Commissioners for the accommodation of Countrey Carts returning empty And the said Scavengers Rakers or other Vndertakers shall have liberty to pass through such Wharfs Docks or Yards with their Ashes Dust Dirt c. as shall be judged by the Commissioners to be most commodious for the carrying the same by Water they giving satisfaction to the Owners or Occupiers of such Wharfs or Yards and in case of unreasonable Demands the said Commissioners shall hear moderate and determine the same according to Equity and good Conscience and in case any person or persons shall find him or themselves agrieved or prejudiced by such Determination of the said Commissioners How persons grieved may appeal or by any other the Acts or Procéedings of the said Commissioners wherein he or they shall conceive themselves relievable in Iustice or Equity the said party so agrieved shall and may have recourse in all cases to the Lord Treasurer Chancellor of the Exchequer and Barons of the Court of Exchequer to set forth his or their Case by Petition Bill or Plaint And the said Court is hereby impowred in such case of Appeal to hear and determine all matters to them complained of concerning the same and thereupon to revoke make void alter or confirm such Acts or Procéedings of the said Commissioners as shall be agréeable to Equity and Iustice The Commissioners to be be called to accompt in the Exchequer yearly And the said Court of Exchequer is hereby also further impowred yearly to call the said Commissioners to an account for all Rents Fines Penalties Contributions or any other sum or sums of Money payable or that shall come to their or any of their hands for any of the purposes in this Act intended And the said Commissioners are hereby required at or before every Trinity Term to deliver in a true account before the Barons of the said Court of all their Receipts and Disbursments for the Year ended at Easter then past and in default thereof Process shall of course be made forth against the said Commissioners by the Clerk of the Extracts of the said Court at the sealing-Sealing-day for the said trinity-Trinity-Term every Year respectively And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Decrée made at a Session of Sewers at Westminster-Hall Westminster within the City of Westminster and County of Middlesex the eighth day of August One thousand six hundred sixty and one holden before John Lord Roberts Lord Privy Seal James Duke of Ormond in the Kingdom of Ireland Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold and Earl of Brecknock Mountague Earl of Lindsey Edward Earl of Manchester and others the Commissioners of Sewers then and there assembled by Authority of his Majesties Commission of Sewers to them and others directed for the making of two new Sewers and enlarging and amending the old Sewers near Charing-Cross for conveying the Water away from annoying his Majesties Palace at White-Hall be and is hereby ratified and confirmed and shall be put in execution according to the true intent and meaning thereof with full power to levy all the Arrears as by a Commission of Sewers can or may be done And all and every person and persons imployed or that have acted therein be and are hereby indemnified and saved harmless from all manner of Suits and Actions that may or shall be brought against any of them for the same And whereas great quantities of Sea-coal-ashes dust dirt and other filth of late times have béen and daily are thrown into the Stréets Lanes and Allies of the Cities of London and Westminster and Borough of Southwark and other parts adjacent to the great Annoyance of Your Majesties good People Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person and persons inhabiting within the said Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs and Liberties thereof and the Borough of Southwark or in any of the said new built stréets Lanes All streets and lanes to be cleansed every week or Allies shall from the first day of May One thousand six hundred sixty and two swéep and cleanse or cause to be swept and cleansed all the Stréets Lanes Allyes and publick places before their respective Houses Buildings and Walls twice every wéek that is to say on every Wednesday and every Saturday in the wéek and all the soil dirt and other filth shall cause to be taken up into Baskets Tubbs or other Vessels ready for the Raker Scavenger or other Officer appointed for that purpose to carry away The penalties for neglect thereof None to cast any ashes or dust before their houses The penalty upon pain to forfeit thrée shillings and four pence for every offence or neglect respectively And that no person or persons whatsoever shall throw cast or lay or cause permit or suffer to be thrown cast or laid any Sea-coal-ashes dust dirt or other filth or annoyance in any open Street Lane or Alley within the said Cities or places aforesaid before or against his her or their own dwelling Houses Buildings or Walls on the Penalty of five shillings and if before the Houses Buildings or Walls of any of their Neighbours or other the Inhabitants of the Cities or Places aforesaid or before or against any Church or Church-yard or any of his Majesties Houses Buildings or Walls or any other publick Houses Buildings or places whatsoever or shall cast lay or throw or cause to be cast laid or thrown into any common or publick Sink Vault Water-course common Sewer or High-way within the said Cities or places aforesaid or any other private Vault or Sink of any of his Neighbours or other Inhabitants any Ashes Dust Filth Ordure or other noysome thing whatsoever but shall kéep or cause the same to be kept in their respective Houses Back-sides or Yards untill such time as the Raker Scavenger or other Officer thereto appointed of the Ward Parish Stréet or place where they dwell do come by or near their houses or doors with his Cart Barrow or other thing or things used for cleansing the Streets and carrying away thereof and then shall carry or cause to be carried the said Ashes Dust or other Filth and Annoyance aforesaid forth of their houses and deliver it unto the said Raker Scavenger or Officer or otherwise put the same in his Cart Barrow or other thing as aforesaid upon pain to forfeit the sum of twenty shillings for every such Offence And be it further Enacted That the respective Church-Wardens White-Hall Church-yards and houses of Noblemen the House-kéepers of White-Hall and other his Majesties Houses House-kéepers or Porters of Noble-mens houses Vshers Porters or Kéepers of Courts of Iustice and all other Publick Houses and Places respectively shall be lyable to and shall suffer the like Penalties Forfeitures and Punishments for every the before-mentioned Offences or Neglects committed done or suffered to be done before any Church or Church-yard or before any of His Majesties Houses Buildings or
and singular the said Pleas Writs Bills Actions Suits Plaints Process Precepts and other the Premises aforesaid shall stand continue and be good and effectual in Law to all Intents and Purposes as if the said Returns and dayes and every of them had béen actually kept and holden in all and every the said Courts Any Law Statute Custome or Vsage to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding The said Writs Process Pleas c. returnable pleadable at a certain day And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Pleas Writs Bills Actions Suits Plaints Process Precepts and other thing or things whatsoever aforesaid pleadable or to be pleaded Returnable or to be Returned or having day in any manner whatsoever at any of the said Returns or any day or dayes certain after any of the said Returns Be and are hereby continued and adjourned unto and shall and may be Pleaded Returned Heard and Determined in the respective Courts aforesaid at or on the fifth Return of the said Term of late called In the morrow of the Ascension of our Lord And that all parties in any Pleas Writs Bills Actions Suits Plaints Process or other thing or things whatsoever having dayes given them at any of the said four first Returns or at any other day or dayes certain after any of the said Returns in the said Courts or any of them by vertue of this present Act have the said Return of late called In the morrow of the Ascension of our Lord prefixed them therein And that all Sheriffs Officers and other Ministers whatsoever and every of them respectively kéep in their hands all Writs Bills Process and Precepts and all other things whatsoever in them directed respectively Returnable or to be Returned in the several Courts aforesaid at the said four first Returns or any of them in or at any day certain as aforesaid until the said fifth Return of late called The morrow of the Ascension of our Lord and then Return the same into the said several Courts respectively That such proceedings may be then had thereupon as should have béen had in case the said four first Returns had béen kept and holden And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Writs Process Plaints Process Writs Pleas c. under certain titles and names may be prosecuted and proceeded upon Pleas Informations Indictments or Iudicial proceedings had Commenced or prosecuted before the fifth day of May in the said year of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty in the Name Stile Title or Test of Custodes Libertatis Angliae Authoritate Parliamenti or in the Name Stile Title or Test of The Keepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament or in the Name Stile Title or Test of Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging or in the Name Stile Title or Test of Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging or in the Name Stile Title or Test of Richard Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging shall be put without day abated quashed or discontinued by his Majesties most just re-assumption of the actual Exercise of his Kingly Government in this Kingdom nor shall the same be cause of Errour Abatement or Discontinuance but that all such Writs Process Plaints Pleas Informations Indictments and Iudicial Procéedings and all Commissions for taking of Answers or Examination of Witnesses Commission for taking of Fines and Warrants of Attorney Guardians or Prochein-Amy shall stand and be continued and shall and may be procéeded upon prosecuted and returned notwithstanding the same were commenced or prosecuted in English and notwithstanding the present happy Change and Restitution of his Majesties Name and Stile in Iudicial Procéedings And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid Process and proceedings in English in Courts of Iustice to continue EXP. That one pretended Act made in the year of our Lord 1650. entituled An Act for turning the Books of the Law and all Process and Proceedings in Courts of Justice into English shall stand and be in force as if the same had béen a good and effectual Act from the first Return of Easter Term in the year of our Lord 1651. untill the first day of August in the year of our Lord 1660. and no longer And whereas by one other pretended Act made in the said year of our Lord 1650. entituled An Act touching Corn and Meal It was Enacted or mentioned to be Enacted That from and after the twentieth day of November 1650. It should and might be lawfull to and for any person or persons Defendant or Tenant for or by reason of any matter to be pleaded set forth or alledged in Bar to any Action Real Personal or mixt in any Court of Record to plead the General Issue of Not Guilty or the like General Issue proper to the Nature of the Action or Suit commenced and for his or their Discharge or Acquitting to give any such matter in evidence to the Iury that shall try the same and that the said matter shall be as available to such person or persons Defendant or Tenant to all intents and purposes as if the said matter had béen specially pleaded set forth or alledged in Bar of such action Be it further Enacted That the said pretended Act Pleading the General Issue as touching the pleading of the General Issue shall by authority hereof stand and be in full force and effect according to the Tenor thereof until the said first day of August as if the same had béen a good and effectual Act of Parliament EXP. and no longer Provided alwayes That where the General Issue hath béen since the said twentieth day of November 1660. pleaded or shall before the said first day of August in the said year of our Lord 1660. be pleaded in any action That then upon the Tryal of the said Cause such Evidence shall and may be allowed as if the said pretended Act touching the pleading of the General Issue had béen and continued a good and effectual Act of Parliament not determined or discontinued Provided also That his Majesties Royal assent to the passing of this Bill shall not extend His Majesties Assent to this Bill doth not determine the Session All Writs Patents Commissions c. to issue in the Kings name as formerly or be construed to extend to the determining of the Session of this present Parliament Provided nevertheless and be it Enacted That all Writs Patents and Commissions for Constituting Iustices of either Bench and Barons of the Exchequer Commissions of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol-Delivery and Precepts upon Commissions of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol-Delivery and all other Commissions hereafter to be made by the Clerk of the Crown in the Chancery Charters and Letters Patents under the
4. 20 R. 2. 2. and one other Statute made in the twentieth year of the reign of the late King Richard the second by which it is ordained that no Vaclets called Yeomen nor other of lesser estate than an Esquire shall use or bear any sign of Livery called Livery of Company of any Lord within the Realm And one Statute made in the first year of the reign of the late King Henry the fourth concerning giving of Liberies 7 H. 4. 7. 6 H. 4. 14. 13 H. 4. 3. 8 H. 6. 4. 8 Ed. 4. 2. 3 H. 7. 1. 3 H. 7. 12. A repeal of the 9 Statutes last mentioned And one statute made in the 7th year of the reign of the late King Hen. the 4th concerning giving of Liveries And one other Statute made in the 13th year of the reign of the late King Henry the fourth concerning giving of Liveries And one Statute made in the eighth year of the reign of the late King Henry the sixth concerning Liveries And one Statute made in the eighth year of the reign of the late King Edward the fourth concerning Liveries and so much of one Statute made in the third year of the reign of the late King Henry the seventh concerning the Star-Chamber as toucheth or concerneth the punishment of those that shall give or take Liveries And one other Statute made in the said third year concerning taking of Liveries by the Kings Officers and Farmers be from henceforth repealed And be it also enacted by authority of this Parliament 7 Jac. 20. continued untill the next Parliament that one Act of Parliament made in the seventh year of the reign of the late King James intituled An Act for the speedy recovery of many thousand Acres of marsh grounds and other grounds within the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk lately surrounded by the rage of the Sea in divers parts of the said Counties and for the prevention of the danger of the like surrounding hereafter be continued and shall stand in force untill the end of the next Session of Parliament 17 Car. cap. 4. CAP. V. The Estates of the Tenants of Bromfield and Yale in the County of Denbigh and of the Tenures Rents and Services thereupon reserved according to the late composition made for the same with the Kings most Excellent Majesty then Prince of Wales ratified and confirmed PR CAP. VI. Five Subsidies granted by the Spiritualty EXP. CAP. VII Five Subsidies granted by the Temporalty Anno quarto Caroli Regis EXP. Anno Regni Caroli Regis Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Decimo Sexto AT the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of Novemb. An. Dom. 1640. In the sixteenth year of the Reign of CHARLES the first by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. To the High pleasure of Almighty God and to the weal publick of this Realm were Enacted as followeth CAP. I. Parliaments to be called and held every third year REP. ALT 16 Car. 2. cap. 1. CAP. II. A Grant of four entire Subsidies for the Relief of His Majesties Army and the Northern parts of the Kingdom EXP. CAP. III. Some things mistaken in the last Act reformed and the Acts of the Commissioners and other Officers by them appointed made good EXP. Anno decimo septimo Caroli Regis CAP. IV. A Grant of two Subsidies for the further Relief of His Majesties Army and the Northern parts of the Kingdom EXP. And divers Statutes continued ANd be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the passing of this present Act Divers Statutes continued or of any other Act or Acts or his Majesties Royal Assent to them or any of them in this present Session of Parliament shall not be any determination of the said Session 3 Car. cap. 4. continued further and that all Statutes and Acts of Parliament which have their continuance or were by an Act of Parliament made in the third year of the Reign of his Majesty that now is intituled An Act for the Continuance and Repeal of divers Statutes continued untill the end of the first Session of the then next Parliament shall by vertue of this Act be adiudged ever since the Session of Parliament in the said third year to have been of such force and effect as the same were the last day of that Session and from thenceforth until some other Act of Parliament be made touching the continuance or discontinuance of the said Statutes and Acts in the said Act of the third year of his Majesties Reign continued as aforesaid CAP. V. The Lord Admiral and others by his authority may Raise and Impress Mariners Sailers and others for the present guarding of the Seas and necessary Defence of the Realm EXP. CAP. VI. Michaelmas Term abbreviated Inconvenience◠Michaelmas term being so soon after the feast of Saint Michael VVHereas the Term of S. Michael commonly called Michaelmas Term doth begin so soon after the Feast of Saint Michael that it is generally found to be very inconvenient to His Majesties Subjects both Nobles and others as well for the keeping of the Quarter Sessions next after the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and the keeping of their Léets Law-dayes and Court-Barons which they can by no means attend in regard of the necessity of their coming to the said Term so spéedily after the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel to appear upon Iuries and to follow their Causes and Suits in the Law the same time being the chief time of all the year for the sowing of Land with Winter Corn and for the disposing and setting in order of all their Winter Husbandry and business and for the receiving and paying of Rents And in many parts of this Kingdom Harvest is seldom or never Inned till three wéeks after the said Feast Therefore the Kings most Excellent Majesty out of the Princely care that he hath of all his loving Subjects having a special care to the encrease and continuance of their wealth and good Estates by the assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same Ordaineth Enacteth and Establisheth That in the said Michaelmas Term there shall be six common dayes of Return only and not above that is to say The first day of Return thereof shall be and be called A die Sancti Michaelis in tres Septimanas In Michaelmas term shall be lie common dayes of Return only The second day of Return of the same Term shall be and be called A die Sancti Michaelis in unum mensem The third day of Return of the same Term shall be and be called In Crastino animarum The fourth day of Return of the same Term shall be and be called In Crastino Sancti Martini The fifth day of Return of the same Term shall be and be called In Octabis Sancti Martini And the sixth day of Return of the said
Term shall be and be called A die Sancti Martini in quindecem dies And that the same dayes of Return shall be observed in all the High Courts of Record of our Soveraign Lord the King his Heirs and Successors hereafter to be holden at Westminster or other place or places at the assignment or appointment of our Soveraign Lord the King His Heirs and Successors And that from and after the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next coming The Return dayes to be observed there shall not be nor be called any dayes of Return in Octabis Sancti Michaelis nor a die Sancti Michaelis in quindecem dies nor either of them And that the said Term of Saint Michael yearly for ever from and after the said Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next coming begin in and upon the said Tres septimanas Sancti Michaelis whensoever it shall happen to fall except it be on the Lords day commonly called Sunday and then on the morrow next after for the keeping of the Essoins Proffers Returns and other Ceremonies heretofore used and kept in like manner and form Two return dayes taken away as hath been used to be done in the day of the Return commonly called Octabis Sancti Michaelis and that the full Term of Saint Michael shall yearly for ever When the term shall begin from and after the Feast of Saint Michael next coming in all the aforesaid Courts of Recâ—â—d begin and take his commencement upon the quarto die of the said tres septimanas Sancti Michaelis and not before as formerly it hath been used upon the quarto die of Octabis Sancti Michaelis except it be on the Lords day commonly called Sunday and then on the morrow next after And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that if after the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next coming Hâ—w dayes shall â—e given or Wâ—â—ts in real actions other then writs of entry right or advowson or dower any Writ in any real Action other then Writs of Entry for common Recoveries and writs of right of Advowson and writs of Dower Unde nihil habet hereafter mentioned come in and be returnable in His Majesties Court of Common Pleas in the day of Return of Tres septimanas Sancti Michaelis then day shall be given in Crastino Purificationis beatae Mariae And if a die Sancti Michaelis in unum mensem then in Octabis Purificationis beatae Mariae if in Crastino animarum then in Quindena Paschae if in Crastino Sancti Martini then a die Paschae in tres septimanas if in Octabis Sancti Martini then a die Paschae in unum mensem if in Quindena Sancâ— Martini then in quinque septimanas Paschae if in Octabis Sancti Hillarii then in Crastino Ascensionis Domini if in Quindena Sancti Hillarii then in Crastino Sanctae Trinitatis if in Crastino Purificationis beatae Mariae then in Octabis Sanctae Trinitatis if in Octabis Purificationis beatae Mariae then in Quindena sanctae Trinitatis if in Quindena Paschae then a die sanctae Trinitatis in tres septimanas if a die Paschae in tres septimanas then a die Sancti Michaelis in tres septimanas if a die Paschae in unum mensem then a die Sancti Michaelis in unum mensem if a die Paschae in quinque septimanas then in Crastino animarum if in Crastino Ascensionis Domini then in Crastino Sancti Martini if in Crastino sanctae Trinit then in Octabis sancti Martini if in Octabis sanctae Trinitatis then in Quindena sancti Maâ—â—ini if in Quindena sanctae Trinitatis then in Octabis sancti Hillarii if a die sanctae Trinitatis in tres septimanas then in Quindena Sancti Hillarii How dayes shall be given in theâ—â— writs And for the more speedy proceeding in Writs of Dower and Writs of Entry for common Recoveries to be sued and prosecuted by Writs of Entry or Writs of Right of Advowson Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if after the said Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next coming any Writ of Dower unde nihil habet or any writ of Entry whereupon a common Recovery is to be sued or Writs of Right of Advowson be returnable a die Sancti Michaelis in tres septimanas then a day shall be given in Octabis Sancti Martini if a die Sancti Michaelis in unum mensem then in Quindena Sancti Martini if in Crastino animarum then in Octabis Sancti Hillarii if in Crastino Sancti Martini then in Quindena Sancti Hillarii if in Octabis Sancti Martini then in Crastino Purificationis beatae Mariae if in Quindena Sancti Martini then in Octabis Purificationis beatae Mariae if in Octabis Sancti Hillarii then in Quindena Paschae if in Quindena Sancti Hillarii then a die Paschae in tres septimanas if in Crastino Purificationis beatae Mariae then a die Paschae in unum mensem if in Octabis Purificationis beatae Mariae then a die Paschae in quinque septimanas if in Quindena Paschae then in Crastino Ascentionis Domini if a die Paschae in tres septimanas then in Crastino Sanctae Trinitatis if in Mense Paschae then in Octabis Sanctae Trinitatis if in Quinque septimanas Paschae then in Quindena Sanctae Trinitatis if in Crastino Ascentionis Domini then a die Sanctae Trinitatis in tres septimanas if in Crastino Sanctae Trinitatis then a die Sancti Michaelis in tres septimanas if in Octabis Sanctae Trinitatis then a die Sancti Michaelis in unum mensem if in Quindena Sanctae Trinitatis then in Crastino Animarum if a die Sanctae Trinitatis in tres septimanas then in Crastino Sancti Martini Provided nevertheless and be it likewise enacted by the Authority aforesaid In writs of Dower after issue joyned fifteen dayes between the Teste and return sufficient that in all writs of Dower Unde Nihil habet after issue joyned it shall not be néedful or requisite to have above fifteen dayes betwixt the Teste and Return of the Venire facias or any other Process to be sued out for the trial of the said issue but that the Writ of Venire facias and other Process after Issue joyned untill judgment be given having only fifteen dayes betwéen the Teste and Return thereof shall be good and effectual in Law as is used in personal Actions any Law Statute or usage to the contrary heretofore notwithstanding And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid Crastino Ascentionis a good return that from and after the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel now next coming the said day of Return called Crastino Ascentionis Domini shall be a good and perfect Return to all intents and purposes as any other of the said dayes of Return before mentioned is or hath béen used notwithstanding there be not fiftéen dayes between the quarto die of the said Return of Crastino Ascentionis Domini
The Essoin dayes and the Essoin day of the Return of Crastino Sanctae Trinitatis And be it further enacted Writs in personal actions hauing day from tres Michaelis till Crastino Ascentionis good Proviso for writs returnable 1641. Exp. That all Writs and Process in personal Acttions hereafter to be made out of any of his Majesties said Courts at Westminster and having day from tres Michaelis untill Crastino Animarum shall be good and effectual in Law notwithstanding there be not fiftéen dayes betwixt the quarto die of the said tres septimanas sancti Michaelis and the dayes of Essoin of Crastino Animarum Any Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary heretofore notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be if further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all writs and Process to be made from and after the Feast of Easter in the year of our Lord God 1641. Returnable in Octabis or Quindena sancti Michaelis now next ensuing or having dayes betwixt any of the said Returns shall by force of this Act have day unto tres septimanas sancti Michaelis next and the parties to the said writs and Process shall then appear and plead and procéed thereupon to all intents and purposes as if the said Writs and Process had béen made returnable a die sancti Michaelis in tres septimanas And whereas before the making of this Act Writs of summons ad Warrantizandum upon common recoveries and writs of Right of Advowson abridged to five Returns all Writs of Summons ad Warrantizand against the Vouchées upon Common Recoveries had in writs of Entry and writs of Right of Advowson were made for nine Returns inclusive Now for the more spéedy perfecting of such Recoveries Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that from and after the said Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next all and every such writs of Summons ad Warrantizand upon the appearance of the Tenant to every such writ of Entry and writ of Right of Advowson shall and may be made and abridged to five Returns as writs of Summons ad Warrantizand in writs of Dower unde nihil habet heretofore have been used and accustomed And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all common writs and Process Common writs process to keep the aforesaid returns as well personal as mixt which shall fortune to be returnable in the said Michaelmas Term shall have and kéep the said Returns of A die sancti Michaelis in tres septimanas a die sancti Michaelis in unum mensem in Crastino animarum in Crastino Sancti Martini in Octabis Sancti Martini and a die Sancti Martini in Quindecem dies or any of them Provided alwayes And it is further Enacted by the authority aforesaid Special dayes may be appointed as have been used Dayes in assise of Darrein presentment and in plea of quare impedit and in attaint not contrary hereto shall be firm that in such and like cases and Process as special dayes have béen used to be appointed and assigned and given for the returning of writs and Process It shall be lawful to the Iustices of every of the Kings said Courts of Record for the time being in all the Process by them awarded to assign and appoint special dayes of Returns as by their discretions shall be thought convement Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the dayes in Assise of Darrein presentment and in Plea of Quare Impedit limited and appointed by the Statute of Marlebridge and also the dayes to be given in Attaint limited in the Statute made in the fifth year of the Reign of the Noble King Edward the third And also in the Statute made in the thrée and twentieth year of the Raign of the late King Henry the eighth of worthy memory being not contrary to the Tenours of this Act shall be holden firm and stable and shall stand in their full force and effect CAP. VII 1 Stat. 12. Car. 2. cap. 1. This Parliament shall not be Dissolved Prorogued or Adjourned but by Act of Parliament EXP. CAP. VIII Tunnage and Poundage A Subsidy Granted to the King of Tunnage Poundage and other sums of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported from the 25th of May 1641. to the 14th of July next EXP. CAP. IX Provision of Money for the speedy Disbanding the Armies and setling the Peace of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland by raising and charging several sums of Money upon persons according to their Ranks Dignities Offices Callings Estates and Qualities therein mentioned and Commissioners to issue for levying the same EXP. CAP. X. For Regulating the Privy Councel and for taking away the Star-Chamber-Court Recital of Maâ—â—-Châ—rlâ— and several Statutes St. 3. li. 7. 1. 5 E. 3. cap. 9. VVHereas by the Great Charter many times confirmed in Parliament It is Enacted That no Fréeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised of his Fréehold or Liberties or Frée Customs or be Outlawed or exiled or otherwise destroyed and that the King will not pass upon him or condemn him but by lawful Iudgment of his Péers or by the Law of the Land And by another Statute made in the fifth year of the Reign of King Edward the Third It is Enacted That no man shall be attached by any accusation nor fore-judged of life or limb nor his Lands Tenements Goods nor Chattels seised into the Kings hands against the form of the Great Charter and the Law of the Land and by another Statute made in the five and twentieth year of the Reign of the same King Edward the Third 25 E. 3. cap. 4. Stat. 5. It is accorded assented and established that none shall be taken by petition or suggestion made to the King or to his Councel unless it be by Indictment or Presentment of good and lawful people of the same Neighbourhood where such Déeds be done in due manner or by Process made by Writ Original at the Common Law and that none be put out of his Franchise or Free-hold unless he be duly brought in to answer and foreiudged of the same by the course of the Law and if any thing be done against the same it shall be redressed and holden for none 28 E. 3. cap. 3. And by another Statute made in the eight and twentieth year of the reign of the same King Edward the Third It is amongst other things Enacted That no man of what Estate or condition soever he be shall be put out of his Lands or Tenements nor taken nor imprisoned nor disinherited without being brought in to answer by due process of Law And by another Statute made in the two and fortieth year of the Reign of the said King Edward the Third 42 E. 3. c. 3. It is Enacted That no man be put to answer without presentment before Iustices or matter of Record or by due process and writ original according to the Old Law of
hundred fourty and one shall put in execution any Letters Patents Proclamation Edict Act Order Warrant Restraint or other Inhibition whatsoever whereby the Importation of Gun-powder Salt-peter Brimstone or other the materials aforementioned or any of them from Forraign parts or the making of Gun-powder within this Realm shall be any way prohibited or restrained That then the said person and persons so offending shall incur and sustain the pains penalties and forfeitures contained and provided in the Statute of provision and premunire made in the Sixtéenth year of King Richard the Second CAP. XXII A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage Poundage and other sums of Money Tunnage Poundage payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported from the 9th of August 1641. to the first of December next EXP. CAP. XXIII An Act for the better raising and Levying of Mariners Sailers and others Mariners for the present guarding of the Seas EXP. CAP. XXIV For Relief of Captives taken by Turkish and other Pyrats Captive and one per Cent. on Customable goods for three years to be paid and received by the Lord Mayor and Chamberlain of London for that purpose EXP. CAP. XXV A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage Poundage c. from the last of November 1641. Tunnage Poundage to the first of February next and the like until the second of July 1642. EXP. CAP. XXVI For the better Raâ—sing and Levying of Mariners Sailers and others Mariners for the present guarding of the Seas EXP. CAP. XXVII Persons in Holy Orders shall not exercise certain temporal powers and authorities Persons in Holy Orders REP. Stat. 13 Car. 1. cap. 2. CAP. XXVIII For the better Raising and Levying of Souldiers for the present defence of the Kingdoms of England and Ireland Souldiers EXP. CAP. XXIX A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage Tunnage Poundage and other sums of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported from the last of January 1641. to the 25th of March next ensuing EXP. CAP. XXX A Contribution and Loan towards the Relief of Ireland Contribution EXP. CAP. XXXI A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage Tunnage Poundage and other sums of Money payable upon Merchandize exported and imported from the second of May 1642. to the second of July next following EXP. CAP. XXXII For the Raising and Levying of Moneys for the necessary defence and great affairs of the Kingdoms of England and Ireland and for the payment of Debts undertaken by the Parliament Ireland EXP. CAP. XXXIII An Act for the speedy and effectual reducing of the Rebels in Ireland EXP. CAP. XXXIV Certain Clauses explaining another Act for the reducing the Rebels in Ireland EXP. CAP. XXXV Corporations and Bodies Politick enabled to partake of the benefit of an Act for reducing the Rebels in Ireland EXP. CAP. XXXVI A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage Poundage and other sums of Money Tunnage Poundage payable upon Merchandize exported and imported from the 14th of March 1641. to the third of May next ensuing EXP. CAP. XXXVII For the further advancement of an effectual and speedy Reduction of the Rebels in Ireland EXP. Anno Regni Caroli II. Regis Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Duodecimo AT the Parliament begun at Westminster the Five and twentieth day of April Anno Dom. 1660. In the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Our most Gracious Soveraign Lord CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. And there continued until the Nine and twentieth day of December then next following and then Dissolved by his Majesty To the high pleasure of Almighty God and to the weal publick of this Realm were Enacted as followeth CAP. I. The Assembling and Sitting of this present Parliament St. 17 Car. 1. cap. 7. St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 1. The Parliament begun 3 Nov. 16 Car. declared to be dissolved St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 1 The Lords and Commons now sitting declared to be the two Houses of Parliament FOr the preventing all Doubts and Scruples concerning the Assembling Sitting and Procéeding of this present Parliament Be it Declared and Enacted and it is Declared and Enacted by the King our Soveraign Lord and by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same That the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the third day of November in the Sixtéenth year of the Reign of the late King CHARLES of blessed Memory is fully Dissolved and Determined And that the Lords and Commons now sitting at Westminster in this present Parliament are the Two Houses of Parliament and so shall be and are hereby Declared Enacted and Adjudged to be to all Intents Constructions and purposes whatsoever notwithstanding any want of the Kings Majesties Writ or Writs of Summons or any Defect or Alteration of or in any Writ or Writs of Summons or any other Defect or Default whatsoever as if this Parliament had béen Summoned by Writ or Writs in his Majesties Name according to the usual Form and as if His Majesty had béen present in person at the Assembling and Commencement of this present Parliament Provided alwayes That this Parliament may be dissolved by his Majesty after the usual manner as if the same had béen summoned by Writ or Writs in his Majesties Name The Kings assent to this Act shall not determine this Session Provided also and it is hereby Enacted That His Majesties Royal Assent to this Bill shall not determine this present Session of Parliament CAP. II. An Act for putting in Execution an Ordinance mentioned in the said Act for an Assessment of 70000 l. per mensem for three Months EXP. CAP. III. Process and Judicial Proceedings Continued WHereas the four first Returns of Easter Term in the year One thousand six hundred sixty of late called from Easter day in fiftéen dayes from Easter day in thrée wéeks from Easter day in one Moneth and from Easter day in five wéeks or any of them cannot be conveniently kept or holden Now for avoiding all manner of discontinuances whatsoever which by occasion thereof should or might happen or be in any Matter or cause whatsoever Process Writs c. shall not be discontinued for not holding certain dayes of Return in any the Courts at Westminster Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament That no Pleas Writs Bills Actions Suits Plaints Process Precepts or other thing or things whatsoever Pleaded Returned or Depending or having day or dayes in any of the said Courts in or at the said several Returns or any of them or at any other day or dayes certain after any of the said Returns shall be in any wise discontinued or put without day for or by reason of the not kéeping or holding of the said Returns or dayes or any of them but that all
priviledges of Parliament and both Houses thereof now Assembled or that hereafter shall be called and assembled Provided alwayes and be it enacted That all and every pretended Indictment or Indictments Out-lawries Inquisitions and all Procéedings thereon of High Treason against any Person or Persons whatsoever for Levying War against the late Tyrant Oliver Cromwell the pretended Kéepers of the Liberty of England or any other Vsurped Power Indictments of Treasons c. for levying wars against Oliver Cromwell c. made void shall be from henceforth void and of none effect in Law And that all Grants Conveyances Leases Devices Assurances Statutes Recognizances and Iudgments for Debt Damages heretofore had made or suffered by any person or his heirs whose Conviction Vtlagary or Attainder is by this Act discharged or made void shall be of the same force and effect as if no such Conviction Outlawry or Attainder had béen Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XIII None shall take above Six Pounds for the loan of an Hundred Pounds for a Year Abatement of interest advantagious to Trade FOrasmuch as the Abatement of Interest from Ten in the Hundred in former times hath béen found by notable experience Beneficial to the Advancement of Trade and Improvement of Lands by good Husbandry with many other considerable advantages to this Nation especially the reducing of it to a nearer Proportion with Forreign States with whom We Traffique And whereas in fresh memory the like fall from Eight to Six in the Hundred by a late constant practise hath found the like Success to the general contentment of this Nation as is visible by several Improvements And whereas it is the endeavour of some at present to reduce it back again in practice to the allowance of the Statute still in force to Eight in the Hundred to the great discouragement of Ingenuity and Industry in the Husbandry Trade and Commerce of this Nation The penalty and forfeiture of taking above six in the hundred Be it for the Reasons aforesaid Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That no Person or Persons whatsoever from and after the Twenty Ninth day of September in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty upon any Contract shall from and after the said Twenty Ninth of September take directly or indirectly for Loan of any Monies Wares Merchandise or other Commodities whatsoever above the value of Six Pounds for the Forbearance of one Hundred Pounds for a Year and so after that Rate for a greater or lesser Sum or for a longer or shorter time And that all Bonds Contracts and Assurances whatsoever made after the time aforesaid for payment of any Principal or money to be lent or covenanted to be performed upon or for any Vsury whereupon or whereby there shall be reserved or taken above the Rate of Six pounds in the Hundred as aforesaid shall be utterly void And that all and every person or persons whatsoever which shall after the time aforesaid upon any Contract to be made after the said Twenty Ninth of September take accept and receive by way or means of any corrupt Bargain Loan Exchange Cheivisaunce Shift or Interest of any Wares Merchandise or other thing or things whatsoever or by any deceitful way or means or by any covin engine or deceitful conveyance for the forbearing or giving day of payment for one whole year of and for their money or other thing above the sum of six pounds for the forbearing of One hundred pounds for a year and so after that Rate for a greater or lesser Sum or for a longer or shorter Term shall forfeit and lose for every such offence the treble value of the moneys wares merchandise and other things so Lent Bargained Sold Exchanged or Shifted The Forfeiture of a Scrivener that shall take above five shillings for the forbearance of an hundred pounds for a year and above twelve pence for making a Bond. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Scrivener and Scriveners Broker and Brokers Solicitor and Solicitors Driver and Drivers of Bargains for Contracts who shall after the said Twenty ninth day of September take or receive directly or indirectly any sum or sums of money or other reward or thing for Brokage Soliciting Driving or Procuring the Loan or forbearing of any sum or sums of money over and above the Rate or Value of five shillings for the Loan or forbearing of one hundred pounds for a year and so rateably or above Twelve pence for making or renewing of the Bond or Bill for the Loan or for forbearing thereof or for any Counter-Bond or Bill concerning the same shall forfeit for every such Offence Twenty pounds and have Imprisonment for half a year The one moyety of all which Forfeitures to be to the King our Soveraign Lord his Heirs and Successors And the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same in the same County where the several Offences are committed and not elsewhere by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in which no Essoign Wager of Law or Protection to be allowed Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 13. CAP. XIV A Perpetual Anniversary Thanksgiving on the Nine and twentietth day of May for His Majesties Happy Restauration The wonderful Power and Goodness of God in the Restauration◠of his Majesty FOrasmuch as Almighty God the King of Kings and sole Disposer of all Earthly Crowns and Kingdoms hath by his All-swaying Providence and Power miraculously demonstrated in the view of all the World his Transcendent Mercy Love and Graciousness towards His most Excellent Majesty CHARLES the Second by his Especial Grace of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the true Faith and all his Majesties Loyal Subjects of this his Kingdom of England and the Dominions thereunto annexed by his Majesties late most wonderful glorious peaceable and joyful Restauration to the actual possession and exercise of his undoubted hereditary Soveraign and Regal Authority over them after sundry years forced extermination into Forreign parts The unanimous and cordial affection of the Lords and Commons in Parliament and People in general by the most Trayterous Conspiracies and Armed Power of Vsurping Tyrants and execrable perfidious Traytors and that without the least opposition or effusion of blood through the unanimous cordial Loyal Votes of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and passionate desires of all other his Majesties Subjects which unexpressible Blessing by Gods own most wonderful Dispensation was compleated on the Twenty Ninth day of May last past being the most memorable Birth-Day not onely of his Majesty both as a Man and Prince but likewise as an Actual King and of this and other His Majesties Kingdoms all in a great measure new born and raised from the dead on this most joyful Day wherein many Thousands of the Nobility Gentry Citizens
six hundred fifty and nine by any of the Offenders before in this Act mentioned or their Heirs or by any other person or persons claiming by from or under them or any of them other then the Wife or Wives Child or Children Heir or Heirs of such person or persons or any of them for money bona fide to them or any of them paid or lent or other valuable consideration nor any conveyance assurance Conveyances and assurances made before the 25th of April 1660. grant or Estate made before the five and twentieth day of April One thousand six hundred and fifty by any person or persons to any of the Offenders aforesaid in trust and for the benefit of any other person or persons not being any of the Offenders aforesaid or in Trust for any Bodies politick or Corporate shall be Impeached defeated made voide or frustrated hereby or by any of the Convictions and Attainders aforesaid But that the same shall be held and enjoyed by the Purchasers Grantées Lessées Assigns Cestuy que use Cestuy que trust and every of them their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively as if this Act had not béen made so as the said Conveyances and all and every the Grants and Assurances which by vertue of this Act are and ought to be held and enjoyed as aforesaid shall before the first day of January which shall be in the year of our Lord So as they be inrolled in the Exchequer before the first of Ian. 1662. One thousand six hundred sixty and two be entred and enrolled of Record in his Majesties Court of Exchequer and not otherwise any thing in this Act herein before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That William Lord Mounson William Lord Mounson Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington Robert Wallop and John Phelps degraded Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington Robert Wallop Esquire and John Phelps and every of them shall be and are hereby degraded from and made uncapable of all and every the Titles of Honour Dignities and Preheminences which they or any of them now have or which at any time hereafter may descend unto them And that neither they nor any of them shall at any time hereafter have hear or use the Name Stile Addition or Title of Lord Baronet Knight Esquire or Gentleman or any of them nor shall use or have any Coats or Escutcheons of Arms whatsoever nor any other legal Title or addition whatsoever but shall be for ever reputed and are hereby declared to be Persons of Dishonour and Infamy And further That they the said William Mounson Henry Mildmay James Harrington William Mounsor Hen◠Mildmay James Harrington Robert Wallop John Phelps shall be drawn to Tyburn as persons executed for treason Robert Wallop and John Phelps and every of them shall upon the seven and twentieth day of January which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty one or so soon after as they shall be apprehended carried to the Tower of London and from thence drawn upon sledges with Ropes about their Necks and according to the manner of persons executed for High Treason quite through the stréets of London unto the Gallowes at Tiburn and from thence in like manner be brought back again to the Tower of London and there or in such other Prison as his Majesty shall think fit continue Prisoners and suffer pains of Imprisonment for and during the Term of their Natural Lives Provided alwayes Proviso for executors of the said persons and legacies That no Executor or Administrator to any of the dead Persons whose Estate is forfeited by this Act shall at any time hereafter be sued or molested for any Debt or Legacy by them paid as Executor or Administrator to any person or persons to whom the same was due or bequeathed and was by the said Executor or Administrator paid bona fide but the respective Legatées who have received any such Legacies from the said Executors shall be accomptable to the Kings Majesty for all such Legacies as they have respectively received and shall pay the same to the Kings most Excellent Maiesty Provided alwayes That nothing in this Act shall be construed to forfeit the Term Estate Proviso for Sir William Lewes or Interest which Sir William Lewes of Borden in the County of Southampton Baronet had or hath in the custody of the Park called East-mean Park in the aforesaid County and in the game of Conies therein for the term of thrée years to come from our lady-Lady-day last being the remaining years of a greater term he the said Sir William being formerly possessed thereof by an Assignment made by John Allen Executor of the said Francis Allen the which said Park and Premisses being part of the Possessions of the Bishop of Winchester the said Sir William Lewes hath surrendred unto the said Bishop and hath now taken a new Lease thereof for thrée lives from the Bishop of Winchester the which said Lease for thrée lives so made by the said Bishop unto the said Sir William Lewes shall for and notwithstanding this Act or any thing therein contained remain firm and good unto the said Sir William Lewes according to the true meaning of his said Lease saving alwayes to all and every person and persons Bodies politick and others their respective Heirs Successors Executors and Administrators all such Estate Right and Title and Interest in Law and Equity which they or any of them have or ought to have of in to or out of any the Premisses not being in Trust for any the said Offenders nor derived by from or under the said offences since the five and twentieth day of March one thousand six hundred forty six saving alwayes and reserving to Cuthbert Collingwood Esquire and George Collingwood Gent. his Son their or either of their Heirs and Assigns and the Farmers and Tenants of the said Cuthbert and George Collingwood or either of them and of their Heirs and Assigns all such Right Title of Entry and Action Vse Interest and Possession which they or any of them or any in trust for them or any of them have or had or ought to have of in to or out of the Mannors Townships Villages Hamlets and Precincts of Islington Whitingham Barton Throunton Fawden Keynton West-Brunton East-Brunton Dunnington Blakedon alias Blagdon and Wetslade or any of them in the County of Northumberland and of in to or out of the Lands Tenements Hereditaments Rights Members and Appurtenances to them or any of them belonging or appertaining as if this Act had never béen made Proviso for Rachel Powre Provided also that this Act nor any thing herein contained shall extend to preiudice the Estate and Interest in Law or Equity of Rachel Powre Widow of in and to one Copyhold Messuage and Mill thereunto belonging with their Appurtenances Scituate lying and being in Chepmansford in the
Coronor Steward or Bailiff of any Franchise or Liberty or by any other Officer Minister Vnder-bailiff or other person or persons whatsoever within this Realm having or pretending to have Authority or Warrant in that behalf by force or colour of any Writ Bill or Process issuing or to be issuing out of His Majesties said Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas or either of them in which said Writ Bill or Process the certainty and true cause of Action is not expressed particularly and for which the Defendant or Defendants in such Writ Bill or Process named is and are bailable by the Statute in that behalf made in the thrée and twentieth year of the Reign of the late King Henry the sixth shall be forced or compelled to give security or to enter into Bond with Sureties 23 H. 6. ca. 10. for the Appearances of such person or persons so arrested at the day and place in the said Writ Bill or Process specified or contained in any penalty or sum of money excéeding the sum of Forty pounds of lawful money of England to be conditioned for such Appearances and that all Sheriffs and other Officers and Ministers aforesaid shall let to bail and deliver out of Prison and from their and every of their Custodies respectively all and every person and persons whatsoever by them or any of them arrested upon any such Writ Bill or Process wherein the certainty and true cause of Action is not particularly expressed upon Security in the sum of Forty pounds and no more given for Appearance of such person or persons so arrested unto the said Sheriff or Officer aforesaid according to the said Statute in the said thrée and twentieth year of the Reign of the said late King Henry the sixth in that behalf made and provided And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That upon Appearance to be Entred in the Term wherein such Writ Bill or Process is retornable with the respective Officer in that behalf for the said person or persons by Attorney or Attorneys in the said respective Courts from whence the said Writ Bill or Process issued unto such Writ Bill or Process the Bond or Bonds so given for Appearance thereunto Bonds given for discharged upon appearance Nonsuit for want of a Declaration before the end of the next term after appearance and judgment and costs against the Plaintiff be and are hereby satisfied and dischargeed And that after such Appearance so entred no Amerciaments be set or Estreted upon or against any Sheriff or other Officer aforesaid or any other person whatsoever concerning the want of such Appearance and unless the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs in any such Writ Bill or Process named shall put into the Court from whence such Writ Bill or Process did issue his or their Bill or Declaration against the person or persons so Arrested in some personal Action or Ejectione firmae of Lands or Tenements before the end of the Term next following after Appearance That then a Non-suit for want of a Declaration may be Entred against the said Plaintiff or Plaintiffs in the said Courts respectively And that every Defendant in every such Writ Bill or Process named shall or may have Iudgment to recover Costs against every such Plaintiff or Plaintiffs to be Assessed Taxed and Levied in such manner and according as it is provided by the Statute for Costs made in the thrée and twentieth year of the Reign of the late King Henry the Eighth 23 H. 8. ca. 15. any former or other Act Statute Ordinance Law Custome Order Course or Vsage of either of the said Courts to the contrary thereof heretofore had made admitted or used in any wise notwithstanding Provided alwayes that this Act nor any Clause or thing herein before specified or contained shall not extend Arrests upon Capias utlagatum Attachments upon Rescous Contempts and of Priviledg excepted nor be construed or taken to extend unto any Arrests hereafter to be made upon or by Vertue of any Writ of Capias utlagatum Attachment upon Rescous or Attachment upon any Contempt or of any Attachment of Priviledge at the Suit of any priviledged person or of any other Attachment for Contempt whatsoever issuing or to be issing out of either of the said Courts although there be no particular certainty of the cause of Action expressed or contained in the said Writs But that nevertheless no Sheriff nor Vnder-sheriff nor any of the Officers or Ministers aforesaid shall discharge any person or persons taken upon any Writ of Capias utlagatum out of Custody without a lawful Supersedeas first had and received for the same and that upon the said Writs of Attachment such lawful course be taken for Security for Appearance therein as hath béen heretofore used any thing herein before expressed to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And whereas many persons out of ill intent to delay their Creditors from recovering their Iust Debts continue Prisoners in the Fléet who cannot be procéeded against in such manner as they might be if they were at Large Now for the better enabling all persons to recover their just Debts and Demands against such Prisoners How Persons having cause of action may proceed against Prisoners in the Fleet. Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person or persons whatsoever who now hath or have or which at any time hereafter shall have cause of any personal Action against any person being a Prisoner in the prison of the Fléet may Sue forth an Original Writ upon his or their cause of Action And that a Writ of Habeas Corpus be granted to every such person or persons being Plaintiff or Plaintiffs desiring the same to be directed to the Warden of the same Prison to have the Body of such prisoner before the Iustices of the Common Pleas at some certain day in any Term to answer the said Plaintiff or Plaintiffs upon his or their said Cause of Action And that if the said Plaintiff or Plaintiffs at the said day put into the said Court his or their Declaration according to the said Original Writ against the said prisoner being present at the Barr the said prisoner shall be bound to appear in person or to put in an Attorney to appear for him in the said Action And unless the said Defendant plead upon a Rule given to be out at eight daies at the least after such Appearance Iudgment by Nihil dicit may be entred against such Defendant as appearing in person which shall be good and effectual in Law And such charge in Court by Declarations signified by Rule unto the said Warden shall be a good cause of detention of such prisoner in his Custody from which he shall not be discharged without a lawful Supersedeas or Rule of Court And if the said Warden shall do otherwise he shall be Responsible to the Court and to the party grieved for Damages by Action upon the case to be brought
his Majesties Exchequer before the four and twentieth of June one thousand six hundred sixty and two and have or shall have notice thereof by Process out of the Court of Exchequer or otherwise served upon his person or left at his house or last known place of Habitation before the nine and twentieth of September one thousand six hundred sixty and two and shall not before the first day of Easter Term then next ensuing perfect their Accounts touching the said Charge that then the Charge against all and every such person or persons shall be taken as a Debt by Writing Obligatory or Recognizance taken and acknowledged to the Kings Majesty according to the Statute aforesaid and that in both the said Cases Process shall be awarded as is used for recovery of debts due to his Majesty according to the Statute as aforesaid against him or them and against all and every their Sureties not pardoned or discharged by the said Act of Oblivion and his and their respective Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels and Debts and the said Charge to continue in force only until the Accounts shall be perfected and the Accountants discharge them thereof in due manner in the said Court of Exchequer with such allowances as are given by the said Act of Oblivion and untill payment made unto his Majesty of all such sums of money as shall be found due upon the determination of his or their Accounts CAP. XVII Relief of Collectors of Publick Moneys and their Assistants and Deputies BE it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in Parliament now assembled and by Authority of the same Collectors others imployed in levying money by vertue of any Act of Parliament being sued may plead the general issue That all Collectors and other Persons who have levied or Collected or shall Levy or Collect any sum or sums of money or other act done or shall do in order to the same by vertue of any Act of Parliament now in force or of any other Act Order or Ordinance allowed to be put in Execution by any such Act of Parliament as aforesaid and who is or shall be sued for or concerning the same by any other then the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors he and they may plead the General Issue and thereon give the special matter in evidence for his excuse and justification And that all and every person or persons already sued or impleaded for any the Causes aforesaid may notwithstanding any plea or demurrer already made by any such Defendant have liberty to change such his Plea and to plead the General Issue if he shall think fit so to do Provided always that neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to authorize the levying or collecting of any sum or sums of money which are pardoned by the late Act 12 Car. 2. c. 11 Entituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion CAP. XVIII Exporting of Sheep Wool Wool-fells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks Fullers-Earth Fulling-Clay and Tobacco-pipe-Clay Prohibited WHereas against the Laws of this Kingdom great number of Shéep and great quantities of Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks Fullers Earth or Fulling-Clay are secretly Exported Transported carried and conveyed out of the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales the Town of Berwick upon Tweed and Kingdom of Ireland into the Kingdom of Scotland and into Foreign parts to the great decay of the Woollen Manufactures the ruine of many Families and the destruction of the Navigation and Commerce of the Kingdoms Town and Dominion aforesaid which is like daily to increase if some further remedy be not provided and further penalties imposed upon the Offenders therein Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That if any person or persons shall from and after the first day of August Exporting or carrying of sheep wooll woolfels mortlings shorlings yarn woolflocks Fullers earth Fulling clay out of England Wales or Ireland One thousand six hundred sixty and two directly or indirectly Export Transport Carry or Convey or shall cause to be Exported Transported Carryed or Conveyed out of or from the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or after the first day of January One thousand six hundred sixty and two out of the Kingdom of Ireland into any parts or places out of the Kingdoms or Dominion aforesaid or into the Kingdome of Scotland any Shéep or Wool whatsoever of the bréed or growth of the Kingdoms or Dominion aforesaid or any Wool-fells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks or any Fullers Earth or Fulling-Clay whatsoever or shall directly or indirectly pack or load or cause to be packed or loaden upon any horse Cart or other Carriage or shall load or lay on board or cause to be loaden or laid on board in any Ship or other Vessel in any place within the Kingdoms of England or Ireland Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed aforesaid any such Shéep Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Wool-flocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay to the intent or purpose to Export Transport Carry or convey the same or to cause the same to be Exported Transported Carryed or conveyed out of the Kingdoms of England or Ireland the Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed aforesaid into the Kingdom of Scotland or into any Foreign parts that then every such offence shall be adjudged Felony Made Felony and the Offender or Offenders being duly Convicted shall suffer and forfeit as in case of Felony Aiders and assisters therein shall be adjudged Felons And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Owner of any such Ship or other Vessel every owner of every horse Cart or Carriage upon which any Shéep Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay shall be so Exported Transported carryed or conveyed as aforesaid or to any such intent or purpose as aforesaid knowing thereof and being wittingly and willingly aiding assisting or consenting thereunto and also every Master and Mariner of or in such Ship or other Vessel wherein any such Shéep Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay shall be so exported transported carryed or conveyed or loaden or laid on Board as aforesaid to any such intent or purpose as aforesaid knowing thereof and being wittingly and willingly aiding assisting or consenting thereunto and also every Factor or servant or other person whatsoever and every Customer Comptroller Waiter Searcher Surveyor or other Officer or person whatsoever knowing thereof and being wittingly or willingly
ease of Sheriffs in passing their Accompts Seizures of Lands remaining charged Michaelmas 1660. Be it Enacted and Declared That from henceforth every Seizure for or concerning any Lands Tenements and Hereditaments now remaining charged in the Foreign accompt of any Sheriff or Sheriffs within the Kingdom of England for the year ended at Michaelmas One thousand six hundred and sixty shall be from the said Foreign accompt charged particularly in the great Roll of the Exchequer And that the several Remembrancers of the said Court or their respective Deputies do in their respective Officers forthwith Seizures hereafter taken or returned and so from time to time for the future write and make true and perfect Copies of all and every such other Seizure and Inquisition as already are or hereafter shall be certified into their respective Offices without certifying the Copy of the Writ or Commission at large upon which such Seizure or Inquisition is or shall be so taken or returned mentioning only in brief the Date of the said Writ or Commission and shall deliver the said Copies well and truly examined and attested under his or their Hands to the Engrosser of the said great Roll And that all such of the said Seizures and Inquisitions as now are returned into any of their respective Offices shall be delivered before the first day of February next coming And that all such other seizures as shall hereafter be returned or certified into their respective Offices shall be delivered so examined and attested as aforesaid to the said Engrosser before the first day of the next Term after the said Remembrancers shall have received the same so as the same may be charged in the great Roll To the end that the Processe of the Court may from thence issue for levying the Issues and Profits thereof to the use of the Crown unto which said Remembrancers or their Deputies shall be from time to time paid for every Sheet which they or their respective Clerks shall so write and deliver the sum of eight pence Fees to the Remembrancers the same to be paid unto them by the aforesaid respective Sheriffs who shall be allowed the same by the Barons upon their respective Accompts out of the Issues and Profits arising out of the Premisses so seized and no Sheriff or Sheriffs for this persent year One thousand six hundred sixty and one Sheriffs shall not answer illeviable seizures Farm Rents c. nor any Sheriff or Sheriffs to be hereafter made or appointed within this Kingdom of England shall be charged in accompt to answer any illeviable Seizure Farm Rent or Debt or other Seizure Farm Rent Debt matter or thing whatsoever which was not writ in Processe to him or them to be levied wherein the persons of whom or the Lands or Tenements out of which together with the cause for which the same shall be so levied shall be plainly and particularly expressed but shall be thereof wholly discharged without Petition Plea or other trouble or charge whatsoever And it is hereby further Enacted and Declared Seizures before 1 Jac. and divers others to be left out of the Sheriffs accompt That all Seizures heretofore made before the first Year of the Reign of the late King James of ever blessed memory now remaining in the Accompts of the Sheriffs and all Seizures and Debts which are pardoned shall be and are hereby fully discharged And that the same and every of them shall hereafter be left out of Sheriffs accompts without further Order Plea Petition or other Charge to any Sheriff or Sheriffs whatsoever And that no Processe shall from henceforth be written forth to any Sheriff for the levying of the same or any of them nor for any other Rent or Farm which cannot be explained by setting forth the particulars thereof or which have been unanswered by the space of forty years last past And that all other dead Farms and Seizures and all desperate illeviable and unintelligible Debts shall be removed out of the Annual Roll and Sheriffs Charge into the Exannual Roll there to remain untill by Commission they shall be revived and made answerable Process for Debts to be sent forth in convenient time And to the end that all new Debts arising and coming into the Exchequer for the future may be sent forth in Processe within convenient time Be it also Enacted and Declared That the aforesaid several Remembrancers do forthwith inrol and certify to the said Ingrosser of the great Roll all such Debts as any Sheriff or Sheriffs of this Realm are or hereafter shall be charged withall either by vertue of their respective Retorns made to the Barons of the said Exchequer upon his Majesties Writs of Fieri facias Levari facias Capias or other Processe and also of all Fines and Amerciaments which are or shall be set and imposed by the Court of Exchequer upon any Sheriff or Sheriffs for his or their contempts or neglects that is to say That all and every such Debts Fines and Amerciaments as now are returned set or imposed in any of the said Offices shall be delivered as aforesaid before the First day of February next ensuing And all such Debts Fines and Amerciaments as shall hereafter be returned set or imposed in any of the respective Offices shall be also delivered by the First day of the next Term after such Retorns made The penalty upon officers for doing any thing against this Act. or such Fines or Amerciaments so set or imposed that so they may be all charged in the Sheriffs Accompts respectively and comprehended within his or their Quietus est upon pain that every Officer or Officers in the said Exchequer who shall in any thing offend contrary to this present Act shall forfeit the sum of Forty pounds for every such offence whereof one moyety shall be to the King his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to the party or parties who shall be thereby agrieved to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of his Majesties Courts at Westminster wherein no Essoin Protection Priviledge or Wager of Law shall be allowed or admitted 9 E. 2. St. Lincoln 4 E. 3. cap. 9. 5 E. 3. cap. 4. And it is hereby further Provided and Ordained That no person shall be assigned to be Sheriff of any County within this Realm except such as have Lands within the same County sufficient to answer the King and his people And whereas by an Act made in the One and twentieth year of the Reign of our late Soveraign Lord King James over England 21 Jac. cap. 5. It was provided That whensoever any Sheriff upon passing his Accompts A Quietus est to be a sufficient discharge for a Sheriff if not questioned within four years after grant thereof should have his Quietus est that he should be thereby absolutely discharged of all sums of Money by him Levied and Received and pretended not to be accompted for
the quantity and quality of the Béer Mingling of strong and small worts Ale or Worts found in his Tun and other Brewing Vessels convert any part of his small Béer or small Worts so taken accompt of into strong Béer or Ale by mingling letting down or striking over any such strong Ale or strong Worts into which or amongst any such small Béer or small Worts and shall sell deliver out or retail the same or any part thereof without giving notice to the same Gager or Gagers of the quality so mingled and converted as aforesaid or if any such Brewer or Retailer as aforesaid shall after the said time hide conceal or convey any Béer Ale or Worts not Gaged from the sight or view of the Gager or Gagers appointed to take accompt of the same whereby the Kings Majesty or His Commissioners or Farmers shall or may be defrauded in any manner of wise of the Duties due for the same or any part thereof every such common Brewer Victualler and Retailer for every Barrel of Béer or Ale by him or them so mingled converted sold delivered hid concealed or conveyed away contrary to the true intent and meaning hereof shall forfeit and lose the sum of Twenty shillings to be levied and recovered in manner and form as in and by this present Act is hereafter Ordained and appointed And be it further Declared and Enacted That all and every the Brewing-Vessels Brewing-Vessels and Vtensils subject to the debts and penalties of Excise and Vtensils for Brewing into whose hands soever the same shall come by what Conveyance or Title soever the same be claimed shall be liable and subject unto and are hereby charged with all and singular the Debts and Duties of Excise in arrear and owing by any person or persons for any Béer or Ale made within the said Brew-house and shall also be subject to all Penalties and Forfeitures incurred by such person or persons so using the said Brew-house for any offence against the Laws and Statutes for Excise And that it shall be lawful in all cases to levy Debts and Penalties and use such procéedings against the Vtensils therein contained as it may be lawful to do in case the Debtor or Offender using the said Vtensils had been truly and really Owner and Proprietor of the same And be it further Enacted by Authority aforesaid That after the first day of September Brewers that brew for other Brewers no common Brewer of Béer or Ale nor any other person whatsoever who hath or shall compound for the Duties of Excise for Béer or Ale by him brewed or to be brewed shall during the term of such Composition Brew or make or suffer or permit any Béer or Ale to be brewed or made within his Brew-house for any other common Brewer whatsoever without first giving notice as well of every particular brewing as of the quantity and quality of the Béer and Ale at every such Brewing intended to be brewed and made unto the respective Commissioners Farmers or Sub-Commissioners of Excise within the Districts of whose Office such common Brewer doth or shall inhabit and forthwith paying down unto the said respective Commissioners Farmers or Sub-Commissioners the full Excise of all the said Béer and Ale upon pain that as well the Brewer who shall brew the same as the Brewer for whom the said Beer or Ale shall be brewed shall forfeit and lose for euery Barrel the sum of Five pounds the one moyety to the Kings Majesty and the other moyety to the Informer that shall sue for the same in any Court of Record And be it further Enacted by Authority aforesaid That from and after the said first day of September no person or persons shall be permitted to sell or retail any Coffée Chocolate Coffee Chocolate Sherbet Tea Sherbet or Tea without License first obtained and had by Order of the General Sessions of the Peace in the several and respective Counties Certificate being first shewed that they have given good Security for the due payment of their dues to the King or the chief Magistrate of the place in whose Iurisdiction he or they do or shall inhabit or dwell for the Selling or Retailing of the same Nor shall any License be granted to any Retailer until Security first given by Recognizance or otherwise For which License Recognizance and Security Twelve pence shall be given and no more for the payment of the Excise And every person or persons Selling or Retailing any of the said Liquors without License had and Security given as aforesaid shall forfeit and lose the sum of Five pounds for every moneth he or they shall continue Selling or Retailing the same And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Gagers may take no bribes nor rewards to make false returns That from and after the said first day of September no Brewer or other person whatsoever shall Bribe or Corrupt or give any Money Fée or other Reward whatsoever to any Gager or Gagers or other Officer whatsoever to make any false Return or Report into the Office of Excise of any Béer Ale or other Liquors Exciseable made or brewed or to be made or brewed within his or their Charge Division or Walk or to forbear or omit the doing or executing of his or their Places or Imployments upon penalty of Ten pounds for every such Offence And that no Sworn Gager or Gagers or other Officer whatsoever shall directly or indirectly take and receive any Bribe Money Fée Gift or other Reward of any Brewer or other person whatsoever for any cause or matter relating to the Excise upon Penalty that every such Sworn Gager or other Officer so offending shall for every such offence forfeit and lose the sum of Ten pounds All and every of which said respective offences shall be proved by the Oaths of Two lawful and credible Witnesses before Two Iustices of the Peace or chief Magistrate of the place where such offence shall be committed which said Iustices or Magistrates respectively have hereby power to administer the said Oaths and also to Examine Adjudge and Determine the same and to cause such Penalties by Warrant under their hands and seals to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Offenders Goods rendring to the Party the overplus and for want of such Distress to commit every such Offender to the Common Gaol of such County or Place there to remain by the space of Thrée Moneths without Bail or Mainprize And for the better Levying and Collecting the Duties of Excise upon all Foreign or Imported Liquors Be it Enacted by Authority aforesaid Foreign Liquors imported to be duly entred That no such Foreign or Imported Liquors shall be landed or put on shore out of any Ship or Vessel from beyond the Seas before due Entry be first made thereof with the Officer and Collector appointed for the Excise in the Port or Place where the same shall be Imported or before the Duty of Excise due
of Law or Equity wherein no Protection Wager of Law or Essoign shall lie Provided also Proviso for Daniel Oneale Esquire EXP. That nothing herein contained shall make void the Grant made by His Majesty to Daniel Oneale Esquire of the Office of Post-Master-General or general Letter-Office or Post-Office for four years and one quarter of a year from the said Five and twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and thrée under the yearly Rent of One and twenty thousand five hundred pounds for all the said Term Except the last Quarter which is paid aforehand so as the said Rents be paid unto his said Highness James Duke of York and to the Heirs Males of his Body begotten or to be begotten Provided also And it is hereby further Enacted and Declared That it shall and may be lawful for the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors at any time or times during the said Estate Tail by Warrant under His Privy-Seal to charge any Sum or several Sums of Money not excéeding in the whole the Sum of Five thousand thrée hundred fourscore and two pounds ten shillings to be paid out of the profits of the Office of Post-Master-General to the which said Sum of Five thousand thrée hundred fourscore and two pounds ten shillings the several Sums and Payments now already charged thereupon do in the whole amount the Grant of which Sums are not to be avoided by this Act And which said Sums of Money not excéeding the said Sum of Five thousand thrée hundred fourscore and two pounds ten shillings to be granted by His Majesty as aforesaid are and shall be by Authority of this Act confirmed and made in full force His Majestie may nominate the Post-Master-General Provided further That the Kings most Excellent Majesty His Heirs and Successors shall have the nomination of the Post-Master-General of the said Post-Office and shall from time to time nominate and appoint such person and persons as he or they shall please to be Post-Master-General of the said Office and may grant the same Office with the Power and Authority thereunto belonging and the said Rates of Portage in the said Act mentioned either for site or term of years not exceeding One and Twenty years to such person or persons as he or they shall think fit under the most improved yearly Rent that can be reasonably had or gotten for the same by the said Duke or the Heirs males of his Body begotten or to be begotten without Fines the said yearly Rent to be reserved and payable to the said Duke and to the Heirs males of His Body begotten or to be begotten and also under such Covenants Conditions and Agréements as the said Duke or the Heirs males of his body begotten or to be begotten shall think fitting Any thing in this present Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding The Duke may joynture any wife in a third part of the Profits Provided alwayes and it is hereby Declared That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said James Duke of York and the Heirs males of his Body begotten and to be begotten to settle any part of the said Premisses not excéeding a Third part of the clear yearly value over and above all Charges and Reprises for a Ioynture for his or their Wife or Wives and also to Lease any other part of the said Premisses for any number of years not excéeding One and Twenty years and not excéeding one other third part of the clear yearly value of the Premisses over and above all other Charges and Reprises in order to raise Portions for his or their younger Children Proviso for the Vniversities Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not in any wise be prejudicial to the Priviledge of the two Vniversities of this Land or either of them or to the Chancellor or Schollars of the same or their Successors but that they may use and enjoy such Priviledges as heretofore they have lawfully used and enjoyed Any thing herein to the contrary notwithstanding Proviso for the company of Vintners of London Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be prejudidicial to the Master Wardens and Fréemen and Commonalty of the Mystery of Vintners of the City of London or to any other City or Town Corporate but that they may use and enjoy such Liberties and Priuiledges as heretofore they have lawfully used and enjoyed Any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Provided also And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this Act or any thing therein contained Proviso for the Borough of St. Albans shall not in any wise extend to debar or hinder the Mayor and Burgesses of the Borough of Saint Albans in the County of Hertford or their Successors from enjoying using and exercising of all such Liberties Powers and Authorities to them heretofore granted by several Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England by Quéen Elizabeth and King James of famous Memories for the Erecting Appointing and Licensing of Thrée several Wine-Taverns within the Borough aforesaid for and towards the maintenance of the Frée-School there but that the same Liberties Powers and Authorities shall be and are hereby established and confirmed and shall remain and continue in and to the said Mayor and Burgesses and their Successors to and for the Charitable use aforesaid and according to the tenour of the Letters Patents aforesaid as though this Act had never béen made Any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for the Vniversity Letters Provided always That all Letters and other things may be sent or conveyed to or from the two Vniversities in manner as heretofore hath béen used Any thing herein to the contrary notwithstanding CAP. XV. The Manufactures of making Linnen Cloth and Tapistry encouraged The inconvenience by importing foreign materials of Linnen and Tapistry Hangings VVHereas vast quantities of Linnen Cloth and other Manufactures of Hemp and Flax and of Tapistry Hangings are daily Imported into this Kingdom from Foreign parts to the great Detriment and Impoverishment thereof the Moneys and quick-stock of this Kingdome being thereby daily exhausted and diminished and the poor thereof unimployed while the Materials for the making of such Hangings are here more plentiful and better and cheaper then in those places from whence they are Imported And Flax and Hemp might be had here in great abundance and very good if by setting up the Manufactures of such Commodities as are made thereof it would be taken off the hands of such as sow and plant the same Encouragement of English Manufactures For the Encouragement therefore of those Manufactures Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled
are for the use and service aforesaid to be kept in His Majesties Office of Receipt in the said Mint or Mints under the usual Keys of the Warden Master and Worker and Comptroller for the time being and issued out thence from time to time according to the manner and course of the said Mint or Mints respectively And it is hereby further Enacted That there shall not be issued out of the Exchequer of the said moneys in any one year for the Fées and Salaries of the Officers of the Mint or Mints and towards the providing maintaining and repairing of the Houses Offices and Buildings and other necessaries for Assaying Melting down and Coyning above the sum of Thrée thousand pounds Sterling money And the overplus of the said moneys so kept or to be kept as aforesaid shall be imployed for and towards the expence waste and charge of assaying melting down and Coynage and buying in of Gold and Silver to Coyn The continuance of this Act. and not otherwise And lastly Be it Enacted And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this Act shall continue and be in force until the Twentieth day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy one and until the end of the first Session of Parliament then next following Proviso and no longer Provided always and be it further Enacted That where His Majesty in and by his Letters Patents under his Great Seal dated at Westminster the Twentieth day of August in the Twelfth year of his Reign Dame Barbara Villiers did for divers good causes and considerations Him moving give and grant to Dame Barbara Villiers Widow the sum of Two pence by tale out of every pound weight Troy of Silver moneys which from thenceforth should be Coyned by vertue of any Warrant or Indenture made and to be made by His Majesty his Heirs and Successors To have hold receive perceive and take the same unto the said Dame Barbara Villiers her Executors Administrators and Assigns from the Ninth day of the then instant August wéekly as the said moneys should be Coyned for and during the term of One and twenty years as by the same doth appear That His Majesty may out of the moneys leviable by this Act appoint and cause reasonable satisfaction to be made yearly to the said Dame Barbara Villiers her Executors and Administrators for her Interest in the Premisses not excéeding the sum of Six hundred pounds in any one year Anno Regni CAROLI II. Regis Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Decimo Nono AT the Parliament begun at Westminster the Eighth day of May Anno Dom. 1661. In the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord CHARLES by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. And there continued by several Prorogations to the 18th day of September 1666. And then continued to the 8th of February following And thence Prorogued to the 10th of October 1667. were Enacted as followeth CAP. I. An Act Explanatory of the Act for Raising Moneys by a Poll and otherwise towards the Maintenance of this present War 18 Car. 2. cap. 1. WHereas by an Act of this present Session of Parliament Intituled An Act for Raising Moneys by a Poll and otherwise towards the Maintenance of this present War It is Enacted That all and every person and persons shall pay unto His Majesty the sum of Twelve pence over and above the other Rates charged upon them by the said Act To prevent all doubts that may arise in the execution thereof Be it Enacted and Declared by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That the said sum of Twelve pence shall be charged upon and be paid by every person of what age sex or condition soever within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed other then such persons who receive Alms from the Parish and the Children of any person remaining in his or her family who by reason of their poverty doth not contribute unto the Rates for Church and Poor and which are under the age of sixtéen years and are therefore exempted by the said Act. And be it further Enacted That the respective Parents Guardians and Tutors of every person under the age of One and twenty years shall upon default of payment by such person and upon demand pay Twelve pence for every such person residing in their family or under their Tuition and not exempted as aforesaid And be it Enacted That every person and persons charged or appointed to make any payment by vertue of this present Act shall be compellable by the Commissioners appointed by the before recited Act or any two or more of them to pay the same according unto the Rules and Methods and under the Penalties for paying the Rates expressed in the said recited Act. And be it further Enacted and Declared That every person or persons charged by the said recited Act for his or their Profession Office or in respect of any other capacity chargeable by this or the aforesaid Act who shall find him or themselves overcharged shall and may upon his or their Appeal before the Commissioners in the said Act mentioned or any two or more of them upon his or their several Oaths discharge him or themselves in such manner and form as persons over-rated for their personal Estates are by the said Act enabled And be it Enacted That all persons not being Housholders nor having a certain place of abode and all Servants shall be taxed at the places where they shall be resident at the time of the execution of the said Act and not otherwhere CAP. II. A Judicature erected for Determination of Differences touching Houses Burned or Demolished by reason of the late Fire which happened in London WHereas the greatest part of the Houses in the City of London and some in the Suburbs thereof have béen burnt by the dreadful and dismal Fire which happened in September last Many of the Tenants Vnder-tenants or late Occupiers whereof are liable unto Suits and Actions to compel them to repair and rebuild the same and to pay their Rents as if the same had not béen burned and are not relieveable therein in any ordinary course of Law and great Differences are like to arise concerning the said Repairs and new Building of the said Houses and payment of Rents which if they should not be determined with all spéed and without charge would much obstruct the rebuilding of the said City And for that it is just that every one concerned should bear a proportionable share of the loss according to their several Interests wherein in respect of the multitude of cases varying in their circumstances no certain general rule can be prescribed Be it