Books and Pamphlees and for regulating Printing and Printing Presses shall be in force for One year from the 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of â—arliament XVII All Jurors other then Strangers upon Tryals per medietatem linguae return'd upon Tryal of Issues joyn'd in the Kings-Bench Common-Pleas or Exchequer or before Justices of Assize or Nisi prius Oyer and Terminer Goal-delivery or General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace after the 1st Day of May 1693. within any County of England shall have in their own Name or in Trust for them within the same County 10 l. a year at least above Reprizes of Free-hold or Coppy-hold Lands or of Lands in ancient Demesne or in Rents in Fee-simple or Fee-tail or for their own or some other Persons Life And in every County of Wales such Jurors shall have 6 l. a year at least as aforesaid All which Persons having such Estates are hereby made liable to serve as aforesaid If any be return'd of lesser Estate it shall be good cause of Challenge and the Party return'd shall be discharged upon such Challenge or upon his own Oath Nor shall any Jury-man's Issues making default be saved but by special Order of the Court or Judges for some reasonable Cause proved upon Oath And the Ven. fac for Impannelling Juries in England shall run thus viz. Rex c. praecipimus c. quod Ven. fac coram c. duodecim liberos legales homines de vicineto de A quor ' quilibet habeat decem Librat terrae tenementor ' vel reddit ' per annum ad minus per quos c. qui nee c. and the residue after the ancient manner and the Writs for Returning Juries in Wales shall be in like manner altering only the Word decem for sex And Sheriffs Coroners and other Ministers returning in any such Pannel any Person not having 10 l. or 6 d. respectively by the Year as aforesaid shall forfeit for every such Person so Returned the Sum of Five Pounds to Their Majesties XVIII No Sheriff or Bayliff of any Liberty or their Ministers shall return any such Persons to have been Summoned by them unless they shall have been Summoned Six days at least before the Day on which they ought to make their Appearance nor shall take any Reward to excuse the Appearance of any Juror Summoned or Return'd on Pain to Forfeit for every such Offence 10 l. to Their Majesties XIX Saving to all Cities Boroughs and Towns Corporate their ancient Usage of returning Jurors in such manner as hath been accustomed XX. Provided that it shall be Lawful to Return Persons upon the Tales in any County within England who shall have 5 l. a year above Reprizes and within Wales 3 l. a year XXI No Fee or Reward shall be taken by any Person whatsoever upon the Account of any Tales return'd upon Pain to Forfeit 10 l. for every such Offence the one Moity to the Prosecutor and the other to Their Majesties XXII No Writ de non ponendis in Assisis Juratis shall be granted unless upon Oath made that the Suggestions are true XXIII So much of this Act as relates to the returning of Jurors to be in force for Three years from the 1st of May 1693. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament Corn. I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess I. cap. 12. When Malt or Barley Winchester Measure shall be at 24 s. per Quarter or under Rye at 32 s. per Quarter or under and Wheat at 48 s. per Quarter or under in any Port of this Kingdom or Wales Merchants and others who shall put on Ship-board in English Shiping the Master and Two thirds of the Mariners being Their Majesâ—ies Subjects any sorts of the Corn aforesaid to Export the same beyond Sea shall bring Certificates under their Hands containing the quantity and quality of the Corn shipped to the Persons appointed to Collect the Customs in any such Port and upon Proof made of such Certificate by one or more Credible Persons upon Oath and upon Bond given by such Merchant or other Person in â—00 l. for every hundred Tuns of Corn so shipped and so proportionably that the said Corn dangers of the Seas excepted shall be Exported into Parts beyond the Sea and not be landed in England Wales Guernsey Jersey or Berwick shall receive from the Persons appointed to Collect the Customs as aforesaid for every Quarter of Barley or Malt ground or unground 2 s. 6 d. for every Quarter of Rye 3 s. 6 d. for every Quarter of Wheat 5 s. and shall pay no Custom nor any Fee or Reward for Corn so laden to be Exported And upon Certificate under the Common Seal of the Chief Magistrate in any Place beyond Sea or under the Hand and Seals of Two known English Merchants upon the Place that such Corn was there Landed or upon Proof by Credible Persons that such Corn was taken by Enemies or Perished at Sea the Examination and Proof thereof being left to the Receivers of the Customs the Bond shall be delivered up to be Cancelled And the Moneys so paid shall be allowed as paid to Their Majesties Courts I. Stat. 1 W. M. Stss 1. cap. 27. Whereas by a Statute made in the 34th and 35th years of the Reign of King H. 8. Entituled An Act for certain Ordinances in the King's Majesties Dominion and Principality of Wales It is Enacted That there shall be and remain a President and Council in the said Dominion and Principality of Wales and the Matches of the same with all Officers Clerks and Incidents thereunto in Manner and Form as hath been heretofore used and accustomed Which President and Council shall have Power and Authority to Hear and Determine by their Wisdoms and Diseretions such Causes or Matters as be or hereafter shall be Assign'd to them by the King's Majesty as heretofore hath been accustomed and used Be it Enacted that the said Clause be Repealed and that the said Court before the President and Council be dissolved and taken away II The Justices of the Great Sessions in Wales shall yearly Nominate Three Persons for each Shire in their Circuits to be Sheriffs of the same and certifie the same to the Lords of the Privy Council Crastino animarum that Their Majesties may appoint one of them to be Sheriff for that year III. Errors in Pleas personal within Wales shall be redressed by Writ of Error as Errors in Pleas real and mixt are appointed to be redrest by the said Statute of 34 and 35 of King H 8. IV. Judgments and Decrees passed in the said Court before the 1st Day of June 1689. shall remain in force and execution upon them in the same State in which they were before the making this Act. Crown-Office I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 22. No Corporations Lords of Manors or others having Grants by Charter or other good Conveyances who have
and reserving the ancient Rent or such as hath been paid for the greater part of twenty years next before the Year 1660. to those that have the Inheritance or else a reasonable Rent not being under the twentieth part of the clear yearly value III. All Covenants Covenants good against them to whom the Interest shall afterward come Conditions and Agreements in every Lease made as aforesaid shall be good in Law according to the contents of the same not only against them to whom the Reversion of the said Lands shall come but against them to whom the Interest of the said Leases shall come as if their Majesties at the making such Covenants and Conditions were actually seized in Fee-simple of the same IV. Saving to all Persons and Bodies Politick Saving of Rights their Heirs and Successors saving the King and Queen and their Heirs the Dukes of Cornwal for the time being and their Heirs or whosoever shall enjoy the Dukedom by force of any Act of Parliament all such Rights and Demands whatsoever of in to or out of the said Offices or Lands or any of them as they had before the making this Act any thing herein notwithstanding V. Fees for passing Leases The Fees and Charges to be paid for passing and perfecting Leases of Tenements of small value where the Fine or Value of such Lease or Grant to be made or renewed shall not exceed 80 l. shall not exceed the Sum of 10 l. for every Lease and 4 l. for every Copy besides the said Fine or Value the said 10 l. and 4 l. to be divided among the Officers of the Exchequer imployed for the preparing and passing such Lease or Grant and if any Officer exceed the same he shall forfeit to the Party grieved so much as is exceeded by this Act and also 20 l. one moiety whereof shall be forfeited to the King and the other to the Party grieved Militia I. STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 13. An Act for raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the year 1694. although the Months Pay formerly advanced be not repaid Mines I. Lawful to dig in Mines notwithstanding pretended to be Royal. Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 6. All Persons Subjects of the Crown of England Bodies Politick or Corporate having or that shall have any Mine or Mines within the Kingdom of England or Wales wherein any Ore now is or shall be discovered or wrought in which there is Copper Tin Iron or Lead shall and may enjoy the same Mine or Mines and Ore and dig and work the said Mine or Mines or Ore notwithstanding they shall be pretended or claimed to be a Royal Mine or Mines II. Rates to be paid for Ore where Mines are pretended to be Royal Provided that their Majesties their Heirs and Successors and all claiming any Royal Mines under them may have the Ore of such Mines in any part of England or Wales other than in the Counties of Devon and Cornwal paying to the Owners of the said Mines wherein such Ore is or shall be found within thirty days after the said Ore is or shall be laid upon the Banks of the said Mines and before the same be removed thence the Rates following viz. For all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Copper 16 l. per Tun For all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Tin 40 s. per Tun And for all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Iron 40 s. per Tun And for all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Lead 9 l. per Tun and in default of payment of such respective Sums as aforesaid it shall be lawful for the Owners of the said Mines wherein such Ore shall be found to dispose of the said Ore to their own uses Orphans I. STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 4. Perpetual Fond to pay the Interest of 4 l. per Gent. unto Dec. 25th 1693. From the time first due to Dec. 25th 1683 at 5 l. per Cent. And from thence to Dec. 25th 1693. at 3 l. per Cent. 4 l. per Cent. from the 25th of Dec. 1655 to the 25 of Dec. 1693 and so proportionably The City Lands c. excepting the Revenues of the Hospitals and Repairs of London-Bridge for ever chargeable after the 24th of June 1694. for raising the Annual Sum of 8000 l. It is enacted That for the raising a perpetual Fond to pay the yearly Interest of four pounds for every hundred pound principal Mony and of all the Interest thereof due to any Orphan of the City or the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such Orphan unto the 25th day of December 1693. The Interest to be computed from the time first payable unto the 25th day of December 1683. at five pounds for the Interest of every hundred pounds for one year And from that time to the 25th day of December 1693. at three pounds and so proportionably for any greater or lesser Sum the Interest already received for such principal Mony to be deducted and to pay the like yearly Interest of four pounds for every hundred pounds of the principal Mony and Interest thereof to be computed as aforesaid due upon Bond Bill or Note liable to pay Interest between the 25th day of December 1655. and the same day of December 1693. or any other the Creditor of the same City or the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such Creditor on the said 25th day of December 1693. from the Chamber of the said City or from the Mayor Commonalty or Citizens thereof and so proportionably for any greater or lesser Sum the Manners Messuages Lands Markets and Fairs and other the Hereditaments and Revenues belonging to the same City in possession or reversion and the Improvements that shall be made thereof except such the Lands and Revenues belonging to the Hospitals of the same City or Borough of Southwark or such as are chargeable with the Repairs of London Bridge shall be yearly charged for ever after the 24th day of June 1694. for the raising the Annual Sum of eight thousand pounds to be appropriated for the raising such a perpetual Fond and be applied as aforesaid II. The Aqueducts belonging to the City The City Aqueducts liable and their Rents except the Profits of such Water as shall be for the Supply of the publick Conduits Hospitals Halls and Prisons shall be for ever appropriated and applied towards payment of the said Interest III. 2000 l. annually out of Personal Estates And for the raising such a perpertual Fond the Common Council may every year raise and assess the Sum of two thousand pounds upon the Personal Estates of the several Inhabitants within the City and Liberties and to distrain for default of payment IV. Leases of the Convex Lights for 21 years from June 24th 1694 600 l. per ann The City may Lease to the Persons concerned in the Convex Lights the sole use of
such Lights within the City and Liberties for one and twenty years from the 24th day of June 1694. at the Rent of six hundred pounds yearly to be reserved to be appropriated towards raising such a Fond and payment of the said Interest-mony And after that Term expired the Profits whatsoever that shall be made by granting Licenses to lighten the Streets shall be appropriated and applied to the uses aforesaid V. Every Apprentice after 24th of June 1694 to pay 2 s. 6 d. at his being bound to be transmitted to the Chamberlain on penalty of 5 l. 5 s. to be paid by every one admitted a Freeman 4 s. ê™ Tun on Wine imported The Collector to be appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen For the increase of the Fond every Apprentice after the 24th day of June 1694. when he is bound shall pay two shillings and six pence to the Master or Wardens of such Company as his Master is Member of to be by the said Master and Wardens transmitted to the Chamberlain of the City to be employed for the uses aforesaid upon the Penalty of five pounds for every Sum not so transmitted to be recovered in the Name of the Chamberlain And Books of Vellum or Parchment to be kept in the Common Halls of such Payments for any Person to inspect gratis VI. And every Person after the said 24th day of June 1694. when he is admitted a Freeman shall pay the Sum of five shillings the said several Sums of two shillings and six pence and five shillings to be paid over and above the usual Fees VII Also every Importer shall pay a Duty of four shillings per Tun upon all sorts of Wine imported after the said 24th day of June 1694. into the Port of the City of London or the Members thereof by way of Merchandize over and above the present Duties and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity The Collector to be appointed by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen And the said Imposition to be paid in the same manner and by such Rules and under such Penalties as are provided in an Act of Parliament made in the 12th year of King Charles II. Entituled A Subsidy granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage c. VIII 4 d. for meetage of every Chaldron of Coals after the 29th of June 1694 After the 29th of Sept. 1700 6 d. ê™ Chaldron or Tun to continue for 50 years To be paid by the Owner of the Vessel There shall be paid for all such sort of Coals or Culm as are usually sold by the Chaldron imported into the Port of London or Members thereof after the 24th day of June 1694. for every Chaldron thereof the Sum of four pence Meetage for ever over and above what is now paid to be paid as the present Duty of Meetage is And after the 29th day of September 1700. the farther Sum of six pence And for such Coals as are sold by the Tun for every Tun thereof containing two thousand Weight the like Sum of six pence which shall continue from the said 29th day of September for fifty year and no longer to be paid by the Master or Owner of the Ship or Vessel whereupon they are laden before they shall break Bulk or have a Meeter assigned at such place as the Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall appoint within the City or Liberties for Receipt thereof upon receipt whereof the Party appointed to receive the same shall without delay gratis deliver a Receipt which shall be a sufficient Discharge How to be collected And the same Imposition of six pence per Chaldron shall be collected and levied in such manner and in every respect as in and by one Act made in the 19th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the rebuilding the City of London the Imposition of Coals thereby granted was to be collected and levied And the Powers and Directions for that Act shall be exercised for the collecting of the said Duty of six pence as if particularly expressed in this during all the time it is payable The Monies to be paid into the receipt of the Chamber Collectors to give reasonable security All Sums of Mony as part of the said Fond are to be paid into the Receipt of the Chamber and are hereby appropriated for the raising the said Fond and applied towards the discharge of the said Debts And every Person that shall be concerned in the Receipt of any of the Sums so appropriate before he take upon him the execution of such Office shall find Sureties in such reasonable Sum as by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall be thought fitting for the faithful execution of such Office IX After the expiration of 6 d. per Chaldron the City revenues liable for 6000 l. ê™ ann besides the 8000 l. per ann The Mony raised by this Act to be applied for the payment of 4 l. per Cent. due the 25th of Dec. 1693 And also for the payment of 4 l. per Cent. from between the 25th of Dec. 1655 and the 25th of Dec. 1693 The payments to be made twice a year at St. Thomas and St. John Baptist or within 14 days after The perpetual Interest to be in full satisfaction of the principal Debt After the said Imposition of six pence shall determine all the Revenues of the City of London in possession or reverson shall stand and be charged with the full yearly Sum of six thousand pounds over and above the said yearly Sum of eight thousand pounds in like manner appropriated as the yearly Sum of eight thousand pound was X. And all the Rents Impositions and Sums of Mony by this Act applied to be charged raised or paid after reasonable Salaries and Allowances deducted for ever shall be applied for the payment of the Annual Sum of four pounds for the Interest of every hundred pound and proportionably for a greater or lesser Sum of the above-mentioned respective Debts and all the Interest thereof due on the 25th day of December 1693. to any Orphan of the City or the Executors c. of such Orphan And also for the payment of the like yearly Interest of four pounds for every hundred pound principal Mony and the Interest thereof to be computed as aforesaid due at any time between the said 25th day of December 1655. and the said 25th day of December 1693. upon Bond Bill or Note liable to pay Interest from the said City unto any Person or Persons or to so much thereof only as the Monies appointed by this Act to be raised and paid shall yearly amount unto to satisfie and pay towards the Interest to the said Orphans and Creditors equally in proportion to their respective Interests The Payments to be made twice in every year upon St. Thomas Day and St. John Baptists or within fourteen days after The first payment to be made on St. Thomas Day 1694. or within fourteen days after The said Monies to be
Inrolled and had the same allowed by the Court of King's-Bench shall be compelled to Plead the same to any Inquisition returned by any Coroner And if any Corporations Lords of Manors or others have or shall have such Grants from the Crown for Felons Goods Deodands and other Forfeitures they shall not be compelled to enrol their whole Charters or Grants but such part thereof as may express the Grants of such Felons Goods Deodands and Forfeitures and no more for doing whereof the Clerk of the Crown shall receive 20 s. for his Fee and no more and from and after such Enrolment they shall not be compelled to Plead the same to any inquisition II. If any Clerk of the Crown shall hereafter issue out any Process against such Grantees after such Enrolment he shall forfelt for every such Offence to the Party grieved the Sum of 5. l. III. But the Clerk of the Crown shall incur no Penalty mentioned in this Act for issuing Process against any persons who shall not upon every purchase of the Title of such Felons Goods c. Inrol and Plead the said Purchase in the said Court nor against any Devisee who shall not Enrol or Plead such Devise nor against any Heir who shall not Inrol his or her Right by descent and till after such Pleas have been allowed of by the said Court nor where by any Inquest of any Coroner the Goods of any Felon or Felons or Decodands shall not be found to be in the Hands of such Purchaser Devisee or Heir IV. Upon issuing of any Exigent for any Criminal Matter before Conviction there shall issue a Writ of Proclamation bearing the same Teste and Return to the Sheriff of the County City or Town where the persons in the Record of the said Proceedings are mentioned to inhabit according to the form of the Statute made Anno. 31 Eliz. which Writ shall be delivered to the Sheriff Three Months before the return thereof V. This Act to continue for Three years from the 25th Day of March 1693. and to the end of the then next Session of Parliament Customs I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 6. After the 29th Day of September 1689. so much of every Act of Parliament as requires the Levying the Duties arising by those Acts by way of Excise upon Coffee Chocolate and Tea shall cease and determine and is hereby Repealed II. And be it farther Enacted that after the 25th Day of December 1689. the Duties and Charges hereafter mentioned shall be Collected and Received at the Custom-house upon Coffee-berries Tea in the Leaf and Cacao-nuts and upon Chocolate ready made and according to the Proportions herein after mentioned besides what is now payable for the same at the Custom house viz. Upon every 100 Weight of Coffee Imported containing One hundred and twelve pound 5 l. 12 s. Upon every 100 Weight of Cacao Nuts containing as aforesaid 8 l. 8 s. Upon every pound weight of Tea 5 s. and upon every pound Weight of Chocolate 5 s. and so proportionably III. If any of the said Commodities shall be unshipt or laid on Land the Duties not paid or lawfully tendred to the Collector or his Deputy with the consent and agreement of the Comtroller and Surveyor there nor agreed with for the same in the Custom-house they shall be forfeited the one Moiety to Their Majesties the other to the Informer This Act to continue for Five years and no longer IV. Merchants and others having paid the Duties and Impositions by this Act appointed who shall within Six Months after Importation again transport the said Goods or any part thereof shall be repaid Two thirds of the Duties by them paid of so much of the said Goods as they shall export V. It shall be lawful to Import Nutmegs Cinnamon Cloves and Mace in any English Ships One third part of the Mariners whereof to be English from any parts beyond the Seas paying double the Sums the same are charged with in the Book of Rates so as notice be first given to the Commissioners or Farmers of the Customs of the Quality and Quantity thereof with the Name of the Ship and Master and the place where they intend to Import the same and taking a Licence under their Hands or of any Three of them for the Lading and Importing thereof as aforesaid which Licence shall be given without Fee or Reward I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 4. The Commons assembled in Parliament do hereby Give and Grant to your Majesties the Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage and other Sums of Money Granted to the late K. Charles 2. in the Twelfth year of his Reign by an Act Entituled A Subsidy granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage c. according to the Rates therein mention'd and the Rules and Orders thereunto annexed other then such concerning which it is otherwise provided by any Act made in the last Parliament and pray that it may be Enacted and be it Enacted that the said Subsidy and other Sums of Money be paid to Their Majesties for Four years from the 24th Day of December 1690. and that the aforesaid Act and an Order of the House of Commons made in pursuance of the Rules and Orders annexed thereunto for settling Officers Fees Dated the 17 of May 1662. ans Signed by Sir Edward Turnor then Speaker shall be of force during the said Four years VII An Act made in the 12th year of the said K. Charles 2. Entituled An Act to prevent Frauds and Concealments of His Majesties Customs and Susidies and an Act made in the 14th year of his Reign Entituled An Act for preventing Frands and regulating Abuses in His Majesties Customs and an Act made in the 22d year of His Reign Entituled An Act for Improvement of Tillage and the breed of Battel and another Act made in the 25th year of His Reign Entituled An Act for taking off Aliens Duties upon Commodities of the Growth Product and Manufacture of the Nation and another Act made in the said 25th year of his Reign Entituled An Act for the encouragement of the Greenland and East-land Trades and for the better securing the Plantation Trade and one other Act made in the First year of the late King James 2. Entituled An additional Act for the Improvement of Tillage shall be in force during the said Term of Four years VIII Nothing herein shall be Construed to determine any Clauses in the said Acts which were intended to be perpetual IX It shall be lawful for any persons to advance upon the Credit of this Act any Sums of Money not exceeding 500000 l. in the whole at the Interest for such Money as shall be lent before the 10th of June 1690. of 8 l. per Cent. and for Money lent after 7 l. per Cent. X. After the First Day of Novemb. 1690. during the continuance of this Act there shall be continued within London an Office for the Receipt of the Subsidies and other Sums hereby
Defendant Costs unless the Judge before whom it shall be Tryed shall at the Tryal in open Court certifie upon Record that there was a reasonable Cause for such Information And in case the Costs be nor paid within Three Months after they are Taxed the Defendants shall have the Benefit of the said Recognizance to compel the payment thereof II. No persons who are or shall be outlaw'd in the said Court for any thing except Treason or Felony shall be compelled to appear in Person to Reverse the same but may appear by Attorney and Reverse the same without Bail except where Special Bail shall be Ordered by the Court. III. And if any person so Outlaw'd be taken upon a Cap. Utlagatum the Sheriff who hath taken him in all Cases where Special Bail is not required by the said Court may take an Attorneys Engagement under his Hand to appear for him and to Reverse the Outlawry and thereupon may discharge the Defendant and where Special Bail is required the Sheriff may take Security of the Defendant by Bond with one or more Sureties in double the Sum for which Special Bail is required and no more for his Appearance at the Return of the Writ and to do and perform such things as shall be required by the Court and after such Bond taken may discharge him IV. If any person so Outlaw'd and Taken upon a Cap. Utlagatum shall not be able within the return of the said Writ to give Security whensoever such Prisoner shall find Surety for his Appearance by Attorney at some return in the Term then next following to Reverse the Outlawry c. the Sheriff may discharge him V This Act shall not extend to Informations in the Name of Their Majesties Coroner or Attorney commonly called the Master of the Crown-Office VI. Upon the Demise of any King or Queen of this Realm all Pleas to Informations shall stand without calling the Defendants to plead anew unless the Defendants request the Court for that purpose within Five Months after such Demise Ireland and Irish-men I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 29. No Ecclesiastical person Promoted or Beneficed in Ireland and who hath been forced to forsake that Kingdom being of the Protestant Religion who is or shall be presented c. to any Benefice or Promotion in England shall by acceptance thereof lose any Benefice or Promotion in Ireland but may hold the same till he may and shall be restored to his Promotion or Benefice in Ireland so as he may enjoy the same as before the troubles II. Provided that if such Ecclesiastical person so promoted here shall not within Three Months after the Courts of Justice in Ireland shall be open and furnished with Protestant Judges resign his Benefices and Preferments here and give notice thereof to the Patrons the same shall be void and the Patrons may Present or Collate again III. Such Ecclesiastical person so Promoted to any Benefice c. here shall be exempted from First-Fruits and Tenths IV. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 2. cap. 9. The persons now or of late Assembled at Dublin without any Authority derived from Their Majesties calling themselves a Parliament were not nor are a Parliament but an Unlawful and Rebellious Assembly and all Acts and Proceedings whatsoever Made Done or Passed in the said pretended Parliament shall be adjudged null and void and no Act Statute Judgment Outlawry Decree Sentence Order or other Proceedings since the 13th Day of February 1688. Had Made Passed Pronounced or Done or to be Had Made Passed Pronounced or Done by any persons whatsoever by colour of any Commission Writ Power or Authority in Ireland other then such as have been or shall be given by or derived from Their Majesties shall be of any Force or Effect V. All Cities Boroughs and Towns and all Bodies Corporate Ecclesiastical or Temporal in Ireland are hereby declared to be Restored to all Intents and Purposes as they were upon the 24th Day of June 1683. any Proceedings against them by Quo warranto Scire facias c. on any Proceedings Judgments or Executions thereon or any New Charter Grant Commission or any Surrender or other Acts since that time to the contrary notwithstanding All which Writs Suits Proceedings Judgments Seizures Executions Charters Grants Commissions and Surrenders are hereby declared Void VI. No persons whatsoever of the Protestant Religion shall be liable to any Loss Forseiture or Prejudice in Estate Office Person or otherwise by reason of their absence out of Ireland at any time since the 25th of December 1685. or for Non-payment of Rent or any other Duty due to Their Majesties or the Crown out or by reason of any Lands Tenements Rectories Tythes or Church Livings since the 25th of December 1688. till such time as the said Kingdom shall be declared by Their Majesties to be Reduced to Their Obedience VII The Protestants of Ireland shall be and are hereby Restored to all their Possessions Ecclesiastical and Temporal in such manner as they or those under whom they Claim had the same on the 25th Day of December 1688. and Pesons detaining such Possessions after a Demand by the Party grieved may be proceeded against as in a Case of a forcible Detainer VIII Stat. 3. 4. W. M. cap. 2. No person Residing in Ireland shall be obliged to take the Oath of Supremacy by virtue of the Statute of primo Eliz. but the Statute and every other Statute for so much as concerns the said Oath are hereby Repealed IX The Oaths Required by this Act to be taken after the 1st Day of January next 1691. shall be taken by the Persons herein after mentioned and such others as were Required by the said Act or any other Statute made in Ireland to take the said Abrogated Oath before such Persons and in such Court as is hereafter expressed viz. Archbishops and Bishops and others of or above the Degree of a Baron of Parliament there and others having any Promotion Office or Employment Ecclesiastical Civil or Military or receiving any Pay Salary Fee or Wages by reason of any Grant from the Crown or being Master Governor Head or Fellow of the University of Dublin or Master of any Hospital or School or Barrister at Law Clerk in Chancery Attorny or Professor of Law Physick or other Science residing in Dublin or within thirty Miles thereof in Hillary-Term next in the Court of Chancery or Kings Bench there between 9 and 12 in the Forenoon and all the said Persons inhabiting at a greater distance at the General Quarter-Sessions where they reside between 9 and 12 before the 25th of July next and shall make subscribe and repeat the Declaration herein after mentioned all which to be put upon Record paying 1 s. And Archbishops Bishops and others having any Ecclesiastical Promotion or being a Lecturer or Curate neglecting so to do shall be ipso facto deprived and be incapable to be Lecturer or Curate any where and others having any Office
any Ecclesiastical Court for not conforming to the Church of England IV. Provided always that if any Assembly of Persons dissenting from the Church of England shall be had in any place for Religious Worship with the Doors locked barred or bolted the persons that shall be at such Meetings shall receive no benefit from this Law V. Nothing herein contained shall exempt any Persons from paying Tithes or other Parochial Duties to the Church or Minister nor from any prosecution in any Ecclesiastical Court or elsewhere for the same VI. If any person dissenting from the Church of England shall be chosen or appointed to any Parochial or Ward-Office and shall scruple to take it upon him in regard of the said Oaths or any other thing required by Law such person may execute his Office by a Deputy that shall comply with the Laws in that behalf such Deputy to be allowed and approved as such Officer himself should have been VII No person dissenting from the Church of England in Orders or pretended Orders nor any Preacher or Teacher in any Congregation of Dissenting Protestants that shall make and subscribe the Declaration and take the Oaths aforesaid at the General Quarter-Sessions held for the Parts where he lives and shall declare his approbation of and subscribe the Articles of Religion mentioned in a Statute made in the 13th year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth except the 34th 35th and 36th Articles and these words of the 20th Article viz. The Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies and Authority in Controversies of Faith and yet shall be liable to any of the Pains or Penalties mentioned in an Act made in the 17th year of the Reign of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for restraining Non-conformists from inhabiting in Corporations nor the Penalties mentioned in the said Act of the 22th of the said Kings Reign for preaching at any Meeting for exercise of Religion nor to the penalty of 100 l. mentioned in an Act made in the 13th and 14th of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the uniformity of Publick Prayers and administration of Sacraments c. for officiating in any Congregation allowed by this Act. VIII The making and subscribing the said Declaration and taking the said Oaths and making the Declaration of approbation and subscription to the said Articles shall be recorded at such Quarter-Sessions for which 6 d. shall be paid and no more IX Such persons shall not preach in any place but with Doors not locked barred or bolted X. And whereas some dissenting Protestants scruple the Baptizing of Infants Be it enacted That every person pretending to Holy Orders who shall subscribe the said Articles of Religion except before excepted and also except part of 27th ARticle touching Infant-Baptism and shall take the Oaths and make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid as aforesaid shall enjoy all the Priviledges Benefits and Advantages which any other dissenting Minister might enjoy by virtue of this Act. XI Ministers Preachers or Teachers of Congregations that shall take the Oaths and make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid and subscribe such of the Articles of the Church as are hereby required shall be exempt from serving upon Juries or from being chosen or appointed to any Parochial or Ward-Office or any other Office in any Hundred Shire City Town c. XII Every Justice of Peace may require any person that goes to any Meeting for exercise of Religion to make and subscribe the said Declaration and take the said Oaths or Declaration of Fidelity hereafter mentioned in case such person Scruple the taking an Oath and upon refusal shall commit such person to prison and certifie his Name at the next General or Quarter-Sessions and if upon a second tender at next General or Quarter-Sessions he refuse as aforesaid he shall be recorded and taken for a Popish Recusant convict XIII And whereas there are other Dissenters who scruple the taking any Oath such persons shall make and subscribe the said Declaration and this Declaration of Fidelity viz. I A. B. do sincerely promise and solemnly declare before God and the World That I will be ture and faithful to King William and Queen Mary And I do solemnly promise and declare That I do from my Heart abhor detest and renounce as Impious and Heretical that damnable Doctrin and Position That Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope or any Authority of the See of Rome may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other what soever And I do declare That no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Power Jurisdiction Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm and shall subscribe a profession of their Christian Belief in these Words viz. I A. B. profess Faith in God the Father and in Jesus Christ his eternal Son the true God and in the Holy Spirit one God blessed for evermore and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration which Declarations and Subscriptions shall be recorded at the General Quarter-Sessions and Persons making and subscribing the two Declarations and Profession aforesaid shall be exempted from the penalties of the Laws against Popish Recusants or Protestant Non-conformists and from the penalties of an Act made in the 5th year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Entituled An Act for the assurance of the Queens Royal Power over all Estates and Subjects within her Dominions by reason of their refusing to take the Oath mentioned in the said Act and from the penalties of an Act made in the 13th and 14th years of King Charles II. Entitutled An Act for preventing Mischiefs that may arise by certain Persons called Quakers refusing to take lawful Oaths and enjoy the Benefits Priviledges and Advantages which other Dissenters ought to enjoy by virtue of this Act. XIV Persons refusing to take the said Oaths when tendred shall not be admitted to make and subscribe the said two Declarations though required by a Justice of Peace at a General oâ— Quarter-Sessions unless within 31 days after such tender of the Declarations to them they produce two Protestant Witnesses to testifie upon Oath that they believe him to be a Protestant Dissenter or a Certificate under the Hands of four Protestants who are conformable to the Church of England or have taken the Oaths and subscribed the Declaration aforesaid and a Certificate under the Hands and Seals of six or more of the Congregation to which he belongs owning him to be one of them XV. Till such Certificate or Witnesses be produced the Justice of Peace shall take a Recognizance with two Sureties in 50 l. for producing the same and for want of security shall commit him to prison till he produces the same XVI All the Laws made for frequenting Divine Service on the Lords-day shall be still in force against all persons except they come to some Assembly of Religious Worship allowed by this Act.
next Justice of Peace by two Witnesses or upon Certificate under Hand of the Commissary of the Musters or Chief Magistrate as aforesaid made to such Justice shall be committed to the House of Correction for ten days and have his Ear cut off by the Gaoler or Keeper thereof If any Person lend a Horse to be mustered not belonging to the Troop such Horse shall be forfeited to the Informer if it belong to the Person lending if not the Lender shall forfeit 20 l. upon Oath made by two Witnesses before the next Justice of Peace XIV The said Forfeiture to be to the Informer to be paid out of the Arrears of such Officers Pay as shall so offend upon Conviction before a Court-Martial by Order of the said Court to the Pay-Master if such Officer have any Arrears and if there be no Arrear the Court-Martial shall give order to seize such Officers Goods and sell them rendring the overplus and if he have no Goods he shall be sent to the Common Gaol to remain there six months and the Court-Martial shall discharge such Informer if he be a Souldier from any farther Service if he demand it XV. If any Pay-Master Clerk or Agent of a Regiment Troop or Company shall for a month detain the Pay of any Officer or Souldier Cloaths and other Allowances deducted or if any Officers shall refuse to pay each Common Souldier their respective Pay when due if themselves have received it at the rate of 17 s. 6 d. a Week for a Corporal or light Horse 14 s. a Week for a Trumpeter and private Trooper 8 s. 2 d. a Week for a Dragoon 7 s. a Week to a Sergeant 5 s. a Week to each Corporal and Drummer and 4 s. a Week to each private Souldier of the two Regiments of Foot-guards and 6 s. a Week to each Sergeant 4 s. 6 d. a Week to each Corporal and Drummer and 3 s. a Week for each Foot Souldier in the Army and over and above the said 3 s. a Week shall at every two Months end account for 6 d. a Week to each Foot-Souldier upon proof thereof before a Court-Martial as aforesaid such Pay-Master c. shall be discharged from his Employment and forfeit 100 l. to the Informer to be raised as aforesaid and be disabled to hold any Civil or Military Office or Employment and the Informer if a Souldier shall be discharged of any farther Service if he demand it XVI The commanding Officer of every Troop or Company at Musters shall bring a Certificate of the Names of such as are sick or have leave to be absent of such as are dead or deserted since the last Muster and if such Certificate prove false the Officer signing it shall suffer the Penalties hereby inflicted for making false Musters XVII If any Officer shall Muster any Officers Servant or any Person by a wrong Name knowingly upon conviction thereof before a Court-Martial he shall suffer the Penalties hereby inflicted for making false Musters XVIII During the continuance of this Act Constables Tythingmen Headboroughs and other Chief Magistrates of Cities Towns and Villages may Quarter and Billet Officers and Souldiers in Inns Livery-Stables Ale-houses Victualling-houses Houses selling Brandy Strong-waters Sider or Metheglin by retail to be drunk in their Houses but in no private Houses Nor shall more Billets be ordered than there are effective Souldiers present to be quartered If any Magistrate shall Billet any Officer or Souldier in any private House without consent of the Occupier such Occupier shall have his Remedy at Law to recover his Damage sustained thereby And if any Military Officer shall take upon him to quarter Souldiers otherwise than is hereby allowed or shall use Menace or Compulsion upon any Civil Officers afore-mention'd to deter them from performing their Duty herein upon conviction by the Oaths of two Witnesses before two or more Justices of Peace and the said Justices Certificate thereof to the Judge Advocate who is hereby obliged to certifie the same to the next Court-Marshal such Officer shall be taken to the ipso facto cashiered and disabled to hold any Military Employment XIX Officers and Souldiers so billetted shall pay such reasonable prices as shall be appointed by the Justices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions and the Justices of Peace are required to set Rates for Provisions for one or more Nights in their marching and for the first Night only in Places appointed for their Residence XX. Officers taking Mony for excusing quartering shall be cashiered and made incapable of any Military Employment XXI From and after the 10th of March 1692. no Pay-Master or other Officer shall receive any Fees or make any Deductions out of the Pay of any Officer or Souldier which shall grow due after the said 10th day of March other than the usual Deductions for Cloathing and the 12 d. in the pound to be disposed as their Majesties think fit and one days Pay in the Year for the use of Chelsey-Colledge XXII This Act shall be read at the Head of every Regiment Troop or Company at every Muster that no Souldier may pretend Ignorance XXIII Officers receiving Pay or Subsistence-Mony for Regiments Troops or Companies shall upon the receipt of every Sum give notice to all Inn-keepers and other Persons where Officers and Souldiers are quartered and appoint them to repair to their Quarters at such times as they shall appoint for distribution thereof which shall be within four days after they have received it and such Inn-keepers and other Persons shall be paid off what Debts are owing to them before any part of the said Pay or Subsistence be distributed to the Officers or Souldiers XXIV Provided such Debts exceed not for a Commission Officer of Horse under the Degree of a Captain for Dyet and small Beer Hay and Straw per diem 2 s. and for such a Commission Officer of Dragoons 1 s. and 6 d. nor for such a Commission Officer of Foot 1 s. and if such Officers shall have a Horse or Horses for each Horse 6 d. per diem nor for one Light-horse-mans Dyet and small Beer and Hay and Straw per diem 1 s. nor for one Dragoon 9 d. nor for a Foot Souldiers Dyet and small Beer 4 d. and if any Officer shall not give notice as aforesaid and upon producing such Accounts pay the same upon Oath made thereof by two Witnesses at the next Quarter-Sessions the Pay-masters of their Majesties Forces are hereby required upon Certificate of the said Justices of the Sums due upon such Accounts and the Persons to whom owing to satisfie them out of the Arrears due to such Officer on pain to lose their Places and to be disabled to hold them for the future And if there be no Arrear the Pay-masters shall deduct what they shall pay pursuant to such Certificate out of the next Pay or Subsistence-Mony of the Regiment to which such Officer belongs and such Officer shall be ipso facto cashiered and when the
all Sheriffs Mayors Bailiffs Constables and other Officers are required to be aiding in the execution of this Act No Officer whatsoever relating to the Customs shall sign suffer or allow of any Warrant or Order for delivering of any Goods prohibited by this Act to any Person or into any Place other than into one of their Majesties Ware-houses there to remain till Judgment pass according to this Act nor shall any Person whatsoever relating to the Customs by virtue or colour of any Warrant or Order take up or deliver any the said Goods or suffer them to be carried to any other place than one of the Kings Ware-Houses there to remain as aforesaid And such Goods brought into the Kings Ware-houses shall be forthwith viewed in the presence of two or more principal Officers of that Port whereof the Collector Customer or Customers Deputy to be one and the marks and numbers of each Vessel or Package and the quality and quantity of the said Goods and the time when brought in and of their delivery out of the said Ware-houses shall by special direction of the Commissioners or other Chief Officers of the Customs be registred in a Book to be kept for that purpose and for entry of Claims which examination shall be repeated and entred as aforesaid after condemnation at the delivery of them out to be destroyed and compared with the first Entry to prevent Fraud or Imbezilment and if any such be found the same to be entred and subscribed in the said Book by the principal Officer of the Port not having charge of the Ware-house and Copies of the Entries Examinations and Claims and a true Certificate of the deduction of the said Goods shall be transmitted to the Commissioners of the Customs with monthly Abstracts of the said Ports of which a distinct account shall be kept by the Officers of the Seizures in the Port of London IV. Such Goods shall not be delivered out of any the said Ware-houses till a Judgment or Condemnation have passed upon them otherwise than to be produced at a Trial to be had touching the unlawful importing the same or for the recovery of any Penalty incurred thereby V. If any Person not being a known Merchant Vintner or Shop-keeper shall after the first day of September 1689. sell or expose to sale any of the Commodities hereby prohibited they shall over and above the Penalties aforesaid suffer twelve months Imprisonment VI. Vessels with all their Guns and Furniture in which any such Commodities shall after the said 24th day of August be imported and every Bark Lighter or other Vessel out of which they shall be put on Shore shall be forfeited and the Master or other Person taking care of such Vessel for the Voyage or out of which any of the said Commodities shall be unshipt into any Hoy c. to be put on Shore shall forfeit 500 l. and also being apprehended by a Justice of Peace's Warrant and the Fact proved before one or more Justices by the Oath of two Witnesses shall be committed to the next Gaol for twelve months and Seamen Watermen Carmen and other Persons assisting in the landing or conveying any of the said Commodities by Land or Water shall upon examination and proof as aforesaid be subject to like Imprisonment or be publickly whipt at the Justices discretion and the Carts Teams Carriages Horses and Oxen made use of in such Carriages or Conveyance may be seiz'd and stay'd and upon proof before Justice of Peace by the Oaths of two Witnesses that they were made use of in moving or conveying any Goods hereby prohibited to be imported they shall be forfeited the one half to the use of the Poor of the Parish the other to his use that shall seize the same and if the Master or other Person belonging to any Vessel laden or part laden with any the said Commodities shall after the said 24th day of August unship or wittingly suffer to be unshipt any the said prohibited Goods either at Sea or in any Harbor Creek or Bay of the Kingdoms aforesaid he shall forfeit 500 l. and suffer Imprisonment as aforesaid VII No Brandy Aqua-vita Spirits or distilled Waters of any place whatsoever shall after the said 24th of August be imported in England or Ireland or any the said Islands on pain to forfeit the fame and the Ship or Vessel in which it shall be imported VIII The values and prices of the said Goods shall be reckoned as followeth viz. A Tun of Wines 30 l. a Tun of Brandy 40 l. and so proportionably Other Commodities aforesaid that are valued in the Book of Rates shall be esteemed according to their value there and the Prices of Commodities not rated there shall be determin'd by the Jury that shall try the cause or shall be empannelled to enquire whether the Goods were of the Product or Manufacture of the French Kings Dominions and in case of Condemnation by default the value to be determin'd by a Jury return'd before the Mayor or Bailiff of the City or Town Corporate or before the next Justice of Peace where the Goods shall be brought IX Persons prosecuting shall be rewarded with one third part of the value of the Goods prosecuted to condemnation and destruction to be Owners X. And the residue of the Forfeitures and Penalties before mentioned and not before disposed of shall be divided into three parts two thirds to their Majesties and one third to such as shall seize or sue for the same the Charge of such Prosecution to be born by their Majesties and issued by the Receiver General of the Customs by Warrant from the Commissioners XI No Foreigner or other Person shall be admitted to claim any of the said Goods till security given to the satisfaction of the Collector to answer to such Penalties as shall be incurred by him as the Importer or which the Owner Importer or Possessor thereof is shall or may be liable to by this Act. XII If any Person belonging to the Customs shall connive at the Importation of any the said Commodities he shall not only forfeit 500 l. to be recovered as aforesaid but be made incapable of any Office or Imployment under their Majesties and forfeit the Penalties of their Bonds for true performance of their Trust XIII Any Persons by Writ of Assistance under the Seal of the Exchequer may take a Constable or other publick Officer and in the day-time enter into any House Shop Cellar Ware-house c. and in case of resistance may break open Doors Trunks or other Package to seize and bring to their Majesties Ware-house any of the said Commodities XIV The Attorny General and other Persons seizing and prosecuting as aforesaid may use such method and course of proceeding as may be used about the seizing trying and prosecuting any Goods or Commodities for non-payment of Customs or other Duties or any Persons for offending against the Laws relating to Customs and Persons prosecuted for any thing done about the putting
employed to no other use and all the Orders or Warrants for the disposal thereof contrary to the intent of this Act to be void XI The provision hereby made for the payment of the said Interest-Mony for ever shall be in full satisfaction of the Debts and Interest thereof due to the said Orphans and Creditors and they are to acknowledge satisfaction of their respective Debts according to the usuall Custom paying such Fees to the Officers concerned as the Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall appoint not exceeding thirteen shillings and four pence for every thousand pounds The City hereby discharged Books to be kept of the Receipts and Disbursements Access thereto gratis from 9 to 12 in the Forenoon The Receipts and Payments to be yearly audited The Auditors Fees and the City and their Successors are hereby acquitted of the same XII The Chamberlain shall provide or keep one or more Book or Books of Vellum or Parchment of the Receipts and likewise of the Disbursements by virtue of this Act whereto all Persons may have free access to view the same between the hours of nine and twelve in the Forenoon without any Fee or Reward And the Receipts and Payments of all the Monies aforesaid shall be audited yearly upon Oath before one of the Auditors of the Imprest which Oath the said Auditors are hereby required to administer between Michaelmas Day and Saint Thomas the Apostle and for every thousand pounds the Accompts shall amount to the Auditor shall receive of the Chamberlain twenty shillings and no more The Accompts so audited shall be signed by the said Auditor and also allowed by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen and fairly entred and remain in the Chamber of the City to be perused and viewed XIII If any Chamberlain of the City Penalty of misimploying or other Person shall after Receipt of any the said Monies divert or misapply the same he shall forfeit treble the Sum so misapplied to be recovered by any the Orphans or Creditors that will sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts of Record XIV The Chamberlain and Common Serjeant of the City upon request shall give unto every of the said Orphans and Creditors and their respective Executors Administrators or Assigns Liberty of assigning a Bill or Note in Writing of the Principal Debt or Interest owing to them And any Person to whom any Mony is payable by this Act may by Writing under his Hand and Seal transfer his Right and Interest therein to be registred in a Book to be kept by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen and the Note or Bill of the said Debt being delivered up to the Officer appointed by the Court of Aldermen for that purpose he shall give his Note or Bill in Writing of the Debt so assigned to the Party to whom such Assignment is made and such Assignee shall be entituled to the benefit thereof and may assign toties quâ—â—ies Assignments irrevocable And it shall not be in the Power of such Persons who have made such Assignments to release or discharge the same or the Monies thereby assigned XV. Orphans not compellable to bring in their Mony to the Chamber No Person shall be obliged or compelled by virtue of any Custom within the said City or by Order or Process of the Court of Orphans to pay into the Chamber any Sum of Mony or Personal Estate due or to be due or belonging to an Orphan of any Freeman any Law or Usage inforcing the same notwithstanding But this not to be construed to extend to impeach or prevent Process upon any Recognizance already given according to the Custom XVI The City answerable for their Officers defaults If the Corporation of the City or any of their Officers or other Person by colour of any Warrant or Authority from them misapply or convert to their own use any of the Sums hereby appropriated the Corporation shall be answerable for the same out of their Revenues in any Action to be brought by any of the said Orphans or Creditors the Sum recovered to be to the uses aforesaid and the Costs to the Party suing The Amerciaments Fines on such Suits to the use of the City Fines and Distresses upon the Corporation upon the Account of such Suit to be to the uses aforesaid and not to be pardoned or acquitted by their Majesties XVII Provided on Application made to the Mayor and Court of Aldermen by the Executors or Administrators of the Father of such Orphan to pay in or lodge any Sum of Mony of such Orphan in the said Chamber and to have the benefit of the said provision hereby made It shall be lawful for the said Mayor and Aldermen to pay off the like Sum to such Person entituled to the said yearly Payments as aforesaid as they think fit not being Orphans under the Age of twenty one years of Age and giving three months notice to or for the Person so to be paid off at the end of which three months upon payment or tender of the said Monies due for Principal and Interest to or for the Person to whom such notice shall be given according to the provision hereby made at the Office of the said Chamberlain in Guildhall that from thenceforth the Annual Sum of Mony payable to such Person to whom such notice payment or tender shall be made shall cease and determine and the same shall become due and payable to or for the use of such Orphan who shall have paid in the Monies for the same and shall be registred accordingly and be assignable as aforesaid yet the Monies so tendred shall be paid to such Persons upon their demand of the same and assigning or giving a Discharge for the same And the provision hereby made shall remain a perpetual Fond for the benefit of the Orphans of the said City successively XVIII Debts mortgaged redeemable upon payment of Principal and Interest Provided it be within 3 years after this Session of Parliament If any such Debts due to any of the said Orphans have at any time before the said 25th day of December been mortgaged or covenanted to be so they are redeemable and shall be redeemed upon payment of the Principal Mony paid in consideration of making the Mortgage with the Charges and Interest for the same from the time of payment thereof after the rate of eight pounds per Cent. per Annum for one year discounting for what hath been received for the said Debt And upon payment or tender of Principal Interest and Charges the Security concerning the same to be void But such Redemption is to be made within three years after the end of this present Session of Parliament XIX Contracts with Solicitors void Solicitors to be paid at the discretion of the Mayor and Aldermen Their Forfeiture if they take more All Securities given by the Orphans to any Agents or Solicitors to obtain Payments of their Debts by Act of Parliament or
otherwise shall be null and void And the Mayor and Court of Aldermen out of the Revenue setled by this Act shall allow and pay to such Agents and Solicitors what they judge may be reasonable and that to be allowed in the Accompt of the said Revenue And if they demand or receive more than shall be so adjudged due to them they shall forfeit treble the Sum received to be recovered with Costs of Suit by such Persons as will sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster XX. New-River Water Thames Water and Shadwel Water-works excepted This Act shall not extend to the New-River Water or Profits thereof Nor shall be construed to hinder or obstruct the Governors and Company of Undertakers for raising of the Thames-Water in York Buildings nor the Governor and Company of the Water-work in Shadwel But they may raise and take the Water and lay Pipes and Branches in the Streets as before and enjoy all their Rights Nor shall this Act extend to the Water-works of Thomas Morris Th. Morris Water-works excepted at or near London-Bridge nor to the Profits or Benefits thereof other than the Rent reserved upon a Lease formerly made thereof by the City And Samuel Hutchinson Samuel Hutchinson or his Assigns paying their proportion of Stock to the Partners in the Convex Lights and covenanting to perform such Contracts and Agreements as are or shall be made by them before the 24th day of June 1695. may enjoy the same Interest and Benefit in the Premises as any of the Partners according to their respective Proportions XXI Priviledge of Persons sued upon this Act. Any Person sued for what he shall do in pursuance or in the execution of this Act may plead the General Issue and give upon Trial this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and in case of Non-suit forbearance of farther Prosecution Discontinuance or Verdict against the Plaintiff or Prosecutor the Defendant shall recover Costs and have like Remedy for them as when Costs by Law are given to the Defendants XXII This Act to be reputed a general Act. This Act shall be reputed a General Act and the Judges upon all occasions shall take notice as if it were a Publick Act of Parliament relating to the whole Kingdom XXIII For the space of seven years from the 29th day of September last past The City may use 2000 l. yearly for 7 years towards their necessary Expences provided the Orphans have their due otherwise to repay what is wanting to the Orphans by 2000 l. per ann it shall be lawful for the Mayor and Court of Aldermen to retain and apply and the Chamberlain to issue and pay towards the necessary Expences and Charges of the City any Sum not exceeding in the whole the Sum of two thousand pounds yearly out of the Monies hereby appointed to the use of the Orphans and Creditors But in case after the deduction and allowance of the said two thousand pounds during the seven years there shall not be raised and paid to the Orphans and Creditors out of the residue of the Profits of the aforesaid several Provisions and Fonds so much Mony as will fully satisfie all the said Orphans and Creditors Interest for all their several and respective Debts after the rate of four pounds per Cent. per Annum during the whole seven years that then the City shall repay into the Hands of the Chamberlain within seven years after the expiration of the said Term fourteen thousand pounds or so much thereof as they shall have made use of by two thousand pound per annum or such less yearly Sum as shall be proportionable to what they shall have so made use of until the same or so much thereof as shall make good the deficiency that shall appear in the satisfaction of the Interest of all the Monies due to the said Orphans and Creditors at the Rate aforesaid by reason of applying the said two thousand pounds per Annum or any part thereof to the use of the City for the Term aforesaid shall be satisfied And for securing the repayment thereof all the Estate Rents and Profits of any sort which at the expiration of the term of seven years shall belong to the Mayor The City Revenues liable for the same Commonalty and Citizens in their Politick Capacity only except the Revenues belonging to the Hospitals in or belonging to the same City or Borough of Southwark or for the Repairs of London-Bridge shall be and are charged and made subject and liable thereunto Prisoners I. STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 2. Act 2 W. M. revived That the Act made in the second year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Relief of Poor Prisoners for Debt and Damages be revived and that the Oath in the said Act shall be abolished and instead thereof the Oath herein mentioned shall be the Oath to be tendred to the Sheriffs Gaolers and Keepers of Prison I A. B. The Oath to be taken by Sheriffs and Gaolers do swear That I have examined the Commitments or Books belonging to the said Prison and that by them it doth appear that J. S. was really and truly a Prisoner in the Custody of the then Gaoler or Keeper of the Prison of D. Prison in the County of C. without any Fraud or Deceit by me or any other to my knowledge or belief at or upon the 28th day of November Anno Dom. 1690. II. And in case any Sheriff Penalty for refusing the Oath Gaoler or Keeper of Prison shall refuse to take the Oath herein appointed he being required unless it appear by the Commitment and Books of the said Prison that the Person for whom such Oath is required was not truly a Prisoner in the Custody of the said Gaoler and Keeper according to the said Act that otherwise the said Gaoler and Keeper so refusing to take the said Oath shall forfeit to such Prisoner the value of the Debt for which he shall be imprisoned And that in that case upon complaint of the Prisoner the Justices of Peace of the County or City where the Prison lies Prisoner may be discharged if he were in Custody 28 Nov. 1690 shall have power to examine the said Matter upon Oath of any other Persons which Oath they are hereby impowred to administer And if it shall appear to them that the said Prisoner was truly a Prisoner on the said 28th day of December 1690. then the said Justices may discharge the said Prisoner so as he may have full benefit of the said Act notwithstanding the Sheriffs Gaolers or Keepers refusing the said Oath any thing in the said Act notwithstanding III. The Sheriff or Gaolers Fee for discharge of a Prisoner And farther That no Sheriff Gaoler or Keeper of Prison nor any Clerk of the Peace or other Officer directly or indirectly shall take of any Prisoner to be discharged by
Annuities upon the said Act and the said Orders not to be determinable revocable or countermandable as touching the afore-mentioned Orders in the said Act is enacted which said Orders shall be assignable and transferrable in such and the same manmer as is mentioned in the said Act touching Orders given to the Contributors in the said Act mentioned and all the Rates and Duties by the said Act granted over and beside so much as shall bear proportion at the Rates in the said Act mentioned to the whole Sum of 881493 l. 14 s. 2 d. already advanced by the Contributors upon the said Act are and shall be appropriated and applied and are hereby appropriated to and for the payment of the said Annuities yearly Rents or Sums after the rate of 14 l. per Cent. per Annum for every 100 l. to be advanced as aforesaid according to the true intent and meaning of this Act and shall not be diverted or divertible to any other use intent or purpose whatsoever under the like Penalties Forfeitures and Disabilities Penalty for misapplying the Monies given by this Act. Books and Registers to be kept in respect to all and every the Officers in the said Act mentioned as are in the said Act appointed in case of diverting or misapplying any part of the Monies which ought to be paid to the Contributors upon the said Act. And the said Officers are hereby required to keep Books and Registers and make Entries of the Names of all Persons who shall advance any Monies before the said first of May and of the several Sums so advanced and the times of paying in the same respectively and the Names of such Persons for whose Lives the several Annuities or yearly Payments are to be payable without Fee or Reward as in the said Act mentioned And every Person who shall advance or pay any such Sum as asoresaid Interest of 10 l. per Cent. from 1st of May to the 24th of June before the first of May as aforesaid shall receive out of the Mony granted by the said Act for all Mony so advanced by him and paid from the respective days of payment unto the 24th of June as aforesaid Interest at the rate of 10 l. per Cent. per Annum II. Mony payable to any Person by this Act to be free from Duties Surplus to be to the use of their Majesties Any Monies payable to any Person or Persons by virtue of this Act shall not be chargeable with any Rates Duties or Impositions whatsoever and in case there shall be any Surplus or Remainder of the Monies arising by the said Rates and Duties of Excise at the end of any year during the term of ninety and nine years granted therein by the said former Act after making all the Payments which by this or the said former Act are appointed to be paid within the same year or reserving Mony for the same such Surplus or Remainder shall be to the use of their Majesties their Heirs and Successors III. Upon demand of their shares a Certificate of the Life of the Nominee shall be produced Every Contributor upon this or the former Act his or her Executors Administrators or Assigns upon their demanding any half-yearly or quarterly Payment of their respective shares of either of the said Funds unless the Nominee appear in Person at the said Receipt shall produce a Certificate of the Life of his her or their respective Nominee signed by the Minister and Church-wardens of the Parish where such Nominee shall be then living as by the said Act is appointed or otherwise it shall and may be lawful to and for every Contributor his or her Executors Administrators or Assigns at his her or their Election to make Oath of the truth of his her or their respective Nominees Life on the day when the said Payments shall become due before any one or more Justices of the Peace of the respective County Riding City Town or Place wherein such Person at the time of the making the said Oath shall reside and the said Justice or Justices shall make a Certificate thereof without Fee the which shall be filed in the said Office or Receipt of Exchequer And if any Person shall be guilty of a false Oath Penalty of forging a Certificate or forging any Certificate touching the Premises and be thereof lawfully convicted he shall incur the Pains and Penalties to be inflicted upon Persons who commit wilful Perjury or Forgery And in case any Nominee shall at the time of such demand be resident in Scotland or beyond the Seas and any one or more of the Barons of the Exchequer for the time being shall certifie that upon proof to him or them made which proof is to be taken in a Summary way it doth seem probable to him or them that the said Nominee is living the said Certificate being filed as aforesaid shall be a sufficient Warrant for making the said quarterly Payment to the respective Contributors their Executors Administrators or Assigns And if any Person shall receive one or more quarterly Payments upon his her or their Annuity or Annuities for any time beyond the death of his her or their Nominee when the same ought to cease such Person shall forfeit treble the value of the Monies so received IV. And whereas several Persons who did contribute or pay several of the Sums of Mony which have been contributed upon the said recited Act for Shares Dividends Annuities or other Benefits in the said Act mentioned as well upon the benefit of Survivorship as upon the yearly Annuities of 14 l. per Cent. did not name to the Auditor of the Receipt or Clerk of the Pells in the Receipt of the Exchequer within the respective times by the said Act appointed the respective Lives during which such Dividends Shares Annuities or other Benefits respectively were to continue It is hereby enacted Benefit of Survivorship within what time the Lives to be named That if such Persons shall at any time before the first of March next nominate to the Auditor of the Receipt of Clerk of the Pells in the Exchequer the respective Lives their own or others during which such Dividends Shares Annuities or other Benefits should continue respectively that then his her or their Nominees shall be entred in the Books kept in the Receipt for the Nominees And every such Contributor his or her Executors Administrators and Assigns shall have receive and enjoy such and the like Dividends Shares and Annuities and other Benefits in respect of the Monies so contributed as he or she might have had received and enjoyed if the respective Lives for the same had been named within the respective times by the said Act prescribed V. The Surplus to their Majesties not to be charged with any Gift c. Provided that the Surplus or Remainder of the Monies arising by the said Rates and Duties appointed by the said Act be to the use of their Majesties their
directed to any other use Monies for payment of Annuities not to be misapplied under the like Penalties Forfeitures and Disabilities in respect to all and every the Officers and other Persons in the recited Act mentioned as are in the said Act appointed and enacted in case of diverting or misapplying any part of the Monies which ought to be paid to the Contributors upon the said Act And the said Penalties and Forfeitures shall be sued for and recovered in such manner and form as the Penalties in the said recited Act are appointed to be sued for and recovered in which Suit no Protection Priviledge of Parliament or other Priviledge Wager of Law or more than one Imparlance shall be allowed Books to enter the Names of such as advance Mony before the 29th of Sept. And the said Officers shall keep Books and Registers and make Entries of the Names of all Persons who shall advance any Monies before the said 29th day of September and of all the Sums advanced and the times of paying in the same and the Names of such Persons for whose Lives the several Annuities are to be payable without Fee or Reward to which Book all Persons concerned shall have access as in the said Act also is directed All which the said Officers are to do under the like Penalties Forfeitures and Disabilities as in the said recited Act are mentioned 10 l. per Cent. for Monies advanced to the 29th of Sept. And every Person who shall advance and pay in any such Sum before the said 29th day of September shall receive out of the Mony granted by this Act for all Monies so advanced by him and paid from the respective day of payment unto the said 29th day of September Interest at the rate of 10 l. per Cent. per Annum And none of the Monies payable by this Act shall be charged with any Rates or Impositions whatsoever XXVI Infant a Nominee and Contributor within this Act. Any Guardian or Trustee of any Infant may advance and pay the Sum of 100 l. of the Monies of such Infant upon the respective Terms and Recompences herein mentioned And if it be upon an Annuity for Life he shall within the time before appointed for the naming of Lives name the said Infant to be a Nominee and such Infant upon payment of the Sum shall become a Contributor within the meaning of this Act and be entituled to have and receive a Proportion Guardian discharged as any other Contributor And the said Guardian and Trustee as to the said Sum of 100 l. so advanced is hereby discharged XXVII Contributor demanding Mony shall produce a Certificate of the life of the Nominee Every Contributor upon the Terms of having an Annuity for one two or three Lives his or her Executors Administrators and Assigns upon demanding any Payments unless the Nominee or Nominees or one of them appear in Person at the said Receipt shall produce a Certificate of the Life of his her or their Nominee or Nominees or one of them signed by the Minister or Church-warden of the Parish where such Nominee shall be then living Or make Oath or make Oath of the truth of the Life of his her or their respective Nominee or one of them upon the day when the payment shall become due before one or more Justices of the Peace of the County Riding City or Town wherein such Person at the time of making the said Oath shall reside which Oath the Act gives power to administer And the Justice or Justices shall make a Certificate thereof for which Oath and Certificate no Fee or Reward shall be required And the Certificate shall be filed in the Office of Receipt of Exchequer And if any Person shall be guilty of a false Oath Penalty of a false Oath or forging a Certificate and be thereof lawfully convict he shall incur the Penalties to be inflicted upon Persons who commit wilful Perjury or Forgery And in case any Nominee at the time of such demand be resident in Scotland or beyond the Seas and any one or more Barons of the Exchequer shall certifie that upon proof to him or them made which proof may be taken in a summary way it doth seem probable that the Nominee is living which Certificate is to be given and examination made without Fee or Charge the said Certificate being filed shall be a sufficient Warrant for making the said Payment And if any Person shall receive any payment after the death of his Nominee Penalty for receiving Mony after death of Nominee he shall forfeit treble the value of the Monies so received one half to their Majesties their Heirs and Successors the other half to the Party that will sue for the same XXVIII If the whole 1200000 l. be not paid how the deficiency to be supplied In case the whole Sum of 1200000 l. shall not be subscribed and paid into the Exchequer then so much of the said yearly Sum of 100000 l. hereby intended to answer the Recompence for the same as by such deficiency shall by this Act be undisposed is hereby appropriated so far as the same shall amount to pay any Person and Persons who shall advance and pay any Sums of Mony into the Exchequer before the first of February 1694. on account to have an Annuity or Annuities for one two or three Lives such respective Sums for such respective Life or Lives according to such rate and proportion and for such time and under such Rules and Directions as are herein before contained with relation to such as shall advance and pay the said 300000 l. XXIX If the whole 1500000 l. be not paid by the 1st of Octob. 1694. their Majesties may borrow so much as will make it up If the whole Sum of 1500000 l. be not paid into the Exchequer upon this Act before the first of October 1694. then their Majesties or their Officers in the Receipt of the Exchequer by their Command and Appointment may borrow for their Majesties use by way of Loan any Sum or Sums which together with the value of the Sums before the said first of October contributed shall not exceed the Sum of 1500000 l. which Sum or Sums so taken by way of Loan may be charged upon the Credit of their Majesties Exchequer in general and Tallies of Loan and Orders of repayment shall be levied and drawn accordingly which Orders shall be assignable and transferrable All Sums of Mony so borrowed not exceeding as aforesaid together with Interest for the same not exceeding 8 l. per Cent. per Annum At 8 l. per Cent. to be paid every three months until satisfaction of the Principal shall be payable and satisfied unto the Lender or Lenders his her or their Executors Administrators or Assigns out of the Monies brought into the Exchequer by Contributions upon this Act Aids granted by next Parliament to supply defects so far as the same shall extend
shall utter or sell any Vellum Parchment or Paper with such counterfeit Mark or Impression knowing such Mark or Impression to be counterfeit then every such Person so offending being thereof legally convict shall suffer Death as a Felon without benefit of Clergy LII Person to be appointed to inspect Vellum c. The Commissioners to appoint a fit Person to attend in any Court or Office to take notice of the Vellum Parchment or Paper upon which any thing aforesaid shall be ingrossed or written and of the Marks and Stamps thereupon and all other things tending to secure the Duties arising by this Act And the Judges in the several Courts to make good Orders for securing the said Duties And all Persons commissionated by this Act and every Person imployed under them for the marking or stamping of Vellum Parchment or Paper as aforesaid before his acting in marking or stamping of the same shall take the Oath following viz I A. B. do swear Commissioners and Offieers Oath That I will faithfully execute the Trust reposed in me pursuant to an Act of Parliament Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties several Duties upon Vellum Parchment and Paper for four years towards carrying on the War against France without Fraud or Concealment and shall from time to time true Account make of my doing therein and deliver the same to such Person or Persons as their Majesties their Heirs or Successors shall appoint to receive such Account and shall take no Fee Reward or Profit for the execution or performance of the said Trust or the Business relating thereunto from any Persons other than such as shall be paid or allowed by their Majesties their Heirs or Successors or by the Commissioners of their Majesties Treasury or three of them now being or by the Treasurer of the Exchequer or three or more of the Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being LIII All Parts of the Kingdom to be furnished with Vellum Stamps c. The Commissioners are to take special care that the several Parts of this Kingdom Wales and Berwick shall be furnished with Vellum Parchment and Paper stampt so as Persons may have their Election either to buy the same of the Officers or Persons to be employed by the Commissioners or to bring their own Vellum Parchment or Paper to be stampt LIV. All Deeds Writs c. to be writ as usually All Records Writs Pleadings and other Proceedings in Courts of Law and Equity and all Deeds Instruments and Writings whatsoever hereby charged shall be ingrossed and written in such manner as they have been usually accustomed to be written or are now written LV. Alteration of Stamp to be by Proclamation As often as their Majesties shall think fit to alter or renew the said Marks or Stamps then they unto whom any Blank Vellum Parchment or Paper inrolled with the old Stamp within sixty days after such intention of altering shall be published by Proclamation may bring it to the respective Officers to be appointed as aforesaid who shall deliver the like quantity of Vellum Parchment or Paper and as good stampt with the new Stamp without Fee under the Penalty of 100 l. And that which shall not be brought in in the time aforesaid the same shall be of no other effect than if it had been never stampt And all Persons who shall ingross or write any Matters chargable by the Act on such Vellum Parchment or Paper after that time shall forfeit as those that write or ingross on Vellum c. uâ—stampt at all LVI Time of notice of alteration of the Stamp The Proclamation for giving notice for the altering the Stamps shall within twenty days after the date thereof be sent to the Mayor Chief Magistrate or other Head-Officer of every City Corporation Borough or market-Market-Town which Officers shall cause the same to be published to the respective Inhabitants either on the next Market-day or the next Sunday in the Church immediately after Divine Service under the Penalty of 200 l. LVII And it shall be lawful for any Person Native or Foreigner Body Politick or Corporate to lend to their Majesties upon the Credit of this Act any Sum not exceeding the Sum of 330000 l. and to receive Interest for the same not exceeding the Rate of 8 l. per Cent. per Annum An Abstract of what Things are chargable by the ACT for granting Duties upon Vellum Parchment and Paper Grants of Honours Dignities Promotions Franchises Liberties or Priviledges under the Great Seal or D. Lancaster   Pardons Reprieve or Relaxation from Fines Corporal Punishments or Forfeitures  Grants of Mony above 100 l.  Grants of Offices or Employments above 50 l. per An. Lands in Fee or Leases for Years under the Great Seal  Grants of Exchequer D. Lancaster or Privy Seal 40 s. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper  Donations Dignities and Promotions Ecclesiastical above 10 l. per Ann. in the Kings Books   Degrees in Universities   Dispensations and Faculties for two Benefices  Admittance of every Physitian in Col. Med. London  Admittance of every Attorny Clerk Advocate Proctor Notary and other Officer in any Court  Appeals from Courts of Admiralty Arches and Prerogative  Inrolments of Conveyances Surrenders of Grants or Offices Releases or Deeds inrolled  Writs of Covenant for levying Fines  Writs of Entry for Common Recoveries   Exemplifications under Seal of any Court whatsoever   Institutions Licenses to preach or serve Cures  Writs of Error Certiorari or Habeas Corpus 5 s. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper  Appeals except to Delegates   Significavits pro Corporis deliberat   Sentences Attachments   Relaxations in Admiralty and Cinque Ports   Licenses or Certificates of Marriage   Letters of Mart.   Probate of Wills   Administrations above 20 l.   Statutes or Recognizances  Records of Nisi Prius or Postea  Records of Judgments signed in any Courts of Westminster   Commissions in Ecclesiast Courts   Warrants Monitions and Personal Decrees in Courts of Admiralty and Cinque Ports 2 s. 6 d. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper   Beneficial Warrants or Orders under Sign Manual except for Navy Army and Ordnance   Special Bails and Appearances  Ingrossments of Bills Answers Replications Rejoinders Interrogatories Depositions and other Pleadings in Chancery Exchequer and other Courts of Equity 1 s. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper Admissions into Corporations Companies Universities Inns of Courts and Inns of Chancery  Decrees and Dismissions In Chancery Exchequer D. Lancaster Chester Durham   Common Bails and Appearances Rules or Orders at Westminster  Copies of Rules Orders or Records  Copies of Citations Monitions Libels Allegations Depositions Answers Sentences Decrees
 Copies of Inventories in Courts of Admiralty Cinque Ports and Ecclesiastical Courts   Affidavits and Copies Indentures Leases Deed Polls 6 d. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper Writs Original Latitats Capias Subpoena Bill of Middlesex Quominus Ded. Potestatem and other Writs   Processes and Mandates in all Courts where Debt is above 40 s.   Actions in London and other Corporations above 40 s.   Charter Parties Pollicies of Assurance Pasports Bonds Releases Contracts Obligatory Instruments Protests Procurations Letters of Attorny or other Notarial Acts.  Copies of Declarations Pleas Replications Rejoinders Demurrers and other Pleadings in all Courts of Law and for Copies thereof 1 d. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper Copies of Depositions Bills Answers Pleas Demurrers Replications Rejoinders Interrogatories and other Proceedings in any Court of Equity Copies of Wills  Things Excepted Draughts of Depositions taken by Commissioners before they are ingrossed Seamens and Souldiers Wills and Administrations Paupers Bills of Exchange Accounts Bills of Parcels Bills of Fees Bills or Notes not sealed for Payment of Mony at sight or on demand or at the end of certain days of payment Trade I. Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 2. An Act for repealing such parts of several former Acts as prevent or prohibit the Importation of Foreign Brandy Aqua-vitae and other Spirits and Bacon except from France I. Importation of fine Thrown Silk Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 3. It shall be lawful to or for any Person or Persons residing within their Majesties Dominions to import within this Kingdom from any Port whatsoever excepting the Ports of France during the present War with France and three Months after fine Thrown-Silk of the growth or production of Italy Sicily or Naples II. Provided that this Act nor any thing herein contained What sorts to be imported shall extend to give liberty to bring over Land and import any Italian Thrown Silk courser than a sort thereof known and distinguished by the name of Third Bolonia nor any Sicilian Thrown Silk courser than a sort thereof known and distinguished by the name of Second Orsay nor any sorts of Silks commonly called Frams of the growth of Italy Sicily or Naples nor any other Thrown Silk of the growth or production of Turky Persia East-India or China The penalty under the Penalty and Forfeiture of all such Thrown Silk as shall be brought over land and imported contrary to the intent of this Act. III. And that all such fine Italian To be brought to the Custom-house Sicilian and Naples Thrown Silks as are allowed to be imported by this Act wheresoever landed shall be brought to their Majesties Custom-house London to the intent that no other sort may be imported over-land than those only allowed by this Act under the Penalties before-mentioned any thing to the contrary hereof notwithstanding I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 3. Whereas by an Act made in the 5th year of Q. Elizabeth Entituled An Act containing divers Orders for Artificers Labourers Servants in Husbandry and Apprentices It is enacted in these words following Provided always and be it farther enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Person or Persons using or exercising the Art or Mystery of a Woollen Cloath-Weaver other than such as be inhabiting within the Counties of Cumberland Westmorland Lancaster and Wales weaving Frizes Cottons or Houswifes Cloath only making and weaving Woollen-Cloath commonly sold or to be sold by any Cloathman or Clothier shall take and have any Apprentice or shall teach or in any-wise instruct any Person or Persons in the Science Art or Occupation of Weaving aforesaid in any Village Town or Place Cities Towns-Corporate and market-Market-Towns only excepted unless such Person be his Son or else that the Father or Mother of such Apprentice or Servant shall at the time of the taking of such Person or Persous to be an Apprentice or Servant or to be instructed have Lands or Tenements or other Hereditaments to the clear yearly value of 3 l. at the least of an Estate of Inheritance or Freehold to be certified under the Hands and Seals of three Justices of the Peace of the Shire or Shires where the said Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments do or shall lie The effect of the Indenture to be registred within three months in the Parish where such Master shall dwell and to pay for such registring 4 d. upon pain of forfeiture of 20 s. for every month that Person shall otherwise take any Apprentice or set any such Person on Work contrary to the meaning of this Article II. St. 5 Eliz. concerning Apprentices in Woollen Manufafacture repealed Now forasmuch as such part of the said Act before recited hath been found prejudicial to the Clothing-Trade It is hereby enacted That so much of the said Act as is before recited is hereby declared to be repeald and made void as if the same had never been made I. Salt-petre to be brought in for one year Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 10. It shall be lawful for any of their Majesties Subjects to import and bring Salt-petre into this Kingdom from any Place or Country now in Amity with their Majesties for the space of one year to be computed from and after the 25th day of March 1694. II. In what Ships Provided that such Salt-petre be brought in only in such Ships or Vessels as are English built and no other III. At what rate to be sold Provided that no Person importing Salt-petre by virtute of this Act nor any Retailer shall sell any part of the Salt-petre so to be imported at above the price of 70 l. per Tun not exceeding 18 per Cent. Refraction upon the Penalty of 50 l. per Tun. IV. Their Majesties Duty Provided that the Salt-petre which shall be imported by virtue of this Act shall pay to their Majesties the same Duty as if the same were directly imported from the East-Indies V. Salt-petre imported and mingled not to be sold at above 70 l. per Tun. If any Person shall mingle any Salt-petre imported by virtue of this Act with any other Salt-petre and sell the same so mingled at above the rate of 70 l. per Tun or shall by way of Barter or Exchange take or agree to take any other Commodity for Salt-petre imported by virtue of this Act whether by it self or mingled with other Salt-petre in any manner so as to have or receive for the same more than the rate of 70 l. per Tun accounting the Commodity so taken in exchange at the then currant Price That the sale of such Salt-petre so mingled and also such Barter or Exchange shall be construed and taken to be a Sale contrary to this Act. I. Iron Copper c. may be transported except to France during the War Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 11. It shall and may be lawful to and for any Person whatsoever Bodies Politick or Corporate to ship and export all and all manner of Iron Copper or Mundick Metal out of this Realm of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed except unto or for the use of the French King or any of his Subjects residing within his Dominions or in to or for any Port or Place within his said Dominions during the present War between their Majesties and the French King paying the Duties and Customs by Law payable for the same II. Excepting Port-Metal Gun-Metal c. Provided this Act shall not extend to the exportation of Port-Metal Gun-Metal or Shruff-Metal or any old Metal or any mixture therewith or any Copper or other Metal than what is made c. of English Ore only FINIS