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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82435	Anno Regni Caroli II. Regis Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, duodecimo. At the Parliament begun at Westminster, the five and twentieth day of April, an. Dom. 1660 In the twelfth year of the reign of our most gracious soveraign lord Charles, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); England and Wales. Parliament.	1661 (1661)	Wing E1095; Thomason E1075_27	58,399	149

or be prejudicial to the Master Wardens Freemen and Commonalty of the Mystery of V●●tners 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 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 Major 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 Three several Wine-Taverns within the Burrough aforesaid for and towards the maintenance of the Free-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 Major 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 been made any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Provided also That it shall not nor may be lawful to or for any Officer or Officers to be appointed by His Majesty for the carrying on of this service to take demand or recei●e any Fees Rewards or summs 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 ●enalty of Ten pounds one moiety thereof to the Kings Majesty the other moiety 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 And it is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Merchant Vintuer Wine-Cooper or other person selling or retailing any Wine shall mingle or utter any Spanish Wine mingled with any French Wine or Rh●●ish Wine Sider Perry Hony Sugar Syrops of Sugar Molasses or any other Syrops 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 Rhinish Wines or Spanish Wines Sider Perry Stummed Wine Vitriol Hony Sugar Syrop of Sugar Molasses or any Syrops 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 And that no Merchant Vintner Wine-Cooper or other person selling or retailing any Wine shall mingle or utter any R●inish Wine mingled with any French Wines or Spanish Wines Sider Perry Stummed Wine Vitriol Hony Sugar Syrops of Sugar Molasses or any other Syrops 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 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 Majesty 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 Essoigne Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed Provided always and be it Enacted That from and after the First day of September One thousand six hundred sixty and one no Canary Wines Muskie or Alegant or other Spanish or sweet 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 Twede by retail for above Eighteen pence the quart And that no Gascoigne or French Wines whatsoever shall be sold by retail above Eight pence the quart And that no Rhinish Wines whatsoever shall be sold by retail above Twelve pence the quart And according to these Rates 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 and 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 exceeding 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 will sue for the same to be recovered in manner and form as aforesaid Provided nevertheless That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Chancellor of England Lord Treasurer Lord President of the Kings Council Lord Privy Seal and the two Chief Iustices or Five Four or Three of them And they are hereby Authorized yearly and every year between the Twentieth day 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 Wines 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 Three 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 Council Lord Privy Seal and the Two Chief Iustices or Five

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 considerable Commodities which it was wont formerly to have onely 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 Customes 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 the Authority of the same 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 Seed 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 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 and of the sum of forty shillings for every Rod or Pole of Ground to Planted Set or Sowen as aforesaid and so portionablely for a greater or 〈◊〉 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 Essoign Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed And it is hereby further Enacted That all Sheriffs Iustices of the Peace Maiors Bailiffs Contrables 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 days after such Information or Complaint cause to be burnt plucked up consumed or utterly destroyed all such Tobacco so Set Sowen Planted or Growing 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 Destress shall be made and Sale thereof returning the Over-plus to the Owners And in case no Destress be to be found That then every such party shall be committed to the Common Gaol in the County where such Offence shall be committed there to remain for the space of two Moneths without Bail or Main-prize Provided always 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 University or in any other private Garden for Physick or Chirurgery onely so as the quantity so Planted exceed not one half of one Pole in any one place or Garden Anno XII CAROLI II. Regis An Act for erecting and establishing a Post-Office WHereas for the maintenance of mutual Correspondencies and prevention of many Inconveniences happening by private Posts severall publique Post-Offices have been heretofore erected for carrying and recarrying of Letters by Posts to and from all parts and places within England Scotland and Ireland and severall parts beyond the Seas the well-ordering whereof 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 speedy and safe dispatches may be had which is most likely to be effected by ere●ting one general Post-Office for that purpose Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty 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 established in some convenient place within the City of Lond●n from whence all Letters and Pacquets whatsoever may be with speed and expedition sent unto any part of the Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland or any other of his Majesties Dominions or unto any Kingdome or Countrey 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 or constituted by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England by the name and style of his Majesties Post-Master Generall 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 speed and delivering of all Letters 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 Kingdomes and Countreys 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 Carryers 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 Proceedings or the Returnes thereof issuing out of any Court And be it furtther Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such Postmaster Generall 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

by the Authority aforesaid That the Governor of the said Isle of Jersey or his Deputy for whom he will answer shall not make to any person or persons any writing or writings such as is above specified to authorise or appoint such person or persons as aforesaid to fetch e●port or transport out of the Port of Southampton aforesaid unto the said Isle of Jersey in one year accompting the year from the first day of January One thousand six hundred and sixty aforesaid any greater quantity of VVool then Two thousand Tods in any one year and that the Governor of the said Isle of Guernzey or his Deputy for whom he will answer shall not make to any person or persons any writing or writings such as is above specified to authorise and appoint such person or persons as aforesaid to fetch export or transport out of the Port above specified unto the said Isles of Guernzey with Alderny and Sarke in any one year accepting the year from the first day of January aforesaid any greater quantity of VVooll then One thousand Tods for Guernzey Two hundred Todds for Alderney and One hundred Todds for Sarke in any one year and that the Customer of the Port of Southampton aforesaid shall keep a true accompt of all the said quantity of Woolls so by him permitted to be loaden by vertue of this Act and shall not permit any greater quantity of VVoolls to be loaden then by this Act is prescribed in any one year to either of the said Islands respectively under any pretence whatsoever upon the penalty of the forfeiture of his place and the summe of One hundred pounds in money one moyety whereof to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same in any Court of Record wherein no Essoyne protection or wager of Law shall be allowed And if any of the Governors aforesaid or any their or either of their Deputy or Deputies of the said Isles or either of them shall give grant or make any Licence or Licences for exporting from Southampton aforesaid into the said Isles respectively of any greater quantity of such VVooll then is before by the true meaning of this Act limitted and appointed in that behalf That then the respective Governor or Governors of such of the said Isles shall forfeit and pay to the Kings Majesty His Heirs or Successors the summ of Twenty pounds of lawful money of ●ngland for every Todd of VVooll which shall be so licenced to be exported over and above the rate or proportion of VVooll in and by this Act or the true meaning thereof limited or appointed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective Governors aforesaid or their respective Deputies or any their Clerks Officers or Servants for the Granting making or Sealing of every such writing of Licence as is aforesaid and for the entring a Remembrance of the same into some book which they shall have and keep for that purpose may have and take the summ of Twelve pence and no more upon pain of Forfeiting to be partie grieved the summ of Five shillings for every penny which shall be taken over and above the said summ of twelve pence in and by this Act allowed to be taken and so after that proportion the said penalty or Forfeiture for the taking above Twelve pence as aforesaid to be recovered by Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record at Westminster or elsewhere wherein no Injunction Protection Priviledge Essoyne or wager of Law shall be admitted or allowed Anno Regni CAROLI IJ. REGIS Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae DUODECIMO At the Parliament begun at Westminster the Five and twentieth day or April An. Dom. 1660. In the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Our most Gracious Soveraign Lord CHARLES By the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. LONDON Printed by JOHN BILL Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1660. CUM PRIVILEGIO Anno XII CAROLI II. Regis An Act for Confirmation of Marriages WHereas by vertue or colour of certain Ordinances or certain pretended Acts or Ordinances divers marriages since the beginning of the late troubles have bee● had and solemnized in some other manner then hath been formerly used and accustomed Now for the preventing and avoyding of all doubts and questions touching the same It is Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the advice and assent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the ●ame That all Marriages had or Solemnized in any of his Majesties Dominions since the first day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and two before any Iustice of Peace or reputed Iustice of Peace of England or Wales or other his Majesties Dominions and by such Iustice or reputed Iustice so pronounced or declared And all Marriages within any of His Majesties Dominions since the same first day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty two had or solemnized according to the 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 esteemed and taken to be and to have been of the same and no other force and effect as if such Marriages had been had and solemnized according to the Rites and Ceremonies established or used in the Church or Kingdom of England any Law Custome or Vsage to the contrary thereof notwithstanding And be it further Enacted that where in any Suite commenced or to be commenced in any of the Courts of the Common Law any issue hath beén joyned and not already tryed or determined or shall be joyne● upon the point of Bastardy or lawfulness 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 Tryal of other issues tryable by Iury at the Common Law and not otherwise any Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Anno XII CAROLI II. Regis An Act for Prohibiting the Planting Setting or Sowing of Tobacco in England and Ireland YOur Majesties loyal and obedient Subjects The Lords and Commo●s in this present Parliament Assembled considering of how great concern and importance it is That the Columes 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 onely in regard great and considerable Dominions and Countries have been thereby gained 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