aforesaid shall be deemed Aliens Goods and pay accordingly to His Majestie His Heirs and Successors and to the Town or Port into which they shall be Imported And for prevention of all Frauds which may be used in colouring or buying of Forain Ships Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid and it is hereby Enacted That from and after the First day of April which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty one no Forain built Ship or Vessel whatsoever shall be deemed or pass as a Ship to England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick or any of them belonging or enjoy the benefit or priviledge of such a Ship or Vessel until such time that he or they claiming the said Ship or Vessel to be theirs shall make appear to the chief Officer or Officers of the Customs in the Port next to the place of his or their aboad that he or they are not Aliens and shall have taken an Oath before such chief Officer or Officers who are hereby Authorized to administer the same That such Ship or Vessel was bona fide and without fraud by him or them bought for a valuable consideration expressing the sum as also the time place and persons from whom it was bought and who are his part-owners if he have any all which part-owners shall be liable to take the said Oath before the chief Officer or Officers of the Custom-house of the Port next to the place of their aboad and that no Forainer directly or indirectly hath any part interest or share therein and that upon such Oath he or they shall receive a Certificate under the Hand or Seal of the said chief Officer or Officers of the Port where such person or persons so making Oath do reside whereby such Ship or Vessel may for the future pass and be deemed as a Ship belonging to the said Port and enjoy the priviledge of such a Ship or Vessel And the said Officer or Officers shall keep a Register of all such Certificates as he or they shall so give and return a Duplicat thereof to the chief Officers of the Customs at London for such as shall be granted in England Wales and Berwick and to the chief Officers of the Customs at Dublin for such as shall be given in Ireland together with the Names of the person or persons from whom such Ship was bought and the sum of Money which was paid for her as also the Names of all such persons who are part-owners of her if any such be And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Officer of the Customs shall from and after the said First day of April allow the priviledge of being a Ship or Vessel to England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick or any of them belonging to any Forain built Ship or Vessel until such Certificate be before them produced or such Proof and Oath taken before them or if any Officer of the Customs shall allow the priviledge of an English built Ship or other Ship to any the aforesaid places belonging to any English or Forain built Ship coming into any Port and making Entry of any Goods until Examination whether the Master and three fourths of the Mariners be English or shall allow to any Forain built Ship bringing in the Commodities of the Growth of the Countrey where it was built the priviledge by this Act to such ship given until Examination and Proof whether it be a ship of the built of that Countrey and that the Master and three fourths of the Mariners are of that Countrey or if any person who is or shall be made Governor of any Lands Islands Plantations or Territories in Africa Asia or America by His Majesty His Heirs or Successors shall suffer any Forain built Ship or Vessel to load or unload any Goods or Commodities within the Precincts of their Governments until such Certificate be produced before them or such as shall be by them appointed to view the same and Examination whether the Master and three fourths of the Mariners at least be English that for the first Offence such Officer of the Customs and Governors shall be put out of their Places Officers or Governments Provided always That this Act or any thing therein contained extend not or be meant to restrain and prohibite the Importation of any the Commodities of the Straights or Levant Seas loaden in English built shipping whereof the Master three fourths of the Mariners at least are English from the usual Ports or Places for lading of them heretofore within the said Straights or Levant Seas though the said Commodities be not of the very Growth of the said places Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained extend not or be meant to restrain the Importing of any East India Commodities loaden in English built shipping and whereof the Master and three fourths of the Mariners at least are English from the usual place or places for lading of them in any part of those Seas to the South-ward and East-ward of Cabo bona speranza although the said Ports be not the very Places of their Growth Provided also That it shall and may be lawful to and for any of the people of England Ireland Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed in Vessels or Ships to them belonging and whereof the Master and three fourths of the Mariners at least are English to load and bring in from any of the Ports of Spain or Portugal or Western Islands commonly called Azores or Madera or Canary Islands all sorts of Goods or Commodities of the Growth Production or Manufacture of the Plantations or Dominions of either of them respectively Provided That this Act or any thing therein contained extend not to Bullion nor yet to any Goods taken or that shall be bona fide taken by way of Reprisal by any Ship or Ships belonging to England Ireland or Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and whereof the Master and three fourths of the Mariners at least are English having Commission from His Majesty His Heirs or Successors Provided always That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend to lay Aliens Duties upon any Corn of the Growth of Scotland or to any Salt made in Scotland nor to any Fish caught saved and cured by the people of Scotland and Imported directly from Scotland in Scotch built Ships and whereof the Master and three fourths of the Mariners are of His Majesties Subjects nor to any Seal Oyl of Russia Imported from thence into England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed in shipping bona fide to some of the said places belonging and whereof the Master and three fourths of the Mariners at least are English Provided also and it is hereby Enacted That every Ship or Vessel belonging to any the Subjects of the French King which from and after the Twentieth day of
October in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty shall come into any Port Creek Harbor or Road of England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and shall there lade or unlade any Goods or Commodities or take in or set on shore any passengers shall pay to the Collector of His Majesties Customs in such Port Creek Harbor or Road for every Tun of which the said Ship or Vessel is of burthen to be computed by such Officer of the Customs as shall be thereunto appointed the sum of Five shillings currant Money of England And that no such Ship or Vessel be suffered to depart out of such Port Creek Harbor or Road until the said Duty be fully paid And that this Duty shall continue to be Collected Levied and Paid for such time as a certain Duty of Fifty Solls per Tun lately imposed by the French King or any part thereof shall continue to be Collected upon the shipping of England lading in France and three Moneths after and no longer And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the First day of April which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty one no Sugars Tobacco Cotton-wooll Indicoes Ginger Fustick or other dying wood of the Growth Production or Manufacture of any English Plantations in America Asia or Africa shall be shipped carried conveyed or transported from any of the said English Plantations to any Land Island Territory Dominion Port or Place whatsoever other then to such other English Plantations as do belong to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors or to the Kingdom of England or Ireland or Principality of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed there to be laid on shore under the penalty of the forfeiture of the said Goods or the full value thereof as also of the Ship with all her Guns Tackle Apparel Ammunition and Furniture The one moyety to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that shall seize inform or sue for the same in any Court of Record by Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoign Protection or wager of Law shall be allowed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for every Ship or Vessel which from and after the Five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty shall set sail out of or from England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed for any English Plantation in America Asia or Africa sufficient bond shall be given with one surety to the chief Officers of the Custom-house of such Port or Place from whence the said Ship shall set sail to the value of One thousand pounds if the Ship be of less burthen then one hundred Tuns and of the sum of Two thousand pounds if the Ship shall be of greater burthen That in case the said Ship or Vessel shall load any of the said Commodities at any of the said English Plantations that the same Commodities shall be by the said ship brought to some Port of England Ireland Wales or to the Port or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and shall there unload and put on shore the same the danger of the seas onely excepted And for all ships coming from any other Port or Place to any of the aforesaid Plantations who by this Act are permitted to Trade there that the Governor of such English Plantations shall before the said ship or vessel be permitted to load on board any of the said Commodities take Bond in maner and to the value aforesaid for each respective ship or vessel That such ship or vessel shall carry all the aforesaid Goods that shall be laden on board in the said ship to some other of His Majesties English Plantations or to England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed And that every ship or vessel which shall load or take on board any of the aforesaid Goods until such Bond given to the said Governor or Certificate produced from the Officers of any Custom-house of England Ireland Wales or of the Town of Berwick that such Bond have been there duly given shall be forfeited with all her Guns Tackle Apparel and Furniture to be imployed and recovered in maner as aforesaid And the said Governors and every of them shall twice in every year after the First day of January One thousand six hundred and sixty return true Copies of all such Bonds by him so taken to the chief Officers of the Custom in London Anno Regni CAROLI II. AN ACT To Prevent FRAUDS AND CONCEALMENTS OF His Majesties CUSTOMS and SUBSIDIES BE it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That if any person or persons at any time after the First day of September One thousand six hundred and sixty shall cause any Goods for which Custom Subsidy or other Duties are due or payable by vertue of the Act passed this Parliament Entituled A Subsidie granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage and other sums of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported to be landed or conveyed away without due entry thereof first made and the Customer or Collector or his Deputy agreed with That then and in such case upon Oath thereof made before the Lord Treasurer or any of the Barons of the Exchequer or chief Magistrate of the Port or Place where the offence shall be committed or the Place next adjoyning thereunto it shall be lawful to and for the Lord Treasurer or any of the Barons aforesaid or chief Magistrate of the Port or Place where the offence shall be committed or the Place next adjoyning thereunto to issue out a Warrant to any person or persons thereby enabling him or them with the assistance of a Sheriff Iustice of Peace or Constable to enter into any House in the day time where such Goods are suspected to be concealed and in case of resistance to break open such Houses and to seize and secure the same Goods so concealed And all Officers and Ministers of Iustice are hereby required to be aiding and assisting thereunto Provided always That no House shall be entred by vertue of this Act unless it be within the space of one Moneth after the offence supposed to be committed Provided also That this Act shall continue in force unto the end of the First Session of the next Parliament and no longer Provided also That if the Information whereupon any House shall come to be searched shall prove to be false that then and in such case the party injured shall recover his full Damages and Costs against the Informer by action of Trespass to be therefore brought against such Informer
Anno Regni CAROLI II. REGIS Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae DUODECIMO At the Parliament begun at VVestminster the Five and twentieth day of April An. Dom. 1660. In the Twelfth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Sovereign Lord CHARLES By the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE LONDON Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1660. Cum Privilegio Anno XII CAROLI II. Regis AN ACT FOR THE Encouraging Increasing OF SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION FOr the increase of Shipping and encouragement of the Navigation of this Nation wherein under the good Providence and Protection of God the Wealth Safety and Strength of this Kingdom is so much concerned Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and by the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and the Authority thereof That from and after the First day of December One thousand six hundred and sixty and from thenceforward no Goods or Commodities whatsoever shall be Imported into or Exported out of any Lands Islands Plantations or Territories to His Majesty belonging or in His possession or which may hereafter belong unto or be in the possession of His Majesty His Heirs and Successors in Asia Africa or America in any other ship or ships Vessel or Vessels whatsoever but in such ships or Vessels as do truly and without fraud belong onely to the people of England or Ireland Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or are of the built of and belonging to any the said Lands Islands Plantations or Territories as the Proprietors and right Owners thereof and whereof the Master and three fourths of the Marriners at least are English under the penalty of the Forfeiture and Loss of all the Goods and Commodities which shall be Imported into or Exported out of any the aforesaid places in any other Ship or Vessel as also of the Ship or Vessel with all its Guns Furniture Tackle Ammunition and Apparel one third part thereof to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors one third part to the Governor of such Land Plantation Island or Territory where such default shall be committed in case the said Ship or Goods be there seized or otherwise that third part also to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other third part to him or them who shall Seize Inform or sue for the same in any Court of Record by Bill Information Plaint or other Action wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed and all Admirals and other Commanders at Sea of any the ships of War or other ship having Commission from His Majesty or from His Heirs or Successors are hereby Authorized and strictly required to seize and bring in as Prize all such Ships or Vessels as shall have offended contrary hereunto and deliver them to the Court of Admiralty there to be proceeded against and in case of condemnation one moyety of such Forfeitures shall be to the use of such Admirals or Commanders and their Companies to be divided and proportioned amongst them according to the Rules and Orders of the Sea in case of Ships taken Prize and the other Moyety to the use of His Majesty His Heirs and Successors And be it Enacted That no Alien or Person not born within the Allegiance of Our Soveraign Lord the King His Heirs and Successors or Naturalized or made a frée Denizen shall from and after the First day of February which shall be in the year of Our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty one exercise the Trade or Occupation of a Merchant or Factor in any the said Places upon pain of the Forfeiture and Loss of all his Goods and Chattels or which are in his possession one third to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors one third to the Governor of the Plantation where such Person shall so offend and the other third to him or them that shall inform or sue for the same in any of His Majesties Courts in the Plantation where such offence shall be committed And all Governors of the said Lands Islands Plantations or Territories and every of them are hereby strictly required and commanded and all who hereafter shall be made Governors of any such Islands Plantations or Territories by His Majesty His Heirs or Successors shall before their entrance into their Government take a Solemn Oath to do their utmost that every the afore mentioned Clauses and all the matters and things therein contained shall be punctually and bona fide observed according to the true intent and meaning thereof And upon complaint and proof made before His Majesty His Heirs or Successors or such as shall be by Him or them thereunto Authorized and appointed that any the said Governors have been willingly and wittingly negligent in doing their duty accordingly that the said Governor so offending shall be removed from his Government And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Goods or Commodities whatsoever of the Growth Production or Manufacture of Africa Asia or America or of any part thereof or which are described or laid down in the usual Mans or Cards of those Places be imported into England Ireland or Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed in any other Ship or Ships Vessel or Vessels whatsoever but in such as do truly and without fraud belong onely to the people of England or Ireland Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or of the Lands Islands Plantations or Territories in Asia Africa or America to His Majesty belonging as the Proprietors and right Owners thereof and whereof the Master and three Fourths at least of the Mariners are English under the penalty of the forfeiture of all such Goods and Commodities and of the Ship or Vessel in which they were Imported with all her Guns Tackle Furniture Ammunition and Apparel one moyety to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them who shall seize inform or sue for the same in any Court of Record by Bill Information Plaint or other Action wherein no Essoign Protection or wager in Law shall be allowed And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Goods or Commodities that are of forain Growth Production or Manufacture and which are to be brought into England Ireland Wales the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed in English-built shipping or other shipping belonging to some of the aforesaid Places and navigated by English Mariners as abovesaid shall be shipped or brought from any other Place or Places Countrey or Countreys but onely from those of their said Growth Production or Manufacture or from those Ports where the said Goods and Commodities can onely or are or usually have been first shipped for transportation and from none other Places or Countreys under the penalty of the forfeiture of
all such of the foresaid Goods as shall be Imported from any other Place or Countrey contrary to the true intent and meaning hereof as also of the ship in which they were Imported with all her Guns Furniture Ammunition Tackle and Apparel one Moyety to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other Moyety to him or them that shall seize inform or sue for the same in any Court of Record to be recovered as is before exprest And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That any sort of Ling Stock-fish Pilchard or any other kinde of dryed or salted fish usually fished for and caught by the people of England Ireland Wales Town of Berwick upon Tweed or any sort of Codfish or Herring or any Oyl or Blubber made or that shall be made of any kinde of Fish whatsoever or any Whale-fins or Whale-bones which shall be imported into England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed not having been caught in vessels truly and properly belonging thereunto as Proprietors and right Owners thereof and the said Fish cured saved or dryed and the Oyl and Blubber aforesaid which shall be accompted and pay as Oyl not made by the people thereof and shall be imported into England Ireland or Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed shall pay double Aliens Custom And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from henceforth it shall not be lawful to any Person or Persons whatsoever to Load or cause to be Loaden and carried in any Bottom or Bottoms Ship or Ships Vessel or Vessels whatsoever whereof any Stranger or Strangers born unless such as be Denizens or Naturalized be Owners Part-owners or Master and whereof three fourths of the Mariners at least shall not be English any Fish Victual Wares Goods Commodities or things of what kinde or nature soever the same shall be from one Port or Creek of England Ireland Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed to another Port or Creek of the same or of any of them under penalty for every one that shall offend contrary to the true meaning of this branch of this present Act to forfeit all such goods as shall be loaden and carried in any such Ship or Vessel together with the Ship or Vessel and all her Guns Ammunition Tackle Furniture and Apparel one Moyety to His Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other Moyety to him or them that shall Inform Seise or Sue for the same in any Court of Record to be recovered in maner aforesaid And it is further Enacted by the Authority a foresaid That where any Ease Abatement or Priviledge is given in the Book of Rates to goods or Commodities Imported or Exported in English built Shipping that is to say shipping built in England Ireland Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or in any the Lands Islands Dominions or Territories to His Majesty in Africa Asia or America belonging or in his possession That it is always to be understood and provided that the Master and three fourths of the Mariners of the said ships at least be also English And that where it is required that the Master and three Fourths of the Mariners be English that the true intent and meaning thereof is that they should be such during the whole voyage unless in case of sickness death or being taken Prisoners in the voyage to be proved by the Oath of the Master or other chief Officer of such ships And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no goods or Commodities of the growth production or manufacture of Muscovy or of any the Countreys Dominions or Territories to the great Duke or Emperor of Muscovy or Russia belonging As also that no sorts of Masts Timber or Boards no forein Salt Pitch Tar Rozin Hemp or Flax Raizins Figs Prunes Olive Oyls no sorts of Corn or Grayn Sugar Pot-ashes Wines Vinegar or Spirits called Aquavite or Brandy wine shall from after the first day of April which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty one be imported into England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed in any ship or ships vessel or vessels whatsoever but in such as do truly and without fraud belong to the people thereof or of some of them as the true Owners and Proprietors thereof and whereof the Master and three Fourths of the Mariners at least are English and that no Currants nor Commodities of the growth production or manufacture of any the Countreys Islands Dominions or Territories to the Othoman or Turkish Empire belonging shall from and after the first day of September which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty one be imported into any the forementioned places in any ship or vessel but which is of English built and Navigated as aforesaid and in no other Except onely such forain ships and vessels as are of the built of that Countrey or place of which the said Goods are the growth production or manufacture respectively or of such Port where the said Goods can onely be or most usually are first shipped for transportation and whereof the Master and three Fourths of the Mariners at least are of the said Countrey or place under the penalty and forfeiture of ship and Goods to be disposed and recovered as in the foregoing Clause Provided always and be it hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for the prevention of the great frauds daily used in colouring and concealing of Aliens Goods all Wines of the growth of France or Germany which from and after the Twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred sixty shall be Imported into any the Ports or places aforesaid in any other ship or vessel then which doth truly and without fraud belong to England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and Navigated with the Mariners thereof as aforesaid shall be deemed Aliens Goods and pay all Strangers Customs and duties to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors as also to the Town or Port into which they shall be Imported And that all sorts of Masts Timber or Boards as also all forain Salt Pitch Tar Rozin Hemp Flax Raizins Figs Prunes Olive Oyls all sorts of Corn or Grain Sugar Pot-ashes Spirits commonly called Brandy wine or Aquavite Wines of the growth of Spain the Islands of the Canaries or Portugal Madera or Western Islands and all Goods of the growth production or manufacture of Moscovy or Russia which from and after the First day of April which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty one shall be Imported into any of the aforesaid places in any other then such shipping and so Navigated and all Currants and Turky Commodities which from and after the First day of September One thousand six hundred sixty one shall be Imported into any the places aforesaid in any other then English built shipping and Navigated as