alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend to give unto any Arch-Bishop Bishop or any other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Iudg Officer or other person or persons aforesaid any power or authority to exercise execute inflict or determine any Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction Censure or Coertion which they might not by Law have done before the year of our Lord 1639 nor to abridg or diminish the Kings Majesties Supremacy in Ecclesiastical Matters and Affairs nor to confirm the Canons made in the year 1640. nor any of them nor any other Ecclesiastical Laws or Canons not formerly confirmed allowed or Enacted by Parliament or by the established Laws of the Land as they stood in the year of the Lord 1639. CAP. XIII The Arrears of the Excise and New Impost vested in His Majesty BE it Declared and Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty All Moneys owing upon Excise by any Laws or Ordinances vested in his Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament and by the Authority thereof That all and every sum and sums of money any wayes due or owing from or by any person or persons whatsoever for or touching the Imposition or Duty called the Excise heretofore imposed and made payable upon Béer Ale or any other Commodities by any Laws or pretended Laws or Ordinances and all Debts therefore owing whether by Obligation or upon Accompt from Farmers of Excise or any other person or persons whatsoever or any of their Securities and not pardoned by his Majesties most Gratious Act of Pardon and Oblivion be and are hereby vested and setled in the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and that his Sacred Majesty his Heirs and Successors may from time to time and at all times hereafter have demand sue for and recover the same of all and every person and persons their Heirs Executors and Administrators having Assets who are any way accomptable for the same or any part thereof and from his and their respective Sureties and Securities as if the same Duties of Excise had béen lawfully Assessed Imposed and Collected and as if the several pretended Acts Orders and Ordinances Assessing and Imposing the same had béen good true legal and effectual Acts of Parliament and had in express words given and granted all and every the said Duties of Excise or new Impost unto his Majesty and as if the Obligations and Recognizances entred into by the respective Sureties and Securities had at the time of entring into the same béen taken in his Majesties Name according to the form prescribed in the Statute made in the Thrée and thirtieth year of the Reign of King Henry the Eight 33 H. 8. c. 39. Provided alwayes That all and every person and persons accomptable by vertue of this Act Proviso for allowances St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 11. shall have all such due allowance in his or their accompts as all such persons whose accompts are accepted in an Act Intituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion have or ought to have Provided alwayes Proviso no person to be questioned unless he be such before the 25 of December 1662. All persons accomptable shall have authority to levy and recover all Arrears That no person shall be questioned or molested for any of the Duties herein or hereby vested in his Majesty unless he shall be sued or prosecuted with effect before the Five and twentieth day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty two Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all persons accomptable to his Majesty by this Act shall have power and authority and are hereby enabled to sue for levy and recover from any person or persons who do stand indebted unto them in any sum of money for the Duty or Impost of Excise for which they are hereby accomptable all sums of money and Arrears unsatisfied in as full and ample manner and form as they might have received and levied the same when they first grew due CAP. XIV The Confirmation of an Act Entituled An Act for Encouraging and Increasing of Shipping and Navigation and several other Acts both Publick and Private mentioned therein WHereas during the late difficulties and exigencies of affairs in the absence of his most Excellent Majesty and in reference to his return from beyond the Seas into these his Majesties Dominions The Lords and Commons being assembled at Westminster the Five and twentieth day of April in the twelfth year of his Majesties Reign were from thence and after his Majesties return continued untill the nine and twentieth day of December then next following and now last past and then dissolved by his Majesty in which time several Acts were passed by his Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the said Lords and Commons assembled as aforesaid which being of necessary use are fit to be continued and confirmed although the manner of the said assembling enforced by the difficulties and exigencies aforesaid which then lay upon the Nation is not to be drawn into example Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and singular the Acts made or mentioned to be made by his said Majesty by and with the advice or consent of the Lords and Commons upon or since the said Five and twentieth day of April herein after particularly mentioned and expressed that is to say One Act Entituled An Act for the encouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation One other Act St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 18. St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 32. St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 36. St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 34. St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 13. St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 6. Entituled An Act for Prohibiting the Exportation of Wooll Wool-fells Fullers Earth or any kind of Scouring Earth One other Act Entituled An Act Impowring the Master of the Rolls for the time being for to make Leases for years in order to new build the old Houses belonging to the Rolls One other Act Entituled An Act for prohibiting the Planting Setting or Sowing of Tobacco in England and Ireland One other Act Entituled An Act for restraining the taking of Excessive Usury One other Act Entituled An Act for the present nominating of Commissioners of Sewers One other Act Entituled An Act for the Incorporating of the Master and Wardens of the Company of Haberdashers LONDON to be Governors of the Free-School and Alms-houses in Newport in the County of Salop of the Foundation of William Adams and for Setling of Lands and Possessions on them for maintenance thereof and other charitable Uses And all and every the Clauses Sentences and Articles in them and every of them contained shall be and hereby are Ratified and Confirmed and Enacted and Declared
of the Peace That the said Iustices of Peace shall cause all the said Accounts of the several Hearths and Stoves within the respective Counties to be Inrolled by the Clerk of the Peace of the said respective Counties Ridings in Yorkshire and Divisions in Lincolnshire and also a Duplicate thereof in Parchment under the Hands and Seals of thrée or more of the Iustices of Peace of the respective Counties and places aforesaid who are hereby required to sign the same to be returned into his Majesties Court of Exchequer within one moneth next after such account delivered unto them at their respective Quarter-Sessions aforesaid upon pain that the Clerk of the Peace of every such County Riding or Division respectively offending therein shall forfeit to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors the sum of Two hundred pounds for the first moneth and for the second moneth he shall so neglect every such Clerk of the Peace shall forfeit and lose his or their place and office and the same shall become void accordingly which forfeiture and penalty shall be recovered and levied as this Act directs And to the intent that the Revenue hereby arising to his Majesty How the Moneys arising shall be collected received and paid into the Exchequer may from time to time be paid into his Exchequer with as little charge as may be Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective Treasurers and other Officers of the Inns of Court Inns of Chancery Colledges and other Societies aforesaid within their respective Iurisdictions and the several Petty-Constables Tithing-men Head-boroughs and such other Officers within the respective Limits Liberties and Iurisdictions shall every half year within Six days after the said duty shall grow due as aforesaid collect gather and receive the same from the several Occupiers of the said Hearths and Stoves and upon payment thereof shall give several Acquittances without taking any thing for such Acquittances unto the several persons who shall pay the same And that such Acquittances shall be a full and perfect discharge to every such person who shall pay the same against His Majesty His Heirs and Successors so that no person who shall have such Acquittance shall be molested sued or vexed or put to any charge in His Majesties Court of Exchequer or else where Distress and sale of goods in default of payment And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case any person who is hereby charged or intended to be charged to pay any sum or sums of money as aforesaid shall refuse or neglect to pay the same that then every person or persons who is hereby Authorized to collect the same shall and may levy the same by distress and sale of the goods of the person and persons so refusing or neglecting rendring unto the said person and persons the overplus of such money as shall remain in their hands by the said sale after the said duty and necessary charges of levying the same is discharged as aforesaid The duty of Constables Treasurers and Officers impowered to Collect the said duties And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the aforesaid Constables Treasurers and other Officers who are hereby Authorized to collect the aforesaid duties shall within Twenty days next after the aforesaid times at which the said duties shall be due to His Majesty as aforesaid pay unto the High Constables of the several Hundreds and respective Limits all such money as they shall receive for the aforesaid duties receiving an Acquittance without paying any thing for the same The allowance for Collecting and deducting Two pence in the pound for their pains in collecting the same And shall also then in writing under his hand deliver unto the said High Constable the names of the persons of whom they receive the same and also the names of such persons who ought to have paid the respective duties yearly charged upon them and have not paid the same where no distress can be had Within what time the money ought to be paid to the High Sheriff And be it further Enacted That the High Constables of the several hundreds and respective limits shall within ten days next after their several receipts from the said Constables Headboroughs Tithingmen and other Officers pay unto the High Sheriffs of every County all such money as they shall so receive deducting a penny in the pound for their pains and shall also then deliver or cause to be delivered unto the said High Sheriffs the several returns which they received from the Constables and other Officers aforesaid And when the High Sheriff ought to pay the same into the Exchequer And the respective Sheriffs shall within thirty days after he or they shall receive the said moneys from the respective Collectors return the same together with the names of such persons who are defaulters and had no distress to be found into His Majesties Court of Exchequer deducting Four pence out of every Twenty shillings and so after that rate whereof Thrée pence to be for the Sheriffs own use as a reward of his pains in receiving and returning the same and One penny to be paid by the Sheriff to the Clerk of the Peace for his pains to be recovered by the said Clerk of the Peace by Action of Debt London Middlesex Provided always and be it Enacted That the High Sheriff of London and Middlesex for the time being for London and so much of the County of Middelsex as lies within the Bills of Mortality other then the Inns of Court and Chancery and the High Sheriff of Surrey for the time being for the Burrough of Southwark Surrey Southwark and all other Sheriffs of any other City or Town being a County of it self for such Cities and Towns respectively shall be and are hereby made Collectors of and for the several duties arising within their several and respective limits For which end and purpose and in those places onely the Constables Tithingmen Headboroughs and other Officers shall deliver unto the Sheriffs of the Cities and places aforesaid Duplicates of the same Accompts of Hearths and Stoves which the said Constables Headboroughs Tithingmen and other Officers are appointed by this Act to take from time to time and to deliver to the Iustices of Peace to be Inrolled as aforesaid And the said Sheriffs of the Cities and places last before mentioned are hereby enabled to levy the said duties and required to give Acquittances without any Fées as fully and amply to all intents and purposes as in this Act is appointed to be done by any other Collectors And the said Sheriffs shall from time to time within Forty days after the said Duties shall be payable by vertue of this Act make payment of all the moneys levied into His Majesties Exchequer with a perfect List of the names of such persons as shall make default of payment where no distress can be found to be taken Any thing in this
Annuntiation of the blessed Virgin Mary by even and equal portions an exact and just Account of the numbers of all which Fire-Hearths and Stoves is thereby Enacted to be taken and returned into his Majesties Court of Exchequer And the Moneys and Revenues due and payable for the same to be collected levied and paid to his Majesty by such persons and Officers in manner and form as by the said Acts is prescribed Nevertheless by reason of some defects in the said Act and great negligence of the said Officers and other persons in not returning the exact numbers of the said Fire-Hearths and Stoves and not duly Collecting Levying and paying into his Masties Exchequer the full Revenue due for the numbers returned at the times appointed and by sundry fraudulent practises to elude the said Acts the said Revenue is much diminished and not duly answered For remedy thereof and for the better ascertaining and collecting the said Revenue for the future Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors from and after the Four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty four from time to time by and with the Advice of the Lord High Treasurer Chancellour Vnder-Treasurer and Barons of the Court of Exchequer for the time being or any thrée of them whereof the Lord High Treasurer or Chancellor of the Exchequer to be one to constitute and appoint such person or persons as his Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall think méet to be the Officer or Officers for the receiving and collecting and answering the duty arising by the said Fire-Hearths and Stoves by vertue of the said several Acts and for viewing and numbring of the several Chimney-hearths and Stoves mentioned in the said Acts and for the inspecting and examining the several Rolls Certificates and Returns thereof made and to be made from time to time into his Majesties Court of Exchequer in pursuance of the said Acts or any other thing belonging to the same which Officers or any of them shall have full power to examine and supervise the Rolls and Numbers of Fire-hearths and Stoves already returned into the said Court of Exchequer And being accompanied with the Constable or the Tithing-man Treasurer Vnder-Treasurer or other publick or proper Officer of the place who are hereby required to attend and assist upon this occasion and in all Parishes and places where there are no Constables Tithingmen or other publick Officer as aforesaid there without any such Assistance to enter in the day time into any dwelling or other House Edifice Lodgings and Chambers aforesaid And to search and examine whether there be any more Fire-hearths and Stoves in the same then were formerly returned or certified and what Fire-hearths or Stoves are increased or decreased since the former Certificate After which search and examination the said Officer with a Constable or Tythingman or Officers as aforesaid shall have liberty to make the like search and examination once every year And if they shall find any variance in the number returned both the Officer or Officers appointed by his Majesty and the Constable or Tythingman or other Officer as aforesaid to certifie the same under his and their hands to the Clerk of the Peace which Certificate they are hereby enjoyned to make And after approbation thereof by the Iustices of the Peace at their Sessions the same to be certified to his Majesties Remembrancer in the Exchequer and the Officer or Officers so appointed by his Majesty unto the same shall from and after the said Four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty four have power to collect and levy the Revenue and Duties so given to his Majesty as aforesaid and all arrears of the same And be it further Enacted That the said Duty shall from time to time be paid after the Feast days of Saint Michael the Arch-Angel and the Annuntiation of the Virgin Mary yearly unto such Officer as shall be appointed by vertue of this present Act to receive the same upon demand thereof made by such Officer or his Deputy at the House Chamber or place where the same Duty shall arise or grow due And that in case of refusal or default of such payment thereof by the space of one hour after such demand the said Officer or his Deputy may at any time with the assistance of a Constable Tythingman or other Officer as aforesaid in the day time levy the said Duty and all the Arrearages thereof by distress and sale of the goods of the party or parties so refusing or making default restoring to the party or parties the over-plus of the value of such goods over and above the Duty and Arrearages thereof then behind and over and above the necessary charges of taking such Distress which Charges shall in no case excéed the one moyety of the Duty and Arrearages thereof so levied Provided always and be it Enacted That no Owners Proprietors or Occupiers of the said Fire-hearths or Stoves shall be charged distrained or molested for the said Duty or any Arrearages thereof at any time after the space of two years next after the Duty hereafter shall become due to his Majesty his Heirs or Successors Nor for any arrearages of the said Duty already incurred after the space of two years from the Four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty and four And in case of violent opposition or injury done by any person or persons to any such Officer or his Deputy in the due execution of this Act and the same proved by Oath before any one Iustice of the Peace or Chief Magistrate or Magistrates of the City Town or place dwelling near unto the place who are hereby authorized to administer the said Oath It shall and may be lawful to and for such Iustice of the Peaee Magistrate or Magistrates to punish such offender or offenders if he shall find cause by Imprisonment in the common Goal for any time not excéeding the space of one moneth And from and after the said Four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty four all Officers formerly appointed to collect the said Duty shall be discharged from the future collecting and levying the same otherwise then as they are directed by this Act And the said Officer and Officers so appointed by his Majesty to collect this Duty shall pay the same into his Majesties Exchequer to the ends in the said former Acts mentioned Provided That no person or persons shall be employed as aforesaid unless he and they shall first give in sufficient Security to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for the due collecting levying and paying in of the said Revenue or such part thereof as shall be committed to their respective
Trusts and shall likewise take a Corporal Oath before one or more of the Barons of the Exchequer or before such persons as shall be authorised to take such Security and Oath by Commission from the said Court of Exchequer for the due and faithful execution thereof according to the Laws Enacted to that purpose And that they shall not exact or demand any Fée or sum of money for execution thereof from any Subject but onely from the Kings Majesty under pain of being disabled to execute the said Office or Imployment And upon legal Conviction of any such Crime to render treble damage to the party grieved And shall sign and deliver Acquittances for moneys by them received without any Fée or Reward whatsoever And every such Acquittance shall be a final Discharge as in the said first Act is provided And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person occupying any Hearth or Stove chargeable to his Majesty shall leave or relinquish any House Edifice Lodging or Chamber before any of the half-yearly Feasts whereon the same is appointed to be paid to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors In every such case the next Occupier thereof shall be chargeable with the same for the said half year And if any person shall fraudulently stop up deface cover or conceal any Chimney-Hearth or Stove chargeable by the said Act and the same be proved either by confession of the party or upon Oath before one Iustice of Peace or chief Magistrate or by their view he shall for such offence pay double the value of the Duty for the same to be levied as aforesaid And be it likewise Enacted That if any person within one year last past hath or hereafter shall let the Lands Gardens Orchards or Out-houses formerly belonging to any Dwelling-house or Cottage apart from the same or shall divide any house into several dwellings or let out the same to any such persons who by reason of their poverty may pretend to be exempted from payment of the said Duty by any Clause or Clauses in the former Acts That in every such case such person shall pay the said Duty in as ample manner as they ought to have done before that time And that no person or persons inhabiting any Dwelling-house not being an Alms-house exempted by the former Act within any City Burrough Corporation Market-Town or Parish which hath or shall have in it more than two Chimneys Fire-hearths or Stoves shall be exempted from payment of the Duties thereon imposed by colour of any exemption or pretext whatsoever And if any question or difference shall arise about the taking any Distress or levying any money by vertue of this Act the same shall be heard and finally determined by one or more of the Iustices of the Peace near adjoyning or chief Magistrate of the place respectively upon complaint in that behalf And be it further Enacted That every Collector who shall be authorised and appointed by vertue of this Act to receive any of the said Duties shall truly answer and pay all such moneys as he shall receive for the said Duties into his Majesties Receipt of Exchequer half-yearly within Thrée moneths after the Feast of Saint Michael the Arch-Angel or the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary happening next after the time the same moneys grew due to his Majesty by vertue of the said Acts and under the penalty of the loss of his Office And the Iustices of Peace and chief Magistrates Constables and other his Majesties Officers within their several Limits and Iurisdictions are hereby authorised and required to give assistance from time to time to such Officers as shall be appointed by his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for the collecting of the said Duty according to the true meaning of the said former Acts and this present Act. Provided That no person or persons shall be questioned for any arrears due on or before our Lady day One thousand six hundred sixty four who shall produce to the Collector a Certificate approved or to be approved of by the two next Iustices of Peace for their exemption from the said Duty for that time according to the Rules prescribed in the said first recited Act nor any person who hath truly paid the said Duty and shall if it be required make proof thereof before any one Iustice of Peace or other chief Magistrate of the place Any thing therein contained or any Return made into his Majesties Exchequer to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every such Officer or Officers as shall be at any time appointed by his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for the collecting gathering and receiving of the several sums of money now or hereafter to grow due unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for or in respect of the said Duty arising upon the Fire-hearths and Stoves shall satisfie and pay unto the respective Petty-Constables and Clerks of the Peace of this Kingdom all such allowances as are by any former Act or Acts given and allowed unto them as well for their pains and labour heretofore as hereafter to be taken by them as in and by the former Acts concerning Fire-hearths and Stoves are limited and appointed Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding CAP. IV. Seditious Conventicles suppressed WHereas an Act made in the Five and thirtieth year of the Reign of our late Soveraign Lady Quéen Elizabeth entituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience 35 El. cap. 1. declared to be in force hath not béen put in due Execution by reason of some doubt of late made whether the said Act be still in force although it be very clear and evident And it is hereby Declared That the said Act is still in force and ought to be put in due execution For providing therefore of further and more spéedy remedies against the growing and dangerous practises of Seditious Sectaries Further remedy against Seditious Sectaries and other disloyal persons who under pretence of Tender Consciences do at their Méetings contrive Insurrections as late Experience hath shewed Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That if any person of the age of Sixtéen years or upwards being a Subject of this Realm at any time after the first day of July which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and four shall be present at any Assembly Conventicle or Méeting Vnlawful Conventicles and Meetings under pretence of exercise of Religion forbidden under colour or pretence of any exercise of Religion in other manner then is allowed by the Liturgy or practice of the Church of England in any place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick
de vicineto de A. Quorum quilibet habeat viginti libras terrae tenementorum vel reddit per annum ad minus per quos c. qui nec c. And the residue of the said Writ shall be after the ancient manner And that those Writs which shall be awarded and directed for Returning of Iuries within the Dominion of Wales shall be made in the same manner altering onely the word Viginti into Octo. And that upon every such Writ and Writs of Venire facias Wales the Sheriff Coroner or other ministers of each respective County in England and Wales Penalty upon the Sheriff c. unto whom the making of the Pannel shall appertain shall not return in any such Pannel any person unless he shall then have Twenty pounds or Eight pounds respectively by the year at least as aforesaid in the same County where the Issue is to be tryed upon pain to forfeit for every person being returned in any such Pannel that shall not then have Twenty pounds or Eight pounds respectively as is aforesaid the sum of Five pounds to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors And for the better enabling the Sheriff of every County to know the value of the Estates of such persons as are by the true intent and meaning of this Act to be returned for Iury-men Be it further Enacted How the Sheriff shall find out persons fit to be returned for Iury-men That every Sheriff shall on the first day of every General Quarter-Sessions yearly held next after the Feast of Easter deliver or cause to be delivered unto the Iustices of Peace sitting at the same Sessions the names of all persons of such Estates as are by the true meaning of this Act to be returned for Iury-men to the end the Estates of such persons may be enquired after and such persons approved of by the said Iustices of Peace or the greater number of them then present to be persons of such Estates to be returnable for Iury-men for the year then next ensuing And the said Iustices shall have power to add such persons having Estates of the respective values before mentioned as they shall find to be omitted by the Sheriff amongst the names by him delivered and such competent number and no more of such persons as aforesaid shall be returnable to serve of Iuries for the year next ensuing as the said Iustices or the greater number of them as aforesaid shall think fit And that no Sheriff shall incur the penalty aforesaid for returning any of the persons so approved or added by the Iustices in case his Estate fall out to be of less value then aforesaid And it is further Enacted That no Sheriff or Bailiff of any Liberty or Franchise What time summons ought to be before appearance or any of their or either of their Ministers shall return any such person or persons as aforesaid to have been summoned by them or any of them unless such person or persons shall have been duly summoned by the space of six days at the least before the day on which they ought to make their appearance And have left with or for such persons in writing the names of all the parties in those Causes wherein they are to serve as Iurors Nothing may be taken to excuse appearance The Penalty nor shall directly or indirectly take any money or other reward to excuse the appearance of any Iuror by them or any of them to be summoned or returned upon pain to forfeit for every such offence the sum of Ten pounds Saving to all Cities and Towns Corporate their ancient Vsage of returning Iurors of such Estate and in such manner as heretofore hath béen used and accustomed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from henceforth upon Writs of Venire facias issued out and returned within the County-Palatine of Lancaster County-Palatine of Lancaster as of the same Assizes wherein the Issues are said to be joyned Writs of Habeas Corpora or Distringas shall be sued out like as is used in all other Counties within this Kingdom returnable at the then next Assizes And the Sheriff thereupon to return such Issues as is or ought to be done by the said Sheriffs of the said other Counties and those Issues to be duly estreated as above is provided And the better to cause and bring Iurors to appear upon Trials at Assizes within the said County-Palatine of Lancaster Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Sheriff of the same County-Palatine of Lancaster for the time being shall from henceforth cause twelve good and lawful men so qualified as before in this Act is appointed out of every of the six Hundreds within the said County-Palatine to be duly summoned or warned ten days at the least before the beginning of every Assizes to be and appear the first day of the then next Assizes and there to attend during the same Assizes to perform their duty and service to the Court as Iurors or Iurymen in such Causes betwéen party and party wherein they shall be respectively returned and impannelled upon pain that every of them that shall make default to appear and attend at and during the said Assizes to forfeit Ten pounds to the use and behoof of the Poor of the Town where such person or persons so making default doth inhabit and live the same to be levied recovered and had in such manner and ways as other Issues of Iurors use to be levied Provided That this Act shall continue and stand in force for the space of Thrée years The continuance of this Act. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament and no longer CAP. IV. An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of EXCISE FOr the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of Excise 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 the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That from and after the eighth day of November Powers given to Farmers of Excise which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and five all Farmers of Excise or any of them within the several Circuits and Divisions of their respective Farms shall and are enabled hereby to exercise and put in Execution all such Powers and Authorities which the Commissioners or Sub-Commissioners of Excise are enabled to do and execute by the several Acts and Statutes of Excise for the levying raising receiving and managing of the said Revenue of Excise 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. 15 Car. 2. cap. 11. cap. 12 Except the Iudicial part of hearing and determining all breaches and offences against the Laws of Excise and of imposing mitigating or compounding of Fines or Penalties CAP. V. Delays in extending Statutes Judgments and Recognizances prevented Security by Statute
Relief of such Persons as by Sickness or other Impediment were disabled from subscribing the Declaration in the Act of Uniformity and explanation of part of the said Act cap. 6. fol. 183. 7 An Act for the encouragement of Trade cap. 7. fol. 184. 8 An Act to prevent the Selling of live fat Cattel by Butchers Cap. 8. fol. 188. 9 An Act for granting Four intire Subsidies to His Majesty by the Temporalty Cap. 9. fol. 188. EXP. 10 An Act for Confirming of Four Subsidies granted by the Clergy Cap. 10. fol. 188. 11 An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of Excise and preventing the Abuses therein Cap. 11. fol. 188. 12 An Explanatory Act for Recovery of the Arrears of Excise Cap. 12. fol. 193. 13 An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Revenue arising by Hearth-money Cap. 13. fol. 193. 14 An Act for Setling the Profits of the Post-Office and Power of granting Wine-Licenses on his Royal Highness the Duke of York and the Heirs Males of his Body Cap. 14. fol. 195. 15 An Act for Encouraging the Manufactures of Making Linnen Cloth and Tapistry Cap. 15. fol. 198. 16 An Act for Regulating the Herring and other Fisheries And for Repeal of the Act concerning Madder Cap. 16. fol. 199. 17 An Act for Setling the Draining of the Great Level of the Fenns called Bedford Level Cap. 17. fol. 200. Private Acts. AN Act to enable Edward Marquess of Worcester to receive the benefit and profit of a Water-commanding Engine by him invented one Tenth part whereof is appropriated for the benefit of the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors An Act for setling an Annuity of Three hundred pounds per Annum upon Charles Earl of Portland and for the benefit of Willoughby Whitelock Bulstrode Whitelock and Charleton Whitelock Infants and for confirming of agreements made to compose Suits in Law against them An Act for Setling the Charitable Gift of John Guest An Act to enable Sir John Packington and his Trustees to sell or otherwise dispose of certain Lands for the payment of his Debts and raising Portions for his younger children An Act to enable Edward Chaloner Esq to make provision for Anne his Wife and his younger children An Act for the Naturalizing of Charlottee Hessen Killegrew and others An Act to Impower Sir John Drake and others to make sale of Lands for payment of the Portion of Ellen Brisco Widow An Act to enable the Sale of the Lands of Richard Senior and Anthony Senior deceased for payment of some of their Debts An Act for the Setling of the Lands of the Earl of Kent and the Lord Lucas on the Marriage of the said Earl with the Daughter and Heir apparent of the Lord Lucas An Act for the Setling of a Free School in Witney in the County of Oxon being Erected and Endowed by Henry Box Citizen and Grocer of London deceased An Act to enable the Bishop of Winchester to Lease out the Tenements now built upon scite of his Mansion-House in the Parish of Saint Saviours in Southwark in the County of Surrey and the two Parks and other Demesns at Bishops Waltham and other Lands in the County of Southampton An Act for Repairing and better preserving the Key of the Port of Wells in the County of Norfolk An Act for the Governing of the Hospital of Saint Oswalds in the County of Worcester An Act to Enable Sir Francis Boynton Baronet and Richard Robinson Esquire to Sell certain Lands of John Robinson Esq for payment of Debts and Leasing of other Lands for making Provision for his younger Children An Act for making void certain Conveyances made by Caryll Lord Molleneux in the late times An Act to Confirm a Deed made by Charles Pitcarne Esquire An Act for the Naturalization of Dame Elizabeth Jacob and others An Act for the Naturalizing of George Willoughby and others An Act for Confirming an Act for Naturalizing of Peter de la Pierre alias Peters and John de la Pierre alias Peters Anno Decimo sexto Caroli Secundi Regis c. 1 AN Act for the Assembling and holding of Parliaments once in Three years at the least And for the Repeal of an Act Entituled An Act for the preventing of Inconveniences happening by the long Intermission of Parliaments Cap. 1. fol. 213. 2 An Act for preventing of Abatements of Writs of Errour upon Judgments in the Exchequer Cap. 2. fol. 213. 3 An Act for Collecting the Duty arising by Hearth Money by Officers to be appointed by His Majesty Cap. 3. fol. 214. 4 An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles Cap. 4. fol. 216. 5 An Act to prevent the Disturbances of Sea-men and others And to preserve the Stores belonging to His Majesties Navy-Royal Cap. 5. fol. 220. 6 An Act to prevent the delivering up of Merchants Ships Cap. 6. fol. 221. 7 An Act against deceitful disorderly and excessive Gaming Cap. 7. fol. 222. 8 An Act for Continuance of a former Act for Regulating the Press Cap. 8. fol. 223. Private Acts. AN Act for Vacating certain Conveyances made by Sir John Packington Baronet to Christopher Henn and others An Act for the sale of the Mannor of Ingoldesby and divers Lands in Ingoldesby in the County of Lincoln for raising Portions for the two Daughters and Co-heirs of Sir William Armin the younger Baronet deceased An Act for the sale of certain Lands for payment of the Debts of Sir Sackvile Glemham An Act to enable Trustees for Sir William Kyte to sell Lands for the payment of Debts An Act for Confirmation of the Inclosure and Improvement of Malvirne Chace An Act for Setling the Charitable Gift of Abraham Colfe Clerk for Erecting and Endowing Two Free-Schools and an Almes-house at Lewisham in Kent An Act for Naturalizing Dame Katherine Sayer and others An Act to inable Francis Cottington or Charles Cottington to Settle and Dispose of Lands in Joynture for any Wife or Wives they shall take in Marriage An Act to inable Charles Cotton Esquire to make Leases of Lands for payment of Debts An Act for the making of the Church Erected at Falmouth a Parish-Church and no part of the Parish of Gluvias of Chapelry of St. Budock Anno 16 17 Caroli II. Regis Angliae c. 1 AN Act for granting a Royal Aid unto the Kings Majesty of Twenty four hundred threescore and seventeen thousand and five hundred pounds to be Raised Levied and Paid in the space of Three years cap. 1. fol. 224. 2 An Act for Regulating the Measures and Prices of Coals cap. 2. fol. 253. 3 An Act for the Returning of able and sufficient Jurors cap. 3. fol. 254. 4 An additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of EXCISE cap. 4. fol. 255. 5 An Act to prevent Delays in extending Statutes Judgments and Recognizances cap. 5. fol. 256. 6 An Act for Repealing of part of an Act of Parliament intituled An Act directing the prosecution of such as are accomptable
c. That if any Officer of the Customs shall from and after the said First day of April allow the priviledge of being a Ship or Vessel to England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick or any of them belonging to any Forreign built Ship or Vessel untill such Certificate be before them produced or such Proof and oath taken before them or if any Officer of the Customs shall allow the priviledge of an English built ship or other Ship to any the aforesaid places belonging to any English or Forrien built Ship coming into any Port and making entry of any Goods untill Examination whether the Master and thrée Fourths of the Mariners be English or shal allow to any Forreign built ship bringing in the Commodities of the Growth of the Country where it was built the priviledge by this Act to such Ship given untill Examination and Proof whether it be a ship of the built of that Country and that the Master and thrée Fourths of the Mariners are of that Country or if any Person who is or shall be made Governor of any Lands Islands Plantations or Territories in Africa Asia or America by his Majesty His Heirs or Successors shall suffer any Forrein built Ship or Vessel to load or unload any Goods or Commodities within the Precincts of their Goverments untill such Certificate be produced before them or such as shall be by them appointed to view the same and Examination whether the Master and thrée Fourths of the Mariners at least be English that for the first offence such Officer of the Customs and Governors shall be put out of their places Offices or Governments Provided alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained extend not Proviso for goods of the Streights or Levant or be meant to restrain and prohibite the Importation of any the Commodities of the Streights or Levant Seas loaden in English built shipping and wherof the Master and thrée fourths of the Mariners at least are English from the usual Ports or places for lading of them heretofore within the said Streights or Levant Seas though the said Commodities be not of the very growth of the said places Provided also that this Act or any thing therein contained extend not or be meant to restrain the Importing of any East India Commodities loaden in English built shipping and whereof the Master and thrée fourths of the Mariners at least are English from the usual place or places for lading of them in any part of those Seas to the South-Ward and Eastward of Cabo bona speranza although the Ports be not thâ—â—bery Places of their growth Provided also That it shall and may be lawful to and for any of the people of England Ireland East India Commodities Proviso for goods imported from Spain Portugal Azores Madera or Canary Islands Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or town of Berwick upon Tweed in Vessels or Ships to them belonging and whereof the Master and thrée fourths of the Mariners at least are English to load and bring in from any of the Ports of Spain or Portugal or Western Islands commonly called Azores or Madera or Canary Islands all sorts of Goods or Commodities of the Growth Production or Manufacture of the Plantation or Dominions of either of them respectively Proviso for Bullion and goods taken by way of Repâ—isal Provided That this Act or any thing therein contained extend not to Bullion nor yet to any Goods taken or that shall be bona fide taken by way of Reprisal by any Ship or Ships belonging to England Ireland or Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and whereof the Master and thrée Fourths of the Mariners at feast are English having Commission from his Majesty his Heirs or Successors Proviso concerning goods of Scotland Provided alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend to lay Aliens Duties upon any Corn of the growth of Scotland or to any Salt made in Scotland nor to any Fish caught saved and cured by the People of Scotland and Imported directly from Scotland in Scotch built Ships Goods of Russia and whereof the Master and thrée Fourths of the Mariners are of His Maiesties Subiects nor to any Seal Oyl of Russia Imported from thence into England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed in shipping bona fide to some of the said places belonging and whereof the Master and three Fourths of the Mariners at least are English The duty payable upon goods in French ships Provided also and it is hereby Enacted That every Ship or Vessel belonging to any the Subjects of the French King which from and after the Twentieth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty shall come into any Port Creek Harbor of Road of England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and shall there lade or unlade any Goods or Commodities or take in or set on Shore any passengers shall pay to the Collector of His Majesties Customs in such Port Créek Harbor or Road for every Tun of which the said Ship or Vessel is of burthen How long to continue to be computed by such Officer of the Customs as shall be thereunto appointed the sum of five shillings currant money of England And that no such Ship or Vessel be suffered to depart out of such Port Créek Harbor or Road until the said Duty be fully paid And that this Duty shall continue to be Collected Levied and paid for such time as a certain Duty of Fifty Solls per Tun lately imposed by the French King or any part thereof shall continue to be Collected upon the shipping of England lading in France and thrée Moneths after and no longer Sugars tobacco c. of the growth of America Asia or Africa And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the First day of April which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty one noe Sugars Tobacco Cotton-wooll Indicoes Ginger Fustick or other dying wood of the growth Production or Manufacture of any English Plantations in America Asia or Africa shall be shipped carried conveyed or transported from any the said English Plantations to any Land Island Territory Dominion Port or place whatsoever other then to such other English Plantations as do belong to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors or to the Kingdom of England or Ireland or Principality of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed there to be laid on shore under the penalty of the Forfeiture of the said Goods or the full value thereof as also of the Ship with all her Guns Tackle Apparel Ammunition and Furniture The one Moyety to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other Moyety to him or them that shall seize inform or sue for the same in any Court of Record by Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoign
Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for every Ship or Vessel which from and after the Five and twentieth day of December Ships of England Ireland or Wales Sailing to any English plantation of America Asia or Africa shall be bound with sureties to bring goods there loaded into England c. in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and fifty shall set sail out of or from England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed for any English Plantation in America Asia or Africa sufficient bond shall be given with one surety to the chief Officers of the Custom-house of such Port or place from whence the said Ship shall set sail to the value of one thousand pounds if the ship be of less burthen then one hundred Tuns and of the sum of two thousand pounds if the Ship shall be of greater burthen That in case the said ship or vessel shal load any of the said Commodities at any of the said English plantations that the same Commodities shall be by the said ship brought to some Port of England Ireland Wales or to the Port or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and shall there unload and put on shore the same the danger of the Seas only excepted And for all ships coming from any other Port or Place to any of the aforesaid plantations who by this Act are permitted to trade there that the Governor of such English plantations shall before the said ship or Vessel be permitted to load on board any of the said Commodities take Bond in manner and to the value aforesaid for each respective Ship or Vessel That such Ship or Vessel shall carry all the aforesaid Goods that be laden on board in the said ship to some other of His Majesties English Plantations or to England Ships coming from other places to any of those plantations Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed And that every ship or Vessel which shall load or take on board any of the aforesaid Goods untill such Bond given to the said Governor or Certificate produced from the Officers of any Custom-house of England Ireland Wales or of the Town of Berwick that such bonds have béen there â—â—ly given shall be forefeited with all her Guns Tackle Apparel and Furniture to be imployed and recovered in the manner as aforesaid And the said Governors and every of them shall twice in every year after the First day of January The respective Governors to return the bonds taken twice yearly to the chief offices of the custom in London One thousand six hundred and sixty return true Copies of all such Bonds by him so taken to the chief Officers of the Customs in London St. 13. Car. 2. cap. 14. CAP. XIX For preventing Frauds and concealments of Customs and Subsidies BE it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That if any person or persons at any time after the first day of September One thousand six hundred and sixty Persons which shall convey away any goods without entry agreement for the custome shall cause any Goods for which Custom Subsidy or other Duties are due or payable by vertue of the Act passed this Parliament Entituled A Subsidy Granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other sums of money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported to be landed or conveyed away without due entry thereof first made and the Customer or Collector or his Deputy agréed with That then and in such case upon Oath thereof made before the Lord Treasurer or any of the Barons of the Exchequer or chief Magistrate of the Port or place where the offence shall be committed or the place next adjoyning thereunto The penalty it shall be lawful to and for the Lord Treasurer or any of the Barons aforesaid or chief Magistrate of the Port or place where the offence shall be committed or the place next adjoyning thereunto to issue out a Warrant to any person or persons thereby enabling him or them with the assistance of a Sheriff Iustice of Peace or Constable to enter into any house in the day time where such Goods are suspected to be concealed and in case of resistance to break open such houses and to seize and secure the same goods so concealed And all Officers and Ministers of Iustice are hereby required to be aiding and assisting thereunto Provided alwayes That no house shall be entred by vertue of this Act No proceeding against any upon this Act unless within one month after the offence committed The continuance of this Act. Damages and costs against false informers unless it be within the space of one Moneth after the offence supposed to be committed Provided also That this Act shall continue in force unto the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer Provided also That if the Information whereupon any house shall come to be searched shall prove to be false that then and in such case the party injured shall recover his full damages and costs against the Informer by Action of Trespass to be therefore brought against such Informer St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XX. For raising Sevenscore thousand pounds for the compleat Disbanding of the whole Army and paying off some part of the Navy by a two Moneths Assesment of 70000 l. per mensem beginning from the first of November 1660. EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 6. CAP. XXI An Act for the speedy raising of Seventy thousand pounds for the present supply of His Majesty EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 6. cap. 10. CAP. XXII Bay-making in the Dutch Bay-Hall in Colchester regulated CAP. XXIII Certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors For the Encrease of His Majesties Revenue during His Life THe Commons assembled in Parliament in gratitude for an humble acknowledgment of Your Majesties great Grace and Favour to us Your Commons beyond Example of any Your Royal Progenitors expressed in many publick Acts and Declarations to the great rejoycing and general satisfaction of all Your people The raâ—es given to his Majesty for life which they desire to answer with returns suitable and excéeding the Examples of any of their Ancestors for the encreasing of your Maiesties Revenue during Your Maiesties Reign which God long continue Do therefore give and grant unto your most Excellent Majesty the Rates and Duties Impositions Charges and sums of Money herein after following And do beséech your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Maiesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled That from and after the twenty fifth day of December One thousand six hundred and sixty there shall be throughout your Maiesties Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed
on the one part and the person or persons farming on the other part shall be good and effectual in Law to all intents and purposes Provided alwayes to the end the aforesaid duty may be paid with most ease to the people It is hereby further Enacted Persons contracting that be nominated by the Iustice of the Peace in every County shall have the refusal of any Farm That the Lord Treasurer Commissioners of the Treasury or other persons aforesaid shall not within six moneths after the Commencement of this Act treat conclude or agrée with any person or persons touching the Farming of this duty upon Béer and Ale in any the respective Counties or Places of this Realm or Dominions thereof other then with such person or persons as by the Iustices of Peace of the said Counties or places or the major part of them at their publick Quarter Sessions shall be nominated and appointed in that behalf which person or persons is to have the first refusal of any such Farm respectively and may take the same Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided that the said duty shall not be let to any other person or persons then to the person or persons recommended by the Iustices under the rate that it shall be tendred to and refused by such person or persons so recommended Forfeitures offences within this Act where determined And be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That all forfeitures and offences made done and committed against this Act or any clause or article therein contained shall be heard adjudged and determined by such person or persons and in such manner and form as hereafter in and by this Act is directed and appointed that is to say all such forfeitures and offences made and committed within the immediate limits of the chief Office in London shall be heard adjudged and determined by the said chief Commissioners and Governors of Excise appointed by His Majesty or the major part of them or by the Commissioners for Appeals and regulating of this duty or the major part of them in case of Appeal and not otherwise And all such forfeitures and offences made and committed within all or any other the Counties Cities Towns or Places within this Kingdom or Dominions thereof shall be heard and determined by any two or more of the Iustices of the Peace residing near to the place where such forfeitures shall be made or offence committed And in case of neglect or refusal of such Iustices of the Peace by the space of 14 dayes next after complaint made and notice thereof given to the Offender then the Sub-Commissioners or the major part of them appointed for any such City County Town or Place shall and are hereby impowered to hear and determine the same And if the party find himself aggrieved by the Iudgment given by the said Sub-Commissioners Appeals by parties grieved he shall and may appeal to the Iustices of the Peace at the next Quarter Sessions who are hereby impowered and authorised to hear and determine the same whose Iudgment therein shall be final which said Commissioners for Appeals and regulating of this duty and the chief Commissioners for Excise and all Iustices of Peace and Sub-Commissioners aforesaid respectively are hereby authorised and strictly enjoyned and required upon any complaint or information exhibited and brought of any such forfeiture made or offence committed contrary to this Act to summon the party accused and upon his appearance or contempt to procéed to the examination of the matter of Fact and upon due proof made thereof either by the voluntary confession of the party or by the oath of one or more credible witnesses which Oath they or any two or more of them have hereby power to administer to give Iudgment or Sentence according as in and by this Act is before ordained and directed And to award and issue out Warrants under their hands for the levying of such forfeitures penalties and fines as by this Act is imposed for any such offence committed upon the Goods and Chattels of the Offender and to cause Sale to be made of the said Goods and Chattels if they shall not be redéemed within fourtéen days rendring to the party the overplus if any be and for want of sufficient Distress to imprison the party offending till satisfaction be made Provided nevertheless That it shall and may be lawful Fines and forfeitures may be mitigated to and for the said respective Iustices of Peace Commissioners for Excise or any two of them or their Sub-Commissioners respectively from time to time where they shall sée cause to mitigate compound or lessen such forfeiture penalty or fine as in their discretion they shall think fit And that every such mitigation and payment thereupon accordingly made shall be a sufficient discharge of the said penalties and forfeitures to the persons so offending so as by such mitigation the same be not made less than double the value of the duty of Excise which should or ought to have béen paid besides the reasonable costs and charges of such Officer or Officers or others as were imployed therein to be to them allowed by the said Iustices any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And it is hereby further Enacted and Ordained That all Fines How the fines and forfeitures shall be imployed Forfeitures and Penalties mentioned in this Act all necessary charges for the recovery thereof being first deducted shall be imployed thrée fourth parts thereof to and for the use of the Kings Majesty and the other 4th part to the Discoverer or Informer of the same And for the better managing collecting securing levying and recovering of all and every the said rates and charges of Excise hereby imposed and set upon all or any of the Commodities before mentioned to the end the same may be paid and disposed of according to the intent of this present Act Be it further Enacted and Ordained by the authority aforesaid and it is hereby Enacted That one principal Head-Office shall be erected and continued in the City of London or within ten miles thereof from time to time as long as his Majesty shall think fit for this duty unto which all other Offices for the same within England and Wales and the Town and Port of Berwick shall be subordinate and accomptable Which said Office shall be managed by such Officers as shall be appointed by the Kings Majesty as aforesaid who or any two of them Commissioners and Governors for managing the Receipts of Excise are hereby appointed and constituted Commissioners and Governours for the management of His Majesties Receipt of the Excise and to sit in some convenient place in the City of London or within ten miles thereof from time to time as long as his Majesty shall think fit And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons shall be capable of
offending to Gaol till the next Sessions there to be indicted and procéeded against for the same and that the Officers and Inhabitants of the Village or Parish where such offence shall happen shall be assistant therein and moreover the party grieved shall have his Action or Actions against such offender or offenders and therein recover his treble damages and treble costs In which Action no Essoin Wager of Law Aid-prayer Priviledge Protection Imparlance Iniunction or Order of Restraint No action upon this Statute to be stayed but by Order of the Court where such action depends shall be granted or allowed And if any person or persons shall after notice given that the Action depending is grounded upon this Statute cause or procure any Action at the common Law grounded on this Statute to be delayed or stayed before Iudgment by colour or means of any Order Power Warrant or Authority save onely of the Court where such Action shall be brought and depending or after Iudgment had upon such Action shall cause or procure Execution of such Iudgment to be stayed or delayed by colour or means of any Order Warrant Power or Authority save only by Writ of Errour or Attaint or Order of such Court where such Writof Errour or Attaint shall be depending That then the person so offending shall incur the pains penalties Premunire and forfeitures ordained and provided by the Statute of Provision and Premunire made in the sixtéenth year of the Reign of King Richard the second Provided alwayes That this Act extend not to prejudice any of His Majesties Rights Titles or Duties of in or to or out of any Tinne in the Stannaries of Devon and Cornwall Proviso for the Stannaries Butserage Prisage nor to prejudice the ancient Duties of Butlerage and Prizage of Wines but that the same shall be in the same plight that the same were before the making of this Act any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Recompence to his Majesty for the Court of Wards and Purveyances And now to the intent and purpose that His Majesty His Heirs and Successors may receive a full and ample Recompence and Satisfaction as well for the profits of the said Court of Wards and the Tenures Wardships Liveries Primer-Seizins Ousterlemaines and other the Premisses and Perquisites incident thereunto and for all Arrears any way due for the same as also for all and all manner of Purveyance and Provisions herein before mentioned and intended to be taken away and abolished and all sums of money due or pretended to be due or payable for and in respect of any compositions for the same 12 Car. 2. cap. 23. Rates of the Excise Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That there shall be paid unto the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors for ever hereafter in recompence as aforesaid the several Rates Impositions Duties and Charges herein after expressed and in manner and form following that is to say For every Barrel of Beer or Ale above six shillings the barrel brewed by the Common Brewer or any other Person or Persons who doth or shall sell or tap out beer or Ale publickly or privately to be paid by the common Brewer or by such other person or persons respectively and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity One shilling three pence XV. d. For every barrel of Six shillings Beer or Ale or under brewed by the common Brewer or any other person or persons who doth or shall sell or tap out such Beer or Ale publickly or privately to be paid by the said common Brewer or by such other person or persons respectively as aforesaid and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity three pence iij. d. For all Syder and Perry made and sold by retail upon every Hogshead to be paid by the Retayler thereof and so proportionably for a greater or lesser measure One shilling three pence XV. d. For all Metheglin or Mead sold whether by Retail or otherwise to be paid by the maker thereof upon every Gallon One half-penny Ob. For every Barrel of Beer commonly called Vinegar-Beer brewed by any common Brewer in any common Brew-house six pence Vi. d. For every Gallon of Strong-water or Aquavitae made and sold to be paid by the maker thereof One penny i. d. For every barrel of Beer or Ale Imported from beyond the Seas Three Shillings iij. s. For every Tun of Syder or Perry Imported from beyond the Seas and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity Five shillings V. s. For every gallon of Spirits made of any kind of Wine or Syder Imported Two pence ij d. For every gallon of Strong-water perfectly made Imported from beyond the Seas Four pence iiij d. For every Gallon of Coffee made and sold to be paid by the maker Four pence iiij d. For every gallon of Chocolatte Sherbet and Tea made and sold to be paid by the maker thereof Eight pence Viij d. And be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the several Rates Rates of Excise upon forreign Liquors imported to be paid in money before landing Duties and Charges of Excise or New Impost above mentioned hereby set or imposed upon all and every the said Forreign Liquors which shall be Imported or brought into all or any the Ports of this Kingdom and Dominions thereof aforesaid from and after the five and twentieth day of December next shall be from time to time satisfied and paid by the Merchant or Merchants Importer or Importers of the same in ready money upon his or their Entry or Entries made and before the landing thereof And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Entries to be made at the Office of Excise by Common Brewers Inn-keepers c. That all common Brewers of Béer and Ale shall once in every Wéek And all Inn-kéepers Alehouse-kéepers Victuallers and other Retaylers of Béer Ale Syder Perry Metheglin or Strong-water Brewing Making or Retailing the same shall once in every moneth make true and particular Entries at the Office of Excise within the limits of which the said Commodities and Manufactures are made of all Béer Ale Perry Syder Metheglin Strong-Water or other the Liquors aforesaid which they or any of them shall Brew make or Retail in that Wéek and Moneth respectively as aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all such common Brewers The penalty for not making Entries who do not once a Wéek make due and particular Entries shall forfeit ten pounds And that every such Inn-kéeper who doth not make true and particular Entries once a Moneth shall forfeit five pounds And that every Alehouse-kéeper Victualler or other Retailer who doth not once a moneth make due and particular Entries shall forfeit twenty shillings And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Common Brewer The penalty for not paying who shall not pay and clear off
offending till satisfaction be made Power to mitigate the forfeitures Provided nevertheless That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said respective Iustices of Peace Commissioners for Excise or any two of them or their Sub-Commissioners respectively from time to time where they shall sée cause to mitigate compound or lessen such forfeiture penalty or fine as in their discretion they shall think fit And that every such mitigation and payment thereupon accordingly made shall be a sufficient discharge of the said penalties and forfeitures to the persons so offending so as by such mitigation the same be not made less than double the value of the duty of Excise which should or ought to have béen paid besides the reasonable costs and charges of such Officer or Officers or others as were imployed therein to be to them allowed by the said Iustices any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding How the forfeitures shall be imployed And it is hereby further Enacted and Ordained That all Fines Forfeitures and Penalties mentioned in this Act all necessary charges for the recovery thereof being first deducted shall be imployed thrée fourth parts thereof to and for the use of the Kings Majesty and one fourth part to the Discoverer or Informer of the same And for the better managing collecting securing levying and recovering of all and every the said rates and charges of Excise hereby imposed and set upon all or any of the Commodities before mentioned One principal Office of Excise erected in London to the end the same may be paid and disposed of according to the intent of this present Act Be it further Enacted and Ordained by the authority aforesaid and it is hereby Enacted That one principal Head-Office shall be erected and continued in the City of London or within ten miles thereof from time to time as long as his Majesty shall think fit for this duty unto which all other Offices for the same within England and Wales and the Town and Port of Berwick shall be subordinate and accomptable Which said Office shall be managed by such Officers as shall be appointed by the Kings Majesty as aforesaid who or any two of them are hereby appointed and constituted Commissioners and Governours for the management of His Majesties Receipt of the Excise and to sit in some convenient place in the City of London or within ten miles thereof from time to time as long as his Majesty shall think fit And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons shall be capable of intermedling with any Office or Imployment relating to the Excise until he or they shall before two or more Iustices of Peace in the County where his or their imployments shall be or before one of the Barons of the Exchequer take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy which Oaths they have hereby power to Administer together with this Oath following Mutatis Mutandis The Oath YOU shall swear to execute the Office of _____ truly and faithfully without Favour or Affection and shall from time to time true Accompt make and deliver to such person and persons as His Majesty shall appoint to receive the same and shall take no Fee or Reward for the Execution of the said Office from any other person than from His Maiesty or those whom His Majesty shall appoint in that behalf London Westminster c. to be under the management of the chief Office And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every such Iustice of Peace shall certify the taking of such Oath to the next Quarter-Sessions there to be Recorded And it is further Enacted That all parts of the Cities of London and Westminster with the Burrough of Southwark and the several Suburbs thereof and Parishes within the wéekly Bills of Mortality shal be under the immediate care inspection and management of the said Head-Office and such and so many subordinate Commissioners All Commissioners c. to be nominated by his Maiesty and Sub-Commissioners and other Officers and Ministers for the Execution of the Premisses shall be from time to time nominated and appointed by His Maiesty his Heirs and Successors in all and every other the Counties Cities Towns and Places within this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Port of Berwick as from time to time his Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall think fit And it is hereby further Enacted That the said Office of Excise in all places where it shall be appointed shall be kept open from eight of the Clock in the morning Times in which the Office shall be kept open till twelve of the Clock at noon and from two of the Clock in the Afternoon till five of the Clock in the Afternoon for the due execution and performance of all and every the matters and things in this Act appointed and required And it is further hereby Enacted That the said Chief Commissioners of Excise or the major part of them shall from time to time issue forth and pay such sum and sums of money as shall from time to time be received collected or levyed by vertue of this Act into his Majesties Receipt of Exchequer The general â—â—â—ue pleadable in any action upon this Statute Provided alwayes and be it Enacted That if any person or persons shall at any time be sued or prosecuted for any thing by him or them done or executed in pursuance of this Act he or they shall and may plead the general issue and give this Act in evidence for his defence and if upon the Tryal a Verdict shall pass for the Defendant or Defendants or the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs be Non-suit then such Defendant or Defendants shall have double costs to him or them awarded against such Plaintiff or Plaintiffs Writs of Certiorari no supersedeas Provided also and be it Enacted That no Writ or Writs of Certiorari shall supersede Execution or other Procéedings upon any Order or Orders made by the Iustices aforesaid in pursuance of this Act but that Execution and other procéedings shall and may be had and made thereupon any such Writ or Writs or allowance thereof notwithstanding Proviso as to the Act of General pardon Provided That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend in any matter to weaken or invalidate one Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion but that every Clause Article Matter and thing therein mentioned and comprised shall notwithstanding this Act or any matter or thing therein remain good and valid and be of the same force vertue and effect as if this Act had never béen made Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained Proviso concerning Ed. Backwell shall not be prejudicial to Edward Backwell Alderman of London as to the sum of twenty eight thousand four hundred
seisure as aforesaid he or they shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of Twenty pounds for the uses and to be recovered as aforesaid And if any of the said Artificers and Dealers in cutting of Leather do refuse to be present with the said Searchers whensoever the same shall be desired by the said Master and Wardens of the Company of the Curriers or such persons thereto assigned by them as aforesaid then for every such default the persons so refusing shall forfeit the sum of Ten pounds for the uses and to be recovered as aforesaid CAP. VIII An Act for Distribution of Threescore thousand pounds amongst the truly Loyal and Indigent Commission-Officers and for Assessing of Offices and Distributing Moneys thereby raised for their further Supply EXP. CAP. IX For Relief of Poor and Maimed Officers and Souldiers who have faithfully served His Majesty and His Royal Father in the late Wars FOrasmuch as divers of His Majesties Loyal and Faithful Subjects who out of the sense of their Duty and Allegiance to his Majesties Royal Father of ever Blessed and Glorious Memory and to His Majestie that now is have during the late Wars wherein they have béen Imployed both by Sea and Land as Officers Souldiers and Mariners in the said Service exposed themselves to the utmost hazard of their Lives loss of their Limbs and utter ruine of their Fortunes and for whose Subsistence and Relief there is not yet any competent Provision made Nor for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of such as have died or béen slain in the said Service And to the end that such as have béen eminent for their Loyalty and Sufferings The inducement and ground of this Act. in so good and just a Cause as the Defence of His Majesties Royal Person and Government may not passe without some Mark of Favour or Reward to be set upon them And that others may thereby receive all due Encouragement for the time to come to continue Loyal and Faithful to His Majesties Service according to their bounden Duty Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same That from the First day of this present Parliament every Parish within this Realm of England and Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed shall be charged wéekly to the payment of such sum of Money as formerly they have béen rated by vertue of a Statute made in the Forty third year of Quéen Elizabeth Chapter the third 43 El. cap. 3. concerning the Relief of Mariners and Souldiers for and to such end and purpose How Parishes may be charged assessed and levied And likewise such further sum of Money over and besides the same as by His Majesties Iustices of the Peace in their next Quarter-Sessions to be held after the Feast of Easter next ensuing or the major part of them or at any other Quarter-Sessions to be hereafter by them held shall be adjudged méet to be Assessed upon every Parish or Chappelry that hath distinct Parochial Officers so as the said additional sum excéed not the sum of Two shillings and six pence nor be under the sum of Thrée pence each wéek for each such Parish or Chappelry the same to be levied in manner and form by such persons and under such penalties as by the said Statute of Quéen Elizabeth is Enacted and Declared And to be paid to the Treasurers for the Maimed Souldiers Treasurer for Maimed Souldiers appointed by the Iustices of the County or Liberty by vertue of this Act and the Statute of Quéen Elizabeth aforesaid Which said Treasurers shall be ordered to issue out and account for the same in such manner and under such penalties as by the said Statute is further Enacted and Declared And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid â—fficers â—â—â—ldiers or â—â—â—triners Maimed or indigent how to be relieved That every Officer Souldier or Mariner maimed indigent aged or disabled in body for work in the Service of His said late Majesty or His Majesty that now is during the late Wars or which are so Impoverished by their Sufferings under any of the late Vsurped Powers as that they are destitute of any competent Subsistence or Livelihood and have continued Faithful to his Trust and not deserted the same by taking up Arms against His said late Majesty or His Majesty that now is or otherwise shall forthwith repair to the place where he was last setled before he took up Arms with a Certificate of his Service and hurts received under the hand of his Captain or other Commissionated Officer And shall also repair unto the two next Iustices of the Peace in the County where such his Setling was And the said two Iustices upon the Examination of the Truth of such Certificate which the said two Iustices are hereby impowred to take upon Oath of the party and of such Witnesses as he shall produce shall by Warrant unto the Treasurer assign him Relief until the next Quarter-Sessions to be holden for that County or Liberty at which time a yearly Pension shall be by the said Iustices or the major part of them granted in Manner and Form and with Power of Revocation or Alteration as by the said Statute is further declared and directed And in case that the Captain or Officer appointed to make such Certificate be dead the said two Iustices shall have Power upon Request made to them in behalf of the party maimed or aged indigent or disabled as aforesaid by Persons of Credit to give such Relief as in case of Examination as aforesaid Widowes and Orphans of Souldiers And as touching the Widows and Orphans of such as have died or suffered death in the said Service It is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That over and besides such Relief as they shall gain by their Work and Labour and shall be allowed by the Charity and Benevolence of the Parish Town or Hamlet where they are setled who are hereby required to have them in special regard the Treasurers for the Maimed Souldiers for such County shall allow such further Relief from time to time as shall be adjudged méet by the two next Iustices of the Peace of such County And the said Relief shall be paid out of the Surplusage of such Stock of Maintenance as shall remain in the hands of the said Treasurers after such Pensions and payment of them made and of which Surplusage and Allowance made unto such Widows and Orphans the said Treasurers shall give account from time to time and the same distribute in such manner as by the Iustices shall be directed and according to the Statute aforesaid Treasurers High-Constables c. to be called to Accompt for Moneys received And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Iustices of Peace in every County or Liberty or any
Act to the contrary notwithstanding And the said Sheriffs shall deduct out of their payments Four pence in the pound whereof Thrée pence to be for themselves and One penny for the Clerk of the Peace to be recovered as aforesaid Officers of the Exchequer shall discharge persons who pay the duties without any Fee And that His Majesties Officers in his said Court of Exchequer shall discharge all such persons who paid their respective Duties without taking any Fées for the same and shall also issue out Process to levy the said duty upon such persons who shall fail in payment thereof where no distress can be found to be taken according to this Act. The said Revenue shall be paid into the Exchequer And not charged with any grant or Pension And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Revenue and Sum of money arising by vertue of this Act Except what shall be allowed to the aforesaid Officers and Ministers for Collecting the same shall be duly and constantly paid and answered into His Majesties Court of Exchequer and shall not be particularly charged or chargeable either before it be paid into the Exchequer or after with any Gift Grants or Pension whatsoever And that all and every Grants of any such Pensions and all and every clause of Non obstante therein contained shall be and is hereby declared to be utterly void and all and every the persons to whom such Grants are passed shall be and are hereby made Accomptants unto His Majesty Grantees of the same shall be accomptanes His Heirs and Successors and shall pay back all sums of money received by pretence of such Grant and the Court of Exchequer shall be and is hereby enjoyned to Issue out Process accordingly And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Action Bill Plaint Suit Persons acting upon this Statute being sued therefore may plead the general Issue or Information shall be Commenced or Prosecuted against any person or persons for what he or they shall do in pursuance or execution of this Act such person or persons so Sued shall and may plead the general Issue Not guilty And upon Issue joyned may give this Act and the special matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff or Prosecutor shall become Nonsuit or suffer discontinuance or if a Verdict pass against him or if upon a Demurrer Iudgement pass against him Treble Costs to the Defendants the Defendant shall recover treble Costs for which there shall be like remedy as in any case where Costs by Law are given to the Defendants And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Increases of Hearths or Stoves which may happen That where any Increase or Decrease of such Hearths or Stoves shall hereafter happen that an account in writing of the same shall be had and made in like manner as the same is directed to be first taken returned and inrolled by this Act and a Duplicate thereof sent into the Exchequer in such sort as is before directed Decreases how discharged And from thenceforth the Owner or Occupier of such House where such Decrease is shall be discharged proportionably without any further pleading in the Exchequer Provided always That no person or persons shall be charged prosecuted Arrerages not to be charged or sued for but within 2 years next after they become due or brought to account for the Arrerages of any Duty or Arrerages of Revenue raised by this Act unless the said Suit shal commence within two years and be brought to a Iudgement within four years and the Duty levied within five years next after the same shall grow due Provided always That no person who by reason of his poverty Poor people exempted or the smallness of his Estate is exempted from the usual Tares Payments and Contributions towards the Church and Poor shall be charged or chargeable with any the Duties by this Act Imposed Any thing herein before to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and be it hereby Enacted That if the Church-wardens and Overséers of the Poor of the Parish together with the Minister of the same or any two of them whereof the Minister to be one shall in writing under their hands yearly certifie their belief that the house wherein any person doth Inhabit is not of greater value then of Twenty shillings per annum upon the full improved Rent And that neither the person so Inhabiting nor any other using the same Messuage hath useth or occupieth any Lands or Tenements of their own or others of the yearly value of Twenty shillings per annum nor hath any Lands Tenements Goods or Chattels of the value of Ten pounds in their own possession or in the possession of any other in trust for them That then in such case upon such Certificate made to the two next Iustices of Peace and allowed for which Certificate and allowance no Fée shall be paid the person on whose behalf such Certificate is made shall not be returned by the Constable or other Officer And the said house is hereby for that year discharged of and from all the Duties by this Act imposed Any thing herein to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person or persons Further Penalty upon any person that shall accept or procure any pension Gift or grant for years c. bodies Politick or Corporate shall at any time hereafter procure or accept of from the Kings Majesty His Heirs or Successors any Pension Gift or Grant for years life or any other Estate or any sum or sums of money out of the Revenue arising by vertue of this Act that then such person or body Politick or Corporate procuring or accepting the same shall forfeit double the value of such Pension Gift or Grant The one moyety of which forfeiture shall be to the use of the poor of the Parish or Parishes where the said Offenders be or inhabit to be recovered by the Church-wardens the other moyety to him that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information Provided that this Act Blowing houses Stamps Furnaces Kilns Ovens Hospitals or any thing herein contained shall not extend to charge any Blowing-house and Stamp Furnace or Kiln or any private Oven within any of the houses hereby charged nor any Hearth or Stove within the scite of any Hospital or Alms-house for the relief of poor people whose Endowment and Revenue doth not excéed in true value the sum of One hundred pounds by the year Provided The payments and duties charged only upon the Occupiers That the payments and duties hereby charged shall be charged only on the Occupier for the time being of such Hearth or Stove dwelling in such house whereto such Hearth or Stove shall be belonging his Executors or Administrators and not on the Landlord who Let or Demised the same his Heirs Executors or Assigns
Majesties Reign there is amongst other exceptions excepted all and singular the Accounts of all Prize-Goods and of all moneys and other Duties grown due or contracted upon the sale or disposition of them or any of them By vertue whereof and of another Act made in the said thirtéenth year of your Majesties Reign 13 Car. 2. c. 3. Intituled An Act for the Declaring Vesting and Setling of all such Moneys Goods and other things in his Majesty which were received levied or collected in these late times and are remaining in the hands or possession of any Treasurers Receivers Collectors or others not Pardoned by the Act of Oblivion all and singular Prizes and Ships and Goods whatsoever seized or taken for Prize since the thirtieth of January in the year One thousand six hundred forty two by colour or pretence of any of the late pretended Authorities or by pretence or colour of any Power or Authority derived or pretended to be derived from or under them or any of them or otherwise for or upon any pretence of any publick use And all Captures and Seisures of Prizes and Tenths of Prizes to or under pretence of any publick use And all the moneys arising or due or contracted for upon the Sales and Dispositions of them or any of them yet unpaid or unaccounted for in whose hands soever the same be or by whomsoever owing are rightly vested in your Majesty And all the Buyers and Receivers and Injoyers thereof not having yet truly accounted for or paid for the same stand chargeable to your Majesty Now for that as well by a pretended Act made in the year one thousand six hundred forty nine the Buyers of Ships and goods taken Pretended Act. 1649. The reason for suing for prize-goods in the Court of Admiralty or seised and sold for Prize were in case of any failer of performing their contract to be convented in the Court of Admiralty and in case they were condemned there to pay the money by them contracted for then the same to be levied by execution of the said Court And for that by reason of other pretended Acts and Ordinances made in those times all the matters touching Prize and Captures and Seisures and Tenths of Prizes were referred to the said Court of Admiralty and all the Processes Exhibites Writings Examinations Depositions Procéedings Passages Condemnations Sentences Decrées and Orders touching and concerning Prizes and Captures and Seisures of Prizes and tenths of Prizes of what sort soever were had taken made and done in the said Court of Admiralty and do all or most of them there remain So that the said Court of Admiralty being thereof possessed and best acquainted therewith and with all the passages thereof It will be the readiest and quickest way for your Majesty to Sue for the same in that Court which being there Sued for may probably amount to considerable sums of money May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and every Collectors and Treasurers Sub-Collectors and Vnder-Treasurers of Prize-goods Commissioners and Sub-Commissioners of Prize-goods and all and every their Cashéers Officers Rep. 16 17 Car. 2. cap. 6. Deputies and Receivers and all and every Admirals Vice-Admirals Captains of Ships Officers and Mariners and all and every other person and persons whatsoever to whom such Prizes were delivered or to whose hands they came at any time since the said thirtieth of January One thousand six hundred forty and two and before the nine and twentieth of May One thousand six hundred and sixty or that did surprize or receive to or for the publick use or by pretence thereof any Ships Plate Iewels Bullion Money Silver Gold Arms Ammunition Wares Merchandizes or any manner of Goods whatsoever seised or taken for Prize within the times aforesaid and that have not yet truly accounted for and paid in the same or the just provenues and values thereof and all and every person and persons by whom or to or for whose use the same or any of them were sold or who had and enjoyed the same or any part thereof and are still behind and have not paid the moneys contracted for and arising or due upon such sales or any of them and all Securities by them or any of them given for their just dealing in their Offices or Places or any thing concerning the said Prizes or any of them shall be chargeable to your Majesty for the said premisses and all the Dependencies thereof respectively in the said Court of Admiralty and shall and may be by your Majesties Advocate and by such other of your Majesties Councel in that Court as Your Majesty shall please particularly to nominate and commit that affair unto and by special Warrant under your Sign Manual to appoint to sue for the same in your Majesties Name and to and for your Majesties use to be sued and convened in the said Court of Admiralty and either called to account or otherwise by such suit and in such manner as may be most available for your Majesty be there procéeded against sued and prosecuted in due course according to their respective cases for all and every the said Prizes Ships Goods Moneys and Premisses received or had by them and still in arrear and wherewith they are as aforesaid chargeable The Court of Admiralty impowred to proceed upon suits for prize-goods taken at any time since Ian. 30. 1642. and before 29 May 1660. and not accounted for And the said Court of Admiralty is hereby enabled and authorized to procéed thereupon according to the Laws and course of that Court and to do and minister right and Iustice therein with all things thereto requisite And to give sentences and final Decrées and condemnations therein as by the rules of Iustice ought to be and that in the most spéedy manner and to put in execution and finally to execute and levy all and every sum and sums and whatever shall be adjudged sentenced or condemned by and according to the rules and course of Executions in the said Court and that without any manner of Let Disturbance Hinderance Obstruction or Impediment whatsoever that your Majesty may be for the same satisfied and paid according to right and Iustice Provided always and be it further hereby Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid Proviso for the saving all Rights of the Lord High Admiral That all such Rights as during the Reign of your Majesties Royal Father of Blessed memory or your Majesties Reign belonged and appertained unto the Lord High Admiral of England or Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports for the time being by vertue of the said Office and have béen at any time since the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and eight usurped possessed
within the said Accompt whereupon he had his Quietus est unless such Sheriff should be called in question for such sums of Money so pretended to be Levied and not Accompted for within four years after the time of such Accompt and Quietus est which Act notwithstanding divers Sheriffs and their Heirs upon such pretences have béen molested and troubled many years after their Accompts and Quietus est and have had Process sent out against them contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said Act It is hereby further Provided and Enacted That when any Sheriff or Sheriffs within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales upon passing their Accompts shall have their Quietus est that then such Sheriff and Sheriffs their Heirs Executors and Administrators Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels shall be thereby absolutely discharged of all manner of sum or sums of Money whatsoever by them Levyed and Received notwithstanding any such pretence that the same were not accompted for or other pretence whatsoever unless such Sheriff or Sheriffs shall be called in question and that Iudgment shall be given against him or them for the same within four years next after such Accompt or Quietus est and that every Officer or Minister by whom or by whose default any Writ or Process contrary to this Act shall be sent out shall incur the like Forfeitures and Penalties to be recovered and inflicted by such persons and in such manner as by the aforesaid Act is provided Provided alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to the Counties of Chester Chester Lancaster Durham Wales Lancaster Durham or the Counties in Wales being County-Palatines as to their manner of accompting but that the Sheriffs therein shall accompt as formerly before the respective Auditors only and not elsewhere Proviso touching the Kings Remembrancer Lord Treasurers Remembrancer Provided That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to enjoyn His Majesties Remembrancer or the Lord Treasurers Remembrancer to transcribe and deliver to the Ingrosser of the great Roll any Inquisitions or Seisures but such as have béen formerly charged in the Foreign Accompts of the Sheriffs but for all Inquisitions upon Attainders or other Forfeitures to the Crown the same shall be put in charge as heretofore they have béen according to the constant usage and Decrée of the Court of Exchequer Nor shall this Act or any thing therein contained extend to exclude His Majesties said Remembrancer of or from the writing forth Process for or upon any His Majesties Debts Duties Outlawries or other charge whatsoever or Process of Levari facias at the prosecution of any person or persons to levy the Issues or Profits of any Lands or Tenements seised or to be seised into the Kings hands or Process of Venditioni exponas for Goods seised or to be seised upon any Debt to His Majesty His Heirs or Successors or upon any Outlawry or to alter or change the Pleadings or other Procéedings heretofore used and accustomed in the said Office upon any Pleadings touching the said Debts Duties and Seisures or any of them whatsoever And that no Debt Duty Fine Amerciament or Seisure whatsoever which shall be charged in the said great Roll of the Pipe upon any person whatsoever by or from any Record Process or Procéeding had made filed or recorded in the Office of His Majesties Remembrancer of his Exchequer nor any Process or Procéeding thereupon to be had or made by vertue of this Act shall be respited stayed mitigated extenuated compounded or otherwise discharged but by Order Warrant or Iudgment made filed or entred in the said Office of His Majesties Remembrancer where the original of such Debt Duty or Charge as aforesaid is and remaineth And that in case any Process of Summons of the Pipe have béen or shall be awarded for or upon any such Debt Duty Fine Amerciament or Seisure whatsoever and the same Debt Duty Fine Amerciament or Seisure shall not upon such Summons of the Pipe be levied or answered unto His Majesty That then the Clerk of the Pipe or Engrosser of the Great Roll shall the next Term after the return of such Summons certifie the same in a Schedule into the Office of His Majesties Remembrancer aforesaid to the end that further Process may be from thence written forth for the Levying and Answering thereof And that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend unto nor be construed to be prejudicial to His Majesties Remembrancer in His Exchequer in any just ancient and lawful Fées by him claimed or belonging or incident to His Office and usually had and received by him or his Predecessors Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding The conttnuance This Act to continue to the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer CAP. XXII For Preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England VVHereas a great number of Lewd Disorderly and Lawless Persons being Thieves and Robbers who are commonly called Moss-Troopers have successively for many and sundry years last past béen bred resided in and frequented the borders of the two respective Counties of Northumberland and Cumberland and the next adjacent parts of Scotland and they taking the opportunity of the large waste Grounds Heaths and Mosses and the many intricate and dangerous Wayes and By-paths in those parts do usually after the most notorious Crimes committed by them escape over from the one Kingdom into the other respectively and so avoid the hand of Iustice in regard the Offences done and perpetrated in the one Kingdom cannot be punished in the other And whereas since the time of the late unhappy distractions such Offences and Offenders as aforesaid have excéedingly more increased and abounded and the several Inhabitants of the said respective Counties have béen for divers years last past necessitated at their own frée and voluntary charge to maintain several Parties of Horse for the necessary defence of their Persons Families and Goods and to the end the aforesaid evil and pernicious members might be apprehended and brought to Iudgment And whereas the most part of the Inhabitants of the said Counties being more remote from the Borders then other parts and consequently not so much exposed to imminent dangers as others are therefore unwilling to contribute their proportionable parts of the aforesaid Charge and yet notwithstanding it cannot probably or possibly be avoided but that those Inhabitants of the respective Counties who hold themselves most secure must certainly sustain much damage and detriment in their Goods and Estates in case the aforesaid Moss-Troopers be not timely suppressed but suffered to grow numerous strong and potent which they must néeds do in case there be no restraint upon them Be it 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
such Rate is made whereby they shall have power for their several Counties to raise upon the Parishes that lie in or near the said Road and so will have a benefit therefrom such sum or sums of money as they shall sée fit and convenient for the spéedy effecting of the said Repairs before mentioned which said sum and sums so to be rated as aforesaid shall be paid to the Surveyors for the respective County where such Rate is made or to their Receiver or Collector to be imployed for the repairing of the said Ways and places afore-mentioned and not otherwise And in case any person shall refuse to pay such rate so to be made That it shall and may be lawful for the said Surveyors or their said Receivers and Collectors to distrain for such sum or sums of money and the distress to sell rendring the overplus to the Owners Provided always and it is Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said money so advanced by the said several Towns in the said respective Counties shall again be repayed with Interest by the several Surveyors for the several Counties as it doth arise out of the said Toll every County paying for what is so borrowed within its own County and no further And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person or persons not having any lawful cause to be allowed as aforesaid The Penalty for refusing to take the Office of Surveyor shall neglect or refuse to take upon him or them the said Office of Surveyor being thereunto nominated and chosen according as by this Act is appointed or to do or perform his or their duty in the due and spéedy execution of this present Act the said Iustices of the Peace for the several and respective Counties where such Surveyor or Surveyors dwell at their Quarter-Sessions shall and may hereby have power to impose on such person or persons so refusing or neglecting such Fine or Fines not excéeding Ten pounds upon each person so refusing or neglecting as to them shall séem méet and to cause the same to be levied by distress and sale of his or their Goods rendring to the party so distrained the overplus if any shall be Fines and Forfeitures upon this Act how to be paid and disposed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Fines or Forfeitures to be imposed or incurred by vertue of this Act shall be paid to the Surveyors for the time being or any thrée of them or the Treasurers of the said Surveyors for the said respective Counties for and towards the repairing of the said High-ways and places aforesaid And in case of refusal or if any person or persons so chosen to take upon him or them the said Office shall happen to die or shall for any lawful impediment be discharged from the said Office that then some other fit person or persons within that County shall be appointed by two or more Iustices in the said County living near the said High-way and places aforesaid in the place of him or them that shall so refuse die or be discharged and the person or persons so chosen shall and are hereby required upon notice thereof to him or them given under the hands and seals of the said Iustices by whom he or they shall be so chosen to take upon him or them the said Office of Surveyor and to execute the same in such manner and under such and the like penalties as if he or they had béen chosen by the Iustices at their Sessions of the Peace in manner as aforesaid Suits upon this Act shall be laid in the proper County And the Defendant may plead the general Issue And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Suit shall be commenced against any person for any thing done in pursuance of this present Act That in every such case the Action shall be laid in the said respective Counties where the Cause doth arise and not elsewhere and the Defendant in such Action so to be brought may plead the general Issue and give this Act and the special matter in evidence at any Tryal to be had thereupon and that the same was done in pursuance and by Authority of the said Act And if it shall so appear to be done and that such Action shall be brought in any other County That then the Iury shall find for the Defendant and upon such Verdict or if the Plaintiff shall be non-suited or discontinue his Action after the Defendant shall have appeared or if upon Demurrer Iudgment shall be given against the Plaintiff the said Defendant shall have and recover his double Costs Double Costs and have the like remedy for the same as any Defendant hath in any other case by Law Toll not to be paid twice in the same day Provided always That no person or persons having occasion to passe any place where the Toll is taken and return the same day with the same Horse Coach Waggon or other Carriage or with Cattel shall be compelled in the same day to pay the said Toll a second time Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also That all and every person and persons who by Law are chargeable towards the repairing of the said High-ways and places aforesaid shall still remain so chargeable Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding The continuance of this Act for 11. years only Proviso for exempting certain persons and things from paying any Toll Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to any further time or be of force any longer then the term of Eleven years to be accounted from the passing of this Act Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always That all and every person and persons passing through the respective places appointed for the receiving of Toll as aforesaid viz. at Wades-Mill for the County of Hertford at Caxton for the County of Cambridge and at Stilton for the County of Huntington and coming immediately and primarily to and from the several Parishes of Standen Thundridge Ware and Bengeo adjacent to Wades-Mill in the said County of Hertford and Stowe great Papworth little Papworth Borne and Elsley adjacent to Caxton in the said County of Cambridge and Yaxley Washingley Glatton Cunington Waddon and Stibbington adjacent to Stilton in the said County of Huntington shall have a liberty to carry any quantity or quantities of Stones Sand Stones Gravel c. Lime or Gravel Dung Mould and Compost of any nature or kind whatsoever Brick Chalk or Wood And that they and all Carts with Hay or Corn in the Straw at Hay-time Hay Corn in Harvest 〈◊〉 Pâ—â—ugh 〈◊〉 Impâ— of Hâ— or Harvest Ploughs Harrows and other Implements of Husbandry and all other things whatsoever imployed in the Husbanding Stocking and Manuring of their several and respective Lands in the said several
the Town of Berwick in any other Ship or Vessel then what is English-built or belonging to England Wales or Town of Berwick and having such Certificate thereof as abovesaid and whereof the Master and thrée fourths of the Mariners at least are English and not having béen fished and caught in such Ships or Vessels and so navigated there shall be paid by way of Custom and Impost the several sums of money herein after particularly mentioned that is to say for Cod-fish the Barrel Five shillings for Cod-fish the last containing twelve Barrels Thrée pounds for Cod-fish the hundred containing sixscore Ten shillings for Coal-fish the hundred containing sixscore Five shillings for Lings the hundred containing sixscore One pound for White Herrings the Last containing twelve Barrels One pound sixtéen shillings for Haddocks the Barrel Two shillings for Gull-fish the Barrel Two shillings And forasmuch as planting and making Tobacco within this Kingdom of England doth continue and increase to the apparent loss of his said Majesty in his Customs the discouragement of the English Plantations in the parts beyond the Seas and prejudice of this Kingdom in general notwithstanding an Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth year of his said Majesties Reign for prevention thereof Entituled An Act for prohibiting the Planting Setting 12 Car. 2. cap. 34. The further penalty for planting Tobacco in England or Sowing of Tobacco in England and Ireland And forasmuch as it is found by experience that the reason why the said planting and making of Tobacco doth continue is That the penalties prescribed and appointed by that Law are so little as have neither power or effect over the transgressors thereof For remedy therefore of so great an evil Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the person or persons whatsoever that do or shall at any time hereafter Set Plant or Sow any Tobacco in Séed Plant or otherwise in or upon any ground field earth or place within the Kindom of England Dominion of Wales Islands of Guernsey and Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or Kingdom of Ireland shall over and above the penalty of the said Act for that purpose ordained for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of Ten pounds for every Rod or Pole of ground that he or they shall so Plant Set or Sow with Tobacco and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity of ground one third part thereof to the Kings Majesty one other third part thereof to the use of the poor of such respective Parish or Parishes wherein such Tobacco shall be so Planted Set or Sowed and the other third part thereof to him or them that shall sue for the same to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of his said Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed And it is hereby further Enacted That in case any person or persons shall resist or make forceable opposition against any person or persons in the due and through Execution of the said Act of the Twelfth of his said Majesties Reign that he she or they so resisting and making forceable opposition shall over and above the penalties therein mentioned for such Offences be committed to the Common Gaol of the County where such offence shall be committed there to remain without Bail or Mainprise untill he she or they have entred into a Recognizance to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors with two sufficient Sureties of Ten pounds penalty not to do or commit the like offence again Proviso for Tobacco planted in Physick Gardens Provided alwayes That this Act nor any thing therein contained shall not extend to the hindrance or prejudice of Planting Tobacco in any Physick-Garden of either of the Vniversities or any other private Garden for Chirurgery so as the quantity so planted excéed not the half of one Pole in any one place or Garden Cattel imported from the Isle of Man Provided also and be it Enacted That it shall and may be lawful to import Cattel of the bréed of the Isle of Man not excéeding six hundred in any one year And Corn of the growth of that Island out of that Island into England so as the said Cattel be landed at Chester Liverpool or Wirewater Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding CAP. VIII Butchers may not sell live fat Cattel 3 4 E. 6. cap. 19. VVHereas by an Act made in the Third and Fourth years of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth It is Enacted That no Person using the Craft or Mystery of a Butcher should buy any fat Oxen Stéers Runts Kine Heisers Calves or Shéep and sell the same again alive upon pain of forfeiture of the Cattel so sold which Law hath not wrought such effectual Reformation as was intended by reason of the difficulty in the proof of such Buying and Selling being for the most part at places far distant if not in several Counties by means whereof the Parties so offending have escaped unpunished 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 Assemâ—led and by Authority of the same That no Person using the Trade of a Butcher shall at any time from and after the Feast of Saint Michael the Arch-Angel next ensuing Sell Offer or Expose to sale in any Market or elsewhere either by himself or any Servant or Agent whatsoever any fat Oxen Stéers Runts Kine Heifers Calves Shéep or Lambs alive upon pain to forfeit the double Value of the Cattel so Sold or Offered Penalty upon Butchers for selling live fat cattel or Exposed to Sale as aforesaid The one moyety of which forfeiture shall be to the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same in any of his Majesties Courts of Record by Bill Plaint Action of Debt or Information wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed CAP. IX Four intire Subsidies granted to His Majesty by the Temporalty EXP. CAP. X. An Act for Confirming of Four Subsidies Granted by the Clergy EXP. CAP. XI An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of Excise and preventing the Abuses therein 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. FOr the preventing of the Frauds and Deceits of Brewers and other persons who make Béer and Ale and other Exciseable Liquors to sell and of the abuses committed by the Officers Collectors and Managers of the Excise to the great decay of his Majesties Revenue of Excise and obstruction of the due and orderly Collecting of the same and for supply and amendment of certain defects in the Laws and Statutes relating to the Duty of Excise as well for the support and advance of the said Revenue as for the ease of the People Be it Enacted
and payable for the same be fully satisfied and paid And that every Warrant for the landing or delivering of any such Forreign Liquors shall be Signed by the hand of the said Officer or Collector of the Excise in the said Port or Place respectively upon pain that all such Foreign Liquors as shall be landed put on shore or delivered contrary to the true intent and meaning hereof or without the presence of an Officer or Waiter for the Excise or the value thereof shall be forfeited and lost the one moyety to the Kings Majesty and the other moyety to him or them who shall or will Seise Inform or Sue for the same to be recovered of the Importer or Proprietor thereof And that no person or persons whatsoever bringing any Exciseable Liquors except Béer Ale Sider Perry and Metheglin into any part or place of this Realm by Coast Cocquet Transire or Certificate nor any person or persons to whom the same or any of them shall be consigned shall land or cause any such Exciseable Liquors except before excepted to be landed or put on shore without making or causing due Entry to be made of the same with the Officer or Officers of the Excise for the time being appointed to receive and take such Entries within the Port or Place where the same shall be landed upon pain in every such case as aforesaid to forfeit double the value of the said Liquors landed or put on shore contrary to the true intent and meaning hereof Appeals in causes of Excise Provided also and be it further Enacted and Ordained by Authority aforesaid That no Appeal in any Cause of Excise whatsoever shall be admitted until the Party Appellant shall have first Deposited and laid down the single Duty of Excise in the hands of the Commissioners Farmers or Sub-Commissioners of Excise within whose Iurisdiction or Division the said Cause was originally heard and determined and have given Security to the Commissioners of Appeal or Iustice of the Peace respectively where such Cause is to be finally Adjudged for all such Fine Forfeiture and Penalty as upon such hearing and determination was Adjudged against him And that if upon the hearing and determining of any such Appeal the said Original Iudgment shall happen to be reversed and made null then and in every such case the said Commissioners Farmers or Sub-Commissioners of Excise in whose hands the said single Duty of Excise was deposited shall restore and deliver back the same or as much thereof as shall be adjudged by the Commissioners of Appeals or Iustices of the Peace respectively to the said Appellant and the party originally prosecuted shall pay him double Costs But in case the first Iudgment shall be affirmed the party Appealing shall pay the like Costs unto the Commissioner or Commissioners complained of Any thing in this Act or any other Act or Statute whatsoever to the contrary thereof contained in any wise notwithstanding Excise upon Vinegar-beer And be it further Enacted by Authority aforesaid That all and every person or persons whatsoever Brewing or Making any Béer whether in a common Brew-house or otherwise for sale or to convert into Vinegar for sale shall pay for every Barrel of such Vinegar-Béer so made and brewed the several and respective sums already imposed and set by any the Acts of Excise above mentioned upon Vinegar-Béer brewed by any common Brewer in any common Brew-house Any thing in the said Acts or either of them to the contrary notwithstanding Colledges and Halls in the Vniversity And is it hereby further Declared That every Colledge and Hall in either of the Vniversities which before the Duty of Excise was imposed did brew their own Béer and Ale within their own Precincts and size it out to their respective Members within their own Precincts only are not liable to the payment of any Duty of Excise for the same either by this or any the forementioned Acts. Provided also and be it Enacted That all Differences Appeals and Complaints that shall happen and arise betwéen party and party Complaints to be determined in the proper counties in order to the payment of the Duty of Excise shall be heard and determined in the proper County or in the several Ridings and Divisions of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire where they shall arise and not elsewhere Commissioners or Farmers may take no Fees And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Farmer Commissioner Sub-Commissioner or other Officer of Excise shall directly or indirectly take or receive any Mony Fée or Reward for or concerning the taking of any Bond or giving any Receipt or Note in Writing relating to the Excise to or from any person or persons whatsoever upon pain that every such person so offending shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of Ten shillings Who may hear and determine matters upon this Act. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Iustices of the Peace or any two or more of them or Chief Magistrates in the several Counties Cities Divisions and Places within England and Wales respectively shall méet once in every moneth in their respective Divisions or oftner if there shall be occasion to hear determine and to adjudge all matters and offences against this or the aforesaid Acts. How the penalties upon this Act shall be disposed and recovered And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That one third part of all Fines Penalties and Forfeitures not herein otherwise disposed shall be to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors one other third part to the poor of the Parish where the Offence shall be committed the other third part to him that shall inform and sue for the same And that all Fines Penalties and Forfeitures for which no remedy is Ordained for recovery thereof by this Act shall be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Informations in any Court of Record within such County City or Corporation where the Offence shall be committed or by such other ways and means and in such manner as by the said former Act is directed and appointed Appeals for matters in London and the limits thereof Provided alwayes That after the said Third day of September no Appeal in any Matter or Cause of Excise within the immediate Limits of the Chief Office of London nor within the Limits of the present Farm of London during the continuance of such Farm shall be admitted unless the same be brought within Two Moneths next after the first Iudgment and notice thereof given or left at the Dwelling-house of the party or parties concerned therein nor shall any Appeal in any Matter or Cause of Excise in any other County City Town or Place be admitted unless the same be brought within Four Moneths after the first Iudgment and notice given as aforesaid Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided nevertheless And it is hereby Enacted That no
in course And that the Gold and Silver brought in and Coyned as aforesaid shall be in the same order delivered to the respective bringers in thereof their Executors Administrators or Assigns successively without preference of one before the other and not otherwise And if any undue preference be made in Entring of any Gold or Silver or delivering out of any money Coyned contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act by any Officer or Officers of the Mint or Mints Penalty then the party or parties offending shall be liable by Action of Debt or in the Case to pay the value of the Gold or Silver brought in and not Entred and Delivered according to the true intent and meaning and direction of this Act as aforesaid with Damages and Costs to the party or parties grieved and shall be fore-judged from his or their Place or Office And if such preference be unduly made by any of his or their Deputy or Deputies Clerk or Clerks without direction or privity of his or their Master or Masters then such Deputy or Deputies Clerk or Clerks onely shall be liable to such Action Damage and Costs as aforesaid and be for ever after uncapable of serving or bearing Office in any Mint in the Kingdom of England Provided always That it shall not be interpreted any undue preference to incur any penalty in point of Delivery of moneys Coyned if the Officer or Officers What shall not be an undue preference or their Deputies or Clerks shall deliver out or pay any moneys Coyned to any person or persons that do come and demand the same upon subsequent Entries before others that did not come to demand their moneys in their order and course so as there be so much money reserved as will satisfie them which shall not be otherwise disposed of but kept for them And for the more orderly and clear performance thereof Be it Enacted And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Master-worker of His Majesties Mint or Mints for the time being shall at the time of the Delivery and Entry of any Gold or Silver in the said Mint or Mints give unto the bringer or bringers in thereof to be Coyned a Bill under his hand denoting the Weight Fineness and Value thereof together with the Day and Order of its Delivery into the said Mint or Mints And for the further Encouragement and Assurance of such as shall bring any Gold or Silver into his Majesties said Mint or Mints to be Coyned Be it Enacted There shall be no seisure or forfeiture c. of any Gold or Silver brought in to be coyned And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Confiscation Forfeiture Seizure Attachment Stop or Restraint whatsoever shall be made in the said Mint or Mints of any Gold or Silver brought in to be Coyned for or by reason of any Imbargo breach of the Peace Letters of Mart or Reprisal or War with any Foreign Nation or upon any other accompt or pretence whatsoever But that all Gold and Silver brought into any of his Majesties Mint or Mints within the Kingdom of England to be Coyned shall truly and with all convenient spéed be Coyned and delivered out to the respective bringer or bringers in thereof their Executors Administrators or Assigns according to the Rules and Directions of this Act. And whereas it cannot be reasonably expected that the Expence Waste and Charge in Assaying Melting down and Coynage be born by Your Majesty And for the further encouragement of Coynage Be it Enacted And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid An Imposition set upon Wines Vinegar Sider or Beer Imported That for every Tun of Wines Vineger Sider or Béer that shall be Imported or brought into the Port of London or into any other Port Créek or place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed from any parts beyond the Seas or Scotland from and after the Twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and six there shall be Levied Collected and paid the sum of Ten shillings And for every Tun of Brandy-wines or Strong-waters that shall be imported as abovesaid the sum of Twenty shillings Brandy-wine Strong-water and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity to be Levied Collected and paid at the respective Custom-Houses to the Collectors and other Officers of the Customs for the time being at the Importation of the said Commodities over and above all other Duties charged leviable and payable upon the said Commodities and to be by them distinguished and kept apart from all other moneys by them Collected and Levied upon the same Commodities or upon any other Commodities or Merchandizes whatsoever and to be by the said Collector or Collectors respectively so answered and paid Quarterly into the Receipt of the Exchequer of Your Majesty Your Heirs and Successors there also to be kept distinct and apart from all other moneys arising by the Customs or by any other way or Revenue whatsoever which said Duty they are hereby injoyned to receive and pay according to the several Directions of this Act without any Salary or Fée And be it further Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid That all manner of Wines Vinegar Sider Béer Brandy-wines and Strong-waters Imported as aforesaid shall pay their several and respective Duties imposed by this Act And upon non-payment thereof shall be liable to such and the same pains penalties and forfeitures as in and by the late Acts for Tunnage and Poundage and for Frauds are Enacted and appointed upon non-payment of the Duties by the said Acts imposed upon Goods and Merchandises of the same nature with those mentioned in this Act. Provided always and it is hereby Enacted That for what of the aforesaid Commodities shall be Transported into any parts beyond the Seas within the term and space of one year after the Importation thereof That the Duty paid by this Act for the same shall be repaid by the respective Collectors of the Customs for the time being And it is hereby further Enacted That no moneys leviable and payable by this Act shall be applied or converted to any use or uses whatsoever Moneys leviable upon this Act shall be imployed onely to the use of the Mint other then to the defraying the charge or expence of the Mint or Mints and of the Assaying Melting down Waste and Coynage of Gold and Silver and the encouragement of the bringing in of Gold and Silver into the said Mint or Mints there to be Coyned into the current Coyns of this Kingdom Nor shall any of the said Moneys be issued out of the Exchequer but by Order or Warrant of the Lord Treasurer and Vnder-Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being to the Master and Worker or Masters and Workers of Your Majesties Mint or Mints for the time being and mentioning That they
for the same in the Custome-house according to the true meaning of this Act that then from the said four and twentieth day of June all the same Wines Goods and Merchandizes whatsoever shall be forfeit to your Majesty the one moyety of the rate thereof to your Majesty and the other moyety to him or them that will seize the same or sue for the same And that it may please Your Majesty Merchants strangers shall be well intreated That all Merchants aswell Denizens as Strangers coming into this Your Realm be well and honestly intreated and demeaned for such things as Subsidy by this Act is granted as they were in the time of Your Noble Progenitors and Predecessors without oppression to them to be done paying the Subsidies aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That if any Goods or Merchandize A Proviso for such whose goods be taken by Pirates or perished on the Sea as aforesaid of any Merchant being born Denizen after the said four and twentieth day of June hath béen or at any time hereafter during Your Majesties life shall be taken by any Enemies or Pyrates upon the Sea or perished in any Ship or Ships that shall happen to be taken or perished during Your Majesties Life whereof the Subsidies and other Duties aforesaid are or shall be duly paid or agréed for as aforesaid and that duly proved before the Treasurer of England Commissioners of the Treasury or Chief Baron of the Exchequer for the time being by the examination of the same Merchants if they be alive or of their Executors or Administrators if they be dead or by two credible Witnesses at the least sworn or other reasonable Witness and proof sworn then the same Merchant or Merchants his or their Executors or Administrators shall or may newly ship in the same Port where the goods and Merchandize aforesaid were or shall be Customed so much other Merchandize or Goods as the same goods or Merchandize are or shall be lost as aforesaid shall amount unto in custome without paying of any thing for the same so as the same Proof be recorded and allowed of in the Court of Exchequer The Customs of any goods shipped in Carracks or Gallies and certified unto the Collectors of the Customes of the Port where the same Wares or Merchandizes are to be newly shipped without Custome as aforesaid And further That every Merchant-Denizen who shall hereafter Ship any Goods or Merchandize in any Carrack or Gally shall pay to your Majesty all manner of Customs and all the subsidies aforesaid as any Alien born out of the Realm Provided alwayes that it shall and may be lawfull to all and every Your Subjects Shipping of Herrings at his and their will and pleasure to convey and transport out of this Realm in Ships and other Vessels of any the Subjects of this Realm all and every kind of Herrings and other Sea fish to be taken on the sea by any the Subjects aforesaid from or out of any Port or Harbor of this Realm to any place out of your Majesties Dominions without paying any Custome Subsidy or Poundage-moneys for the same Herrings or other Fish so carried or transported during your Majesties life any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding And because no rates can be Imposed upon Merchandize No rates to be imposed on Merchandize without authority of Parliament imported or exported by Subjects or Aliens but by common consent in Parliament Be it further Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid that the Rates intended by this present Act shall be the rates mentioned and expressed in one Book of Rates intituled The Rates of Merchandize That is to say the Subsidy of Tonnage the Subsidy of Poundage and the Subsidy of Woollen cloths or old Draperies as they are rated and agréed on by the Commons House of Parliament A book of rates agreed by the Commons house of Parliament set down and expressed in this Book to be paid according to the Tenor of the Act of Tonnage and Poundage from the four and twentieth day of June inclusively in the twelfth year of his Majesties Reign during his Majesties Life and subscribed with the hand of Sir Harbottle Grimston Baronet Speaker of the House of Commons Which said Book of Rates composed and agréed on by Your Majesties said Commons and also every Article rule and clause therein contained shall be and remain during Your Majesties Life as effectual to all intents and purposes as if the same were included particularly in the Body of this present Act. And it is further Enacted That during the continuance of this present Grant The fees of the Custome Officers where the Goods Exported or Imported amount to the value of five pounds or more the Customers and Collectors and all other his Majesties Officers in the several Ports shall take and receive such Fées and no other as were taken in the Fourth year of the late King James until such time as the said Fées shall be otherwise setled by Authority of Parliament Provided alwayes That no Person or Persons who after the Four and twentieth of June A Proviso for such as paid before the 24. Iuly 1660. in the year One thousand six hundred and sixty and before the Four and twentieth of July in the same year have paid received or collected any Duties or Customes according to the Rates used in April One thousand six hundred and sixty shall be molested or any way Impeached for or concerning the payment or Receipt of the said duties or any other duties by this Act Imposed And it is hereby further Declared That no person who hath shipped any Goods since the said four and twentieth of June and before the said four and twentieth of July shall be liable to the payment of any duties therefore other then such as were used to be paid in the said moneth of April One thousand six hundred and sixty Goods which may be exported immediately after the passing this Act. Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful for any Person or Persons immediately from and after the passing of this Act to transport ship and carry out of this Kingdome or out of any Port thereof by way of Merchandize any of these Commodities Goods and Merchandizes following That is to say Iron Armour Bandeléers Bridle-Bitts Halbert Heads and Sharps Holsters Muskets Carbines Fowling-Peices Pistols Pike-Heads Sword or Rapier-Blades Saddles Snaffles Styrropes Calveskins dressed or undressed Geldings Oxen Shéep-skins dressed without the Wooll and all sorts of Manufactures made of Leather paying the respective Rates appointed by this Act and no other any Law Statutes Prohibitions and Customes to the contrary notwithstanding Goods which may be exported being at certain pâ—â—ses And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful immediately after the passing of this Act for any person or
And it is further provided and Enacted That every person or persons hereby pardoned may plead the General Issue without special pleading of this Pardon and give this Act of Pardon in evidence for his discharge and that the same shall be thereupon allowed and the advantage thereof had as fully to all intents and purposes as if the same had béen fully and well pleaded And in such manner as any Iustice of the peace Constable or other Officer questioned for matters acted by them as Officers or in execution of their Offices may have advantage of the matter of their Iustification upon the General Issue by them pleaded by the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom Thefts and Felonies since the fourth of March 16â—9 excepted Provided also That this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend or be interpreted to extend to pardon any person or persons whatsoever for any Theft or Stealing of any Goods or other Felonies since the fourth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred fifty and nine any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding This Act not to extend to goods to be restored upon an Act for Repeal of two Acts for Sequestrations Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to acquit or discharge any person or persons from making restitution of all such Rents sums of Money Horses Cattel or other Goods which by a certain Act or pretended Act lately made intituled An Act for Repeal of two Acts for Sequestrations are required to be restored to those from whom they were taken Nor shall this present Act be construed to Disable or Bar the respective Owners or Proprietors of and from their several and respective Actions or Suits at Law or in equity for or by reason of the said or any other Rents Moneys Horses Cattle or Goods which since the five and twentieth day of Iuly one thousand six hundred fifty and nine have béen by any person or persons wrongfully received or taken away and for which the said Wrong-doers are not in any wise Indempnified by the said or any other Act of Repeal Goods c. sequestred and actually paid in to any publicks Treasury And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That no person or persons who by vertue of any Order or Warrant mediately or immediately derived from his late Majesty or His Majesty that now is or by vertue of any Act Ordinance or Order of any or both Houses of Parliament or any of the authorities aforesaid or any Committée or Committées acting under them or any of them have seized sequestred levied advanced or paid to any publick use or into any publick Treasury within this Kingdom any Goods Chattels Debts Rents sum or sums of money belonging to any person or persons whatsoever shal hereafter be sued molested or drawn into question for the same but that they and every of them shall be discharged against all persons for so much and no more of the said Goods Chattels Debts Rents sum or sums of money as their several and respective Orders of discharge or acquittances extend unto Persons who have received money privately for his Majesties supply to accompt Provided also That nothing herein contained shall extend to discharge any person or persons who have béen by private order or Instructions imployed and intrusted or have undertaken the imployment to receive any sum or sums of money for the Kings Majesties Service or Supply since the year one thousand six hundred forty and eight from making their accompts for the same Provided also That this Act shall not extend to pardon or discharge from accompts to the Kings Majesty any person or persons for any sum or sums of money received for that Illegal Tax of Decimation Moneys received upon Decimation not pardoned or upon the accompt of any Militia setled or acted in since one thousand six hundred forty and eight and not accompted for or paid over or discharged to or by any that had authority or pretended authority to discharge the respective Receivers of the same Provided also That if any person or persons being His Majesties Menial Servant or Servants or having or pretended to have received particular Instructions or Directions from his Majesty have during the time of such his or their relation unto his Majesty or whilst he or they were acting or pretending to Act for His Majesties Interest in pursuance of the said Instructions or directions Wilfully Maliciously and Trayterously held Intelligence with any forreign Prince or Princes Persons that have had Directions or Instruction from his Majestie and have betrayed their trust or his Majesties Councels excepted State or States or with any person or persons usurping Supreme authority in this Kingdom or other his Majesties Dominions or with their or either of their Ministers or Agents and without his Majesties license and to the intent to betray His Majesties person or Councels or have received any sum or sums of money or pension for such Treachery that then such person or persons as to the offence in this proviso mentioned shall be and is hereby excepted out of this Act any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding so as such person or persons be out-lawed or otherwise legally convicted of such offence or offences within the space of two years from the five and twentieth day of April one thousand six hundred and sixty Duties upon Excise and from Farmers thereof excepted Provided That this Act of General Pardon of any thing therein contained shall not extend to the pardoning or discharging of any Debts or Sums of money due to or for the Excise of any Goods or Merchandize whereof any Entries have béen made in the Custom-house which have grown due since the twenty fifth day of March one thousand six hundred fifty and eight or to the pardoning or discharging of any Debts or Sums of money due to the Farmers or pretended Farmers of Excise since the twenty fifth day of March one thousand six hundred fifty and seven Persons excepted by name Provided also that this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to pardon discharge or give any other benefit whatsoever unto John Lisle William Say Sir Hardress Waller Valentine Wauton Tho. Harrison Edward Whalley Wil. Heveningham Isaac Penington Henry Martin John Barkstead Gilbert Millington Edmund Ludlow Sir Michael Livesey Robert Titchbourn Owen Row Robert Lilburn Adrian Scroop John Okey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner John Carew John Jones Miles Corbet Henry Smith Gregory Clement Thomas Wogan Edmond Harvey Thomas Scot William Cawley John Downs Nicholas Love Vincent Potter Augustine Garland John Dixwel George Fleetwood Simon Meyn James Temple Peter Temple Daniel Blagrave Thomas Wait John Cook Andrew Broughton Edward Dendy William Hewlet Hugh Peters Francis Hacker Daniel Axtel nor any of them nor of those two persons or either of
raised levyed collected 12 Car. 2. c. 2. â— and paid unto Your Maiesty during Your Life for Beer Ale Sider and other Liquors herein after mentioned The several Rates Impositions Duties and Charges herein after expressed and in manner and form following That is to say Beer and Ale above 6 s. the barrel For every Barrel of Beer or Ale above six shillings the barrel brewed by the Common Brewer or any other Person or Persons who doth or shall sell or tap out beer or Ale publickly or privately to be paid by the common Brewer or by such other person or persons respectively and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity One shilling three pence XV. d. Beer and Ale of â— s. the barrel For every barrel of Six shillings Beer or Ale or under brewed by the common Brewer or any other person or persons who doth or shall sell or tap out such Beer or Ale publickly or privately to be paid by the said common Brewer or by such other person or persons respectively as aforesaid and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity three pence iij. d. Sider Perry For all Syder and Perry made and sold by retail upon every Hogshead to be paid by the Retayler thereof and so proportionably for a greater or lesser measure One shilling three pence XV. d. Metheglin Mead. For all Metheglin or Mead sold whether by Retail or otherwise to be paid by the maker thereof upon every Gallon One half-penny Ob. Vinegar-beer For every Barrel of Beer commonly called Vinegar-Beer brewed by any common Brewer in any common Brew-house six pence Vi. d. Strong water For every Gallon of Strong-water or Aquavitae made and sold to be paid by the maker thereof One penny i. d. Beer and Ale Imported For every barrel of Beer or Ale Imported from beyond the Seas Three Shillings iij. s. Syder Perry Imporced For every Tun of Syder or Perry Imported from beyond the Seas and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity Five shillings V. s. Spirits Imported For every gallon of Spirits made of any kind of Wine or Syder Imported Two pence ij d. Strong-water Imported For every gallon of Strong-water perfectly made Imported from beyond the Seas Four pence iiij d. Coffee For every Gallon of Coffee made and sold to be paid by the maker Four pence iiij d. Chocolatte For every gallon of Chocolatte Sherbet and Tea made and sold to be paid by the maker thereof â—ight pence Viij d. The Excise upon forreign liquors imported to be paid by the importers in money upon entries made before landing Common brewers to accompt weekly and other retailers of beer ale c. monthly And be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the several Rates Duties and Charges of Excise or New Impost above mentioned hereby set or imposed upon all and every the said Forreign Liquors which shall be Imported or brought into all or any the Ports of this Kingdom and Dominions thereof aforesaid from and after the five and twentieth day of December next shall be from time to time satisfied and paid by the Merchant or Merchants Importer or Importers of the same in ready money upon his or their Entry or Entries made and before the landing thereof The penalty for not accounting as aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all common Brewers of Béer and Ale shall once in every Wéek And all Inn-kéepers Victuallers and other Retaylers of Béer Ale Syder Perry Metheglin or Strong-water Brewing Making or Retailing the same shall once in every moneth make true and particular Entries at the Office of Excise within the limits of which the said Commodities and Manufactures are made of all Béer Ale Perry Syder Metheglin Strong-Water or other the Liquors aforesaid which they or any of them shall Brew make or Retail in that Wéek and Moneth respectively as aforesaid The penalty for not accounting as aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all such common Brewers who do not once a Wéek make due and particular Entries shall forfeit five pounds And that every such Inn-kéeper who doth not make true and particular Entries once a Moneth shall forfeit five pounds And that every Alehouse-kéeper Victualler or other Retailer who doth not once a moneth make due and particular Entries shall forfeit twenty shillings And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Common Brewer who shall not pay and clear off within a Wéek after he made his Entry or ought to have made his Entry as aforesaid shall pay double the value of the Duty And that every Inn-kéeper Alehouse-kéeper Victualler or other Retailer who shall not pay and clear off within a Moneth after he made his Entry or ought to have made his Entry as aforesaid shall pay double the value of the Duty The said respective forfeitures to be levyed upon their Goods and Chattels in such manner and form as hereafter in this Act is Ordained and directed Provided that no such person as aforesaid shall be compelled by the Commissioners or Sub-Commissioners of Excise No person to be compelled by the Commissioners of Excise to go further for making their entries then the next market-Town The Commissioners for execution of this act impowred to appoint gagers The power of the gagers to travel for the making of the said Entries or payment of the said Duties or other cause whatsoever touching or concerning the same if he live in a Market-Town out of the said Town if he live out of a Market-Town then to no other place then to the next Market-Town to his habitation in the same County on the Market-day And be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners who shall be appointed by his Majesty for putting this Act in execution and their Sub-Commissioners in their respective Circuits and Divisions shall hereby have power to constitute under their Hands and Seals such and so many Gagers as they shall find néedful Which Gagers and every of them shall at all times as well by night as by day And if by night then in the presence of a Constable or other lawful Officer be permitted upon their request to enter the house Brew-house Distilling-house and all other houses and places whatsoever belonging to or used by any Brewer Inn-kéeper Victualler or other retailer of Béer Brewing or making the same as aforesaid or by any Distiller of Strong-waters or Retailer of other the Liquors aforesaid And to Gage all Coppers Fat 's and Vessels in the same And to take an accompt of Béer Ale Worts Perry Syder Strong-waters Aquavite Metheglin or other the Liquors aforesaid in the said Houses Places and Vessels from time to time Brewed or Made and Distilled and thereof to make return or report in Writing to the said Commissioners or Sub-Commissioners of Excise
under whose office and limits such Brewer Retailer Distiller or Makers of the Liquors aforesaid doth dwell and inhabit Returns made by the gagers leaving a true Copy of such Return in Writing under his hand with such Brewer Retailer Distiller or Makers of the Liquors aforesaid And such Reports or Returns of the said Gagers shall be a Charge upon the said Brewers Makers and Retailers respectively And if any such Common Brewer or Retailer shall refuse to permit any such Gager or Gagers to enter his Brew-house or any other place aforementioned or to gage or take accompt of his Brewing vessels or of any such Béer Ale Worts Perry Syder Strong-water Aquavite Metheglin or other the Liquours aforesaid such Brewer Retailer or Distiller shall be forthwith forbidden by the said Gager or Gagers to sell carry out or deliver to any of his Customers any Béer Ale Strong-water Aquavite or other the Liquors aforesaid And if any such Brewer Retailer or Distiller of any the liquors aforesaid after such warning given shall sell carry or deliver out the same or any part thereof not having paid and cleared the duty of Excise such person and persons shall besides the forfeiture of double the value forfeit and lose the sum of five pounds as aforesaid for every offence to be levied and recovered upon his or their Goods and Chattels in manner and form as hereafter in this Act is provided And for the avoiding of all incertainty and dispute What shall be reckoned a barrel of beer touching the returns made or to be made by the Gagers of any béer or ale so brewed as aforesaid Be it Enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That every six and thirty gallons of béer taken by the gage according to the Standard of the Ale-quart four whereof shall make the gallon remaining in the custody of the Chamberlains of his Majesties Exchequer shall be reckoned accompted and returned by the Gager for a barrel of Béer And every two and thirty gallons of ale The barrel of Ale taken by the Gage according to the same Standard shall be in like manner reckoned accompted and returned for a Barrel of ale and all other the Liquors aforesaid according to the Wine-gallon Provided alwayes and be it Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That no Brewers or Retailers of béer and ale shall take any more in the price thereof upon sale of the same then according to the usual rates and prizes Saving that every common Brewer shall and may take and receive of all and every person and persons to whom he shall sell and deliver any Ale or Béer the Excise thereupon due as aforesaid over and above the usual Rates and Prizes And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for the better encouragement of all Common Brewers and makers of Béer or Ale to make due entry and payment thereof according as by this Act is appointed the said common Brewer not selling the same by retail for and in consideration of waste by fillings and leakage of their Béer and Ale shall have and be allowed out of the said Returns made by the Gagers the several allowances and abatements hereafter mentioned Abatements and allowance to be made for waste and leakage that is to say upon every thrée and twenty Barrels of Béer whether strong or small returned by the said Gagers thrée Barrels And upon every two and twenty Barrels of Ale whether strong or small returned by the Gagers two Barrels which said Allowances and Abatements the said Commissioners to be appointed as aforesaid and their Sub-Commissioners are hereby authorized to allow and make accordingly Provided alwayes Forfeiture for false entries That where any common Brewer shall wittingly or willingly make a false entry and be convicted for the same before the Commissioners to be appointed as aforesaid or any two of them or before such other person or persons as are hereafter by this Act appointed in that case such Brewer or Brewers shall forfeit and lose over and besides the penalties before mentioned the said allowance so to be made for six moneths then next ensuing And be it Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid No Ale or bre◠to be delivered to the retayler before the rate be paid That no Béer or Ale shall be delivered in by such Brewer or Maker thereof to any Victualler or other Retailer thereof untill the rate which by such Victualler or Retayler is to be payed over and above the price of the said Béer or Ale for or in respect of this Duty be first payed and satisfied by the said Victualler or Retayler to the Brewer or Maker thereof Provided alwayes Beer and ale sold in Fair◠That if any person or persons shall brew and sell by retail any small quantities of béer or ale in any Fair within this Realm or Dominions aforesaid who is not otherwise any common or usual Brewer or Retayler thereof and shall before any such selling and retailing thereof well and truly pay and satisfie the duty due for the same to the Commissioners or Sub-Commissioners within whose Limits or Division the said Fair shall be held or to their Officers thereunto appointed Then such person or persons so brewing or retailing the same and for so much and no more nor otherwise shall be freed and discharged from all penalties and forfeitures in and by this Act before mentioned and imposed Any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided nevertheless that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Commissioners and Sub-Commissioners respectively The Commissioners may compound with any In-keeper Retailer or Victualler to compound for this Duty with any Inn-kéeper Victualler Alehouse-kéeper or Retailer of Béer Ale and other the Liquors aforesaid within their respective Divisions from time to time and in such manner and form as may be most for the advantage and improvement of the receipts thereof Any thing in this Act before contained to the contrary notwithstanding Any the rates in this Act may be farmed for three years And it is further Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being or such other person or persons as His Majesty shall appoint shall have power and are hereby authorised and impowered from time to time to treat contract conclude and agrée with any person or persons for or concerning the Farming of all or any the Rates Duties and Charges in this Act mentioned upon Béer Ale Perry Syder or other the Liquors aforesaid in any the respective Counties Cities or Places of this Realm or Dominions thereof as may be for the greatest benefit and advantage of the said Receipt so as the same excéed not the term of Thrée years And be it further Enacted That every such Contract Bargain and Agréement of the Lord Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury or other persons aforesaid on behalf of His Majesty
within a Wéek after he made his Entry or ought to have made his Entry as aforesaid shall pay double the value of the Duty And that every Inn-kéeper Alehouse-kéeper Victualler or other Retailer who shall not pay and clear off within a Moneth after he made his Entry or ought to have made his Entry as aforesaid shall pay double the value of the Duty The said respective forfeitures to be levyed upon their Goods and Chattels in such manner and form as hereafter in this Act is Ordained and directed Provided that no such person as aforesaid shall be compelled by the Commissioners or Sub-Commissioners of Excise In what places Entries shall be made to travel for the making of the said Entries or payment of the said Duties or other cause whatsoever touching or concerning the same if he live in a Market Town out of the said Town if he live out of a Market Town then to no other place then to the next Market Town to his habitation in the same County on the Market day The powers of the Commiss oners to appoint Gagers The powers of the Gagers And be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners who shall be appointed by his Majesty for putting this Act in execution and their Sub-Commissioners in their respective circuits and divisions shall hereby have power to constitute under their Hands and Seals such and so many Gagers as they shall find néedful Which Gagers and every of them shall at all times as well by Night as by Day And if by Night then in the presence of a Constable or other lawful Officer be permitted upon their request to enter the House Brew-house Distilling-house and all other Houses and Places whatsoever belonging to or used by any Brewer Inn-kéeper Victualler or other Retailer of Béer Brewing or Making the same as aforesaid or by any Distiller of Strong-Waters or Retailer of other the Liquors aforesaid And to Gage all Coppers Fat 's and Vessels in the same and to take an accompt of Béer Ale Worts Perry Strong-Waters Aquavite Metheglin or other the Liquors aforesaid in the said Houses Places and Vessels from time to time Brewed or Made and Distilled and thereof to make Return or Report in Writing to the said Commissioners or Sub-Commissioners of Excise under whose Office and Limits such Brewer Retailer Distiller or Maker of the Liquors aforesaid doth dwell and inhabit leaving a true Copy of such Return in writing under his hand with such Brewer Retailer Distiller or Makers of the Liquors aforesaid And such Reports or Returns of the said Gagers shall be a charge upon the said Brewers Makers and Retailers respectively And if any such common Brewer Maker or Retailer shall refuse to permit any such Gager or Gagers to enter his Brew-house or any other places aforementioned or to gage or take accompt of his Brewing-Vessels or any such Béer Ale Worts Perry Syder Strong-Water Aquavite Metheglin or other the Liquors aforesaid such Brewer Retailer or Distiller shall be forthwith forbidden by the said Gager or Gagers to sell carry out or deliver to any of his Customers any Béer Ale Strong-Water Aquavite or other the Liquors aforesaid And if any such Brewer Penalty for selling c. not having cleared the Excise Retailer or Distiller of any the Liquors aforesaid after such warning given shall sell carry or deliver out the same or any part thereof not having paid and cleared the duty of Excise such person and persons shall besides the forfeiture of double the value forfeit and lose the sum of Ten pounds as aforesaid for every offence to be levyed and recovered upon his or their Goods and Chattels in manner and form as hereafter in this Act is provided Proportions to be observed in returns of Gagers And for the avoiding of all Incertainty and dispute touching the returns made or to be made by the Gagers of any Béer or Ale so Brewed as aforesaid Be it enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That every six and thirty Gallons of Béer taken by the Gage according to the Standard of the Ale-quart four whereof shall make the Gallon remaining in the custody of the Chamberlains of his Majesties Exchequer shall be reckoned accompted and returned by the Gager for a Barrel of Béer And every two and thirty Gallons of Ale taken by the Gage according to the same Standard shall be in like manner reckoned accompted and returned for a Barrel of Ale And all other the Liquors aforesaid according to the Wine-gallon Brewers and Retailers to observe the usual rates and prizes Provided alwayes and be it Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That no Brewers or Retailers of Béer and Ale shall take any more in the price thereof upon Sale of the same then according to the usual Rates and Prices saving that every common Brewer shall and may take and receive of all and every person and persons to whom he shall sell and deliver any Béer or Ale the Excise thereupon due as aforesaid over and above the usual Rates and Prizes Encouragement to Brewers to make true Entries And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for the better encouragement of all common Brewers or Makers of Béer or Ale to make due entry and payment thereof according as by this Act is appointed the said common Brewer not selling the same by Retail for and in consideration of waste by fillings and leakage of their Béer and Ale shall have and be allowed out of the said Returns made by the Gagers Allowance for Waste and Leakage the several allowances and abatements hereafter mentioned that is to say upon every thrée and twenty Barrels of Beer whether strong or small returned by the said Gagers thrée Barrels And upon every two and twenty Barrels of Ale whether strong or small returned by the Gagers two Barrels which said allowances and abatements the said Commissioners to be appointed as aforesaid and their Sub-Commissioners are hereby authorized to allow and make accordingly Forfeiture for making false Entrâ—es Provided alwayes That where any common Brewer shall wittingly or willingly make a false Entry and be convicted for the same before the Commissioners to be appointed as aforesaid or any two of them or before such other person or persons as are hereafter by this Act appointed in that case such Brewer or Brewers shall forfeit and lose over and besides the penalties before mentioned the said allowance so to be made for six moneths then next ensuing No Beer c. to be delivered by the Brewer until the Excise be paid by the Retailer And be it Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That no Béer or Ale shall be delivered in by such Brewer or Maker thereof to any Victualler or any Retailer thereof untill the Rate which by such Victualler or Retailer is to be paid over and above the price of the said Béer or Ale for or in respect
of this duty be first paid and satisfied by the said Victualler or Retailer to the Brewer or Maker thereof Provided alwayes That if any person or persons shall brew and sell by retail any small quantities of béer or ale in any Fair within this Realm Proviso for Beer and Ale sold in Fairs or Dominions aforesaid who is not otherwise any common or usual Brewer or Retailer thereof and shall before any such selling and retailing thereof well and truly pay and satisfie the duty due for the same to the Commissioners or Sub-Commissioners within whose Limits or Division the said Fair shall be held or to their Officers thereunto appointed Then such person or persons so brewing or retailing the same and for so much and no more nor otherwise shall be freed and discharged from all penalties and forfeitures in and by this Act before mentioned and imposed Any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided nevertheless that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Commissioners The Commissioners may compound for the Excise in their Divisions and Sub-Commissioners respectively to compound for this Duty with any Inn-kéeper Victualler Alehouse-kéeper or Retailer of Béer Ale and other the Liquors aforesaid within their respective Divisions from time to time and in such manner and form as may be most for the advantage and improvement of the receipts thereof Any thing in this Act before contained to the contrary notwithstanding And it is further Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Treasurer The power of the Lord Treasurer c. to contract for farming any the rates or duties in this Act. or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being or such other person or persons as His Majesty His Heirs and Successors shall appoint shall have power and are hereby authorised and impowered from time to time to treat contract conclude and agrée with any person or persons for or concerning the Farming of all or any the Rates Duties and Charges in this Act mentioned upon Béer Ale Perry Syder or other the Liquors aforesaid in any the respective Counties Cities or Places of this Realm or Dominions thereof as may be for the greatest benefit and advantage of the said Receipt so as the same excéed not the term of Thrée years And be it further Enacted That every such Contract Bargain and Agréement of the Lord Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury or other persons aforesaid on behalf of His Majesty on the one part and the person or persons farming on the other part shall be good and effectual in Law to all intents and purposes Provided alwayes to the end the aforesaid duty may be paid with most ease to the people Persons to be approved by the Iustices of the Peace c. within six moneths to have the refusal of contracting for the Excise in these respective Counties It is hereby further Enacted That the Lord Treasurer Commissioners of the Treasury or other persons aforesaid shall not within six moneths after the Commencement of this Act treat conclude or agrée with any person or persons touching the Farming of this duty upon Béer and Ale in any the respective Counties or Places of this Realm or Dominions thereof other then with such person or persons as by the Iustices of Peace of the said Counties or places or the major part of them at their publick Quarter Sessions shall be nominated and appointed in that behalf which person or persons is to have the first refusal of any such Farm respectively and may take the same Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided that the said duty shall not be let to any person or persons then to the person or persons recommended by the Iustices under the rate that it shall be tendred to and refused by such person or persons so recommended And be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid Forfeiture and offences within this Act how to be determined That all forfeitures and offences made done and committed against this Act or any clause or article therein contained shall be heard adjudged and determined by such person or persons and in such manner and form as hereafter in and by this Act is directed and appointed that is to say all such forfeitures and offences made and committed within the immediate limits of the chief Office in London shall be heard London adjudged and determined by the said chief Commissioners and Governors of Excise appointed by His Majesty or the major part of them or by the Commissioners for Appeals and regulating of this duty or the major part of them in case of Appeal and not otherwise Counties Cities c. within this Kingdom And all such forfeitures and offences made and committed within all or any other the Counties Cities Towns or Places within this Kingdom or Dominions thereof shall be heard and determined by any two or more of the Iustices of the Peace residing near to the place where such forfeitures shall be made or offence committed Neglects of the Iustices And in case of neglect or refusal of such Iustices of the Peace by the space of fourtéen dayes next after complaint made and notice thereof given to the Offender then the Sub-Commissioners or the major part appointed for any such City County Town or Place shall and are hereby impowered to hear and determine the same And if the party find himself aggrieved by the Iudgment given by the said Sub-Commissioners he shall and may appeal to the Iustices of the Peace at the next Quarter Sessions who are hereby impowered and authorised to hear and determine the same whose Iudgment therein shall be final which said Commissioners for Appeals and regulating of this duty and the chief Commissioners for Excise and all Iustices of Peace and Sub-Commissioners aforesaid respectively are hereby authorised and strictly enjoyned and required upon any complaint or information exhibited and brought of any such forfeiture made or offence committed contrary to this Act to summon the party accused and upon his appearance or contempt to procéed to the examination of the matter of Fact and upon due proof made thereof either by the voluntary confession of the party or by the oath of one or more credible witnesses which Oath they or any two or more of them have hereby power to administer to give Iudgment or Sentence Levying the forfeitures according as in and by this Act is before ordained and directed And to award and issue out Warrants under their hands for the levying of such forfeitures penalties and fines as by this Act is imposed for any such offence committed upon the Goods and Chattels of the Offender and to cause Sale to be made of the said Goods and Chattels if they shall not be redéemed within fourtéen days rendring to the party the overplus if any be and for want of sufficient Distress to imprison the party
sued for and disposed as hereafter in this Act is directed Provided nevertheless That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to the Prohibiting the Transportation of any Leather made into Boots 5 E. 6. cap. 15. 1 Mar. cap. 8. Parl. 2. Quaere If those two Statutes be Repealed by this Proviso Who may search and seize Leather or Hides intended to be Transported Shooes or Slippers but that the same may be Transported Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for the respective Masters and Wardens of the Cordweyners Sadlers Girdlers and Curriers of the City of London and their Deputies and all Customers Comptrollers Farmers of Customes Supervisors Searchers and other Officers belonging to the Customs and to and for all Iustices of the Peace Mayors and chief Officers of Corporations within this Realm Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed from time to time as well by Land as Water to Search for and seize any Leather or Raw Hides wrought or unwrought cut or uncut packed up or unpacked intended or purposed to be Transported by any person or persons into any parts beyond the Seas or into Scotland other then Calves-skins and Shéep-skins as aforesaid Shaving of Leather by Tanners And whereas divers Tanners do shave cut and rake their upper-leather Hides all over and the necks of their backs and buts to the great impairing thereof and the extream prejudice of the Kingdom Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Tanner who after the Nine and twentieth day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two The Penalty shall commit any such offence as aforesaid shall forfeit all the said Leather Backs Buts or Calve-skins so shaved cut or raked or the value thereof and it shall be lawful for the Searchers and Sealers of Leather to seize the same Leaden-Hall London And be it further Enacted That the Market for Leather in Leaden-Hall in London shall be kept on the Tuesday as now it is Any Law Vsage or Custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding How the Penalties shall be recovered And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all the penalties and forfeitures and every sum and sums of money for any offence or offences herein before mentioned shall be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint Information to be brought for the same in any Court or Courts at Westminster or in any Court or Courts of Records in the City Town County or place where the said offence shall be committed wherein no Wager of Law Protection or Essoign shall be admitted neither shall the same be removed out of the said County City or Town-Corporate the one half of the said forfeitures to be to the use of the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other half thereof to the use of the Informer or Informers that shall sue for the same Transportation of Leather declared a common Nusance Leather for necessary use of Ships in Voyages Artificers dealing in cutting of Leather in London or within three miles thereof Provided also and be it Enacted That all such Exportation or Transportation of any Hides or Leather contrary to this Act is hereby adjudged and declared to be a common and publick Nusance Provided nevertheless That this Act shall not extend or be construed to prohibit the carrying or conveying of any such Hides or Leather which shall be vsed or imployed for the necessary vse or provision of any Ship or Vessel in any Voyage beyond the Seas and which shall not be sold in any forreign parts so as the number do not excéed Six Raw Hides and Thrée Tanned Hides Provided alwayes nevertheless And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Artificer dealing in cutting of Leather or other person or persons whatsoever which shall hereafter buy any Red Tanned Leather within the City of London or thrée miles thereof shall before the next Market-day within the said place for sale of Leather give Notice thereof to one or more of the Company of Curryers then exercising and using the Art and Mystery of a Curryer within the said City of London and thrée miles thereof and within thrée wéeks after such notice shall deliver or cause to be delivered the said Leather so bought except such part thereof as shall be used for Soals without being curryed tallowed or dressed unto the said Curryer or Curryers to whom such notice was given to the intent that the same may be curryed tallowed or otherwise dressed as is directed and appointed by one Act made in the First year of King James 1 Jac. cap. 22. Chapter twenty second touching the Duty of Tanners Curryers Shoemakers and others upon penalty of the forfeiture of Six shillings eight pence for every Back But Hide or Calves-skin so bought and not delivered as aforesaid for the uses and to be recovered as aforesaid And whereas it is Enacted amongst other things Leather used in London or within three miles to be searched and allowed by the Wardens of the Curriers there The Penalty by the said Act made in the First year of King James That no person or persons shall by any means occupy or put in any Made-wares within the City of London or thrée miles of the same City any Curryed Leather before the same shall be searched and allowed by the Wardens of the Curryers of London for the time being or such persons as they shall thereto assign and be Sealed with a Seal therefore to be prepared upon pain that every Shoemaker and other Artificer Cutter of Leather offending against that Article should forfeit for every Hide or Skin otherwise curryed or imployed as is aforesaid Six shillings eight pence and the value of every such Hide or Skin Be it therefore further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Master and Wardens of the Company of Curryers for the time being or such persons as they shall thereto assign shall from time to time and at all seasonable times in the day time enter into any Warehouse Shop Celler or other place within the said City of London or thrée miles of the same City belonging unto any of the said Cordwainers Sadlers Girdlers or other person or persons being Artificers dealing in cutting Leather and in the presence of any two or more of them to search for and seize all such Leather intended to be Prohibited to be used by the said Clause Branch or Article as aforesaid as also for all Wares made of such Leather and if any such person or persons Artificers or Dealers as aforesaid shall oppose Penalties for opposing the Search or refuse to permit the said Master and Wardens of the Company of Curriers or such persons as they shall thereto assign to make any such search or
or persons which he hath forfeited by the Statute aforesaid made in the nine and thirtieth year of the Quéen And whereas Constables Headboroughs or Tithingmen are or may be at great charge in relieving conveying with Passes and in carrying Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars to Houses of Correction or the Work-houses herein mentioned and as yet have no power by Law to make Rates to reimburse themselves Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Constables Headboroughs and Tithingmen so out of purse as aforesaid together with the Church-wardens and Overséers of the poor and other Inhabitants of the said Parish shall hereby have power and Authority to make an indifferent Rate Power to make rates and to tax all the Occupiers of Lands and Inhabitants and all other persons chargeable by the Statute of the thrée and fortieth of Elizabeth concerning the Office and Duty of Overséers for the poor within the said Parish which Rate being confirmed under the hands and Seals of any two Iustices of Peace 43 El. cap. 2. as aforesaid the said Constable Headborough or Tithingmen shall have power by Warrant under the hands and Seals of two Iustices of Peace to levy by distress and sale of the goods of any person or persons refusing to pay the same rendring the overplus to the Owner if any shall be Putative fathers of Bastard-children running away how to be proceeded against And whereas the putative Fathers and lewd Mothers of Bastard-Children run away out of the Parish and somtimes out of the County and leave the said Bastard children upon the charge of the Parish where they are born although such putative Father and Mother have Estates sufficient to discharge such Parish Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful for the Church-wardens and Overséers for the poor of such Parish where any Bastard-Child shall be born to take and seise so much of the Goods and Chattels and to receive so much of the Annual Rents or profits of the Lands of such putative father or lewd mother as shall be ordered by any two Iustices of Peace as aforesaid for or towards the discharge of the Parish to be confirmed at the Sessions for the bringing up and providing for such Bastard-Child And thereupon it shall be lawful for the Sessions to make an Order for the Church-wardens or Overséers for the poor of such Parish to dispose of the goods by Sale or otherwise or so much of them for the purposes aforesaid as the Court shall think fit and to receive the rents and profits or so much of them as shall be ordered by the Sessions as aforesaid of his or her Lands Persons sued for matters in this Act may plead the General Issue And if any person or persons shall be sued for any matter or thing which he shall do in execution of this Act he may plead the General Issue and give the special matter in Evidence And if the Verdict shall pass for the Defendant or if the Plaintiff be Nonsuited or Discontinue his Suit the Defendant shall recover treble Damages Lancashire Cheshire Derbyshire Yorkshire Durham Cumberland Westmerland 43 El. cap. 2. Whereas the Inhabitants of the Counties of Lancashire Cheshire Derbyshire Yorkshire Northumberland the Bishoprick of Durham Cumberland and Westmerland and many other Counties in England and Wales by reason of the largeness of the Parishes within the same have not nor cannot reap the benefit of the Act of Parliament made in the thrée and fortieth year of the Reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth for relief of the poor Therefore be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the poor néedy impotent and lame person and persons within every Township or Village within the several Counties aforesaid shall from and after the passing of this Act be maintained kept provided for and set on work within the several and respective Township and Village wherein he she or they shall inhabit or wherein he she or they was or were last lawfully setled according to the intent and meaning of this Act and that there shall be yearly chosen and appointed according to the rules and directions in the said Act of the thrée and fortieth year of Quéen Elizabeth mentioned two or more Overséers of the poor within every of the said Townships or Villages who shall from time to time do perform and execute all and every the Acts powers and authorities for the necessary relief of the poor within the said Township or Village and shall lose forfeit and suffer all such pains and penalties for non-performance thereof as is limited mentioned and appointed in and by the said in-part-recited Act. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Iustices of Peace within the said Counties shall have and enjoy such and the like powers and authorities to raise and levy moneys and to do and execute all and every such other Act and thing whatsoever within every Township or Village within the said County where they are Iustices as is given limited and appointed unto and for them to do and execute within any Parish or Parishes in and by the said Act made in the said thrée and fortieth year of the said late Quéen Elizabeth under such and the like pains and penalties for the non-performance of their Duties to be levyed and disposed of as is nominated and expressed in the said Act. Power of the Iustices to transport rogues and vagabonds Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull for the Iustices of Peace in any of the Counties of England and Wales in their Quarter-Sessions Assembled or the major part of them to Transport or cause to be Transported such Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars as shall be duly convicted and adjudged to be incorrigible to any of the English plantations beyond the Seas Proviso for the Dean and chapter of Westminster Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to be or be construed expounded or taken to the prejudice or infringement of any the franchises rights liberties or priviledges heretofore granted by the Kings and Quéens of this Realm his Majesties Royal Predecessors to the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster The continuance of divers parts of this Act. Provided always That this Act as to all the matters therein contained excepting what relates unto the Corporations mentioned and constituted thereby shall extend and be in force untill the nine and twentieth day of May One thousand six hundred sixty five and the end of the first Session of the next Parliament then next ensuing and no longer CAP. XIII Importation of Forreign Bonelace Cut-work Imbroidery Fringe Band-strings Buttons and Needle-work prohibited VVHereas great numbers of the Inhabitants of this Kingdom are imployed in the making of Bonelace Band-strings Buttons Néedlework Fringe and Imbroideries who
by their industry and labour have attained and gained so great skill and dexterity in the making thereof that they make as good of all sorts thereof as is made in any Forreign parts by reason whereof they have béen heretofore able to relieve their poor Neighbours and maintained their Families and also enabled to set on work many poor children and other persons who have very small means or maintenance of living other then by their labours and endeavours in the said Art And whereas the persons so imployed in the said Mystery have heretofore served most parts of this Kingdom with Bonelace Band-strings Buttons Néedlework and Imbroidery And for the carrying on and managing of the said Trade they have procured great quantities of Thread and Silk to be brought into the Kingdom from Foreign parts whereby his Majesties Customs and Revenues have béen much advanced until of late that great quantities of Foreign Bonelace Band-strings Néedlework Cut-work Fringe Silk Bonelace Buttons and Imbroidery were brought into this Kingdom by Foreigners and Inhabitants of this Kingdom and sold to Shop-kéepers and others Dealers in the said Commodity as well by Whole-sale as Retail without ever entring of the same in any of his Majesties Custom-houses or paying any Duty or Custom for the same by means whereof the said Trade and calling is of late very much decayed those imployed in the said Calling very much impoverished the Manufacture much decreased and great quantities thereof already made left on their hands that make it His Majesty defrauded and deceived in his Customs and many thousand poor people formerly kept on work in the said Art like to perish for want of imployment there being daily great sums of money exported out of this Kingdom for the buying and fetching in of the said Commodity to the great impoverishment of the Nation by the Consumption of the Bullion and Treasure thereof and contrary to several Statutes made in the first of King Richard the Third 1 R. 3. cap. 12. 3 E. 4. cap. 4. 19 H. 7. cap. 21 5 Eliz. cap. 7. in the third of King Edward the fourth in the ninetéenth of King Henry the Seventh and the fifth of Quéen Elizabeth and to a late Proclamation made by his Majesty that now is dated the twentieth day of November last for the putting the said Laws in execution For redress whereof and prevention of the like mischiefs for the future and the better relief comfort and subsistence of those imployed in the said Art and Manufacture And for the quickning reviving explaining amending and more effectual execution of the said Statutes Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That no person or persons whatsoever shall from and after the Twenty fourth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty two sell or cause to be sold or offer to sale within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales or export any Foreign Bonelace Cut-work Foreign bone-lace cut-work imbroidery fringe band-strings prohibited to be sold or imported from beyond Sea Imbroidery Fringe Band-strings Buttons or Néedlework made of Thread Silk or any or either of them in parts beyond the Seas or Import bring in send or convey or cause to be brought in sent or conveyed into the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales any such Foreign Bonelace Cut-work Fringe Imbroidery Band-strings Buttons or Néedlework made of Thread Silk or any or either of them beyond the Seas after the first day of May which shall be in the said year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two upon pain that all and every person or persons who shall sell or cause to be sold or offer to sale any such Foreign Bonelace Cut-work Imbroidery Fringe Band-strings Buttons or Néedlework shall forfeit and lose for every offence by him committed contrary to this Act the sum of Fifty pounds and the whole Bonelace Cut-work Imbroidery Fringe Band-strings Buttons or Néedlework so sold or caused to be sold or offered to sale And upon further pain That all and every person or persons who shall Import bring in send or convey or cause to be brought in sent or conveyed into this Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales any such Bonelace Cut-work The penalty Imbroidery Fringe Band-strings Buttons or Néedlework shall forfeit and lose for every offence by him committed contrary to this Act the sum of One hundred pounds and the whole Bonelace Cut-work Imbroidery Fringe Band-strings Buttons or Néedle-work so Imported brought in sent or conveyed or caused to be Imported brought in sent or conveyed contrary to the form and effect of this present Act as aforesaid One moyety to the King the other to the prosecutor The Moyeties of all which Forfeitures to be to the use of our Sovereign Lord the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other Moyety to him or them that shall sue for the same in any of the Kings Courts of Record by Bill Plaint Action of Debt Information or otherwise wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed at every time and as often as any person shall be found to offend in selling importing conveying or bringing in as aforesaid Every Iustice of Peace may grant Warrants to search for Manufactures prohibited by this Act And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for the preventing of the Importing of the said Manufactures as aforesaid upon complaint and Information given to the Iustices of the Peace or any or either of them within their respective Counties Cities and Towns Corporate at times reasonable he or they are hereby authorized and required to issue forth his or their Warrants to the Constables of their respective Counties Cities and Towns Corporate to enter and search for such Manufactures in the Shops being open or Ware-houses and dwelling-houses of such person or persons as shall be suspected to have any such Foreign Bonelaces Imbroidery Cut-work Fringe Band-strings Buttons or Néedlework within their respective Counties Cities and Towns-Corporate and to seize the same any Act Statute or Ordinance to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding The time limited for actions upon this Act. Provided always and be it hereby Enacted and Declared That all Informations Actions and Suits that shall be commenced for any offence committed against this Law shall be brought and commenced within twelve Moneths after the discovery of such offence Any former Act or Law to the contrary notwithstanding CAP. XIV Direction for Prosecution of such as are Accountable for Prize-Goods 12 Car. 2. c. 11 VVHereas in the Act of Frée and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion made in the Twelfth Year of your Majesties Reign and since confirmed by another Act Intituled An Act for confirming Publick Acts 13 Car. 2. c. 7. made in the thirtéenth year of your
of the limits of their respective Lieutenancies or by their directions when they are not absent their Deputy Lieutenants during their respective Deputation or any two or more of them shall have power from time to time to Lead Train Exercise and put in readiness or by Warrant under their hands and seals to cause to be Led Trained Exercised or put in readiness all or any of the persons Raised Arrayed or Weaponed according to the said Act to the intents and purposes and by the directions of the said Act and of this present Act. And be it further Enacted That all and every person or persons charged 13 Car. 2. cap. 6. 14 Car. 2. cap. 3. Allowance of pay to Troopers 2 s. 6 d. per diem Foot-Souldiers 1 s. per diem or to be charged by vertue of either of the said Acts with Horse Horse-man and Arms or Foot-Souldier and Arms shall under the penalty of forfeiting five shillings pay and allow upon demand two shillings six pence by the day to each respective Trooper that serves with such Horse and Arms for maintenance of the man and horse and shall under the penalty of two shillings pay and allow upon demand one shilling by the day to each respective Foot-Souldier for so many days as they or any of them shall be absent from their dwellings or callings by occasion of Muster or Exercise according to the Rules of the said Acts which said penalty is to be Levied as is hereafter expressed unless some certain agréement be made to the contrary before good witness and the said penalty is to be paid to such Trooper or Foot-Souldier to whom his said pay was denied The respective penalties to be demanded within six wéeks after each respective default or at or before the next succéeding Muster Exercise or Training and not afterwards And be it further Enacted Penalty upon refusers to find Arms. That if any person or persons assessed or charged according to the said Acts or either of them shall refuse or neglect by a reasonable time to be appointed to provide and furnish such sufficient Foot-Souldier and Arms or Foot-Souldiers and Arms as are accordingly charged upon him or them That then it shall and may be lawful to and for the respective Lieutenants and Deputy-Lieutenants or any thrée or more of them for every such offence from time to time to inflict a penalty upon such person or persons not excéeding Five pounds to be levied in manner following and to be imployed to the same uses in default whereof the same was imposed Be it further Enacted That it shall and may be lawful for the respective Lieutenants and Deputy-Lieutenants or any thrée or more of them from time to time Constables required to charge persons with Foot-Arms to appoint and require the Constable or Constables of any Parish or place within this Kingdom Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Twede to provide and furnish at a reasonable time and place to be appointed upon a penalty to be imposed not excéeding Forty shillings for every such omission so many sufficient Foot Arms with Wages and other incident charges as the said Lieutenants and Deputy-Lieutenants or any thrée or more of them shall assess or charge according to the Rules and Proportions of the said Acts upon Revenues under Fifty pounds per annum or upon personal Estates less then Six hundred pounds lying or being within any such respective Parish or place And in order thereunto if any person or persons of or belonging to any such Parish or place shall upon demand refuse or neglect to provide a Foot-Souldier or Foot-Souldiers The Penalty for not prouiding or paying Foot-Arms according to the proportion aforesaid or to pay any sum of money whereat he or they shall be taxed or assessed by a Pound Rate according to a List Signed by the respective-Lieutenants or any thrée or more of them for and towards the defraying and satisfying the necessary Charge and Expence disburst in providing and furnishing such sufficient Arms as aforesaid That then it shall and may be lawful to and for such Constable or Constables by Warrant for that purpose to Levy such Sum so Rated or Assessed by Distress and Sale of the Goods of such person or persons so refusing or neglecting to pay and shall restore the overplus if any the charge of Distraining being first deducted And the Tenant of any House Land or Revenue Rated or Assessed as aforesaid is hereby authorized and required to make payment of such Sum of money so Rated or Assessed and to deduct so much as shall be charged upon the Landlords Rent out of the next Rent payable to the Landlord and in default hereof the goods of every such Tenant is also liable to be distrained and sold in manner aforesaid And be it further Enacted That once in every year hereafter each Souldier Listed or Raised by vertue of the said Acts What shall be paid to the Muster-Masters or either of them shall pay to his respective Muster-Master such Sum not excéeding one shilling for a Horseman and six pence for a Footman as the respective Lieutenants and Deputy-Lieutenants or any thrée or more of them shall under their Hands and Seals direct who have power hereby to Levy the same by Distress and Sale in case of default of payment upon the Goods and Chattels of such person or persons as are charged with the finding of the respective Horse-man or Foot-Souldier so making default unless the default be by the neglect of such Horseman or Foot-Souldier who in that case are hereby to be accomptable for the same and every such Muster-Master shall be an Inhabitant of the respective County What Provision every Musquetier shall bring with him And it is hereby further Provided and Enacted That at every Muster Training and Exercise every Musquetier shall bring with him half a pound of Powder and half a pound of Bullets and every Musquetier that serves with a Match-lock shall bring with him thrée yards of Match both which are to be found accordingly at the Charge of such person or persons as provide the said Foot-Souldier and Arms And every Horse-man is to bring with him a quarter of a pound of Powder and a quarter of a pound of Bullets at the Charge of such person or persons as provide the said Horseman and Arms The Penalty who are hereby required to find and bear the same upon pain of forfeiting Five shillings for every omission thereof And for the better Discipling and Instructing the said Militia in their Duties as also for easing them of often and frequent Méetings at several times and for the better security of the Peace of the Kingdom Be it further Enacted That it shall and may be lawful for the said several Lieutenants and in their absence or by their Directions for any two or more of their Deputies within their respective Counties and Precincts for which they are Commissioned at any
time or times during the space of thrée years from the Twenty fourth day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and thrée to Summon and Continue together so many of the said Trained Forces within their respective Counties and Precincts 14 Car. 2. cap. 3. and so long as they shall judge convenient in lieu of certain days appointed for Exercise and Musters by the said Act Entituled An Act for Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom No Troop to be kept upon duty above 14 days Provided always And be it Enacted That any Troop Company or Souldiers may be so kept upon such Duty by vertue hereof fourtéen days and no longer in any one year Commissioned Foot-Officers discharged from finding Arms. Provided always And be it Enacted That every Commissioned Foot-Officer in the Train-Bands or Militia of this Kingdom setled according to Act of Parliament shall be and is hereby exempted and excused from finding and contributing towards the finding and contributing towards the finding any Horse Horse-man or Arms or Foot-Souldier and Arms for his whole Estate if at any time it is charged but for one Horse or a less charge or for such part of his Estate as is or shall be charged with one Horse if his whole Estate be charged with a greater charge then one Horse in the County or Lieutenancy where he so serves as a Foot-Officer in respect of the expence which the said Imployment doth necessarily engage him in Any thing in the said Acts to the contrary notwithstanding The Duty of Constables in executing Warrants of the Lieutenants or Deputies Be it also Enacted and Ordained That each Constable Tything-man or other Officer of any Parish or place under the penalty for every neglect of forfeiting Forty shillings shall and do by vertue of a Warrant directed to him from the respective Lieutenants and Deputy-Lieutenants or any thrée or more of them Levy all arrears and proportions of money unpaid that were set or charged for the Raising Training and Arraying the Trained Bands and Forces actually raised and in being before the passing of the said mentioned Act by the Distress and sale of the Goods of any person or persons refusing to pay the same rendring back the overplus if any the charge of Distress and Sale being first deducted Troopers and Souldiers shall be subject to Exercise and Duty Be it also Enacted That every Trooper or Foot-Souldier at any time raised by vertue or according to the directions of this present Act shall be subject to such Exercise and Duty as others charged or raised by the said mentioned Act shal accordingly upon like pains penalties observe and kéep all the respective Orders and Directions of the said Act and of this present Act and shall suffer the same penalties for committing any of the respective crimes and offences exprest in the said Act which said pains and penalties are in the like cases to be imposed and levied in the same manner and by the same ways and means as are set down in the said Act. And whereas the fourth part of one moneths Assessment in each County A fourth part or a moneths assesment how to be disposed after the rate of Seventy thousand pounds by the moneth is by the said Act yearly appointed for furnishing Munition and other necessaries Be it Enacted and delared by the Authority aforesaid That the said respective Lieutenants and Deputies or any thrée or more of them shall from time to time have power to dispose of so much of the said fourth part to the inferiour Officers imployed in or about the said respective Forces for their pains and encouragement as to them the said Lieutenants and Deputies or any thrée or more of them shall seem expedient Provided always and be it Enacted Persons sued for matters done by this Act may plead the general issue That it shall be lawful to every person and persons that shall have any Action or Suit brought against him or them for any thing done in execution of this or the said Act to plead the General Issue and to give the special matter in Evidence and if Iudgment shall be given for the Defendant or if the Plaintiff shall become Nonsuit or discontinue his Suit then he shall recover double Costs Provided also and be it Enacted Double costs to the Defendant That no Action or Suit shall be brought against any person for any thing done in execution or by pretence of the execution of this or the said Act unless the said Action or Suit be laid in the proper County and commenced within six moneths next after such cause of Action Provided and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That one Clause contained in a certain Act Entituled An Act declaring the sole right of the Militia to be in the King 13 Car. 2. c. 6 and for the present Ordering and disposing of the same and made for the Indempnifying of all persons acting in the Militia from the four and twentieth of June One thousand six hundred and sixty to the twentieth of July One thousand six hundred sixty and one as touching the Assaulting Detaining or Imprisoning any person suspected to be a Fanatick Sectary or Disturber of the Peace Fanatick Sectaries or seizing of Arms or searching of houses for Arms or for suspected persons shall be construed to Commence and take effect and shall be good and effectual in Law for the Indempnifying of all persons whatsoever acting in the Militia of this Kingdom for any the matters aforesaid betwixt the second day of February One thousand six hundred fifty nine and the four and twentieth of June One thousand six hundred and sixty inclusive by vertue or colour of any Authority or Command whatsoever any thing in the said Act or in any other Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the several forfeitures How the forfeitures and penalties upon this Act may be levyed Penalties and payments by this present Act Imposed Set or Directed not otherwise by this present Act provided to be Levied Sued for or Recovered shall or may in case of default be Levied or Recovered by Warrant under the hands and Seals of the respective Lieutenants and Deputy-Lieutenants or any thrée or more of them upon the Goods and Chattels of the Offender and by Sale of the same rendring the party the overplus if any be And if sufficient of the Goods and Chattels of such Offender cannot be found or had whereof to levy such forfeiture payment or penalty then the said respective Lieutenants and Deputy-Lieutenants or any thrée or more of them shall have power and are hereby authorized by like Warrant under their hands and seals to commit such Offender to Prison untill he shall make satisfaction according to the said forfeiture payment or penalty And it is further Declared and
Brewers shall be sued or prosecuted for any penalty or forfeiture by him or them incurred for or by reason of any mis-entry or short Entry if he or they shall within the space of one wéek after the delivery of such Copy as aforesaid certifie his or their Entry according to the said Return or otherwise discharge himself Be it Enacted That from and after the said First day of September One thousand six hundred sixty thrée and as often as there shall be occasion Two able Artists shall be appointed Skilful Gagers to be made and to take an oath one of them by His Majesties Commissioners Farmers or Sub-Commissioners for Excise and the other by the Brewers of any City or place which said Artists shall take an Oath which Oath any one Iustice hath hereby power to administer to take and compute the just Contents and Gage of all Coppers Fat 's Tuns Backs and Coolers and all other Brewing-Vessels of that nature belonging to all or any Brewer or Brewers of Béer or Ale to sell and to deliver and give under their hands one Copy of the particular Contents of all such Vessels to the aforesaid Commissioners Farmers and Sub-Commissioners and another true Copy thereof to each and every such respective Brewer which Computation by the Artists aforesaid shall answer and be according to the measures and proportions exprest in the said former Acts for Excise Commissioners or Farmers not to act as Iusticesces of the peace in matters touching the Excise And be it further Enacted That no Commissioner Farmer or Sub-Commissioner for the Excise or Common Brewer of Ale or Béer to sell or Inn-kéeper whatsoever shall from and after the said First day of September have power to act in or execute as a Iustice of the Peace any of Powers Clauses or things contained in any of the Laws made for and concerning the Excise or in this present Act And if any of the said persons shall presume to act or execute any thing contrary hereunto It is hereby further Declared That all such things so acted or executed by any of them are and shall be utterly void and null to all intents and purposes And whereas by the said recited Acts it is Enacted That no person shall be compelled by the Commissioners or Sub-Commissioners of Excise to Travel for the making of his Entries or Payment of the Duties of Excise or other Clause whatsoever touching or concerning the same if he live in a Market-Town Market Towns out of the said Town and if he live out of a Market-Town then to no other place then to the next Market-Town to his habitation in the same County on the Market-day And nevertheless the Commissioners and Sub-Commissioners or their Officers have not accordingly kept Officers in the Market-Towns in many Counties within England and Wales whereby such Entries and Payments for the Duties of Excise might be had and made and yet do take and levy the Penalties and Forfeitures in the said Acts mentioned for non-Entry and Payment of the Duty and do otherwise thereupon grieve and vex His Majesties Subjects contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said Acts Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said First day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and thrée the Commissioners Farmers or Sub-Commissioners in each County within England and Wales shall constitute and appoint Officers to attend in Market-Towns touching receits and duties of Excise or depute under their hands and seals such person or persons as they shall think néedful in each respective Market-Town to be there upon every Market-day in some known and publick place for the receiving of the said Entries and Duties of Excise and for performing all other matters and things touching the said Duty according to the said Acts and this present Act which said person and persons so constituted or deputed and the place where they intend to hold or kéep such Office being on the next Market-day after such Constitution or Deputation published in full and open Market shall attend at such Office on every Market-day in such Market-Town and shall keep the said Office open from Nine of the Clock in the morning until Twelve of the Clock at Noon and from Two of the Clock in the Afternoon until Five of the Clock in the Afternoon And in case such Office shall not be so kept and attended in each Market-Town respectively the Commissioners Farmers Sub-Commissioners or other person or persons so neglecting or refusing to do the same shall for every Market-day forfeit Ten pounds the one half to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other half to him or them that will Inform and Sue for the same in any of His Majesties Courts of Record by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be admitted or allowed And such person as shall come to such Market-Town to make such Entry or Payment of the Duties The Penalty and shall tender the same according to the said Acts and be able to prove such Tender by the Oath of one or more sufficient Witnesses shall not be liable to any Penalty or Forfeiture imposed by the said Acts for such wéekly or monthly Entries or Payments as should have béen made or paid on such Market-day any Article Clause or Thing in any or either of the said Acts or this present Act to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from after the first day of September At what times only Brewers may carry out their deer No common Brewer of Béer or Ale shall Sell Deliver or Carry out any Béer or Ale to any his Customers either in whole Cask or by the Gallon in any City Town-Corporate or Market-Town before notice given to an Officer of Excise but betwéen the hours of the day hereafter mentioned That is to say From the Twenty fifth day of March to the Twenty ninth day of September yearly betwéen the hours of Thrée of the Clock in the morning and Nine of the Clock in the evening and from the Nine and twentieth day of September to the Five and twentieth day of March yearly betwéen the hours of Five of the Clock in the morning and Seven of the Clock in the evening upon pain that every Brewer doing contrary hereunto shall for every such Offence forfeit and lose the sum of Twenty shillings for every Barrel of Béer or Ale that shall be so carried out contrary to the true meaning of this Act to be Levied and Recovered as in and by this present Act is hereafter enacted and appointed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any common Brewer Inn-Kéeper Victualler or other Retailer of Béer or Ale shall at any time after the First day of September after an accompt hath béen taken by the said Gager or Gagers of
Commissioner Farmer No Commissioner or other may act until he have taken the Oath in the Act of 12 Car. 2. cap. 23. Sub-Commissioner or other person imployed or to be imployed in the Farming Collecting or taking Accompts for the Duty of Excise do after the First day of September next take upon him or them any such Office or procéed in execution of any such Imployment until he or they have first taken the Oaths appointed to be taken by the Act of Parliament Entituled A Grant of certain Impositions on Beer Ale and other Liquors for the increase of His Majesties Revenue during His life before the respective persons appointed in the said Act of Parliament and have Entred his Certificate for taking the said Oaths with the Auditor for Excise under the penalty of Fifty pounds for every Moneth he or they shall so neglect to take the same CAP. XII An Explanatory Act for Recovery of the Arrears of Excise BE it Declared and Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That where any Commissioner Sub-Commissioner Treasurer In what cases Sureties for Excise shall be answerable for the arrears 12 Car. 2. cap. 11. and all other Officers which were heretofore imployed in the Receipt of the Excise Farmer or Collector of Excise which are and standeth charged with or accomptable for any Duties of Excise by him or them received farmed or detained or any ways due from the persons before named or any of them and not pardoned by the late Act Entituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion That there and in such case all and every the Sureties of such person and persons charged or chargeable as aforesaid shall be deemed and taken to be liable and answerable according to the nature of their respective Securities Any doubt or question made touching the Construction of the said late Act of Frée and General Pardon to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where the Commissioners of Excise for the time being or the major part of them have Issued out any Summons or Warning which hath béen left at the house or usual place of residence or with the Wife Child or menial Servant of any the aforesaid person or persons Chargeable or Accomptable as aforesaid The same shall be déemed and adjudged a good and sufficient Summons and as legal and effectuall a notice as if the same had béen actually delivered to the proper hands of such person or persons to whom the same was directed Any doubt or question thereof made to the contrary notwithstanding CAP. XIII An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Revenue arising by Hearth-Money VVHereas the Revenue Setled on His Majesty His Heirs and Successors by a late Act 14 Car. 2. cap. 10. Entituled An Act for Establishing an Additional Revenue upon His Majesty His Heirs and Successors for the better support of His and their Crown and Dignity hath béen much obstructed for want of true and just Accompts under the hands of the respective Occupiers of Houses Edifices Lodgings and Chambers as by the said Act is required and by the negligence of Constables and other Officers intrusted with the Taking and Reforming such Accompts Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the Iustices of the Peace of the respective Counties How the Iustices of the Peace shall cause accompts to be taken of the number of Hearths Corporations Places and Limits within their respective Iurisdictions at the next Sessions to be held after the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next ensuing or the major part of them then present shall issue out Warrants under their Hands and Seals to the respective High Constables or other like next Officer who shall issue the like Warrants unto the Petty Constables Head-boroughs and Tythingmen requiring them on the next Sunday after Morning-Service ended to give publick notice in the Church or Chappel generally to all the Inhabitants and also to give notice publickly in the Church and particularly as aforesaid to every Inhabitant within their respective Precincts that shall then be Occupier of any House Edifice Lodging or Chamber That within Ten days next after such notice he give a true and just account in writing under his hand of all Hearths and Stoves in such respective House Edifice Lodging and Chamber unto such respective Constable Head-borough and Tythingman who upon receipt of such Accompt shall with Two other substantial Inhabitants of the said respective Precinct whom they are hereby Authorized to Charge for that purpose in the day-time enter into the respective House Edifice Lodging and Chamber and upon his own view compare such Accompt and sée whether the same be truly made or not and endorse the same Accompt accordingly to what he finds upon his view which Accompt so received and endorsed shall be by him transmitted within twenty dayes after such Receipt to the respective High-Constable or other like Officer as aforesaid together with a Book or Roll fairly written wherein shall be Two Columes The one containing the Names of the persons and number of Hearths and Stoves in their respective Possessions that are chargeable by the said Act and the other the Names of the persons and number of Hearths and Stoves in their respective possessions which are not chargeable by the said Act Which being so received by such respective High Constable or other like Officer as aforesaid and compared together shall within six dayes after such Receipt be transmitted to the two next respective Iustices of the Peace who are hereby impowred to examine the said respective High-Constable or other like Officer as aforesaid Petty Constable Headborough or Tythingman upon Oath concerning the truth and faithfulness of their actings in the premisses which being done the said Iustices shall within ten days after such examination Sign and Transmit the said Book and Roll together with the said Original Accounts so endorsed as aforesaid and filed together unto the respective Clerk of the Peace who shall within Twenty days after receipt thereof Engross the said Book or Roll in Parchment to be still kept in the respective County and Places aforesaid and shall also within Two Months Engross in Parchment a true Duplicate of the said Book or Roll which being Signed by him and by two Iustices of the Peace at least of the respective County and Places aforesaid shall be transmitted within one Month after such Engrossement into His Majesties Court of Exchequer Penalty for omitting any Hearth Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Occupier of any House Edifice
Lodging or Chamber shall not make or cause to be made an Account or shall omit in his Account required to be made by this Act any Hearth or Stove he shall for every such Hearth or Stove he shall so omit forfeit the sum of Forty shillings Penalty upon Constables for neglect Provided also That if any Petty Constable Headborough or Tythingman to whom such Accounts as aforesaid shall come shall neglect to transmit the same together with a Book or Roll in manner and time aforesaid to the respective High Constable or other like Officer as aforesaid or shall make default in giving such notice as aforesaid or in comparing the Account with two substantial Inhabitants as aforesaid shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of Five pounds High-Constables Provided also That if any High-Constable or other like Officer as aforesaid shall neglect to compare the said Original Accompts and the said Book or Roll or to transmit the same in manner and time aforesaid he shall for every such Offence forfeit the sum of Ten pounds All which before mentioned Forfeitures and Penalties shall be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of his Majesties Courts of Record the one half to the use of his Majesty the other half to the use of him or them that shall sue for the same Prejudice by charge of annual officers remedied And whereas His Majesties said Revenue setled by the aforesaid Act hath béen much prejudiced by Annual changing of Petty Constables Headboroughs Tythingmen High-Constables and Sheriffs to whom the Collecting and Receipt of His Majesties said Revenue is thereby intrusted Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the changing of such Annual Officers or leaving of their said Offices shall not excuse or disable any person who shall be Constable Headborough Tythingman High-Constable or Sheriff at the time that any Revenue or Duty shall grow due or payable by the said Act from Collecting Distraining and Receiving respectively such Revenue or Duty so grown due but that every such person in such case is hereby enabled and required to do all things respectively as to such Revenue or Duty so growing due as if he had continued Constable Headborough Tythingman High-Constable or Sheriff Any thing in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding Penalty for neglecting to distrain receive or pay over the said duty Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person who by the said or this Act ought to Collect Distrain for Receive or Pay over any the said Revenue shall neglect or refuse to do his duty therein for every wéek he shall neglect or refuse he shall forfeit the sum of Twenty shillings to be recovered in manner and by such person or persons as the aforesaid Forfeitures by this Act are to be recovered All persons may be called in aid to distrain Provided also and be it Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in all cases which by this or the aforesaid Act any Petty Constable Headborough or Tythingman may enter into the house of any person or he may distrain the Goods of any person he may call to his aid any two sufficient Inhabitants of the respective Townships or Precincts who are hereby enjoyned to assist him therein Sheriffs appointed Collectors may make their Deputies Provided also and be it Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid That where any Sheriff is by the aforesaid Act appointed to be Collector of any part of the said Revenue that such Sheriff may execute the said place of Collector by such Deputy or Deputies as to him shall séem meet being thereunto appointed under the Great Seal of his Office or under his own hand and seal Any thing in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding Treasurers and Officers of the Inns of Court Chancery Colledges c. Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective Treasurers and other Officers of the respective Inns of Court Inns of Chancery Colledges and other Societies chargeable by the aforesaid Act for their Hearths and Stoves shall do all things as the respective Constables by this Act are enjoyned to do under the like Penalties though without any Warrant from the respective Iustices of the Peace And that every Occupier of any House Edifice Lodging or Chamber within any the respective Inns of Court Inns of Chancery Colledges and Societies aforesaid shall do all things and under the like Penalties as are required by this Act of any Occupier of any House Edifice Lodging or Chamber elsewhere Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Westminster That the High Bayliff of Westminster for the time being or his or their Deputy or Deputies may within the City and Liberties of Westminster from and after the Eight and twentieth day of September next Collect and Levy the said Duty and put in execution all the Powers of the said former Act and this present Act as amply as any Sheriffs who by the said former Act are made Collectors may do within their respective Limits and Iurisdictions appointed to them by the said Act And the said Bailiff for the time being shall be subject to the same Penalties and Duties as the said Sheriffs are and shall receive the same reward and the Sheriff of Middlesex for the time being is discharged from putting in execution the Trust aforesaid in the said City and Liberty of Westminster from the said Eight and twentieth day of September saving onely for the Collecting of such arrears as then shall happen to be And the Constables and Headboroughs and other Officers within the said City and Liberty of Westminster shall deliver unto the said Bailiff Duplicates of all Accounts of Hearths and Stoves and do all other things in such manner as by the said Act they ought to have done unto the said Sheriffs any thing in the said or this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Bailiff of the Burrough of Southwark for the time being his Deputy or Deputies may within the said Burrough Southwark and other Liberties of Southwark from and after the Eight and twentieth day of September next Collect and Levy the said Duty and put in execution all the Powers of the said former Act and this present Act as amply as any Sheriffs who by the said former Act are made Collectors may do within their respective Limits and Iurisdictions appointed to them by the said Act and the said Bailiff for the time being shall be subject to the same Penalties and Duties as the said Sheriffs are and shall receive the same reward and the Sheriff of Surrey for the time being is discharged from putting in execution the trust aforesaid in the said Burrough and Liberties of Southwarke from the said Eight and twentieth day of September And the Constables and other Officers within
and paid in to the Receiver-General of the said several Counties who shall be appointed by His Majesty And who are hereby required to transmit or cause the same to be paid into His Majesties Receipt of His Exchequer on or before the first day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and five The second payment And the sum of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds six shillings eight pence being the second of the said quarterly Payments on or before the first day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty five The third payment And the sum of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds six shillings and eight pence being the third of the said quarterly Payments on or before the first day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty five And the sum of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds six shillings eight pence The fourth payment being the fourth of the said quarterly Payments on or before the first day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty five And the sum of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds six shillings eight pence being the fifth of the said quarterly payments The fifth payment on or before the first day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty six And the sum of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds six shillings eight pence being the sixth of the said quarterly payments The sixth payment on or before the first day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty six And the summe of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds six shillings eight pence being the seventh of the said quarterly payments on or before the first day of November The seventh payment in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty six And the summe of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds six shillings eight pence The eight payment being the eighth of the said quarterly payments on or before the first day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty six And the summe of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds six shillings eight pence The ninth payment being the ninth of the said quarterly payments on or before the first day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty seven And the summe of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds six shillings eight pence being the tenth of the said quarterly payments The tenth payment on or before the first day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty seven and the sum of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds six shillings eight pence being the eleventh of the said quarterly payments on or before the first day of November The eleventh payment in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty seven and the sum of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred and fifty and eight pounds The twelfth payment six shillings eight pence being the twelfth of the said quarterly payments on or before the First day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty seven And for the compleating of the whole sum charged upon the same and to the end the aforesaid sums charged upon the several and respective Counties Cities Burroughs Towns and places may be equally and indifferently Assessed according to the true intent of this Act and the money duly Collected The duty of the Assessors and true accompt thereof made the said Assessors are hereby required to deliver one Copy of their respective Assessments fairly written and subscribed by them unto the said Commissioners and the said Commissioners or any two or more of them are hereby ordered and required to Sign and Seal two Duplicates of the said Assessements and the one of them to deliver or cause to be delivered to one or more honest and responsible person or persons to be Subcollector or Subcollectors Subcollectors for each parish which the said Commissioners are hereby authorized to nominate and appoint for each Parish or Place with Warrant to the said Subcollector or Subcollectors to Collect the said Assessment payable as aforesaid so as the said several sums may be paid into the said Receivers General and by them into the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer at the respective times aforesaid and the said Commissioners are hereby required to deliver Duplicates to be transmitted into the Exchequer or cause to be delivered the other of the said Duplicates of each Parish or place to the Receiver General of each County City Town or place respectively to be by him the said Receiver-General transmitted into the Kings Remembrancers Office in the Exchequer which the said Receiver General is required to perform accordingly And be it further Enacted and Declared That the said Commissioners in their respective Divisions or Hundreds The Commissioners to nominate a Head Collector for each division or any two or more of them shall and are hereby impowred to nominate and appoint under their Hands and Seals an honest able and responsible person to be Head-Collector unto whom the moneys received by the Subcollectors within the Division or Hundred shall from time to time be duely paid And the said Head-Collector is hereby required upon the Receipt thereof to pay the same forthwith to the Receiver-General of each County respectively How Collectors and Sub-collectors shall pay the moneys received And be it further Enacted and Declared That the particular Collectors and Subcollectors are hereby required to pay in all and every the sums so received by them to the said Receivers-General aforesaid who are hereby required forthwith to transmit or cause to be paid the moneys by them received into the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer And the said Lord Treasurer is hereby Authorised to allow the said Receiver-General of each County City and Town respectively Allowances to the Receivers General in case he hath returned up as aforesaid a Duplicate of the Assessment of each Parish or Place in the County City or Town for which he is appointed Receiver-General a Salary for his pains not exceeding one peny in the pound upon the cléering of his Accompt which Duplicate so to be returned into the Kings Remembrancers Office in the Exchequer is intended to contain no more then the sums in gross to be collected by each Sub-collector and the several names of the said Sub-collectors And it is hereby further Enacted and Declared Allowances to Sub-collectors That the
their duty in execution of this Act. And be it further Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid That if any Person or Persons shall wilfully neglect or refuse to perform his or their duty in the due and speedy execution of this present Act the said respective Commissioners or any Three or more of them have hereby Power to impose on such Person or Persons so refusing or neglecting their duties such Fine or Fines as to them shall be thought fit and to cause the same to be levied by Distress and Sale of his and their Goods Provided that no Fine to be imposed by any of the said Commissioners shall for any one Offence exceed the Sum of Twenty pounds And that all Fines that shall be imposed by vertue of this Act shall be paid to the respective Receivers-General and by them to the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer Collectors and Sub-collectors receiving mony and not paying the same And it is further Enacted and Declared That if any Collector or Sub-collector that shall by vertue of this Act be appointed for the Receipt of any Sum or Sums of Money thereby to be Assessed shall neglect or refuse to pay any Sum or Sums of Money which shall by him be received as aforesaid and not pay the same as in and by this Act is directed and shall detain in his or their hands any money received by them or any of them and not pay the same as by this Act is directed the Commissioners of each County City or Town respectively or any Two or more of them in their respective Divisions are hereby Authorised and Impowred to imprison the Person and seize and secure the Estate both Real and Personal of such Collector or Sub-collector to them respectively belonging or which shall descend or come into the hands or possession of their Heirs Executors or Administrators where-ever the same can be discovered and found And the said Commissioners who shall so seize and secure the Estate of any Collector or Sub-collector shall be and are hereby impowred to appoint a time for the general Meeting of the Commissioners of such County City or Town and there to cause publick notice to be given at the place where such Meeting shall be appointed ten days at least before such General Meeting And the Commissioners present at such General Meeting or the major part of them in case the Moneys detained by Collectors or Sub-collectors be not paid or satisfied as it ought to be according to the Directions of this Act shall and are hereby impowred and required to sell and dispose of all such Estates which shall be for the cause aforesaid seized and secured or any part of them and satisfie and pay such County and Place the Sum that shall be so detained in the hands of such Collector or Sub-collector and return the Overplus deducting necessary Charges to such Collector or Sub-collector their Heirs Executors and Administrators respectively Collectors and Sub-collectors to be called to give an accompt to the Commissoners at the expiration of this Act. And it is hereby further Enacted and Declared That at the expiration of the respective times in this Act prescribed for the full payment of the said quarterly Assessments the several and respective Commissioners or any Two of them within their Division and Hundred shall and are hereby required to call before them the chief Collectors and Sub-collectors within each respective Division and Hundred to examine and assure themselves of the full and whole Payment of the particular Sum and Sums of Money charged upon the said Division Hundred and every Parish and Place therein and of the due Return of the same into the hands of the Receivers-General of the said County City Town and Place respectively And by such Receiver-General to the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer to the end there may be no failer in the payment of any part of the Assessment by vertue of this Act to be assessed and paid nor any Aâ—rears remain chargeable upon any the said Counties Cities Towns or places respectively And in case of any faileriâ—n the premisses the said Commissioners or any Two of them are hereby to cause the same to be forthwith levied and paid according to the true intent and meaning of this Act. Commissioners concerned in any Controversie to withdraw and not vote And it is hereby Enacted and Declared That in case any Controversie arise concerning the said Assessments or the dividing apportioning or payment thereof which concern any of the Commissioners by this Act appointed that the Commissioners so concerned in the said Controversie shall have no Voice but shall withdraw at the time of the Debate of any such Controversie until it be determined by the rest of the Commissioners No exemption of any priviledged Place or Person Fee-Farm Rents And be it hereby Enacted and Declared That no Priviledged Place or Person Body Politick or Corporate within the Counties Cities and Towns aforesaid shall be exempted from the said Assessments and Taxes and that they and every of them and also all Fée-Farm Rents and all other manner of Rents Payments sums of moneys and Annuities issuing out of any Lands within City or County shall be liable towards the payment of every sum by this Act to be taxed and levied And all the Tenants of every Fée-Farm Rent other Rent sums of money or Annuities aforesaid are hereby directed and authorised to pay them proportionably according to the Rates and Assessments by this Act appointed and directed And all such Tenants shall be hereby saved and kept harmless by authority of this Act from any further payment of such portion of any such Rent Rents Sums or Annuities either to the Exchequer or to any other person or persons to whom any such Rent Rents Sums of Moneys or Annuities as aforesaid should or ought to be paid to all intents or purposes whatsoever as fully and as amply as if they had paid the same into the Exchequer or to any person or persons to whom the same is reserved or become due Provided Proviso for Colledges and Halls in the Vniversities Windsor Eaton Winton Westminster Hospitals c. That nothing contained in this Act shall be extended to charge any Colledge or Hall in either of the Vniversities or the Colledges of VVindsor Eaton VVinton or VVestminster or any Hospitals for or in respect of the Scites of the said Colledges or Halls or Hospitals nor any Master Fellow or Schollar of any such Colledge or Hall or in any other Free-Schooles or any Reader Officer or Minister of the said Vniversities Colledges or Schooles or of any Hospitals or Alms-houses for or in respect of any stipend wages or profit whatsoever arising or growing due to them in respect of the said several Places and Imployments in the said Vniversities Colledges Schooles Hospitals or Alms-houses nor to Charge any of the Houses or Lands belonging to Christ's Hospital Saint Bartholomewes Bridewell Saint Thomas and Bethlehem Hospital
of Mountgomery Two hundred and nine pounds six shillings six pence The County of Pembroke the sum of Two hundred forty seven pounds one shilling seven pence thrée farthings The County of Radnor the sum of One hundred thirty one pounds eightéen shillings six pence thrée farthings The Town of Haverford-West the sum of Eleven pound nine shillings seven pence And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Commissioners named in the former Act shall have the same power for executing this Act. That all and every the persons who are nominated in and by the said former Act to be Commissioners of and for the several and respective Counties Cities Burroughs Towns and Places therein mentioned shall likewise be and so are hereby appointed to be Commissioners for execution of this present Act within the said several and respective Counties Cities Burroughs Towns and places for which they were nominated in the aforesaid Act and shall have and execute the like Powers and Authorities Rules and Directions touching the better Assessing Collecting Levying Receiving and Paying the said Fifty two thousand fourscore and thrée pounds six shillings and eight pence by the Moneth during the said Twenty four moneths as in and by the aforesaid Act were given to the said Commissioners touching the better Assessing Collecting Levying Receiving and Paying the said Thréescore and eight thousand eight hundred and ninetéen pounds and nine shillings by the Moneth payable as aforesaid And all and every person or persons who shall be liable unto or any ways concerned or imployed in the Assessing Collecting Levying Receiving or Paying any of the moneys by this Act imposed shall have like Benefits Advantages and Discharges and shall be subject to like Penalties and Forfeitures in case of any neglect or refusal to pay their respective Assessments or to perform their respective Duties as any other person or persons liable unto or concerned or imployed in the Assessing Collecting Levying Receiving or Paying any of the moneys by the said former Act imposed or to have or be subject unto as fully and amply as if the same Clauses Matters and Things had béen in this Act particularly repeated and Enacted To the end that the Monethly Assessments which will remain due and payable by vertue of the said former Act and the monethly Additions thereunto made by vertue of this present Act may be duly answered and paid in as aforesaid The first meeting 8. Jan. And be it further Enacted That the several Commissioners shall meet together at the most usual and common place of meeting as in the said Act is directed on or before the Tenth day of January next to put this Act and the said former Act in execution according to the best of their Iudgments and Discretions and shall then if they see cause subdivide themselves as by the said Act is further directed concerning the said former Assessment And further That they meet at least three Weeks before each Quarterly Payment of the said several Assessments for the purposes aforesaid And that the said Eight Quarterly Payments of Fifty two thousand fourscore and three pounds six shillings eight pence by the Moneth amounting in each Quarter to the sum of One hundred fifty six thousand two hundred and fifty pounds shall be Assessed Collected Levied and paid to the Receivers of the several Counties appointed or that shall be appointed by His Majesty and by them answered and paid into His Majesties Exchequer on the days and times mentioned and expressed in the said Act for payment of the said first Assessment Moneys lent to his Majesty or Wares how to be secured 18 Car. 2. cap. 1. And to the intent that all money to be lent to Your Majesty and moneys that shall be due upon such Contracts for Wares and Goods which shall be delivered for this service may be well and sufficiently secured out of the moneys arising and payable by this Act Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That there be provided and kept in His Majesties Exchequer to wit in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt one Book or Register in which Book or Register all moneys that shall be paid into the Exchequer by this Act shall be entred and registred apart and distinct from the moneys paid or payable to Your Majesty on the before mentioned Act and from all other moneys or Branches of Your Majesties Revenue whatsoever And that also there be one other Book or Registry provided or kept in the said Office of all Orders and Warrants to be made by the Lord Treasurer and Vnder-Treasurer or by the Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being for payment of all and every Sum and Sums of money to all persons for Moneys lent Wares or Goods bought or other payments directed by His Majesty relating to the service of His War And that no moneys leviable by this Act be issued out of the Exchequer during this War but by such Order or Warrant mentioning that the Moneys payable by such Order or Warrant are for the service of Your Majesty in the said War respectively That also there be the like Book or Register provided and kept by the said Auditor of all moneys paid out or issued by vertue of such Orders and Warrants That it shall be lawful for any person or persons willing to lend any money or to furnish any Wares Victuals Necessaries or Goods on the Credit of this Act at the usual times when the Exchequer is open to have access unto and view and peruse all or any of the said Books for their Information of the state of those moneys and all Ingagements upon them for their better Encouragement to lend any moneys or furnish any Goods or Wares as aforesaid And that the respective Officers and their Deputies and Clerks in whose custody such Books be or shall be shall be assistant to such persons for their better and speedier satisfaction in that behalf That all and every person and persons who shall lend any moneys to Your Majesty and pay the same into the Receipt of the Exchequer shall immediately have a Tally of Loan struck for the same and an Order for his repayment bearing the same Date with his Tally in which Order shall be also a Warrant contained for payment of Interest for forbearance after the Rate of six per Cent. per annum for his consideration to be paid every six moneths until the repayment of his Principal And that all person and persons who shall furnish Your Majesty Your Officers of the Navy or Ordnance with any Wares Goods Victuals or other Necessaries for the service aforesaid shall upon Certificate of the Commissioners and Officers of the Navy or of the Master or Commissioners and Officers of the Ordnance or some of them without delay forthwith have made out to them Warrants or Orders for the payment of the moneys due or payable unto them which Certificates the said Officers of Your Navy Commissioners and Officers of the
nine hundred and two pounds fiftéen shillings and eight pence And all and every person or persons who shall be liable to or any wayes concerned or imployed in the assessing collecting levying receiving or paying of the Moneys by this Act imposed shall have like benefits advantages and discharges and shall be subject to like penalties and forfeitures in case of any neglect or refusal to pay their respective Assessment or to perform their respective duties as any other person or persons lyable unto or concerned or imployed in the assessing collecting levying receiving or paying any of the said former Assessments ought to have or be subject unto as fully and amply as if all and every the clauses matters and things to the said former Assessments relating had béen again in this Act repeated and Enacted The meeting of the Commissioners And be it further Enacted That the several Commissioners shall méet together at the most usual and common place of méeting vpon or before the Tenth day of January One thousand six hundred sixty seven to put this Act in Execution And that the said One hundred and twenty thousand nine hundred and two pounds fiftéen shillings and eight pence shall be assessed collected levied and paid unto the Receivers of the several Counties appointed or to be appointed by His Maâ—esty and by them answered and paid into his Majesties Exchequer upon or before the Fiftéenth day of February One thousand six hundred sixty and seven Anno XVIII Caroli II. Regis CAP. I. Moneys raised by a Poll and otherwise towards the Maintenance of the present War MOst Gracious Soveraign We Your Majesties most Obedient and Loyal Subjects the Commons now in Parliament Assembled having taken into our serious Consideration the many and urgent Occasions which at this time do press Your Majesty to an extraordinary Expence of Treasure for the Defence of Your Majesties Kingdoms and Dominions and in most thankful acknowledgment of Your Majesties just and tender Care of the welfare of Your People A Free Gift presented to his Majesty towards the carrying on the Warre Do most humbly present unto Your Majesty a Frée Gift of several Sums of money towards the carrying on of the present War to be Levied in such manner as is hereafter expressed and do beséech your Majesty to accept thereof And that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and every person and persons Bodies Politique and Corporate Guilds or Fraternities within this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed having any personal Estate in such Debts owing to them within the Realm or without Of Personal Estates in Debts and Moneys which he or they do not account or estéem as desperate over and besides such just Debts as he she or they shall bona fide owe or in ready moneys shall yield and pay unto His Majesty for every Hundred pounds in such Debts and ready Moneys the sum of Twenty shillings to be Assessed Imposed Levied and Collected in manner herein after mentioned Debts and Moneys not chargeable by this Act. Provided always That no sum of Money which hath béen lent unto his Majesty upon the Security of the Act Passed at Oxford in the Seventéenth year of his Majesties Reign entituled An Act for granting the Sum of Twelve hundred and fifty thousand pounds to the Kings Majesty for His present further Supply or lent by the City of London upon the Security of His Majesties Revenue arising by Hearth-money 17 Car. 2. cap. 1. at the rate of Sir per Cent. and which at the time of the execution of this present Act shall be unpaid nor any sum of money which shall be lent unto his Majesty upon the Security of this present Act or upon the Security of any other Act of Parliament passed or to be passed during this present Session of Parliament at the rate of Sir per Cent. shall be Rated or Assessed by vertue of this Act Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Commissioners and Officers chargeable And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person and persons Commissioner or Commissioners having using or exercising any Office Place or publick Imployment whatsoever such persons who are or shall be in Muster and Pay at Land or Sea onely excepted and all and every their Deputies Agents Clerks Secondaries Substistutes and other their inferiour Ministers and Servants whatsoever who are already Taxed in and to the said Monethly Assessment for and in respect of their Offices Agencies and Imployments shall likewise pay vnto his Majesty over and above the several sums with which they are or shall be Charged in or to the said Monethly Assessment the sum of Twelve pence for every Twenty shillings which he or they do receive in one year by vertue of any Fées Profits Perquisites or other Advantages to him or them accruing or by reason or occasion of their several Offices Agencies and Imployments And such who are not already Taxed in and by the said Monethly Assessment for and in respect of their Commissions Offices Agencies and Imployments shall yield and pay unto His Majesty the full sum of Thrée shillings for every Twenty shillings which he or they do receive in one year by vertue of any Fées Profits Perquisites or other advantages to him or them accruing or by reason or occasion of their several and respective Commissions Offices Agencies and Imployments The said several sums of Twelve pence in every Twenty shillings and Thrée shillings in every Twenty shillings to be Assessed Imposed Levied and Collected in such manner as is herein after mentioned Allowing to every such Officer and Commissioner one Third part of the Annual Salary or Sum of money he shall so receive for and towards his or their charge of executing any such Commission Office or Place before mentioned And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Pensions and Stipends from his Majesty That all and every other person and persons having or claiming to have any Pension or yearly Stipend or Annuity by vertue of any Gift or Grant from His Majesty under his Great Seal or Privy Seal shall pay unto his Majesty the sum of Thrée shillings for every Twenty shillings by the year so given or granted as aforesaid to be Assessed Imployed Levied and Collected in such manner as is herein after mentioned And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Sergeants at Law Counsellors Sergeants at Law Counsellors Attorneys Sollicitors Scriveners Advocates Proctors Notaries Physitians Attorneys Sollicitors and Scriveners and all Advocates Proctors and publick Notaries and all and every person and persons practising the Art of Physick shall pay unto His Majesty the sum of Two shillings
aforesaid And upon due Examination or knowledge thereof abate defalk increase or inlarge the said Assessment And the same so abated increased or inlarged shall be Estreated by them into the Exchequer in manner aforesaid And to that end the said Commissioners are hereby required to méet together for the Determining of such Complaints and Appeals accordingly And be it further Enacted That every person rated for his Office shall be rated In what places Persons shall be rated for Offices or otherwise and pay for his said Office in the place where the said Office is executed And every person to be otherwise rated shall be rated and the sum or sums on him or her set and levied at such places where he or she and with his or her Family shall be resident at the time of the execution of this Act And that all persons not being Housholders nor having a certain place of above and all Servants shall be Taxed at the place where they are resident at the time of the execution of this Act thrée moneths before the execution of this Act. Provided always That if any person having several Mansion-houses or places of Residence Persons doubly charged may be discharged upon Certificate shall be doubly charged by vertue of this Act That upon Certificate made by two or more of the Commissioners for the County City or place which Certificate the said Commissioners are required to give without delay Fée or Reward of his or their last personal Resiâ—ence under their Hands and Seals of the sum or sums there charged upon him or them and in what capacity or respect he or they were so charged and upon Oath made of such Certificate before the Commissioners to whom such Certificate shall be tendred which Oath the said Commissioners are hereby authorized to administer Then the person and persons so doubly charged shall for so much as shall be so certified be discharged in every other County City or place And if any person at the time of the Assessing shall be out of the Realm such person shall be rated where such person was last abiding within the Realm Persons changing their dwelling by fraud to avoid the Tax And if any person that ought to be Taxed by vertue of this Act by changing his place of residence or by fraud or covin shall escape from the Taxation and not be Taxed and the same proved before the Commissioners or two of them or two Iustices of the Peace of the County where such person dwelleth or is resident at any time within Six moneths next ensuing after such Tax made Every person that shall so escape from the said Taxation and payment shall be charged Penalty upon proof thereof at the double value of so much as he should or ought to have béen Taxed by the Act The said double value upon Certificate thereof made into the Exchequer by the Commissioners or Iustices before whom such proof shall be made to be Levied of the Goods Lands and Tenements of such persons towards the Supply aforesaid And be it further Enacted That the Commissioners which shall be within any County or Place within their respective limits or the major part of them Commissioners to taxe one another shall Tax and Assess every other Commissioner joyned with them and the Commissioners within their Division shall Assess every Assessor within their Division And as well all sums upon every the said Commissioners and Assessors as the Assessments made and presented by the Presenters as aforesaid shall be Written Estreated Levied and Gathered as it should and ought to have béen as if the said Commissioners had not béen named Commissioners Provided always and it is hereby declared Decrâ— That the several Rates and Taxes to which the Lords and Péers of this Realm shall be liable by vertue of this Act shall be received by a Collector to be nominated by the Péers which said Collector shall cause the same to be paid into His Majesties Receipt of Exchequer at Westminster upon or before the aforesaid thirtieth day of April Provided That this Act shall not extend to the Inhabitants of Scotland Ireland Scotland Ireland Jersey Guernsey Jersey or Guernsey for or concerning any such personal Estate as aforesaid which they or any other to their use have within the places aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective Treasurers of His Majesties Navy and Ordnance are hereby authorized and required to take and retain unto themselves Allowances to the Treasurers of the Navy and such as shall be respectively imployed by and under them One peny in the pound and no more out of the moneys raised by vertue of this Act and paid unto and issued out by them to any person or persons in pursuance thereof to be allowed unto them in their respective Accompts And be it further Enacted That if any Assessor Collector Receiver or other person appointed by the Commissioners shall wilfully neglect or refuse to perform his Duty in the due and spéedy Execution of this present Act The said respective Commissioners Assessors Collectors or Receivers neglecting their duties or any thrée or more of them may and shall by vertue of this Act impose on such person or persons so refusing or neglecting their Duties any Fine not excéeding the sum of Twenty pounds for any one offence the same to be Levied and Certified as aforesaid into His Majesties Court of Exchequer Penalty and charged upon the respective Receiver-general amongst the rest of the Rates aforesaid and the said Commissioners or any two or more of them may or shall from time to time call for and require an Accompt from the respective Receiver-general of all the Moneys received by him of the said Head-collectors and of the payment thereof into His Majesties Receipt of Exchequer according to the direction of this Act And in case of any failer in the premisses the said Commissioners or any two or more of them are hereby required to cause the same to be forthwith levied and paid according to the true intent and meaning of this Act. And in case of any controversie arising betwéen the said Commissioners concerning the said Rates or Assessments the Commissioners that shall be concerned therein shall have no voice but shall withdraw during the debate of such controversie until it be determined by the rest of the Commissioners And all questions and differences that shall arise touching any of the said Rates Taxes Assessments or Levies shall be heard and finally determined by two or more of the Commissioners upon complaint thereof to them made by any person or persons thereby grieved without further trouble or Suit in Law Controversies and questions about the rates how to be determined And the said Receiver-general shall give Acquittances gratis to the said Head-collectors for all moneys of them received and the said Head-collectors shall also give Acquittances gratis to the Sub-collectors for all such
Lanes c. That the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council of the said City for the time being shall on or before the first day of April next ensuing declare which and how many shall hereafter be accounted and taken to be By-lanes which and how many shall hereafter be déemed Stréets or Lanes of note and high and principal Stréets by Act of Common-Council to be passed for that purpose which Declaration being made as aforesaid all and singular the said Stréets and Lanes hereby intended to be rebuilt shall by Order of the said Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council or such persons as they under the Common Seal of the said City shall order and appoint be Marked or Staked out and distinguished to the end the Breadth Length and Extent thereof may be the better known and observed And if any person or persons whatsoever shall wittingly or willingly without good Authority pluck up or remove any of the said Stakes or Mark-stones thereby to obscure or confound the bounds of such Stréets or Lanes or any of them and shall be thereof legally convicted by the Oath of one Witness other then of the Informer to be taken before any one or more Iustices of the Peace of the said City That then the said Iustice or Iustices shall or may send such Offender to the Common-gaol of the said City there to remain by the space of thrée moneths without Bail or Mainprize unless he shall pay or cause to be paid to the use of the Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of the said City the sum of Ten pounds to be imployed in and towards the repairing of the publick Buildings of the said City Provided always That where any such Offence shall be committed by any person or persons of low and mean condition whom the said Iustice or Iustices of the Peace shall in his conscience believe to be unable to satisfie the said Penalties That then and in such case the said Iustice or Iustices of the Peace shall and may by Order and Warrant under his or their Hands and Seals cause such Offender to be openly whipped near unto the place where the Offence shall be committed till his body be bloudy And that it shall and may be lawful for the said Iustice or Iustices of the Peace to reward the said Informer out of the Pecuniary Penalty to be incurred according to his discretion not excéeding a Third part of the said Penalty And in regard the building with Brick is not onely more comely and durable but also more safe against future perils of Fire Building with Brick Stone Oak Be it further Enacted by and with the Authority aforesaid That all the outsides of all Buildings in and about the said City be henceforth made of Brick or Stone or of Brick and Stone together except Door-cases and Window-frames the Brest Summers and other parts of the first Story to the Front betwéen the Péers which are to be left to the discretion of the Builder to use substantial Oaken Timber in stead of Brick or Stone for conveniency of Shops And that the said Doors Brest Summers and Window-frames be sufficiently discharged of the burthen of the Fabrick by Arch-work of Brick or Stone either straight or circular The duty of the Surveyors and Supervisors And be it Enacted That the said Surveyors or Supervisors so to be appointed as aforesaid and every of them within their several Precincts shall take care That in Building of all Houses within the said City and Liberties thereof there be And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That there shall be Party-walls and Party-péers set out equally on each Builders ground to be built up by the first beginner of such Building And that convenient Toothing be left in the Front-wall by the said first Builder for the better joyning of the next House that shall be built to the same And that no man be permitted by the said Surveyors to build on the said Party-wall or on his own contiguous ground until he hath fully reimbursed the said first Builder the full moyety of the charges of the said Party-wall and Péers together with Interest for the same after the rate of Six pounds per Cent. per Annum for forbearance thereof to be accounted from the beginning of the said first building Who may determine Differences between first and later builders And in case any difference shall arise betwéen the first and later Builders concerning the true value of the said Charge That then the same be referred to the Alderman of that Ward where such Building shall be and to his Deputy to mediate an agréement of such difference And where the said Alderman and his Deputy or one of them shall be parties or where they cannot compose such difference as aforesaid That the matter be referred to the Examination of the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen who shall hear and finally determine the same without any Appeal to be had Houses of the first and last sort of building And be it further Enacted That the said Houses of the first and least sort of Building fronting By-stréets or Lanes as aforesaid shall be of two Stories high besides Cellars and Garrets That the Cellars thereof be six foot and a half high if the springs of water hinder not That the first Story be nine foot high from the Floor to the Cieling and the second Story nine foot high from the Floor to the Cieling That all Walls in front and réer as high as the first Story be of the full thickness of the length of two Bricks and thence upwards to the Garrets of the thickness of one Brick and an half and that the thickness of the Garret-walls on the back-part be left to the discretion of the Builder so that the same be not less then the length of one Brick And also that the thickness of the Party-walls betwéen these Houses of this first and lesser sort of Building be one Brick and an half as high as the said Garrets and that the thickness of the Party-wall in the Garrets be of the thickness of one Brick in length at the least and that the Scantlings of Timber and Stone to be used about the building thereof be as in the said Table are set down and prescribed Houses of the second sort of building And be it further Enacted That the Houses of the second sort of Building fronting Stréets and Lanes of note and the River of Thames shall consist of thrée Stories high besides Cellars and Garrets as aforesaid That the Cellars thereof be six foot and an half high if the springs of water hinder not That the first Story contain full ten foot in height from the Floor to the Cieling the second full ten foot the third nine foot That all the said Walls in front and réer as high as the first Story be of the full thickness of the length of two Bricks and an half and from thence upwards to the
thousand and ninety four pounds fifteen shillings and eleven pence The County of Worcester the sum of one thousand eight hundred fifty one pounds ten shillings and ten pence The City and County of the City of Worcester the sum of ninety seven pounds nine shillings and three farthings The County of Wilts the sum of three thousand four hundred fifty five pounds seven shillings one peny half-peny The County of Westmerland the sum of two hundred and three pounds fifteen shillings eight pence half-peny The Isle of Anglesey the sum of two hundred and twenty pounds fifteen shillings and ten pence The County of Brecknock the sum of four hundred ninety six pounds six shillings six pence The County of Cardigan the sum of one hundred eighty five pounds sixteen shillings and eleven pence three farthings The County of Carmarthen the sum of four hundred and seventy eight pounds ten shillings three pence half-peny The County of Carnarvan the sum of two hundred fifty seven pounds eleven shillings three farthings The County of Denbigh the sum of three hundred ninety two pounds thirteen shillings eight pence half-peny The County of Flint the sum of two hundred and eight pounds sixteen shillings three pence three farthings The County of Glamorgan the sum of six hundred and sixty five pounds fourteen shillings one peny three farthings The County of Merioneth the sum of one hundred seventy seven pounds one shilling nine pence three farthings The County of Mountgomery the sum of four hundred eighty five pounds eighteen shillings eight pence The County of Pembrook the sum of five hundred seventy three pounds eleven shillings seven pence three farthings The County of Radnor the sum of three hundred and six pounds five shillings two pence three farthings The Town of Haverford-West the sum of twenty six pounds and thirteen shillings And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the persons who are nominated in and by the said first recited Act and in and by an Act passed this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for Raising Money by a Poll and otherwise 18 Car. 1. c. â— towards the Maintenance of the present War to be Commissioners of and for the several and respective Counties Cities Boroughs Towns and Places therein or in either of them mentioned shall likewise be so and so are hereby appointed to be Commissioners for execution of this present Act within the several and respective Counties Cities Boroughs Towns and Places for which they were nominated in the aforesaid Acts or either of them and shall have and execute the like power and authority rules and directions touching the better Assessing Collecting Levying Receiving and Paying the said one hundred and fourteen thousand two hundred and thirteen pounds thirteen shillings half-peny by the moneth during the said eleven moneths as in and by the said first mentioned Act were given to the said Commissioners touching the better Assessing Collecting Receiving and paying the threescore and eight thousand eight hundred and nineteen pounds nine shillings by the moneth payable as aforesaid And all and every person or persons who shall be lyable unto or any ways concerned or imployed in the Assessing Collecting Levying Receiving or paying any of the moneys by this Act imposed shall have like benefit advantages allowances and discharges and shall be subject to like penalties and forfeitures in case of any neglect or refusal to pay their respective Assessments or to perform their respective Duties as any other person or persons lyable unto or concerned or imployed in the assessing collecting levying receiving or paying any of the moneys by the said former Acts imposed ought to have or be subject unto as fully and amply as if the same Clauses matters and things had been in this Act particularly repeated and Enacted To the end that the said eleven Monethly Assessments granted by vertue of this present Act may be duly answered and paid in as aforesaid Be it further Enacted That the several Commissioners shall meet together at the most usual and common place of meeting as in the said first recited Act is directed The meeting of the Commissioners on or before the second Tuesday in February which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty seven to put this Act in execution according to the best of their judgments and discretions and shall then if they see cause sub-divide as well themselves as others as by the said Act is further directed concerning the said former Assessment And further That they meet at least three weeks before each payment of the said several Assessments for the purposes aforesaid And that the said payments of one hundred and fourteen thousand two hundred and thirteen pounds eight shillings and five pence half-peny by the Moneth shall be assessed collected levied and paid to the Receiver of the several Counties appointed or that shall be appointed by his Majesty and by them answered and paid into his Majesties Exchequer on the dayes and times hereafter mentioned and expressed Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the sum of two hundred twenty eight thousand four hundred twenty six pounds sixteen shillings and eleven pence being the first payment for the first two Moneths of the aforesaid eleven Moneths hereby imposed shall be assessed collected levied and paid in to the said Receiver-General of the said several Counties who shall be appointed by his Majesty and who are hereby required to transmit or cause the same to be paid into his Majesties Receipt of his Exchequer on or before the first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty and eight And the sum of three hundred forty two thousand six hundred and forty pounds five shillings four pence half-peny being the second payment of the said eleven Moneths on or before the first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty and eight And the sum of three hundred forty two thousand six hundred and forty pounds five shillings four pence half-peny being the third payment of the said eleven Moneths on or before the first day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty and eight And the sum of three hundred forty two thousand six hundred and forty pounds five shillings four pence half-peny being the fourth and last payment of the said eleven Moneths on or before the first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty and eight Moneys lent upon this Act secured And to the intent that all moneys to be lent to your Majesty and the moneys that shall be due upon such contracts for Wares Ships Goods or Victuals or other necessaries which shall be delivered for your Majesties Service upon the Credit of this Act by any person or persons native or foreigner Bodies Politick or Corporate may be well and sufficiently secured out of the Moneys arising and payable
Sub-collectors of each Parish or Place which shall be appointed by vertue of this Act shall upon the Collection of the whole summe appointed to be collected by them and payment thereof as is hereby and before appointed have and receive for their pains in collecting and paying the moneys one peny in the pound which the said several Head-Collectors are hereby authorized to pay unto them and the several Head-Collectors which shall be appointed by vertue of this Act shall upon the payment of the whole summe due from their Hundred or Division to the Receiver-General of each County have and receive for their pains in receiving and paying the said moneys one peny in the pound which each Receiver-General is hereby authorised to pay and allow unto them accordingly and also upon the Receipt of the whole Assessment of the County City or Town for which he is appointed Receiver-General in case he hath received the several Duplicates of each Parish or Place therein and not otherwise to allow and pay according to such warrant as shall be in that behalf given by the said Commissioners or any thrée of them one peny in the pound for the Commissioners Clerks for their pains in fair writing the Assessments Duplicates and Copies Provided that no Head-Collectors shall be appointed for any City or Town which is by this Act particularly charged with the payment of any summe towards the Assessment hereby to be levied and for which a Receiver-General is to be appointed excepting within the City of London And be it Enacted and Declared How the money may be levied upon persons refusing to pay That if any Person shall refuse or neglect to pay any summe of money whereat he shall be rated and assessed That then it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Collectors Sub-collectors or any of them who are hereby Authorised and required thereunto to levy the summe assessed by Distress and Sale of the Goods of such persons so refusing or neglecting to pay deducting the summe assessed and reasonable charges of distraining and restore the overplus to the Owner thereof And to break open in the day-time any House and upon Warrant under the Hands and Seals of two or more of the said Commissioners any Chest Trunk or Box or other things where any such Goods are and to call to their Assistance the Constables Tythingmen and Headboroughs within the Counties Cities Towns or places where any refusal neglect or resistance shall be made which said Officers and Forces are hereby required to be aiding and assisting in the premisses as they will answer the contrary at their perils And if any question or difference happen upon taking of such Distresses betwéen the Parties distressed or distrained the same shall be ended and determined by the said Commissioners or any two or more of them And if any person or persons shall refuse or neglect to pay his or their Assessment In what case imprisonment may be for lack of distress and convey his or their Goods or other personal Estate whereby the summe of money so assessed cannot be levied according to this Act then the respective Commissioners or any two or more of them are hereby authorised to imprison the person except a Péer or Péers of this Realm and him and them in prison to detain and keep until the money so assessed and the charges for the bringing in the same be paid and satisfied and no longer And the several and respective Tenants or Tenant of all Houses and Lands Tenants to pay such sums as be rated upon their Landlords which shall be rated by vertue of this Act are hereby required and authorised to pay such summe or summes of money as shall be rated upon such House or Lands and to deduct out of the Rent so much of the said rates as in respect of the said Rents of every such House and Lands the Landlord should or ought to pay and bear And the said Landlords both mediate and immediate according to their respective Interests are hereby required to allow such deductions and payments upon the Receipt of the residue of the Rents And it is Enacted and Declared That every Tenant paying the said Assessment And be acquitted against them for so doing shall be acquitted and discharged for so much money as the said Assessment shall amount unto as if the same had béen actually paid unto such person or persons unto whom his Rents should have béen due and payable And if any difference shall arise betwéen Landlord and Tenant The Commissioners may determine differences between Landlords and Tenants about Rates or any other concerning the said Rates the said several Commissioners or any two or more of them in their several divisions shall and have hereby power to settle the same as they shall think fit And if any Person or Persons shall find him or themselves agrieved in that the Assessors have over-rated him or them and shall within six days after demand made of the summe of money assessed on him or them complain to two or more Commissioners whereof one of the Commissioners who signed or allowed his or their Assessment to be one The said Commissioners or any two or more of them shall have and have hereby power within twelve days after the demand of the Assessment as aforesaid to relieve such person or persons and to charge the same on such other person or persons as they shall see cause And in case the proportions set by this Act upon all and every the respective Counties Cities Towns and Places shall not be fully assessed levied and paid according to the true meaning thereof Rates upon persons not of ability or empty houses or that if any of the said Assessments shall be rated and imposed upon any person not being of ability to pay the same or upon any empty or void House or Land where the same cannot be collected or levied or that through any wilfulness negligence or mistake or accident the said Assessment charged upon each County City Town or Place by vertue of this Act happens not to be paid to the Receiver-General of the respective Counties as in this Act is directed that then in all and every such cases the several and respective Commissioners Assessors and Collectors aforesaid and every of them respectively are hereby authorised and required to assess or re-assess or cause to be assessed or re-assessed levied and paid all and every such sum or sums of money upon the respective Counties Cities Towns and Places or upon any of the Divisions Hundreds and Parishes therein as to the said Commissioners or such number of them as by this Act are authorised to cause the first Assessment hereby required to be made shall séem most agréeable to equity and justice the said new Assessment to be made collected and paid in such manner and by such means as in this Act for this Assessment is delared and directed The punishment of persons neglecting to perform