shall be charged upon the Credit of the Exchequer in General and Tallies of Loan and Orders of Repayment levied which Orders shall be assignable LXXXV All Sums of Money so to be borrowed with Interest for the same not exceeding 7 l. per Cent. or so much thereof as shall not be repaid out of the Money that shall be advanced upon the Terms herein mentioned at or after the 24th day of June 1693. and before the 29th of September following all which Moneys to be advanced between the said 24th of June and 29th of September shall be appropriated for the discharging the Loans made upon this Act shall be satisfied to the Lenders out of any of the next Aids to be granted in Parliament and shall be transferrable as soon as such Aid shall be granted And in case no Aid be granted before the 2d of February 1693. the said Sums shall be satisfied out of any of Their Majesties Treasure not already appropriated by Act of Parliament LXXXVI And if the Sum of 500000 l. part of the said Sum of 1000000 l. be not advanced before the 1st of May 1693. Their Majesties may borrow upon Interest as aforesaid any Sum not exceeding 500000 l. to be paid out of such Moneys as shall be advanced upon this Act between the said 1st day of May and the said 29th day of September in case the Money so advanced be sufficient or otherwise so much thereof as the same shall extend to pay and the residue of the said Sum of 500000 l. shall be reckoned as part of the said Sum before directed to be paid out of the next Aids to be granted in Parliament LXXXVII If the whole Sum of 1000000 l. be not advanced before the said 1st day of May any persons after that day and before the 29th of September next following may advance any Sums not exceeding in the whole with what shall have been advanced before the said 1st day of May the Sum of 1000000 l. upon the Terms following viz. That every such Person out of the Duties arising by this Act shall have for every 100 l. a yearly Annuity of 14 l. for his own or any other Life to be by him nominated as aforesaid within 6 days after Payment which Annuities shall commence from the 29th of September 1693. and be paid at the Four most usual Feasts in the year And upon Payment of any such Sums the Persons paying the same shall have one or more Tallies importing the Receipt thereof and Orders for Payment c. to be sign'd as aforesaid and not to be revocable and to be assignable And the Moneys arising by the Duties hereby granted besides so much as shall bear proportion as aforesaid to the Sum which shall be advanced before the 1st day of May 1693. shall be appropriated to the Payment of the said Annuities and not be diverted under the like Penalties as are before appointed in case of misapplying c. The said Officers shall keep Books and make Entries of their Names who shall advance Money after the said 1st day of May and of the Sums advanced and the times of paying in and the Names of the Nominees without Reward to which Books all Persons concern'd shall have access under the Penalties and Disabilities aforesaid and they that shall advance any Sum after the said 1st of May shall have Interest for it till the 29th of Septem 1693. at the rate of 10 l. per Cent. LXXXVIII If any Contributor who shall have advanced any Sum before the said 1st of May shall before the said 29th of September be desirous in lieu of his Share in the Fonds to have an Annuity of 14 l. a year for any Sum of 100 l. by him advanced during the Life of his Nominee a Memorial thereof shall be entred in a Book for that purpose to be kept in the Receipt and the said Entry being sign'd by such Contributor he shall receive such Annuity as if the Moneys by him advanced had been paid in after the 1st day of May And such Contributors Share in the Fonds shall determine for Their Majesties Benefit LXXXIX The Surplus of any Money arising by this Act after the several Proportions of the Fonds and the Annuities and Interest paid shall be to the Use of Their Majesties XC No Moneys lent or payable by Virtue of this Act shall be charged with any Impositions whatsoever XCI Grants or Dispositions of any Money arising by this Act to be made by Their Majesties Their Heirs c. otherwise then by this Act is appointed shall be null and void Frauds I. STat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 14. All Wills concerning Lands or any Rents Profits Term or Charge out of the same whereof the Devisors shall be seiz'd in Fee-simple in Possession Reversion or Remainder or have power to dispose thereof after the 25th day of March 1692. shall be deemed only as against Creditors upon Bonds or other Specialties their Executors c. to be fraudulent and void II. And such Creditors shall have their Actions of Debt against the Heirs at Law and such Devisees joyntly and such Devisees shall be chargeable for a false Plea as any Heir should have been III. Where there shall have been any Devises of Lands for Payment of just Debts or Childrens Portions other then the Heir at Law in pursuance of any Marriage Agreement made in Writing bona fide before such Marriage they shall be in force IV. Where any Heir at Law shall be liable to pay the Debt of his Ancestor in regard of any Lands descending to him and shall make over the same before any Action brought such Heir shall be answerable for such Debts to the Value of the Land made over in which Cases all Creditors shall be preferred as in Actions against Executors and Administrators and Execution upon any Judgment so obtained shall be taken out against such Heir to the Value of the Land as if they were his own Debts saving that Lands bona fide aliened before the Action brought shall not be liable to such Execution V. Where any Action of Debt upon a Specialty is brought against an Heir he may Plead Riens per discent at the time of the Original Writ brought and the Plaintiff may Reply that he had Lands from his Ancestor before the Original Writ brought and if upon Issue joyn'd thereon it be found for the Plaintiff the Jury shall enquire of the Value of the Lands descended and thereupon Judgment shall be given and Execution awarded as aforesaid but if Judgment be given against such Heir by Confession without Confessing the Assets descended or upon demurier or nihil dicit it shall be for the Debt and Damages without any Writ to enquire of the Lands VI. Devisees made liable by this Act shall be Chargeable as the Heir at Law by force of this Act though the Lands Devised be Aliened before the Action brought VII This Act to continue for Three Years and to the End of the then
Defendant Costs unless the Judge before whom it shall be Tryed shall at the Tryal in open Court certifie upon Record that there was a reasonable Cause for such Information And in case the Costs be nor paid within Three Months after they are Taxed the Defendants shall have the Benefit of the said Recognizance to compel the payment thereof II. No persons who are or shall be outlaw'd in the said Court for any thing except Treason or Felony shall be compelled to appear in Person to Reverse the same but may appear by Attorney and Reverse the same without Bail except where Special Bail shall be Ordered by the Court. III. And if any person so Outlaw'd be taken upon a Cap. Utlagatum the Sheriff who hath taken him in all Cases where Special Bail is not required by the said Court may take an Attorneys Engagement under his Hand to appear for him and to Reverse the Outlawry and thereupon may discharge the Defendant and where Special Bail is required the Sheriff may take Security of the Defendant by Bond with one or more Sureties in double the Sum for which Special Bail is required and no more for his Appearance at the Return of the Writ and to do and perform such things as shall be required by the Court and after such Bond taken may discharge him IV. If any person so Outlaw'd and Taken upon a Cap. Utlagatum shall not be able within the return of the said Writ to give Security whensoever such Prisoner shall find Surety for his Appearance by Attorney at some return in the Term then next following to Reverse the Outlawry c. the Sheriff may discharge him V This Act shall not extend to Informations in the Name of Their Majesties Coroner or Attorney commonly called the Master of the Crown-Office VI. Upon the Demise of any King or Queen of this Realm all Pleas to Informations shall stand without calling the Defendants to plead anew unless the Defendants request the Court for that purpose within Five Months after such Demise Ireland and Irish-men I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 29. No Ecclesiastical person Promoted or Beneficed in Ireland and who hath been forced to forsake that Kingdom being of the Protestant Religion who is or shall be presented c. to any Benefice or Promotion in England shall by acceptance thereof lose any Benefice or Promotion in Ireland but may hold the same till he may and shall be restored to his Promotion or Benefice in Ireland so as he may enjoy the same as before the troubles II. Provided that if such Ecclesiastical person so promoted here shall not within Three Months after the Courts of Justice in Ireland shall be open and furnished with Protestant Judges resign his Benefices and Preferments here and give notice thereof to the Patrons the same shall be void and the Patrons may Present or Collate again III. Such Ecclesiastical person so Promoted to any Benefice c. here shall be exempted from First-Fruits and Tenths IV. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 2. cap. 9. The persons now or of late Assembled at Dublin without any Authority derived from Their Majesties calling themselves a Parliament were not nor are a Parliament but an Unlawful and Rebellious Assembly and all Acts and Proceedings whatsoever Made Done or Passed in the said pretended Parliament shall be adjudged null and void and no Act Statute Judgment Outlawry Decree Sentence Order or other Proceedings since the 13th Day of February 1688. Had Made Passed Pronounced or Done or to be Had Made Passed Pronounced or Done by any persons whatsoever by colour of any Commission Writ Power or Authority in Ireland other then such as have been or shall be given by or derived from Their Majesties shall be of any Force or Effect V. All Cities Boroughs and Towns and all Bodies Corporate Ecclesiastical or Temporal in Ireland are hereby declared to be Restored to all Intents and Purposes as they were upon the 24th Day of June 1683. any Proceedings against them by Quo warranto Scire facias c. on any Proceedings Judgments or Executions thereon or any New Charter Grant Commission or any Surrender or other Acts since that time to the contrary notwithstanding All which Writs Suits Proceedings Judgments Seizures Executions Charters Grants Commissions and Surrenders are hereby declared Void VI. No persons whatsoever of the Protestant Religion shall be liable to any Loss Forseiture or Prejudice in Estate Office Person or otherwise by reason of their absence out of Ireland at any time since the 25th of December 1685. or for Non-payment of Rent or any other Duty due to Their Majesties or the Crown out or by reason of any Lands Tenements Rectories Tythes or Church Livings since the 25th of December 1688. till such time as the said Kingdom shall be declared by Their Majesties to be Reduced to Their Obedience VII The Protestants of Ireland shall be and are hereby Restored to all their Possessions Ecclesiastical and Temporal in such manner as they or those under whom they Claim had the same on the 25th Day of December 1688. and Pesons detaining such Possessions after a Demand by the Party grieved may be proceeded against as in a Case of a forcible Detainer VIII Stat. 3. 4. W. M. cap. 2. No person Residing in Ireland shall be obliged to take the Oath of Supremacy by virtue of the Statute of primo Eliz. but the Statute and every other Statute for so much as concerns the said Oath are hereby Repealed IX The Oaths Required by this Act to be taken after the 1st Day of January next 1691. shall be taken by the Persons herein after mentioned and such others as were Required by the said Act or any other Statute made in Ireland to take the said Abrogated Oath before such Persons and in such Court as is hereafter expressed viz. Archbishops and Bishops and others of or above the Degree of a Baron of Parliament there and others having any Promotion Office or Employment Ecclesiastical Civil or Military or receiving any Pay Salary Fee or Wages by reason of any Grant from the Crown or being Master Governor Head or Fellow of the University of Dublin or Master of any Hospital or School or Barrister at Law Clerk in Chancery Attorny or Professor of Law Physick or other Science residing in Dublin or within thirty Miles thereof in Hillary-Term next in the Court of Chancery or Kings Bench there between 9 and 12 in the Forenoon and all the said Persons inhabiting at a greater distance at the General Quarter-Sessions where they reside between 9 and 12 before the 25th of July next and shall make subscribe and repeat the Declaration herein after mentioned all which to be put upon Record paying 1 s. And Archbishops Bishops and others having any Ecclesiastical Promotion or being a Lecturer or Curate neglecting so to do shall be ipso facto deprived and be incapable to be Lecturer or Curate any where and others having any Office
this Act in execution may plead the General Issue c. and if the Plaintiffs discontinue or delay prosecution or become non-suit or a Verdict or Judgment pass against them the Defendants shall recover their treble Costs XV. After the first day of September 1690. none of the Commodities hereby prohibited shall be imported from Guernesey Jersey Alderney Sark or Man into England Ireland Wales or Berwick under the Penalties and Forfeitures contain'd in this Act. XVI None shall sell at or demand a greater price for any French Wines or so reputed or other Wines mixt with French Wines after the 10th day of September 1689. to the 10th day of September 1690. than 12 d. by the Quart and after the 10th of September 1690. 6 d. by the Quart and no more on pain to forfeit for every Quart 5 l. for the first Offence to the Informer and 10 l. for the second and every other Offence to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. XVII After the 10th of Sept. 1689. no Retailer of Wines shall utter them other than in Measures made of Pewter and sealed according to the Statute on pain to forfeit 5 l. for every such Offence to the Informer to be recovered as aforesaid XVIII If any Merchant Vintner Wine-cooper or other Persons selling Wines by whole-sale or retail shall corrupt or adulterate any Wine or shall utter Wine corrupted or adulterated they shall forfeit 300 l. for every such Offence the one moiety to their Majesties and the other to him that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. and shall suffer three months Imprisonment XIX Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 14. If any Officer of the Customs or Prizes shall knowingly suffer any Goods or Manufactures imported as Prizes or otherwise contrary to an Act made in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Trade and commerce with France to be admitted to an Entry or to be embezil'd and not stav'd spilt burnt or destroy'd as the said Act directs he shall forfeit 500 l. one moiety to their Majesties the other to the Informer and shall be uncapable of executing any Office in their Majesties Revenue XX. If any Persons after the first of February 1690. shall utter by retail by Glass-Bottles or by any other Retail-measure not made of Pewter and seal'd according to Law any Wines or other Liquor or shall sell the same for a greater price than by the said Act is appointed and shall be convicted by confession or the Oath of two Witnesses before a Justice of Peace being prosecuted within thirty days after the Offence committed they shall forfeit 5 s. for every such Offence which if not paid upon demand shall be levied by distress and tale of Goods by such Justices Warrant to the Constable Headborough c. the Mony so levied to be given to the Informer and for want of a distress the Offender to be committed to the common Gaol till payment of the penalty and all necessary Costs to be taxed by the Justice or Justices before whom the Conviction was XXI Offenders punished by virtue of this Act shall not incur the Penalty of any former Law for the same Offence and no Writs of Certiorari shall supersede or remove any Proceedings by virtue of this Act. XXII Persons resisting abusing beating or wounding an Officer Informer or other Person impowred hereby or such as shall act in their Aid shall by the next Justice of Peace or other Magistrate be committed to prison till the next Quarter-Sessions where they shall be punished by Fine not exceeding 5 l. and the Offender to remain in prison till he be discharged of his Fine and Imprisonment by Order of the Justices or any two of them XXIII Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 17. A joint Stock of 40000 l. at least shall be raised by Subscriptions by Sir W.S. H.B. R.H. J.S. G.B. F.G. E.P. E.H. J.J. E.B. B.S. M.A. R.M. J.G. J.K. T.S. W.B. R.B. R.H. J.B. J.B. P.P. T.P. C.M. S.H. S.N. B.S. N.C. T.C. P.G. J.B. T.K. H.S. R.M. J.P. R.C. P.G. A.B. A.M. J.O. J.P. and T.G. on or before the first day of May next and shall be paid to the use of the Company established by this Act. XXIV And be it enacted That the said Sir W.S. H.B. and the rest of the Persons afore-named and all and every other Person and Persons subjects born or naturalized or endenizend who shall have any share in the said Joint-Stock shall be incorporated by the Name of the Company of Merchants of London trading to Greenland and shall have a common Seal and Ability to purchase Lands and Tenements in Succession so as the same exceed nor the yearly value of 100 l. and to do and execute all Matters and Things which any other Body Corporate may lawfully do or execute XXV The said Company during the continuance of the said Joynt-Stock shall freely use the Trade and Merchandize of catching Whales into and from Green land and the Green-land Seas and in all Seas and Places whatsoever except in the Seas belonging to their Majesties Colonies and Plantations in America without interruption or disturbance any Law Statute or other thing to the contrary notwithstanding XXVI A Governor Deputy-Governor and sixteen Committees shall be elected as followeth who shall have the management and direction of the said Trade XXVII A Book for Subscriptions shall be provided within ten days after the passing of this Act by the first five of the said Persons or any three of them in which shall be subscribed on or before the first day of May next by the Persons above-named or the Survivors of them the said Joint-Stock which shall not be less then 40000 l. no Subscriber to subscribe less than 500 l. nor more than 2000 l. XXVIII All Persons subscribing shall on or before the said first day of May pay down to such as the Persons before-named or the major-part of them shall appoint one fourth part of the Sums they subscribe and the remainder at such times and in such manner as shall be appointed by the Governor or Deputy-Governor and Court of Committees so as the whole Sum subscribed be paid within four years after the said first day of May. XXIX Defaulters in payment shall after such default have no other advantage by such Subscription than in proportion to such Sums as they shall have actually paid and farther shall forfeit to the use of the Adventurers in the said Joint-Stock 10 l. for every hundred pounds of such Sum as they shall omit to pay in to be deducted out of the Mony by them paid in XXX Before the 25th day of May next any thirteen of the said Persons before-named shall call a Court of all the Subscribers and others who shall then have any share in the said Joint-Stock who shall meet and chuse one fit Person having subscribed 1000 l. or upwards and paid in one
next Session of Parliament VIII Stat. 4. 5. W. M. cap. 16. If any Persons shall borrow any Money or for any other valuable Consideration for the payment thereof shall acknowledge or suffer to be Entered against them a Judgment Statute or Recognizance and shall afterwards borrow any other Sum of any other Persons or for other valuable Consideration and for securing the Repayment or Discharge thereof shall morgage Lands to the Second or other Lender or Lenders or to any other Persons in Trust for him or them and shall not give notice to the Morgagee of such Judgment Statute or Recognizance in writing before the Execution of the said Morgage unless such Morgager or his Heirs upon notice given by the Morgagee in writing under Hand and Seal Attested by Two or more Witnesses of such former Judgment c. shall within Six Months Pay off and Discharge the same and cause the same to be vacated or discharged by Record such Morgager shall have no Benefit in Equity for Redemption of the Lands Morgaged IX If any Person who hath or shall once Morgage Lands for security of Money or for other valuable Considerations shall again Morgage the same Lands or any part thereof to any other Persons the former Morgage being in force and shall not discover to the Second Morgagee the First Morgage in writing such Morgager shall have no Relief or Equity of Redemption against the Second Morgagee X. But such Second or other Morgagees may Redeem any former Morgage XI This Act shall not extend to bar any Widow of any Morgager from her Dower who did not legally joyn with her Husband in such Morgage or otherwise Lawfully exclude her self Game I. STat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 23. All Laws and Statutes in Force for the better Preservation of the Game of this Kingdom and every Clause and thing therein not hereby Altered or Repealed shall be duly put in Execution II. Constables Head-boroughs and Tything men by a Justice of Peace his Warrant may and are Required to enter into and search in such manner as by An Act for the more effectual Discovery and Punishment of Deer-stealers made in the Third and Fourth Year of Their Majesties Reign is provided in Case of Venison or Skin of any Deer or Toyles Houses of Suspected Persons not qualified and in Case any Game shall be found the Offender shall be carried before a Justice of Peace and if he do not give a good Account how he came thereby or produce the Party of whom he bought it in some convenient Time or some Credible Person to depose upon Oath such Sale thereof he shall be Convicted of such Offence by the said Justice and Forfeit for every Hare Partridge c. or other Game any Sum not under 5 s. and not exceeding 20 One Moiety to the Informer and the other to the Poor of the Parish where the Offence was Committed to be Levied by Distress and Sale of his Goods rendring the Overplus and for want of a Distress shall be Committed to the House of Correction for any time not exceeding a Month nor less then Ten days there to be Whipt and Kept to Labour And if any Person not qualified by Law do keep or use any Bows Greyhounds Setting-dogs Ferrets Coney-dogs Hays Lurchers Netts Tunnels Low-bells Hare-pipes Snares or other Instruments for destruction of Game and shall be Convicted as aforesaid he shall be subject to the Pains and Penalties aforesaid And if any Person so Charged shall not before the same Justice give such Evidence of his Innocence as aforesaid he shall be Convicted thereof in like manner as the Person First Charged therewith is hereby directed to be and so from person to person till the First Offender be discovered III. Lords of Manors and other Royalties or any Authorized by them shall and may Oppose and Resist such Offenders in the Night time within their respective Manors and Royalties as if such Fact had been Committed in any ancient Chase Park or Warren Enclosed IV. No persons whatsoever shall after the 25th day of March 1693. keep any Net Angle Leap Piche or other Engine for taking Fish other then the Makers and Sellers thereof for their better convenience in the Sale thereof and other then the Owner or Occupier of a River or Fishery And Owners or Occupiers of Rivers and Fisheries and such as they shall Authorize may seize and keep to their own Use any such Engine which shall be found used by or in the possession of any Person whatsoever fishing in any River or Fishery without the consent of the Owner or Occupier And also any Person whatsoever Authorized by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of a Justice of Peace may search the Houses and other Places of Persons Prohibited and Suspected to have in their Custody any such Engines and the same to seize and keep to their own use or to destroy V. This Act shall not extend to abridge Fishermen or their Apprentices Lawfully Authorized to Fish in Navigable Rivers or Waters with Lawful Nets and Engines VI. No Certiorari shall be allowed to remove any Conviction or other Proceeding concerning any matter in this Act unless the Parties against whom such Conviction shall be shall before the Allowance thereof become bound to the Prosecutor in the Sum of 50 l. with Sureties to be Approved of by the Justice or Justices of Peace before whom such Offender was Convicted to pay to the Prosecutor within a month after such Conviction Confirmed or Proceedendo Granted their full Costs and Charges to be ascertain'd upon Oath VII Offenders Punished by force of this Act shall not incur the Penalty of any other Law for the same Offence VIII Persons prosecuted at Law for any thing done in pursuance of this Act may Plead the General Issue and give this Act or any other special Matter in Evidence and if the Verdict pass for the Defendants or the Plaintiffs become Non-suit or suffer a discontinuance the Defendants shall recover Treble Costs IX If any inferior Tradesman Apprentice or other dissolute Person shall Hunt Hawk Fish or Fowl unless in Company with the Master of such Apprentice qualified by Law they shall be subject to the Penalties of this Act and may be sued for Trespass in coming upon any persons Ground in which Suit the Plaintiff shall recover his Damages and full Costs X. For the better preserving the Red and Black Game of Growse commonly called Heath cooks or Heath-colts no person whatsoever on any Mountains Hills Heaths Moors Forests Chases or other Wasts shall burn between the Second Day of February and the Twenty fourth of June any Grig Ling Heath Furz Gross or Fern on pain of being Committed to the House of Correction for any Time not exceeding a Month nor under Ten Days there to be Whipt and kept to hard Labour Gold and Silver I. Sat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 30. Whereas by a Statute made in the 5th Year of King Henry
Majesties Quarters that did belong to the Irish Regiments then in being or were then treated with or who were not Prisoners of War or who had not then taken Protection and have since submitted to their Majesties Obedience from using their Profession or calling of Barrister at Law Clerk in Chancery Attorny or Practiser of Law or Physick XVIII Provided that every such Barrister at Law c. who shall claim any benefit hereby to be exempt from taking the said Oaths c. shall make out his claim thereto according to the qualifications herein before expressed before the Court of Kings Bench in Ireland on or before the last day of Michaelmas-Term next for the recording whereof 1 s. shall be paid and no more and in default of such claim to be excluded XIX If any Person before he have taken the said Oath in the Kings Bench in Ireland or at the General Quarter-Sessions in the place where he inhabits and procured the same to be recorded and obtain'd a Certificate thereof shall practise his Calling or Profession he shall forfeit 500 l. to such as will sue for the same and be uncapable to use or exercise such Profession or Calling XX. Two or more Justices of the Peace whereof one to be of the Quorum shall direct their Warrants to any Constable Tythingman or other Officer to summon any Person of eighteen years of Age or upwards to appear before such Justices to the Oath above-mentioned to be faithful c. and for want of appearance having no lawful let or in case of appearing and refusing to take the said Oath the Justices shall commit such Persons to the common Gaol or House of Correction for three months unless they shall pay down any Sum not exceeding 40 s. as the Justices shall require which Mony shall be paid to the Church-wardens or Overseers of the Poor of the Parish or Place where the Offender last inhabited and after the three months ended two or more Justices shall direct their Warrant to summon such Offender before them to take the said Oath and for want of appearance or in case of refusal to take the said Oath he shall be committed as aforesaid for six months unless he pay down what Sum the Justices shall require not exceeding 10 l. nor under 5 l. to be disposed as aforesaid and unless he become bound with two Sureties to appear at the next Assizes or General Gaol-delivery and in the mean time to be of the Good Behaviour and in case of refusal at the Assizes or General Gaol-delivery such Offender shall incur a Premunire unless such Offender be a Feme Covert who upon such refusal shall be committed only to the Common Gaol till she takes the said Oath XXI It shall be sufficient for Quakers producing a Certificate under the Hands and Seals of six or more of the Congregation to which they belong to make and subscribe the following Declaration viz. I A. B. do sincerely promise and solemnly declare before God and the World That I will be true and faithful to King William and Queen Mary And I do solemnly profess and declare That I do from my Heart c. verbatim as in the Oaths afore-mentioned XXII But no Quakers shall thereby be capable of holding any Office Imployment Salary c. whereunto any Person taking the said Oaths c. shall or may be entituled XXIII This Act shall not be dispensed with by any Warrant or Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England or Ireland but such Dispensations shall be null and void Iudicial Proceedings I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 4. Whereas the Term of St. Hill 1688. could not be kept Be it enacted That all Pleas Writs Bills Actions Suits Plaints Process Precepts or other Things whatsoever that were returnable or had day or days in the Chancery Kings Bench Common Pleas or Exchequer in Oct. Hill Quind Hill Crast Pur. or Oct. Pur. last past or at any day certain after any of the said Returns shall stand and be revived and are hereby continued and adjourned to the Return of Quind Pasch next ensuing and Parties that had day at any time in Hill Term shall appear on the said Return of Quind Pasch under the same Penalties that might have incurr'd for not appearing in Hill Term if it had been held II. Writs of Error upon Judgments in the Kings Bench returnable or upon which day was given in the Exchequer Chamber at any time in Hill Term and all Proceedings thereupon shall be revived and adjourn'd to the 20th day of Apr. 1689. and all Parties are to appear then under the same Penalties that would have incurred if they had made default in Hill Term. III. Writs of Error upon Judgments in the Court of Exchequer upon which day was given before the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Treasurer in Hill Term and Proceedings thereupon shall be revived and adjourn'd to the 23d day of Apr. 1689. and all Parties are to appear then under the same penalty that would have incurr'd if they had made any default in Hill Term c. IV. Fines upon which Proclamation ought to have been made in Hill Term shall be good as if such Proclamation had been made and if the fourth and last Proclamation was to have been made in Hill Term the five years shall be accounted from the 12th day of Febr. 1688. V. Where any Judgment was by Warrant of Attorny to have been entred in Hill Term the same may be entred in Easter Term if the Parties be then living VI. Any Persons before the 17th day of Apr. 1689. may prosecute any Precept Writ mean Process or Execution returnable in the said Courts on some return or day in Easter-Term next and the said Writs in the Kings Bench Common Pleas and Exchequer shall be dated on the day they are actually sued out which Writs and Process shall be good notwithstanding the want of any Original Writ or being attested VII It shall be lawful before the said 17th day of April to prosecute any Writ of Habeas Corpus in Civil Causes to be dated as aforesaid returnable immediately before any of the Justices of the Kings Bench Common Pleas or Barons of the Exchequer who may proceed thereupon as if the said Term of St. Hill had been kept VIII All Pleas Writs Bills Actions Suits Plaints Process Pleadings Proceedings Indictments and Informations Causes and Things whatsoever pleaded returned depending or being in the Court of the Dutchy-Chamber at Westminster in the Great Sessions of Wales or in the Courts within the Counties Palatine of Chester Lancaster or Durham or in any other Court of Law or Equity upon the 11th day of December 1688. shall be continued and revived and may be proceeded upon without any continuance or adjournment IX Persons that since the said 11th day of December 1688. and before the 13th day of February following have committed any Murder Manslaughter Burglary Perjury or Forgery or any other Crimes for which they were in
custody or stood upon Bail on the said 13th day of February shall be proceeded against as if the said Crimes had been committed before the said 11th day of December and all Persons for any Matter arisen since the said 11th day of December and before the said 13th day of February shall be liable to any Action and it shall be sufficient in all Indictments and Informations for any such Crimes and in all Actions and Declarations for any such Cause to alledge the Year of our Lord instead of the Year of the King and in such Indictments Informations or Actions wherein Conclusions used to be contra Pacem Domini Regis to conclude contra Pacem Regni and Indictments for Felonies committed within that time shall be good having the words contra Pacem Regni though the words Domini Regis Coronam Dignitatem be omitted X. Recognizances Statutes and Obligations made since the said 11th day of December and before the said 13th day of February in the Name of and to the late King James II. shall be good and may be sued in their Majesties Names and all Persons who were bound by Recognizance to the said late King to appear in the Court of Kings Bench at any time in Hill Term or at the next Assizes Oyer and Terminer General Gaol-delivery or of the Peace shall be obliged to appear in the said Court of Kings Bench on the first day of Easter-Term 1689. and at the next Assizes Sessions of Oyer and Terminer c. under the Penalty of forfeiting the said Recognizance c. XI Writs and Process issuing out of any of the Courts of Westminster as of Mich. Term 1688. that have been executed before they were returnable and all Bills Plaints Judgments and Proceedings in any Inferior Court and Executions thereupon since the said 11th day of December and before the said 13th day of February shall be good as if the said late King had continued so XII Bail Bonds taken by Sheriffs c. though not lawfully qualified since the first day of November 1687. and Recognizances of Bail taken since the said 11th day of December before any Person who upon the first day of December last was Justice of the Kings Bench Common Pleas or Baron of the Exchequer shall be good and may be inroll'd in Easter-Term 1689. and all Commitments to prison on any Writ or Process by the said Judges since the said 11th day of December shall be good in Law XIII No part of the time from the 10th of December 1688. until the 12th of March 1688. shall be accounted as part of the six months from the time of the avoidance of any Church in which any Person is bound to bring his darrein Presentment or Quare impedit or as any part of the time in which any Person by virtue of any Statute of Limitation ought to bring his Action Iudgments I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 20. The Clerk of the Essoins of the Court of Common Pleas every Clerk of the Doggets of the Court of Kings Bench and the Master of the Office of Pleas in the Exchequer shall before the end of every Easter-Term put into an Alphabetical Dogget by the Defendants Names a particular of all Judgments for Debt by Confession non sum Informatus or nihil dicit entred in the said respective Courts of the Term of St. Hillary preceding containing the Names of the Plaintiffs and Defendants their Places of Abode Title Trade or Profession if any such be in the Record and the Debt Damages and Costs recovered thereby and where the Actions were laid and the Number-roll of the Entry thereof and every Clerk of the Judgments and other Clerk of the Courts of Common Pleas and Kings Bench shall within ten days before the said time bring to the Clerks of the Doggets Notes in Writing of all the Judgments by them entred of the said Term of St. Hillary upon Verdicts Writs of Enquiry Demurrer and every other Judgment for Debt or Damages in all things as aforesaid and that the Clerk of the Judgments and every other Clerk of the Exchequer shall within the time aforesaid bring unto the Master of the Office or Pleas the like Note in Writing of all the like Judgments by him entred to the end they may be respectively entred and the respective Officers and Clerks shall before the last day of the Term of St. Michael make the like Doggets containing all Judgments of the Terms of Easter and Trinity in all things as aforesaid and before the last day of every Hillary-Term the like Doggets of Judgments in Michaelmass-Term The said Doggets to be kept in Books in Parchment to be searched and viewed by all Persons at reasonable times paying for every Terms search 4 d. and no more on pain that every Clerk of the Essoins of the Court of Common Pleas Clerk of the Doggets of the Kings Bench and Master of the Office of Pleas in the Exchequer and every Clerk before-mentioned shall for every Term in which he shall neglect his Duty forfeit 100 l. one moiety to the Party grieved and the other moiety to the Prosecutor II. No Judgment not doggetted as aforesaid shall affect any Lands as to Purchasers or Mortgagees or have any preference against Heirs Executors or Administrators in the administration of their Ancestors Testators or Intestates Estates III. The Plaintiffs in every of the said Judgments shall pay to the Clerks of the Judgments for every Judgment entring 4 d. over and above the Fees now due IV. This Act to continue for one year from the 25th day of March 1693. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament King and Queen I. STat. 2 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 1. The Lords and Commons publish declare and enact in Parliament that they do recognize and acknowledge that their Majesties are and of Right ought to be by the Laws of this Realm their Soveraign Liege Lord and Lady King and Queen of England France and Ireland c. in and to whose Princely Persons the Royal State Crown and Dignity of the said Realms with all Honors Prerogatives c. are fully rightfully and entirely invested incorporated united and annexed II. All and singular the Acts made in the Parliament assembled the 13th day of Febr. 1688. were and are the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom and as such ought to be reputed taken and obeyed Leather I. STat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 23. Whereas an Act made in the 20th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for giving liberty to buy and export Leather and Skins tanned or dressed was revived by another Act made in the first year of the Reign of the late King James II. Entituled An Act for reviving a former Act for exporting Leather which Act will expire at the end of this Sessions Be it enacted that the said two Acts be revived and continue in force from the end of this Session of Parliament for seven
years and from thence to the end of the Session of Parliament then next ensuing II. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 33. Every Hide Skin or Piece of tanned Leather shaved or liquored and well curried according to the Statute of 1 Jac. 1. shall be adjudged to be the made Ware and Manufacture of the Currier and subject to the view search and seizure of the Master of the several Mysteries of the Cordwainers Curriers Girdlers and Sadlers of the City of London or the major part of them as by the said Statute is provided and shall be liable to be seiz'd and subject to the same Penalties as other Wares insufficiently made of tanned Leather are liable and subject by the said Statute III. Nothing in this Act shall give any Power to the Master and Wardens of the Company of Curriers to search or seize any Leather Hide or Skin but such as shall be curried in London or within three Miles thereof by some Members of their own Company nor in any other Place but the open Market-place or in the Shops Houses or Ware-houses of such Curriers IV. All Persons whatsoever dealing or working in Leather may buy all sorts of Red tann'd Leather in any open Fair or Market curried or uncurried the same being first search't and seal'd according to Law and may sell the same again in their Shops or convert it into other made Ware V. Any Persons may buy or sell Leather Hides or Skins by weight London I. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 8. Whereas a Judgment was given in the Kings Bench in Trinity-Term in the 35th Year of King Charles II. in a Quo Warranto against the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of London that the Franchise of the said City should be seiz'd into the Kings Hands as forfeited which Proceedings were illegal and arbitrary Be it enacted That the said Judgment and every other Judgment given or recorded in the said Court for seizing the Franchise of the said City into the Kings Hands be revers'd and made void and Vacats entred upon the Rolls II. The Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of London to remain a Body Politick by the Name of Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London c. without any Seizure or Forejudger of the said Franchise c. upon pretence of any Forfeiture or Misdemeanor done or to be done and to have and enjoy all their Rights Charters c. which they lawfully had at the time of the recording or giving the said Judgment III. All Charters Letters Patents c. for incorporating the Citizens and Commonalty of the said City or any of them and all Charters c. concerning any of their Liberties c. Lands and Tenements c. Rights Title or Estates made since the said Judgment by the late King Charles II. or King James II. are hereby declared void IV. Yet no Recoveries Verdicts Judgments Statutes Recognizances Inquisitions Indictments Presentments Informations Decrees Sentences Executions nor any Plaints Process or Proceedings in Law or Equity had in any Court within the said City or Liberties thereof since the said Judgment shall be avoided for want of any legal Power in such as acted as Judges or Officers belonging to the same V. This Act shall not extend to discharge any Persons from any Penalties for not duly qualifying themselves to act upon such Charters Grants or Commissions VI. All Officers and Ministers of the City that rightfully held any Office or Place therein or in Southwark when such Judgment was given are hereby confirmed as fully as they held them then except such as have voluntarily surrendred or been removed for just cause and Persons admitted since the said Judgment into any Office or Employment within the said City upon the death surrender or removal as aforesaid of the former Officers are hereby confirmed as if they had been admitted therein according to ancient Custom VII Leases and Grants of Lands and other things before the said Judgment belonging to the City made since the said Judgment by the said late King Charles II. or King James II. or any taking upon them to be Trustees for the City upon pretence of any Commission from either of the said late Kings being made for a just and valuable consideration and whereupon the accustom'd yearly Rent or more hath been reserved shall be good upon the Terms therein contained and the Commonalty and Citizens shall have all benefit and advantage thereof VIII All Judgments Decrees and Sentences obtain'd by any Persons taking upon them to be Trustees as aforesaid concerning any Interests belonging to the City shall stand in force and be prosecuted and executed by and to the use of the City and all Persons natural-born Subjects or Denizens that have been admitted into the Freedom of the City since the said Judgment shall be free thereof as if admitted before IX The present Mayor Sheriffs Chamberlain and Common Council shall continue till new Elections and the Persons to be elected sworn the Election of a Mayor Sheriffs and Chamberlain to be on the 26th day of May 1690 and of the Common Council on the 10th day of June 1690. Persons so elected to continue till the usual time of electing such Officers according to usage and from thence to continue for the year ensuing X. If the Mayor Sheriffs Chamberlain and Common Council shall not be elected as aforesaid the Mayor Sheriffs Chamberlain and Common Council which were in being at the time of the said Judgment shall be and continue in those respective Offices till new Elections be made according to ancient usage XI All Persons so to be restored and continued shall take the Oaths appointed by an Act made in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths the next Term after such restitution under the Penalties and Disabilities in the said Act provided XII The Mayor Sheriffs and Chamberlain so to be elected shall be sworn in usual manner on or before the 20th day of June next XIII The several Companies and Corporations of the City shall stand and be incorporated by such Names and in such manner as they were at the time of such Judgment given and are hereby restored to the Lands c. Rights and Liberties which they lawfully had then And all Surrenders and Charters for new incorporating any of them and concerning any of their Liberties granted by either of the said late Kings since the said Judgment shall be void but no Person shall be prosecuted for any thing by him lawfully done in pursuance of such Charters c. XIV Provided that all Leases Terms and Estates granted by any of the said Companies since the said Judgment for just and valuable considerations and whereupon the accustomed yearly Rents or more are reserved shall be of force as if they had been granted by the said several Companies as hereby restored and the said Companies shall have all
all Sheriffs Mayors Bailiffs Constables and other Officers are required to be aiding in the execution of this Act No Officer whatsoever relating to the Customs shall sign suffer or allow of any Warrant or Order for delivering of any Goods prohibited by this Act to any Person or into any Place other than into one of their Majesties Ware-houses there to remain till Judgment pass according to this Act nor shall any Person whatsoever relating to the Customs by virtue or colour of any Warrant or Order take up or deliver any the said Goods or suffer them to be carried to any other place than one of the Kings Ware-Houses there to remain as aforesaid And such Goods brought into the Kings Ware-houses shall be forthwith viewed in the presence of two or more principal Officers of that Port whereof the Collector Customer or Customers Deputy to be one and the marks and numbers of each Vessel or Package and the quality and quantity of the said Goods and the time when brought in and of their delivery out of the said Ware-houses shall by special direction of the Commissioners or other Chief Officers of the Customs be registred in a Book to be kept for that purpose and for entry of Claims which examination shall be repeated and entred as aforesaid after condemnation at the delivery of them out to be destroyed and compared with the first Entry to prevent Fraud or Imbezilment and if any such be found the same to be entred and subscribed in the said Book by the principal Officer of the Port not having charge of the Ware-house and Copies of the Entries Examinations and Claims and a true Certificate of the deduction of the said Goods shall be transmitted to the Commissioners of the Customs with monthly Abstracts of the said Ports of which a distinct account shall be kept by the Officers of the Seizures in the Port of London IV. Such Goods shall not be delivered out of any the said Ware-houses till a Judgment or Condemnation have passed upon them otherwise than to be produced at a Trial to be had touching the unlawful importing the same or for the recovery of any Penalty incurred thereby V. If any Person not being a known Merchant Vintner or Shop-keeper shall after the first day of September 1689. sell or expose to sale any of the Commodities hereby prohibited they shall over and above the Penalties aforesaid suffer twelve months Imprisonment VI. Vessels with all their Guns and Furniture in which any such Commodities shall after the said 24th day of August be imported and every Bark Lighter or other Vessel out of which they shall be put on Shore shall be forfeited and the Master or other Person taking care of such Vessel for the Voyage or out of which any of the said Commodities shall be unshipt into any Hoy c. to be put on Shore shall forfeit 500 l. and also being apprehended by a Justice of Peace's Warrant and the Fact proved before one or more Justices by the Oath of two Witnesses shall be committed to the next Gaol for twelve months and Seamen Watermen Carmen and other Persons assisting in the landing or conveying any of the said Commodities by Land or Water shall upon examination and proof as aforesaid be subject to like Imprisonment or be publickly whipt at the Justices discretion and the Carts Teams Carriages Horses and Oxen made use of in such Carriages or Conveyance may be seiz'd and stay'd and upon proof before Justice of Peace by the Oaths of two Witnesses that they were made use of in moving or conveying any Goods hereby prohibited to be imported they shall be forfeited the one half to the use of the Poor of the Parish the other to his use that shall seize the same and if the Master or other Person belonging to any Vessel laden or part laden with any the said Commodities shall after the said 24th day of August unship or wittingly suffer to be unshipt any the said prohibited Goods either at Sea or in any Harbor Creek or Bay of the Kingdoms aforesaid he shall forfeit 500 l. and suffer Imprisonment as aforesaid VII No Brandy Aqua-vita Spirits or distilled Waters of any place whatsoever shall after the said 24th of August be imported in England or Ireland or any the said Islands on pain to forfeit the fame and the Ship or Vessel in which it shall be imported VIII The values and prices of the said Goods shall be reckoned as followeth viz. A Tun of Wines 30 l. a Tun of Brandy 40 l. and so proportionably Other Commodities aforesaid that are valued in the Book of Rates shall be esteemed according to their value there and the Prices of Commodities not rated there shall be determin'd by the Jury that shall try the cause or shall be empannelled to enquire whether the Goods were of the Product or Manufacture of the French Kings Dominions and in case of Condemnation by default the value to be determin'd by a Jury return'd before the Mayor or Bailiff of the City or Town Corporate or before the next Justice of Peace where the Goods shall be brought IX Persons prosecuting shall be rewarded with one third part of the value of the Goods prosecuted to condemnation and destruction to be Owners X. And the residue of the Forfeitures and Penalties before mentioned and not before disposed of shall be divided into three parts two thirds to their Majesties and one third to such as shall seize or sue for the same the Charge of such Prosecution to be born by their Majesties and issued by the Receiver General of the Customs by Warrant from the Commissioners XI No Foreigner or other Person shall be admitted to claim any of the said Goods till security given to the satisfaction of the Collector to answer to such Penalties as shall be incurred by him as the Importer or which the Owner Importer or Possessor thereof is shall or may be liable to by this Act. XII If any Person belonging to the Customs shall connive at the Importation of any the said Commodities he shall not only forfeit 500 l. to be recovered as aforesaid but be made incapable of any Office or Imployment under their Majesties and forfeit the Penalties of their Bonds for true performance of their Trust XIII Any Persons by Writ of Assistance under the Seal of the Exchequer may take a Constable or other publick Officer and in the day-time enter into any House Shop Cellar Ware-house c. and in case of resistance may break open Doors Trunks or other Package to seize and bring to their Majesties Ware-house any of the said Commodities XIV The Attorny General and other Persons seizing and prosecuting as aforesaid may use such method and course of proceeding as may be used about the seizing trying and prosecuting any Goods or Commodities for non-payment of Customs or other Duties or any Persons for offending against the Laws relating to Customs and Persons prosecuted for any thing done about the putting
the said Corporation their respective Heirs Executors or Administrators in proportion to their respective Shares or Subscriptions wherein Judgment may be recovered as if Security were given in their private Capacities any Condition Covenant or Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding And if any such shall be made to the contrary it is hereby declared void XIX Corporation not to Trade The Corporation to be made shall not Trade or suffer any Person in Trust for them to trade with any of the Stock-Monies or Effects of the Corporation in the buying or selling of any Merchandizes or Goods whatsoever Penalty for Trading And every Person so trading or by whose Order such Trading shall be made shall forfeit treble the value of the Goods and Merchandizes so traded for to such Person as will sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster Bills of Exchange Mortgages c. excepted But the Corporation may deal in Bills of Exchange and in buying or selling Bullion Gold or Silver or in selling Goods mortgaged to them and not redeemed at the time agreed on or within three months after or such Goods as shall be the produce of Lands purchased by the Corporation XX. All Bills obligatory and of credit Bills under Seal of the Corporation shall transfer the Property under the Seal of the said Corporation made to any Person or Persons shall and may by Endorsement thereon under the Hand of such Person or Persons be assigned and so toties quoties and such Assignment shall transfer the Property and Right to the Bill and Monies due upon the same and the Assignee may sue in his own Name XXI Governor not to lend more to their Majesties than by Parliament directed If the Governor or other Members of the Corporation to be established shall upon the Account of the Corporation at any time or times purchase any Lands or Revenues belonging to the Crown or lend to their Majesties their Heirs or Successors any Sum of Mony by way of Loan or Anticipation on any part of the Revenue now granted or hereafter to be granted other than such part only on which a Credit of Loan is or shall be granted by Parliament Then the said Governor or Members so consenting to lend being thereof lawfully convict shall for every such Offence forfeit treble the value of such Sum so lent whereof one fifth part shall be to the Informer to be recovered in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster and the residue to be disposed of towards Publick Uses as shall be directed by Parliament and not otherwise XXII All Amerciaments Fines and Amerciaments not to be pardoned After Estreatment may detain so much Fines and Issues against the said Corporation upon Account of any Suits or Action to be brought against them shall not be pardoned or discharged by any Letters of Signet Privy Seal or Great Seal or otherwise And if such be estreated into their Majesties Exchequer against the said Corporation then the Officers of the Exchequer who are to pay the yearly Sum of 100000 l. to the said Corporation may out of that detain so much as the said Amerciaments Fines or Issues amount unto XXIII Officers of the Exchequer may satisfie the execution of a Judgment against the Corporation If any Person shall obtain a Judgment in any Court of Law against the said Corporation for any Debt or Sum of Mony and shall bring Execution thereupon unto the said Officers of the Exchequer Then the said Officers may pay and are required to pay the Sum in the Execution mentioned to the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs therein named or their Assigns whose Receipt shall be a Discharge for the same And the said Officers may detain so much of the yearly Sum of 100000 l. as the Debt shall amount unto XXIV Members of the House c. Any Member of the House of Commons may be a Member of this Corporation XXV Any Person Native or Foreigner may contribute towards the advancing of the Sum of 300000 l. by paying into the Receipt of the Exchequer before the 29th of September 1694. any Sum not exceeding the Sum of 300000 l. upon the Terms following Every such Person his Executors Administrators or Assigns out of the Rates and Duties granted by this Act shall have and receive for every Sum of 100 l. so advanced and paid such yearly Annuity and Payment as herein after is directed 14 l. per Ann. upon a single life 12 l. upon 2 and 10 l. upon 3 Lives for each 100 l. advanced If such Contributor shall advance and pay his Mony upon one Life only then he shall have and receive a yearly Annuity or Payment of 14 l. for every 100 l. If upon two Lives then of 12 l. If upon three Lives then of 10 l. and so proportionably for a greater Sum during the Life or Lives or Life of the Survivor the Life or Lives to be nominated by the Person or Persons so paying the same And that the Lives be nominated by the several Contributors The Lives to be nominated within 30 days after the 29th of Sept 1694 their Executors or Administrators or such as shall be employed by them to pay in the said Sums within thirty days after the 29th of the said September 1694. which yearly Annuity shall commence from the said 29th of September and shall be paid quarterly at the four most usual Feasts of the year by equal Portions And every Person on payment of such Sum or Sums as aforesaid The Annities to be paid quarterly Tallies for the payment of the same shall immediately have one or more Tally or Tallies importing the Receipt of the Consideration Mony and Orders for the payment of the said Annuities bearing the same date with the Tally The said Tallies to be levied and the said Orders to be signed in the same manner as in and by an Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for the granting to their Majesties certain Rates and Duties of Excise upon Salt and upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of 1000000 l. towards carrying on the War against France is mentioned and directed touching Tallies and Orders to be given to Contributors for Annuities upon the said Act And the said Orders not to be determinable Orders not to be countermanded revocable or countermandable as touching the aforementioned Orders in the said recited Act is enacted which said Orders shall be assignable in such and the same manner as is mentioned in the said recited Act touching Orders given to the Contributors in the said Act mentioned And all the Rates and Duties by this Act granted or so much thereof as shall be sufficient are and shall be appropriated for the payment of the said Annuities after the several and respective Rates aforesaid and not to be
on which any Copies thereof shall be ingrossed or written 1 d. XLI Depositions Copies of Bills c. For every Skin c. on which any Depositions taken in the Court of Chancery or other Court of Equity except the Paper-draughts taken by the Commissioners before they are ingrossed which are not herein before charged or upon which any Copy of any Bill Answer Plea Demurrer Replication Rejoinder Interrogatories Depositions or other Proceedings whatsoever in any Court of Equity shall be ingrossed or written 1 d. XLII Copies of Wills For every Skin c. on which a Copy of any Will shall be ingrossed or written 1 d. XLIII Officers to mark the Writs Memorandums From and after the 28th of June 1694. every Officer or Clerk belonging to the Kings-Bench Common-Pleas or Exchequer who shall sign any Warrant or Process before Judgment to arrest any Person thereupon shall at the signing thereof set down upon such Writ or Process the Day and Year of his signing the same which shall be entred upon the Remembrance or in the Book where the Abstract of such Writ or Process shall be entred upon the Forfeiture of 10 l. XLIV Not to extend to single Bills This Act shall not charge any Bills of Exchange Accompts Bills of Parcels Bills of Fees or any Bills or Notes not sealed for payment of Mony at sight or upon demand or at the end of certain days of payment XLV Nor Seamen or Soldiers Will. Neither shall it charge the Probate of any Will or Letters of Administration of any common Seaman or Souldier who shall be slain or die in their Majesties Service upon Certificate made thereof XLVI Nor to Paupers None of the Rates or Impositions in this Act expressed shall be paid or payable to their Majesties by any Person or Persons that shall be admitted to sue or defend in Forma Pauperis XLVII Their Majesties to appoint Commissioners and they to appoint Under-Officers Their Majesties may under the Great Seal of England appoint Commissioners and Officers for the executing of this Act who are to keep their Head-Office in some convenient Place within the Cities of London or Westminster which said Commissioners or the major part are also impowered under their Hands and Seals to appoint Inferior Officers for the marking or stamping of Vellum Parchment and Paper and for levying and collecting the Duties Stamps to be made And the said Commissioners shall before the 28th day of June 1694. provide six several Marks or Stamps differing from each other with which all Vellum Paper and Parchment herein before charged shall be ingrossed or written shall be stampt or ingrossed viz. One Stamp for the Vellum Parchment and Paper charged with the payment of 40 s. for every Skin Piece or Sheet shall be stampt or markt One other Stamp or Mark with which all Vellum Parchment and Paper herein before charged with the payment of 5 s. for every Skin Sheet or Piece as aforesaid shall be markt or stampt and so respectively a different Mark or Stamp with which all Vellunâ— Paper and Parchment herein before charged with the several Duties of 2 s. 6 d. 1 s. 6 d. and 1 d. shall be severally and differently markt and stampt Published by Proclamation which said several Marks and Stamps shall be published by Proclamation under the Great Seal a convenient time before the said 28th day of June to the end all Persons may have due notice thereof And the said Marks and Stamps may be altered or renewed as their Majesties shall think fit publick notice being given thereof by Proclamation XLVIII The Vellum c. to be stamped before written All Vellum Parchment and Paper hereby intended to be charged with the several and respective Duties aforesaid shall before any thing ingrossed or written thereon be brought to the Head-Office or some other Sub-Commissioner or Officer to be appointed for the same to be stamped and marked who upon demand shall stamp or mark it upon payment of the respective Duties without other Fee which Stamp or Mark shall be a sufficient discharge for the respective Duties aforesaid XLIX Penalty of stamping before Duty paid If any Commissioner or Officer shall fix the Mark or Stamp before the respective Duties thereon charged shall be duly paid or secured he shall forfeit for every such Offence 100 l. L. Penalty of writing before it be stampt If any Person shall ingross or write or cause to be ingrossed or written upon any Vellum Parchment or Paper any thing for which the said Vellum c. is hereby charged before it shall be marked or stampt as aforesaid or upon which there shall not be some Stamp or Mark resembling the same Or shall ingross or write upon any Vellum Parchment or Paper that shall be marked or stamped for any lower Duty than the Duty by this Act payable the Offender for every such Offence shall forfeit 500 l. LI. Penalty on Officers Clerks or Attornies for fraudulent Practice Any Clerk or Officer who in respect of his publick Office or Imployment is or shall be entituled or intrusted to make ingross or write any Records Deeds Instruments or Writings by this Act chargable as aforesaid shall be guilty of any Fraud or Practice by making ingrossing or writing any such Record Deed Instrument or Writing upon Vellum Parchment or Paper not marked or upon which there shall not be some Stamp or Mark resembling the same or upon Vellum Parchment or Paper stamped with this Mark or Stamp which he shall know to be counterfeited or upon Vellum Parchment or Paper that shall be markt or stampt for a lower Duty as aforesaid every such Officer c. so guilty and thereof lawfully convicted shall over and above the Penalty aforesaid forfeit his Office Place or Imployment And if any Attorny shall be guilty thereof and convicted he shall be disabled for the future to practice as an Attorny And if any Deed Instrument or Writing shall be written or ingrossed by any Person not being a known Officer or of publick Imployment intituled to write or ingross the same upon Vellum Parchment or Paper not marked or stamped according to this Act or of a lower Duty as aforesaid Penalty of forging a Stamp in every such case there shall be due to their Majesties over and above the Duties aforesaid the Sum of 5 l. for every such Deed and no such Deed or Record shall be pleaded or given in Evidence in any Court either of Law or Equity till the said 5 l. be paid and the said Vellum Parchment or Paper be stampt with a lawful Mark which the Officer is to do upon payment of the said 5 l. And if any Person shall counterfeit or form any Stamp or Mark to resemble any Stamp provided by this Act or shall counterfeit or resemble the Impression of the same upon any Vellum Parchment or Paper to defraud their Majesties of the Duties hereby granted or