be always one and from them shall have obtained a Certificate in Writing under the Seal of the said Corporation And their particular knowledges on this or that Coast certified by them shewing and testifying thereby the Countreys Coasts and Places to and for which he they and every or any of them shall be sufficient apt and meet to take such charge upon them and after that also an approbation or allowance thereof Lord Admiral to approve of all Masters Pilots and Loadsmen of and from the Lord High Admiral of England for the time being as aforesaid upon pain to forfeit for every such time of his or their doing to the contrary therein Twenty Pounds Fine upon all unlicensed Masters Pilots c. the Sum of twenty Pounds of lawful Money of England to be levied of his or their Goods or Chattels by way of Distress to be taken by one of the said Wardens or his Deputy for the time being Which Distress shall be ordered and used in like manner as of Amerciaments in Court Leets or otherwise to be sued for by and in the name of the Master or Masters Deputy and any two of the VVardens or Assistants of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood or his or their Deputies for the time being in any Court of Record or Lords Court by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in which no Essoyn Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed unto the Defendant And further we of our more abundant and especial Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion have given and granted and by these Presents for Us our Heirs and Successors do give and Grant unto the said Master A Grant of all ancient Profits Dues c. from Loadsmanage Pilotage and Primage VVardens and Assistants of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood and to their Successors for ever That they by their Officer or Officers thereto from time to time to be appointed shall and may from time to time and at all times hereafter Levy have receive and take within the said River of Thames and Port of London and in all or any the Creeks Harbors and Places within the Precincts Limits or Liberties thereof all and singular such profits dues Duties and Sum and Sums of Mony whatsoever which at any time or times heretofore by themselves or their Predecessors by any Name or Names of like Corporation or by Virtue of and from any Charters and Letters Patents to them or any of them heretofore given or granted or by any lawful usage prescription or custom they have received had or taken in the said River Port Harbours Creeks and Places or any of them in or by way of Loadsmanage or Pilotage and Primage that is to say of and from every Master Loadsman or Pilot of every Ship or other Vessel coming into the said River of Thames Port of London or Creek or Harbour of the same and receiving Loadsmanage or Pilotage and Primage or which may or ought to receive the same that is to say Loadsmanage and Pilotage how much by way of Loadsmanage or Pilotage of and for every twenty Shillings Loadsmanage or Pilotage two Shillings and of every Ten Shillings one Shilling and of every six Shillings eight Pence eight Pence and so after that rate and proportion for greater or lesser Sums in such sort as they have used and accustomed time out of mind of man to receive the same And likewise of and from the said Master Loadsman or Pylot by way of Primage Primage how much two pence as out of every Mariner his Primage That is to say two Pence for every man which at any time hereafter shall serve as a Mariner in any such Voyage and shall return into the said River of Thames or Port of London or Creek or Harbour of the same in such manner and form as heretofore by the like time out of mind of man hath been accustomed The Precedeing Duties how to be recovered And if any Person or Persons chargeable with payment of the said Loadsmanage or Pilotage and Primage or either or any of them shall deny withhold or keep back the same contrary to the meaning of these our Letters Patents in that behalf that then and so often it shall and may be lawful and by these Presents We for Us Our Heirs and Successors do give full Power and Authority unto the said Master VVardens and Assistants and their Deputies and Successors for ever that they or any of them by their Officer or Officers thereunto to be appointed as aforesaid shall and may Arrest and Attach or cause the said Party or Parties so offending withholding or denying for his or their contempt in that behalf to be arrested or attached and commit him or them to Ward in the Prison of our Marshalsea or in the safe Custody and Charge of the Marshal of the Admiralty for the time being there to remain in restraint and safe keeping until such time as the said Offender or Offenders have paid and satisfied or else taken order by good and sufficient Surety for satisfaction of the Duty which shall be so due or payable by reason of this our present Grant And if the Party or Parties which should pay or answer any such Loadsmanage or Pilotage and Primage or either of them do so absent him or themselves or cannot be found whereby he or they may be Arrested or Attached as aforesaid that then and so often it shall and may be lawful to and for one or more of the said Wardens or his or their Deputies for the time being to arrest or stay or cause to be put under arrest and stay the Ship or other Vessel wherein the said Master Loadsman or Pilot went or was imployed until such time as the said Duties and every of them shall be fully paid and satisfied according to the purport and true meaning thereof Or otherwise it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Master Wardens and Assistants by one or more of the said VVardens or his or their Deputys for the time being to distrain the Goods and Chattels of the Party or Parties so offending denying or keeping back the aforesaid Duties wheresoever the said Goods and Chattels or any of them shall and may be found and the same Distress or Distresses so had or taken to their use to detain and keep until they be fully satisfied of their Right and Duty with the Charges of taking the same Distress and keeping thereof according to the purport and true meaning of these presents And further our will and pleasure is Power of holding Courts how where and for what and by these presents of our especial Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion for Us our Heirs and Successors We do give and grant unto the said Master Wardens and Assistants and to their Successors that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Master Wardens Assistants and Elder Brethren and their Successors provided that the
Duties and Fees belonging to the said Ballast Office be paid to the said Master Wardens and Assistants or their Deputies and Assigns and that Certificates thereof be produced under the hands of the said Master Wardens and Assistants or their Deputy or Deputies for that purpose appointed And we do further by these presents command all Searchers at Gravesend Nor searchers at Gravesend to clear any Ship without Certificate from the Trinity-House of the said Duties being paid that they do not permit any Ship or other Vessels whatsoever to be cleared or proceed to Sea or pass away without Certificate from the said Master Wardens and Assistants or their Deputies or Assigns that the said Fees and Duties are paid as aforesaid as they will answer the contrary at their utmost Perils And the said Officers of our Customs and Searchers are hereby Commanded to make good all such loss and damage Or to make good all losses as shall from time to time happen to be sustained by their defaults respectively And We do hereby for Us This Grant to be renewed and strengthned when and as often as desired Our Heirs and Successors further promise and Grant unto the aforesaid Master Wardens and Assistants of Trinity-House aforesaid and to their Successors that if and as often as any doubts or questions shall happen to arise for touching or concerng the Validity of these Our Letters Patents that then and so often upon the humble Petition of the aforesaid Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors to Vs Our Heirs and Successors exhibited or upon Notice and Certificate to Us Our Heirs and Successors by the Learned Council of the aforesaid Master Wardens and Assistants or their Successors touching any defect requisite to be amended We our Heirs and Successors will gratiously grant other Letters Patents unto the said Master Wardens and Assistants with such and so many Amendments Explanations Amplifications and Additions for supplying the said defects requisite to be amended as by the Council of the aforesaid Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors shall be advised devised or required And lastly our Will and Pleasure is that these presents shall be Good and Effectual in the Law to all Intents and Purposes No Former Grants nor Errors in Recital or Omissions are to hurt this Grant notwithstanding any former Grant or Grants heretofore Made or Granted of the Premises or any part or parcel thereof by Vs or any of Our Progenitors unto any Person or Persons whatsoever Or the not Reciteing or not truly Reciteing of such Grants or any of them Although Express Mention of the true Yearly value or Certainty of the Premises or of any of them or of any Other Gifts or Grants by Vs or by any of Our Progenitors or Predecessors heretofore made to the said Master Wardens and Assistants of Trinity House aforesaid in these Presents is not made or any Statute Act Ordinance Provision Proclamation or Restriction heretofore Had Made Enacted Ordained or Provided or any other Matter Cause or Thing whatsoever to the Contrary thereof in any wise Notwithstanding In Witness whereof We have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our Self at Westminster the Four and Twentieth day of June in the Seventeenth Year of our Reign By Writ of Privy Seal VYNER By the King A PROCLAMATION For Prohibiting Dirt-Boats and Bum-Boats upon the River of Thames Charles R. WHereas several Dirt-Boats and Bum-Boats do usually pass to and fro upon the River of Thames the Owners whereof will not submit to the Government of the Company of VVatermen nor any other Regulation whatsoever But under pretence of Fetching Dirt and Furnishing necessary Provisions on Board such Ships as are in the River do commit divers Thefts and Robberies and practice several other Insufferable Misdemeanours and sometimes endanger the Fireing His Majesties own Ships as also the Ships of divers Merchants Riding in the River by coming in the Night-time to assist such as are left on Board the Ships in the Imbezlement of the Goods Stores or Tackling Intrusted to their Charges His Majesty therefore by Advice of His Privy Council hath thought fit to Publish this His Royal Proclamation And doth hereby straitly Charge and Command all and every person and persons whom it doth or may concern That they presume not henceforth to use any such Dirt-Boats or Bum-Boats upon any pretence or occasion whatsoever as they will answer the contrary at their utmost Perils And if any such Boats shall hereafter be found upon the River of Thames contrary to the Tenour of this His Majesties Proclamation His Majesty doth hereby straitly Charge and Command the Master Wardens Assistans and Brethren of the Trinity House the Officers of His Majesties Yards and the Masters and Rulers of the Company of VVatermen for the time being and others whom it may concern That they cause such Dirt-Boats and Bum-Boats to be Seized and the persons so using the same to be Arrested and brought before His Majesty and His Privy Council And that they do from time to time take strict care that this His Majesties Proclamation may be duely put in Execution Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Sixth day of April In the Twenty third year of His Majesties Reign GOD SAVE THE KING By the King A PROCLAMATION For Regulating the Colours to be worn on Merchants Ships Charles R. WHereas by ancient Vsage no Merchants Ship ought to bear the Iack which is for Distinction appointed for His Majesties Ships Nevertheless His Majesty is informed That divers of His Majesties Subjects have of late presumed to wear His Maiestis Iack on board their Ships employed in Merchants Affairs and thinking to evade the Punishment due for the same bear Iacks in Shape and mixture of Colours so little different from those of His Maiesty as not to be without difficulty distinguished there from Which practice is found attended with manifold Inconveniences For prevention whereof for the future His Maiesty hath thought fit with the Advice of His Privy Council by this His Royal Proclamation strictly to Charge and Command all His Subiects whatsoever That from henceforth they do not presume to wear His Majesties Iack commony called The Union Jack in any of their Ships or Vessels without particular Warrant for their so doing from His Majesty or the Lord High Admiral of England or the Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral for the time being And His Majesty doth hereby further Command all His Loving Subjects That without such Warrant as aforesaid they presume not to wear on board their Ships or Vessels any Iacks made in imitation of His Majesties or any other Flags Iacks or Ensigns whatsoever then those usually heretofore worn on Merchants Ships viz. The Flag and Iack white with a Red Cross commonly called Saint George's Cross passing quite through the same And the Ensign Red with the like Cross in a Canton White at the upper Corner thereof next to the Staff And
or stead he or they shall be so Chosen to serve for and during the residue of the said two years or one year and so forward unto the time of a new Election or Choice of other VVardens or VVarden or other Deputies according to the purport and true meaning of these presents After Oaths taken he or they taking first such Corporal Oath as is aforesaid for the due Execution and Performance thereof and of the Allegiance and Supremacy of Us our Heirs and Successors as aforesaid Deputy Wardens fine for neglect And if any Person or Persons so to be appointed or elected to be a VVardens Deputy or Deputies of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood as aforesaid shall refuse the said Office or Place without just Cause or Let so to do or shall after he or they hath or have agreed to it neglect the same he and they shall forfeit and lose severally for every such Default three Pounds six Shillings and Eight Pence of lawful Money of England in the name of a fine to be imposed upon him or them severally so refusing or neglecting to the use of the said Corporation to be demanded and levied within such time and in such manner as the said fine to be imposed upon the Master is hereby directed to be demanded and levied and so from time to time so often as the Case shall require And further New choice of Assistants upon deaths or displacings We will and grant by these presents for Us our Heirs and Successors unto the said Master Wardens and Assistants and to their Successors that the said Master Wardens and residue of the Assistants for the time being and their Successors or the greater part of them by themselves or their Deputies together with the major part of the residue of the Elder Brethren as aforesaid whereof the Master for the time being or his said Deputy to be always one shall and may from time to time and at all times hereafter upon the death deposing displacing expulsion or remove of them or any of them that are or shall be Assistant or Assistants there for the time being at the like days times and places when and as often as it shall seem good to them so to do have like authority and power yearly and every year to assemble and meet together and that they being so assembled and met it shall and may be lawful to and for them or the greater part of them by themselves or their Deputies as aforesaid whereof the said Master or Masters Deputy for the time being to be always one to nominate and elect so many of that number of eight of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood being Elder Brothers as shall be then wanting by death deposing displacing expulsion or remove as aforesaid to the Office or Place of Assistants or Assistant of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood which person or persons so to be nominated and elected shall be Assistant or Assistants of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood for and during the term of their natural lives as aforesaid Assistants to be sworn And yet nevertheless the said persons being so to be nominated and elected to be Assistants of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood as aforesaid when he or they shall be thereunto voted and elected before he or they be admitted to the execution of his or their said Offices or Places shall also make take and receive a like Corporal Oath upon the Evangelists before the Master Wardens and residue of the said Assistants and Elder Brethren of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood or their Deputies for the time being or the greater part of them as aforesaid whereof the Master or Masters Deputy for the time being to be always one That he they and every of them Assistants Oath shall and will well and faithfully execute and perform their Offices and Places of Assistant or Assistants in all things concerning the same and also touching the said Allegiance and Supremacy of Us our Heirs and Successors as aforesaid And that immediately after the said Oaths so taken he or they shall Assistants Office for Life and may execute and use the said Office or Place of Assistant or Assistants of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood for term of his or their natural Lives from thence next and immediately following or unto the time of the next new Election or Choice of other Assistant or Assistants according to the purport and true meaning of these presents as is aforesaid Assistants Duty And further We will by these presents that the said Assistants or Assistant so as aforesaid from time to time to be elected voted and sworn during the time that he or they or any of them shall continue in their said Offices and Places of Assistant ship be from time to time to the best of their endeavours and abilities and skills aiding assisting and counselling unto the Master and Masters Deputy and VVarden and VVardens Deputies of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood for the time being in all cases matters and things touching and concerning the good and welfare of the said Guild Fraternity and Brotherhood Assistants removable And also Our will and pleasure is and by these presents for Us our Heirs and Successors We do give and grant unto the said Master VVardens and Assistants and to their Successors that when and as often as it shall happen all or any of the Assistants of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood for the time being at any time or times next after that they or any of them shall be Voted Elected and Sworn to the Office or Place of Assistants of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood as is aforesaid to die or to be displaced or removed from the said Office or Place which Assistant or Assistants not demeaning him or themselves well in the said Offices or Places We will to be removeable at the will and pleasure of the Master VVardens and residue of the Assistants and Elder Brethren of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood or the greater part of them by themselves or their Deputies as aforesaid whereof the Master or Masters Deputy for the time being to be always one that then and so often it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Master VVardens and residue of the Assistants and Elder Brethren of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood for the time being or the greater part of them by themselves or their Deputies as aforesaid whereof the Master or Masters Deputy for the time being to be always one within convenient time after the death displacing or removing of any of the Assistants or Assistant to assemble themselves together at or in such convenient place as aforesaid for the new Election or Choice of some other Person or Persons of the said Guild And others to be chosen Fraternity or Brotherhood being Elder Brothers for new or other Assistants and shall or may then and there
so certified by the said Master Wardens Assistants and the rest of the Elder Brethren or their Successors and Deputies as aforesaid under the Seal of the said Corporation Vnder the forfeiture of five pounds upon pain of five Pounds of lawful Money of England to be forfeited and paid by the Person or Persons so offending to the use and behoof of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood for every such offence and the same pain and forfeiture to be had levied received and taken to the use of the said Corporation from time to time and at all times hereafter in such manner and form as other pains duties and forfeitures or any of them in and by these presents are limited and appointed to be levied and received And likewise we do grant by these presents A forfeiture upon every English Ship carrying an Alien as a Mariner that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Master Wardens Assistants and their Successors or the greater part of them by themselves or their Deputies as aforesaid whereof the Master or Masters Deputy for the time being to be always one or any other their Officer or Officers thereto to be appointed to levy have receive and take out of every English Ship or other Vessel that shall come into or go forth of the said River of Thames or any the Creeks or Harbours of the same as aforesaid for any Voyage and have in her serving for Mariner or Seaman by what name or addition soever any Alien or Stranger or Aliens or Strangers not being born within our Dominions or Obeysance or not having a Patent of Denization or other sufficient or lawful Warrant in Writing to shew for the same for every first offence for every one offending Forty shillings of like lawful Money of England and for the second time and so from time to time afterwards when and as often and for every one that shall so offend to levy take and receive the Sum of Five Pounds of lawful English Money and for the same if Cause shall so require by one or more of the said Wardens or by his or their Deputy or Deputies for the time being to Distrain the Goods or Chattels of the Party or Parties so offending and the same Distress or Distresses so taken to carry away keep and detain with him or them until they be fully paid and satisfied of and for the Sum and Sums of Money which shall be so forfeited and due unto them from the Offenders as aforesaid together with their reasonable Costs and Charges expended and to be expended for taking and carrying away of the same Distresses and keeping thereof if any such be And that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Master Wardens Power to punish all Seamen deserting their Ships or mutinous Assistants and the rest of the Elder Brethren and their Successors or the greater part of them by themselves or their said Deputies as aforesaid whereof the Master or Masters Deputy for the time being to be always one to examine and punish by Fine Imprisonment or such reasonable Correction as the quality of the offence shall require all and every such Person and Persons as in any Merchant or Merchants or other Owner or Owners Ship or other Vessel within the said River of Thames that shall depart or go away from any Ship or any other Vessel by what name soever after that he or they be hired and agreed withal for Wages or shall grow or be found mutinous disobedient or any ways a provoker seducer or inticer of any other to any mutiny or disobedience to the hurt or injury or likelihood of hurt or injury of any Service or Journey intended either outwards or homewards into or from the said River of Thames or any the Creeks or Harbours of the same And also to hear and determine all and every the Complaints of any Mariner Power to hear and determine all complaints of Sea-men Officers c. Seaman Purser of a Ship or other Officer Minister or Member belonging of or to any Merchant or Owners Ship in any Voyage to be made outwards or homewards to or from the said place and places or any of them according to the quality of the same Complaints Alwayes provided With the reserve of an Appeal to the Lord Admiral or Judg of the Admiralty that the Person or Persons so offending may yet nevertheless afterwards if he or they find them selves grieved therewith Appeal unto the the Lord High Admiral of England or to the Judge of the High Court of Our Admiralty for the time being for redress therein And for that it hath been found by experience that divers Strangers Ships and Vessels What shall be reputed an English Ship under the colour of having English Masters have passed for and been reputed English Ships and Vessels and so have avoided the payment of their Duties and Impositions in that proportion which by the Laws and Constitutions of the said Corporation they ought to have paid to the great abuse of the said Corporation for the preventing of the like abuses in time to Come and that there may be no mistake for the future either in Imposition of Duties or of Fines or Penalties It is hereby declared that only such Ship or Vessel shall be reputed and taken to be an English Ship or Vessel which hath an English Master and three parts of Four of the whole number of Officers and Mariners English And what a Stranger and every other Ship or Vessel shall be reputed and taken for a Foreign or Stranger ship or Vessel and according to that Order and Estimation all and every Ship and Vessel shall by the said Corporation from henceforth be Rated Fined and Assessed And to the intent that the said Corporation may be the better enabled to regulate and govern themselves and to prevent disorders and redress inconveniencies which otherways may arise within the said Corporation The Master to be always in the Commission of the Peace for London Kent Middlesex and Surrey We do hereby farther give and grant for Us our Heirs and Successors unto the said Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors for ever that the Master of the said Corporation for the time being and his Deputy shall be Commissioners of Us our Heirs and Successors for the keeping peace for and within the City of London and the Liberties thereof as well as for and within the Counties of Kent Middlesex and Surrey at all times hereafter And We do hereby further Grant for Us our Heirs and Successors Power by themselves or their Order of levying all Fines c. granted by this Patent to the said Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors for ever that any Officer or Servant of the said Corporation or any other person whatsoever to whom the said Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors shall give Warrant and Authority under their Common Seal for that
and all and every the Officers and Ministers of our said Court for the time being whom it shall or may concern That they and every of them at the desire and request of the said William Carlos his Executors Administrators and Assigns and at his and their Own proper costs and charges do award make and deliver or cause to be awarded made and delivered unto him them or any of them all and every such Writ and Writs Process Judgments Executions and proceedings in the Name of Us Our Heirs and Successors as shall or may be necessary for the more speedy recovery as well of the said yearly Rent of one thousand Marks as of the said Sum of five pounds nominae penae that shall be so behind and unpaid as aforesaid and as are agreeable unto and may stand and consist with the Ancient course and practice of our said Exchecquer heretofore used for recovery of Debts and that they and every of them be from time to time aiding and Assisting to the said William Carlos his Executors Administrators and Assigns in the premises as it becometh in their several places respectively Exchecquer to pay Carlos all Mony recover'd and paid thereinto without Fee And Our further Will and Pleasure is that in case upon any such Suit or Suits to be made and prosecuted in Our Name as aforesaid or otherwise the said Rent of One Thousand Marks or any part or parcel thereof shall be recover'd and paid into Our Exchecquer That then We do by these presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors authorize and require our said Treasurer Chancellour Vnder Treasurer Chamberlains and Barons of our Exchecquer and all other the Officers and Ministers of Our said Court now and for the time being that they and every of them respectively do from time to time issue and pay or cause to be issued and paid unto the said William Carlos his Executors Administrators or Assigns to his and their own use and uses all such Sum and Sums of Mony so paid into our Exchecquer as aforesaid without accompt or any Fee or Fees to be rendred made or given for the same And these Our Letters Patents or the exemplification or duplicate thereof shall be unto our said Officers and Ministers of our said Exchecquer a sufficient Warrant and discharge in that behalf Provided nevertheless and the said Master Ballast not to annoy any of the King's Pallaces Wardens and Assistants of Trinity House aforesaid for them and their Successors do hereby Covenant promise and agree to and with Vs Our Heirs and Successors that they nor any of their Agents Factors Servants Deputies or Assigns shall and will do any thing that shall be prejudicial nusant or Obnoxious to any of our Pallaces Houses or buildings in Our said County of Kent Nor to be laid on any Wast-Ground or Wharfe granted to others nor that they nor any of them shall and will lay or cause to be layed any Gravel Sand Soil or other thing for Ballastage upon any the wast grounds or Wharfes already Granted or that shall be hereafter granted by Us unto them the said Robert Killigrew Knight and Edward Progers Esquire or do any other thing that may in any wise infringe or intrench upon the wast grounds or Wharfes already granted or which shall be hereafter granted unto them the said Sir Robert Killigrew and Edward Progers any thing in these presents contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Provided also that if the said Master This Grant to be inroll'd within six Months Wardens and Assistants of Trinity House aforesaid or their Successors shall not within six Months next after the date hereof cause these our Letters Patents and the said yearly Rent and Sums of Mony as well reserved and payable unto Vs Our Heirs and Successors as unto the said William Carlos his Executors Administrators and Assigns to be duely entered and put in charge with the Auditor of Our Revenue for the City of London With the Kings Auditor for London and Clerk of the Pipe and these Our Letters Patents to be also enrolled with the Clerk of the Pipe in the Exchecquer to the End the said yearly Rent or Sums of Mony may be duely charged answered and paid according to the intent and meaning of these Presents That then and in every such Case the said Master VVardens and Assistants and their Successors shall forfeit and pay to Us Or to forfeit Ten pound for every six Months default Our Heirs and Successors for every six Months default of such Enrolement as aforesaid the Sum of Ten pounds Nominae penae until these our Letters Patents shall be duely entered and Inrolled as aforesaid Several Lords of the Council assign'd to hear and redress all complaints about the Ballastage And Our further Will and Pleasure is And We do by these presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors declare will and ordain that it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Chancellor of England Or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Lord Treasurer Lord President of our Privy Council and Lord Privy Seal or any of them calling both the Chief Justices of either Bench or One of them upon all and every Complaints to be made by the said Master Wardens and Assistants or their Deputies Substitutes and Assigns of any Offences or other matters or things touching and concerning the Ballasting of Ships or Vessels and other the premises as aforesaid contrary to the true meaning of these presents from time to time to hear and finally to determine every such complaint matter and thing by their Discretions and to put such Order therein according to the intent of these presents as by their discretions shall seem most convenient for the Conservation of the said River of Thames Parties offending their order to suffer Fine and imprisonment and the parties offending such Order to suffer Imprisonment and Fine to the use of Us Our Heirs and Successors according to the intent of the Statute in that behalf made and provided 27 Henry 8. Chap. 18. And to the End the said Master Wardens and their Assistants their Successors Deputies and Assigns may be the better enabled to receive and recover the Duties and Fees belonging to the said Office Our Will and pleasure is and we do hereby for Us Officers of the Customs at London to clear no ship till the Duties to the Ballast Office be paid our Heirs and Successors streightly Charge and Command our Officers and other Persons whatsoever imployed in our Customs and the Customs of our Heirs and Successors in our Port of London and our Officers imployed in the Office called the Searchers Office Coast or Cocket Office and others whatsoever not to Give or Deliver or permit to be Given or Delivered any Cocket Content or other Clearing-Bill or Discharge to any Ship or other Vessel whatsoever whether bound over Sea or Trading Ships or Vessels called Coasters until the
be made by the Master Wardens and Assistants or their Deputies for the time being or the more part of them or otherwise howsoever agreeable to their Charter and standing in force ye shall well and truely hold and keep or in default thereof pay or cause to be paid to the Clerk of the said Guild for the time being to the use of the said Company all and every such mulcts pains and penalties as have or shall be limited and set against the Offenders and Transgressors of the same So help me God 9. The Younger-Brothers Oath YOu shall Swear to be faithful and true to our Sovereign Lord King JAMES the II. and to his Heirs and lawful Successors and to be aiding by all the best means you can to uphold and maintain the good and welfare of this Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood whereof you be now made a Member Ye shall always be obedient unto the Master Wardens and Assistants of the same and their Deputies for the time being and use your self as becometh a Younger Brother for the time you shall so continue All and every the Orders Constitutions and Ordinances which have been made or shall hereafter be made by the Master Wardens and Assistants or their Deputies for the time being or the more part of them or otherwise howsoever agreeable to their Charter and standing in force Ye shall well and truly hold and keep or in default thereof pay or cause to be paid to the Clerk of the said Guild for the time being to the use of this Company all and every such Mulcts Pains and Penalties as have or shall be limited and set against the Offenders and Transgressors of the same So help you God 10. The Clerk's Oath YOu shall Swear to be faithful and true to our Sovereign Lord King JAMES the Second and to his Heirs and lawful Successors and to be aiding by all the best means you can to uphold and maintain the good and welfare of this Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood whereof you be now made the Clerk and Minister You shall faithfully conceal the Secrets and Privities of the said Guild and always during your continuance in that Office and Employment be obedient to the Master Wardens and Assistants of the same and their Deputies for the time being in their lawful and reasonable Commands concerning the execution of your Office All the Mulcts Duties payments and sums of Mony whatsoever now due or hereafter during your Employment to be due to the said Guild by any Person or Persons You shall to your uttermost ability endeavour to Collect and gather to the use of the same Guild or upon refusal of payment thereof shall acquaint the Master Wardens and Assistants or their Deputies or the greater part of them at their Court of Assistants with the same And whatsoever Sum or Sums of Mony you shall so collect or gather You shall truly and faithfully answer accompt for Satisfie and pay to the said Master Wardens and Assistants or the greater part of them at their Court of Assistants to be holden next after such Collection made or to be made Extortion or Wrong to any man you shall not do nor cause to be done by colour of your Office neither to any thing that shall be against the Kings Majesties Peace his Crown and Dignity or the Weal or profit of this Guild shall you yield your consent but Lett and hinder the same what you may So help you God through Jesus Christ A TABLE of the preceding Oaths and Declaration shewing the Order wherein they are to be taken by the several proper Officers and Members Persons OATHS Â N o N o N o N o N o N o N o N o N o N o Master 1 2 3 4 5 Â Â Â Â Â Master's Deputy Warden 1 2 3 4 Â 6 Â Â Â Â Wardens Deputy Assistant 1 2 3 4 Â Â 7 Â Â Â Assistants Deputy Elder-Brother 1 2 3 4 Â Â Â 8 Â Â Younger-Brother 1 2 Â Â Â Â Â Â 9 Â Clerk 1 2 3 4 Â Â Â Â Â 10 Under Officers 1 2 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Apprentices 1 2 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â APPENDIX An Act 8. 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To enable the Trinity-House to erect Sea Marks and give License to Mariners to Row in the River of Thames WHereas the Master Wardens and Assistants of the Trinity-House at Deptford-Strond being a Company of the chiefest and most expert Masters and Governours of Ships incorporate within themselves charged with the conduction of the Queens Majesties Navy Royal are bound to foresee the good Encrease and maintenance of Ships and of all kind of Men Traded and brought up by Watercraft most meet for her Majesties Marine Service And forasmuch as by the destroying and taking away of certain Steeples Woods and other Marks standing upon the Main Shores adjoyning to the Sea-Coasts of this Realm of England and Wales being as Beacons and Markes of ancient time accustomed for Seafaring Men to save and keep them and the Ships in their charge from sundry dangers thereto incident divers Ships with their Goods and Merchandizes in Sailing from Foreign parts towards this Realm of England and Wales and specially to the Port and River of Thames have by the lack of such Markes of late years been miscarried perished and lost in the Sea to the great detryment and hurt of the Common-Weal and the perishing of no small number of people For Remedy wherein to be had be it Enacted Established and Ordained by the Queens most Excellent Majesty By the consents of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same that the foresaid Master Wardens and Assistants of the Trinity-house at Deptford Strond aforesaid being a Company incorporated as before shall and may lawfully by vertue of this Act from time to time hereafter at their Wills and Pleasures and at their Costs make erect and set up such and so many Beacons Markes To erect Sea-Marks and Signs for the Sea in such Place or Places of the Sea-shores and Uplands near the Sea Coasts or Forelands of the Sea only for Sea Markes as to them shall seem most meet needful and requisite whereby the Dangers may be avoided and escaped and Ships the better come unto their Ports without peril And that all such Beacons Markes and signs so to be by them or their Assigns erected made and set up at the Costs and Charges of the said Master Wardens and Assistants shall and may be continued renewed and maintained from time to time at the Costs and Charges of the said Master Wardens and Assistants any thing to the contrary hereof notwithstanding And be it further Ordained and Enacted by the authority aforesaid that no Steeples Trees or other things now standing as Beacons or Markes for the Sea whereof to the Owner or Occupier of the Place where
Wharfe agreeing with the Owners for the same or which at any time hereafter shall be built upon our River of Thames for the better supply of dry Ballast for all such Ships and other Vessels as shall carry Cloath and other like Dry goods they first agreeing with the Owners thereof for the same And they only to fell the same And they the said Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors Deputies and Assigns solely and only to convert utter dispose and sell the said Gravel Sand and Soil of Our River aforesaid To have hold take To enjoy the said Ballastage c. with all the Fees and Profits thereof for ever and enjoy the said Ballastage and Lastage and Office of Ballastage and Lastage the said Gravel Sand and Soil of the said River in and by these presents given and Granted or mentioned to be given or Granted with all and every fees advantages sallaries profits emoluments Commodities and rights incidents and appurtenances whatsoever to for out of or by reason of all or any of the premises any way due payable accustomed appertaining or belonging unto the said Master Wardens and Assistants of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond and their Successors for ever by themselves their Substitute or Substitutes Deputy or Deputies Assign or Assigns to use Exercise Execute and enjoy for ever for the Vse and benefit of the Poor For the Vse and benefit of the Poor aforesaid and to no other use intent or purpose whatsoever And all and every the said premises to hold of Us Our Heirs and Successors as of our Mannor of East Greenwich in our said County of Kent in free and common Soccage and not in Capite nor by Knights service Paying Carlos yearly 1000 Marks for the remainder of 31 years Yeilding and paying and the said Master Wardens and Assistants of Trinity House aforesaid for themselves and their Successors do Covenant Promise Grant and agree to and with Us Our Heirs and Successors by these presents to yield and pay or cause to be yielded and payed to the said William Carlos his Executors Administrators and Assigns for and during the residue and remainder of the said Term of One and thirty years heretofore granted to the said William Carlos as aforesaid the yearly Rent or Sum of one Thousand Marks of lawful Mony of England at the Feasts of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Michael the Archangel by even and equal portions or within forty days next after either of the same Feasts And the said Master Wardens Trinity-House Covenants to take up their Gravel c. from such shelfes as are dangerous to shipping and Assistants of Trinity House do hereby Covenant and promise that they and their Successors shall and will by the best means and ways they can provide and take care that the Gravel Sand and Soil by them to be taken out of the said River be raised and taken out and from such shelves and places of the said River as are or shall be of Danger to shipping in the said River and for the bettering and more safety of the same And the said Master Wardens To have sufficient number of Lighters for ballasting Ships and Assistants for themselves and their Successors do further Covenant promise and agree to and with Us Our Heirs and Successors by these presents that they and their Successors and Assigns or some of them shall and will at their own proper Costs and Charges provide and have such numbers of Lighters great and small as shall be from time to time sufficient upon all Occasions for the Exporting and the Importing of the said Ballast as well to and from the said Wharfes as unto all such Ships Barks or Vessels that shall have use of the same Lighters to be Gaged and marked to prevent deceit which said Lighters shall be justly gaged and marked that the Burthen and bigness of such Lighters may be certainly known to the End that all abuses and deceits between the buyers and sellers of the said Gravel and Sand either in the quantity or weight thereof may from time to time be prevented and avoided And that they the said Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors Deputies Agents and Assigns shall and will from time to time for ever hereafter provide utter furnish and sell the said Gravel Ballast to be sold at the Rates accustomed Sand and Soil for the Ballasting of all Ships Barks and Vessels in the said River that shall have use thereof at the rates and prises accustomed provided payment be made within six Tydes Payment to be made therefore within six Tydes or to pay double after the delivery thereof or else to pay double the accustomed Duty And further of Our more especial Grace Certain Knowledge and meer motion as well for the consideration aforesaid as also for the better advancement of the said work of cleansing the said River and the more speedy and effectual performance perfecting Gives all Fines set or impos'd for removal of shelves c. in the River and accomplishment of the same so much tending to the benefit of the Common-wealth We have given and Granted and by these presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors do give and grant unto the said Master Wardens and Assistants of Trinity house aforesaid and their Successors Deputies and Assigns all and singular Contributions Fines and other Sum and Sums of Mony whatsoever which have been taken or hereafter shall be set or imposed upon any person or persons whatsoever City or Town Corporate by all or any Acts of Parliament or by any Commission or Commissions of Sewers or otherwise for or towards the removing of Shelves and other annoyances in the said River which are shall or may appertain How to be recover'd or any way in right belong to Vs Our Heirs How to be recover'd and Successors Together with full power and absolute Authority unto the said Master Wardens and Assistants of Trinity-House aforesaid and their Successors and Assigns to sue for recover receive and take the said contributions fines and other Sum and Sums of mony as aforesaid either in the name of Us Our Heirs and Successors or otherwise in the Name of the said Master Wardens and Assistants of Trinity-House aforesaid their Successors and Assigns The Treasurer and all Officers of the Exchecquer commanded to assist them therein in any of our Courts or elsewhere for and towards the cleansing of the said River from shelves and other Annoyances And Our further Will and Pleasure is And We do hereby authorize and require our Treasurer Chancellour Vnder Treasurer Chamberlains and Barons of our Exchecquer for the time being and also our Attorney General for the time being and all and every the Officers and Ministers of our said Court for the time being and whom it shall and may concern that they and every of them at the desire and request of the said Master Wardens
His Majesty doth hereby require the principal Officers and Commissoners of His Navy Governours of His Forts and Castles the Officers of his Customs and Commanders or Officers of any of His Majesties Ships or upon their meeting with or otherwise observing any Merchants Ships or Vessels of His Majesties Subjects wearing such a Flag Iack or Ensign contrary hereunto whether at Sea or in Port not onely to cause such Flag Iack or Ensign to be forthwith Seised but to return the Names of the said Ships and Vessels together with the Names of their respective Masters unto the Lord High Admiral Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty or the Iudge of the High Court of Admiralty for the time being to the end the persons offending may be duly Punished for the same And His Majesty doth hereby Command and Enjoyn the Iudge and Iudges of the High Court of Admiralty for the time being that at the several Sessions to be hereafter held by His Majesties Commission of Oyer and Terminer for the Admiralty they give in Charge that strict enquiry be made of all Offences in the Premisses and that they cause all offenders therein to be duly punished And all Vice-Admirals and Iudges of Vice-Admiralties are also to do the same and to attend the due observation hereof within the several Ports and Places of their respective Precincts Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Eighteenth day of September 1674. In the Six and twentieth Year of Our Reign By His Majesties Command GOD SAVE THE KING ORDERS CONSTITUTIONS AND BY-LAWS Made by the Master VVardens and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most Glorious and Individable TRINITY AND OF St. CLEMENT in the Parish of Deptford-Strond in the County of Kent Touching the Conservation good Estate wholesome Government Maintenance and Encrease of the Navigation of this Kingdom and of the Mariners and Sea-faring Men within the same By Vertue of Several Charters and Letters Patents made unto the said Corporation by several KINGS and QUEENS of this Realm And Particularly of a Charter of Constitution and Confirmation of the same made by our most Gracious Sovereign JAMES the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. Dated the Eighth day of July in the First year of his Majesties Reign Orders Constitutions and By-Laws Made by the Master Wardens and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most Glorious and Individable Trinity and of St. Clement in the Parish of Deptford-Strond in the County of Kent IMprimis It is Ordered The Penalties of Masters Pilots and Seamen for not appearing at the Trinity-House upon Summons that if any Master or Pilot Mariner or Seaman belonging unto or taking charge of any Ship or Vessel within the River of Thames shall at any time be Summoned to come before this Corporation at any of their Courts holden at the Trinity-House or other usual place of their meeting and shall deny or refuse to appear upon any such summons lawful and reasonable excuses always excepted they shall forfeit and pay if a Master or Pilot for every such default thirteen-shillings and four pence and if a Mariner or Seaman for his first default two-shillings for his second three shillings and four pence to the use of the Poor of this Corporation and for the third offence both Master and Pilot Mariner and Seaman shall be further punished at the discretion of this Company the Fine not exceeding forty shillings for a Master or Pilot and twenty shillings for a Mariner II. Item The Penalty of Masters of Ships going to Sea without paying their Duties to the Trinity-House Whereas heretofore sundry Masters of Ships have gone to Sea without paying such Duties as they ought to have paid to this Corporation at the time of their going It is therefore ordered that whatsoever Master of a Ship shall from henceforth go to Sea before he hath paid all such Duties as he shall then owe to this Corporation they being of him demanded before his going shall at his next Return into the River of Thames pay double so much as he ought to have paid at his going to Sea over and besides the Duties which from him may grow due for the said Voyage at his Return III. Item It is ordered that from the time that any Ship or Vessel within the River of Thames The Penalty of a Master and other Officers for not giving their attendance on board as required or any Creek or Harbour of the same shall first receive into her any Merchants Goods to be transported into any parts beyond the Seas the Master or his Mate shall every day be aboard the said Ship or Vessel to see the said Merchants Goods safely taken in bestowed and placed within the said Ship if she shall be at Blackwall or above And likewise upon the Return of every Ship from their Voyages the Master or his Mate shall be aboard every day to see and provide that the Merchants Goods be orderly and safely delivered out of the said Ship if she shall be at Blackwal or above as aforesaid lawful and reasonable Excuses always excepted and if the said Ship shall be below Blackwall then the Master or his Mate shall be aboard three times in a week or every other day for the purposes aforesaid And for every time their neglecting so to do they shall forfeit and pay each of them to the use of the Poor of this Corporation the sum of six shillings and eight pence It is further order'd that the Mate Boatswain Gunner and Carpenter or two of themat least do constantly lye on board whilst the Ship shall have any goods remaining in her or shall forfeit and pay each of them for every such neglect to the use of of the Poor of this Corporation the sum of five shillings IV. Item Whereas by reason of Powder being taken aboard Ships before their departure out of the River of Thames The Penalty of taking or keeping Powder aboard but at such times and Places and by being kept aboard at their Return in the time of their unlading as also by the heating of Pitch Tar Rozine Grease Tallow Oyl c. aboard Ships there hath often happened great Losses by Fire to Merchants and Owners It is Order'd That no Ship outward bound do receive on board any Powder either for Merchandize or store for the Voyage before she shall be at or below Blackwall and not there till within twenty four hours before she shall set sail from thence to Gravesend and that every Ship homeward bound do put ashore her Powder as aforesaid at or before her arrival at Blackwall and that within twenty four hours if the Weather shall permit after her coming to an Anchor there or at the place of her unloading upon the penalty of the Master of every such ships forfeiting and paying to the use of the Poor of this Corporation for every time so offending