he or they were last legally setled either as a native Housholder Sojourner Apprentice or Servant for the space of forty dayes at the least unless he or they give sufficient security for the discharge of the said Parish to be allowed by the said Iustices Persons grieved may appeal to the Quarter Sessions Provided alwayes That all such persons who think themselves agrieved by any such Iudgement of the said two Iustices may appeal to the Iustices of the Peace of the said County at their next Quarter-Sessions who are hereby required to do them justice according to the merits of their Cause Persons going to work in harvest Provided also That this Act notwithstanding it shall and may be lawfull for any person or persons to go into any County Parish or place to work in time of Harvest or at any time to work at any other work so that he or they carry with him or them a Certificate from the Minister of the parish and one of the Churchwardens and one of the Overséers for the poor for the said year that he or they have a dwelling house or place in which he or they inhabit and hath left wife and children or some of them there or otherwise as the condition of the person shall require and is declared an Inhabitant or Inhabitants there And in such case if the person or persons shall not return to the place aforesaid when his or their work is finished or shall fall sick or impotent whilst he or they are in the said work it shall not be accounted a Settlement in the cases abovesaid but that it shall and may be lawful for two Iustices of the Peace to convey the said person or persons to the place of his or their habitation as aforesaid under the pains and penalties in this Act prescribed And if such person or persons shall refuse to go or shall not remain in such parish where they ought to be setled as aforesaid but shall return of his own accord to the parish from whence he was removed it shall and may be lawful for any Iustice of the Peace of the City County or Town-Corporate where the said Offence shall be committed to send such person or persons offending to the House of Correction there to be punished as a Vagabond or to a publick Work-house in this present Act hereafter mentioned there to be imployed in work or labour And if the Church-wardens and Overséers of the Poor of the Parish to which he or they shall be removed refuse to receive such person or persons and to provide work for them as other Inhabitants of the Parish any Iustice of Peace of that Division may and shall thereupon bind any such Officer or Officers in whom there shall be default to the Assizes or Sessions there to be Indicted for his or their Contempt in that behalf And for the further redress of the mischiefs intended to be hereby remedied Corporations or work houses in the Cities of London and Westminster Middlesex Surrey Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from thenceforth there be and shall be one or more Corporation or Corporations Work-house or Work-houses within the Cities of London and Westminster and within the Burroughs Towns and places of the County of Middlesex and Surrey scituate lying and being within the Parishes mentioned in the Wéekly Bills of Mortality consisting of a President a Deputy to the President and a Treasurer And that the Lord Mayor of the City of London for the time being be President of the Corporation or Corporations Work-house or Work-houses within the said City and the Assistants to be the Aldermen of the said City of London for the time being and fifty two other Citizens to be chosen by the Common-Council of the said City And that the said President and Assistants or the major part of them shall and may elect a Deputy-President and Treasurer and all other necessary Officers hereby constituted and authorized to execute the powers and Offices by this Act appointed And that upon the vacancy by death or otherwise of any Assistant the power to elect in their rooms be in the said Common-Council and the Election of the Deputy-President or Treasurer and all other Officers in the said President and major part of the Assistants as aforesaid And that a President a Deputy-President a Treasurer and Assistants be nominated and appointed by the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being out of the most fit persons inhabiting in the City of Westminster or the Liberties thereof for the Corporation or Corporations Work-house or Work-houses within the same And for the said places within the Wéekly Bills of Mortality in the said Counties of Middlesex and Surrey respectively President Deputy-president Treasurer and Assistants for Middlesex Surrey how to be elected there shall be elected and chosen by the major part of the Iustices of the Peace for the said Counties in their respective Quarter-Sessions assembled out of the most able and honest Inhabitants and Fréeholders of every of the said Counties of Middlesex and Surrey respectively a President a Deputy-President a Treasurer and Assistants for the Corporation or Corporations Work-house or Work-houses of the places aforesaid in Middlesex and Surrey And that upon the vacancy by death or otherwise of any of the Presidents Deputy-Presidents Treasurers or Assistants in the City of Westminster and places aforesaid in Middlesex and Surrey City of Westminster the power to elect others in their rooms be in the major part of the respective Iustices of Peace who in their General Quarter-Sessions from time to time shall accordingly supply such vacant places And that at every Quarter-Sessions they shall require and take an account in writing of all the Receipts Charges and Disbursements of the Officers and Treasurer of such Corporation or Corporations Work-house or Work-houses how many Poor people have béen imployed and set to work in the year last past and what stock there was
and by Authority thereof that from and after the Feast of St. Michael the Arch-angel which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two for and during the term of Five years next ensuing the date of this present Act it shall and may be lawful for the respective Iustices of Peace of the said respective Counties or the major part of them at any General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said Counties respectively on the behalf of the said Counties or either of them from time to time as they shall sée occasion to make an Order in open Court of Sessions for charging according to their several Proportions all and every the several Inhabitants of the said respective Counties for the safeguard and securing of the said severall Counties and Inhabitants thereof from all injury violence spoil and rapine of the Moss-Troopers aforesaid Provided That the said County of Northumberland be not by force of this Act at any time charged above the sum of Five hundred pounds in the year nor the said County of Cumberland charged above the sum of two hundred pounds in the year And for this end and purpose the said several Iustices of Peace of the respective Counties aforesaid are hereby impowred and authorized at any their General Quarter Sessions aforesaid to appoint and imploy from time to time if occasion require any person or persons to have the Conduct and Command of a certain number of men not excéeding the number of Thirty men in the County of Northumberland and Twelve in the County of Cumberland whereby the Malefactors aforesaid may be searched out discovered pursued apprehended and brought to tryal of the Law And all and every the said Iustices of Peace of the respective Counties aforesaid or the major part of them at any General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said Counties or either of them respectively are hereby further impowred and authorized by force of this present Act to make and issue forth their respective Warrants under their hands for the levying and collecting any sum or sums of money ordered to be paid for and towards the safeguard and securing of the said Counties respectively as aforesaid and to give full power to the several Constables and other Officers to raise levy and collect the said money and all and every the Inhabitants of the said several Counties according to their respective proportionable Estates in Lands or Goods by Distress and Sale of Goods rendering the overplus if there be any to the respective Owner or Owners And the said Iustices of Peace in the said several Counties or any one of them respectively are hereby also authorized to examine any Complaint made against the Collectors and Constables or any other Officers or Ministers of Iustice whatsoever or any of them or any other refractory person or persons whatsoever that at any time hereafter shall refuse neglect or fail to give obedience to this Act or shall do any act or acts in disturbance or obstruction thereof and to bind over such person or persons to the next Quarter Sessions according to the known Laws of the Land to the end such person or persons may be procéeded withall according to Iustice And the said respective Iustices of Peace as aforesaid are hereby further Impowred and Authorized on behalf of the said several Counties respectively to appoint a Treasurer to receive from the said Collectors the Moneys by them Collected and to pay over the same according to the Orders they shall receive from the said Iustices at the General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said respective Counties And the said Iustices are also Impowred to agrée and article with such person or persons yearly as they shall think fit to imploy in the said Service and to take sufficient Security of them for the faithful and most effectual performance thereof for the best safeguard advantage and benefit of the people according to the true intent and meaning of this Act. And in case any person or persons shall in pursuance of this Act be imployed in the Border-Service and shall at any time hereafter wilfully and corruptly or for any sinister respect whatsoever neglect or forbear to Discover or Apprehend or to bring to Tryal any of the said persons called Moss-Troopers as aforesaid and shall be convicted thereof according to Law he or they shall from thenceforth be disabled and made uncapable for ever after to manage or take upon him or them the said Imployment and to suffer such Fine and Imprisonment according to the quality of his or their offence as the Iustices of Peace at their General Sessions shall think fit to inflict Provided nevertheless and be it hereby Declared That it shall be lawful for the Iustices of Peace of either of the said Counties as aforesaid respectively at any time hereafter to moderate or lessen the said charge if they sée cause Provided that this Act shall continue and be in force for five years and no longer Provided always and be it further Enacted by Authority aforesaid That for better suppression and punishment of the said Moss-Troopers flying out of England into Scotland or out of Scotland into England 4 Jac. cap. 1. 7 Jac. cap. 1. the Statutes made in the several Sessions of Parliament in the Fourth and Seventh years of King James shall be revived and put in execution according to their true intent 18 Car. 2. cap. 3. Continued for Seven years from the expiration of this Act. CAP. XXIII An Additionall Act concerning matter of Assurance used amongst Merchants WHereas by an Act of Parliament made in the Thrée and fortieth year of the Reign of Quéen Elizabeth of happy memory 43 El. cap. 12. Entituled An Act concerning matters of Assurances used amongst Merchants Encouragement of Merchants and Trade The Parliament then taking into Consideration by all good means to comfort and encourage the Merchants of this Kingdome thereby to advance and increase the Wealth of this Realm her Majesties Customs and the strength of shipping and for preventing of divers mischiefs in the said Act mentioned It was Enacted That it should and might be lawful for the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being to award forth under the Great Seal of England one general or standing Commission to be renewed yearly at the least and otherwise so often as unto the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper should séem méet for the hearing and determining of Causes arising on Policies of Assurance such as then were or then after should be entred within the Office of Assurance of the City of London which Commissions should be directed to the Iudge of the Admiralty for the time being the Recorder of London for the time being Two Doctors of the Civil Law Two Common Lawyers and eight grave or discréet Merchants or any five of them which Commissioners or the greater part of them which
should sit and méet should have full Power and Authority to Hear Examine Order and Decrée all and every such Cause and Causes in a brief and summary course without formalities of pleadings or procéedings with Power to warn Parties to come before them and to examine upon Oath any Witnesses that should be produced and to commit to Prison any Person that should wilfully disobey their final Orders and Decrées And the Commissioners to sit once wéekly upon the Execution of the said Commission with a liberty in the said Act for any person grieved by any such Sentence or Decrée to exhibite his Bill in Chancery for the re-examination of such Sentence or Decrée as by the said Act relation being thereunto had more at large may appear But forasmuch as by the said recited Act without five Commissioners there cannot be a Court and without there be a Court they cannot procéed in the execution of their Commission so much as to summon Parties or Witnesses to appear And in case of neglect or refusal of any Party or Witness to appear they have no power to punish the delay or contempt with Costs or otherwise And it is provided by the said Act That not any Commissioner other then the Iudge of the Admiralty or the Recorder of London shall procéed in the execution of such Commission before he hath taken his Oath before the Lord Maior and Court of Aldermen to procéed uprightly and indifferently betwéen party and party which upon the renewing of the said Commission often proves a great delay there being so many Commissioners to be Sworn and the Court of Aldermen not sitting at sometimes in the year when the said Commissions have happened to be renewed And although the said Commissioners upon their final Sentence have power to commit to Prison any person that shall wilfully disobey their said Sentences or Decrées yet they have no power to make any Order against the Ship or Goods which commonly are the things assured by which Omissions for want of Power given by the said Act the benefits intended by the said Act of Parliament are much retarded and the mischiefs by the Act endeavoured to be prevented much increased For remedy whereof Be it Enacted and Ordained And it is hereby Enacted and Ordained by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That from and after the Four and twentieth day of June which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being Three Commissioners impowred to act to issue out yearly or oftner if néed require one standing Commission under the Great Seal of England thereby impowring and authorizing the said Commissioners or any thrée of them whereof a Doctor of the Civil Law or a Barrister at Law of five years standing at the least to be always one to meet and sit and make a Court and procéed in all things in the execution of the said Commission as before by the said Act any Five might have done And that the said Commissioners or any such thrée of them as aforesaid be and hereby are impowred to Summon Parties and Witnesses to appear and in case of contempt or wilful delay in the Witnesses upon the first Summons and tender of reasonable Charges and in the Parties upon their second Summons Costs to punish the Offenders by Imprisonment or Costs for such time and in such manner as shall be reasonable and according to the nature and quality of their offences And that it shall and may be lawful to and for every such Commissioner to procéed in the execution of the said Commission Lord Mayor of London may administer the Oath having first taken an Oath before the Lord Mayor of the City of London for the time being only to procéed uprightly and indifferently betwéen party and party And the said Lord Mayor is hereby Authorized to give such Oath Any thing in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding And that no person shall procéed in Execution of the said Commission before he be first Sworn before the Lord Mayor of London for the time being to procéed uprightly and indifferently betwéen party and party as formerly he should have béen before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen Be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case the said Commissioners Commissions out of the Admiralty Court to examine Witnesses beyond Sea or any such thrée of them as aforesaid shall find cause to examine Witnesses beyond the Seas or any remote parts of his Majesties Dominions for the clearing of any doubt or matter before them depending that in such case by direction of the said Commissioners or any such thrée of them like Commissions or Process shall issue out of the Court of Admiralty as have formerly béen for the purposes aforesaid returnable before the said Commissioners And that the said Commissioners or any such thrée of them shall have also power to give and pass their final Sentence Decrée and Executions as well against the body of the party evicted or his goods as also against the Executors and Administrators of such party so evicted And to Assesse Costs of Suit upon such person or persons as shall be condemned by the Decrée of the said Court as to them shall séem Iust And forasmuch as many Witnesses as Sea-men and others come and spéedily go again to Sea Witnesses going to see how to be examined before before a Court can be summoned by which means the Assured and Assurers are many times much damnified For the preventing of which mischief Be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for any one of the said Commissioners to Administer an Oath to any Witness legally summoned to give testimony timely notice being thereof given to the Adverse party and set up in the Office before such examination to the end such Witness or Witnesses may be cross-examined Provided always That the said Commissioners shall in no case procéed both against person and goods for one and the same debt And provided also Appeal to the Chancery That any thing in this Act contained shall not in any wise extend to prejudice the appeal to the High Court of Chancery given or allowed in the said former Act of Parliament CAP. XXIV An Act Declaratory concerning Bankrupts WHereas divers Noblemen Gentlemen and persons of quality no ways bred up to Trade or Merchandize do oftentimes put in great stocks of money into the East-India Company or Guiney Company and the Fishing Trade and such other publike Societies and receive the procede of those Stocks sometimes in ready monies sometimes in Commodities which they usually sell for money or exchange again by which means the Trade of those Companies is
part of any Book or Books Form or Forms without the like consent upon pain of loss and forfeiture of the same The Penalty and of being procéeded against as an Offender against this present Act and upon the further penalty and forfeiture of Six shillings eight pence for every such Book or Books or part of such Book or Books Copy or Copies or Form or Forms of any such blank Bills or Indentures so Imprinted or Imported bound Stitched or put to Sale The Moiety of which said forfeiture and forfeitures shall be to the use of our Soveraign Lord the King His Heirs and Successors and the other Moyety to the use of the Owner or Owners Proprietors of such Copy or Copies Book or Books or Form of such blank Bills or Indentures if he or they shall sue for the same within Six moneths next after such Imprinting Importing Binding Stitching or putting to Sale And in default of such Suit by the Owner or Owners Proprietor or Proprietors commenced within the said Six moneths Then the same Moiety shall be to the use and behoof of such other person or persons as within the space of one year next after the said Offence committed shall sue for the same to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record held at Westminster called the Kings Bench Common-Pleas or Exchequer wherein no Essoign Wager of Law or Protection shall be allowed to the Defendant or Defendants And be it further Enacted and Declared Printers of Books c. shall put to their Names That every person and persons that shall hereafter Print or cause to be Printed any Book Ballad Chart Pourtraiture or any other thing or things whatsoever shall thereunto or thereon Print and set his or their own Name or Names and also shall declare the Name of the Author thereof if he be thereunto required by the Licenser under whole Approbation the Licensing of the said Book Ballad Chart or Pourtraiture shall be Authorized and by and for whom any such Book or other thing is or shall be Printed upon pain of Forfeiture of all such Books Ballads Charts Penalty Pourtraitures and other thing or things Printed contrary to the Tenor hereof And the Presses Letters and other Instruments for Printing wherewith such Book Ballads Pourtraiture or other thing or things shall be so Imprinted or Set or prepared for the Printing thereof to be defaced and made unserviceable And that no person or persons shall hereafter Print or cause to be Imprinted nor shall forge put or counterfeit in or upon any Book or Pamphlet the Name Title Mark or Vinnet of any other person or persons which hath or shall have lawful Priviledge Authority or Allowance of sole Printing the same without the frée consent of the person and persons so priviledged first had and obtained upon pain that every person and persons so offending shall forfeit and lose all such Books and Pamphlets upon which such counterfeit Name or Mark shall be Imprinted and shall further be procéeded against as an Offender against this present Act. Who only may buy barter and sell books in London and market Towns And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Haberdasher of Small-Wares Iron-monger Chandler Shop-kéeper or other person or persons whatsoever not being Licensed in that behalf by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese wherein such Book or Books shall be nor having béen Seven years Apprentice to the Trade of Book-seller Printer or Book-binder nor being a Fréeman of the City of London by Patrimonial Right as Son of a Book-seller Printer or Book-binder nor being a Member of the said Company of Stationers shall within the City or Suburbs of London or any other Market-Town or elsewhere receive take or buy to barter sell again change or do away any Bibles Testaments Psalm-books Common-Prayer-books Primers Abcées Licensed Almanacks Grammar School-books or other Book or Books whatsoever upon pain of forfeiture of the same Printing an Art and Manufacture And for that Printing is and for many years hath béen an Art and Manufacture of this Kingdom Therefore for the better encouraging thereof and the prevention of divers Libels Pamphlets and Seditious Books Printed beyond the Seas in English and thence Transported into this Realm Be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That no Merchant Book-seller No English books may be imprinted or imported from beyond Sea or other person or persons whatsoever shall Imprint or cause to be Imprinted beyond the Seas nor shall Import or bring nor knowingly assist or consent to the Importation or bringing from beyond the Seas into this Realm any English Book or Books or part of any Book which is or shall be or the greater part thereof is or shall be English or of the English Tongue whether the same Book Books or part of such Book have béen here formerly Printed or not upon pain of forfeiture of all such English Books so Imprinted or Imported contrary to the tenour hereof And that no Alien or Foreigner whatsoever shall hereafter bring in or be suffered to vend here within this Realm The Penalty any Book or Books Printed beyond the Seas in any Language whatsoever either by himself or his Factor or Factors except such only as be Frée-Printers or Stationers of London or such as have béen brought up in that Profession without the special License of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London for the time being or one of them who are hereby authorized to grant Licenses for that purpose upon like pain of forfeiture of all such Books as shall be so Imprinted or Vended contrary to the purport and true intent hereof Presses and Printing in and about London not to be set up but upon notice to the Company of Stationers And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons within the City of London or the Liberties thereof or elsewhere shall erect or cause to be erected any Press or Printing-House nor shall knowingly demise or let or willingly suffer to be held or used any House Vault Cellar or other Room whatsoever to or by any person or persons for a Printing-House or place to Print in unless he or they who erect such Press or shall so knowingly demise or let such House Cellar Vault or Room or willingly suffer the same to be used shall first give notice to the Master or Wardens of the said Company of Stationers for the time being of the erecting of such Press or of such demise or suffering to work or Print in such House Vault Cellar or Room And that no Ioyner Carpenter or other person shall make any Printing-Press no Smith shall forge any Iron-work for a Printing-Press no Founder shall cast any Letters which maybe used for Printing for any person or persons whatsoever neither shal any person or persons bring or cause to be brought in from any parts
the Twentieth day of November One thousand six hundred sixty and one but they and every of them may sell Books and Papers as they have or did before the said Twentieth day of November One thousand six hundred sixty one within the said Hall Palace and Twenty yards aforesaid but not elsewhere Any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for the rights and Priviledges of printing granted to any persons by the King Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to prejudice the just Rights or Priviledges granted by His Majesty or any of His Royal Predecessors to any any person or persons under His Majesties Great Seal or otherwise but that such person or persons may exercise and use such Rights and Priviledges as aforesaid according to their respective Grants Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Proviso for John Streater Stationer Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to prohibit John Streater Stationer from printing Books and Papers but that he may still follow the Art and Mystery of Printing as if this Act had never béen made Any thing therein to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to restrain the kéeping and using of a Printing-Press in the City of York Proviso for the City of York so as all Books of Divinity there printed be first Licensed by the Archbishop of York for the time being or such person or persons whom he shall appoint and all other Books whatsoever there Printed be first Licensed by such persons respectively to whom the Licensing thereof doth or shall appertain by the Rules herein before mentioned and so as no Bibles be there printed nor any other Book whereof the Original Copy is or shall be belonging to the Company of Stationers in London or any Member thereof and so as the Archbishop or Lord Mayor of York for the time being do execute within the said City which they are hereby impowred to do all the Powers and Rules in this Act concerning Searchers for unlicensed Books and impose and levy the said penalties in the like cases Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided That this Act shall continue and be in force for two years The continuance of this Act. to commence from the Tenth of June One thousand six hundred sixty and two and no longer Continued 16 Car. 2. cap. 8. Anno XV. Caroli II. Regis CAP. I. For Repairing the High-ways within the Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington WHereas the ancient High-way and Post-Road leading from London to York The High-way from London to York and Scotland Hertford Cambridge Huntington and so into Scotland and likewise from London into Lincolnshire lieth for many miles in the Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington in many of which places the Road by reason of the great and many Loads which are wéekly drawn in Waggons through the said places as well by reason of the great Trade of Barley and Mault that cometh to Ware and so is conveyed by water to the City of London as other Carriages both from the North parts as also from the City of Norwich Saint Edmunds-Bury and the Town of Cambridge to London is very ruinous and become almost impassible insomuch that it is become very dangerous to all His Majesties Liege people that pass that way And for that the ordinary course appointed by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm is not sufficient for the effectual repairing and amending of the same neither are the Inhabitants through which the said Road doth lie of ability to Repair the same without some other provision of moneys to be raised towards the putting the same into good and sufficient Repair For remedy whereof and to the intent the said High-ways at or in the Counties aforesaid may be forthwith effectually repaired and amended and from time to time hereafter kept in good repair May it please your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That for the Surveying Ordering Repairing and kéeping in Repair of the said High-way in the Counties aforesaid Four Iustices of the Peace for each of the said several and respective Counties dwelling next to the said High-ways respectively or any two of them for the year One thousand six hundred sixty thrée and until the Quarter-Sessions then next ensuing and from thenceforth the Iustices of Peace at the Sessions to be holden next after Easter every year for the said respective Counties from time to time shall and are hereby impowred to nominate and appoint Nine sufficient and able persons residing and inhabiting within the said several and respective Counties Who may appoint Surveyors of the High-ways for Hartfordshire yearly Cambridg-shire Huntington-shire to be Surveyors of the several places in the said High-way for the year from thence next ensuing The Iustices of the Peace for the County of Hertford to appoint Surveyors for the High-way lying in the said several Towns and Parishes of the said County and the Iustices of the Peace in the County of Cambridge to appoint Surveyors for the several Towns and Parishes within their said County of Cambridge And the Iustices of Peace for the County of Huntington to appoint Surveyors for the several Towns and Parishes of the said County And that the said Iustices or Surveyors aforesaid shall not act or do any thing towards the Repairs of the said High-ways but in their own several and respective Counties The power of the Iustices of the Peace in their several Counties And that the said Iustices in their several Counties shall cause notice to be given to the several Surveyors so chosen in writing of their said choice which said Surveyors and every of them having no lawful impediment to be allowed by the said Iustices by whom they shall be chosen in manner as aforesaid within one wéek next after such notice to them given of their Election shall and are hereby required to méet and assemble themselves together that is to say the Surveyors for the County of Hertford in some convenient place within the County of Hertford Hertford Cambridge Huntington And the Surveyors chosen for the County of Cambridge in some convenient place within their County and the Surveyors chosen for the County of Huntington in some convenient place within their said County to be appointed by the several Iustices of the said Counties at their several Quarter-Sessions to the intent to view and Survey the said High-way and places aforesaid The Power of the Surveyors in the said several Counties To appoint Receivers and Collectors of Toll and other needful Officers and shall consider what Reparations
and respective Parishes shall pass to and fro through the said respective places where such Toll is to be received as aforesaid without paying any thing for their respective passing through the same Any thing in this present Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided also And be it Enacted Proviso touching money received overplus and remaining at the end of 11. years That if it shall happen that at the end and expiration of the term of the Eleven years aforesaid that the Receiver or Receivers Collector or Collectors then in being or any of them of the aforesaid Tolls or any part thereof in all and every of the said Counties made and to be made shall upon their or any of their accounts made and to be made for the several and respective Receipts of the Tolls aforesaid have any sum or sums of money in their or any of their hands more then they or any of them have expended as aforesaid That then such Receiver and Receivers Collector and Collectors and every of them shall bring in all and every sum and sums of money so remaining in their or any of their hands unto the Iustices of the Peace of the said several and respective Counties where such Receiver or Receivers Collector or Collectors shall live or have received the said several sum or sums at the next General Quarter-Sessions for the Peace which shall happen to be after their said several Accounts so to be made as aforesaid upon pain of forfeiting double the Sum which shall be in their or any of their hands upon the said Account which said Sum and Penalties shall be recovered by distresse and sale of the parties Goods so refusing to do the same by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of any two Iustices of the Peace of the said several Counties And that the said Iustices of the Peace at their said several Quarter-Sessions in their several Counties are hereby impowred and enabled to dispose of the said several sum and sums of money and all the said Penalties into the hands of such person and persons and upon such Securities as they shall approve of to and for a Stock for the repairing of the said several High-ways according to the intent and meaning of this Act and not otherwise Provided also And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Huntington That if the Iustices of the Peace for the County of Huntington or any four of them dwelling next to the said High Road Stilton shall adjudge some other place more convenient then Stilton for receiving the Toll for the said County That then it shall and may be lawful for the said Iustices of Peace as aforesaid to appoint some other place upon the High Road within their said County to receive the aforesaid Toll instead of Stilton Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding And that it shall and may be lawful for all and every Souldier and Souldiers upon their March Souldiers in Marching and Posts exempted and all persons riding Post to passe through any the places in this Act mentioned without paying any Toll Provided also That if at any time before the expiration of the Eleven years aforesaid Proviso for cealing the Toll within the 11. years the said High-ways shall be well and sufficiently amended and repaired and so adjudged by the Iustices of the Peace at the Quarter-Sessions for their several and respective Counties aforesaid That then from and after such Adjudication made and Re-payment of such moneys as shall have béen borrowed the aforesaid Toll in the said County shall cease and determine Any thing aforesaid to the contrary notwithstanding Continued 16 17 Car. 2. cap. 10. CAP. II. Unlawful Cutting or Stealing or Spoiling of Wood and Under-woods and Destroyers of young Timber-Trees punished WHereas in one Act of Parliament made in the Thrée and fortieth year of the Reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth Entituled 43 El. cap. 7. An Act to avoid and prevent divers misdemeanors in idle and lewd persons among other things it is Enacted The punishment for cutting and spoyling any Woods That all and every such lewd person and persons that shall cut or spoil any Woods or Vnder-woods Poles or Trées standing and their Procurer or Procurers Receiver or Receivers knowing the same and being thereof lawfully Convicted by his or their own confession or by the testimony of one sufficient Witness upon Oath before some one Iustice of Peace or other Head-Officer of the County or place where such offence was committed shall give the party or parties satisfaction for his or their Damages for the first fault And if such Offender or Offenders shall by such Iustice of Peace or Head-Officer be thought not able or sufficient or if such Offender or Offenders do not make such satisfaction as aforesaid That then the said Iustice of Peace or Head-Officer shall commit the said Offender or Offenders to the Constable or other inferior Officer to receive the punishment of Whipping as in the said Act more fully doth appear And whereas it is found by daily experience especially in and about London and other great Towns where a great number of such idle and lewd persons do shelter themselves that this Act hath not sufficiently prevented the said mischief of cutting and spoiling of Woods and Vnderwoods as was intended as well because the said offences are committed in such a close and clandestine manner that there is none Witnesses to them but such as are partakers to the offence as also because the said punishment is too small for so great a fault which is not only prejudicial and hurtful to the Owners of the said Woods but very mischievous and damageable to the Commonwealth Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That from and after the Four and twentieth day of June next ensuing Who may apprehend Wood-stealers every Constable Headborough or any other person in every County City Town-Corporate or other place where they shall be Officers or Inhabitants shall and may by vertue of this present Act have full Power and Authority to apprehend or cause to be apprehended all and every person or persons they shall suspect having or carrying or any wayes conveying any burthen or bundles of any kind of Wood Vnder-wood Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of any Trées or any Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedgewood Broom or Furze Search in Houses of suspected persons and by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of any one Iustice of the Peace directed to any Officer such Officer shall have power to enter into and search the Houses Out-houses Yards Gardens or other places belonging to the Houses of all and every person or persons they shall suspect to have any kind of Wood
Vnderwoods Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of any Trées or any Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedge-wood Broom or Furze and wheresoever they find any such to apprehend and cause to be apprehended all and every person and persons suspected for the cutting and taking of the same and them and every of them as well those apprehended carrying or any ways conveying any kind of Wood Vnderwood Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of any Trées or any Eates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedge-wood Broom or Furze as also those in whose Houses or other places belonging to them any such Wood Vnder-wood Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of any Trées or any Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedgwood Broom or Furze shall be found to carry before one Iustice of the Peace of the same County City or Town-Corporate And if the said person and persons so suspected apprehended and carried before the said Iustices do not then and there give a good account how he and they came by such Wood or Vnderwood Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of any Trées or Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedge-wood Broom or Furze by the consent of the Owner such as shall satisfie the said Iustice or else shall not within some convenient time to be set them by the said Iustice produce the party or parties of whom they bought the same wood Vnder-wood Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of Trées Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedge-wood Broom or Furze or some other credible witnesse to depose upon Oath such sale of the said Wood Vnder-wood Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of Trées Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedgwood Broom or Furze which Oath the said Iustice hath hereby power to administer That then the said person or persons so suspected and not giving such good account nor producing any such witnesse upon Oath to testifie the said Sale as aforesaid shall be déemed and adjudged as convicted of the said offence of cutting and spoiling of the same Woods Vnder-woods Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of Trées Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedge-wood Broom 43 Eliz. cap. 7. or Furze within the meaning of the said Statute of Quéen Elizabeth and shall be liable to the punishment therein contained and to such other procéedings and punishments as by this present Act shall be further constituted and appointed on that behalf And be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person or persons convicted of the said offence in manner and form before in this Act mentioned shall for the first offence give the Owner or Owners such recompence or satisfaction for his or their damages The punishment for the first offence and within such time as the said Iustice shall appoint and over and above pay down presently unto the Overséers for the use of the poor of the Parish where the said offence or offences were committed such sum of money not excéeding Ten shillings as the said Iustices shall think méet and if such offender or offenders do not make recompence or satisfaction to the said Owner or Owners and also pay the said sum to the Poor in manner and form aforesaid then the said Iustice shall commit the said offender or offenders to the House of Correction for such time as the said Iustice shall think fit not excéeding one moneth or to be whipped by the Constable The second offence or other Officer as in his Iudgment shall séem expedient And if such person or persons shall again commit the said offence and be thereof convicted as before that then they and every of them so offending the second time and thereof so convicted shall be sent to the House of Correction for one moneth and be there kept to hard labour And if such person or persons shall again commit the said offence and be thereof convicted as before That then they and every of them so offending the third time and thereof so convicted shall be taken adjudged and déemed as Incorrigible Rogues Buyers of stoln Wood how to be dealt withal Provided always And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That whosoever shall buy any Burthens of Wood or any Poles or Sticks of Wood or any other the Premisses particularly mentioned in this Bill which may be justly suspected to have béen stoln or unlawfully come by That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Iustices of the Peace Mayors Bayliffs and Head-Officers or any one of them within their respective Iurisdictions upon complaint to them thereof made to examine the said matter upon Oath which they and every of them respectively are hereby authorized to administer And if they shall find that the same was bought of a person who might iustly be suspected to have stoln or unlawfully come by the same and that the same was stoln or unlawfully come by That in such case the said Iustices of Peace Mayors Bayliffs or other Head-Officers or any one of them respectively shall and may award the party who bought the same to pay treble the value of the same to the party from whom the same was stoln or unlawfully taken And in default of present payment thereof to issue forth their respective Warrants to levy the same by distress and sale of the offenders Goods rendring the overplus to the party And in default of such distress to commit the party to the Gaol at his own charge there to remain one moneth without Bail Provided always Within what time offenders must be questioned within this Act. That no person or persons shall be questioned for any offence upon this Law that hath béen punished for the same offence by any former Law nor shall be punished by this Law unless he be questioned within Six wéeks after the offence committed CAP. III. An Act to explain and supply a former Act for distribution of Threescore thousand pounds amongst the truly Loyal and Indigent Commission-Officers and for Assessing of Offices and distributing the moneys thereby raised for their further supply 14 Car. 2. cap. 8. EXP. CAP. IV. An Additional Act for the better Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom FOr the better Ordering of the Forces in the several Counties and places of England and the Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and for the supplying and explaining the late Act Entituled 14 Car. 2. cap. 3. An Act for Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same Power of the Lieutenants and Deputy-Lieutenants to Train and Exercise That the several Lieutenants of the several Counties Cities and places nominated by his Majesty his Heirs and Successors respectively and in their absence out
Enacted That all and every person and persons which since the five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty and two have acted or done any thing in the dismantling of any Cities or Towns or demolishing of Walls and Fortifications thereof or relating thereunto shall be and are hereby indempnified and saved harmless And whereas some doubt hath arisen upon the said Act what Estates shall be charged with or toward Foot Be it therefore Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid How persons may be charged with arms and for what estates That no person who hath an Estate of the yearly value of two hundred pounds or personal Estate of the value of two thousand four hundred pounds chargeable by the said Act shall be charged with or toward the finding any Foot and it shall be lawful for the respective Lieutenants and Deputies or any three or more of them to charge according to the proportions in the said Act any person who hath an Estate of the yearly value of one hundred pounds and under the yearly value of two hundred pounds or who hath a personal Estate of twelve hundred pounds and under the value of two thousand four hundred pounds chargeable by the said Act with or towards the finding of Foot or toward the finding of Horse as to their judgment shall séem most expedient for his Majesties Service Yet nevertheless this shall not be construed to extend to make any alterations in the provisions in the said or this Act concerning the Forces to be charged or raised in Cities Corporations and Port-Towns Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports to antient Towns and their Members and in his absence The Cinque-Ports his Lieutenant or Lieutenants shall and may put in execution within the said Ports Towns and Members all the Powers and Authorities given and granted by this and the said former Act and to execute and perform all and every the things therein contained in the like manner as the respective Lieutenants of the Counties and their Deputies may do and may kéep up and continue the usual numbers of Souldiers in the said Ports Towns and Members unless they find cause to lessen the same And that the Inhabitants of the said Ports Towns and Members being in regard of their scituation on the Sea-coasts charged with a greater proportion of Arms and Armed men then other parts of the Kingdom shall not be charged with Arms or Armed men in the Counties adjacent for their Estates there lying save only for such proportion as they are lyable unto and either are not or shall not be charged with within the said Ports Towns and Members Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding St. Martins Parish in Stamford Baron in Lincolnshire Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Inhabitants and Revenues of or in the Parish of Saint Martin called Stamford Baron in the Suburbs of the Borough and Town of Stamford on the South-side of the Waters there called Welland may be Assessed and Charged to find and serve in the Trained Bands of the County of Lincoln as formerly according to the said mentioned Act and this present Act by the Lieutenant and Deputy-Lieutenants for the County of Lincoln for the time being in such manner as any persons or estates within the said County of Lincoln may be by them assessed and charged to the purposes aforesaid And they of Saint Martin aforesaid are hereby declared to be well and legally assessed and charged by the said Lieutenant and Deputy-Lieutenants respectively CAP. V. For Regulating Select Vestries FOr prevention of the evils which may arise from Vestry-men not Conforming to the Government and Discipline of the Church of England as it now is by Law established Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by the Advice and with the Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That all and every person who now is a Vestry-man or member of any Vestry within any Parish in the Cities of London and Westminster Borough of Southwark and wéekly Bills of Mortality and in all other Cities Boroughs and Towns Corporate where Select Vestries are used in the Kingdom of England All Vestry-men shall take and subscribe the Declaration in 14 Car. 2. c. 4. on or before the Nine and twentieth day of September next And all and every person who at any time hereafter shall be elected to be a Vestry-man or member of any Vestry within any Parish in any the places aforesaid within one moneth after such his Election shall before the respective Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary Vicar-General or Chancellor of the Diocess make and subscribe the Declaration and Acknowledgment enjoyned in the late wholsom good Act Entituled An Act for the Uniformity of Publick Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies and for establishing the Form of Making Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons in the Church of England in these words following I A. B. Do declare That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take up Arms against the King and that I do abhor that Traiterous Position of taking Arms by His Authority against His Person or against those that are Commissionated by him And that I will conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England as it is now by Law established And I do declare That I do hold there lies no Obligation upon me or on any other person from the Oath commonly called The Solemn League and Covenant to endeavour any change or alteration of Government either in Church or State And that the same was in it self an unlawful Oath and Imposed upon the Subjects of this Realm against the known Laws and Liberties of this Kingdome The penalty And that all and every such person who shall neglect or refuse to do the same within the respective times aforesaid shall ipso facto be deprived of such his place of Vestry-man and of being a Member of such Vestry to all intents and purposes And such place shall be actually void as if such person were naturally dead Any Vsage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding And that from and after such neglect or refusal it shall be lawful for all persons who shall have right of Election or nomination of such Vestry-man or member of such Vestry to procéed to election or nomination of some other discréet person of the respective Parish in the room of such person so neglecting or refusing as aforesaid And if such person so to be elected in the room of such person so neglecting or refusing as aforesaid shall also neglect or refuse to make and subscribe the said Declaration and Acknowledgment in manner and time aforesaid whereby such place shall again become void or if such persons who shall have right of Election or nomination
being John Lord Viscount Scudamore in the Kingdome of Ireland Roger Vaughan Herbert Westfaling Thomas Price Esquires William Gregory Richard Philpots William Philips James Lawrence Thomas Homes Thomas Painard Thomas Bond William Edwin Aldermen Edward Alderne Doctor of Laws Edward Rodd Nicholas Philpots John Smith Mercer Hugh Rodd Thomas Symmonds Roger Bouleot and John Barnes Gentlemen Hertford For the County of Hertford Sir Edward Turnor Speaker of the House of Commons Thomas Lord Viscount Fanshaw of the Kingdome of Ireland Sir Thomas Fanshaw Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath William Cecil Algernon Cecil William Willoughby Esquires Sir Harbotle Grimstone Baronet Master of the Rolls Sir Edward Atkins one of the Barons of His Majesties Court of Exchequer Sir Thomas Leventhorp Sir Brocket Spencer Sir Jonathan Keat Sir Erasmus Harby Sir Thomas Allen Baronets Sir Richard Atkins Sir Richard Francklyne Sir Richard Lucy Knights and Baronets Sir Philip Boteler Knight of the Bath Sir Thomas Dacres Sir John Harrison Sir Francis Boteler Sir Henry Caesar sir William Godbold sir Rowland Litton sir John Gore sir Harry Coninsby sir John Watts sir Henry Blunt sir Humphrey Gore sir John Hale sir William Glascocke sir Robert Josceline sir Richard Comb sir Walter Walker Knights Thomas Docwra James VVillimot Richard Goulstone Thomas Dacres Edward VVingate John Copping Arthur Bolter Thomas Stanley John Heydon Robert Ashton William Glascocke William Hale Arthur Sparkes John Fotherly _____ Crafts of Nerthall John Halsey William Harbord John Jesson Edward Atkins William Cotton Albon Cox John Briscoe Ralph Freeman senior Robert Hobotham Richard Jennings Edmond Smith Robert Sadler Henry Chancy Ralph Freeman junior Humphrey Shalcross Henry Guy VVilliam Nuce Thomas Offley Henry Dunstar Alexander Meade Richard Gammon Esquires Edward Cason George Needham Ralph Gore Henry Becher Marmaduke Royden Edward Briscoe George Bromely John Ellis Edmond Field William Greenhill Edward Crosby Alexander Weild Gentlemen Captain William Minoes Thomas Arris Robert Dean Doctors of Physick and the Mayor of Hertford for the time being St. Albans For the Borough of St. Albans Algernon Cecil Esquire Sir Harbotle Grimstone Master of the Rolls Sir Richard Francklin Sir Harry Conisby Sir Richard Combe Sir John VVhittwrong Knights the Mayor for the time being John Simpson Esquire Recorder Robert Rohotham Edmond Smith Thomas Docwra Robert Sadler Richard Jenings VVilliam Cotton Iohn Jesson Alban Cox Esquires Thomas Arris Doctor of Physick Thomas Cowley senior Thomas Cowley junior William Marston Thomas Oxton Edward Eames Iohn Gape Iohn New and Robert New Aldermen Huntington For the County of Huntington Charles Lord Le de Spencer son and heir apparent to Mildmay Earl of Westermland Robert Viscount Mandevil Son and Heir apparent to Edward Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of His Majesties Houshold Sir Francis Compton Knight George Mountague Esquire Sir John Cotton Sir John Hewet Sir Thomas Proby Sir Robert Bernard Baronets Stephen Anderson John Stone John Bernard Henry Williams Robert Appreece Lyonel Walden Nicholas Johnson Sutton Ashfeild Nicholas Peadley Lawrence Torkinton John Heron Robert Pain Anthony South Richard Elmes Thomas Rouse Richard Nailer Jasper Trice Gerrard Cater John Ferrer Richard Wyn Esquires Thomas Colestone Thomas Shepherd William Sparrow Gentleman and Thomas Walwin Mayor of Huntington Town of Huntington For the Town of Huntington The Mayor for the time being Robert Viscount Mandevil son and heir apparent to Edward Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of His Majesties Houshold Sir John Cotton Baronet Sir Robert Bernard Henry VVilliams Lyonel Walden Nicholas Pedley Esquires Richard Astre Lawrence Torkington John Barnard Richard Weaver Thomas Judson and James Faireside Aldermen Kent For the County of Kent Charles Lord Buckhurst son and heir apparent to Richard Earl of Dorset Philip Viscount Strangford in the Kingdom of Ireland James Herbert John Tufton Richard Tufton Esquires Sir Thomas Twisden One of the Iustices of the Kings Bench Sir Heneage Finch His Majesties Solicitor General Sir Thomas Peyton Sir Roger Twisden Sir Edward Hales Sir Edward Monins Sir Henry Palmer Sir John Rivers sir John Sidley Sir William Meredith Sir Edward Deering Sir Thomas Style Sir Oliver Botteler Sir Norton Knatchbull Sir Peter Heyman sir John Tufton Sir John Raney Sir Richard Hardres Sir Henry Wood Sir Robert Hales Sir Bazil Dixwell Sir VVilliam Ducy sir Marmaduke Gresham sir William Wilde sir Stephen Leonard sir Humphrey Miller sir Edward Honywood sir John Marsham sir John Banckes sir Robert Barnham Baronets sir Nathaniel Powell sir Robert Austen sir John Seyliard sir John Wroth sir Jonathan Keate Baronets Sir George Sonds Knight of the Bath sir John Mennes Comptroller of His Majesties Navy sir Robert Honywood sir Anthony Aucher sir Isaac Sydley sir VVilliam Man sir Thomas Godfrey sir Richard Sandys sir Thomas Engham sir Arnold Braems sir Henry Oxinden sir Edward Master sir George Juxon sir VVilliam Brodnax sir John Darrel sir Thomas Scot sir Francis Clerke sir Edward Filmore sir Thomas Culpeper sir Theophilus Biddolph sir Richard Betenson sir VVilliam Leech sir Edmond Peirce sir William Boreman sir Bernard Hyde sir William Swan sir Anthony Bateman sir Walter Vane sir John Heath Attourney of the Dutchy sir Thomas Lee sir William Hugeson sir William de Laune Knights sir William Cage Knight Thomas Broome Serjeant at Law Silas Titus Groom of His Majesties Bedchamber Thomas Hardres Recorder of the City of Canterbury Captain John Stroude Lieutenant of Dover Castle John Boys of Fredvil Richard Master Thomas Culpeper of Hackington Thomas Peke Thomas Crispe of Queux Walter Braems Thomas Brodnax Edward Master Thomas Turner William Rooke John Boys of Hoade John Best John Cason Henry Oxinden of Brooke Richard Aldworth Esquire Doctor John Sabin Herbert Randolph Gentleman Nicholas Toke Henry Thornehill John Knatchbull James Brockman Maurice Diggs Henry Deering Edward Hales Richard Hulse John Nayler Esquires Robert Lewkenor Peter Heymon John Moyle Zouch Brockman John Nowrs Gentlemen Thomas Fludd William Cage Francis Barneham Maximilian Dallison Ferdinando Marsham Demetrius James George Curteis Thomas Knatchbul Richard Wilkinson John Mum Ralph Bufkin Walter Franklin Richard Marsh Thomas English Robert Oliver John Smith Thomas Harlakenden Henry Haughton Alabaster Fludd Francis Twisden Captain John Clerke Thomas Lake Recorder of Maidstone Richard Duke William Maddox Esquires The Mayor of Rochester for the time being Richard Allen Recorder of Rochester George Newman Richard Manley George May Richard Head Charles Bickerstaffe Robert Fowler Francis Barrel Esquire Stephen Alcocke senior Thomas Manley Gentleman Laurence Booke Thomas Brewer Robert Masters Samuel Boys William Boys Thomas Culpeper of Bedgbury Edward Finch John Horsemanden Anthony Fowle Robert Fowle John Hugeson John Bunce Thomas Lambert David Polhill Philip Packer George Polhill Henry Gilburn William Hooker John Scott Mark Cottle John Hyde Norton Curteys Robert Heath Francis Heath John Austin John Evelin William Swan John Seyliard Nicholas Tooke senior James Fortrey Nicholas Tooke junior William Boothby Christopher Allanson _____ Bevin Thomas Manning _____ Petley John Bridger _____ Farnaby Edward Badby John Sedley Esquires James
Rivet Roger Gallop Francis Tilney Henry Bromfield William Pit Arthur Bold VVilliam Collins Edward Norton Daniel Norton VVilliam Wither John Worseley senior Edward Worseley Edward Cooke John Ball Edward Hooper of Chilworth Edward Hooper of Hurne-Court Francis Dickins John Stewkley Bartholomew Price Daniel Kingsmel John Kingsmel Henry Tulfe Thomas Edmonds Robert Oxenbridge Robert Goffe Richard Love Gabriel Whistler Thomas Newnham John Dean John Oglander William Wall Challoner Chute Henry Kelsey Henry Goddard VVilliam Lisle Andrew Wall Richard Ailiffe Edward Hyde Anthony Yalden Essex Pawlet Stephen Fox John Culpeper Walter Slingsby Alexander Culpeper John Dingly Esquires and Richard Rudyard Gent. For the Town and County of Southampton VVilliam Stanley Robert Richbil William Horne Thomas Cornelius James Clungeon Henry Pit George Steptoe Esquires For the City of Winchester William Tayler Richard Dennet Eâ—mund Fifeild Benjamin Clarke John Munday John Colson the Mayor of Winton the Mayor of Southampton the Mayor of Portsmouth the Mayor of Newport the Mayor of Basingstoke the Bailiff of Andevor for the time being John Bowreman Thomas Legg James Rice Mores Read Gent. Suffolk For the County of Suffolk Sir Edward Turnor Knight Speaker of the House of Commons Walter Devereux Esquire sir Edmond Bacon sir Lyonel Tolemache sir Henry Felton sir Robert Kempe sir William Spring sir John Castleton sir Henry Bacon sir Henry North sir Thomas Cullam sir Gervace Elwies sir Thomas Darcy sir Robert Cordal sir John Rous sir Robert Brooke sir Samuel Barnardiston sir Philip Parker Baronets sir William Playters sir Henry VVood sir Charles Gawdy sir George Reeve sir Edward Duke sir VVilliam Doyly sir Thomas Bernardiston Knights and Baronets sir Dudley North sir Nicholas Bacon and sir John Knivet Knights of the Bath sir Henry Crofts sir Edmund Poley sir John Duncomb sir Robert Brooke sir Thomas Harvy sir George VVeneve sir John Poley sir Nevil Catlin sir William Bloys sir Thomas Smith sir Philip Parker sir Jeofrey Burwel sir Philip Meadow sir William Doyley and sir Edmund Barker Knights John Havey Thomas VValgrave Thomas Holland John Poley Richard Cooke Charles Stutteril John Sicclemore John Southby William Gipps Clement Heigham Benjamin Cutler of the Chauntry VVilliam Bloys Henry VVarner Thomas Stewart Thomas VVright Joseph Bland John Playters John Cole Robert Mattyward Hamond Claxton Robert Style Fitznoune Lambe Henry Coppinger Thomas Anis Edward Feilder Peregrine Doyley Thomas Dade Thomas Scrivener Henry North John Lambe Edward North William Acton John Wentworth Robert Butts Thomas Butts Francis Cheney Robert Maniot William Rivet Robert Nanton Gardner Web Robert King Charles Cornwallis John Rivet Thomas Golding Edmund Plum Edward Man junior Edmund Clench Richard Kirkeby Thomas Tyril Francis Theobald William Beaumont Michael Grigg Thomas Leman Reginald Williams Thomas Vesey Philip Howard William Dawtry William Gooch Framlingham Gawdy Ptolemy Tolemache William Jermy Henry Parker Thomas Bacon John Brame of Ash Humphrey Bowen John Bedingfield Thomas Day Miles Edgar Samuel Kenidge Edmund Shepheard William Cullum Edmund Gardner Robert Browning Henry Stebbing John Brook John Cornwallis William Blomfield Robert Gosnold Wiseman Bokenham John Thurston Thomas Edgar Tho. Allen Vice-Admiral Rob. Wright Esq The Mayor of Sudbury for the time being Joh. Warner William Byat Gentlemen The Bailiffs of Dunwich for the time being For the Borough of Ipswich The Bailiff for the time being Sir Emanuel Sorels Knight William Bloys John Sicklemore Esquires Nicholas Phillips John Robinson John Smithier Robert Clerke Gilbert Lingfeild Edward Man junior Gentlemen For the Borough of St. Edmonds-bury The Aldermen for the time being John Southeby Esquire Recorder Sir Edmund Poley Sir John Duncomb Knights James Cob Esquire Francis Brown Robert Sharp Stephen Cook Samuel Hustler Edward Bourn Gentlemen For the Borough of Aldborough The Bailiff for the time being Sir John Holland Baronet Sir Robert Brooke Knight William Shipman Thomas Elliot Richard Browne and John Burwood Gentlemen For the Borough of Orford The Mayor for the time being Walter Devereux Esquire Sir Allen Broderick Knight Joseph Hastings Thomas Hastings James Coppin Edward Ewen Edward Parker Martin Folkes John Harwel and Edward Johnson Gentlemen Surrey For the County of Surrey and Borough of Southwark Charles Earl of Ancram of the Kingdom of Scotland Francis Lord Angier of the Kingdom of Ireland Sir Edward Nicholas Knight one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council Benjamin Weston Esquire Sir Henry Capel Knight of the Bath Sir Francis Vincent Knight and Baronet Sir Walter St. Johns Sir Adam Browne Baronets Sir Thomas Trevor Knight and Baronet Sir John Robinson Knight and Baronet Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Richard Brown Knight and Baronet Sir William Moore Sir John Eveling Sir Marmaduke Gresham Sir Richard Stydolph Sir John Bromfield Sir Abraham Cullen and Sir Thomas Hooke Baronets Sir John Nicholas and Sir VVilliam Terringham Knights of the Bath Sir William Throckmorton Knight Marshal Sir Ralph Freeman Knight one of the Masters of Request Sir John Lenthal Sir Edmund Bowyer Sir John Shaw Sir Charles Howard sir William Haward sir George Ascough sir Robert Long sir Edward Wingfeild sir Thomas Bloodworth sir Daniel Harvy sir Robert Parkhurst sir Richard Hatton sir Allen Broderick sir Nicholas Carew sir Edward Bishe sir James Austin and sir William Turner Knights Henry Hilyard Arthur Onslow George Chute Roger James John Scot Edward Thurland Christopher Buckle Edward Evelin Thomas Foster Anthony Bower Edward Nicholas William Hoskins George Evelyn Richard Evelyn VVilliam Elliot Anthony Thomas John Helinden James Zouch Henry Weston Thomas Dalmahoy George Smith Dawes Wymondesold John Dawes George Browne William Muschamp John Thynne George Moore George Garth Thomas Turges Matthew Carleton Roger Duncomb George Duncombe George Woodruffe George Vernon Henry Henn George Duke Edward Knipe Jeofry Howland Edward Barker Samuel Rouse John Hammond John Thinne junior James Gresham Edward Eversfield Harmon Atwood Charles Good Thomas Lee Peter Hussey Richard Heath Vincent Randal Nicholas Miller John Parker Thomas Rogers Doctor Windebank Laurence Marsh George Turner Theophilus Holman Thomas Arden Henry Byne John Heather Richard Syms Ellis Crisp Edward Smith Edward Warcup and John Angel Esquires John Jordan of Ditton John Robinson John Wight William Streete William Boothby Peter Quinnel senior Iohn Jones VVilliam Westbrooke Richard VVest Caleb Westbrook The Mayor of Guilford for the time being John Child James Burton Richard Lewyn William Canon John Wilkinson Ottnel Meverel William Lock Iohn Neale Simon Nicholas Hugh Layton Peter Delanoy James Reading Edward Ball George Meggot John Luntly Jacob May Thomas Butler Thomas Morgaine Tobias Solby and Benjamin Collier Gentlemen Sussex For the County of Sussex Joscelyn Lord Percy Son and Heir apparent to Algernon Earl of Northumberland Thomas Leonard John Pelham sir William Culpeper sir Cecil Bishop sir John Covert sir VVilliam Thomas sir John Stapeley sir John Fagg sir Denny Ashburnham sir Walter Henley sir William VVilson Baronets sir John Lewkener and sir William Morley Knights of the Bath sir Thomas Dyke sir Edward Ford sir John Morley sir Thomas Woodcock sir
and paid in to the Receiver-General of the said several Counties who shall be appointed by His Majesty And who are hereby required to transmit or cause the same to be paid into His Majesties Receipt of His Exchequer on or before the first day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and five The second payment And the sum of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds six shillings eight pence being the second of the said quarterly Payments on or before the first day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty five The third payment And the sum of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds six shillings and eight pence being the third of the said quarterly Payments on or before the first day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty five And the sum of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds six shillings eight pence The fourth payment being the fourth of the said quarterly Payments on or before the first day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty five And the sum of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds six shillings eight pence being the fifth of the said quarterly payments The fifth payment on or before the first day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty six And the sum of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds six shillings eight pence being the sixth of the said quarterly payments The sixth payment on or before the first day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty six And the summe of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds six shillings eight pence being the seventh of the said quarterly payments on or before the first day of November The seventh payment in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty six And the summe of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds six shillings eight pence The eight payment being the eighth of the said quarterly payments on or before the first day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty six And the summe of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds six shillings eight pence The ninth payment being the ninth of the said quarterly payments on or before the first day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty seven And the summe of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds six shillings eight pence being the tenth of the said quarterly payments The tenth payment on or before the first day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty seven and the sum of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds six shillings eight pence being the eleventh of the said quarterly payments on or before the first day of November The eleventh payment in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty seven and the sum of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds The twelfth payment six shillings eight pence being the twelfth of the said quarterly payments on or before the First day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty seven And for the compleating of the whole sum charged upon the same and to the end the aforesaid sums charged upon the several and respective Counties Cities Burroughs Towns and places may be equally and indifferently Assessed according to the true intent of this Act and the money duly Collected The duty of the Assessors and true accompt thereof made the said Assessors are hereby required to deliver one Copy of their respective Assessments fairly written and subscribed by them unto the said Commissioners and the said Commissioners or any two or more of them are hereby ordered and required to Sign and Seal two Duplicates of the said Assessements and the one of them to deliver or cause to be delivered to one or more honest and responsible person or persons to be Subcollector or Subcollectors Subcollectors for each parish which the said Commissioners are hereby authorized to nominate and appoint for each Parish or Place with Warrant to the said Subcollector or Subcollectors to Collect the said Assessment payable as aforesaid so as the said several sums may be paid into the said Receivers General and by them into the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer at the respective times aforesaid and the said Commissioners are hereby required to deliver Duplicates to be transmitted into the Exchequer or cause to be delivered the other of the said Duplicates of each Parish or place to the Receiver General of each County City Town or place respectively to be by him the said Receiver-General transmitted into the Kings Remembrancers Office in the Exchequer which the said Receiver General is required to perform accordingly And be it further Enacted and Declared That the said Commissioners in their respective Divisions or Hundreds The Commissioners to nominate a Head Collector for each division or any two or more of them shall and are hereby impowred to nominate and appoint under their Hands and Seals an honest able and responsible person to be Head-Collector unto whom the moneys received by the Subcollectors within the Division or Hundred shall from time to time be duely paid And the said Head-Collector is hereby required upon the Receipt thereof to pay the same forthwith to the Receiver-General of each County respectively How Collectors and Sub-collectors shall pay the moneys received And be it further Enacted and Declared That the particular Collectors and Subcollectors are hereby required to pay in all and every the sums so received by them to the said Receivers-General aforesaid who are hereby required forthwith to transmit or cause to be paid the moneys by them received into the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer And the said Lord Treasurer is hereby Authorised to allow the said Receiver-General of each County City and Town respectively Allowances to the Receivers General in case he hath returned up as aforesaid a Duplicate of the Assessment of each Parish or Place in the County City or Town for which he is appointed Receiver-General a Salary for his pains not exceeding one peny in the pound upon the cléering of his Accompt which Duplicate so to be returned into the Kings Remembrancers Office in the Exchequer is intended to contain no more then the sums in gross to be collected by each Sub-collector and the several names of the said Sub-collectors And it is hereby further Enacted and Declared Allowances to Sub-collectors That the
the Coals which shall be otherwise sold or exposed to sale by any Woodmonger or Retailer of Coals and the double value thereof to be recovered by any person or persons that will prosecute for the same in any Court of Record or by way of complaint made unto the Lord Mayor of London for the time being and Iustices of Peace within the City of London and Liberties thereof or to any two of them or to the Iustices of Peace of the several and respective Counties and Places where such Coals shall be exposed to sale or any of them who are hereby Impowred and Required to call the Parties before them and to hear and examine such Complaint upon Oath which by vertue of this Act is to be administred by them or any Two of them and upon due proof thereof made to their satisfaction to Convict the Offenders and to give Warrant under their Hands and Seals for levying the Forfeitures accordingly the one half thereof to be to and for the use of the person or persons so prosecuting or complaining and the other half to and for the use of the Poor or repairing of the High-wayes within the same Parish or any other adjoyning Parish or Parishes to be appointed and apportioned by the direction of the said Lord Mayor and Iustices by such their Warrant as aforesaid And the said Lord Mayor of London and the Court of Aldermen for the time being Who may set Rates upon Coals in London and the Iustices of Peace of the several Counties respectively or any thrée or more of them whereof one to be of the Quorum are hereby impowred to set the Rates and Prises of all such Coals as shall be sold by Retail as they from time to time shall judge reasonable allowing a competent profit to the said Retailer beyond the price paid by him to the Importer and the ordinary charges thereupon accruing And that if any Ingrosser or Retailer of such Coals shall refuse to sell as aforesaid Ingrossers or Retailers refusing to â—ell at the said Rates That then the said Lord Mayor and Aldermen and Iustices of Peace respectively are hereby authorised to appoint and impower such Officer or Officers or other persons as they shall think fit to enter into any Wharf or other place where such Coals are stored up And in case of refusal taking a Constable to force entrance and the said Coals to sell or cause to be sold at such Rates as the said Lord Mayor and Aldermen and Iustices respectively shall judge reasonable rendring to such Ingrosser or Retailer the money for which the said Coals shall be so sold necessary charges being deducted The continuance of this Act. Provided That this Act shall continue for thrée years next ensuing and thenceforth to the end of the next Session of Parliament and no longer Provided also That no person or persons that shall be sued by vertue of this Act for not observing thereof shall be sued upon any other Act or Law now in force for the same offence And if any Action shall be commenced against any Iustice of Peace Persons sued upon this Act may plead the general issue Constable or other Officer or Person for any thing done by colour of this Act the Defendant in every such Action may plead the general Issue and give the special matter in Evidence And if the Verdict be found for him or the Plaintiff become Non-suited shall recover and have his Damages and double Costs of suit for his unjust Vexation in that behalf Who may not act in setting Rates upon Coals Provided always That no Person having any Interest in any Wharf used for the receiving or uttering of Coals or that doth or shall Trade by himself or others in his own or any other name in the sale of any Coals or the Engrossing the same in order to sell the same and not for his own private use onely shall act or otherwise intermeddle in the setting the Price of Coals Any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding CAP. III. For the Returning of able and sufficient Jurors FOr the returning of more able and sufficient Iurors for Trials hereafter to be had betwéen Party and Party and for reformation of abuses in Sheriffs and other Ministers who for reward do oftentimes spare the ablest and sufficientest and return the poorer and simpler Fréeholders less able to discern the Causes in question and to bear the charges of appearance and attendance thereon Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same Iurors for trials of issues shall have 20 l. per annum Freehold That all Iurors other then Strangers upon Tryals per medietatem linguae who are to be returned for the Tryals of Issues joyned in any of the Kings Majesties Courts of Kings Bench Common-Pleas or the Exchequer or before Iustices of Assize or Nisi Prius Oyer and Terminer Gaol-Delivery or General or Quarter-Sessions of the Peace from and after the twentieth day of April which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty five in any County of this Realm of England shall every of them then have in their own name or in trust for thâ—â— within the same County twenty pounds by the year at least above reprises in their own or their wives right of Free-hold Lands or of ancient Demesne or of Rents in Fee Fee-tail or for life And that in every County within the Dominion of Wales every such Iuror shall then have within the same eight pounds by the year at the least above reprises in manner aforesaid All which Persons having such Estate as aforesaid are hereby enabled and made lyable to be returned and to serve as Iurors for the Tryal of Issues before the Iustices aforesaid Any Law or Statute to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And if any of a lesser Estate and value shall be respectively returned upon any such Iury or Tales in default of such Iurors it shall be a good cause of Challenge and the Party returned shall be discharged upon the said Challenge or his own Allegation and Oath thereof And that no Iury-mans Issues making default shall be saved but by special Order of the Iudge or Iudges before whom the Issue is to be tryed Issues of Iurors upon default for some just and reasonable cause proved upon Oath before the same Iudge or Iudges And all such Issues shall be duly estreated and levied The Ven ' fac And that the Writ of Venire facias which from and after the aforesaid time shall be awarded and directed for the impannelling of Iuries in cases aforesaid within any County of England shall be in this form Rex c. Praecipimus c. quod venire fac coram c. duodecem liberos legales homines
Road safety and preservation of Ships that may resort thither as well in peril of Storms as otherwise to lade or unlade their Goods and to alter repair and amend the same or any part of it from time to time as oft as néed shall require And to the end that the making the said River Navigable and passable for Barges Boats Lighters and other Vessels and the erecting and making the said Haven Channels Sasses Locks Wears Turnpikes Penns for Water Wharfs Bridges Ways and Passages as aforesaid or other things may not be any way prejudicial to the Inheritance Possession or profit of any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate whatsoever that have any Lands Tenements Wears or Hereditaments adjoyning unto the said River or Streams Brooks new Chanels and Passages as aforesaid or any of them or through which the same shall be made or cut as aforesaid Satisfaction to parties endamaged in any of their lands Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Vndertakers before they do meddle with the Lands Inheritance Possession or Profit of any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate shall first agrée with such persons Bodyes Politick or Corporate for the loss or damage that any of them shall or may any way receive by the making or altering the said Haven Channels Wharfs Sasses Locks Wears and Passages or procure some Order therein to be made by the Commissioners to be Assigned for that purpose as hereafter in this present Act is expressed And for the better effecting of the premisses and the due rating of the value of the things to be compounded for by the true intent of this Statute if the Parties shall not agrée Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Commissioners for compounding with persons so damnifide That at the request and charges of the said Vndertakers One or more Commission or Commissions under the Great Seal of England shall be granted to Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of England Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery William Lord Herbert of Cardiffe Henry Lord Viscount Cornbury George Lord Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Winchester for the time being John Lord Bishop of Sarum and the Bishop of Sarum for the time being William Lord Sands Robert Lord Brook Anthony Lord Ashly Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Edward Nicholas Knight One of His Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council Sir Robert Hyde Knight Lord Chief Iustice of the Kings Bench Sir Wadham Windham Knight one of the Iustices of the Kings Bench Sir George Grubham How Baronet Sir Joseph Ash Baronet Sir John Nicholas Knight of the Bath sir John Low Knight sir Robert Mason Knight sir Thomas Mompesson Knight sir John Clobery Knight Stephen Fox Esquire Clerk of the Gréen-Cloth and one of the Citizens for the City of New-Sarum John Joyce Mayor of the City of New-Sarum and the Mayor of the City for the time being Richard Coleman Esquire Recorder of the City of New-Sarum and the Recorder of the same City for the time being Francis Roll Esquire High Sheriff of the County of Southampton Lawrence Hyde Esquire Humphrey VVeld Esquire Edward Hyde of Hatch Esquire Richard How Esquire John Holt the elder of the Close of the City of New-Sarum Esquire George Vennerd of the City of New-Sarum Esquire Edward Manning Esquire Richard Compton Esquire Thomas Knowles Esquire Philip Lee Esq Walter Bockland Esq VVilliam Swanton Esq Roger Gallop Esq Edward Hooper of Huncourt Esq Will. Tulse Esq John Hobby Esq Henry Tulse Esquire Henry VVhitehead Esq The Mayor of VVilton for the time being and the Mayor of Christ-Church for the time being Samuel Percival Esquire VVilliam Lisle Esquire and Philip Percival Gentleman The power of the said Commissioners Which said Commissioners or any seven or more of them not being Parties concerned shall have full power and Authority and are hereby impowred and Authorized by examination of witnesses upon Oath which Oath they or any seven or more of them have hereby power to administer or by any other lawful ways or means to examine here and determine all and all manner of Controversies Debates and Questions which shall happen and arise betwéen any persons whatsoever touching or concerning any matter or thing relating to the aforesaid Premisses or any part thereof And to appoint determine and decree what and how much satisfaction every such person or persons Body politick or Corporate shall have for or in respect of the loss to be by him her or them sustained notice being first given of their Méeting by Papers publickly affixed to the Church-doors or set up in the Market-places of the City of New-Sarum and the Towns of Christ-Church and Ringwood Ten days at the least before their Méeting declaring the time and place of their Meeting And also notice in writing being first left at the Dwelling-house of every Party concerned or at their usual place of abode or with some Tenant or Occupier of some House Land or Tenement of such party within fiftéen Miles of the said River Which said Determination Sentence and Decrée set down declared and pronounced by the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them and the Price and Recompence by them limited shall bind all Parties therein concerned in Possession Reversion or Remainder or otherwise and as well Infants Feme Coverts as others and their Heirs in Fée-Simple or in Tail and their Executors Administrators and Assigns and all claiming by from or under him her or them or any of them which Order Sentence and Decrée shall be set down in writing under the Hands and Seals of the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them within six wéeks after the first Resort to them for that cause according to this Act the same to be kept among the Records of the Sessions of the Peace for the City of New-Sarum by the Clerk of the Peace for the time being of the said City Transcripts whereof shall be delivered to the several Clerks of the Peace of the respective Counties of VVilts and Southampton to be by them kept upon Record amongst the Records of the Sessions of the said respective Counties All which shall be taken adjudged and déemed good and sufficient Evidence and proof in any Court of Record whatsoever And that upon payment of such sum or sums so ordered or agréed upon to the said persons concerned or tender thereof made at his or their Dwelling-house or the house of his or their Tenant of some Tenement house or Land of theirs within fiftéen miles of the said River and if they have no such Dwelling-house Land or Tenement or if upon such tender at their said Dwelling-house or the House Land or Tenement of such Tenant as aforesaid they refuse or are not ready to receive the same That upon payment of the said sum to the Mayor and Commonalty of the City of New-Sarum in the Council-Chamber of the said City
present Act That it shall and may be lawful to and for Watermen Boatmen Bargemen and other helpers of them in convenient places to have and use Winches Ropes and other Engines and with the same by strength of Men Horses or other Beasts or any of them going upon the Land or Banks near the said River or passages in convenient manner without the hindrance trouble or impeachment of any person or persons to Draw or Hale up the Barges Boats Lighters or other Vessels Provided always That neither the said Vndertakers nor Commissioners do make or cause to be made any landing Place Wharf or Key within the City of New-Sarum New-Sarum or the bounds or liberties thereof or within one mile of the same from Harnam-Bridge down the stream towards Christ-Church without the consent of the Lord Bishop of Sarum the Mayor and Recorder of the said City for the time being and the thrée antientest Aldermen of the said City or thrée of them first had and obtained And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Haven River Channels The River Havens c. to be under the Survey of the Vndertakers and Commissioners Trenches and all Wears Wharfs Sasâ—es Locks Turnpikes Penns for water and all other things whatsoever made and erected in order to making the said Haven and making Navigable the said River and Channel as aforesaid shall from henceforth be in the sole Rule Order and Survey of the said Vndertakers and Commissioners as aforesaid and not under the Survey or Order of any Commissioners of Sewers nor subject to a Commission of Sewers or any Laws or Statutes made for Sewers Any Law or Statute to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Action Bill Persons sued for acting upon this Act may plead the general Issue Plaint or Suit be brought in any of His Majesties Courts at VVestminster or elsewhere against any person or persons for or concerning any matter or thing by him them or any of them done advised or commanded to be done by vertue of this Act That it shall and may be lawful for every such person and persons and for all that act in their aid and assistance or by their commandment to plead the General Issue that he or they are not Guilty And to give this Act or any clause matter or thing herein contained in Evidence to the Iury that shall try the same for their justification without special Pleading of the same and shall thereupon take advantage of this Act as fully to all intents and purposes as if the same had been by them fully and well pleaded Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery shall and may have power authority and liberty if he shall see cause and find it to be necessary and convenient to the publick good to enlarge and make Navigable the River of VViley from Harnam-Bridge aforesaid so far as VVilton in the County of VVilts Wiley River and in order thereunto to put in execution the several Powers of this Act in relation to the said River of VViley in the same and as ample manner as the said River of Avon may be made Navigable by this Act and under the same Provisoes Restrictions and Limitations Anno XVII Caroli II Regis CAP. I. Twelve hundred and fifty thousand pounds granted to the Kings Majesty for his present further Supply VVE Your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons Assembled in Parliament having observed the Ways and Means by which Your Majesty hath béen enforced to Engage Your self in a War against the States of the United Provinces for the necessary Defence of Your own Crown and Dignity and the Safety and welfare of Your People Do with all humble Thankfulness acknowledge Your Majesties Care and Conduct in this Great Affair which as it hath béen already attended with very considerable Success so we shall daily pray that all Your Majesties Enterprises may still be crowned with Honour and Victory And although the continuing Insolence of Your Majesties Enemies and the doubtful Amity of some of Your Majesties Neighbours have made it necessary to provide for further and greater Expences in a time when the general Contagion hath much interrupted our Trade and Commerce Yet that Your Majesty may sée that we your Majesties Loyal Subjects do more consider our Zeal and Duty to your Majesty then any difficulties under which we labour We have chearfully and unanimously given and granted and by these presents do give and grant unto Your most Excellent Majesty the sum of Twelve hundred and fifty thousand pounds to be Raised and Levied in manner following And we do most humbly beséech Your Majesty That it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That the sum of Twelve hundred and fifty thousand pounds shall be Raised Levied 1250000 l. granted to his Majesty and paid unto your Majesty within the space of Two years in manner following That is to say Whereas in and by a certain Act of Parliament lately passed Entituled An Act for granting a Royal Aid unto the Kings Majesty of Twenty four hundred threescore and seventeen thousand and five hundred pounds 16 17 Car 2. cap. 1. to be Raised Levied and paid in the space of Three years It was amongst other things Enacted That the sum of Thréescore and eight thousand eight hundred and ninetéen pounds and nine shillings by the month for Thirty six months beginning from the Five and twentieth day of December 1664. should be Assessed Taxed Collected Levied and paid by Twelve Quarterly payments in the several Counties Cities Burroughs Towns and places within England and VVales and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed according to the several Rates and Proportions and in such manner as in the said Act is expressed One years payment whereof that is to say Four Quarterly Payments will be fully expired upon the Five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord 1665. And Two years payment more will be then to come and unexpired It is now further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid 52083 l. 6 s. 8 â— per mensem That the sum of Fifty two thousand fourscore and thrée pounds six shillings and eight pence by the moneth for Twenty four moneths beginning from the Five and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty five shall be Assessed Taxed Collected Levied and paid by Eight Quarterly payments in the several Counties Cities Burroughs Towns and places within England and VVales and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed over and above the sum of Thréescore and eight thousand eight hundred and ninetéen pounds and nine shillings by the moneth which is to
for the Establishing the Form of Making â—4 Car. 2. 〈◊〉 4 Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons in the Church of England according to the said Act or any other subsequent Act. And whereas they or some of them and divers other person and persons not Ordained according to the Form of the Church of England and as have since the Act of Oblivion taken upon them to Preach in unlawful Assemblies Conventicles or Méetings under colour or pretence of Exercise of Religion contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom have setled themselves in divers Corporations in England sometimes Thrée or more of them in a place thereby taking an opportunity to distill the poysonous Principles of Schism and Rebellion into the hearts of His Majesties Subjects to the great danger of the Church and Kingdom Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled Persons restrained from Inhabiting in Corporations and by the Authority of the same That the said Parsons Vicars Curates Lecturers and other persons in holy Orders or pretended holy Orders or pretending to holy Orders and all Stipendaries and other persons who have béen possessed of any Ecclesiastical or Spiritual Promotion and every of them who have not declared their unfeigned assent and consent as aforesaid and subscribed the Declaration aforesaid and shall not take and subscribe the Oath following The Oath I A. B. Do Swear That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King and that I do abhor that Traiterous Position of taking Arms by His Authority against His Person or against those that are Commissionated by him in pursuance of such Commissions And that I will not at any time endeavour any Alteration of Government either in Church or State And all such person and persons as shall take upon them to Preach in any unlawful Assembly Conventicle or Méeting under colour or pretence of any Exercise of Religion contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom shall not at any time from and after the Four and twentieth day of March which shall be in this present year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and five unless onely in passing upon the Road come or be within Five miles of any City or Town Corporate or Burrough that sends Burgesses to the Parliament within His Majesties Kingdom of England Principality of Wales or of the Town of Berwick upon Tweed or within Five miles of any Parish Town or place wherein he or they have since the Act of Oblivion béen Parson Vicar Curate Stipendary or Lecturer or taken upon them to Preach in any unlawful Assembly Conventicle or Méeting under colour or pretence of any Exercise of Religion contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom before he or they have taken and subscribed the Oath aforesaid before the Iustices of the Peace at their Quarter-Sessions to be holden for the County Riding or Division next unto the said Corporation City or Burrough Parish place or Town in open Court which said Oath the said Iustices are hereby Impowred there to Administer upon forfeiture for every such offence the sum of Fourty pounds of lawful English money The Penalty the one Third part thereof to His Majesty and his Successors the other Third part to the use of the poor of the Parish where the offence shall be committed and the other third part thereof to such person or persons as shall or will sue for the same by Action of Debt Plaint Bill or Information in any Court of Record at Westminster or before any Iustices of Assize Oyer and Terminer or Gaol-Delivery or before any Iustices of the Counties Palatine of Chester Lancaster or Durham or the Iustices of the great Sessions in Wales or before any Iustices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed Provided always and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons restrained from coming to any City Town Corporate Burrough Parish Town or place as aforesaid or for any other person or persons as shall not first take and subscribe the said Oath and as shall not frequent Divine Service established by the Laws of this Kingdom and carry him or her self reverently decently and orderly there to Teach any publique or private-School or take any Boarders or Tablers that are Taught or Instructed by him or her self or any other upon pain for every such offence to forfeit the sum of Forty pounds to be recovered and distributed as aforesaid Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall be lawful for any Two Iustices of the Peace of the respective County upon Oath to them of any offence against this Act which Oath they are hereby Impowred to Administer to Commit the Offender for Six moneths without Bail or Mainprise unless upon or before such Commitment he shall before the said Iustices of the Peace Swear and Subscribe the aforesaid Oath and Declaration Provided always That if any person intended to be Restrained by vertue of this Act shall without fraud or covin be Served with any Writ Subpoena Warrant or other Process whereby his personal appearance is required his obedience to such Writ Subpoena or Process shall not be construed an offence against this Act. CAP. III. For Uniting Churches in Cities and Towns Corporate FOrasmuch as the setled Provision for Ministers in most Cities and Towns Corporate within this Realm is not sufficient for the Maintenance of able Ministers fit for such places whereby Mean and Stipendary Preachers are entertained to serve the Cures there who wholly depending for their Maintenance upon the good will and liking of their Auditors have béen and are hereby under temptation of too much complying and suiting their Doctrine and Teaching to the humour rather then good of their Auditors which hath béen a great occasion of Faction and Schism and of the contempt of the Ministry The Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled being deeply sensible of the ill consequence thereof and piously desiring able Ministers in such places and a competent setled Maintenance for them by the Vnion of Churches which is also become necessary by reason of the great Ruine of many Churches and Parishes in the late ill times and otherwise Do therefore most humbly beséech Your most Excellent Majesty That it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty In what Cities and Towns and how Churches and Chappels may be united by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That in every City or Town Corporate and their Liberties within the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales which
therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That the Iustices of the Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas Iustices appointed to hear and determine differences between Landlords and Tenants c. and the Barons of the Coife of the Exchequer for the time being or any thrée or more of them sitting at the same time and place and not otherwise shall be and are hereby Authorized from time to time to hear and to determine all Differences and Demands whatsoever which have arisen or may any wise arise betwéen Landlords Proprietors Tenants Lessées Vnder-tenants or late Occupiers of any the said Houses or Buildings with their appurtenances or the Courts or Yards Grounds and Wharfs or any person or persons having or claiming any Estate Right Title Interest in Law or Equity or Trust Charge or Incumbrance of or in the same or their or any of their Heirs Executors Administrators Successors or Assigns or any other persons for touching or concerning the Repairing Building or Rebuilding of the said Houses or Buildings Yards Courts Grounds and Wharfs or any other Grounds lying within that part of the City and Suburbs thereof lately burnt pulled down or otherwise demolished defaced or otherwise ruined by reason of the said Fire or for or concerning the payment defalcation apportioning or abatement of any Rent or Rents other then Arrears of Rent onely due before the First day of September One thousand six hundred sixty and six or for or touching any Covenant Condition or penalty relating thereunto or for touching or concerning the prefixing or limiting of any time for such Repairs or new Building Rebuilding or any Rate or Contribution to be born or paid thereunto by any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate interessed in the premisses and all Incidents relating thereunto And that they or any thrée or more of them from time to time with or without any Adjournment summarily and sine forma figura Judicii and without the formalities of procéedings in Courts of Law or Equity shall and may upon the Verdict or Inquisition of Iurors testimony of witnesses upon Oath Examination of parties interessed or by all or any of the said ways or otherwise according to their Discretions procéed to the hearing and determining of the Demands or Differences betwéen the said parties concerning the premisses and that the definitive Order of the said Iustices and Barons or any thrée or more of them as aforesaid shall be final as betwéen the said parties their Heirs Executors Administrators Successors and Assigns and all claiming by from or under them as touching the matters contained in such Orders from which there shall be no Appeal or Review otherwise then as is hereafter mentioned Nor shall any Writ of Error or Certiorari lye for the removal or reversal of the same And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Iustices and Barons The Powers of the said Iustices or any thrée or more of them as aforesaid shall have Authority and are hereby Impowred where they shall think it convenient to Order the Surrendring Increasing Abridging Ceasing Determining or Charging of any Estates in the Premisses or to order new or longer Leases or Estates not excéeding Forty years to be made of any of the premisses by the Proprietors or Owners thereof or other persons interessed therein to any Tenant or Sub-Tenant or late Occupiers of the same their Executors Administrators Successors or Assigns at such Rents and Fines or without any Rent or Fine as they shall think fit unless in such Cases where the Laws of this Realm do forbid the Diminishing of ancient and accustomable Rents All which Orders according to the Tenors thereof shall be obeyed by all persons concerned therein respectively and shall conclude and bind them their Heirs Successors Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively notwithstanding any Disability in respect of Coverture Infancy Non-sanity of Memory Estate Tail or in Right of the Church or otherwise And that Infants Femes Covert Ideots persons of Non-sane Memory or beyond the Seas Tenants in Tail Bishops Deans and Chapters and other Ecclesiastical persons and their Successors Corporations and all other person or persons Bodies Natural and Politick their Heirs and Successors and their respective Interests shall be bound and concluded by such respective Order or Orders according to the Tenor or Purport thereof Any Law Statute or Custom or other matter or thing to the contrary notwithstanding And for the better Enabling the said Iustices and Barons to procéed with effect in the said Causes How to proceed upon Complaints Be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Iustices and Barons or any thrée or more of them as aforesaid upon the complaint or request of any person or persons concerned in any of the said Houses or Buildings and other the premisses shall issue out Notes or Warrants under their hands or the hands of any such thrée of them thereby warning the person or persons Bodies Politick and Corporate therein named and concerned in the said late Houses or Buildings and other the premisses in such Complaint mentioned to appear before them at such time and place as in such Note or Notes shall in that behalf be specified And upon appearance of the said person or persons summoned or upon default of appearance and Oath made of due notice given to him or them which Oath and all other Oaths necessary to the Execution of the Powers given by this Act the said Iustices and Barons or any thrée of them are hereby enabled to administer The said Iustices and Barons or any thrée of them may procéed to make such final and definitive Orders as aforesaid And that such service of the said Note or Notes as is usually allowed to be a good service in cases of Subpoena shall be accounted to be a good service in the cases aforesaid The said Indicature shall be a Court of Record And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Iustices and Barons or any thrée of them for the matters and according to the powers herein before mentioned shall be and shall be taken to be a Court of Record And that the Iudgements and Determinations that shall be made betwixt party and party by Authority of this Act shall be Recorded in a Book or Books of Parchment to be provided for that purpose And that every such Iudgement and Determination shall be Signed by thrée or more of the said Iustices or Barons Which said Book or Books of Record shall be placed and intrusted in the custody of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London for the time being to be kept with the Records of the said City and to remain as a perpetual standing Record unto which all persons concerned or which shall be concerned
shall or may repair to view the same and thereout to take Copies of all such Iudgements and Determinations as shall relate to him her and them And that none of the said Iustices and Barons shall take any Fée or Reward whatsoever directly or indirectly for any thing to be done by them by vertue or colour of this present Act. Officers And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for a reward of the Officers to be imployed herein A Table of Fees the said Iustices and Barons or any thrée or more of them as aforesaid are hereby enabled to order and direct a Table of such reasonable Fées to be made as may carry on and effect the purport and intent of this Act. This Act to continue till the last day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and eight The continuance of this Act. and no longer Proviso touching the renewing and reversing Orders or Decrees Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where any such Order or Decrée as aforesaid shall be made by a lesser number of Iustices and Barons then Seven it shall be lawful for any person agrieved by such Order or Decrée to present his Exceptions to the same in writing within seven days next after such Order or Decrée made to the Chief Iustices and Chief Baron for the time being or any two of them who shall forthwith communicate the same to the rest of the said Iustices and Barons who are hereby required to hear the Parties and examine and consider the said Exceptions And if any Seven or more of them shall subscribe thereunto that they find probable cause of complaint Then it shall and may be lawful to and for any Seven or more of the said Iustices Barons within Twenty days next following such Exceptions delivered to review the said former Order or Decrée And thereupon to reverse Confirm Enlarge Diminish or otherwise alter any such Order or Decrée as in their wisdoms they shall think fit Any thing herein contained notwithstanding CAP. III. For Rebuilding the City of London FOrasmuch as the City of London being the Imperial Seat of His Majesties Kingdoms and renowned for Trade and Commerce throughout the World by reason of a most dreadful Fire lately happening therein was for the most part thereof burnt down and destroyed within the compass of a few days and now lies buried in its own Ruines For the spéedy Restauration whereof and for the better Regulation Vniformity and Gracefulness of such new Buildings as shall be erected for Habitations in order thereunto And to the end that great and outragious Fires through the blessing of Almighty God so far forth as humane Providence with submission to the Divine pleasure can foresée may be reasonably prevented or obviated for the time to come both by the matter and form of such Building And further to the intent that all Incouragement and Expedition may be given unto and all Impediments and Obstructions that may retard or protract the undertaking or carrying on a work so necessary and of so great Honour and Importance to His Majesty and this Kingdom and to the rest of His Majesties Kingdoms and Dominions may be removed Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the Rules and Directions hereafter in this Act prescribed be duely observed by all persons therein concerned And first That no Building or House for Habitation whatsoever Rules and directions to be observed in building be hereafter Erected within the limits of the said City and Liberties thereof but such as shall be pursuant to such Rules and Orders of Building and with such materials as are herein after particularly appointed and according to such Scantlings as are set down and prescribed in a Table in this present Act hereafter specified And if any person or persons shall presume to Build contrary thereunto and be convicted of the same by the Oaths of two or more credible witnesses to be taken before the Lord Mayor for the time being or any two or more of the Iustices of the Peace for the said City Penalty who are hereby impowred to administer the same Oaths that then and in such case the said House so irregularly built as aforesaid shall be déemed as a common Nusance and the Builder and Levier thereof shall enter into a Recognizance in such sum as the said Mayor and Iustices respectively in their Discretions shall appoint for abatement and demolishing the same in convenient time or otherwise to amend the same according to such Rules and Orders as aforesaid and in default of entring into such Recognizance the Offender shall be committed to the common Gaol of the said City there to remain without Bail or Mainprize till he shall have abated or demolished or otherwise amended the same or else such irregular House shall or may be demolished or abated by Order of the Court of Aldermen And that the said irregular Buildings may be the better prevented or more effectually discovered Prevention of irregular buildings Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council of the said City shall and may at their will and pleasure elect nominate and appoint one or more discréet and intelligent person or persons in the Art of Building to be the Surveyors or Supervisors to sée the said Rules and Scantlings well and truly observed And that it shall be lawful for the said Mayor Aldermen and Common Council or for the Mayor and Aldermen in their Court of Aldermen to administer to all the said Surveyors or Supervisors an Oath upon the holy Evangelists for the true and impartial execution of their Office in that behalf and to appoint the several Precincts which shall be under their several Surveys And to the end that all Builders may the better know how to provide and fit their materials for their several Buildings Be it Enacted That there shall be onely Four sorts of Buildings There shall be four sorts of buildings only and no more and that all manner of Houses so to be erected shall be of one of those four sorts of Buildings and no other that is to say The First and least sort of Houses fronting By-Lanes the Second sort of Houses fronting Stréets and Lanes of note the Third sort of Houses fronting high and principal Stréets the Fourth and largest sort of Mansion-houses for Citizens or other persons of extraordinary quality not fronting either of the thrée former ways And the Roofs of each of the first three sorts of Houses respectively shall be Vniform And for avoiding any uncertainty to the Builders or others herein Be it further Enacted Powers of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council to declare Streets
Lanes c. That the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council of the said City for the time being shall on or before the first day of April next ensuing declare which and how many shall hereafter be accounted and taken to be By-lanes which and how many shall hereafter be déemed Stréets or Lanes of note and high and principal Stréets by Act of Common-Council to be passed for that purpose which Declaration being made as aforesaid all and singular the said Stréets and Lanes hereby intended to be rebuilt shall by Order of the said Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council or such persons as they under the Common Seal of the said City shall order and appoint be Marked or Staked out and distinguished to the end the Breadth Length and Extent thereof may be the better known and observed And if any person or persons whatsoever shall wittingly or willingly without good Authority pluck up or remove any of the said Stakes or Mark-stones thereby to obscure or confound the bounds of such Stréets or Lanes or any of them and shall be thereof legally convicted by the Oath of one Witness other then of the Informer to be taken before any one or more Iustices of the Peace of the said City That then the said Iustice or Iustices shall or may send such Offender to the Common-gaol of the said City there to remain by the space of thrée moneths without Bail or Mainprize unless he shall pay or cause to be paid to the use of the Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of the said City the sum of Ten pounds to be imployed in and towards the repairing of the publick Buildings of the said City Provided always That where any such Offence shall be committed by any person or persons of low and mean condition whom the said Iustice or Iustices of the Peace shall in his conscience believe to be unable to satisfie the said Penalties That then and in such case the said Iustice or Iustices of the Peace shall and may by Order and Warrant under his or their Hands and Seals cause such Offender to be openly whipped near unto the place where the Offence shall be committed till his body be bloudy And that it shall and may be lawful for the said Iustice or Iustices of the Peace to reward the said Informer out of the Pecuniary Penalty to be incurred according to his discretion not excéeding a Third part of the said Penalty And in regard the building with Brick is not onely more comely and durable but also more safe against future perils of Fire Building with Brick Stone Oak Be it further Enacted by and with the Authority aforesaid That all the outsides of all Buildings in and about the said City be henceforth made of Brick or Stone or of Brick and Stone together except Door-cases and Window-frames the Brest Summers and other parts of the first Story to the Front betwéen the Péers which are to be left to the discretion of the Builder to use substantial Oaken Timber in stead of Brick or Stone for conveniency of Shops And that the said Doors Brest Summers and Window-frames be sufficiently discharged of the burthen of the Fabrick by Arch-work of Brick or Stone either straight or circular The duty of the Surveyors and Supervisors And be it Enacted That the said Surveyors or Supervisors so to be appointed as aforesaid and every of them within their several Precincts shall take care That in Building of all Houses within the said City and Liberties thereof there be And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That there shall be Party-walls and Party-péers set out equally on each Builders ground to be built up by the first beginner of such Building And that convenient Toothing be left in the Front-wall by the said first Builder for the better joyning of the next House that shall be built to the same And that no man be permitted by the said Surveyors to build on the said Party-wall or on his own contiguous ground until he hath fully reimbursed the said first Builder the full moyety of the charges of the said Party-wall and Péers together with Interest for the same after the rate of Six pounds per Cent. per Annum for forbearance thereof to be accounted from the beginning of the said first building Who may determine Differences between first and later builders And in case any difference shall arise betwéen the first and later Builders concerning the true value of the said Charge That then the same be referred to the Alderman of that Ward where such Building shall be and to his Deputy to mediate an agréement of such difference And where the said Alderman and his Deputy or one of them shall be parties or where they cannot compose such difference as aforesaid That the matter be referred to the Examination of the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen who shall hear and finally determine the same without any Appeal to be had Houses of the first and last sort of building And be it further Enacted That the said Houses of the first and least sort of Building fronting By-stréets or Lanes as aforesaid shall be of two Stories high besides Cellars and Garrets That the Cellars thereof be six foot and a half high if the springs of water hinder not That the first Story be nine foot high from the Floor to the Cieling and the second Story nine foot high from the Floor to the Cieling That all Walls in front and réer as high as the first Story be of the full thickness of the length of two Bricks and thence upwards to the Garrets of the thickness of one Brick and an half and that the thickness of the Garret-walls on the back-part be left to the discretion of the Builder so that the same be not less then the length of one Brick And also that the thickness of the Party-walls betwéen these Houses of this first and lesser sort of Building be one Brick and an half as high as the said Garrets and that the thickness of the Party-wall in the Garrets be of the thickness of one Brick in length at the least and that the Scantlings of Timber and Stone to be used about the building thereof be as in the said Table are set down and prescribed Houses of the second sort of building And be it further Enacted That the Houses of the second sort of Building fronting Stréets and Lanes of note and the River of Thames shall consist of thrée Stories high besides Cellars and Garrets as aforesaid That the Cellars thereof be six foot and an half high if the springs of water hinder not That the first Story contain full ten foot in height from the Floor to the Cieling the second full ten foot the third nine foot That all the said Walls in front and réer as high as the first Story be of the full thickness of the length of two Bricks and an half and from thence upwards to the
said Mayor and Court of Aldermen who upon deliberate hearing of all Parties shall finally determine the same without further or other Appeal Common Sewers Drains and Vaults c. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the numbers and places for all common Sewers Drains and Vaults and the order and manner of paving and pitching the Stréets and Lanes within the said City and Liberties thereof shall be designed and set out by such and so many persons as the said Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty in Common Council assembled shall from time to time authorize and appoint under their Common Seal or the more part of them which said persons so authorized and appointed or any seven or more of them together with the said Surveyors or some or one of them within his or their Precinct respectively shall at their méeting have power and authority to order and direct the making of any new Vaults Drains and Sewers or to cut into any Drain or Sewer already made and for the altering inlarging amending cleansing and scouring of any old Vaults Sinks or Common Sewers For the better effecting whereof it shall and may be lawful to and for the said persons so authorized and appointed as aforesaid or any seven or more of them at their said méeting to impose any reasonable Tax upon all Houses within the said City and Liberties thereof in proportion to the benefit they shall receive thereby for and towards the new making cutting altering inlarging amending cleansing and scouring all and singular the said Vaults Drains Sewers Pavements and Pitching aforesaid And in default of payment of the said sums so to be charged it shall and may be lawful to and for the said persons so authorized as aforesaid or any seven or more of them by Order and Warrant under their hands and seals to levy the said sum and sums of money so assessed by Distress and sale of the goods of the party chargeable therewith and refusing or neglecting to pay the same rendring the overplus if any be And that all other Commissioners whatsoever be altogether suspended to intermeddle in the premisses within the said City and Liberties thereof for the space of seven years next and for so long after until the said intended Buildings shall be fully finished Any Law or Statute to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Mayor Noysome Trades prohibited in the High Streets Aldermen and Common Council of the said City from time to time to prohibit such Trades and Occupations as they shall judge noisom or perilous in respect of Fire to be used or exercised in the high or principal Stréets of the said City And forasmuch as the fréedom of openness of the Stréet conduceth much to the advancement of Trade and Ornament of the City Be it further Enacted That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty by Order of Common Council in that behalf to be made from time to time and at their will and pleasure Removing of Conduits in High Streets to remove out of any of the high Stréets all or any of the Conduits now standing or hereafter to be erected and to set up and to erect the same in such other publick places within the said City as they shall think fit or to contract the same into any smaller or lesser compass in the places where they now stand or hereafter shall be erected as aforesaid according to their discretions And whereas many antient Stréets and Passages within the said City and Liberties thereof and amongst others those which are hereafter mentioned were narrow and incommodious for Carriages and Passengers and prejudicial to the Trade and Health of the Inhabitants and are necessary to be inlarged as well for the Convenience as Ornament of the City Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Mayor Aldermen and Commons of the said City for the time being in Common Council assembled shall and may What Streets may be opened and enlarged and are hereby impowred and required to inlarge all and every the Stréets and Places hereafter mentioned where and in such manner as there shall be cause by and with the Approbation of His Majesty and not otherwise That is to say The Stréet called Fleetstreet from the place where the Greyhound-Tavern stood to Ludgate and from thence to Saint Paul's Church-yard The Stréet leading from the East end of Saint Pauls Church into Cheapside The Stréet and Passage at the East end of Cheapside leading into the Poultry The Stréet and Passage out of the Poultry leading into the West end of Cornhill at or near the place late called the Stocks The Stréet called Blow-bladder Street leading from the West end of Cheapside towards Newgate-Market And to inlarge the Stréet and Passage from thence towards Newgate-Market by laying the Ground where the Middle-Row in the Shambles there lately stood into the said Stréet and in like manner to inlarge the Passage from Newgate-Market towards Newgate by laying the Ground of the late four Houses betwéen Warwick-Lane end in Newgate-Market and the late Bell-Inne there into the Stréet And in like manner to inlarge as there shall be cause the Lane called Ave-Maria-Lane leading from Pater-Noster-Row to Ludgate-Street And the Stréet or Passage at the end of Saint Martins le Grand towards Blow-bladder Street aforesaid And also the Passage from Saint Magnus Church to the Conduit in Gracious-Street and the North end of Gracious-Street and also Thames-Street from the West-corner of Saint Magnus Church aforesaid to the Tower-Dock and to inlarge Old Fish-Street by laying the Middle-Row there into the Stréet And the said Mayor Aldermen and Common Council also shall and may by vertue of this present Act inlarge and make wider any other such strait and narrow passages within the said City as are less then fourtéen foot in breadth So as notice be given to the Owners or parties interessed in the Ground to be so taken for the inlarging thereof on or before the First day of May next ensuing And are and shall be also further enabled by vertue of this Act to make or cause to be made a new Stréet leading and extending from the Guild-Hall of the said City into Cheapside the same to be of such breadth and wideness as they shall judge méet and convenient And to the end that reasonable satisfaction may be given for all such Ground as shall be taken and imployed for the uses aforesaid The Mayor Aldermen Satisfaction to be made for Ground and Common Council shall and may treat and agrée with the Owners and others interessed therein And if there shall be any Persons Bodies Corporate or Collegiate that shall wilfully refuse to treat and agrée as aforesaid or through any disability by Nonage Coverture or especial Entail or other impediment cannot That in such cases the said Lord Mayor
and Court of Aldermen are hereby authorized by vertue of this Act to issue out a Warrant or Warrants to the Sheriffs of London who are hereby required accordingly to Impannel and return a Iury before the said Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen Which Iury upon their Oaths to be administred by the said Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen are to Inquire and Assess such Damage and Recompence as they shall judge fit to be awarded to the Owners and others interested according to their several and respective Interests and Estates of and in any such Houses or Ground or any part thereof for their respective Interests and Estates in the same as by the said Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons in Common Council assembled shall be adjudged fit to be converted for the purposes aforesaid And such Verdict of the Iury and Iudgement of the said Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen thereupon and the payment of the sum or sums of money so awarded or adjudged to the Owners and others having Estate or Interest or Tender and refusal thereof shall be binding to all intents and purposes against the said Parties their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns and others claiming any Title or Interest in the said Houses or Ground and shall be a full Authority for the said Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons to cause the same to be converted and used for the purposes aforesaid Houses which shall be bettered in value And forasmuch as the Houses now remaining and to be rebuilt will receive more or less advantage in the value of their Rents by the liberty of Air and frée Recourse for Trade and other Conveniencies by such Regulation and Inlargement It is also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case of refusal or incapacity as aforesaid of the Owners or others interessed of or in the said Houses to agrée and compound with the said Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons for the same Thereupon a Iury shall and may be Impannelled in manner and form aforesaid to Iudge and Assess upon the Owners and others interessed of and in such Houses such competent sum and sums of Money with respect to their several Interests in consideration of such improvement and melioration as in reason and good conscience they shall think fit And all sums of Money that shall be so Assessed and Raised as aforesaid shall be paid to the Chamberlain of the City of London for the time being who is hereby enabled from time to time to receive and recover the same by Action at Law and whose Receipt shall be a good Discharge to such Owners or others interessed And who is hereby appointed to receive and pay and be accomptable for the same according to such Directions as shall from time to time be given him by the said Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons And the Money so raised shall be wholly imployed towards payment and satisfaction of such Houses and Ground as shall be converted into Stréets Passages Markets and other publick places aforesaid And such satisfaction so given or tendered and refused as aforesaid shall devest the Propriety Estate and Interest of the respective Owners and others having Interest of and in such parcels of Ground so to be taken and imployed for the uses aforesaid by vertue of this Act Which shall be and are hereby actually Setled and Invested in the said Lord Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London and their Successors in like manner as other the Common-stréets and High-ways within the said City Who may hear and determine differences of several claims of Estates And in case any Controversies or Differences shall happen to arise betwéen several persons that shall claim several Estates or Interests into or out of any Grounds to be sold by the said Mayor Aldermen and Common Council or by them to be taken and disposed of by vertue and in pursuance of this Act to and for the uses aforesaid That then the Iustices of the Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas and Barons of the Coif of the Exchequer for the time being or any thrée or more of them shall be and are hereby authorized to hear and finally to order and determine the same in a summary way of procéeding and without the formalities or ordinary course of procéedings used in any the said Courts to order and award such Distribution to be made of the Money thereby arising for the satisfying of such several Interests and Claims as to them shall séem just and reasonable according to the respective Estate or Estates Title or Interests of the person or persons making Claim thereunto According to which order and distribution to be made and appointed by the said Iustices and Barons or any three or more of them the said Purchase-money shall be satisfied and paid by the said Chamberlain to the said several persons respectively The second of September appointed a day of Humiliation in the City yearly forever And that the said Citizens and their Successors for all the time to come may retain the Memorial of so sad a Desolation and reflect seriously upon their manifold Iniquities which are the unhappy causes of such Iudgements Be it further Enacted That the Second day of September unless the same happen to be Sunday and if so then the next day following be yearly for ever hereafter observed as a day of Publick Fasting and Humiliation within the said City and Liberties thereof to implore the Mercies of almighty God upon the said City to make devout Pray and Supplication unto him to divert the like Calamity for the time to come A Pillar to be set in memory of the Fire And the better to preserve the memory of this Dreadful Visitation Be it further Enacted That a Column or Pillar of Brass or Stone be erected on or as near unto the place where the said Fire so unhappily began as conveniently may be in perpetual Remembrance thereof with such Inscription thereon as hereafter by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen in that behalf be directed Tender of money at the Assurance Office or the Royal Exchange And be it Enacted And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Tenders of Money or Payment thereof which by any Bonds Covenants or other Obligations or Assurance whatsoever ought to be made in the late Assurance-Office or in any other place on the late Royal Exchange London shall or may be made at or in the present Assurance-Office in Gresham-House And shall be as valid and legal to all intents and purposes and discharge the Obligor as fully and amply as if they had béen made in the first intended place on the said Royal Exchange And it is hereby further Enacted That the Parish-Churches to be Rebuilded within the said City of London in lieu of those which were Demolished by the late Fire Parish Churches to be rebuilded shall not excéed the number of Thirty nine Which shall be set out and appointed by and with the
advice and consent of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London for the time being Provided also And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Scites and Materials of such Churches as by this Bill are not intended to be Rebuilt Scites and Materials of Churches to be sold and how imployed together with the Church-yards belonging to such Churches shall be and are hereby vested in the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London for the time being to the end so much of the said Ground as shall not upon the Rebuilding of the said City be laid into the Stréets be sold and disposed of by the said Lord Mayor and Aldermen or the major part of them for the time being with the consent of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London for the time being and the Money raised by such Sale shall be by the said Mayor and Aldermen or the major part of them with the consent of the said Archbishop and Bishop disposed of and imployed for and towards the Rebuilding of such Parish-Churches as by this Act are intended to be Rebuilt and for no other use or purpose whatsoever Provided always That any thing in this Act contained St. Pauls St. Faiths St. Gregories Churches shall not extend or be taken to vest or settle the Church of Saint Paul and Saint Faiths or any part thereof or the Church of Saint Gregories by Saint Pauls or any of them or the Church-yards to any of them belonging or appertaining in the Mayor Aldermen and Commons of the City of London or any of them Any thing in this Act notwithstanding And be it Enacted That for the preventing Inundations and for easiness of Ascent the Stréet called Thames-street and all the Ground betwéen the said Stréet and the River of Thames Thames-street shall be raised and made higher by thrée foot at the least above the surface of the ground as now it lieth Provided also And it is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no House Out-house or other Building whatsoever Cranes and Sheds for present use only excepted shall be built or erected within the distance of Forty foot of such part of any Wall Key or Wharf as bounds the River of Thames from Tower-Wharf to London-Bridge and from London-Bridge to the Temple-Stairs Nor any House Out-house or other Building Cranes onely excepted be Built or Erected within the distance of Thréescore and ten Foot of the middle of any part of the Common-Sewers commonly called or known by the names of Bridewell-Dock Fleet-Ditch and Turmil-Brook from the River of Thames to Clarkenwel upon either side of them before the Four and twentieth day of March which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty eight And for the further enabling of the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the said City of London and their Successors to perform and accomplish the works in this Act mentioned An Imposition upon Coals Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for all sorts of Coals which from and after the four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty seven and before the Four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred seventy seven shall be imported and brought into the Port of the City of London or the River of Thames within the liberty of the said City of London upon the same River to be sold by the Chaldron or Tun there shall be paid by way of Imposition thereupon over and besides all other Impositions and Duties due and payable for any sort of the said Coals by vertue of any Law or Statute now in force according to the Rates hereafter mentioned That is to say for such sorts of Coals as are usually sold by the Chaldron for every Chaldron thereof containing Thirty six bushels Winchester measure the sum of Twelve pence and for all such sorts of Coals as are sold by the Tun for every Tun thereof containing Twenty hundred weight the like sum of Twelve pence which said Imposition of Twelve pence for every Chaldron or Tun of Coals shall from time to time during the term aforesaid be answered and paid unto the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens and their Successors or to their Deputy or Deputies Officer or Assigns by the Master Owner or Owners or other person or persons taking charge of any Ship or Vessel whereupon the same shall be laden before they shall break Bulk or have a Meter assigned for the measuring or weighing of any Coals aforesaid to be delivered from on board any such Ship or Vessel the same to be paid at such place or places as by the said Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall from time to time be appointed for the receipt thereof Vpon receipt whereof the party appointed to receive the same shall without delay fée or reward deliver a Receipt to the person or persons who shall pay the said Duty which Receipt shall for so much be a sufficient discharge And to the end that the said Imposition may be duly answered and paid without fraud or covin and for the better Levying and Collecting thereof and for discovery of the just quantities of all sorts of Coals to be Imported as aforesaid Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Coal-meters for the City of London appointed or to be appointed and every of them Coal-meters Duty for Levying the same and their respective Deputies in their turn course of attendance respectively so soon as any Ship or Vessel freight with Coals shall be unladen shall forthwith deliver a true Certificate in writing unto the Deputy or Deputies Officers or Assigns of the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens who shall be appointed to receive the said Imposition of the sorts quantities and number of Chaldrons or Tuns of Coals respectively which shall be measured or weighed and delivered from on Board any such Ship or Vessel on pain for his or their default therein to be suspended from the execution and benefit of his or their Office or Imployment for one whole year from thence next following And in case it shall appear by such Certificate or otherwise That there was on Board any such Ship or Vessel a greater number of Chaldrons or Tuns of Coals then for which the said Imposition shall have béen answered and paid as aforesaid That then in such case there shall be paid to the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens and their Successors for every Chaldron or Tun of Coals so concealed over and above the Imposition aforesaid the sum of Five shillings for which in case of refusal to pay the same such Ship or Vessel or any the Tackle Furniture or Apparel thereof may be attached and detained by Warrant from the Mayor of the said City for the time being until payment thereof Provided nevertheless That if the Importer upon such Certificate delivered in by the Coal-meter shall within four and
twenty hours give in his Post-entry and satisfie and pay the whole Duty for the surplusage of Coals appearing upon the unlading of such Ship or Vessel That then upon such payment the penalty aforesaid shall be discharged How the said Imposition shall be disposed And be it further Enacted That all and every such sum and sums of Money which shall be raised upon the Receipt of the said Imposition of Twelve pence for every Chaldron or Tun of Coals or by such additional Duty in case of concealment as aforesaid shall in the first place be applied and disposed unto and for the satisfaction of such persons whose Grounds shall by vertue and in pursuance of this Act be taken and imployed for the inlarging of the Stréets and narrow Passages within the said City And after satisfaction given for the same the residue of the said Moneys shall be applied and disposed unto and for the satisfaction of such persons whose Grounds shall be imployed for the making of Wharfs or Keys on the North-side of the River of Thames and upon each side of the Sewer called by the name or names of Bridewell-Dock Fleet-Ditch and Turnmill-Brook and also for the building and making such Prisons within the said City as shall be necessary for the safe Custody and Imprisonment of Felons and other Malefactors And the Accompts of Reâ—eiâ—s and disbursements thereof kept And to the end the Moneys to be raised upon the Imposition aforesaid may be duly applied to the uses for which the same is by this Act appointed Be it further Enacted That there shall from time to time be provided and kept in the Chamber of London one or more Book or Books of Vellam or Parchment in which all moneys thereupon to be received shall from time to time be entred and set down And also other like Book or Books wherein the Accompts of all Payments and Disbursements out of the same shall be likewise entred expressing the time when the occasion for which and the name of the person or persons to whom the same were so paid or disbursed And that it shall and may be lawful to and for all and every person and persons that shall or may be in any wise concerned so to do to have frée access unto and view the said respective Books of Receipts and Disbursements at all times when the Chamberlains Office is open without any Fée or Reward to be taken or demanded for the view or inspection thereof And that the Chamberlain of London for the time being before the end of Michaelmas Term in every year shall transmit and upon his Oath deliver into the Receipt of the Exchequer a true Copy or Duplicate of the aforesaid Books of Accompts containing the Receipts and Disbursements of all moneys which shall be raised and paid by or out of the said Imposition upon Coals in the year preceding and ending upon the Four and twentieth day of June next before there to be received gratis by the proper Officer and kept amongst the Records of the said Court where it shall also be lawful for any person or persons who shall be in any wise concerned so to do to have access thereunto and to view and peruse the said Books of Accompts without any Fée or Reward to be taken or received for the same Thomas Morris his Water-House Provided always That it shall and may be lawful for the Water-house called Mr. Thomas Morris his Water-house formerly adjoyning to London-Bridge to be rebuilt upon the place it formerly stood with Timber for the supplying the South-side of the City with water as it for almost this hundred years hath done Any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Water-Lane Street Provided also And it is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London may and shall open and inlarge a Stréet or Passage called Water-Lane leading from Fleetstreet to White-Friers-Dock by the River of Thames as also open and inlarge a Stréet or Passage to the said River from Cheap-side through Soper-Lane to Thames-Street and from the Three-Cranes to the Thames And open and inlarge one other Stréet or Passage through Mincing-Lane Mincing-Lane by St. Dunstans in the East to Thames-Street near the Custom-House And to make the said Stréets or Passages twenty four foot in breadth for the conveniency of Trade and better passage of Carts and other Carriages to and from the said River giving notice of what they shall herein resolve to the Proprietors and Persons concerned before the last day of May which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty seven and giving them satisfaction for their Ground according to the Rules and Directions of this Act for the inlarging of other Stréets and Places A Scheme of Proportions and Scantlings for Stories Walls and Timbers for the Building of lesser and larger Houses within the City of LONDON Brick Division of Story  Height of Story  Thickness of Walls   Bricks    Foot   Bricks   First sort being the least Houses fronting by-streets Lanes Cellars  6½  To the first floor 2  1½ 1 Story  9  2d 1½  1½ 2 Story  9  3d 1½  1½ Garrets      1  1   Where the Spring prevent not      2  Cellars  6 2 1  To the first Floor 2½  1½ Second sort Houses fronting all streets lanes of note and River of Thames 1 Story  10  2d 2 Thickness of Walls between House and House 1½ 2 Story  10 Thickness of Walls in Front and Reer from the Foundation 3d 2  3 Story Not less in height clear then 9 4th 1½ 1½  Garrets     1  1  1 Story  10  1st 2½  2 Third sort Houses fronting all High-streets and Lanes of note 2 Story  10½  2d 1½  1½ 3 Story  9  3d 1½  1½ 4 Story  8½  4th 1½  1½ Garrets     1  1 Scantlings of Timber for the first sort of Houses   Foot Inches  Inches For the Floors Summers under 15 12 and 8 Wall-plates  7 and 5   Foot at foot 8 6 Inches For the Roof Principal Rafters under 15 at top 5 Single Rafters 4 and 3 Inches  Length Foot Thickness  Depth Joysts to 10 3 7 Inches Garrets-floors  3  6 Scantlings of Timber for the other two sorts of Houses For the Floors Summers or Girders which bear in length from Foot  Foot Breadth Inches  Depth Inches  Thickness Inches Depth Inches 10 to 15 11 and 8 Joysts which bear 10 Foot 3 6 15  18 13  9 3 7 18  21 14  10 3 7 21  24 16  12 3 8 24  26 17
direction or true intent of any Act or Ordinance or reputed Act or Ordinance of one or both houses of Parliament or of any Convention sitting at Westminster under the Name Stile or Title of a Parliament or assuming that Name Stile or Title shall be and shall be adjudged estéemed and taken to be and to have béen of the same and no other force and effect as if such Marriages had béen had and solemnized according to the Rites and Ceremonies established or used in the Church or Kingdom of England any Law Custom or Vsage to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Issues upon lawfulness of marriages already joyned shall be cryed by Iury And be it further Enacted that where in any Suit commenced or to be commenced in any of the Courts of the common Law any issue hath béen joyned and not already tryed or determined or shall be joyned upon the point of Bastardy or unlawfulness of marriage for or concerning the marriages had and solemnized as aforesaid the same issues shall be tryed by Iury of Twelve Men according to the course of Trial of other issues tryable by Iury at the Common Law and not otherwise Bastardy any Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 11. CAP. XXXIV The Planting Setting or Sowing of Tobacco in England and Ireland prohibited YOur Majesties Loyal and Obedient Subjects The Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled considering of how great concern and importance it is That the Colonies and Plantations of this Kingdom in America be defended Protected Maintained and kept up and that all due and possible encouragement be given unto them and that not not only in regard great and considerable Dominions and Countries have béen thereby gained Importance of the plantations of America and added to the Imperial Crown of this Realm But for that the strength and welfare of this Kingdom do very much depend upon them in regard of the employment of a very considerable part of its Shipping and Seamen and of the vent of very great quantities of its Native Commodities and Manufactures as also of its supply with several Commodities which it was wont formerly to have only from Forraigners and at far dearer Rates And forasmuch as Tobacco is one of the main products of several of those Plantations and upon which their Welfare and Subsistence and the Navigation of this Kingdom and vent of its Commodities thither do much depend and in regard it is found by experience That the Tobaccoes Planted in these parts are not so good and wholsome for the Takers thereof And that by the Planting thereof your Majesty is deprived of a considerable part of your Revenue arising by Customs upon Imported Tobacco Do most humbly pray That it may be Enacted by your Majesty And it is hereby Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same No person after the 1. Ianuary 1660. shall set or plant any Tobacco That no Person or Persons whatsoever shall or do from and after the first day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty Set Plant improve to grow make or cure any Tobacco either in Séed Plant or otherwise in or upon any Ground Earth Field or Place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey The penalty or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or in the Kingdom of Ireland under the penalty of the Forfeiture of all such Tobacco or the value thereof or of the sum of forty shillings for every Rod or Pole of Ground so Planted set or Sowen as aforesaid and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity of Ground one Moyety thereof to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors And the other Moyety to him or them that shall Sue for the same to be recovered by Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record wherein no Essoigne Protection or wager in Law shall be allowed All Sheriffs and other officers may destroy any Tobacco planted contrary to this Act. And it is hereby further Enacted That all Sheriffs Iustices of the Peace Mayors Bailiffs Constables and every of them upon Information or Complaint made unto them or any of them by any the Officers of the Customes or by any other Person or Persons whatsoever That there is any Tobacco set sowen planted or growing within their Iurisdictions or Precincts contrary to this Act shall within ten daies after such Information or Complaint cause to be burnt plucked up consumed or utterly destroyed all such Tobacco so set sowen planted or growing The penalty of any person resisting this act And it is hereby further Enacted That in case any Person or Persons shall resist or make forcible Opposition against any person or persons in the due and through Execution of this Act that every such person or persons for every such Offence shall forfeit the sum of five pounds to be divided and recovered in manner aforesaid And in case any person or persons shall not pay the sums of money by them to be paid by vertue of this Act That in every such case Distress shall be made and Sale thereof returning the Over-plus to the Owners And in case no Distress be to be found That then every such party shall be committed to the Common Goal in the County where such Offence shall be committed there to remain for the space of two moneths without bail or main-prize Proviso for private Gardens Provided alwayes and it is hereby Enacted That this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to the hindring of the planting of Tobacco in any Physick Garden of either Vniversity or in any other private Garden for Physick or Chirurgery only so as the quantity so planted excéed not one half of one Pole in any one Place or Garden Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 14. CAP. XXXV A Post-Office erected and established WHereas for the maintenance of mutual Correspondencies and prevention of many Inconveniencies happening by private Posts The well ordering of postage and letters of great concernment to Trade several publick Post-Offices have béen heretofore erected for carrying and recarrying of Letters by Posts to and from all parts and places within England Scotland and Ireland and several parts beyond the Seas the well Ordering thereof is a matter of general concernment and of great advantage as well for preservation of Trade and Commerce as otherwise To the end therefore that the same may be managed so that spéedy and safe dispatches may be had which is most likely to be effected by erecting one general Post-Office for that purpose Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty A Letter-office erected in London the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That there be from henceforth one general Letter-Office erected and
established in some convenient place within the City of London A master of the Office to be appointed by the King Post-master General from whence all Letters and pacquets whatsoever may be with spéed and expedition sent unto any part of the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland or any other of his Majesties Dominions or unto any Kingdom or Country beyond the Seas at which said Office all Returns and Answers may be likewise received And that one Master of the said General Letter-Office shall be from time to time appointed by the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors to be made and constituted by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England by the name and Stile of his Majesties Post-Master General which said Master of the said Office and his Deputy and Deputies by him thereunto sufficiently authorised and his and their Servants and Agents and no other person or persons whatsoever shall from time to time have the receiving taking up ordering dispatching sending Post or with spéed and delivering of all Letters and Pacquets whatsoever which shall from time to time be sent to and from all and every the parts and places of England Scotland and Ireland and other his Majesties Dominions and to and from all and every the Kingdoms and Countries beyond the Seas where he shall settle or cause to be setled posts or running Messengers for that purpose Except such Letters as shall be sent by Coaches common known Carriers of Goods by Carts Waggons or Packhorses and shall be carried along with their Carts Waggons and Packhorses respectively And except Letters of Merchants and Masters which shall be sent by any Masters of any Ships Barques or other Vessel of Merchandize or by any other person imployed by them for the carriage of such Letters aforesaid according to the respective directions And also except Letters to be sent by any private friend or friends in their wayes of journey or travel or by any messenger or messengers sent on purpose for or concerning the private affairs of any person or persons And also except Messengers who carry and recarry Commissions or the Return thereof Affidavits Writs Process or Procéedings or the Returns thereof issuing out of any Court And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid The Post-master General and no other to provide horses for riding post That such Post-Master General for the time being as shall from time to time be made and constituted by His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the respective Deputies or Substitutes of such Post-Master General and no other person or persons whatsoever shall prepare and provide Horses and furniture to let to Hire unto all Through-posts and persons riding in post by Commission or without to and from all and every the parts and places of England Scotland and Ireland where any post-roads are or shall be setled and established And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for such Post-Master General to be constituted and appointed as aforesaid and his Deputy or Deputies by him thereunto sufficiently authorized to demand have receive and take for the portage and conveyance of all such Letters which he shall so convey carry or send Post as aforesaid and for the providing and furnishing Horses for Through-Posts or persons riding in Post as aforesaid according to the several Rates and Sums of Lawful English money hereafter mentioned Rates for carrying letters not to excéed the same that is to say For the Port of every Letter not excéeding one shéet to or from any place not excéeding fourscore English miles distant from the place where such Letter shall be received Two pence And for the like port of every Letter not excéeding two shéets Four pence And for the like port of every pacquet of Letters proportionably unto the said Rates And for the like port of every pacquet of Writs Déeds and other things after the Rate of Eight pence for every ounce weight and for the port of every Letter not excéeding one shéet above the distance of fourscore English miles from the place where the same shall be received Thrée pence And for the like port of a Letter not excéeding two shéets Six pence and proportionably to the same rates for the like port of all pacquets of Letters and for the like port of every other pacquet of writs Déeds or other things after the rate of Twelve pence of English money for every Ounce weight and for the port of every letter not excéeding One shéet from London unto the Town of Berwick or from thence to the City of London Thrée pence of English money And for the like port of every letter not excéeding two shéets Six pence and proportionably unto the same rates for every pacquet of letters and for every other pacquet of greater bulk One shilling and Six pence for every Ounce weight And for the port of such letters and pacquets as shall be conveyed or carried from the Town of Berwick unto any place or places within forty English miles distance from Berwick or any other place where such letter shall be received Two pence and for every letter not excéeding Two shéets Four pence and proportionably to the same rates for every pacquet of letters and for every other pacquet or parcel Eight pence for every Ounce weight and for every letter not excéeding One shéet to be conveyed or carryed a further distance then Forty English miles Four pence And for the like port of every pacquet of letters Eight pence and proportionably unto the same Rates for the like port of every pacquet of letters and for the like port of every other pacquet One shilling for every Ounce weight and for the port of every letter not excéeding one shéet from England unto the City of Dublin in Ireland or from the City of Dublin in Ireland unto England Six pence of English money and for the like port of every letter not excéeding two shéets one shilling and proportionably to the same rates for every pacquet of letters and for the port of every other pacquet of any kind of greater Bulk Two shillings for every ounce weight and for the Port of such Letters or Pacquets as shall be conveyed or carryed from the City of Dublin unto any other place or places within the Kingdom of Ireland or from any other place unto the said City or to or from any other place within the said Kingdom according to the Rates and sums of English mony hereafter following viz. For every Letter not excéeding one shéet to or from any place within forty English Miles distance from Dublin or any other place where such Letter shall be received Two pence And for every letter not excéeding two shéets Four pence and proportionably to the same Rates for every pacquet of letters and for every pacquet of greater Bulk Eight pence for every Ounce Weight and for every letter not excéeding one shéet to be carryed or conveyed a
Stréets shall be rated taxed assessed raised and paid by the Parishioners and Inhabitants of every Parish and Precinct respectively within the said City and Liberties thereof according to the ancient Custom and usage of the said City And the Receivers of all such moneyes shall be accomptable as formerly And all new Messuages Tenements and Houses within the limits aforesaid shall be likewise rated taxed and assessed and shall pay proportionably with others And that within the City of Westminster the said Officers shall be chosen and the Rates made and paid according to the ancient Custom of the said City How and when to elect Scavengers And in all other the Parishes and places aforesaid upon every Tuesday or Wednesday in Easter-Wéek the Constables Churchwardens and Overséers for the Poor and Surveyors of the High-wayes of every of the said Parishes and places respectively or the greater number of them giving notice unto or calling together such other Inhabitants of their respective Parishes as have formerly born the like Offices therein they or the greater number of them shall make choice of and shall nominate and appoint two or more able persons that are Tradesmen of their Parish to be Scavengers for the Stréets Lanes and other open Passages of each Ward and Division within the said Parish for the year then next following and untill others be chosen and setled in their Places which persons so chosen and being approved and confirmed under the hands of any two Iustices of Peace within their respective Limits and Iurisdictions shall within seven dayes after their Election and Confirmation and notice thereof take that Office and Duty upon them upon pain to forfeit Twenty pounds by every refuser respectively And in case of refusal by any person or persons so chosen and confirmed then other able persons shall be chosen and confirmed in manner aforesaid within seven dayes after such refusal in the place of him or them which shall so refuse and the person or persons so chosen and confirmed and having notice thereof shall undergo the like pain in case of refusal or not taking the said Office and Duty upon him or them within seven dayes after he or they shall be chosen and confirmed and have notice thereof as aforesaid The said Penalties to be disposed and employed for or towards the mending and repairing of the Stréets and Wayes of the same Parish Ward or Division and to be levyed by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the Offender by Warrant under the hand and seal of any Iustice of the Peace of any of the places aforesaid to be directed to the Constables or other Officers of the same Parish or any two or more of them rendring the surplusage to the party and in default of distress or not payment within six dayes after demand thereof or notice left in writing at the house or dwelling place of the offender by the said Constables or officers the said offender to be committed to the Goal of the said County or City respectively by the Warrant of any such Iustice under his hand and seal there to remain without Bail or Mainprize untill payment And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That within twenty dayes after the Election and Confirmation of the said Scavengers as aforesaid the Constables Churchwardens and Overseers for the Poor and of the High-wayes of the said Parishes and places respectively or the greater number of them giving notice unto or calling together such Inhabitants of their respective Parishes as have formerly born the like office therein They or the greater number of them then present shall make and settle a Tax Rate or Assessment Taxes and Assesments to be made yearly by a Pound-rate according to a Pound-rate to be imposed or set upon the Inhabitants of the said Parish Ward or Division for the year following for the purposes aforesaid which being allowed and confirmed by any two of the Iustices of the Peace of the places aforesaid respectively shall be quarterly paid by every respective Inhabitant upon demand made thereof by the Beadle of the Parish or other officer appointed to gather and collect the same And in case of refusal or neglect shall by Warrant of any two such Iustices of the Peace under their hands and seals be levied by distress and sale of the offenders goods and for want of distress by imprisonment of the offender he not being a Peer of this Realm untill payment as aforesaid Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Actions brought against any Commissioner or Officer imployed by this Act the Defendant may plead the General issue That if any Action or Suit shall be brought or prosecuted by any person or persons against any Iudg Commissioner Iustice of the Peace Constable or other Officer or Minister aforesaid or against any person or persons imployed by them or any of them or authorized by this Act to do or perform as by this Act is directed for any matter cause or thing by them or any of them done committed or executed by vertue or reason of this Act or any Clause or Article therein contained that then in every such case the Action shall be laid in the proper County where the fact was done and not elsewhere and the Defendant or Defendants may plead the General Issue And give the special matter in Evidence and give the special Matter in Evidence at the Tryal That the same was done in pursuance and by Authority of this Act And if upon Examination it shall so appear to be done the Iury shall find for the Defendant and in such case or if the Plaintiff shall be Nonsuit or discontinue his Action after the Defendant hath appeared the Defendant shall have and recover his or their double costs which he or they shall sustain or be put unto by reason of his or their wrongful vexation in defence of the said Action or Suit And whereas the several Stréets and Passages hereafter mentioned that is to say The Stréet or Passage at or near the Stocks in London The enlargement of Passage in narrow and incommodious streets the Stréet and Passage from Fleet-Conduit to St. Pauls Church in London the Passage through the White-Hart-Inn from the Strand into Covent-Garden the Stréet and Passage by and near Exeter-House and the Savoy being obstructed by a Rail and the unevenness of the ground thereabouts the Passage and Stréet of St. Martins-Lane out of the Strand the Passage or Stréet of Field-Lane commonly called Jack-an-apes-lane going betwéen Chancery-Lane and Lincolns-Inn-Fields the Passage and Gate-house of Cheap-Side into St. Pauls Church-yard the Passage against St. Dunstans Church in the West being obstructed by a Wall the Street and Passage by and near the West-end of the Poultrey in London and the Passage at Temple-Bar are so narrow that they are incommodious to Coaches Carts and Passengers and prejudicial to Commerce and Trading The Lord Mayor of London