the Defendant as aforesaid And whereas the Custom hath béen retained time out of mind and found expedient that there should be a cessation of weaving every year in the time of Harvest in regard the Spinners of Yarn which the said Weavers do use No weaving of Stuffs in time of Harvest are at that time chiefly imployed in Harvest-work Be it Enacted That no Weaver under the Regulation of the said Trade and Manufacture shall set any Loom on work for the weaving of any Stuffs under the said Regulation in the time of Harvest yearly from the Fiftéenth day of August in every year until the Fiftéenth day of September then next following upon pain of forfeiting to the Kings Majesty the sum of Forty Shillings for every Loom which shall be used in work within the said time And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Trut accompts to be made at the 4 assemblies of all fines and forfeitures That a true accompt shall be made at the four Assemblies to be held quarterly as aforesaid by the Wardens before the Mayor of the City of Norwich for the time being and one of the Iustices of the Peace of the said City and County of Norwich and two Iustices of the Peace of the County of Norfolk of all such Fines and Forfeitures as shall be received and had belonging to the said Trade and Manufacture and of the necessary Charges and Disbursements touching the same Trade and Manufacture and that the Over-plus which shall remain after the said necessary Charges and Disbursments are deducted shall be devided into two equal parts the one Moyety thereof to be disposed of by the Wardens and Assistants of the said City of Norwich or the greater part of them and the other Moyety thereof by the Wardens and Assistants of the said County of Norfolk or the greater part of them for the use of the Poor of the said Trade and Manufacture in such manner as the said Mayor and Iustices aforesaid respectively shall order and direct and no other any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And that all Mayors Iustices Sheriffs Bayliffs Constables and all other Officers All Mayors bayliffs c. to be ayding and assisting shall be aiding and assisting to the said Wardens and Assistants or any of them as often as they shall be thereunto required and in all Actions and Suits that shall be brought against any person or persons for Acting in any thing according to the true intent and meaning of this Act the person or persons so sued or molested shall or may plead the general Issue of not guilty In Action the defendant may plead the general issue and give the special matter in Evidence and shall recover double Costs in every such case if the Verdict pass for such person or persons or that the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs be Nonsuit therein Provided alwayes That this Act nor any thing therein contained Double costs shall extend to compel the Weavers of the Towns of Great Yarmouth and Lyn in the said County of Norfolk to bring their Wares to Notwich to be Sealed or be prejudicial to the Weavers of the said Towns Proviso for the Weavers of Great Yarmouth and Lyn. or either of them to deprive them or either of them of such Liberties or Priviledges as are granted unto them by an Act of Parliament made in the Fourtéenth Year of King Henry the Eight or by any other Act of Parliament or Grant or Charter whatsoever This Act to begin and take effect from the Fiftéenth day of May One thousand six hundred sixty and two CAP. VI. For Enlarging and repairing of Common High-ways VVHereas the former Laws and Statutes for the Mending and Repairing of the Common and publick High-wayes of this Realm have not béen found so effectual as is desired by means whereof and the extraordinary Burthens carried upon Wagons and other Carriages divers of the said High-ways are become very dangerous and almost unpassable For remedy whereof Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by Surveyors of the High-wayes to be chosen yearly the Munday or Tuesday in Easter week 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 Church-wardens and Constables or Tything-men of every Parish Town Village or Hamlet for the time being within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed shall upon Munday or Tuesday in the Easter wéek yearly whereof notice shall be publickly given the Sunday foregoing in the Church immediately after the end of Morning Prayer with the advice and consent of the major part of the Inhabitants which shall be then present choose Two or more sufficient and able persons residing and inhabiting within their Parish Town Village or Hamlet to be Surveyors of their High-ways for the year next ensuing and give notice thereof in writing to the persons chosen and for default of such choice so to be made as aforesaid The penalty the Church-wardens Constables or Tything-men and Inhabitants of every such Parish Town Village or Hamlet shall forfeit and lose the sum of Five pounds And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Surveyor and Surveyors The duty of the Surveyors within twenty days next after notice given unto him or them of his and their Election as aforesaid or of the publication of this Act shall upon the penalty of Five pounds Veiw and Survey all the Common and Publick High-ways and Bridges within the Parish Town Village or Hamlet wherein he or they are respective Surveyor or Surveyors and all Water-courses Causeys and Pavements therein which are to be Repaired and Amended at a Publick Charge of the said Parish Town Village or Hamlet and shall consider what reparations shall be néedful to be made and what sum or sums of money will be requisite to be raised for the Amending Repairing and Enlarging of the same over and above what will be done by the other Laws made for the Amending of the said High-ways and thereupon shall together with two or more substantial Housholders of the said Parish Town Village or Hamlet called by the Surveyors to their Assistance within ten days after such Survey made lay one or more Assessment or Assessments How and upon whom to lay Assessment for mending or Enlarging the High-wayes upon every Inhabitant rated to the Poor and upon every Occupier of Lands Houses Tythes Impropriate or Appropriat Portions of Tythes Coal-mines and other Mines saleable Vnderwoods Stock Goods or other personal Estate not being Houshold-stuff within the said said Parish Town Village or Hamlet for the Repairing Amending and Enlarging of the said publick and common High-ways as they the said Surveyors and other the substantial Housholders or the Major part of them shall think fit méet and necessary which said Assessment
of the Peace That the said Iustices of Peace shall cause all the said Accounts of the several Hearths and Stoves within the respective Counties to be Inrolled by the Clerk of the Peace of the said respective Counties Ridings in Yorkshire and Divisions in Lincolnshire and also a Duplicate thereof in Parchment under the Hands and Seals of thrée or more of the Iustices of Peace of the respective Counties and places aforesaid who are hereby required to sign the same to be returned into his Majesties Court of Exchequer within one moneth next after such account delivered unto them at their respective Quarter-Sessions aforesaid upon pain that the Clerk of the Peace of every such County Riding or Division respectively offending therein shall forfeit to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors the sum of Two hundred pounds for the first moneth and for the second moneth he shall so neglect every such Clerk of the Peace shall forfeit and lose his or their place and office and the same shall become void accordingly which forfeiture and penalty shall be recovered and levied as this Act directs And to the intent that the Revenue hereby arising to his Majesty How the Moneys arising shall be collected received and paid into the Exchequer may from time to time be paid into his Exchequer with as little charge as may be Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective Treasurers and other Officers of the Inns of Court Inns of Chancery Colledges and other Societies aforesaid within their respective Iurisdictions and the several Petty-Constables Tithing-men Head-boroughs and such other Officers within the respective Limits Liberties and Iurisdictions shall every half year within Six days after the said duty shall grow due as aforesaid collect gather and receive the same from the several Occupiers of the said Hearths and Stoves and upon payment thereof shall give several Acquittances without taking any thing for such Acquittances unto the several persons who shall pay the same And that such Acquittances shall be a full and perfect discharge to every such person who shall pay the same against His Majesty His Heirs and Successors so that no person who shall have such Acquittance shall be molested sued or vexed or put to any charge in His Majesties Court of Exchequer or else where Distress and sale of goods in default of payment And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case any person who is hereby charged or intended to be charged to pay any sum or sums of money as aforesaid shall refuse or neglect to pay the same that then every person or persons who is hereby Authorized to collect the same shall and may levy the same by distress and sale of the goods of the person and persons so refusing or neglecting rendring unto the said person and persons the overplus of such money as shall remain in their hands by the said sale after the said duty and necessary charges of levying the same is discharged as aforesaid The duty of Constables Treasurers and Officers impowered to Collect the said duties And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the aforesaid Constables Treasurers and other Officers who are hereby Authorized to collect the aforesaid duties shall within Twenty days next after the aforesaid times at which the said duties shall be due to His Majesty as aforesaid pay unto the High Constables of the several Hundreds and respective Limits all such money as they shall receive for the aforesaid duties receiving an Acquittance without paying any thing for the same The allowance for Collecting and deducting Two pence in the pound for their pains in collecting the same And shall also then in writing under his hand deliver unto the said High Constable the names of the persons of whom they receive the same and also the names of such persons who ought to have paid the respective duties yearly charged upon them and have not paid the same where no distress can be had Within what time the money ought to be paid to the High Sheriff And be it further Enacted That the High Constables of the several hundreds and respective limits shall within ten days next after their several receipts from the said Constables Headboroughs Tithingmen and other Officers pay unto the High Sheriffs of every County all such money as they shall so receive deducting a penny in the pound for their pains and shall also then deliver or cause to be delivered unto the said High Sheriffs the several returns which they received from the Constables and other Officers aforesaid And when the High Sheriff ought to pay the same into the Exchequer And the respective Sheriffs shall within thirty days after he or they shall receive the said moneys from the respective Collectors return the same together with the names of such persons who are defaulters and had no distress to be found into His Majesties Court of Exchequer deducting Four pence out of every Twenty shillings and so after that rate whereof Thrée pence to be for the Sheriffs own use as a reward of his pains in receiving and returning the same and One penny to be paid by the Sheriff to the Clerk of the Peace for his pains to be recovered by the said Clerk of the Peace by Action of Debt London Middlesex Provided always and be it Enacted That the High Sheriff of London and Middlesex for the time being for London and so much of the County of Middelsex as lies within the Bills of Mortality other then the Inns of Court and Chancery and the High Sheriff of Surrey for the time being for the Burrough of Southwark Surrey Southwark and all other Sheriffs of any other City or Town being a County of it self for such Cities and Towns respectively shall be and are hereby made Collectors of and for the several duties arising within their several and respective limits For which end and purpose and in those places onely the Constables Tithingmen Headboroughs and other Officers shall deliver unto the Sheriffs of the Cities and places aforesaid Duplicates of the same Accompts of Hearths and Stoves which the said Constables Headboroughs Tithingmen and other Officers are appointed by this Act to take from time to time and to deliver to the Iustices of Peace to be Inrolled as aforesaid And the said Sheriffs of the Cities and places last before mentioned are hereby enabled to levy the said duties and required to give Acquittances without any Fées as fully and amply to all intents and purposes as in this Act is appointed to be done by any other Collectors And the said Sheriffs shall from time to time within Forty days after the said Duties shall be payable by vertue of this Act make payment of all the moneys levied into His Majesties Exchequer with a perfect List of the names of such persons as shall make default of payment where no distress can be found to be taken Any thing in this
execution of their Office all and every person and persons so resisting affronting abusing beating or wounding the said Officer or Officers or their Deputies or such as shall Act in their aid or assistance shall by the next Iustice of Peace or other Magistrate be committed to Prison there to remain till the next Quarter-Sessions And the Iustices of the Peace of the said Quarter-Sessions shall and are hereby impowered to punish the Offender by Fine not excéeding One hundred pounds and the Offender is to remain in Prison till he be discharged by Order of the Exchequer both of the Fine and of the Imprisonment or discover the person that set him on work to the end he may be legally procéeded against No goods to be Water-born or landed but in the presence of some Officer of the Customs And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Wharfinger or Kéeper of any Wharf Crane Key or their servants or any of them shall take up or land or knowingly suffer to be taken up or landed or shall Ship off or suffer to be Water-born at or from any of their said Wharfs Cranes or Keys any Goods Wares or Merchandize prohibited or whereof any Custom Subsidy or other Duties are due and payable unto the Kings Majesty without the presence of some of the Officers of His Majesties Customs thereunto appointed or at hours and times not appointed by Law except in the Port of Hull 1 Eliz cap. 11. as in the Statute of the First year of Quéen Elizabeth Chapter the eleventh is excepted not otherwise or Goods passing by Certificates Waste-Cockquet The Penalty or otherwise without the presence or notice given to one or more of His Majesties Officers That in every such case all and every such Wharfinger and Kéeper of such Wharfe Crane or Key shall forfeit and pay the sum of One hundred pounds And if any Goods or Merchandize shall be Laden or taken in from the Shore into any Bark Hoy Lighter Barge Wherry or Boat to be carried aboard any Ship or Vessel Outwards bound for the parts beyond the Seas or Laden or taken in from or out of any Ship or Vessel coming in and arriving from foreign parts without a Warrant and presence of one or more Officers of the Customs such Bark Hoy Lighter Barge Boat or Wherry shall be forfeited and lost and the Master Purser Boatswain or other Mariner of any Ship Inward bound knowing and consenting thereunto shall forfeit the value of the Goods so unshipped And further That in case any Car-man Porter Water-man or other person or persons whatsoever shall assist in the taking up landing shipping off or carrying away any such Goods Wares or Merchandizes that then such Carman Porter Water-man or other person or persons so offending being apprehended by Warrant of any Iustice of the Peace for that County City or Borough which the said Iustices every of them are hereby Authorized to issue and to examine Witnesses upon Oath concerning such fact and the same being proved by the Oath of Two Witnesses the said Offenders for such first Offence shall and may by such Iustice of the Peace be committed to the next Gaol there to remain till he and they find sufficient Surety to be of the good behaviour for so long time until he they shall be thereof discharged by the Lord Treasurer Chancellor Vnder-Treasurer or Barons of the Exchequer And in case he or they so convicted shall afterwards at any time offend in the like kind then he and they shall and may by any Iustice of the Peace as aforesaid be committed to the next Gaol there to remain for the space of Two Moneths without Bail or Mainprize or until he shall pay unto the Sheriff of that County the sum of Five pounds for the use of His Majesty or until he shall by the Lord Treasurer Chancellor or Vnder-Treasurer or Court of Exchequer be thence discharged Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Goods Wares or Merchandizes shall be shipped or put on Board to be carried forth to the open Sea from any one Port Goods carryed from one Port to another in England or Wales Créek or Member in the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick to be landed at any other place of this Realm without a Sufferance or Warrant first had and obtained from the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed for managing the Customs and Officers of his Majesties Customs all such Wares and Merchandizes shall be forfeited and lost and that the Master of every Ship or Vessel that shall lade or take in any such Goods Wares or Merchandizes in any Port Member or Créek within this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town and Port of Berwick to be landed and discharged in some other Port Member or Créek of the said Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town and Port of Berwick shall before the Ship or Vessel be removed or carried out of the Port where he shall take in his lading take out a Cocquet or Cocquets and become bound to the Kings Majesty with good Security in the value of the Goods Wares and Merchandizes aforesaid for Delivery and Discharge thereof in the Port or place for which the same shall be entred as aforesaid or in some other Port or place within the said Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick and the dangers and accidents of the Seas excepted to return a Certificate within Six moneths after the date of such Cocquet and Cocquets under the Hands and Seals of the Kings Majesties Officers Signed also by some of the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs or their Deputy or Deputies in every respective Ports Members or Créeks where the same shall be landed and discharged to His Majesties Officers of the Customs to whom such security hath béen given as aforesaid that such Goods Wares and Merchandizes were there landed and discharged accordingly Officers of any Port making false certificate upon the penalty of the forfeiture of the Bond and Security aforesaid And be it hereby further Enacted That if any Officer of any Port Member or Créek shall grant or make any false Certificate of any Goods or Merchandizes which should have béen landed out of any Ship or Vessel That such Officer shall lose his Imployment and moreover forfeit the sum of Fifty pounds The Penalty and suffer one years Imprisonment without bail or mainprize and be incapable of serving his Majesty in any place of Trust concerning his Customs and be further liable to such Corporal punishment as the Court of Exchequer shall think fit Counterfeiting Cocquets Certificates c. The penalty And if any person whatsoever shall Counterfeit Rase or Falsifie any Cocquet Certificate or Return Transire Let-pass or any other Custom-house Warrant he shall forfeit
Sir Seymour Shirley Baronet An Act for Setling the Moyety of the Mannor of Iron Acton on Sir John Pointz An Act for Setling an Estate in Trust for the benefit of Mistress Elizabeth Pride and her Children An Act for the Ascertaining the Bounds of the several Rectories of Swaffham St. Ciriac and of Swaffham St. Maries within the Town of Swaffham Prior in the County of Cambridge and for the Uniting of the two Churches there An Act for the Restoring of Francis Scawen Gent. in Bloud An Act for Naturalizing Dame Mary Frazer and others An Act to Enable a Sale of Lands for payment of the Debts of Henry Kendall Esquire An Act for Setling part of the Lands of Henry Mildmay Esquire deceased for payment of his Debts and making Provision for his Children An Act to Enable Leicester Grosvenor and his Trustees to Sell certain Lands for payment of Debts Anno Reg. CAROLI Regis Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Primo AT the Parliament begun at Westminster the Eighteenth day of June Anno Dom. 1625. in the first year of the Reign of our most gracious Soveraign Lord CHARLES by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. And there continued untill the Eleventh day of July following and then adjourned until the first day of August following unto Oxford To the high pleasure of Almighty God and to the Weal publick of this Realm were enacted as followeth CAP. I. There shall be no Assemblies for unlawful Pastimes upon the Lords Day FOrasmuch as there is nothing more acceptable to God than the true and sincere Service and Worship of him according to his holy Will and that the holy kéeping of the Lords Day is a principal part of the true Service of God which in very many places of this Realm hath béen and now is prophaned and neglected by a disorderly sort of people in exercising and frequenting Bear-baiting Bull-baiting Enterludes common Playes and other unlawful Exercises and pastimes upon the Lords Day And for that many quarrels blood-sheds and other great inconveniences have grown by the resort and concourse of people going out of their own Parishes to such disordered and unlawful exercises and pastimes neglecting Divine Service both in their own Parishes and elsewhere Be it enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty the Lords Spiritual and â—emporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same Vnlawful Writings and Pastimes on the Lords Day forbidden That from and after forty dayes next after the end of this Session of Parliament there shall be no méetings assemblies or concourse of people out of their own Parishes on the Lords Day within this Realm of England or any the Dominions thereof for any sports and pastimes whatsoever nor any Bear-baiting Bull-baiting Enterludes common Plays or other unlawful exercises and pastimes used by any person or persons within their own Parishes Every person using any unlawfull pastimes on the Lords Day shall forfeit 3 s. 4 d. to the poor of the Parish and that every person or persons offending in any the premisses shall forfeit for every offence thrée shillings four pence The same to be employed and converted to the use of the poor of the Parish where such offence shall be committed And that if any one Iustice of the Peace of the County or the chief Officer or Officers of any City Borough or Town corporate where such offence shall be committed upon his or their view or confession of the party or proof of any one or more witness by oath which the said Iustice or chief Officer or Officers shall by vertue of this Act have authority to minister shall find any person offending in the premisses the said Iustice or chief Officer or Officers shall give Warrant under his or their hand and seal to the Constables or Church-wardens of the Parish or Parishes where such offence shall be committed After conviction by Warrant from a Iustice c. the Constables c. may levy the Pâ—naâ—â—s c. General â—ssâ—â— Limitation of this actâ—on The Ecclesiastical â—â—â—â—â—diction 〈◊〉 abridgeâ— to levy the said penalty so to be assessed by way of distress and sale of the goods of every such offendor rendring to the said offendors the overplus of the money raised of the said goods so to be sold And in default of such distress that the party offending be set publickly in the stocks by the space of thrée hours And that if any man be sued or impeached for execution of this Law he shall and may plead the general Issue and give the said matter of Iustification in evidence Provided That no man be impeached by this Act except he be called in question within one moneth next after the said offence committed Provided also That the Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction within this Realm or any the Dominions thereof by vertue of this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be abridged but that the Ecclesiastical Court may punish the said offences as if this Act had not béen made This Act to continue until the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer 3 Car. 4. continued until the end of the first Session of the next Parliament Stat. 3 Car. 1. 17 Car. cap. 4. continued until other Order by Parliament CAP. II. All Leases to be made within three years by the Kings Majesty of the Dutchy-Lands of Cornwall confirmed WHereas the King our Soveraign Lord being in the life-time of his Royal Father of blessed memory seized of the said Dukedom of Cornwall did bargain and contract for Leases and Estates to be made of divers Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments parcel of the said Dukedom of Cornwall which Leases and Estates his Majesty was enabled to have made in his Fathers life-time by an Act of Parliament made in the last Session of Parliament intituled An Act to enable the most excellent Prince Charles to make Leases of Lands 21 Jac. 29. parcell of his Highness Dutchy of Cornwall or annexed to the same And because his Majestie having received divers Fines and summes of Money according to the said Contracts and having entred into Treaty with divers others for like Estates the finishing of which Contracts and making the said Leases was prevented by his Majesties access to the Imperial Crown of this Realm is graciously pleased for the good of his poor Tenants of the said Dutchy Lands to procéed to the full accomplishment of the Contracts and Leases of the premisses All Leases to be made within three years by the King of the Dutchy Lands of Cornwall if all be good Be it therefore Enacted by our said Soveraign Lord the King the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of this present Parliament That all Leases to be made within the space of thrée years next ensuing by our said Soveraign Lord the King by Letters
que use Cestuy que trust and every of them their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively as if this Act had not béen made and as if the said person or persons had not béen excepted attainted or convicted Any Law Statute Vsage or Custome to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided alwayes That this Act nor any thing therein contained Fabric◠Lands Church Goods and Vtensils shall not extend to Indempnifie any person or persons whatsoever who have entred into any Messuage Lands Tenements and Hereditaments called Fabrick Lands or possest themselves of any Rent or Revenues given for the repair of any Cathedral or other Church or who have Sacrilegiously enriched themselves by converting the Plate or Vtensils and Materials of or belonging to such Churches to their own private use and advantage for or in respect of the said Crimes onely Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XII Which Judicial Proceedings shall be good and effectual in Law and which not BE it Enacted and it is Enacted by His Majesty and the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That no Fines nor final Concords Which Acts and Proceedings shall not be avoided Chirographs nor Proclamations of Fines nor any Recoveries Verdicts Iudgments Statutes Recognizances nor Inrolments of any Déeds or Wills or of any such Fines Proclamations Recoveries Verdicts Iudgments Statutes or Recognizances nor any Exemplifications of them nor any of them nor any Inquisitions Indictments Presentments Informations Decrées Sentences Probats of Wills nor Letters of Administration nor any Writs or Actings on or Returns of Writs Orders or other Procéedings in Law or Equity had made given taken or done or depending in the Courts of Chancery Kings-Bench Vpper Bench Common-Pleas and Court of Exchequer and Courts of Exchequer-Chamber or any of them sitting at Westminster or in the Courts of the Great Sessions in Wales the Courts of any Counties Palatine or Dutchy of Lancaster or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or in any other inferiour Courts of Law or Equity or by any the Iudges Clerks Officers Sheriffs Coroners or Ministers or others Acting in Obedience to them or any of them or by any the Courts of Admiralty Delegates Iustices of Assize Nisi Prius Oyer and Terminer Gaol-Delivery Iustices of the Peace Commissioners of Sewers Bankrupts or Charitable Vses nor any Actings Process Procéedings nor Executions thereupon had made given done or suffered in the Kingdom of England since the First of May One thousand six hundred forty two shall be avoided for want or defect of any Legal Power in the said Courts Iudges Commissioners Iustices or any of them or for or by reason that the Premisses or any of them were commenced prosecuted had made held or used in the Name Stile or Title of the late King or in the Name Stile Title or Test of Custodes Libertatis Angliae Authoritate Parliamenti Or in the Name Stile Title or Test of The Keepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament Or in the Name Stile Title or Test of Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging Or of Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging Or the Name Stile Title or Test of Richard Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging or for or by reason of any alteration of the said Names Stiles or Titles Or for that the said Fines Recoveries Process Pleadings Procéedings and other things before mentioned Or the Entry and Enrolment of them or any of them were in the Latine or English But that all and every such Fines Recoveries and other things above mentioned and the Actings Doings and Procéedings thereupon shall be of such and of no other Force Effect and Vertue then as if such Courts Iudges Iustices Commissioners Officers and Ministers had acted by vertue of a True Iust and Legal Authority and as if the same and the Entry and Enrolment thereof were in Latine and as if the several Acts and Ordinances or pretended Acts or Ordinances made by both or either Houses of Parliament or any Convention assembled under the name of a Parliament or by Oliver Cromwell late stiled Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereto belonging and his Council Warranting or Directing such Procéedings had béen Good True and Effectual Acts of Parliament Fines Levied without Entry of Licentia concordandi And whereas since the death of the late King several Fines have béen Levied without any Entry or due Entring of any sum paid pro licentia concordandi commonly called the Kings Silver and without Entry or due Entry of any sum given to the party for the Concord And also whereas in the Term of St. Michael last past several Fines were Levied and Recorded in the Court of Common Pleas before one Iudge onely of the said Court Be it Enacted That the said Fines and Proclamations thereupon and every of them shall be good and effectual notwithstanding the defects aforesaid Fines and Recoveries of Lands in Com Palatin Durham And be it also further Enacted That all Fines Proclamations of Fines Recoveries and other Iudicial procéedings in the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster since the death of His late Majesty King Charles the First Had Levied or Suffered of any Lands lying in the County Palatine of Durham shall be good and effectual notwithstanding the said Lands were lying in the said County Palatine The Illegal Acts and Proceedings of that High Court of Iustice not allowed Provided That this Act or any thing there in contained shall not be Construed Deemed or Adjudged to make good allow confirm or countenance any the Procéedings in the late Illegal and Vn-warranted High Courts of Iustice or so called or any of them And whereas since the first day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty one and before the Five and twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty there were divers persons that Adhered to both Houses of Parliament who for or in respect of such their adherence were Indicted Charged or Impeached of Treason And whereas since the said first Day of May in the Year of our Lord One thousand six Hundred Forty one and before the said Five and twentieth day of April in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty divers persons who adhered to His Majesty or to the late King were for such their adherence Charged Impeached or Indicted of High Treason Indictments c. and all Grants thereupon made void Be it further Provided and Enacted That the said Charges Impeachments Indictments and all Exigents Outlawries Convictions and Attainders thereupon and all Letters Patents and Grants thereupon made of any Manors Lands Tenements or
on the one part and the person or persons farming on the other part shall be good and effectual in Law to all intents and purposes Provided alwayes to the end the aforesaid duty may be paid with most ease to the people It is hereby further Enacted Persons contracting that be nominated by the Iustice of the Peace in every County shall have the refusal of any Farm That the Lord Treasurer Commissioners of the Treasury or other persons aforesaid shall not within six moneths after the Commencement of this Act treat conclude or agrée with any person or persons touching the Farming of this duty upon Béer and Ale in any the respective Counties or Places of this Realm or Dominions thereof other then with such person or persons as by the Iustices of Peace of the said Counties or places or the major part of them at their publick Quarter Sessions shall be nominated and appointed in that behalf which person or persons is to have the first refusal of any such Farm respectively and may take the same Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided that the said duty shall not be let to any other person or persons then to the person or persons recommended by the Iustices under the rate that it shall be tendred to and refused by such person or persons so recommended Forfeitures offences within this Act where determined And be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That all forfeitures and offences made done and committed against this Act or any clause or article therein contained shall be heard adjudged and determined by such person or persons and in such manner and form as hereafter in and by this Act is directed and appointed that is to say all such forfeitures and offences made and committed within the immediate limits of the chief Office in London shall be heard adjudged and determined by the said chief Commissioners and Governors of Excise appointed by His Majesty or the major part of them or by the Commissioners for Appeals and regulating of this duty or the major part of them in case of Appeal and not otherwise And all such forfeitures and offences made and committed within all or any other the Counties Cities Towns or Places within this Kingdom or Dominions thereof shall be heard and determined by any two or more of the Iustices of the Peace residing near to the place where such forfeitures shall be made or offence committed And in case of neglect or refusal of such Iustices of the Peace by the space of 14 dayes next after complaint made and notice thereof given to the Offender then the Sub-Commissioners or the major part of them appointed for any such City County Town or Place shall and are hereby impowered to hear and determine the same And if the party find himself aggrieved by the Iudgment given by the said Sub-Commissioners Appeals by parties grieved he shall and may appeal to the Iustices of the Peace at the next Quarter Sessions who are hereby impowered and authorised to hear and determine the same whose Iudgment therein shall be final which said Commissioners for Appeals and regulating of this duty and the chief Commissioners for Excise and all Iustices of Peace and Sub-Commissioners aforesaid respectively are hereby authorised and strictly enjoyned and required upon any complaint or information exhibited and brought of any such forfeiture made or offence committed contrary to this Act to summon the party accused and upon his appearance or contempt to procéed to the examination of the matter of Fact and upon due proof made thereof either by the voluntary confession of the party or by the oath of one or more credible witnesses which Oath they or any two or more of them have hereby power to administer to give Iudgment or Sentence according as in and by this Act is before ordained and directed And to award and issue out Warrants under their hands for the levying of such forfeitures penalties and fines as by this Act is imposed for any such offence committed upon the Goods and Chattels of the Offender and to cause Sale to be made of the said Goods and Chattels if they shall not be redéemed within fourtéen days rendring to the party the overplus if any be and for want of sufficient Distress to imprison the party offending till satisfaction be made Provided nevertheless That it shall and may be lawful Fines and forfeitures may be mitigated to and for the said respective Iustices of Peace Commissioners for Excise or any two of them or their Sub-Commissioners respectively from time to time where they shall sée cause to mitigate compound or lessen such forfeiture penalty or fine as in their discretion they shall think fit And that every such mitigation and payment thereupon accordingly made shall be a sufficient discharge of the said penalties and forfeitures to the persons so offending so as by such mitigation the same be not made less than double the value of the duty of Excise which should or ought to have béen paid besides the reasonable costs and charges of such Officer or Officers or others as were imployed therein to be to them allowed by the said Iustices any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And it is hereby further Enacted and Ordained That all Fines How the fines and forfeitures shall be imployed Forfeitures and Penalties mentioned in this Act all necessary charges for the recovery thereof being first deducted shall be imployed thrée fourth parts thereof to and for the use of the Kings Majesty and the other 4th part to the Discoverer or Informer of the same And for the better managing collecting securing levying and recovering of all and every the said rates and charges of Excise hereby imposed and set upon all or any of the Commodities before mentioned to the end the same may be paid and disposed of according to the intent of this present Act Be it further Enacted and Ordained by the authority aforesaid and it is hereby Enacted That one principal Head-Office shall be erected and continued in the City of London or within ten miles thereof from time to time as long as his Majesty shall think fit for this duty unto which all other Offices for the same within England and Wales and the Town and Port of Berwick shall be subordinate and accomptable Which said Office shall be managed by such Officers as shall be appointed by the Kings Majesty as aforesaid who or any two of them Commissioners and Governors for managing the Receipts of Excise are hereby appointed and constituted Commissioners and Governours for the management of His Majesties Receipt of the Excise and to sit in some convenient place in the City of London or within ten miles thereof from time to time as long as his Majesty shall think fit And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons shall be capable of
of this duty be first paid and satisfied by the said Victualler or Retailer to the Brewer or Maker thereof Provided alwayes That if any person or persons shall brew and sell by retail any small quantities of béer or ale in any Fair within this Realm Proviso for Beer and Ale sold in Fairs or Dominions aforesaid who is not otherwise any common or usual Brewer or Retailer thereof and shall before any such selling and retailing thereof well and truly pay and satisfie the duty due for the same to the Commissioners or Sub-Commissioners within whose Limits or Division the said Fair shall be held or to their Officers thereunto appointed Then such person or persons so brewing or retailing the same and for so much and no more nor otherwise shall be freed and discharged from all penalties and forfeitures in and by this Act before mentioned and imposed Any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided nevertheless that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Commissioners The Commissioners may compound for the Excise in their Divisions and Sub-Commissioners respectively to compound for this Duty with any Inn-kéeper Victualler Alehouse-kéeper or Retailer of Béer Ale and other the Liquors aforesaid within their respective Divisions from time to time and in such manner and form as may be most for the advantage and improvement of the receipts thereof Any thing in this Act before contained to the contrary notwithstanding And it is further Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Treasurer The power of the Lord Treasurer c. to contract for farming any the rates or duties in this Act. or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being or such other person or persons as His Majesty His Heirs and Successors shall appoint shall have power and are hereby authorised and impowered from time to time to treat contract conclude and agrée with any person or persons for or concerning the Farming of all or any the Rates Duties and Charges in this Act mentioned upon Béer Ale Perry Syder or other the Liquors aforesaid in any the respective Counties Cities or Places of this Realm or Dominions thereof as may be for the greatest benefit and advantage of the said Receipt so as the same excéed not the term of Thrée years And be it further Enacted That every such Contract Bargain and Agréement of the Lord Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury or other persons aforesaid on behalf of His Majesty on the one part and the person or persons farming on the other part shall be good and effectual in Law to all intents and purposes Provided alwayes to the end the aforesaid duty may be paid with most ease to the people Persons to be approved by the Iustices of the Peace c. within six moneths to have the refusal of contracting for the Excise in these respective Counties It is hereby further Enacted That the Lord Treasurer Commissioners of the Treasury or other persons aforesaid shall not within six moneths after the Commencement of this Act treat conclude or agrée with any person or persons touching the Farming of this duty upon Béer and Ale in any the respective Counties or Places of this Realm or Dominions thereof other then with such person or persons as by the Iustices of Peace of the said Counties or places or the major part of them at their publick Quarter Sessions shall be nominated and appointed in that behalf which person or persons is to have the first refusal of any such Farm respectively and may take the same Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided that the said duty shall not be let to any person or persons then to the person or persons recommended by the Iustices under the rate that it shall be tendred to and refused by such person or persons so recommended And be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid Forfeiture and offences within this Act how to be determined That all forfeitures and offences made done and committed against this Act or any clause or article therein contained shall be heard adjudged and determined by such person or persons and in such manner and form as hereafter in and by this Act is directed and appointed that is to say all such forfeitures and offences made and committed within the immediate limits of the chief Office in London shall be heard London adjudged and determined by the said chief Commissioners and Governors of Excise appointed by His Majesty or the major part of them or by the Commissioners for Appeals and regulating of this duty or the major part of them in case of Appeal and not otherwise Counties Cities c. within this Kingdom And all such forfeitures and offences made and committed within all or any other the Counties Cities Towns or Places within this Kingdom or Dominions thereof shall be heard and determined by any two or more of the Iustices of the Peace residing near to the place where such forfeitures shall be made or offence committed Neglects of the Iustices And in case of neglect or refusal of such Iustices of the Peace by the space of fourtéen dayes next after complaint made and notice thereof given to the Offender then the Sub-Commissioners or the major part appointed for any such City County Town or Place shall and are hereby impowered to hear and determine the same And if the party find himself aggrieved by the Iudgment given by the said Sub-Commissioners he shall and may appeal to the Iustices of the Peace at the next Quarter Sessions who are hereby impowered and authorised to hear and determine the same whose Iudgment therein shall be final which said Commissioners for Appeals and regulating of this duty and the chief Commissioners for Excise and all Iustices of Peace and Sub-Commissioners aforesaid respectively are hereby authorised and strictly enjoyned and required upon any complaint or information exhibited and brought of any such forfeiture made or offence committed contrary to this Act to summon the party accused and upon his appearance or contempt to procéed to the examination of the matter of Fact and upon due proof made thereof either by the voluntary confession of the party or by the oath of one or more credible witnesses which Oath they or any two or more of them have hereby power to administer to give Iudgment or Sentence Levying the forfeitures according as in and by this Act is before ordained and directed And to award and issue out Warrants under their hands for the levying of such forfeitures penalties and fines as by this Act is imposed for any such offence committed upon the Goods and Chattels of the Offender and to cause Sale to be made of the said Goods and Chattels if they shall not be redéemed within fourtéen days rendring to the party the overplus if any be and for want of sufficient Distress to imprison the party
continue any such foot-post Horse-post Coach-post or pacquet-Boat as aforesaid which said several and respective Forfeitures shall and may be sued for and recovered by Action or Actions of Debt plaint or Information in any of his Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Essoigne priviledge protection or Wager of Law shall be admitted Proviso where any Post-master doth not provide and the said several and respective forfeitures that shall happen from time to time to be recovered shall be and remain the one moyety thereof to his Majesty and his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety thereof to such person or persons who shall or will inform against the Offender or Offenders against this present Act and shall or will sue for the said forfeitures upon the same Provided alwayes That if any post-Master of any respective place doth not or cannot furnish any person or persons riding in Post with sufficient horses within the space of one half hour after demand That then such person or persons are here understood to be left at liberty to provide themselves as conveniently they can And the persons who shall furnish such horses shall not therefore be liable unto any Penalties or Forfeitures contained in this Act. Provided alwaies That if through default or neglect of the Post-Master General aforesaid Proviso touching Post-masters that do not sufficiently provide horses c. any person or persons riding in Post shall fail as aforesaid of being furnished with a sufficient Horse or Horses for his or their use after demand as aforesaid That in every such case the said Post-Master General shall forfeit the sum of Five pounds sterling the one moyety to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them who shall sue for the same in any Court of Record to be recovered by Bill Plaint or other Information wherein no Essoigne Protection or other Wager in Law shall be admitted Provided alwayes and be it Enacted Proviso That nothing herein contained shall be understood to prohibit the carrying or recarrying of any Letters or pacquets to or from any Town or place to or from the next respective Post-Road or Stage appointed for that purpose But that every person shall have frée Liberty to send and imploy such persons as they shall think fit for to carry the said Letters or Pacquets as aforesaid without any forfeiture or penalty therefore Any thing contained in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Proviso against carrying any pacquet out of England in any forreign vessels Provided alwayes That if the Pacquet or Maile shall be carryed out of England into any part beyond the Seas in any ship or Vessel which is not of English built and Navigated with English Seamen That in every such case the said post-Master General shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds Sterling The one moyety to his Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them who shall sue for the same in any Court of Record to be recovered by Bill Plaint or other Information wherein no Essoigne Protection or other Wager in Law shall be allowed Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons shall be capable of having using or exercising the Office of post-Master General or any other Imployment relating to the said Office unless he or they shall first take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy before any two Iustices of the peace of the respective Counties wherein such person or persons are or shall be resident which said Iustices are hereby Authorized to administer the said oaths accordingly Proviso Truro Penrin Kendall Lancaster Penrith Carlisle Grimsby Post-Master to continue constant posts Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That a Letter or pacquet-post shall twice every wéek come by the way of Truro and Penrin to the Town of Marketiew alias Marhasion in the County of Cornwall and once a wéek to Kendal by the way of Lancaster and to the Town of Penrith in Cumberland by the way of Newcastle and Carlisle and to the City of Lincoln and the Burrough of Grimsby in the County of Lincoln Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such post-master General to be from time to time appointed by his Majesty His Heirs and Successors as aforesaid shall continue constant posts for carriage of letters to all places though they lye out of the post-roads as hath béen used for the space of thrée years last past at the rates herein before mentioned under pain of forfeiture for every omission Five pounds to be recovered by Action Suit or plaint in any his Majesties Courts of Record the one moyety to the use of his Majesty the other moyety to the use of the Informer And for the better management of the said post-Office and that the people of these Kingdomes may have their intercourse of Commerce and trade the better maintained and their Letters and advises conveyed carried and recarried with the greatest spéed security and convenience that may be Penalty for every omission The Post-master c. to observe such orders as his Majesty shall make Be it further Enacted That the said post-Master General so nominated appointed and constituted as aforesaid and his Deputies shall from time to time observe and follow such orders rules directions and instructions for and concerning the settlement of convenient posts and Stages upon the several roads in England Scotland and Ireland and other his Majesties Dominions and the providing and kéeping of a sufficient number of horses at the said several Stages as well for the carrying and conveying of the said letters and pacquets as for the horsing of all thorow-posts and persons riding in post by warrant or otherwise as aforesaid as his Majesty his heirs and Successors shall from time to time in that behalf make and ordain And that his Majesty his heirs and Successors may grant the said Office of post-master General His Maiesty may grant the said office for life or years not exceeding 25. years together with the powers and Authorities thereunto belonging and the several rates of portage above mentioned and all profits priviledges fées perquisites and emoluments thereunto belonging or to belong either for life or term of years not excéeding one and twenty years to such person or persons and under such Covenants conditions and yearly rents to his said Majesty his Heirs and Successors reserved as his said Majesty his heirs and Successors shall from time to time think fit for the best advantage and benefit of the Kingdom No horses to be seized without consent of the owners Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person shall have power to take use or seize any horses for the service mentioned in this Act without the consent of the
Walls or before any Noblemens Houses Buildings or Walls or before any other publick houses Buildings or places whatsoever respectively And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the first day of May No Barrels Tymber coaches or other things to be see or mended in the streets The Penalty The duty of the Scavengers Rakers weekly One thousand six hundred sixty and two no person or persons shall Hoop Wash or cleanse any Pipes Barrells or other Casks or Vessels in any the Stréets Lanes or open Passages aforesaid nor shall set out empty Coaches to make or mend or rough Timber or Stones to be sawn or wrought in the Stréets on the Penalty of twenty shillings for every Offence And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Rakers Scavengers or other Officers thereunto appointed every day in the Wéek except Sundayes and other Holidayes shall bring or cause to be brought Carts Dung-pots or other fitting Carriages into all Stréets and places within their respective Wards Parishes Charges and Divisions where such Carts or Carriages can pass and at or before their approach by a Bell Horn Clapper or otherwise shall make distinct and loud noise and give notice to the Inhabitants of their coming and make the like noise and give the like notice in every Court Alley or Place into which the said Carts cannot pass and abide and stay there a convenient time in such sort that all persons concerned may bring forth their respective Ashes Dust Dirt Filth and Soil to the respective Carts or Carriages so staying as aforesaid all which the said Rakers Scavengers or other Officers aforesaid shall daily carry or cause to be carried away upon pain to forfeit forty shillings for every offence or neglect respectively And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all the open Stréets All open streets to be paved and so kept by the several housholders Lanes and Alleyes within the said Cities and Places aforesaid excepting only the new Paving of such Stréets and Places for which any of the Inhabitants have contributed and paid their respective Proportions to the Commissioners before named according to the rates aforesaid shall be forthwith sufficiently repaired or Paved and from time to time hereafter maintained and kept sufficiently repaired or Paved at the costs and charges of the Housholders in the same Stréets Lanes and Alleys respectively in manner following that is to say every of the said Housholders to repair and pave and to kéep repaired and paved the Stréets Lanes or Alleys before his house and so far as his housing Walls or Building extend unto the Channel or middle of the same Stréet Lane or Alley upon pain to forfeit Twenty shillings for every Perch or Rod and after that Rate for a greater or lesser quantity for every Default The penalty for not paving and of Twenty shillings a wéek for every wéek after untill the same shall be sufficiently paved and amended Provided alwayes That such ancient Stréets Lanes and Alleys within the said Cities Proviso for the Borough of Southwark or either of them the Suburbs and Liberties thereof and Borough of Southwark as by custom and usage have béen repaired and paved in other manner shall be hereafter repaired paved and maintained in such sort and manner and by such person and persons as have heretofore used to repair pave and maintain the same under the penalties aforesaid Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Candles or lights to be hung out every night from Michaelmas to Lady-day That every housholder within the said Cities the Suburbs and Liberties thereof and in all other the places aforesaid whose house adjoyns unto and is next the stréet from Michaelmas untill our Lady-day yearly shall every night set or hang out Candles or Lights in Lanthorns or otherwise in some part of his house next the Stréet to enlighten the same for Passengers from such time as it shall grow dark untill nine of the Clock in the Evening upon pain to forfeit the sum of one shilling for every default Who may convict persons offending and upon view or otherwise levy the penalties by this Act. And for the more speedy Reformation and punishment of all and every the offences aforesaid Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every one of his Majesties Iustices of either Bench and Barons of his Exchequer and every Iustice of Peace of the said Cities of London and Westminster and places aforesaid within their several limits respectively shall have power and Authority upon his own knowledg or view confession of the party or proof of one credible witness upon Oath before him which oath by vertue of this Act such Iustice shall have power to administer to convict any person or persons of any the offences aforesaid whereby such person or persons so convict shall incur the Penalties and forfeitures aforesaid one moyety whereof shall be disposed and imployed for and towards the reparation paving and cleansing of the stréet or place where the offence shall be committed and as much or all of the other moyety as the Iustice shall think fit for him or them that shall discover and prosecute the same in case the said conviction be by such discovery and prosecution and if the conviction be by the view or knowledg of such Iustices then the said whole penalty to go and be imployed for and towards the repairing paving and cleansing of the said stréets or place and shall be levied by distress and sale of the Goods and Chattels of the offender by Warrant under the hand and seal of any such Iustice to be directed to the Constable or any other Officer of the same Parish rendring the surplusage to the party and in default of distress or not payment of the said penalties within six dayes after demand thereof or notice in writing left at the house or dwelling place of the offender by the said Constable or any other Officer the said offender not being a Péer of this Realm shall be committed to the Common Goal of the said County or City respectively by the Warrant of any such Iustice under his hand and Seal there to remain without Bail or Mainprize untill payment And for the better raising and levying of moneyes to defray the charges and pay the Wages of the said Scavengers Rakers or other Officers imployed in cleansing of the Stréets Lanes Alleyes and other places aforesaid and carrying of the said ashes dirt filth and soil Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Rates and taxes to be made for defraying the charges and wages of Scavengers and others That within the City of London and Liberties thereof the Scavengers Rakers and such like Officers shall be elected and the Rates Taxes and Assesments for Scavengers Rakers and such like Officers wages for cleansing the
Stréets shall be rated taxed assessed raised and paid by the Parishioners and Inhabitants of every Parish and Precinct respectively within the said City and Liberties thereof according to the ancient Custom and usage of the said City And the Receivers of all such moneyes shall be accomptable as formerly And all new Messuages Tenements and Houses within the limits aforesaid shall be likewise rated taxed and assessed and shall pay proportionably with others And that within the City of Westminster the said Officers shall be chosen and the Rates made and paid according to the ancient Custom of the said City How and when to elect Scavengers And in all other the Parishes and places aforesaid upon every Tuesday or Wednesday in Easter-Wéek the Constables Churchwardens and Overséers for the Poor and Surveyors of the High-wayes of every of the said Parishes and places respectively or the greater number of them giving notice unto or calling together such other Inhabitants of their respective Parishes as have formerly born the like Offices therein they or the greater number of them shall make choice of and shall nominate and appoint two or more able persons that are Tradesmen of their Parish to be Scavengers for the Stréets Lanes and other open Passages of each Ward and Division within the said Parish for the year then next following and untill others be chosen and setled in their Places which persons so chosen and being approved and confirmed under the hands of any two Iustices of Peace within their respective Limits and Iurisdictions shall within seven dayes after their Election and Confirmation and notice thereof take that Office and Duty upon them upon pain to forfeit Twenty pounds by every refuser respectively And in case of refusal by any person or persons so chosen and confirmed then other able persons shall be chosen and confirmed in manner aforesaid within seven dayes after such refusal in the place of him or them which shall so refuse and the person or persons so chosen and confirmed and having notice thereof shall undergo the like pain in case of refusal or not taking the said Office and Duty upon him or them within seven dayes after he or they shall be chosen and confirmed and have notice thereof as aforesaid The said Penalties to be disposed and employed for or towards the mending and repairing of the Stréets and Wayes of the same Parish Ward or Division and to be levyed by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the Offender by Warrant under the hand and seal of any Iustice of the Peace of any of the places aforesaid to be directed to the Constables or other Officers of the same Parish or any two or more of them rendring the surplusage to the party and in default of distress or not payment within six dayes after demand thereof or notice left in writing at the house or dwelling place of the offender by the said Constables or officers the said offender to be committed to the Goal of the said County or City respectively by the Warrant of any such Iustice under his hand and seal there to remain without Bail or Mainprize untill payment And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That within twenty dayes after the Election and Confirmation of the said Scavengers as aforesaid the Constables Churchwardens and Overseers for the Poor and of the High-wayes of the said Parishes and places respectively or the greater number of them giving notice unto or calling together such Inhabitants of their respective Parishes as have formerly born the like office therein They or the greater number of them then present shall make and settle a Tax Rate or Assessment Taxes and Assesments to be made yearly by a Pound-rate according to a Pound-rate to be imposed or set upon the Inhabitants of the said Parish Ward or Division for the year following for the purposes aforesaid which being allowed and confirmed by any two of the Iustices of the Peace of the places aforesaid respectively shall be quarterly paid by every respective Inhabitant upon demand made thereof by the Beadle of the Parish or other officer appointed to gather and collect the same And in case of refusal or neglect shall by Warrant of any two such Iustices of the Peace under their hands and seals be levied by distress and sale of the offenders goods and for want of distress by imprisonment of the offender he not being a Peer of this Realm untill payment as aforesaid Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Actions brought against any Commissioner or Officer imployed by this Act the Defendant may plead the General issue That if any Action or Suit shall be brought or prosecuted by any person or persons against any Iudg Commissioner Iustice of the Peace Constable or other Officer or Minister aforesaid or against any person or persons imployed by them or any of them or authorized by this Act to do or perform as by this Act is directed for any matter cause or thing by them or any of them done committed or executed by vertue or reason of this Act or any Clause or Article therein contained that then in every such case the Action shall be laid in the proper County where the fact was done and not elsewhere and the Defendant or Defendants may plead the General Issue And give the special matter in Evidence and give the special Matter in Evidence at the Tryal That the same was done in pursuance and by Authority of this Act And if upon Examination it shall so appear to be done the Iury shall find for the Defendant and in such case or if the Plaintiff shall be Nonsuit or discontinue his Action after the Defendant hath appeared the Defendant shall have and recover his or their double costs which he or they shall sustain or be put unto by reason of his or their wrongful vexation in defence of the said Action or Suit And whereas the several Stréets and Passages hereafter mentioned that is to say The Stréet or Passage at or near the Stocks in London The enlargement of Passage in narrow and incommodious streets the Stréet and Passage from Fleet-Conduit to St. Pauls Church in London the Passage through the White-Hart-Inn from the Strand into Covent-Garden the Stréet and Passage by and near Exeter-House and the Savoy being obstructed by a Rail and the unevenness of the ground thereabouts the Passage and Stréet of St. Martins-Lane out of the Strand the Passage or Stréet of Field-Lane commonly called Jack-an-apes-lane going betwéen Chancery-Lane and Lincolns-Inn-Fields the Passage and Gate-house of Cheap-Side into St. Pauls Church-yard the Passage against St. Dunstans Church in the West being obstructed by a Wall the Street and Passage by and near the West-end of the Poultrey in London and the Passage at Temple-Bar are so narrow that they are incommodious to Coaches Carts and Passengers and prejudicial to Commerce and Trading The Lord Mayor of London
and for the said respective Lieutenants and in their absence as aforesaid or otherwise by their directions to and for their Deputies or any two or more of them by warrant under their hands and seals to levy all such penalties as are appointed by this Act by distress and sale of the offenders Goods rendring the overplus to the Party distrained And it is hereby Ordained and Enacted And to defalk the charges out of their next Rent That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Tenant or Tenants to defalk out of such rent as shall be next due to his or their Landlord all such Money as the said Tenant or Tenants shall necessarily lay out or expend in providing such horse and Horse-man horses and Horse-men and Arms or Foot-souldier and Arms as are charged upon his or their Landlord or shall pay or be levied upon him or them by distress for any default in manner as aforesaid any condition reservation Covenant or Contract for the payment of his or their Rent to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And for so doing the said Tenant or Tenants shall be indemnified by Authority of this Act The Tenants indemnified for so doing unless the Land-lord or Land-lords shall make it appear within two moneths after such levying such penalties before the respective Lieutenants and in their absence as aforesaid or otherwise by their directions before their Deputies or any two or more of them that the default and penalty was occasioned by the wilful neglect of the said Tenant or Tenants Peers not to act as Lieutenants or Deputies before they take the Oath of Allegiance c. Provided also That no person being a Péer of this Realm shall be capable of acting or serving as Lieutenant or Deputy-Lieutenant by vertue of this Act unless he or they shall first before six of the Lords of his Majesties Privy-Council for the time being or such other Persons as shall be authorised by his Majesty to administer the same take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and also this Oath following I A.B. do declare and believe that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King And this oath And that I do abhor that Traiterous Position That Arms may be taken by his authority against His Person or against those that are Commissioned by him in pursuance of such Military Commissions So help me God Which Oaths they have hereby power to administer Persons under the degree of a Peer to take the Oath of Allegiance c. And that no Person being under the degrée of a Péer of this Realm shall be capable of acting as Lieutenant Deputy-Lieutenant Officer or Souldier by vertue of this Act unless he or they shall first take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and this Oath following I A. B. do declare and believe that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King And that I do abhor that Traiterous Position And this oath That Arms may be taken by his Authority against His Person or against those that are Commissioned by Him in pursuance of such Military Commissions So help me God Which Oaths any one Iustice of Peace of the respective Counties and Places aforesaid is enabled to administer to such respective Lieutenant as is not a Péer of this Realm and the said Lieutenant or any one Iustice of Peace of the respective Counties and Places aforesaid is enabled to administer to the respective Deputy-Lieutenants not being Péers and the said respective Lieutenants and in their absence as aforesaid or otherwise by their directions when they are not absent their Deputies or any two of them shall and are hereby Enabled to administer the said Oaths to the said Officers and Souldiers The Trained Bands to continue till the 25. March 1663. And no longer And to the end there may be some convenient time to put in execution the Powers of this Act and preparing an Establishment according to the same Be it hereby Enacted That the Trained Bands and Forces now actually raised and in being shall so continue in each respective City and County of England and Wales until the five and twentieth day of Mach One thousand six hundred sixty and thrée and no longer unless an Establishment according to this Act be no sooner had any thing in this present Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding The times appointed for training and mustering And it is hereby Declared and Enacted That the Ordinary times for Training Exercising and Mustering the Forces to be raised by vertue of this Act shall be these following that is to say the general Muster and Exercise of Regiments not above once a year the Training and Exercising of single Companies not above four times a year unless special Directions be given by his Majesty or his Privy-Council And that such single Companies and Troops shall not at any one time be continued in Exercise above the space of two days and that at a General Muster and Exercise of Regiments What Arms and Provision every Souldier shall bring no Officer or Souldier shall be constrained to stay for above four days together from their respective habitations And that at every such Muster and Exercise every Musquetier shall bring with him half a pound of Powder at the charge of such person or persons as provide the said Foot-souldier and Arms and every Horse-man is to bring with him a quarter of a pound of Powder at the charge of such person or persons as provide the said horse Horse-man and Arms and the Arms Offensive and Defensive with the Furniture for Horse are to be as followeth The Defensive Arms a Back Breast and Pott and the Breast and Pott to be Pistol-proof The Offensive Arms a Sword a Case of Pistols the Barrels whereof are not to be under 14 Inches in length The furniture for the Horse to be a great Saddle or Padd with Burrs and Trapps to affix the Houlsters unto a Bitt and Bridle with a Pectorel and Crupper For the Foot a Musquetier is to have a Musquet the Barrel whereof is not to be under thrée foot in length And the Gage of the Bore to be for 12 Bullets to the pound a Coller of Bandeliers with a Sword Provided that all Muster-Masters shall for the present admit and allow of any Musquets already made which will bear a Bullet of 14 to the pound But no Musquets which henceforth shall be made are to be allowed of but such as are of the Gage for 12 Bullets to the pound A Pike-man is to be armed with a Pike made of Ash not under 16 foot in length the head and foot included with a Back Breast Head-piece and Sword Provided that all Muster-Masters shall for the present admit and allow of any Pikes already made that are not under 15 foot in length But no Pikes which shall be hereafter made are to be allowed of
Worship belonging to his said Benefice or Promotion upon some Lords Day before the Feast of Saint Bartholomew which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two openly publiquely and solemnly Read the Morning and Evening Prayer appointed to be Read by and according to the said Book of Common Prayer at the times thereby appointed and after such reading thereof shall openly and publikely before the Congregation there assembled declare his unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things in the said Book contained and prescribed In these words and no other I A. B. Do here declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and every thing contained and prescribed in and by the Book intituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the Form or manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons The Penalty for refusing And that all and every such person who shall without some lawful impediment to be allowed and approved of by the Ordinary of the place neglect or refuse to do the same within the time aforesaid or in case of such Impediment within one Moneth after such Impediment removed shall ipso facto be deprived of all his Spiritual Promotions And that from thenceforth it shall be lawful to and for all Patrons and Donors of all and singular the said Spiritual Promotions or of any of them according to their respective Rights and Titles to present or collate to the same as though the person or persons so offending or neglecting were dead Every person hereafter to be promoted to any Ecclestiastical Benefice shall read the Common Prayer and declare his assent thereto And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person who shall hereafter be presented or collated or put into any Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion within this Realm of England and places aforesaid shall in the Church Chappel or place of publick worship belonging to his said Benefice or Promotion within two moneths next after that he shall be in the actual possession of the said Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion upon some Lords Day openly publickly and solemnly Read the Morning and Evening Prayers appointed to be Read by and according to the said Book of Common Prayer at the times thereby appointed and after such reading thereof shall openly and publickly before the Congregation there assembled declare his unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things therein contained and prescribed according to the form before appointed The penalty for not so doing the same And that all and every such person who shall without some lawful Impediment to be allowed and approved by the Ordinary of the place neglect or refuse to do the same within the time aforesaid or in case of such Impediment within one moneth after such Impediment removed shall ipso facto be deprived of all his said Ecclesiastical Benefices and Promotions And that from thenceforth it shall and may be lawful to and for all Patrons and Donors of all and singular the said Ecclesiastical Benefices and Promotions or any of them according to their respective Rights and Titles to present or collate to the same as though the person or persons so offending or neglecting were dead Incumbents of Livings keeping Curates shall read the same once every moneth And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in all places where the proper Incumbent of any Parsonage or Vicarage or Benefice with Cure doth reside on his Living and kéep a Curate the Incumbent himself in person not having some lawful Impediment to be allowed by the Ordinary of the place shall once at the least in every moneth openly and publickly read the Common Prayers and Service in and by the said Book prescribed and if there be occasion Administer each of the Sacraments and other Rites of the Church in the Parish Church or Chappel of or belonging to the same Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice in such order manner and form The penalty and manner of conviction for not doing it as in and by the said Book is appointed upon pain to forfeit the sum of Five pounds to the use of the poor of the Parish for every offence upon conviction by confession or proof of two credible Witnesses upon Oath before two Iustices of the Peace of the County City or Town Corporate where the offence shall be committed which Oath the said Iustices are hereby impowred to Administer and in default of payment within ten dayes to be levied by distress and sale of the Goods and Chattels of the Offender by the Warrant of the said Iustices by the Church-wardens or Overséers of the poor of the said Parish rendring the surplusage to the party Deans Canons Prebendaries c. shall subscribe the Declaration 15 Car. 2. cap. 6. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Dean Canon and Prebendary of every Cathedral or Collegiate Church and all Masters and other Heads Fellows Chaplains and Tutors of or in any Colledge Hall House of Learning or Hospital and every publick Professor and Reader in either of the Vniversities and in every Colledge elsewhere and every Parson Vicar Curate Lecturer and every other person in holy Orders and every School-master kéeping any publick or private School and every person Instructing or Teaching any Youth in any House or private Family as a Tutor or School-master who upon the First day of May which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty two or at any time thereafter shall be Incumbent or have possession of any Deanry Canonry Prebend Mastership Headship Fellowship Professors place or Readers place Parsonage Vicarage or any other Ecclesiastical Dignity or Promotion or of any Curates place Lecture or School or shall instruct or teach any Youth as Tutor or School-master shall before the Feast-day of St. Bartholomew which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty two or at or before his or their respective admission to be Incumbent or have possession aforesaid subscribe the Declaration or Acknowledgment following Scilicet The Decla ∣ ration I A. B. Do declare That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take up Arms against the King and that I do abhor that Traiterous Position of taking Arms by His Authority against His Person or against those that are Commissionated by him And that I will conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England as it is now by Law established And I do declare That I do hold there lies no Obligation upon me or on any other person from the Oath commonly called The Solemn League and Covenant to endeavour any change or alteration of Government either
Wardens and fiftéen Assistants shall be chosen upon the same day yearly within the City of Norwich or County of Norfolk in some publick place by the Master-Weavers or the greater part of them present of the County of Norfolk And the said Wardens respectively shall within fourtéen days after they shall be so chosen or elected and notice thereof given take the Oath ensuing to be administred by the Mayor of the said City for the time being or his Deputy and the Steward of the Dutchy of Lancaster within the the said County for the time being if it shall happen the said Steward shall be there present or else before the said Mayor or his Deputy onely which Oath they and every of them are hereby Authorized and required from time to time to Administer accordingly Viz. I A. B. Do swear The Oath to be taken by them That I will well faithfully and honestly perform and discharge the Office of a Warden of the said Trade of Worsted Weavers according to the best of my skill power and knowledge And that the said Assistants and every of them within the time aforesaid shall take the like Oath before such person or persons before whom the Wardens shall be Sworn for the execution of that Office of an Assistant and that if it shall happen that any of the said Wardens who shall be so chosen shall refuse to take the said Oath or after he be sworn shall die before the end of the year That then from time to time so often as néed shall be it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Master-Weavers of the said City County of the City of Norwich and County of Norfolk respectively as the cause shall require to chuse other Warden or Wardens in the place of him or them so dying or refusing who shall be sworn in such manner as aforesaid The powers in this act for Regulation of Trade to be put in execution And for the Regulation and good Government of the said Trade and Manufacture the said Wardens and Assistants or any thirtéen of them whereof seven to be Wardens shall and may from time to time méet and consult together for the good and benefit of the said Trade and Manufacture and for due execution of the Powers and Authorities given by this Act so often as to them shal séem expedient or when it shall be desired by eight or more of the said Assistants at the place called Weavers Hall in the said City Power to make By-laws and orders or at such other place as they shall think fit And that any thirtéen or more of the said Wardens and Assistants whereof seven at the least to be Wardens shall have and hereby have power and Authority from time to time so often as néed shall require to make and ordain By-laws Rules and Ordinances for and concerning the Regulation of the laid Worsted-Stuffs and other Stuffs now made and which hereafter shall be made within the said City and County of the City of Norwich and County of Norfolk and in either of them both in length breadth and goodness and of such other particulars as shall by the said Wardens and Assistants so met or the greater number of them from time to time be adjudged requisit for the better Regulating the said Trade and Manufacture and the Artificers of the same in the due execution of this Act and to make Seals from time to time for the sealing of the same Stuffs which By-laws Rules and Ordinances being ratified and confirmed by the Mayor and two Iustices of the Peace of the said City and County of Norwich for the time being and thrée other Iustices of Peace of the said County of Norfolk whereof one to be of the Quorum shall be published four times in the year at the least To be published at Four assemblies to be held yearly at four Publick Assemblies for the said Trade and Manufacture and shall be obeyed and kept by the several persons within and under the said Regulation The penalty upon offendors against such By-laws and orders And the said Wardens and Assistants shall have and hereby have power to impose a fine or penalty upon any person or persons under such Regulation as shall not conform to such Rules Orders and Ordinances so made and to be made and confirmed as aforesaid Provided that the said Fine or Penalty upon any person for not conforming as aforesaid shall not excéed the sum of Ten shillings for any one offence Notice of meeting by the City of Norwich to be gâ—ven to the Wardens of the County of Norfolk And it is further Enacted That the Wardens and Assistants of the said City and County of the City of Norwich shall from time to time give Personal notice unto the Wardens of the said County of Norfolk or two of them at the least of the time when they intend to consider of the making of By-laws Rules and Ordinances as aforesaid and shall set it up in writing upon the Door of their Sealing-Hall fourtéen days at the least before they shall procéed to the making the same to the end that such of the said Country Weavers as are therein concerned may be there present And for the better Regulation and carrying on the work aforesaid and for avoiding of all Frauds and Deceipts therein Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Yarns called Worsted Yarns and such other Yarns as are commonly used by the Worsted Weavers shall be made without Fraud Yarns called Worsted Yarns how to be made and shall be Réeled on a Réel of a full Yard about and every Réel-staff shall contain fourtéen Leas and every Lea forty threads twelve of which Réel-staffs shall make a dozen and twelve of those dozens shall make a gross And in case any Person or Persons shall sell or expose to sale any of the said Yarns made and Réeled in any other manner than as is aforesaid that then every such Person or Persons shall forfeit the Moyety of the value of the said Yarns to the use of the said Trade and Manufactures after charges of Suit and of Prosecution first deducted out of the same which forfeiture shall be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint Indictment or Information in any of the Kings Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Wager of Law Essoyn or Protection shall be allowed for the Defendant View and search to be made of manufactures in Faires and markets And that it shall and may be lawful to and for the Wardens and Assistants of the said Trade and Manufactures or any two of them from time to time to View and Search in all Fairs and Markets and other publick places of sale of Yarns within the said City of Norwich and County of the same and County of Norfolk and either of them all Yarns which be there exposed to sale and such of the said Yarns as they shall find defective contrary to the Rules herein
seisure as aforesaid he or they shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of Twenty pounds for the uses and to be recovered as aforesaid And if any of the said Artificers and Dealers in cutting of Leather do refuse to be present with the said Searchers whensoever the same shall be desired by the said Master and Wardens of the Company of the Curriers or such persons thereto assigned by them as aforesaid then for every such default the persons so refusing shall forfeit the sum of Ten pounds for the uses and to be recovered as aforesaid CAP. VIII An Act for Distribution of Threescore thousand pounds amongst the truly Loyal and Indigent Commission-Officers and for Assessing of Offices and Distributing Moneys thereby raised for their further Supply EXP. CAP. IX For Relief of Poor and Maimed Officers and Souldiers who have faithfully served His Majesty and His Royal Father in the late Wars FOrasmuch as divers of His Majesties Loyal and Faithful Subjects who out of the sense of their Duty and Allegiance to his Majesties Royal Father of ever Blessed and Glorious Memory and to His Majestie that now is have during the late Wars wherein they have béen Imployed both by Sea and Land as Officers Souldiers and Mariners in the said Service exposed themselves to the utmost hazard of their Lives loss of their Limbs and utter ruine of their Fortunes and for whose Subsistence and Relief there is not yet any competent Provision made Nor for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of such as have died or béen slain in the said Service And to the end that such as have béen eminent for their Loyalty and Sufferings The inducement and ground of this Act. in so good and just a Cause as the Defence of His Majesties Royal Person and Government may not passe without some Mark of Favour or Reward to be set upon them And that others may thereby receive all due Encouragement for the time to come to continue Loyal and Faithful to His Majesties Service according to their bounden Duty Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same That from the First day of this present Parliament every Parish within this Realm of England and Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed shall be charged wéekly to the payment of such sum of Money as formerly they have béen rated by vertue of a Statute made in the Forty third year of Quéen Elizabeth Chapter the third 43 El. cap. 3. concerning the Relief of Mariners and Souldiers for and to such end and purpose How Parishes may be charged assessed and levied And likewise such further sum of Money over and besides the same as by His Majesties Iustices of the Peace in their next Quarter-Sessions to be held after the Feast of Easter next ensuing or the major part of them or at any other Quarter-Sessions to be hereafter by them held shall be adjudged méet to be Assessed upon every Parish or Chappelry that hath distinct Parochial Officers so as the said additional sum excéed not the sum of Two shillings and six pence nor be under the sum of Thrée pence each wéek for each such Parish or Chappelry the same to be levied in manner and form by such persons and under such penalties as by the said Statute of Quéen Elizabeth is Enacted and Declared And to be paid to the Treasurers for the Maimed Souldiers Treasurer for Maimed Souldiers appointed by the Iustices of the County or Liberty by vertue of this Act and the Statute of Quéen Elizabeth aforesaid Which said Treasurers shall be ordered to issue out and account for the same in such manner and under such penalties as by the said Statute is further Enacted and Declared And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid â—fficers â—â—â—ldiers or â—â—â—triners Maimed or indigent how to be relieved That every Officer Souldier or Mariner maimed indigent aged or disabled in body for work in the Service of His said late Majesty or His Majesty that now is during the late Wars or which are so Impoverished by their Sufferings under any of the late Vsurped Powers as that they are destitute of any competent Subsistence or Livelihood and have continued Faithful to his Trust and not deserted the same by taking up Arms against His said late Majesty or His Majesty that now is or otherwise shall forthwith repair to the place where he was last setled before he took up Arms with a Certificate of his Service and hurts received under the hand of his Captain or other Commissionated Officer And shall also repair unto the two next Iustices of the Peace in the County where such his Setling was And the said two Iustices upon the Examination of the Truth of such Certificate which the said two Iustices are hereby impowred to take upon Oath of the party and of such Witnesses as he shall produce shall by Warrant unto the Treasurer assign him Relief until the next Quarter-Sessions to be holden for that County or Liberty at which time a yearly Pension shall be by the said Iustices or the major part of them granted in Manner and Form and with Power of Revocation or Alteration as by the said Statute is further declared and directed And in case that the Captain or Officer appointed to make such Certificate be dead the said two Iustices shall have Power upon Request made to them in behalf of the party maimed or aged indigent or disabled as aforesaid by Persons of Credit to give such Relief as in case of Examination as aforesaid Widowes and Orphans of Souldiers And as touching the Widows and Orphans of such as have died or suffered death in the said Service It is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That over and besides such Relief as they shall gain by their Work and Labour and shall be allowed by the Charity and Benevolence of the Parish Town or Hamlet where they are setled who are hereby required to have them in special regard the Treasurers for the Maimed Souldiers for such County shall allow such further Relief from time to time as shall be adjudged méet by the two next Iustices of the Peace of such County And the said Relief shall be paid out of the Surplusage of such Stock of Maintenance as shall remain in the hands of the said Treasurers after such Pensions and payment of them made and of which Surplusage and Allowance made unto such Widows and Orphans the said Treasurers shall give account from time to time and the same distribute in such manner as by the Iustices shall be directed and according to the Statute aforesaid Treasurers High-Constables c. to be called to Accompt for Moneys received And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Iustices of Peace in every County or Liberty or any
two of them shall forthwith call all such Treasurers High-Constables Petty-Constables or other persons which have formerly béen Intrusted with the Receipt Collecting or Disposing of any such sum of Money charged upon any Parish by vertue of the Statute aforesaid and whereof no account hath béen given and likewise the Executors and Administrators of such person and persons unto a strict account concerning such Levies and Collections made And such Money as they shall find remaining in the custody of such persons to order forthwith to be paid for the intents and purposes aforesaid and no other to the Treasurer appointed by vertue of the said Statute or to be appointed by vertue of this present Act at the next Quarter-Sessions to be holden for such County or Liberty under such penalty as by the said Statute is set forth Which said Treasurer to be appointed by this Act shall continue by vertue hereof until Easter Sessions following The continuance of this Act. Provided That no Pension to be given or assigned by Authority hereof shall excéed to any one person the sum of Twenty pounds by the year This Act to continue to the end of the first Session of the next Parliament CAP. X. An Additional Revenue setled upon His Majesty His Heirs and Successors for the better support of His and their Crown and Dignity The great concernment of proportioning the Publique Revenue to the Charges and Expences FOrasmuch as nothing conduceth more to the Peace and Prosperity of a Nation and the Protection of every single person therein then that the Publick Revenue thereof may be in some measure proportioned to the Publick Charges and Expences We therefore Your Majesties most Loyal and Obedient Subjects the Commons assembled in Parliament having duly considered the Premisses do give and grant unto your most Excellent Majesty Your Heirs and Successors the Rates and Duties herein after mentioned and do most humbly beséech Your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That from and after the Five and twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two every Dwelling and other House and Edifice and all Lodgings and Chambers in the Inns of Court Inns of Chancery Colledges and other Societies that are or hereafter shall be erected within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed other then such as in this Act are hereafter excepted and declared shall be chargeable and by this present Act be and are charged with the Annual paâ—ment to the Kings Majesty Every Fire-Hearth and Stove charged with the yearly payment of 2 s. to the King his Heirs and Successors his Heirs and Successors for every Fire-Hearth and Stove within every such House Edifice Chambers and Lodging as aforesaid the sum of Two shillings by the year to be paid yearly and every year at the Feast of St. Michael the Arch-Angel and the Feast of the Annuntiation of the Blessed Virgin St. Mary by even and equal portions the First payment thereof to be paid upon the Feast-day of Saint Michael the Arch-Angel which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two And to the intent that a just account may be had and taken of all the said Hearths and Stoves by this Act intended to be charged Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid How an Accompt shall be taken of all Fire-Hearths and Stoves That every Owner or Occupier of every such House Edifice Lodgings and Chambers shall respectively within six dayes after notice given unto him or them by the respective Constables Headboroughs Tythingmen or other such Officers within whose Precinct the said House Edifice Chambers or Lodgings shall be or by the respective Treasurers or Officers of Inns of Court Inns of Chancery or other Officers of the respective Colledges and other Societies aforesaid wherein any such Lodgings and Chambers shall be deliver unto the said Constables Headboroughs Tithingmen or other such Officers as aforesaid respectively a true and just account in writing under the hands of such Owners or Occupiers as aforesaid of all the said Hearths and Stoves which are within their several and respective Houses Lodgings and Chambers aforesaid And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective Constables Headboroughs How and when the same shall be delivered in Tithingmen or other such Officers within whose limits any such House or Edifice charged by this Act as aforesaid are and the respective Treasurers and other Officers of the respective Inns of Court Inns of Chancery Colledges and other Societies aforesaid shall by the last day of May One thousand six hundred sixty and two require the several Occupiers of every such House Edifice Lodging and Chamber aforesaid to deliver in to them respectively Accounts in writing as aforesaid under their several and respective hands of all such Hearths and Stoves as aforesaid as shall be within their respective Houses Edifices Lodgings and Chambers and upon receipt of the same or upon default of such Account in writing or in case there be no occupiers then within six dayes after notice in writing fixt to the door requiring such Account to be made the said Constables or other Officers respectively as aforesaid shall enter into the said respective Houses in the day-time and compare such Accounts and sée whether the same be truly made or not And if no such Account be delivered then shall take information by their own view of the number of such Hearths and Stoves upon pain that every Constable Treasurer and other Officer aforesaid who shall neglect to do the same shall forfeit for every wéek he or they shall so neglect the sum of Five pounds and for every false return wilfully made contrary to this Act he or they shall forfeit and lose for every Hearth and Stove so falsly returned or omitted the sum of Forty shillings And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the several Constables and other Officers who are hereby authorized to take the account of the aforesaid Hearths and Stoves within their particular Limits as aforesaid shall at the next Quarter-Sessions after the said last day of May to be holden for their respective Counties deliver all such Accounts in writing as they shall receive reform or take by their own view unto the Iustices of Peace in their respective Quarter-Sessions of the said Counties together with a true Note of the names of all such persons who shall refuse or neglect to give unto them an account under their hands of such Hearths and Stoves within their respective Houses Edifices Chambers and Lodgings as aforesaid And be it further Enacted How Accompts of Hearths and Stoves shall be enrolled and duplicates thereof by the Iustices
build Cottages and the most Woods for them to burn and destroy and when they have consumed it then to another Parish and at last become Rogues and Vagabonds to the great discouragement of Parishes to provide Stocks where it is liable to be devoured by strangers Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful How to be setled coming to any Tenement under ten pounds yearly value upon complaint made by the Church-wardens or Overseers of the poor of any Parish to any Iustice of Peace within Forty dayes after any such person or persons coming so to settle as aforesaid in any Tenement under the yearly value of Ten pounds for any two Iustices of the Peace whereof one to be of the Quorum of the Division where any person or persons that are likely to be chargeable to the Parish shall come to inhabit by their Warrant to remove and convey such person or persons to such Parish where he or they were last legally setled either as a native Housholder Sojourner Apprentice or Servant for the space of forty dayes at the least unless he or they give sufficient security for the discharge of the said Parish to be allowed by the said Iustices Persons grieved may appeal to the Quarter Sessions Provided alwayes That all such persons who think themselves agrieved by any such Iudgement of the said two Iustices may appeal to the Iustices of the Peace of the said County at their next Quarter-Sessions who are hereby required to do them justice according to the merits of their Cause Persons going to work in harvest Provided also That this Act notwithstanding it shall and may be lawfull for any person or persons to go into any County Parish or place to work in time of Harvest or at any time to work at any other work so that he or they carry with him or them a Certificate from the Minister of the parish and one of the Churchwardens and one of the Overséers for the poor for the said year that he or they have a dwelling house or place in which he or they inhabit and hath left wife and children or some of them there or otherwise as the condition of the person shall require and is declared an Inhabitant or Inhabitants there And in such case if the person or persons shall not return to the place aforesaid when his or their work is finished or shall fall sick or impotent whilst he or they are in the said work it shall not be accounted a Settlement in the cases abovesaid but that it shall and may be lawful for two Iustices of the Peace to convey the said person or persons to the place of his or their habitation as aforesaid under the pains and penalties in this Act prescribed And if such person or persons shall refuse to go or shall not remain in such parish where they ought to be setled as aforesaid but shall return of his own accord to the parish from whence he was removed it shall and may be lawful for any Iustice of the Peace of the City County or Town-Corporate where the said Offence shall be committed to send such person or persons offending to the House of Correction there to be punished as a Vagabond or to a publick Work-house in this present Act hereafter mentioned there to be imployed in work or labour And if the Church-wardens and Overséers of the Poor of the Parish to which he or they shall be removed refuse to receive such person or persons and to provide work for them as other Inhabitants of the Parish any Iustice of Peace of that Division may and shall thereupon bind any such Officer or Officers in whom there shall be default to the Assizes or Sessions there to be Indicted for his or their Contempt in that behalf And for the further redress of the mischiefs intended to be hereby remedied Corporations or work houses in the Cities of London and Westminster Middlesex Surrey Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from thenceforth there be and shall be one or more Corporation or Corporations Work-house or Work-houses within the Cities of London and Westminster and within the Burroughs Towns and places of the County of Middlesex and Surrey scituate lying and being within the Parishes mentioned in the Wéekly Bills of Mortality consisting of a President a Deputy to the President and a Treasurer And that the Lord Mayor of the City of London for the time being be President of the Corporation or Corporations Work-house or Work-houses within the said City and the Assistants to be the Aldermen of the said City of London for the time being and fifty two other Citizens to be chosen by the Common-Council of the said City And that the said President and Assistants or the major part of them shall and may elect a Deputy-President and Treasurer and all other necessary Officers hereby constituted and authorized to execute the powers and Offices by this Act appointed And that upon the vacancy by death or otherwise of any Assistant the power to elect in their rooms be in the said Common-Council and the Election of the Deputy-President or Treasurer and all other Officers in the said President and major part of the Assistants as aforesaid And that a President a Deputy-President a Treasurer and Assistants be nominated and appointed by the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being out of the most fit persons inhabiting in the City of Westminster or the Liberties thereof for the Corporation or Corporations Work-house or Work-houses within the same And for the said places within the Wéekly Bills of Mortality in the said Counties of Middlesex and Surrey respectively President Deputy-president Treasurer and Assistants for Middlesex Surrey how to be elected there shall be elected and chosen by the major part of the Iustices of the Peace for the said Counties in their respective Quarter-Sessions assembled out of the most able and honest Inhabitants and Fréeholders of every of the said Counties of Middlesex and Surrey respectively a President a Deputy-President a Treasurer and Assistants for the Corporation or Corporations Work-house or Work-houses of the places aforesaid in Middlesex and Surrey And that upon the vacancy by death or otherwise of any of the Presidents Deputy-Presidents Treasurers or Assistants in the City of Westminster and places aforesaid in Middlesex and Surrey City of Westminster the power to elect others in their rooms be in the major part of the respective Iustices of Peace who in their General Quarter-Sessions from time to time shall accordingly supply such vacant places And that at every Quarter-Sessions they shall require and take an account in writing of all the Receipts Charges and Disbursements of the Officers and Treasurer of such Corporation or Corporations Work-house or Work-houses how many Poor people have béen imployed and set to work in the year last past and what stock there was
and is remaining which President Deputy-President and Treasurer for the time being respectively shall for ever hereafter in name and fact be Bodies Politick and Corporate in Law to all intents and purposes and shall have a perpetual Succession and may Sue or Plead or be Sued and Impleaded by the name of the President and Governours for the Poor of the respective places aforementioned in all Courts and places of Iudicature within this Kingdom and the Dominion of Wales and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed and by that Name every of the said Corporations shall and may without License in Mortmain purchase or receive any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments not excéeding the yearly value of Thrée thousand pounds per annum of the Gift Alienation or Devise of any person or persons who are hereby without further License enabled to give the same and any Goods Chattels or sums of Money whatsoever to the use intent and purposes hereafter limited and appointed And the each respective Corporation or any Seven of them shall have hereby Power and Authority from time to time to méet and kéep Courts for the ends and purposes in this Act expressed at such time and place as shall be appointed by the said President his Deputy or the Treasurer who are hereby required upon the desire of any Four of the said Corporation at any time to cause a Court to be warned accordingly And shall have hereby Authority from time to time to make and appoint a Common-Seal for the use of the said Corporation And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid The powers of the said President and Governours of the said Corporations That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said President and Governours of the said Corporations for the time being or any two of them or to or for any person authorized and appointed by them or any two of them from time to time to apprehend or cause to be apprehended any Rogues Vagrants Sturdy Beggars or Idle or disorderly persons within the said Cities and Liberties Places Divisions and Precincts and to cause them to be kept and set to work in the several and respective Corporations or Work-houses and it shall and may be lawful for the major part of the Iustices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions to signify unto his Majesties Privy Council the names of such Rogues Vagabonds Idle and Disorderly persons and Sturdy Beggars as they shall think fit to be Transported to the English Plantations and upon the approbation of his Majesties Privy Council to the said Iustices of Peace signified which persons shall be Transported it shall and may be lawful for any two or more of the Iustices of the Peace them to Transport or cause to be Transported from time to time during the space of thrée years next ensuing the end of this present Session of Parliament to any of the English Plantations beyond the Seas there to be disposed in the usual way of Servants for a term not excéeding Seven years A stock for supply of the work how to be provided in London Westminster Middlesex Surrey And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if the President and Governours of any of the said Corporations shall certify under their common Seal their want and defect either of a present stock for the Foundation of the Work or for supply thereof for the future and what sum or sums of Money they shall think fit for the same to the Common-Council of the said City of London and the Burgesses and Iustices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions of the said City of Westminster and the Liberties thereof or the Iustices of the respective Counties of Middlesex and Surrey assembled in either Quarter-Sessions That thereupon the Common-Council of the said City of London the Burgesses of the said City of Westminster and the Iustices of Peace of the said Cities and Counties in their Quarter-Sessions assembled are hereby required from time to time to set down and ascertain such competent sum and sums of money for the purposes aforesaid not excéeding one years rate from time to time usually set upon any person for or towards the relief of the Poor and the same to proportion out upon the several Wards Precincts Counties Divisions Hundreds and Parishes as they shall think fit And thereupon the Aldermen Deputies and Common-Council-men of every Ward in the City of London and Burgesses and Iustices of the Peace of the City of Westminster and the Liberties thereof and Iustices of the Peace of the said Counties of Middlesex and Surrey shall have power and Authority and are hereby required equally and indifferently according to the proportions appointed as aforesaid for the several Wards Precincts Cities and Parishes as aforesaid to tax and rate the several Inhabitants within the said respective Wards Precincts and Parishes as well within Liberties as without with which Tax if any person or persons find him or themselves agrieved supposing the same to be unequal he or they shall and may make their complaint known to the Iustices of the Peace at the next open Sessions who shall take such final order therein as in like cases is already by the Law provided And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for any Alderman of the City of London or his Deputy or the Burgesses and Iustices of Peace of the City of Westminster and the Liberties thereof or any two or more of them or any two Iustices of Peace of the respective Counties of Middlesex and Surrey by their Warrant under their Hands and Seals to authorize the Church-wardens or Overséers for the Poor within the places and Parishes aforesaid to demand gather and receive of every person and persons such sum and sums of money as shall be Assessed upon them by vertue of the Taxations and Contributions aforesaid And for default of payment within ten dayes after demand thereof made or notice in writing left at the dwelling-house or lodging of every person so Assessed to levy the same by distress and sale of the goods of every such person and after satisfaction made to restore the surplusage to the party so distrained Stocks formerly in London for relief of the poor how to be paid And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Stocks raised for the relief and imployment of the Poor in the City of London and Liberties thereof which was in the hands of a Corporation heretofore appointed in the said City for that service or in the hands of any other person or persons whatsoever before the Nine and twentieth day of September which was in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty commonly called the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel or at any time since together with all the Arrears of money formerly alloted for that Service or Legacies given to the same end shall be payable to the Treasurer of the Corporation or Corporations
Work-house or Work-houses to be established by this present Act who are hereby authorized and impowred by themselves or their Officers thereunto by them deputed to collect gather receive and recover the said money and Legacies which shall be due and in arrear as aforesaid with which said Arrears and every part and parcel thereof the Corporation or Corporations aforesaid by this Act made constituted and established is and shall be hereby invested and interessed for the execution of the service hereby enjoyned them and all those that have had or now have any of the said Stocks in their or any of their hands shall be accountable to the said Treasurer or to those that shall be appointed by the said Corporation or Corporations or any seven or more of them to take the said account Provided always And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That there shall be a full allowance of all just and necessary expences which have béen laid out by the said former Corporation for the relief of the said poor and the carrying on of the said Service since the time before expressed Power to make Orders and By-laws And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective President and Governours or any Seven of them shall have power from time to time to make and constitute Orders and By-Laws for the better relieving regulating and setting the poor to work and the apprehending and punishing of Rogues Vagabonds and Beggers within the Cities Liberties and places aforesaid that have not wherewith to maintain themselves and for other the matters aforesaid Provided the said Orders and By-Laws shall from time to time be presented to the Iustices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions assembled to be allowed by the major part of them and confirmed by order of the said Court And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Power to choose and entertain officers That the President and Governours of any of the said Corporation or Corporations Work-house or Work-houses or any fourtéen or more of them being assembled together shall have hereby power to choose and entertain all such Officers and other as shall be néedful to be imployed in and about the premisses and them or any of them from time to time to remove as they shall see cause and upon the death or removal of them or any of them to choose others in their places for the carrying on of the work and to make and give such reasonable allowances unto them or any of them out of the Stock and Revenue belonging to the said Corporation or Work-house as they shall think fit And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Sheriffs Bailiffs Constables All Sheriffs c. to be assisting the said Corporation their officers and all other Officers and Ministers of Iustice shall be aiding and assisting to the said Corporation or Corporations and to all such Officers as shall be imployed by them or any of them in the execution or performance of the said Service And whereas the Laws and Statutes for the apprehending of Rogues and Vagabonds have not béen duly executed sometimes for want of Officers by reason Lords of Mannors do not kéep Court Léets every year for the making of them Constables how made in default of holding Court-Leets Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case any Constable Headborough or Tithingmen shall dye or go out of the Parish any two Iustices of the Peace may make and swear a new Constable Headborough or Tithingman untill the said Lord shall hold a Court or untill next Quarter-Sessions who shall approve of the said Officers so made and sworn as aforesaid or appoint others as they shall think fit And if any Officer shall continue above a year in his or their Office That then in such case the Iustices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions may discharge such Officers and may put another fit person in his or their place untill the Lord of the said Mannor shall hold a Court as aforesaid And whereas for want of some encouragement to such person or persons as shall apprehend Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars 39 El. cap. 17. 1 Jac. cap. 7. Apprehending Rogues and Vagabonds the Statutes made in the Nine and thirtieth year of Quéen Elizabeth and first year of King James in which Statutes the Constable Headborough or Tithingman of every Parish that shall not apprehend such Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars which shall pass through or be found in their said Parish unapprehended such Constable Headborough or Tithingman shall forfeit as in the said Statutes is expressed are not duly executed Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid How rewarded That it shall and may be lawful to and for any Iustice of the Peace to whom any Rogue Vagabond or Sturdy Beggars so apprehended shall be brought to reward any person or persons that shall apprehend any Rogue Vagabond or Sturdy Beggar by granting unto such person or persons an Order or Warrant under his hand and Seal to the Constable Headborough or Tithingman of such Parish where such Rogue Vagabond or sturdy Beggar passed through unapprehended requiring him to pay such person or persons the sum of two shillings for every Rogue Vagabond or sturdy Beggar which shall be so apprehended And if such Constable Headborough or Tithingmen refuse or neglect to pay the two shillings as aforesaid that then the said Iustices of Peace or any other Iustice or Iustices of Peace shall procéed against any such Constable Headborough or Tithingman according to the said Statutes and to compel him to pay such sum of money as he hath forfeited by the Statute of the first year of King James aforesaid and to allow out of the said Forfeiture the said two shillings and such reasonable means and allowance for loss of time as they shall think fit And if any person or persons shall apprehend any Rogue Vagabond or sturdy Beggar Rogues and Vagabonds apprehended at the contines of any county how to be dealt withal at the confines of any County which passed through any Parish of another County unapprehended it shall be lawful for such person or persons to go to some Iustice of Peace of that County through which such Rogue Vagabond or sturdy Beggar passed unapprehended who is hereby required upon a Certificate under the hand of some Iustice of Peace of the County where such Rogue Vagabond or sturdy Beggar was so apprehended to grant his Order or Warrant under his hand and Seal requiring the said Constable Headborough or Tithingman to pay unto such person or persons as aforesaid the sum of two shillings which if he shall refuse or neglect to do then such Iustice is hereby required to procéed against such Constable Headborough or Tithingman and to cause him to pay ten shillings or so much thereof for his expenses and loss of time as the said Iustice of Peace shall think fit to such person
or persons which he hath forfeited by the Statute aforesaid made in the nine and thirtieth year of the Quéen And whereas Constables Headboroughs or Tithingmen are or may be at great charge in relieving conveying with Passes and in carrying Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars to Houses of Correction or the Work-houses herein mentioned and as yet have no power by Law to make Rates to reimburse themselves Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Constables Headboroughs and Tithingmen so out of purse as aforesaid together with the Church-wardens and Overséers of the poor and other Inhabitants of the said Parish shall hereby have power and Authority to make an indifferent Rate Power to make rates and to tax all the Occupiers of Lands and Inhabitants and all other persons chargeable by the Statute of the thrée and fortieth of Elizabeth concerning the Office and Duty of Overséers for the poor within the said Parish which Rate being confirmed under the hands and Seals of any two Iustices of Peace 43 El. cap. 2. as aforesaid the said Constable Headborough or Tithingmen shall have power by Warrant under the hands and Seals of two Iustices of Peace to levy by distress and sale of the goods of any person or persons refusing to pay the same rendring the overplus to the Owner if any shall be Putative fathers of Bastard-children running away how to be proceeded against And whereas the putative Fathers and lewd Mothers of Bastard-Children run away out of the Parish and somtimes out of the County and leave the said Bastard children upon the charge of the Parish where they are born although such putative Father and Mother have Estates sufficient to discharge such Parish Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful for the Church-wardens and Overséers for the poor of such Parish where any Bastard-Child shall be born to take and seise so much of the Goods and Chattels and to receive so much of the Annual Rents or profits of the Lands of such putative father or lewd mother as shall be ordered by any two Iustices of Peace as aforesaid for or towards the discharge of the Parish to be confirmed at the Sessions for the bringing up and providing for such Bastard-Child And thereupon it shall be lawful for the Sessions to make an Order for the Church-wardens or Overséers for the poor of such Parish to dispose of the goods by Sale or otherwise or so much of them for the purposes aforesaid as the Court shall think fit and to receive the rents and profits or so much of them as shall be ordered by the Sessions as aforesaid of his or her Lands Persons sued for matters in this Act may plead the General Issue And if any person or persons shall be sued for any matter or thing which he shall do in execution of this Act he may plead the General Issue and give the special matter in Evidence And if the Verdict shall pass for the Defendant or if the Plaintiff be Nonsuited or Discontinue his Suit the Defendant shall recover treble Damages Lancashire Cheshire Derbyshire Yorkshire Durham Cumberland Westmerland 43 El. cap. 2. Whereas the Inhabitants of the Counties of Lancashire Cheshire Derbyshire Yorkshire Northumberland the Bishoprick of Durham Cumberland and Westmerland and many other Counties in England and Wales by reason of the largeness of the Parishes within the same have not nor cannot reap the benefit of the Act of Parliament made in the thrée and fortieth year of the Reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth for relief of the poor Therefore be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the poor néedy impotent and lame person and persons within every Township or Village within the several Counties aforesaid shall from and after the passing of this Act be maintained kept provided for and set on work within the several and respective Township and Village wherein he she or they shall inhabit or wherein he she or they was or were last lawfully setled according to the intent and meaning of this Act and that there shall be yearly chosen and appointed according to the rules and directions in the said Act of the thrée and fortieth year of Quéen Elizabeth mentioned two or more Overséers of the poor within every of the said Townships or Villages who shall from time to time do perform and execute all and every the Acts powers and authorities for the necessary relief of the poor within the said Township or Village and shall lose forfeit and suffer all such pains and penalties for non-performance thereof as is limited mentioned and appointed in and by the said in-part-recited Act. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Iustices of Peace within the said Counties shall have and enjoy such and the like powers and authorities to raise and levy moneys and to do and execute all and every such other Act and thing whatsoever within every Township or Village within the said County where they are Iustices as is given limited and appointed unto and for them to do and execute within any Parish or Parishes in and by the said Act made in the said thrée and fortieth year of the said late Quéen Elizabeth under such and the like pains and penalties for the non-performance of their Duties to be levyed and disposed of as is nominated and expressed in the said Act. Power of the Iustices to transport rogues and vagabonds Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull for the Iustices of Peace in any of the Counties of England and Wales in their Quarter-Sessions Assembled or the major part of them to Transport or cause to be Transported such Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars as shall be duly convicted and adjudged to be incorrigible to any of the English plantations beyond the Seas Proviso for the Dean and chapter of Westminster Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to be or be construed expounded or taken to the prejudice or infringement of any the franchises rights liberties or priviledges heretofore granted by the Kings and Quéens of this Realm his Majesties Royal Predecessors to the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster The continuance of divers parts of this Act. Provided always That this Act as to all the matters therein contained excepting what relates unto the Corporations mentioned and constituted thereby shall extend and be in force untill the nine and twentieth day of May One thousand six hundred sixty five and the end of the first Session of the next Parliament then next ensuing and no longer CAP. XIII Importation of Forreign Bonelace Cut-work Imbroidery Fringe Band-strings Buttons and Needle-work prohibited VVHereas great numbers of the Inhabitants of this Kingdom are imployed in the making of Bonelace Band-strings Buttons Néedlework Fringe and Imbroideries who
or within twenty miles compass of them or either of them all such grants powers priviledges and authorities as by this present Act or in or by the said Letters Patents of Incorporation are given or granted or mentioned to be given or granted for or concerning the regulation exercise or government of the said Trade Art or Mystery or any matter or thing relating thereunto or of such person or persons as do or shall exercise the same Any thing in the said Letters Patents or any Act Statute or other matter or thing to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And whereas there is a necessity lying upon the Silk-throwers to deliver their Winders or Doublers considerable quantities of silk which being of a good value is by evil disposed persons many times unjustly deceitfully and falsly purloined imbezeled pawned sold and detained to the great damage and somtimes the utter undoing of the Thrower who employs the said persons Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every such Silk-winder and doubler The punishment of silk-winders that imbezel goods delivered to them who shall at any time hereafter unjustly or deceitfully and falsly purloin imbezel pawn sell or detain any part of Silk delivered or to be delivered by any Silk-thrower or other person to them or any of them to wind or double that in every such case and cases as well the Winder or Iourneyman so offending as the Buyer and Buyers Receiver and Receivers of such Silk being thereof lawfully convicted by confession of the party or parties so offending or by one witness upon Oath before one or more of the Iustices of Peace of the County or Liberty where the same offence or offences shall be committed or if it be within any City or Town-Corporate before the Mayor Bailiff or chief Officer of the said City or Town-Corporate who by force of this Act are impowred and authorized to minister the same Oath and finally to hear and determine all and every the Offences aforesaid and to give and make to the party and parties grieved such recompence and Satisfaction for such their Dammage and Loss and Charges thereabouts as by the said Iustice or Iustices or Chief Officers shall be Ordered and Appointed Provided that no more damage be given or awarded then the party grieved shall prove he is damnified and hath expended in looking after the same And if the party or parties so offending shall not be able or sufficient to make recompence or satisfaction for the said Offence nor do make Recompence or Satisfaction for the same Offence or Offences within fourtéen dayes next after such conviction in such manner and form as by the Iustice or Iustices or Chief Officers shall be ordered and appointed as aforesaid then the party or parties so offending for the first Offence shall be apprehended and Whipped or set in the Stocks in the place where the Offence is committed or in some Market Town in the said County near unto the place where the Offence or Offences aforesaid shall be committed as shall be limited and appointed by the said Iustice or Iustices of the Peace or Chief Officers and for the second Offence to incur the like or such further punishment by whipping or being put in the stocks as the said Iustice or Iustices of the Peace or chief officers shall in their discretion think fit and convenient And be it likewise Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Persons receiving such imbezeled goods how to be punished That all and every Receiver and Receivers Buyer and Buyers of any silk or such as take to pawn any silk imbezeled or purloined contrary to the meaning of this Act matter of fact being proved shall make satisfaction within the time aforesaid or else shall be subject to like punishment as by this Act is inflicted or provided to be inflicted upon such person so imbezeling or purloyning any such Silk as aforesaid Provided always What persons may be imployed not having served as apprentices that it shall and may be lawful to and for any Fréeman of the said Company of Silk-throwers to set on work and imploy any person or persons being native Subjects to his Majesty and no others whether they be men women or children to turn the Mill tye threads double silk and wind silk as formerly they have used to do although such person or persons who shall be so set on work and imployed in the works and services aforesaid shall not have served or béen bred up as Apprentices to the trade of Silk-throwing by the space of seven years and that all and every the said person and persons who shall be set so on work and imployed by any Fréeman of the said Company in the works and services aforesaid shall and may be imployed by any Fréeman of the said Company in the works and services aforesaid or any of them without any let or molestation Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided The said Corporation may not set rates upon their workmen and be it Enacted that the said Corporation of Silk-throwers shall not by vertue of this Act nor any thing therein contained make any Orders Ordinances or By-Laws to set any rates or prizes whatsoever upon the Throwing of Silk to bind or inforce their members to work at but that their respective members shall be left at liberty to contract with their respective Imployers and also with the persons that they imploy at such rates as they and their imployers and the persons imployed shall agree upon any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding CAP. XVI For the more speedy and effectual bringing those persons to Account whose Accounts are excepted in the Act of Oblivion BE it Enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and every person and persons who are accountable to the Kings Majesty and their Accounts are not pardoned but excepted by the late Act of Frée and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion 12 Car. 2. c. 11 The penalty against such persons as shall not within a certain time perfect their Accounts 33 H. 8. c. 39. and against whom there is any charge now remaining in his Majesties Exchequer and shall through their default not perfect his or their Account before the end of Trinity Term in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two That then the charge against all and every such person or persons shall be taken as a Debt by Writing Obligatory or Recognizance taken or acknowledged to the Kings Majesty according to the Statute of the thrée and thirtieth of King Henry the Eighth Chapter 39. And that all and every other person or persons whose Accounts are excepted in the said Act of Oblivion and have or shall have a Charge or Information against them in
and by Authority thereof that from and after the Feast of St. Michael the Arch-angel which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two for and during the term of Five years next ensuing the date of this present Act it shall and may be lawful for the respective Iustices of Peace of the said respective Counties or the major part of them at any General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said Counties respectively on the behalf of the said Counties or either of them from time to time as they shall sée occasion to make an Order in open Court of Sessions for charging according to their several Proportions all and every the several Inhabitants of the said respective Counties for the safeguard and securing of the said severall Counties and Inhabitants thereof from all injury violence spoil and rapine of the Moss-Troopers aforesaid Provided That the said County of Northumberland be not by force of this Act at any time charged above the sum of Five hundred pounds in the year nor the said County of Cumberland charged above the sum of two hundred pounds in the year And for this end and purpose the said several Iustices of Peace of the respective Counties aforesaid are hereby impowred and authorized at any their General Quarter Sessions aforesaid to appoint and imploy from time to time if occasion require any person or persons to have the Conduct and Command of a certain number of men not excéeding the number of Thirty men in the County of Northumberland and Twelve in the County of Cumberland whereby the Malefactors aforesaid may be searched out discovered pursued apprehended and brought to tryal of the Law And all and every the said Iustices of Peace of the respective Counties aforesaid or the major part of them at any General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said Counties or either of them respectively are hereby further impowred and authorized by force of this present Act to make and issue forth their respective Warrants under their hands for the levying and collecting any sum or sums of money ordered to be paid for and towards the safeguard and securing of the said Counties respectively as aforesaid and to give full power to the several Constables and other Officers to raise levy and collect the said money and all and every the Inhabitants of the said several Counties according to their respective proportionable Estates in Lands or Goods by Distress and Sale of Goods rendering the overplus if there be any to the respective Owner or Owners And the said Iustices of Peace in the said several Counties or any one of them respectively are hereby also authorized to examine any Complaint made against the Collectors and Constables or any other Officers or Ministers of Iustice whatsoever or any of them or any other refractory person or persons whatsoever that at any time hereafter shall refuse neglect or fail to give obedience to this Act or shall do any act or acts in disturbance or obstruction thereof and to bind over such person or persons to the next Quarter Sessions according to the known Laws of the Land to the end such person or persons may be procéeded withall according to Iustice And the said respective Iustices of Peace as aforesaid are hereby further Impowred and Authorized on behalf of the said several Counties respectively to appoint a Treasurer to receive from the said Collectors the Moneys by them Collected and to pay over the same according to the Orders they shall receive from the said Iustices at the General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said respective Counties And the said Iustices are also Impowred to agrée and article with such person or persons yearly as they shall think fit to imploy in the said Service and to take sufficient Security of them for the faithful and most effectual performance thereof for the best safeguard advantage and benefit of the people according to the true intent and meaning of this Act. And in case any person or persons shall in pursuance of this Act be imployed in the Border-Service and shall at any time hereafter wilfully and corruptly or for any sinister respect whatsoever neglect or forbear to Discover or Apprehend or to bring to Tryal any of the said persons called Moss-Troopers as aforesaid and shall be convicted thereof according to Law he or they shall from thenceforth be disabled and made uncapable for ever after to manage or take upon him or them the said Imployment and to suffer such Fine and Imprisonment according to the quality of his or their offence as the Iustices of Peace at their General Sessions shall think fit to inflict Provided nevertheless and be it hereby Declared That it shall be lawful for the Iustices of Peace of either of the said Counties as aforesaid respectively at any time hereafter to moderate or lessen the said charge if they sée cause Provided that this Act shall continue and be in force for five years and no longer Provided always and be it further Enacted by Authority aforesaid That for better suppression and punishment of the said Moss-Troopers flying out of England into Scotland or out of Scotland into England 4 Jac. cap. 1. 7 Jac. cap. 1. the Statutes made in the several Sessions of Parliament in the Fourth and Seventh years of King James shall be revived and put in execution according to their true intent 18 Car. 2. cap. 3. Continued for Seven years from the expiration of this Act. CAP. XXIII An Additionall Act concerning matter of Assurance used amongst Merchants WHereas by an Act of Parliament made in the Thrée and fortieth year of the Reign of Quéen Elizabeth of happy memory 43 El. cap. 12. Entituled An Act concerning matters of Assurances used amongst Merchants Encouragement of Merchants and Trade The Parliament then taking into Consideration by all good means to comfort and encourage the Merchants of this Kingdome thereby to advance and increase the Wealth of this Realm her Majesties Customs and the strength of shipping and for preventing of divers mischiefs in the said Act mentioned It was Enacted That it should and might be lawful for the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being to award forth under the Great Seal of England one general or standing Commission to be renewed yearly at the least and otherwise so often as unto the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper should séem méet for the hearing and determining of Causes arising on Policies of Assurance such as then were or then after should be entred within the Office of Assurance of the City of London which Commissions should be directed to the Iudge of the Admiralty for the time being the Recorder of London for the time being Two Doctors of the Civil Law Two Common Lawyers and eight grave or discréet Merchants or any five of them which Commissioners or the greater part of them which
the Twentieth day of November One thousand six hundred sixty and one but they and every of them may sell Books and Papers as they have or did before the said Twentieth day of November One thousand six hundred sixty one within the said Hall Palace and Twenty yards aforesaid but not elsewhere Any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for the rights and Priviledges of printing granted to any persons by the King Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to prejudice the just Rights or Priviledges granted by His Majesty or any of His Royal Predecessors to any any person or persons under His Majesties Great Seal or otherwise but that such person or persons may exercise and use such Rights and Priviledges as aforesaid according to their respective Grants Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Proviso for John Streater Stationer Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to prohibit John Streater Stationer from printing Books and Papers but that he may still follow the Art and Mystery of Printing as if this Act had never béen made Any thing therein to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to restrain the kéeping and using of a Printing-Press in the City of York Proviso for the City of York so as all Books of Divinity there printed be first Licensed by the Archbishop of York for the time being or such person or persons whom he shall appoint and all other Books whatsoever there Printed be first Licensed by such persons respectively to whom the Licensing thereof doth or shall appertain by the Rules herein before mentioned and so as no Bibles be there printed nor any other Book whereof the Original Copy is or shall be belonging to the Company of Stationers in London or any Member thereof and so as the Archbishop or Lord Mayor of York for the time being do execute within the said City which they are hereby impowred to do all the Powers and Rules in this Act concerning Searchers for unlicensed Books and impose and levy the said penalties in the like cases Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided That this Act shall continue and be in force for two years The continuance of this Act. to commence from the Tenth of June One thousand six hundred sixty and two and no longer Continued 16 Car. 2. cap. 8. Anno XV. Caroli II. Regis CAP. I. For Repairing the High-ways within the Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington WHereas the ancient High-way and Post-Road leading from London to York The High-way from London to York and Scotland Hertford Cambridge Huntington and so into Scotland and likewise from London into Lincolnshire lieth for many miles in the Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington in many of which places the Road by reason of the great and many Loads which are wéekly drawn in Waggons through the said places as well by reason of the great Trade of Barley and Mault that cometh to Ware and so is conveyed by water to the City of London as other Carriages both from the North parts as also from the City of Norwich Saint Edmunds-Bury and the Town of Cambridge to London is very ruinous and become almost impassible insomuch that it is become very dangerous to all His Majesties Liege people that pass that way And for that the ordinary course appointed by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm is not sufficient for the effectual repairing and amending of the same neither are the Inhabitants through which the said Road doth lie of ability to Repair the same without some other provision of moneys to be raised towards the putting the same into good and sufficient Repair For remedy whereof and to the intent the said High-ways at or in the Counties aforesaid may be forthwith effectually repaired and amended and from time to time hereafter kept in good repair May it please your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That for the Surveying Ordering Repairing and kéeping in Repair of the said High-way in the Counties aforesaid Four Iustices of the Peace for each of the said several and respective Counties dwelling next to the said High-ways respectively or any two of them for the year One thousand six hundred sixty thrée and until the Quarter-Sessions then next ensuing and from thenceforth the Iustices of Peace at the Sessions to be holden next after Easter every year for the said respective Counties from time to time shall and are hereby impowred to nominate and appoint Nine sufficient and able persons residing and inhabiting within the said several and respective Counties Who may appoint Surveyors of the High-ways for Hartfordshire yearly Cambridg-shire Huntington-shire to be Surveyors of the several places in the said High-way for the year from thence next ensuing The Iustices of the Peace for the County of Hertford to appoint Surveyors for the High-way lying in the said several Towns and Parishes of the said County and the Iustices of the Peace in the County of Cambridge to appoint Surveyors for the several Towns and Parishes within their said County of Cambridge And the Iustices of Peace for the County of Huntington to appoint Surveyors for the several Towns and Parishes of the said County And that the said Iustices or Surveyors aforesaid shall not act or do any thing towards the Repairs of the said High-ways but in their own several and respective Counties The power of the Iustices of the Peace in their several Counties And that the said Iustices in their several Counties shall cause notice to be given to the several Surveyors so chosen in writing of their said choice which said Surveyors and every of them having no lawful impediment to be allowed by the said Iustices by whom they shall be chosen in manner as aforesaid within one wéek next after such notice to them given of their Election shall and are hereby required to méet and assemble themselves together that is to say the Surveyors for the County of Hertford in some convenient place within the County of Hertford Hertford Cambridge Huntington And the Surveyors chosen for the County of Cambridge in some convenient place within their County and the Surveyors chosen for the County of Huntington in some convenient place within their said County to be appointed by the several Iustices of the said Counties at their several Quarter-Sessions to the intent to view and Survey the said High-way and places aforesaid The Power of the Surveyors in the said several Counties To appoint Receivers and Collectors of Toll and other needful Officers and shall consider what Reparations
shall be néedful for Repairing of the several High-ways and places aforesaid and the said several Surveyors in their respective Counties shall provide Stones Gravel and other materials and necessaries to be used for and towards the Repairing and amending the said High-way at the places aforesaid And the said Surveyors or thrée or more of them in their respective Counties being so met and assembled are hereby authorized to appoint a Receiver or Collector of Toll and such other Officer and Officers as they shall find necessary in their respective Counties for carrying on the said Work with such moderate allowance as shall be thought fit to be approved of by any two or more Iustices of the Peace for the said respective County for which such Officer is so chosen living near to the said High-way or places aforesaid or otherwise to be removed and other fit person or persons to be chosen in his or their places by the said Iustices in the said several and respective Counties And for the better effecting thereof Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Surveyors or any thrée or more of them in their several Counties Charging of Carts and Carriages shall from time to time as they shall sée cause appoint and require all and every person and persons inhabiting within thrée miles of the places aforesaid being within their several and respective Counties who by any Law or Statute of this Realm now in force is or are chargeable to find any Wayn or Cart for the amending of the High-ways and every other person and persons chargeable to labour in the High-ways upon reasonable notice to send his or their Cart or Wain and Team or to come to labour in the said High-way at any the places aforesaid within their respective Counties so furnished as by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm is directed for the amending of other High-ways when and so often as the said Surveyors for their said several Counties Allowance of wages to labourers and owners or any thrée or more of them shall think néedful and appoint for which the said Surveyors shall pay unto such Labourers and to the owners of such Teams Carts and Wayns according to the usual rate of the Countrey And in case any person so charged to send his her or their Team to work as aforesaid shall refuse or neglect so to do such persons so refusing or neglecting The Penalty for refusing shall forfeit Ten shillings for every day that he or they shall make such default and every Labourer Eightéen pence for every day he shall neglect or refuse to work as aforesaid How far and often Carts and carriages may be charged Provided That no person or persons by vertue of this Act be compelled or compellable to labour or to send his or their Team Cart or Waggon for the mending of the said High-way to any of the said places being above Thrée miles distant from his Dwelling-house or not in the same County nor to labour or send his or their Team Cart or Waggon for amending of the said High-way above Thrée days in any one wéek nor at any time in Séed-time Hay or Corn-harvest Who may determine differences about carriages and labourers Wages And in case that any question shall happen to arise touching the hire to be given by the said Surveyors for such Team Cart or Waggon or concerning the wages of such Labourers imployed in mending the said High-ways That then the said Iustices of the Peace in the County where such difference ariseth or any Two or more of them shall and may determine and set down what hire for such Team Cart or Waggon and also what wages to such Labourer shall be paid or allowed by the said Surveyors and such Order in that behalf to be made shall conclude all parties And be further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where there is not sufficient Gravel Chalk Sand or Stones within any Parish Town Village or Hamlet wherein the said High-way How gravell Chalk Stones c. may be taken or places aforesaid or any of them do lie to repair the said High-way at any of the places aforesaid It shall and may be lawful for the said Surveyors in their several and respective Counties or any thrée or more of them and such person and persons as they shall appoint to dig take and carry away Gravel Chalk Sand or Stones out of the Waste or Common of any neighbouring Parish Town Village or Hamlet without paying any thing for the same for the repairing or amending of the said High-way at any the places aforesaid or where there is not sufficient of such materials in any Common or Waste Ground thereunto near adjoyning to dig in the several grounds of any person or persons not being an House Garden Orchard Yard or Park stored with Déer being within any Parish chargeable towards the repairs of the said High-way and places so to be repaired where any such materials are or may be found And from time to time to carry away such and so much thereof as the said Surveyors or any thrée or more of them in their respective Counties shall adjudge necessary for the said Reparations without paying any thing for such materials saving only such reasonable satisfaction to the Owner or Occupier of the Ground where the same shall be so digged carried away as for the damage he or they shall thereby sustain to be assessed and adjudged by the said Iustices of the County where the same is digged at the next or any other Quarter-Sessions for the said County in case of difference concerning the same And that the Pits and places where and from whence such materials shall be dugg and carried away for the Reparations aforesaid shall with all convenient spéed to be adjudged by the said Iustices of Peace as aforesaid be filled up and levelled with earth or other materials or else rayled about so as that the same may not be déemed dangerous or prejudicial to man or beast And for the defraying of the charge of such Reparations to be done in the places aforesaid Be it further Enacted That from and after the choice of the Surveyors aforesaid it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Surveyors for the time being with such consent and approbation as is aforesaid Who may appoint the taking of Toll or Custom of all carriages and passengers of the said Iustices of the several Counties within their own Counties and not elsewhere to choose and appoint one or more fit person or persons to receive or take such sum or sums of money in the name of Toll or Custom to be paid for all such Horses Carts Coaches Waggons Droves and Gangs of Cattel as in time to come shall pass be led or droven in or through the said way or places aforesaid as are hereafter by this Act limited and appointed that is to say for every Horse one peny for every Coach six
pence for every Waggon one shilling for every Cart eight pence for every score of Shéep or Lambs one half-peny and so proportionably for greater numbers For every score of Oxen or Neat Cattel five pence and so for every greater or lesser number proportionably For every score of Hoggs two pence and so for every greater or lesser number proportionably not being under five And that from and after the passing of this Act all and every person or persons who shall travel with Horse Coach Cart or Waggon or shall lead or drive any Oxen Shéep Horses or other Cattel aforementioned in and through the High-way and places aforesaid shall and are hereby required to pay unto the respective Collectors and Receivers of Toll in the several Counties aforesaid in that behalf to be appointed after the rates aforesaid Places for taking of Toll in Hertfordshire Cambridgshire Huntingtonshire Power to distrain for Toll refused to be paid The places for Collecting of the said Toll to be for the County of Hertford at Wades-Mill and for the County of Cambridge at Caxton within the said County of Cambridge and for the County of Huntington at Stilton in the said County of Huntington and at no other place or places within the said Counties And in case any person or persons upon demand made of Toll aforesaid by the Collector or Receiver in that behalf to be appointed shall neglect or refuse to pay the same That then it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Collector or Receiver appointed for the Receipt of the said Toll upon such refusal to Distrain and detain such Horse Cart Coach Waggon Oxen or other Cattel aforementioned or any of them until the said Toll shall be satisfied and paid according to the tenor of this present Act together with such damages as the party so distraining shall sustain by kéeping of such Distress Of all which money so to be received The Toll received to be accompted for and paid to the Surveyors the said Collector or Receiver of Toll so to be appointed in the several Counties shall from time to time render true Accounts and shall pay the money so by them received unto the said Surveyors of their several and respective Counties or to any thrée or more of them or unto such Treasurers as they shall appoint when and as often as they shall be thereunto required by the said Surveyors or any thrée or more of them by them to be laid out and expended for and towards the necessary Repairs and amending of the several places aforementioned and not elsewhere within their said several and respective Counties And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Surveyors To whom the said Surveyors shall accompt for moneys received and every of them in their several and respective Counties at the Quarter-Sessions of the Peace for the said County to be holden next after Easter in every year shall make and yield up unto the Iustices of the Peace there to be assembled a perfect Account in writing under their hands of all the money which they or any of them shall have received from the said Collector or Receiver of Toll in their said County and likewise of all their disbursments in and about the said High-way or otherwise by reason of their Offices And in case of any overplus of money so received remaining in their hands shall pay the same to the Surveyors to be chosen for the year ensuing or to the Treasurer or Receiver by them to be appointed to be disbursed and laid out in the several places aforesaid within such County wherein the overplus doth remain and not elsewhere in the year ensuing which said Iustices to whom such Account shall be given shall out of the benefit of the said Toll make such allowance unto the said Surveyors for and in consideration of their care and pains taken in the execution of their said Offices as to them shall séem good And in case the Collector or Receiver of the aforesaid Toll for the respective Counties so to be paid as aforesaid shall not upon request duly pay the same unto the said Surveyors of the said County for the time being or the Treasurer or Receiver by them appointed or in case the said Surveyors or any of them shall not make such Account and payment as aforesaid That then the said Iustices for the several and respective Counties at any Quarter-Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said County in case of such default of Account or Payment shall and may make enquiry concerning such default as well by the confession of the parties themselves as by testimony of two or more credible Witnesses upon Oath and in case of such default to be found and adiudged by the said Iustices in their said respective Counties either in their said Receiver or Collector of the said Toll or in their said Surveyors or any of them The said Iustices upon such their conviction shall commit the party or parties so convict to the common Gaol for the said County there to remain without Bail or Mainprize until he or they shall have made a true and perfect Account and Payment as aforesaid And forasmuch as the moneys so to be Collected by such receipt of the said Toll will not at present raise such a Stock or Sum of Money as may be sufficient for the spéedy Repairing of the Premisses in the said several Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington It is hereby further Enacted How the Toll Profits may he engaged for advance of Money and the said Surveyors are hereby enabled by and with the like consent of the said Iustices for their several and respective Counties without further License severally to engage the profits arising of their said Toll in their several Counties for such sum or sums of money by them to be borrowed for that purpose and by Indenture under the hands and seals of the said respective Surveyors for the time being to transfer the said profits of the said Toll and to grant and convey the same for any time or term not excéeding Nine years unto any person or persons that shall or will upon that Security advance any present sum or sums of money for and towards the present Repairing and amending of the said High-way in the respective places and Counties aforesaid for the repayment of such principal sum or sums of money so lent with Interest for the same Or in case such sum or sums of money cannot be borrowed upon the Security aforesaid for the Repair of the said Ways That then it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Iustices in their said several and respective Counties In what cases a Rate may be mâ—de upon the several Parishes at their several Quarter-Sessions when they shall sée cause to make a Rate not to extend to any other County but their own nor to Repair any other then the places aforesaid in that particular County where
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
and respective Parishes shall pass to and fro through the said respective places where such Toll is to be received as aforesaid without paying any thing for their respective passing through the same Any thing in this present Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided also And be it Enacted Proviso touching money received overplus and remaining at the end of 11. years That if it shall happen that at the end and expiration of the term of the Eleven years aforesaid that the Receiver or Receivers Collector or Collectors then in being or any of them of the aforesaid Tolls or any part thereof in all and every of the said Counties made and to be made shall upon their or any of their accounts made and to be made for the several and respective Receipts of the Tolls aforesaid have any sum or sums of money in their or any of their hands more then they or any of them have expended as aforesaid That then such Receiver and Receivers Collector and Collectors and every of them shall bring in all and every sum and sums of money so remaining in their or any of their hands unto the Iustices of the Peace of the said several and respective Counties where such Receiver or Receivers Collector or Collectors shall live or have received the said several sum or sums at the next General Quarter-Sessions for the Peace which shall happen to be after their said several Accounts so to be made as aforesaid upon pain of forfeiting double the Sum which shall be in their or any of their hands upon the said Account which said Sum and Penalties shall be recovered by distresse and sale of the parties Goods so refusing to do the same by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of any two Iustices of the Peace of the said several Counties And that the said Iustices of the Peace at their said several Quarter-Sessions in their several Counties are hereby impowred and enabled to dispose of the said several sum and sums of money and all the said Penalties into the hands of such person and persons and upon such Securities as they shall approve of to and for a Stock for the repairing of the said several High-ways according to the intent and meaning of this Act and not otherwise Provided also And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Huntington That if the Iustices of the Peace for the County of Huntington or any four of them dwelling next to the said High Road Stilton shall adjudge some other place more convenient then Stilton for receiving the Toll for the said County That then it shall and may be lawful for the said Iustices of Peace as aforesaid to appoint some other place upon the High Road within their said County to receive the aforesaid Toll instead of Stilton Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding And that it shall and may be lawful for all and every Souldier and Souldiers upon their March Souldiers in Marching and Posts exempted and all persons riding Post to passe through any the places in this Act mentioned without paying any Toll Provided also That if at any time before the expiration of the Eleven years aforesaid Proviso for cealing the Toll within the 11. years the said High-ways shall be well and sufficiently amended and repaired and so adjudged by the Iustices of the Peace at the Quarter-Sessions for their several and respective Counties aforesaid That then from and after such Adjudication made and Re-payment of such moneys as shall have béen borrowed the aforesaid Toll in the said County shall cease and determine Any thing aforesaid to the contrary notwithstanding Continued 16 17 Car. 2. cap. 10. CAP. II. Unlawful Cutting or Stealing or Spoiling of Wood and Under-woods and Destroyers of young Timber-Trees punished WHereas in one Act of Parliament made in the Thrée and fortieth year of the Reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth Entituled 43 El. cap. 7. An Act to avoid and prevent divers misdemeanors in idle and lewd persons among other things it is Enacted The punishment for cutting and spoyling any Woods That all and every such lewd person and persons that shall cut or spoil any Woods or Vnder-woods Poles or Trées standing and their Procurer or Procurers Receiver or Receivers knowing the same and being thereof lawfully Convicted by his or their own confession or by the testimony of one sufficient Witness upon Oath before some one Iustice of Peace or other Head-Officer of the County or place where such offence was committed shall give the party or parties satisfaction for his or their Damages for the first fault And if such Offender or Offenders shall by such Iustice of Peace or Head-Officer be thought not able or sufficient or if such Offender or Offenders do not make such satisfaction as aforesaid That then the said Iustice of Peace or Head-Officer shall commit the said Offender or Offenders to the Constable or other inferior Officer to receive the punishment of Whipping as in the said Act more fully doth appear And whereas it is found by daily experience especially in and about London and other great Towns where a great number of such idle and lewd persons do shelter themselves that this Act hath not sufficiently prevented the said mischief of cutting and spoiling of Woods and Vnderwoods as was intended as well because the said offences are committed in such a close and clandestine manner that there is none Witnesses to them but such as are partakers to the offence as also because the said punishment is too small for so great a fault which is not only prejudicial and hurtful to the Owners of the said Woods but very mischievous and damageable to the Commonwealth 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 from and after the Four and twentieth day of June next ensuing Who may apprehend Wood-stealers every Constable Headborough or any other person in every County City Town-Corporate or other place where they shall be Officers or Inhabitants shall and may by vertue of this present Act have full Power and Authority to apprehend or cause to be apprehended all and every person or persons they shall suspect having or carrying or any wayes conveying any burthen or bundles of any kind of Wood Vnder-wood Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of any Trées or any Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedgewood Broom or Furze Search in Houses of suspected persons and by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of any one Iustice of the Peace directed to any Officer such Officer shall have power to enter into and search the Houses Out-houses Yards Gardens or other places belonging to the Houses of all and every person or persons they shall suspect to have any kind of Wood
Vnderwoods Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of any Trées or any Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedge-wood Broom or Furze and wheresoever they find any such to apprehend and cause to be apprehended all and every person and persons suspected for the cutting and taking of the same and them and every of them as well those apprehended carrying or any ways conveying any kind of Wood Vnderwood Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of any Trées or any Eates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedge-wood Broom or Furze as also those in whose Houses or other places belonging to them any such Wood Vnder-wood Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of any Trées or any Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedgwood Broom or Furze shall be found to carry before one Iustice of the Peace of the same County City or Town-Corporate And if the said person and persons so suspected apprehended and carried before the said Iustices do not then and there give a good account how he and they came by such Wood or Vnderwood Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of any Trées or Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedge-wood Broom or Furze by the consent of the Owner such as shall satisfie the said Iustice or else shall not within some convenient time to be set them by the said Iustice produce the party or parties of whom they bought the same wood Vnder-wood Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of Trées Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedge-wood Broom or Furze or some other credible witnesse to depose upon Oath such sale of the said Wood Vnder-wood Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of Trées Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedgwood Broom or Furze which Oath the said Iustice hath hereby power to administer That then the said person or persons so suspected and not giving such good account nor producing any such witnesse upon Oath to testifie the said Sale as aforesaid shall be déemed and adjudged as convicted of the said offence of cutting and spoiling of the same Woods Vnder-woods Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of Trées Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedge-wood Broom 43 Eliz. cap. 7. or Furze within the meaning of the said Statute of Quéen Elizabeth and shall be liable to the punishment therein contained and to such other procéedings and punishments as by this present Act shall be further constituted and appointed on that behalf And be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person or persons convicted of the said offence in manner and form before in this Act mentioned shall for the first offence give the Owner or Owners such recompence or satisfaction for his or their damages The punishment for the first offence and within such time as the said Iustice shall appoint and over and above pay down presently unto the Overséers for the use of the poor of the Parish where the said offence or offences were committed such sum of money not excéeding Ten shillings as the said Iustices shall think méet and if such offender or offenders do not make recompence or satisfaction to the said Owner or Owners and also pay the said sum to the Poor in manner and form aforesaid then the said Iustice shall commit the said offender or offenders to the House of Correction for such time as the said Iustice shall think fit not excéeding one moneth or to be whipped by the Constable The second offence or other Officer as in his Iudgment shall séem expedient And if such person or persons shall again commit the said offence and be thereof convicted as before that then they and every of them so offending the second time and thereof so convicted shall be sent to the House of Correction for one moneth and be there kept to hard labour And if such person or persons shall again commit the said offence and be thereof convicted as before That then they and every of them so offending the third time and thereof so convicted shall be taken adjudged and déemed as Incorrigible Rogues Buyers of stoln Wood how to be dealt withal Provided always And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That whosoever shall buy any Burthens of Wood or any Poles or Sticks of Wood or any other the Premisses particularly mentioned in this Bill which may be justly suspected to have béen stoln or unlawfully come by That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Iustices of the Peace Mayors Bayliffs and Head-Officers or any one of them within their respective Iurisdictions upon complaint to them thereof made to examine the said matter upon Oath which they and every of them respectively are hereby authorized to administer And if they shall find that the same was bought of a person who might iustly be suspected to have stoln or unlawfully come by the same and that the same was stoln or unlawfully come by That in such case the said Iustices of Peace Mayors Bayliffs or other Head-Officers or any one of them respectively shall and may award the party who bought the same to pay treble the value of the same to the party from whom the same was stoln or unlawfully taken And in default of present payment thereof to issue forth their respective Warrants to levy the same by distress and sale of the offenders Goods rendring the overplus to the party And in default of such distress to commit the party to the Gaol at his own charge there to remain one moneth without Bail Provided always Within what time offenders must be questioned within this Act. That no person or persons shall be questioned for any offence upon this Law that hath béen punished for the same offence by any former Law nor shall be punished by this Law unless he be questioned within Six wéeks after the offence committed CAP. III. An Act to explain and supply a former Act for distribution of Threescore thousand pounds amongst the truly Loyal and Indigent Commission-Officers and for Assessing of Offices and distributing the moneys thereby raised for their further supply 14 Car. 2. cap. 8. EXP. CAP. IV. An Additional Act for the better Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom FOr the better Ordering of the Forces in the several Counties and places of England and the Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and for the supplying and explaining the late Act Entituled 14 Car. 2. cap. 3. An Act for Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same Power of the Lieutenants and Deputy-Lieutenants to Train and Exercise That the several Lieutenants of the several Counties Cities and places nominated by his Majesty his Heirs and Successors respectively and in their absence out
Commissioner Farmer No Commissioner or other may act until he have taken the Oath in the Act of 12 Car. 2. cap. 23. Sub-Commissioner or other person imployed or to be imployed in the Farming Collecting or taking Accompts for the Duty of Excise do after the First day of September next take upon him or them any such Office or procéed in execution of any such Imployment until he or they have first taken the Oaths appointed to be taken by the Act of Parliament Entituled A Grant of certain Impositions on Beer Ale and other Liquors for the increase of His Majesties Revenue during His life before the respective persons appointed in the said Act of Parliament and have Entred his Certificate for taking the said Oaths with the Auditor for Excise under the penalty of Fifty pounds for every Moneth he or they shall so neglect to take the same CAP. XII An Explanatory Act for Recovery of the Arrears of Excise BE it Declared and 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 Authority of the same That where any Commissioner Sub-Commissioner Treasurer In what cases Sureties for Excise shall be answerable for the arrears 12 Car. 2. cap. 11. and all other Officers which were heretofore imployed in the Receipt of the Excise Farmer or Collector of Excise which are and standeth charged with or accomptable for any Duties of Excise by him or them received farmed or detained or any ways due from the persons before named or any of them and not pardoned by the late Act Entituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion That there and in such case all and every the Sureties of such person and persons charged or chargeable as aforesaid shall be deemed and taken to be liable and answerable according to the nature of their respective Securities Any doubt or question made touching the Construction of the said late Act of Frée and General Pardon to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where the Commissioners of Excise for the time being or the major part of them have Issued out any Summons or Warning which hath béen left at the house or usual place of residence or with the Wife Child or menial Servant of any the aforesaid person or persons Chargeable or Accomptable as aforesaid The same shall be déemed and adjudged a good and sufficient Summons and as legal and effectuall a notice as if the same had béen actually delivered to the proper hands of such person or persons to whom the same was directed Any doubt or question thereof made to the contrary notwithstanding CAP. XIII An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Revenue arising by Hearth-Money VVHereas the Revenue Setled on His Majesty His Heirs and Successors by a late Act 14 Car. 2. cap. 10. Entituled An Act for Establishing an Additional Revenue upon His Majesty His Heirs and Successors for the better support of His and their Crown and Dignity hath béen much obstructed for want of true and just Accompts under the hands of the respective Occupiers of Houses Edifices Lodgings and Chambers as by the said Act is required and by the negligence of Constables and other Officers intrusted with the Taking and Reforming such Accompts Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the Iustices of the Peace of the respective Counties How the Iustices of the Peace shall cause accompts to be taken of the number of Hearths Corporations Places and Limits within their respective Iurisdictions at the next Sessions to be held after the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next ensuing or the major part of them then present shall issue out Warrants under their Hands and Seals to the respective High Constables or other like next Officer who shall issue the like Warrants unto the Petty Constables Head-boroughs and Tythingmen requiring them on the next Sunday after Morning-Service ended to give publick notice in the Church or Chappel generally to all the Inhabitants and also to give notice publickly in the Church and particularly as aforesaid to every Inhabitant within their respective Precincts that shall then be Occupier of any House Edifice Lodging or Chamber That within Ten days next after such notice he give a true and just account in writing under his hand of all Hearths and Stoves in such respective House Edifice Lodging and Chamber unto such respective Constable Head-borough and Tythingman who upon receipt of such Accompt shall with Two other substantial Inhabitants of the said respective Precinct whom they are hereby Authorized to Charge for that purpose in the day-time enter into the respective House Edifice Lodging and Chamber and upon his own view compare such Accompt and sée whether the same be truly made or not and endorse the same Accompt accordingly to what he finds upon his view which Accompt so received and endorsed shall be by him transmitted within twenty dayes after such Receipt to the respective High-Constable or other like Officer as aforesaid together with a Book or Roll fairly written wherein shall be Two Columes The one containing the Names of the persons and number of Hearths and Stoves in their respective Possessions that are chargeable by the said Act and the other the Names of the persons and number of Hearths and Stoves in their respective possessions which are not chargeable by the said Act Which being so received by such respective High Constable or other like Officer as aforesaid and compared together shall within six dayes after such Receipt be transmitted to the two next respective Iustices of the Peace who are hereby impowred to examine the said respective High-Constable or other like Officer as aforesaid Petty Constable Headborough or Tythingman upon Oath concerning the truth and faithfulness of their actings in the premisses which being done the said Iustices shall within ten days after such examination Sign and Transmit the said Book and Roll together with the said Original Accounts so endorsed as aforesaid and filed together unto the respective Clerk of the Peace who shall within Twenty days after receipt thereof Engross the said Book or Roll in Parchment to be still kept in the respective County and Places aforesaid and shall also within Two Months Engross in Parchment a true Duplicate of the said Book or Roll which being Signed by him and by two Iustices of the Peace at least of the respective County and Places aforesaid shall be transmitted within one Month after such Engrossement into His Majesties Court of Exchequer Penalty for omitting any Hearth Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Occupier of any House Edifice
such election and choice or in any other matter so as such Lessées and their Assignées respectively have and be Lessées or Owners of double the quantity or number of Acres parcel of the said Ten thousand Acres as by vertue of this Act is required to qualifie any person to be elected and chosen into the Office or Place of Governor Bayliff or Conservator respectively and to vote in such elections and choice or in any other matter touching the said Level and so as such Leases or Assignments they claim by be entred with the Register Any thing before in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this Act shall not extend to Impeach or make void any Obligation given to David Offley Gentleman conditioned for his quiet enjoyment of a certain parcel of Land purchased by him in the said Level but that the said David Offley may sue and prosecute his several Action or Actions upon the said Obligation as if he had béen evicted or removed from his Estate therein by due course of Law How Breaches shall be made good And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Breaches happen in any of the Banks Sasses Sluces Tunnels or other Works within the said Great Level or in any the Works made without the said Great Level for carrying the waters of the said Great Level to their Out-fall at Sea by reason of some inevitable accidents the same shall be repaired and made good in convenient time by and at the Charges of the said Corporation and their Successors but no other Charge shall be laid upon the said Corporation or their Successors for or in respect of such Breaches nor for or in respect of any Breaches that have happened heretofore in any of the said Banks Sasses Sluces or other Works nor shall the said Corporation be inforced to give to any other person any recompence for any loss or damage which hath or shall happen by reason of their making necessary and sufficient Banks for the defending of the said Level from being overflown and for the leading of the waters of the said Level in their Channels as now they run unto their Out-fall at Sea Proviso for persons that have exchanged their Lands Provided nevertheless and be it Enacted That where any Participant under Francis Earl of Bedford or the Heirs or Assigns of any such Participant hath exchanged his or their Share or Lot of the said Ninety five thousand Acres or any part thereof for any other Lands parcel of the said Ninety five thousand acres which were claimed and held under such pretended Sales for non-payment of Taxes since One thousand six hundred forty and nine It shall and may be lawful to and for such Participant and Participants and his and their Heirs and Assigns to enter again upon the same Lands so given in exchange and to have and retain the same in his and their possession Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Subject nevertheless in all things to such Iudgment and Determination as the Iudicature hereby construed shall make concerning the same Provided always That no ascertatining or dividing of the said Dreyned or new improved Lands by the said Commissioners as aforesaid shall conclude the Kings Majesty his Heirs Successors or Assigns or any other person or persons as to the bounds of Parishes to any other intent or purpose then subjecting the same to Taxes and Contributions and Episcopal Iurisdictions and not as to the Right of Tythes or any other purpose whatsoever nor shall be or be used in evidence concerning the same Commons and Wasts in Bedford Level inclosed Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person or persons having right of Common in any of the Mannors Wastes Commons or Lands within the said Great Level of the Fenns called Bedford Level or any other person or persons whatsoever at any time after such Division or Inclosure made or set out as aforesaid shall break throw down disturb obstruct or by any means hinder or lay open the said Improvements and Inclosures at in or after the making thereof or the Hedges Ditches or Fences of the same or any part thereof shall destroy and shall be thereof convicted by two credible Witnesses upon Oath before two Iustices of the Peace of the County where such Disturbance or Destruction shall be made Every such person or persons so convicted as aforesaid shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of twenty pounds to be levied by Distress vpon the Goods and Chattels of every such offender or offenders by Warrant under the hands and seals of the said Iustices of the Peace before whom such conviction shall be made the one moyety to the Informer and the other moyety to such person or persons against whom the said Offence is or shall be committed or for want of such sufficient distress the Offender shall be committed to the House of Correction or Common Goal for thrée Moneths without Bail or Mainprise at the said Iustices Discretion Provided always and it is hereby Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the first day of August which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and eight no Tax or Taxes excéeding Two shillings the Acre in any one year shall be assessed After the year 1668. Taxes shall not exceed 2 s. in the pound laid or levied upon the said Ten thousand Acres by this Act vested in the Kings Majesty his Heirs Successors and Assigns or upon any part thereof or upon the Two thousand Acres hereby vested in the Assigns of the said Earl of Portland but in case the Taxes to be assessed upon the said Eighty thrée thousand Acres hereby vested in the said Corporation shall not amount unto so much in proportion as Two shillings an Acre according to the proportion for each acre Then a proportionable abatement shall be made out of the said Two shillings per Acre which shall be charged yearly by an equal Rate upon every acre of the said Ten thousand acres and the said Two thousand acres according to the Rate imposed upon every acre of the said Eighty thrée thousand acres whether the same shall be assessed by an Acre-Tax or a Pound-Rate or by any other way Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding And it is further Declared That the Assessing Laying and Levying of Taxes upon the said Ten thousand acres or upon the said Two thousand acres or any part thereof after the said First day of August which shall be in the said year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and eight by the way of an Acre-taxe shall not extend nor be interpreted or construed to extend to compel or conclude the said Corporation to Assess Lay or Levy any Tax or Taxes upon the said Eighty thrée thousand acres hereby vested in the said
Sub-collectors of each Parish or Place which shall be appointed by vertue of this Act shall upon the Collection of the whole summe appointed to be collected by them and payment thereof as is hereby and before appointed have and receive for their pains in collecting and paying the moneys one peny in the pound which the said several Head-Collectors are hereby authorized to pay unto them and the several Head-Collectors which shall be appointed by vertue of this Act shall upon the payment of the whole summe due from their Hundred or Division to the Receiver-General of each County have and receive for their pains in receiving and paying the said moneys one peny in the pound which each Receiver-General is hereby authorised to pay and allow unto them accordingly and also upon the Receipt of the whole Assessment of the County City or Town for which he is appointed Receiver-General in case he hath received the several Duplicates of each Parish or Place therein and not otherwise to allow and pay according to such warrant as shall be in that behalf given by the said Commissioners or any thrée of them one peny in the pound for the Commissioners Clerks for their pains in fair writing the Assessments Duplicates and Copies Provided that no Head-Collectors shall be appointed for any City or Town which is by this Act particularly charged with the payment of any summe towards the Assessment hereby to be levied and for which a Receiver-General is to be appointed excepting within the City of London And be it Enacted and Declared How the money may be levied upon persons refusing to pay That if any Person shall refuse or neglect to pay any summe of money whereat he shall be rated and assessed That then it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Collectors Sub-collectors or any of them who are hereby Authorised and required thereunto to levy the summe assessed by Distress and Sale of the Goods of such persons so refusing or neglecting to pay deducting the summe assessed and reasonable charges of distraining and restore the overplus to the Owner thereof And to break open in the day-time any House and upon Warrant under the Hands and Seals of two or more of the said Commissioners any Chest Trunk or Box or other things where any such Goods are and to call to their Assistance the Constables Tythingmen and Headboroughs within the Counties Cities Towns or places where any refusal neglect or resistance shall be made which said Officers and Forces are hereby required to be aiding and assisting in the premisses as they will answer the contrary at their perils And if any question or difference happen upon taking of such Distresses betwéen the Parties distressed or distrained the same shall be ended and determined by the said Commissioners or any two or more of them And if any person or persons shall refuse or neglect to pay his or their Assessment In what case imprisonment may be for lack of distress and convey his or their Goods or other personal Estate whereby the summe of money so assessed cannot be levied according to this Act then the respective Commissioners or any two or more of them are hereby authorised to imprison the person except a Péer or Péers of this Realm and him and them in prison to detain and keep until the money so assessed and the charges for the bringing in the same be paid and satisfied and no longer And the several and respective Tenants or Tenant of all Houses and Lands Tenants to pay such sums as be rated upon their Landlords which shall be rated by vertue of this Act are hereby required and authorised to pay such summe or summes of money as shall be rated upon such House or Lands and to deduct out of the Rent so much of the said rates as in respect of the said Rents of every such House and Lands the Landlord should or ought to pay and bear And the said Landlords both mediate and immediate according to their respective Interests are hereby required to allow such deductions and payments upon the Receipt of the residue of the Rents And it is Enacted and Declared That every Tenant paying the said Assessment And be acquitted against them for so doing shall be acquitted and discharged for so much money as the said Assessment shall amount unto as if the same had béen actually paid unto such person or persons unto whom his Rents should have béen due and payable And if any difference shall arise betwéen Landlord and Tenant The Commissioners may determine differences between Landlords and Tenants about Rates or any other concerning the said Rates the said several Commissioners or any two or more of them in their several divisions shall and have hereby power to settle the same as they shall think fit And if any Person or Persons shall find him or themselves agrieved in that the Assessors have over-rated him or them and shall within six days after demand made of the summe of money assessed on him or them complain to two or more Commissioners whereof one of the Commissioners who signed or allowed his or their Assessment to be one The said Commissioners or any two or more of them shall have and have hereby power within twelve days after the demand of the Assessment as aforesaid to relieve such person or persons and to charge the same on such other person or persons as they shall see cause And in case the proportions set by this Act upon all and every the respective Counties Cities Towns and Places shall not be fully assessed levied and paid according to the true meaning thereof Rates upon persons not of ability or empty houses or that if any of the said Assessments shall be rated and imposed upon any person not being of ability to pay the same or upon any empty or void House or Land where the same cannot be collected or levied or that through any wilfulness negligence or mistake or accident the said Assessment charged upon each County City Town or Place by vertue of this Act happens not to be paid to the Receiver-General of the respective Counties as in this Act is directed that then in all and every such cases the several and respective Commissioners Assessors and Collectors aforesaid and every of them respectively are hereby authorised and required to assess or re-assess or cause to be assessed or re-assessed levied and paid all and every such sum or sums of money upon the respective Counties Cities Towns and Places or upon any of the Divisions Hundreds and Parishes therein as to the said Commissioners or such number of them as by this Act are authorised to cause the first Assessment hereby required to be made shall séem most agréeable to equity and justice the said new Assessment to be made collected and paid in such manner and by such means as in this Act for this Assessment is delared and directed The punishment of persons neglecting to perform
the ancient High-way and Post-road leading from London to York London York Lincolnshire and from London into Lincolnshire there should be a Toll paid at a certain place in every of the said several and respective Counties and for Hertfordshire at Wades-Mill in the said County which said Toll so set is by the said Act to continue the space of eleven years and no longer with this provision That if the Iustices of the Peace at their Quarter Sessions in the respective Counties shall before the expiration of eleven years adjudg the said Repairs to be sufficiently done that from thenceforth it should cease And whereas divers Gentlemen within the County of Hertford have heartily set themselves to take care for the repairing of the said ways within their County And in order thereunto finding that money could not be advanced by the Toll in so speedy a manner as to repair those ruinous ways And that none would lend their money on that Security did upon their own credits borrow thirtéen hundred pounds on Interest to effect the work intended by the said Act which sum accordingly is laid out together with such money as hath procéeded from the Toll before mentioned in the repair of the said High-way by which means they have so amended the said Road lying in that County leading from London to York that they have made the same from a Road impassable to be to the satisfaction of all that travel that way very passable and convenient but by reason of the great sum expended and laid out so borrowed as aforesaid the Toll will not be sufficient to repay the same within the years mentioned in the former Act with Interest for the same and to finish the said work Hertford Cambridg Norfolk New-Market Puckeridge Barley And whereas there is a Road in the said County of Hertford that leads from London to Cambridg and so into Norfolk and likewise to New-Market and so into Suffolk and other parts which goes out of the forementioned Road at the end of the Town of Puckeridge and so leadeth to Barly in the said County of Hertford which is very ruinous and requires as much the help of the Toll in many places as the forementioned Road did May it therefore please Your Majesty that it be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That the Toll aforementioned to be taken at VVades-Mill for the County of Hertford II. The full taken at Wades-Mill continued that by the former Act was to continue for eleven years and no longer shall continue for the said County of Hertford for the space of One and twenty years and no longer the said Term to commence from the time mentioned in the Act before mentioned and the money arising therefrom to be imployed for the payment of the Debt aforesaid with Interest and also for further Repair of the High-way It is further Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid That the persons impowred in the forementioned Act for the repair of the High-ways within the County of Hertford shall have the same power to repair the said High-ways leading from Puckeridge to Barley in the said County For repairing the high-way from Puckeridg to Barley as they have to repair the High-way in the said County leading from London to York And that they shall and may apply such part of the Toll thereunto having an equal care of both High-ways as they in their Iudgments shall find néedful Any thing in the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding Caxton And whereas by the former recited Act a Toll was erected and set to be taken at the Town of Caxton in the County of Cambridge for and towards the repairing the High-ways in the said County the said Toll doth prove useless and will not answer the end for which the same was intended by reason of the Inconveniency of the place where the same was set Arrington-bridg Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Toll be and is hereby removed from the said Town of Caxton unto Arrington-Bridg or the Town of Arrington as shall séem most convenient by the Iustices of the Peace of the said County at their next Easter General-Quarter-Sessions of the Peace in the County aforesaid And that the same Toll shall be taken and received at Arrington-Bridg or Arrington-Town aforesaid according to the Rates and by the same ways and means as in the former Act was appointed and declared and to be imployed to the uses purposes and intents therein also declared any thing to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding A charge of six pence in the pound for repairing the said high-ways Provided always 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 and pay six pence in the pound yearly according to the true value of their Estate for and towards the repair of the said High-ways during the time of the continuance of this Toll any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding III. The collector of the toll how to account weekly And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Collector of this Toll shall wéekly account to the Receiver-General for the whole money received by vertue of this or the said former Act And the next Iustice of the Peace for the said County shall hereby have power to give an Oath to the said Collectors for the making of a true and perfect account of the money so received which said account so made shall be returned into the next General-Quarter-Sessions to be held for the said County by the Iustice of Peace before whom such Oath was taken Proviso touching the continuance or determining the said toll Provided also That if at any time before the expiration of the said term of One and twenty years the said High-ways shall be well and sufficiently amended and repaired and so adjudged at the publick Quarter Sessions for the County of Hertford and that such Sum or Sums of money as is already borrowed and laid out or shall be borrowed and laid out for the use aforesaid be repaid with interest for the same That from and after such Adjudication made and repayment of such money so borrowed and laid out as aforesaid the aforesaid Toll in the said County shall cease and determine Proviso for adjudication of the amendment of the said high-ways And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case the Highways within the said County of Hertford shall be sufficiently amended and that the Iustices of the Peace at their Quarter-Sessions shall fail to make an Adjudication thereof That then in such default of the said Iustices of the Peace
for the Establishing the Form of Making â—4 Car. 2. 〈◊〉 4 Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons in the Church of England according to the said Act or any other subsequent Act. And whereas they or some of them and divers other person and persons not Ordained according to the Form of the Church of England and as have since the Act of Oblivion taken upon them to Preach in unlawful Assemblies Conventicles or Méetings under colour or pretence of Exercise of Religion contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom have setled themselves in divers Corporations in England sometimes Thrée or more of them in a place thereby taking an opportunity to distill the poysonous Principles of Schism and Rebellion into the hearts of His Majesties Subjects to the great danger of the Church and Kingdom Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled Persons restrained from Inhabiting in Corporations and by the Authority of the same That the said Parsons Vicars Curates Lecturers and other persons in holy Orders or pretended holy Orders or pretending to holy Orders and all Stipendaries and other persons who have béen possessed of any Ecclesiastical or Spiritual Promotion and every of them who have not declared their unfeigned assent and consent as aforesaid and subscribed the Declaration aforesaid and shall not take and subscribe the Oath following The Oath I A. B. Do Swear That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King and that I do abhor that Traiterous Position of taking Arms by His Authority against His Person or against those that are Commissionated by him in pursuance of such Commissions And that I will not at any time endeavour any Alteration of Government either in Church or State And all such person and persons as shall take upon them to Preach in any unlawful Assembly Conventicle or Méeting under colour or pretence of any Exercise of Religion contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom shall not at any time from and after the Four and twentieth day of March which shall be in this present year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and five unless onely in passing upon the Road come or be within Five miles of any City or Town Corporate or Burrough that sends Burgesses to the Parliament within His Majesties Kingdom of England Principality of Wales or of the Town of Berwick upon Tweed or within Five miles of any Parish Town or place wherein he or they have since the Act of Oblivion béen Parson Vicar Curate Stipendary or Lecturer or taken upon them to Preach in any unlawful Assembly Conventicle or Méeting under colour or pretence of any Exercise of Religion contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom before he or they have taken and subscribed the Oath aforesaid before the Iustices of the Peace at their Quarter-Sessions to be holden for the County Riding or Division next unto the said Corporation City or Burrough Parish place or Town in open Court which said Oath the said Iustices are hereby Impowred there to Administer upon forfeiture for every such offence the sum of Fourty pounds of lawful English money The Penalty the one Third part thereof to His Majesty and his Successors the other Third part to the use of the poor of the Parish where the offence shall be committed and the other third part thereof to such person or persons as shall or will sue for the same by Action of Debt Plaint Bill or Information in any Court of Record at Westminster or before any Iustices of Assize Oyer and Terminer or Gaol-Delivery or before any Iustices of the Counties Palatine of Chester Lancaster or Durham or the Iustices of the great Sessions in Wales or before any Iustices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed Provided always and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons restrained from coming to any City Town Corporate Burrough Parish Town or place as aforesaid or for any other person or persons as shall not first take and subscribe the said Oath and as shall not frequent Divine Service established by the Laws of this Kingdom and carry him or her self reverently decently and orderly there to Teach any publique or private-School or take any Boarders or Tablers that are Taught or Instructed by him or her self or any other upon pain for every such offence to forfeit the sum of Forty pounds to be recovered and distributed as aforesaid Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall be lawful for any Two Iustices of the Peace of the respective County upon Oath to them of any offence against this Act which Oath they are hereby Impowred to Administer to Commit the Offender for Six moneths without Bail or Mainprise unless upon or before such Commitment he shall before the said Iustices of the Peace Swear and Subscribe the aforesaid Oath and Declaration Provided always That if any person intended to be Restrained by vertue of this Act shall without fraud or covin be Served with any Writ Subpoena Warrant or other Process whereby his personal appearance is required his obedience to such Writ Subpoena or Process shall not be construed an offence against this Act. CAP. III. For Uniting Churches in Cities and Towns Corporate FOrasmuch as the setled Provision for Ministers in most Cities and Towns Corporate within this Realm is not sufficient for the Maintenance of able Ministers fit for such places whereby Mean and Stipendary Preachers are entertained to serve the Cures there who wholly depending for their Maintenance upon the good will and liking of their Auditors have béen and are hereby under temptation of too much complying and suiting their Doctrine and Teaching to the humour rather then good of their Auditors which hath béen a great occasion of Faction and Schism and of the contempt of the Ministry The Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled being deeply sensible of the ill consequence thereof and piously desiring able Ministers in such places and a competent setled Maintenance for them by the Vnion of Churches which is also become necessary by reason of the great Ruine of many Churches and Parishes in the late ill times and otherwise Do therefore most humbly beséech Your most Excellent Majesty That it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty In what Cities and Towns and how Churches and Chappels may be united by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That in every City or Town Corporate and their Liberties within the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales which
upon this Act may be Assigned over And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person or persons to whom any moneys shall be due by vertue of this Act after Warrant or Order entred in the Book of Register aforesaid for payment thereof his Executors Administrators or Assigns by Indorsement of his Order or Warrant may assign and transfer his Right Title Interest and Benefit of such Warrant or Order or any part thereof to any other which being notified in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt aforesaid and an entry and memorial thereof also made in the Book of Registry aforesaid for Warrants which the Officers shall on request without Fée or charge accordingly make shall intitle such Assignée his Executors Administrators and Assigns to the benefit thereof and payment thereon And such Assignée may in like manner Assign again and so Toties quoties and afterwards it shall not be in the power of such person or persons who have made such Assignments to make void release or discharge the same or any the moneys thereby due or any part thereof Persons sued for executing this Act may plead the general issue And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Action Plaint Suit or Information shall be commenced or prosecuted against any person or persons for what he or they shall do in pursuance or in execution of this Act such person or persons so sued in any Court whatsoever shall or may plead the general Issue Not guilty and upon any Issue joyned may give this Act and the special matter in Evidence And if the Plaintiff or Prosecutor shall become Nonsuit or forbear further prosecution or suffer Discontinuance or if a Verdict pass against him the Defendant and Defendants shall recover their treble Costs for which they shall have the like remedy as in any Case where Costs by the Law are given to Defendants CAP. II. Cattel may not be imported from Ireland and other parts beyond the Seas nor Fish taken by Foreigners WHereas by an Act of this present Parliament entituled An Act for the Encouragement of Trade amongst other things some Provision was made for the preventing of coming in of vast Numbers of Cattel 1◠Car. 2. cap. 5. Stat. 3. whereby the Rents and Values of the Land of this Kingdome were much fallen and like dayly to fall more to the great Prejudice Detriment and Impoverishment of this Kingdom which nevertheless hath by experience béen found to be ineffectual and the continuance of any Importation either of the Lean or Fat Cattel dead or alive herein after specified not onely Vnnecessary but very Destructive to the welfare of this Kingdome Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That such Importation from and after the second day of February Importation of Cattel a common Nusance in this present year One thousand six hundred sixty and six is a publick and common Nusance and shall be so adjudged déemed and taken to be to all intents and purposes whatsoever And that if any great Cattel Shéep or Swine or any Béef Pork or Bacon except for the necessary Provision of the respective Ships or Vessels in which the same shall be brought not exposing the same or any part thereof to Sale shall from and after the said second day of February by any wise whatsoever be Imported or brought from beyond Seas into this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed That then it shall and may be lawful for any Constable The Penalty Tything-man Headborough Church-wardens or Overséers of the Poor or any of them within their respective Liberties Parishes or Places to take and seize the same and kéep the same during the space of Eight and fourty hours in some publick or convenient place where such Seizure shall be made within which time if the Owner or Owners or any for them or him shall make it appear unto some Iustice of the Peace of the same County where the same shall be so seized by the Oath of two credible Witnesses which Oath the said Iustice of Peace is hereby impowred and required to administer That the same were not Imported from Ireland or from any other place beyond the Seas not herein after Excepted after the said second day of February Then the same upon the Warrant of such Iustice of Peace shall be delivered without delay But in default of such Proof and Warrant then the same to be forfeited One half thereof to be disposed to the use of the Poor of the Parish where the same shall be so found or seized the other half to be to his or their own use that shall so seize the same And for the better encouragement of the Fishery of this Kingdom Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Ling Herring Cod or Pilchard fresh or salted Encouragement of Fishery dryed or bloated or any Salmons Eels or Congers taken by any Foreigners Aliens to this Kingdom shall be Imported uttered sold or exposed to sale in this Kingdom That then it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons to take and seize the same The one half thereof to be disposed of to the use of the Poor of the Parish where the same shall be so found or seized the other half to his or their own use which shall so seize the same Provided always That nothing in this Act shall be construed to hinder the Importation of Cattel from the Isle of Man in this Kingdom of England Isle of Man so as the number of the said Cattel do not excéed Six hundred Head yearly And that they be not of any other Bréed then of the Bréed of the Isle of Man And that they be landed at the Port of Chester or some of the Members thereof and not elsewhere This Act to continue until the end of Seven years and from thence to the end of the First Session of the next Parliament CAP. III. A former Act for preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England Continued WHereas an Act was made in the Fourtéenth year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord the King that now is entituled 14 Car. 2. cap. 22. An Act for preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England which Act is very near expiring and hath béen found very necessary for the preservation of those places from that great number of Lewd Disorderly and Lawless persons that usually frequented thereabouts Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That the said Act and every Clause and Clauses therein contained and all and every the Powers and Authorities thereby given be continue and remain
in force until the end of Seven years from the expiration or determination of the fore-mentioned Act. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the benefit of Clergy shall be taken away from great known and notorious Thieves and Spoil-takers in the said Counties of Northumberland Cumberland or either of them during the continuance of this present Act Clergy taken away from notorious Theives in Northumberland Cumberland who shall be duly Convicted for Theft done or committed within the said Counties or either of them Or otherwise That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Iustices of the Assize and Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer or Gaol-delivery before whom such Offenders shall be Convicted within the said Counties or either of them to Transport or cause to be Transported the said Offenders and every of them into any of His Majesties Dominions in America there to remain and not to return Any former Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding CAP. IV. For Burying in Woollen onely FOr the Encouragement of the Woollen Manufactures of this Kingdom and prevention of the Exportation of the Moneys thereof for the Buying and Importing of Linnen Woollen Manufactures encouraged 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 thereof That from and after the Five and twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty seven No person or persons whatsoever shall be buried in any Shirt None shall be buried but in Woollen Shift or Shéet made of or mingled with Flax Hemp Silk Hair Gold or Silver or other then what shall be made of Wooll onely or be put into any Coffin lined or faced with any thing made of or mingled with Flax Hemp Silk or Hair upon pain of the forfeiture of the sum of Five pounds Penalty to be imployed to the use of the poor of the Parish where such person shall be buried for and towards the providing a Stock or Work-house for the setting them at work to be levied by the Churchwardens and Overséers of the Poor of such Parish or one of them by Warrant from any Iustice of the Peace or Mayor Alderman or Head-officer of such City Town or place Corporate respectively within their several Limits by Distress and Sale of the Goods of the party Interred contrary to this Act rendring the overplus or in default thereof by Distress and Sale of the Goods of any that had a hand in the putting such person into such Shift Shirt Shéet or Coffin contrary to this Act or did order or dispose the doing thereof to be levied and imployed as abovesaid Proviso for persons dying of the Plague Provided That no penalty appointed by this Act shall be incurred for or by the reason of any person that shall die of the Plague though such person be buried in Linnen CAP. V. For Encouraging for Coynage WHereas it is obvious That the plenty of Current Coyns of Gold and Silver of this Kingdom is of great advantage to Trade and Commerce For the Increase whereof Your Majesty in Your Princely Wisdom and Care hath béen graciously pleased to bear out of Your Revenue half the Charge of the Coynage of Silver-money For the preventing of which Charge to Your Majesty Encouragement for bringing Gold and Silver into the Realm and the Encouragement of the bringing of Gold and Silver into the Realm to be converted into the Current Money of this Your Majesties Kingdom We Your Majesties Dutiful and Loyal Subjects do Give and Grant unto Your Majesty the Rates Duties or Impositions following And do beséech Your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That whatsoever person or persons Native or Foreigner Alien or Stranger Silver or Gold brought in to be Coyned shall from and after the Twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty and six bring any Foreign Coyn Plate or Bullion of Gold or Silver in Mass Molten or Allayed or any sort of Manufacture of Gold or Silver into His Majesties Mint or Mints within the Kingdom of England to be there Melted down and Coyned into the current Coyns of this Kingdom shall have the same there Assayed Melted down and Coyned with all convenient spéed without any Defalcation Diminution or Charge for the Assaying Coynage or Wast in Coynage So as that for every pound Troy of Crown or Standard-Gold that shall be brought in and delivered by him or them to be Assayed Melted down and Coyned as aforesaid there shall be delivered out to him or them respectively a pound Troy of the current Coyns of this Kingdom of Crown or Standard-Gold And for every pound Troy of Sterling or Standard-Silver that shall be brought in and delivered by him or them to be Assayed Melted down and Coyned as aforesaid there shall be delivered out to him or them respectively a pound Troy of the current Coyns of this Kingdom of Sterling or Standard-Silver and so proportionably for a greater or lesser weight And for every pound Troy of Gold or Silver that shall be brought in and delivered to be Assayed Melted down and Coyned as aforesaid that shall be finer upon Assay then Crown-Gold or Standard-Silver there shall be delivered for the same so much more then a pound Troy as the same doth in proportion amount unto in â—â—neness and value And for every pound Troy of Gold or Silver that shall be brought in and delivered to be Assayed Melted down and Coyned as aforesaid that shall be courser or baser upon Assay or worse in value then Crown-Gold or Standard-Silver there shall be delivered for the same so much less then a pound Troy as the same doth fall short in fineness or value and so for a greater or lesser quantity And it is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That there shall be no preference in point of Assaying or Coynage There shall be no under preference but money Coyned shall be delivered out in order but that all Gold and Silver brought in and delivered into the Mint to be Assayed and Coyned shall be Assayed Coyned and delivered out to the respective Importers according to the order and times of bringing in and delivering the same into the Mint or Mints and not otherwise So as he that shall first bring in and deliver any Gold or Silver to be Coyned shall be taken and accounted the first person to have the same Assayed Coyned and Delivered And he or they that shall bring in and deliver any Gold or Siver next to be accounted the second person to have the same Assayed Coyned and Delivered and so successively
 14 3 8 Principal Discharges upon Peers In the first Story in the Fronts Inches  Inches 13 and 12 15  13 Binding Joysts with their Trimming Joysts Thickness Inches  5 depth equal to their own Floors Wall-plates or raising Pieces and Beams Inches  Inches 10 and 6 8  6 7  5 Lintels of Oak in the  Inches  Inches 1st 2d story 8 6 3d story 5  4 For the Roof Principal Rafters from Length  Thickness Foot Foot Inches Inches 15 to 18 at foot 9 7 at top 7 18-21 at foot 10 8 at top 8 21-24 at foot 12 8 ½ at top 9 24-26 at foot 13 9 at top 9 Purlines from Length   Foot Foot Inches Inches 15 to 18 9 8 18-21 12 9 Single Rafters  Foot Inches Inches not exceeding in length 9 5 4 not exceeding in length 6 4 3 ½ Scantlings for Sawed Timber and Laths usually brought out of the West-Countrey not less then  Breadth Thickness  Foot Inches Inch. Single Quarters in length 8 3 ½ 1 ¾ Double Quarters in length 8 4 3 ½ Sawed Joysts in length 8 6 4 Laths in length 5 1 ¼ 1 quarter ½ of Inch. 4   Stone Where Stone is used to keep to these Scantlings First sort of Houses  Inches Corner Peers 18 square Middle or single Peers 14 and 12 Double Peers between House House 14 and 18 Door-jambs and Heads 12 and 8 2d 3d sorts  Foot Inches Corner Peers 2-6 square Middle or single Peers 18 square Double Peers between House House 24 and 18 Doors-jambs and Heads 14 and 10 Scantlings for Sewers Foot  Thickness  3 wide Side-walls 1 brick Bottom paved plain and then 1 brick an edge circular 5 high Arch 1 brick on end General Rules IN every Foundation within the Ground add one Brick in thickness to the thickness of the Wall as in the Scheme next above the Foundation to be set off in Thrée Courses equally on both sides That no Timber be laid within Twelve Inches of the Foreside of the Chimney-Iambs And that all Ioysts on the Back of any Chimney be laid with a Trimmer at Six Inches distance from the Back That no Timber be laid within the Tunnel of any Chimney upon penalty to the Workman for every default Ten shillings and Ten shillings every Wéek it continues unreformed That no Ioysts or Rafters be laid at greater distances from one to the other then Twelve Inches and no Quarters at greater distance then Fourtéen Inches That no Ioysts bear at longer length then Ten Foot and no single Rafters at more in length then Nine Foot That all Roofs Window-frames and Cellar-floors be made of Oak The Tile-pins of Oak No Summers or Girders to lie over the Head of Doors and Windows No Summer or Girder to lie less then Ten Inches into the Wall no Ioysts then Eight Inches and to be laid in Loame CAP. IV. For Relief of poor Prisoners and setting of them on Work WHereas there is not yet any sufficient Provision made for the Relief and setting on work of poor and néedy persons committed to the Common Gaol for Felony and other misdemeanors who many times perish before their Trial and the Poor there living idly and unimployed become debauched and come forth instructed in the practice of Thievery and lewdness For remedy whereof Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same That the Iustices of the Peace of the respective Counties How Stocks may be provided for setting the poor on work at any their General Sessions or the major part of them then there assembled if they shall find it néedfull so to do may provide Stock of such Materials as they find convenient for the setting poor Prisoners on work in such manner and by such ways as other County-charges by the Laws and Statutes of the Realm are and may be levied and raised And to pay and provide fit persons to oversée and set such Prisoners on work and make such Orders for Accompts of and concerning the premisses as shall by them be thought néedful and for punishment of neglects and other abuses and for bestowing of the Profit arising by the labour of the Prisoners so set on work for their Relief which shall be duly observed And may alter revoke or amend such their Orders from time to time Provided that no Parish be rated above Sir pence by the wéek towards the premisses having respect to the respective values of the several Parishes And whereas sometimes by occasion of the Plague and otherwhiles by the great number of Prisoners great and infectious Diseases have happened among the Prisoners Sickness and Diseases hapning among Prisoners whereby it hath come to pass sometimes that the Iudges Iustices and Iurors have upon occasion of their Attendance at the Trial of Prisoners béen infected and many of them died thereof and sometime such Infection hath spread in the Country For some Remedy therein Be it by the same Authority Enacted That any Sheriff of the respective Counties having the Custody of the Gaol or such persons who have the Custody of the Goal with the advice and consent of thrée or more Iustices of the Peace whereof one to be of the Quorum may if they shall on inquiry or information find it needful upon emergent occasions in the respective Counties provide other safe places for the removal of sick or other persons from and out of the ordinary and usual Gaols the same places to be used and imployed for the reception and custody of the Prisoners to be by or according to their Order or Orders kept ordered disposed and conveyed to the places appointed for the Gaol-delivery in such and like manner as such Prisoners ought to be kept ordered disposed and conveyed in and from the Common Gaols by the Laws and Statutes of the Land Provided no such place be made use of for the purposes aforesaid against the good and frée will of the Owners thereof Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Mayor Bayliff Removing of Prisoners and other Head-Officer or any other person and persons who have and hath the Custody of the Common Gaol within any Corporation of this Kingdom and Dominion of Wales shall by and with the advice of thrée or more Iustices of Peace within the said Corporation whereof one of them to be of the Quorum in time of Infection have the like power and authority for removing his and their Prisoners into some other convenient place within their Iurisdiction as to them shall séem fit during the time of Infection And also to raise a Stock after the same rates and proportions as is herein before allowed to and for the several Counties within this Kingdom Provided also And be it further Enacted by the
Authority aforesaid as followeth viz. That whereas there is already provided a strong and sufficient Messuage in the Parish of S. Thomas the Apostle near the City of Exon for the purpose aforesaid Exon City and One thousand pounds more by certain Trustees upon Proposals and Agréements made by them with cetain Gentlemen Iustices of the Peace for the County of Devon Devon who have also provided One thousand pounds more in order to purchase Lands of Inheritance for the good purposes hereafter mentioned Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Two thousand pounds be laid out in purchase of Lands of Inheritance by Order of the General Sessions of the Peace hereafter at any time to be held in the name of such persons as by such Order shall be appointed Item That the said House with the Grounds therewith inclosed be had and used as a Common Gaol and Workhouse for the said County in manner as is after expressed Item That an Overséer be therein placed by like Order and by like Order be removeable from time to time which Overseer shall have the charge custody and government of the Prisoners to him committed according to this Act and shall have Fifty pounds per annum during the execution of his Office and Ten pounds per annum for his Deputy but shall therefore take no fées for receiving delivering or doing any other service relating to the Prisoners from or of any the said Prisoners Item That the said Iustices by like Order from time to time shall and may by approbation of the Ordinary provide and appoint some méet and discréet Minister to read Divine Service according to the Orders of the Church of England unto the Prisoners at least four days in the wéek That is to say on the Lords day each Wednesday and each Friday and Saturday and oftner if the said Iustices shall appoint and to take pains in instructing them each Lords day at the least for which they may allow him Thirty pounds per annum or after that rate the rest of the Profits to be for Repairing the House and towards finding a Stock for to set the Prisoners on work Item That any person charged with such offence onely for which Clergy is allowable if so be he be néedy and indigent and not likely to maintain himself in Gaol may by Warrant of the Iustice or Iustices of the Peace to whom Iurisdiction in that behalf appertaineth be committed to the said Workhouse in order to his Trial and if any person shall be committed to the ordinary Gaol who shall be or become so indigent he may by Warrant of thrée Iustices of Peace whereof one to be of the Quorum be removed from the ordinary Common Gaol to the said House All which Prisoners so committed or removed shall be in the custody of the Overséer and be ordered and demeaned in the said House and conveyed to the Sessions or to the Gaol-delivery by like Warrant way and means as the Prisoners in other Gaols by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm are to be ordered and demeaned And because the said Workhouse is distant from the Ordinary Common Gaol the Prisoners by Order from the Sessions or Gaol-delivery may in order to their Trials be removed to the Common Gaol to be the more ready for their Trials Item That the said Overséer shall give Security for the Stock and be liable to such Regulations and Orders for Accompts and otherwise as the Sessions shall from time to time make for setting the poor Prisoners on work there which shall be obeyed and observed That a convenient Stock be from time to time raised at the Charge of the County Item That the said Iustices of the County in Devon may put in ure all the powers in this Act as other Iustices may in any other County by vertue thereof Saving to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors and to every other person and persons and their Heirs Successors Executors and Administrators all Rights Titles Claims and Demands whatsoever into or out of the said Messuages and Premisses as if this Act had never béen made CAP. V. A former Act concerning Replevins and Avowries to extend to the Principality of Wales and the County Palatines 1. Car. 2. cap. 7. WHereas by an Act of Parliament Entituled An Act for the more speedy and effectual proceeding upon Distresses and Avowries for Rents Provision is made where any Plaintiff shall Nonsuit before Issue joyned in any Suit or Replevin by Plaint or Writ lawfully returned removed or depending in any of the Kings Courts at Westminster Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That the said Act and all the Powers and Provisions thereby made for causes of Replevins depending in His Majesties Courts of Westminster shall be extended and be of the same force and efficacy in all causes of Replevin which are or shall be depending in His Majesties Court of Common Pleas for the County Palatine of Lancaster Lancaster Wales Chester the Courts of the Great Sessions of His Majesties Principality of Wales the Court of Great Sessions or Assizes for the County Palatine of Chester and the Court of Common Pleas for the County Palatine of Durham as fully and as amply for and during the continuance of the said Act as if the said Courts had been mentioned therein CAP. VI. A Redress of Inconveniencies by want of Proof of the Deceases of Persons beyond the Seas or absenting themselves upon whose Lives Estates do depend VVHereas divers Lords of Mannors and others have used to grant Estates by Copy of Court-Roll for one two or more life or lives according to the Custome of their several Mannors and have also granted Estates by Lease for one or more life or lives or else for years determinable upon one or more life or lives And it hath often happened that such person or persons for whose life or lives such Estates have béen granted have gone beyond the Seas or so absented themselves for many years that the Lessors and Reversioners cannot find out whether such person or persons be alive or dead by reason whereof such Lessors and Reversioners have béen held out of possession of their Tenements for many years after all the lives upon which such Estates depend are dead in regard that the Lessors and Reversioners when they have brought Actions for the recovery of their Tenements have béen put upon it to prove the death of their Tenants when it is almost impossible for them to discover the same For remedy of which mischief so frequently happening to such Lessors or Reversioners Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same Persons beyond the Seas or absenting
all Statutes and Acts of Parliament Acts that are to have continuance shall remain in foâ—ce which are to have continuance unto the end of this present Session shall be of full force after the said Adjournment until this present Session be fully ended and determined And if this Session shall determine by dissolution of this present Parliament then all the Acts aforesaid shall be continued until the end of the first Session of the next Parliament And all Statutes and Acts of Parliament When the Acts which are now to pass shall take effect which before the said Adjournment shall pass by his Majesties royal Assent shall be put in execution immediately after forty dayes after the said Adjournment notwithstanding that by the words or letter of the said Acts or any of them they be limited to take effect or be put in execution from or at any time after the end of this present Session Anno Reg. Caroli Regis Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Tertio AT the Parliament began at Westminster the Seventeenth day of March Anno Dom. 1627. in the Third year of the Reign of our most gracious Soveraign Lord CHARLES by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. And there continued until the Twenty sixth day of June following and then prorogued unto the twentieth day of October next ensuing To the high pleasure of Almighty God and to the weal publick of this Realm were enacted as followeth A Declaration of divers Rights and Liberties of the People to the Kings most Excellent Majesty HVmbly shew unto our Soveraign Lord the King the Lords Spiritual and Temporal The Petition of Right and Commons in Parliament assembled That whereas it is declared and Enacted by a Statute made in the time of the Reign of King Edward the First 34 Ed. 1. commonly called Statutum de Tallagio non concedendo That no Tallage or Aid shall be laid or levied by the King or his Heirs in this Realm without the good will and assent of the Archbishops Bishops Earls Barons Knights Burgesses and other the Fréemen of the Commonalty of this Realm And by Authority of Parliament holden in the five and twentieth year of the reign of King Edward the third 25 Ed. 3. Rot. Parl. it is declared and Enacted That from thenceforth no person should be compelled to make any Loans to the King against his will because such Loans were against reason and the Franchise of the Land 1 Ed. 3. 6. 11 R. 2. 9. 1 R. 3. 2. And by other Laws of this Realm it is provided That none should be charged by any Charge or Imposition called a Benevolence nor by such like charge By which the Statutes before mentioned and other the good Laws and Statutes of this Realm your Subjects have inherited this Fréedom That they should not be compelled to contribute to any Tax Tallage Aid or other like charge not set by common consent in Parliament Yet nevertheless of late divers Commissions directed to sundry Commissioners in several Counties with instructions have issued by means whereof your People have béen in divers places assembled and required to lend certain sums of Money unto your Majesty and many of them upon their refusal so to do have had an Oath administred unto them not warrantable by the Laws or Statutes of this Realm and have béen constrained to become bound to make Appearance and give Attendance before your Privy Councel and in other places and others of them have béen therefore imprisoned confined and sundry other ways molested and disquieted And divers other Charges have béen laid and levied upon your People in several Counties by Lord-Lievetenants Deputy-Lievetenants Commissioners for Musters Iustices of Peace and others by command or direction from your Majesty or your Privy Councel against the Laws and frée Customs of this Realm 9. H. 3. 29. And where also by the Statute called The great Charter of the Liberties of England It is declared and Enacted That no Fréeman may be taken or imprisoned or be disseised of his Fréehold or Liberties or his frée Customs or be outlawed or exiled or in any manner destroyed but by the lawful judgement of his Péers or by the Law of the Land 28. Ed. 3. 3. And in the eight and twentieth year of the reign of King Edward the third it was declared and Enacted by Authority of Parliament That no man of what estate or condition that he be should be put out of his Land or Tenements nor taken nor imprisoned nor disherited nor put to death without being brought to answer by due process of Law St. 37. Ed. 3. 18. St. 38 Ed. 3 9. St. 42 Ed. 3. 3. St. 17. R. 2. 6. Nevertheless against the tenor of the said Statutes and other the good Laws and Statutes of your Realm to that end provided divers of your Subjects have of late béen imprisoned without any cause shewed And when for their deliverance they were brought before your Iustices by your Majesties Writs of Habeas corpus there to undergo and receive as the Court should order and their Kéepers commanded to certifie the causes of their detainer no cause was certified but that they were detained by your Majesties special command signified by the Lords of your Privy Councel and yet were returned back to several Prisons without being charged with any thing to which they might make answer according to the Law 25. Ed. 3. 9. And whereas of late great Companies of Souldiers and Mariners have béen dispersed into divers Counties of the Realm and the Inhabitants against their wills have béen compelled to receive them into their houses and there to suffer them to sojourn against the Laws and Customs of this Realm and to the great grievance and vexation of the People 25. Ed. 3. 9. And whereas also by Authority of Parliament in the five and twentieth year of the raign of King Edward the third it is declared and Enacted That no man should be fore-judged of life or limb against the form of the Great Charter and Law of the Land 9. H. 3. 28. 25. Ed 3. 4. 28. Ed. 3. 3 And by the said Great Charter and other the Laws and Statutes of this your Realm no man ought to be adjudged to death but by the Laws established in this your Realm either by the Customs of the same Realm or by Acts of Parliament And whereas no offendor of what kinde soever is exempted from the procéedings to be used and punishments to be inflicted by the Laws and Statutes of this your Realm Nevertheless of late divers Commissions under your Majesties great Seal have issued forth by which certain persons have béen assigned and appointed Commissioners with power and authority to procéed within the Land according to the Iustice of Martial Law against such Souldiers and Mariners or other dissolute persons joyning with them as should commit any Murther Robbery Felony Mutiny
other intituled an Act for the bringing in of Clapboard from the parts beyond the Seas 35 El. 11. and the restraining of the transporting of wine Casks for the sparing and preserving of Timber within the Realm And so much of one Act made in the five and thirtieth year of the Reign of the said late Quéen Elizabeth intituled an Act to retain the Quéens Majesties Subjects in their due obedience 35 El. 2. as hath not béen since repealed by any other Statute And the several Acts hereafter mentioned 39 El. 4. made in the nine and thirtieth year of the Reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth that is to say an Act intituled an Act for the punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars with the provision annexed thereunto 2 Jac. 25. 39 El. 10. by one Act made in the first year of the reign of the late King James intituled an Act for continuing and reviving of divers Statutes and for repealing of some others An Act intituled St. 23 El. 7. 39 El. 14. an Act for the increase of Mariners and for maintenance of Navigation repealing a former Act made in the thrée and twentieth year of her said Majesties Reign bearing the same title an Act intituled an Act prohibiting the bringing into the Realm of forreign Cards for Wool an Act intituled St. 23 El. 7. 39 El. 14. 39 El. 16. 39 El. 17. 43 El. 3. 43 El. 5. 43 El. 2. 1 Jac. 25 an Act for restraining the excessive making of Mault an Act against lewd and wandring persons pretending to be Souldiers or Mariners And the several Acts hereafter mentioned made in the thrée and fortieth year of the said late Quéen Elizabeth that is to say an Act intituled an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners an Act intituled an Act to avoid trifling and frivolous Suits in Law in her Majesties Courts at Westminster an Act intituled An Act for relief of the Poor with the addition thereunto made by an Act made in the first year of the reign of the late King James intituled an Act for continuing of divers Statutes and for repeal of some others and with this further addition And be it Enacted The Overseers of â—oâ— Poor may put out Apprentices The Church-wardens c. may set up any Trade to â—â—nâ— the poor work 43 El. 10. 43 El. 5. 1 Jac. 7. St. 39 El. 4. 1 Jac. 8. 1 Jac. 22. That all persons to whom the Overséers of the Poor shall according to the said Act binde any children Apprentices may take and receive and kéep them as Apprentices And also that the Churchwardens and Overséers of the Poor mentioned in the said Act made in the said thrée and fortieth year may by and with the consent of two or more Iustices of the Peace whereof one to be of the Quorum within their respective limits wherein shall be more Iustices than one and where no more shall be than one with the assent of that one Iustice of the Peace set up use and occupy any Trade Mystery or Occupation only for the setting on work and better relief of the Poor of the Parish Town or Place of or within which they shall be Church-wardens or Overséers of the Poor any former Statute to the contrary notwithstanding An Act intituled an Act for the true making and working of Woollen Cloth an Act intituled an Act to prevent Perjury and subornation of Perjury and unnecessary expence in Suits of Law And the several Acts made in the first year of the reign of the late King James after mentioned One Act intituled an Act for continuance and explanation of the Statute made in the nine and thirtieth year of the reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth intituled an Act for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars another intituled an Act to take away the benefit of Clergy for some kind of Man-slaughter another intituled an Act concerning Tanners Curriers Shoo-makers and other Artificers occupying the cutting of Leather saving for such part thereof as is repealed by one other Act St. 4 Jac. 6. 1 Jac. 27. made in the fourth year of his said late Maiesties reign of England in that behalf Another intituled an Act for the better execution of the intent and meaning of former Statutes made against shooting in Guns and for the preservation of the Game of Pheasants and Partridges and against the destroying of Hares with Hare-pipes 1 Jac. 18. 1 Jac. 6. St. 5 El. 4 1 Jac. 31. and tracing Hares in the Snow an Act intituled an Act for avoiding of Deceit in Selling Buying or spending corrupt and unwholsome Hops an Act intituled an Act for explanation of the Statute made in the fifth year of the late Quéen Elizabeths reign concerning Labourers an Act for the charitable relief and ordering of persons infected with the Plague And the several Acts made in the third year of the Reign of the late King James after mentioned That is to say 3 Jac. 9. 3 Jac. 10. 3 Jac. 11. one Act intituled an Act for relief of such as lawfully use the Trade and Handy-craft of Skinners Another Act intituled an Act for rating and levying of the charges for conveying of Malefactors and Offendors to the Gaol Another Act for transporting of Béer over the Seas 3 Jac. 13. 4 Jac. 11. One other intituled an Act against unlawful hunting and stealing of Déer and Conies And one Act made in the fourth year of the reign of the said late King James intituled an Act for the better provision of Meadow and pasture for the necessary maintenance of Husbandry and Tillage in the Mannors 7 Jac. 1. Lordships and Parishes of Merden alias Mawarden Boddenham Wellington Sutton Saint Michael Sutton Saint Nicholas Murton upon Lugge and the Parish of Pipe 7 Jac. 4. 7 Jac. 12. and every of them in the County of Hereford And the several Acts made in the seventh year of the Reign of the late King James after mentioned the one intituled an Act for the better execution of Iustice and suppressing of criminal Offenders in the North parts of the Kingdome of England 7 Jac. 12. 7 Jac. 13. Another intituled an Act for the due execution of divers Laws and Statutes heretofore made against Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars and other lewd and idle persons St. 3 Jac. 23. 7 Jac. 18. Another intituled an Act to prevent the spoil of Corn and Grain by untimely hawking and for the better preservation of Pheasants and Partridges One other Intituled an Act to avoid the double payment of Debts One other Intituled An Act for the explanation of one Statute made in the second Session of that present Parliament intituled an Act against unlawful hunting of Déer and Conies And one other Act intituled an Act for the taking landing and carrying of Sea-sand for the bettering of grounds 25 H. 8. 11. and for the increase of Corn and Tillage within the Counties of Devon and Cornwall And that
Liberty or Limit wherein the same lieth by distress and sale of the Goods as is aforesaid Accompts to be given by the Surveyors yearly of all Money raised for mending the High-ways And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person so Elected and taking upon him or them the Office of Surveyor or Surveyors as aforesaid shall within one moneth next after the expiration of the year wherein he executed the said Office as Surveyor of the High-ways make and yield up to the Inhabitants of the Parish Town Village or Hamlet at some publick Méeting to be appointed by the said Inhabitants a perfect Accompt in Writing under his and their Hands of all the Moneys he or they received or paid within his or their year for or by reason of his or their Office namely of whom and what received and to whom and what paid and what Moneys are in arrear and unpaid either for Assessments Fines Forfeitures Penalties and charitable Gifts and if any overplus be in his or their hands he or they shall return and pay the same to the next Surveyors or one of them for the use of the Parish Town Village or Hamlet to be disbursed in and about the High-ways in the following year And if the said Surveyor or Surveyors shall not make such an Account and Payment as before any two Iustices of the Peace living near to or in the said Parish shall and may upon complaint unto them made examine the business upon Oath and upon default found in the Surveyor or Surveyors shall and may commit him or them to the Common-Goal of that County City Riding Town-Corporate Liberty or Limit there to remain until he hath made a true and perfect Account and Payment as aforesaid Who may enquire hear and determine offences against this Act. And be it further Enacted That all and every Iustices of Assise Oyer and Terminer and Iustices of the Peace shall have power and authority and are hereby enabled and impowred to inquire after hear and determine all matters concerning charitable Gifts for the making amending and kéeping in repair any Common High-ways Pavements Stréets and Cawseys within the limits of their Commission and to make Orders therein for the due imployment of such charitable gifts according to the true intent and meaning of the Donors thereof Except gifts to the aforesaid uses made to any Colledg Hall Frée-School or Hospital which have Visitors of their own and also to hear and determine all offences defaults and defects in Surveyors or others concerning the premisses Appeal allowed to persons grieved 43 El. cap. 4. In what cases only a Certiorari may be allowed to remove any Indictment c. upon this Act. Provided That if any person be agrieved with such Order they shall have liberty to appeal to the Court of Chancery as in the case of a Decrée made upon the Statute of Charitable Vses And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the First day of May One thousand six hundred sixty and two no Certiorari shall be allowed to remove any Information Indictment Presentment Order or other procéedings in the Quarter-Sessions of for or concerning any matter or thing in this Act unless the party or parties against whom any such Information Indictment Presentment Order or other procéedings shall be had by vertue of this Act shall before the allowance of such Certioraries become bound to the person or persons prosecuting in the sum of Forty pounds with such sufficient sureties as the Iustices of Peace at their said Quarter-Sessions of the Peace shall think fit with condition to pay unto the said prosecutors within one moneth after the conviction of such parties indicted their full costs and damages to be ascertained upon their Oaths and that in default thereof it shall be lawful for the said Iustices to procéed to trial of such Indictments any such Writs of Certiorari to remove the same Indictments notwithstanding Laycock Bridge in Com. Wilts And whereas at a general Quarter-Sessions held for the County of Wilts It was at the humble Petition of the Petitioners of Laycock and other Inhabitants of the said County Ordered That one ancient Bridge called Foot-Bridge leading thorow the said Parish betwéen London Bath and Bristol being more commodious for all Passengers than on◠other Bridge in the said Parish called Rey-Bridge should be repaired and made passable for all Carts Waggons and Carriages with the Materials of Rey-Bridge which was thereby Ordered to be taken down which Order was accordingly put in execution in the said County and Parish Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Parishioners and all others imployed by them in the pulling down the said Bridge called Rey-Bridge and imploying the Materials thereof as aforesaid shall be and are hereby indemnified from all suits troubles and molestations whatsoever touching or concerning the same and that the said Parishioners of Laycock and other the aforesaid Inhabitants shall not hereafter be compelled by Information or Indictment or any other way be made chargeable with the re-building of the said Bridge called Rey-Bridge otherwise than for the maintaining the said Bridge sufficient for Horse and Pack as it now stands any Law or Statute to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Wildes of Surrey Sussex Kent Provided likewise and be it Enacted That this Act shall not extend to exempt any Owner Farmer or Lessée of any Iron work or other person within the Wildes of the Counties of Surrey Sussex or Kent for carrying so many load of Cinder Gravel Stones and other materials or contributing such sums of money towards the amending and repairing of the High-ways as they are obliged to by any former Acts. 14 15 H 8. cap. 6. 39 El. ca. 19. And be it further Provided and Enacted That where the Iustices of the Peace of any County at their General Quarter-Sessions or any two of such Iustices near to any Parish Township or Hamlet shall be fully satisfied that the High-ways and Bridges within the same may and will be sufficiently amended and repaired according to former usage without the help of this Act that then and in such Cases only there shall no Assessment be made within the same for and towards their reparations by vertue of this Act. Provided always And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Iustices of Peace of the County of Middlesex in their publick Sessions of the Peace shall have power and authority to make Orders for erecting or setting up a new Bridge of Brick or Stone fitting for the passage of Carts and Carriages in the room and place of a Bridge now only passable for Foot and Horse called Stratford-Bridge in the Parish of Hillingdon in the said County Stratford Bridge Hillingdon Middlesex or in some other more convenient place near thereunto at the present charge of the whole County for the erecting of the same but
to be upheld repaired and maintained after it be so erected at the charge of the Lord of the Mannor wherein the said Bridge now standeth proportionable to the charge he is now at for maintaining the Horse-Bridge and the residue of the charge to be born by the Parishioners of the said Parish For which purpose the said Iustices of the Peace at their said publick Sessions are hereby enabled to make respective rates accordingly so as the sum to be assessed for the erecting the said Bridge excéed not the sum of One hundred pounds and the said Iustices are to take care that the said Bridge be finished by or before the First day of August in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and thrée And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Bridges to have sufficient Walls or Posts and Rails That the said Surveyors do take care that all and every Bridge or Bridges within their respective limits shall before the Feast of St. Michael One thousand six hundred sixty and two have sufficient walls or posts and rails of each side thereof four foot high at the least and that the said walls or posts and pails be from time to time kept in sufficient repair Provided always And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Proviso for chusing Surveyors for the year 1662. EXP. That the Surveyors of the High-ways named for the year One thousand six hundred sixty and two shall within twenty days after the publication of this Act procéed to do and execute all things in this Act for the said year One thousand six hundred sixty two And where there are no Surveyors of the High-ways chosen for the said year One thousand six hundred sixty two they shall be chosen within twenty days after publication of this Act by such persons as by this Act is appointed and being so chosen they shall hereafter do and execute all things according to the tenor of this Act. Provided also And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where any Lands are let Tenants to bear the charges of Assessments for High-ways the Tenant and Occupier thereof shall pay the Assessment and bear all charges for the mending of the High-ways and not the Landlord except where there is or shall be any agréement betwéen the said Landlord and the Tenant to the contrary Provided also and be it further Enacted The continuance of this Act. That the power of raising and levying money by vertue of this Act shall continue in force for thrée years only from the Five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty and two and no longer but that all other Powers and Clauses in this Act shall continue and stand in force until the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer CAP. VII Exportation of Leather and Raw Hides out of the Realm of England restrained WHereas notwithstanding the many good Laws before this time made and still in force 5 E. 6. cap. 15. 6 El. cap. 22. 8 El. cap. 14. 18 El. cap. 9. prohibiting the Exportation of Leather out of this Realm and the penalty by those Acts imposed by the cunning and subtilty of some persons and the neglect of others who ought to take care thereof there are such quantities of Leather daily exported to forreign parts that the price of Leather is grown to those excessive Rates that many Artificers working Leather cannot furnish themselves with sufficient store thereof for the carrying on of their Trades and the poor sort of people are not able to buy those things made of Leather which of necessity they must make use of For redress of which griefs Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled That from and after the First day of May now next ensuing no person or persons whatsoever shall carry or transport or cause to be carried or transported out of England into Scotland Ireland or into any of the Isles belonging to this Kingdom What Skins or Hides Tanned may not be transported or to any parts beyond the Seas the Skins or Hides Tanned or Vntanned of any Ox Stéer Bull Cow or Calf otherwise or in any other manner then is by this present Act directed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That none of the Skins or Hides aforesaid which shall happen to be taken from any of the beasts aforesaid within any Island whatsoever belonging to the Kingdom of England except Ireland shall be transported out of that Island to any other place but into the Kingdom of England upon pain of forfeiture for every such offence double the value of Skins or Hides The Penalty so to be transported out of the said Island or any of them to any other place then into the Kingdom of England the same forfeiture to be sued for and disposed as hereafter in this Act is directed And for the better preventing of such mischiefs as are intended to be remedied by this Act Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid What Leather must be bought onely in open Fairs or Markets for selling Leather The Penalty That all Red Tanned Leather made of the Hides or Skins of any of the Beasts aforesaid of what kind or nature soevâ—â— shall be bought onely in the open and common Fair or Market used for the putting of Leather to sale and not in any House Tanners Yard Shop or other place whatsoever on pain that such person or persons that shall not accordingly do the same shall for every such offence forfeit the same Leather or the value thereof and the contract for the sale thereof shall be void and all such Leather shall be Searched and Sealed by the Searchers and Sealers thereunto appointed before the same be put to Sale and upon such sale shall be Registred and a true Entry thereof made both by the Buyer and Seller who are both to be present at such Registring thereof and both their names and places of abode entred into the Book of the said Register on pain that every such Buyer or Seller that shall not accordingly do the same shall for every such offence forfeit the same Leather or the value thereof and the forfeiture shall be recovered and imployed in such manner as hereafter in this Act is directed Penalty for Transportation of any Leather or Raw-Hides And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person or persons shall be found guilty of the Transportation of any Leather or Raw Hides of any of the Beasts aforesaid excepting such Calve-skins and Shéep-skins dressed without the Wooll as by Law may be Transported contrary to the provision of this Act he shall from thenceforth be disabled to Trade or Deal in Leather for the future and shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of Five hundred pounds to be
charged upon those Commodities by or under the name of Subsidy or Poundage And in case of Exportation there shall be repaid and allowed to the English-man Exporter the sum of Thrée pounds Ten shillings per Tun and to the Alien Four pounds Fiftéen shillings per Tun to be repaid according to the Rules of the Book of Rates now established And whereas the Ingenious Industry of these times hath taught the Dyers of England the Art of fixing the Colours made of Logwood Logwood or Blockwood alias Blockwood so as that by experience they are found as lasting and serviceable as the Colours made with any other sort of Dying-wood whatsoever 23 El. cap. 9. And whereas by a Statute made in the thrée and twentieth year of the Reign of Quéen Elizabeth of famous Memory Entituled Logwood and Blockwood shall not be used in Dying of Cloth 39 El. cap. 11. c. And by another Statute made in the Nine and thirtieth year of the aforesaid Quéen Elizabeth Entituled The Penalty for mixing or using of Logwood in Dying Cloth or other Stuff all Logwood alias Blockwood that shall be found within this Kingdom shall be forfeited and openly burned with divers other Pains Penalties and Forfeitures upon such as shall use the same in Dying-Cloth or other Commodities as by the said several Acts aforesaid may and doth appear Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the aforesaid Statutes and either of them be and are hereby Repealed and made void as to all Clauses Articles Provisions and Penalties in any wise relating to the prohibition or use of Logwood alias Blockwood And that from and after the first day of February One thousand six hundred sixty and one It shall and may be lawful to and for any person or persons freely to import into this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town and Port of Berwick upon Tweed any quantities of Logwood alias Blockwood and fréely to use the same in Dying or Colouring any sort of Goods or Manufacture whatsoever the aforesaid two Statutes or any other Law Statute Vsage Custom Patent of priviledge Proclamation or other Restraint Matter or Thing to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Imposition upon Logwood imported 12 Car. 2. cap. 18. Provided That such Importation be according to the Rules prescribed and enjoyned in the late Act Entituled An Act for encouraging and encreasing of Shipping and Navigation and paying a Subsidy to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors for every Tun of the said Logwood alias Blockwood so to be Imported after the rate of Five pounds and after that rate for any greater or lesser quantity according to such Rules and under such Penalties as are provided for all other Imported Goods in a late Act Entituled An Act of Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage 12 Car. 2. ca. 4. and other Sums of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported Excepting onely that for all of the said Commodities Exported according to the Rules of the Book of Rates there shall be repaid to the Exporter the Sum of Four pounds per Tun the said Rate for Logwood alias Blockwood to be Collected and Levied for such time and in such manner as by the Act of Tunnage and Poundage is directed and appointed And be it further Enacted That all Actions Suits and Informations to be had and commenced upon the Act For incouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation or any Clause or Article therein may be entred and prosecuted in his Majesties Court of Exchequer at Westminster That upon all such Suits and Informations to be brought upon the Act of Tunnage and Poundage and the Act aforesaid or any other Act or Statute concerning the Importation of Goods or Merchandize from the parts beyond the Seas Onus probandi of property of goods claimed to lie upon the Owner or Claimer if the property thereof be claimed by any person or persons as the Importer thereof in such case Onus Probandi shall lie upon the Owner or Claimer thereof Provided that in case the seizure or Information shall be made upon any Clause or Thing contained in the late Act Entituled An Act for the incouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation Commission and time to examine witnesses beyond the Sea that then the Defendant or Defendants shall on his or their request have a Commission out of the High Court of Chancery to examine Witnesses beyond the Seas and have a competent time allowed for the return thereof before any tryal shall be had upon the Case according to the distance of place where such Commission or Commissions are to be executed and that the Examination of Witnesses so returned shall be admitted for evidence in Law at the Tryal as if it had béen given Viva voce by the Examinate in Court Any Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And be it also Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid In what cases Writs of delivery may be granted That no Writ of Delivery shall be granted out of the Court of Exchequer for Goods Seized but upon good Security and that for Goods perishable onely or in cases where the Informer shall deferor delay his coming to as spéedy a Tryal as the Course of that Court will permit and shall be thereby Ordered and Directed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That one Moyety of all the Forfeitures before in this Act mentioned and appointed shall be to the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other Moyety to such person or persons as shall Seize or Sue for the same by Bill Plaint or Information in his Majesties Court of Exchequer or any other his Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Essoin Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed And be it further Enacted and Ordained That all Officers belonging to the Admiralty All Officers and persons to be aiding the Officers and persons for management of the Customs Captains and Commanders of Ships Forts Castles and Block-houses as also all Iustices of the Peace Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs Constables and Headboroughs and all the Kings Majesties Officers Ministers and Subjects whatsoever whom it may concern shall be aiding and assisting to all and every person and persons which are or shall be appointed by his Majesty to manage his Customes and the Officers of his Majesties Customes and their Respective Deputies in the due Execution of all and every Act and Thing in and by this present Act required and enjoyned And all such who shall be aiding and assisting unto them in the due execution hereof shall be defended and saved harmless by vertue of this Act. And be it hereby also Enacted That all Deputies Clerks and Servants about the Customs to be sworn for their truth and faithfulness therein Clerks and Servants which now have any place or Office in or about the Customs and Subsidies by and under the Commissioners
to spare any person from making such carriage by Land or by Water or shall injuriously charge or grieve any person or persons through envy hatred or evil will who ought not to make such carriage or shall impress more carriages then the necessity of the service shall require or then he shall be commanded to impress by his Superiours That then upon due proof and conviction thereof the party so offending shall forfeit the sum of Ten pounds to the party thereby grieved The penalty and how to be recovered who may sue for the same to be recovered by Action of Debt in any of his Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed And in case any person or persons shall presume to take upon him or them to impress any Horses None may impress other then persons impowered as aforesaid The penalty Oxen Wayns or Carriages for Land or any Ships Hoys Lighters Boats or other Vessel for the service of his Majesties Navy or Ordnance other then the Persons so impowered as aforesaid then he or they so offending shall upon due conviction of the said offence incur and suffer the punishment in the first recited Act. Ships and vessels fraighted by charter-party exempted Provided always and be it Enacted That no Ship Hoy Barque or any other Vessel whatsoever that shall be really and bona fide fraighted by Charter-Party if there be other Vessels in the Port fitting for the Service nor any Vessel quarter laden with any Goods Wares or Merchandises outward bound shall be lyable to be Impressed for any the Services aforesaid Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding The continuance of this Act. Provided That this Act and the Powers therein contained shall continue and be in force untill the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer Any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Inhabitants of the new Forest of Southampton Provided nevertheless That in regard of the more then ordinary charge and burden which the Inhabitants of New-Forest in the County of Southampton will be liable unto by reason of the great quantities of Timber usually felled and carried thence for the use of His Majesties Navy It shall and may be lawful for the Iustices of the Peace who shall by Warrant summon the Carts and Carriages within the Division of the New-Forest in the County of Southampton aforesaid to have power as to the Carriage of Timber onely to allow as aforesaid to the several Owners of such Carts and Carriages not excéeding Four pence per mile for so many miles as any Cart or Carriage so summoned shall go empty to the place of its lading Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding CAP. XXI For preventing the unnecessary Charge of Sheriffs and for ease in passing their Accompts WHereas the Office of Sheriff as well by reason of the great and unnecessary Charges in the time of Assises and other publick méetings as by the tedious attendance and charge of Sheriffs in passing of their Accompts in the Exchequer hath of late years béen very burthensome to the Gentry of this Your Realm who in the late times of Tyranny and Oppression have béen great Sufferers and thereby much Impoverished in their Estates and Fortunes for remedy wherein Your Majesties most Loyal Subjects the Knights Citizens and Burgesses assembled in Parliament do most humbly beseech Your most Excellent Majesty that it may be Declared and Enacted And be it Declared and Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That no Person or Persons being duly sworn into the Office of Sheriff for any County or Shire within this Your Majesties Realm shall from and after the First day of February next ensuing Sheriffs at the Assises may keep no tables for others then of their own Family and Retinue Nor make no present or gift to any Iudge of Assise The number of Servants with Liveries in England Wales Penalty of 200 l. in the time of the Assises held for the said County or Shire during his or their Sherifalty kéep or maintain or cause to be kept or maintained one or more Table or Tables for Receipt or entertainment of any person or persons resorting to the said Assises other then those that shall be of his own Family or Retinue nor shall make or send in any Present to any Iudge or Iudges of Assise for his or their provision nor give any gratuity to his or their Officers or Servants or any of them And also that no Sheriff shall after the said first day of February have more then Forty Men-servants with Liveries attending upon him in the time of the said Assises nor under the number of Twenty Men-servants in any County whatsoever within the Kingdom of England nor under the number of Twelve Men-servants in any County within the Dominion of Wales upon pain that every Sheriff offending in any of the premisses contrary to the true meaning hereof shall forfeit for every default the sum of two hundred pounds Provided that nothing before in this Act contained shall in any wise extend unto Proviso for Sheriffs of London Middlesex Westmerland and Cities Counties or any ways concern the Sheriffs of the City of London and Middlesex and the Sheriff of Westmerland or either of them or any of the Sheriffs of or belonging to any City and County or Town and County within this Realm but that the same Sheriff or Sheriffs shall or may do as heretofore hath béen used or accustomed within the said County of Middlesex and Cities of London and Westminster and such other Cities and Counties or Towns and Counties aforesaid Any thing herein before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding How Sheriffs shall be eased in passing their accompts in the Exchequer And to the end that Sheriffs may for the time future be eased of the great charge and trouble which they heretofore have béen put to in passing their Accounts in the Exchequer occasioned partly in regard that divers sums of money have stood charged upon them in gross without expressing from what persons for what cause or out of what Lands or Tenements the same are to be particularly levied or out of what particulars the said sums in gross do arise whereby it cometh to pass that the said Sheriffs do still stand charged in gross with divers sums of money which were heretofore payable by Abbots Priors persons attainted and such other persons whose Estates have since come to the Crown or are otherwise discharged or illeviable and partly by the Accompt of Seizures or Foreign Accompt and by the exaction of undue Fées of Sheriffs upon their apposal concerning the same For the preventing whereof and for the future
it was further Enacted That no Groats or Half-groats shall be moulten by any man to make Vessel or other thing thereof upon the same pain And whereas divers persons do elude the said Statutes as well Goldsmiths as others by melting Silver-Coyns of this Realm above the value of Groats to the great diminishing of the Silver-Coyn of this Realm and the hindrance of the Commerce of the same 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 Authority of the same That no person or persons whatsoever shall after the Twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty two None shall melt currant Silver Money The Penalty wilfully melt or cause to be melted any of the currant Silver-money of this Realm upon pain not only of forfeiture of the same but also of the double value of any such Coyn so melted the one half to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors the other half to the Informers who shall sue for the same upon Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts at Westminster in which no Essoign Wager of Law or Protection shall be allowed And moreover That the said person or persons offending contrary to the Tenor of this Act if he or they be a Fréeman or Fréemen or priviledged person or persons of any City or Corporation within this Kingdom of England shall upon legal conviction for the same be forthwith disfranchised and made uncapable of exercising the Trade of a Goldsmith or any other Mystery by vertue of the Priviledges of the City or Corporation of which he or they are members And if the said person or persons offending and convict as aforesaid shall not be a Fréeman or Fréemen or priviledged person or persons of any City or Corporation as aforesaid then he or they shall suffer imprisonment without Bail or Mainprize for the space of Six moneths next ensuing his or their Conviction as aforesaid CAP. XXXII The Manufacture of Broad Woollen Cloth within the West-Riding of the County of York Regulated WHereas divers abuses and deceits have of late years béen had and used in the Manufacture of Broad Woollen Cloth made within the West-Riding of the County of York and the spinning and deceitful working thereof which tends to the great debasing and undervaluation of the said Manufacture both at home and also in Forreign parts where the same is usually vended For prevention of all which abuses and deceipts It is Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled in Parliament That from and after the next Monday after Easter which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two there be and shall be a Corporation to continue for ever within the said West-Riding of the County of York consisting of all the Iustices of the Peace of the said West-Riding for the time being A Corporation of Clothiers in the West-Riding of Yorkshire Two Masters Ten Wardens Twelve Assistants and Commonalty All which said Masters Wardens and Assistants are to be of the ablest and best experienced Clothiers within the said West-Riding and such as have served and béen brought up in the Trade and Mystery of Clothing by the space of seven years according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm One of which said Masters Five of which said Wardens and Six of which said Assistants shall be chosen the first Monday after Pentecost then next following and from thenceforth to be yearly and every year chosen upon the next Monday after Pentecost at some publique place by the Frée Clothiers of the said West-Riding inhabiting within the Parish of Leeds in the said County of York the greater part of them present at such Election and the other Master Five Wardens and Six Assistants shall be chosen upon the same days at some publique place by the Frée Clothiers inhabiting out of the said Town and Parish of Leeds or the greater part of them present at the said Election of the parts adjacent within the said West-Riding And in case any of the said Masters Wardens and Assistants after their said respective Elections do happen to die that then it shall and may be lawful at any Court to be holden next after such Decease to Elect others in their respective places And the said Wardens Masters and Assistants respectively shall within eight days after their first Choice and Election take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy which any two Iustices of the Peace within the West-Riding whereof one to be of the Quorum have hereby power to Administer and also the ensuing Oath Viz. I A. B. do swear The Oath to be taken by the Master Wardens and Assistants That I will well faithfully and honestly perform and discharge the Office of a Master of the Corporation of the Free Clothiers according to the best of my Skill Power and Knowledge So help me God And the like Oath and Oaths to be Administred to the Wardens and Assistants respectively mutatis mutandis And for ever after the said Iustices of the Peace Masters Wardens and Assistants and their Successors or any Thirtéen of them shall and have hereby power to Administer the like Oath or Oaths to such Officer or Officers faithfully and honestly to perform and discharge his and their said Office and Offices to which he or they are and shall be so chosen by this Act at any Court to be by them holden in manner hereafter declared And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Iustices of the Peace Who shall be of the said Corporation for ever and how called Masters Wardens and Assistants for the time being together with the said Frée Clothiers of the said West-Riding shall for ever hereafter in name and in fact be one Body Politique and Corporate in Law to all intents and purposes and shall have a perpetual Succession and be called by the name of the Supervisors Masters Wardens Assistants and Commonalty of the Trade or Mysterie of Clothiers for the well making of Broad Woollen Cloth within the West-Riding of the County of York and that they shall be enabled to Plead and Sue and to be Sued and Impleaded by that name in all Courts and Places of Iudicature within this Kingdom And by that name shall and may without Licence in Mortmain purchase take or receive any Lands Tenements or Hereditameats of the Gift Alienation or Demise of any person or persons who are hereby without further Licence enabled to transfer the same and any Goods and Chattels whatsoever for the use and benefit of the Corporation aforesaid not excéeding the yearly value of Two hundred pounds And for the better Regulation of the said Goverment of the said Trade and Manufacture the said Iustices of the Peace Masters
power to Administer as followeth The Oath to be taken by Searchers I A. B. do swear that I shall well and truly execute the Office of Searcher of Broad Woollen Cloth within the West-Riding of the County of York according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm and according to the best of my Skill and Knowledge So help me God And be it further Enacted That if any Searcher shall fail in the due Execution of his Office contrary to his Oath and Laws and Statutes in that case made and provided every such Searcher shall forfeit and lose for such Fault or not setting to such Seal of Lead as aforesaid Five pounds Penalty upon Searchers And that it shall and may be lawful to and for any other Searcher in the West-Riding taking with him one of the said Wardens of the said Corporation to research any of the said Clothes Any thing in any former Statute to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding The Authority and power of the Searchers And it is further Enacted That it shall and may be lawful to and for all and every such Searcher and Searchers from time to time so often as occasion shall require to enter into any Shop house Ware-house or any other place in the day-time of any Clothiers Drapers Cloth-Workers or of any other person or persons whatsoever where any of the said Cloths shall be within the said West-Riding to search for all suspected Cloth And in case of resistance the party so resisting shall forfeit the sum of Ten pounds the one half thereof to His Majesty the other half to the use of the said Corporation And if upon such Search any Broad-Cloth shall be found made of or mixed with Flocks Thrums Goats hair or other deceitful Wooll the said Cloth shall be and is hereby Declared and Enacted to be forfeited And that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Iustices Masters Wardens and Assistants or any thirteen of them at any Court to be by them held as aforesaid to dispose thereof in such manner as by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm the same ought to be disposed None may make broad Cloth but such as have served as apprentizes so Clothiers for 7. years or have been exercised in the Trade for that time The Penalty Housholders and houswifes may not make Cloth to sell not being free of the said Trade The Penalty And be it further Enacted That no person or persons within the said West-Riding who hath not served as an Apprentice to the Trade of Clothier for the space of Seven years or have not béen exercised therein by the like space of seven years before shall make any Broad-Cloth to sell under the penalty of five pounds for every Moneth that he she or they shall continue to exercise the said Trade excepting such persons only as now be in the actual use and exercise of the said Trade That one moyetie thereof to be paid to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other moyetie to the use of the said Corporation And that no Housholder or Houswife within the said West-Riding or elsewhere within the said County not being frée of the said Trade of Clothiers or not having béen exercised therein as aforesaid or not being the widow of any such person as aforesaid shall from the Feast of Pentecost next ensuing make or cause to be made any Woollen Cloth whatsoever unless it be to the use of themselves their Children and Families but not to sell upon pain to forfeit double the value for every Piece of Cloth so made and exposed to sale one moyetie thereof to His Majesty the other moyetie to any person who shall sue for the same in any of His Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Essoin Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed Power to appoint a Clerk Register Treasurer and other Officers And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Iustices Masters Wardens and Assistants or any thirtéen of them are hereby impowred to nominate and appoint a Clerk a Register and Treasurer and such other Officer and Officers to sée the due execution of the several Powers given by this Act as they in their Discretions shall think méet and to give them an Oath or Oaths for the due execution of their several places as aforesaid And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Fines How the fines and forfeitures shall be levied Forfeitures and Penalties imposed or to be levied by virtue of this Act the means and recovery whereof is not otherwise herein provided for and set forth shall be levied by distress and sale of the offender or offenders Goods and Chattels by Warrant from the said Iustices Masters Wardens and Assistants or any thirtéen of them rendring the overplus to the Owner thereof upon demand And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Counterfeiting the Seal of the Corporation That if any person or persons whatsoever shall counterfeit the Seal of the said Corporation he or they so offending shall forfeit the sum of Twenty pounds of often as such person or persons shall upon due proof be found guilty of the same which said forfeiture is to be levyed by distress and sale of the Offenders Goods The Penalty rendring the overplus to the Owner thereof upon demand and for want of such distress such person and persons to be committed to the Common Goal of the County where he or they shall be found by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of any one of the Iustices of the Peace of the said County there to remain without Bail or Mainprize for the space of six moneths or until such person or persons shall have paid the Fine as aforesaid And be it Enacted That all and every Article All clauses in any other Statute contrary to this Act concerning Clothing Repealed Clause and Sentence in any Act of Parliament heretofore made touching and concerning the said abuses of Broad Woollen Clothes in this Act mentioned and being repugnant or contrary to any Article and Sentence in this Act shall as touching the said Clothes only made within the said West-Riding from and after the Feast of St. John Baptist which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two be utterly void to all intents and purposes whatsoever And in all Actions and Suits that shall be brought against any person or persons for Acting in any thing according to the true intent and meaning of this Act the person or persons so sued or molested Persons sued for executing this Act may plead the generall Issue shall or may plead the general Issue of Not guilty and give the special matter in evidence and shall recover double Costs in every such case if the Verdict pass for such person or persons or that the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs be Non-suit therein Provided always That nothing
upon Tweed At which Conventicle Méeting or Assembly there shall be five persons or more assembled together over and above those of the same Houshold Then it shall and may be lawful to and for any two Iustices of the Peace of the County The punishment and manner of proceeding against them for the first offence Limit Division or Liberty wherein the Offence aforesaid shall be committed or for the Chief Magistrate of the place where such Offence aforesaid shall be committed if it be within a Corporation where there are not two Iustices of the Peace And they are hereby required and enjoyned upon proof to them or him respectively made of such offence either by confession of the party or oath of Witness or notorious evidence of the Fact which Oath the said Iustices of the Peace and Chief Magistrate respectively are hereby impowred and required to administer to make a Record of every such offence and offences under their hands and seals respectively which Record so made as aforesaid shall to all intents and purposes be in Law taken and adjudged to be a full and perfect Conviction of every such Offender for such offence And thereupon the said Iustices and Chief Magistrate respectively shall commit every such Offender so convicted as aforesaid to the Gaol or house of Correction there to remain without Bail or Mainprise for any time not excéeding the space of thrée Moneths unless such Offender shall pay down to the said Iustices or Chief Magistrate such sum of money not excéeding five pounds as the said Iustices or Chief Magistrate who are hereby thereunto authorized and required shall Fine the said Offender at for his or her said offence which money shall be paid to the Church-wardens for the relief of the Poor of the Parish where such Offender did last inhabit And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid The second offence That if such Offender so convicted as aforesaid shall at any time again commit the like offence contrary to this Act and be thereof in manner aforesaid convicted Then such Offender so convict of such second offence shall incur the penalty of Imprisonment in the Gaol or house of Correction for any time not excéeding six months without Bail or Mainprise unless such offender shal pay down to the said Iustices or Chief Magistrate such sum of money not excéeding Ten pounds as the said Iustices or Chief Magistrate who are thereunto authorized and required as aforesaid shall Fine the said Offender at for his or her said second offence the said Fine to be disposed in manner aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid The third offence That if any such Offender so convict of a second offence contrary to this Act in manner aforesaid shall at any time again commit the like offence contrary to this Act Then any two Iustices of the Peace and Chief Magistrate as aforesaid respectively shall commit every such Offender to the Gaol or house of Correction there to remain without Bail or Mainprise until the next General Quarter Sessions Assizes Gaol-delivery great Sessions or sitting of any Commission of Oyer and Terminer in the respective County Limit Division or Liberty which shall first happen when and where every such Offender shall be procéeded against by Indictment for such offence and shal forthwith be arraigned upon such Indictment and shall then plead the General Issue of not guilty and give any special matter in Evidence or confess the Indictment And if such Offender procéeded against shall be lawfully convict of such Offence either by Confession or Verdict or if such Offender shal refuse to Plead the General Issue or to confess the Indictment then the respective Iustices of the Peace at their General Quarter-Sessions Iudges of Assize and Gaol-delivery at the Assizes and Gaol-delivery Iustices of the great Sessions at the great Sessions and Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer at their sitting are hereby enabled and required to cause Iudgement to be entred against such Offender That such Offender shall be Transported beyond the Seas to any of His Majesties Foreign Plantations Virginia and New-England onely excepted there to remaine Seven years And shall forthwith under their Hands and Seals make out Warrants to the Sheriff or Sheriffs of the same County where such Conviction or Refusal to Plead or to Confess as aforesaid shall be safely to convey such Offender to some Port or Haven néerest or most commodious to be appointed by them respectively And from thence to Embarque such Offender to be safely Transported to any of his Majesties Plantations beyond the Seas as shall be also by them respectively appointed Virginia and New-England onely excepted Whereupon the said Sheriff shall safely Convey and Embarque or cause to be Conveyed and Embarqued such Offender to be Transported as aforesaid under pain of forfeiting for default of so Transporting every such Offender the sum of forty pounds of lawful money the one Moyety thereof to the King the other Moyety to him or them that shall Sue for the same in any of the Kings Courts of Record by Bill Plaint Action of Debt or Information In any of which no Wager of Law Essoign or Protection shall be admitted And the said respective Court shall then also make out Warrants to the several Constables Headboroughs or Tythingmen of the respective places where the Estate real or personal of such offender so to be Transported shall happen to be commanding them thereby to Sequester into their hands the profits of the Lands and to distrain and sell the Goods of the offender so to be Transported for the reimbursing of the said Sheriff all such reasonable charges as he shall be at and shall be allowed him by the said respective Court for such Conveying and Embarquing of such offender so to be Transported rendring to the party or his or her Assigns the overplus of the same if any be unless such offender or some other on the behalf of such offender so to be Transported shall give the Sheriff such Security as he shall approve of for the paying all the said Charges unto him And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid How Seditious Sectaries convicted may be transported That in default of defraying such Charges by the parties so to be Transported or some other in their behalf or in default of Security given to the Sheriff as aforesaid It shall and may be lawful for every such Sheriff to Contract with any Master of a Ship Merchant or other person for the Transporting of such offender at the best rate he can And that in every such case it shall and may be lawful for such persons so Contracting with any Sheriff for Transporting such offender as aforesaid to detain and employ every such offender so by them Transported as a Labourer to them or their Assigns for the space of Five years to all intents and purposes as if he or she were bound by Indentures to such person for
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
this Act in the exercise of Religion differing from the Rites of the Church of England then every such Kéeper of a Gaol or House of Correction shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of Ten pounds to be Levied Raised and Disposed by such persons The Penalty and in such manner as the penalties for the first and second offences against this Act are to be Levied Raised and Disposed Provided always That no person shall be punished for any offence against this Act Within what time offenders must be prosecuted unless such Offender be prosecuted for the same within Thrée moneths after the offence committed And that no person who shall be punished for any offence by vertue of this Act shall be punished for the same offence by vertue of any other Act or Law whatsoever Provided also and be it Enacted Marryed women how to be punished That Iudgement of Transportation shall not be given against any Feme-Covert unless her husband be at the same time under the like Iudgement and not discharged by the payment of money as aforesaid but that instead thereof she shall by the respective Court be committed to the Goal or House of Correction there to remain without Bail or Mainprise for any time not excéeding Twelve moneths unless her Husband shall pay down such sum not excéeding Forty pounds to redéem her from Imprisonment as shall be imposed by the said Court the said sum to be disposed by such persons and in such manner as the Penalties for the first and second offence against this Act are to be disposed Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Iustices of the Peace How Iustices of the Peace may enter into houses suspected for Conventicles and chief Magistrate respectively Impowered as aforesaid to put this Act in execution shall and may with what aid force and assistance they shall think fit for the better execution of this Act after refusal or denial Enter into any House or other place where they shall be informed and such Conventicle as aforesaid is or shall be held Provided That no Dwelling-house of any Péer of this Realm The houses of Peers whilst he or his Wife shall be there resident shall be searched by vertue of this Act but by immediate Warrant from His Majesty under His Sign Manual or in the presence of the Lieutenant or one of the Deputy-Lieutenants or two Iustices of the Peace whereof one to be of the Quorum of the same County or Riding Nor shall any other Dwelling-house of any Péer or other person whatsoever be entred into with force by vertue of this Act but in the presence of one Iustice of the Peace or chief Magistrate respectively except within the City of London where it shall be lawful for any such other Dwelling-house to be entred into as aforesaid in the presence of one Iustice of the Peace Alderman Deputy-Alderman or any one Commissioner of the Lieutenancy for the City of London Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid What persons may be not committed to the house of Correction That no person shall by vertue of this Act be committed to the house of Correction that shall satisfie the said Iustices of the Peace or Chief Magistrate respectively That he or she and in case of a Feme-Covert that her Husband hath an Estate of Frée-hold or Copy-hold to the value of Five pounds per annum or personal estate to the value of Fifty pounds Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding And in regard a certain Sect called Quakers and other Sectaries Persons served with Process refusing to take an Oath 14 Car. 2. cap. 1. are found not only to offend in the matters provided against by this Act but also to obstruct the procéeding of Iustice by their obstinate refusal to take Oaths lawfully tendered unto them in the ordinary course of Law Therefore be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person or person being duly and legally served with Process or other Summons to appear in any Court of Record except Courts-Léet as a Witness or returned to serve of any Iury or ordered to be examined upon Interrogatories or being present in Court shall refuse to take any Iudicial Oath legally tendered to him by the Iudge or Iudges of the same Court having no legal Plea to justifie or excuse the refusal of the same Oath or if any person or persons being duly served with Process to answer any Bill exhibited against him or them in any Court of Equity or any Suit in any Court Ecclesiastical shal refuse to answer such Bill or Suit upon his or their Corporal Oath in cases where the Law requires such answer to be put in upon Oath or being summoned to be a Witness in any such Court or ordered to be examined upon Interrogatories shall for any cause or reason not allowed by Law refuse to take such Oath as in such cases is required by Law That then and in such case the several and respective Courts wherein such refusal shall be made shall be The Penalty and are hereby enabled to Record Enter or Register such refusal which Record or Entry shall be and is hereby made a Conviction of such offence And all and every person and persons so as aforesaid offending shall for every such offence incur the Iudgement and Punishment of Transportation in such manner as is appointed by this Act for other offences Provided always That if any the person or persons aforesaid shall come into such Court How such persons may be acquitted and take his or their Oath in these words I do swear that I do not hold the taking of an Oath to be unlawful nor refuse to take a◠Oath on that account Which Oath the respective Court and Courts aforesaid are hereby authorized and required forthwith to tender administer and register before the Entry of the Conviction aforesaid or shall take such Oath before some Iustice of the Peace who is hereby authorized and required to administer the same to be returned into such Court such Oath so made shall acquit him or them from such punishment Any thing herein to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always That every person convicted as aforesaid in any Courts aforesaid other then His Majesties Court of Kings Bench or before the Iustices of Assize or General Gaol-Delivery shall by Warrant conteining a Certificate of such Conviction under the hand and seal of the respective Iudge or Iudges before whom such Conviction shall be had be sent to some one of His Majesties Gaols in the same County where such Conviction was had there to remain without Bail or Mainprize until the next Assizes or General Gaol-Delivery where if such person so convicted shall refuse to take the Oath aforesaid being tendered unto him by the Iustice or Iustices of Assize or Gaol-Delivery then such Iustice or Iustices shall cause Iudgement of Transportation to be
County of Lincoln with the City and County of the City of Lincoln the sum of Two thousand five hundred seventy five pounds two shillings The City of London with the Liberty of S. Martins le grand the sum of Five thousand ninety one pounds eleven shillings and four pence The County of Middlesex with the City and Liberty of VVestminster the sum of Two thousand two hundred and forty pounds ten shillings The County of Monmouth the sum of Thrée hundred and ninety pounds The County of Northampton the sum of One thousand four hundred and thirtéen pounds eightéen shillings and two pence The County of Nottingham with the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham the sum of Eight hundred seventy thrée pounds eight shillings The County of Norfolk the sum of Thrée thousand thrée hundred seventy pounds twelve shillings The City and County of the City of Norwich the sum of One hundred and eighty pounds The County of Northumberland with the Towns of Newcastle and Berwick upon Tweed the sum of Thrée hundred seventy two pounds fiftéen shillings and eight pence The County of Oxon the sum of Eleven hundred thirty five pounds ten shillings and eight pence The County of Rutland the sum of Two hundred and forty pounds eight shillings and eleven pence The County of Salop the sum of One thousand two hundred and thrée pounds fourtéen shillings and two pence The County of Stafford the sum of Eight hundred fifty two pounds eleven shillings and eight pence The City and County of the City of Litchfield the sum of Thirtéen pounds The County of Somerset the sum of Two thousand seven hundred seventy one pound ten shillings and eight pence The City and County of the City of Bristol the sum of One hundred ninety nine pounds eight shillings and four pence The County of Southampton with the Town and County of Southampton and Isle of VVight the sum of Two thousand one hundred eighty nine pounds eight shillings and eight pence The County of Suffolk the sum of Thrée thousand two hundred ninety eight pounds ten shillings and eight pence The County of Surry with the Burrough of Southwark the sum of One thousand five hundred ninety seven pound and two pence The County of Sussex the sum of One thousand eight hundred twenty one pounds seven shillings and nine pence The County of VVarwick with the City and County of the City of Coventry the sum of One thousand one hundred ninety two pounds eight shillings and nine pence The County of Worcester the sum of One thousand fifty thrée pounds and ninetéen shillings The City and County of the City of VVorcester the sum of Fifty five pounds nine shillings and six pence The County of Wilts the sum of One thousand nine hundred sixty six pounds seventéen shillings and seven pence The County of Westmerland the sum of One hundred and sixtéen pounds The Isle of Anglesey the sum of One hundred twenty five pounds thirtéen shillings and eight pence The County of Brecknock the sum of Two hundred eighty two pounds ten shillings and five pence half-peny The County of Cardigan the sum of One hundred and five pounds fiftéen shillings and nine pence half-peny The County of Carmarthen the sum of Two hundred seventy two pounds six shillings and eight pence The County of Carnarvan the sum of One hundred forty six pounds twelve shillings and two pence The County of Denbigh the sum of Two hundred twenty thrée pounds ten shillings and seven pence The County of Flint the sum of One hundred and eightéen pounds seventéen shillings and four pence The County of Glamorgan the sum of Thrée hundred seventy eight pounds seventéen shillings and ten pence The County of Merioneth the sum of One hundred pounds sixtéen shillings and a peny The County of Mountgomery the sum of Two hundred seventy six pounds twelve shillings and two pence The County of Pembrook the sum of Thrée hundred twenty six pounds and ten shillings The County of Radnor the sum of One hundred seventy four pounds six shillings and eight pence The Town of Haverford West the sum of Fiftéen pounds thrée shillings and five pence And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the persons hereafter named shall be Commissioners of and for the severall and respective Counties Cities Burroughs Towns and places hereafter named that is to say Bedford For the County of Bedford William Russel Esquire Sir Beauchampe St. John Knight Sir Samuel Brown Knight one of the Iustices of the Common Pleas Sir John Keeling Knight one of the Iustices of the Kings Bench Sir John Cotton Sir Lodowick Dyer Sir John Napler Sir Roger Burgoine Sir Thomas Alstone Sir Humphrey Winch Sir Humphrey Monox Sir St. John Charnock Baronets Sir Henry Chester Knight of the Bath Sir Will. Fleetwood Sir Will. Palmer of Warden-street Sir Will. Palmer of Hill Sir John Duncombe Sir William Beecher Sir Edward Cater Sir George Blundel sir Clement Armiger sir John Huxley Knights Pawlet St. John Richard Tayler Stephen Anderson Will. Spencer Oliver Luke Francis Crawley St. John Thompson Thomas Snagg William Boteler John Keeling John Osbourne John Vaux John Alston John Coppen Francis Wingate William Gerey Walter Carey Francis Dive William Franklin George Wyan Gaius Squire James Mountague Samuel Cotton John Neale John Cockane Thomas Cheyne John Ventris Robert Crompton Thomas Rolt Robert Audley Matthew Denton Simon Grey Matthew Dennis William Foster Richard Orlibee the elder Thomas Cobb Jasper Edwards Samuel Bedford Esquires For the Town of Bedford The Mayor of Bedford for the time being William Russel Esquire Sir Humphrey Winch Sir John Napier Baronets Pawlet St. John Richard Tayler William Foster John Gardiner Esquires Thomas Cristy William Risely Simon Becket Robert Beverley William Scot John Beaumont Thomas Fitzhugh Alderman Crawley Richard Elmes John Cobb and John Spencer the elder Gentlemen Berks. For the County of Berks Charles Earl of Ancram in the Kingdom of Scotland Sir George Cartwright Baronet Vice-Chamberlain to his Majesty John Lovelace Esquire Sir George Stonehouse Sir George Prat Sir Richard Braham Sir Thomas Draper Sir Thomas Rich Sir Henry Winchcombe Sir William Backhouse Sir Anthony Craven Sir Caesar Colclough Sir John Fettyplace Sir Thomas Clergys Baronets Sir Richard Powle Knight of the Bath Sir Edmond Sawyer Sir Robert Pye Sir William Armorer Sir Thomas Dolman Sir John Davis Sir Richard Bishop Knights Richard Nevil Humphrey Hyde Richard Harrison William Barker George Purifoy Peregrin Hobby Robert Packer Richard Aldworth Thomas Fettiplace George Fettiplace John Harrison Anthony Barker Henry Procter John Blagrave Francis Piggot Hungerford Dunch William Trumbal William Dormar John Elwes Thomas Garret John Southby William Wilmot William James William Barker of Hurst Edward Keale William Nelson Hartgell Baron Richard Jones William Tayler Edward Dalby Paul Calton Thomas Sanders Charles Whitacre Humphrey Hide senior of Hurst Humphrey Hide junior of Kingston Edward Hobby Richard Palmer John Hartsey Esquires William Offley Doctor in
Laws Francis Hungerford Doctor of Physick William Hamersley George Blagrave John Kendrick John Allen Robert Leigh Nicholas Hide Peregrin Wilcox Thomas Southby William Langton John Due Francis Peacock Michael Mallet Henry Murrey Esquires Iohn Peacock Robert Goston James Heron Philip Weston Henry Barker Iohn Powney Roger Draper Richard Lovelace William Hussey Roger Knight Charles Pierce Richard Punt Gentleman the Mayor of Reading for the time being the Mayor of Abington for the time being the Mayor of Newbury for the time being the Mayor of Windsor for the time being the Mayor of VVallingford for the time being Bucks For the County of Bucks Charles Earl of Ancram in the Kingdom of Scotland Philip Lord Wainman Viscount Tuam in the Kingdom of Ireland James Herbert Esquire Sir Thomas Tirrel one of the Iustices of the Common Pleas Sir Richard Temple Knight of the Bath and Baronet Sir Toby Tyrrel Sir John Burlace Sir Anthony Chester Sir Thomas Proby Sir William Bowyer sir William Smith sir Ralph Varney sir William Drake sir Thomas Hampson sir Henry Andrews sir John Croke Baronets Sir William Tyrringham sir Richard Ingoldsby sir Robert Gayer Knights of the Bath Sir Edmond Pye Knight and Baronet sir Thomas Lee sir Richard Napper sir Richard Pigget sir Henry Herbert sir John Dormer sir Thomas Cleyton sir Robert Croke Sir Thomas Clergies Sir George Tash Knights William Fleetwood Charles Cheyne Edmond Waller senior Edmond Waller junior William Penn Edmond West Brett Norton Thomas Duncombe Thomas Hackett William Lane John Eglestone Richard Barringer Edward Nicholas Thomas Farrers senior Caesar Cranmore Thomas Risley Roger Price Peter Dorrel Thomas Saunders Francis Ingoldsby Edmond Dorrel George Russel Richard Winwood Richard Greenvile Robert Scawen Bud Wase Thomas Tirrel Robert Napper Edmond Hampden Iohn Clark Robert Croke Richard Hampden William Burlace Bazil Brent William Hill Thomas Farrer junior Ambrose Bennet James Low Thomas Stafford Robert Levet Charles Doe Robert Tompkins Bernard Tourney Thomas Egleton Robert Dormer Francis Tyrringham George Wyan William Cleaver William Abraham Captain Robert Style John Grubbe Esquires Iohn Green Henry Allnot James Perrat George Gosnal Gentlemen the Bayliff of Buckingham for the time being John Risley Roger Price Peter Dorrel junior Esquires John Smith William Lambert and John Tournour Gentlemen Cambridge For the County of Cambridge William Lord Allington of the Kingdom of Ireland Sir Dudley North Knight of the Bath Sir Thomas Hatton Sir John Cotton Sir Thomas Willis Sir John Cutts Sir George Downeing Baronets Sir Thomas Wendy Knight of the Bath Sir Thomas Dayrel Sir Isaac Thornton Sir Robert Cotton Knights Thomas Chichley Levinus Bennet John Millisent Samuel Fortrey Thomas Storey Thomas Ducket William Sayer Humphrey Gardner George Pepis Thomas Dodd Mildmay Dowman Jeoffrey Nightingal William Aloff _____ Pike Thomas Bucke _____ Dalton John Bing Thomas Martin and William Legate Esquires For the Vniversity and Town of Cambridge the Vice-Chancellor the Mayor for the time being William Lord Allington of the Kingdom of Ireland Theophilus Dillingham James Fleetwood Richard Minshal Doctors of Divinity Robert King Doctor of the Laws Thomas Crouch Clement Nevile Esquires Roger Pepis Esquire Recorder Samuel Spalding John Ewen William Wells John Herring Aldermen Sir Thomas Slater Baronet Robert Eade Edward Stoyte Doctors of Physick and Nicholas Jacob Esquire Isle of Ely For the Isle of Ely Richard Lord Gorges of the Kingdom of Ireland William Colvile Thomas March Matthew Wren Charles Wren Edward Partherich William Fisher Thomas Steward Robert Steward Henry Hitch Doctor of Law Robert Balam Thomas Castel Laurence Oxborough John Towers Anthony Backworth John Childe junior William Balam Thomas Edwards William March Michael Holman Matthew Taylor Roger Jenings and John Delavall Esquires Chester For the County of Chester Robert Lord Cholmundeley of the Kingdom of Ireland VVilliam Lord Brereton of the Kingdom of Ireland Sir Thomas Delves Sir Willoughby Aston Sir Thomas Powel Sir George Warberton Sir Peter Leicester Sir Thomas Manwaring Sir Thomas Smith junior Sir John Bellet Sir Peter Pindor Sir Richard Brooks Sir William Stanley Baronets Sir John Booth Sir Philip Egerton Sir Peter Brooks Sir John Ardern Sir Robert Cotton Sir Foulk Lucy Sir Jeoffrey Shakerley Knights Peter Venables Baron of Kinderton Thomas Needham Thomas Cholmundeley George Vernon Robert Patton Henry Bunbury Henry Leigh Thomas Leigh of Adlington Richard Leigh of Lyme John Crew of Crew Thomas Marbury Edward Warren Edward Leigh Edward Hyde John Crew of Utkinton Roger Wilbraham Nathaniel Booth Peter Dutton John Daniel Randel Dodd John Leech Richard Wathal Edward Glegg Roger King John Davenport of Widford Thomas Glasier Somerford Oldfeild Edward Swettenham Peers Legh John Ward Ralph Wilbraham William Brock John Hulstone John Shalcrosse Edward Downs of Worth Ralph Baskerfeild of Winnington and Thomas Ley Esquires City of Chester For the City and County of the City of Chester The Mayor for the time being Sir Thomas Smith Baronet Sir Thomas Smith Knight Richard Leiveing Esquire Recorder of Chester John Radcliff Esquire Thomas Throppe William Crumpton Thomas Cook Cowper William Street and _____ Ince Aldermen Cornwall For the County of Cornwall Sir William Morice Principal Secretary of State Robert Robertes Hender Robertes Esquires Sir Chichester Wrey Sir John Trelawney Knights and Baronets Sir John Carew Baronet Sir Edward Vivian Knight and Baronet Sir John Coryton Sir William Godolphin Baronets Sir Francis Godolphin Sir Richard Edgecombe Sir Nicholas Slanning Knights of the Bath Sir Peter Killigrew Sir Peter Courtney Sir John Arundle Sir Samuel Coswarth Sir James Smith Sir Walter Moyle Knights Henry Seymour Jonathan Trelawney Richard Arundle Pearce Edgecombe Hugh Boscawen Francis Buller Charles Trevanion Charles Roscarrock John Specket John Elliot John Tanner Francis Edgecombe Nathaniel Moyle Bernard Greenvile John Trelawney William Pendarvis William Scawen William Trevisa William Bond Edward Boscawen Christopher Cooke Nicholas Glyn Thomas Herle Viol Vivian James Praed John Jonock Samuel Trelawnye John St. Aubin John Nichols of Trewane John Nicoll of Littlewood Arthur Fortescue John Vivian Oliver Saule William Mohun Hanibal Bugins Lewis Tremane Richard Hawkes Colan Blewett John Bleigh Henry Spoure senior Jonathan Rashley senior Jonathan Rashley junior John Rashley Robert Hoblin Christopher Bond Thomas Burell Thomas Robinson John Thomas Richard Erisey Christopher Harris Francis Grigger Humphrey Courtney John Buller Charles Boscawen Robert Scawen Thomas Waddon Tristram Arscott William Cotton Edward Nosworthy George Heale John Polwheele Digory Polwheele Nicholas Arundle John Arundle of Sythney Hugh Jones John Penrose Edmond Prideaux Joseph Tredinnam James Bond William Godolphin Edward Elliot Richard Hoblyn Richard Pendarvis Hugh Trevanion junior Nathaniel Trevanion Francis Penrose John Fowel Ezekiel Arundle Richard Rouse Walter Kendall John Kendall Walter Langdon senior Walter Langdon junior Iohn Battersbye Henry Spoure senior Joseph Nicholls Charles Grills Arthur Sprye John Vacye William Sprye Francis Calmadie Humphry Noye John Harris Edward Harris Nicholas Courtney Thomas Achim William Painter Thomas Hawkey Andrew Corye Michael Hill of Wendron John Carnesewe Samuel Ennis John
being John Lord Viscount Scudamore in the Kingdome of Ireland Roger Vaughan Herbert Westfaling Thomas Price Esquires William Gregory Richard Philpots William Philips James Lawrence Thomas Homes Thomas Painard Thomas Bond William Edwin Aldermen Edward Alderne Doctor of Laws Edward Rodd Nicholas Philpots John Smith Mercer Hugh Rodd Thomas Symmonds Roger Bouleot and John Barnes Gentlemen Hertford For the County of Hertford Sir Edward Turnor Speaker of the House of Commons Thomas Lord Viscount Fanshaw of the Kingdome of Ireland Sir Thomas Fanshaw Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath William Cecil Algernon Cecil William Willoughby Esquires Sir Harbotle Grimstone Baronet Master of the Rolls Sir Edward Atkins one of the Barons of His Majesties Court of Exchequer Sir Thomas Leventhorp Sir Brocket Spencer Sir Jonathan Keat Sir Erasmus Harby Sir Thomas Allen Baronets Sir Richard Atkins Sir Richard Francklyne Sir Richard Lucy Knights and Baronets Sir Philip Boteler Knight of the Bath Sir Thomas Dacres Sir John Harrison Sir Francis Boteler Sir Henry Caesar sir William Godbold sir Rowland Litton sir John Gore sir Harry Coninsby sir John Watts sir Henry Blunt sir Humphrey Gore sir John Hale sir William Glascocke sir Robert Josceline sir Richard Comb sir Walter Walker Knights Thomas Docwra James VVillimot Richard Goulstone Thomas Dacres Edward VVingate John Copping Arthur Bolter Thomas Stanley John Heydon Robert Ashton William Glascocke William Hale Arthur Sparkes John Fotherly _____ Crafts of Nerthall John Halsey William Harbord John Jesson Edward Atkins William Cotton Albon Cox John Briscoe Ralph Freeman senior Robert Hobotham Richard Jennings Edmond Smith Robert Sadler Henry Chancy Ralph Freeman junior Humphrey Shalcross Henry Guy VVilliam Nuce Thomas Offley Henry Dunstar Alexander Meade Richard Gammon Esquires Edward Cason George Needham Ralph Gore Henry Becher Marmaduke Royden Edward Briscoe George Bromely John Ellis Edmond Field William Greenhill Edward Crosby Alexander Weild Gentlemen Captain William Minoes Thomas Arris Robert Dean Doctors of Physick and the Mayor of Hertford for the time being St. Albans For the Borough of St. Albans Algernon Cecil Esquire Sir Harbotle Grimstone Master of the Rolls Sir Richard Francklin Sir Harry Conisby Sir Richard Combe Sir John VVhittwrong Knights the Mayor for the time being John Simpson Esquire Recorder Robert Rohotham Edmond Smith Thomas Docwra Robert Sadler Richard Jenings VVilliam Cotton Iohn Jesson Alban Cox Esquires Thomas Arris Doctor of Physick Thomas Cowley senior Thomas Cowley junior William Marston Thomas Oxton Edward Eames Iohn Gape Iohn New and Robert New Aldermen Huntington For the County of Huntington Charles Lord Le de Spencer son and heir apparent to Mildmay Earl of Westermland Robert Viscount Mandevil Son and Heir apparent to Edward Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of His Majesties Houshold Sir Francis Compton Knight George Mountague Esquire Sir John Cotton Sir John Hewet Sir Thomas Proby Sir Robert Bernard Baronets Stephen Anderson John Stone John Bernard Henry Williams Robert Appreece Lyonel Walden Nicholas Johnson Sutton Ashfeild Nicholas Peadley Lawrence Torkinton John Heron Robert Pain Anthony South Richard Elmes Thomas Rouse Richard Nailer Jasper Trice Gerrard Cater John Ferrer Richard Wyn Esquires Thomas Colestone Thomas Shepherd William Sparrow Gentleman and Thomas Walwin Mayor of Huntington Town of Huntington For the Town of Huntington The Mayor for the time being Robert Viscount Mandevil son and heir apparent to Edward Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of His Majesties Houshold Sir John Cotton Baronet Sir Robert Bernard Henry VVilliams Lyonel Walden Nicholas Pedley Esquires Richard Astre Lawrence Torkington John Barnard Richard Weaver Thomas Judson and James Faireside Aldermen Kent For the County of Kent Charles Lord Buckhurst son and heir apparent to Richard Earl of Dorset Philip Viscount Strangford in the Kingdom of Ireland James Herbert John Tufton Richard Tufton Esquires Sir Thomas Twisden One of the Iustices of the Kings Bench Sir Heneage Finch His Majesties Solicitor General Sir Thomas Peyton Sir Roger Twisden Sir Edward Hales Sir Edward Monins Sir Henry Palmer Sir John Rivers sir John Sidley Sir William Meredith Sir Edward Deering Sir Thomas Style Sir Oliver Botteler Sir Norton Knatchbull Sir Peter Heyman sir John Tufton Sir John Raney Sir Richard Hardres Sir Henry Wood Sir Robert Hales Sir Bazil Dixwell Sir VVilliam Ducy sir Marmaduke Gresham sir William Wilde sir Stephen Leonard sir Humphrey Miller sir Edward Honywood sir John Marsham sir John Banckes sir Robert Barnham Baronets sir Nathaniel Powell sir Robert Austen sir John Seyliard sir John Wroth sir Jonathan Keate Baronets Sir George Sonds Knight of the Bath sir John Mennes Comptroller of His Majesties Navy sir Robert Honywood sir Anthony Aucher sir Isaac Sydley sir VVilliam Man sir Thomas Godfrey sir Richard Sandys sir Thomas Engham sir Arnold Braems sir Henry Oxinden sir Edward Master sir George Juxon sir VVilliam Brodnax sir John Darrel sir Thomas Scot sir Francis Clerke sir Edward Filmore sir Thomas Culpeper sir Theophilus Biddolph sir Richard Betenson sir VVilliam Leech sir Edmond Peirce sir William Boreman sir Bernard Hyde sir William Swan sir Anthony Bateman sir Walter Vane sir John Heath Attourney of the Dutchy sir Thomas Lee sir William Hugeson sir William de Laune Knights sir William Cage Knight Thomas Broome Serjeant at Law Silas Titus Groom of His Majesties Bedchamber Thomas Hardres Recorder of the City of Canterbury Captain John Stroude Lieutenant of Dover Castle John Boys of Fredvil Richard Master Thomas Culpeper of Hackington Thomas Peke Thomas Crispe of Queux Walter Braems Thomas Brodnax Edward Master Thomas Turner William Rooke John Boys of Hoade John Best John Cason Henry Oxinden of Brooke Richard Aldworth Esquire Doctor John Sabin Herbert Randolph Gentleman Nicholas Toke Henry Thornehill John Knatchbull James Brockman Maurice Diggs Henry Deering Edward Hales Richard Hulse John Nayler Esquires Robert Lewkenor Peter Heymon John Moyle Zouch Brockman John Nowrs Gentlemen Thomas Fludd William Cage Francis Barneham Maximilian Dallison Ferdinando Marsham Demetrius James George Curteis Thomas Knatchbul Richard Wilkinson John Mum Ralph Bufkin Walter Franklin Richard Marsh Thomas English Robert Oliver John Smith Thomas Harlakenden Henry Haughton Alabaster Fludd Francis Twisden Captain John Clerke Thomas Lake Recorder of Maidstone Richard Duke William Maddox Esquires The Mayor of Rochester for the time being Richard Allen Recorder of Rochester George Newman Richard Manley George May Richard Head Charles Bickerstaffe Robert Fowler Francis Barrel Esquire Stephen Alcocke senior Thomas Manley Gentleman Laurence Booke Thomas Brewer Robert Masters Samuel Boys William Boys Thomas Culpeper of Bedgbury Edward Finch John Horsemanden Anthony Fowle Robert Fowle John Hugeson John Bunce Thomas Lambert David Polhill Philip Packer George Polhill Henry Gilburn William Hooker John Scott Mark Cottle John Hyde Norton Curteys Robert Heath Francis Heath John Austin John Evelin William Swan John Seyliard Nicholas Tooke senior James Fortrey Nicholas Tooke junior William Boothby Christopher Allanson _____ Bevin Thomas Manning _____ Petley John Bridger _____ Farnaby Edward Badby John Sedley Esquires James
Andrew Newport Esquires Sir Thomas Woolrich sir VVilliam Whitmore sir Francis Lawley sir Walter Acton sir Henry-Frederick Thinne sir Vincent Corbet sir Thomas Littleton sir Francis Edwards sir Henry Vernon sir Humphrey Briggs Baronet sir Thomas Whitmore Knight of the Bath sir Richard Prince sir John Weld sir Richard Ottly sir VVilliam Child and sir Henry Herbert Knights sir Job Charleton Sergeant at Law and Chief Iustice of Chester Timothy Littleton Sergeant at Law VVilliam Fowler Timothy Turner Philip Eyton Richard Scriven Francis Thornes Charles Mannering James Laten Robert Sandford Roger Kinneston Thomas Bawdwine Robert Leighton Philip Prince Francis Charlton Thomas Owen of Cow-dover Edward Kynerstone Samuel Wingfield Thomas Whitmore George Weld George Ludlow Thomas Rocke Charles Baldwin Robert Charleton Henry Barnard Thomas Powis Thomas Kettelesby Robert Corbet of the Hall of Hussey Thomas Holland John Coates VVilliam Oakeley Edmond Waring of Owldbury Somerset Fox Richard Fowler John Walcot Adam Ottly Thomas Walcot Robert Cresset John Cole Robert Owen Edward Powel Thomas Lloyd Thomas Lockier Thomas Smalman John Lacon Thomas Lockard John Kynestone VVilliam Owen of Porkington John Newton Thomas Kynnersley of Badger VVilliam Cotton Richard Mitton Francis Forester VVilliam Jones of Sandford Rowland Hill Vincent Edwards Henry Goodrick John Trevor Thomas Ireland Thomas Jones Richard Creswel Thomas Harris John Corbet of Adderley Edward Vernon Thomas Acton Thomas Jobber Samuel Baldwin Henry Sprat Thomas Crump Henry Griffiths Richard Ridley Jonathan Langley James Beck Henry Mitton of Shipton Esquires The Mayor of the Town of Salop for the time being the Bailiffs of Ludlow Bridge-North Wenlock and Bishops-Castle for the time being Daniel Wicherley Francis Smith Richard Walker John Whitacre Richard Clarke Andrew Viners Richard Tayler John Harding Arthur Hinckes John Baugh Edward Wollaston Alexander Middleton Samuel Lloyd Richard Davis of Ludlow Roger Gough Benjamin Buckley of Somerset-Hall Robert Betton Thomas Jones of Sheet Richard Charleton Richard Hosier Capt. Philip Jenings Andrew Hill Richard Prichard John Haynes George Hosier John Stanyer Edward Owen Roger Harris Robert Vernon Capt. Richard Philips Rowland Hill of Hackoston Gentlemen Richard Cooling Esquire Robert Gorton sir Clement Clarke and Richard Jenkins Gentleman Stafford For the County of Stafford Sir John Wirley Knight High Sheriff sir Edward Littleton sir Edward Baggot sir Thomas Wilbraham sir Walter Rotesley sir Charles Woolceley and sir Francis Lawley Baronets sir Bryan Broughton and sir John Bowyer Knights and Baronets sir Theophilus Bidolph sir Thomas Whitgrave and sir VValter Littleton Knights Randolph Egerton VValter Chetwind senior VVilliam Sneyd Henry Grey John Lane VValter Chetwynd junior George Digby Broom VVhorwood Rowland Okeover Edward Mainwaring John Skrymshire Gerard Skrymshire Colonel Harvy Bagot Edward Vernon Charles Cotton Richard Congreave Robert Milward VVilliam Chetwind Thomas Kynnersby John Piercehouse John Swynfen Robert Levison Francis Levison Rowland Cotton Henry Archbold Jonathan VVoodnorth Jonathan Cope Henry Vernon George Parker John Shelton Francis VVightwick John VVhitehal William Talbot George Vernon Charles Agard Richard Aderley Edward Arablaster William Orme John Noble Edward Birch Edward VVard William VVard William Trafford and Dan. VVatson Esquires Richard Bracegirdle William Trafford John Gough William Farmer John Coleclough of Burslem John Felton Henry Haworth and Thomas Bagnal Gentlemen The Mayor of Stafford for the time being The Mayor of Newcastle for the time being The Mayor of VValsal for the time being and the Bailiffs of Tamworth for the time being Lichfield For the City and County of the City of Lichfield Thomas Caterbanck Bailiff the Bailiffs for the time being Sir Theophilus Bydolph Knight Colonel John Lane Michael Bydolph Richard Dyot John Hill Sherington Talbot Esquires Doctor Hinton Doctor Hewet James Allen Thomas Minors John Burnes William Jesson Gentlemen and the Sheriff for the time being Somerset For the County of Somerset John Lord Digby Son and Heir apparent to George Earl of Bristol Francis Lord Hawley of the Kingdom of Ireland sir Charles Berkley Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold John Pawlet Francis Pawlet Amias Pawlet Esquires sir Thomas Mallet one of the Iustices of the Kings Bench sir William Portman sir John Sydenham sir Maurice Berkley sir Hugh Smith sir William Windham sir John VVorton sir George Trevilian sir Charles Pim and sir John Newton Baronets sir John Coventry and sir Edward Hungerford Knights of the Bath sir Henry Berkley sir Thomas Bridges sir Hugh VVindham sir George Norton sir John VVarr sir Thomas Gore sir George Horner and sir VVilliam Basset Knights John Merefield Sergeant at Law Alexander Popham George Scowel Edward Philips Edmund VVindham George Speake Francis Lutterel Henry Rogers Peregrine Palmer Samuel Gorges John Mallet Francis Wyndham William Hellyer of Coker William Prynne Thomas Heale Edward Berkley Henry Waldron William Bull John Buckland Thomas Warr Robert Hunt Thomas Piggot Francis Roll John Harrington John Tynt Warwick Brampfield William Lacy John Churchil Henry Henly Edward Court Henry Bull William Carrant Francis Baker Richard Jones George Sydenham Robert Hawley Michael Mallet Edward Philips junior Anthony Pawlet Henry Light John Harbin Roger Bourne Edward Bampfield Angel Grey Ralph Stowel Iohn Moore Hugh Norris William Speake William Hilliar of Sea Iohn St. Albons Iohn Fitz-Herbert Iohn How William Bawn Iohn Cridland Kingsmel Lucy Peter Roymon VVilliam Harbord Roger Newburrough Maidley Samborne Francis Vaughan Iohn Fody VVilliam Coward Iohn Hunt Iohn Goodwin Henry Dunster Edward Clarke Thomas Farwel and VVilliam Clarke and James Hayes Esquires And for the City of Wells and Town of Bridgewater the respective Mayors for the time being for the City of Bath the Mayor for the time being VVilliam Prynne Esquire Walter Gibbs Alderman Robert Pearce Doctor in Physick Walter Bayley Edward Parker John Sherstone and Simon Sloper Gentlemen Bristoll For the County and City of Bristoll The Mayor for the time being John Lawford Esquire sir Robert Atkins Knight of the Bath Recorder sir Henry Creswick and sir John Knight Knights John Lock Richard Balman Nathaniel Cale Walter Sandy John Willoughby Thomas Langton Aldermen Ralph Olliffe John Hicks John Wright John Bradway and Richard Streamer Gentlemen Southampton For the County of Southampton Charles Lord St. John of Basing son and heir apparent to John Marquess of Winchester the Lord Henry Pawlet sir George Carteret Vice-Chamberlain of the Kings Houshold sir Robert Howard sir Henry Worseley sir John Mills sir John Norton sir VVilliam Lewis sir Hugh Stewkley sir VVilliam Mewx sir Thomas Badd sir Nicholas Steward sir Andrew Henley sir John Trot sir Robert Dillington Baronets sir Humphrey Bennet sir John Leigh sir Robert Mason sir Thomas Higgons sir John Dingley sir Robert Worseley sir Mundiford Brampston sir Thomas Tompkins Knights Richard Norton Thomas Neale Richard Goddard Lawrence Hyde Henry Wallop John Button Thomas Knollis VVilliam Oglander Robert Dillington Tho. Jervice John Richards Charles West VVill. Legg Hen. Whitehead Geo. Pit Tho. Brook Leonard Bilson Francis Rolle John Hooke Tho. Cole Philip Leigh James May Rich. Compton Benj. Ruddiard Giles Hungerford Francis
de vicineto de A. Quorum quilibet habeat viginti libras terrae tenementorum vel reddit per annum ad minus per quos c. qui nec c. And the residue of the said Writ shall be after the ancient manner And that those Writs which shall be awarded and directed for Returning of Iuries within the Dominion of Wales shall be made in the same manner altering onely the word Viginti into Octo. And that upon every such Writ and Writs of Venire facias Wales the Sheriff Coroner or other ministers of each respective County in England and Wales Penalty upon the Sheriff c. unto whom the making of the Pannel shall appertain shall not return in any such Pannel any person unless he shall then have Twenty pounds or Eight pounds respectively by the year at least as aforesaid in the same County where the Issue is to be tryed upon pain to forfeit for every person being returned in any such Pannel that shall not then have Twenty pounds or Eight pounds respectively as is aforesaid the sum of Five pounds to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors And for the better enabling the Sheriff of every County to know the value of the Estates of such persons as are by the true intent and meaning of this Act to be returned for Iury-men Be it further Enacted How the Sheriff shall find out persons fit to be returned for Iury-men That every Sheriff shall on the first day of every General Quarter-Sessions yearly held next after the Feast of Easter deliver or cause to be delivered unto the Iustices of Peace sitting at the same Sessions the names of all persons of such Estates as are by the true meaning of this Act to be returned for Iury-men to the end the Estates of such persons may be enquired after and such persons approved of by the said Iustices of Peace or the greater number of them then present to be persons of such Estates to be returnable for Iury-men for the year then next ensuing And the said Iustices shall have power to add such persons having Estates of the respective values before mentioned as they shall find to be omitted by the Sheriff amongst the names by him delivered and such competent number and no more of such persons as aforesaid shall be returnable to serve of Iuries for the year next ensuing as the said Iustices or the greater number of them as aforesaid shall think fit And that no Sheriff shall incur the penalty aforesaid for returning any of the persons so approved or added by the Iustices in case his Estate fall out to be of less value then aforesaid And it is further Enacted That no Sheriff or Bailiff of any Liberty or Franchise What time summons ought to be before appearance or any of their or either of their Ministers shall return any such person or persons as aforesaid to have been summoned by them or any of them unless such person or persons shall have been duly summoned by the space of six days at the least before the day on which they ought to make their appearance And have left with or for such persons in writing the names of all the parties in those Causes wherein they are to serve as Iurors Nothing may be taken to excuse appearance The Penalty nor shall directly or indirectly take any money or other reward to excuse the appearance of any Iuror by them or any of them to be summoned or returned upon pain to forfeit for every such offence the sum of Ten pounds Saving to all Cities and Towns Corporate their ancient Vsage of returning Iurors of such Estate and in such manner as heretofore hath béen used and accustomed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from henceforth upon Writs of Venire facias issued out and returned within the County-Palatine of Lancaster County-Palatine of Lancaster as of the same Assizes wherein the Issues are said to be joyned Writs of Habeas Corpora or Distringas shall be sued out like as is used in all other Counties within this Kingdom returnable at the then next Assizes And the Sheriff thereupon to return such Issues as is or ought to be done by the said Sheriffs of the said other Counties and those Issues to be duly estreated as above is provided And the better to cause and bring Iurors to appear upon Trials at Assizes within the said County-Palatine of Lancaster Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Sheriff of the same County-Palatine of Lancaster for the time being shall from henceforth cause twelve good and lawful men so qualified as before in this Act is appointed out of every of the six Hundreds within the said County-Palatine to be duly summoned or warned ten days at the least before the beginning of every Assizes to be and appear the first day of the then next Assizes and there to attend during the same Assizes to perform their duty and service to the Court as Iurors or Iurymen in such Causes betwéen party and party wherein they shall be respectively returned and impannelled upon pain that every of them that shall make default to appear and attend at and during the said Assizes to forfeit Ten pounds to the use and behoof of the Poor of the Town where such person or persons so making default doth inhabit and live the same to be levied recovered and had in such manner and ways as other Issues of Iurors use to be levied Provided That this Act shall continue and stand in force for the space of Thrée years The continuance of this Act. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament and no longer CAP. IV. An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of EXCISE FOr the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of Excise Be it Enacted and Declared by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That from and after the eighth day of November Powers given to Farmers of Excise which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and five all Farmers of Excise or any of them within the several Circuits and Divisions of their respective Farms shall and are enabled hereby to exercise and put in Execution all such Powers and Authorities which the Commissioners or Sub-Commissioners of Excise are enabled to do and execute by the several Acts and Statutes of Excise for the levying raising receiving and managing of the said Revenue of Excise 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. 15 Car. 2. cap. 11. cap. 12 Except the Iudicial part of hearing and determining all breaches and offences against the Laws of Excise and of imposing mitigating or compounding of Fines or Penalties CAP. V. Delays in extending Statutes Judgments and Recognizances prevented Security by Statute
it shall and may be lawful to and for the Iustices of Assize for the said County of Hertford to make such Adjudication which being entred with the Clerk of the Assizes shall be estéemed a good Adjudication of the amendment of the said Highways And that then and from thenceforth the said Debt being fully satisfied to such as shall have advanced any moneys thereupon the said Toll shall cease and determine any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And whereas in this present Act it is provided 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 and pay six pence in the pound yearly according to the true value of their Estates for and towards the repair of the said High-ways during the time of the continuance of the said Toll Be it therefore Provided and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the aforesaid sum of six pence in the pound shall be paid unto the Treasurer appointed to receive the aforesaid Toll How the said six pence in the pound shall be paid and â—evied in like manner as the said Toll is appointed to be paid by the aforesaid Act And for default of payment of the said Rate of six pence in the pound in manner as aforesaid by the space of six dayes after demand made That it shall and may be lawful for the Surveyors of the High-ways for the time being and they are hereby impowred to levy the same by Distress and Sale of the Goods of the party refusing to pay the same acccordingly restoring the Overplus if any be to the Owner CAP. XI For Draining of the Fenn called Deeping-Fenn and other Fenns therein mentioned WHereas at a Session of Sewers holden at Bourne in the County of Lincoln the twentieth day of August in the one and fortieth year of the Reign of Quéen Elizabeth for the recovery and Draining of certain Fenns in Holland and Kestiven in the County of Lincoln called or known by the names of Deeping-Fenn Pinchbeck and Spalding South-Fenn Thurlby-Fenn Deeping Pinchbeck Thurlby Bourn and Croyland fens Bourn-South-Fenn and Croyland-Fenn alias Goggushland It was by the Commissioners then and there assembled Ordered and Decréed That the sum of twelve thousand pounds should be levied and gathered upon the Lords and Inhabitants of certain Towns in Kestiven and Holland Commoners in the said Fenns for Draining the same and should be paid in to certain persons therein nominated to receive the same at or before the tenth day of September then next ensuing which said sum being neglected to be paid the said Fens by reason thereof could not be Drained acccording to the Form by the said Law intended The said Commissioners therefore well tendring the great profit that would arise to all persons concerned and to the Commonwealth in general if the same might be Drained at several Sessions of Sewers held at Market-Deeping the twentieth day of September in the said one and fortieth year of Quéen Elizabeth and at Market-Dâ—â—ping aforesaid the twentieth day of August in the two and fortieth year of the Reign of the said Quéen did Ordain and Decrée That the said Fens and Marsh-Grounds should be forthwith taken in hand to be Drained and that Thomas Lovell Esquire a man skilful in works of that nature should be admitted to undertake the same under the Covenants therein mentioned And in pursuance thereof the said Thomas Lovell did undertake the said Works and made some progress therein and afterwards one third part of the said several Fens were by the said Commissioners of Sewers set out by Metes and Bounds and allotted to the said Thomas Lovell in recompence of his costs charges and endeavours applied and expended therein And after A third part assigned and set out to Thomas Lovel the said third part was by the said Commissioners of Sewers decréed to the said Thomas Lovell and his heirs in recompense of his said work of Draining and of his charges and expences therein to have and to hold to the said Thomas Lovell his heirs and assigns for ever And whereas by an Act of Parliament made at Westminster in the first year of King James Intituled An Act for relief of Thomas Lovell Esquire the above recited Decrées of Sewers were Ratified and Confirmed And the said third part of the said Fens and Marsh-grounds as they were allotted and set out by the said Commissioners were by the said Act Ordained Enacted and Established to be held by the said Thomas Lovel his Heirs and Assigns for ever under the Provisoes Conditions and Appointments in the said Decrées and Act of Parliament mentioned and expressed as by the said Act of Parliament and Decrées of Sewers more fully may appear And whereas the said Thomas Lovel immediately after the making the said Act of Parliament entred into the said Lands set out and assigned as a third part of the said several Fens and by vertue of the said Decrées and Act of Parliament became seised thereof and he and his heirs and Assigns have ever since till of late years held and enjoyed the same untill by some neglect in the Assigns of the said Thomas Lovel and failer in the Maintaining Scowring and Cleansing the said Banks Rivers Sewers and other Works necessary thereunto occasioned by some differences arising betwéen the said Assigns of the said Thomas Lovel and the Lords Owners and Commoners of the said Fens about the enjoyment of some additional recompence allotted to the said Assigns of the said Thomas Lovel by a subsequent Law of Sewers made at Spalding not onely the said Fens and Marsh-grounds are returned into their antient condition of being hurtfully surrounded and annoyed with waters but a great and considerable part of some adjacent Towns of Holland have béen overflowed and laid desolate and many habitations and families who formerly lived comfortably there utterly ruined and destroyed thereby and yet continue in manifest danger in all seasons of wet weather and flouds to fall into the said calamities which great mischief is by long and indubitable experience found to arise principally from several imperfections in the said Decrées and Acts of Parliament To the end therefore that the said Countrey being in its own nature very rich and fertile and wherein the King and Quéens Majesty his Mother have large Possessions and many ancient Families and Inhabitants their whole subsistence may not longer remain in such manifest danger of being utterly lost nor the Commonwealth continue longer deprived of those advantages which would arise from the performance of the said Works Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Maiesty by and with the consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the said Decrées and Act of Parliament above mentioned and every Clause Article and Thing therein contained A certain Act and decrees
for the use of such persons It shall then and not before be lawful to and for the said Vndertakers and their Work-men and Servants to dig and make or cause to be digged and made the said Haven Channels Wharfs Sasses Locks and Passages or do any such other Act for which any such Agréement or Order shall be made as aforesaid And be it further Enacted That when any of the said Commissioners shall happen to dye How Commissioners dying or renouncing may be supplyd or become unfit for or renounce the Service That then and so often it shall be lawful to and for the said Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being from time to time to supply appoint and authorize One or so many Commissioners of the Counties of VVilts Southampton or Dorset of the Nobility or Knights and principal Gentlemen of the said Countries dwelling or having Estates within fifteen miles of the said River as shall make and fill up the before mentioned number of Commissioners which said Commissioners so supplyed appointed and authorized as aforesaid not excéeding the number before mentioned nor being under the number of One and thirty or any seven or more of them shall from thenceforth have like Power and Authority in all things as those Commissioners which are expresly named in this Act And that the Commissioners and such as from time to time for the future shall be supplyed as aforesaid or any seven or more of them have like Power and Authority to Survey the said Haven and River and all Wharfs Sasses Locks Wears Turnpikes Penns for water and all Ditches Sewers and Streams running into the said River and the Mills Mill-damms Floodgates Walls Banks and Bridges now made or hereafter to be made and built upon the same and all Impediments Decays Loss and Annoyances in the same and make like Process to inquire thereof and to set such Fines Penalties and to make such Orders and Decrées for altering amending or removing the same as any Commissioners of Sewers by any Law Statute or Commission of Sewers are enabled to do in other Rivers and Places Any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Vndertakers authorized as aforesaid for the making the said Haven and Passages from time to time shall have full power and authority by and with the consent of the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them to make Orders and Constitutions for the good and orderly usage of the said Haven and Passages and for all Wharfs The power to make orders and constitutions Sasses Locks Wears and Turn-pikes and for all Ships and Vessels Barges Lighters Boats Boat-men Passengers Carriages and Rates for Carriages by or through the said Haven or Passages and all things concerning the same and to set lay and execute such reasonable Pains and Punishments upon the Breakers thereof To impose penalties upon the breakers as to them in discretion shall séem méet and reasonable which said Orders and Constitutions being put in Writing under the Hands and Seals of the said Vndertakers and being allowed by the said Commissioners or any Seven or more of them under their several Hands and Seals and by the Iustices of Assize of the said several Counties of VVilts and Southampton which shall be at the time of the Signing Sealing and Publishing of the said Orders as aforesaid shall be binding to all persons whatsoever any Law or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding The said Orders and Constitutions to be kept amongst the Records of the Sessions of the Peace for the City of New-Sarum by the Clerk of the Peace for the time being of the said City Transcripts whereof shall be delivered to the several Clerks of the Peace of the respective Counties of Wilts and Southampton to be by them kept upon Record amongst the Records of the Sessions of the said respective Counties All which shall be taken adjudged and déemed good and sufficient Evidence and proof in any Court of Record whatsoever Nevertheless the Iustices of Assize for the Counties of Wilts and Southampton Persons grieved may appeal to the Iustices of Assise upon complaint to them made by any persons grieved with the said Taxations Assessments Charges Orders Constitutions Pains and Penalties or any of them shall and may abridge moderate alter or reform the same as they shall find just cause such Orders to be under the Hands and Seals of the said Iustices and to be kept among the Records of the Sessions as aforesaid And the respective Commissioners and Iudges of Assize as aforesaid are from time to time to take special care in the manner of the laying and assessing of the said Rates and ordering and disposing of the said Haven Passages and Wharf that all opportunity for the Vndertakers or any other to engross the Commodities of the said Countrey or impose upon the Markets may be prevented The Vndertakers to have the Taxes upon Carts Carriages c. And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Vndertakers authorized as aforesaid for the making the said Haven and Passages respectively and their several and respective Heirs and Assigns for ever having first given satisfaction as aforesaid shall have hold peaceably and quietly receive demand take and enjoy all and every the said Rates Profits and Advantages whatsoever which shall or may from time to time and at all times hereafter be made arise grow or become due or payable for the Carriages of Wood Coals Corn Salt or any other Merchandises Commodities or Carriages whatsoever by any Ship or Vessel Barge Boat Lighter or otherwise up or down the said Haven River new Channels or the said Sasses Locks Wears Turn-pikes Penns for water Cranes Wharfs or any of them and also shall have and receive as aforesaid all Penalties imposed by the said Orders as aforesaid and in case of Refusal or Denial of Payment Penalties and how to recover the same shall and may sue for the same by Action of Debt in any Court of Record in which Action no Wager of Law Essoign or Protection shall be allowed or may distrain or make stoppage of the said Goods or Vessels till they shall be satisfied for the same And that all Fines and Amerciaments which shall be imposed as aforesaid for any Annoyances and Offences which shall be at any time hereafter committed to the hurt or prejudice of the said River or any thing thereunto appertaining shall be to the only use benefit and behoof of the said respective Vndertakers their several and respective Heirs Successors and Assigns for ever And for that the Barges Boats Lighters or other Vessels must of necessity in some places and at some times be haled up by strength of Men Horses Winches Engines or other means in that behalf convenient Drawing and haling of Barges c. upon the Banks Be it therefore Enacted by Authority of this
shillings Canon Prebendary Every person of the Degrée of a Canon or Prebendary of any Cathedral or Collegiate Church excepting such sole Prebendary who is a sole Corporation and his Prebend not Rated in the Exchequer at above Thirty pounds Doctor of Divinity Law Physick shall pay the sum of Fifty shillings Every person of the Degrée of a Doctor in Divinity Law or Physick shall pay the sum of Five pounds Doctors of Divinity not beneficed Provided always That no Doctor of Divinity not having any Benefice or Ecclesiastical preferment shall be charged for his Title or Dignity of Doctor by vertue of this Act nor the Widow of any Ecclesiastical person shall be charged for the third part according to the Title or Dignity of her late Husband And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for the better Assessing Ordering and Levying of the several sums of money so as aforesaid limited and appointed to be paid and for the more effectual putting of this present Act in execution such persons shall by vertue of this Act be Commissioners for the several and respective Counties Who shall be Commissioners to execute this Act. Cities Boroughs Towns and Places within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed as are nominated and appointed Commissioners for putting in execution the Powers in a former Act of this Parliament 16 17 Car. 2. cap. 1. entituled An Act for granting a Royal Ayd unto the Kings Majesty of Twenty four hundred threescore and seventeen thousand and five hundred pounds to be raised levied and paid in the space of Three years And be it further Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That these persons hereafter named shall be added Commissioners for the several Counties Places and Precincts respectively and shall exercise the same power as if they had béen named in the said former Act Viz. Bedford For the County of Bedford Villiers Charnock Humphrey Monox John Beecher Thomas Daniel John Gardiner Esquires _____ Horne Peter Harman Gent. Berks. For the County of Berks Sir William Craven Knight John Kingsmill Esquire John Withwick Edward Keat Charles Fettiplace William Bowles senior Esquires John Munday William Packer Richard House Gent. _____ Gilly Esquire Hugh Barker Doctor of Physick Bucks For the County of Bucks Sir Charles Clever Knight Sir Timothy Tyrrel Knight and Baronet Sir Frederick Hyde Thomas Catesby Edward Stafford Esquires Matthew Archdel Gent Sir John Busby For the Town of Buckingham George Robbins Cambridge For the County of Cambridge Sir John Jacob Baronet Sir Ralph Bovey Baronet Roger Pepys Esq Gerrard Russel Esq For the Town of Cambridge Rowland Simpson Alderman Ely For the Isle of Ely William Legat Anthony Fisher Peter Diamond Esquires Chester For the City and County of the City of Chester Thomas Cooper Alderman Edward Bradshaw Esq Richard Burd Alderman Richard Minshal Richard Taylor John Poolie Robert Harvy Aldermen Cornwall For the County of Cornwall John Trelawney of Trelawen Thomas Vivian John Moulesworth Esquires William Inch Abel French Nicholas Trebarfoot Edward Herle Edward Hoblin Nicholas Herle Walter Leech George Spry William Bond Thomas Dodson Iohn Arundel Iohn Tregygle William Thomas Anthony Tanner John Barret Thomas Penhallow Iohn Tamlin Iohn Verman Richard Williams Iohn Williams Esquires William Kegwin Henry Edwards Arthur Painter Gent. Cumberland For the County of Cumberland John Warwick Richard Lamplugh Miles Penington Joseph Patrickson Iohn Senhouse William Orphaur Ferdinando Hudleston Leonard Dykes Hugh Ascue Richard Patrickson John Punsonbee Esquires Devon For the County of Devon Christopher Lord Torington Richard Duke Gydeon Heydon Richard Lee Richard Hillersdon Samuel Roll Arthur Ashford John Bluet William Bragg Matthew Halls Edmund Parker John Mallet Esquires Sir Iohn Stowel Iohn Chichester Esquire Exon. For the City and County of Exon John Mallet Esquire Doctor Edward Masters Chancellor of the Diocess Eustace Budgell Gent. Derby For the County of Derby George Savile Robert Ashton John Gell Iohn Low Iohn Du◠Esquires Andrew Clayton Robert Moore Gent. Richard Merchant Alderman Edward Abney Esquire Dorset For the County of Dorset Robert Cullyford William Frampton Robert Williams Henry Henly junior Humphrey Weld Esquires the High Sheriff for the time being Iohn Ellesdon Salomon Andrews Iohn Gallop Gentlemen Pool For the Town and County of Pool the Mayor for the time being William Okeden Allen Skutt Gentlemen Durham For the County Palatine of Durham Sir George Fletcher Baronet Robert Shaftoe Humphrey Wharton Thomas Craddock Christopher Saunderson John Jeffreyson Esquires Robert Newhouse Edward Arden Gent. Essex For the County of Essex Sir John Archer one of the Iustices of the Common Pleas Philip Saltenston Thomas Cullum Esquires Timothy Midleton Esq Sir James Russet Edward Shelton Francis Mildmay Colchester For the Town of Colchester Sir Harbotle Grimstone Baronet Master of the Rolls John Eldred senior Iohn Eldred junior Esquires Harwich For the Town of Harwich and Dover-Court the Mayor for the time being Sir Cappel Luckin Knight and Baronet Iohn Eldred junior Esquire Mr. George Coleman Daniel Smith Captain Hunter Alderman Sack Samuel Newton Alderman Robinson Alderman Garriot Alderman Hawks Gloucester For the County of Gloucester Sir John Treacy Sir William Juckson Sir Iohn Newton Baronets Sir Francis Fane Knight of the Bath Sir Iohn Poynts Knight John Merideth Iohn Vaughan Thomas Carpender William Oldesworth John Browning Thomas Veel of Simons Hall Edward Smith George Brett Roger Lingan Robert Loggin Esquires VVilliam Hancock Conway Whitton Thomas Smith Richard Jones of Hanham Thomas Wise Richard Hart Gent. City of Gloucester For the City and County of the City of Gloucester Sir Bainham Throckmorton Knight and Baronet Mr. Thomas Aram Merchant Mr. Iohn Marston Colonel Richard Atkins William Cook Esquire Hereford For the County of Hereford James Pitts Francis Pember of Elsdon Robert Minors of Treagoe Edward Scrimshaw Iohn Bridge of Priors-Court Esquires John Burch of Garnston Iohn Curver of Upton Henry Milbourne William Driver Gilbert Hare Gent. City of Hereford Bridstock Herford Esquire Humphrey Diggs Humphrey Howarth James Wellington Gent. Hertford For the County of Hertford Sir Thomas Brograve Sir Robert Joscelyne Baronets Sir John Witterong Knight and Baronet Sir Charles Cleaver Knight Robert Dicer Iohn Cesar Ralph Radcliffe Francis Shalcross Edward Chester Thomas Tooke Esquires Richard Taverner King of Hempstead Joseph Edmonds Charles Cesar George Nodes George Poyner Joseph Hatch Charles Crouch Thomas James Iohn Dagnoll Gentlemen VVilliam Glascock Esquire Saint Albons For the Burrough of Saint Albans Joshua Lomax Edward Crosby Thomas Rotheram William Rugg William Rance Aldermen Iohn Dogget Huntington For the County of Huntington Sir Iames Beverly Iohn Dryden Anthony Hammon Major Dean of Godmanchester Kent For the County of Kent Sir Thomas Monins Sir Thomas Peirse Baronets Sir Iohn Shaw Knight and Baronet Sir Nicholas Strode Knight Edward Master Elwin VVyat William VViseman Esquires The Mayor of Maidstone for the time being Canterbury For the City and County of Canterbury William