paratus est verificare or Hoc paratus est verificare per Recordum or for not alledging Prout patet per Recordum or for that there is no right Venue so as the Cause were tried by a Iury of the proper County or Place where the Action is laid Nor any Iudgment after Verdict Confession by Cognovit Actionem or Relicta verificatione shall be reversed for want of Misericordia or Capiatur or by reason that a Capiatur is entred for a Misericordia or a Misericordia is entred where a Capiatur ought to have been entred Nor for that Ideo concessum est per Curiam is entred for Ideo consideratum est per Curiam nor for that the Increase of Costs after a Verdict in an Action or upon a Nonsuit in Replevin are not entred to be at the request of the party for whom the Iudgement is given nor by reason that the Costs in any Iudgment whatsoever are not entred to be by consent of the Palintiff but that all such Omissions Variances Defects and all other matters of like nature not being against the right of the matter of the suit nor whereby the Issue or Trial are altered shall be amended by the Iustices or other Iudges of the Courts where such Iudgements are or shall be given or whereunto the Record is or shall be removed by Writ of Error Proviso for Appeals Indictments Actions upon penal Laws other then for Customs and Subsidies Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to any Writ Declaration or suit of Appeal of Felony or Murder nor to any Indictment or Presentment of Felony Murder Treason or other matter nor to any Processe upon any of them nor to any Writ Bill Action or Information upon any penal Statute other then concerning Customes and Subsidies of Tunnage and Poundage Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the Twentieth day of March III. In what cases execution shall not be stayed by Writ of Error but upon Recognizance entred according to ◠Jac. cap. 8. in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and four no Execution shall be stayed in any of the aforesaid Courts by Writ of Error or Supersedeas thereupon after Verdict and Iudgment thereupon in any Action personal whatsoever unless a Recognizance with Condition according to the Statute made in the Third year of the Reign of our late Soveraign Lord King James shall be first acknowledged in the Court where such Iudgement shall be given And further That in Writs of Error to be brought upon any Iudgement after Verdict in any Writ of Dower or in any Action of Ejection◠Firmae no execution shall be thereupon or thereby stayed unless the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs in such Writ of Error shall be bound unto the Plaintiff in such Writ of Dower or Action of Ejectione firmae in such reasonable sum as the Court to which such Writ of Error shall be directed shall think fit with Condition that if the Iudgment shall be affirmed in the said Writ of Error or that the said Writ of Error be discontinued in default of the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs therein or that the said Plaintiff or Plaintiffs be nonsuit in such Writs of Error that then the said Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall pay such Costs Damages and sum and sums of Money as shall be awarded upon or after such Iudgment affirmed Discontinuance or Nonsuit had And to the end that the same sum and sums and damages may be ascertained Proviso touching judgment in Dower and Ejectione firmae It is further Enacted That the Court wherein such Execution ought to be granted upon such Affirmation Discontinuance or Nonsuit shall issue a Writ to enquire as well of the mean profits as of the damages by any Waste committed after the first Iudgment in Dower or in Ejectione firmae And upon the Return thereof Iudgment shall be given and Execution awarded for such Mesne-profits and damages and also for Costs of Suit Provided That this Act nor any thing therein contained shall not extend to any Writ of Error to be brought by any Executor or Administrator nor unto any Action popular To what actions this Act shall not extend nor unto any other Action which is or hereafter shall be brought upon any Penal Law or Statute except Actions of Debt for not setting forth of Tythes nor to any Indictment Presentment Inquisition Information or Appeal Any thing herein before expressed to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided always That this Act shall continue in force for three years The continuance of this Act. and to the end of the next Session of Parliament after the expiration of the said thrée years and no longer CAP. IX The Chancellour of the Dutchy impowred to grant Commissions for taking Affidavits within the Dutchy-Liberties FOr the greater ease and benefit of the Inhabitants within the County Palatine of Lancaster and other places within several other Counties of this Kingdom within the Survey of the Court of Dutchy-Chamber at VVestminster in the taking of Affidavits in the County to be made use of and read in Causes depending and to be depending within the said Court Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Maiesty 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 Chancellor of the said Dutchy and County Palatine of Lancaster for the time being shall and may by one or more Commission or Commissions from time to time as need shall require impower what and as many persons as he shall think fit and necessary within the said County Palatine and other Dutchy Liberties to take and receive all and every such Affidavit or Affidavit's as any person or persons shall be willing and desirous to make before any of the persons so impowred in or concerning any cause matter or thing depending or hereafter to be depending in the said Court of Dutchy-Chamber as Masters of Chancery in Extraordinary do use to do which said Affidavits shall be filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Court of the Dutchy and then be read and made use of in the said Court to all intents and purposes as other Affidavits taken in the said Court now are Provided That for the taking of every such Affidavit the person or persons so impowred and taking the same shall for so doing receive only the Sum or Fée of Twelve pence and no more CAP. X. An Act for Repairing the High-ways within the County of Hertford continued WHereas by a late Act of Parliament Intituled An Act for repairing the High-ways within the Counties of Hertford Cambridg and Huntington It was Enacted 15 Car. 2. c. 1. That for the Repairing of
offending to Gaol till the next Sessions there to be indicted and procéeded against for the same and that the Officers and Inhabitants of the Village or Parish where such offence shall happen shall be assistant therein and moreover the party grieved shall have his Action or Actions against such offender or offenders and therein recover his treble damages and treble costs In which Action no Essoin Wager of Law Aid-prayer Priviledge Protection Imparlance Iniunction or Order of Restraint No action upon this Statute to be stayed but by Order of the Court where such action depends shall be granted or allowed And if any person or persons shall after notice given that the Action depending is grounded upon this Statute cause or procure any Action at the common Law grounded on this Statute to be delayed or stayed before Iudgment by colour or means of any Order Power Warrant or Authority save onely of the Court where such Action shall be brought and depending or after Iudgment had upon such Action shall cause or procure Execution of such Iudgment to be stayed or delayed by colour or means of any Order Warrant Power or Authority save only by Writ of Errour or Attaint or Order of such Court where such Writof Errour or Attaint shall be depending That then the person so offending shall incur the pains penalties Premunire and forfeitures ordained and provided by the Statute of Provision and Premunire made in the sixtéenth year of the Reign of King Richard the second Provided alwayes That this Act extend not to prejudice any of His Majesties Rights Titles or Duties of in or to or out of any Tinne in the Stannaries of Devon and Cornwall Proviso for the Stannaries Butserage Prisage nor to prejudice the ancient Duties of Butlerage and Prizage of Wines but that the same shall be in the same plight that the same were before the making of this Act any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Recompence to his Majesty for the Court of Wards and Purveyances And now to the intent and purpose that His Majesty His Heirs and Successors may receive a full and ample Recompence and Satisfaction as well for the profits of the said Court of Wards and the Tenures Wardships Liveries Primer-Seizins Ousterlemaines and other the Premisses and Perquisites incident thereunto and for all Arrears any way due for the same as also for all and all manner of Purveyance and Provisions herein before mentioned and intended to be taken away and abolished and all sums of money due or pretended to be due or payable for and in respect of any compositions for the same 12 Car. 2. cap. 23. Rates of the Excise Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That there shall be paid unto the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors for ever hereafter in recompence as aforesaid the several Rates Impositions Duties and Charges herein after expressed and in manner and form following that is to say For every Barrel of Beer or Ale above six shillings the barrel brewed by the Common Brewer or any other Person or Persons who doth or shall sell or tap out beer or Ale publickly or privately to be paid by the common Brewer or by such other person or persons respectively and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity One shilling three pence XV. d. For every barrel of Six shillings Beer or Ale or under brewed by the common Brewer or any other person or persons who doth or shall sell or tap out such Beer or Ale publickly or privately to be paid by the said common Brewer or by such other person or persons respectively as aforesaid and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity three pence iij. d. For all Syder and Perry made and sold by retail upon every Hogshead to be paid by the Retayler thereof and so proportionably for a greater or lesser measure One shilling three pence XV. d. For all Metheglin or Mead sold whether by Retail or otherwise to be paid by the maker thereof upon every Gallon One half-penny Ob. For every Barrel of Beer commonly called Vinegar-Beer brewed by any common Brewer in any common Brew-house six pence Vi. d. For every Gallon of Strong-water or Aquavitae made and sold to be paid by the maker thereof One penny i. d. For every barrel of Beer or Ale Imported from beyond the Seas Three Shillings iij. s. For every Tun of Syder or Perry Imported from beyond the Seas and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity Five shillings V. s. For every gallon of Spirits made of any kind of Wine or Syder Imported Two pence ij d. For every gallon of Strong-water perfectly made Imported from beyond the Seas Four pence iiij d. For every Gallon of Coffee made and sold to be paid by the maker Four pence iiij d. For every gallon of Chocolatte Sherbet and Tea made and sold to be paid by the maker thereof Eight pence Viij d. And be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the several Rates Rates of Excise upon forreign Liquors imported to be paid in money before landing Duties and Charges of Excise or New Impost above mentioned hereby set or imposed upon all and every the said Forreign Liquors which shall be Imported or brought into all or any the Ports of this Kingdom and Dominions thereof aforesaid from and after the five and twentieth day of December next shall be from time to time satisfied and paid by the Merchant or Merchants Importer or Importers of the same in ready money upon his or their Entry or Entries made and before the landing thereof And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Entries to be made at the Office of Excise by Common Brewers Inn-keepers c. That all common Brewers of Béer and Ale shall once in every Wéek And all Inn-kéepers Alehouse-kéepers Victuallers and other Retaylers of Béer Ale Syder Perry Metheglin or Strong-water Brewing Making or Retailing the same shall once in every moneth make true and particular Entries at the Office of Excise within the limits of which the said Commodities and Manufactures are made of all Béer Ale Perry Syder Metheglin Strong-Water or other the Liquors aforesaid which they or any of them shall Brew make or Retail in that Wéek and Moneth respectively as aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all such common Brewers The penalty for not making Entries who do not once a Wéek make due and particular Entries shall forfeit ten pounds And that every such Inn-kéeper who doth not make true and particular Entries once a Moneth shall forfeit five pounds And that every Alehouse-kéeper Victualler or other Retailer who doth not once a moneth make due and particular Entries shall forfeit twenty shillings And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Common Brewer The penalty for not paying who shall not pay and clear off
Coronor Steward or Bailiff of any Franchise or Liberty or by any other Officer Minister Vnder-bailiff or other person or persons whatsoever within this Realm having or pretending to have Authority or Warrant in that behalf by force or colour of any Writ Bill or Process issuing or to be issuing out of His Majesties said Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas or either of them in which said Writ Bill or Process the certainty and true cause of Action is not expressed particularly and for which the Defendant or Defendants in such Writ Bill or Process named is and are bailable by the Statute in that behalf made in the thrée and twentieth year of the Reign of the late King Henry the sixth shall be forced or compelled to give security or to enter into Bond with Sureties 23 H. 6. ca. 10. for the Appearances of such person or persons so arrested at the day and place in the said Writ Bill or Process specified or contained in any penalty or sum of money excéeding the sum of Forty pounds of lawful money of England to be conditioned for such Appearances and that all Sheriffs and other Officers and Ministers aforesaid shall let to bail and deliver out of Prison and from their and every of their Custodies respectively all and every person and persons whatsoever by them or any of them arrested upon any such Writ Bill or Process wherein the certainty and true cause of Action is not particularly expressed upon Security in the sum of Forty pounds and no more given for Appearance of such person or persons so arrested unto the said Sheriff or Officer aforesaid according to the said Statute in the said thrée and twentieth year of the Reign of the said late King Henry the sixth in that behalf made and provided And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That upon Appearance to be Entred in the Term wherein such Writ Bill or Process is retornable with the respective Officer in that behalf for the said person or persons by Attorney or Attorneys in the said respective Courts from whence the said Writ Bill or Process issued unto such Writ Bill or Process the Bond or Bonds so given for Appearance thereunto Bonds given for discharged upon appearance Nonsuit for want of a Declaration before the end of the next term after appearance and judgment and costs against the Plaintiff be and are hereby satisfied and dischargeed And that after such Appearance so entred no Amerciaments be set or Estreted upon or against any Sheriff or other Officer aforesaid or any other person whatsoever concerning the want of such Appearance and unless the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs in any such Writ Bill or Process named shall put into the Court from whence such Writ Bill or Process did issue his or their Bill or Declaration against the person or persons so Arrested in some personal Action or Ejectione firmae of Lands or Tenements before the end of the Term next following after Appearance That then a Non-suit for want of a Declaration may be Entred against the said Plaintiff or Plaintiffs in the said Courts respectively And that every Defendant in every such Writ Bill or Process named shall or may have Iudgment to recover Costs against every such Plaintiff or Plaintiffs to be Assessed Taxed and Levied in such manner and according as it is provided by the Statute for Costs made in the thrée and twentieth year of the Reign of the late King Henry the Eighth 23 H. 8. ca. 15. any former or other Act Statute Ordinance Law Custome Order Course or Vsage of either of the said Courts to the contrary thereof heretofore had made admitted or used in any wise notwithstanding Provided alwayes that this Act nor any Clause or thing herein before specified or contained shall not extend Arrests upon Capias utlagatum Attachments upon Rescous Contempts and of Priviledg excepted nor be construed or taken to extend unto any Arrests hereafter to be made upon or by Vertue of any Writ of Capias utlagatum Attachment upon Rescous or Attachment upon any Contempt or of any Attachment of Priviledge at the Suit of any priviledged person or of any other Attachment for Contempt whatsoever issuing or to be issing out of either of the said Courts although there be no particular certainty of the cause of Action expressed or contained in the said Writs But that nevertheless no Sheriff nor Vnder-sheriff nor any of the Officers or Ministers aforesaid shall discharge any person or persons taken upon any Writ of Capias utlagatum out of Custody without a lawful Supersedeas first had and received for the same and that upon the said Writs of Attachment such lawful course be taken for Security for Appearance therein as hath béen heretofore used any thing herein before expressed to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And whereas many persons out of ill intent to delay their Creditors from recovering their Iust Debts continue Prisoners in the Fléet who cannot be procéeded against in such manner as they might be if they were at Large Now for the better enabling all persons to recover their just Debts and Demands against such Prisoners How Persons having cause of action may proceed against Prisoners in the Fleet. Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person or persons whatsoever who now hath or have or which at any time hereafter shall have cause of any personal Action against any person being a Prisoner in the prison of the Fléet may Sue forth an Original Writ upon his or their cause of Action And that a Writ of Habeas Corpus be granted to every such person or persons being Plaintiff or Plaintiffs desiring the same to be directed to the Warden of the same Prison to have the Body of such prisoner before the Iustices of the Common Pleas at some certain day in any Term to answer the said Plaintiff or Plaintiffs upon his or their said Cause of Action And that if the said Plaintiff or Plaintiffs at the said day put into the said Court his or their Declaration according to the said Original Writ against the said prisoner being present at the Barr the said prisoner shall be bound to appear in person or to put in an Attorney to appear for him in the said Action And unless the said Defendant plead upon a Rule given to be out at eight daies at the least after such Appearance Iudgment by Nihil dicit may be entred against such Defendant as appearing in person which shall be good and effectual in Law And such charge in Court by Declarations signified by Rule unto the said Warden shall be a good cause of detention of such prisoner in his Custody from which he shall not be discharged without a lawful Supersedeas or Rule of Court And if the said Warden shall do otherwise he shall be Responsible to the Court and to the party grieved for Damages by Action upon the case to be brought
against him for discharging such prisoner Delayes in Suites by reason of 15 dayes between the Teste and Retorn of writs remedyed in actions personall And whereas very many Suits Commenced by Original Writs have béen protracted and long delayed from Iudgment and Execution by reason of the necessity of having fiftéen dayes at the least betwéen the dayes of the Teste and the dayes of Return of Writs now used in personal Actions and also in Actions of Ejectione Firmae for Lands and Tenements For remedy thereof and for the more easie expediting Trials and the better and more spéedy executing of Iudgments for the time to come Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in all Actions of Debt and all other personal Actions whatsoever and also in all Actions of Ejectione firmae Ejectione firmae for Lands or Tenements now depending or which at any time hereafter shall be depending by Original Writ in either of His Majesties Courts aforesaid after any issue therein ioyned to be tried by a Iury and also after any Iudgment had or obtained or to be had or obtained in either of the Courts aforesaid Venire facias Habeas Corpora Jurator Distringas Jurator Fieri fac Capias ad satisfaciendum Capias ad satisfaciendum where Exigent lyeth after Iudgment or to make the Bail appear excepted 3. Jac. cap. 8. Touching staying executions by Supersedeas or Writs of Errour and what actions it may be stayd There shall not néed to be fiftéen dayes betwéen the Teste day and the day of Retorn of any Writ or Writs of Venire facias Habeas Corpora Juratorum or Distringas Juratores Writs of Fieri facias or Writs of Capias ad satisfaciendum and that the want of Fiftéen dayes between the Teste day and the day of Retorn of any such Writ shall not be nor shall be assigned taken or adjudged to be any matter or Cause of Errour any Law Custome Statute Course or Vsage to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided nevertheless that this Act nor any thing therein contained shall not Extend or be construed to Extend to any Writ of Capias ad Satisfaciendum whereon a Writ of Exigent after Iudgment is to be awarded nor to Capias ad Satisfaciendum against the Defendant in Order to make any Bail liable but that the same continue and be as if this Act had never béen made And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the third year of the Reign of our late Soveraign Lord King James of Blessed Memory a very good Law was made for avoiding unnecessary delayes of Execution Whereby it is Enacted That no Execution shall be stayed or delayed upon or by any Writ of Errour or Supersedeas thereupon to be sued for the reversing of any Iudgment to be given in any Action or Bill of Debt upon any single Bond for Debt or upon any Obligation with Condition for payment of money onely or upon Action or Bill of Debt for Rent or upon any Contract sued in any of His Highness Courts of Record at Westminster or in the Counties Palatine of Chester Lancaster or Durham or in His Highness Courts of Great Sessions in any of the Twelve Shires of Wales unless such person or persons in whose name or names such Writ of Error shall be brought with two sufficient Sureties such as the Court wherein such Iudgment is or shall be given shall allow of shall first before such stay made or Supersedeas to be awarded be bound to the party for whom any such Iudgment was or should be given by Recognizance to be acknowledged in the same Court in double the sum adiudged to be recovered by the said former Iudgment to prosecute the said Writ of Error with effect and also to satisfie and pay if the said Iudgment shall be affirmed all and singular the Debts Damages and Costs adjudged or to be adjudged upon the former Iudgment And all Costs and Damages to be also awarded for the same delaying of Execution which Law hath béen found by experience to be very good and beneficial to the Common-Wealth And forasmuch as divers other Cases within the same mischief by delayes and staying of Execution by Writs of Error and Supersedeas thereupon are not provided for by the said Statute For further remedy against delayes and staying of Executions in the several Actions hereafter specified Be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid In what Actions execution may be stayed by writ of Error by this Statute That from and after the twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and one no Execution shall be stayed in any of the Courts aforesaid by any Writ or Writs of Error or Supersedeas thereupon after any Verdict and Iudgment thereupon obtained in any Action of Debt grounded upon the Statute made in the second year of the Reign of the late King Edward the sixth for not setting forth of Tythes nor in any Action upon the Case upon any promise for payment of money Actions sur Trover Action of Covenant Detinue and Trespass unless such Recognizance and in such manner as by the said recited former Act is directed shall be first acknowledged in the said Court where such Iudgment is given And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid The Defendant to have double Costs for delays of his Execution by writ of Error That if any person or persons after the said day shall Sue or Prosecute any Writ or Writs of Error for Reversal of any Iudgment whatsoever given after any Verdict in any of the Courts aforesaid and the said Iudgment shall afterwards be affirmed then every such person or persons shall pay unto the Defendant or Defendants in the said Writ or Writs of Error his or their double Costs to be assessed by the Court where such Writ of Error shall be depending for the delaying of Execution Provided nevertheless that this Act nor any thing therein contained Popular actions or upon a penal Law Indictments c. not within this Statute shall not extend to any Action Popular nor unto any other Action which is or hereafter shall be brought upon any penal Law or Statute except Debt for not setting out Tythes as aforesaid nor to any Indictment Presentment Inquisition Information or Appeal any thing herein before expressed to the contrary thereof notwithstanding CAP. III. An Act for Granting unto the Kings Majesty Twelve hundred and threescore thousand pounds to be Assessed and Levied by an Assessment of Threescore and ten thousand pounds by the Moneth for Eighteen Moneths EXP. CAP. IV. For enabling the Kings Majesty to make Leases Grants and Copies of Offices Lands Tenements and Hereditaments parcel of his Highness Dutchy of Cornwall or annexed to the same and for Confirmation of Leases and Grants already made WHereas a great part of the Lands part of and annexed to the Dutchy of Cornwall Stat. 22 Jac.
time or times during the space of thrée years from the Twenty fourth day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and thrée to Summon and Continue together so many of the said Trained Forces within their respective Counties and Precincts 14 Car. 2. cap. 3. and so long as they shall judge convenient in lieu of certain days appointed for Exercise and Musters by the said Act Entituled An Act for Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom No Troop to be kept upon duty above 14 days Provided always And be it Enacted That any Troop Company or Souldiers may be so kept upon such Duty by vertue hereof fourtéen days and no longer in any one year Commissioned Foot-Officers discharged from finding Arms. Provided always And be it Enacted That every Commissioned Foot-Officer in the Train-Bands or Militia of this Kingdom setled according to Act of Parliament shall be and is hereby exempted and excused from finding and contributing towards the finding and contributing towards the finding any Horse Horse-man or Arms or Foot-Souldier and Arms for his whole Estate if at any time it is charged but for one Horse or a less charge or for such part of his Estate as is or shall be charged with one Horse if his whole Estate be charged with a greater charge then one Horse in the County or Lieutenancy where he so serves as a Foot-Officer in respect of the expence which the said Imployment doth necessarily engage him in Any thing in the said Acts to the contrary notwithstanding The Duty of Constables in executing Warrants of the Lieutenants or Deputies Be it also Enacted and Ordained That each Constable Tything-man or other Officer of any Parish or place under the penalty for every neglect of forfeiting Forty shillings shall and do by vertue of a Warrant directed to him from the respective Lieutenants and Deputy-Lieutenants or any thrée or more of them Levy all arrears and proportions of money unpaid that were set or charged for the Raising Training and Arraying the Trained Bands and Forces actually raised and in being before the passing of the said mentioned Act by the Distress and sale of the Goods of any person or persons refusing to pay the same rendring back the overplus if any the charge of Distress and Sale being first deducted Troopers and Souldiers shall be subject to Exercise and Duty Be it also Enacted That every Trooper or Foot-Souldier at any time raised by vertue or according to the directions of this present Act shall be subject to such Exercise and Duty as others charged or raised by the said mentioned Act shal accordingly upon like pains penalties observe and kéep all the respective Orders and Directions of the said Act and of this present Act and shall suffer the same penalties for committing any of the respective crimes and offences exprest in the said Act which said pains and penalties are in the like cases to be imposed and levied in the same manner and by the same ways and means as are set down in the said Act. And whereas the fourth part of one moneths Assessment in each County A fourth part or a moneths assesment how to be disposed after the rate of Seventy thousand pounds by the moneth is by the said Act yearly appointed for furnishing Munition and other necessaries Be it Enacted and delared by the Authority aforesaid That the said respective Lieutenants and Deputies or any thrée or more of them shall from time to time have power to dispose of so much of the said fourth part to the inferiour Officers imployed in or about the said respective Forces for their pains and encouragement as to them the said Lieutenants and Deputies or any thrée or more of them shall seem expedient Provided always and be it Enacted Persons sued for matters done by this Act may plead the general issue That it shall be lawful to every person and persons that shall have any Action or Suit brought against him or them for any thing done in execution of this or the said Act to plead the General Issue and to give the special matter in Evidence and if Iudgment shall be given for the Defendant or if the Plaintiff shall become Nonsuit or discontinue his Suit then he shall recover double Costs Provided also and be it Enacted Double costs to the Defendant That no Action or Suit shall be brought against any person for any thing done in execution or by pretence of the execution of this or the said Act unless the said Action or Suit be laid in the proper County and commenced within six moneths next after such cause of Action Provided and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That one Clause contained in a certain Act Entituled An Act declaring the sole right of the Militia to be in the King 13 Car. 2. c. 6 and for the present Ordering and disposing of the same and made for the Indempnifying of all persons acting in the Militia from the four and twentieth of June One thousand six hundred and sixty to the twentieth of July One thousand six hundred sixty and one as touching the Assaulting Detaining or Imprisoning any person suspected to be a Fanatick Sectary or Disturber of the Peace Fanatick Sectaries or seizing of Arms or searching of houses for Arms or for suspected persons shall be construed to Commence and take effect and shall be good and effectual in Law for the Indempnifying of all persons whatsoever acting in the Militia of this Kingdom for any the matters aforesaid betwixt the second day of February One thousand six hundred fifty nine and the four and twentieth of June One thousand six hundred and sixty inclusive by vertue or colour of any Authority or Command whatsoever any thing in the said Act or in any other Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the several forfeitures How the forfeitures and penalties upon this Act may be levyed Penalties and payments by this present Act Imposed Set or Directed not otherwise by this present Act provided to be Levied Sued for or Recovered shall or may in case of default be Levied or Recovered by Warrant under the hands and Seals of the respective Lieutenants and Deputy-Lieutenants or any thrée or more of them upon the Goods and Chattels of the Offender and by Sale of the same rendring the party the overplus if any be And if sufficient of the Goods and Chattels of such Offender cannot be found or had whereof to levy such forfeiture payment or penalty then the said respective Lieutenants and Deputy-Lieutenants or any thrée or more of them shall have power and are hereby authorized by like Warrant under their hands and seals to commit such Offender to Prison untill he shall make satisfaction according to the said forfeiture payment or penalty And it is further Declared and
the East-Indies or any part beyond the Equinoctial shall be and are hereby Attainted of High Treason and shall suffer and forfeit to all intents and purposes as persons Attainted of High Treason ought to do CAP. VI. Damage Cleere taken away WHereas the moneys which are taken by Prothonotaries of Your Majesties Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas and by the Clerk of Your Majesties Court of Exchequer at Westminster and the Prothonotary of Your Majesties Court of Common Pleas at Lancaster and the Prothonotaries and Clerks of other Your Majesties Courts within the Realm of England and Dominion of Wales in the name of Damna Clericorum or Damage Cléere Damna Clericorum are an unnecessary charge and burden to all Your Majesties Subjects who have good cause and are put to Sue for Damages in Actions where Damages are recoverable For avoiding of which inconveniencies for the future and that Your Majesties Subjects may have an easier means for the recovery of their damages and just rights which are unjustly detained from them May it please Your most Excellent Majesty that it may be Enacted And the Kings most Excellent Majesty being willing upon all occasions to ease His Subjects of all unnecessary charges and burdens is graciously pleased That it be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty Shall determine and not be taken after the 29 day or September 1672. 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 immediately from and after the Twenty ninth day of September which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy two no Damage Cléere shall by any Title or Precept whatsoever be due payable taken or received from any person or persons in any Action whatsoever sued or prosecuted in any of His Majesties Courts at Westminster or elsewhere within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales by any Prothonotary Clerk or Clerks or other Officer or Officers of the said Courts respectively And that from and after the day and year aforesaid the said Fée of Damna Clericorum or Damage Cléere shall wholly cease and be for ever abolished in the said Courts And that if any Prothonotary Clerk or Clerks or other Officer in any of the said Courts The Penalty shall take or exact any sum or sums of money in the name of Damna Clericorum or Damage Cléere or any thing in lieu thereof after the day and year above mentioned Or if any of the said Prothonotaries Clerk or Clerks or their Deputies at any time before the said Twenty ninth day of September in the year aforesaid shall exact or take any Damage Cléere or sum of money Bond or Security in lieu thereof from any Plaintiff or Plaintiffs Demandant or Demandants in any Action where Damages have béen or hereafter shall be recovered in any of the said Courts or shall refuse or delay to Sign any Iudgement until Damage Cléere be first paid by the Plaintiff or Demandant which are not to be paid unless forth of the moneys levied from or paid by the Defendants as is herein after provided and mentioned He or they so offending shall forfeit treble the sum so taken exacted or demanded to the party or parties grieved to be recovered by Bill Plaint or Information in any of the said Courts wherein no Essoyn Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed Provided and be it further Enacted That until the Nine and twentieth day of September which shall be in the year of our Lord God In what cases only they may be taken until the 29 September 1672. One thousand six hundred seventy and two and no longer the Damage Cléere shall be paid answered and allowed out of such sum and sums of money onely as shall be actually levied or otherwise paid by or from the Defendants and onely for the proportion of the Sum and Sums of money which shall be so levied or otherwise paid as aforesaid and no more or otherwise CAP. VII For a more speedy and effectual proceeding upon Distresses and Avowries for Rents FOrasmuch as the ordinary Remedy for Arrearages of Rents is by Distress upon the Lands chargeable therewith And yet nevertheless by reason of the intricate and dilatory proceedings upon Replevins that Remedy is become ineffectual For remedy thereof It is Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the Advice and Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Plaintiff in Replevin being nonsuit before issue joyned and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That whensoever any Plaintiff in Replevin shall be Non-suit before Issue joyned in any Suit of Replevin by Plaint or Writ lawfully returned How the Defendant may Avow removed or depending in any of the Kings Courts at Westminster That the Defendant making a Suggestion in nature of an Avowry or Cognizance for such Rent to ascertain the Court of the cause of Distress The Court upon his Prayer shall award a Writ to the Sheriff of the County where the Distress was taken to enquire by the Oaths of Twelve good and lawful men of his Bayliwick touching the Sum in Arrear at the time of such Distress taken and the value of the Goods or Cattel distrained And thereupon notice of Fiftéen days shall be given to the Plaintiff or his Attorney in Court of the sitting of such Enquiry and thereupon the Sheriff shall enquire of the truth of the matters contained in such Writ by the Oaths of Twelve good and lawful men of his County And upon the Return of such Inquisition the Defendant shall have Iudgement to recover against the Plaintiff the Arrearages of such Rent in case the Goods or Cattel distrained shall amount unto that value And in case they shall not amount to that value then so much as the value of the said Goods and Cattel so distrained shall amount unto The Plaintiff nonsuit after Avowry made c. together with his full Costs of Suit and shall have Execution thereupon by Fieri facias or Elegit or otherwise as the Law shal require And in case such Plaintiff shal be nonsuit after Cognisance or Avowry made and Issue joyned or if the Verdict shall be given against such Plaintiff then the Iurors that are Impannelled or Returned to inquire of such Issue shall at the prayer of the Defendant inquire concerning the Sum of the Arrears and the value of the Goods or Cattel distrained And thereupon the Avowant or he that makes Cognisance shall have Iudgement for such Arrearages or so much thereof as the Goods or Cattel distrained amount unto together with his full Costs and shall have Execution for the same by Fieri facias or Elegit or otherwise as the Law shall require Iudgement upon Demurrer for the Avowant And be if further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if Iudgement in any of the Courts aforesaid
the Land and if any thing be done to the contrary it shall be void in Law and holden for error And by another Statute made in the six and thirtieth year of the same King Edward the Third 36 E. 3. c. 15. It is amongst other things Enacted That all pleas which shall be pleaded in any Courts before any the Kings Iustices or in his other places or before any of his other Ministers or in the Courts and places of any other Lords within the Realm shall be entred and inrolled in Latine And whereas by the Statute made in the third year of King Henry the seventh 3 H. 7. cap. 1. power is given to the Chancellor the Lord Treasurer of England for the time being and the Kéeper of the Kings Privy Seal or two of them calling unto them a Bishop and a Temporal Lord of the Kings most Honourable Councel and the two Chief Iustices of the Kings Bench and Common Pleas for the time being or other two Iustices in their absence to procéed as in that Act is expressed for the punishmâ—â—â— of some particular offences therein mentioned And by the Statute made in the One and tâ—â—ntieth year of King Henry the Eighth 21 H. 8. cap. 20 The President of the Councel is associated to joyn with the Lord Chancellor and other Iudges in the said Statute of the third of Henry the seventh mentioned But the said Iudges have not kept themselves to the points limited by the said Statute but have undertaken to punish where no Law doth warrant and to make Decrées for things having no such Authority and to inflict heavier punishments then by any Law is warranted All matters â—â—â—minable in 〈◊〉 Star-Chamber maâ— be â—â—â—â—â—nable and 〈◊〉 â—â—o by the Common Law And forasmuch as all matters examinable or determinable before the said Iudges or in the Court commonly called the Star-Chamber may have their proper remedy and redress and their due punishment and correction by the Common Law of the Land and in the Ordinary course of Iustice elswhere and forasmuch as the reasons and motives inducing the erection and continuance of that Court do now cease and the procéedings Censures and Decrées of that Court have by experience been found to be an intolerable burthen to the Subject and the means to introduce an Arbitrary Power and Government And forasmuch as the Councel-Table hath of late times assumed unto it self a power to intermeddle in Civil causes and matters only of private interest betwéen party and party and have adventured to determine of the Estates and Liberties of the Subiect contrary to the Law of the Land and the Rights and Priviledges of the Subject by which great and manifold mischiefs and inconveniencies have arisen and happened and much incertainty by means of such procéedings hath béen conceived concerning Mens Rights and Estates For setling whereof and preventing the like in time to come Be it Ordained and Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament Court of Star-Chamber and all its powers dissolved That the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber and all Iurisdiction Power and Authority belonging unto or exercised in the same Court or by any the Iudges Officers or Ministers thereof be from the first day of August in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred forty and one clearly and absolutely dissolved taken away and determined and that from the said first day of August neither the Lord Chancellor or Kéeper of the Great Seal of England the Lord Treasurer of England the Kéeper of the Kings Privy-Seal or President of the Councel nor any Bishop Temporal Lord Privy-Councellor or Iudg or Iustice whatsoever shall have any power or authority to hear examine or determine any matter or thing whatsoever in the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber or to make pronounce or deliver any Iudgment Sentence Order or Decrée or to do any Iudicial or Ministerial Act in the said Court And that all and every Act and Acts of Parliament and all and every Article clause and sentence in them and every of them by which any Iurisdiction power or Authority is given limited or appointed unto the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber or unto all or any the Iudges Officers or Ministers thereof or for any procéedings to be had or made in the said Court or for any matter or thing to be drawn into question examined or determined there shall for so much as concerneth the said Court of Star-Chamber and the power and authority thereby given unto it be from the said first day of August repealed and absolutely revoked and made void And be it likewise Enacted Like Iurisdiction in several other Courts repealed and taken away That the like Iurisdiction now used and exercised in the Court before the President and Councel in the Marches of Wales and also in the Court before the President and Councel established in the Northern parts And also in the Court commonly called the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster held before the Chancellor and Councel of that Court And also in the Court of Exchequer of the County Palatine of Chester held before the Chamberlain and Councel of that Court The like Iurisdiction being exercised there shall from the said first day of August One thousand six hundred forty and one be also repealed and absolutely revoked and made void any Law prescription custome or usage Or the said Statute made in the third year of King Henry the seventh Or the Statute made the One and twentieth of Henry the Eigth Or any Act or Acts of Parliament heretofore had or made to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And that from henceforth no Court Councel No Court or Councel to have the like Iurisdiction or place of Iudicature shall be erected ordained constituted or appointed within this Realm of England or Dominion of Wales which shall have use or exercise the same or the like Iurisdiction as is or hath béen used practised or exercised in the said Court of Star-Chamber Be it likewise declared and Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament The King nor his privy Councel shall have no Iurisdiction over any mans estate That neither his Majesty nor his Privy-Councel have or ought to have any Iurisdiction power or authority by English Bill Petition Articles Libel or any other Arbitrary way whatsoever to examine or draw into question determine or dispose of the Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods or Chattels of any the Subjects of this Kingdome But that the same ought to be tryed and determined in the ordinary Courts of Iustice and by the ordinary course of the Law And be it further provided and Enacted That if any Lord Chancellor Penalties upon great Officers and others for the first offence or Kéeper of the Great Seal of England Lord Treasurer Kéeper of the Kings Privy Seal President of the Councel Bishop Temporal Lord Privy Councellor Iudg or Iustice whatsoever shall offend or do
any thing contrary to the purport true intent and meaning of this Law Then he or they shall for such offence forfeit the sum of Five hundred pounds of lawful Money of England unto any party grieved his Executors or Administrators who shall really prosecute for the same and first obtain Iudgment thereupon to be recovered in any Court of Record at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoin Protection Wager of Law Aid-Prayer Priviledg Injunction or Order of restraint shall be in any wise prayed granted or allowed nor any more then one Imparlance And if any person against whom any such Iudgment or Recovery shall be had as aforesaid shall after such Iudgment or Recovery offend again in the same then he Second offence or they for such offence shall forfeit the sum of One thousand pounds of lawful money of England unto any party grieved his Executors or Administrators who shall really prosecute for the same and first obtain Iudgment thereupon to be recovered in any Court of Record at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in which no Essoin Protection Wager of Law Aid-Prayer Priviledg Iniunction or Order of Restraint shall be in any wise prayed granted or allowed nor any more then one Imparlance And if any person against whom any such second Iudgment or Recovery shall be had as aforesaid shall after such Iudgment Third offence or recovery offend again in the same kind and shall be thereof duly convicted by Indictment Information or any other lawful way or means that such person so convicted shall be from thenceforth disabled and become by vertue of this Act incapable Ipso facto to bear his and their said Office and Offices respectively and shall be likewise disabled to make any Gift Grant Conveyance or other disposition of any of his Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods or Chattels or to take any benefit of any Gift Conveyance or Legacy to his own use And every person so offending shall likewise forfeit and lose unto the party grieved Treble damages to the party grieved by any thing done contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Law his treble damages which he shall sustain and be put unto by means or occasion of any such Act or thing done the same to be recovered in any of his Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoin Protection Wager of Law Aid-Prayer Priviledg Injunction or Order of Restraint shall be in any wise Prayed Granted or Allowed nor any more then one Imparlance Every person committed contrary to this Act shall have an Habea◠Corpus And be it also provided and Enacted That if any person shall hereafter be committed restrained of his Liberty or suffer imprisonment by the Order or Decrée of any such Court of Star-Chamber or other Court aforesaid now or at any time hereafter having or pretending to have the same or like Iurisdiction power or authority to commit or imprison as aforesaid Or by the command or Warrant of the Kings Maiesty his Heirs or Successors in their own Person or by the command or Warrant of the Councel-board or of any of the Lords or others of his Majesties Privy Councel That in every such case every person so committed restrained of his liberty or suffering imprisonment upon demand or motion made by his Counsel or other imployed by him for that purpose unto the Iudges of the Court of Kings Bench or Common Pleas in open Court shall without delay upon any pretence whatsoever for the ordinary Fées usually paid for the same have forthwith granted unto him a Writ of Habeas Corpus to be directed generally unto all and every Sheriffs Gaoler Minister Officer or other person in whose custody the party committed or restrained shall be and the Sheriffs Gaoler Minister Officer or other person in whose custody the party so committed or restrained shall be shall at the return of the said Writ and according to the command thereof upon due and convenient notice thereof given unto him at the charge of the party who requireth or procureth such Writ and upon security by his own bond given to pay the charge of carrying back the prisoner if he shall be remanded by the Court to which he shall be brought as in like cases hath béen used such charges of bringing up and carrying back the prisoner to be alwayes ordered by the Court if any difference shall arise thereabout bring or cause to be brought the body of the said party so committed or restrained unto and before the Iudges or Iustices of the said Court from whence the same Writ shall issue in open Court and shall then likewise certify the true cause of such his detainer or imprisonment and thereupon the Court within thrée Court-dayes after such return made and delivered in open Court shall procéed to examine and determine whether the cause of such commitment appearing upon the said return be iust and legal or not and shall thereupon do what to Iustice shall appertain either by delivering bailing or remanding the prisoner And if any thing shall be otherwise wilfully done or omitted to be done by any Iudg Iustice Officer or other person aforementioned contrary to the direction and true meaning hereof That then such person so offending shall forfeit to the party grieved Treble damages in default his treble damages to be recovered by such means and in such manner as is formerly in this Act limited and appointed for the like penalty to be sued for and recovered To what Courts this Act shall extend Provided alwayes and be it Enacted That this Act and the several clauses therein contained shall be taken and expounded to extend only to the Court of Star-Chamber and to the said Courts holden before the President and Councel in the Marches of Wales and before the President and Councel in the Northern parts and also to the Court commonly called the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster holden before the Chancellor and Councel of that Court And also in the Court of Exchequer of the County Palatine of Chester held before the Chamberlain and Councel of that Court And to all Courts of like Iurisdiction to be hereafter erected ordained constituted or appointed as aforesaid And to the Warrants and directions of the Councel-boards and to the commitments restraints and imprisonments of any person or persons made commanded or awarded by the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors in their own person or by the Lords and others of the Privy Councel and every one of them Offenders of this Act shall be impleaded within two years after any offence And lastly provided and be it Enacted That no person or persons shall be sued impleaded molested or troubled for any offence against this present Act unless the party supposed to have so offended shall be sued or impleaded for the same within two years at the most after such
Majesty his Heirs or Successors And all Powers and Authorities Granted or pretended or mentioned to be Granted thereby and all Acts Sentences and Decrées to be made by vertue or colour thereof shall be utterly void and of none effect CAP. XII A Subsidy Granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage Tunnage and Poundage and other sums of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported from the 15th of July 1641. to the 10th of August next EXP. CAP. XIII Such Monies secured as are or shall be due to the Inhabitants of the County of York and the other adjoyning Counties for the Billet of the Souldiers and to certain Officers of the Army who forbear part of their pay according to an Order in that behalf made in the Commons House of Parliament this present Session for such part of their pay as they shall so forbear EXP. CAP. XIV The late Preceedings touching Ship-money declared unlawful and all Records and Process concerning the same made void Shipâ—rits VVHereas divers Writs of late time issued under the Great Seal of England commonly called Ship-Writs for the charging of the Ports Towns Cities Burroughs and Counties of this Realm respectively Certioraries to provide and furnish certain Ships for his Majesties service Mittimus And whereas upon the Execution of the same Writs and Returns of Certioraries thereupon made and the sending the same by Mittimus into the Court of Exchequer Process hath béen thence made against sundry persons pretended to be charged by way of Contribution for the making up of certain sums assessed for the providing of the said Ships and in especial in Easter Term Scire facias against John Hampden Esquire Demurrer in the thirtéenth year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord the King that now is a Writ of Scire facias was awarded out of the Court of Exchequer to the then Sheriff of Buckingham-Shire against John Hampden Esquire to appear and shew cause why he should not be charged with a certain sum so assessed upon him upon whose appearance and demurrer to the procéedings therein the Barons of the Exchequer adjourned the same case into the Exchequer-Chamber where it was solemnly argued divers dayes and at length it was there agréed by the greater part of all the Iustices of the Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas and of the Barons of the Exchequer there assembled That the said John Hampden should be charged with the said sum so as aforesaid assessed on him The main grounds and reasons of the said Iustices and Barons which so agréed being that when the good and safety of the Kingdom in general is concerned and the whole Kingdom in danger the King might by Writ under the Great Seal of England command all the Subjects of this His Kingdome at their charge to provide and furnish such manner of Ships with Men Victuals and Munition and for such time as the King should think fit for the defence and safeguard of the Kingdom from such danger and peril and that by Law the King might compel the doing thereof in case of refusal or refractorinses and that the King is the sole Iudg both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided according to which grounds and reasons all the Iustices of the said Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas and the said Barons of the Exchequer having béen formerly consulted with by his Maiesties command Extrajudicial Opinion had set their hands to an extraiudicial opinion expressed to the same purpose which Opinion with their names thereunto was also by his Majesties command inrolled in the Courts of Chancery Kings Bench Common Pleas and Exchequer and likewise entred among the Remembrances of the Court of Star-Chamber Iudgment and according to the said agréement of the said Iustices and Barons Iudgment was given by the Barons of the Exchequer That the said John Hampden should be charged with the said sum so assessed on him And whereas some other Actions and Proces depend and have depended in the said Court of Exchequer and in some other Courts against other persons for the like kind of charge grounded upon the said Writs commonly called Shipwrits all which Writs and procéedings as aforesaid were utterly against the Law of the Land Shipmoney proceedings thereupon contrary to Law 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 the said charge imposed upon the Subject for the providing and furnishing of Ships commonly called Ship-money and the said extrajudicial opinion of the said Iustices and Barons and the said Writs and every of them and the said agréement or opinion of the greater part of the said Iustices and Barons and the said judgment given against the said John Hampden were and are contrary to and against the Laws and Statutes of this Realm the right of property the liberty of the Subjects former resolutions in Parliament and the Petition of Right made in the third year of the Reign of his Maiesty that now is St. 3 Car. 1. Petition of right to be observed And it is further declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the particulars prayed or desired in the said Petition of Right shall from henceforth be put in execution accordingly and shall be firmly and strictly holden and observed as in the same Petition they are prayed and expressed and that all and every the Records and remembrances of all and every the Iudgment Iudgments proceedings touching ship-money and all entries records inrolments thereof made void Inrolments Entry and procéedings as aforesaid and all and every the procéedings whatsoever upon or by pretext or colour of any of the said Writs commonly called Ship-Writs and all and every the Dependents on any of them shall be Déemed and Adiudged to all intents constructions and purposes to be utterly void and disannulled and that all and every the said Iudgment Inrolments Entries Procéedings and Dependents of what kind soever shall be vacated and cancelled in such manner and forme as Records use to be that are vacated CAP. XV. Touching Incroachments and Oppressions in the Stannary Courts WHereas King EDWARD the first of famous memory did for the Amendment of the Stannaries in the County of Devon E. 1. Charter grant divers Franchises and Liberties to the Tinners there And whereas in the Parliament in the fiftieth year of King EDWARD the third upon the petition of the Commons of the County of Devon certain Branches and Articles of the said Charter were explained in manner following That is to say whereas one Article of the said Charter is in these words following Explained 50 E. 3. viz. Sciatis nos ad emendationem Stannariarum nostrarum in Com. Devon ad tranquilitatem utilitatem Stannatorum nostrorum praedictorum earundem Concessisse pro nobis haeredibus
shall cause to be proclaimed in the Market Town next to such place Penalty for taking more then limited for lodging c. and in such of the Neighbouring Towns and Villages as to them shall séem méet to the end that notice may be taken of such Rates and Prices And if any person shall take any other sum then what is or shall be so limited either for Lodging Horse-meat Stable-room or other such accomodations and be thereof convicted by confession of the party or by the Oath of one credible witness before any one Iustice of the Peace which Oath the said Iustice of the Peace is hereby authorized to administer That then in such case every person so offending shall forfeit and pay to the party grieved the sum of Forty shillings the same to be levied by distress by Warrant from the said Iustice of the Peace and sale thereof returning the overplus to the party the charge of the distraining being first deducted This Act to have continuance till the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer CAP. IX Articles and Orders for the regulating and better Government of His Majesties Navies Ships of War and Forces by Sea FOr the regulating and better Government of his Majesties Navies Ships of War and Forces by Sea wherein under the good Providence and Protection of God the Wealth Safety and Strength of this Kingdom is so much concerned Articles to be observed Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority thereof That all and every the Articles and Orders in this Act mentioned shall be duely and respectively put in Execution observed and obeyed in manner hereafter mentioned I. The publick Worship of God THat all Commanders Captains and other Officers at Sea shall cause the publick Worship of Almighty God according to the Liturgy of the Church of England established by Law to be solemnly orderly and reverently performed in their respective Ships And that prayers and preachings by the respective Chaplains in holy Orders of the respective Ships be performed diligently and that the Lords Day be observed according to Law II. Swearing Drunkenness c. Every person and persons in his Majesties pay using unlawful and rash Oaths Cursings Execrations Drunkenness Vncleanness or other Scandalous Actions in derogation of Gods Honour and corruption of good manners shall be punished by Fine Imprisonment or otherwise as the Court-Martial shall think fit III. Holding any forreign Intelligence If any Officer Mariner Souldier or other person in the Fléet shall give hold or entertain Intelligence to or with any King Prince or State being Enemy to or any persons in Rebellion against his Majesty his Heirs and Successors without direction or leave from the Kings Majesty the Lord High Admiral Vice-Admiral or Commander in Chief of any Squadron every such person or persons so offending shall be punished with death IV. Letters or Messages from any forreign Prince c. Enemy to the King If any Letter or Message from any King Forrein Prince State or Potentate being an Enemy to the Kings Majestie his Heirs and Successors or on their behalf be conveyed to any Inferiour Officer Mariner or Souldier or other in the Fléet and the said Officer Mariner Souldier or other as aforesaid do not within twelve hours having opportunity so to do acquaint the Superiour Commander with it or if a Superiour Officer or Mariner being acquainted therewith by an Inferiour Officer Mariner or other or himself in his own person receiving a letter or message from any such Enemy or Rebel and shall not in convenient time reveal the same to the Admiral Vice-Admiral or the Commander of the Squadron every such person shall be punished with death or such other punishment as the Court-Martial shall think fit V. Relieving of any Enemy No person or persons of the Fléet shall relieve an Enemy or Rebel in time of War with money Victuals Powder Shot Arms Ammunition or any other Supplies whatsoever directly or indirectly upon pain of death or such other punishment as the Court-Martial shall think fit to impose VI. Papers Charter-Parties c. taken in any Ship seised as Prize All the Papers Charter-Parties Bills of Lading Pasports and other Writings whatsoever that shall be taken seized or found aboard any Ship or Ships which shall be surprised or seised as Prize shall be duly preserved and not torn nor made away but the very Originals sent up intirely and without fraud to the Court of Admiralty or such other Commissioners as shall be appointed for that purpose there to be viewed made use of and procéeded upon according to Law upon pain of loss of all the shares of the Takers and such further punishment to be inflicted upon the Offenders therein as the quality of their offence and misdemeanor shall be found to deserve and the Court-Martial shall impose VII Prize Ships or Goods seised for prize None in his Majesties pay shall take out of any Prize or Ship or Goods seized on for Prize any Money Plate Goods Lading or Tackle before Iudgment thereof first past in the Admiralty Court but the full and intire accompt of the whole without imbezelment shall be brought in and Iudgment past intirely upon the whole without fraud upon pain of such punishment as shall be imposed by a Court-Martial or the Court of Admiralty excepting That it shall be lawful for all Captains Sea-men Souldiers and others serving as aforesaid to take and to have to themselves as Pillage without further or other accompt to be given for the same all such Goods and Merchandizes other then Arms Ammunition Tackle Furniture or Stores of such Ship as shall be found by them or any of them in any Ship they shall take in fight or prize upon or above the Gun-deck of the said Ship and not otherwise VIII Imbezeling any Cables Anchors c. None shall imbezle steal or take away any Cables Anchors Sails or any of the Ships Furniture or any of the Powder or Arms or Ammunition of the Ship upon pain of death or other punishment as the quality of the offence shall be found by a Court-Martial to deserve IX Forrein ships taken as prize not making resistance If any Forrein Ship or Vessel shall be taken as prize that shall not fight or make resistance that in that case none of the Captains Masters or Mariners being Forreiners shall be stripped of their Clothes or in any sort pillaged beaten or evil entreated upon pain That the person or persons so offending shall forfeit double Damages but the said Forrein Ships and all the Goods so taken shall be preserved intire to receive Iudgment in the Admiralty Court according to Right and Iustice X. Every Captain or Commander who upon signal or order of fight or view The duty of Captains c. upon signal of
In what cases Gravel Stones c. may be digged in mens several grounds That where there is not sufficient Gravel Chalk Stones Cinders and Sand or other Materials for to repair the High-ways within the Common or Waste grounds of any Parish Township or Hamlet for to amend and repair the High-ways therein it shall and may be lawful for the said Surveyor or Surveyors or such as they shall appoint to enter into the several ground not being an House Orchard Garden Court-yard Park with Déer in it or Meadow of any person or persons within the said Parish Township or Hamlet near adjoyning to the High-ways to be repaired where any such Materials are or may be found and to dig take and carry away from time to time such quantities thereof as the said Surveyor or Surveyors shall judge necessary for the said reparations without paying any thing for the said Materials except only where they have formerly béen paid for by Custom or Composition and at such rates as heretofore were paid for the same rendring only such damages to the Occupier or Owner thereof as he shall sustain by the digging and carriage thereof to be assessed by two Iustices of Peace near the said Parish in cases of difference about the same Provided That the pits and holes so digged be filled up in such manner and under such penalties as are prescribed in the Statute made in the Fifth year of Quéen Elizabeth concerning the amending of High-ways And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid What number of Horses or Oxen may be used in Carts and Carriages upon the High-ways That from and after the Nine and twentieth day of September which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two no travelling Waggon Wain Cart or Carriage wherein any Burthens Goods or Wares are or shall be carried or drawn for hire other then such Carts and Carriages as are imployed in and about husbandry and manuring of Lands and in the carrying of Hay Straw Corn unthreshed Coal Chalk Timber for Shipping Materials for Building Stones of all sorts or such Ammunition or Artillery as shall be for His Majesties Service shall at any one time travel be drawn or go in any Common or Publick High-way or Road with above seven Horse-beasts whereof six shall draw in pairs and not with above eight Oxen And what Weight or six Oxen and two Horse-beasts nor shall at any time carry above Twenty hundred weight betwéen the first day of October and the first of May nor above Thirty hundred weight betwéen the first of May and the first of October except such particulars as aforesaid nor above five Quarters of Wheat Meal Messine Rye Pease Beans and Tares nor above eight Quarters of Barley Malt or Oats and after that proportion nor shall any Waggon Wayn No Wheels to be under 4. inches breadth in the Tyre Cart or Carriage for the uses aforesaid be imployed the Whéels whereof are less in breadth then four Inches in the Tyre upon pain that every Owner of such Waggon Wayn Cart Carriage Horse-beasts or Oxen shall forfeit for every of the said offences the sum of Forty shillings The Penalty and how to be disposed to be divided into thrée equal parts One part thereof to the Surveyors of the High-ways of the Town Village or Hamlet where any of the said Offences shall be committed to be imployed in the Repairs of the said High-ways One other part to the Overséers of the poor of the Parish where any of the said Offences shall be committed for the relief of the poor of the said Parish and the other part thereof to him that shall discover and prosecute for any of the said offences the said penalty to be levied by distress of all or any of the said Horse-beasts or Oxen and to be distributed as aforesaid by the Constable Surveyor or Surveyors of the said High-ways Overséer or Overséers of the poor or any of them And in case the said penalties shall not be paid within thrée days after such distress that then it shall be lawful to and for the said persons so distraining as aforesaid to sell the same and to restore the overplus to the Owner the charges of kéeping selling first deducted And be it further Enacted That all and every the said offences shall be The offences declared common Nusances All Suits upon this Act shall be laid in their proper County and the Defendant may plead the general Issue and are hereby declared and adjudged to be common Nusances And be it further Enacted That if any Suit shall be commenced against any person for any thing done in pursuance of this Act that in every such case the Action shall be laid in the proper County where the fact was done and not elsewhere and the Defendant may plead the general Issue and give this Act and the special matter in evidence at the Tryal and if it shall so appear to be done or that it was not done in the County where the said Suit is commenced that then the Iury shall find for the Defendant and in such case as also if the Plaintiff shall be non-suit or discontinue his Action after the Defendant hath appeared or if upon Demurrer Iudgment be given against the Plaintiff or if upon Tryal a Verdict pass for the Defendant the Defendant shall have his double Costs and the like remedy for the same as any Defendant hath in any other case by Law And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid All Moneys raised by Assessment Issues forfeited c. shall be levied and imployed for mending the High-ways That all sums of money so rated and assessed as aforesaid and all charitable Gifts formerly given or to be given for the making amending and kéeping in repair of any common and publick High-ways Pavements and Cawseys except as hereafter is excepted and all Fines Penalties Forfeitures and other sums of money arising by Assessment or otherwise by this Act not otherwise by this Act disposed of and all Issues to be forfeited for not appearing to any Information or Indictment for not repairing any High-ways or removing Nusances out of the same and all Fines and Amerciaments to be imposed upon any Parish Town Village or Hamlet or upon any private person for not repairing of common and publick High-ways which are not otherwise disposed by this Act shall be employed and bestowed by the said Surveyors within the respective Parishes Towns Villages and Hamlets to which such charitable Gifts are given and bestowed and within which such Assessment Fines Penalties Forfeitures Issues and Amerciaments are imposed happened or made in paying for Materials Workmens wages and for such other employments as are hereby appointed to be done and performed and be levied collected and gathered by the said Surveyors or any of them by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of any two Iustices of Peace within the County City Riding Town Corporate
much incouraged Fishing and Navigation increased and the publike good of the whole Kingdom very much advanced 34 H. 8. cap. 4. 13 El. cap. 7. 1 Jac. cap. 15. 21 Jac. ca. 19. Notwithstanding which great advantage to the publike there hath béen lately some opinion conceived that such persons may and ought to be made subject to the Statutes provided against Bankrupts For the better declaring and explaining the Law therein and to the end such persons may not be discouraged in those Honourable endeavours for promoting publike undertakings Be it declared and Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the Advice and Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same No persons for putting in money to the East-India or Guiney Company or the Fishing Trade shall be esteemed a Trader within the Statute of Bankrupts That no person or persons whatsoever who have adventured or put in or who hereafter shall adventure or put in any sum or sums of money in the said East-India Company or Guiney Company or into any joynt stock or stocks of money by them or either of them made or raised or to be made and raised for and towards the maintaining and carrying on the Trade by the said East-India Company or Guiney Company managed or to be managed or who have formerly or shall hereafter adventure or put in any sum or sums of momey into any stock or stocks of money for the managing and carrying on of the said Fishing Trade or the Trade now called the Royall fishing Trade and shall receive and take his or their part or dividend of Fish Goods or Merchandizes in specie and shall sell or exchange the same shall for or by reason onely of such adventure of moneys so put into the said East-India Company or Guiney Company or into any Stock or Stocks for and towards the said Fishing Trade or for or by reason only of the receiving and taking such Fish Goods and Merchandizes in Specie or selling for money or exchanging the same again be Adjudged Taken Estéemed or Reputed a Merchant or Trader within any Statute or Statutes for Bankrupts or be lyable to the same Proviso for other Trading Provided always and it is hereby Declared That every person or persons who shall Trade Traffique or Merchandize in any other way or manner then in the said Royal Fishing Trade or the Trade managed by the said East-India Company or the Guiney Company as aforesaid shall for and by reason of his and their Trading Traffiquing and Merchandizing be liable to Commission and Commissions against Bankrupts as fully to all intents and purposes and not otherwise as if this Act had never béen made Any thing in Act to the contrary notwithstanding The Iudgment concerning Sir John Wolstenholme made void And be it further Enacted That a Verdict and Iudgment in Replevin heretofore had or given in the Term of Easter in the Year One thousand six hundred fifty thrée in the Kings Bench betwixt Phineas Andrews Plaintiff Richard Woolward and William Meggs Defendants whereby Sir John Wolstenholme Knight an Adventurer in the said East-India Company was adjudged and found lyable to a Commission of Bankrupts only for and by reason of a share he had in the Ioynt-Stock of the said Company and a pretended selling for money part of the return which he had in Specie for his said Adventure shall be and is hereby declared contrary to Law and is hereby reversed Proviso for Purchasors in the Case of Sir John Wolstenholme and made void and null Provided always and be it Enacted That no Act Sale or Disposition of any the Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods Chattels Debts or Credits of the said Sir John Wolstenholme or any distribution of the same or of any money heretofore made or done by the Commissioners of Bankrupts or any claiming under them or any of them by vertue or colour of any Commission or Commissions taken out against the said Sir John Wolstenholme and whereof any person or persons is by vertue or colour of or under any such Act Sale or Disposition actually seised or possessed shall be hereby impeached or frustrated but that the same be injoyed for and toward satisfaction of the Debts for which the same have béen disposed or distributed CAP. XXV For Restoring of all such Advowsons Rectories Impropriate Gleeb-Lands and Tithes to his Majesties Loyal Subjects as were taken from them and making void certain charges imposed on them upon their Compositions for Delinquency by the late Usurped Powers VVHereas many Loyal Subjects of our late Soveraign Lord King Charles the First and of the Kings Majesty that now is were upon pretence of Delinquency for adhering unto and faithfully serving their said Majesties according to their Duty and Allegiance enforced and constrained by the pretended power of the Long Parliament not onely to part with great sums of money in satisfaction of the said supposed Delinquency but likewise to settle all or part of such Advowsons Rectories Gléeb-Land and Tithes Estates and Terms as they or any in trust for them were then seised or possessed of and to make Grants and Assurances of Rents and Annuities to and upon such Trustées as were appointed by the said Long Parliament as well for the augmentation of certain Vicarages as for the use and maintenance of Preaching Ministers and Lecturers without any valuable consideration given for the same other then some abatement of those excessive Fines imposed upon them for their pretended Delinquency and exacted from them by those arbitrary powers to the impoverishing and undoing of many of the Kings most Loyal Subjects 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 Authority of the same That all Grants All Estates made by pretended Delinquents of Advowsons Rectories c. for Compositions made void Feoffments Bargains and Sales Releases Confirmations and other Conveyances and Assurances in the Law of any higher or lower nature whatsoever had or made by any such pretended Delinquents their Heirs Executors or Administrators or by any person having any Estate or Interest in Law or Equity in Trust for them or by any other person or persons having any Estate or Interest joyntly or in common with them or in Reversion or Remainder after them to any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate of any such Advowsons Rectories Impropriate Gléeb-Lands Tithes Estates Terms Annuities and Rents as aforesaid to or for the uses aforesaid as part or in full of their Compositions for such pretended Delinquency as aforesaid and all Securities touching or concerning the same onely Saving other Rights be and are hereby adjudged from henceforth null and void in Law to all intents and purposes whatsoever Saving to all persons other than the said Trustées and their
such Rate is made whereby they shall have power for their several Counties to raise upon the Parishes that lie in or near the said Road and so will have a benefit therefrom such sum or sums of money as they shall sée fit and convenient for the spéedy effecting of the said Repairs before mentioned which said sum and sums so to be rated as aforesaid shall be paid to the Surveyors for the respective County where such Rate is made or to their Receiver or Collector to be imployed for the repairing of the said Ways and places afore-mentioned and not otherwise And in case any person shall refuse to pay such rate so to be made That it shall and may be lawful for the said Surveyors or their said Receivers and Collectors to distrain for such sum or sums of money and the distress to sell rendring the overplus to the Owners Provided always and it is Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said money so advanced by the said several Towns in the said respective Counties shall again be repayed with Interest by the several Surveyors for the several Counties as it doth arise out of the said Toll every County paying for what is so borrowed within its own County and no further And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person or persons not having any lawful cause to be allowed as aforesaid The Penalty for refusing to take the Office of Surveyor shall neglect or refuse to take upon him or them the said Office of Surveyor being thereunto nominated and chosen according as by this Act is appointed or to do or perform his or their duty in the due and spéedy execution of this present Act the said Iustices of the Peace for the several and respective Counties where such Surveyor or Surveyors dwell at their Quarter-Sessions shall and may hereby have power to impose on such person or persons so refusing or neglecting such Fine or Fines not excéeding Ten pounds upon each person so refusing or neglecting as to them shall séem méet and to cause the same to be levied by distress and sale of his or their Goods rendring to the party so distrained the overplus if any shall be Fines and Forfeitures upon this Act how to be paid and disposed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Fines or Forfeitures to be imposed or incurred by vertue of this Act shall be paid to the Surveyors for the time being or any thrée of them or the Treasurers of the said Surveyors for the said respective Counties for and towards the repairing of the said High-ways and places aforesaid And in case of refusal or if any person or persons so chosen to take upon him or them the said Office shall happen to die or shall for any lawful impediment be discharged from the said Office that then some other fit person or persons within that County shall be appointed by two or more Iustices in the said County living near the said High-way and places aforesaid in the place of him or them that shall so refuse die or be discharged and the person or persons so chosen shall and are hereby required upon notice thereof to him or them given under the hands and seals of the said Iustices by whom he or they shall be so chosen to take upon him or them the said Office of Surveyor and to execute the same in such manner and under such and the like penalties as if he or they had béen chosen by the Iustices at their Sessions of the Peace in manner as aforesaid Suits upon this Act shall be laid in the proper County And the Defendant may plead the general Issue And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Suit shall be commenced against any person for any thing done in pursuance of this present Act That in every such case the Action shall be laid in the said respective Counties where the Cause doth arise and not elsewhere and the Defendant in such Action so to be brought may plead the general Issue and give this Act and the special matter in evidence at any Tryal to be had thereupon and that the same was done in pursuance and by Authority of the said Act And if it shall so appear to be done and that such Action shall be brought in any other County That then the Iury shall find for the Defendant and upon such Verdict or if the Plaintiff shall be non-suited or discontinue his Action after the Defendant shall have appeared or if upon Demurrer Iudgment shall be given against the Plaintiff the said Defendant shall have and recover his double Costs Double Costs and have the like remedy for the same as any Defendant hath in any other case by Law Toll not to be paid twice in the same day Provided always That no person or persons having occasion to passe any place where the Toll is taken and return the same day with the same Horse Coach Waggon or other Carriage or with Cattel shall be compelled in the same day to pay the said Toll a second time Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also That all and every person and persons who by Law are chargeable towards the repairing of the said High-ways and places aforesaid shall still remain so chargeable Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding The continuance of this Act for 11. years only Proviso for exempting certain persons and things from paying any Toll Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to any further time or be of force any longer then the term of Eleven years to be accounted from the passing of this Act Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always That all and every person and persons passing through the respective places appointed for the receiving of Toll as aforesaid viz. at Wades-Mill for the County of Hertford at Caxton for the County of Cambridge and at Stilton for the County of Huntington and coming immediately and primarily to and from the several Parishes of Standen Thundridge Ware and Bengeo adjacent to Wades-Mill in the said County of Hertford and Stowe great Papworth little Papworth Borne and Elsley adjacent to Caxton in the said County of Cambridge and Yaxley Washingley Glatton Cunington Waddon and Stibbington adjacent to Stilton in the said County of Huntington shall have a liberty to carry any quantity or quantities of Stones Sand Stones Gravel c. Lime or Gravel Dung Mould and Compost of any nature or kind whatsoever Brick Chalk or Wood And that they and all Carts with Hay or Corn in the Straw at Hay-time Hay Corn in Harvest 〈◊〉 Pâ—â—ugh 〈◊〉 Impâ— of Hâ— or Harvest Ploughs Harrows and other Implements of Husbandry and all other things whatsoever imployed in the Husbanding Stocking and Manuring of their several and respective Lands in the said several
Majesty and the Quéen◠Majesty their Heirs Successors and Assigns to continue in the possession usage disposal of the Bank called Dousedale Bank being on the south side of His Majesties Demean Lands Dousedale Bank called Port sand belonging to their Mannor of Crowland being part therof and to have such ancient Passages and Currents as of right have béen used and accustomed for the avoidance of water through the same into the River South Eae as if this Act had never béen made Provided always and be it Enacted by the authority aforesaid How and for what time Archbishops Bishops c. may make leases That it shall and may be lawful to and for every Archbishop Bishop Dean and Chapter and all Colledges and Halls in either Vniversity and all Bodies Politique and Corporate who are or shall be Lords of Mannors or have or shall have right of Soil or Common in the Wastes within this said Level or within such other Towns Parishes and Places into which the Works of the Dreyning aforesaid do or shall extend and who are by this Act impowred to improve set out inclose divide and sever such proportion or proportions as to them shall or may respectively belong or appertain out of the said Commons and Wastes within the said Level to demise by Indenture all and every the said such proportion or proportions as to them shall or may respectively belong or appertain out of the said Commons or Wastes within the said Level which have not by express Words and under any particular Rent béen at any time formerly demised for any Term or Number of Years not excéeding One and twenty Years so as upon every such Demise or Lease be reserved the fourth part of the true Yearly value to be ascertained by the Commissioners aforesaid or any seven of them due and payable Yearly during the said Term to him or them and his and their Successors Provided always and be it Declared by and with the consent of all Parties concerned That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to alter the possession of Thomas Chicheley Esquire of or from Six hundred seventy one acres parcel of the Lot now claimed to belong to the said Trustées of Henry late Earl of Arundel and Surrey and Two hundred thirty one acres Parcel of the Lot now cliamed to belong to the said Sir William Terringham or from any part thereof by him the said Thomas Chicheley now enjoyed under Purchasers by Sales for non-payment of Taxes upon the dispute betwéen the old and new Adventurers But that the said Corporation shall execute Conveyances of the said respective proportion unto the said Thomas Chicheley his Heirs and Assigns Any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided always and be it Enacted That all such Right or Rights as any Lord or Lords of any Mannor or Mannors Liberties Hundred or half hundred have heretofore had within their respective Mannor or Mannors Liberties Hundred or half hundred within or without the said Level to Waifes Strayes Felons Goods Priviledges of Arrests Escheats and all other Royalties not prejudicial to the Dreining be hereby saved to them their Heirs Successors and Assigns severally and respectively Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Provided always That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be interpreted to infringe or any way to weaken an Act made the Fourth year of the Reign of King James 4 Jac. cap. 13. Entituled An Act for the Dreining of certain Fenns and Low Grounds within the Isle of Ely subject to hurt by Surrounding containing about Six thousand acres compassed about with certain Banks commonly called and named The Ring of Waltersea and Coldham but the said Act shall stand in full force and vertue Any thing in this present Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also That whereas divers Lands in and near adjoyning unto the said Great Level have béen cut through for the better conveying of the Waters from the same and for upholding or repairing the Banks and Workes there without making satisfaction to the respective Owners of the said Lands for the damage they have sustained by such cutting Be it further Enacted That the said Commissioners for the time being or any seven or more of them upon complaint to them made of such damage sustained as aforesaid without recompence for the same shall be and are hereby impowered to award and Decrée such recompence and satisfaction to the party and parties grieved according to their respective damages sustained by such cutting as to the said Commissioners for the time being or any seven or more of them shall be adjudged reasonable the said recompence and satisfaction to be made and given by the said Corporation within six moneths next after such Award or Decrée made and in default thereof the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them shall and may and are hereby impowered to Rate and Tax the said 95. thousand Acres and to Distrain thereupon for the payment of such Rate or Tax and the Distress taken thereupon to sell or dispose as they shall think fit rendring the overplus if any be to the Owners for the payment and satisfaction of such moneys and damages as shall be so Awarded Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Provided nevertheless That in case the Iudicature hereby established The Barons of the Exchequer impowred to hear and determine differences between parties shall not within Twelve moneths from the First day of August next hear and determine all the matters by this Act to them referred concerning the said 95000. acres all and every such person and persons whose Complaints shall be then undetermined may make their applications to the Barons of His Majesties Court of Exchequer who are hereby established a Court of Iudicature and sufficiently authorized to hear and determine all such controversies and differences betwéen the said parties in as large and ample manner to all intents and purposes as the Iudicature hereby established might have done and such Iudgment Order or Decrée of the said Court of Exchequer shall be in all things observed and be effectual as if the said Barons had béen made the only Iudicature by this Act. Lessees of the King Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lessées of the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors of the said Ten thousand Acres or of any part thereof and the Assigns of such Lessées and every or any of them shall be capable to be elected and chosen into the Office or Place Offices or Places of Governor Bayliffs and Conservators aforesaid and to vote in such elections and choice and in all other matters as fully to all intents and purposes as any other Members of the Corporation Owners of any part of the said Ninety five thousand acres may be elected and chosen vote in
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
Major part of the Adventurers or Owners then present shall judge reasonable not excéeding the value of Two per cent of the Ship and Goods so defended according to the first cost of the Goods to be made appear by the Envoyce which the Owner or his Factor or Correspondent is hereby required to produce or by the Oath of the said Owner Factor or Correspondent if thereunto required which money so raised shall be paid unto the Register of the said Court who shall receive for the same Thrée pence in each pound and no more thence to be distributed amongst the Captain Master Officers and Seamen of the said Ship or Widows and Children of the slain according to the direction of the Iudge of the said Court with the approbation of Thrée or more of the Owners or Adventurers aforesaid who shall proportion the same according to their best Iudgements unto the Ships Company as aforesaid having especial regard unto the Widows and Children of such as shall have béen slain in that Service and to such as shall have béen wounded or maimed And in case the Company belonging to any English Merchant-ship shall happen to take any ship Ships which 〈◊〉 oâ— taken 〈◊〉 English which ship shall first have assaulted them the respective Officers and Mariners belonging to the same shall after Condemnation of such ship and Goods have and receive to their own proper use and benefit such part and share thereof as is usually practised in Private men of War â—mary And whereas it often happeneth that Masters and Mariners of ships having ensured or taken upon Botomary greater sums of money then the value of their Adventure do wilfully cast away burn or otherwise destroy the ships under their charge to Merchants and Owners great loss For the prevention thereof for the future Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Captain Master Mariner or other Officer belonging to any ship shall wilfully cast away burn or otherwise destroy the ship unto which he belongeth or procure the same to be done he shall suffer death as a Felon The continuance of this Act. Provided that this Act shall continue for Thrée years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament and no longer CAP. VII Deceitful disorderly and excessive Gaming prevented The inconvenience of immoderate and unlawful use of gaming WHereas all Lawful Games and Exercises should not be otherwise used then as Innocent and Moderate Recreations and not as constant Trades or Callings to gain a Living or make unlawful Advantage thereby And whereas by the immoderate use of them many mischiefs and inconveniences do arise and are daily found to the maintaining and encouraging of sundry idle loose and disorderly persons in their dishonest lewd and dissolute course of life And to the circumventing deceiving cousening and debauching of many of the younger sort both of the Nobility and Gentry and others to the loss of their pretious time and the utter ruine of their Estates and Fortunes and withdrawing them from Noble and Laudable Imployments and Exercises 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 and by the Authority of the same That if any person or persons of any Degrée or Quality whatsoever at any time or times after the Nine and twentieth day of September which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and four do or shall by any fraud shift cousenage circumvention deceit or unlawful device or ill practice whatsoever Deceits and Cosenages in Gaming in playing at or with Cards Dice Tables Tennis Bowls Kittles Shovelboard or in or by Cock-fightings Horse-races Dog-matches or Foot-races or other Pastimes Game or Games whatsoever or in or by bearing a share or part in the Stakes Wagers or Adventures or in or by betting on the Sides or Hands of such as do or shall Play Act Ride or Run as aforesaid win obtain or acquire to him or themselves or to any other or others any sum or sums of money or other valuable thing or things whatsoever The penalty That then every person and persons so offending as aforesaid shall ipso facto forfeit and lose treble the sum or value of money or other thing or things so won gained obtained or acquired The one moyety thereof to our Soveraign Lord the King his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety thereof unto the person or persons grieved or who shall lose the money or other thing or things so gained so as every such loser and person grieved in that behalf do or shall prosecute and sue for the same within six Kalender Moneths next after such Play And in default of such prosecution the same other moyety to such person or persons as shall or will prosecute or sue for the same within one year next after the said six moneths expired And that the said Forfeitures shall or may be sued for or recovered by Action of Debt How to be sued for and recovered Bill Plaint or Information in any of his Majesties Courts at Westminster wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed And that all and every such Plaintiff or Plaintiffs Informer or Informers shall in every such Suit and Prosecution have and recover his and their treble Costs against the person offending and forfeiting as aforesaid Any Law Statute Custom or Vsage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And for the better avoiding and preventing of all excessive and immoderate Playing and Gaming for the time to come Be it further Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Prevention of excessive and immoderate gaming That if any person or persons shall at any time or times after the Nine and twentieth day of September aforesaid play at any of the said Games or any other Pastime Game or Games whatsoever other then with and for ready money or shall Bett on the Sides or hands of such as do or shall play thereat and shall lose any sum or sums of money or other thing or things so plaid for excéeding the sum of One hundred pounds at any one time or méeting upon Ticket or Credit or otherwise and shall not pay down the same at the time when he or they shall so lose the same The party and parties who loseth or shall lose the said moneys or other thing or things so played or to be played for above the said sum of One hundred pounds shall not in that case be bound or compellable to pay or make good the same but the Contract and Contracts for the same and for every part thereof and all and singular Iudgments Statutes Recognizances Mortgages Conveyances Assurances Bonds Bills Specialties Promises Covenants Agréements and other Acts Déeds and Securities whatsoever which shall be obtained made given acknowledged or entred into for security or satisfaction of
and for ever hereafter superseded surceased stayed and discharged And that none of the said Admirals Vice-Admirals Captains or Officers of Ships or Vessels Seamen or Mariners shall from henceforth by vertue force or colour of any Process or procéedings whatsoever in any of His Majesties said Courts or elsewhere be in any wise Arrested disquieted questioned or troubled either in their Persons Lands or Goods for or by reason of the said Act or any thing therein contained But that all and every the said Admirals Vice-Admirals Captains and Officers of Ships or Vessels and all Seamen and Mariners and every of them shall by vertue of this Act stand and be for ever discharged and acquitted in all Courts and Places and of and from all Suits and Proceedings whatsoever sued or begun or to be sued or begun against them or any of them for any manner of Prizes Ships or Goods whatsoever by them or any of them seised surprized or any ways taken betwixt the said thirtieth of January One thousand six hundred forty two and the nine and twentieth of May One thousand six hundred sixty and of and from all Accompts Troubles Articles and Suits whatsoever concerning the same And that this Act shall be taken and expounded in the most large and beneficial manner for the said Admiralls Vice-Admirals Commanders Captains and Officers of Ships and Vessels and Seamen and Mariners and every of them and for their best advantage for the final free and absolute acquitting and discharging of them and every of them of and from all the said Prizes and every part thereof and all Ships and Vessels and Goods whatsoever or of what nature or kind soever by them or any of them seized surprised or in any sort taken betwixt the said thirtieth of January One thousand six hundred forty two and the said nine and twentieth of May One thousand six hundred sixty Provided always And be it Enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained The said Act not repealed as to any Collectors Treasurers c. of such Prize-goods shall not extend or be construed to extend to discharge any other persons whatsoever but onely the said Admirals Vice-Admirals Commanders Captains of Ships and Officers of Ships or Vessels and Seamen and Mariners but 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 Casheers Deputies Officers and Receivers other then such person or persons who are discharged by the Act of Frée and General-Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion that have not yet truly accompted or paid in the Provenues of the Prizes or Moneys arising thereout seized or taken betwixt the said thirtieth of January One thousand six hundred forty two and the said nine and twentieth of May One thousand six hundred sixty and all and every other person and persons by whom or to whom or to or for whose use any Prizes or Prize-Ships Plate Iewels Arms Ammunition Wares Merchandizes or any manner of Goods whatsoever seized or taken for Prize betwixt the said thirtieth of January One thousand six hundred forty two and the said nine and twentieth of May One thousand six hundred sixty were disposed or sold or to whose hands they came and who had and enjoyed the same or any part thereof and are still behind and have not paid in the moneys contracted for and arising or due upon such Sales or Dispositions or any of them and all securities by them and every of them given for or touching the premisses 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 or Exchequer and shall be procéeded upon in the said Court of Admiralty or Exchequer in Your Majesties Name and to and for Your Majesties use according to the said Act directing the prosecution of such as are accomptable for Prize-Goods and as fully and entirely as if this Act had never béen Any thing in this present Act notwithstanding CAP. VII A former Act for Regulating Printing continued BE it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That an Act made in the fourteenth year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord the King that now is Entituled An Act for preventing abuses in Printing Seditious Treasonable and unlicensed Books and Pamphlets and Regulating of Printing and Printing-Presses shall be continued and remain in force untill the end of the next Session of Parliament continued 17 Car. 2. cap. 4. CAP. VIII Arrests of Judgment and superseding Executions prevented WHereas great delay trouble and vexation hath béen and still is occasioned to the people of this Realm as well by arresting and reversing of Iudgments as by staying Executions by Writs of Error and Supersedeas For remedy thereof 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 if any Verdict of Twelve men shall be given in any Action In what court and cases Iudgment after verdict shall not be stayed for default of form in pleading Suit Bill or Demand to be commenced from and after the Five and twentieth day of March which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and five in any of His Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster or in the Courts of Record in the Counties-Palatine of Chester Lancaster or Durham or in His Majesties Courts of the Great Sessions in any of the twelve Shires of Wales Iudgement thereupon shall not be stayed or reversed for default in form or lack of form or by reason that there are not Pledges or but one Pledge to prosecute returned upon the Original Writ or because the Name of the Sheriff is not returned upon such Original Writ or for default of entring Pledges upon any Bill or Declaration or for default of alledging the bringing into Court of any Bond Bill Indenture or other Déed whatsoever mentioned in the Declaration or other Pleading or for default of Allegation of the bringing into Court of Letters Testamentary or Letters of Administration or by reason of the omission of Vi armis or Contra pacem or for or by reason of the mistaking of the Christian Name or Sirname of the Plaintiff or Defendant Demandant or Tenant sum or sums of Money Day Moneth or Year by the Clerk in any Bill Declaration or Pleading where the right Name Sirname Sum Day Moneth or Year in any Writ Plaint Roll or Record preceding or in the same Roll or Record where the Mistake is committed is or are once truly and rightly alledged whereunto the Plaintiff might have demurred and shewn the same for Cause nor for want of the Averment of Hoc
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
be given upon Demurrer for the Avowant or him that maketh Cognisance for any Rent the Court shall at the prayer of the Defendant award a Writ to inquire of the value of such Distress and upon the return thereof Iudgement shall be given for the Avowant or him that makes Cognisance as aforesaid for the Arrears alledged to be behind in such Avowry or Cognisance if the Goods or Cattel so distrained shall amount to that value And in case they shall not amount to that value then for so much as the said Goods or Catel so distrained amount unto together with his full Costs of Suit and shall have like Execution as aforesaid Provided always And be it Enacted That in all Cases aforesaid where the value of the Cattel distrained as aforesaid shall not be found to be to the full value of the Arrears distrained for that the party to whom such Arrears were due his Executors or Administrators may from time to time Distrain again for the Residue of the said Arrears 19 Car. 2. cap. 5. This Act made to extend to Wales and Counties Palatine CAP. VIII An Act for avoiding unnecessary Suits and Delayes FOr the avoiding of unnecessary Suits and Delayes 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 Death of either party between the Verdict and Iudgment That in all Actions personal and real or mixt the death of either party betwéen the Verdict and the Iudgment shall not hereafter be alledged for Error so as such Iudgment be entred within two Terms after such Verdict And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Iudgment obtained by an Executor where any Iudgment after a Verdict shall be had by or in the name of any Executor or Administrator In such case an Administrator de bonis non may sue forth a Scire facias and take Execution upon such Iudgment This Act to continue for the space of Five years The continuance of this Act. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament CAP. IX An Act for granting one Moneths Assessment to His Majesty WE Your Majesties most dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons Assembled in Parliament taking notice of that Heroick Courage The Heroick Courage of his Highness the Duke of York with which Your Majesties Royal Brother exposed his own Person for the Defence of Your Majesty and Your People against the Dutch Fléet and of the Glorious Victory through the blessing of Almighty God by him obtained are humble Suiters unto Your Majesty that we may have leave to make some expressions of our Humble Thanks to his Royal Highness for the same And that for this end Your Majesty would graciously please to accept from us your Loyal Subjects the sum of money herein after mentioned and to bestow the same upon Your Majesties Royal Brother Wherefore we your Majesties said Dutiful and Loyal Subjects have given and granted and by these presents do give and grant unto your most Excellent Majesty whom God long preserve the Sum of One hundred and twenty thousand nine hundred and two pounds fiftéen shillings and eight pence to be raised and levied in manner following That is to say Whereas in and by a certain Act lately passed for granting a Royal Ayd unto his Majesty of Twenty four hundred thréescore and seventéen thousand and five hundred pounds to be raised 16 17 Ca◠2. cap. 1. levied and paid within the space of thrée years It was amongst other things Enacted That the sum of Thréescore and eight thousand eight hundred and ninetéen pounds and nine shillings by the Moneth for thirty six Moneths beginning from the Five and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty four should be assessed taxed levied and paid by twelve quarterly payments in the several Counties Cities Burroughs Towns and places within England and Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed according to the Rates and Proportions therein expressed And whereas in and by another Act passed in this present Session of Parliament 17 Car. 2. cap. 1. It is further Enacted That the sum of Fifty two thousand fourscore and thrée pounds six shillings and eight pence by the moneth for twenty four moneths beginning from the five and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty five shall be likewise assessed taxed collected levied and paid by eight quarterly payments in the several Cities Burroughs Towns and Places within England and Wales and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed over and above the said sum of Thréescore and eight thousand eight hundred and ninetéen pounds and nine shillings as an addition to and increase of the same monethly Assessment both which Sums together amount unto the sum of One hundred and twenty thousand nine hundred and two pounds fiftéen shillings and eight pence by the Moneth It is now further 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 That the Sum of One hundred and twenty thousand nine hundred and two pounds fiftéen shillings and eight pence for one Moneths Assessment more beginning upon the Six and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty seven and ending upon the Six and twentieth day of January in the same year shall be assessed taxed collected levied and paid in the several Counties Cities Burroughs Towns and Places within England and Wales and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed according to the Rates and Proportions following That is to say For the County of Bedford the sum of One thousand five hundred seventy and five pounds twelve shillings six pence farthing The County of Berks the sum of One thousand nine hundred eighty nine pounds four shillings nine pence thrée farthings The County of Bucks the sum of Two thousand thrée hundred and ten pounds fourtéen shillings and thrée pence The County of Cambridge the sum of One thousand seven hundred ninety and one pounds eightéen shillings thrée half pence The Isle of Ely the sum of Six hundred and fourtéen pounds thirtéen shillings and nine pence The County of Chester with the City and County of the City of Chester the sum of One thousand four hundred and seven pounds thirtéen shillings and one peny The County of Cornwall the sum of Two thousand seven hundred and seven pounds seven pence farthing The County of Cumberland the sum of Two hundred ninety and five pounds thirtéen shillings and four pence farthing The County of Derby the sum of One thousand five hundred and fiftéen pounds one shilling and thrée pence thrée farthings The County of Devon the sum of Five thousand six hundred seventy and four pounds five shillings eleven pence farthing The City and County of the City of Exon the sum of Two hundred and four
therefore 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 Iustices of the Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas Iustices appointed to hear and determine differences between Landlords and Tenants c. and the Barons of the Coife of the Exchequer for the time being or any thrée or more of them sitting at the same time and place and not otherwise shall be and are hereby Authorized from time to time to hear and to determine all Differences and Demands whatsoever which have arisen or may any wise arise betwéen Landlords Proprietors Tenants Lessées Vnder-tenants or late Occupiers of any the said Houses or Buildings with their appurtenances or the Courts or Yards Grounds and Wharfs or any person or persons having or claiming any Estate Right Title Interest in Law or Equity or Trust Charge or Incumbrance of or in the same or their or any of their Heirs Executors Administrators Successors or Assigns or any other persons for touching or concerning the Repairing Building or Rebuilding of the said Houses or Buildings Yards Courts Grounds and Wharfs or any other Grounds lying within that part of the City and Suburbs thereof lately burnt pulled down or otherwise demolished defaced or otherwise ruined by reason of the said Fire or for or concerning the payment defalcation apportioning or abatement of any Rent or Rents other then Arrears of Rent onely due before the First day of September One thousand six hundred sixty and six or for or touching any Covenant Condition or penalty relating thereunto or for touching or concerning the prefixing or limiting of any time for such Repairs or new Building Rebuilding or any Rate or Contribution to be born or paid thereunto by any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate interessed in the premisses and all Incidents relating thereunto And that they or any thrée or more of them from time to time with or without any Adjournment summarily and sine forma figura Judicii and without the formalities of procéedings in Courts of Law or Equity shall and may upon the Verdict or Inquisition of Iurors testimony of witnesses upon Oath Examination of parties interessed or by all or any of the said ways or otherwise according to their Discretions procéed to the hearing and determining of the Demands or Differences betwéen the said parties concerning the premisses and that the definitive Order of the said Iustices and Barons or any thrée or more of them as aforesaid shall be final as betwéen the said parties their Heirs Executors Administrators Successors and Assigns and all claiming by from or under them as touching the matters contained in such Orders from which there shall be no Appeal or Review otherwise then as is hereafter mentioned Nor shall any Writ of Error or Certiorari lye for the removal or reversal of the same And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Iustices and Barons The Powers of the said Iustices or any thrée or more of them as aforesaid shall have Authority and are hereby Impowred where they shall think it convenient to Order the Surrendring Increasing Abridging Ceasing Determining or Charging of any Estates in the Premisses or to order new or longer Leases or Estates not excéeding Forty years to be made of any of the premisses by the Proprietors or Owners thereof or other persons interessed therein to any Tenant or Sub-Tenant or late Occupiers of the same their Executors Administrators Successors or Assigns at such Rents and Fines or without any Rent or Fine as they shall think fit unless in such Cases where the Laws of this Realm do forbid the Diminishing of ancient and accustomable Rents All which Orders according to the Tenors thereof shall be obeyed by all persons concerned therein respectively and shall conclude and bind them their Heirs Successors Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively notwithstanding any Disability in respect of Coverture Infancy Non-sanity of Memory Estate Tail or in Right of the Church or otherwise And that Infants Femes Covert Ideots persons of Non-sane Memory or beyond the Seas Tenants in Tail Bishops Deans and Chapters and other Ecclesiastical persons and their Successors Corporations and all other person or persons Bodies Natural and Politick their Heirs and Successors and their respective Interests shall be bound and concluded by such respective Order or Orders according to the Tenor or Purport thereof Any Law Statute or Custom or other matter or thing to the contrary notwithstanding And for the better Enabling the said Iustices and Barons to procéed with effect in the said Causes How to proceed upon Complaints Be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Iustices and Barons or any thrée or more of them as aforesaid upon the complaint or request of any person or persons concerned in any of the said Houses or Buildings and other the premisses shall issue out Notes or Warrants under their hands or the hands of any such thrée of them thereby warning the person or persons Bodies Politick and Corporate therein named and concerned in the said late Houses or Buildings and other the premisses in such Complaint mentioned to appear before them at such time and place as in such Note or Notes shall in that behalf be specified And upon appearance of the said person or persons summoned or upon default of appearance and Oath made of due notice given to him or them which Oath and all other Oaths necessary to the Execution of the Powers given by this Act the said Iustices and Barons or any thrée of them are hereby enabled to administer The said Iustices and Barons or any thrée of them may procéed to make such final and definitive Orders as aforesaid And that such service of the said Note or Notes as is usually allowed to be a good service in cases of Subpoena shall be accounted to be a good service in the cases aforesaid The said Indicature shall be a Court of Record And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Iustices and Barons or any thrée of them for the matters and according to the powers herein before mentioned shall be and shall be taken to be a Court of Record And that the Iudgements and Determinations that shall be made betwixt party and party by Authority of this Act shall be Recorded in a Book or Books of Parchment to be provided for that purpose And that every such Iudgement and Determination shall be Signed by thrée or more of the said Iustices or Barons Which said Book or Books of Record shall be placed and intrusted in the custody of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London for the time being to be kept with the Records of the said City and to remain as a perpetual standing Record unto which all persons concerned or which shall be concerned
Garret-floor of the thickness of one Brick and an half and that the thickness of the Garret-walls on the back-part be left to the discretion of the Builder so that the same be not less then the length of one Brick also that the thickness of the Party-walls betwéen every House of this second and larger sort of Building be two Brick lengths as high as the first Story and thence upwards to the Garrets of the thickness of one Brick and half the Scantlings of Timber and Stone to be as in the said Table are prescribed Houses of the third sort of building Also that the Houses of the third sort of Buildings fronting the high and principal Stréets shall consist of four Stories high besides Cellars and Garrets as aforesaid That the first Story contain full ten foot in height from the Floor to the Cieling the second ten foot and an half the third nine foot the fourth eight foot and an half That all the said Walls in front and réer as high as the first Story be of the full thickness of the length of two Bricks and an half and from thence upwards to the Garret-floor of the thickness of one Brick and an half That the thickness of the Garret-walls on the back part be left to the discretion of the Builder so as the same be not less then the length of one Brick and also that the thickness of the Party-walls betwéen every house of this third and larger sort of Building be two Bricks lengths as high as the first Story and then upwards to the Garrets of the thickness of one Brick and half the scantlings of Timber and Stone to be as in the said Table are prescribed Houses of the fourth sort of building And be it further Enacted That all Houses of the fourth sort of Building being Mansion-houses and of the greatest bigness not fronting upon any of the Stréets or Lanes as aforesaid shall bear the same Scantlings as in the Table are set down for the same and that the number of Stories and the height thereof be left to the discretion of the Builder so as he excéed not four Stories And be it further Enacted That in the Front of all houses hereafter to be erected in any such Stréets as by Act of Common-Council shall be declared to be High-Stréets Fronts of Houses in High-streets Belconies Belconies four foot broad with Rails and Bars of Iron of equal distance from the ground shall be placed every of which Belconies shall contain in length two parts of the Front of the house on which it shall be placed in thrée parts to be divided and the remaining vacancy of the Front shall be supplyed with a Pent-house of the breadth of the Belcony to be covered with Lead Slate or Tile and to be Cieled with Plaistering underneath and that the Water falling as well from the tops of the said Houses as from the said Belconies and Pent-houses be conveyed into the Channels by Party-pipes on the sides or fronts of the said Houses and that Pavements under every of the said Belconies and Pent-houses be made of good and sufficient broad flat Stone at the charge of the Builder And be it further Enacted How Houses fronting on High-Streets shall be built That no Builder of any of the Houses fronting any of the said Highstréets Stréets or Lanes of note be permitted to lay his first Floor over-the Cellar more then Eightéen Inches above the said Stréets or less then Six with one Circular step to lead up thereunto to be placed without the Building And that no Trap-doors or open Grates be in any wise suffered to be made into any such Cellar or Ware-house without the foundations of the Front but that all Lights to be made into any of them be henceforth made upright and not otherwise and that no Bulks Ietties Windows Posts Seats or any thing of like sort shall be made or erected in any Stréets Lanes or By-lanes to extend beyond the antient foundation of Houses nor that any House be set further into the Stréet then the ancient foundation Saving onely that in the high and principal Stréets it shall be lawful for the Inhabitants to suffer their Stall-boards when their Shop-windows are set open to turn over and extend eleven inches and no more from the Foundation of their Houses into the Stréets for the better conveniency of their Shop-windows And be it further Enacted That if any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate Within what time all persons are to rebuild their houses Penalty being Seised Possessed or Interessed of or in any Ground which was formerly builded upon and the Houses thereupon being now burned or pulled down at the time of the late Fire shall not within Thrée years next ensuing build up the same That then the Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council of the City of London by Act of Common-Council may cause Proclamation to be publickly made betwéen the hours of Twelve and two of the clock in the afternoon as well at or upon the said Ground as also at or upon the publick Exchange of the said City thereby to give notice to all persons that shall be or may be therein concerned to cause the same to be rebuilded according to the direction of this present Act within the space of Nine moneths then next following And in case the Owners thereof or other person or persons having Interest therein shall refuse or neglect to rebuild the same in manner and within such time as aforesaid That then in such case the said Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the said City are hereby Authorized to Issue out Warrants to the Sheriffs of London for the time being requiring them to Impannel and return before them a Iury of good and lawful men of the said City which the said Sheriffs are hereby authorized and required to do accordingly which Iury so returned shall upon their Oaths to be administred to them by the said Mayor and Court of Aldermen who are likewise hereby Authorized to minister the same Enquire Estimate and Assess the true and just Value of such void Ground according to their Iudgments And that from and after such Inquiry and Valuation thereof made as aforesaid by Inquest of the said Iury it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Mayor Aldermen and Common Council of the said City to make Sale of the Fée or Inheritance thereof by Conveyance under their Common Seal to any person or persons that will purchase the same at such price at which the same shall have béen so as aforesaid Estimated and Valued by the said Iury and the moneys thereupon to be received of the Purchasers thereof shall be paid into the Chamber of London and from thence to be issued out and paid by the Chamberlain of London for the time being unto such person or persons who shall have any Estate or Interest into or out of the same according to his or their respective