of His Majesties Navy and Ordnance How Carriages be provided for Navy and Ordnance IT is Enacted That from and after the 24th of June 1662 as often as the Service of His Majesties Navy or Ordnance shall require any Carriages by Land upon Notice given in Writing by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of the Lord High Admiral or under the Hands and Seals of Two or more of His Majesties Commissioners of the Navy or under Hand and Seal of the Master of the Ordnance or Lieutenant of the Ordnance for providing Carriages for the Navy or Ordnance unto Two or more Iustices dwelling near the place where the Carriages shall be required the Iustices may and shall issue their Warrants to the adjacent Parishes c. as they shall think fit within their respective Iurisdictions and Counties not being above Twelve Miles distant from the place of Lading for the sending to a certain place at a certain time to be mentioned in the Warrants such a number of Carriages with Horses and Oxen sufficient for the said Service as by the said Lord High Admiral Lord High Admiral c. Commissioners of the Navy or aforesaid Officers of the Ordnance shall be respectively required under their Hands and Seals the Owners of the respective Carriages shall receive for every Load of Timber per Mile Price for Carriages One Shilling for every reputed Mile they shall go Loaden and for other Provision the Sum of Eight Pence per Mile That it shall be lawful for the Lord High Admiral by Warrant under his Hand and Seal Pressing of Ships and Vessels for Carriage and for the aforesaid Principal Officers and Commissioners under their Hands and Seals of two or more as also for the Master of the Ordnance or for the Lieutenant of the Ordnance by Warrant under their Hands and Seals of either of them as often as His Majesties Service shall require Carriage by Water to appoint such person as they shall judge fit to impress and take up such Ships Hoys or Vessels as shall be necessary for Accommodation of His Majesties Service the Owners to be Paid by the Tun as usually by Merchants And if the Owners and His Majesties Officers cannot agree The Rates to be paid and how to be settled Then the Rate to be settled by the Brotherhood of Trinity-House Persons refusing to be punished and before whom If any Subject refuse or neglect on reasonable notice to make Appearance with sufficient Carriages or provide and furnish Ships or Lighters c. or shall after they have undertaken such service neglect or delay the same then upon due Proof Conviction of such neglect and refusal by the Oath of the Constable or other Officer or two other credible Witnesses before the said Iustices or Mayor or other chief Officer of the City c. for the Land Carriages For the Water-Carriages by the Oath of the Person appointed by Lord High Admiral the Principal Commissioners of the Navy or Master or Lieutenant of the Ordnance or two Credible Witnesses before the Officers and Commissioners of His Majesties Navy or Master or Lieutenant of the Ordnance shall for every refusal forfeit the Sum of 20 s. for the Land Carriage and for the Water Carriage Treble the Freight of such Ship c. not exceeding 50 l. in the whole To be forthwith Levied in default of Payment to His Majesties Vse by Warrant under the Hand of the aforesaid respective Officers before whom Proof and Conviction by distress rendring the Overplus if any Provided That no Horses Continuance in service c. shall be inforced to Travel more days Iourney from the Place they receive their Lading than expressed in Iustices Warrant And that ready payment shall be made at the Place of Lading without delay Present Payment according to the aforesaid Rates Provided No Gifts or Reward to be taken to spare any one That in Case any Iustice chief Officer Constable or Person by Lord High Admiral Commissioners of the Navy and Officers of the Ordnance respectively shall take any Gift or Reward to spare any Person or shall injuriously charge any Person through Envy c. who ought not to make such Carriages No more Carriages c. to be taken than necessary or shall Impress more Carriages than necessary or shall be commanded by his superiour Officer upon conviction shall forfeit 10 l. to the Party grieved to be sued for in His Maiesties Court of Record No Essoigne or Protection to be allowed And in case any Person shall take upon him to Impress any Horses No Person to Impress other than Authorized in this Act. c. Ships Hoys c. other than the Persons impower'd as aforesaid upon Conviction shall suffer Punishment in Stat. 12 Car. II. cap. 24. Penalty 12 Car. II. cap. 24 which ordains Commitment by Iustices of Offender and Treble Costs and Dammages to Party grieved Ships exempted Ships and Vessels Freighted by Charter-Party bona Fide if other Ships in Port fitting for Service or any Vessel laden with any Goods outward-bound shall not be liable to Impress for any the Services aforesaid Continuance of the Act. This Act to be in Force until the end of next Session of Parliament Revived for Seven Years per Statut. Anno 1 Jac. II. 4 Will. Mar. Inhabitants of New Forest of Southampton may be allowed 4 d. for every Mile for so many Miles as their Carriages shall go empty to Place of Lading Anno 16 Car. II. cap. v. An Act to prevent the disturbances of Seamen and others And to preserve the Stores belonging to His Majesties Navy Royal. I. REcites divers Fightings Recitals of disturbances in the Navy Yards c. Quarrels c. do often happen in His Majesties Yards Offices c. belonging to the Navy and frequent disorders happen in the Office of the Treasury of the Navy in Pay-Days in London c. either by the Turbulency of Seamen or Rudeness of Officers when questioned by the Commissioners about the Imbezlement of Stores Provisions c. II. It is Enacted Who may punish Offenders That the Treasurer Comptroller Surveyor Clerk of the Accounts and the Commissioners of the Navy for the time being or any Two or more of them have Power to Examine all such Offendors or Persons whom they upon their Inquiry or Examination or in view in their Presence shall find hereafter to make or have made any Disturbance Fighting or Quarrelling in the Yards or Offices aforesaid on Pay-Days or on other Occasions relating to the Naval Services as followeth viz. They or any Two of them may punish any of the said Offences by Fine Punishment Imprisonment or either of them the Fine not exceeding 20 s. and the Imprisonment not exceeding one Week and have power to Commit to next Goal or to Messenger attending on them Power to discharge Fine c. III. The Commissioners or the greater part then present
Offendor in case of no Goods to Commit the Party offending by Warrant under his or their Hands before whom Convicted For want of Distress to imprison to Imprison in the next Goal for any time not exceeding Three Months without Bail or Mainprize That the said Treasurer Power to enter into any Ship in Day time and Search for Goods Comptroller c. or any one or more of them upon Oath of Two or more Credible Witnesses testifying that His Majesties Goods Stores and Naval Provisions are conveyed into any Ship whatsoever and mentioning the Name of any such Ship being at Anchor and not ready to Sail that Tyde within any of the Roads Creeks c. within His Majesties Dominions any Person by their Warrant Warrant the manner of it in which Warrant the Quantity or Qualities of such Goods shall be specified thereunto authorized in the Day time in Presence of any known Officer of the Admiralty In Presence of known Officer of Admiralty shall have full power to go on Board any such Ships c. being within the places aforesaid and in Case of Resistance and Refusal to be made on Demand to enter and break open the Hatches and Cabbins or other Places of the Ship Break open Hatches c. and Search therein for any such Stores Ammunition c. or any other Naval Goods belonging to the Navy which have been imbezled and taken away And the same to Seize and carry into His Majesties Stores to be applied to the King's Vse unless the Officers and Commissioners of the Navy upon hearing the matter shall find they were unduly seized and thereupon restore them to Party claiming and reserves liberty to the Party grieved with the Iudgment of Commissioners to take his Remedy for the said Goods so Seized by due Course of Law Remedy to Party griev'd No Person to Personate any Seaman c. in the Presence of any Commissioners c. of Navy in order to receive Money Whatsoever Person shall be discovered fraudulently to personate any Seaman Soldier Artificer or Workman aforesaid in the Presence of any of His Majesties Commissioners aforesaid or in Presence of Pay-Master or Cashier of His Navy in order to receive any Money due from His Majesty to the Seaman Soldier c. aforesaid the Person offending may be immediately Committed to Prison by any the Principal Officers and Commissioners until he or they find Bayl to answer the same at next Assizes or Quarter Sessions And being thereof Convicted shall Forfeit Double the Sum he would by such Fraud have gained to the Governour of the Chest at Chatham Punishment for the use of the use of the Poor there and suffer Imprisonment not exceeding a Year Every Person who shall Counterfeit the Hands of the Treasurer None to counterfeit Hands of Treasurer c. Comptroller Surveyor Clerk of the Acts or of the Commissioners of the Navy or the Hand or Hands of any other Signing or Vouching Officers of His Majesties Navy Ships or Yards or of any of them to any Bill Ticket or other Power by vertue whereof the Naval Treasure is or may be disposed of and shall knowingly produce any such counterfeit Bill Ticket or other Paper may be Committed to Prison by the said Officers or Commissioners until he find Suretys to appear at next Assizes Commit to Goal or Quarter Sessions for the County where committed there to be proceeded against according to Law That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Treasurer Power given to administer Oaths Comptroller Surveyor Clerk of the Acts and the Commissioners of the Navy or any one of them to administer Oaths in any Case relating to the receiving keeping issuing and accounting for any part of His Majesties Treasure Victuals Stores or Provisions of the Navy or for the preservation of due Order and Discipline therein in all matters cognizable by the said Officers and Commissioners General Liberty given to execute their power That the said Treasurer Comptroller c. and Commissioners of the Navy and every one of them may execute all the powers given by this Act on all Offendors in all places as well within Liberties as without But 5 s. to be taken for Probate Will c. That no Ordinary Register or other Officer belonging to Ecclesiastical Court or Courts of Orphans or any Iurisdiction whatsoever shall take of the Executor or Administrator being Wife Child or Children or next of Kindred of any Mariner c. Except where Party deceased leave an Estate of 20 l. or more dying in the Pay of His Majesties Navy Of an Estate not exceeding 20 l. above the sum of Five Shillings for the whole Charges of the Probate of any Will Registring the same Granting of her Letters of Administration c. or doing any matter relating thereto Every Officer performing his Duty in the said Probate to have his proportion Officers not performing Duty If any such Officer presume to take more than Five Shillings for the whole Probate of the Will or shall wilfully delay the doing the premises the Person so offending shall forfeit 10 l. Forfeit 10 l. to Party grieved to be recovered by Action of Debt in His Majesties Courts at Westminster and there no Essoigne or Protection c. Provided that no Clause c. in this Act contained shall repeal alter or change any the Clauses or things specified in one Act of Parliament 22 Car. II. cap. v. This Act to extend to Lord High Admiral Provided That all the Powers hereby given to any Officer or Commissioner of the Navy may be exercised by Lord High Admiral for time being Provided That no Offendor punisht by this Act shall be punisht in any other manner for the same Offence Offence not to be twice punished This Act to continue Seven Years from the First Day of June 1671. Continuance of the Act. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament Nota This Act is continued for Seven Years longer per Statut. 1 Jac. II. Intituled An Act for continuance of several Acts of Parliament therein mentioned and the same Act of Continuance Enlarged per Statut 4 5 Will. Mar. from the 13th of Febr. 1692 for the space of Seven Years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament Anno 1 Will. Mar. An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths Sect. 10. Workmen and Warrant Officers in the Fleet. IT 's Enacted That all and every Commission-Officer and non-Commission or Warrant Officers that are already employed in Their Majesties Service by Sea or Land shall take the Oaths appointed by this Statute and also make repeat and subscribe the Declaration made in the Statute 30 Car. II. before the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty To take Oaths before Admiral or such other persons as Their Majesties
shall appoint to administer and accept the same respectively And that all and every such Persons as shall hereafter be put into any Imployment either by Sea or Land Persons hereafter to be Officers to take Oaths c. shall before the delivery of such Commission or Warrant to such Officer take the said Oaths and make repeat and subscribe before the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty or their Deputies as aforesaid or such Persons who shall issue such Warrant or Commission or such other Person as shall be authorized to administer the same as aforesaid respectively who are authorized to administer and receive tender and accept the same And all Officers that shall refuse to take the said Oaths and make and Subscribe the said Declaration Refusal incapable shall be incapable of receiving taking or holding such Office or Imployment The Form of the Oath The Form of the Declaration Anno 2 Will. Mar. An Act concerning the Commissioners of the Admiralty Commissioners of Admiralty REcites Whereas the Office of Lord High Admiral of England has bin exercised by divers Commissioners appointed by Their Majesties and the late Kings and doubt hath been whether certain Authorities belonging to the Office of Lord High Admiral may or ought to have been exercised by such Commissioners Now for avoiding all doubts Be it Declared and Enacted Commissioners to have such Powers as Lord High Admiral That all and singular Authorities Iurisdictions and Powers which by any Act of Parliament or otherwise have been and are lawfully vested in Lord High Admiral have always appertained to and of Right might have been and might and shall be had used and enjoyed by Commissioners for Executing the Office of the Admiral Not give larger Power than Lord High Admiral Proviso That nothing in this Act give any other Power to Commissioners c. than Lord High Admiral lawfully had Proviso Officers of Court Martial to take Oath That upon Tryals Offenders by Court Marshal by vertue of any Commission by Lord High Admiral or Commissioners of Admiralty Every Officer present shall before proceeding to Tryal take an Oath before the Court in these Words following You shall Well and Truly Try and Determine the Matter now before you Form of Oath between our Sovereign Lord and Lady the King and Queen's Majesty and the Prisoners now to be Try'd Anno 4 5 Will. Mar. An Act for continuing the Acts for Prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France and for the Encouragement of Privateers REcites Two former Acts 1 W. M. And Enacts To continue Three Years from the end of the Session of Parliament and to the end of the then next Session of Parliament Sect. II. Recites It to be necessary to encourage the setting out private Ships of War so as under the pretence of taking Prize no Evil-minded Persons should carry on a Trade with France It is Enacted That all Ships and Vessels with their Ladings and all Goods and Merchandizes that shall be taken and seized as Prize Prize to be brought into Port without breaking Bulk into Hands of Commissioners either by Their Majesties Ships or by any Privateers or otherwise shall be Imported and brought into some of the Ports of this Kingdom and immediately without breaking Bulk be put into the hands of Commissioners for Prizes or their Officers who together with Two or more persons as the Officers or Mariners of the respective Ships shall intrust as also such persons as the Commissioners of the Customs shall appoint are to take care and preserve the same from Imbezlement until the same be adjudged lawful Prize To preserve from imbezlement Except where it shall appear to Iudge of the Admiralty that the Goods taken are perishable If Goods perishable may be sold in which Case the Iudge shall take Bayl for such Goods in order to Sale as before the making this Act yet so as to be subject to the Distribution by this Act directed III. Prize Goods after condemnation to be Entred and Landed in Port. That notwithstanding former Acts if Goods and Merchandizes by them Prohibited to be Imported into this Kingdom shall be bona Fide without Fraud taken as Prize by any private Ship of War or by any of His Majesties Ships and shall be adjudged Prize It shall be lawful for Commissioners of Prizes or their Agents so soon as may be after adjudged Prize to cause the same to be Entred and Landed and to be brought into His Majesties Ware-house of such Port where such Goods c. are Imported there to remain until Sold as hereafter directed IV. Prize Goods to be sold by Inch of Candle That as soon as may be after the said Goods shall be adjudg'd Prize and Landed as aforesaid the same shall be by Commissioners of Prizes or their Officers in the presence of such Persons as shall be intrusted by such Ships of War publickly and openly Sold by Inch of Candle Publick Notice being first given at the Market Cross Fourteen days Publick Notice of Sale to be given or other most Publick Place of the said Port as also upon the Exchange in the Port of London of the Quantity and Quality of Goods c. to be Sold and of the Time and Place of Sale Division of the Prize in Case taken by Privateer V. Out of the Proceed of such Sale the Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage and all other Duties and Impositions payable to Their Majesties for such Goods c. shall be deducted and answered to Their Majesties and the Neat Proceed of the said Sale after such deductions in Case such Prize was taken by private Man of War How the Cargo to be divided shall be divided into Five Parts of which Four Parts shall be answered and Paid to the Person interessed in the said Privateer which took the Prize the other Fifth Part to His Majesty And in Case any such Prize taken by Private Man of War How the Ship to be disposed of the Ship or Vessel so surprized or taken as Prize and all the Arms and Ammunition Tackle c. and Furniture thereof shall be had enjoyed by the Person interessed in the Privateer which took the said Ship And in Case such Prize was taken by His Majesties Ships How distributed in Case Prize taken by King's Ship the said Neat Proceed after Sale as aforesaid and such Deductions as aforesaid to be divided into Three equal Parts One Third to the Captain Mariners and Seamen surprising the said Prize to be distributed according to the usual Custom on such Declaration as Their Majesties shall make in that behalf Provided That one Third Part shall be divided among the Ships Crew One Third to the Treasurer of His Majesties Navy for the Relief of Sick and Wounded Seamen and the Widows and Children and impotent Parents of Persons then in His Majesties Service at Sea the other Third Part to
in the Realm And where any of the Offences be committed out of the Realm in such Case the same may be alledged and laid in any County within this Realm Proviso That no Person Tryed by a Court Marshal to be Tryed c. Proviso Proviso That no Person who shall be Tryed by a Court Marshal for the same Offence be Tryed by vertue of this Act c. Proviso That this Act shall continue in force for Three Years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament Anno 7 8 Will. An Act for the Encrease and Encouragement of Seamen c. FOrasmuch as the Strength and Safety of His Majesties Dominions do much depend on the supplying His Royal Navy with a competent number of able Seamen which may be ready at all times for that Service Preamble To Invite great Numbers of His Majesties Subjects to betake themselves to Sea It is fit some provision should be made that Seamen who by Age Wounds or other Accidents should become disabled for future Service at Sea and shall not be in a condition to maintain themselves comfortably may not fall under Hardships and Misery but may be supported at the Publick Charge And that the Children of such disabled Seamen And also the Widows and Children of such Seamen who shall happen to be Slain or Drowned in Sea Service may in some reasonable manner be Provided for and Educated His Majesty and Her late Majesty determined That an Hospital should be Erected and Endowed for the purposes aforesaid And in order thereto by their Letters Patent gave a Parcel of Ground in the Mannor of East Geeenwich and Their Palace standing upon Their said Ground and several other Buildings and things mentioned in the said Letters Patents to the intent that they should be converted to the Service of an Hospital for the Relief of Seamen their Widows and Children and Incouragement of Navigation And whereas His Majesty in further execution of his Pious Intention for the Founding of an Hospital at Greenwich for the purposes aforesaid hath by His Letters Patents dated the 10th of December 1695. Constituted Commissioners and Granted an Annual Sum payable out of the Treasury and given divers proper Directions and Authorities for carrying on and perfecting the said Hospital and the Maintenance thereof and of the Persons to be placed therein And to the Intent that such Mariners Watermen Seamen Fishermen Lightermen Bargemen and Keelmen or Seafaring Men being natural Born Subiects of this Realm or any of His Majesties Dominions or being in England and above the Age of 18 Years or under the Age of Fifty Years Persons under the Age of 50 and above 18. and being capable of the Sea Service who shall be willing to Enter and Register himself for the Service of His Majesty in His Royal Fleet or Navy may by himself or any person by him thereunto in Writing Authorized or Imployed deliver and give in his Christian Name and Sirname with his Age and Place of his Abode and Habitation unto such Officers as shall be appointed for the Registring of Seamen as is herein after mentioned And that such and so many Publick Officers for the Registring the Persons for Sea Service as aforesaid Offices and Officers for Registring Seamen c. shall be kept at His Majesties Charge at the Navy-Office in London and such of the Principal Officers of the Navy or other Persons shall be appointed thereto And the making and keeping such Register shall be perform'd in such Forms and Methods as His Majesty or the Commissioners of the Admiralty shall from time to time prescribe and appoint So as that in the said Register there shall be Entred down and Registred in Order and Course of Time as well the Names Sir-names Additions Ages Place of Abode or Habitation of all and every such Mariner Seaman Waterman Fisherman Lighterman Bargeman Keelman or Seafaring Man as aforesaid And also the true Days and Times of such Registry or Entry for which no Fee Reward or Gratuity whatsoever shall be demanded or received other than from His Majesty And if any Person shall knowingly make or cause to be made in any of the said Offices any False Entries of any Person 's Name Wilful mis-entry of Seamen c. he shall forfeit the sum of one Hundred Pounds one Moyety to His Majesty and the other to such Person as shall Sue for the same The respective Registerers to be appointed Oaths to be taken by Registerers shall before their Entrance thereinto or intermedling therewith take an Oath before the Iudge of the Admiralty or before Two or more of His Majesties Iustices of the Peace for that County c. wherein such Office shall be for the true and faithful Execution thereof That the said Navy Office or such other Office as shall be appointed by His Majesty shall be called the Head Office whereto all the other Registerers in the Sea-Ports shall from Time to Time without any Fee save from His Majesty give Certificates under their Hands and Seals of the Numbers Names Places of Abode and Additions of all Seamen Watermen c. that shall be Registred within their respective Offices And of the true Times when such Entry was first made which Certificates shall by the said Register be Filed in Course of Time as they came in and the Names of the Seamen c. therein mentioned shall be in order of Time and without any undue Preference Entred and Registred there also So that in that Office the Number Names Places of Habitation of all Seafaring Men Registred throughout the Kingdom and their respective Time of coming in to be Registred may from time to time appear a true Copy of which shall once a Year Commissioners of Admiralty to have Copies of the Registry or oftner if required be given by the Officers at the Head-Office to the Commissioners of the Admiralty who are to give timely directions that such of them as they shall find most proper for His Majesties Service may from time to time in each Year be disposed for the Service of the Fleet in every or any Year beginning from the First of January during which the Number of Registred Seamen then alive shall not exceed 30000. Every Registred Seaman shall be allowed from His Majesty whether he be in actual Service or not the Yearly Sum of 40 s over and above such other Pay as he shall be Intituled to by being in His Majesties Service And in every Year during which the Registred Seamen then alive shall exceed 30000 there shall in like manner be allowed 40 s. a Year to each of the first 30000 Registred Reward to Registred Seamen And moreover none but such Registred Persons shall be Preferred to any Commission or Warrant Offices in the Navy and every such Registred Seaman being in His Majesties Service in a Foreign Voyage may appoint to his Wife or any Person any part or proportion of the
as a Land Soldier but only as a Seaman in His Majesties Fleet. Proviso Not to hinder person from serving as Chaplain or Chirurgion Provided always That nothing in this Act extends to the debarring any Person from being a Chaplain Chirurgeon or any other Officer in any Office of the Navy not of necessity to be executed by a Seafaring Man Anno 7 8 Will. III. An Act for the better Security of His Majesties Royal Person and Government Sect. 6. IIt's Enacted Officers Civil and Military That all and every Person and Persons that shall be admitted entred and placed or taken into any Office or Offices Civil or Military or receive any Pay Salary Fee or Wages by reason of any Patent or Grant of His Majesty or shall have Command or Place of Trust from or under His Majesty or by His Authority or by Authority derived from His Majesty within England c. or in His Majesties Navy Officers in Navy or in the several Islands of Jersey and Guernsie or any of His Majesties Family or Houshold shall subscribe the Association mentioned in the same Section To subscribe Association at the same time they shall make and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in Statut. 25 Car. II. Intituled An Act for preventing Dangers from Popish Recusants Persons refusing incapable Sect. 7. That the Persons refusing to Sign the said Association in the respective Courts and Places shall ipso facto be adjudged incapable and disabled in Law to enjoy the said Places or any benefit by them And the Places and Offices to be void Penalty on Refusers Sect. 8. That all Persons that shall neglect or refuse to Sign the said Association within the Times and at the Places aforesaid yet after such refusal shall execute such Place either by themselves or his or their Trustee or Deputy after the Times expired and being thereof Convict shall be subject to the Penalties in the last recited Act mentioned Persons at Sea at the making the Act c. Sect. 14. Proviso That this Act do not extend to any Person in His Majesties Service on Board the Fleet or beyond Seas or shall go beyond Seas in His Majesties Service before the 25th May 1696. So as such Person subscribe the said Association according to the appointment of this Act within Three Months after his return Civil and Military Commissions not to determine Nota By this Act it is Enacted That no Commission either Civil or Military shall Cease Determine or be Void by reason of the Death or Demise of His Majesty or any his Successors but that every such Commission to remain in Force for Six Months after unless superseded by the next and immediate Successor according to the Act of Settlement 1 Will. Mariae Anno 7 8 Will. III. An Act for Granting His Majesty an Aid of Four Shillings in the Pound for Carrying on the War against France AT the end of the Act it 's Enacted Cruisers That over and above the Ships for the Line of Battel and for Convoys to remote Parts at the least 4 Ships of the Third Rate 16 of the Fourth Rate 13 of the Fifth Rate 10 of the Sixth Rate shall from time to time be directed to Cruise at such Stations as Commissioners of the Admiralty shall deem fit In case of necessity may be in Line of Battel Proviso In case of necessity this Act not to hinder the Commissioners of the Admiralty from directing any of the said Ships to be in the Line of Battel Admiral to give Certificate to Parliament That it may appear how the service for appointing Cruisers in proper Stations to secure Merchants Ships is performed Lords of the Admiralty c. to give a Certificate under their Hands to the next Session of Parliament of the Ships so set out in pursuance of the directions by this Act expressing the Names and Rates of the Ships Anno 7 8 Will. III. An Act for preventing Fraud and regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade Naval Stores may be Imported in Forein built Ships AMongst other things it 's Enacted That Masts Timber and other Naval Stores for His Majesties service for the space of Three Years may be Imported from His Majesties Colonies or Plantations into this Kingdom Appointed by Commissioners of Navy in such Foreign-built Ships as shall be imployed by His Majesties Commissioners of Navy Anno 7 8 Will. III. An Act for the more effectual preventing the Exportation of Wool and for the Encouragement of the Importation thereof from Ireland Sect. ult IT 's Enacted That the Lord High Admiral c. shall from time to time appoint one Ship of the Fifth Rate Two Ships of the sixth Rate and Four Armed Sloops constantly to Cruise from off the North Foreland to the Isle of Wight with Orders for Taking and Seizing all Ships Vessels or Boats which shall Export any Wool or carry or bring any Prohibited Goods or suspected Persons Per Stat. 25 Car. II Nota. All Officers Civil and Military and all Officers in the Navy are to receive the Sacrament in some Parish Church within Three Months after being in their Places or having Grant thereof And in Court of Kings Bench or Chancery at Westminster or at a Quarter Sessions for the County and deliver a Certificate in Court of their receiving the Sacrament And are to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Which see before Setled in 1 Will. Mar. and make the Declaration following I A. B. do Declare That I do believe That there is not in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper any Transubstantiation in the Element of Bread and Wine at or after the Consecration thereof by any Person whatsoever The Penalty for neglecting to take the Oaths and make the Declaration and Subscribe thereto is to be disabled to Sue to be Guardian Executor or Administrator or capable of any Legacy to bear any Office and to Forfeit 500 l. to Person that will Sue for the same Sect. 15. This Act extends not to Non-Commission Officers of the Navy so they subscribe and make the Declaration before-mentioned Anno 8 9 Will. III. An Act to Enforce the Act for Encouragement of Seamen REcites the Clause in the Act 7 8 Will. III. whereby it is Enacted Sect. 1. Recital of the Act for Registring Seamen as to so much as concerns the relief of disabled and slain Seamen their Widows and Children That for Relief and Benefit of Registred Seamen c. who by Age Wounds or other Accidents shall be disabled for future Service at Sea and shall not be able to maintain themselves comfortably and the Children of such disabled Seamen and the Widows and Children of such of them as shall happen to be Slain Kill'd or Drown'd in Sea-Service so far forth as the Hospital shall be capable to receive them and the Revenue thereof to maintain them Every such Seaman c. Registred and