Henry late Lord Abergavenny to sell certain Lands for payment of his Debts and Preferment of his Brother and Sisters An Act for the Naturalizing of Francis Brudenel Esq Son and Heir Apparent of the Right Honourable Robert Lord Brudenel and of the Right Honourable Anna Maria Countess of Shrewsbury Daughter of the said Lord Brudenell and now Wife of the Right Honourable Francis Earl of Shrewsbury An Act for the Reviving a Settlement of certain Lands on John Orlibeare for life the Remainder to the Sons of the said John successively and the Heirs Males of their Bodies c. An Act for Confirming and Continuing an Act for the necessary Maintenance of the Work of Draining the great Level of the Fens An Act for Confirming of an Inclosure of Land formerly used for a Common High-way from Parsons Green to Southfield in Fulham and the Setling of other Land for a Common High-way in lieu thereof An Act enabling Trustees to sell certain Lands and Tenements in the Counties of Suffolk and Norfolk for payment of the Debts of Richard Gipps Esq and providing Portions for his younger Children Anno decimo tertio Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae c. The Second Meeting of the Parliament 1 AN Act for the well governing and regulating of Corporations Cap. 1. fol. 90. 2 An Act for prevention of Vexations and Oppressions by Arrests and of delayes in Suits of Law Cap. 2. fol. 91. 3 An Act for granting unto the Kings Majesty Twelve hundred and threescore thousand pounds to be Assessed and Levied by an Assessment of Threescore and ten thousand pounds by the moneth for Eighteen moneths Cap. 3. fol. 93 EXP. 4 An Act to Enable the Kings Majesty to make Leases Grants and Copies of Offices Lands Tenements and Hereditaments parcel of his Highness Dutchy of Cornwal or annexed to the same and for Confirmation of Leases and Grants already made Cap. 4. fol. 93. Private Acts. AN Act for Confirming an Act for Restoring of the Marquess of Hertford to the Dukedom of Somerset An Act for Confirming an Act for Restitution of Thomas Earl of Arundel Surrey and Norfolk to the Dignity and Title of Duke of Norfolk An Act for Confirming of Private Acts. An Act for dividing Trinity Church in Kingston upon Hull from Hasle An Act to enable Algernon Peyton Doctor of Divinity to make Sale of part of his Lands for payment of Debts Anno Decimo tertio decimo quarto Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae c. 1 AN Act for preventing the mischiefs and dangers that may arise by certain Persons called Quakers and others refusing to take lawful Oaths Cap. 1. fol. 94. 2. An Act for Repairing the High-ways and Sewers and for Paving and keeping clean of the Streets in and about the Cities of London and Westminster and for reforming of Annoyances and Disorders in the Streets of places adjacent to the said Cities and for the Regulating and Licensing of Hackney Coaches and for the enlarging of several strait inconvenient Streets and Passages Cap. 2. fol. 95. Anno Decimo quarto Caroli Secundi Regis c. 3 AN Act for Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdome Cap. 3. fol. 102. 4 An Act for the Uniformity of Publike Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies And for Establishing the Form of Making Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons in the Church of England Cap. 4. fol. 108. 5 An Act for Regulating the Making of Stuffs in Norfolk and Norwich Cap. 5. fol. 115. 6 An Act for Enlarging and Repairing common High-ways Cap. 6. fol. 119. 7 An Act to Restrain the Exportation of Leather and Raw Hides out of the Realm of England Cap. 7. fol. 123. 8 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 Cap. 8. fol. 125. EXP. 9 An Act for the relief of poor and maimed Officers and Souldiers who have faithfully served His Majesty and his Royal Father in the late Wars cap. 9. fol. 125. 10 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 cap. 10. fol. 126. 11 An Act for preventing Frauds and regulating abuses in his Majesties Customs cap. 11. fol. 130. 12 An Act for the better Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom cap. 12. fol. 138. 13 An Act prohibiting the Importation of Forreign Bonelace Cut-Work Imbroidery Fringe Bandstrings Buttons and Needlework cap. 13. fol. 143. 14 An Act directing the Prosecution of such as are accountable for Prize-Goods cap. 14. fol. 144. 15 An Act for Regulating the Trade of Silk-Throwing cap. 15. fol. 145. 16 An Act for the more speedy and effectual bringing those persons to Account whose Accounts are excepted in the Act of Oblivion cap. 16. fol. 147. 17 An Act for relief of Collectors of Publick Moneys and their Assistants and Deputies cap. 17. fol. 148. 18 An Act against exporting of Sheep Wooll Wooll-fells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Wooll-flocks Fullers-Earth Fulling-Clay and Tobacco-pipe-clay cap. 18. fol. 148. 19 An Act against Importing of Forreign Wooll-cards Card-wire or Iron-wire cap. 19. fol. 150. 20 An Act for providing Carriage by Land and by Water for the use of his Majesties Navy and Ordnance cap. 20. fol. 151. 21 An Act for preventing the unnecessary Charge of Sheriffs and for ease in passing their Accounts cap. 21. fol. 152. 22 An Act for preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England cap. 22. fol. 155. 23 An Additional Act concerning matters of Assurance used amongst Merchants cap. 23. fol. 156. 24 An Act declaratory concerning Bankrupts cap. 24 fol. 458. 25 An Act for the restoring of all such Advowsons Rectories Impropriate Gleab-lands and Tythes to his Majesties Loyal Subjects as were taken from them and making void certain Charges imposed on them upon their Compositions for Delinquency by the late Usurped Powers cap. 25. fol. 158. 26 An Act for reforming of Abuses committed in the weight and false packing of Butter cap. 26. fol. 159. 27 An Act for repairing of Dover Harbor cap. 27. fol. 161. 28 An Act for the regulating of the Pilchard Fishing in the Counties of Devon and Corn-wall cap. 28. fol. 162. 29 An Act for the reversing the Earl of Strafford his Attainder cap. 29. fol. 163. 30 An Act for the Importing of Madder pure and unmixed cap. 30. fol. 163. Rep. 15. Car. 2. cap. 16. 31 An Act to prevent the Inconvenience arising by melting the Silver-Coyn of this Realm cap. 31. fol. 164. 32 An Act for the better Regulating of the Manufacture of Broad Woollen Cloth within the West-riding of the County of York cap. 32. fol. 164. 33 An Act for preventing the frequent abuses in Printing Seditious Treasonable and unlicensed Books and Pamphlets and for Regulating of Printing and Printing Presses cap. 33. fol.
Commission And in regard of the extraordinary duties which the Forces of the said City that now are and formerly were raised in Order to his Majesties happy Restauration have of late and may again be put to for the safety of his Majesties Person and for suppressing or preventing of Insurrections That it shall and may be lawful for his Majesties Lieutenants of the said City by Warrant from his Majesty to impose and levy yearly in the same so much money as they shall find néedful for defraying the Arrears of those first raised for his Majesties happy Restauration and the Arrears and necessary charge of those that now are and shall be raised with the Ammunition and other incident expences of their Militia in such manner as the present Assessment is now levied and not excéeding in any one year the proportion of One moneths Tax which the said City now pays towards the Tax of Seventy thousand pounds by the moneth And shall be accomptable for the same as by this Act is Ordained Any thing in this Act to the contrary of this Proviso in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for the Officers of Militia of cities and towns corporate Provided always That no Officer or Souldier of the Militia or Trained Bands belonging to any City Borough or Town Corporate being a County of it self or to any other Corporation or Port-Town who have used and accustomed to be Mustered only within their own Precincts shall be compellable to appear out of the Precincts or Liberties of the same City Borough Town-Corporate or Port-Town at any Muster or Exercise only and every of the said Cities Boroughs Towns-Corporate and Port-Towns are hereby chargeable to find their usual Number of Souldiers unless the respective Lieutenants find cause to lessen the same Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Covenants between Landlords and Tenants for providing Arms not to be avoyded by this Act. Provided That this Act or any thing herein contained shall not extend to avoid any Covenant or Agréement which hath béen or shall be made betwéen any Landlord and Tenant concerning the finding Horses or Arms or the bearing or paying of any Tares Rates or other charges by any Tenant either by general or special Covenants but that the said Taxes Rates or other Charges shall be born and paid by all respective Tenants according to the said Covenants and Agréements Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Isle of Wight Provided That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to make any alteration in the Isle of Wight as to the Militia in that place either to raise Horse or Foot within the said Island in any other manner then hath béen formerly and is now used and practised there Militia of the Tower Dâ—vision in Middlesex Provided also And be it Enacted That whereas the Militia of the Tower-Division in the County of Middlesex commonly known by the name of the Tower-Hamlets are and alwayes have béen under the Command of his Maiesties Constable or Lieutenant of the Tower for the Service and Preservation of that his Royal Fort That it shall and may be lawful for his Majesties Constable or Lieutenant of the Tower for the time being to continue to levy the Trained Bands of the said Division or Hamlets of the Tower in such manner and form as to the number and quality of persons as was observed in forming the present Forces thereof Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Proviso touching compelling men to march out of this Kingdom Provided That neither this Act nor any matter or thing therein contained shall be déemed construed or taken to extend to the giving or declaring of any power for the transporting of any the Subjects of this Realm or any way compelling them to march out of this Kingdom otherwise then by the Laws of England ought to be done Peers of the Realm how to be charged Provided always And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Péer of this Realm shall be charged with Horse Horse-men and Arms or Foot-souldiers and Arms otherwise or in any other manner then is herein after expressed that is to say that his Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall and may from time to time issue out Commissions under the great Seal of England to so many Péers not fewer then twelve as his Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall think fit who or any five or more of them shall have power from time to time to Assess all and every or any the Péers of this Realm according to the Limitations and Proportions in this Act appointed for the finding of horse Horse-men and Arms or Foot-Souldiers and Arms and for other the purposes in this Act mentioned except the Monethly Taxes which are to be levied as is before prescribed in this Act and shall have power to put in execution all and every the Powers and Authorities of this Act as well for laying Assessments as imposing of penalties Imprisonment of the person of any Péer of this Realm only excepted which Assessment or Charge so made together with such penalties as shall be so imposed imprisonment as aforesaid onely excepted shall be from time to time respectively certified to the respective Lieutenants of each County to the intent that the said Charge may be born and the penalties not before excepted levied according to the intent of this Act And that in case there shall be any default in performance of any thing to be done or paid by any Péer by vertue of this Act that then it shall be lawful for the respective Lieutenants Deputy-Lieutenants or any thrée of them to cause Distresses to be taken for the same in any of the lands of such Defaulter within their said Counties or Limits respectively And in case satisfaction shall not be given within the space of one wéek after such Distress taken then such Distresse to be sold for the performance of the said Service and the charge incident thereunto and the Overplus if any be to be restored to the Owner And if a Tenant of any Péer of this Realm shall be distrained for such default as aforesaid the Tenant so distrained is hereby enabled to deduct the sum levied out of his next Rent CAP. XIV There shall be Uniformity of Publique Prayers and administration of Sacraments other Rites and Ceremonies And of Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons in the Church of England VVHereas in the first year of the late Quéen Elizabeth there was one Vniforme Order of Common Service and Prayer and of the Administrations of Sacraments Rites and Ceremonies in the Church of England agréeable to the Word of God and usage of the Primitive Church compiled by the Reverend Bishops and Clergy set forth in one Book entituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies in the Church of England and enjoyned to be
Collegiate Church within England and Wales shall at their proper costs and charges before the Twenty fifth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty two obtain under the Great Seal of England a true and perfect printed Copy of this Act and of the said Book annexed hereunto to be by the said Deans and Chapters and their Successors kept and preserved in safety for ever and to be also produced and shewed forth in any Court of Record as often as they shall be thereunto lawfully required And also there shall be delivered true and perfect Copies of this Act and of the same Book into the respective Courts at Westminster and into the Tower of London to be kept and preserved for ever among the Records of the said Courts and the Records of the Tower to be also produced and shewed forth in any Court as néed shall require which said Books so to be exemplified under the Great Seal of England shall be examined by such persons as the Kings Majesty shall appoint under the Great Seal of England for that purpose and shall be compared with the Original Book hereunto annexed and shall have power to correct and amend in writing any Error committed by the Printer in the Printing of the same Book or of any thing therein contained and shall certifie in writing under their Hands and Seals or the hands and seals of any thrée of them at the end of the same Book that they have examined and compared the same Book and find it to be a true and perfect Copy which said Books and every one of them so exemplified under the Great Seal of England as aforesaid shall be déemed taken adjudged and expounded to be good and available in the Law to all intents and purposes whatsoever and shall be accounted as good Records as this Book it self hereunto annexed Any Law or Custome to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for the Kings Professor of Law in Oxford Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be prejudicial or hurtful unto the Kings Professor of the Law within the Vniversity of Oxford for or concerning the Prebend of Shipton within the Cathedral Church of Sarum united and annexed unto the place of the same Kings Professor for the time being by the late King James of blessed memory Provided alwayes Proviso concerning the 3â—th Article agreed in the Convocation Anno 1562. That whereas the Six and thirtieth Article of the Nine and thirty Articles agréed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy holden at London in the year of our Lord One thousand five hundred sixty two for the avoiding of diversities of Opinions and for establishing of consent touching true Religion is in these words following viz. That the Book of Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops and Ordaining of Priests and Deacons lately set forth in the time of King Edward the Sixth and confirmed at the same time by Authority of Parliament doth contain all things necessary to such Consecration and Ordaining neither hath it any thing that of it self is superstitious and ungodly And therefore whosoever are Consecrated or Ordered according to the Rites of that Book since the second year of the aforenamed King Edward unto this time or hereafter shall be Consecrated or Ordered according to the same Rites We decree all such to be rightly orderly and lawfully Consecrated and Ordered It be Enacted And be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Subscriptions hereafter to be had or made unto the said Articles by any Deacon Priest or Ecclesiastical person or other person whatsoever who by this Act or any other Law now in force is required to subscribe unto the said Articles shall be construed and be taken to extend and shall be applied for and touching the said Six and thirtieth Article unto the Book containing the form and manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons in this Act mentioned in such sort and manner as the same did heretofore extend unto the Book set forth in the time of King Edward the Sixth mentioned in the said Six and thirtieth Article Any thing in the said Article or in any Statute Act or Canon heretofore had or made to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided also That the Book of Common Prayer The Common Prayer used by Authority of Parliament 1. Eliz. to be used untill Bartholomew Day 1662. EXP. and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of this Church of England together with the form and manner of Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons heretofore in use and respectively established by Act of Parliament in the First and Eighth years of Quéen Elizabeth shall be still used and observed in the Church of England until the Feast of St. Bartholomew which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two EXP. as to this last Clause CAP. V. For Regulating the Making of Stuffs in Norfolk and Norwich WHereas divers abuses and deceipts have of late years béen had and used in the making of Worsteds and other Stuffs commonly called Norwich Stuffs and in the Réeling of Yarnes whereof the said Stuffs are either wholly or in part made which tends to the debasing of the said Manufacture unto the prejudice of the publique which said Trade of Weaving of Stuffs hath of late times béen very much increased and great variety of new sorts of Stuffs have béen invented 7 E. 4. cap. 1. so that the Power given by the Statute of the Seventh of Edward the Fourth Chapter the First is not sufficient for the Regulating of the same And that the number of the Wardens by the same Act appointed being but Eight are too few for the Governing and Ordering the same Trade by which means the same Manufacture will soon be lost if not prevented and carried into forreign Nations to the great diminution of His Majesties Customs and turning out of the work many thousands of poor people For prevention of which abuses deceipts and evils The number of Wardens and Assistants of Master Weavers in Norwich how and when to be chosen It is Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled in Parliament and by the Authority of the same That there shall be Twelve Wardens and Thirty Assistants all which are to be Master-Weavers within the County of the City of Norwich and County of Norfolk sir of which said Wardens and fiftéen of the said Assistants shall be chosen the first Monday after Pentecost in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two and from thenceforth yearly and every year on the next Monday after Pentecost at some publique place by the Master-Weavers or the greater part of them present of the said City and County of Norwich And the other six
Enacted That all and every person and persons which since the five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty and two have acted or done any thing in the dismantling of any Cities or Towns or demolishing of Walls and Fortifications thereof or relating thereunto shall be and are hereby indempnified and saved harmless And whereas some doubt hath arisen upon the said Act what Estates shall be charged with or toward Foot Be it therefore Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid How persons may be charged with arms and for what estates That no person who hath an Estate of the yearly value of two hundred pounds or personal Estate of the value of two thousand four hundred pounds chargeable by the said Act shall be charged with or toward the finding any Foot and it shall be lawful for the respective Lieutenants and Deputies or any three or more of them to charge according to the proportions in the said Act any person who hath an Estate of the yearly value of one hundred pounds and under the yearly value of two hundred pounds or who hath a personal Estate of twelve hundred pounds and under the value of two thousand four hundred pounds chargeable by the said Act with or towards the finding of Foot or toward the finding of Horse as to their judgment shall séem most expedient for his Majesties Service Yet nevertheless this shall not be construed to extend to make any alterations in the provisions in the said or this Act concerning the Forces to be charged or raised in Cities Corporations and Port-Towns Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports to antient Towns and their Members and in his absence The Cinque-Ports his Lieutenant or Lieutenants shall and may put in execution within the said Ports Towns and Members all the Powers and Authorities given and granted by this and the said former Act and to execute and perform all and every the things therein contained in the like manner as the respective Lieutenants of the Counties and their Deputies may do and may kéep up and continue the usual numbers of Souldiers in the said Ports Towns and Members unless they find cause to lessen the same And that the Inhabitants of the said Ports Towns and Members being in regard of their scituation on the Sea-coasts charged with a greater proportion of Arms and Armed men then other parts of the Kingdom shall not be charged with Arms or Armed men in the Counties adjacent for their Estates there lying save only for such proportion as they are lyable unto and either are not or shall not be charged with within the said Ports Towns and Members Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding St. Martins Parish in Stamford Baron in Lincolnshire Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Inhabitants and Revenues of or in the Parish of Saint Martin called Stamford Baron in the Suburbs of the Borough and Town of Stamford on the South-side of the Waters there called Welland may be Assessed and Charged to find and serve in the Trained Bands of the County of Lincoln as formerly according to the said mentioned Act and this present Act by the Lieutenant and Deputy-Lieutenants for the County of Lincoln for the time being in such manner as any persons or estates within the said County of Lincoln may be by them assessed and charged to the purposes aforesaid And they of Saint Martin aforesaid are hereby declared to be well and legally assessed and charged by the said Lieutenant and Deputy-Lieutenants respectively CAP. V. For Regulating Select Vestries FOr prevention of the evils which may arise from Vestry-men not Conforming to the Government and Discipline of the Church of England as it now is by Law established Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by the Advice and with the Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That all and every person who now is a Vestry-man or member of any Vestry within any Parish in the Cities of London and Westminster Borough of Southwark and wéekly Bills of Mortality and in all other Cities Boroughs and Towns Corporate where Select Vestries are used in the Kingdom of England All Vestry-men shall take and subscribe the Declaration in 14 Car. 2. c. 4. on or before the Nine and twentieth day of September next And all and every person who at any time hereafter shall be elected to be a Vestry-man or member of any Vestry within any Parish in any the places aforesaid within one moneth after such his Election shall before the respective Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary Vicar-General or Chancellor of the Diocess make and subscribe the Declaration and Acknowledgment enjoyned in the late wholsom good Act Entituled An Act for the Uniformity of Publick Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies and for establishing the Form of Making Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons in the Church of England in these words following I A. B. Do declare That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take up Arms against the King and that I do abhor that Traiterous Position of taking Arms by His Authority against His Person or against those that are Commissionated by him And that I will conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England as it is now by Law established And I do declare That I do hold there lies no Obligation upon me or on any other person from the Oath commonly called The Solemn League and Covenant to endeavour any change or alteration of Government either in Church or State And that the same was in it self an unlawful Oath and Imposed upon the Subjects of this Realm against the known Laws and Liberties of this Kingdome The penalty And that all and every such person who shall neglect or refuse to do the same within the respective times aforesaid shall ipso facto be deprived of such his place of Vestry-man and of being a Member of such Vestry to all intents and purposes And such place shall be actually void as if such person were naturally dead Any Vsage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding And that from and after such neglect or refusal it shall be lawful for all persons who shall have right of Election or nomination of such Vestry-man or member of such Vestry to procéed to election or nomination of some other discréet person of the respective Parish in the room of such person so neglecting or refusing as aforesaid And if such person so to be elected in the room of such person so neglecting or refusing as aforesaid shall also neglect or refuse to make and subscribe the said Declaration and Acknowledgment in manner and time aforesaid whereby such place shall again become void or if such persons who shall have right of Election or nomination
as aforesaid shall not procéed to Election within one moneth after such vacancy then it shall be lawful to and for the respective Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocess under his hand and Seal to Elect and nominate a discréet person of the respective Parish in such vacant room which person so to be elected and nominated after his making and subscription in manner and time aforesaid shall be and shall to all intents and purposes be reputed déemed and taken to be a Vestry-man or member of such Vestry in like manner as if he had béen chosen by the respective Electors Any Law Custom or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective Arch-bishop Bishop or Ordinary Vicar-General or Chancellor of the Diocess shall upon request to him made by any Vestry-man so making and subscribing the said Declaration and Acknowledgment aforesaid deliver a Certificate of his so doing for which no Fée shall be paid Provided always That nothing in this Act shall be construed to give any new power to any Select Vestry-man or to confirm any usurped power heretofore exercised by any Select Vestry-man which before the making of this Act is not Warranted by the Law of the Land Provided also The continuance of this Act. That this Act shall continue in force to the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer CAP. VI. An Act for 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. VVHereas by an Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for Uniformity of Publick Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies 14 Car. 2. c. 4. and for establishing the Form of Making Ordaining and consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons in the Church of England It was Enacted That every Dean Canon and Prebendary of every Cathedral or Collegiate Church and all Masters and Fellows of any Colledg Hall House of Learning or Hospital and every Parson Vicar Curate and every other person in Holy Orders who upon the first day of May which should be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two or at any time thereafter should be Incumbent or have possession of any Deanry Canonry Prebendry Mastership Fellowship Parsonage Vicarage or any other Ecclesiastical Dignity or Promotion should before the Feast day of Saint Bartholomew which should be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two subscribe the Declaration or acknowledgment in the said Act mentioned and expressed before their respective Archbishops Bishops Ordinaries or Vice-Chancellors of the respective Vniversities upon pain that all and every of the persons aforesaid failing in such subscription should lose and forfeit such respective Deanry Canonry Prebendry Mastership Fellowship Parsonage Vicarage Ecclesiastical Dignity or Promotion and should be utterly disabled and ipso facto deprived of the same And that every such respective Deanry Canonry Prebendry Mastership Fellowship Parsonage Vicarage Ecclesiastical Dignity or Promotion should be void as if such person so failing were naturally dead And that after such subscription made every such Parson Vicar Curate and Lecturer should procure a Certificate under the hand and Seal of the respective Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocess and should publickly and openly read the same together with the Declaration or acknowledgment aforesaid upon some Lords-Day within thrée moneths then next following in his Parish Church where he was to officiate in the presence of the Congregation there assembled in the time of Divine-Service upon pain that every person failing therein should lose such Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice respectively and should be utterly disabled and ipso facto deprived of the same And that the said Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice should be void as if he were naturally dead And whereas divers persons of eminent Loyalty to his Majesty and of known affection to the Liturgy of the Church of England who by the said Act were required to subscribe the said Declaration or Acknowledgment at the time of the passing of the said Act were out of this Realm in Ireland or other parts beyond the Seas upon lawful and justifiable occasions and had no knowledg or notice thereof until their return into England being after the said Feast of St. Bartholomew And divers other of the said Loyal and wel-affected persons by reason of sickness imprisonment disability of body or otherwise could not or did not resort unto their respective Archbishops Bishops or Ordinaries or Vice-Chancellors of the respective Vniversities before whom such subscription was appointed by the said Act to be made All which said persons are by force of the said Act utterly disabled and ipso facto deprived of their respective Deanries Canonries Prebendries Masterships Fellowships Parsonages Vicarages or other Ecclesiastical Benefices or Promotions by reason of such their omission For remedy whereof and for the relief of such persons Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That all Deans Canons Prebendaries Masters and Fellows of any Colledges Halls or other Houses of Learning and all Parsons Vicars and other Ecclesiastical persons aforesaid who at the time of the passing of the said Act being in Ireland or any the parts beyond the Seas did not return into this Kingdom before the said Feast of Saint Bartholomew One thousand six hundred sixty and two or who being in England by Imprisonment Sickness Disability of Body or otherwise did not resort unto their respective Archbishop Bishop Ordinary or Vice-Chancellor of the said respective Vniversities to subscribe the said Declaration and Acknowledgment before the said Feast in the year of our Lord aforesaid shall be and are hereby declared to be restored unto and preserved in their respective Deanries Canonries Prebendries Masterships Fellowships Parsonages Vicarages and other Ecclesiastical Benefices and Promotions whereunto no other person or persons before the first day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and thrée were or shall be lawfully Instituted Inducted Collated or placed And shall and may hold and enjoy the same according to his and their former right The aforesaid Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided That every such Dean Canon Prebendary Master and Fellow of any Colledg Hall or House of Learning and all Parsons Vicars and Curates and other Ecclesiastical persons who are or shall by vertue of this Act be restored to or preserved in their said several and respective Promotions shall before the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord next ensuing if he be in England or if beyond the Seas within forty dayes after his return into England subscribe the said Declaration or
for the Establishing the Form of Making â—4 Car. 2. 〈◊〉 4 Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons in the Church of England according to the said Act or any other subsequent Act. And whereas they or some of them and divers other person and persons not Ordained according to the Form of the Church of England and as have since the Act of Oblivion taken upon them to Preach in unlawful Assemblies Conventicles or Méetings under colour or pretence of Exercise of Religion contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom have setled themselves in divers Corporations in England sometimes Thrée or more of them in a place thereby taking an opportunity to distill the poysonous Principles of Schism and Rebellion into the hearts of His Majesties Subjects to the great danger of the Church and Kingdom Be it therefore Enacted 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 Persons restrained from Inhabiting in Corporations and by the Authority of the same That the said Parsons Vicars Curates Lecturers and other persons in holy Orders or pretended holy Orders or pretending to holy Orders and all Stipendaries and other persons who have béen possessed of any Ecclesiastical or Spiritual Promotion and every of them who have not declared their unfeigned assent and consent as aforesaid and subscribed the Declaration aforesaid and shall not take and subscribe the Oath following The Oath I A. B. Do Swear That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King and that I do abhor that Traiterous Position of taking Arms by His Authority against His Person or against those that are Commissionated by him in pursuance of such Commissions And that I will not at any time endeavour any Alteration of Government either in Church or State And all such person and persons as shall take upon them to Preach in any unlawful Assembly Conventicle or Méeting under colour or pretence of any Exercise of Religion contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom shall not at any time from and after the Four and twentieth day of March which shall be in this present year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and five unless onely in passing upon the Road come or be within Five miles of any City or Town Corporate or Burrough that sends Burgesses to the Parliament within His Majesties Kingdom of England Principality of Wales or of the Town of Berwick upon Tweed or within Five miles of any Parish Town or place wherein he or they have since the Act of Oblivion béen Parson Vicar Curate Stipendary or Lecturer or taken upon them to Preach in any unlawful Assembly Conventicle or Méeting under colour or pretence of any Exercise of Religion contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom before he or they have taken and subscribed the Oath aforesaid before the Iustices of the Peace at their Quarter-Sessions to be holden for the County Riding or Division next unto the said Corporation City or Burrough Parish place or Town in open Court which said Oath the said Iustices are hereby Impowred there to Administer upon forfeiture for every such offence the sum of Fourty pounds of lawful English money The Penalty the one Third part thereof to His Majesty and his Successors the other Third part to the use of the poor of the Parish where the offence shall be committed and the other third part thereof to such person or persons as shall or will sue for the same by Action of Debt Plaint Bill or Information in any Court of Record at Westminster or before any Iustices of Assize Oyer and Terminer or Gaol-Delivery or before any Iustices of the Counties Palatine of Chester Lancaster or Durham or the Iustices of the great Sessions in Wales or before any Iustices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed Provided always and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons restrained from coming to any City Town Corporate Burrough Parish Town or place as aforesaid or for any other person or persons as shall not first take and subscribe the said Oath and as shall not frequent Divine Service established by the Laws of this Kingdom and carry him or her self reverently decently and orderly there to Teach any publique or private-School or take any Boarders or Tablers that are Taught or Instructed by him or her self or any other upon pain for every such offence to forfeit the sum of Forty pounds to be recovered and distributed as aforesaid Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall be lawful for any Two Iustices of the Peace of the respective County upon Oath to them of any offence against this Act which Oath they are hereby Impowred to Administer to Commit the Offender for Six moneths without Bail or Mainprise unless upon or before such Commitment he shall before the said Iustices of the Peace Swear and Subscribe the aforesaid Oath and Declaration Provided always That if any person intended to be Restrained by vertue of this Act shall without fraud or covin be Served with any Writ Subpoena Warrant or other Process whereby his personal appearance is required his obedience to such Writ Subpoena or Process shall not be construed an offence against this Act. CAP. III. For Uniting Churches in Cities and Towns Corporate FOrasmuch as the setled Provision for Ministers in most Cities and Towns Corporate within this Realm is not sufficient for the Maintenance of able Ministers fit for such places whereby Mean and Stipendary Preachers are entertained to serve the Cures there who wholly depending for their Maintenance upon the good will and liking of their Auditors have béen and are hereby under temptation of too much complying and suiting their Doctrine and Teaching to the humour rather then good of their Auditors which hath béen a great occasion of Faction and Schism and of the contempt of the Ministry The Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled being deeply sensible of the ill consequence thereof and piously desiring able Ministers in such places and a competent setled Maintenance for them by the Vnion of Churches which is also become necessary by reason of the great Ruine of many Churches and Parishes in the late ill times and otherwise Do therefore most humbly beséech Your most Excellent Majesty That it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty In what Cities and Towns and how Churches and Chappels may be united 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 in every City or Town Corporate and their Liberties within the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales which
for fishing in New-found-land The penalty shall burn destroy or steal any Boat Cask Salt Nets or other Vtensils for Fishing or making of Oyl or other goods or Merchandize left in any Harbour in New-found-land or Greenland by English or burn pull down or destroy any house built by English in New-found-land or Greenland to live in during the Fishing season or Stage built by them in either of the said places for the saving or ordering of Fish or making of Oyl upon pain of the loss of double the value of what shall be by them stoln burnt or destroyed to be recovered in any of his Majesties Courts in New-found-land or Greenland respectively or in any Court of Record in England by Bill Plaint or other Action wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed A repeal of the Statute concerning Madder 14 Car. 2. c. 30 And whereas upon the humble Petition and complaint of the Merchants and Salters of the City of London it doth appear That some sorts of Madder very useful for Dying cannot be Imported so pure and clean as by one Act passed the last Session of this present Parliament Intituled An Act for the Importation of Madder pure and unmixed is directed and appointed Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Act and every Clause and Thing therein contained be from henceforth utterly void and repealed to all intents purposes and Constructions whatsoever CAP. XVII An Act for setling the Dreining of the Great Level of the Fenns called Bedford Level VVHereas certain Moors Marshes Fenny and Low surrounded Grounds within the Counties of Northampton Norfolk Suffolk Lincoln Cambridg and Huntington and the Isle of Ely were called the Great Level of the Fenns And after several fruitless undertakings for Dreining the same were upon the Desires of many persons of Worth and Interessed in the same declared to be a Great and Noble Work and of much Concernment to the whole Countrey and at their earnest desire undertaken to be Dreined by Francis late Earl of Bedford according to a Law of Sewers made at Kings Lynne in the sixth year of the Reign of the late King Charles of glorious memory which said Level is bounded as followeth viz. Eastward from the Bridg and Cawsey of Stoake unto Brandon-Bridg upon the Vplands of Northold Methold Feltwell Hockwold and Wilton in the County of Norfolk and from Brandon-Bridg unto the end of Worlington-Load upon Mildenhall River The great level of the fens how bounded upon the Vplands of Brandon the Low grounds of Wainsford excluding the same the Vplands of Sakingheath the Low grounds of Earsewell excluding the same And the Vplands of Mildenhall in the County of Suffolk Southward from Worlington-Load unto Burwell Block upon the Vplands of Freckingham Istham Fordham Soham and Wickin in the County of Cambridg and excluding the Low grounds of Burwell Landward and other places lying Eastward from Burwell Block aforesaid and from thence unto the Mill near Anglisey Abby upon the Vplands of Burwell Reach Swaffham Pryor Swaffham Bulbeck and Botsham in the County of Cambridg and from thence unto the Ferry-place at Clayhith upon the Vplands called Quyhall the Low Ground called Low-Fenne and the Vplands of Hormingsey and Clayhith in the said County excluding the Low grounds called Low Fenne and Offenne and from the said Ferry-place unto Over-Load upon the Vplands of Water-Beach Cottenham Rampton Winelingham and Over in the said County of Cambridg and upon the Low grounds of Swacy in the said County excluding the same Westward from Erith unto the Dam lately made upon the River Neane near Standground upon the Vplands of Somersham and the Soake thereof Warbois Wistow Berry Ramsey Upwood Raveley Wood-walton Sawtrey Connington Glatton and Holme Caldecott Denton Stilton Yaxley Fasset and Standground in the County of Huntington excluding the Low grounds lying on the North side of the River of Owse above Erith and from the said Dam unto Peterborough Bridg upon the said River of Neane and from thence unto the Ferry-place near Waldron Hall upon the Vplands of Peterborough and the Soake thereof in the County of Northampton and Northward from the said Ferry-place near Waldron Hall unto Crowland Bridg upon the River of Welland and from thence to Dowsedale upon the Bank of Great Porland and from thence unto Guyhurne upon the Southea Bank and from thence unto Tilnehurne upon the Bank of the Fenne Ground called Waldersea and from thence unto Elme Leame at Grangers House upon the Bank of the Fenne Ground called Coldham and from thence unto the River of Neane near Thurlings in Upwell upon the Bank of Needham called Bishops Dike and from thence unto Weil Creek at the North-west corner of Wassingham Fenne upon the Bank of the Grounds in Upwell and Outwell called Playfield and Churchfield excluding the aforesaid Fennes and Grounds called Waldersea Coldham Needham Playfield and Churchfield and from thence unto Salters-Load upon the New Podyke Bank and from thence unto the mouth of the River Wissey upon the River Owse and from thence unto Helgey Bridg upon the River Wissey and from thence unto the Vplands at the end of the Bank of the Grounds late of Edmond Skipwith Esquire deceased upon the said Bank and from thence unto Stoake Bridg upon the Vplands of Roxham Deereham Weereham Wretton and Stoake in the said County of Norfolk Except the imbanked Grounds late of Edmond Skipwith Esquire lying on the North side of the River of Owse And whereas the said Francis late Earl of Bedford was to have for his recompence of effecting that difficult work onely Ninety five thousand Acres of the said Grounds with convenient High-wayes and Passages to the same And the New River Cutts and Dreynes to be made by the said Earl and his Assigns and the Banks of the same and the Forelands in the inside of the said Banks not to exceed Sixty foot in breadth Which was a work of so Great and Publick Concernment that his said late Majesty gave great Encouragement to the said Francis late Earl of Bedford and others whom he had taken in to be Adventurers and Participants with him therein upon the Covenants Conditions and Agréements contained and specified in and by a certain Indenture of Fourtéen parts bearing date the seven and twentieth day of February in the seventh year of the Reign of his said late Majesty and his Royal Assurance to further it by his Concurrence to an Act of Parliament for establishing thereof and did by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England Incorporate the said late Earl his Adventurers and Participants to have Succession for ever and in order to the effecting thereof the said late Earl and his Adventurers and Participants bestowed great sums of money for perfecting the same and after his death and some interruptions William now Earl of Bedford son and heir to the said Earl Francis with divers of his Adventurers and Participants
the Land and if any thing be done to the contrary it shall be void in Law and holden for error And by another Statute made in the six and thirtieth year of the same King Edward the Third 36 E. 3. c. 15. It is amongst other things Enacted That all pleas which shall be pleaded in any Courts before any the Kings Iustices or in his other places or before any of his other Ministers or in the Courts and places of any other Lords within the Realm shall be entred and inrolled in Latine And whereas by the Statute made in the third year of King Henry the seventh 3 H. 7. cap. 1. power is given to the Chancellor the Lord Treasurer of England for the time being and the Kéeper of the Kings Privy Seal or two of them calling unto them a Bishop and a Temporal Lord of the Kings most Honourable Councel and the two Chief Iustices of the Kings Bench and Common Pleas for the time being or other two Iustices in their absence to procéed as in that Act is expressed for the punishmâ—â—â— of some particular offences therein mentioned And by the Statute made in the One and tâ—â—ntieth year of King Henry the Eighth 21 H. 8. cap. 20 The President of the Councel is associated to joyn with the Lord Chancellor and other Iudges in the said Statute of the third of Henry the seventh mentioned But the said Iudges have not kept themselves to the points limited by the said Statute but have undertaken to punish where no Law doth warrant and to make Decrées for things having no such Authority and to inflict heavier punishments then by any Law is warranted All matters â—â—â—minable in 〈◊〉 Star-Chamber maâ— be â—â—â—â—â—nable and 〈◊〉 â—â—o by the Common Law And forasmuch as all matters examinable or determinable before the said Iudges or in the Court commonly called the Star-Chamber may have their proper remedy and redress and their due punishment and correction by the Common Law of the Land and in the Ordinary course of Iustice elswhere and forasmuch as the reasons and motives inducing the erection and continuance of that Court do now cease and the procéedings Censures and Decrées of that Court have by experience been found to be an intolerable burthen to the Subject and the means to introduce an Arbitrary Power and Government And forasmuch as the Councel-Table hath of late times assumed unto it self a power to intermeddle in Civil causes and matters only of private interest betwéen party and party and have adventured to determine of the Estates and Liberties of the Subiect contrary to the Law of the Land and the Rights and Priviledges of the Subject by which great and manifold mischiefs and inconveniencies have arisen and happened and much incertainty by means of such procéedings hath béen conceived concerning Mens Rights and Estates For setling whereof and preventing the like in time to come Be it Ordained and Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament Court of Star-Chamber and all its powers dissolved That the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber and all Iurisdiction Power and Authority belonging unto or exercised in the same Court or by any the Iudges Officers or Ministers thereof be from the first day of August in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred forty and one clearly and absolutely dissolved taken away and determined and that from the said first day of August neither the Lord Chancellor or Kéeper of the Great Seal of England the Lord Treasurer of England the Kéeper of the Kings Privy-Seal or President of the Councel nor any Bishop Temporal Lord Privy-Councellor or Iudg or Iustice whatsoever shall have any power or authority to hear examine or determine any matter or thing whatsoever in the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber or to make pronounce or deliver any Iudgment Sentence Order or Decrée or to do any Iudicial or Ministerial Act in the said Court And that all and every Act and Acts of Parliament and all and every Article clause and sentence in them and every of them by which any Iurisdiction power or Authority is given limited or appointed unto the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber or unto all or any the Iudges Officers or Ministers thereof or for any procéedings to be had or made in the said Court or for any matter or thing to be drawn into question examined or determined there shall for so much as concerneth the said Court of Star-Chamber and the power and authority thereby given unto it be from the said first day of August repealed and absolutely revoked and made void And be it likewise Enacted Like Iurisdiction in several other Courts repealed and taken away That the like Iurisdiction now used and exercised in the Court before the President and Councel in the Marches of Wales and also in the Court before the President and Councel established in the Northern parts And also in the Court commonly called the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster held before the Chancellor and Councel of that Court And also in the Court of Exchequer of the County Palatine of Chester held before the Chamberlain and Councel of that Court The like Iurisdiction being exercised there shall from the said first day of August One thousand six hundred forty and one be also repealed and absolutely revoked and made void any Law prescription custome or usage Or the said Statute made in the third year of King Henry the seventh Or the Statute made the One and twentieth of Henry the Eigth Or any Act or Acts of Parliament heretofore had or made to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And that from henceforth no Court Councel No Court or Councel to have the like Iurisdiction or place of Iudicature shall be erected ordained constituted or appointed within this Realm of England or Dominion of Wales which shall have use or exercise the same or the like Iurisdiction as is or hath béen used practised or exercised in the said Court of Star-Chamber Be it likewise declared and Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament The King nor his privy Councel shall have no Iurisdiction over any mans estate That neither his Majesty nor his Privy-Councel have or ought to have any Iurisdiction power or authority by English Bill Petition Articles Libel or any other Arbitrary way whatsoever to examine or draw into question determine or dispose of the Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods or Chattels of any the Subjects of this Kingdome But that the same ought to be tryed and determined in the ordinary Courts of Iustice and by the ordinary course of the Law And be it further provided and Enacted That if any Lord Chancellor Penalties upon great Officers and others for the first offence or Kéeper of the Great Seal of England Lord Treasurer Kéeper of the Kings Privy Seal President of the Councel Bishop Temporal Lord Privy Councellor Iudg or Iustice whatsoever shall offend or do
any thing contrary to the purport true intent and meaning of this Law Then he or they shall for such offence forfeit the sum of Five hundred pounds of lawful Money of England unto any party grieved his Executors or Administrators who shall really prosecute for the same and first obtain Iudgment thereupon to be recovered in any Court of Record at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoin Protection Wager of Law Aid-Prayer Priviledg Injunction or Order of restraint shall be in any wise prayed granted or allowed nor any more then one Imparlance And if any person against whom any such Iudgment or Recovery shall be had as aforesaid shall after such Iudgment or Recovery offend again in the same then he Second offence or they for such offence shall forfeit the sum of One thousand pounds of lawful money of England unto any party grieved his Executors or Administrators who shall really prosecute for the same and first obtain Iudgment thereupon to be recovered in any Court of Record at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in which no Essoin Protection Wager of Law Aid-Prayer Priviledg Iniunction or Order of Restraint shall be in any wise prayed granted or allowed nor any more then one Imparlance And if any person against whom any such second Iudgment or Recovery shall be had as aforesaid shall after such Iudgment Third offence or recovery offend again in the same kind and shall be thereof duly convicted by Indictment Information or any other lawful way or means that such person so convicted shall be from thenceforth disabled and become by vertue of this Act incapable Ipso facto to bear his and their said Office and Offices respectively and shall be likewise disabled to make any Gift Grant Conveyance or other disposition of any of his Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods or Chattels or to take any benefit of any Gift Conveyance or Legacy to his own use And every person so offending shall likewise forfeit and lose unto the party grieved Treble damages to the party grieved by any thing done contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Law his treble damages which he shall sustain and be put unto by means or occasion of any such Act or thing done the same to be recovered in any of his Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoin Protection Wager of Law Aid-Prayer Priviledg Injunction or Order of Restraint shall be in any wise Prayed Granted or Allowed nor any more then one Imparlance Every person committed contrary to this Act shall have an Habea◠Corpus And be it also provided and Enacted That if any person shall hereafter be committed restrained of his Liberty or suffer imprisonment by the Order or Decrée of any such Court of Star-Chamber or other Court aforesaid now or at any time hereafter having or pretending to have the same or like Iurisdiction power or authority to commit or imprison as aforesaid Or by the command or Warrant of the Kings Maiesty his Heirs or Successors in their own Person or by the command or Warrant of the Councel-board or of any of the Lords or others of his Majesties Privy Councel That in every such case every person so committed restrained of his liberty or suffering imprisonment upon demand or motion made by his Counsel or other imployed by him for that purpose unto the Iudges of the Court of Kings Bench or Common Pleas in open Court shall without delay upon any pretence whatsoever for the ordinary Fées usually paid for the same have forthwith granted unto him a Writ of Habeas Corpus to be directed generally unto all and every Sheriffs Gaoler Minister Officer or other person in whose custody the party committed or restrained shall be and the Sheriffs Gaoler Minister Officer or other person in whose custody the party so committed or restrained shall be shall at the return of the said Writ and according to the command thereof upon due and convenient notice thereof given unto him at the charge of the party who requireth or procureth such Writ and upon security by his own bond given to pay the charge of carrying back the prisoner if he shall be remanded by the Court to which he shall be brought as in like cases hath béen used such charges of bringing up and carrying back the prisoner to be alwayes ordered by the Court if any difference shall arise thereabout bring or cause to be brought the body of the said party so committed or restrained unto and before the Iudges or Iustices of the said Court from whence the same Writ shall issue in open Court and shall then likewise certify the true cause of such his detainer or imprisonment and thereupon the Court within thrée Court-dayes after such return made and delivered in open Court shall procéed to examine and determine whether the cause of such commitment appearing upon the said return be iust and legal or not and shall thereupon do what to Iustice shall appertain either by delivering bailing or remanding the prisoner And if any thing shall be otherwise wilfully done or omitted to be done by any Iudg Iustice Officer or other person aforementioned contrary to the direction and true meaning hereof That then such person so offending shall forfeit to the party grieved Treble damages in default his treble damages to be recovered by such means and in such manner as is formerly in this Act limited and appointed for the like penalty to be sued for and recovered To what Courts this Act shall extend Provided alwayes and be it Enacted That this Act and the several clauses therein contained shall be taken and expounded to extend only to the Court of Star-Chamber and to the said Courts holden before the President and Councel in the Marches of Wales and before the President and Councel in the Northern parts and also to the Court commonly called the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster holden before the Chancellor and Councel of that Court And also in the Court of Exchequer of the County Palatine of Chester held before the Chamberlain and Councel of that Court And to all Courts of like Iurisdiction to be hereafter erected ordained constituted or appointed as aforesaid And to the Warrants and directions of the Councel-boards and to the commitments restraints and imprisonments of any person or persons made commanded or awarded by the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors in their own person or by the Lords and others of the Privy Councel and every one of them Offenders of this Act shall be impleaded within two years after any offence And lastly provided and be it Enacted That no person or persons shall be sued impleaded molested or troubled for any offence against this present Act unless the party supposed to have so offended shall be sued or impleaded for the same within two years at the most after such
used by Act of Parliament holden in the said first year of the said late Quéen 2 El. cap. 2. Entituled An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer and Service in the Church and Administration of the Sacraments very comfortable to all good people desirous to live in Christian conversation and most profitable to the Estate of this Realm upon the which the Mercy Favour and Blessing of Almighty God is in no wise so readily and plentifully poured as by Common Prayers due using of the Sacraments and often Preaching of the Gospel with Devotion of the Hearers And yet this notwithstanding a great number of people in divers parts of this Realm following their own sensuality and living without knowledg and due fear of God do Wilfully Schismatically abstain and refuse to come to their Parish-Churches and other publick places where Common Prayer Administration of the Sacraments and preaching of the Word of God is used upon the Sundays and other days ordained and appointed to be kept and observed as Holy-days And whereas by the great and scandalous neglect of Ministers in using the said Order or Liturgy so set forth and enjoyned as aforesaid great mischiefs and inconveniences during the times of the late unhappy Troubles have arisen and grown and many people have béen led into Factions and Schisms to the great decay and scandal of the Reformed Religion of the Church of England and to the hazard of many souls For prevention whereof in time to come for setling the Peace of the Church and for allaying the present distempers which the indisposition of the time hath contracted The Kings Declaration and Commission for reviewing the Book of Common Prayer and Alterations to be propounded therein The Kings Majesty according to his Declaration of the Five and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred and sixty granted his Commission under the Great Seal of England to several Bishops and other Divines to review the Book of Common Prayer and to prepare such Alterations and Additions as they thought fit to offer And afterwards the Convocations of both the Provinces of Canterbury and York being by His Majesty called and assembled and now sitting His Majesty hath béen pleased to Authorize and require the Presidents of the said Convocations and other the Bishops and Clergy of the same to re-view the said Book of Common Prayer and the Book of the Form and manner of the Making and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons And that after mature consideration they should make such Additions and Alterations in the said Books respectively as to them should séem méet and convenient And should exhibit and present the same to his Majesty in writing for his further allowance or confirmation since which time upon full and mature deliberation they the said Presidents Bishops and Clergy of both Provinces have accordingly re-viewed the said Books and have made some Alterations which they think fit to be inserted to the same and some Additional Prayers to the said Book of Common Prayer to be used upon proper and emergent occasions And have exhibited and presented the same unto his Majesty in writing in one Book Entituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the Form and Manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons All which His Majesty having duly considered hath fully approved and allowed the same and recommended to this present Parliament that the said Books of Common Prayer and of the Form of Ordination and Consecration of Bishops Priests and Deacons with the Alterations and Additions which have béen so made and presented to His Majesty by the said Convocations be the Book which shall be appointed to be used by all that Officiate in all Cathedral and Collegiate Churches and Chappels and in all Chappels of Colledges and Halls in both the Vniversities and the Colledges of Eaton and Winchester and in all Parish-Churches and Chappels within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and by all that Make or Consecrate Bishops Priests or Deacons in any of the said places under such Sanctions and Penalties as the Houses of Parliament shall think fit Now in regard that nothing conduceth more to the setling of the Peace of this Nation which is desired of all good men nor to the honour of our Religion and the propagation thereof The Peace and Honour of Religion much advanced by Vniform agreement in the Publique Worship of God then an Vniversal argréement in the publique Worship of Almighty God and to the intent that every person within this Realm may certainly know the rule to which he is to conform in Publique Worship and Administrations of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England and the manner how and by whom Bishops Priests and Deacons are and ought to be Made Ordained Consecrated Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by the Advice and with the 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 singular Ministers in any Cathedral Collegiate or Parish-Church or Chappel or other place of Publique Worship within this Realm of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed The Book of Common Prayer shall be used shall be bound to say and use the Morning Prayer Evening Prayer Celebration and Administration of both the Sacraments and all other the Publique and Common Prayer in such order and form as is mentioned in the said Book annexed and ioyned to this present Act and Entituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the form or manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons And that the Morning and Evening Prayers therein contained shall upon every Lords Day and upon all other dayes and occasions and at the times therein appointed be openly and solemnly Read by all and every Minister or Curate in every Church Chappel or other place of publique Worship within this Realm of England All Parsons Vicars and Ministers to read and declare their assent to use the same and places aforesaid And to the end that Vniformity in the publique Worship of God which is so much desired may be spéedily effected Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Parson Vicar or other Minister whatsoever who now hath and enjoyeth any Ecclesiastical Benefite or Promotion within this Realm of England or places aforesaid shall in the Church Chappel or place of publique