by which the Meets Meers Limits or Bounds of the said Forrests or any of them are or are pretended to be further extended then as aforesaid And also all and every Presentment of any person or persons at any Iustice seat Swainemote or Court of Attachments for or by reason or by colour of any Act or Acts whatsoever done or committed in any place without or beyond the said Méets Méers Limits or Bounds respectively so commonly known reputed used or taken as aforesaid and all and every Fine and Fines and amerciament and amerciaments upon by reason or colour of any such Presentment or Presentments shall from henceforth be adjudged déemed and taken to be utterly void and of no force or effect any Law Statute Record or pretence whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid No place where no Iustice seat Swainemote cour◠or attachment c. hath been within 〈◊〉 yeares shall be accompted Forrest That no place or places within this Realm of England or Dominion of Wales where no such Iustice seat Swainemote or Court of Attachment have been held or kept or where no Verderers have been chosen or regard made within the space of sixty years next before the first year of his Majesties Reign that now is shall be at any time hereafter judged déemed or taken to be Forrest or within the Bounds or Meets of the Forrests But the same shall be from thenceforth for ever hereafter De-afforrested and freed and exempted from the Forrests Laws Any Iustice-seat Swainemote or Court of Attachment held or kept within or for any such place or places at any time or times since the beginning of His Majesties said Reign or any presentment enquiry Act or thing heretofore made or hereafter to be made or done to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid For ascertaining of Meets c. Commissions shall be issued That for the better putting into certainty all and every the Meets Meers Bounds and Limits of all and every the Forrests as aforesaid The Lord-Chancellour or Lord-Keeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being shall by vertue of this Act upon request of any of the Peers of this Kingdome or of the Knights and Burgesses of the Parliament or any of them grant severall Commissions under the Great Seal of England to Commissioners to be nominated respectively by the said Péers Knights and Burgesses or any of them to enquire of and find out by Inquests of good and lawful men upon Oath and by the Oaths of Witnesses to be produced at the said Inquests and by all other lawful means all and every the Méers Méets Bounds and Limits of the Forrests respectively which were commonly known to be their Méers Meets Bounds and Limits respectively in the said twentieth year of the Reign of our late Soveraign Lord King James And to return the Inquests so taken into the Court of Chancery and that all and every the Sheriffs and Bailiffs of and in every County wherein any such Inquests shall be so to be taken And all and every the Verderers Forresters Rangers and other Officers of the Forrests respectively where any such Officers be shall be assistant and attendant to the execution of the said Commissions according as by vertue of the said Commissions respectively they shall be commanded And where no such Officers are or where such Officers be if they or any of them shall refuse or neglect such assistance and attendance as aforesaid Then the said Commissioners shall and may procéed without them in the execution of the said Commissions Forrests shall not extend beyond the meets c. so returned And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Forrests whereof the Méets Méers Limits and Bounds be so returned and certified by vertue of any the said Commissions as aforesaid from thenceforth shall not extend nor be extended nor be déemed adjudged or taken to extend any further in any wise then the Méets Méers Limits and Bounds that shall be so returned and certified And that all the places and Territories that shall be without the Méets Méers Limits and Bounds so returned and certified shall be and are hereby declared to be from thenceforth free to all intents and purposes as if the same had never béen Forrest or so reputed Any Act or Acts matter or thing whatsoever to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Grounds deafforrested shall be excluded Provided and be it further Enacted by Authority aforesaid That all and every the grounds Territories or places which have béen or are De-afforrested or mentioned to be De-afforrested in or by any Letters Patents Charters or otherwise since the said twentieth year of the Reign of our said late Soveraign Lord King James shall be excluded and left out of the Méets Méers Limits and Bounds of the Forrests which are to be enquired of returned and certified by vertue of the said Commissions or any of them respectively And shall be and hereby are declared and Enacted to be utterly De-afforrested frée and exempt to all intents and purposes as if the same had never béen at all Forrest or so reputed Any thing in this present Act contained or any other Act matter or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Tenants Owners c. of lands excluded shall enjoy their ancient commission c. Provided nevertheless and be it Enacted That the Tenants Owners and Occupiers and every of them of Lands and Tenements which shall be excluded and left out of the Méets Méers Limits or Bounds of the Forrests to be returned and certified by vertue of any the said Commissions shall or may use and enjoy such Common and other profits and easements within the Forrest as anciently or accustomably they have used and enjoyed Any thing in this present Act contained or any Act or Ordinance made in the thrée and thirtieth year of King Edward the first or any Custome or Law of the Forrest or any other matter or thing to the contrary thereof notwithstanding CAP. XVII Scotland A confirmation of the Treaty of Pacification between England and Scotland with the Commissions and Articles thereupon EXP. CAP. XVIII For securing by publick Faith the remainder of the friendly assistance and relief promised to those of Scotland Scotland EXP. CAP. XIX The Office of Clerk the Market allowed and regulated for the reformation of Weights and Measures Grievances by Clerks of the Market and anequality in weights and measures FOrasmuch as the undue execution of the Office of Clerk of the Market hath béen very grievous unto divers of his Majesties most loving Subjects who have béen much troubled by unnecessary Summons and charged with exactions of divers sums of Money by colour of the said Office and in regard the said evils have partly arisen by means of an inequality of Weights and Measures throughout this Kingdom◠and by granting
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 Governour 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 Governours 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 Governours of any such Islands Plantations or Territories by his Maiesty his Heirs or Sucéessors shall before their entrance into their Government take a Solemn Oath to do their utmost that every the aforementioned clauses and all the matters and things therein contained Governors c. of Plantations to take an Oath for the observance of the aforementioned clauses 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 Governours have béen willingly and wittingly negligent in doing their Duty accordingly that the said Governour 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 Maps or Cards of those places be imported into England Ireland or Wales Islands of Guernsey and 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 only 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 thrée 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 Essoin Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid No Goods of forreign groweth or manufacture shall be brought into England c. in English Ships but onely from the places of their said growth c. That no Goods or Commodities that are of forreign 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 the said Growth Production or Manufacture or from those Ports where the said Goods and Commodities can onely or are or usually have béen first shipped for transportation and from none other Places or Countreys under the penalty of the Forfeiture of all such of the aforesaid Goods as shall be Imported from any other Place or Country 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 All ling stockfish c. oyl c. Whale â—ins c. imported not caught in vessels by the proprietors themselves c. shall pay double Aliens custom And it is further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That any sort of Ling Stockfish Pilchard or any other kind of dryed or salted fish usually fished for and caught by the People of England Ireland Wales Town of Barwick upon Tweed or any sort of Codfish or Herring or any Oyl or Blubber made or that shall be made of any kind 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 béen caught in Vessels truly properly belonging thereunto as Proprietors and right Owners thereof and the said Fish cured saved and 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 No goods to be â—aâ—ed or carryed from one part of England to another in the vessel of any Alien not denizend c. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That from henceforth it shall not be lawfull to any person or persons whatsoever to Load or cause to be Loaden 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 thrée fourths of the Mariners at least shall not be English any Fish Victual Wares Goods Commodities or things of what kind or Nature soever the same shall be from one Port or Créek of England Ireland Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed to another Port or Créek of the same The penalty 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 Ease and abatement in the book of rates to extend only where three parts of the Marriners be English Seize or Sue for the same in any Court of Record to be recovered in manner aforesaid And it is further Enacted by the authority aforesaid 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 and
Territories to His Majesty in Africa Asia or America belonging or in his possession That it is alwayes to be understood and Provided that the Master and thrée fourths of the Mariners of the said Ships at least be also English And that where it is required that the Master and thrée 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 Goods of the growth or manufacture of Muscovy or Russia 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 Countries Dominions or Territories to the great Duke or Emperor of Muscovy or Russia belonging As also that no sort of Masts Timber or Boards no foreign Salt pitch Tar Rozin Hemp or Flax Raisins Figs Prunes Olive Oyls no sorts of Corn or Grain Sugar Pot-ashes Wines Vinegar or Spirits called Aquavite or Brandy Wine shall from and 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 Thrée Fourths of the Mariners at least are English Othoman or Turkish Emperor and that no Currants nor Commodities of the growth production or Manufacture of any the Countries 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 only such forrain ships and vessels as are of the built of that Country or place of which the said Goods are the growth production or Manufacture respectively or of such port where the said Goods can only be or most usually are first shipped for transportation and whereof the Master and Thrée Fourths of the Mariners at least are of the said Country or place under the penalty and Forfeiture of ship and Goods to be disposed and recovered as in the foregoing clause Frauds in concealing Aliens goods how to be prevented Provided alwayes 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 and 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 déemed 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 forraign Salt Pitch Tar Rozin Hemp Flax Raisins Figs Prunes Olive Oyls all sorts of Corn or Grain Sugar Pot-ashes Spirits commonly called Brandy Wine or Aqua-vitae 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 aforesaid shall be déemed Aliens Goods and pay accordingly to his Majesty 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 Forein Ships How to prevent Frauds in colouring and buying Forrein 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 Forein built ship or Vessel whatsoever shall be déemed 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 untill 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 Forreiner 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 and 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 déemed 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 kéep a Register of all such Certificates as he or they shall so give and return a Duplicate 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 Officers of the custom not to allow any priviledge to any forrein built ship untill certificate or proof
Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for every Ship or Vessel which from and after the Five and twentieth day of December Ships of England Ireland or Wales Sailing to any English plantation of America Asia or Africa shall be bound with sureties to bring goods there loaded into England c. in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and fifty shall set sail out of or from England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed for any English Plantation in America Asia or Africa sufficient bond shall be given with one surety to the chief Officers of the Custom-house of such Port or place from whence the said Ship shall set sail to the value of one thousand pounds if the ship be of less burthen then one hundred Tuns and of the sum of two thousand pounds if the Ship shall be of greater burthen That in case the said ship or vessel shal load any of the said Commodities at any of the said English plantations that the same Commodities shall be by the said ship brought to some Port of England Ireland Wales or to the Port or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and shall there unload and put on shore the same the danger of the Seas only excepted And for all ships coming from any other Port or Place to any of the aforesaid plantations who by this Act are permitted to trade there that the Governor of such English plantations shall before the said ship or Vessel be permitted to load on board any of the said Commodities take Bond in manner and to the value aforesaid for each respective Ship or Vessel That such Ship or Vessel shall carry all the aforesaid Goods that be laden on board in the said ship to some other of His Majesties English Plantations or to England Ships coming from other places to any of those plantations Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed And that every ship or Vessel which shall load or take on board any of the aforesaid Goods untill such Bond given to the said Governor or Certificate produced from the Officers of any Custom-house of England Ireland Wales or of the Town of Berwick that such bonds have béen there â—â—ly given shall be forefeited with all her Guns Tackle Apparel and Furniture to be imployed and recovered in the manner as aforesaid And the said Governors and every of them shall twice in every year after the First day of January The respective Governors to return the bonds taken twice yearly to the chief offices of the custom in London One thousand six hundred and sixty return true Copies of all such Bonds by him so taken to the chief Officers of the Customs in London St. 13. Car. 2. cap. 14. CAP. XIX For preventing Frauds and concealments of Customs and Subsidies BE it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That if any person or persons at any time after the first day of September One thousand six hundred and sixty Persons which shall convey away any goods without entry agreement for the custome shall cause any Goods for which Custom Subsidy or other Duties are due or payable by vertue of the Act passed this Parliament Entituled A Subsidy Granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other sums of money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported to be landed or conveyed away without due entry thereof first made and the Customer or Collector or his Deputy agréed with That then and in such case upon Oath thereof made before the Lord Treasurer or any of the Barons of the Exchequer or chief Magistrate of the Port or place where the offence shall be committed or the place next adjoyning thereunto The penalty it shall be lawful to and for the Lord Treasurer or any of the Barons aforesaid or chief Magistrate of the Port or place where the offence shall be committed or the place next adjoyning thereunto to issue out a Warrant to any person or persons thereby enabling him or them with the assistance of a Sheriff Iustice of Peace or Constable to enter into any house in the day time where such Goods are suspected to be concealed and in case of resistance to break open such houses and to seize and secure the same goods so concealed And all Officers and Ministers of Iustice are hereby required to be aiding and assisting thereunto Provided alwayes That no house shall be entred by vertue of this Act No proceeding against any upon this Act unless within one month after the offence committed The continuance of this Act. Damages and costs against false informers unless it be within the space of one Moneth after the offence supposed to be committed Provided also That this Act shall continue in force unto the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer Provided also That if the Information whereupon any house shall come to be searched shall prove to be false that then and in such case the party injured shall recover his full damages and costs against the Informer by Action of Trespass to be therefore brought against such Informer St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XX. For raising Sevenscore thousand pounds for the compleat Disbanding of the whole Army and paying off some part of the Navy by a two Moneths Assesment of 70000 l. per mensem beginning from the first of November 1660. EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 6. CAP. XXI An Act for the speedy raising of Seventy thousand pounds for the present supply of His Majesty EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 6. cap. 10. CAP. XXII Bay-making in the Dutch Bay-Hall in Colchester regulated CAP. XXIII Certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors For the Encrease of His Majesties Revenue during His Life THe Commons assembled in Parliament in gratitude for an humble acknowledgment of Your Majesties great Grace and Favour to us Your Commons beyond Example of any Your Royal Progenitors expressed in many publick Acts and Declarations to the great rejoycing and general satisfaction of all Your people The raâ—es given to his Majesty for life which they desire to answer with returns suitable and excéeding the Examples of any of their Ancestors for the encreasing of your Maiesties Revenue during Your Maiesties Reign which God long continue Do therefore give and grant unto your most Excellent Majesty the Rates and Duties Impositions Charges and sums of Money herein after following And do beséech your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Maiesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled That from and after the twenty fifth day of December One thousand six hundred and sixty there shall be throughout your Maiesties Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed
established in some convenient place within the City of London A master of the Office to be appointed by the King Post-master General from whence all Letters and pacquets whatsoever may be with spéed and expedition sent unto any part of the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland or any other of his Majesties Dominions or unto any Kingdom or Country beyond the Seas at which said Office all Returns and Answers may be likewise received And that one Master of the said General Letter-Office shall be from time to time appointed by the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors to be made and constituted by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England by the name and Stile of his Majesties Post-Master General which said Master of the said Office and his Deputy and Deputies by him thereunto sufficiently authorised and his and their Servants and Agents and no other person or persons whatsoever shall from time to time have the receiving taking up ordering dispatching sending Post or with spéed and delivering of all Letters and Pacquets whatsoever which shall from time to time be sent to and from all and every the parts and places of England Scotland and Ireland and other his Majesties Dominions and to and from all and every the Kingdoms and Countries beyond the Seas where he shall settle or cause to be setled posts or running Messengers for that purpose Except such Letters as shall be sent by Coaches common known Carriers of Goods by Carts Waggons or Packhorses and shall be carried along with their Carts Waggons and Packhorses respectively And except Letters of Merchants and Masters which shall be sent by any Masters of any Ships Barques or other Vessel of Merchandize or by any other person imployed by them for the carriage of such Letters aforesaid according to the respective directions And also except Letters to be sent by any private friend or friends in their wayes of journey or travel or by any messenger or messengers sent on purpose for or concerning the private affairs of any person or persons And also except Messengers who carry and recarry Commissions or the Return thereof Affidavits Writs Process or Procéedings or the Returns thereof issuing out of any Court And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid The Post-master General and no other to provide horses for riding post That such Post-Master General for the time being as shall from time to time be made and constituted by His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the respective Deputies or Substitutes of such Post-Master General and no other person or persons whatsoever shall prepare and provide Horses and furniture to let to Hire unto all Through-posts and persons riding in post by Commission or without to and from all and every the parts and places of England Scotland and Ireland where any post-roads are or shall be setled and established And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for such Post-Master General to be constituted and appointed as aforesaid and his Deputy or Deputies by him thereunto sufficiently authorized to demand have receive and take for the portage and conveyance of all such Letters which he shall so convey carry or send Post as aforesaid and for the providing and furnishing Horses for Through-Posts or persons riding in Post as aforesaid according to the several Rates and Sums of Lawful English money hereafter mentioned Rates for carrying letters not to excéed the same that is to say For the Port of every Letter not excéeding one shéet to or from any place not excéeding fourscore English miles distant from the place where such Letter shall be received Two pence And for the like port of every Letter not excéeding two shéets Four pence And for the like port of every pacquet of Letters proportionably unto the said Rates And for the like port of every pacquet of Writs Déeds and other things after the Rate of Eight pence for every ounce weight and for the port of every Letter not excéeding one shéet above the distance of fourscore English miles from the place where the same shall be received Thrée pence And for the like port of a Letter not excéeding two shéets Six pence and proportionably to the same rates for the like port of all pacquets of Letters and for the like port of every other pacquet of writs Déeds or other things after the rate of Twelve pence of English money for every Ounce weight and for the port of every letter not excéeding One shéet from London unto the Town of Berwick or from thence to the City of London Thrée pence of English money And for the like port of every letter not excéeding two shéets Six pence and proportionably unto the same rates for every pacquet of letters and for every other pacquet of greater bulk One shilling and Six pence for every Ounce weight And for the port of such letters and pacquets as shall be conveyed or carried from the Town of Berwick unto any place or places within forty English miles distance from Berwick or any other place where such letter shall be received Two pence and for every letter not excéeding Two shéets Four pence and proportionably to the same rates for every pacquet of letters and for every other pacquet or parcel Eight pence for every Ounce weight and for every letter not excéeding One shéet to be conveyed or carryed a further distance then Forty English miles Four pence And for the like port of every pacquet of letters Eight pence and proportionably unto the same Rates for the like port of every pacquet of letters and for the like port of every other pacquet One shilling for every Ounce weight and for the port of every letter not excéeding one shéet from England unto the City of Dublin in Ireland or from the City of Dublin in Ireland unto England Six pence of English money and for the like port of every letter not excéeding two shéets one shilling and proportionably to the same rates for every pacquet of letters and for the port of every other pacquet of any kind of greater Bulk Two shillings for every ounce weight and for the Port of such Letters or Pacquets as shall be conveyed or carryed from the City of Dublin unto any other place or places within the Kingdom of Ireland or from any other place unto the said City or to or from any other place within the said Kingdom according to the Rates and sums of English mony hereafter following viz. For every Letter not excéeding one shéet to or from any place within forty English Miles distance from Dublin or any other place where such Letter shall be received Two pence And for every letter not excéeding two shéets Four pence and proportionably to the same Rates for every pacquet of letters and for every pacquet of greater Bulk Eight pence for every Ounce Weight and for every letter not excéeding one shéet to be carryed or conveyed a
appraised value upon loss of his Office Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid No person employed about managing the customs may take any bride or reward to connive at any Entry That if any of the Kings Majesties Officers or other persons appointed to manage His Majesties Customs Searchers Waiters or other person or persons whatsoever deputed and appointed by and under them or any of them or any other Authority whatsoever and imployed in or about the Affairs of the Kings Customs and Subsidies shall directly or indirectly take or receive any bribe recompence or reward in any kind whatsoever or connive at any false Entry of any Goods or Merchandizes whereby the Kings Majesty His Heirs or Successors shall be defrauded or hindred in or of His Customs and Subsidies or other Sums of money or Goods prohibited by the Law to be Imported or Exported into or out of the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales Town and Port of Berwick be suffered to pass either by way of Importation or Exportation the person or persons therein offending shall forfeit the sum of One hundred pounds The Penalty and be for ever afterwards incapable of any Office or Imployment under the Kings Majesty His Heirs or Successors or any Authority derived from them as also the Merchant Mariner or other person or persons whatsoever who shall give or pay any such Bribe Recompence or Reward as aforesaid shall forfeit the sum of Fifty pounds Provided nevertheless that if any person or persons offending as aforesaid Persons revealing their own offences within two months to be acquitted shall reveal and make known such his or their Offence in Two moneths time to the Treasurer of England the Chancellor Vnder-Treasurer or Barons of the Exchequer he shall for that Offence be clearly acquitted and discharged And be it further Enacted Forreign goods where to be landed and how weighed and numbred That all forreign Goods and Merchandize which by the person or persons which are or shall be appointed by his Majesty for the managing of the Customs and the Customer Collector and Comptroller shall be permitted to be landed and taken up by Bills at sight Bills at view or sufferance shall be landed at the most convenient Keys or Wharfs where the said person or persons so to be appointed Customer or Collector or Comptroller shall appoint and not elsewhere and there or in his Majesties Store-house of the respective Ports at the Election of the said person or persons so to be appointed and Officers shall be measured weighed and numbred by and in the presence of the Officers to be thereunto particularly appointed which said Officers so appointed shall perfect the Entry and thereunto shall subscribe their Names and the next day following shall give Accompt and make report of every respective Entry so perfected as aforesaid to the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed to manage his Majesties Customs Customer or Collector and Comptroller aforesaid without reasonable cause to be allowed by the said person or persons or Officers aforesaid or in default thereof shall forfeit the sum of One hundred pounds Be it also Enacted That no Ship Vessel or Boat Vessels appointed for carrying Letters may not import nor export Merchandise appointed and imployed ordinarily for the Carriage of Letters and Pacquets shall unless it be in such Cases as shall be allowed by the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed to manage his Majesties Customs or Officers aforesaid Import or Export any Goods or Merchandize into or out of the parts beyond the Seas upon the Penalty of the forfeiture of One hundred pounds to be paid by the Master of the said Vessel or Boat with the loss of his place and all Goods and Merchandize that shall be found on Board any such Ship Vessel or Boat shall be forfeited and lost And whereas some Doubts and Disputes have arisen concerning the said late Act For encresing and encouraging of Shipping and Navigation An Explanation of 12 Car. 2. cap. 18. of goods prohibited to be brought from Holland about some of the Goods therein prohibited to be brought from Holland and the Parts and Ports thereabouts Be it Enacted and Declared That no sort of Wines other then Rhenish no sort of Spicery Grocery Tobacco Pot-ashes Pitch Tarr Salt Rozen Deal-Boards Firr Timber or Olive-Oyl shall be imported into England Wales or Berwick from the Netherlands or Germany upon any pretence whatsoever in any sort of Ships or Vessels whatsoever upon penalty of the loss of all the said Goods as also of the Ships and furniture And whereas also by the said Acts For incouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation 12 Car. 2. c. 18. Imposition of 5 s. per Tun upon French Vessels an Imposition of Five shillings per Tun is laid upon all Ships or Vessels belonging to any Subjects of the French King which shall come into any Port Harbour Créek or Road of England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and shall there lade or unlade any Goods or take in or set on shore any Passengers Yet notwithstanding there is great difficulty in recovering the said Duty because small Shallops come not into Harbours where Officers are but either put their Goods and Passengers on shore or Boats come out of Harbours which privately convey them on shore there being no penalty in the Act against such Offenders Be it therefore Enacted How to be recovered and the penalty That any such Ship or Vessel upon which the above-said Imposition of Five shillings per Tun is due and payable which shall either put on shore or put over into any Boat any Goods or Passengers without payment of Custom and Imposition of Tunnage at any time returning into any Harbour Port or Creek of England or Ireland shall not only pay the Duties formerly due but forfeit the sum of Ten pounds And whatsoever Pilot Water-man or Boat-man which shall from any Harbour Port or Créek go out and bring any Goods from on board such Vessel shall not only be liable to pay the Duty of Tunnage which the said Vessel should have paid but forfeit the sum of Forty pounds Be it also hereby Enacted That Vinegar Perry Rape Cider and Cider-eager of any sort or kind whatsoever Tunnage upon V negar Perry Rape Cyder and Cyder eager Imported from and after the four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty and two from Forreign Parts is hereby Rated to pay to the Kings Majesty a Subsidy of Tunnage of Four pounds Ten shillings per Tun Imported by English and Six pounds Imported by Stangers according to the Rate already imposed and set upon French Wines to be Collected and Levied for such time and in such manner as by the Act of Tunnage and Poundage is directed and appointed And the same are by vertue of this Act exonerated and discharged of all further and other Sums heretofore set or
the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for owners of ships that have offended and shall first discover the same Provided always That if any Owner of any Ship or Vessel or any Master or Mariner knowing of such transportation of such shéep wool woolfels mortlings shorlings yarn made of wool wool-flocks Fullers earth Fulling clay or Tobacco-pipe clay shall within thrée moneths next after the knowledg thereof or after his return into the Kingdom of England or Ireland or into the said Town of Berwick or Dominion of Wales aforesaid give the first information bona fide before any of the Barons of either of the Courts of the Exchequer in England or Ireland for the time being or before the head Officer of any Port where he shall first arrive upon his or their Oath of the number and quantity of the goods mentioned in this Act so carryed conveyed and transported and by whom where and in what ship or vessel and afterwards shall be ready upon reasonable warning by Process to justify and prove the same that then such Owner and Owners Master Mariner and Mariners shall not be punished for felony by vertue of this Act but shall nevertheless be subject to all other penalties and forfeitures in this or any other Act contained for the Offence aforesaid and all such Exportation Transportation carrying or conveying of any the goods Common nusance Who may hear and determine the said offences wares or commodities in this Act mentioned is hereby declared and adjudged to be a common and publick Nusance And for the better execution of this Act be it further Enacted that all Iustices of Assize Iustices of Goal-delivery and Iustices of Peace shall enquire of all the premisses in their General Quarter-Sessions and hear and determine the same and that all Mayors Bailiffs and other head Officers of Cities Burroughs and Towns not having Iurisdiction to try felony shall enquire of all and every Offence within this Act not made felony and hear and determine the same CAP. XIX Importing of Foreign Wool-cards Card-wire or Iron-wire prohibited WHereas by the Acts of Parliament made in the third year of King Edward the fourth and the nine and thirtieth year of Quéen Elizabeth 3 E. 4. ca. 4. â—9 El. c. 14. and several other Statutes before that time made It is Enacted amongst other things therein contained that no Cards for wool nor Iron thread commonly called white wire shall be Imported sent or conveyed into this Realm of England wherein the best Iron thread or wire for making wool-cards is made and by the said manufacture of making and drawing of wire and wool-cards very many poor people of this Kingdom and their families have béen imployed and maintained and the wool-cards made thereof are of great concernment to this Kingdom for the good making of woollen Cloth And whereas contrary to the said Statutes not only much Foreign Card-wire but also Foreign wool-cards have béen in these late times Imported into this Kingdom and also within the same many old wool-cards are by ill disposed persons for their private lucre bought up and the old Iron-wire of the said old wool-cards being very weak and insufficient for the well carding of wool is put into new leather and new boards and so uttered and sold to ignorant people for new wool-cards to their great detriment and the indamaging of their work carding of wool and the cloth made thereof By all which very great inconveniencies have béen found by experience of Clothiers in their making of English Cloth which is lately much debased and decayed and wherein this Nation is greatly concerned to uphold and encourage the well making thereof in and by all wayes and means in any wise conducible thereunto 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 assembled in Parliament No Foreign wool-cards card-wire or iron wire for wool-cards may be imported And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Foreign wool-cards or Foreign Card-wire or Iron-wire for making of wool-cards be Imported into this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or any parts thereof nor used within the same nor any Card-wire taken out of old Cards be from henceforth put into new leather and new Card-boards nor any such wool-cards made thereof be put to sale upon the pains penalties and forfeitures hereafter following that is to say Every person or persons who shall import or bring any Foreign wool-cards or Foreign Card-wire or Iron-wire for making of wool-cards into this Kingdom of England The penalty Dominion of Wales or any parts thereof or make any wool-cards of any such old Card-wire as aforesaid or put the same to sale shall forfeit the said wool-cards and Card-wire or Iron wire for making wool-cards or the value thereof if the same be not seised the one half part thereof to the Kings Majesty and the other half part thereof to such person or persons who shall first seise or sue for the same by Action of Debt Plaint Bill Information or Indictment in any of his Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster or within the County City Burrough or Town Corporate where such offence shall be committed wherein no Essoign Protection Wager of Law or Injunction shall be allowed or admitted Proviso for amending of old wool-cards Provided always That this Act shall not extend to hinder the Owners of any wool-cards to cause them to be amended for their own use or to transport or sell for Transportation onely any their old overworn wool-cards in any parts beyond the Seas out of his Majesties Dominions CAP. XX. Provision of Carriage by Land and by Water for the use of His Majesties Navy and Ordnance WHereas by an Act Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. and Tenures in Capite and by Knights Service and Purveyance and for setling a Revenue upon His Majesty in lieu thereof It was amongst other things Enacted for the reasons and recompence therein expressed That from thenceforth no Person or Persons by any Warrant Commission or Authority under the Great Seal or otherwise by colour of buying or making provision or purveyance for his Majesty or any Quéen of England for the time being or of any the Children of any King or Quéen of England that shall be or for his their or any of their Houshold shall take any Cart Carriage or other thing whatsoever of any the Subjects of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors without the free and full consent of the Owner or Owners thereof had and obtained without Menace or Enforcement nor shall summon warn take use or require any of the said Subjects to furnish or find any Horses Oxen or other Cattel Carts Ploughs Wayns or other Carriages for the use of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or of any Queen of England or of any Child or Children
ease of Sheriffs in passing their Accompts Seizures of Lands remaining charged Michaelmas 1660. Be it Enacted and Declared That from henceforth every Seizure for or concerning any Lands Tenements and Hereditaments now remaining charged in the Foreign accompt of any Sheriff or Sheriffs within the Kingdom of England for the year ended at Michaelmas One thousand six hundred and sixty shall be from the said Foreign accompt charged particularly in the great Roll of the Exchequer And that the several Remembrancers of the said Court or their respective Deputies do in their respective Officers forthwith Seizures hereafter taken or returned and so from time to time for the future write and make true and perfect Copies of all and every such other Seizure and Inquisition as already are or hereafter shall be certified into their respective Offices without certifying the Copy of the Writ or Commission at large upon which such Seizure or Inquisition is or shall be so taken or returned mentioning only in brief the Date of the said Writ or Commission and shall deliver the said Copies well and truly examined and attested under his or their Hands to the Engrosser of the said great Roll And that all such of the said Seizures and Inquisitions as now are returned into any of their respective Offices shall be delivered before the first day of February next coming And that all such other seizures as shall hereafter be returned or certified into their respective Offices shall be delivered so examined and attested as aforesaid to the said Engrosser before the first day of the next Term after the said Remembrancers shall have received the same so as the same may be charged in the great Roll To the end that the Processe of the Court may from thence issue for levying the Issues and Profits thereof to the use of the Crown unto which said Remembrancers or their Deputies shall be from time to time paid for every Sheet which they or their respective Clerks shall so write and deliver the sum of eight pence Fees to the Remembrancers the same to be paid unto them by the aforesaid respective Sheriffs who shall be allowed the same by the Barons upon their respective Accompts out of the Issues and Profits arising out of the Premisses so seized and no Sheriff or Sheriffs for this persent year One thousand six hundred sixty and one Sheriffs shall not answer illeviable seizures Farm Rents c. nor any Sheriff or Sheriffs to be hereafter made or appointed within this Kingdom of England shall be charged in accompt to answer any illeviable Seizure Farm Rent or Debt or other Seizure Farm Rent Debt matter or thing whatsoever which was not writ in Processe to him or them to be levied wherein the persons of whom or the Lands or Tenements out of which together with the cause for which the same shall be so levied shall be plainly and particularly expressed but shall be thereof wholly discharged without Petition Plea or other trouble or charge whatsoever And it is hereby further Enacted and Declared Seizures before 1 Jac. and divers others to be left out of the Sheriffs accompt That all Seizures heretofore made before the first Year of the Reign of the late King James of ever blessed memory now remaining in the Accompts of the Sheriffs and all Seizures and Debts which are pardoned shall be and are hereby fully discharged And that the same and every of them shall hereafter be left out of Sheriffs accompts without further Order Plea Petition or other Charge to any Sheriff or Sheriffs whatsoever And that no Processe shall from henceforth be written forth to any Sheriff for the levying of the same or any of them nor for any other Rent or Farm which cannot be explained by setting forth the particulars thereof or which have been unanswered by the space of forty years last past And that all other dead Farms and Seizures and all desperate illeviable and unintelligible Debts shall be removed out of the Annual Roll and Sheriffs Charge into the Exannual Roll there to remain untill by Commission they shall be revived and made answerable Process for Debts to be sent forth in convenient time And to the end that all new Debts arising and coming into the Exchequer for the future may be sent forth in Processe within convenient time Be it also Enacted and Declared That the aforesaid several Remembrancers do forthwith inrol and certify to the said Ingrosser of the great Roll all such Debts as any Sheriff or Sheriffs of this Realm are or hereafter shall be charged withall either by vertue of their respective Retorns made to the Barons of the said Exchequer upon his Majesties Writs of Fieri facias Levari facias Capias or other Processe and also of all Fines and Amerciaments which are or shall be set and imposed by the Court of Exchequer upon any Sheriff or Sheriffs for his or their contempts or neglects that is to say That all and every such Debts Fines and Amerciaments as now are returned set or imposed in any of the said Offices shall be delivered as aforesaid before the First day of February next ensuing And all such Debts Fines and Amerciaments as shall hereafter be returned set or imposed in any of the respective Offices shall be also delivered by the First day of the next Term after such Retorns made The penalty upon officers for doing any thing against this Act. or such Fines or Amerciaments so set or imposed that so they may be all charged in the Sheriffs Accompts respectively and comprehended within his or their Quietus est upon pain that every Officer or Officers in the said Exchequer who shall in any thing offend contrary to this present Act shall forfeit the sum of Forty pounds for every such offence whereof one moyety shall be to the King his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to the party or parties who shall be thereby agrieved to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of his Majesties Courts at Westminster wherein no Essoin Protection Priviledge or Wager of Law shall be allowed or admitted 9 E. 2. St. Lincoln 4 E. 3. cap. 9. 5 E. 3. cap. 4. And it is hereby further Provided and Ordained That no person shall be assigned to be Sheriff of any County within this Realm except such as have Lands within the same County sufficient to answer the King and his people And whereas by an Act made in the One and twentieth year of the Reign of our late Soveraign Lord King James over England 21 Jac. cap. 5. It was provided That whensoever any Sheriff upon passing his Accompts A Quietus est to be a sufficient discharge for a Sheriff if not questioned within four years after grant thereof should have his Quietus est that he should be thereby absolutely discharged of all sums of Money by him Levied and Received and pretended not to be accompted for
within the said Accompt whereupon he had his Quietus est unless such Sheriff should be called in question for such sums of Money so pretended to be Levied and not Accompted for within four years after the time of such Accompt and Quietus est which Act notwithstanding divers Sheriffs and their Heirs upon such pretences have béen molested and troubled many years after their Accompts and Quietus est and have had Process sent out against them contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said Act It is hereby further Provided and Enacted That when any Sheriff or Sheriffs within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales upon passing their Accompts shall have their Quietus est that then such Sheriff and Sheriffs their Heirs Executors and Administrators Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels shall be thereby absolutely discharged of all manner of sum or sums of Money whatsoever by them Levyed and Received notwithstanding any such pretence that the same were not accompted for or other pretence whatsoever unless such Sheriff or Sheriffs shall be called in question and that Iudgment shall be given against him or them for the same within four years next after such Accompt or Quietus est and that every Officer or Minister by whom or by whose default any Writ or Process contrary to this Act shall be sent out shall incur the like Forfeitures and Penalties to be recovered and inflicted by such persons and in such manner as by the aforesaid Act is provided Provided alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to the Counties of Chester Chester Lancaster Durham Wales Lancaster Durham or the Counties in Wales being County-Palatines as to their manner of accompting but that the Sheriffs therein shall accompt as formerly before the respective Auditors only and not elsewhere Proviso touching the Kings Remembrancer Lord Treasurers Remembrancer Provided That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to enjoyn His Majesties Remembrancer or the Lord Treasurers Remembrancer to transcribe and deliver to the Ingrosser of the great Roll any Inquisitions or Seisures but such as have béen formerly charged in the Foreign Accompts of the Sheriffs but for all Inquisitions upon Attainders or other Forfeitures to the Crown the same shall be put in charge as heretofore they have béen according to the constant usage and Decrée of the Court of Exchequer Nor shall this Act or any thing therein contained extend to exclude His Majesties said Remembrancer of or from the writing forth Process for or upon any His Majesties Debts Duties Outlawries or other charge whatsoever or Process of Levari facias at the prosecution of any person or persons to levy the Issues or Profits of any Lands or Tenements seised or to be seised into the Kings hands or Process of Venditioni exponas for Goods seised or to be seised upon any Debt to His Majesty His Heirs or Successors or upon any Outlawry or to alter or change the Pleadings or other Procéedings heretofore used and accustomed in the said Office upon any Pleadings touching the said Debts Duties and Seisures or any of them whatsoever And that no Debt Duty Fine Amerciament or Seisure whatsoever which shall be charged in the said great Roll of the Pipe upon any person whatsoever by or from any Record Process or Procéeding had made filed or recorded in the Office of His Majesties Remembrancer of his Exchequer nor any Process or Procéeding thereupon to be had or made by vertue of this Act shall be respited stayed mitigated extenuated compounded or otherwise discharged but by Order Warrant or Iudgment made filed or entred in the said Office of His Majesties Remembrancer where the original of such Debt Duty or Charge as aforesaid is and remaineth And that in case any Process of Summons of the Pipe have béen or shall be awarded for or upon any such Debt Duty Fine Amerciament or Seisure whatsoever and the same Debt Duty Fine Amerciament or Seisure shall not upon such Summons of the Pipe be levied or answered unto His Majesty That then the Clerk of the Pipe or Engrosser of the Great Roll shall the next Term after the return of such Summons certifie the same in a Schedule into the Office of His Majesties Remembrancer aforesaid to the end that further Process may be from thence written forth for the Levying and Answering thereof And that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend unto nor be construed to be prejudicial to His Majesties Remembrancer in His Exchequer in any just ancient and lawful Fées by him claimed or belonging or incident to His Office and usually had and received by him or his Predecessors Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding The conttnuance This Act to continue to the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer CAP. XXII For Preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England VVHereas a great number of Lewd Disorderly and Lawless Persons being Thieves and Robbers who are commonly called Moss-Troopers have successively for many and sundry years last past béen bred resided in and frequented the borders of the two respective Counties of Northumberland and Cumberland and the next adjacent parts of Scotland and they taking the opportunity of the large waste Grounds Heaths and Mosses and the many intricate and dangerous Wayes and By-paths in those parts do usually after the most notorious Crimes committed by them escape over from the one Kingdom into the other respectively and so avoid the hand of Iustice in regard the Offences done and perpetrated in the one Kingdom cannot be punished in the other And whereas since the time of the late unhappy distractions such Offences and Offenders as aforesaid have excéedingly more increased and abounded and the several Inhabitants of the said respective Counties have béen for divers years last past necessitated at their own frée and voluntary charge to maintain several Parties of Horse for the necessary defence of their Persons Families and Goods and to the end the aforesaid evil and pernicious members might be apprehended and brought to Iudgment And whereas the most part of the Inhabitants of the said Counties being more remote from the Borders then other parts and consequently not so much exposed to imminent dangers as others are therefore unwilling to contribute their proportionable parts of the aforesaid Charge and yet notwithstanding it cannot probably or possibly be avoided but that those Inhabitants of the respective Counties who hold themselves most secure must certainly sustain much damage and detriment in their Goods and Estates in case the aforesaid Moss-Troopers be not timely suppressed but suffered to grow numerous strong and potent which they must néeds do in case there be no restraint upon them Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled
and by Authority thereof that from and after the Feast of St. Michael the Arch-angel which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two for and during the term of Five years next ensuing the date of this present Act it shall and may be lawful for the respective Iustices of Peace of the said respective Counties or the major part of them at any General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said Counties respectively on the behalf of the said Counties or either of them from time to time as they shall sée occasion to make an Order in open Court of Sessions for charging according to their several Proportions all and every the several Inhabitants of the said respective Counties for the safeguard and securing of the said severall Counties and Inhabitants thereof from all injury violence spoil and rapine of the Moss-Troopers aforesaid Provided That the said County of Northumberland be not by force of this Act at any time charged above the sum of Five hundred pounds in the year nor the said County of Cumberland charged above the sum of two hundred pounds in the year And for this end and purpose the said several Iustices of Peace of the respective Counties aforesaid are hereby impowred and authorized at any their General Quarter Sessions aforesaid to appoint and imploy from time to time if occasion require any person or persons to have the Conduct and Command of a certain number of men not excéeding the number of Thirty men in the County of Northumberland and Twelve in the County of Cumberland whereby the Malefactors aforesaid may be searched out discovered pursued apprehended and brought to tryal of the Law And all and every the said Iustices of Peace of the respective Counties aforesaid or the major part of them at any General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said Counties or either of them respectively are hereby further impowred and authorized by force of this present Act to make and issue forth their respective Warrants under their hands for the levying and collecting any sum or sums of money ordered to be paid for and towards the safeguard and securing of the said Counties respectively as aforesaid and to give full power to the several Constables and other Officers to raise levy and collect the said money and all and every the Inhabitants of the said several Counties according to their respective proportionable Estates in Lands or Goods by Distress and Sale of Goods rendering the overplus if there be any to the respective Owner or Owners And the said Iustices of Peace in the said several Counties or any one of them respectively are hereby also authorized to examine any Complaint made against the Collectors and Constables or any other Officers or Ministers of Iustice whatsoever or any of them or any other refractory person or persons whatsoever that at any time hereafter shall refuse neglect or fail to give obedience to this Act or shall do any act or acts in disturbance or obstruction thereof and to bind over such person or persons to the next Quarter Sessions according to the known Laws of the Land to the end such person or persons may be procéeded withall according to Iustice And the said respective Iustices of Peace as aforesaid are hereby further Impowred and Authorized on behalf of the said several Counties respectively to appoint a Treasurer to receive from the said Collectors the Moneys by them Collected and to pay over the same according to the Orders they shall receive from the said Iustices at the General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said respective Counties And the said Iustices are also Impowred to agrée and article with such person or persons yearly as they shall think fit to imploy in the said Service and to take sufficient Security of them for the faithful and most effectual performance thereof for the best safeguard advantage and benefit of the people according to the true intent and meaning of this Act. And in case any person or persons shall in pursuance of this Act be imployed in the Border-Service and shall at any time hereafter wilfully and corruptly or for any sinister respect whatsoever neglect or forbear to Discover or Apprehend or to bring to Tryal any of the said persons called Moss-Troopers as aforesaid and shall be convicted thereof according to Law he or they shall from thenceforth be disabled and made uncapable for ever after to manage or take upon him or them the said Imployment and to suffer such Fine and Imprisonment according to the quality of his or their offence as the Iustices of Peace at their General Sessions shall think fit to inflict Provided nevertheless and be it hereby Declared That it shall be lawful for the Iustices of Peace of either of the said Counties as aforesaid respectively at any time hereafter to moderate or lessen the said charge if they sée cause Provided that this Act shall continue and be in force for five years and no longer Provided always and be it further Enacted by Authority aforesaid That for better suppression and punishment of the said Moss-Troopers flying out of England into Scotland or out of Scotland into England 4 Jac. cap. 1. 7 Jac. cap. 1. the Statutes made in the several Sessions of Parliament in the Fourth and Seventh years of King James shall be revived and put in execution according to their true intent 18 Car. 2. cap. 3. Continued for Seven years from the expiration of this Act. CAP. XXIII An Additionall Act concerning matter of Assurance used amongst Merchants WHereas by an Act of Parliament made in the Thrée and fortieth year of the Reign of Quéen Elizabeth of happy memory 43 El. cap. 12. Entituled An Act concerning matters of Assurances used amongst Merchants Encouragement of Merchants and Trade The Parliament then taking into Consideration by all good means to comfort and encourage the Merchants of this Kingdome thereby to advance and increase the Wealth of this Realm her Majesties Customs and the strength of shipping and for preventing of divers mischiefs in the said Act mentioned It was Enacted That it should and might be lawful for the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being to award forth under the Great Seal of England one general or standing Commission to be renewed yearly at the least and otherwise so often as unto the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper should séem méet for the hearing and determining of Causes arising on Policies of Assurance such as then were or then after should be entred within the Office of Assurance of the City of London which Commissions should be directed to the Iudge of the Admiralty for the time being the Recorder of London for the time being Two Doctors of the Civil Law Two Common Lawyers and eight grave or discréet Merchants or any five of them which Commissioners or the greater part of them which
Acknowledgment before the respective Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocess or Vice-Chancellor aforesaid respectively And that every such Parson Vicar Curate or Lecturer shall procure a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the respective Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocess who are hereby required and enjoyned upon demand to make and deliver such Certificate And shall publickly and openly read the same together with the Declaration or acknowledgment aforesaid upon some Lords day within thrée moneths then next following such subscription in his Parish Church where he is to officiate in the presence of the Congregation then assembled in the time of Divine Service And be it further Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid That every subscription already made or hereafter to be made before any Vicar-General or Chancellor to any Archbishop or Bishop or Commissary to the Archbishop of Canterbury or any other Bishop is and shall be as effectual and beneficial in Law to all intents and purposes to every person and persons which have or shall make such subscription as aforesaid as if the same had béen made before the Archbishop or Bishop of the Province or Diocess respectively Any thing in the aforesaid Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also That every person who shall have benefit by this Act shall make such allowance for serving the Cure since the 24th of August 1662. as shall be judged fit by the Ordinary of the place and shall pay and discharge all Tenths Pensions and other Charges wherewith the Benefice to which he is by this Act restored hath béen or might be legally charged since the day aforesaid Persons prohibited to Preach 14 Car. 2. c. 4. And whereas some doubt hath arisen whether persons prohibited to preach by the said Act are in the same plight as to punishment with persons disabled by the said Act to preach Be it Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the penalties by the said Act to be inflicted upon any person disabled by the said Act to preach for any offence against the said Act shall in like manner be inflicted upon every person so offending that is prohibited by the said Act to preach Any thing doubt or ambiguity in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding CAP. VII Trade Encouraged Tillage FOrasmuch as the encouraging of Tillage ought to be in an especial manner regarded and endeavoured and the surest and effectuallest means of promoting and advancing any Trade Occupation or Mystery being by rendring it profitable to the Vsers thereof And great quantities of Land within this Kingdom for the present lying in a manner waste and yielding little which might thereby be improved to considerable profit and advantage if sufficient Encouragement were given for the laying out of Cost and labour on the same and thereby much more Corn produced greater numbers of people horses and cattel imployed and other Land also rendred more Valuable Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority thereof And it is hereby Enacted That from and after the first day of September in the year of our Lord 1663. and from thence forward when the prizes of Corn and Grain Winchester measure Corn not exceeding certain rates may be transported do not excéed the rates hereafter following at the Havens or places where the same shall be shipped or loaden viz The Quarter of Wheat Eight and forty shillings The Quarter of Barley or Malt Eight and twenty shillings The Quarter of Buck-wheat Eight and twenty shillings The Quarter of Oats Thirtéen shillings and four pence The Quarter of Rye Two and thirty shillings The Quarter of Pease or Beans Two and thirty shillings currant English money That then it shall be lawful for all and every person and persons to ship load carry and transport any of the said Corns or Grains from the Havens or places where they shall be of such prizes unto any parts beyond the Seas as Merchandise Any Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding paying such Rates for the same and none other as are to be paid when the same might have béen Transported by one Act passed this present Parliament Entituled 12 Car. 2. c 4. A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage When corn may be imported and what custom to be paid And it is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That when the prizes of the aforesaid Corns and Grains do not excéed the Rates above mentioned respectively Winchester-measure at the Haven or place into which any of them shall be imported from any part beyond the Seas there shall be paid for the Custom and Poundage of every Quarter of Wheat five shillings and four pence and for every Quarter of Rye four shillings and for every Quarter of Barley or Malt two shillings and eight pence and for every Quarter of Buck-wheat two shillings and for every Quarter of Oats one shilling four pence and for every Quarter of Pease or Beans four shillings And it is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That when the prizes of Corn or Grain Winchester-measure do not excéed the rates following at the Markets Havens or Places where the same shall be bought viz. The Quarter of Wheat Eight and forty shillings the Quarter of Rye two and thirty shillings the Quarter of Barley or Mault eight and twenty shillings the Quarter of Buck-wheat eight and twenty shillings the Quarter of Oats thirtéen shillings and four pence the Quarter of Pease or Beans two and thirty shillings That then it shall be lawful for all and every person and persons not Forestalling nor Selling the same in the same Market within thrée moneths after the buying thereof to buy in open Market and to lay up and kéep in his or their Granaries or Houses and to sell again such Corn or Grain of the kinds aforesaid as without fraud or coven shall have béen bought at or under the prïces before expressed without incurring any penalty Any Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding And in regard his Majesties Plantations beyond the Seas are inhabited and peopled by his Subjects of this his Kingdom of England Plantations beyond the Sea For the maintaining a greater correspondence and kindness betwéen them and kéeping them in a firmer dependance upon it and rendring them yet more beneficial and advantagious unto it in the further employment and encrease of English Shipping and Sea-men Vent of English Woollen and other Manufactures and Commodities rendring the Navigation to and from the same more safe and cheap and making this Kingdom a Staple not only of the Commodities of those Plantations but also of the Commodities of other Countries and Places for the supplying of them and it being the usage of other Nations to kéep their Plantations Trade to themselves Be it Enacted and it is
hereby further Enacted That if any Officer of the Customs in England Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed shall give any Warrant for or suffer any Sugar Tobacco Ginger Cotton-wool Indico Speckle-wood or Jamaica Wood Fustick or other Dying Wood of the growth of any of the said Lands Islands Colonies Plantations Territories or Places to be carryed into any other Countrey or place whatsoever until they have béen first unladen bona fide and put on shore in some Port or Haven in England or Wales or in the Town of Berwick That every such Officer for such offence shall forfeit his place and the value of such of the said goods as he shall give Warrant for or suffer to pass into any other Countrey or place the one moyety to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that shall inform or sue for the same in any Court of Record in England or Wales wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed Encouragement of Plantations and encrease of Shipping And for the better encouragement of the said Plantations and the increase of the Shipping and Navigation of this Kingdom Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the five and twentieth day of March one thousand six hundred sixty and four it shall and may be lawful out of any Port of England or Wales or out of the Town of Berwick Sea-coals to ship and lade Sea-coals for any part of them paying for the Chalder Newcastle measure one shilling eight pence and for the Chalder London-measure one shilling and no more in full of all Custom and Poundage for the same Any Law Statute or Prohibition to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Provided That such Sea-coals be shipped in such shipping and so Navigated as abovesaid And that good security be given to the Officers of the Customs in such Port in which they are shipped for the landing them in the said Plantations and not elswhere And forasmuch as several considerable and advantagious Trades cannot be conveniently driven and carried on without the Species of Money or Bullion and that it is found by experience that they are carried in greatest abundance as to a common Market to such places as give frée liberty for exporting the same and the better to kéep in and increase the current Coins of this Kingdom Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted That from and after the first day of August one thousand six hundred sixty and thrée it shall and may be lawful to and for any person or persons whatsoever to Export out of any Port of England or Wales in which there is a Customer or Collector or out of the Town of Berwick all sorts of Foreign Coyn or Bullion of Gold or Silver Foreign coin or bullion may be exported first making entry thereof in such Custom-house respectively without paying any Duty Custom Poundage or Fée for the same Any Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding And lastly Whereas a very great part of the richest and best Land of this Kingdom is and cannot so well be otherwise imployed and made use of as in the Féeding and Fattening of Cattel And that by the coming in of late of vast numbers of Cattel already fatted such Lands are in many places much fallen and like daily to fall more in their Rents and Values and in consequence other Lands also to the great prejudice detriment and impoverishment of this Kingdom Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid and it is hereby Enacted That for every head of great Cattel except such as are of the bréed of Scotland that shall be imported or brought into England Penalties upon importation of Foreign cattel at certain times Wales or the Town of Berwick upon Tweed after the first day of July and before the twentieth day of December in any year And for every head of great Cattel of the bréed of Scotland that shall be imported or brought into England Wales or the Town of Berwick after the four and twentieth day of August and before the twentieth day of December in any year there shall be paid to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors the sum of twenty shillings And the sum of ten shillings to him or them that shall inform or seise the same And the sum of ten shillings to the Poor of the Parish where such Seisure or Information shall be made to be recovered and levied by Bill Plaint or other Action wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed And moreover That there shall be paid to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for every Shéep which shall be Imported into England Wales or the Town of Berwick aforesaid after the First day of August and before the Twentieth day of December in any year the sum of Ten shillings of lawful money of England to be recovered and levied in manner aforesaid Provided always That this Act in so far as it relates to great Cattel or Shéep The continuance of this Act as to importation of cattel Encouragement of Herring Fisheries shall not take place till the First day of July One thousand six hundred sixty and four nor continue longer then the end of the First Session of the next Parliament And for the encouragement of the Herring and North-Sea Island and Westmony Fisheries Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted by the authority aforesaid That from and after the First day of August which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and four no Fresh Herring Fresh Cood or Haddock Coal-fish or Gull-fish shall be Imported into England Wales or the Town of Berwick but in English-built Ships or Vessels or in Ships or Vessels bona fide belonging to England Wales or the Town of Berwick and having such Certificate thereof as is abovesaid and whereof the Master and thrée Fourths at the least of the Mariners are English and which hath béen fished caught and taken in such Ships or Vessels and so navigated and not being â—ought or had of any strangers born or out of any strangers Bottoms under the pain of the forfeiture of all such Herring Codd Haddock Coal-fish or Gull-fish impâ—â—ted contrary to the true intent and meaning hereof and of the Ship or Vessel in which it was Imported One moyety of which forfeitures shall be to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that shall inform seise or sue for the same to be recovered by Bill Plaint or other Action wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed And be it further Enacted and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Duties to be paid upon importation of salted or dried Fish That for the following sorts or kinds of salted or dried Fish which from and after the said First day of August shall be imported into England Wales or
the Town of Berwick in any other Ship or Vessel then what is English-built or belonging to England Wales or Town of Berwick and having such Certificate thereof as abovesaid and whereof the Master and thrée fourths of the Mariners at least are English and not having béen fished and caught in such Ships or Vessels and so navigated there shall be paid by way of Custom and Impost the several sums of money herein after particularly mentioned that is to say for Cod-fish the Barrel Five shillings for Cod-fish the last containing twelve Barrels Thrée pounds for Cod-fish the hundred containing sixscore Ten shillings for Coal-fish the hundred containing sixscore Five shillings for Lings the hundred containing sixscore One pound for White Herrings the Last containing twelve Barrels One pound sixtéen shillings for Haddocks the Barrel Two shillings for Gull-fish the Barrel Two shillings And forasmuch as planting and making Tobacco within this Kingdom of England doth continue and increase to the apparent loss of his said Majesty in his Customs the discouragement of the English Plantations in the parts beyond the Seas and prejudice of this Kingdom in general notwithstanding an Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth year of his said Majesties Reign for prevention thereof Entituled An Act for prohibiting the Planting Setting 12 Car. 2. cap. 34. The further penalty for planting Tobacco in England or Sowing of Tobacco in England and Ireland And forasmuch as it is found by experience that the reason why the said planting and making of Tobacco doth continue is That the penalties prescribed and appointed by that Law are so little as have neither power or effect over the transgressors thereof For remedy therefore of so great an evil Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the person or persons whatsoever that do or shall at any time hereafter Set Plant or Sow any Tobacco in Séed Plant or otherwise in or upon any ground field earth or place within the Kindom of England Dominion of Wales Islands of Guernsey and Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or Kingdom of Ireland shall over and above the penalty of the said Act for that purpose ordained for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of Ten pounds for every Rod or Pole of ground that he or they shall so Plant Set or Sow with Tobacco and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity of ground one third part thereof to the Kings Majesty one other third part thereof to the use of the poor of such respective Parish or Parishes wherein such Tobacco shall be so Planted Set or Sowed and the other third part thereof to him or them that shall sue for the same to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of his said Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed And it is hereby further Enacted That in case any person or persons shall resist or make forceable opposition against any person or persons in the due and through Execution of the said Act of the Twelfth of his said Majesties Reign that he she or they so resisting and making forceable opposition shall over and above the penalties therein mentioned for such Offences be committed to the Common Gaol of the County where such offence shall be committed there to remain without Bail or Mainprise untill he she or they have entred into a Recognizance to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors with two sufficient Sureties of Ten pounds penalty not to do or commit the like offence again Proviso for Tobacco planted in Physick Gardens Provided alwayes That this Act nor any thing therein contained shall not extend to the hindrance or prejudice of Planting Tobacco in any Physick-Garden of either of the Vniversities or any other private Garden for Chirurgery so as the quantity so planted excéed not the half of one Pole in any one place or Garden Cattel imported from the Isle of Man Provided also and be it Enacted That it shall and may be lawful to import Cattel of the bréed of the Isle of Man not excéeding six hundred in any one year And Corn of the growth of that Island out of that Island into England so as the said Cattel be landed at Chester Liverpool or Wirewater Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding CAP. VIII Butchers may not sell live fat Cattel 3 4 E. 6. cap. 19. VVHereas by an Act made in the Third and Fourth years of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth It is Enacted That no Person using the Craft or Mystery of a Butcher should buy any fat Oxen Stéers Runts Kine Heisers Calves or Shéep and sell the same again alive upon pain of forfeiture of the Cattel so sold which Law hath not wrought such effectual Reformation as was intended by reason of the difficulty in the proof of such Buying and Selling being for the most part at places far distant if not in several Counties by means whereof the Parties so offending have escaped unpunished Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assemâ—led and by Authority of the same That no Person using the Trade of a Butcher shall at any time from and after the Feast of Saint Michael the Arch-Angel next ensuing Sell Offer or Expose to sale in any Market or elsewhere either by himself or any Servant or Agent whatsoever any fat Oxen Stéers Runts Kine Heifers Calves Shéep or Lambs alive upon pain to forfeit the double Value of the Cattel so Sold or Offered Penalty upon Butchers for selling live fat cattel or Exposed to Sale as aforesaid The one moyety of which forfeiture shall be to the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same in any of his Majesties Courts of Record by Bill Plaint Action of Debt or Information wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed CAP. IX Four intire Subsidies granted to His Majesty by the Temporalty EXP. CAP. X. An Act for Confirming of Four Subsidies Granted by the Clergy EXP. CAP. XI An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of Excise and preventing the Abuses therein 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. FOr the preventing of the Frauds and Deceits of Brewers and other persons who make Béer and Ale and other Exciseable Liquors to sell and of the abuses committed by the Officers Collectors and Managers of the Excise to the great decay of his Majesties Revenue of Excise and obstruction of the due and orderly Collecting of the same and for supply and amendment of certain defects in the Laws and Statutes relating to the Duty of Excise as well for the support and advance of the said Revenue as for the ease of the People Be it Enacted
the said Burrough and Liberties shall deliver unto the said Bailiff Duplicates of all Accompts of Hearths and Stoves and do all other things in such manner as by the said Acts they ought to have done unto the said Sheriffs Any thing in the said former or this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord High Treasurer of England Allowance to Clerks of the the Peace of the several Counties and the Chancellor of His Majesties Court of Exchequer or either of them to give and make such further allowance unto the Clerks of the Peace of the respective Counties of this Kingdom for their labour and pains in and about the Writing Engrossing and Returning into His Majesties Court of Exchequer the Duplicates and Returns of the several Constables in Parchment over and besides what is allowed by the said first recited Act as the said Lord High Treasurer and Chancellor or either of them shall think méet and convenient the same allowance not excéeding One penny in the pound by the year Any thing in the said former or in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding CAP. XIV The Profits of the Post-Office and Power of Granting Wine-Licenses setled on His Royall Highnesse the Duke of York and the Heirs Males of his Body WHereas the Lords and Commons being assembled at Westminster the Five and twentieth day of April Anno Domini One thousand six hundred and sixty in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of our most Gracious Sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. were there continued untill the Nine and twentieth day of December next following and then Dissolved In which time a certain Act was made Entituled 12 Car. 2. cap. 25. An Act for the better Ordering the selling of Wines by Retail and for preventing Abuses in the mingling corrupting and vitiating of Wines and for setling and limiting the prices of the same Whereby it was Enacted That no person or persons whatsoever from and after the Five and twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and one unless he or they should be authorized and enabled in manner and form as by the said Act is appointed shall sell or utter by Retail any kind of Wine or Wines to be spent in his or their Mansion-house or Houses or other place by any means whatsoever upon pain of forfeiting for every such offence the Sum of Five pounds the one moyety thereof to the King and the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same And it was further thereby Enacted That it should be lawful for His Majesty his Heirs and Successors from time to time to issue out under his or their Great Seal of England One or more Commission or Commissions directed to two or more persons thereby authorizing them to license and give authority to such person or persons as they should think fit to sell and utter by Retail all and every or any kind of Wine or Wines to be drunk and spent as well within the house or houses or other place in the Tenure or Occupation of the party so Licensed as without in any City Town or other place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and such Commissioners are to Contract for selling and uttering of Wines by Retail in any City or other place as aforesaid in such manner and form and under such Provisoes as in the said Act is mentioned And it is further provided by the said Act That the Rents Revenues and Sums of money arising by the said Act should be duly and constantly paid and answered into His Majesties Receipt of Exchequer and not be charged or chargeable either before it be paid into the Exchequer or after with any Gift or Pension as by the said Act amongst divers other Provisoes and Clauses may more at large appear And also one other Act was at the same time made Entituled An Act for Erecting and Establishing a Post-Office 12 Car. 2. cap. 34. Whereby it is Enacted That from thenceforth there should be one general Letter-Office erected and established in some convenient place within the City of London from whence all Letters and Pacquets may be sent into any part of the Kingdom of England Scotland and Ireland or other of His Majesties Dominions or unto any Kingdom or Country beyond the Seas And that one Master of the said General Letter-Office shall be from time to time appointed by the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors by His or their Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England The Office of Post-Master General by the name and stile of His Majesties Post-Master-General which said Post-Master and his Deputy and Deputies by him thereunto sufficiently authorized and his and their Servants and Agents and no other person shall have the receiving ordering or sending Post of all Letters and Pacquets whatsoever to be sent to and from the places aforesaid except as therein and thereby is excepted And it was thereby provided That such Post-Master-General and his Deputy and Deputies may demand have receive and take for the Portage of all such Letters which he shall convey as aforesaid and for the providing and furnishing horses for thorough-Posts according to the Rates therein mentioned And that His Majesty His Heirs and Successors may Grant the said Office of Post-Master-General with the Powers and Authorities thereunto belonging and the several Rates of Portage therein mentioned and all Profits Priviledges Fées Perquisits and Emoluments thereunto belonging either for life or term of years not excéeding One and twenty years to such person and persons and under such Covenants Conditions and yearly Rents to His said Majesty His Heirs and Successors reserved as he or they shall from time to time think fit As by the said Act amongst divers other Clauses and Provisoes therein contained may more at large appear Both which Acts have béen confirmed by this present Parliament Now forasmuch as the Kings most Excellent Majesty is graciously pleased out of His Princely care and great love and affection to His most entirely beloved Brother James Duke of York for and towards the Maintenance and Support of the said Duke his State and Dignity to Grant and Assign all and every the Power and Powers Authority and Authorities of giving License to any person or persons to Sell or Vtter by Retail all and every or any kind of Wine or Wines whatsoever with all Rents Sum or Sums of Money Revenues Profits and Emoluments whatsoever that shall or may arise from or out or by reason of such power of Licensing the Retailing of Wines or Forfeitures for Retailing of Wines without such Licenses unto the said James Duke of York and to the Heirs males of his Body begotten or to be
and their heirs and successors respectively by and according to his and their tenures estate title and interest which he or they had in the Mannors Lands or Tenements for or in respect of which he or they claimed or inclosed the said quantity or quantities of the said Wastes as abovesaid Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Commissioners and every of them before he or they take upon him or them the execution of any the Powers or Authorities hereby given them other then the administring the Oath following to one another which they shall have Authority by this present Act to administer to one another shall take the Oath following viz. The oath to be taken by Commissioners I A. B. am not interessed in possession reversion or remainder of in or to the said Fens or any part thereof And shall and will without favour or affection hatred or malice truly and impartially according to the best of my skill and knowledg execute and perform all and every the Powers and Authorities in me established by this Act of Parliament Which Oath any one of the said Commissioners are hereby authorised to administer The places of the Commissioners â—â—tting And that the places where the said Commissioners shall sit to hear order and determine the matters referred to them by this Act shall be at the Towns of Stamford Market-Deeping or Spalding in the said County of Lincoln And the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them are hereby directed by Warrant under their hands and seals to declare the places and times of their méeting The same Warrant to be published in open Market in the said Towns of Stamford Market-Deeping and Spalding betwéen the hours of twelve and two upon some Market-day one and twenty dayes at least before the said time or times of méeting to the end all persons concerned may have sufficient time and notice to attend And shall have power and Authority by Warrant under the hands and seals of any thrée or more of them Their power and manner of proceeding to summon parties and witnesses to appear before them And in case any controversy or difference shall happen to arise betwéen or amongst the said Commissioners before any Iudgment or Determination given by them in the premisses touching or concerning the exposition of the words of this Act or the powers or authorities thereby to them given Then the Lord Chief Iustice of the Kings Bench the Lord Chief Iustice of the Common-Pleas and the Lord Chief Baron of his Majesties Court of Exchequer for the time being are hereby constituted and established a Iudicature and they or any two of them are hereby authorized to hear adjudg and determine such controversies and differences And their Iudgment or determination thereof certified under their hands seals shall be observed and shall be likewise certified together with the Iudgments and determinations of the said Commissioners into the Petty-bag there to be kept on Record as aforesaid CAP. XII The River Avon to be made Navigable from Christ-Church to the City of New-Sarum WHereas the making Navigable and passable with Barges Boats Lighters and other Vessels the River Avon in the Counties of Wilts and Southampton from the Town of Christ-Church in the said County of Southampton to the City of New-Sarum in the said County of VVilts And if néed require the making of a new Haven may with Gods blessing be of great advantage and benefit not only to the said Counties but also to the Publick by import and export of Commodities and increase of Commerce and Trade and of able Seamen and Watermen and most profitable and necessary for the said City of New-Sarum for the conveyance thereby of Fewel and other necessaries to the said City whereof there is now great scarcity and far greater is like to grow if some help therefore be not provided besides the extraordinary preservation of the High-ways in and near the said City and County Commissioners how to be appointed for making the river Avon navigable Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being at any time after the end of this present Session of Parliament shall and may nominate appoint and authorize by Commission under the Great Seal of England such person or persons Bodies Politick and Corporate as to him shall séem fit and are willing to undertake the making Navigable the said River of Avon from the said Town of Christ-Church to the said City of New-Sarum And to make a new Haven if néed require for Ships and Vessels near the said Town of Christ-Church Which said Vndertakers so nominated and appointed as aforesaid are hereby authorized and shall have full power and authority by this present Act to make Navigable or passable by Barges Boats Lighters or other Vessels the said River of Avon from the said Town of Christ-Church to the City of New-Sarum aforesaid And for that purpose to cleanse scour and open the same and to cut or dig the Banks of the same and to take away or remove all Wears or other Impediments that may hinder Navigation either in sailing or haling of Boats with Horses Men or otherwise to amend or alter such Bridges and High-ways as may hinder the said Passages and Navigation and to open prepare and make all Wears Sasses Locks and Turn-pikes fit for the said Passage And likewise to cleanse scour open or cut and dig the Banks of any other Stream Brook Ditch or Water-course that shall to them séem convenient for the better making the said River Navigable and passable for Boats Barges Lighters and other Vessels And likewise to make and erect any Wharfs Sasses Locks Turnpikes or pens for Water in or near the said River or Passage that shall be fit or necessary for the same and to bring lay and work all Materials requisite for the making erecting and repairing of the said Locks or Turnpikes upon the said River or Passage and to cut such and so many new Channels and Trenches as to them shall séem convenient for altering the course of the said River of Avon in bringing the same to the City of New-Sarum as aforesaid as also for the bringing in any other River or Water-course into the said River and to do all other things necessary and convenient for the said River and Passages new Channels Wharfs Sasses Locks Wears Turnpikes Penns for Water and the said Bridges Ways and Passages and for the altering repairing kéeping using and amending of the same or any of them or any part of them from time to time hereafter as oft as néed shall require and also if néed require to make a commodious Haven and Port near the said Town of Christ-Church for the Entry
Continued BE it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That an Act made in the Fourtéenth year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord the King that now is 14 Car. 2. cap. 23. Entituled An Act for preventing Abuses in Printing Seditious Treasonable and Unlicensed Books and Pamphlets and for Regulating of Printing and Printing Presses shall be continued with the Alterations and Additions made in and by this Act and shall remain in force until the end of the First Session of the next Parliament And be it further Enacted That from and after the Six and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty five Three printed Copies of every Book in London how to be disposed Every Printer within the City of London or in any other place except the Two Vniversities shall reserve Thrée Printed Copies of the best and largest Paper of every Book new Printed or reprinted by him with Additions and shall before any publick Vending of the said Book bring them to the Master of the Company of Stationers and deliver them to him One whereof shall by the said Master of the said Company of Stationers within Ten days after he hath so received the same be delivered to the Kéeper of His Majesties Library and the other two within the said ten days to be sent to the Vice-Chancellour of the two Vniversities respectively for the use of the publick Libraries of the said Vniversities Books printed in the Vniversities And it is further Enacted That the Printers in the said Vniversities and every of them respectively from and after the said Six and twentieth day of December shall deliver one such Printed Copy as aforesaid of every Book so new Printed or reprinted in the said Vniversities or in either of them to the Kéeper of His Majesties Library as aforesaid as also to the Vice-Chancellour of either of the said Vniversities for the time being two other such Printed Copies for the use of the publick Libraries of the said Vniversities respectively And if any of the printers aforesaid or the said Master of the Company of Stationers shall not observe the direction of this Act therein That then he and they so making default in not delivering the said printed Copies as aforesaid shall severally forfeit besides the value of the said printed Copies the sum of Five pounds for every Copy not so delivered as also the value of the said printed Copies not so delivered The same to be recovered by His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and by the Chancellour Masters and Scholars of either of the said Vniversities respectively by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster wherein no Essoyn Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed CAP. V. Thomas Dolman Joseph Bampfeild and Thomas Scot attainted of High Treason if they render not themselves by a Day IN all humble manner shew unto Your most Excellent Majesty Your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled in Parliament That whereas it is notoriously known that Thomas Dolman Joseph Bampfeild alias Stepner and Thomas Scot Son of Thomas Scot lately Executed as a Most execrable Traitor one of the horrid bloudy murderers of His late Royal Majesty King Charles the First of ever blessed memory contrary to the duty of their Allegiance have most traiterously and wickedly adhered and still do adhere to Your Majesties Enemies beyond the Seas where they as yet remain and commit divers Treasonable acts without any sense of loyalty to Your Majesty or of natural affection to their native Country May it therefore please Your most Excellent Majesty That it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the consent and advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That if the said Thomas Dolman Joseph Bampfeild alias Stepner and Thomas Scot Thomas Dolman Joseph Bampfeild Thomas Scot. shall not return into the Realm of England and render themselves to some or one of His Majesties Iustices of the Peace for the County wherein he or they shall first arrive at or before the first day of February next ensuing and also abide their Legal Trial for such their Treasons Then every of them the said Thomas Dolman Joseph Bampfeild alias Stepner and Thomas Scot not rendering himself as aforesaid or not abiding his Trial aforesaid shall from and after the said First day of February stand and be adjudged attainted of High Treason to all intents and purposes whatsoever and shall suffer and forfeit as a person attaint of High Treason by the Laws of the Land ought to suffer and forfeit And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Persons beyond Sea by Proclamation are required to return into England That all and every person and persons who now are or hereafter shall be beyond the Seas and whom His Majesty by any of His Royal Proclamations to be issued under the Great Seal of England during the continuance of this War with the States of the United Provinces shall name and require to return into England and render themselves by a certain day therein to be mentioned to some or one of His Majesties Iustices of the Peace for the County wherein he or they shall first arrive and shall not return and render themselves accordingly and abide their legal Trial shall from and after the day to them to be prefixed by such Proclamation stand and be attainted of High Treason to all intents and purposes and shall suffer such pains and penalties and undergo all such forfeitures as persons attainted of High Treason ought to do The time by such Proclamation Three moneths at least Provided That the time to be prefixed by such Proclamation for the persons therein to be named to render themselves be not less then the time and term of Thrée Calendar moneths from and after the Date of such Proclamation And be it further Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Persons Serving the States of the Vnited Provinces during the War That all and every His Majesties Subjects who from and after the First day of February next ensuing shall at any time during the continuance of the said War serve the States of the United Provinces either by Land or Sea as a Souldier or Seaman on this side the Straights Or from and after the First day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and six within the Straights Or from and after the First day of August in the said year One thousand six hundred sixty six in Africa or America or any where beyond the Straights on this side the Equinoctial Or from and after the First day of February in the said year One thousand six hundred sixty six in
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
time wherein the said offence shall be committed CAP. XI A Repeal of the Branch of a Statute primo Elizabethae concerning Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical VVHereas in the Parliament holden in the first year of the reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth late Quéen of England there was an Act made and established Intituled An Act restoring to the Crown the antient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual St. 1 Eliz. 2 and abolishing all Forreign Power repugnant to the same In which Act amongst other things there is contained one Clause Branch Article or Sentence whereby it was Enacted to this effect Namely That the said late Quéens Highness her Heirs and Successors Kings or Quéens of this Realm should have full power and authority by vertue of that Act by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of England to assign name and authorite when and as often as her Highness her Heirs or Successors should think méet and convenient and for such and so long time as should please her Highness her Heirs or Successors such person or persons being natural born Subjects to her Highness her Heirs or Successors as her Majesty her Heirs or Successors should think méet to exercise use occupy and execute under her Highness her Heirs and Successors all manner of Iurisdictions Priviledges and preheminence in any wise touching or concerning any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction within these her Realms of England and Ireland or any other her Highnesse Dominions and Countries and to visit reform redresse order correct and amend all such errors heresies schismes abuses offences contempts and enormities whatsoever which by any manner Spiritual or Ecclesiastical power Authority or Iurisdiction can or may lawfully be reformed ordered redressed corrected restrained or amended to the pleasure of Almighty God the increase of vertue and the conservation of the Peace and Vnity of this Realm And that such person or persons so to be named assigned authorized and appointed by her Highness her Heirs or Successors after the said Letters Patents to him or them made and delivered as aforesaid should have full power and Authority by vertue of that Act and of the said Letters Patents under her Highness her Heirs or Successors to exercise use and execute all the Premisses according to the tenor and effect of the said Letters Patents any matter or cause to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And whereas by colour of some words in the aforesaid Branch of the said Act High Commission Court whereby Commissioners are Authorized to execute their Commission according to the tenor and effect of the Kings Letters Patents and by Letters Patents grounded thereupon the said Commissioners have to the great and insufferable wrong and oppression of the Kings Subjects used to fine and imprison them and to exercise other Authority not belonging to Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction restored by that Act and divers other great mischiefs and inconveniences have also ensued to the Kings Subjects by occasion of the said Branch and Commissions issued thereupon and the executions thereof Therefore for the repressing and preventing of the aforesaid abuses mischiefs and inconveniencies in time to come Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty The said branch of the stat 1 El. c. 2. repealed and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That the foresaid Branch Clause Article or Sentence contained in the said Act and every word matter and thing contained in that Branch Clause Article or Sentence shall from henceforth be repealed annulled revoked annihilated and utterly made void for ever any thing in the said Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Rep. St. 13 Car. 1. cap. 11. And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that no Archbishop Bishop Power taken away from Archbishops Bishops and other Ecclesiastical persons and Courts Exp. St. 13. Car. 2. c. 12. nor Vicar-General nor any Chancellor Official nor Commissary of any Arch-bishop Bishop or Vicar-General nor any Ordinary whatsoever nor any other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Iudg Officer or Minister of Iustice nor any other person or persons whatsoever exercising Spiritual or Eccesiastical Power Authority or Iurisdiction by any Grant License or Commission of the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors or by any power or authority derived from the King his Heirs or Successors or otherwise shall from and after the first day of August which shall be in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred forty and one award impose or inflict any pain penalty fine amerciament imprisonment or other corporal punishment upon any of the Kings Subjects for any contempt misdemeanor crime offence matter or thing whatsoever belonging to Spiritual or Ecclesiastical cognizance or Iurisdiction Oath ex officio St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 12. or shall ex officio or at the instance or promotion of any other person whatsoever urge enforce tender give or minister unto any Churchwarwarden Sydeman or other person whatsoever any corporal Oath whereby he or she shall or may be charged or obliged to make any presentment of any crime or offence or to confess or to accuse himself or her self of any crime offence delinquency or misdemeanor or any neglect matter or thing whereby or by reason whereof he or she shall or may be lyable or exposed to any censure pain penalty or punishment whatsoever upon pain and penalty that every person who shall offend contrary to this Statute Penalty treble damages and one hundred pounds shall forfeit and pay treble damages to every person thereby grieved and the sum of One hundred pounds to him or them who shall first demand and sue for the same which said Treble damages and sum of One hundred pounds shall and may be demanded and recovered by Action of Debt Bill or Plaint in any Court of Record wherein no priviledg Offendors convicted disabled from any office or imployment by the Kings Letters Patents Essoin protection or wager of Law shall be admitted or allowed to the Defendant And be it further Enacted That every person who shall be once convicted of any act or offence prohibited by this Statute shall for such act or offence be from and after such conviction utterly disabled to be or continue in any office or imployment in any Court of Iustice whatsoever or to exercise or execute any power authority or jurisdiction by force of any Commission or Letters Patents of the King his Heirs or Successors And be it further Enacted That from and after the said first day of August No new Court to be erected with the like power no new Court shall be erected ordained or appointed within this Realm of England or Dominion of Wales which shall or may have the like power jurisdiction or Authority as the said High Commission Court now hath or pretendeth to have But that all and every such Letters Patents Commissions and Grants made or to be made by his
but that the same during the continuation of such Lease Leases or other Agreements shall be payed delivered and performed in such measure and form as the same hath been payed delivered and performed before the making of this Act And that such measure Water measures to be continued that is commonly called Water-measure in any Ports Maritime Towns or other places shall be still used and continued as formerly the same hath béen Any thing in this Statute contained to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding The general issue may be pleaded Provided also That no Iustice or Iustices of the Peace Mayor Bailiff or other head Officer Churchwardens Overséers or any other authorized by this Statute for the due execution thereof in any point shall be sued impleaded or otherwise impeached for doing or executing their said Offices respectively And if any Suit or Suits hereafter shall be Commenced against them or any of them their Agents or Assistants touching the premisses That then it shall and may be lawful for them and every of them so sued or troubled in any Court or Courts wheresoever to plead the general issue Not Guilty and to give this Statute in Evidence or any other special matter in Evidence Treble costs for unjust vexation And in ease by or upon this Law they or any of them shall be found not guilty or the Plaintiff be Non-suited the Defendant or Defendants shall recover treble Costs against the Plaintiff for his unjust vexation CAP. XX. None shall be compelled to take the Order of Knighthood Writs issued for persons to take the order of Knighthood WHereas upon the pretext of an ancient custom or usage of this Realm of England That Men of full age being not Knights and being seised of Lands or Rents of the yearly value of forty pounds or more especially if their seisin had so continued by the space of thrée years next past might be compelled by the Kings Writ to receive or take upon them the order or dignity of Knighthood or else to make Fine for the discharge or respite of the same Several Writs about the beginning of his Majesties reign issued out of the Court of Chancery for Proclamations to be made in every County to that purpose and for certifying the names of all such persons and for summoning them personally to appear in the Kings presence before a certain day to be there ready to receive the said Order or Dignity Upon return of which Writs and transmitting the same with their Returns into the Court of Exchequer Returns and upon other Writs for further inquiry of the names of such persons issuing out of the said Court of Exchequer Processe by Distringas was thence made against a very great number of persons Distringas many of which were altogether unfit in regard either of Estate or quality Fines to receive the said Order or Dignity and very many were put to grievous Fines and other vexations for the same although in truth it were not sufficiently known how or in what sort or where they or any of them should or might have addressed themselves for the receiving the said Order or Dignity and for saving themselves thereby from the said Fines Process and vexations And whereas it is most apparent that all and every such procéedings in regard of the matter therein pretended is altogether useless and unreasonable May it therefore please your most Excellent Majesty that it be by authority of Parliament declared and Enacted No person shal be compelled to take on him the order of Knighthood nor undergo any fine for that cause And be it declared and Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons in this Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That from henceforth no person or persons of what condition quality estate or degrée soever shall at any time be distrained or otherwayes compelled by any Writ or Process of the Court of Chancery or Court of Exchequer or otherwise by any means whatsoever to receive or take upon him or them respectively the Order or Dignity of Knighthood nor shall suffer or undergo any Fine Trouble or Molestation whatsoever by reason or colour of his or their having not received or not taken upon him or them the said Order or Dignity And that all and every Writ or Processe whatsoever and all and every procéeding which shall hereafter be had or made contrary to the intent of this Act shall be déemed and adjudged to be utterly void And that all and every processe procéeding and charge now depending by reason or colour of the said pretended custome or Writs aforesaid or of any the Dependants thereof shall from henceforth cease and stand be and remain discharged and utterly void Any former Law or Custome or any pretence of any former Law or Custome or any other matter whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Stat. 1 E. 2. CAP. XXI Liberty for bringing in of Gun-powder and Salt-peter from Forraign parts and for the free making of Gun-powder in this Realm Mischiefs by prohibiting importing of Gunpowder WHereas the Importation of Gun-powder from forreign parts hath of late times béen against Law prohibited and the making thereof within this Realm ingrossed whereby the price of Gun-powder hath béen excessively raised many powder works decayed this Kingdom very much weakened and indangered the Merchants thereof much damnified many Mariners and others taken prisoners and brought into miserable Captivity and Slavery many Ships taken by Turkish and other Pyrates and many other inconveniences have from thence insued and more are likely to ensue if they be not timely prevented Liberty to all to import gun-powder Be it therefore declared and Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That it shall and may be lawful to and for all and singular persons as well Strangers as natural born Subjects of this Realm to import and bring into this Kingdom any quantities of Gun-powder whatsoever paying such Customes and Duties for the same as by authority of Parliament shall be limited and set down And be it further Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid All Subjects may make and sell Gun-powder and import Salt-peter That it shall and may be lawful to and for all and singular his Majesties Subjects of this his Realm of England to make and sell any quantities of Gun-powder at his and their will and pleasure and also to bring into this Kingdom any quantities of Salt-peter Brimstone or any other materials necessary or requisite for the making of Gun-powder And lastly Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person or persons Penalty for putting in execution Letters Patents Proclamations c. against this liberty from and after the tenth day of August which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six
Parliament or of or from any Convention or Assembly called or reputed or taking the Name of the Kéepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament Or by vertue or colour of any Writ Commission Letters Patents Instruction or Instructions of or from any person or persons Tituled reputed or taken to be Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging or Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereto belonging or assuming the authority or reputed to be chief Magistrate of the Commonwealth or Commander in chief of the Forces or Armies of this Nation by Sea or Land or by any pretence Warrant or Command whatsoever from them or any of them or their or either of their respective Councils or Council or any Member of such Council or Councils or from any person or persons whatsoever deriving or pretending to derive Authority from them or any of them be pardoned Released Indempnified discharged and put in utter Oblivion And that all and every the person and persons Acting Advising Assisting Abetting and Counselling the same they their Heirs Executors and Administrators except as before is excepted be and are hereby pardoned Released Acquitted Indempnified and discharged from the same And of and from all pains of Death and other Pains Iudgments Indictments Convictions Attainders Outlawries Penalties Escheats and Forfeitures therefore had or given or that might accrew for the same And that all such Iudgments Indictments Convictions Attainders Outlawries Penalties Escheats and Forfeitures and every of them and all Grants thereupon made and all Estates derived under the same be and are hereby Declared and Enacted to be from henceforth Null and void And that all mean profits not yet received by such Grantées shall be and are hereby discharged And that all and every person and persons Bodies Politick and Corporate their and every of their Heirs Executors Administrators and Successors shall be and are hereby restored to all and every their Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods Chattels and other things forfeited which to His Majesty do or shall appertain by reason of any offence herein before mentioned and not hereafter in this present Act Excepted and Foreprised All Appeals personal Actions and Suits pardoned And be it further Enacted That all Appeals and all personal Actions Suits Molestations and Prosecutions whatsoever for or by reason of any Act of Hostility Trespass Assault Imprisonment or breach of the Peace Advised Counselled commanded Appointed Happened Acted or done by reason of the late troubles or the late Wars in his Majesties Dominions or relating thereunto and Iudgments and Executions thereupon had before the first day of May in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fifty eight stand and be from henceforth discharged But not to restore to any Person or Persons any sums of money mean Profits or Goods already received or taken upon such Execution or to give any accompt for the same And be it likewise Enacted That all Appeals and all personal Actions and causes of such Actions Suits Molestations and Prosecutions whatsoever for or by reason of any Act or thing advised counselled commanded Acted or done by vertue or colour of any Authority or Commission granted by His late Majesty or his Majesty that now is or by vertue or colour of any Order or Ordinance of one or both Houses of Parliament sitting at Westminster Or by any Act or order made by any Persons assuming the name of a Parliament and sitting as a Parliament at Westminster after the death of the late King CHARLES the First Or by the Authority of the said kéepers of the Liberties of England Or by any Ordinance by either of the late Protectors and Council Or by or upon any Commission Writ Process or Warrant by them or any of them or by Authority derived from them or any of them And all demands of Arrearages of Rents and mean Profits of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments heretofore incurred or grown due which have béen paid received or disposed by vertue or colour of any the Authorities or pretended Authorities aforesaid other then such Arrearages or mean profits as are or shall be otherwise disposed by any Act. or Acts of this present Session of Parliament be from henceforth discharged And it is further by the Authority aforesaid Enacted in the second place That all and every the Subjects of these His Majesties Realms of England and Ireland the Dominion of Wales the Isles of Jersey and Garnsey and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed and other His Majesties Dominions the Heirs Executors and Administrators of them and every of them and all and singular Bodies in any manner of wise corporated Cities Burroughs Shires Ridings Hundreds Lathes Rapes Wapentakes Towns Villages Hamlets and Tythings and every of them and the Successor and Successors of every of them shall be and are by the authority of this present Parliament Acquitted Pardoned Released Indempnified and Discharged against the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and every of them of and from all manner of Treasons Misprisions of Treason Felonies Offences Contempts Trespasses Entries Wrongs Deceits Misdemeanors Forfeitures penalties and sums of Money Intrusions Mean profits Wardships Marriages Reliefs Liveries Ouster le mains Mean Rates Respits of Homage Fines and Seisures for Alienation without License Arrearages of Rents other then the Arrearages of Rents due from the late Farmers or pretended Farmers of of the Excise or Customs respectively other then such Arrearages of Rents or Mean profits as are or shall be otherwise disposed by any Act or Acts of this present Parliament and of and from all Arrearages of Tenths and First-Fruits Fines post-fines Issues and Amerciaments and all Recognizances Bonds or other Securities given for payment of them or any of them concealments of Customs and Excise Arrearages of purveyance and of compositions for the same and of and from all pains of Death pains corporal and pecuniary and generally of and from all other Things Causes Quarrels Suits Iudgments and Executions in this present Act hereafter not Excepted nor Foreprized which may be or can be by his Majesty in any wise or by any means pardoned before and unto the twenty fourth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty to every or any of his said Subjects Wardships and Mean Profits unreceived Bodies Corporate Cities Burroughs Shires Ridings Hundreds Lathes Rapes Wapentakes Towns Villages and Tithings or any of them And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Grants and Patents since the twenty fifth of March One thousand six hundred forty one touching the Wardship and Custody of the Body and Lands or touching the marriage of any Heir within age and all mean profits yet unreceived All things not excepted shall be by the general words of this Act as well as it particularly named and demandable by reason thereof shall be
Hereditaments Escheated or Forfeited by reason of such Attainder and all Title to any Measne Profits by reason of such Conviction Outlawry Attainder or Grant be from henceforth repealed and discharged And that all Escheats Forfeitures and Confiscations by reason of such Outlawries Conviction or Attainder Be and are hereby restored unto such persons so Outlawed Convicted or Attainted their Heirs Executors and Administrators respectively as if no such Attainder had béen Sales made by Ordinance of Parliament Provided Nevertheless And be it Enacted That this Act or any thing herein contained shall not extend to avoid or confirm any Sales or Estates made by vertue or pretence of any Act Order or Ordinance or reputed Act Order or Ordinance of Parliament since the first day of May in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty two nor any Confirmation thereof made or to be made thereof in this present Parliament but that such sales stand and be in the same plight and condition as they should or might have done if this Act had not béen made Recognizances Obligations c. in the names of the late Protector And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Recognizances Obligations or other Securities made or given to the Kéepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament or to Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging or to Oliver Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging Or to Richard Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging and not pardoned or discharged by any Act passed or to be passed this present Parliament or otherwise other then such Recognizances Obligations and Securities as have béen made and given to any the pretended power or persons aforesaid or to any deriving or pretending to derive Authority from them by any person or persons for or by reason of their adherence to His Majesty or His said late Royal Father or relating to or arising only upon or in respect of the late Troubles All which are hereby declared to be void and to be delivered up to be Cancelled And all Iudgments Extents Inquisitions Executions and Seizures had for the said Kéepers or Protectors or any of them and not likewise pardoned or discharged other then as aforesaid shall and may be had and prosecuted in the name and to the use of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors and also excepting all Obligations Bonds or Recognizances entred into to the said Kéepers or Protectors or any of them by any person or persons by Order or Direction of any Council of State Committée of Safety Major Generals Decimators or any Officer or other person under them or any other Military power all which Obligations Bonds and Recognizances are hereby discharged and declared to be null and void to all intents and purposes Provided also and be it Enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained Iustices Serjeants c. Commissioners of Sewers shall not extend to continue after the Eighth day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty any Iustice or Iustices of one Bench or the other or Barons of the Exchequer Serjeants at Law Commissions of Sewers Commissions of Bankrupts or of charitable uses made or constituted by or in the Name or Stile of any the late pretended powers or authorities Provided alwayes That it shall and may be lawful to and for every person and persons Writs of Errour may be brought who shall find themselves grieved or damnified by any Iudgment Fine Recovery Decrée or Sentence given made levied granted or pronounced in any of the said Courts to procéed in due form of Law either by Writ of Errour Bill of Review Appeal or other lawful remedy for the Reversing Annulling or Revoking of the same in such manner as they might at any time heretofore have done if the said Courts had béen established by lawful Authority other then for those Errours and Defects which are remedied or provided for by this Act. Provided alwayes And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Non-claim upon Fines of lands sold by Ordinance of Parliament That no Non-claim upon or after any Fine or Fines hereby made good or confirmed shall extend or be construed to Bar or Prejudice any person or persons their Heirs or Successors or their Feoffées or Trustées other then the parties to the said Fines and their Heirs general and special and his and their Trustées as concerning such Right Claim and Interest as they had in or to any Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments which by colour of any Act Order or Ordinance of both or either Houses of Parliament or any Convention sitting at Westminster under the Name or Stile or assuming the Name or Stile of a Parliament since the First day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and two and before the Five and twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty were Sold Conveyed or Disposed as then or late the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the King Quéen or Prince or of Archbishops Bishops Deans Deans and Chapters or other Ecclesiastical persons or as the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of any other persons for their Adherency to the late King or his Majesty that now is or for any their Actings relating to or in respect of the late Troubles so alwayes that the said person or persons aforesaid their Heirs or Successors pursue their Title Claim or Interest by way of Action or lawful Entry within five years next after the Nine and twentieth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty And although in this Confirmation of Iudicial Procéedings The late Government declared to be usurped it was necessary to mention Divers pretensed Acts and Ordinances by the Names and Stiles which those Persons then Vsurped who took upon them to pass the same Namely some by the Stile and Name of the Kéepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament and others by the Name and Stile of Protectors of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging Yet this present Parliament doth Declare and it is further Enacted by Authority of the same That the Names and Stiles aforesaid and every of them are most Rebellious Wicked Trayterous and Abominable Vsurpations Detested by this present Parliament Recognition of his Majesties just title as Opposite in the Highest Degrée to His Sacred Majesties most Iust and Vndoubted Right to whom and to his Heirs and Lawful Successors the Imperial Crowns of the Realms of England Scotland and Ireland with their and every of their Dominions and Territories do of Right appertain and as violating and Infringing the just Rights and
priviledges of Parliament and both Houses thereof now Assembled or that hereafter shall be called and assembled Provided alwayes and be it enacted That all and every pretended Indictment or Indictments Out-lawries Inquisitions and all Procéedings thereon of High Treason against any Person or Persons whatsoever for Levying War against the late Tyrant Oliver Cromwell the pretended Kéepers of the Liberty of England or any other Vsurped Power Indictments of Treasons c. for levying wars against Oliver Cromwell c. made void shall be from henceforth void and of none effect in Law And that all Grants Conveyances Leases Devices Assurances Statutes Recognizances and Iudgments for Debt Damages heretofore had made or suffered by any person or his heirs whose Conviction Vtlagary or Attainder is by this Act discharged or made void shall be of the same force and effect as if no such Conviction Outlawry or Attainder had béen Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XIII None shall take above Six Pounds for the loan of an Hundred Pounds for a Year Abatement of interest advantagious to Trade FOrasmuch as the Abatement of Interest from Ten in the Hundred in former times hath béen found by notable experience Beneficial to the Advancement of Trade and Improvement of Lands by good Husbandry with many other considerable advantages to this Nation especially the reducing of it to a nearer Proportion with Forreign States with whom We Traffique And whereas in fresh memory the like fall from Eight to Six in the Hundred by a late constant practise hath found the like Success to the general contentment of this Nation as is visible by several Improvements And whereas it is the endeavour of some at present to reduce it back again in practice to the allowance of the Statute still in force to Eight in the Hundred to the great discouragement of Ingenuity and Industry in the Husbandry Trade and Commerce of this Nation The penalty and forfeiture of taking above six in the hundred Be it for the Reasons aforesaid Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That no Person or Persons whatsoever from and after the Twenty Ninth day of September in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty upon any Contract shall from and after the said Twenty Ninth of September take directly or indirectly for Loan of any Monies Wares Merchandise or other Commodities whatsoever above the value of Six Pounds for the Forbearance of one Hundred Pounds for a Year and so after that Rate for a greater or lesser Sum or for a longer or shorter time And that all Bonds Contracts and Assurances whatsoever made after the time aforesaid for payment of any Principal or money to be lent or covenanted to be performed upon or for any Vsury whereupon or whereby there shall be reserved or taken above the Rate of Six pounds in the Hundred as aforesaid shall be utterly void And that all and every person or persons whatsoever which shall after the time aforesaid upon any Contract to be made after the said Twenty Ninth of September take accept and receive by way or means of any corrupt Bargain Loan Exchange Cheivisaunce Shift or Interest of any Wares Merchandise or other thing or things whatsoever or by any deceitful way or means or by any covin engine or deceitful conveyance for the forbearing or giving day of payment for one whole year of and for their money or other thing above the sum of six pounds for the forbearing of One hundred pounds for a year and so after that Rate for a greater or lesser Sum or for a longer or shorter Term shall forfeit and lose for every such offence the treble value of the moneys wares merchandise and other things so Lent Bargained Sold Exchanged or Shifted The Forfeiture of a Scrivener that shall take above five shillings for the forbearance of an hundred pounds for a year and above twelve pence for making a Bond. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Scrivener and Scriveners Broker and Brokers Solicitor and Solicitors Driver and Drivers of Bargains for Contracts who shall after the said Twenty ninth day of September take or receive directly or indirectly any sum or sums of money or other reward or thing for Brokage Soliciting Driving or Procuring the Loan or forbearing of any sum or sums of money over and above the Rate or Value of five shillings for the Loan or forbearing of one hundred pounds for a year and so rateably or above Twelve pence for making or renewing of the Bond or Bill for the Loan or for forbearing thereof or for any Counter-Bond or Bill concerning the same shall forfeit for every such Offence Twenty pounds and have Imprisonment for half a year The one moyety of all which Forfeitures to be to the King our Soveraign Lord his Heirs and Successors And the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same in the same County where the several Offences are committed and not elsewhere by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in which no Essoign Wager of Law or Protection to be allowed Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 13. CAP. XIV A Perpetual Anniversary Thanksgiving on the Nine and twentietth day of May for His Majesties Happy Restauration The wonderful Power and Goodness of God in the Restauration◠of his Majesty FOrasmuch as Almighty God the King of Kings and sole Disposer of all Earthly Crowns and Kingdoms hath by his All-swaying Providence and Power miraculously demonstrated in the view of all the World his Transcendent Mercy Love and Graciousness towards His most Excellent Majesty CHARLES the Second by his Especial Grace of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the true Faith and all his Majesties Loyal Subjects of this his Kingdom of England and the Dominions thereunto annexed by his Majesties late most wonderful glorious peaceable and joyful Restauration to the actual possession and exercise of his undoubted hereditary Soveraign and Regal Authority over them after sundry years forced extermination into Forreign parts The unanimous and cordial affection of the Lords and Commons in Parliament and People in general by the most Trayterous Conspiracies and Armed Power of Vsurping Tyrants and execrable perfidious Traytors and that without the least opposition or effusion of blood through the unanimous cordial Loyal Votes of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and passionate desires of all other his Majesties Subjects which unexpressible Blessing by Gods own most wonderful Dispensation was compleated on the Twenty Ninth day of May last past being the most memorable Birth-Day not onely of his Majesty both as a Man and Prince but likewise as an Actual King and of this and other His Majesties Kingdoms all in a great measure new born and raised from the dead on this most joyful Day wherein many Thousands of the Nobility Gentry Citizens
c. That if any Officer of the Customs shall from and after the said First day of April allow the priviledge of being a Ship or Vessel to England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick or any of them belonging to any Forreign built Ship or Vessel untill such Certificate be before them produced or such Proof and oath taken before them or if any Officer of the Customs shall allow the priviledge of an English built ship or other Ship to any the aforesaid places belonging to any English or Forrien built Ship coming into any Port and making entry of any Goods untill Examination whether the Master and thrée Fourths of the Mariners be English or shal allow to any Forreign built ship bringing in the Commodities of the Growth of the Country where it was built the priviledge by this Act to such Ship given untill Examination and Proof whether it be a ship of the built of that Country and that the Master and thrée Fourths of the Mariners are of that Country or if any Person who is or shall be made Governor of any Lands Islands Plantations or Territories in Africa Asia or America by his Majesty His Heirs or Successors shall suffer any Forrein built Ship or Vessel to load or unload any Goods or Commodities within the Precincts of their Goverments untill such Certificate be produced before them or such as shall be by them appointed to view the same and Examination whether the Master and thrée Fourths of the Mariners at least be English that for the first offence such Officer of the Customs and Governors shall be put out of their places Offices or Governments Provided alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained extend not Proviso for goods of the Streights or Levant or be meant to restrain and prohibite the Importation of any the Commodities of the Streights or Levant Seas loaden in English built shipping and wherof the Master and thrée fourths of the Mariners at least are English from the usual Ports or places for lading of them heretofore within the said Streights or Levant Seas though the said Commodities be not of the very growth of the said places Provided also that this Act or any thing therein contained extend not or be meant to restrain the Importing of any East India Commodities loaden in English built shipping and whereof the Master and thrée fourths of the Mariners at least are English from the usual place or places for lading of them in any part of those Seas to the South-Ward and Eastward of Cabo bona speranza although the Ports be not thâ—â—bery Places of their growth Provided also That it shall and may be lawful to and for any of the people of England Ireland East India Commodities Proviso for goods imported from Spain Portugal Azores Madera or Canary Islands Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or town of Berwick upon Tweed in Vessels or Ships to them belonging and whereof the Master and thrée fourths of the Mariners at least are English to load and bring in from any of the Ports of Spain or Portugal or Western Islands commonly called Azores or Madera or Canary Islands all sorts of Goods or Commodities of the Growth Production or Manufacture of the Plantation or Dominions of either of them respectively Proviso for Bullion and goods taken by way of Repâ—isal Provided That this Act or any thing therein contained extend not to Bullion nor yet to any Goods taken or that shall be bona fide taken by way of Reprisal by any Ship or Ships belonging to England Ireland or Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and whereof the Master and thrée Fourths of the Mariners at feast are English having Commission from his Majesty his Heirs or Successors Proviso concerning goods of Scotland Provided alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend to lay Aliens Duties upon any Corn of the growth of Scotland or to any Salt made in Scotland nor to any Fish caught saved and cured by the People of Scotland and Imported directly from Scotland in Scotch built Ships Goods of Russia and whereof the Master and thrée Fourths of the Mariners are of His Maiesties Subiects nor to any Seal Oyl of Russia Imported from thence into England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed in shipping bona fide to some of the said places belonging and whereof the Master and three Fourths of the Mariners at least are English The duty payable upon goods in French ships Provided also and it is hereby Enacted That every Ship or Vessel belonging to any the Subjects of the French King which from and after the Twentieth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty shall come into any Port Creek Harbor of Road of England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and shall there lade or unlade any Goods or Commodities or take in or set on Shore any passengers shall pay to the Collector of His Majesties Customs in such Port Créek Harbor or Road for every Tun of which the said Ship or Vessel is of burthen How long to continue to be computed by such Officer of the Customs as shall be thereunto appointed the sum of five shillings currant money of England And that no such Ship or Vessel be suffered to depart out of such Port Créek Harbor or Road until the said Duty be fully paid And that this Duty shall continue to be Collected Levied and paid for such time as a certain Duty of Fifty Solls per Tun lately imposed by the French King or any part thereof shall continue to be Collected upon the shipping of England lading in France and thrée Moneths after and no longer Sugars tobacco c. of the growth of America Asia or Africa And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the First day of April which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty one noe Sugars Tobacco Cotton-wooll Indicoes Ginger Fustick or other dying wood of the growth Production or Manufacture of any English Plantations in America Asia or Africa shall be shipped carried conveyed or transported from any the said English Plantations to any Land Island Territory Dominion Port or place whatsoever other then to such other English Plantations as do belong to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors or to the Kingdom of England or Ireland or Principality of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed there to be laid on shore under the penalty of the Forfeiture of the said Goods or the full value thereof as also of the Ship with all her Guns Tackle Apparel Ammunition and Furniture The one Moyety to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other Moyety to him or them that shall seize inform or sue for the same in any Court of Record by Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoign
on the one part and the person or persons farming on the other part shall be good and effectual in Law to all intents and purposes Provided alwayes to the end the aforesaid duty may be paid with most ease to the people It is hereby further Enacted Persons contracting that be nominated by the Iustice of the Peace in every County shall have the refusal of any Farm That the Lord Treasurer Commissioners of the Treasury or other persons aforesaid shall not within six moneths after the Commencement of this Act treat conclude or agrée with any person or persons touching the Farming of this duty upon Béer and Ale in any the respective Counties or Places of this Realm or Dominions thereof other then with such person or persons as by the Iustices of Peace of the said Counties or places or the major part of them at their publick Quarter Sessions shall be nominated and appointed in that behalf which person or persons is to have the first refusal of any such Farm respectively and may take the same Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided that the said duty shall not be let to any other person or persons then to the person or persons recommended by the Iustices under the rate that it shall be tendred to and refused by such person or persons so recommended Forfeitures offences within this Act where determined And be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That all forfeitures and offences made done and committed against this Act or any clause or article therein contained shall be heard adjudged and determined by such person or persons and in such manner and form as hereafter in and by this Act is directed and appointed that is to say all such forfeitures and offences made and committed within the immediate limits of the chief Office in London shall be heard adjudged and determined by the said chief Commissioners and Governors of Excise appointed by His Majesty or the major part of them or by the Commissioners for Appeals and regulating of this duty or the major part of them in case of Appeal and not otherwise And all such forfeitures and offences made and committed within all or any other the Counties Cities Towns or Places within this Kingdom or Dominions thereof shall be heard and determined by any two or more of the Iustices of the Peace residing near to the place where such forfeitures shall be made or offence committed And in case of neglect or refusal of such Iustices of the Peace by the space of 14 dayes next after complaint made and notice thereof given to the Offender then the Sub-Commissioners or the major part of them appointed for any such City County Town or Place shall and are hereby impowered to hear and determine the same And if the party find himself aggrieved by the Iudgment given by the said Sub-Commissioners Appeals by parties grieved he shall and may appeal to the Iustices of the Peace at the next Quarter Sessions who are hereby impowered and authorised to hear and determine the same whose Iudgment therein shall be final which said Commissioners for Appeals and regulating of this duty and the chief Commissioners for Excise and all Iustices of Peace and Sub-Commissioners aforesaid respectively are hereby authorised and strictly enjoyned and required upon any complaint or information exhibited and brought of any such forfeiture made or offence committed contrary to this Act to summon the party accused and upon his appearance or contempt to procéed to the examination of the matter of Fact and upon due proof made thereof either by the voluntary confession of the party or by the oath of one or more credible witnesses which Oath they or any two or more of them have hereby power to administer to give Iudgment or Sentence according as in and by this Act is before ordained and directed And to award and issue out Warrants under their hands for the levying of such forfeitures penalties and fines as by this Act is imposed for any such offence committed upon the Goods and Chattels of the Offender and to cause Sale to be made of the said Goods and Chattels if they shall not be redéemed within fourtéen days rendring to the party the overplus if any be and for want of sufficient Distress to imprison the party offending till satisfaction be made Provided nevertheless That it shall and may be lawful Fines and forfeitures may be mitigated to and for the said respective Iustices of Peace Commissioners for Excise or any two of them or their Sub-Commissioners respectively from time to time where they shall sée cause to mitigate compound or lessen such forfeiture penalty or fine as in their discretion they shall think fit And that every such mitigation and payment thereupon accordingly made shall be a sufficient discharge of the said penalties and forfeitures to the persons so offending so as by such mitigation the same be not made less than double the value of the duty of Excise which should or ought to have béen paid besides the reasonable costs and charges of such Officer or Officers or others as were imployed therein to be to them allowed by the said Iustices any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And it is hereby further Enacted and Ordained That all Fines How the fines and forfeitures shall be imployed Forfeitures and Penalties mentioned in this Act all necessary charges for the recovery thereof being first deducted shall be imployed thrée fourth parts thereof to and for the use of the Kings Majesty and the other 4th part to the Discoverer or Informer of the same And for the better managing collecting securing levying and recovering of all and every the said rates and charges of Excise hereby imposed and set upon all or any of the Commodities before mentioned to the end the same may be paid and disposed of according to the intent of this present Act Be it further Enacted and Ordained by the authority aforesaid and it is hereby Enacted That one principal Head-Office shall be erected and continued in the City of London or within ten miles thereof from time to time as long as his Majesty shall think fit for this duty unto which all other Offices for the same within England and Wales and the Town and Port of Berwick shall be subordinate and accomptable Which said Office shall be managed by such Officers as shall be appointed by the Kings Majesty as aforesaid who or any two of them Commissioners and Governors for managing the Receipts of Excise are hereby appointed and constituted Commissioners and Governours for the management of His Majesties Receipt of the Excise and to sit in some convenient place in the City of London or within ten miles thereof from time to time as long as his Majesty shall think fit And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons shall be capable of
two or more credible witnesses in such manner and from time to time as he shall respectively think fit to dispose of the custody and tuition of such child or children for and during such time as he or they shall respectively remain under the age of 21 years or any lesser time to any person or persons in possession or remainder other then Popish Recusants And that such disposition of the custody of such child or children made since the 24th of February Actions of ravishment of wards 1645. or hereafter to be made shall be good and effectual against all and every person or persons claiming the custody or tuition of such child or children as Guardian in soccage or otherwise And that such person or persons to whom the custody of such child or children hath béen or shall be so disposed or devised as aforesaid shall and may maintain an action of Ravishment of Ward or Trespass against any person or persons which shall wrongfully take away or detain such child or children for the recovery of such child or children and shall and may recover damages for the same in the said Action for the use and benefit of such child or children And be it further Enacted The sands of children and the management of their personal estate by their guardians That such Person or Persons to whom the custody of such Child or Children hath béen or shall be so disposed or devised shall and may take into his or their custody to the use of such Child or Children the profits of all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of such Child or Children and also the custody tuition and management of the Goods Chattels and personal Estate of such Child or Children till their respective Age of 21 years or any lesser time according to such disposition aforesaid and may bring such Action or Actions in relation thereunto as by Law a Guardian in common soccage might do Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to alter or preiudice the custom of the City of London nor of any other City or Town Corporate or of the Town of Berwick on Tweed concerning Orphants nor to discharge any Apprentice from his Apprenticeship Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained Proviso touching Titles of honour feodal shall infringe or hurt any Title of Honour Feodal or other by which any person hath or may have right to sit in the Lords House of Parliament as to his or their Title of Honour or sitting in Parliament and the priviledge belonging to them as Péers This Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And whereas by like experience it hath béen found Purveyances and provisions for the Kings house-hold taken away Alt. St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. that though divers good strict and wholesome Laws have béen made in the times of sundry his Majesties most noble Progenitors some extending so far as to life for Redress of the grievances and oppressions committed by the persons imployed for making provisions for the Kings houshold Carriages and other purveyance for his Majesty and his occasions Yet divers oppressions have béen still continued and several Counties have submitted themselves to sundry Rates and Taxes and Compositions to redéem themselves from such vexations and oppressions And forasmuch as the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament do find that the said Remedies are not fully effectual and that no other remedy will be so effectual and just as to take away the occasion thereof especially if satisfaction and recompence shall be therefore made to his Maiesty his Heirs and Successors which is hereby provided to his Majesties good liking and content His Majesty is graciously pleased That it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That from henceforth no sum or sums of Money or other thing shall be taken raised tared rated imposed paid or levied for or in regard of any provision Carriages or purveyance for his Majesty His Heirs or Successors Purveyances for the King Queen c. And that henceforth no person or persons by any Warrant Commission or Authority under the Great Seal or otherwise by colour of buying or making provision or purveyance for his Majesty or any Quéen of England for the time being or of any the Children of any King or Quéen of England for the time being Timber Carts Carriages c. taken away or that shall be or for his their or any of their Houshold shall take any Timber Fewel Cattel Corn Grain Mault Hay Straw Victual Cart Carriage or other thing whatsoever of any the Subjects of His Majesty His Heirs or Successors without the free and full consent of the Owner or Owners thereof had and obtained without menace or enforcement nor shall summon warn take use or require any the said Subjects to furnish or find any Horses Oxen or other Cattel Carts Ploughs Wains or other Carriages for the use of His Majesty His Heirs or Successors or of any Quéen of England or of any Child or Children of any the Kings or Quéens of England for the time being for the carrying the Goods of His Majesty His Heirs or Successors or the said Quéens or Children or any of them without such full and frée consent as aforesaid any Law Statute Custom or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding No pre-emption to be allowed or claimed in behalf of the King c. And be it further Enacted That no pre-emption shall be allowed or claimed in the behalf of His Majesty or of any His Heirs or Successors or of any the Quéens of England or of any the Children of the Royal Family for the time being in Market or out of Market but that it be for ever hereafter frée to all and every of the Subjects of His Majesty to sell dispose or employ his said Goods to any other person or persons as himself listeth any pretence of making provision or purveyance of Victual Carriages or other thing for his Majesty His Heirs or Successors or of the said Quéens or Children or any pretence of pre-emption in their or any of their behalfs notwithstanding And if any person or persons shall make provision or purveyance for His Majesty His Heirs or Successors The Penalty or any the Quéens or Children aforesaid or impress or take any such Carriages or other things aforesaid on any pretence or colour of any Warrant aforesaid under the Great Seal or otherwise contrary to the intent hereof it shall be be lawful for the Iustices of Peace or such two or one of them as dwell near and to the Constables of such parish or Village where such occasion shall happen at the request of the party grieved And they are hereby enioyned to commit or cause to be committed the party or parties so doing and
offending till satisfaction be made Power to mitigate the forfeitures Provided nevertheless That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said respective Iustices of Peace Commissioners for Excise or any two of them or their Sub-Commissioners respectively from time to time where they shall sée cause to mitigate compound or lessen such forfeiture penalty or fine as in their discretion they shall think fit And that every such mitigation and payment thereupon accordingly made shall be a sufficient discharge of the said penalties and forfeitures to the persons so offending so as by such mitigation the same be not made less than double the value of the duty of Excise which should or ought to have béen paid besides the reasonable costs and charges of such Officer or Officers or others as were imployed therein to be to them allowed by the said Iustices any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding How the forfeitures shall be imployed And it is hereby further Enacted and Ordained That all Fines Forfeitures and Penalties mentioned in this Act all necessary charges for the recovery thereof being first deducted shall be imployed thrée fourth parts thereof to and for the use of the Kings Majesty and one fourth part to the Discoverer or Informer of the same And for the better managing collecting securing levying and recovering of all and every the said rates and charges of Excise hereby imposed and set upon all or any of the Commodities before mentioned One principal Office of Excise erected in London to the end the same may be paid and disposed of according to the intent of this present Act Be it further Enacted and Ordained by the authority aforesaid and it is hereby Enacted That one principal Head-Office shall be erected and continued in the City of London or within ten miles thereof from time to time as long as his Majesty shall think fit for this duty unto which all other Offices for the same within England and Wales and the Town and Port of Berwick shall be subordinate and accomptable Which said Office shall be managed by such Officers as shall be appointed by the Kings Majesty as aforesaid who or any two of them are hereby appointed and constituted Commissioners and Governours for the management of His Majesties Receipt of the Excise and to sit in some convenient place in the City of London or within ten miles thereof from time to time as long as his Majesty shall think fit And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons shall be capable of intermedling with any Office or Imployment relating to the Excise until he or they shall before two or more Iustices of Peace in the County where his or their imployments shall be or before one of the Barons of the Exchequer take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy which Oaths they have hereby power to Administer together with this Oath following Mutatis Mutandis The Oath YOU shall swear to execute the Office of _____ truly and faithfully without Favour or Affection and shall from time to time true Accompt make and deliver to such person and persons as His Majesty shall appoint to receive the same and shall take no Fee or Reward for the Execution of the said Office from any other person than from His Maiesty or those whom His Majesty shall appoint in that behalf London Westminster c. to be under the management of the chief Office And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every such Iustice of Peace shall certify the taking of such Oath to the next Quarter-Sessions there to be Recorded And it is further Enacted That all parts of the Cities of London and Westminster with the Burrough of Southwark and the several Suburbs thereof and Parishes within the wéekly Bills of Mortality shal be under the immediate care inspection and management of the said Head-Office and such and so many subordinate Commissioners All Commissioners c. to be nominated by his Maiesty and Sub-Commissioners and other Officers and Ministers for the Execution of the Premisses shall be from time to time nominated and appointed by His Maiesty his Heirs and Successors in all and every other the Counties Cities Towns and Places within this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Port of Berwick as from time to time his Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall think fit And it is hereby further Enacted That the said Office of Excise in all places where it shall be appointed shall be kept open from eight of the Clock in the morning Times in which the Office shall be kept open till twelve of the Clock at noon and from two of the Clock in the Afternoon till five of the Clock in the Afternoon for the due execution and performance of all and every the matters and things in this Act appointed and required And it is further hereby Enacted That the said Chief Commissioners of Excise or the major part of them shall from time to time issue forth and pay such sum and sums of money as shall from time to time be received collected or levyed by vertue of this Act into his Majesties Receipt of Exchequer The general â—â—â—ue pleadable in any action upon this Statute Provided alwayes and be it Enacted That if any person or persons shall at any time be sued or prosecuted for any thing by him or them done or executed in pursuance of this Act he or they shall and may plead the general issue and give this Act in evidence for his defence and if upon the Tryal a Verdict shall pass for the Defendant or Defendants or the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs be Non-suit then such Defendant or Defendants shall have double costs to him or them awarded against such Plaintiff or Plaintiffs Writs of Certiorari no supersedeas Provided also and be it Enacted That no Writ or Writs of Certiorari shall supersede Execution or other Procéedings upon any Order or Orders made by the Iustices aforesaid in pursuance of this Act but that Execution and other procéedings shall and may be had and made thereupon any such Writ or Writs or allowance thereof notwithstanding Proviso as to the Act of General pardon Provided That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend in any matter to weaken or invalidate one Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion but that every Clause Article Matter and thing therein mentioned and comprised shall notwithstanding this Act or any matter or thing therein remain good and valid and be of the same force vertue and effect as if this Act had never béen made Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained Proviso concerning Ed. Backwell shall not be prejudicial to Edward Backwell Alderman of London as to the sum of twenty eight thousand four hundred
and fifty pounds or any part thereof by him advanced upon the Credit of several Orders of this present Parliament and by them charged on the receipt of the Grand Excise that is to say the sum of Five thousand pounds payable to his Majesties Surveyor-General for the repair of his Majesties houses charged by vertue of an Order of the sixth of September 1660. with Interest for the same the sum of ten thousand pounds advanced to her Highness the Princes Royal being charged with Interest by an Order of the 13th of September 1660. the sum of ten thousand pounds payable to her Majesty the Quéen of Bohemia being charged together with Interest by an Order of the 13th of September 1660. the sum of thrée thousand four hundred and fifty pounds payable for Provisions for Dunkirk by Order of the 26th of November 1660. which sum of twenty eight thousand four hundred and fifty pounds together with Interest for the same according to the tenor of the said Orders after the rate of six per Cent. shall be paid to the said Edward Backwell or his Assigns out of the Grand Excise and the Arrears thereof in course as is by the said Orders appointed and in case the same shall fall short in payment by the Twenty fifth of December One thousand six hundred and sixty that then the remainder shall continue secured to him out of the whole Excise in course as aforesaid and that no other payments be made out of the Excise but what is appointed by this present Parliament in course to precede the same untill the said debt due to the said Edward Backwell be satisfied and that in case any part of the monies due to Alderman Backwell be paid out of that part of the Excise which shall grow due to the Kings Majesty that then his Majesty shall be reimbursed the same out of the first monies that shall come in of the Arrears of Excise that will be due the said twenty fifth of December Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XXV The Selling of Wines by Retail and for preventing Abuses in the Mingling and Corrupting of Wines and for setting the Prices thereof FOR the better Ordering of Selling of Wines by Retail in Taverns and other places and for the preventing of Abuses therein Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the consent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That no person or persons whatsoever from and after the Five and twentieth day of March one thousand six hundred sixty one unless he or they be authorized and enabled in manner and form as in this present Act is prescribed and appointed shall sell or utter by retail that is by the Pint Quart Pottle or Gallon or by any other greater or lesser retail measure any kind of Wine or Wines to be drunk or spent within his or their Mansion-houses or houses or such other place in his or their tenure or occupation or without such Mansion-house or houses or such other place in his or their tenure or occupation by any colour craft or mean whatsoever The penalty of unlawful uttering wine by retail upon pain to forfeit for every such offence the sum of five pounds the one moyety of every such penalty to be to our Soveraign Lord the King the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of the Kings Courts of Record in which Action or Suit no Essoign Wager of Law or Protection shall be allowed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for his Majesty his Heirs and Successors from time to time His Majesty may issue out Commissions to license the uttering wine to issue out under His or their Great Seal of England one or more Commission or Commissions directed to two or more persons thereby Authorizing them to License and give Authority to such person or persons as they shall think fit to sell and utter by retail all and every or any kind of Wine or Wines whatsoever to be drunk and spent as well within the house or houses or other place in the tenure or occupation of the party so Licensed as without in any City Town or other place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town and Port of Berwick upon Tweed and such persons as from time to time or at any time hereafter shall be by such Commission or Commissions as aforesaid in that behalf appointed shall have power and authority and hereby have power and authority to treat and contract for License authority and dispensations to be given and granted to any person or persons for the selling and uttering of Wines by retail in any City Town or other place as aforesaid according to the rules and directions of this present Act and the true intent and meaning thereof and not otherwise any Law Statute Vsage or Custome to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid His Majesties Agents for granting wine Licenses may grant Licenses not exceeding 21 years if the person so long live Rent reserved but no â—ine to be taken That such persons as shall be Commissioned and appointed by his Majesty his Heirs or Successors as aforesaid shall be and be called His Majesties Agents for granting Licenses for the selling and uttering of Wine by retail And his Majesties said Agents are hereby authorized and enabled under their Seal of Office the same to be appointed by his Majesty to grant Licence for the selling and uttering of Wines by retail to any person or persons and for any time or term not excéeding 21 years if such person and persons shall so long live and for such yearly rent as they can or shall agrée and think fit so as no Fine be taken for the same But that the rent and sums of money agréed upon and reserved be paid and answered half yearly by equal portions during the whole Term. Licenses only to such as personally use the Trade And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such Licence shall not be given or granted but to such who shall personally use the Trade of selling or uttering of Wines by retail or to the Landlord and owner of the house where the person using such Trade shall sell and utter Wine by retail Wine Licenses not assignable The King may appoint Officers as he shall think fit nor shall the same be assignable nor in any wise beneficial or extensive to indemnify any person against the penalties of this present Act except the first taker And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for his Majesty His Heirs and Successors to constitute and appoint such and so many other Officers and Ministers as a Receiver Register Clerk Controller Messenger
true intent of this Act shall be forfeited and that every offender and offenders therein shall forfeit twenty shillings for every such Shéep and thrée shillings for every pound weight of such Wooll Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woollflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay And also the Owners of the said Ships or Vessels knowing such offence shall forfeit all thei◠Interest in the said Ships or Vessels with all their Apparrel and Furniture to them and every of them belonging And that the Master and Mariners thereof knowing such offence and wittingly and willingly aiding and assisting thereunto shall forfeit all their Goods and Chattels and have Imprisonment for the same thrée moneths without Bail or Main-prise the one moyety of which said penalties and forfeitures shall be to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record or before the Iustices of Assize or in the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace In which Suit no Essoyn protection or wager of Law shall be allowed The penalty upon any Merchant that shall transport woolls c. And be it further Enacted That if any Merchant or other person or persons shall after the said fourtéenth day of January transport or cause to be transported any Shéep Wooll Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Woollen Yarn Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay contrary to the true intent of this Act and be thereof lawfully convicted That then he shall be disabled to require any Debt or Accompt of any Factor or others for or concerning any Debt or Estate properly belonging to such offender Proviso Provided alwayes and it is nevertheless declared That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be construed to take away any greater pains or penalties inflicted or to be inflicted for any the offences aforesaid by vertue of any former Act of Parliament now in force Offences against this Act where to be tryed And be it also further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That every offence that shall be done or committed contrary to this Act shall and may be inquired of and heard examined tryed and determined in the County where such Shéep Wooll Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay respectively shall be so packed loaden or laid aboard as aforesaid contrary to this Act or else in the County where such Offenders shall happen to be apprehended or arrested for such offence in such manner and form and to such effect to all intents and purposes as if the same offence had béen wholly and altogether done and committed at and in such County They to be Prosecuted within a year after the offence committed Any person may seize goods contrary to this Act loaded with intent to be transported and shall have the moyety thereof Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons whatsoever shall at any time hereafter be impeached for any offence aforesaid unless such person or persons shall be prosecuted within the space of one year next ensuing such offence committed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for any person or persons to seize take and challenge to his or their own use and behoof and to the use of the King His Heirs and Successors all and all manner such Shéep Wooll Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woollflocks Fullers Earth and Fulling Clay as he or they shall happen to sée finde know or discover to be laid aboard in any Ship or other Vessel or Boat or to be brought carried or laid on shore at or near the Sea or any Navigable River or Water to the intent or purpose to be exported transported or conveyed out of the Kingdoms of England or Ireland Town of Berwick Isles or Dominion aforesaid contrary to the true meaning of this Act or to be packed or loaden upon any Horse Cart or other Carriage to the intent or purpose to be conveyed or carried into the Kingdom of Scotland aforesaid and that such person or persons as shall happen so to seize take or challenge any such Shéep Wooll Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay as aforesaid shall have the full moyety thereof to all intents and purposes Proviso such person shall not be evidence against the offender Provided alwayes That such Person or Persons as shall make any such Seizure or challenge aforesaid to his or their own use shall not be admitted or allowed to give in Evidence upon his or their Oath or Oaths against any Person or Persons which shall happen to be indicted accused or questioned by vertue of this Act or any thing therein contained Forfeiture of the ship if the owner be an Alien or not Inhabiting in England And furthermore be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every ship Vessel Hulk Barge or Boat of what kind soever whereof any Alien born or whereof any natural born Subjects not inhabiting within the Realm of England shall be owner or part-owner and wherein any Shéep Wooll Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay shall happen to be shipped put or laid aboard contrary to the true meaning of this Act shall be forfeited to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors Provided alwayes That this Act shall not extend to any Lamb Skin ready drest and prepared fit and useful for Furr or Lynings Proviso Provided also That this Act shall not in any wise extend to the transporting carrying or conveying away of any such Woolfells or Pelts with such Wooll upon them or to any Beds stuffed with Flocks which shall be carried or imployed in any Ship or other Vessel for necessary use only of and about the Ordnance or other thing in or concerning such Ship or Vessel or only for the necessary use of any the Persons in such Ship or Vessel passing or being and which shall not be sold or uttered in any Forreign parts out of the Kingdoms of England or Ireland Ireland Berwick or Town of Berwick Isles or Dominion aforesaid nor to the exporting transporting carrying or conveying of any Wether-shéep or of the Wooll growing upon any such Wether-shéep to be carried alive in any Ship or other Vessel for and towards the only necessary food or diet of or for the Company or Passengers or other Persons therein and for and towards none other purpose Proviso Southampton Jersey Guernsey Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to any such Wooll to be exported or transported out of or from the Port of Southampton only unto the aforesaid Isles of Jersey and Guernsey by or for the only use or behoof of any the Inhabitants of
direction or true intent of any Act or Ordinance or reputed Act or Ordinance of one or both houses of Parliament or of any Convention sitting at Westminster under the Name Stile or Title of a Parliament or assuming that Name Stile or Title shall be and shall be adjudged estéemed and taken to be and to have béen of the same and no other force and effect as if such Marriages had béen had and solemnized according to the Rites and Ceremonies established or used in the Church or Kingdom of England any Law Custom or Vsage to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Issues upon lawfulness of marriages already joyned shall be cryed by Iury And be it further Enacted that where in any Suit commenced or to be commenced in any of the Courts of the common Law any issue hath béen joyned and not already tryed or determined or shall be joyned upon the point of Bastardy or unlawfulness of marriage for or concerning the marriages had and solemnized as aforesaid the same issues shall be tryed by Iury of Twelve Men according to the course of Trial of other issues tryable by Iury at the Common Law and not otherwise Bastardy any Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 11. CAP. XXXIV The Planting Setting or Sowing of Tobacco in England and Ireland prohibited YOur Majesties Loyal and Obedient Subjects The Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled considering of how great concern and importance it is That the Colonies and Plantations of this Kingdom in America be defended Protected Maintained and kept up and that all due and possible encouragement be given unto them and that not not only in regard great and considerable Dominions and Countries have béen thereby gained Importance of the plantations of America and added to the Imperial Crown of this Realm But for that the strength and welfare of this Kingdom do very much depend upon them in regard of the employment of a very considerable part of its Shipping and Seamen and of the vent of very great quantities of its Native Commodities and Manufactures as also of its supply with several Commodities which it was wont formerly to have only from Forraigners and at far dearer Rates And forasmuch as Tobacco is one of the main products of several of those Plantations and upon which their Welfare and Subsistence and the Navigation of this Kingdom and vent of its Commodities thither do much depend and in regard it is found by experience That the Tobaccoes Planted in these parts are not so good and wholsome for the Takers thereof And that by the Planting thereof your Majesty is deprived of a considerable part of your Revenue arising by Customs upon Imported Tobacco Do most humbly pray That it may be Enacted by your Majesty And it is hereby Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same No person after the 1. Ianuary 1660. shall set or plant any Tobacco That no Person or Persons whatsoever shall or do from and after the first day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty Set Plant improve to grow make or cure any Tobacco either in Séed Plant or otherwise in or upon any Ground Earth Field or Place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey The penalty or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or in the Kingdom of Ireland under the penalty of the Forfeiture of all such Tobacco or the value thereof or of the sum of forty shillings for every Rod or Pole of Ground so Planted set or Sowen as aforesaid and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity of Ground one Moyety thereof to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors And the other Moyety to him or them that shall Sue for the same to be recovered by Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record wherein no Essoigne Protection or wager in Law shall be allowed All Sheriffs and other officers may destroy any Tobacco planted contrary to this Act. And it is hereby further Enacted That all Sheriffs Iustices of the Peace Mayors Bailiffs Constables and every of them upon Information or Complaint made unto them or any of them by any the Officers of the Customes or by any other Person or Persons whatsoever That there is any Tobacco set sowen planted or growing within their Iurisdictions or Precincts contrary to this Act shall within ten daies after such Information or Complaint cause to be burnt plucked up consumed or utterly destroyed all such Tobacco so set sowen planted or growing The penalty of any person resisting this act And it is hereby further Enacted That in case any Person or Persons shall resist or make forcible Opposition against any person or persons in the due and through Execution of this Act that every such person or persons for every such Offence shall forfeit the sum of five pounds to be divided and recovered in manner aforesaid And in case any person or persons shall not pay the sums of money by them to be paid by vertue of this Act That in every such case Distress shall be made and Sale thereof returning the Over-plus to the Owners And in case no Distress be to be found That then every such party shall be committed to the Common Goal in the County where such Offence shall be committed there to remain for the space of two moneths without bail or main-prize Proviso for private Gardens Provided alwayes and it is hereby Enacted That this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to the hindring of the planting of Tobacco in any Physick Garden of either Vniversity or in any other private Garden for Physick or Chirurgery only so as the quantity so planted excéed not one half of one Pole in any one Place or Garden Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 14. CAP. XXXV A Post-Office erected and established WHereas for the maintenance of mutual Correspondencies and prevention of many Inconveniencies happening by private Posts The well ordering of postage and letters of great concernment to Trade several publick Post-Offices have béen heretofore erected for carrying and recarrying of Letters by Posts to and from all parts and places within England Scotland and Ireland and several parts beyond the Seas the well Ordering thereof is a matter of general concernment and of great advantage as well for preservation of Trade and Commerce as otherwise To the end therefore that the same may be managed so that spéedy and safe dispatches may be had which is most likely to be effected by erecting one general Post-Office for that purpose Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty A Letter-office erected in London the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That there be from henceforth one general Letter-Office erected and
further distance then forty English miles Four pence and for the like port of every letter not excéeding two shéets Eight pence and proportionably unto the same Rates for the like port of every pacquet of letters and for the like Port of every Pacquet of greater Bulk One shilling for every Ounce weight and for all and every the Letters Pacquets and parcels of Goods that shall be carried or conveyed to or from any of his Majesties said Dominions to or from any other parts or places beyond the Seas according to the several and respective Rates that now are and have béen taken for Letters Pacquets and parcels so conveyed being rated either by the Letter or by the Ounce weight That is to say Morlaix Saint Maloes Caen Newhaven and Places of like distance Port paid to Roan is for   d Single  vi Double  xii Treble  xviii Ounce  xviii Hamburgh Colen Frankfort Port paid to Antwerp is   d Single  viii Double  xvi Treble  xxiv Ounce  xxiv Venice Geneva Legorne Rome Naples Messina and all other parts of Italy by way of Venice franct pro Mantua  s d Single o ix Double i vi Treble ii iii Ounce ii viii Marcelia Smirna Constantinople Aleppo and all parts of Turky port paid to Marcelia  s d Single i o Double ii o 3 qrs of an ounce ii ix Ounce iii ix And for Letters brought from the said places to England  s d Single o viii Double i iv Treble ii o Ounce ii o And for the port Letters brought into England from Calais Diepe Bulloigne Abbeville Amiens Saint Omers Montrell  s d Single o iv Double o viii Treble i o Ounce i o Roven  s d Single o vi Double i o Treble i vi Ounce i vi Genova Legorn Rome and other parts of Italy by way of Lyons franct pro Lyons  s d Single i o Double ii o 3 qrs of an ounce ii ix Ounce iii ix And of Letters sent outwards To Bourdeaux Rochel Nantes Orleans Byon Tours and places of like distance port paid to Paris  s d Single o ix Double i vi Treble ii iii Ounce ii o And for Letters brought from the same places into England  s d Single i o Double ii o 3 qrs of an ounce iii o Ounce iv o Also Letters sent outwards To Norembourgh Bremen Dantswick Lubeck Lipswick and other places of like distance Post paid to Hamburgh  s d Single i o Double ii o 3 qrs of an ounce iii o Ounce iv o Paris  s d Single o ix Double i vi Treble ii iii Ounce ii o Dunkirk Ostend Lille Ipre Courtrey Gheandt Bruxells Bridges Antwerp and all other parts of Flanders  s d Single o viii Double i v Treble ii o Ounce ii o Slus Flushing Middleburgh Amsterdam Roterdam Delph Hague and from all other parts of Holland and Zealand  s d Single o viii Double i iv Treble ii o Ounce ii o Provided alwayes That all Merchants Accompts not excéeding one shéet of paper Proviso for Merchants and all bills of Exchange Invoyes and Bills of Lading are and shall hereby be understood to be allowed without Rate in the Price of the Letters and likewise the Covers of Letters not excéeding one fourth part of a shéet of paper sent to Marseilles Venice or Legorne to be sent forward to Turky shall be understood to be allowed to pass without rate or payment for the same and according to the same rates and proportions for the Port of Letters pacquets and parcels to or from any of the parts or places beyond the Seas where Posts have not béen heretofore setled and may hereafter be setled by the said Post-Master General for the time being his Executors or Assigns And it shall and may be lawfull to and for such Post-Master General and his Deputy and Deputies to ask demand take and receive of every person that he or they shall furnish and provide with Horses Furniture and Guide to ride Post in any of the Post-roades as aforesaid Thrée pence of English money for each Horses Hire or Postage for every English mile and four pence for the Guide for every Stage And whereas upon the arrival of Ships from parts beyond the Seas into several Ports within his Majesties Dominions many Letters directed to several Merchants and others have béen detained long to the great damage of the Merchants in want of that spéedy advice and intelligence which they might have had if the same had béen forthwith dispatched by the setled Posts and sometimes such Letters have been delivered by the Masters or Passengers of such Ships to ignorant and loose hands that understand not the way and means of spéedy conveyance and delivery Letters whereby great prejudice hath accrued to the affairs of Merchants and others as well by the miscarriage of many Letters so brought as oftentimes by the opening of the same to the discovery of the Correspondencies and secrets of the Merchant Be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That all Letters and Pacquets that by any Master of any Ship or Vessel or any of his Company or any Passengers therein shall or may be brought to any Port-Town within his Majesties Dominions or any of the Members thereof other then such Letters as are before excepted or may be sent by common known Carriers in manner aforesaid or by a friend as aforesaid shall by such Master Passenger or other person be forthwith delivered unto the Deputy or Deputies only of the said Post-Master General for the time being by him appointed for the said Port-Town and him or them to be sent Post unto the said general Post-Office to be delivered according to the several and respective directions of the same And be it further Enacted by the aforesaid Authority That no person or persons whatsoever or Body politick or Corporate other then such post-Master General as shall from time to time be nominated and appointed by his Majesty His Heirs or Successors and constituted by Letters Patents under the great Seal of England as aforesaid and his Deputy and Deputies or Assignes shall presume to carry recarry and deliver Letters for Hire other then as before excepted or to set up or imploy any Foot-post Horse-post Coach-post or pacquet-Boat whatsoever for the conveyance carrying Penalties of offending against this Act and recarrying of any Lettters or pacquets by Sea or Land within his Majesties Dominions or shall provide and maintain Horses and Furniture for the horsing of any Thorow-pasts or persons riding in post with a Guide and Horne as usual for Hire upon pain of Forfeiting the sum of five pounds of English money for every several offence against the Tenor of this present Act And also for the forfeiture of the sum of One hundred pound of like English money for every wéeks time that any Offender against this Act shall imploy maintain and
continue any such foot-post Horse-post Coach-post or pacquet-Boat as aforesaid which said several and respective Forfeitures shall and may be sued for and recovered by Action or Actions of Debt plaint or Information in any of his Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Essoigne priviledge protection or Wager of Law shall be admitted Proviso where any Post-master doth not provide and the said several and respective forfeitures that shall happen from time to time to be recovered shall be and remain the one moyety thereof to his Majesty and his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety thereof to such person or persons who shall or will inform against the Offender or Offenders against this present Act and shall or will sue for the said forfeitures upon the same Provided alwayes That if any post-Master of any respective place doth not or cannot furnish any person or persons riding in Post with sufficient horses within the space of one half hour after demand That then such person or persons are here understood to be left at liberty to provide themselves as conveniently they can And the persons who shall furnish such horses shall not therefore be liable unto any Penalties or Forfeitures contained in this Act. Provided alwaies That if through default or neglect of the Post-Master General aforesaid Proviso touching Post-masters that do not sufficiently provide horses c. any person or persons riding in Post shall fail as aforesaid of being furnished with a sufficient Horse or Horses for his or their use after demand as aforesaid That in every such case the said Post-Master General shall forfeit the sum of Five pounds sterling the one moyety to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them who shall sue for the same in any Court of Record to be recovered by Bill Plaint or other Information wherein no Essoigne Protection or other Wager in Law shall be admitted Provided alwayes and be it Enacted Proviso That nothing herein contained shall be understood to prohibit the carrying or recarrying of any Letters or pacquets to or from any Town or place to or from the next respective Post-Road or Stage appointed for that purpose But that every person shall have frée Liberty to send and imploy such persons as they shall think fit for to carry the said Letters or Pacquets as aforesaid without any forfeiture or penalty therefore Any thing contained in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Proviso against carrying any pacquet out of England in any forreign vessels Provided alwayes That if the Pacquet or Maile shall be carryed out of England into any part beyond the Seas in any ship or Vessel which is not of English built and Navigated with English Seamen That in every such case the said post-Master General shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds Sterling The one moyety to his Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them who shall sue for the same in any Court of Record to be recovered by Bill Plaint or other Information wherein no Essoigne Protection or other Wager in Law shall be allowed Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons shall be capable of having using or exercising the Office of post-Master General or any other Imployment relating to the said Office unless he or they shall first take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy before any two Iustices of the peace of the respective Counties wherein such person or persons are or shall be resident which said Iustices are hereby Authorized to administer the said oaths accordingly Proviso Truro Penrin Kendall Lancaster Penrith Carlisle Grimsby Post-Master to continue constant posts Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That a Letter or pacquet-post shall twice every wéek come by the way of Truro and Penrin to the Town of Marketiew alias Marhasion in the County of Cornwall and once a wéek to Kendal by the way of Lancaster and to the Town of Penrith in Cumberland by the way of Newcastle and Carlisle and to the City of Lincoln and the Burrough of Grimsby in the County of Lincoln Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such post-master General to be from time to time appointed by his Majesty His Heirs and Successors as aforesaid shall continue constant posts for carriage of letters to all places though they lye out of the post-roads as hath béen used for the space of thrée years last past at the rates herein before mentioned under pain of forfeiture for every omission Five pounds to be recovered by Action Suit or plaint in any his Majesties Courts of Record the one moyety to the use of his Majesty the other moyety to the use of the Informer And for the better management of the said post-Office and that the people of these Kingdomes may have their intercourse of Commerce and trade the better maintained and their Letters and advises conveyed carried and recarried with the greatest spéed security and convenience that may be Penalty for every omission The Post-master c. to observe such orders as his Majesty shall make Be it further Enacted That the said post-Master General so nominated appointed and constituted as aforesaid and his Deputies shall from time to time observe and follow such orders rules directions and instructions for and concerning the settlement of convenient posts and Stages upon the several roads in England Scotland and Ireland and other his Majesties Dominions and the providing and kéeping of a sufficient number of horses at the said several Stages as well for the carrying and conveying of the said letters and pacquets as for the horsing of all thorow-posts and persons riding in post by warrant or otherwise as aforesaid as his Majesty his heirs and Successors shall from time to time in that behalf make and ordain And that his Majesty his heirs and Successors may grant the said Office of post-master General His Maiesty may grant the said office for life or years not exceeding 25. years together with the powers and Authorities thereunto belonging and the several rates of portage above mentioned and all profits priviledges fées perquisites and emoluments thereunto belonging or to belong either for life or term of years not excéeding one and twenty years to such person or persons and under such Covenants conditions and yearly rents to his said Majesty his Heirs and Successors reserved as his said Majesty his heirs and Successors shall from time to time think fit for the best advantage and benefit of the Kingdom No horses to be seized without consent of the owners Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person shall have power to take use or seize any horses for the service mentioned in this Act without the consent of the
shall graciously be pleased to pardon him And if his Majesty shall grant his pardon to any Péer of this Realm or Commoner convicted of any offence against this Act after such Pardon granted the Péer or Commoner so pardoned shall be restored to all intents and purposes as if he had never béen convicted any thing in this Law to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding CAP. II. An Act of Parliament Entituled An Act for dis-enabling all persons in Holy Orders to exercise any Temporal Jurisdiction or Authority Repealed WHereas at the Parliament begun at Westminster the Third day of November in the Sixtéenth year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles of blessed memory since deceased an Act of Parliament was made Entituled An Act for dis-enabling all persons in Holy Orders to exercise any Temporal Jurisdiction or Authority Stat. 17 Car. 1. cap. 27. Rep. Which Act hath made several alterations prejudicial to the constitution and ancient Rights of Parliament and contrary to the Laws of this Land and is by experience found otherwise inconvenient 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 and by the Authority of the same That the said Act Entituled An Act for dis-enabling all persons in holy Orders to exercise any Temporal Jurisdiction or Authority and every clause matter and thing therein contained shall be and is hereby from henceforth repealed annulled and made void to all intents and purposes whatsoever CAP. III. All such Monies Goods and other things which were Received Levied or Collected in these late Times and are remaining in the hands or possession of any Treasurers Receivers Collectors or others not pardoned by the Act of Oblivion declared to be Vested and setled in His Majesty WHereas divers Doubts have béen made whether or no the Monies Goods Chattels and other things excepted to be accounted for in the Act of Frée and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion made and passed in the Parliament begun at Westminster the Five and twentieth day of April in the Twelfth year of your Majesties Raign do belong unto and of right are in your Majesty for that the same were not levied received collected or taken by your Majesties Authority or to your Majesties use For remedy and clearing whereof Goods and Monies levied since the 30. of Ian. 1642. and not pardoned are vested in his Majesty We the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament humbly beséech your Majesty that it may be Enacted and be it Declared Enacted and Ordained by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament and by the Authority thereof That all and every sum and sums of Money Goods Plate Iewels Horses Arms Ammunition and other things whatsoever levied received or taken sithence the Thirtieth of January One thousand six hundred forty two by any of the late pretended Authorities or by pretence or colour of any Power or Authority derived or pretended to be derived from them or any of them for any publick use which are not pardoned by the said Act which are not otherwise vested and setled in the Kings Majesty and all Bonds Obligations Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 11. and other Securities entred into for the same or any part thereof be and are hereby vested and setled in the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and that his Sacred Majesty his Heirs and Successors may from time to time and at all times hereafter have demand sue for and recover the same of all and every person and persons their Heirs Executors and Administrators who are accountable for the same or in whose hands or possessions soever the same were or are as if the same had béen levied received collected or taken in his Majesties Name by Authority from his Majesty or to his Majesties use any Law or Statute Vsage or Custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person or persons which have received any the aforesaid sum or sums of money from any Treasurer or Receiver for any publick use by way of Imprest to be accounted for which are not pardoned or discharged by the aforesaid Act shall be liable to account and called to account in such manner and form as if they had received the same out of his Majesties Exchequer or any other publick Treasury The Revenues of the Churches in Wales and particularly those persons that have received or collected the Revenues of any Churches or Vicarages in Wales or in the County of Monmouth since the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty eight Provided they have all due allowances in their accounts as all such persons whose accounts are excepted in the Act of Oblivion have or ought to have And to the end his Majesty may be the better enabled to discover Commissions for discovery and sue for all such Monies Goods and other things invested in his Maiesty by this Act it is further ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That His Majesty His Heirs and Successors shall and may from time to time issue forth such and so many Commissions to such and so many persons as his Majesty shall think fit either under the great Seal of England or the Seal of his Majesties Exchequer for the better discovering levying receiving and discharging the same Persons accountable enabled to sue for and levy all arrears And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all persons accountable to his Majesty by this Act shall have full power and Authority and are hereby enabled to sue for Levy and recover from the parties from whom the same was and is due and for which they are hereby accomptable all sums of Money and Arrears in such manner and form as they might have recovered and levyed the same when they first grew due Provided this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to call any person to account or to question any person for Goods or other things remaining in his hands which shall not be called to account Proviso none to be questioned but upon some prosecution begun before the 24 of Iune 1662. or some Information against him either in the Exchequer or Commissioners to be appointed as aforesaid before the four and twentieth of June which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty two and that the said Information be prosecuted with effect within twelve moneths after the Exhibition thereof CAP. IV. An Act for a free and Voluntary present to his Majesty EXP. Proviso declaring no commissions of this nature but by authority of Parliament ANd be it hereby Declared That no Commissions or Aids of this nature can be issued out or levied but by Authority of Parliament And that this Act and supply hereby granted shall not
in Parliament in the Twelfth year of His Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite and by Knights Service and Purveyance and for setling a Revenue upon His Majesty in lieu thereof It was amongst other Things Enacted for the Reasons and Recompence therein expressed That from thenceforth no person or persons by any Warrant Commission or Authority under the Great Seal or otherwise by colour of buying or making Provision or Purveyance for his Majesty or any Quéen of England for the time being or of any the Children of any King or Quéen of England that shall be or for his their or any of their Houshold shall take any Cart Carriage or other thing whatsoever of any of the Subjects of His Majesty his Heirs or Successors without the frée and full consent of the Owner or Owners thereof had and obtained without Menace or enforcement nor shall summon warn take use or require any the said Subjects to furnish or find any Horses Oxen or other Cattel Carts Ploughs Wayns or other Carriages for the use of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or of any Quéen of England or of any Child or Children of any the Kings or Quéens of England for the time being for the Carrying the Goods of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or the said Quéens or Children or any of them without such full and frée consent as aforesaid any Law Statute Custome or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding which Act may prove very prejudicial and inconvenient to the Kings Majesty in his Royal Progresses upon his necessary occasions to several parts of this Realm in case any person or persons shall obstinately refuse voluntarily to provide sufficient Carriages for Royal service at ordinary and usual Rates for such Carriages as are paid by others of his Subjects in such places contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said Act. Clerk or chief Officer of his Majâ—sties carriages by Warrant from the Green-cloath to provide Carts c. for his Majesties use Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That the Clark or chief Officer of his Majesties Carriages shall thrée dayes at least before his Majesties Arrival by Warrant from the Gréen cloth give notice in writing to two or more of his Majesties Iustices of the Peace next adjoyning to provide such a number of Carts and Carriages from the places next adjacent as His Majesty shall have present use of expressing the certainty of that number as also the time and place when and where the said Carts and Carriages are to attend which Carriages shall consist of four able Horses or six Oxen or four Oxen and two Horses for each of which Cart or Carriage Penalty for refusing to furnish his Majesty the respective Owners shall receive six pence for each Mile they shall go laden And that in case any of his Majesties Subjects of this Realm shall refuse to provide and furnish His Majesty that now is or His Quéen that shall be or His or Her Houshold in their Progress or removals with such sufficient and necessary carriages for their Wardrobe and other necessaries for ready monies tendred to them or shall without just and reasonable cause refuse to make their appearance with such sufficient Carts and Carrâ—â—ges as are before exprest that then upon due proof and conviction of such neglect and refusal by the Oath of the Constable or other Officer or two other credible Witnesses before the said Iustices of the Peace of the County or Mayor or other chief Officer of the City or Corporation where he or they inhabit which Oath they shall have power to administer the party so refusing shall for such his refusal and neglect forfeit the sum of Forty shillings to the King's use to be forthwith levied by distress and sale of his Goods and Chattels rendring to the parties the overplus upon every such sale if there shall be any by Warrant from the said Iustices of the Peace Mayor or other chief Officer Provided alwayes That no Horses Oxen Cart or Wain No horses or carriages to travel above a dayes journey nor without pay of ready money shall be enforced to travel above one dayes journey from the place where they receive their Lading and that ready payment shall be made in hand for the said Carriages at the place of Lading without delay according to the aforesaid Rates And in case any Iustice of the Peace Mayor chief Officer or Constable shall take any Gift or Reward to spare any person or persons from making such Carriage or shall injuriously charge or grieve any person through envy hatred or evill will who ought not to make such Carriage or shall Impress more Carriages then he shall be directed from the Gréen Cloth to do That then upon due proof and conviction thereof the party so offending shall forfeit the sum of Ten pounds to the party thereby grieved or any other who shall sue for the same to be recovered by Action of Debt in any of his Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Protection Essoin Penalty for wrongfull charging any person or Wager of Law shall be allowed And in case any person or persons shall presume to take upon him or them to Impress any horses Oxen cart wain or carriages for his Majesties service other then the person so impowered then he or they so offending shall upon due conviction of the said offence incur and suffer the punishment contained in the first recited Act. And whereas of late in his Majesties Progresses excessive Rates and Prices have béen exacted from his Maiesties servants for lodging horse-meat stable-room and other accomodations Rates for horse-meat and diet for his Majesties Servants Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That none of his Majesties said Servants shall be compelled to pay above one shilling by the night for every bed that they shall use for their servants And that in all such houses where any of his Majesties said servants shall pay for their dyet or for hay and provender for their horses convenient lodging shall be provided for themselves and their Servants without paying any thing for the same And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Rates Prices to be set down by two Iustices of the Peace that any two or more of the Iustices of the Peace near adjoyning to the Road through which his Majesty is to pass shall immediately after notice in writing from the said Gréen Cloth and Avenor under their hands and seals set down and appoint such reasonable Rates and Prices to be paid during his Majesties abode there both for hay oats and other accomodations for horses as they in their discretion shall think méet which Rates one day at the least before his Majesties coming to such place the said Iustices
care be taken in the Conducting and Stéering of the Ships that through wilfulness negligence or other defaults none of his Majesties Ships be stranded or run upon any Rocks or Sands or split or hazarded upon pain that such as shall be found guilty therein be punished by Fine Imprisonment or otherwise as the offence by a Court-Martial shall be adjudged to deserve XXVI Burning a Ship All persons that shall willingly burn or set fire on any Ship or Magazine or Store of Powder or Ship Boat Ketch Hoy or Vessel or Tackle or Furniture thereto belonging not appertaining to an Enemy or Rebel shall be punished with death XXVII Sleeping upon Watch. No Man in or belonging to the Fléet shall sléep upon his Watch or negligently perform the Duty imposed on him or forsake his station upon pain of death or other punishment as the circumstances of the Case shall require XXVIII Murthers All Murthers and wilful Killing of any persons in the Ship shall be punished with death XXIX Robbery and Theft All Robbery and Theft committed by any person in or belonging to the Fléet shall be punished with death or otherwise as the Court-Martiall upon consideration of circumstances shall find méet XXX Provost-Marâ—ial prisoners No Provost-Marshal belonging to the Fléet shall refuse to receive or kéep any Prisoner committed to his charge nor suffer him to escape being once in his custody nor dismiss him without order upon pain of being lyable to the same punishment which should have béen inflicted upon the party dismissed or permitted to escape or such other punishment as the Court-Martial shall think fit XXXI Apprehending offenders All Captains Officers and Sea-men shall do their endeavours to detect apprehend and bring to punishment all offenders and shall assist the Officers appointed for that purpose therein upon pain to be procéeded against and punished by the Court-Martial at discretion XXXII Sodomy If any person or persons in or belonging to the Fléet shall commit the unnatural and detestable sin of Buggery or Sodomy with Man or Beast he shall be punished with death without mercy XXXIII Misdemeanors and Disorders at Sea All other Faults Misdemeanors and Disorders committed at Sea not mentioned in this Act shall be punished according to the Laws and Customs in such Cases used at Sea XXXIV And it is hereby further Enacted The Lord High Admirals power to grant Commissions to call Court Martialls That the Lord High Admiral for the time being shall by vertue of this Act have full power and Authority to grant Commissions to inferiour Vice-Admirals or Commander in chief of any Squadron of Ships to call and assemble Court-Martials consisting of Commanders and Captains and no Court-Martial where the pains of death shall be inflicted shall consist of less then five Captains at least the Admirals Lieutenant to be as to this purpose estéemed as a Captain and in no case wherein sentence of Death shall pass by vertue of the Articles aforesaid or any of them except in case of Mutiny there shall be execution of such Sentence of Death without the leave of the Lord High Admiral if the offence be committed within the Narrow-Seas But in case any of the offences aforesaid be committed in any Voyage beyond the Narrow-Seas whereupon Sentence of death shall be given in pursuance of the aforesaid Articles or of any of them then Execution shall not be done but by Order of the Commander in chief of that Fléet or Squadron wherein Sentence of death was passed XXXV And be it further Enacted and Declared That the Iudge-Advocate of any Fléet Iudg Advocate of any fleet to administer an oath for tryal of offences Court Martiall for the time being shall have full power and Authority to administer an Oath to any person or witness in order to the Examination or Tryal of any of the offences aforesaid and in the absence of a Iudg-Advocate the Court-Martial shall have full power and Authority to appoint any person to administer an Oath to the purpose aforesaid Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Proviso touching the powers of the Lord Admiral That this Act or any thing or things therein contained shall not in any manner of wise extend to give unto the Lord Admiral of England for the time being or to any his Vice-Admirals Iudg or Iudges of the Admiralty his or their Deputy or Deputies or to any other the Officers or Ministers of the Admiralty or to any others having or claiming any Admiral Power Iurisdiction or Authority within this Realm and Wales or any other the Kings Dominions any other power right Iurisdiction Preheminence or Authority then he or they or any of them lawfully have hath or had or ought to have and enjoy before the making of this Act other then for such of the offences specified in the several Articles contained in this Act as hereafter shall be done upon the main Sea or in Ships or Vessels being and hovering in the main Stream of great Rivers only beneath the Bridges of the same Rivers nigh to the Sea within the Iurisdiction of the Admiralty and in none other places whatsoever and committed only by such persons as shall be in actual Service and pay in His Majesties Fléet or Ships of War CAP. X. For preventing the unlawfull Coursing Hunting or Killing of Deer For the better preventing of the unlawful Coursing Hunting Taking or Killing of Déer Vnlawfull hunting or killing of Deer by many Idle Loose and disorderly persons Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and by the advice and Consent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That if any person or persons shall from and after the first day of August next unlawfully course kill hunt or take away any Red or Fallow Déer in any Forrest Chase Purleiw Paddock Wood Park or other Ground where Déer are or have béen usually kept within the Realm of England or Dominion of Wales without the consent of the Owner or person chiefly intrusted with the custody thereof or shall be aiding or assisting therein and shall be convicted thereof by the confession of the party or by the Oath of one or more credible witnesses before one or more Iustices of the Peace who are hereby impowred to administer an Oath to that purpose such person being prosecuted for such offence within six moneths after such offence done that then every person so offending shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of Twenty pounds to be levied by way of Distress upon the Goods and Chattels of every such Offender by Warrant under the Iustices hand before whom such conviction shall be made The Penalty the one moyety of the said Twenty pounds to be given to the Informer and the other moyety to the Owner of the Déer And for want of sufficient Distress the Offender shall be committed to the House of Correction
and others Commissioners may treat with persons concerned for their Interests in houses obstructing such passage Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Mayor of the City of London the Recorder and Aldermen for the time being together with such other Commissioners as his Majesty shall appoint under the Great Seal of England or any five of them shall have full Power and Authority to receive all Subscriptions and payments of voluntary contributions of money or other endowments towards the Amendment and Enlargement of the Stréets and Places before-named or so much of them or any of them as the said Commissioners or any five or more of them shall judg fit and necessary And are hereby further impowred to treat and agree with the Owners and Occupiers of any such Houses as they shall judg fit to be removed rebuilt or pulled down or any part of them and upon payment of such sum or sums of money so agréed upon are hereby authorized to appoint Workmen to pull the said houses down or cause the said Owners or Occupiers to rebuild accordingly and this Act shall be sufficient to indempnify the said Commissioners and all persons authorized by them against the Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns of any the said Owners or Occupiers as if the same had béen sold by Déed Feoffment Bargain and Sale or other Assurance in the Law and done by Fine and Recovery or any other way whatsoever And if there shall be any persons Bodies Corporate or Collegiate that shall wilfully refuse to treat and agrée as aforesaid or through any disability by Non-age Coverture or a special Entail or other Impediment cannot That in such Cases the said Commissioners are hereby authorized by vertue of this Act to issue out Warrant or Warrants to the Sheriffs of London who are hereby required accordingly to impannel and return a Iury before the said Commissioners or any five of them which Iury upon their Oaths to be administred by the said Commissioners are to enquire and assess such damage and recompence as they shall judg fit to be awarded to the Owners and Occupiers or either of them of any such houses or any part thereof for their respective Estates and Interests in the same as by the said Commissioners shall be adjudged fit to be pulled down for the purposes aforesaid and such Verdict of the Iury and Iudgment of the said Commissioners thereupon and the legal payment or tender of the sum or sums of money so awarded and adjudged shall be binding to all intents and purposes against the said Parties their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns and others claiming any Title or Interest in the said Houses or in the ground whereupon they stand or thereunto belonging and shall be a full Authority for the said Commissioners or any five of them to cause the same to be executed and the said Houses accordingly to be removed and pulled down And whereas the Houses that shall remain standing on the other side the said Stréet or Stréets or behind the said houses that shall be so pulled down as aforesaid will receive much advantage in the value of their Rents by the liberty of Ayr and frée recourse for Trade and other conveniencies by such enlargement It is also Enacted by Authority aforesaid That in case of refusal or in capacity What may be done in case of refusal to compound with the Commissioners as aforesaid of the Owners or Occupiers of the said houses to agrée and compound with the Commissioners for the same thereupon a Iury shall and may be Impanelled in manner and form aforesaid to Iudg and Assess upon the Owners and Occupiers of such houses such competent sum or sums of money or Annual Rent in consideration of such Improvement and Melioration as in reason and good Conscience they shall judg and think fit which said sum and sums of money or Rent shall be paid to the Chamberlain of the City of London for the time being and such other Treasurer or Treasurers as shall be appointed by the said Commissioners or any five or more of them who are hereby enabled from time to time to receive and recover the same by Action at Law and whose Receipt shall be a good discharge to the said Owners and Tenants and who are hereby appointed to receive and pay and be accomptable for the same according to such directions as shall from time to time be given them by the said Commissioners and the moneys so raised or Rents so received shall be expended upon the Purchasing or Re-building houses on the other side the Stréet and upon Paving and amending of the Ways and Stréets aforesaid according to the purport of this Act. And the said Verdict of the Iury and Iudgment of the Commissioners in the cases aforesaid shall be sufficient and conclusive in Law to all intents and purposes against the said Owners and Occupiers their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns Every Commissioner to take an Oath for the faithful performance of this Act. Provided alwayes And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person shall be enabled to act as a Commissioner to the intents and purposes aforesaid untill he shall first have taken his Corporal Oath before the Lord Chancellor or Lord High Treasurer of England for the time being for the due and impartial execution of the Trusts by this Act committed to him Lord Mayor and Aldermen to be commissioners in London The Dean High steward Deputy-steward and two High Burgesses in Westm The continuance of this Act. Provided also That the Lord Mayor Recorder and Aldermen of the City of London for the time being shall be and are hereby authorized to be Ioynt-Commissioners and to exercise all the Powers of this Act to all the ends and purposes thereof which are to be ordered done or executed within the said City or the Liberties thereof And likewise That the Dean of Westminster the High Steward and his Deputy-Steward and the two High Burgesses of the said City of Westminster for the time being shall be and are hereby authorized to be Ioynt-Commissioners and to exercise all the Powers of this Act to all the ends and purposes thereof which are to be ordered done or executed within the said City of Westminster or the Liberties thereof Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding This Act to continue and be in force untill the end of the First Session of the next Parliament Anno XIV Caroli II. Regis CAP. III. For Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdome The sole and supream power and command of the Militia in the Kings Majesty his heirs and Successors 13 Car. 2. cap. 6. FOrasmuch as within all His Majesties Realms and Dominions the sole and Supream Power Government Command and Disposition of the Militia and of all Forces by Sea and Land and of all Forts and places of Strength is and by the Laws of England ever was the undoubted
and for the said respective Lieutenants and in their absence as aforesaid or otherwise by their directions to and for their Deputies or any two or more of them by warrant under their hands and seals to levy all such penalties as are appointed by this Act by distress and sale of the offenders Goods rendring the overplus to the Party distrained And it is hereby Ordained and Enacted And to defalk the charges out of their next Rent That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Tenant or Tenants to defalk out of such rent as shall be next due to his or their Landlord all such Money as the said Tenant or Tenants shall necessarily lay out or expend in providing such horse and Horse-man horses and Horse-men and Arms or Foot-souldier and Arms as are charged upon his or their Landlord or shall pay or be levied upon him or them by distress for any default in manner as aforesaid any condition reservation Covenant or Contract for the payment of his or their Rent to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And for so doing the said Tenant or Tenants shall be indemnified by Authority of this Act The Tenants indemnified for so doing unless the Land-lord or Land-lords shall make it appear within two moneths after such levying such penalties before the respective Lieutenants and in their absence as aforesaid or otherwise by their directions before their Deputies or any two or more of them that the default and penalty was occasioned by the wilful neglect of the said Tenant or Tenants Peers not to act as Lieutenants or Deputies before they take the Oath of Allegiance c. Provided also That no person being a Péer of this Realm shall be capable of acting or serving as Lieutenant or Deputy-Lieutenant by vertue of this Act unless he or they shall first before six of the Lords of his Majesties Privy-Council for the time being or such other Persons as shall be authorised by his Majesty to administer the same take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and also this Oath following I A.B. do declare and believe that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King And this oath And that I do abhor that Traiterous Position That Arms may be taken by his authority against His Person or against those that are Commissioned by him in pursuance of such Military Commissions So help me God Which Oaths they have hereby power to administer Persons under the degree of a Peer to take the Oath of Allegiance c. And that no Person being under the degrée of a Péer of this Realm shall be capable of acting as Lieutenant Deputy-Lieutenant Officer or Souldier by vertue of this Act unless he or they shall first take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and this Oath following I A. B. do declare and believe that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King And that I do abhor that Traiterous Position And this oath That Arms may be taken by his Authority against His Person or against those that are Commissioned by Him in pursuance of such Military Commissions So help me God Which Oaths any one Iustice of Peace of the respective Counties and Places aforesaid is enabled to administer to such respective Lieutenant as is not a Péer of this Realm and the said Lieutenant or any one Iustice of Peace of the respective Counties and Places aforesaid is enabled to administer to the respective Deputy-Lieutenants not being Péers and the said respective Lieutenants and in their absence as aforesaid or otherwise by their directions when they are not absent their Deputies or any two of them shall and are hereby Enabled to administer the said Oaths to the said Officers and Souldiers The Trained Bands to continue till the 25. March 1663. And no longer And to the end there may be some convenient time to put in execution the Powers of this Act and preparing an Establishment according to the same Be it hereby Enacted That the Trained Bands and Forces now actually raised and in being shall so continue in each respective City and County of England and Wales until the five and twentieth day of Mach One thousand six hundred sixty and thrée and no longer unless an Establishment according to this Act be no sooner had any thing in this present Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding The times appointed for training and mustering And it is hereby Declared and Enacted That the Ordinary times for Training Exercising and Mustering the Forces to be raised by vertue of this Act shall be these following that is to say the general Muster and Exercise of Regiments not above once a year the Training and Exercising of single Companies not above four times a year unless special Directions be given by his Majesty or his Privy-Council And that such single Companies and Troops shall not at any one time be continued in Exercise above the space of two days and that at a General Muster and Exercise of Regiments What Arms and Provision every Souldier shall bring no Officer or Souldier shall be constrained to stay for above four days together from their respective habitations And that at every such Muster and Exercise every Musquetier shall bring with him half a pound of Powder at the charge of such person or persons as provide the said Foot-souldier and Arms and every Horse-man is to bring with him a quarter of a pound of Powder at the charge of such person or persons as provide the said horse Horse-man and Arms and the Arms Offensive and Defensive with the Furniture for Horse are to be as followeth The Defensive Arms a Back Breast and Pott and the Breast and Pott to be Pistol-proof The Offensive Arms a Sword a Case of Pistols the Barrels whereof are not to be under 14 Inches in length The furniture for the Horse to be a great Saddle or Padd with Burrs and Trapps to affix the Houlsters unto a Bitt and Bridle with a Pectorel and Crupper For the Foot a Musquetier is to have a Musquet the Barrel whereof is not to be under thrée foot in length And the Gage of the Bore to be for 12 Bullets to the pound a Coller of Bandeliers with a Sword Provided that all Muster-Masters shall for the present admit and allow of any Musquets already made which will bear a Bullet of 14 to the pound But no Musquets which henceforth shall be made are to be allowed of but such as are of the Gage for 12 Bullets to the pound A Pike-man is to be armed with a Pike made of Ash not under 16 foot in length the head and foot included with a Back Breast Head-piece and Sword Provided that all Muster-Masters shall for the present admit and allow of any Pikes already made that are not under 15 foot in length But no Pikes which shall be hereafter made are to be allowed of
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
Worship belonging to his said Benefice or Promotion upon some Lords Day before the Feast of Saint Bartholomew which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two openly publiquely and solemnly Read the Morning and Evening Prayer appointed to be Read by and according to the said Book of Common Prayer at the times thereby appointed and after such reading thereof shall openly and publikely before the Congregation there assembled declare his unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things in the said Book contained and prescribed In these words and no other I A. B. Do here declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and every thing contained and prescribed in and by the Book intituled 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 The Penalty for refusing And that all and every such person who shall without some lawful impediment to be allowed and approved of by the Ordinary of the place neglect or refuse to do the same within the time aforesaid or in case of such Impediment within one Moneth after such Impediment removed shall ipso facto be deprived of all his Spiritual Promotions And that from thenceforth it shall be lawful to and for all Patrons and Donors of all and singular the said Spiritual Promotions or of any of them according to their respective Rights and Titles to present or collate to the same as though the person or persons so offending or neglecting were dead Every person hereafter to be promoted to any Ecclestiastical Benefice shall read the Common Prayer and declare his assent thereto And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person who shall hereafter be presented or collated or put into any Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion within this Realm of England and places aforesaid shall in the Church Chappel or place of publick worship belonging to his said Benefice or Promotion within two moneths next after that he shall be in the actual possession of the said Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion upon some Lords Day openly publickly and solemnly Read the Morning and Evening Prayers appointed to be Read by and according to the said Book of Common Prayer at the times thereby appointed and after such reading thereof shall openly and publickly before the Congregation there assembled declare his unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things therein contained and prescribed according to the form before appointed The penalty for not so doing the same And that all and every such person who shall without some lawful Impediment to be allowed and approved by the Ordinary of the place neglect or refuse to do the same within the time aforesaid or in case of such Impediment within one moneth after such Impediment removed shall ipso facto be deprived of all his said Ecclesiastical Benefices and Promotions And that from thenceforth it shall and may be lawful to and for all Patrons and Donors of all and singular the said Ecclesiastical Benefices and Promotions or any of them according to their respective Rights and Titles to present or collate to the same as though the person or persons so offending or neglecting were dead Incumbents of Livings keeping Curates shall read the same once every moneth And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in all places where the proper Incumbent of any Parsonage or Vicarage or Benefice with Cure doth reside on his Living and kéep a Curate the Incumbent himself in person not having some lawful Impediment to be allowed by the Ordinary of the place shall once at the least in every moneth openly and publickly read the Common Prayers and Service in and by the said Book prescribed and if there be occasion Administer each of the Sacraments and other Rites of the Church in the Parish Church or Chappel of or belonging to the same Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice in such order manner and form The penalty and manner of conviction for not doing it as in and by the said Book is appointed upon pain to forfeit the sum of Five pounds to the use of the poor of the Parish for every offence upon conviction by confession or proof of two credible Witnesses upon Oath before two Iustices of the Peace of the County City or Town Corporate where the offence shall be committed which Oath the said Iustices are hereby impowred to Administer and in default of payment within ten dayes to be levied by distress and sale of the Goods and Chattels of the Offender by the Warrant of the said Iustices by the Church-wardens or Overséers of the poor of the said Parish rendring the surplusage to the party Deans Canons Prebendaries c. shall subscribe the Declaration 15 Car. 2. cap. 6. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Dean Canon and Prebendary of every Cathedral or Collegiate Church and all Masters and other Heads Fellows Chaplains and Tutors of or in any Colledge Hall House of Learning or Hospital and every publick Professor and Reader in either of the Vniversities and in every Colledge elsewhere and every Parson Vicar Curate Lecturer and every other person in holy Orders and every School-master kéeping any publick or private School and every person Instructing or Teaching any Youth in any House or private Family as a Tutor or School-master who upon the First day of May which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty two or at any time thereafter shall be Incumbent or have possession of any Deanry Canonry Prebend Mastership Headship Fellowship Professors place or Readers place Parsonage Vicarage or any other Ecclesiastical Dignity or Promotion or of any Curates place Lecture or School or shall instruct or teach any Youth as Tutor or School-master shall before the Feast-day of St. Bartholomew which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty two or at or before his or their respective admission to be Incumbent or have possession aforesaid subscribe the Declaration or Acknowledgment following Scilicet The Decla ∣ ration 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
Westminster Winchester or Eaton or any of them other then what is prescribed and appointed to be used in and by the said Book And that the present Governour or Head of every Colledge and Hall in the said Vniversities and of the said Colledges of Westminster Winchester and Eaton within one month after the Feast of St. Bartholomew which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two And every Governour or Head of any the said Colledges or Halls hereafter to be elected or appointed within one month next after his Election or Collation and Admission into the same Government or Headship shall openly and publickly in the Church Chappel or other publick place of the same Colledg of Hall and in the presence of the Fellows and Scholars of the same Subscription to the 39 Articles mentioned in the Stat. 13 El. cap. 12. or the greater part of them then Resident Subscribe unto the Nine and thirty Articles of Religion mentioned in the Statute made in the Thirtéenth year of the Reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth And unto the said Book and declare his unfeigned assent and consent unto and approbation of the said Articles and of the same Book and to the use of all the Prayers Rites and Ceremonies Forms and Orders in the said Book prescribed and contained according to the form aforesaid And that all such Governours or Heads of the said Colledges and Halls or any of them as are or shall be in Holy Orders shall once at least in every Quarter of the year not having a lawful Impediment openly and publickly Read the morning Prayer and Service in and by the said Book appointed to be Read in the Church Chappel or other publick place of the same Colledge or Hall upon pain to lose and be suspended of and from all the Benefits and Profits belonging to the same Government or Headship by the space of Six months by the Visitor or Visitors of the same Colledge or Hall And if any Governour or Head of any Colledge or Hall Suspended for not Subscribing unto the said Articles and Book or for not Reading of the Morning Prayer and Service as aforesaid shall not at or before the end of Six months next after such suspension Subscribe unto the said Articles and Book and declare his consent thereunto as aforesaid or Read the Morning Prayer and Service as aforesaid then such Government or Headship shall be ipso facto void Who may use the Service in Latin Provided alwayes That it shall and may be lawful to use the Morning and Evening Prayer and all other Prayers and Service prescribed in and by the said Book in the Chappels or other publick places of the respective Colledges and Halls in both the Vniversities in the Colledges of Westminster Winchester and Eaton and in the Convocations of the Clergies of either Province in Latine any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Lecturers And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person shall be or be received as a Lecturer or permitted suffered or allowed to preach as a Lecturer or to Preach or Read any Sermon or Lecture in any Church Chappel or other place of Publick Worship within this Realm of England or the Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed unless he be first approved and thereunto Licensed by the Archbishop of the Province or Bishop of the Diocess or in case the Sée be void by the Guardian of the Spiritualties under his Seal and shall in the presence of the same Archbishop or Bishop or Guardian Read the Nine and thirty Articles of Religion mentioned in the Statute of the Thirtéenth year of the late Quéen Elizabeth with declaration of his unfeigned assent to the same And that every person 13 El. cap. 12. and persons who now is or hereafter shall be Licensed Assigned Appointed or Received as a Lecturer to Preach upon any day of the week in any Church Chappel or place of Publick Worship within this Realm of England or places aforesaid the first time he Preacheth before his Sermon shall openly publickly and solemnly Read the Common Prayers and Service in and by the said Book appointed to be read for that time of the day and then and there publickly and openly declare his assent unto and approbation of the said Book and to the use of all the Prayers Rites and Ceremonies Forms and Orders therein contained and prescribed according to the form before appointed in this Act And also shall upon the first Lecture-day of every month afterwards so long as he continues Lecturer or Preacher there at the place appointed for his said Lecture or Sermon before his said Lecture or Sermon openly publickly and solemnly Read the Common Prayers and Service in and by the said Book appointed to be read for that time of the day at which the said Lecture or Sermon is to be preached and after such Reading thereof shall openly and publickly before the Congregation there assembled declare his unfeigned assent and consent unto and approbation of the said Book and to the use of all the Prayers Rites and Ceremonies Forms and Orders therein contained and prescribed according to the form aforesaid And that all and every such person and persons who shall neglect or refuse to do the same shall from thenceforth be disabled to preach the said or any other Lecture or Sermon in the said or any other Church Chappel or place of publick Worship until such time as he and they shall openly publickly and solemnly Read the Common Prayers and Service appointed by the said Book and Conform in all points to the things therein appointed and prescribed according to the purport true intent and meaning of this Act. Provided alwayes That if the said Sermon Lectures in Cathedral or Collegiate Churches or Lecture be to be Preached or Read in any Cathedral or Collegiate Church or Chappel it shall be sufficient for the said Lecturer openly at the time aforesaid to declare his assent and consent to all things contained in the said Book according to the form aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid The Penalty upon persons disabled that Preach 15 Car. 2. cap. 6. in fine That if any person who is by this Act disabled to preach any Lecture or Sermon shall during the time that he shall continue and remain so disabled preach any Sermon or Lecture That then for every such offence the person and persons so offending shall suffer Thrée months Imprisonment in the Common Goal without bail or mainprise And that any two Iustices of the Peace of any County of this Kingdom and places aforesaid and the Mayor or other chief Magistrate of any City or Town Corporate within the same upon Certificate from the Ordinary of the place made to him or them of the offence committed shall and are hereby required to commit the person or persons so offending to the
Goal of the same County City or Town Corporate accordingly Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Common Prayer to be read before every Lecture and the Lecturer to be present That at all and every time and times when any Sermon or Lecture is to be Preached the Common Prayers and Service in and by the said Book appointed to be Read for that time of the day shall be openly publickly and solemnly Read by some Priest or Deacon in the Church Chappel or place of Publick Worship where the said Sermon or Lecture is to be Preached before such Sermon or Lecture be preached And that the Lecturer then to Preach shall be present at the Reading thereof Provided nevertheless That this Act shall not extend to the Vniversity Churches Proviso for Sermons and Lectures in the Vniversities in the Vniversities of this Realm or either of them when or at such times as any Sermon or Lecture is Preached or Read in the said Churches or any of them for or as the publick Vniversity Sermon or Lecture but that the same Sermons and Lectures may be preached or read in such sort and manner as the same have béen heretofore preached or read this Act or any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the several good Laws The Lawes and Statutes formerly made for Vniformity of Common Prayer confirmed and to be executed for punishing offendors against this Law and Statutes of this Realm which have béen formerly made and are now in force for the Vniformity of Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments within this Realm of England and places aforesaid shall stand in full force and strength to all intents and purposes whatsoever for the establishing and confirming of the said Book Intituled 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 herein before mentioned to be joyned and annexed to this Act and shall be applied practised and put in ure for the punishing of all offences contrary to the said Lawes with relation to the Book aforesaid and no other Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Letanies and Collects relating to the King Queen c. That in all those Prayers Letanies and Collects which do any way relate to the King Quéen or Royal Progeny the Names be altered and changed from time to time and fitted to the present occasion according to the direction of lawful Authority True printed Copies of the Book of Common Prayer to be provâ—ded in all Parishes and Churches Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That a true Printed Copy of the said 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 shall at the costs and charges of the Parishioners of every Parish-Church and Chappelry Cathedral Church Colledg and Hall be attained and gotten before the Feast-day of St. Bartholomew in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two upon pain of forfeiture of thrée pounds by the moneth for so long time as they shall then after be unprovided thereof by every Parish or Chappelry Cathedral Church Colledge and Hall making default therein Proviso for the Bishops of Hereford St. Davies Asaph Bangor Landaff Provided alwayes and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Bishops of Hereford St. Davies Asaph Bangoâ— and Landaff and their Successors shall take such order among themselves for the souls health of the Flocks committed to their Charge within Wales That the Book hereunto annexed be truly and exactly Translated into the Brittish or Welsh Tongue and that the same so Translated and being by them or any thrée of them at the least viewed perused and allowed be Imprinted to such number at least so that one of the said Books so Translated and Imprinted may be had for every Cathedral Collegiate and Parish Church and Chappel of Ease in the said respective Diocesses and places in Wales where the Welsh is commonly spoken or used before the First day of May One thousand six hundred sixty five And that from and after the Imprinting and publishing of the said Book so Translated the whole Divine Service shall be used and said by the Ministers and Curates throughout all Wales within the said Diocesses where the Welsh Tongue is commonly used in the Brittish or Welsh Tongue in such manner and form as is prescribed according to the Book hereunto annexed to be used in the English Tongue differing nothing in any order or form from the said English Book for which Book so Translated and Imprinted the Church-Wardens of every the said Parishes shall pay out of the Parish-money in their hands for the use of the respective Churches and be allowed the same on their Accompt And that the said Bishops and their Successors or any thrée of them at the least shall set and appoint the price for which the said Book shall be sold And one other Book of Common Prayer in the English Tongue shall be bought and had in every Church throughout Wales in which the Book of Common Prayer in Welsh is to be had by force of this Act before the First day of May One thousand six hundred sixty and four and the same Book to remain in such convenient places within the said Churches that such as understand them may resort at all convenient times to read and peruse the same and also such as do not understand the said Language may be conferring both Tongues together the sooner attain to the knowledg of the English Tongue Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding and until Printed Copies of the said Book so to be Translated may be had and provided The Form of Common Prayer established by Parliament before the making of this Act shall be used as formerly in such parts of Wales where the English Tongue is not commonly understood And to the end that the true and perfect Copies of this Act and the said Book hereunto annexed may be safely kept and perpetually preserved and for the avoiding of all disputes for the time to come True and perfect Copies of this Act and the Book of Common Prayer by whom and how to be had and kept Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective Deans and Chapters of Every Cathedral or
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
to be upheld repaired and maintained after it be so erected at the charge of the Lord of the Mannor wherein the said Bridge now standeth proportionable to the charge he is now at for maintaining the Horse-Bridge and the residue of the charge to be born by the Parishioners of the said Parish For which purpose the said Iustices of the Peace at their said publick Sessions are hereby enabled to make respective rates accordingly so as the sum to be assessed for the erecting the said Bridge excéed not the sum of One hundred pounds and the said Iustices are to take care that the said Bridge be finished by or before the First day of August in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and thrée And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Bridges to have sufficient Walls or Posts and Rails That the said Surveyors do take care that all and every Bridge or Bridges within their respective limits shall before the Feast of St. Michael One thousand six hundred sixty and two have sufficient walls or posts and rails of each side thereof four foot high at the least and that the said walls or posts and pails be from time to time kept in sufficient repair Provided always And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Proviso for chusing Surveyors for the year 1662. EXP. That the Surveyors of the High-ways named for the year One thousand six hundred sixty and two shall within twenty days after the publication of this Act procéed to do and execute all things in this Act for the said year One thousand six hundred sixty two And where there are no Surveyors of the High-ways chosen for the said year One thousand six hundred sixty two they shall be chosen within twenty days after publication of this Act by such persons as by this Act is appointed and being so chosen they shall hereafter do and execute all things according to the tenor of this Act. Provided also And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where any Lands are let Tenants to bear the charges of Assessments for High-ways the Tenant and Occupier thereof shall pay the Assessment and bear all charges for the mending of the High-ways and not the Landlord except where there is or shall be any agréement betwéen the said Landlord and the Tenant to the contrary Provided also and be it further Enacted The continuance of this Act. That the power of raising and levying money by vertue of this Act shall continue in force for thrée years only from the Five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty and two and no longer but that all other Powers and Clauses in this Act shall continue and stand in force until the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer CAP. VII Exportation of Leather and Raw Hides out of the Realm of England restrained WHereas notwithstanding the many good Laws before this time made and still in force 5 E. 6. cap. 15. 6 El. cap. 22. 8 El. cap. 14. 18 El. cap. 9. prohibiting the Exportation of Leather out of this Realm and the penalty by those Acts imposed by the cunning and subtilty of some persons and the neglect of others who ought to take care thereof there are such quantities of Leather daily exported to forreign parts that the price of Leather is grown to those excessive Rates that many Artificers working Leather cannot furnish themselves with sufficient store thereof for the carrying on of their Trades and the poor sort of people are not able to buy those things made of Leather which of necessity they must make use of For redress of which griefs 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 That from and after the First day of May now next ensuing no person or persons whatsoever shall carry or transport or cause to be carried or transported out of England into Scotland Ireland or into any of the Isles belonging to this Kingdom What Skins or Hides Tanned may not be transported or to any parts beyond the Seas the Skins or Hides Tanned or Vntanned of any Ox Stéer Bull Cow or Calf otherwise or in any other manner then is by this present Act directed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That none of the Skins or Hides aforesaid which shall happen to be taken from any of the beasts aforesaid within any Island whatsoever belonging to the Kingdom of England except Ireland shall be transported out of that Island to any other place but into the Kingdom of England upon pain of forfeiture for every such offence double the value of Skins or Hides The Penalty so to be transported out of the said Island or any of them to any other place then into the Kingdom of England the same forfeiture to be sued for and disposed as hereafter in this Act is directed And for the better preventing of such mischiefs as are intended to be remedied by this Act Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid What Leather must be bought onely in open Fairs or Markets for selling Leather The Penalty That all Red Tanned Leather made of the Hides or Skins of any of the Beasts aforesaid of what kind or nature soevâ—â— shall be bought onely in the open and common Fair or Market used for the putting of Leather to sale and not in any House Tanners Yard Shop or other place whatsoever on pain that such person or persons that shall not accordingly do the same shall for every such offence forfeit the same Leather or the value thereof and the contract for the sale thereof shall be void and all such Leather shall be Searched and Sealed by the Searchers and Sealers thereunto appointed before the same be put to Sale and upon such sale shall be Registred and a true Entry thereof made both by the Buyer and Seller who are both to be present at such Registring thereof and both their names and places of abode entred into the Book of the said Register on pain that every such Buyer or Seller that shall not accordingly do the same shall for every such offence forfeit the same Leather or the value thereof and the forfeiture shall be recovered and imployed in such manner as hereafter in this Act is directed Penalty for Transportation of any Leather or Raw-Hides And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person or persons shall be found guilty of the Transportation of any Leather or Raw Hides of any of the Beasts aforesaid excepting such Calve-skins and Shéep-skins dressed without the Wooll as by Law may be Transported contrary to the provision of this Act he shall from thenceforth be disabled to Trade or Deal in Leather for the future and shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of Five hundred pounds to be
seisure as aforesaid he or they shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of Twenty pounds for the uses and to be recovered as aforesaid And if any of the said Artificers and Dealers in cutting of Leather do refuse to be present with the said Searchers whensoever the same shall be desired by the said Master and Wardens of the Company of the Curriers or such persons thereto assigned by them as aforesaid then for every such default the persons so refusing shall forfeit the sum of Ten pounds for the uses and to be recovered as aforesaid CAP. VIII An Act for Distribution of Threescore thousand pounds amongst the truly Loyal and Indigent Commission-Officers and for Assessing of Offices and Distributing Moneys thereby raised for their further Supply EXP. CAP. IX For Relief of Poor and Maimed Officers and Souldiers who have faithfully served His Majesty and His Royal Father in the late Wars FOrasmuch as divers of His Majesties Loyal and Faithful Subjects who out of the sense of their Duty and Allegiance to his Majesties Royal Father of ever Blessed and Glorious Memory and to His Majestie that now is have during the late Wars wherein they have béen Imployed both by Sea and Land as Officers Souldiers and Mariners in the said Service exposed themselves to the utmost hazard of their Lives loss of their Limbs and utter ruine of their Fortunes and for whose Subsistence and Relief there is not yet any competent Provision made Nor for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of such as have died or béen slain in the said Service And to the end that such as have béen eminent for their Loyalty and Sufferings The inducement and ground of this Act. in so good and just a Cause as the Defence of His Majesties Royal Person and Government may not passe without some Mark of Favour or Reward to be set upon them And that others may thereby receive all due Encouragement for the time to come to continue Loyal and Faithful to His Majesties Service according to their bounden Duty Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same That from the First day of this present Parliament every Parish within this Realm of England and Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed shall be charged wéekly to the payment of such sum of Money as formerly they have béen rated by vertue of a Statute made in the Forty third year of Quéen Elizabeth Chapter the third 43 El. cap. 3. concerning the Relief of Mariners and Souldiers for and to such end and purpose How Parishes may be charged assessed and levied And likewise such further sum of Money over and besides the same as by His Majesties Iustices of the Peace in their next Quarter-Sessions to be held after the Feast of Easter next ensuing or the major part of them or at any other Quarter-Sessions to be hereafter by them held shall be adjudged méet to be Assessed upon every Parish or Chappelry that hath distinct Parochial Officers so as the said additional sum excéed not the sum of Two shillings and six pence nor be under the sum of Thrée pence each wéek for each such Parish or Chappelry the same to be levied in manner and form by such persons and under such penalties as by the said Statute of Quéen Elizabeth is Enacted and Declared And to be paid to the Treasurers for the Maimed Souldiers Treasurer for Maimed Souldiers appointed by the Iustices of the County or Liberty by vertue of this Act and the Statute of Quéen Elizabeth aforesaid Which said Treasurers shall be ordered to issue out and account for the same in such manner and under such penalties as by the said Statute is further Enacted and Declared And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid â—fficers â—â—â—ldiers or â—â—â—triners Maimed or indigent how to be relieved That every Officer Souldier or Mariner maimed indigent aged or disabled in body for work in the Service of His said late Majesty or His Majesty that now is during the late Wars or which are so Impoverished by their Sufferings under any of the late Vsurped Powers as that they are destitute of any competent Subsistence or Livelihood and have continued Faithful to his Trust and not deserted the same by taking up Arms against His said late Majesty or His Majesty that now is or otherwise shall forthwith repair to the place where he was last setled before he took up Arms with a Certificate of his Service and hurts received under the hand of his Captain or other Commissionated Officer And shall also repair unto the two next Iustices of the Peace in the County where such his Setling was And the said two Iustices upon the Examination of the Truth of such Certificate which the said two Iustices are hereby impowred to take upon Oath of the party and of such Witnesses as he shall produce shall by Warrant unto the Treasurer assign him Relief until the next Quarter-Sessions to be holden for that County or Liberty at which time a yearly Pension shall be by the said Iustices or the major part of them granted in Manner and Form and with Power of Revocation or Alteration as by the said Statute is further declared and directed And in case that the Captain or Officer appointed to make such Certificate be dead the said two Iustices shall have Power upon Request made to them in behalf of the party maimed or aged indigent or disabled as aforesaid by Persons of Credit to give such Relief as in case of Examination as aforesaid Widowes and Orphans of Souldiers And as touching the Widows and Orphans of such as have died or suffered death in the said Service It is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That over and besides such Relief as they shall gain by their Work and Labour and shall be allowed by the Charity and Benevolence of the Parish Town or Hamlet where they are setled who are hereby required to have them in special regard the Treasurers for the Maimed Souldiers for such County shall allow such further Relief from time to time as shall be adjudged méet by the two next Iustices of the Peace of such County And the said Relief shall be paid out of the Surplusage of such Stock of Maintenance as shall remain in the hands of the said Treasurers after such Pensions and payment of them made and of which Surplusage and Allowance made unto such Widows and Orphans the said Treasurers shall give account from time to time and the same distribute in such manner as by the Iustices shall be directed and according to the Statute aforesaid Treasurers High-Constables c. to be called to Accompt for Moneys received And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Iustices of Peace in every County or Liberty or any
and may fréely enter and go on board all and every such Ship or Vessel of War and bring from thence on shoar into His Majesties Store-house belonging to the Port where such Ship shall be all Goods and Merchandizes prohibited or uncustomed which shall be found aboard any such Ship as aforesaid And be it hereby also Enacted The power of Officers for managing the Custom to enter and search Ships and Vessels That the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed for managing the Customs and Officers of His Majesties Customs and their Deputies are hereby Authorized and enabled to go and enter aboard any Ship or Vessel as well Ships of War as Merchant Ships and from thence to bring on shore all Goods prohibited or uncustomed except Iewels if they be Outwards bound and if they be Ships or Vessels Inwards bound from thence to bring on shore into His Majesties Store-house as aforesaid all small Parcels of Fine Goods or other Goods which shall be found in Cabbins Chests Trunks or other small Package or in any private or secret place in or out of the Hold of the Ship or Vessel which may occasion a just suspition that they were intended to be fraudulently conveyed away And all other sorts of Goods whatsoever for which the Duties of Tunnage Poundage were not paid or Compounded for with in Twenty days after the first Entry of the Ship to be put remain in the Store-house aforesaid until His Majesties Duties thereupon be justly satisfied unless the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs and Officers of the Customs shall sée just cause to allow a longer time and that the said person or persons which are or shall be so appointed to manage the Customs and the Officers of the Customs and their Deputies may fréely stay and remain aboard until all the Goods are delivered and discharged out of the said Ships or Vessels And if any Master Purser or Boat-swain or other taking charge in any Ship or Vessel or any other person whatsoever shall suffer any Truss Bale Pack Fardel Cask or other Package to be opened aboard the said Ship or Vessel and the Goods therein to be imbezelled carried away or put into any other Form or Package after the Ship comes into the Port of her discharge in every such case the said Master Purser Boat-swain or others shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case Goods concealed in any Ship after clearing after the clearing of any Ship or Vessel by the person or persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs or any their Deputies and discharging the Watchmen or Tidesmen from attendance thereupon there shall be found on board such Ship or Vessel any Goods Wares or Merchandizes which have béen concealed from the knowledge of the said person or persons which are or shall be so appointed to manage the Customs and for which the Custom Subsidie and other Duties due upon the Importation thereof have not béen paid then the Master Purser The Penalty or other person taking charge of such Ship or Vessel shal forfeit the sum of One hundred pounds And it shall be lawful to or for any person or persons authorized by Writ of Assistance under the Seal of His Majesties Court of Exchequer to take a Constable Headborough or other Publick Officer inhabiting near unto the place and in the day time to enter and go into any House Shop Cellar Ware-house or Room or other place and in case of resistance to break open Doors Chests Trunks and other Package there to seize and from thence to bring any kind of Goods or Merchandize whatsoever prohibited and uncustomed and to put and secure the same in His Majesties Store-house in the Port next to the place where such seizure shall be made And for the better encrease of Shipping and Navigation Be it further Enacted An accompt to be given of all forreign Ships in all Ports of England That the Collectors and other Officers of His Majesties Customs in all the Ports of England shall forthwith give an account unto the Collectors and Surveyor in the Port of London appointed by His Majesty for all Duties and Matters relating to a late Act Intituled An Act for encreasing and encouraging of Shipping and Navigation of all Forreign built Ships in their Ports 12 Car. 2. cap. 18. owned and belonging to the people of England of what built and burthen they are for which Certificates have béen made according to the said Act and that the said Collector and Surveyor shall make a true and perfect list of all such Ships attested under their hands and transmit the same into his Majesties Court of Exchequer on or before the moneth of December in the year 1662. there to remain upon record And that no Forreign built Ship that is to say not built in any of his Majesties Dominions of Asia Africa or America Forreign built Ships not to have the priviledg of Ships belonging to England or Ireland or other than such as shall bona fide be bought before the First of October 1662. next ensuing and expresly named in the said List shall enjoy the priviledge of a Ship belonging to England or Ireland although owned or manned by English except such Ships only as shall be taken at Sea by Letters of Mart or Reprizal and condemnation made in the Court of Admiralty as lawful Prize but all such Ships shall be déemed as Aliens Ships and be liable unto all Duties that Aliens Ships are liable unto by vertue of the said Act for encrease of Shipping and Navigation And whereas it is required by the said Act that in sundry cases the Master and thrée fourths of the Mariners are to be English it is to be understood that any of his Majesties Subjects of England Ireland and his Plantations are to be accounted English and no others and that the number of Mariners be accounted according to what they shall have béen during the whole Voyage And whereas of late some of the persons appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs and the Officers of the Customs and their Deputies have béen hindred affronted abused beaten and wounded to the hazard of their lives in the due execution of their several trusts services in their respective places by armed companies and multitudes of men and goods prohibited and uncustomed have by force violence as well by Land as by Water béen forcibly carried and conveyed away Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where any Officer or Officers shall be by any person or persons armed with Club The punishment for beating or abusing Officers of the Customs or any manner of Weapon forcibly hindred affronted abused beaten or wounded as aforesaid either on board any Ship or Vessel or upon the Land or Water in the due
execution of their Office all and every person and persons so resisting affronting abusing beating or wounding the said Officer or Officers or their Deputies or such as shall Act in their aid or assistance shall by the next Iustice of Peace or other Magistrate be committed to Prison there to remain till the next Quarter-Sessions And the Iustices of the Peace of the said Quarter-Sessions shall and are hereby impowered to punish the Offender by Fine not excéeding One hundred pounds and the Offender is to remain in Prison till he be discharged by Order of the Exchequer both of the Fine and of the Imprisonment or discover the person that set him on work to the end he may be legally procéeded against No goods to be Water-born or landed but in the presence of some Officer of the Customs And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Wharfinger or Kéeper of any Wharf Crane Key or their servants or any of them shall take up or land or knowingly suffer to be taken up or landed or shall Ship off or suffer to be Water-born at or from any of their said Wharfs Cranes or Keys any Goods Wares or Merchandize prohibited or whereof any Custom Subsidy or other Duties are due and payable unto the Kings Majesty without the presence of some of the Officers of His Majesties Customs thereunto appointed or at hours and times not appointed by Law except in the Port of Hull 1 Eliz cap. 11. as in the Statute of the First year of Quéen Elizabeth Chapter the eleventh is excepted not otherwise or Goods passing by Certificates Waste-Cockquet The Penalty or otherwise without the presence or notice given to one or more of His Majesties Officers That in every such case all and every such Wharfinger and Kéeper of such Wharfe Crane or Key shall forfeit and pay the sum of One hundred pounds And if any Goods or Merchandize shall be Laden or taken in from the Shore into any Bark Hoy Lighter Barge Wherry or Boat to be carried aboard any Ship or Vessel Outwards bound for the parts beyond the Seas or Laden or taken in from or out of any Ship or Vessel coming in and arriving from foreign parts without a Warrant and presence of one or more Officers of the Customs such Bark Hoy Lighter Barge Boat or Wherry shall be forfeited and lost and the Master Purser Boatswain or other Mariner of any Ship Inward bound knowing and consenting thereunto shall forfeit the value of the Goods so unshipped And further That in case any Car-man Porter Water-man or other person or persons whatsoever shall assist in the taking up landing shipping off or carrying away any such Goods Wares or Merchandizes that then such Carman Porter Water-man or other person or persons so offending being apprehended by Warrant of any Iustice of the Peace for that County City or Borough which the said Iustices every of them are hereby Authorized to issue and to examine Witnesses upon Oath concerning such fact and the same being proved by the Oath of Two Witnesses the said Offenders for such first Offence shall and may by such Iustice of the Peace be committed to the next Gaol there to remain till he and they find sufficient Surety to be of the good behaviour for so long time until he they shall be thereof discharged by the Lord Treasurer Chancellor Vnder-Treasurer or Barons of the Exchequer And in case he or they so convicted shall afterwards at any time offend in the like kind then he and they shall and may by any Iustice of the Peace as aforesaid be committed to the next Gaol there to remain for the space of Two Moneths without Bail or Mainprize or until he shall pay unto the Sheriff of that County the sum of Five pounds for the use of His Majesty or until he shall by the Lord Treasurer Chancellor or Vnder-Treasurer or Court of Exchequer be thence discharged Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Goods Wares or Merchandizes shall be shipped or put on Board to be carried forth to the open Sea from any one Port Goods carryed from one Port to another in England or Wales Créek or Member in the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick to be landed at any other place of this Realm without a Sufferance or Warrant first had and obtained from the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed for managing the Customs and Officers of his Majesties Customs all such Wares and Merchandizes shall be forfeited and lost and that the Master of every Ship or Vessel that shall lade or take in any such Goods Wares or Merchandizes in any Port Member or Créek within this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town and Port of Berwick to be landed and discharged in some other Port Member or Créek of the said Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town and Port of Berwick shall before the Ship or Vessel be removed or carried out of the Port where he shall take in his lading take out a Cocquet or Cocquets and become bound to the Kings Majesty with good Security in the value of the Goods Wares and Merchandizes aforesaid for Delivery and Discharge thereof in the Port or place for which the same shall be entred as aforesaid or in some other Port or place within the said Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick and the dangers and accidents of the Seas excepted to return a Certificate within Six moneths after the date of such Cocquet and Cocquets under the Hands and Seals of the Kings Majesties Officers Signed also by some of the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs or their Deputy or Deputies in every respective Ports Members or Créeks where the same shall be landed and discharged to His Majesties Officers of the Customs to whom such security hath béen given as aforesaid that such Goods Wares and Merchandizes were there landed and discharged accordingly Officers of any Port making false certificate upon the penalty of the forfeiture of the Bond and Security aforesaid And be it hereby further Enacted That if any Officer of any Port Member or Créek shall grant or make any false Certificate of any Goods or Merchandizes which should have béen landed out of any Ship or Vessel That such Officer shall lose his Imployment and moreover forfeit the sum of Fifty pounds The Penalty and suffer one years Imprisonment without bail or mainprize and be incapable of serving his Majesty in any place of Trust concerning his Customs and be further liable to such Corporal punishment as the Court of Exchequer shall think fit Counterfeiting Cocquets Certificates c. The penalty And if any person whatsoever shall Counterfeit Rase or Falsifie any Cocquet Certificate or Return Transire Let-pass or any other Custom-house Warrant he shall forfeit
One hundred pounds and the Cocquet Certificate or Return shall be invalid and of none effect and if any Goods Wares or Merchandizes brought or coming into any Port Haven or Créek within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick from any other Port Haven or Créek within the Kingdom of England or Dominions aforesaid by Port Cocquet Transire Let-pass or Certificate in Ships or Vessels shall be landed or put on shore before such Cocquet Transire Let-pass or Certificate shall be delivered to such Person or Persons which are or shall be appointed by his Majesty for manageing his Customs the Customer or Collector and Comptroller of the Port or Place of their Arrival or to their Deputy or Deputies and a Warrant or Sufferance made and given from such person or persons Customer or Collector and Comptroller or their Deputy and Deputies aforesaid for the landing and discharging thereof And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Goods Wares Goods secretly conveyed beyond Sea uncustomed and undiscovered by the officers or Merchandizes for which the Duties of Subsidy or Custom are due and payable to the Kings Maiesty shall be secretly conveyed on Board any Ship or Vessel before the Custom and Subsidy thereof be duly answered and paid and shall escape the discovery thereof by the Officers of the Customs or others and be carried into the parts beyond the Seas in such case the Owners or Proprietors of such Goods Wares or Merchandizes or other person or persons who shall have so shipped or caused the same to be shipped and transported shall forfeit the double value of the Goods The penalty computed according to the Book of Rates Except for Coal which so secretly Exported as aforesaid shall pay double the Custom and Duty to be Collected and Levied in such manner as by the Act of Tunnage and Poundage is directed and appointed Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid For preventing frauds in louring strangers goods That for preventing of frauds in colouring of strangers Goods and otherwise every Merchant or other passing any Goods Wares or Merchandizes Inwards or Outwards shall by himself or his known servant Factor or Agent subscribe one of his Bills of every Entry with the mark number and contents of every parcel of such Goods as are rated to pay by the piece or measure and weight of the whole parcel of such Goods as are rated to pay by the weight without which the Officers of the Customs shall not suffer any Entry to pass And that no children of aliens under the age of Twenty one years be permitted to be Traders or any Goods or Merchandizes to be entred in their names Be it also hereby Enacted That upon any Actions There shall be no party Iury in actions or suits concerning customs Suits and Informations that shall be brought commenced or entred upon any Law or Statute concerning the Kings Majesties Subsidies of Tunnage and Poundage or Ships or Goods to be forfeited by reason of unlawful Importation or Exportation there shall not be any Party Iury but such only as are the natural and frée-born Subjects of the King his Heirs or Successors And whereas allowances given to Merchants and others for defects and damages upon Goods Allowances for defects and damages in goods how to be made and Five per centum generally upon all Goods Imported and Twelve per centum upon Wines every Merchant or others having the aforesaid allowances inwards shall in person upon Oath by himself or by his known Servant or Factor demand and receive the moneys due upon Debenturs for such forreign Goods Exported by such Certificate with such abatements and allowances as were made and given to him upon the Importation and if he be found fraudulently to ship out less in quantity or value then is expressed in his Certificate the Goods therein mentioned or the value thereof shall be forfeited and the Owner or Merchant shall lose the benefit of receiving back any part of the Subsidy for those Goods and if any Goods shipped out by Certificate as aforesaid shall be landed again in the same or any other Port or Place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town and Port of Berwick unless in case of Distress to save the Goods from perishing which shall be presenly made known to the Person or Persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty to manage His Customs and Principal Officers of the Port no allowance shall be demanded or made for those Goods and the said Goods or value thereof shall be forfeited and lost Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Goods Goods brought from or carried into Scotland by land shall pass through Barwick or Carliâ—e Wares or Merchandize that shall be brought out of or carried into the Kingdom of Scotland by Land into or out of the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick shall pass and be carried by and through some of the Towns and Passages hereafter named that is to say by and through Berwick or Carlile and then and there pay the Custom and Subsidy granted and due to the Kings Majesty by an Act of this present Parliament Entituled 12 Car. 2. cap. 4. A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported And if any Goods Wares or Merchandize prohibited or uncustomed coming out of Scotland into England or going out of England into Scotland shall pass by or beyond the Towns Ports and Places aforenamed without due entry and payment of the Customs That then all such Goods Wares and Merchandize or the value thereof shall be forfeited and lost And whereas in and by an Act of Parliament in the First year of Quéen Elizabeth 1 El. cap. 11. When and where Merchandize shall be landed and custom paid of famous memory directing when and where Merchandize shall be landed and Customs paid it is amongst divers other things Enacted and Ordained That no Goods Wares or Merchandize shall be shipped or loaden aboard any Ship or Vessel or landed or discharged out of or from any Ship or Vessel but in or upon some such open Place Key or Wharf Places Keys or Wharfs Except the Port of Hull as her Highness her Heirs and Successors should therefore assign or appoint by vertue of her Highness Commission or Commissions within the Port of London and in all Ports Creeks Havens or Roads as in and by the said Act doth and may at large appear And whereas notwithstanding the aforesaid Act there are some Ports Créeks and places where Customers Collectors and Comptrollers and Searchers their servants had then time out of mind béen resident to which no such Commissions were sent nor places keys nor wharfs appointed as by the said Act was directed And whereas also since that time by reason of the alteration of
Rivers Streams Channels and Sands some places then appointed are become unfit and useless others much more convenient and commodious as well for Traffique and Commerce as for Landing and Discharging Lading and Shipping of Goods Wares and Merchandize It is Enacted and Ordained and be it Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the Kings Majesty may from time to time by his Highness Commission or Commissions out of his Court of Exchequer assign and appoint all such further Places Ports Members and Créeks except the Town of Hull as shall be lawful for the landing and discharging lading or shipping of any Goods Wares or Merchandize within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and to what ancient and head-Ports respectively such Places Members or Creeks shall belong and appertain And where any such Member Créek or Place shall be so as aforesaid appointed by vertue of the said Commission or Commissions the Customer Collector Comptroller and Searcher of the head-Port shall by themselves or their sufficient Deputy or Deputies servant or servants reside and inhabit for the entring clearing and passing shipping and discharging of Ships Goods and Merchandize And by vertue of the aforesaid Commission or Commissions may likewise set down and appoint the extents bounds and limits of every Port Haven or Créek within his Majesties Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town and Port of Berwick whereby the extents limits and priviledges of every Port Haven and Créek may be ascertained and known And it shall not be lawful for any Person or Persons whatsoever to lade or put or cause to be laden or put off or from any Key Wharf or other place on the Land into any Ship Vessel Lighter Boat or Bottom any Goods Wares or Merchandize whatsoever Fish taken by his Majesties Subjects Sea-coal Stone and Bestials only excepted to be Transported into any place of the parts beyond the Seas or carried by land into the Realm of Scotland or to take up discharge or lay on land or cause or procure to be taken up discharged and laid on land out of any Boat Lighter Ship Vessel or Bottom being not in Leak or Wreck any Goods Wares or Merchandize whatsoever Fish taken by his Majesties Subjests Bestials and Salt only excepted to be brought from any of the parts beyond the Seas or by land from the Realm of Scotland by way of Merchandize but only upon such open Place Key or Wharf Places Keys or Wharfs as his Majesty shall from time to time assign and appoint by vertue of such Commission and Commissions as aforesaid in his Majesties Port of London and the Members and Liberties thereof in any other Port Place Member or Créek within his Majesties Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town and Port of Berwick without special sufferance and leave first had from the Commissioners and Officers of his Majesties Customs upon the penalty of the forfeiture of all such Goods Wares and Merchandize For avoiding Practises between Owners of goods and Informers to avoid payment of customs None to seize any goods but officers of the customs And forasmuch as it doth appear by daily experience That there are great Practises and Combinations betwéen the Importers and Owners of Goods and Merchandizes and the Seizers and Informers with design and intent to defraud the force of the Law and his Majesty of his Duties and Customs Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Ship or Ships Goods Wares or Merchandize shall be seized as forfeited for or by reason of unlawful Importation or Exportation into or out of this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick or any the Ports members or Créeks thereunto belonging or for not payment of any Customs or Subsidies now due or hereafter to be due and payable to his Majesty but by the person or persons who are or shall be appointed by his Majesty to manage his Customs or Officers of his Majesties Customs for the time being or such other person or persons as shall be deputed and authorized thereunto by Warrant from the Lord-Treasurer or Vnder-Treasurer or by special Commission from his Majesty under the Great or Privy-Seal And if any Seizure shall hereafter be made by any other Person or Persons whatsoever for any the Causes aforesaid such seizure shall be void and of none effect any Statute Law Act or Provision to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding In any suit against persons imployed about the customs the Defendant may plead the general issue 12 Car. 2. cap. 18. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in every Action Suit Indictment Information or Prosecution wherein or whereby the person or persons which are or shall be appointed by his Majesty for managing his Customs or the Officers of his Majesties Customs or any Officer or Officers Person or Persons authorized by his Majesty to put in execution the Act of Parliament For encreasing and encouraging of Navigation their Deputies or Servants or any others acting in aid of them have béen are or shall be sued indicted prosecuted or molested it shall be lawful for all and every the said Persons their Heirs Executors and Administrators to plead the general Issue And to give this for other acts relating to customs or Navigation in evidence and to give this or the aforesaid Acts of Parliament relating to the Customs and Navigation in evidence in any of his Majesties Courts of Iustice or other Courts where the said matter shall be depending And the Iudges of the said Courts are hereby strictly enjoyned and required to admit the same and to acquit and indemnifie them and every of them of and from all such Suits Indictments Informations or Prosecutions for or concerning any matter or thing acted or done in the due and necessary performance and execution of their respective Trusts and Imployments therein Be it hereby also Enacted for avoiding of fraudulent Compositions That if any Seizer For avoyding fraudulent compositions by Informers Informer or Officer as aforesaid shall not prosecute to effect for the bringing to Tryal and Condemnation the Ships Goods and Merchandize by them Seized or Informed against That then and in every such case it shall be lawful to or for any of the person or persons which are or shall be appointed by his Majesty for managing his Customs or the Officers of the Customs or other person or persons deputed by them or thereunto Authorized by the Lord-Treasurer or Vnder-Treasurer to make seizure of or inform against such Goods and Merchandize or bring his Action for the same by way of Devenerunt and that they shall be estéemed and adjudged in Law as the true first Informers and Seizers and have the benefit of such Informers or Seizers Any Law Statute Act or Vsage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And that no Informer or Officer be suffered to compound under one Third of the
or other the Kings Officers thereof shall before the First day of June next take their respective Corporal Oath and Oaths for the true and faithful execution and discharge to the best of their knowledge and power of their several Trusts and Imployments committed to their charge and inspection And that no person or persons shall hereafter be imployed or put in trust in the business of the Customs untill he shall first have taken his Oath as aforesaid And the Commissioners and principal Officers in the Port of London and the principal Officers in all other the out-ports or any two of them are hereby authorized to administer and give to all and every person or persons such Oath and Oaths as aforesaid and to cause the same to be Entred and Registred in the Custom-house of every respective Port where the person so taking the Oath as aforesaid shall have his residence and imployment Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Persons imployed about the Customs shall demand nor take any more then the fees due by Law That if any person imployed in his Majesties Customs shall demand or take any other or greater sum of money then by Law is now due or hereafter shall become due or shall put any Merchant or other person out of his turn without express order before or immediate approbation after from the person or persons who are or shall be appointed by his Majesty to manage his Customs or the superior Officers for the Customs or shall illegally detain the goods of any person or shall neglect or refuse to make re-payments and allowances which are or shall be due since the Four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred and sixty or shall not after notice given give out and execute his Warrant shall be lyable to double Costs and Damages And for the better increase of good and serviceable shipping Of what sise and burden Merchants Ships shall be and what men and ammunition they shall carry and securing the publick Trade and Commerce Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Merchant or other person that shall after the Nine and twentieth day of September One thousand six hundred sixty and two Export any Goods or Merchandizes from any Port of this Kingdom capable of a Ship or Vessel of two hundred Tun upon an ordinary full Sea to any part or place of the Mediterranean Sea beyond the port of Malaga or Import any Goods or Merchandize from the ports or places aforesaid to any port of this said Kingdom in any Ship or Vessel that hath not two Decks and doth carry less then sixtéen pieces of Ordnances mounted together with two men for each Gun and other Ammunition proportionable shall pay to our Sovereign Lord the King for all and every the Wares and Merchandizes so Exported or imported One per centum over and above the Rates and Duties of Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage otherwise due and payable for the same Any thing in this Act before contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always Proviso for Ships exporting Fish that it shall and may be lawful to export from any of his Majesties Dominions Fish into any of the Ports of the Mediterranean Sea aforesaid in any English Ship or Vessel whatsoever Provided that one moyety of her full lading be Fish only and in such case to Import any Wares or Merchandize in the same Ship for that Voyage without paying any other Rates or Duties of Tonnage or Poundage for the same then were heretofore accustomed And for the better encouragement of building good and Defensible Ships Be it Enacted Encouragemen◠for Building good and defensible Ships That all and every person or persons that shall within the space of Seven years from and after the Five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty two build or cause to be built within any of his Majesties Dominions any Ship or Vessel of Thrée Decks or Two Decks and a half with a Fore-Castle and Five foot betwéen each Deck mounted with thirty pieces of Ordnance at least and other Ammunition proportionable shall for the first two Voyages which the said Ship or Ships make from his Majesties Dominions to any forreign parts have and receive to his and their own proper use and benefit one Tenth part of the Customs that shall be paid to His Majesty for all such Goods or Merchandizes as shall be Exported or Imported on the said Ship or Ships to and from this Kingdome And the Commissioners and Officers of His Majesties Customs are hereby impowered and required to pay the same to the Owner or Owners of the said Ship or Ships accordingly Salt brought out of Scotland to pay ob a Gallon Provided alwayes and be it hereby Declared and Enacted That from and after the Four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty two All Salt which shall be brought out of the Kingdom of Scotland into this Kingdom the Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed shall yield and pay and is hereby made chargeable to yield and pay unto the Kings Majesty One half penny upon every Gallon of such imported Salt of Winchester measure at the landing thereof Any thing in this present Act or any former or other Law Statute or Order to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding CAP. XII For the better Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom The occasion of increase of Poor WHereas the necessity number and continual increase of the Poor not only within the Cities of London and Westminster with the Liberties of each of them but also through the whole Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales is very great and excéeding burthensome being occasioned by reason of some defects in the Law concerning the setling of the Poor and for want of a due provision of the regulations of relief and imployment in such parishes or places where they are legally setled which doth enforce many to turn incorrigible Rogues and others to perish for want together with the neglect of the faithfull execution of such Laws and Statutes as have formerly béen made for the apprehending of Rogues and Vagabonds and for the good of the Poor For remedy whereof and for the preventing the perishing of any the Poor whether young or old for want of such supplies as are necessary May it please your most Excellent Majesty that it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Poor people going from one Parish to another and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That whereas by reason of some defects in the Law poor people are not restrained from going from one Parish to another and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those Parishes where there is the best Stock the largest Commons or Wastes to
or persons which he hath forfeited by the Statute aforesaid made in the nine and thirtieth year of the Quéen And whereas Constables Headboroughs or Tithingmen are or may be at great charge in relieving conveying with Passes and in carrying Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars to Houses of Correction or the Work-houses herein mentioned and as yet have no power by Law to make Rates to reimburse themselves Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Constables Headboroughs and Tithingmen so out of purse as aforesaid together with the Church-wardens and Overséers of the poor and other Inhabitants of the said Parish shall hereby have power and Authority to make an indifferent Rate Power to make rates and to tax all the Occupiers of Lands and Inhabitants and all other persons chargeable by the Statute of the thrée and fortieth of Elizabeth concerning the Office and Duty of Overséers for the poor within the said Parish which Rate being confirmed under the hands and Seals of any two Iustices of Peace 43 El. cap. 2. as aforesaid the said Constable Headborough or Tithingmen shall have power by Warrant under the hands and Seals of two Iustices of Peace to levy by distress and sale of the goods of any person or persons refusing to pay the same rendring the overplus to the Owner if any shall be Putative fathers of Bastard-children running away how to be proceeded against And whereas the putative Fathers and lewd Mothers of Bastard-Children run away out of the Parish and somtimes out of the County and leave the said Bastard children upon the charge of the Parish where they are born although such putative Father and Mother have Estates sufficient to discharge such Parish Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful for the Church-wardens and Overséers for the poor of such Parish where any Bastard-Child shall be born to take and seise so much of the Goods and Chattels and to receive so much of the Annual Rents or profits of the Lands of such putative father or lewd mother as shall be ordered by any two Iustices of Peace as aforesaid for or towards the discharge of the Parish to be confirmed at the Sessions for the bringing up and providing for such Bastard-Child And thereupon it shall be lawful for the Sessions to make an Order for the Church-wardens or Overséers for the poor of such Parish to dispose of the goods by Sale or otherwise or so much of them for the purposes aforesaid as the Court shall think fit and to receive the rents and profits or so much of them as shall be ordered by the Sessions as aforesaid of his or her Lands Persons sued for matters in this Act may plead the General Issue And if any person or persons shall be sued for any matter or thing which he shall do in execution of this Act he may plead the General Issue and give the special matter in Evidence And if the Verdict shall pass for the Defendant or if the Plaintiff be Nonsuited or Discontinue his Suit the Defendant shall recover treble Damages Lancashire Cheshire Derbyshire Yorkshire Durham Cumberland Westmerland 43 El. cap. 2. Whereas the Inhabitants of the Counties of Lancashire Cheshire Derbyshire Yorkshire Northumberland the Bishoprick of Durham Cumberland and Westmerland and many other Counties in England and Wales by reason of the largeness of the Parishes within the same have not nor cannot reap the benefit of the Act of Parliament made in the thrée and fortieth year of the Reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth for relief of the poor Therefore be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the poor néedy impotent and lame person and persons within every Township or Village within the several Counties aforesaid shall from and after the passing of this Act be maintained kept provided for and set on work within the several and respective Township and Village wherein he she or they shall inhabit or wherein he she or they was or were last lawfully setled according to the intent and meaning of this Act and that there shall be yearly chosen and appointed according to the rules and directions in the said Act of the thrée and fortieth year of Quéen Elizabeth mentioned two or more Overséers of the poor within every of the said Townships or Villages who shall from time to time do perform and execute all and every the Acts powers and authorities for the necessary relief of the poor within the said Township or Village and shall lose forfeit and suffer all such pains and penalties for non-performance thereof as is limited mentioned and appointed in and by the said in-part-recited Act. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Iustices of Peace within the said Counties shall have and enjoy such and the like powers and authorities to raise and levy moneys and to do and execute all and every such other Act and thing whatsoever within every Township or Village within the said County where they are Iustices as is given limited and appointed unto and for them to do and execute within any Parish or Parishes in and by the said Act made in the said thrée and fortieth year of the said late Quéen Elizabeth under such and the like pains and penalties for the non-performance of their Duties to be levyed and disposed of as is nominated and expressed in the said Act. Power of the Iustices to transport rogues and vagabonds Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull for the Iustices of Peace in any of the Counties of England and Wales in their Quarter-Sessions Assembled or the major part of them to Transport or cause to be Transported such Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars as shall be duly convicted and adjudged to be incorrigible to any of the English plantations beyond the Seas Proviso for the Dean and chapter of Westminster Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to be or be construed expounded or taken to the prejudice or infringement of any the franchises rights liberties or priviledges heretofore granted by the Kings and Quéens of this Realm his Majesties Royal Predecessors to the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster The continuance of divers parts of this Act. Provided always That this Act as to all the matters therein contained excepting what relates unto the Corporations mentioned and constituted thereby shall extend and be in force untill the nine and twentieth day of May One thousand six hundred sixty five and the end of the first Session of the next Parliament then next ensuing and no longer CAP. XIII Importation of Forreign Bonelace Cut-work Imbroidery Fringe Band-strings Buttons and Needle-work prohibited VVHereas great numbers of the Inhabitants of this Kingdom are imployed in the making of Bonelace Band-strings Buttons Néedlework Fringe and Imbroideries who
Majesties Reign there is amongst other exceptions excepted all and singular the Accounts of all Prize-Goods and of all moneys and other Duties grown due or contracted upon the sale or disposition of them or any of them By vertue whereof and of another Act made in the said thirtéenth year of your Majesties Reign 13 Car. 2. c. 3. Intituled An Act for the Declaring Vesting and Setling of all such Moneys Goods and other things in his Majesty which were received levied or collected in these late times and are remaining in the hands or possession of any Treasurers Receivers Collectors or others not Pardoned by the Act of Oblivion all and singular Prizes and Ships and Goods whatsoever seized or taken for Prize since the thirtieth of January in the year One thousand six hundred forty two by colour or pretence of any of the late pretended Authorities or by pretence or colour of any Power or Authority derived or pretended to be derived from or under them or any of them or otherwise for or upon any pretence of any publick use And all Captures and Seisures of Prizes and Tenths of Prizes to or under pretence of any publick use And all the moneys arising or due or contracted for upon the Sales and Dispositions of them or any of them yet unpaid or unaccounted for in whose hands soever the same be or by whomsoever owing are rightly vested in your Majesty And all the Buyers and Receivers and Injoyers thereof not having yet truly accounted for or paid for the same stand chargeable to your Majesty Now for that as well by a pretended Act made in the year one thousand six hundred forty nine the Buyers of Ships and goods taken Pretended Act. 1649. The reason for suing for prize-goods in the Court of Admiralty or seised and sold for Prize were in case of any failer of performing their contract to be convented in the Court of Admiralty and in case they were condemned there to pay the money by them contracted for then the same to be levied by execution of the said Court And for that by reason of other pretended Acts and Ordinances made in those times all the matters touching Prize and Captures and Seisures and Tenths of Prizes were referred to the said Court of Admiralty and all the Processes Exhibites Writings Examinations Depositions Procéedings Passages Condemnations Sentences Decrées and Orders touching and concerning Prizes and Captures and Seisures of Prizes and tenths of Prizes of what sort soever were had taken made and done in the said Court of Admiralty and do all or most of them there remain So that the said Court of Admiralty being thereof possessed and best acquainted therewith and with all the passages thereof It will be the readiest and quickest way for your Majesty to Sue for the same in that Court which being there Sued for may probably amount to considerable sums of money May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and every Collectors and Treasurers Sub-Collectors and Vnder-Treasurers of Prize-goods Commissioners and Sub-Commissioners of Prize-goods and all and every their Cashéers Officers Rep. 16 17 Car. 2. cap. 6. Deputies and Receivers and all and every Admirals Vice-Admirals Captains of Ships Officers and Mariners and all and every other person and persons whatsoever to whom such Prizes were delivered or to whose hands they came at any time since the said thirtieth of January One thousand six hundred forty and two and before the nine and twentieth of May One thousand six hundred and sixty or that did surprize or receive to or for the publick use or by pretence thereof any Ships Plate Iewels Bullion Money Silver Gold Arms Ammunition Wares Merchandizes or any manner of Goods whatsoever seised or taken for Prize within the times aforesaid and that have not yet truly accounted for and paid in the same or the just provenues and values thereof and all and every person and persons by whom or to or for whose use the same or any of them were sold or who had and enjoyed the same or any part thereof and are still behind and have not paid the moneys contracted for and arising or due upon such sales or any of them and all Securities by them or any of them given for their just dealing in their Offices or Places or any thing concerning the said Prizes or any of them shall be chargeable to your Majesty for the said premisses and all the Dependencies thereof respectively in the said Court of Admiralty and shall and may be by your Majesties Advocate and by such other of your Majesties Councel in that Court as Your Majesty shall please particularly to nominate and commit that affair unto and by special Warrant under your Sign Manual to appoint to sue for the same in your Majesties Name and to and for your Majesties use to be sued and convened in the said Court of Admiralty and either called to account or otherwise by such suit and in such manner as may be most available for your Majesty be there procéeded against sued and prosecuted in due course according to their respective cases for all and every the said Prizes Ships Goods Moneys and Premisses received or had by them and still in arrear and wherewith they are as aforesaid chargeable The Court of Admiralty impowred to proceed upon suits for prize-goods taken at any time since Ian. 30. 1642. and before 29 May 1660. and not accounted for And the said Court of Admiralty is hereby enabled and authorized to procéed thereupon according to the Laws and course of that Court and to do and minister right and Iustice therein with all things thereto requisite And to give sentences and final Decrées and condemnations therein as by the rules of Iustice ought to be and that in the most spéedy manner and to put in execution and finally to execute and levy all and every sum and sums and whatever shall be adjudged sentenced or condemned by and according to the rules and course of Executions in the said Court and that without any manner of Let Disturbance Hinderance Obstruction or Impediment whatsoever that your Majesty may be for the same satisfied and paid according to right and Iustice Provided always and be it further hereby Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid Proviso for the saving all Rights of the Lord High Admiral That all such Rights as during the Reign of your Majesties Royal Father of Blessed memory or your Majesties Reign belonged and appertained unto the Lord High Admiral of England or Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports for the time being by vertue of the said Office and have béen at any time since the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and eight usurped possessed
his Majesties Exchequer before the four and twentieth of June one thousand six hundred sixty and two and have or shall have notice thereof by Process out of the Court of Exchequer or otherwise served upon his person or left at his house or last known place of Habitation before the nine and twentieth of September one thousand six hundred sixty and two and shall not before the first day of Easter Term then next ensuing perfect their Accounts touching the said Charge that then the Charge against all and every such person or persons shall be taken as a Debt by Writing Obligatory or Recognizance taken and acknowledged to the Kings Majesty according to the Statute aforesaid and that in both the said Cases Process shall be awarded as is used for recovery of debts due to his Majesty according to the Statute as aforesaid against him or them and against all and every their Sureties not pardoned or discharged by the said Act of Oblivion and his and their respective Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels and Debts and the said Charge to continue in force only until the Accounts shall be perfected and the Accountants discharge them thereof in due manner in the said Court of Exchequer with such allowances as are given by the said Act of Oblivion and untill payment made unto his Majesty of all such sums of money as shall be found due upon the determination of his or their Accounts CAP. XVII Relief of Collectors of Publick Moneys and their Assistants and Deputies 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 Parliament now assembled and by Authority of the same Collectors others imployed in levying money by vertue of any Act of Parliament being sued may plead the general issue That all Collectors and other Persons who have levied or Collected or shall Levy or Collect any sum or sums of money or other act done or shall do in order to the same by vertue of any Act of Parliament now in force or of any other Act Order or Ordinance allowed to be put in Execution by any such Act of Parliament as aforesaid and who is or shall be sued for or concerning the same by any other then the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors he and they may plead the General Issue and thereon give the special matter in evidence for his excuse and justification And that all and every person or persons already sued or impleaded for any the Causes aforesaid may notwithstanding any plea or demurrer already made by any such Defendant have liberty to change such his Plea and to plead the General Issue if he shall think fit so to do Provided always that neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to authorize the levying or collecting of any sum or sums of money which are pardoned by the late Act 12 Car. 2. c. 11 Entituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion CAP. XVIII Exporting of Sheep Wool Wool-fells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks Fullers-Earth Fulling-Clay and Tobacco-pipe-Clay Prohibited WHereas against the Laws of this Kingdom great number of Shéep and great quantities of Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks Fullers Earth or Fulling-Clay are secretly Exported Transported carried and conveyed out of the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales the Town of Berwick upon Tweed and Kingdom of Ireland into the Kingdom of Scotland and into Foreign parts to the great decay of the Woollen Manufactures the ruine of many Families and the destruction of the Navigation and Commerce of the Kingdoms Town and Dominion aforesaid which is like daily to increase if some further remedy be not provided and further penalties imposed upon the Offenders therein Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That if any person or persons shall from and after the first day of August Exporting or carrying of sheep wooll woolfels mortlings shorlings yarn woolflocks Fullers earth Fulling clay out of England Wales or Ireland One thousand six hundred sixty and two directly or indirectly Export Transport Carry or Convey or shall cause to be Exported Transported Carryed or Conveyed out of or from the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or after the first day of January One thousand six hundred sixty and two out of the Kingdom of Ireland into any parts or places out of the Kingdoms or Dominion aforesaid or into the Kingdome of Scotland any Shéep or Wool whatsoever of the bréed or growth of the Kingdoms or Dominion aforesaid or any Wool-fells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks or any Fullers Earth or Fulling-Clay whatsoever or shall directly or indirectly pack or load or cause to be packed or loaden upon any horse Cart or other Carriage or shall load or lay on board or cause to be loaden or laid on board in any Ship or other Vessel in any place within the Kingdoms of England or Ireland Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed aforesaid any such Shéep Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Wool-flocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay to the intent or purpose to Export Transport Carry or convey the same or to cause the same to be Exported Transported Carryed or conveyed out of the Kingdoms of England or Ireland the Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed aforesaid into the Kingdom of Scotland or into any Foreign parts that then every such offence shall be adjudged Felony Made Felony and the Offender or Offenders being duly Convicted shall suffer and forfeit as in case of Felony Aiders and assisters therein shall be adjudged Felons And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Owner of any such Ship or other Vessel every owner of every horse Cart or Carriage upon which any Shéep Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay shall be so Exported Transported carryed or conveyed as aforesaid or to any such intent or purpose as aforesaid knowing thereof and being wittingly and willingly aiding assisting or consenting thereunto and also every Master and Mariner of or in such Ship or other Vessel wherein any such Shéep Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay shall be so exported transported carryed or conveyed or loaden or laid on Board as aforesaid to any such intent or purpose as aforesaid knowing thereof and being wittingly and willingly aiding assisting or consenting thereunto and also every Factor or servant or other person whatsoever and every Customer Comptroller Waiter Searcher Surveyor or other Officer or person whatsoever knowing thereof and being wittingly or willingly
aiding assisting or consenting thereunto shall be and shall be adjudged and taken to be a felon and every Offender and Offenders therein being duly convicted shall suffer and forfeit as in case of felony And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every offence Offences against this Act where to be examined tryed which shall be done or committed contrary to this Act shall and may be enquired of and heard examined tryed and determined in the County where such Shéep Wool Woolfels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay respectively shall be so Packed laden or laid on board as aforesaid or else in the County where such Offender shall happen to be apprehended or arrested for such offence in such manner and form and to such effect to all intents and purposes as if the same offence had béen wholly done and committed in the same County Provided also that every Baron and other Péer of this Realm Peers which shall be indicted or accused as principal or accessary in or to any offence made felony by this Act shall have his her or their Tryal by his her or their Péers as in cases of felony at the Common Law Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid None to be impeached unless within one year next after the offence committed That no person or persons whatsoever shall at any time hereafter be impeached for any offence made felony by this Act unless such person or persons shall be thereof indicted within the space of one year next ensuing such offence committed And forasmuch as great quantities of Wool Woollen yarn and Wool-flocks are close packed and pressed together with serues and other unlawful engines into Butts Pipes Hogsheads Chests and other Cask and Vessels and into Sacks Baggs and other wrappers made of Wool or Linen and under colour of Bales Sacks Baggs Packs and Casks of other Goods and otherwise great quantities of the same are daily loaden on board of Ships or other Vessels and so are carryed conveyed exported and transported out of the Kingdoms Town of Berwick and Dominion aforesaid and also great quantities are daily carryed and laid at or near the Coasts of the Sea or some Navigable Rivers into Store-houses and Barns and by night are laid on board of Shallops and other Vessels belonging to Aliens and so carryed and exported out of the Kingdoms Town of Berwick and Dominion aforesaid Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said first day of August Scrues and unlawful Engines for pressing together of wool not to be used no person or persons shall press together with any Scrues Presses or other Engines into any Sack Pack Bag or other wrapper or shall put press pack or stean any Wool whatsoever or any Yarn made of Wool into any Butt Pipe Hogshead Chest or any other Cask or Vessel upon any pretence whatsoever or shall carry or lay or cause to be carried or laid at or near the Shore or Coasts of the Sea or of any Navigable River or into any house or place near adjoyning thereunto any such Wool Wool-flocks or Yarn made of Wool with intention to export transport carry or convey the same out of the Kingdoms of England or Ireland Town of Berwick upon Tweed or Dominion of Wales into the Kingdom of Scotland or into any Foreign parts under the penalty of the loss and forfeiture of all such Wool The penalty Wool-flocks and Yarn made of Wool as shall be so packed or pressed or put or laid into Cask or carried and laid near to the Sea-shoar or to any Navigable River as aforesaid or the value thereof And whereas great quantities of Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay Fulling clay Tobacco-pipe clay not to be exported are daily carried and exported under the colour of Tobacco-pipe Clay Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Tobacco-pipe Clay shall from and after the first day of August One thousand six hundred sixty and two be exported transported carried or conveyed out of or from the Kingdom of England Town of Berwick upon Tweed or after the first day of January One thousand six hundred sixty and two out of or from the Kingdom of Ireland or the Dominion of Wales The penalty into the Kingdom of Scotland or into any Foreign parts or into any Port or place out of the Kingdoms or Dominion aforesaid under the penalty of thrée shillings for every pound of Tobacco-pipe Clay which shall be exported or transported contrary to this Act. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the first day of August One thousand six hundred sixty and two no Packs Sacks Bags or Cask of any Wool Packs of wool woolfels c. shall not be carryed but in the day time Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks Fullers Earth Fulling Clay or Tobacco-pipe Clay shall be laid or loaden on any horse cart or other carriage whatsoever or shall be carried or conveyed by land to or from any place or places within the Kingdom of England Town of Berwick or Dominion aforesaid nor after the first day of January One thousand six hundred sixty two in the Kingdom of Ireland but in the day time and at seasonable hours that is to say from and after the first day of March to the nine and twentieth day of September yearly betwéen the hours of four of the clock in the morning and eight of the clock in the evening and from the nine and twentieth day of September to the first day of March yearly betwéen the hours of seven of the clock in the morning and five of the clock in the evening The penalty under the penalty of the loss and forfeiture of all such goods or the value thereof the one moyety of all which forfeitures mentioned in this Act to be to the use of the King his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record in which no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be admitted or allowed Provided nevertheless Proviso concerning the Act. That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend to repeal disanul and make void any the Penalties Clauses or Provisoes mentioned in one Act of this present Session of Parliament made against the transportation of Wool Wool-fels Fullers Earth or any kind of Scouring Earth 12 Car. 2. c. 32 13 Car. 2. c. 14 or to the prohibiting of the loading on board of any Ship or Vessel of any Weather-sheep Wool Wool-flocks or other goods mentioned in this Act that by the aforesaid Act is permitted to be loaden on board of any Ship or Vessel for the necessary use or provision of such ship or vessel as aforesaid Any thing in this Act contained to
of any of the Kings or Quéens of England for the time being for the carrying the Goods of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or the said Quéens or children or any of them without such full and free consent as aforesaid Any Law Statute Custom or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding Be it notwithstanding 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 the Authority of the same That from and after the Four and twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord How carriages shall be provided for his Majesties Navy and Ordnance One thousand six hundred sixty and two as often as the Service of his Majesties Navy or Ordnance shall require any Carriages by Land within the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed upon notice given in writing by Warrant under the hand and seal of the Lord High Admiral of England for the time being or under the hands and seals of two or more of the principal Officers or Commissioners of his Majesties Navy or under the hand and seal of the Master of his Majesties Ordnance for the time being or under the hand and seal of the Lieutenants of his Majesties Ordnance for the providing of Carriages for the respective service of the Navy or Ordnance unto two or more Iustices of the Peace dwelling near unto the place where the said Iustices of the Peace may and shall immediately issue forth their Warrants to such of the adjacent Parishes Hundreds or Divisions as they shall judge fit within their respective Counties and Divisions not being above Twelve Miles distant from the place of lading for the sending to a certain place and at certain times to be specified and appointed in the said Warrants such numbers of Carriages with Horses or Oxen sufficient for the said service as by the Lord high Admiral of England for the time being or by the Master or Lieutenant of his Majesties Ordnance for the time being or by the principal Officers or Commissioners of his Majesties Navy respectively as abovesaid shall be by writing under their hands and seals required the Owners of which Carriages or their Servants The rates allowed for carriages shall receive for every Load of Timber per mile one shilling for every reputed mile which they shall go laden and for other Provisions the summe of eight pence per mile for every Tun they shall carry And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it may and shall be lawful for the Lord High Admiral of England for the time being by Warrant under his hand and seal and also for the principal Officers and Commissioners of his Majesties Navy by Warrants under the hands and seals of any two or more of them as also for the Master of his Majesties Ordnance for the time being by Warrant under his hand and seal and also for the Lieutenant of his Majesties Ordnance by Warrants under the hands and seals of either of them as often as the service of his Majesties Navy or Ordnance respectively shall require any Carriage by Water Impressing of persons ships vessels for carriages to appoint such person or persons as they shall judge fitting to Impress and take up such Ships Hoys Lighters Boats or any other Vessel whatsoever as shall be necessary for the Accommodation of his Majesties said service the Owners of which said Ships Hoys Lighters Boats or other Water-Carriage aforesaid or such as they shall appoint shall receive for the hire of every such Ship Hoy Lighter Boat or other Vessel per Tun according to the Rates usually paid by Merchants from time to time And in case his Majesties Officers and the Owners of such Ships Hoys Lighters Boats or other Vessels shall not agree on the said rates then the rate to be setled by the Brotherhood of Trinity-house of Deptford-Strand And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Penalty upon such as neglect or refuse That in case any of his Majesties Subjects of this Realm shall refuse or wilfully neglect after reasonable notice to make their appearance with such sufficient carriages by Land or to fit provide and furnish their Ships Hoys Lighters Boats or other Vessels for the service of his Majesties Navy or Ordnance as is before expressed or shall after they have undertaken such service neglect or delay the same that then upon due proof and conviction of such refusal or neglect by the Oath of the Constable or other Officer or two other credible witnesses before the said Iustices of Peace of the County or Mayor or other chief Officer of the City or Corporation where he or they inhabit which Oath they shall have power to administer for the Land-Carriages and for the Water-Carriages by the Oath of such person as shall be appointed by the Lord High Admiral the principal Officers or Commissioners of his Majesties Navy the Master of his Majesties Ordnance or the Lieutenant of his Majesties Ordnance as aforesaid or other two credible witnesses before the principal Officers or Commissioners of his Majesties Navy or Master or Lieutenant of his Majesties Ordnance respectively which Oath they shall have likewise power to administer the Party so refusing or neglecting shall for every such refusal or neglect forfeit the sum of Twenty shillings for the Land-carriage and for Carriage by Water treble the freight of such Ship or Vessel not excéeding Fifty pounds in the whole to the Kings Majesties use to be forthwith levied in default of payment upon demand by distress and sale of his Goods and Chattels by Warrant from the said Iustices of the Peace Mayor or other chief Officer or from the principal Officers or Commissioners of his Majesties Navy or Master or Lieutenant of his Majesties Ordnance respectively rendring to the Parties the overplus upon every such Sale if there shall be any the charge of distraining being first deducted The time of continuance in the service Provided always that no Horses Oxen Cart Wayn or other Land-Carriage shall be enforced to Travail more days Iourney from the place where they receive their lading or be compelled to continue longer in the imployment then shall be appointed by the Order of the said Iustices of the Peace and that ready payment shall be made in hand for the said Carriages at the place of lading without delay Present payment to be made according to the aforesaid Rates Provided always That in case any Iustice of the Peace Mayor chief Officer or Constable or any person or persons which shall be appointed by the Lord High Admiral the principal Officers or Commissioners of his Majesties Navy the Master of his Majesties Ordnance or the Lieutenant of his Majesties Ordnance as aforesaid respectively shall take any gift or reward to spare any person or persons No gifts or rewards may be taken by Iustices of the Peace
should sit and méet should have full Power and Authority to Hear Examine Order and Decrée all and every such Cause and Causes in a brief and summary course without formalities of pleadings or procéedings with Power to warn Parties to come before them and to examine upon Oath any Witnesses that should be produced and to commit to Prison any Person that should wilfully disobey their final Orders and Decrées And the Commissioners to sit once wéekly upon the Execution of the said Commission with a liberty in the said Act for any person grieved by any such Sentence or Decrée to exhibite his Bill in Chancery for the re-examination of such Sentence or Decrée as by the said Act relation being thereunto had more at large may appear But forasmuch as by the said recited Act without five Commissioners there cannot be a Court and without there be a Court they cannot procéed in the execution of their Commission so much as to summon Parties or Witnesses to appear And in case of neglect or refusal of any Party or Witness to appear they have no power to punish the delay or contempt with Costs or otherwise And it is provided by the said Act That not any Commissioner other then the Iudge of the Admiralty or the Recorder of London shall procéed in the execution of such Commission before he hath taken his Oath before the Lord Maior and Court of Aldermen to procéed uprightly and indifferently betwéen party and party which upon the renewing of the said Commission often proves a great delay there being so many Commissioners to be Sworn and the Court of Aldermen not sitting at sometimes in the year when the said Commissions have happened to be renewed And although the said Commissioners upon their final Sentence have power to commit to Prison any person that shall wilfully disobey their said Sentences or Decrées yet they have no power to make any Order against the Ship or Goods which commonly are the things assured by which Omissions for want of Power given by the said Act the benefits intended by the said Act of Parliament are much retarded and the mischiefs by the Act endeavoured to be prevented much increased For remedy whereof Be it Enacted and Ordained And it is hereby Enacted and Ordained by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That from and after the Four and twentieth day of June which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being Three Commissioners impowred to act to issue out yearly or oftner if néed require one standing Commission under the Great Seal of England thereby impowring and authorizing the said Commissioners or any thrée of them whereof a Doctor of the Civil Law or a Barrister at Law of five years standing at the least to be always one to meet and sit and make a Court and procéed in all things in the execution of the said Commission as before by the said Act any Five might have done And that the said Commissioners or any such thrée of them as aforesaid be and hereby are impowred to Summon Parties and Witnesses to appear and in case of contempt or wilful delay in the Witnesses upon the first Summons and tender of reasonable Charges and in the Parties upon their second Summons Costs to punish the Offenders by Imprisonment or Costs for such time and in such manner as shall be reasonable and according to the nature and quality of their offences And that it shall and may be lawful to and for every such Commissioner to procéed in the execution of the said Commission Lord Mayor of London may administer the Oath having first taken an Oath before the Lord Mayor of the City of London for the time being only to procéed uprightly and indifferently betwéen party and party And the said Lord Mayor is hereby Authorized to give such Oath Any thing in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding And that no person shall procéed in Execution of the said Commission before he be first Sworn before the Lord Mayor of London for the time being to procéed uprightly and indifferently betwéen party and party as formerly he should have béen before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen Be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case the said Commissioners Commissions out of the Admiralty Court to examine Witnesses beyond Sea or any such thrée of them as aforesaid shall find cause to examine Witnesses beyond the Seas or any remote parts of his Majesties Dominions for the clearing of any doubt or matter before them depending that in such case by direction of the said Commissioners or any such thrée of them like Commissions or Process shall issue out of the Court of Admiralty as have formerly béen for the purposes aforesaid returnable before the said Commissioners And that the said Commissioners or any such thrée of them shall have also power to give and pass their final Sentence Decrée and Executions as well against the body of the party evicted or his goods as also against the Executors and Administrators of such party so evicted And to Assesse Costs of Suit upon such person or persons as shall be condemned by the Decrée of the said Court as to them shall séem Iust And forasmuch as many Witnesses as Sea-men and others come and spéedily go again to Sea Witnesses going to see how to be examined before before a Court can be summoned by which means the Assured and Assurers are many times much damnified For the preventing of which mischief Be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for any one of the said Commissioners to Administer an Oath to any Witness legally summoned to give testimony timely notice being thereof given to the Adverse party and set up in the Office before such examination to the end such Witness or Witnesses may be cross-examined Provided always That the said Commissioners shall in no case procéed both against person and goods for one and the same debt And provided also Appeal to the Chancery That any thing in this Act contained shall not in any wise extend to prejudice the appeal to the High Court of Chancery given or allowed in the said former Act of Parliament CAP. XXIV An Act Declaratory concerning Bankrupts WHereas divers Noblemen Gentlemen and persons of quality no ways bred up to Trade or Merchandize do oftentimes put in great stocks of money into the East-India Company or Guiney Company and the Fishing Trade and such other publike Societies and receive the procede of those Stocks sometimes in ready monies sometimes in Commodities which they usually sell for money or exchange again by which means the Trade of those Companies is
herein contained The eights and duties of Aulnage saved shall extend or be construed to extend to take away any of the Rights Duties or Customs of or belonging to the Office and Place of his Majesties Aulnager or his Deputy or Deputies within the said West-Riding But that he or they shall or may from time to time do and perform all and every matter and thing to him or them belonging according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm And also receive all Fées due and accustomed to the said Office belonging in as large and ample manner as he or they might or ought to have done before the making of this present Act Any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided always and it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That neither the said Supervisers Masters Wardens and Assistants nor any of them Proviso that Rates of wages of workmen may not be set by colour of this Act. nor any other person or persons frée of the said Corporation of Broad Woollen Clothiers shall by any Authority derived from this Act or by colour thereof set or impose any other or lesser Rates or Wages upon any inferiour Workmen Servants or Labourers to be imployed by them or any of them in the said Manufacture then such as shall be from time to time allowed and approved of by the Iustices of the Peace in their Quarter-Sessions according to the Laws and Statutes touching Labourers in that case made and provided Provided also That this Act continue to the end of the First Session of the next Parliament The Continuance of this Act. and no longer CAP. XXXIII For preventing Abuses in Printing Seditious Treasonable and Unlicensed Books and Pamphlets and for Regulating of Printing and Printing-Presses WHereas the well-government and Regulating of Printers and Printing-Presses is matter of Publick care and of great Concernment especially considering Regulating of Printing of great Concirnment that by the general Licentiousness of the late Times many evil-disposed persons have béen encouraged to Print and Sell Heretical Schismatical Blasphemous Seditious and Treasonable Books Pamphlets and Papers and still do continue such their unlawful and exorbitant practice to the high dishonour of Almighty God the endangering the peace of these Kingdoms and raising a disaffection to His most Excellent Majesty and His Government For prevention whereof no surer means can be advised then by reducing and limiting the number of Printing-Presses and by ordering and setling the said Art or Mystery of Printing by Act of Parliament in manner as herein after is expressed The Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Consent and Advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled Pamphlets and Books prohibited to be printed published or sold doth therefore Ordain and Enact and be it Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons whatsover shall presume to Print or cause to be Printed either within this Realm of England or any other His Majesties Dominions or in the parts beyond the Seas any Heretical Seditious Schismatical or offensive Books or Pamphlets wherein any Doctrine or Opinion shall be asserted or maintained which is contrary to Christian Faith or the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of England or which shall or may tend or be to the scandal of Religion or the Church or the Government or Governors of the Church State or Common-wealth or of any Corporation or particular person or persons whatsoever nor shall Import Publish Sell or dispose any such Book or Books or Pamphlets nor shall cause or procure any such to be Published or put to Sale or to be bound Stitched or Sewed together And be it further Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no private person or persons whatsoever shall at any time hereafter Print or cause to be Printed any Book or Pamphlet whatsoever unless the same Book and Pamphlet together with all and every the Titles Epistles Prefaces Proems Preambles Introductions Tables Dedications and other matters and things thereunto annexed Entry of printed Books with the Register of the Company of Stationers London be first Entred in the Book of the Register of the Company of Stationers of London Except Acts of Parliament Proclamations and such other Books and Papers as shall be appointed to be Printed by vertue of any Warrant under the Kings Majesties Sign Manual or under the hand of one or both of His Majesties Principal Secretaries of State and unless the same Book and Pamphlet and also all and every the said Titles Epistles Prefaces Proems Preambles Introductions Tables Dedications and other matters and things whatsoever thereunto annexed or therewith to be Imprinted shall be first lawfully Licensed and Authorized to be Printed by such person and persons only as shall be constituted and appointed to License the same according to the direction and true meaning of this present Act herein after expressed Who may Licence Books concerning the Common Laws to be-Printed and by no other that is to say That all Books concerning the Common Laws of this Realm shall be Printed by the special allowance of the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being the Lords Chief Iustices and Lord Chief Baron for the time being or one or more of them or by their or one or more of their appointments And that all Books of History concerning the State of this Realm or other Books concerning any Affairs of State Books of History and Affairs of State Concerning Heraldry shall be Licensed by the Principal Secretaries of State for the time being or one of them or by their or one of their appointments And that all Books to be Imprinted concerning Heraldry Titles of Honour and Armes or otherwise concerning the Office of Earl Marshal shall be Licensed by the Earl Marshal for the time being or by his appointment or in case there shall not then be an Earl Marshal shall be Licensed by the Thrée Kings of Armes Garter Clarencieux and Norroy or any two of them whereof Garter Principal King of Armes to be one Divinity Physick Philosophy or other Science And that all other Books to be Imprinted or Reprinted whether of Divinity Physick Philosophy or whatsoever other Science or Art shall be first Licensed and allowed by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Bishop of London for the time being or one of them or by their or one of their appointments or by either one of the Chancellors or Vice-Chancellors of either of the Vniversities of this Realm for the time being Provided always that the said Chancellors or Vice-Chancellors of either of the said Vniversities shall onely License such Books as are to be Imprinted or Reprinted within the limits of the said Vniversities respectively but not in London or elsewhere not medling either with Books of the Common Laws or matters of State or
hereby Enacted Comodities of the growth and manufacture of Europe how to be imported in English built shipping That from and after the five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty four no Commodity of the Growth Production or Manufacture of Europe shall be Imported into any Land Island Plantation Colony Territory or Place to his Majesty belonging or which shall belong hereafter unto or be in the Possession of his Majesty his Heirs and Successors in Asia Africa or America Tangier only excepted but what shall be bona fide and without fraud Laden and Shipped in England Wales or the Town of Berwick upon Tweed and in English built Shipping or which were bona fide bought before the first day of October One thousand six hundred sixty and two and had such Certificate thereof as is directed in one Act passed the last Sessions of this present Parliament Entituled 14 Car. 2. c. 11 An Act for preventing Frauds and regulating Abuses in His Majesties Customs and whereof the Master and thrée Fourths of the Mariners at least are English and which shall be carried directly thence to the said Lands Islands Plantations Colonies Territories or Places and from no other place or places whatsoever Any Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding The penalty under the Penalty of the loss of all such Commodities of the Growth Production or Manufacture of Europe as shall be imported into any of them from any other place whatsoever by Land or Water And if by water of the ship or vessel also in which they were Imported with all her Guns Tackle Furniture Ammunition and Apparel one third part to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors one third part to the Governor of such Land Island Plantation Colony Territory or place into which such Goods were Imported if the said ship vessel or goods be there seised or informed against and sued for Or otherwise That third part also to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other third part to him or them who shall seise inform or sue for the same in any of his Majesties Courts in such of the said Lands Islands Colonies Plantations Territories or Places where the Offence was committed or in any Court of Record in England by Bill Information Plaint or other Action wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed Provided always and be it hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to ship and lade in such ships and so navigated as in the foregoing Clause is set down and expressed in any part of Europe Salt for the Fisheries of new-New-England and New-found-land Salt for Fisheries and to ship and lade in the Madera's Wines of the growth thereof and to ship and lade in the Western Islands or Azores Wines of the growth of the said Islands and to ship and take in Servants or Horses in Scotland or Ireland and to ship or lade in Scotland all sorts of Victual of the Growth or Production of Scotland and to ship or lade in Ireland all sorts of Victual of the Growth or Production of Ireland and the same to Transport into any of the said Lands Islands Plantations Colonies Territories or places Any thing in the foregoing Clause to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And for the better prevention of Frauds Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted Prevention of frauds That from and after the five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty and four every person or persons importing by Land any Goods or Commodities whatsoever into any the said Lands Islands Plantations Colonies Territories or Places shall deliver to the Governour of such Land Island Plantation Colony Territory or Place or to such person or Officer as shall be by him thereunto authorized and appointed within four and twenty hours after such Importation his and their Names and Sirnames and a true Inventory and particular of all such Goods or Commodities And no Ship or Vessel coming to any such Land Island Plantation Colony Territory or Place shall lade or unlade any Goods or Commodities whatsoever until the Master or Commander of such Ship or Vessel shall first have made known to the Governour of such Land Island Plantation Colony Territory or Place or such other person or Officer as shall be by him thereunto authorized and appointed the arrival of the said Ship or Vessel with her Name and the Name and Sirname of her Master or Commander and have shewen to him that she is an English-built Ship or made good by producing such Certificate as abovesaid that she is a Ship or Vessel bona fide belonging to England Wales or the Town of Berwick and navigated with an English Master and thrée fourth parts of the Mariners at least English-men and have delivered to such Governour or other person or Officer a true and perfect Inventory or Invoyce of her Lading together with the place or places in which the said Goods were laden or taken into the said Ship or Vessel under the pain of the loss of the Ship or Vessel with all her Guns Ammunition Tackle Furniture and Apparel and of all such Goods of the growth Production or Manufacture of Europe as were not bona fide laden and taken in in England Wales or the Town of Berwick to be recovered and divided in manner aforesaid And all such as are Governours or Commanders of any the said Lands Islands Plantations Colonies Territories or Places Tangier only excepted shall before the Five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty and four and all such as shall hereafter be made Governours or Commanders of any of them shall before their entrance upon the Execution of such trust or charge take a solemn Oath before such person or persons as shall be authorized by his Majesty his Heirs and Successors to administer the same to do their utmost within their respective Governments or Commands to cause to be well and truly observed what is in this Act Enacted in relation to the Trade of such Lands Islands Plantations Colonies Territories and Places under the penalty of being removed out of their respective Governments and Commands And if any of them shall be found after the taking of such Oath to have wittingly and willingly offended contrary to what is by this Act required of them That they shall for such offence be turned out of their Governments and be incapable of the Government of any other Land Island Plantation or Colony and moreover forfeit the sum of one thousand pounds of lawful money of England the one moyety to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that shall inform or sue for the same in any of his Majesties Courts in any of the said Plantations or in any Court of Record in England wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed Penalty upon Officers of the Customs And it is
Brewers shall be sued or prosecuted for any penalty or forfeiture by him or them incurred for or by reason of any mis-entry or short Entry if he or they shall within the space of one wéek after the delivery of such Copy as aforesaid certifie his or their Entry according to the said Return or otherwise discharge himself Be it Enacted That from and after the said First day of September One thousand six hundred sixty thrée and as often as there shall be occasion Two able Artists shall be appointed Skilful Gagers to be made and to take an oath one of them by His Majesties Commissioners Farmers or Sub-Commissioners for Excise and the other by the Brewers of any City or place which said Artists shall take an Oath which Oath any one Iustice hath hereby power to administer to take and compute the just Contents and Gage of all Coppers Fat 's Tuns Backs and Coolers and all other Brewing-Vessels of that nature belonging to all or any Brewer or Brewers of Béer or Ale to sell and to deliver and give under their hands one Copy of the particular Contents of all such Vessels to the aforesaid Commissioners Farmers and Sub-Commissioners and another true Copy thereof to each and every such respective Brewer which Computation by the Artists aforesaid shall answer and be according to the measures and proportions exprest in the said former Acts for Excise Commissioners or Farmers not to act as Iusticesces of the peace in matters touching the Excise And be it further Enacted That no Commissioner Farmer or Sub-Commissioner for the Excise or Common Brewer of Ale or Béer to sell or Inn-kéeper whatsoever shall from and after the said First day of September have power to act in or execute as a Iustice of the Peace any of Powers Clauses or things contained in any of the Laws made for and concerning the Excise or in this present Act And if any of the said persons shall presume to act or execute any thing contrary hereunto It is hereby further Declared That all such things so acted or executed by any of them are and shall be utterly void and null to all intents and purposes And whereas by the said recited Acts it is Enacted That no person shall be compelled by the Commissioners or Sub-Commissioners of Excise to Travel for the making of his Entries or Payment of the Duties of Excise or other Clause whatsoever touching or concerning the same if he live in a Market-Town Market Towns out of the said Town and if he live out of a Market-Town then to no other place then to the next Market-Town to his habitation in the same County on the Market-day And nevertheless the Commissioners and Sub-Commissioners or their Officers have not accordingly kept Officers in the Market-Towns in many Counties within England and Wales whereby such Entries and Payments for the Duties of Excise might be had and made and yet do take and levy the Penalties and Forfeitures in the said Acts mentioned for non-Entry and Payment of the Duty and do otherwise thereupon grieve and vex His Majesties Subjects contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said Acts Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said First day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and thrée the Commissioners Farmers or Sub-Commissioners in each County within England and Wales shall constitute and appoint Officers to attend in Market-Towns touching receits and duties of Excise or depute under their hands and seals such person or persons as they shall think néedful in each respective Market-Town to be there upon every Market-day in some known and publick place for the receiving of the said Entries and Duties of Excise and for performing all other matters and things touching the said Duty according to the said Acts and this present Act which said person and persons so constituted or deputed and the place where they intend to hold or kéep such Office being on the next Market-day after such Constitution or Deputation published in full and open Market shall attend at such Office on every Market-day in such Market-Town and shall keep the said Office open from Nine of the Clock in the morning until Twelve of the Clock at Noon and from Two of the Clock in the Afternoon until Five of the Clock in the Afternoon And in case such Office shall not be so kept and attended in each Market-Town respectively the Commissioners Farmers Sub-Commissioners or other person or persons so neglecting or refusing to do the same shall for every Market-day forfeit Ten pounds the one half to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other half to him or them that will Inform and Sue for the same in any of His Majesties Courts of Record by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be admitted or allowed And such person as shall come to such Market-Town to make such Entry or Payment of the Duties The Penalty and shall tender the same according to the said Acts and be able to prove such Tender by the Oath of one or more sufficient Witnesses shall not be liable to any Penalty or Forfeiture imposed by the said Acts for such wéekly or monthly Entries or Payments as should have béen made or paid on such Market-day any Article Clause or Thing in any or either of the said Acts or this present Act to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from after the first day of September At what times only Brewers may carry out their deer No common Brewer of Béer or Ale shall Sell Deliver or Carry out any Béer or Ale to any his Customers either in whole Cask or by the Gallon in any City Town-Corporate or Market-Town before notice given to an Officer of Excise but betwéen the hours of the day hereafter mentioned That is to say From the Twenty fifth day of March to the Twenty ninth day of September yearly betwéen the hours of Thrée of the Clock in the morning and Nine of the Clock in the evening and from the Nine and twentieth day of September to the Five and twentieth day of March yearly betwéen the hours of Five of the Clock in the morning and Seven of the Clock in the evening upon pain that every Brewer doing contrary hereunto shall for every such Offence forfeit and lose the sum of Twenty shillings for every Barrel of Béer or Ale that shall be so carried out contrary to the true meaning of this Act to be Levied and Recovered as in and by this present Act is hereafter enacted and appointed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any common Brewer Inn-Kéeper Victualler or other Retailer of Béer or Ale shall at any time after the First day of September after an accompt hath béen taken by the said Gager or Gagers of
and payable for the same be fully satisfied and paid And that every Warrant for the landing or delivering of any such Forreign Liquors shall be Signed by the hand of the said Officer or Collector of the Excise in the said Port or Place respectively upon pain that all such Foreign Liquors as shall be landed put on shore or delivered contrary to the true intent and meaning hereof or without the presence of an Officer or Waiter for the Excise or the value thereof shall be forfeited and lost the one moyety to the Kings Majesty and the other moyety to him or them who shall or will Seise Inform or Sue for the same to be recovered of the Importer or Proprietor thereof And that no person or persons whatsoever bringing any Exciseable Liquors except Béer Ale Sider Perry and Metheglin into any part or place of this Realm by Coast Cocquet Transire or Certificate nor any person or persons to whom the same or any of them shall be consigned shall land or cause any such Exciseable Liquors except before excepted to be landed or put on shore without making or causing due Entry to be made of the same with the Officer or Officers of the Excise for the time being appointed to receive and take such Entries within the Port or Place where the same shall be landed upon pain in every such case as aforesaid to forfeit double the value of the said Liquors landed or put on shore contrary to the true intent and meaning hereof Appeals in causes of Excise Provided also and be it further Enacted and Ordained by Authority aforesaid That no Appeal in any Cause of Excise whatsoever shall be admitted until the Party Appellant shall have first Deposited and laid down the single Duty of Excise in the hands of the Commissioners Farmers or Sub-Commissioners of Excise within whose Iurisdiction or Division the said Cause was originally heard and determined and have given Security to the Commissioners of Appeal or Iustice of the Peace respectively where such Cause is to be finally Adjudged for all such Fine Forfeiture and Penalty as upon such hearing and determination was Adjudged against him And that if upon the hearing and determining of any such Appeal the said Original Iudgment shall happen to be reversed and made null then and in every such case the said Commissioners Farmers or Sub-Commissioners of Excise in whose hands the said single Duty of Excise was deposited shall restore and deliver back the same or as much thereof as shall be adjudged by the Commissioners of Appeals or Iustices of the Peace respectively to the said Appellant and the party originally prosecuted shall pay him double Costs But in case the first Iudgment shall be affirmed the party Appealing shall pay the like Costs unto the Commissioner or Commissioners complained of Any thing in this Act or any other Act or Statute whatsoever to the contrary thereof contained in any wise notwithstanding Excise upon Vinegar-beer And be it further Enacted by Authority aforesaid That all and every person or persons whatsoever Brewing or Making any Béer whether in a common Brew-house or otherwise for sale or to convert into Vinegar for sale shall pay for every Barrel of such Vinegar-Béer so made and brewed the several and respective sums already imposed and set by any the Acts of Excise above mentioned upon Vinegar-Béer brewed by any common Brewer in any common Brew-house Any thing in the said Acts or either of them to the contrary notwithstanding Colledges and Halls in the Vniversity And is it hereby further Declared That every Colledge and Hall in either of the Vniversities which before the Duty of Excise was imposed did brew their own Béer and Ale within their own Precincts and size it out to their respective Members within their own Precincts only are not liable to the payment of any Duty of Excise for the same either by this or any the forementioned Acts. Provided also and be it Enacted That all Differences Appeals and Complaints that shall happen and arise betwéen party and party Complaints to be determined in the proper counties in order to the payment of the Duty of Excise shall be heard and determined in the proper County or in the several Ridings and Divisions of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire where they shall arise and not elsewhere Commissioners or Farmers may take no Fees And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Farmer Commissioner Sub-Commissioner or other Officer of Excise shall directly or indirectly take or receive any Mony Fée or Reward for or concerning the taking of any Bond or giving any Receipt or Note in Writing relating to the Excise to or from any person or persons whatsoever upon pain that every such person so offending shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of Ten shillings Who may hear and determine matters upon this Act. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Iustices of the Peace or any two or more of them or Chief Magistrates in the several Counties Cities Divisions and Places within England and Wales respectively shall méet once in every moneth in their respective Divisions or oftner if there shall be occasion to hear determine and to adjudge all matters and offences against this or the aforesaid Acts. How the penalties upon this Act shall be disposed and recovered And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That one third part of all Fines Penalties and Forfeitures not herein otherwise disposed shall be to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors one other third part to the poor of the Parish where the Offence shall be committed the other third part to him that shall inform and sue for the same And that all Fines Penalties and Forfeitures for which no remedy is Ordained for recovery thereof by this Act shall be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Informations in any Court of Record within such County City or Corporation where the Offence shall be committed or by such other ways and means and in such manner as by the said former Act is directed and appointed Appeals for matters in London and the limits thereof Provided alwayes That after the said Third day of September no Appeal in any Matter or Cause of Excise within the immediate Limits of the Chief Office of London nor within the Limits of the present Farm of London during the continuance of such Farm shall be admitted unless the same be brought within Two Moneths next after the first Iudgment and notice thereof given or left at the Dwelling-house of the party or parties concerned therein nor shall any Appeal in any Matter or Cause of Excise in any other County City Town or Place be admitted unless the same be brought within Four Moneths after the first Iudgment and notice given as aforesaid Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided nevertheless And it is hereby Enacted That no
and by the Authority thereof That from and after the first day of October next ensuing It shall and may be lawful for any person or persons whatsoever Native or Foreigner fréely and without paying any Acknowledgement Fee or other Gratuity for the same in any place of England and Wales In the occupation of dressing and ustng of Hemp and Flax. priviledged or unpriviledged Corporate or not Corporate to set up and exercise the Trade Occupation or Mystery of breaking hickling or dressing of Hemp or Flax as also for making and whitening of Thread as also of Spinning Weaving Making Whitening or Bleching of any sort of Cloth whatsoever made of Hemp or Flax only As also the Trade Occupation or Mystery of making of Twine or Nets for Fishery or of Stoving of Cordage As also the Trade Making of tapestry hanginge Foreigners may use those trades and enjoy all priviledges as natura born subjects Oath of Allegeance and Supremacy Occupation or Mystery of making any sort of Tapistry-Hangings Any Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And all Foreigners that shall really and bona fide set up and use any of the Trades and Manufactures aforesaid by the space of thrée years in this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed shall from thenceforth taking the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy before two Iustices of the Peace near unto their dwellings who are hereby authorized to administer the same enjoy all Priviledges whatsoever as the Natural born Subjects of this Kingdom And it is hereby Enacted and Declared That such Foreigners as shall exercise any of the Trades aforesaid by vertue of this Act shall not at any time be lyable to any other or greater Taxes Payments or Impositions then such as are or shall be paid by his Majesties Natural born Subjects unless in case they shall use and exercise Merchandize into and from Foreign parts in which case they shall be lyable to pay such Customs as have usually béen paid by Aliens during the space of Five years next ensuing and no longer CAP. XVI Herring and other Fisheries Regulated And a Repeal of the Act concerning Madder FOr the prevention of abuses in the packing and ordering of Herrings and bringing that Commodity into Credit in Foreign parts beyond the Seas Be it Enacted and it is hereby 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 the Authority of the same That from and after the first day of August One thousand six hundred sixty four No white or red Herrings of English catching shall be put to sale in England Wales How herrings shall be packed or in the Town of Berwick upon Tweed but what shall be packed in lawful Barrels or Vessels and which shall be well truly and justly laid and packed And shall be of one time of Taking Salting Saving or Drying and equally well packed in the midst and every part of the Barrel or Vessel and by a sworn Packer And the Barrel or Vessel marked or branded by such sworn Packer with a mark or brand denoting the gage of the Barrel or Vessel and the quantity quality and condition of the Herrings packed therein and the Town or place where they were packed And the Bailiffs of Great Yarmouth for the time being and the Mayor Bailiffs or other Head-Officer for the time being of every Port Haven or Créek out of which any vessels or ships do procéed to fish for Herrings are hereby authorized and required before the first day of July Able packers to be appointed and sworn in the year One thousand six hundred sixty four and before the first day of July in every year after to appoint for their respective Haven Port or Créek a competent number of able and experienced Packers to view and pack all such white or red Herrings of English catching as shall be brought into their Port Haven or Créek and well and truly to mark and brand the Barrels or Vessels into which they shall be packed with such mark or brand as is above directed and to administer to them yearly an Oath which Oath they are hereby authorized and appointed to give to them for the well and true doing thereof according to this Act. Penalty for not appointing and swearing packers And in case the said Bailiffs of Great Yarmouth or the Mayor Bailiffs or other Head-Officer for the time being of any such Port Haven or Créek shall not appoint and swear such Packers before such time in every year as is by this Act required they shall for every default forfeit the sum of One hundred pounds of lawful money of England one moyety to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that shall inform or sue for the same in any Court of Record by Bill Plaint or other Action wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed And for the better regulating of the Island and Westmony Fisheries Weâ—y Island and Preservation of the Spawn of fish there Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the five and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty thrée no ship or vessel shall procéed upon a Fishing-Voyage for Island or Westmony out of any Port Haven or Créek in England or Wales or out of the Port of Berwick upon Tweed until the tenth day of March in any year upon the pain of the forfeiture of every such ship or vessel with all her Furniture Tackle and Apparel and of all the fish caught in such ship or vessel And it is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons whatsoever do collect levy or take or cause to be collected levyed or taken in New-found-land any Toll New-found-land or other duty of or for any Cod or Poor John or other fish of English catching under pain of the loss of double the value of what shall be by them levied collected or taken or caused to be collected levied or taken And that no Planter or other person or persons whatsoever do cast or lay any Seme or other Net in or near any Harbour in New-found-land whereby to take the spawn or young Fry of the Poor John or for any other use or uses except for the taking of Bait only upon pain of the loss of all such Semes or Nets and of the fish taken in them or of the value thereof to be recovered in any of his Majejesties Courts in New-found-land or in any Court of Record in England or Wales by Bill Plaint or other Action wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed And it is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Planter or other person or persons whatsoever None may destroy houses or spoil nets c.
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
that purpose And that the respective Sheriffs shall be allowed or paid from the King upon their respective Accompts in the Exchequer all such charges by them expended for Conveying Embarquing and Transporting of such persons which shall be allowed by the said respective Courts from whence they received their respective Warrants and which shall not have béen by any of the ways aforementioned paid secured or reimbursed unto them as aforesaid How the offender may be discharged upon payment of 100 l. Provided always and be it further Enacted That in case the offender so Indicted and Convicted for the said Third offence shall pay into the hands of the Register or Clerk of the Court or Sessions where he shall be Convicted before the said Court or Sessions shall be ended the sum of One hundred pounds That then the said offender shall be discharged from Imprisonment and Transportation and the Iudgement for the same Punishment of offenders after the third offence And be it further Enacted That the like Imprisonment Indictment Arraignment and Procéedings shall be against every such offender as often as he shall again offend after such Third offence Nevertheless is dischargeable and discharged by the payment of the like sum as was paid by such offender for his or her said offence next before committed together with the additional and increased sum of One hundred pounds more upon every new offence committed the said respective sums to be paid as aforesaid and to be disposed of as followeth viz The one Moyety for the Repair of the Parish Church or Churches How the said penalty of 100 l. shall be disposed Chappel or Chappels of such Parish within which such Conventicle Assembly or Méeting shall be held and the other Moyety to the Repair of the High-ways of the said Parish or Parishes if néed require or otherwise for the amendment of such High-ways as the Iustices of the Peace at their respective Quarter-Sessions shall direct and appoint And if any Constable Headborough or Tythingman shall neglect to execute any the said Warrants made unto them for Sequestring Distraining and Selling any of the Goods and Chattels of any offender against this Act for the Levying such sums of money as shall be imposed for the first or second offence he shall forfeit for every such neglect the sum of Five pounds of lawful money of England the one moyetie thereof to the King and the other moyetie to him that will sue for the same in any of the Kings Courts of Record as is aforesaid And if any person be at any time Sued for putting in Execution any of the powers contained in this Act Persons sued for executing this Act may plead the General issue and recover treble Costs such person shall and may plead the general Issue and give the special matter in evidence And if the Plaintiff be Non-suit or a Verdict pass for the Defendant thereupon or if the Plaintiff discontinue his Action or if upon Demurrer Iudgement be given for the Defendant every such Defendant shall have his or their treble Costs Felony to escape after conviction or to returne after Transportation And be it further Enacted That if any person against whom Iudgement of Transportation shall be given in manner aforesaid shall make escape before Transportation or being Transported as aforesaid shall return unto this Realm of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed without the special License of His Majesty His Heirs and Successors in that behalf first had and obtained That the party so escaping or returning shall be adjudged a Felon and shall suffer death as in case of Felony without benefit of Clergy and shall forfeit and lose to His Majesty all his or her Goods and Chattels for ever and shall further lose to His Majesty all his or her Lands Tenements and Hereditaments for and during the life only of such offender and no longer And that the wife of any such offender by force of this Act shall not lose her Dower nor shall any Corruption of blood grow or be by reason of any such offence mentioned in this Act But that the heir of every such offender by force of this Act shall and may after the death of such offender have and enjoy the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of such offenders as if this Act had not béen made Seditious and Tumultuous Meetings and Conventicles And for better preventing of the mischiefs which may grow by such Seditious and Tumultuous Méetings under pretence of Religious Worship Be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That the Lieutenants or Deputy-Lieutenants or any Commissioned Officers of the Militia or any other of His Majesties Forces with such Troops or Companies of Horse or Foot And also the Sheriffs and Iustices of Peace and other Magistrates and Ministers of Iustice or any of them joyntly or severally within any of the Counties or Places within this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed with such other assistance as they shall think méet or can get in readiness with the soonest on Certificate made to them respectively under the hand and seal of any one Iustice of the Peace or Chief Magistrate as aforesaid of his particular Information or knowledge of such unlawful Méetings or Conventicles held or to be held in their respective Counties or places And that he with such assistance as he can get together is not able to suppress or dissolve the same shall and may and are hereby required and enjoyned to repair unto the place where they are so held or to be held and by the best means they can to dissolve and dissipate or prevent all such unlawful Méetings and take into their custody such of those persons so unlawfully assembled as they shall judge to be the Leaders and Seducers of the rest and such others as they shall think fit to be procéeded against according to Law for such their Offences The penalty of suffering Conventicles in private houses And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person who shall wittingly and willingly suffer any such Conventicle unlawful Assembly or Méeting aforesaid to be held in his or her House Out-house Barn or Room Yard or Back-side Woods or Grounds shall incur the same penalties and forfeitures as any other Offender against this Act ought to incur and be procéeded against in all points in such manner as any other offender against this Act ought to be procéeded against Gaolers may not let priso-committed upon this Act to go at large Provided also And be it Enacted by the authority aforesaid That if any Kéeper of any Gaol or House of Correction shall suffer any person committed to his custody for any offence against this Act to go at large contrary to the Warrant of his Commitment according to this Act or shall permit any person who is at large to joyn with any person committed to his Custody by vertue of
Road safety and preservation of Ships that may resort thither as well in peril of Storms as otherwise to lade or unlade their Goods and to alter repair and amend the same or any part of it from time to time as oft as néed shall require And to the end that the making the said River Navigable and passable for Barges Boats Lighters and other Vessels and the erecting and making the said Haven Channels Sasses Locks Wears Turnpikes Penns for Water Wharfs Bridges Ways and Passages as aforesaid or other things may not be any way prejudicial to the Inheritance Possession or profit of any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate whatsoever that have any Lands Tenements Wears or Hereditaments adjoyning unto the said River or Streams Brooks new Chanels and Passages as aforesaid or any of them or through which the same shall be made or cut as aforesaid Satisfaction to parties endamaged in any of their lands Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Vndertakers before they do meddle with the Lands Inheritance Possession or Profit of any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate shall first agrée with such persons Bodyes Politick or Corporate for the loss or damage that any of them shall or may any way receive by the making or altering the said Haven Channels Wharfs Sasses Locks Wears and Passages or procure some Order therein to be made by the Commissioners to be Assigned for that purpose as hereafter in this present Act is expressed And for the better effecting of the premisses and the due rating of the value of the things to be compounded for by the true intent of this Statute if the Parties shall not agrée Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Commissioners for compounding with persons so damnifide That at the request and charges of the said Vndertakers One or more Commission or Commissions under the Great Seal of England shall be granted to Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of England Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery William Lord Herbert of Cardiffe Henry Lord Viscount Cornbury George Lord Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Winchester for the time being John Lord Bishop of Sarum and the Bishop of Sarum for the time being William Lord Sands Robert Lord Brook Anthony Lord Ashly Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Edward Nicholas Knight One of His Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council Sir Robert Hyde Knight Lord Chief Iustice of the Kings Bench Sir Wadham Windham Knight one of the Iustices of the Kings Bench Sir George Grubham How Baronet Sir Joseph Ash Baronet Sir John Nicholas Knight of the Bath sir John Low Knight sir Robert Mason Knight sir Thomas Mompesson Knight sir John Clobery Knight Stephen Fox Esquire Clerk of the Gréen-Cloth and one of the Citizens for the City of New-Sarum John Joyce Mayor of the City of New-Sarum and the Mayor of the City for the time being Richard Coleman Esquire Recorder of the City of New-Sarum and the Recorder of the same City for the time being Francis Roll Esquire High Sheriff of the County of Southampton Lawrence Hyde Esquire Humphrey VVeld Esquire Edward Hyde of Hatch Esquire Richard How Esquire John Holt the elder of the Close of the City of New-Sarum Esquire George Vennerd of the City of New-Sarum Esquire Edward Manning Esquire Richard Compton Esquire Thomas Knowles Esquire Philip Lee Esq Walter Bockland Esq VVilliam Swanton Esq Roger Gallop Esq Edward Hooper of Huncourt Esq Will. Tulse Esq John Hobby Esq Henry Tulse Esquire Henry VVhitehead Esq The Mayor of VVilton for the time being and the Mayor of Christ-Church for the time being Samuel Percival Esquire VVilliam Lisle Esquire and Philip Percival Gentleman The power of the said Commissioners Which said Commissioners or any seven or more of them not being Parties concerned shall have full power and Authority and are hereby impowred and Authorized by examination of witnesses upon Oath which Oath they or any seven or more of them have hereby power to administer or by any other lawful ways or means to examine here and determine all and all manner of Controversies Debates and Questions which shall happen and arise betwéen any persons whatsoever touching or concerning any matter or thing relating to the aforesaid Premisses or any part thereof And to appoint determine and decree what and how much satisfaction every such person or persons Body politick or Corporate shall have for or in respect of the loss to be by him her or them sustained notice being first given of their Méeting by Papers publickly affixed to the Church-doors or set up in the Market-places of the City of New-Sarum and the Towns of Christ-Church and Ringwood Ten days at the least before their Méeting declaring the time and place of their Meeting And also notice in writing being first left at the Dwelling-house of every Party concerned or at their usual place of abode or with some Tenant or Occupier of some House Land or Tenement of such party within fiftéen Miles of the said River Which said Determination Sentence and Decrée set down declared and pronounced by the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them and the Price and Recompence by them limited shall bind all Parties therein concerned in Possession Reversion or Remainder or otherwise and as well Infants Feme Coverts as others and their Heirs in Fée-Simple or in Tail and their Executors Administrators and Assigns and all claiming by from or under him her or them or any of them which Order Sentence and Decrée shall be set down in writing under the Hands and Seals of the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them within six wéeks after the first Resort to them for that cause according to this Act the same to be kept among the Records of the Sessions of the Peace for the City of New-Sarum by the Clerk of the Peace for the time being of the said City Transcripts whereof shall be delivered to the several Clerks of the Peace of the respective Counties of VVilts and Southampton to be by them kept upon Record amongst the Records of the Sessions of the said respective Counties All which shall be taken adjudged and déemed good and sufficient Evidence and proof in any Court of Record whatsoever And that upon payment of such sum or sums so ordered or agréed upon to the said persons concerned or tender thereof made at his or their Dwelling-house or the house of his or their Tenant of some Tenement house or Land of theirs within fiftéen miles of the said River and if they have no such Dwelling-house Land or Tenement or if upon such tender at their said Dwelling-house or the House Land or Tenement of such Tenant as aforesaid they refuse or are not ready to receive the same That upon payment of the said sum to the Mayor and Commonalty of the City of New-Sarum in the Council-Chamber of the said City
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
have a Mayor and Aldermen and particular Iustices of the Peace by Charter or Commission or Bayliff or Bayliffs or other Chief Officer or Officers and other Assistants by like Charter and where two or more Churches or Chappels or a Church a Chappel the Parishes thereunto belonging do lie within the said Corporation or Liberties thereof convenient to be united In such cases the Bishop of the Diocese where such Parish and Parishes are with the consent of the Mayor Aldermen and Iustices of the Peace Bayliff or Bayliffs or other Chief Officer or Officers or the major part of them and of the Patron or Patrons of such Church or Churches Chappel or Chappels shall or may according to due form of Law unite the said Churches or Chappels or Church and Chappel or any of them and shall appoint at which Church or Chappel Churches or Chappels the said Parishioners and Inhabitants of the said Parishes or places to which the said Churches or Chappels or Church and Chappel do belong shall usually méet for the worship of God and which of the said Churches or Chappels or Church or Chappel shall be united and annexed unto the other which shall be the Church Presentative unto which all Presentations shall thereafter be only made unto which the Parishioners shal resort as their proper Church And after such Order made the said Churches or Chappels or Church and Chappel shall accordingly for ever stand united And the Parishioners Landholders and Inhabitants of the said Parishes and places belonging to such Churches or Chappels or Church and Chappel so united and annexed shall as they or any of them become void and from thenceforward pay all such Tythes and other Duties as belong or did belong to the Incumbent of any of the said Churches or Chappels or Church and Chappel so united and annexed unto the Incumbent of the said Presentative Church or Chappel unto which the said other Churches or Chappels or Church or Chappel shall be so united and annexed Parishes shall remain distinct notwithstanding such Vnion of Churches And it is hereby also Enacted That notwithstanding any such Vnion to be made by vertue hereof each of the Parishes so united shall continue distinct as to all Rates Taxes Parochial Rites Charges and Duties and all other Priviledges Liberties and respects whatsoever other then what is herein before mentioned and specified And Churchwardens shall be elected and appointed for each Parish as they were before such union made How and when such Vniting shall take effect And it is further Enacted and Provided That where one or more of the said Churches or Chappels or Church and Chappel so united and annexed shall be full at the time of making such Vnion That then the said Vnion shall take effect for every such Church or Chappel And how severall Patrons shall present upon the first Avoidance after such Vnion made And that the several Patrons of the said Churches and Chappels so Vnited shall and may present by turns to that Church onely which shall remain and be presentative from time to time in such order as the said Bishop with the consent of the said Mayor Aldermen and Iustices of Peace Bayliff or Bayliffs or other chief Officer or Officers within such Parishes or the major part of them and of the Patron or Patrons of such Church or Churches Chappel or Chappels shall determine and decrée for the preservation of their respective Rights therein respect being therein had to the difference of the values of the yearly Maintenance belonging to such Churches or Chappels or any of them Saving unto the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors all the Tenths and First-Fruits of all such Churches and Chappels so to be Vnited according to the rates and valuations at which the said Churches and Chappels are Rated and Valued in the Office of First-Fruits and Tenths in His Majesties Court of Exchequer And also reserving all Procurations and Pensions to all persons to whom they are now and have béen formerly or shal be hereafter due and payable Any thing herein contained notwithstanding How Vnions must be registred Provided always That no Vnion of Parishes or places to be made by vertue of this Act shall commence or be effectual in Law until it be Registred in the Register Book of the Bishop of the Diocese which the Register is hereby required to do Parishes having 10 l. maintenance may not be Vnited Provided always That no Vnion made by vertue hereof shall be good and effectual where the setled Maintenance belonging to the Parsons Vicars and Incumbents of the Church or Chappel or Churches or Chappels so Vnited shall excéed the sum of One hundred pounds per annum cléer and above all Charges and Reprises unless the respective Parishioners or the major part of them under their hands desire otherwise Incumbents oâ— sâ—ch Vnited Pâ—â— shes must be graduates of the Vniversity Provided always And be it Enacted That every Minister setled as aforesaid the Incumbent of any Church or Chappel or Churches or Chappels united according to this Act shall be the full and lawful Incumbent thereof to all intents and purposes so as such Minister be a Graduate in one of the Vniversities of this Kingdom Owners of Impropriations may bestow and annex mâ—intenance to the Churches where they lie And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Owner or Proprietor Owners or Proprietors of any Impropriation Tythes or Portion of Tythes in any Parish or Chappelry within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales is are and shall be by vertue of this Act inabled and impowred to give or bestow unite and annex the same or any part thereof unto the Parsonage or Vicarage of the said Parish Church or Chappel where the same do lie or arise or settle the same in Trust for the benefit of the said Parsonage or Vicarage or of the Curate and Curates there successively where the Parsonage is Impropriate and no Vicar indowed according to his or their respective Estates Without license of Mortmain without any License of Mortmain Any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding Parsons and Vicars not having setled means of 100 l. per annum may purchase and annex lands or rents without license in Mortmain And be it further Enacted That if the setled Maintenance of such Parsonage Vicarages Churches and Chappels so united or of any other Parsonage or Vicarage with Cure in the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales shall not amount to the full sum of One hundred pounds per annum cléer and above all charges and reprises That then it shall be lawful for the Parson Vicar and Incumbent of the same and his successors to take receive and purchase to him and his successors Lands Tenements Rents Tythes or other Hereditaments without any License of Mortmain Any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding CAP. IV. A Former Act for Regulating the Press
for every Twenty shillings which he or they do receive by his and their respective Practises and Professions in one year allowing to every such person and persons of the several Professions aforesaid one Third part out of such moneys as he or they shall so receive in their respective Practises and Professions for and towards the Charge and Expence occasioned by his or their attendance upon his or their Practice or Professions aforesaid And all and every Servant Servants Wages which at the time of the execution of this Act shall receive Wages for his her or their Service shall pay unto His Majesty the sum of Twelve pence for every Twenty shillings by the year which shall be due or payable to him her or them for his her or their Wages except for Board-wages And all and every person and persons shall pay unto his Majesty the sum of Twelve pence over and above the other Rates charged upon them by this Act. 19 Car. 2. cap. 1. And be it further Enacted In what cases Masters shall pay Servants Assessment That in case any Servant shall upon the demand of such Assessment or Moneys as are due from him or her by vertue of this Act refuse or neglect to pay the same to the respective Collector in such case his or their Master or Mistress shall pay such Servants Assessment And it shall then be lawful for such Master or Mistress to deduct and stop the same out of such Wages as shall or ought to be next paid unto such Servant Any Law or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always That no person who receives Alms from the Parish Persons receiving Alms exempted nor the Children of any person remaining in his or her Family who by reason of their poverty doth not contribute to the Rates for the Church and Poor and who are under the age of Sixtéen years shall be charged or taxed by vertue of this present Act. Provided also and be it Enacted That every Alien-stranger born out of this Kingdom Aliens shall pay double shall pay double the sum which he or they ought to have paid in any capacity whatsoever in this Act mentioned in case he or they had béen natural born Subjects And be it further Enacted and Ordained Persons of several Ranks and Degrees That all and every person and persons who at the time of the execution of this Act shall be of the several Ranks and Degrées hereafter mentioned shall to the purpose aforesaid contribute and pay the several sums of money hereafter in this Act set down and appointed That is to say Duke Every person of the degrée of a Duke of England Scotland or Ireland inhabiting and residing within this Kingdom shall pay the sum of Fifty pounds Every person of the degrée of a Marquess of any of the said thrée Kingdoms Marquess inhabiting and residing within this Kingdom shall pay the sum of Fourty pounds Every person of the degrée of an Earl of any of the said thrée Kingdoms Earl and inhabiting or residing within this Kingdom the sum of Thirty pounds Viscount Every person of the degrée of a Viscount of any of the said thrée Kingdoms and inhabiting and residing within this Kingdom the sum of Twenty five pounds Every person of the degrée of a Baron of any of the said thrée Kingdoms Baron and inhabiting or residing within this Kingdom the sum of Twenty pounds Eldest Son of a Duke Every eldest Son of a Duke of any of the said thrée Kingdoms and inhabiting or residing within this Kingdom being of the age of One and twenty years the sum of Thirty pounds Eldest Son of a Marquess Every eldest Son of a Marquess of any of the said thrée Kingdoms and inhabiting and residing within this Kingdom being of the age of One and twenty years the sum of Twenty five pounds Eldest Son of an Earl Every eldest Son of an Earl of any of the said thrée Kingdoms and inhabiting or residing within this Kingdom being of the age of One and twenty years the sum of Twenty pounds Eldest Son of a Viscount Every eldest Son of a Viscount of any of the said thrée Kingdoms and inhabiting or residing within this Kingdom being of the age of One and twenty years the sum of Seventéen pounds ten shillings Eldest Son of a Baron Every eldest Son of a Baron of any of the said thrée Kingdoms and inhabiting or residing within this Kingdom being of the age of One and twenty years the sum of Fiftéen pounds Baronet Every person of the degrée of a Baronet of any of the said thrée Kingdoms or of Nova Scotia and inhabiting or residing within this Kingdom the sum of Fiftéen pounds Knight of the Bath Every person that is a Knight of the Order of the Bath inhabiting or residing within this Kingdom the sum of Fiftéen pounds Every person who is a Knight Batchelor Knight Batchelor Sergeant at Law Esquire inhabiting or residing within this Kingdom the sum of Ten pounds Every Sergeant at Law the sum of Ten pounds Every person of the degrée of an Esquire or so reputed inhabiting or residing within this Kingdom and above the age of One and twenty years the sum of Five pounds Every Widow respectively according to her Husbands degrée â—â—dow shall pay the third part rated by this Act upon that degrée of which the Husband of such Wife was in his life-time Gentleman And every Gentleman or reputed Gentleman above the age of Sixtéen years the sum of Twenty shillings Proviso for Gentlemen not having 300 l. Estate Provided always That every Gentleman having an Estate of the value of Thrée hundred pounds or more shall be charged with the sum of Twenty shillings by vertue of this Act though he be a Minor under the age of One and twenty years And no Gentleman not having such an Estate and shall thereof make Oath before any two or more of the respective Commissioners shall be charged with the said sum of Twenty shillings in respect of his Title And be it further Enacted and Ordained That all and every the person and persons within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed who at the time of the execution of this Act Orders Ranks and Degrees shall be of the several Orders Ranks or Degrées hereafter mentioned shall to the purpose aforesaid pay the several sums of money hereafter in this Act set down and appointed Archbishop Bishop that is to say Every person of the Order and Degrée of an Archbishop shall pay the sum of Fifty pounds Every person of the Order and Degrée of a Bishop the sum of Twenty pounds Dean Every person of the Degrée of a Dean of any Cathedral or Collegiate Church shall pay the sum of Ten pounds Archdeacon Every person of the Degrée of an Arch-Deacon shall pay the sum of Forty
upon this Act may be Assigned over And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person or persons to whom any moneys shall be due by vertue of this Act after Warrant or Order entred in the Book of Register aforesaid for payment thereof his Executors Administrators or Assigns by Indorsement of his Order or Warrant may assign and transfer his Right Title Interest and Benefit of such Warrant or Order or any part thereof to any other which being notified in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt aforesaid and an entry and memorial thereof also made in the Book of Registry aforesaid for Warrants which the Officers shall on request without Fée or charge accordingly make shall intitle such Assignée his Executors Administrators and Assigns to the benefit thereof and payment thereon And such Assignée may in like manner Assign again and so Toties quoties and afterwards it shall not be in the power of such person or persons who have made such Assignments to make void release or discharge the same or any the moneys thereby due or any part thereof Persons sued for executing this Act may plead the general issue And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Action Plaint Suit or Information shall be commenced or prosecuted against any person or persons for what he or they shall do in pursuance or in execution of this Act such person or persons so sued in any Court whatsoever shall or may plead the general Issue Not guilty and upon any Issue joyned may give this Act and the special matter in Evidence And if the Plaintiff or Prosecutor shall become Nonsuit or forbear further prosecution or suffer Discontinuance or if a Verdict pass against him the Defendant and Defendants shall recover their treble Costs for which they shall have the like remedy as in any Case where Costs by the Law are given to Defendants CAP. II. Cattel may not be imported from Ireland and other parts beyond the Seas nor Fish taken by Foreigners WHereas by an Act of this present Parliament entituled An Act for the Encouragement of Trade amongst other things some Provision was made for the preventing of coming in of vast Numbers of Cattel 1◠Car. 2. cap. 5. Stat. 3. whereby the Rents and Values of the Land of this Kingdome were much fallen and like dayly to fall more to the great Prejudice Detriment and Impoverishment of this Kingdom which nevertheless hath by experience béen found to be ineffectual and the continuance of any Importation either of the Lean or Fat Cattel dead or alive herein after specified not onely Vnnecessary but very Destructive to the welfare of this Kingdome Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That such Importation from and after the second day of February Importation of Cattel a common Nusance in this present year One thousand six hundred sixty and six is a publick and common Nusance and shall be so adjudged déemed and taken to be to all intents and purposes whatsoever And that if any great Cattel Shéep or Swine or any Béef Pork or Bacon except for the necessary Provision of the respective Ships or Vessels in which the same shall be brought not exposing the same or any part thereof to Sale shall from and after the said second day of February by any wise whatsoever be Imported or brought from beyond Seas into this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed That then it shall and may be lawful for any Constable The Penalty Tything-man Headborough Church-wardens or Overséers of the Poor or any of them within their respective Liberties Parishes or Places to take and seize the same and kéep the same during the space of Eight and fourty hours in some publick or convenient place where such Seizure shall be made within which time if the Owner or Owners or any for them or him shall make it appear unto some Iustice of the Peace of the same County where the same shall be so seized by the Oath of two credible Witnesses which Oath the said Iustice of Peace is hereby impowred and required to administer That the same were not Imported from Ireland or from any other place beyond the Seas not herein after Excepted after the said second day of February Then the same upon the Warrant of such Iustice of Peace shall be delivered without delay But in default of such Proof and Warrant then the same to be forfeited One half thereof to be disposed to the use of the Poor of the Parish where the same shall be so found or seized the other half to be to his or their own use that shall so seize the same And for the better encouragement of the Fishery of this Kingdom Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Ling Herring Cod or Pilchard fresh or salted Encouragement of Fishery dryed or bloated or any Salmons Eels or Congers taken by any Foreigners Aliens to this Kingdom shall be Imported uttered sold or exposed to sale in this Kingdom That then it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons to take and seize the same The one half thereof to be disposed of to the use of the Poor of the Parish where the same shall be so found or seized the other half to his or their own use which shall so seize the same Provided always That nothing in this Act shall be construed to hinder the Importation of Cattel from the Isle of Man in this Kingdom of England Isle of Man so as the number of the said Cattel do not excéed Six hundred Head yearly And that they be not of any other Bréed then of the Bréed of the Isle of Man And that they be landed at the Port of Chester or some of the Members thereof and not elsewhere This Act to continue until the end of Seven years and from thence to the end of the First Session of the next Parliament CAP. III. A former Act for preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England Continued WHereas an Act was made in the Fourtéenth year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord the King that now is entituled 14 Car. 2. cap. 22. An Act for preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England which Act is very near expiring and hath béen found very necessary for the preservation of those places from that great number of Lewd Disorderly and Lawless persons that usually frequented thereabouts Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That the said Act and every Clause and Clauses therein contained and all and every the Powers and Authorities thereby given be continue and remain
in course And that the Gold and Silver brought in and Coyned as aforesaid shall be in the same order delivered to the respective bringers in thereof their Executors Administrators or Assigns successively without preference of one before the other and not otherwise And if any undue preference be made in Entring of any Gold or Silver or delivering out of any money Coyned contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act by any Officer or Officers of the Mint or Mints Penalty then the party or parties offending shall be liable by Action of Debt or in the Case to pay the value of the Gold or Silver brought in and not Entred and Delivered according to the true intent and meaning and direction of this Act as aforesaid with Damages and Costs to the party or parties grieved and shall be fore-judged from his or their Place or Office And if such preference be unduly made by any of his or their Deputy or Deputies Clerk or Clerks without direction or privity of his or their Master or Masters then such Deputy or Deputies Clerk or Clerks onely shall be liable to such Action Damage and Costs as aforesaid and be for ever after uncapable of serving or bearing Office in any Mint in the Kingdom of England Provided always That it shall not be interpreted any undue preference to incur any penalty in point of Delivery of moneys Coyned if the Officer or Officers What shall not be an undue preference or their Deputies or Clerks shall deliver out or pay any moneys Coyned to any person or persons that do come and demand the same upon subsequent Entries before others that did not come to demand their moneys in their order and course so as there be so much money reserved as will satisfie them which shall not be otherwise disposed of but kept for them And for the more orderly and clear performance thereof Be it Enacted And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Master-worker of His Majesties Mint or Mints for the time being shall at the time of the Delivery and Entry of any Gold or Silver in the said Mint or Mints give unto the bringer or bringers in thereof to be Coyned a Bill under his hand denoting the Weight Fineness and Value thereof together with the Day and Order of its Delivery into the said Mint or Mints And for the further Encouragement and Assurance of such as shall bring any Gold or Silver into his Majesties said Mint or Mints to be Coyned Be it Enacted There shall be no seisure or forfeiture c. of any Gold or Silver brought in to be coyned And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Confiscation Forfeiture Seizure Attachment Stop or Restraint whatsoever shall be made in the said Mint or Mints of any Gold or Silver brought in to be Coyned for or by reason of any Imbargo breach of the Peace Letters of Mart or Reprisal or War with any Foreign Nation or upon any other accompt or pretence whatsoever But that all Gold and Silver brought into any of his Majesties Mint or Mints within the Kingdom of England to be Coyned shall truly and with all convenient spéed be Coyned and delivered out to the respective bringer or bringers in thereof their Executors Administrators or Assigns according to the Rules and Directions of this Act. And whereas it cannot be reasonably expected that the Expence Waste and Charge in Assaying Melting down and Coynage be born by Your Majesty And for the further encouragement of Coynage Be it Enacted And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid An Imposition set upon Wines Vinegar Sider or Beer Imported That for every Tun of Wines Vineger Sider or Béer that shall be Imported or brought into the Port of London or into any other Port Créek or place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed from any parts beyond the Seas or Scotland from and after the Twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and six there shall be Levied Collected and paid the sum of Ten shillings And for every Tun of Brandy-wines or Strong-waters that shall be imported as abovesaid the sum of Twenty shillings Brandy-wine Strong-water and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity to be Levied Collected and paid at the respective Custom-Houses to the Collectors and other Officers of the Customs for the time being at the Importation of the said Commodities over and above all other Duties charged leviable and payable upon the said Commodities and to be by them distinguished and kept apart from all other moneys by them Collected and Levied upon the same Commodities or upon any other Commodities or Merchandizes whatsoever and to be by the said Collector or Collectors respectively so answered and paid Quarterly into the Receipt of the Exchequer of Your Majesty Your Heirs and Successors there also to be kept distinct and apart from all other moneys arising by the Customs or by any other way or Revenue whatsoever which said Duty they are hereby injoyned to receive and pay according to the several Directions of this Act without any Salary or Fée And be it further Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid That all manner of Wines Vinegar Sider Béer Brandy-wines and Strong-waters Imported as aforesaid shall pay their several and respective Duties imposed by this Act And upon non-payment thereof shall be liable to such and the same pains penalties and forfeitures as in and by the late Acts for Tunnage and Poundage and for Frauds are Enacted and appointed upon non-payment of the Duties by the said Acts imposed upon Goods and Merchandises of the same nature with those mentioned in this Act. Provided always and it is hereby Enacted That for what of the aforesaid Commodities shall be Transported into any parts beyond the Seas within the term and space of one year after the Importation thereof That the Duty paid by this Act for the same shall be repaid by the respective Collectors of the Customs for the time being And it is hereby further Enacted That no moneys leviable and payable by this Act shall be applied or converted to any use or uses whatsoever Moneys leviable upon this Act shall be imployed onely to the use of the Mint other then to the defraying the charge or expence of the Mint or Mints and of the Assaying Melting down Waste and Coynage of Gold and Silver and the encouragement of the bringing in of Gold and Silver into the said Mint or Mints there to be Coyned into the current Coyns of this Kingdom Nor shall any of the said Moneys be issued out of the Exchequer but by Order or Warrant of the Lord Treasurer and Vnder-Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being to the Master and Worker or Masters and Workers of Your Majesties Mint or Mints for the time being and mentioning That they
of them then present have power to discharge such Fine or Imprisonment if they think fit And for non-payment of the Fine so imposed and not remitted to Imprison the Party offending until payment thereof which said Fines shall be paid to the Clerk of the Chest for the use of the maimed Seamen And that the examination of Witnesses be upon Oath before him or them which they any one or more of them are accordingly impowred to Administer And it is further by Authority aforesaid Enacted That the said Officers and Commissioners or any one or more of them in cases where greater example or punishment is néedful may also bind the person or persons so offending to their good behaviour with or without Securities as occasion shall be Imbezeling of Stores and Ammunition of the Navy And whereas divers of His Majesties Stores and Ammunition pertaining to His Navy and Shipping or Service thereof are imbezelled or filched away It is by the like Authority Enacted That the said Principal Officers and Commissioners or any one or more of them by Warrant under their Hands and Seals have power in like manner to inquire and search for the same in all places as Iustices of Peace may do in case of Felony and punish the Offenders by such Fine and Imprisonment as aforesaid and cause the Goods to be brought in again And if the Offence be of such nature as doth require an higher and severer punishment Then that they any one or more of them may commit such Offender to the next Gaol or to the custody of their Messenger or Messengers aforesaid till he or they offending enter into Recognizance with Surety or Sureties according to the nature of the Offence to appear and answer to the same in His Majesties Court of Exchequer or other Court where His Majesty shall question him or them for the same within one year following on Process duly served for that purpose on such Offender or Offenders And it is Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That they the said Principal Officers and Commissioners or any one or more of them may put in use the said Powers on the Offenders as aforesaid in all places where they hold an Office for His Majesty as well within Liberties as without Any Law Statute Ordinance Charter or Priviledge to the contrary notwithstanding Encouragement of Mariners and Souldiers serving in the Fleet. And for the better encouraging of such Mariners and Souldiers as now do or shall serve His Majesty in His Fléet or Ships during this War Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Ordinary Register or other Officer belonging to any Ecclesiastical Court or Court of Orphans or any Iurisdiction whatsoever within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick shall take or receive of the Executor or Administrator Executors or Administrators of any Mariner or Souldier dying in the pay of His Majesties Navy during this present War above the sum of Twelve pence for the Probate of any Will Registring the same granting Letters of Administration exhibiting any Inventory or for any other matter or thing relating thereunto And for every default herein by wilful delay in the doing granting or executing the Premisses the person or persons so offending shall forfeit to the party grieved the sum of Ten pounds to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster or elsewhere wherein no Essoign Priviledge Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed Any Law or Statute or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding The Continuance of this Act. This Act to continue for Two years from the First day of February One thousand six hundred sixty and six and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament CAP. VIII Twelve hundred fifty six thousand three hundred fourty seven pounds thirteen shillings granted to the Kings Majesty towards the Maintenance of the present War VVE Your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons assembled in Parliament as a further Aid and Assistance of Your Majesty during the present Wars have given and granted and by these presents do give and grant unto Your most Excellent Majesty the sum of Twelve hundred fifty six thousand three hundred fourty seven pounds thirteen shillings to be raised and levied in manner following And we do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the sum of Twelve hundred fifty six thousand three hundred fourty seven pounds thirteen shillings shall be raised levied and paid unto Your Majesty within the space of eleven Moneths in manner following that is to say Whereas in and by a certain Act of Parliament lately passed Entituled 16 17 Car. 2. cap. 1. An Act for granting a Royal Aid unto the Kings Majesty of Twenty four hundred threescore and seventeen thousand and five hundred pounds to be raised levied and paid in the space of three years It was amongst other things Enacted That the sum of threescore and eight thousand eight hundred and nineteen pounds and nine shillings by the Moneth for thirty six Moneths from the five and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty four should be assessed taxed collected levied and paid by twelve quarterly payments in the several Counties Cities Boroughs Towns and places within England and Wales and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed according to the several Rates and Proportions and in such manner as in the said Act is expressed And whereas also in and by one other Act of Parliament passed in the Sessions of Parliament lately held at Oxford Entituled 17 Car. 2. c. ◠An Act for granting the sum of Twelve hundred and fifty thousand pounds to the Kings Majesty for his present further Supply It was amongst other things further Enacted That the sum of fifty two thousand fourscore and three pounds six shillings eight pence by the Moneth for twenty four Moneths beginning from the five and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty and five should be likewise assessed taxed collected levied and paid by eight Quarterly payments in the several Cities Boroughs Towns and places within England and Wales and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed over and above the said sum of threescore and eight thousand eight hundred and nineteen pounds and nine shillings as an addition to and increase of the said Monethly Assessment according to the Rates and Proportions therein expressed Both which sums together amount unto the sum of one hundred and twenty thousand nine hundred and two pounds fifteen shillings eight pence by the Moneth And whereas also in and by one other Act of Parliament passed in the same Sessions Entituled An Act for Granting One
or the like for the better carrying on of this service Not exceeding six pence in the pound for their salaries The Revenue to be paid into the Exchequer and not to be charged with any gift or Pension as He and they shall think fit so as the Salaries and Wages of all such Officers to be appointed together with the Salary or wages of his Majesties said Agents do not excéed six pence in the pound of the Revenue that shall hence arise And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Rents Revenues and sums of Money hence arising except what shall be allowed for the Wages and Salaries of such Officers and Ministers which is not to excéed six pence out of every pound thereof shall be duly and constantly paid and answered into his Majesties Receipt of Exchequer and shall not be particularly charged or chargable either before it be paid into the Exchequer or after with any gift or Pension And his Majesties said Agents are hereby enjoyned and required to return into the Court of Exchequer The Agents to return into the Exchequer in Michaelmas Easter Terms what Licenses they have granted every Michaelmas and Easter Terms upon their Oaths which Oaths the Barons of the Exchequer or any one of them are hereby authorized to administer a Book fairly written containing a full and true account of what Licences have béen granted the preceding half year and what Rents and sums of money are thereupon reserved and have béen paid or are in arrear together with the securities of the persons so in arrear to the end due and spéedy process may be made out according to the course of the Exchequer for the recovery of the same Proviso for the two Vniversities and their priviledges Provided alwayes That this Act nor any thing therein contained shall not in any wise be prejudicial to the priviledg of the two Vniversities of the Land or either of them nor to the Chancellors or Scholars of the same or their Successors but that they may use and enioy such priviledges as heretofore they have lawfully used and enjoyed any thing herein to the contrary notwithstanding Proviso for the Society of the Vintners of London Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be prejudicial to the Master Wardens Fréemen and Commonalty of the Mystery of Vintners of the City of London or to any other City or Town Corporate but that they may use and enjoy such Liberties and Priviledges as heretofore they have lawfully used and enjoyed any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Proviso for the Burrough of St. Albans Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not in any wise extend to debar or hinder the Mayor and Burgesses of the Burrough of St. Albans in the County of Hertford or their Successors from enjoying using and exercising of all such Liberties Powers and Authorities to them heretofore granted by several Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England by Queen Elizabeth and King James of famous memories for the erecting appointing and Licensing of thrée several Wine-Taverns within the Burrough aforesaid for and towards the maintenance of the Frée-School there but that the same Liberties Powers and Authorities shall be and are hereby established and confirmed and shall remain and continue in and to the said Mayor and Burgesses and their Successors to and for the charitable use aforesaid and according to the tenor of the Letters Patents aforesaid as though this Act had never béen made any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Fâ—es of the Officers Provided also That it shall not nor may be lawfull to or for any Officer or Officers to be appointed by his Majesty for the carrying on of this service to take demand or receive any Fées Rewards or sums of money whatsoever for or in respect of this Service other then five shillings for a Licence Four pence for an Acquittance and six pence for a Bond under the penalty of ten pounds one moyety thereof to the Kings Majesty the other moyety to the person or persons who shall sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Wager of Law Essoign or Protection shall be allowed any thing herein or any other matter or thing to the contrary notwithstanding There shall be no mixture of other wines or things And it is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Merchant Vintner Wine-Cooper or other person selling or retailing any Wine shall mingle or utter any Spanish Wine mingled with any French Wine or Rhenish Wine Syder Perry Honey Sugar Syrups of Sugar Molasses or any other Syrups whatsoever nor put in any Isinglass Brimstone Lime Raisins Iuice of Raisins Water nor any other Liquor nor Ingredients nor any Clary or other herb nor any sort of flesh whatsoever And that no Merchant Vintner Wine-Cooper or other person selling or retailing any Wine shall mingle or utter any French Wines mingled with any Rhenish Wines or Spanish Wines Syder Perry Stummed Wine Vitriol Honey Sugar Syrup of Sugar Molasses or any Syrups whatsoever nor put in any Isinglas Brimstome Lime Raisins Iuice of Raisins Water nor any other Liquor or Ingredients nor any Clary or other herb nor any sort of flesh whatsoever And that no Merchant Vintner Wine-Cooper or other person selling or retailing any wine shall mingle or utter any Rhenish-Wine mingled with any French Wines or Spanish Wines Syder Perry Stummed Wine Vitriol Honey Sugar Syrups of Sugar Molasses or any other Syrups whatsoever nor put in any Isinglass Brimstone Lime Raisins Iuice of Raisins Water nor any other Liquor or Ingredients nor any Clary or other herb nor any sort of flesh whatsoever The penalties or mingling or abusing any Wines And that all and every person and persons committing any of the offences aforesaid shall incur the pains and penalties herein after mentioned That is to say Every Merchant Wine-Cooper or other person selling any sort of Wines in gross mingled or abused as aforesaid shall forfeit and lose for every such offence one hundred pounds And that every Vintner or other person selling any sorts of Wine by retail mingled or abused as aforesaid shall forfeit and lose for every such offence the sum of Forty pounds of which forfeitures one moyety shall go unto the Kings Maiesty his Heirs and Successors the other moyety to the Informer to be recovered in any Court of Record by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed Provided alwayes And be it Enacted That from and after the first day of September The Prises of Wines One thousand six hundred sixty and one no Canary-Wines Muskie or Alegant or other Spanish or swéet Wines shall be sold or uttered by any person or persons within his Majesties
Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed by retail for above Eightéen pence the quart And that no Gascoigne or French Wines whatsoever shall be sold by Retail above eight pence the quart And that no Rhenish Wines whatsoever shall be sold by retail above Twelve pence the quart And according to these rates The Penalties for a greater and lesser quantity all and every the said Wines shall and may be sold upon pain and penalty that every such person or persons who shall utter or sell any of the said Wines by retail that is to say by Pint Quart Pottle or Gallon or any other greater or lesser Retail-measure at any rate excéeding the Rates hereby limited do and shall forfeit for every such Pint Quart Pottle Gallon or other greater or lesser quantity so sold by retail the sum of Five pounds the one moyety of which forfeiture shall be to our Soveraign Lord the King His Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that shall sue for the same to be recovered in manner and form as aforesaid Provided nevertheless The Lord Chancellor c. may set the Prises of Wines yearly or alter the same That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Chancellor of England Lord Treasurer Lord President of the Kings Councel Lord Privy Seal and the two Chief Iustices or Five Four or Thrée of them And they are hereby Authorized yearly and every year betwéen the twentieth of November and the last day of December and no other times to set the Prises of all and every the said Wines to be sold by retail as aforesaid at higher or lower rates then are herein contained so that they or any of them cause the Prises by them set to be written and open Proclamation thereof to be made in the Kings Court of Chancery yearly in the Term time or else in the City Burrough or Towns Corporate where any such Wine shall be sold And that all and every the said Wines shall and may be sold by retail at such prises as by them or any Five Four or thrée of them shall be set as aforesaid from time to time for the space of one whole year to commence from the first day of February next after the setting thereof and no longer and no greater prises under the pains and penalties aforesaid to be recovered as aforesaid and afterwards And in default of such setting of prises by the said Lord Chancellor of England Lord Treasurer Lord President of the Kings Councel Lord Privy Seal and the two Chief Iustices or Five Four or Thrée of them as aforesaid at the respective Rates and Prises set by this Act and under the penalties as aforesaid to be recovered as aforesaid Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XXVI The levying of the Twelve Moneths Assessment commencing the 24th of June 1659. and the six Moneths Assessment commencing the Twenty Fifth of December 1659. EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XXVII Four hundred and twenty thousand pounds by an Assessment of Threescore and ten Thousand pounds by the Moneth Granted for Six Moneths for Disbanding the Remainder of the Army and paying off the Navy with Rules and Instructions for the same EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XXVIII Further supplying and explaining certain defects in an Act Intituled An Act for the provision of money for Disbanding and paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XXIX Seventy thousand pounds to be raised for the further supply of His Majesty EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XXX The Attainder of several persons Guilty of the Horrid Murther of His late Sacred Majesty King Charles the First IN all humble manner shew unto Your most Excellent Majesty Your Majesties most dutiful and loyal Subjectts the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled That the Horrid and Execrable Murther of Your Majesties Royal Father The horrid murder of King Charles the first how first contrived and plotted our late most Gracious Soveraign Charles the First of ever blessed and glorious memory hath béen committed by a party of wretched men desperately wicked and hardned in their Impiety who having first plotted and contrived the ruine and destruction of this excellent Monarchy and with it of the true Reformed Protestant Religion which had béen so long protected by it and flourished under it found it necessary in order to the carrying on of their pernicious and traiterous designs to throw down all the Bullwarks and Fences of Law and to subvert the very being and constitution of Parliament that so they might at last make their way open for any further attempts upon the Sacred Person of his Maiesty himself And that for the more easy effecting thereof they did first seduce some part of the then Army into a compliance and then kept the rest in subjection to them partly for hopes of preferment and chiefly for fear of losing their imployments and arrears untill by these and other more odious arts and devices they had fully strengthened themselves both in power and faction which being done they did declare against all manner of Treaties with the person of the King even then while a Treaty by advice of both Houses of Parliament was in being Remonstrate against the Houses of Parliament for such procéedings seize upon his Royal person while the Commissioners were returned to the House of Parliament with his Answer and when his Concessions had béen Voted a ground for peace seize upon the House of Commons seclude and imprison some Members force out others and there being left but a small remnant of their own Creatures not a tenth part of the whole did séek to shelter themselves by this weak pretence under the name and Authority of a Parliament and in that name laboured to prosecute what was yet behind and unfinished of their long intended Treason and Conspiracy To this purpose they prepared an Ordinance for erecting a prodigious and unheard of Triennal which they called An High Court of Justice for Tryal of his Majesty and having easily procured it to pass in their House of Commons as it then stood moulded ventured to send it up from thence to the Péers then sitting who totally rejected it whereupon their rage and fury increasing they presume to pass it alone as an Act of the Commons and in the name of the Commons of England and having gained the pretence of Law made by a power of their own making pursue it with all possible force and cruelty until at last upon the thirtieth day of January one thousand six hundred forty and eight His Sacred Majesty was brought unto a Scaffold and there publickly Murthered before the Gates of his own Royal Palace And because by this Horrid action the Protestant Religion hath received the greatest wound and reproach and the people of England the most insupportable shame and infamy that was