assembled and by the Authority of the same and it is hereby Enacted The Court of Wards and Liveries Primer-Seisin c. taken away That the Court of Wards and Liveries and all Wardships Liveries Primer-Seisins and Ouster-le-mains Values and forfeitures of Marriages by reason of any Tenure of the Kings Majesty or of any other by Knights-service and all mean Rates and all other Gifts Grants Charges incident or arising for or by reason of Wardships Liveries Primer-Seisins or Ouster-le-mains be taken away and discharged and are hereby Enacted to be taken away and discharged from the said twenty fourth day of February One thousand six hundred forty five any Law Statute Custom or Vsage to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding Fines for alienations c. taken away 1 Car. 1. cap. 3. And that all Fines for Alienations Seizures and Pardons for Alienations Tenure by Homage and all Charges incident arising for or by reason of Wardship Livery Primer-Seisin or Ouster-le-main or Tenure by Knights-service Escuage and also Aide pur file marrier pur faier fits Chivalier and all other Charges incident thereunto be likewise taken away and discharged from the said Twenty fourth day of February One thousand six hundred forty and five any Law Tenures by Knights service taken away Statute Custom or Vsage to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding And that all Tenures by Knights-Service of the King or of any other person and by Knights-Service in Capite and by Soccage in Capite of the King and the Fruits and consequents thereof happened or which shall or may hereafter happen or arise thereupon or thereby be taken away and discharged Any Law Statute Custome or usage to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding And all Tenures of any Honors Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or any Estate of Inheritance at the Common-Law held either of the King or of any other person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate are hereby Enacted to be turned into frée and common Soccage to all intents and purposes from the said Twenty fourth day of February One thousand six hundred forty five and shall be so construed adjudged and déemed to be from the said Twenty fourth day of February One thousand six hundred forty five and for ever thereafter turned into frée and common Soccage Any Law Statute Custome or usage to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding Tenures by domage escuage c. discharged And that the same shall for ever hereafter stand and be discharged of all Tenure by Homage Escuage Voyages-Royal and charges for the same Wardships incident to Tenure by Knights-Service and values and forfeitures of marriage and all other charges incident to tenure by Knights-service And of and from Aide pur file marrier and Aide pur faier fitz Chivalier any Law Statute Vsage or Custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And that all Conveyances and Devises of any Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments made since the said 24th of February shall be expounded to be of such effect as if the same Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments had béen then held and continued to be holden in frée and common Soccage only any Law Statute Custome or usage to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding And be it further ordained and enacted by the authority of this present Parliament The Acts of 32 H. 8. cap. 6. 33 H 8. cap. 22. repealed That one act made in the reign of King Henry the 8th Entituled An Act for the establishment of the Court of the Kings Wards And also one Act of Parliament made in the 33. year of the reign of the said King Henry the 8th concerning the Officers of the Court of Wards and Liveries and every Clause Article and Matter in the said Acts contained shall from henceforth be repealed and utterly void And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid All tenures to be created by the King hereafter shall be free and common soccage That all tenures hereafter to be created by the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors upon any gifts or grants of any Mannors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments of any Estate of Inheritance at the common law shall be in frée and common soccage and shall be adjudged to be in free and common soccage only and not by Knights Service or in Capite and shall be discharged of all Wardship value and forfeiture of marriage Livery Primer-Seizin Ouster le main Aide pur faier fits Chivalier and pur file marrier any Law Statute or reservation to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided nevertheless and be it Enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained Proviso for rents certain herriots c. shall not take away nor be construed to take away any Rents certain Herriots or Suits of Court belonging or incident to any former Tenure now taken away or altered by vertue of this Act or other Services incident or belonging to Tenure in common Soccage due or to grow due to the King Majesty or mean Lords or other private person Fines for Alienations due by particular customs of Mannors or the fealty and distresses incident thereunto And that such relief shall be paid in respect of such Rents as is paid in case of the death of a Tenant in common Soccage Provided always and be it enacted That any thing herein contained shall not take away nor be construed to take away any Fines for Alienation due by particular customs of particular Mannors places other then fines for alienations of lands or Tenem holden immediately of the K. in Capite Provided also and be it further Enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained Tenures in Frank Almoigne Copy of court Roll. shall not take away or be construed to take away Tenures in Frank Almoigne or to subiect them to any greater or other services then now are nor to alter or change any Tenure by Copy of Court Roll or any services incident thereunto nor to take away the honorary services of Grand Serjeanty other then of Wardship Marriage and value of Forfeiture of Marriage Escuage Voyages Royal and other charges incident to Tenure by Knights Service Honorary services and other then Aide pur faier fitz Chivalier and Aide pur file marrier And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That where any person hath or shall have Parents may dispose of the custody of children during their mâ—nority and Child or Children under the age of 21 years and not married at the time of his death That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Father of such child or children whether born at the time of the decease of the Father or at that time in ventre sa mere or whether such Father be within the age of 21 years or of full age by his Deed executed in his life time or by his last Will and Testament in writing in the presence of
That all and every the Goods Debts and other the Chattels personal whatsoever of them the said Oliver Cromwell Henry Ireton John Bradshaw Thomas Pride whereof at the time of their respective deaths they or any of them or any other in trust for them or any of them stood possessed in Law or Equity All their goods personal estate forfeited vested in his Majesty and all the Goods Debts and other the Chattels personal whatsoever of them the said John Lisle William Say Valentine Wauton Edward Whalley John Barkstead Edmond Ludlow Sir Michael Livesey John Okey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner William Cawley Miles Corbet Nicholas Love John Dixwell Andrew Broughton Edward Dendy Thomas Harrison Adrian Scroop John Carew John Jones Thomas Scot Gregory Clement Hugh Peters Francis Hacker John Cook Daniel Axtel Sir Hardress Waller William Heveningham Isaac Penington Henry Martin Gilbert Millington Robert Titchbourn Owen Row Robert Lilburn Henry Smith Edmond Harvey John Downs Vincent Potter Augustine Garland George Fleetwood Simon Meyne James Temple Peter Temple Thomas Wayte Whereof they were possest or any for them 11 Feb. 1659. whereof upon the eleventh day of February One thousand six hundred fifty nine they or any of them or any other in trust for them or any of them stood possessed either in Law or Equity shall be déemed and adjudged to be forfeited unto and are hereby vested and put into the actual and real possession of Your Majesty without any further Office or Inquisition thereof hereafter to be taken or found Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Conveyance Proviso for conveyances by any of the offenders Assurance Grant Bargain Sale Charge Lease Assignment of Lease Grants and Surrenders by Copy of Court-Roll Estate Interest Trust or limitation of any Vse or Vses of or out of any Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments not being the Lands nor Hereditaments of the late King Quéen or Prince or of any Arch-bishops Bishops Deans Deans and Chapters nor being Lands or Hereditaments sold or given for the Delinquency or pretended Delinquency of any person or persons whatsoever by vertue or pretext of any Act Order Ordinance or reputed Act Order or Ordinance since the first day of January One thousand six hundred forty one nor any Statute Statutes Iudgments c. before the 9th of Sept. 1659. Iudgment or Recognizance had made acknowledged or suffered to any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate before the twenty ninth day of September One thousand six hundred fifty nine by any of the Offenders before in this Act mentioned or their Heirs or by any other person or persons claiming by from or under them or any of them other then the wife or wives For money bona fide lent c. Conveyances in trust made before the â—â— of April 166â— to any the said Offenders child or children heir or heirs of such person or persons or any of them for money bona fide to them or any of them paid or lent nor any Conveyance Assurance Grant or Estate made before the twenty fifth of April One thousand six hundred and sixty by any person or persons to any of the Offenders aforesaid in Trust and for the benefit of any other person or persons not being any of the offenders aforesaid or in trust for any Bodies Politick or Corporate shall be impeached defeated made void or frustrated hereby or by any of the Convictions and Attainders aforesaid but that the same shall be held and enioyed by the Purchasers Grantées Lessées Assigns Cestuy 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 Offenders had not béen by this Act or by any other course or procéedings of Law convicted or attainted so as the said Conveyances Such conveyances to be enrolled in the Court of Exchequer before the first of Ian. 1662. and all and every the Grants and Assurances which by vertue of this Act are and ought to be held and enjoyed as aforesaid shall before the first of January which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty two be entred and enrolled of Record in His Majesties Court of Exchequer and not otherwise Any thing in this Act herein before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for the Marquess of Worcester c. Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and singular the Manors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which at any time heretofore were the Lands and possessions of Henry late Marquess of Worcester and Edward now Marquess of Worcester and Henry Lord Herbert Son and Heir apparent of the said Edward Marquess of Worcester or any of them whereof or wherein the said Oliver Cromwell or any other person or persons in trust for him or to his use or any other the persons attainted by this Act or otherwise or any person or persons in trust for them or any of them had or claimed or pretended to have any Estate Right Title Possession or Interest at any time before or since the decease of the said Oliver Cromwell shall be and hereby are vested and setled in and shall be held and enjoyed by the said Marquess of Worcester and the said Henry Lord Herbert in such manner and form and for such Estate and Estates with such powers and priviledges as they formerly had in the same respectively Any thing in this present Act contained or any Act Conveyance or Assurance heretofore made or acknowledged by the said Edward Marquess of Worcester and Henry Lord Herbert or either of them unto the said Oliver Cromwell or any other person or persons in trust for or to the use of the said Oliver Cromwell or any Act or Conveyance made or done by the said Oliver Cromwell or by any in trust for him to any person whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding Saving alwayes to all and every person and persons Saving Bodies Politick and others their respective Heirs Successors Executors and Administrators all such Right Title and Interest in Law and Equity which they or any of them have or ought to have of into or out of any the Premisses not being in trust for any the said Offenders nor derived by from or under the said Offenders since the twenty fifth day of March which was in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty six And that they the said person and persons Bodies Politick and other their respective Heirs Successors Executors and Administrators and every of them in all and every such case where his and their Entry was lawful upon such Offender or Offenders or the Heirs or Assigns of such Offender or Offenders in or upon the said twenty fifth day of March one thousand six hundred forty and six or at any time since may without Petition Monstrans
to have the full force and strength of Acts of Parliament according to the tenor and purport thereof and so shall be adjudged déemed and taken to all intents and purposes whatsoever and as if the same had béen Made Declared and Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament CAP. XV. The Pains Penalties and Forfeitures Imposed upon the Estates and Persons of certain notorious Offenders excepted out of the Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 11. The Lands and Tenements of the persons deceased not discharged by the Act of General Pardon VVHereas in a certain Act passed in the late assembly held at Westminster in the Twelfth year of His Majesties Reign and confirmed by the Authority of this present Parliament Entituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion amongst other things it is provided that nothing therein contained should extend to discharge the Lands Tenements Goods Chattels Rights Trusts and other the Hereditaments late of Isaac Ewer deceased Sir John Danvers deceased Sir Thomas Maleverer Baronet deceased William Purefoy deceased John Blakiston deceased Sir William Constable Baronet deceased Richard Dean deceased Francis Aleyn deceased Peregrin Pelham deceased John Moore deceased John Aldred alias Alured deceased Humphrey Edwards deceased Sir Gregory Norton Baronet deceased John Venn deceased Thomas Andrews Alderman deceased Anthony Stapley deceased Thomas Horton deceased John Fry deceased Thomas Hammond deceased and Sir John Bourchier deceased of and from such pains penalties and forfeitures as by one other Act of Parliament intended to be afterwards passed for that purpose should be expressed and declared All which persons before mentioned were whilst they lived notoriously known to have béen wicked and active Instruments in the prosecution and compassing of that horrid and Execrable Treason the Murther of our late Soveraign Lord King CHARLES the First of ever blessed memory And whereas William Lord Mounson James Challoner Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington John Phelps and Robert Wallop who in the moneth of January One thousand six hundred forty eight did act and fit in that Traiterous Assembly which procéeded against the Person and Life of our said late Soveraign Lord King CHARLES the First and Sir Arthur Haslerig who in his life did commit many horrid and Traiterous Crimes against the Person Crown and Dignity of his late Majesty of glorious memory and his Majesty that now is are all of them excepted out of the said Act and reserved to future Pains Penalties and Forfeitures not extending to life since the passing of which Act so as aforesaid confirmed Sir Arthur Haslerig and James Challoner died and no Act hath yet passed for the inflicting of due Pains Penalties and Forfeitures upon the Persons and Estates of the Offenders aforesaid We therefore the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembed 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 and Commons in this present Parliament assembled The Mannors Lands c. of the persons named and by authority of the same That all and every the Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements Rents Reversions Remainders Possessions Rights Conditions Interests Offices Fées Annuities and all other the Hereditaments Leases for years Chattels Real and other things of what nature soever they be of them the said Isaac Ewer Sir John Danvers Sir Thomas Maleverer William Purefoy John Blakiston Sir William Constable Richard Dean Francis Aleyn Peregrin Pelham John Moore John Aldred alias Alured Humphrey Edward Sir Gregory Norton John Venn Thomas Andrews Of which they were seised the 20th of March 1646. or since forfeited and vested in his Majesty The goods debts Chattels of which the persons named were possessed at the time of their death forfeited to his Majesty The goods c. of which William Lord Mounson Sir Hen. Mildmay Sir James Harrington John Phelps and Rob. Wallop were possessed the 11. of Feb. 1659. forfeited and vested in his Majesty Anthony Stapley Thomas Horton John Fry Thomas Hammond Sir John Bourchier William Lord Mounson James Challoner Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington John Phelps Robert Wallop and Sir Arthur Haslerig which they or any of them or any other person or persons to their or any of their uses or in trust for them or any of them had the five and twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and six or at any time since shall stand and be forfeited unto your Majesty your Heirs and Successors and shall be déemed vested and adjudged to be in the actual and real possession of Your Majesty without any Office or Inquisition thereof hereafter to be taken or found And also that all and every the Goods Debts and other the Chattels personal whatsoever of them the said Isaac Ewer Sir John Danvers Sir Thomas Maleverer William Purefoy John Blakiston Sir William Constable Richard Dean Francis Aleyn Peregrin Pelham John Moore John Aldred alias Alured Humphrey Edwards Sir Gregory Norton John Venn Thomas Andrews Anthony Stapley Thomas Horton John Fry Thomas Hammond Sir John Bourchier James Challoner and Sir Arthur Haslerig whereof they or any of them at the time of their respective deaths or any other in Trust for them or any of them stood possessed or interessed in Law or Equity and all the Goods Debts and other the Chattels personal whatsoever of them the said William Lord Mounson Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington John Phelps Robert Wallop whereof upon the eleventh day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fifty and nine they or any of them or any other in trust for them or any of them stood possessed either in Law or Equity shall be déemed and adjudged to be forfeited and are hereby vested and put into the actual and real possession of your Majesty without any further Office or Inquisition thereof hereafter to be taken or found Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Conveyance Assurance Grant Bargain Sale Charge Lease Assignment of Lease Grants Proviso for conveyances and assurances c. made bona fide before the 29. of September and Surrenders by Copy of Court-Roll Estate Interest Trust or Limitation of any use or uses of or out of any Mannors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments not being the Lands nor Hereditaments of the late King Quéen or Prince or of any Archbishops Bishops Deans Deans and Chapters nor being Lands or Hereditaments sold or given for the Delinquency or pretended Delinquency of any person or persons whatsoever by vertue or pretext of some Act Order Ordinance or reputed Act Order or Ordinance since the First day of January one thousand six hundred forty and one nor any Statute Iudgment or Recognizance had made acknowledged or suffered to any person or persons Bodies politick or Corporate before the Nine and Twentieth day of September one thousand
adjudg necessary for the carrying on and effecting the said work and to limit and appoint such certain dayes and places for the respective payments thereof to their Treasurer or Treasurers for the time being as they the said Vndertakers their heirs executors administrators or assigns or any three or more of them under their hands and seals shall appoint so as every of the said Vndertakers who shall at any time or times hereafter assess rate tax and charge the said sums of money be really then owner of two hundred and fifty Acres of Land or more within the said Fen. How the â—â—me may be levied And be it further Enacted upon default made by any person or persons so assessed rated taxed and charged as aforesaid in his or their respective payments to be limited and appointed as aforesaid by the space of three moneths after the time limited for payment thereof That it shall and may be lawful to and for any three or more of the said Adventurers their heirs executors administrators or assigns to bargain sell convey and assure all or so much of the said Defaulter or Defaulters Lands respectively within the said Fen for raising the sum or sums of money so assessed rated or charged as aforesaid to any other person or persons their heirs and assigns for such estate or estates as the said defaulter or defaulters had in him or them respectively at the time of the said default or defaults made as aforesaid as to them or any three or more of them the said Adventurers their heirs executors administrators or assigns shall seem meet subject nevertheless to the conditions and forfeitures in this Act contained and exprest And all and every Conveyance thereof is and shall be adjudged good and available in Law and equity against all and every such Defaulter and Defaulters respectively and against his or their respective heirs executors administrators and assigns so as the same be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within six moneths after the making thereof How owners and commoners may improve and inclose their shares And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate their heirs and successors Owner or Owners of the Soil of the said Fens or Wastes or who may or ought to have Common in any of the same to improve set out inclose divide and sever such quantity or quantities of the said Fens or Wastes other then such of the same as by the tenure of this Act are appointed or allotted to the said Vndertakers as aforesaid as shall be proportionable to his or their respective Interest or to his or their Lands and Tenements whereunto or in respect whereof the said Common or Waste may or ought to be had or enjoyed and such quantity or quantities to have and to hold in severalty by and according to such Tenures Estate Right Title and Interest as such person or persons have or shall have in such Manors Lands and Tenements subject nevertheless to all the Powers and Liberties given by this Act to the said Trustees their heirs and assigns and the survivor of them for Dreyning the said Fens as if the said Lands had remained common and uninclosed leaving and allowing convenient passages and ways in and to the said Vndertakers ground in the said Fen. Who may determine of boundaries improvements and inclosures And it is further Enacted That the Boundaries of the said Wastes so to be inclosed Approvements and Inclosures shall from time to time and at all times upon request of any person or persons concerned be determined and adjudged and finally ended by the persons hereafter named that is to say Thomas Lord Beaumont of Cole-Orton Sir George Villiers of Bruxby Baronet Sir VVilliam Hartopp of Rotherby Knight VVilliam Hartopp of Little-Dalby Esquire Sir Henry Hudson of Melton-Mowbray Baronet Sir Edward Smith of Edmundthorpe Knight Richard Lister of Thorpe Esquire John Hacket of Ketleby Esquire William Gilbert of Melton-Mowbray Esquire all of the County of Leicester Baptist Lord Viscount Campden Sir Edward Heath of Cottesmore Knight of the Bath William Palmes of Ashwel Esquire Abel Barker of Hambleton Esquire Samuel Browne of Stockins Esquire Robert Mackeworth of Empingham Esquire Philip Sherard Esquire Alexander Noel of Whitwel Esquire Christopher Browne of Towlthorpe Esquire Edward Falkener of Uppingham Esquire Sir Thomas Mackeworth of Normanton Baronet Henry Noel Esquire of Exton Andrew Noel Esquire of Whitwel Charles Halford Esquire of Weston Thomas Pilkington Esquire of Belton Beaumont Bodenham Esquire of Ryhall and Henry Mackeworth Esq of Normanton all of the County of Rutland Mildmay Earl of Westmerland Obrian Lord Cockaine William Stafford Esquire of Blatherwicke Lewis Palmer Esq of Corlton Edward Palmer Esq of Stoake Walter Kirkham of Finshead Esq Christ Thursby Esq Humphrey Orme Esq Sir Henry Yelverton Baronet Tho. Dove of Upton Esq VVilliam Mountague Esq Francis Quarles Esquire George Quarles junior of Ufford Esq Francis Kirkham Esq of Finshead John Lynn Esq of Southwick all of the County of Northampton Robert Lord Willoughby of Erisby eldest Son to Mountague Earl of Lindsey Lord Great Chamberlain of England Sir Thomas Meres Knight Sir John Newton Baronet Sir Anthony Irby Knight Peregrine Bartue Esq Anthony Thorold of Marston Esq William Blythe of Straston Esq Philip Dallow of Bitchfield Esq Thomas Harrington of Boothby Esq Charles Bawdes of Somerby Esq Sir Edward Barkham Baronet all of the County of Lincolne or by any seven or more of them Which said persons or any seven or more of them are hereby constituted and appointed Commissioners for that purpose upon their view or examination of witnesses upon Oath which Oath they are hereby authorised to administer or both or other good and sufficient proof by matter of Record Writings or Evidences and hearing the parties concerned if they be present and desire it which determination and Iudgment being certified in writing under the hands and seals of the said Iudicature or any seven or more of them into the Petty-bag there to be filed and kept on Record shall be final and conclusive unto all parties Provided always That in case any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate Appeals in cases of adjudication shall find him or themselves agrieved with such Iudgment and determination of the said Iudicature and shall thereof within six Moneths next after the same appeal to any thirtéen or more other persons of the said Iudicature Then such determination as the said thirtéen more shall make being certified by writing under the hands and seals of the said thirtéen or more into the Petty-bag aforesaid there to be filed and kept on Record as aforesaid shall be final and conclusive to all parties the said former Iudgment or Determination notwithstanding And the Inclosures and Proportions so adjudged or decréed as aforesaid to such person or persons Bodies Politick and Corporate shall be held by him or them and his
themselves for seven years That if such person or persons for whose life or lives such Estates have béen or shall be granted as aforesaid shall remain beyond the Seas or elsewhere absent themselves in this Realm by the space of Seven years together and no sufficient and evident proof be made of the lives of such person or persons respectively in any Action commenced for recovery of such Tenements by the Lessors or Reversioners in every such case the person or persons upon whose life or lives such Estate depended shall be accounted as naturally dead And in every Action brought for the recovery of the said Tenements by the Lessors or Reversioners their Heirs or Assigns The Iudges before whom such Action shall be brought shall direct the Iury to give their Verdict as if the person so remaining beyond the Seas or otherwise absenting himself were dead What shall be a good challenge to Iurors upon tryal of Lives in being And be further Enacted That in any such Action wherein the life or death of any such person or persons shall come in question betwéen the Lessor or Reversioner and the Tenant in possession it shall and may be lawful for the Lessor or Reversioner to take exception to any of the Iurors returned for the trial of that cause that the greatest part of the real Estate of any of such Iurors is held by Lease or Copy for lives who upon proof thereof shall be set aside as in case of other legal challenges Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Proviso for Lands held by lives of certain Traytors attainted That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to any Lands held by the life or lives of any person or persons attainted of Treason for the horrid murder of his late Majesty of blessed memory who now conceal or hide themselves which Lands are or have béen vested in His Majesty and are now granted to his Royal Highness the Duke of York but that the course of Evidence heretofore used in such cases shall be had and used Any thing to the contrary in this Act notwithstanding Provided always and be it Enacted Proviso for persons evicted by this not being in truth dead That if any person or persons shall be evicted out of any Lands or Tenements by vertue of this Act and afterwards if such person or persons upon whose life or lives such Estate or Estates depend shall return again from beyond the Seas or shall on proof in any Action to be brought for recovery of the same be made appear to be living or to have béen living at the time of the Eviction That then and from thenceforth the Tenant or Lessée who was outed of the same his or their Executors Administrators or Assigns shall or may re-enter re-possess have hold and enjoy the said Lands or Tenements in his or their former Estate for and during the life or lives or so long term as the said person or persons upon whose life or lives the said Estate or Estates depend shall be living and also shall upon Action or Actions to be brought by him or them against the Lessors Reversioners or Tenants in possession or other persons respectively which since the time of the said Eviction received the Profits of the said Lands or Tenements recover for damages the full Profits of the said Lands or Tenements respectively with lawfull Interest for and from the time that he or they were outed of the said Lands or Tenements and kept or held out of the same by the said Lessors Reversioners Tenants or other persons who after the said Eviction received the Profits of the said Lands or Tenements or any of them respectively aswell in the case when the said person or persons upon whose Life or Lives such Estates or Estates did depend are or shall be dead at the time of bringing of the said Action or Actions as if the said person or persons were then living CAP. VII Disturbances of Seamen and others prevented and to preserve the Stores belonging to His Majesties Navy Royal. WHereas divers Fightings Quarrelings and Disturbances do often happen in about His Majesties Offices Yards and Stores for His Majesties Royal Navy 16 Car. 2. cap. 5. and frequent Differences and Disorders are occasioned in the Office of His Majesties Treasury of the Navy on Pay-days in London Portsmouth and other places of méeting for the Service of the said Navy And that either by the unreasonable Turbulency of Seamen and others attending on Turbulency of Seamen or relating to that Service or their Creditors or by the rudeness of the Officers intrusted with His Maiesties Stores on Land or in His Royal Ships when they are questioned by the Principal Officers and Commissioners of the said Navy either for neglect or Imbezelment of His Majesties Provisions Ammunition or other Equipage of the Navy under their Charge and that not onely to the disturbance of the Peace but sometimes to the danger and hindrance of His Majesties Service both in point of husbanding His Majesties Revenue and also on the dispatch of the Ships on which the Honour and Safety of His Majesty and Kingdom so much depends Which inconveniencies require a spéedie remedy then the ordinary attendance on the Sessions of Peace can give the Parties Accused or Offending being many times bound to Sea and the Principal Officers and Commissioners for want of Authority to suppress such Insolencies and determine such Cases being necessitated to pass by many Offences in which His Majesty might be righted if their necessary attendance on that important Service would permit the prosecution of the Offenders before other ordinary Iudicatures Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same Who may examine and punish offences and disturbances committed by Seamen relating to the Navy That the Treasurer Comptroller Surveyor Clerk of the Acts and the Commissioners of the Navy for the time being or any one or more of them have power and authority to examine and punish all such person and persons whom they upon their enquiry examination or on view in their presence shall find hereafter to make or have made any Disturbance Fighting or Quarrelling in the Yards Stores or Offices aforesaid at Pay-days or on other occasions relating to the Naval Services in such manner as followeth That is to say That they or any one or more of them may punish any the said Offences by Fine Imprisonment or either of them the Fine not excéeding Twenty shillings and Imprisonment not excéeding one week And have power in such cases to commit such persons to the next Gaol or to the custody of the Messenger or Messengers for the time being attendant on them who respectively are to receive and detain such person so offending And that the said principal Officers and Commissioners or the greater number
Patents Indentures or other Writings under his great Seal of England or Seal of the Court of Exchequer of any Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments parcel of the possessions of the said Dutchy of Cornwall or annexed to the same shall be good and effectual in Law according to the purport and content of the said Leases against our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Maiesty his Heirs and Successors and against all and every person or persons that shall hereafter have inherit or enjoy the said Dukedom of Cornwall by force of any Act of Parliament or other limitation whatsoever Except they be made for above 3â— years or 3 lives c. Provided alwayes That every such Lease so to be made of any Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in possession shall be made but for thrée Lives or fewer or for one and thirty years or under or some other tearm of years determinable upon one two or thrée lives and not above And if such Leases be made in reversion That then the same together with the Estates in possession do not excéed thrée Lives or the terme of one and thirty years and not in any wise dispunishable of waste The ancient Rent to be reserved and if none anciently a reasonable Rent And so as upon every such Lease shall be reserved the ancient or most usual rent or such rent as hath béen yielded or payed for the greater part of twenty years next before the making of the said Leases and shall be reserved due and payable by or to him or her that shall have the Inheritance or other Estate of the said Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments And where no such rent hath béen reserved or payable that then upon every such Lease there shall be reserved a reasonable rent not being under the twentieth part of the clear yearly value of the Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments contained in such Lease All covenants c. contained in such Leases shall be good And be it further Ordained and Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament That all Covenants Conditions and Reservations and other Agréements contained in every Lease so to be made as aforesaid shall be good and effectual in Law according to the words and contents of the same as well for and against them to whom the reversion of the same Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments shall come as for and against them to whom the said Leases shall come respectively As if our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesty at the time of the making of such Covenants Conditions and Reservations and other Agréements were seized of an absolute and indefeizible Estate in Fée-simple in the same Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments Saving always to all and every person and persons The right of others saved bodies Politick and Corporate their heirs and successors executors administrators and assigns other then our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Majestie and his Heirs and all and every person and persons that shall hereafter have inherit or enjoy the said Dukedom of Cornwall by force of any Act of Parliament or other limitation whatsoever all such rights titles estates customs interests terms claims and demands whatsoever of what kind nature or quality soever of in to or out of the said Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or any of them as they or any of them had or ought to have had before the making of this Act to all intents and purposes and in as large and ample manner and form as if this Act had never béen had or made This Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding CHAP. III. An Act for the Ease in obtaining of Licenses of Alienation and in the Pleading of Alienations with Licence or of Pardons of Alienations without Licence in the Court of Exchequer or elsewhere Stat. 12. Car. 2. cap. 24. All Fines Seizures and Pardons for Alienations and all incidents thereunto are taken away and discharged CHAP. IV. Forreigners as well as Inhabitants shall not be permitted to tipple in Inns Ale-houses c. 21 Jac. 5. WHereas in the last Parliament it was Enacted That if any person or persons whatsoever his or their haâ—itation or abiding be should after be found upon view or his own confession or proof of one witness to be tippling in any Inn Ale-house or Victualling-house 1 Jac. 5. 4 Jac. 5. such person or persons should be thenceforth adjudged and construed to be within the Statutes of the first and fourth years of the late Kings Majesties reign King James of famous memory The one intituled An Act to restrain the inordinate haunting of tippling in Inns Ale-houses and other Victualling-houses And the other intituled An Act to repress the odious and loathsom sin of Drunkenness as if he or they had inhabited and dwelled in the City Town Corporate Market town Village or Hamlet where the Inn Alehouse or Victualling-house was or should be where he or they should be so found tippling should incur the like penalty and the same to be in such sort levied and disposed as in the said Act is expressed concerning such as there inhabit but no punishment by any or either the said Acts or by any other Statute is inflicted upon the Inn-kéeper Alehouse-kéeper or Victualler that permits or suffers such person or persons not there inhabiting to tipple in his Inn Ale-house or Victualling-house The Inn-keeper c. that permits a forreigner to tipple in his house shall â—â—eâ—r the penalty provided by 2 Jac. â— For remedy whereof Be it Enacted That every Inn-kéeper Alehouse-kéeper and other Victualler that at any time after the end of this Session of Parliament shall permit and suffer any person or persons not inhabiting in the City Town Corporate Market town Village or Hamlet where such Inn Alehouse or Victualling-house is or shall be to tipple in the said Inn Alehouse or Victualling-house contrary to the true intent of any or either of the said former Statutes the said Inn-kéeper Alehouse-kéeper and Victualler so offending shall incur the same penalty and in such manner to be proved levied and disposed as in the former Statute of the first year of his said late Majesties reign is appointed for permitting such to tipple as dwell in the same City Town corporate Market town Village or Hamlet And be it further enacted That the kéepers of Taverns Vintners and Victuallers to be within this and the other Statutes and such as do sell Wine in their houses and do also kéep Inns or Victualling in their houses shall be taken to be within the said two former Statutes and also within this Statute CAP. V. Three entire Subsidies granted by the Spiritualty EXP. CAP. VI. Two entire Subsidies granted by the Temporalty EXP. CAP. VII This Session of Parliament by reason of the encrease of the Sickness and other inconveniencies of the season requiring a speedy Adjournment nevertheless shall not determine by his Majesties Royal assent to this and some other Acts. EXP. ANd
Parliament or of or from any Convention or Assembly called or reputed or taking the Name of the Kéepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament Or by vertue or colour of any Writ Commission Letters Patents Instruction or Instructions of or from any person or persons Tituled reputed or taken to be Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging or Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereto belonging or assuming the authority or reputed to be chief Magistrate of the Commonwealth or Commander in chief of the Forces or Armies of this Nation by Sea or Land or by any pretence Warrant or Command whatsoever from them or any of them or their or either of their respective Councils or Council or any Member of such Council or Councils or from any person or persons whatsoever deriving or pretending to derive Authority from them or any of them be pardoned Released Indempnified discharged and put in utter Oblivion And that all and every the person and persons Acting Advising Assisting Abetting and Counselling the same they their Heirs Executors and Administrators except as before is excepted be and are hereby pardoned Released Acquitted Indempnified and discharged from the same And of and from all pains of Death and other Pains Iudgments Indictments Convictions Attainders Outlawries Penalties Escheats and Forfeitures therefore had or given or that might accrew for the same And that all such Iudgments Indictments Convictions Attainders Outlawries Penalties Escheats and Forfeitures and every of them and all Grants thereupon made and all Estates derived under the same be and are hereby Declared and Enacted to be from henceforth Null and void And that all mean profits not yet received by such Grantées shall be and are hereby discharged And that all and every person and persons Bodies Politick and Corporate their and every of their Heirs Executors Administrators and Successors shall be and are hereby restored to all and every their Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods Chattels and other things forfeited which to His Majesty do or shall appertain by reason of any offence herein before mentioned and not hereafter in this present Act Excepted and Foreprised All Appeals personal Actions and Suits pardoned And be it further Enacted That all Appeals and all personal Actions Suits Molestations and Prosecutions whatsoever for or by reason of any Act of Hostility Trespass Assault Imprisonment or breach of the Peace Advised Counselled commanded Appointed Happened Acted or done by reason of the late troubles or the late Wars in his Majesties Dominions or relating thereunto and Iudgments and Executions thereupon had before the first day of May in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fifty eight stand and be from henceforth discharged But not to restore to any Person or Persons any sums of money mean Profits or Goods already received or taken upon such Execution or to give any accompt for the same And be it likewise Enacted That all Appeals and all personal Actions and causes of such Actions Suits Molestations and Prosecutions whatsoever for or by reason of any Act or thing advised counselled commanded Acted or done by vertue or colour of any Authority or Commission granted by His late Majesty or his Majesty that now is or by vertue or colour of any Order or Ordinance of one or both Houses of Parliament sitting at Westminster Or by any Act or order made by any Persons assuming the name of a Parliament and sitting as a Parliament at Westminster after the death of the late King CHARLES the First Or by the Authority of the said kéepers of the Liberties of England Or by any Ordinance by either of the late Protectors and Council Or by or upon any Commission Writ Process or Warrant by them or any of them or by Authority derived from them or any of them And all demands of Arrearages of Rents and mean Profits of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments heretofore incurred or grown due which have béen paid received or disposed by vertue or colour of any the Authorities or pretended Authorities aforesaid other then such Arrearages or mean profits as are or shall be otherwise disposed by any Act. or Acts of this present Session of Parliament be from henceforth discharged And it is further by the Authority aforesaid Enacted in the second place That all and every the Subjects of these His Majesties Realms of England and Ireland the Dominion of Wales the Isles of Jersey and Garnsey and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed and other His Majesties Dominions the Heirs Executors and Administrators of them and every of them and all and singular Bodies in any manner of wise corporated Cities Burroughs Shires Ridings Hundreds Lathes Rapes Wapentakes Towns Villages Hamlets and Tythings and every of them and the Successor and Successors of every of them shall be and are by the authority of this present Parliament Acquitted Pardoned Released Indempnified and Discharged against the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and every of them of and from all manner of Treasons Misprisions of Treason Felonies Offences Contempts Trespasses Entries Wrongs Deceits Misdemeanors Forfeitures penalties and sums of Money Intrusions Mean profits Wardships Marriages Reliefs Liveries Ouster le mains Mean Rates Respits of Homage Fines and Seisures for Alienation without License Arrearages of Rents other then the Arrearages of Rents due from the late Farmers or pretended Farmers of of the Excise or Customs respectively other then such Arrearages of Rents or Mean profits as are or shall be otherwise disposed by any Act or Acts of this present Parliament and of and from all Arrearages of Tenths and First-Fruits Fines post-fines Issues and Amerciaments and all Recognizances Bonds or other Securities given for payment of them or any of them concealments of Customs and Excise Arrearages of purveyance and of compositions for the same and of and from all pains of Death pains corporal and pecuniary and generally of and from all other Things Causes Quarrels Suits Iudgments and Executions in this present Act hereafter not Excepted nor Foreprized which may be or can be by his Majesty in any wise or by any means pardoned before and unto the twenty fourth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty to every or any of his said Subjects Wardships and Mean Profits unreceived Bodies Corporate Cities Burroughs Shires Ridings Hundreds Lathes Rapes Wapentakes Towns Villages and Tithings or any of them And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Grants and Patents since the twenty fifth of March One thousand six hundred forty one touching the Wardship and Custody of the Body and Lands or touching the marriage of any Heir within age and all mean profits yet unreceived All things not excepted shall be by the general words of this Act as well as it particularly named and demandable by reason thereof shall be
and their heirs shall accompt for and be responsible for all Rents and Profits of the premisses which came to their hands and have not béen by the said Trustées or their Order disbursed disposed or imployed for the maintenance of Ministers or other uses according to the said pretended Act or Ordinance or some other Act Order or Ordinance made in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred fifty one thousand six hundred fifty four and one thousand six hundred fifty six by any assembly called or reputed a Parliament or assuming the power of a Parliament according to the intention of such Act Acts or Ordinances And the Agents and Receivers under the Order of the said Trustées and the Occupiers and Tenants of the Premisses who have taken the premisses or profits thereof into their hands without agréement to pay Rent therefore and have made no accompt or satisfaction to the Trustes aforesaid or to some other by their Order and also the persons who have held the same or taken the profits thereof under any agréement to pay Rent or Money for the same and have not paid the same shall respectively accompt pay and make satisfaction for so much of the premisses and profits of the premisses as are unsatisfied or unaccounted for as aforesaid and pay such Arrearages of Rents or Money as by such agréement remaineth unpaid by them all which payments and accompts shall be made to such persons and in such manner as in Parliament shall be directed Nevertheless it is not hereby intended that any Minister Schoolmaster or other person for whose benefit and maintenance the said pretended Acts or Ordinances were made shall be accomptable or lyable to make satisfaction for any Profits Rents or Sums of money paid to or taken by them respectively by vertue or colour of any Order or Appointment of the said Trustées or any of them or otherwise Bonds taken in his Majesties name before May 1642. for securities of any his Majesties Receivers not pardoned c. Provided also That this Act do not extend to pardon any Bond taken in his late Majesties Name before the month of May one thousand six hundred forty two for securing the proper Debt of any Servant or Receiver of the Revenue of his said late Majesty that hath not béen paid to or by order of some Lawful or Pretended authority And whereas by an Order of the Six and twentieth day of May in the year One thausand six hundred forty one the then House of Commons in Parliament did accept the sum of One hundred and fifty thousand pounds as a Composition from the Farmers of several Customs voted to be illegally taken and some of the said Farmers did procure and pay the said whole sum of One hundred and fifty thousand pounds at the desire of the said House of Commons and upon their Declaration That such of the said Farmers as did not pay their Proportions should not be pardoned but proceeded against and out of their Fines satisfaction should be made to those who had paid the said One hundred and fifty thousand pounds and in pursuance thereof did on the First of June then next following Resolve That the Estates of such persons living or dead as have by colour of any Patent received monies from the Subject under pretence of such Customs or have béen under-Sharers with the Patentées ought to be made liable to restitution Payments upon proportions of 150000 l. upon the customes It is therefore Provided That this Act shall not extend nor be construed to extend to Pardon or Indempnifie any person or persons their Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns who have not paid their Proportions of the said One hundred and fifty thousand pounds or ought to have béen contributory thereunto from or against misdemeanors or offences relating to the said Customes or from payment of their Proportions But that the Estates of the dead as well as of the living of such who ought to have béen contributory in whose possession soever Purchasers Bona fide and upon valuable Considerations only excepted shall Continue and be charged and chargeable with the payment of their Proportions to all intents and purposes as if this Act had not béen made any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to pardon or discharge any sum or sums of money due and Arrear for Excise of Béer Ale Arrears of Excise upon Beer and Ale or other Native or Inland Commodity since the twenty fourth day of June One thousand six hundred fifty and nine Provided also That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to the pardoning Monies due for free quarter or discharging of any sum or sums of money due from any Officers or Souldiers to any of the Subjects of this Kingdom for frée-quarter since the second day of July One thousand six hundred fifty and nine or to discharge any monies borrowed by any Officers for preventing of frée-quarter Provided alwayes And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Conveyance Purchasers bona fide of Lands other then the Kings c. to enjoy their purchases Assurance Grant Bargain Sale Charge Lease Assignment of Lease Grants and Surrenders by Copy of Court-Roll Estate Interest Trust or Limitation of any Vse or Vses of any Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments not being the Lands nor Hereditaments of the late King Quéen Prince or of any Archbishops Bishops Deans Deans or Chapters nor being Lands or Hereditaments sold or given or appointed to be sold or given for the Delinquency or pretended delinquency of any person or persons whatsoever by vertue or pretext of any Act Order or Ordinance or reputed Act Order or Ordinance since the first day of January One thousand six hundred forty and one Nor any Statute Iudgment or Recognizance had made acknowledged or suffered to any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate before the Nine and twentieth day of September One thousand six hundred fifty and Nine By any of the persons before in this Act by name excepted or their Heirs or by any other person or persons claiming by from or under them or any of them other then the Wife or Wifes child children heir and heirs of such person and persons or any of them for money bona fide to them or any of them paid or lent nor any conveyance assurance grant or estate made before the Five and twentieth day of April One thousand six hundred and sixty By any person or persons to any such person excepted by Name as aforesaid in trust and for the benefit of any other person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate not excepted by name as aforesaid shall be impeached defeated made void or frustrated hereby or by the attainder or conviction of any such excepted person or persons but that the same shall be held and enjoyed by the Purchasers Grantées Lessées Assigns Cestuy
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
Hereditaments Escheated or Forfeited by reason of such Attainder and all Title to any Measne Profits by reason of such Conviction Outlawry Attainder or Grant be from henceforth repealed and discharged And that all Escheats Forfeitures and Confiscations by reason of such Outlawries Conviction or Attainder Be and are hereby restored unto such persons so Outlawed Convicted or Attainted their Heirs Executors and Administrators respectively as if no such Attainder had béen Sales made by Ordinance of Parliament Provided Nevertheless And be it Enacted That this Act or any thing herein contained shall not extend to avoid or confirm any Sales or Estates made by vertue or pretence of any Act Order or Ordinance or reputed Act Order or Ordinance of Parliament since the first day of May in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty two nor any Confirmation thereof made or to be made thereof in this present Parliament but that such sales stand and be in the same plight and condition as they should or might have done if this Act had not béen made Recognizances Obligations c. in the names of the late Protector And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Recognizances Obligations or other Securities made or given to the Kéepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament or to Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging or to Oliver Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging Or to Richard Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging and not pardoned or discharged by any Act passed or to be passed this present Parliament or otherwise other then such Recognizances Obligations and Securities as have béen made and given to any the pretended power or persons aforesaid or to any deriving or pretending to derive Authority from them by any person or persons for or by reason of their adherence to His Majesty or His said late Royal Father or relating to or arising only upon or in respect of the late Troubles All which are hereby declared to be void and to be delivered up to be Cancelled And all Iudgments Extents Inquisitions Executions and Seizures had for the said Kéepers or Protectors or any of them and not likewise pardoned or discharged other then as aforesaid shall and may be had and prosecuted in the name and to the use of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors and also excepting all Obligations Bonds or Recognizances entred into to the said Kéepers or Protectors or any of them by any person or persons by Order or Direction of any Council of State Committée of Safety Major Generals Decimators or any Officer or other person under them or any other Military power all which Obligations Bonds and Recognizances are hereby discharged and declared to be null and void to all intents and purposes Provided also and be it Enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained Iustices Serjeants c. Commissioners of Sewers shall not extend to continue after the Eighth day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty any Iustice or Iustices of one Bench or the other or Barons of the Exchequer Serjeants at Law Commissions of Sewers Commissions of Bankrupts or of charitable uses made or constituted by or in the Name or Stile of any the late pretended powers or authorities Provided alwayes That it shall and may be lawful to and for every person and persons Writs of Errour may be brought who shall find themselves grieved or damnified by any Iudgment Fine Recovery Decrée or Sentence given made levied granted or pronounced in any of the said Courts to procéed in due form of Law either by Writ of Errour Bill of Review Appeal or other lawful remedy for the Reversing Annulling or Revoking of the same in such manner as they might at any time heretofore have done if the said Courts had béen established by lawful Authority other then for those Errours and Defects which are remedied or provided for by this Act. Provided alwayes And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Non-claim upon Fines of lands sold by Ordinance of Parliament That no Non-claim upon or after any Fine or Fines hereby made good or confirmed shall extend or be construed to Bar or Prejudice any person or persons their Heirs or Successors or their Feoffées or Trustées other then the parties to the said Fines and their Heirs general and special and his and their Trustées as concerning such Right Claim and Interest as they had in or to any Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments which by colour of any Act Order or Ordinance of both or either Houses of Parliament or any Convention sitting at Westminster under the Name or Stile or assuming the Name or Stile of a Parliament since the First day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and two and before the Five and twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty were Sold Conveyed or Disposed as then or late the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the King Quéen or Prince or of Archbishops Bishops Deans Deans and Chapters or other Ecclesiastical persons or as the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of any other persons for their Adherency to the late King or his Majesty that now is or for any their Actings relating to or in respect of the late Troubles so alwayes that the said person or persons aforesaid their Heirs or Successors pursue their Title Claim or Interest by way of Action or lawful Entry within five years next after the Nine and twentieth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty And although in this Confirmation of Iudicial Procéedings The late Government declared to be usurped it was necessary to mention Divers pretensed Acts and Ordinances by the Names and Stiles which those Persons then Vsurped who took upon them to pass the same Namely some by the Stile and Name of the Kéepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament and others by the Name and Stile of Protectors of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging Yet this present Parliament doth Declare and it is further Enacted by Authority of the same That the Names and Stiles aforesaid and every of them are most Rebellious Wicked Trayterous and Abominable Vsurpations Detested by this present Parliament Recognition of his Majesties just title as Opposite in the Highest Degrée to His Sacred Majesties most Iust and Vndoubted Right to whom and to his Heirs and Lawful Successors the Imperial Crowns of the Realms of England Scotland and Ireland with their and every of their Dominions and Territories do of Right appertain and as violating and Infringing the just Rights and
against him for discharging such prisoner Delayes in Suites by reason of 15 dayes between the Teste and Retorn of writs remedyed in actions personall And whereas very many Suits Commenced by Original Writs have béen protracted and long delayed from Iudgment and Execution by reason of the necessity of having fiftéen dayes at the least betwéen the dayes of the Teste and the dayes of Return of Writs now used in personal Actions and also in Actions of Ejectione Firmae for Lands and Tenements For remedy thereof and for the more easie expediting Trials and the better and more spéedy executing of Iudgments for the time to come Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in all Actions of Debt and all other personal Actions whatsoever and also in all Actions of Ejectione firmae Ejectione firmae for Lands or Tenements now depending or which at any time hereafter shall be depending by Original Writ in either of His Majesties Courts aforesaid after any issue therein ioyned to be tried by a Iury and also after any Iudgment had or obtained or to be had or obtained in either of the Courts aforesaid Venire facias Habeas Corpora Jurator Distringas Jurator Fieri fac Capias ad satisfaciendum Capias ad satisfaciendum where Exigent lyeth after Iudgment or to make the Bail appear excepted 3. Jac. cap. 8. Touching staying executions by Supersedeas or Writs of Errour and what actions it may be stayd There shall not néed to be fiftéen dayes betwéen the Teste day and the day of Retorn of any Writ or Writs of Venire facias Habeas Corpora Juratorum or Distringas Juratores Writs of Fieri facias or Writs of Capias ad satisfaciendum and that the want of Fiftéen dayes between the Teste day and the day of Retorn of any such Writ shall not be nor shall be assigned taken or adjudged to be any matter or Cause of Errour any Law Custome Statute Course or Vsage to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided nevertheless that this Act nor any thing therein contained shall not Extend or be construed to Extend to any Writ of Capias ad Satisfaciendum whereon a Writ of Exigent after Iudgment is to be awarded nor to Capias ad Satisfaciendum against the Defendant in Order to make any Bail liable but that the same continue and be as if this Act had never béen made And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the third year of the Reign of our late Soveraign Lord King James of Blessed Memory a very good Law was made for avoiding unnecessary delayes of Execution Whereby it is Enacted That no Execution shall be stayed or delayed upon or by any Writ of Errour or Supersedeas thereupon to be sued for the reversing of any Iudgment to be given in any Action or Bill of Debt upon any single Bond for Debt or upon any Obligation with Condition for payment of money onely or upon Action or Bill of Debt for Rent or upon any Contract sued in any of His Highness Courts of Record at Westminster or in the Counties Palatine of Chester Lancaster or Durham or in His Highness Courts of Great Sessions in any of the Twelve Shires of Wales unless such person or persons in whose name or names such Writ of Error shall be brought with two sufficient Sureties such as the Court wherein such Iudgment is or shall be given shall allow of shall first before such stay made or Supersedeas to be awarded be bound to the party for whom any such Iudgment was or should be given by Recognizance to be acknowledged in the same Court in double the sum adiudged to be recovered by the said former Iudgment to prosecute the said Writ of Error with effect and also to satisfie and pay if the said Iudgment shall be affirmed all and singular the Debts Damages and Costs adjudged or to be adjudged upon the former Iudgment And all Costs and Damages to be also awarded for the same delaying of Execution which Law hath béen found by experience to be very good and beneficial to the Common-Wealth And forasmuch as divers other Cases within the same mischief by delayes and staying of Execution by Writs of Error and Supersedeas thereupon are not provided for by the said Statute For further remedy against delayes and staying of Executions in the several Actions hereafter specified Be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid In what Actions execution may be stayed by writ of Error by this Statute That from and after the twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and one no Execution shall be stayed in any of the Courts aforesaid by any Writ or Writs of Error or Supersedeas thereupon after any Verdict and Iudgment thereupon obtained in any Action of Debt grounded upon the Statute made in the second year of the Reign of the late King Edward the sixth for not setting forth of Tythes nor in any Action upon the Case upon any promise for payment of money Actions sur Trover Action of Covenant Detinue and Trespass unless such Recognizance and in such manner as by the said recited former Act is directed shall be first acknowledged in the said Court where such Iudgment is given And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid The Defendant to have double Costs for delays of his Execution by writ of Error That if any person or persons after the said day shall Sue or Prosecute any Writ or Writs of Error for Reversal of any Iudgment whatsoever given after any Verdict in any of the Courts aforesaid and the said Iudgment shall afterwards be affirmed then every such person or persons shall pay unto the Defendant or Defendants in the said Writ or Writs of Error his or their double Costs to be assessed by the Court where such Writ of Error shall be depending for the delaying of Execution Provided nevertheless that this Act nor any thing therein contained Popular actions or upon a penal Law Indictments c. not within this Statute shall not extend to any Action Popular nor unto any other Action which is or hereafter shall be brought upon any penal Law or Statute except Debt for not setting out Tythes as aforesaid nor to any Indictment Presentment Inquisition Information or Appeal any thing herein before expressed to the contrary thereof notwithstanding CAP. III. An Act for Granting unto the Kings Majesty Twelve hundred and threescore thousand pounds to be Assessed and Levied by an Assessment of Threescore and ten thousand pounds by the Moneth for Eighteen Moneths EXP. CAP. IV. For enabling the Kings Majesty to make Leases Grants and Copies of Offices Lands Tenements and Hereditaments parcel of his Highness Dutchy of Cornwall or annexed to the same and for Confirmation of Leases and Grants already made WHereas a great part of the Lands part of and annexed to the Dutchy of Cornwall Stat. 22 Jac.
cap. 29. have béen held by sundry Leases thereof made for years and for one two and thrée lives by means whereof the Tenants have fixed Estates have béen encouraged to improve and manure the same and have improved the same and therein laid out great sums of Money in Building and otherwise to the great advantage of the Publick And whereas for Twenty years and more now last past no such Leases have béen legally made so that it is probable most of the Tenants Estates will be determined or near determination ere that there can be any Estates well and legally renewed unless remedy therefore be provided by means whereof Waste Spoil and Dilapidation are likely to happen the Lands worn out and decayed and great disturbance and impoverishment to the Tenants And whereas on the like consideration King Charles the First was by special Law enabled to make such Leases Be it Enacted by our Soveraign Lord the King by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by authority of the same That all Leases or Grants already made Leases by the King of Lands c. of the Dutchy of Cornwall made good or hereafter to be made within the space of thrée years now next ensuing by our said Soveraign Lord the King by Letters Patents Indentures or other Writings under His Great Seal of England or Seal of the Court of Exchequer or by Copy of Court-Roll according to the Customs of the respective Mannors of any Offices Parks Lands Tenements or Hereditaments other then Honors Lordships or Mannors parcel of the possessions of the said Dutchy of Cornwall or annexed to the same shall be good and effectual in Law according to the Purport and Contents of the said Leases Grants and Copies against our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and against all and every person or persons that shall hereafter have inherit or enjoy the said Dukedome of Cornwal by force of any Act of Parliament or other limitation whatsoever Leases for above 31 years or three lives excepted Provided alwayes That every such Lease so to be made of any Parks Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in Possession shall be made but for thrée lives or fewer or for one and thirty years or under or some other term of years determinable upon one two or thrée lives and not above And if such Leases be made in Reversion That then the same together with the Estates in Possession do not excéed thrée lives or the term of one and thirty years and not in any wise dispunishable of Waste Not to be diâ—punishable of Waste The ancient rent to be reserved and so as upon every such Lease shall be reserved the ancient or most usual rent or more or such Rent as hath béen yielded or paid for the greater part of twenty years next before the making of the said Leases and shall be reserved due and payable by or to him or her that shall have the Inheritance or other Estate of the said Parks Lands Tenements or Hereditaments and where no such Rent hath béen reserved or payable That then upon every such Lease there shall be reserved a reasonable Rent not being under the fourth part of the clear yearly value of the Parks Lands Tenements or Hereditaments contained in such Lease Covenants conâ—â—sions in such leases grants or c. shall be good And be it further Ordained and Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament That all Covenants Conditions and Reservations and other Agréements contained in every Lease Grant or Copy heretofore made or hereafter so to be made as aforesaid shall be good and effectual in Law according to the words and contents of the same as well for and against them to whom the Reversion of the same Lands Tenements or Hereditaments shall come as for and against them to whom the Interest of the said Leases Grants or Copies shall come respectively as if our Soveraign Lord the Kings Maiesty at the time of the making of such Covenants Conditions and Reservations and other agréements were seised of an absolute Indefeasible Estate in Fée-simple in the same Lands Saving of others Rights Tenements or Hereditaments Saving alwayes to all and every person and persons Bodies Politick and Corporate their Heirs and Successors Executors Administrators and Assigns other then our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Maiesty and his Heirs and all and every person and persons that shall hereafter have inherit or enjoy the said Dukedom of Cornwall by force of any Act of Parliament or other limitation whatsoever all such Rights Titles Estates Customs Interests Terms Claims and demands whatsoever of what kind nature or quality whatsoever or in to or out of the said Offices Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or any of them as they or any of them had or ought to have had before the making of this Act to all intents and purposes and in as large and ample manner and form as if this Act had never béen had or made this Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding ACTS made in the Parliament begun and holden the 8th of May Anno 13 Caroli Secundi Regis And Continued to the 19th of May 14 Caroli Regis And thence Prorogued to the 18th of February then next following CAP. I. Certain Persons called Quakers and others refusing to take lawful Oaths VVHereas of late times certain persons under the names of Quakers and other names of Separation Quakers seperations denying to take an Oath have taken up and maintained sundry dangerous Opinions and Tenents and amongst others that the taking of an Oath in any case whatsoever although before a lawful Magistrate is altogether unlawful and contrary to the Word of God and the said persons do daily refuse to take an Oath though lawfully tendred whereby it often happens that the truth is wholly suppressed and the Administration of Iustice much obstructed And whereas the said Persons under a pretence of Religious Worship do often assemble themselves in great numbers in several parts of this Realm to the great endangering of the Publick Peace and Safety and to the terror of the People by maintaining a secret and strict correspondence amongst themselves and in the mean time separating and dividing themselves from the rest of his Majesties good and loyal Subjects and from the Publick Congregations and usual places of Divine Worship For the redressing therefore and better preventing the many Mischiefs and dangers that do and may arise by such dangerous Tenents and such unlawful Assemblies Be it Enacted by the Kings Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled in Parliament and by Authority of the same That if any person or persons who maintain that the taking of an Oath in any case whatsoever although before a lawfull Magistrate is altogether unlawful The penalty for refusing
Right of His Majesty and His Royal Predecessors Kings and Quéens of England and that both or either of the Houses of Parliament cannot nor ought to pretend to the same nor can nor lawfully may raise or levy any War Offensive or Defensive against His Majesty His Heirs or lawfull Successors and yet the contrary thereof hath of late years béen practised almost to the ruine and destruction of this Kingdom and during the late usurped Governments many evil and rebellious principles have béen instilled into the minds of the people of this Kingdom which may break forth unless prevented to the disturbance of the peace and quiet thereof His Majesty may issue out Commissions of Lieutenancy to such persons as he shall think fit for the several counties cities c. The power of the said Lieutenants 25 Car. 2. cap. 4. Stat. 3. Be it therefore Declared and Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That the Kings most Excellent Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall and may from time to time as occasion shall require issue forth several Commissions of Lieutenancy to such persons as his Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall think fit to be his Majesties Lieutenants for the several and respective Counties Cities and places of England and Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed which Lieutenants shall have full power and authority to call together all such persons at such times and to arm and aray them in such manner as is hereafter expressed and declared and to form them into Companies Troops and Regiments and in case of Insurrection Rebellion or Invasion them to lead conduct and imploy or cause to be led conducted and imployed as well within the said several Counties Cities and places for which they shall be Commissionated respectively as also into any other the Counties and Places aforesaid for suppressing of all such Insurrections and Rebellions and repelling of Invasions as may happen to be according as they shall from time to time receive directions from His Majesty His Heirs and Successors And that the said respective Lieutenants shall have full Power and Authority from time to time to constitute appoint and give Commissions to such persons as they shall think fit to be Colonels Majors Captains The Deputy-Lieutenants to be named to and approved of by his Majesty and other Commission-Officers of the said persons so to be armed arrayed and weaponed and to present to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors the names of such person and persons as they shall think fit to be Deputy-Lieutenants and upon His Maiesties approbation of them shall give them Deputations accordingly always understood That His Maiesty His Heirs and Successors have power and authority to direct and order otherwise and accordingly at his and their pleasure may appoint and commissionate or displace such Officers Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding And that the said Lieutenants respectively and in their absence out of the Precincts and Limits of their respective Lieutenancies or otherwise by their directions the said Deputy-Lieutenants The power of the Deputy-Lieutenants during their said respective Deputations or any two or more of them shall have power from time to time to train exercise and put in readiness and also to lead and conduct the persons so to be armed arrayed and weaponed by the directions and to the intents and purposes as is hereafter expressed and declared And for the providing Horse and Arms and Furniture thereunto belonging for the Arming and Weaponing the persons aforesaid and also for the defraying and paying the necessary charges thereunto belonging in manner as hereafter followeth Be it further Enacted The manner of charging and providing Horse and Arms c. That the said respective Lieutenants within the several Counties Cities and Places for which they are nominated respectively and their Deputies or the major part of such Lieutenants and Deputy-Lieutenants then present or in the absence of the Lieutenant or Lieutenants the major part of the Deputy-Lieutenants then present which major part shall be thrée at the least have hereby full Power and Authority to charge any person with Horse Horse-man and Arms or with Foot-Souldier and Arms in the same County Shire City Burrough or Town-Corporate where his her or their Estates lye having respect unto and not excéeding the limitations and proportions hereafter mentioned that is to say No person shall be charged with finding a Horse Horse-man and Arms unless such person or persons have a Revenue of Five hundred pounds by the year in possession or have an Estate of Six thousand pounds in Goods or Money besides the Furniture of his or their Houses and so proportionably for a greater Estate in Lands in possession or Goods as the respective Lieutenants and their Deputies as aforesaid in their discretions shall sée cause and think reasonable And they are not to charge any person with finding a Foot-Souldier and Arms that hath not a yearly Revenue of Fifty pounds in possession or a personal Estate of Six hundred pounds in Goods or Moneys other then the stock upon the ground and after the aforesaid rate proportionably for a greater or lesser Revenue or Estate Nor shall they charge any person with the finding both of Horse and Foot in the same County Provided That no person chargeable by this Act to find an Horse and Horse-man with Arms No person charged with or towards an Horse may be charged also towards foot-arms or to be contributory towards finding an Horse and Horse-man with Arms shall for the same Estate be chargeable towards finding a Foot-Souldier with Arms or contributory thereunto And it shall be lawful to and for the respective Lieutenants and Deputies or any thrée or more of them as aforesaid to impose the finding and providing of Horse Horse-man and Arms as aforesaid by joyning two or thrée or more persons together in the Charge as to their Iudgment shall appear most conducible to the service of this Kingdome Provided That no person that hath not One hundred pounds per annum in possession in Lands What persons and Estate only chargeable towards finding Horse-arms Lieutenants and Deputies may hear and determine matters relating to this Act. Tenements or Hereditaments Lease-hold or Copy-hold or Twelve hundred pounds personal Estate shall be compellable to contribute in finding any Horse and Horse-man with Arms And the said respective Lieutenants and Deputies or any thrée or more of them shall have power to hear Complaints and examine Witnesses upon Oath which Oath they have hereby power to administer and to give redress according to the merits of the cause in matters relating to the execution of this Act. Be it further Enacted That the said Lieutenants and Deputies or any thrée or more of them in their several Counties and Places respectively shall
his Majesties Exchequer before the four and twentieth of June one thousand six hundred sixty and two and have or shall have notice thereof by Process out of the Court of Exchequer or otherwise served upon his person or left at his house or last known place of Habitation before the nine and twentieth of September one thousand six hundred sixty and two and shall not before the first day of Easter Term then next ensuing perfect their Accounts touching the said Charge that then the Charge against all and every such person or persons shall be taken as a Debt by Writing Obligatory or Recognizance taken and acknowledged to the Kings Majesty according to the Statute aforesaid and that in both the said Cases Process shall be awarded as is used for recovery of debts due to his Majesty according to the Statute as aforesaid against him or them and against all and every their Sureties not pardoned or discharged by the said Act of Oblivion and his and their respective Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels and Debts and the said Charge to continue in force only until the Accounts shall be perfected and the Accountants discharge them thereof in due manner in the said Court of Exchequer with such allowances as are given by the said Act of Oblivion and untill payment made unto his Majesty of all such sums of money as shall be found due upon the determination of his or their Accounts CAP. XVII Relief of Collectors of Publick Moneys and their Assistants and Deputies BE it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in Parliament now assembled and by Authority of the same Collectors others imployed in levying money by vertue of any Act of Parliament being sued may plead the general issue That all Collectors and other Persons who have levied or Collected or shall Levy or Collect any sum or sums of money or other act done or shall do in order to the same by vertue of any Act of Parliament now in force or of any other Act Order or Ordinance allowed to be put in Execution by any such Act of Parliament as aforesaid and who is or shall be sued for or concerning the same by any other then the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors he and they may plead the General Issue and thereon give the special matter in evidence for his excuse and justification And that all and every person or persons already sued or impleaded for any the Causes aforesaid may notwithstanding any plea or demurrer already made by any such Defendant have liberty to change such his Plea and to plead the General Issue if he shall think fit so to do Provided always that neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to authorize the levying or collecting of any sum or sums of money which are pardoned by the late Act 12 Car. 2. c. 11 Entituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion CAP. XVIII Exporting of Sheep Wool Wool-fells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks Fullers-Earth Fulling-Clay and Tobacco-pipe-Clay Prohibited WHereas against the Laws of this Kingdom great number of Shéep and great quantities of Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks Fullers Earth or Fulling-Clay are secretly Exported Transported carried and conveyed out of the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales the Town of Berwick upon Tweed and Kingdom of Ireland into the Kingdom of Scotland and into Foreign parts to the great decay of the Woollen Manufactures the ruine of many Families and the destruction of the Navigation and Commerce of the Kingdoms Town and Dominion aforesaid which is like daily to increase if some further remedy be not provided and further penalties imposed upon the Offenders therein Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That if any person or persons shall from and after the first day of August Exporting or carrying of sheep wooll woolfels mortlings shorlings yarn woolflocks Fullers earth Fulling clay out of England Wales or Ireland One thousand six hundred sixty and two directly or indirectly Export Transport Carry or Convey or shall cause to be Exported Transported Carryed or Conveyed out of or from the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or after the first day of January One thousand six hundred sixty and two out of the Kingdom of Ireland into any parts or places out of the Kingdoms or Dominion aforesaid or into the Kingdome of Scotland any Shéep or Wool whatsoever of the bréed or growth of the Kingdoms or Dominion aforesaid or any Wool-fells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks or any Fullers Earth or Fulling-Clay whatsoever or shall directly or indirectly pack or load or cause to be packed or loaden upon any horse Cart or other Carriage or shall load or lay on board or cause to be loaden or laid on board in any Ship or other Vessel in any place within the Kingdoms of England or Ireland Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed aforesaid any such Shéep Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Wool-flocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay to the intent or purpose to Export Transport Carry or convey the same or to cause the same to be Exported Transported Carryed or conveyed out of the Kingdoms of England or Ireland the Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed aforesaid into the Kingdom of Scotland or into any Foreign parts that then every such offence shall be adjudged Felony Made Felony and the Offender or Offenders being duly Convicted shall suffer and forfeit as in case of Felony Aiders and assisters therein shall be adjudged Felons And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Owner of any such Ship or other Vessel every owner of every horse Cart or Carriage upon which any Shéep Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay shall be so Exported Transported carryed or conveyed as aforesaid or to any such intent or purpose as aforesaid knowing thereof and being wittingly and willingly aiding assisting or consenting thereunto and also every Master and Mariner of or in such Ship or other Vessel wherein any such Shéep Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay shall be so exported transported carryed or conveyed or loaden or laid on Board as aforesaid to any such intent or purpose as aforesaid knowing thereof and being wittingly and willingly aiding assisting or consenting thereunto and also every Factor or servant or other person whatsoever and every Customer Comptroller Waiter Searcher Surveyor or other Officer or person whatsoever knowing thereof and being wittingly or willingly
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
by colour of a pretended Act of Parliament of the nine and twentieth day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fourty and nine procéeded in the compleating and finishing the said Works And the Commissioners appointed by that pretended Act did adjudg the same Dreyned but the same cannot be preserved without a perpetual constant care great charge and Orderly Government which being represented to the Kings most Excellent Majesty that now is He hath béen gratiously pleased to declare more then an ordinary willingness to promote and countenance a Work of so Publick Concernment and many ways advantagious to this his Kingdom To the end therefore that a work of this Nature may receive a Publick Support and Encouragement Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the Advice and Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That the said William Earl of Bedford son and heir of the said Francis Earl of Bedford The Earl of Bedford and Adventurers made a Corporation for the Fens and the Adventurers and Participants of the said Earl Francis and Earl William or either of them their Heirs and Assigns in such manner as is herein contained shall be a Body Politick and Corporate in Déed and Name and have Succession for ever by the Name of the Governor Bailiffs and Commonalty of the Company of Conservators of the Great Level of the Fens which Corporation shall consist of one Governor six Bayliffs twenty Conservators and Commonalty and shall have and use a Common Seal to be appointed by themselves and assemble and meet together when where and as oft as they please and appoint a Register Receiver one or more Sergeants at Mace and other Officers and allow them Salaries and remove them and make new at their pleasure And the said William Earl of Bedford is to be the first Governor The Earl of Bedford Governour The Bayliffs Richard Lord Gorges Sir Richard Onslow Knight Sir William Terringham Knight of the Bath Samuel Sandys Thomas Chichely and Samuel Fortrey Esquires the six first Bailiffs Sir Gilbert Gerhard junior Knight William Denton William Crane Edmond Berry-Godfrey Arthur Evelin Samuel Smith Roger Jenings Robert Castle Robert Hampson Joseph Ayloffe Esquires Thomas Lord Culpepper Sir John Hewett Baronet Arthur Onslow Robert Phillips Anthony St. John Esquires Sir Oliver St. John Sir Charles Harbord Knights Francis Hoblyn Samuel Sandys junior Conservators and Robert Terringham Esquires the first Conservators And the said Governor Bayliffs and Conservators to continue until Wednesday in Whitsun-week in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and four and from thenceforth until new Elections by the said Corporation or the major part which shall be then present And shall be capable to sue and be sued and without License of Mortmain to purchase Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Their power and authority not excéeding two hundred pounds per annum and Goods and Chattels and to dispose thereof in the name and to the use of the said Corporation and the said Governor Bayliffs and Conservators or any five or more of them whereof the said Governor or Bailiffs or any of them to be two shall and may lay Taxes from time to time upon all the said Ninety five thousand Acres only for support maintenance and preservation of the said Great Level and levy the same with penalties for non-payment not exceeding a third part of the Tax and all other things do in order to the support maintenance and preservation of the said Great Level and Works made and to be made And whereas by the said Law of Sewers twelve thousand Acres parcel of the said ninety five thousand Acres was designed and intended to his said late Majesty and were set forth and allotted by bounds in severalty and his said late Majesty was in possession thereof and granted assigned allotted and set out by bounds two thousand Acres parcel of the said twelve thousand Acres by Letters Patents unto Jerome Earl of Portland his Heirs and Assigns Earl of Portlands 2000 Acres of which said two thousand Acres the said Earl of Portland hath sold away about One thousand five hundred Acres in several parcels to several persons their Heirs and Assigns for valuable considerations and the residue thereof being about five hundred Acres hath granted and conveyed unto his Brother Benjamin Weston Esquire and his Heirs upon several Trusts agreed upon betwéen the said Earl of Portland and Benjamin Weston by writing for that purpose Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said two thousand Acres or such other Lands of equal value as shall be set forth in Exchange of the same in case the aforementioned two thousand Acres or any part thereof shall hereafter be adjudged to have béen unduly set out shall be and hereby are vested setled and established in the said several and respective persons to whom the said Earl of Portland hath so conveyed or mentioned to convey the same their Heirs and Assigns respectively to each person his Heirs and Assigns his and their several and respective Share and Shares that was so respectively to each of them conveyed or mentioned to be conveyed by the said Earl of Portland to be held and enjoyed by them and each of them his Heirs and Assigns his and their own Share and Part only in severalty according to the intent of the said Conveyances thereof to them respectively made by the said Earl of Portland upon the same Trusts nevertheless for and concerning the said five hundred Acres granted or mentioned to be granted to the said Benjamin Weston which the said Earl of Portland and Benjamin Weston had declared and agréed upon betwéen them as aforesaid Which said two thousand Acres shall be holden of the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors of the Mannor of East Greenwich by Fealty only in Frée and Common Soccage and not otherwise and subject nevertheless with the the residue of the Ninety five thousand Acres in equal proportion to all Taxes and Charges necessary and conducing to the preservation of the said Great Level from Drowning The 83000. Acres setled and vested in the Governor c. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Eighty three thousand Acres remainder of the said Ninety five thousand Acres with the said Ways Passages new Rivers Cutts Dreyns Banks and Forelands over and above the said ten thousand Acres residue of the said twelve thousand Acres which were allotted in severalty and of which his said late Majesty was in possession as aforesaid are hereby vested and setled in the said Governour Bailiffs and Commonalty of the Company of Conservators of the said Great Level of the Fens and their Successors In trust nevertheless for the said William Earl of Bedford and the Adventures and Participants of the said Earl Francis and Earl William or either of them
Road safety and preservation of Ships that may resort thither as well in peril of Storms as otherwise to lade or unlade their Goods and to alter repair and amend the same or any part of it from time to time as oft as néed shall require And to the end that the making the said River Navigable and passable for Barges Boats Lighters and other Vessels and the erecting and making the said Haven Channels Sasses Locks Wears Turnpikes Penns for Water Wharfs Bridges Ways and Passages as aforesaid or other things may not be any way prejudicial to the Inheritance Possession or profit of any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate whatsoever that have any Lands Tenements Wears or Hereditaments adjoyning unto the said River or Streams Brooks new Chanels and Passages as aforesaid or any of them or through which the same shall be made or cut as aforesaid Satisfaction to parties endamaged in any of their lands Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Vndertakers before they do meddle with the Lands Inheritance Possession or Profit of any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate shall first agrée with such persons Bodyes Politick or Corporate for the loss or damage that any of them shall or may any way receive by the making or altering the said Haven Channels Wharfs Sasses Locks Wears and Passages or procure some Order therein to be made by the Commissioners to be Assigned for that purpose as hereafter in this present Act is expressed And for the better effecting of the premisses and the due rating of the value of the things to be compounded for by the true intent of this Statute if the Parties shall not agrée Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Commissioners for compounding with persons so damnifide That at the request and charges of the said Vndertakers One or more Commission or Commissions under the Great Seal of England shall be granted to Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of England Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery William Lord Herbert of Cardiffe Henry Lord Viscount Cornbury George Lord Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Winchester for the time being John Lord Bishop of Sarum and the Bishop of Sarum for the time being William Lord Sands Robert Lord Brook Anthony Lord Ashly Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Edward Nicholas Knight One of His Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council Sir Robert Hyde Knight Lord Chief Iustice of the Kings Bench Sir Wadham Windham Knight one of the Iustices of the Kings Bench Sir George Grubham How Baronet Sir Joseph Ash Baronet Sir John Nicholas Knight of the Bath sir John Low Knight sir Robert Mason Knight sir Thomas Mompesson Knight sir John Clobery Knight Stephen Fox Esquire Clerk of the Gréen-Cloth and one of the Citizens for the City of New-Sarum John Joyce Mayor of the City of New-Sarum and the Mayor of the City for the time being Richard Coleman Esquire Recorder of the City of New-Sarum and the Recorder of the same City for the time being Francis Roll Esquire High Sheriff of the County of Southampton Lawrence Hyde Esquire Humphrey VVeld Esquire Edward Hyde of Hatch Esquire Richard How Esquire John Holt the elder of the Close of the City of New-Sarum Esquire George Vennerd of the City of New-Sarum Esquire Edward Manning Esquire Richard Compton Esquire Thomas Knowles Esquire Philip Lee Esq Walter Bockland Esq VVilliam Swanton Esq Roger Gallop Esq Edward Hooper of Huncourt Esq Will. Tulse Esq John Hobby Esq Henry Tulse Esquire Henry VVhitehead Esq The Mayor of VVilton for the time being and the Mayor of Christ-Church for the time being Samuel Percival Esquire VVilliam Lisle Esquire and Philip Percival Gentleman The power of the said Commissioners Which said Commissioners or any seven or more of them not being Parties concerned shall have full power and Authority and are hereby impowred and Authorized by examination of witnesses upon Oath which Oath they or any seven or more of them have hereby power to administer or by any other lawful ways or means to examine here and determine all and all manner of Controversies Debates and Questions which shall happen and arise betwéen any persons whatsoever touching or concerning any matter or thing relating to the aforesaid Premisses or any part thereof And to appoint determine and decree what and how much satisfaction every such person or persons Body politick or Corporate shall have for or in respect of the loss to be by him her or them sustained notice being first given of their Méeting by Papers publickly affixed to the Church-doors or set up in the Market-places of the City of New-Sarum and the Towns of Christ-Church and Ringwood Ten days at the least before their Méeting declaring the time and place of their Meeting And also notice in writing being first left at the Dwelling-house of every Party concerned or at their usual place of abode or with some Tenant or Occupier of some House Land or Tenement of such party within fiftéen Miles of the said River Which said Determination Sentence and Decrée set down declared and pronounced by the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them and the Price and Recompence by them limited shall bind all Parties therein concerned in Possession Reversion or Remainder or otherwise and as well Infants Feme Coverts as others and their Heirs in Fée-Simple or in Tail and their Executors Administrators and Assigns and all claiming by from or under him her or them or any of them which Order Sentence and Decrée shall be set down in writing under the Hands and Seals of the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them within six wéeks after the first Resort to them for that cause according to this Act the same to be kept among the Records of the Sessions of the Peace for the City of New-Sarum by the Clerk of the Peace for the time being of the said City Transcripts whereof shall be delivered to the several Clerks of the Peace of the respective Counties of VVilts and Southampton to be by them kept upon Record amongst the Records of the Sessions of the said respective Counties All which shall be taken adjudged and déemed good and sufficient Evidence and proof in any Court of Record whatsoever And that upon payment of such sum or sums so ordered or agréed upon to the said persons concerned or tender thereof made at his or their Dwelling-house or the house of his or their Tenant of some Tenement house or Land of theirs within fiftéen miles of the said River and if they have no such Dwelling-house Land or Tenement or if upon such tender at their said Dwelling-house or the House Land or Tenement of such Tenant as aforesaid they refuse or are not ready to receive the same That upon payment of the said sum to the Mayor and Commonalty of the City of New-Sarum in the Council-Chamber of the said City
fol. 25. EXP. 26 An Act for the Raising of Mariners and Saylers for the Guarding of the Seas and his Majesties Kingdoms Cap. 26. fol. 25. EXP. 27 An Act for the dis-enabling all persons in Holy Orders to exercise any Temporal Jurisdiction or Authority Cap. 27. fol. 25. Rep. 13 Car. 1. cap. 2. 28 An Act for the Raising of Souldiers for the defence of England Ireland Cap. 28. fol. 25. EXP. 29 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of money payable upon Merchandizes Exportable and Importable Cap. 29. fol. 25. EXP. 30 An Act for a Contribution and Loan for the distressed people of Ireland Cap. 30. fol. 25. EXP. 31 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of money payable upon Merchandise Cap. 31. fol. 25. EXP. 32 An Act for the Raising of 400000 l. for the Defence of England and Ireland and for payment of Debts undertaken by the Parliament Cap. 32. fol. 25. EXP. 33 An Act for the Reducing the Rebels in Ireland to their obedience to his Majesty and the Crown of England Cap. 33. fol. 25. EXP. 34 An Act for Explanation of a former Act for Reducing the Rebels in Ireland Cap. 34. fol. 25. EXP. 35 An Act to enable Corporations to adventure in Ireland Cap. 35. fol. 25. EXP. 36 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of money payable upon Merchandise to be Exported and Imported Cap. 36. fol. 25. EXP. 37 An Act for the further Reducing the Rebels in Ireland to their obedience to the King and Crown of England Cap. 35. fol. 25. EXP. Anno Duodecimo Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae c. 1. AN Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes concerning the Assembling and Sitting of this present Parliament Cap. 1. Fol. 26. 2 An Act for putting in Execution an Ordinance mentioned in the said Act for an Assessment of 70000 l. per mensem for 3. moneths EXP. Cap. 2. fol. 26. 3 An Act for the continuance of Process and Judicial proceedings cap. 3. fol. 27. 4 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other sums of money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported Cap. 4. fol. 28. 5 An Act for continuing the Excize until the 20th of August 1660. Cap. 5. fol. 30. EXP. See 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. 6 An Act for the present nominating of Commissioners of Sewers Cap. 6. fol. 30. 7 An Act for Restoring unto James Marquess of Ormond all his Honors Manors Lands and Tenements whereof he was in Possession on the 23th day of October 1641. or at any time since Cap. 7. fol. 30. PR 8 An Act for continuing of the Excise till the 25th day of Decemb. 1660. Cap. 8. fol. 31. EXP. See 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. 9 An Act for the speedy Provision of Money for Disbanding and Paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea Cap. 9. fol. 31. EXP. 10 An Act for Supplying and Explaining certain Defects in an Act Entituled An Act for the speedy Provision of Money for Disbanding and Paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea Cap. 10. fol. 31. 11 An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion Cap. 11. fol. 31. 12 An Act for Confirmation of Judicial Proceedings Cap. 12. fol. 39. 13 An Act for Restraining the taking of Excessive Usury Cap. 13. fol. 42. 14 An Act for a perpetual Anniversary Thanksgiving on the 29th day of May Cap. 14. fol. 42. 15 An Act for the speedy Disbanding of the Army and Garrisons of this Kingdom Cap. 15. fol. 43. 16 An Act for enabling the Souldiers of the Army now to be Disbanded to Exercise Trades Cap. 16. fol. 43. 17 An Act for the Confirming and Restoring of Ministers Cap. 17. fol. 44. 18 An Act for the Encouraging and Increasing of Shipping and Navigation Cap. 18. fol. 44. 19 An Act to prevent Frauds and Concealments of His Majesties Customs and Subsidies Cap. 19. fol. 49. 20 An Act for raising Sevenscore thousand pounds for the compleat Disbanding of the whole Army and paying off some part of the Navy Cap. 20. fol. 49. EXP. See Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 6. 21 An Act for the speedy raising of Seventy thousand pounds for the present supply of his Majesty Cap. 21. fol. 49. EXP. See 13 Car. 2. cap. 6. 10. 22 An Act for the Regulating the Trade of Bay-making in the Dutch Bay-Hall in Colchester Cap. 22. fol. 49. 23 A Grant of certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for the encrease of his Majesties Revenue during life Cap. 23. fol. 49. 24 An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite and by Knights-Service and Purveyance and for setling a Revenue upon his Majesty in lieu thereof Cap. 24. fol. 54. 25. An Act for the better Ordering the selling of Wines by Retayl and for preventing abuses in the mingling corrupting and vitiating of Wines and for setting and limiting the prices of the same Cap. 25. fol. 61. 26 An Act for the Levying of the arrears of the Twelve moneths Assessment commencing the 24th of June 1659. and the Six moneths Assessments commencing the 25th of December 1659. Cap. 26. fol. 63. EXP. See 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. 27 An Act for granting unto the Kings Majesty Four hundred and twenty thousand pounds by an Assessment of Threescore and ten thousand pounds by the moneth for 6 moneths for Disbanding the remainder of the Army and paying off the Navy Cap. 27. fol. 63. EXP. 28 An Act for further Supplying and Explaining certain defects in an Act Entituled An Act for the speedy Provision of Money for Disbanding and Paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea Cap. 28. fol. 63. EXP. 29 An Act for the Raising of Seventy thousand pounds for the further Supply of his Majesty Cap. 29. fol. 63. EXP. 30 An Act for the Attainder of several persons guilty of the horrid Murther of his late Sacred Majesty King Charles the First Cap. 30. fol. 64. 31 An Act for Confirmation of Leases and Grants from Colledges and Hospitals Cap. 31. fol. 67. 32 An Act for Prohibiting the Exportation of Wooll Woolfells Fullers Earth or any kinds of scouring Earth Cap. 32. fol. 67. 33 An Act for Confirmation of Marriages Cap. 33. fol. 69. 34 An Act for Prohibiting the Planting Setting or Sowing of Tobacco in England and Ireland Cap. 34. fol. 70. 35 An Act for Erecting and Establishing a Post-Office Cap. 35. fol. 71. 36 An Act impowring the Master of the Rolls for the time being to make Leases for years in order to new build the old Houses belonging to the Rolls Cap. 36. fol. 74. 37 An Act for making the Precinct of Covent-Garden Parochial PR Cap. 37. fol. 74. Private Acts. AN Act for the restoring of Henry Lord Arundel of Warder to the possession of his estate An Act for the restitution of Thomas Earl
of Arundel Surrey and Norfolk to the Dignity and Title of Duke of Norfolk An Act to restore to Wentworth Earl of Roscomon of the Kingdom of Ireland all the Honors Castles Lordships Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Ireland whereof James Earl of Roscomon his Great-Grand Father or James Earl of Roscomon his Father c. An Act for restoring of Sir George Hamilton unto his Lands and Estate in Ireland An Act for maintenance of the Vicar for the time being of the Vicaridge of Royston in the Counties of Hertford and Cambridge and of his Successors Vicars of the said Vicaridge An Act for enabling Sir William Wray to sell Lands for payment of his debts and raising of Portions for his younger Children An Act for naturalizing of Gerard Vanhenthusen Daniel Demetrius and others An Act for enabling of John Newton the younger and William Oakeley to make sale of Lands for payment of debts and raising of Portions c. An Act for the levying of certain moneys due upon the Collection for the Protestants of Piedmont An Act for the Naturalization of John Boreel Esq Eldest Son of Sir William Boreel Knight and Baronet An Act for the Naturalization of Abraham Watchtor born beyond the Seas An Act for restoring of Sir Thomas Grimes Baronet to his Estate An Act for enabling George Fawnt of Foston in the County of Leicester Esq to sell and conveigh part of his Lands for payment of several Debts Legacies charged upon his Estate by Sir William Fawnt Knight deceased and for the raising of Portions for his younger children and making his Wife a Joynture An Act for Naturalizing Francis Hide and others An Act to nable Joseph Micklethwaite an Infant and his Trustees to sell Lands for payment of his Fathers Debts An Act for raising portions and making provision for maintenance for the younger children of Sir Edward Gostwick An Act for confirming the Sale of the Mannor of Hitcham sold to Charles Doe by Sir John Clark Knight and Baronet and for setling and disposing other the Lands of the said Sir John Clerke and Dame Philadelphia his Wife An Act for the setling of some of the Mannors and Lands of the Earl of Cleaveland in Trustees to be sold for the satisfying of the Debts of the said Earl and of Thomas Lord Wentworth his Son An Act for the disappropriating of the Rectory appropriate of Preston and uniting and consolidating of the said Rectory and of the Vicaridge of the Church of Preston and for assuring of the Advowson and right of Patronage of the same unto the Master Fellows and Scholars of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge and their Successors An Act for making the Precincts of Covent Garden Parochial Anno Decimo tertio Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae c. AN Act for Safety and Preservation of his Majesties Person and Government against Treasonable and Seditious Practices and Attempts Cap. 1. fol. 75. 2 An Act for Repeal of an Act of Parliament Entituled An Act for disenabling all persons in Holy Orders to receive any Temporal Jurisdiction or Authority Cap. 2. fol. 77. 3 An Act for the Declaring Vesting and Setling of all such Moneys Goods and other things in his Majesty which were Received Levied or Collected in these late times and are remaining in the hands or possession of any Treasurers Receivers Collectors or others not pardoned by the Act of Oblivion Cap. 3. fol. 77. 4 An Act for a Free and Voluntary Present to his Majesty Cap. 4. fol. 78. 5 An Act against Tumults and Disorders upon pretence of preparing or presenting Publike Petitions or other Addresses to his Majesty or the Parliament Cap. 5. fol. 78. 6 An Act Declaring the Sole Right of the Militia to be in the King and for the present Ordering and disposing the same Cap. 6. fol. 78. 7 An Act for Confirming Publike Acts Cap. 7. fol. 79. 8 An Act for Providing necessary Carriages for his Majesty in his Royal Progress and Removals Cap. 8. fol. 80. 9 An Act for the establishing Articles and Orders for the regulating and better Government of his Majesties Navies Ships of War and Forces by Sea Cap. 9. fol. 81. 10 An Act to prevent the Unlawful Coursing Hurting or Killing of Deer Cap. 10. fol. 85. 11 An Act for Confirming three Acts therein mentioned Cap. 11. fol. 85. 12 An Act for Explanation of a Clause contained in an Act of Parliament made in the 17th year of the late King Charles Entituled An Act for Repeal of a Branch of a Statute Primo Elizabethae concerning Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical Cap. 12. fol. 86. 13 An Act for Vesting the Arrears of the Excise and New Impost in his Majesty Cap. 13. fol. 87. 14 An Act for Confirming an Act Entituled An Act for Encouraging and Increasing of Shipping and Navigation and several other Acts both Publike and Private mentioned therein Cap. 14. fol. 87. 15 An Act Declaring the Pains Penalties and Forfeitures imposed upon the Estates and Persons of certain notorious Offenders Excepted out of the Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion Cap. 15. fol. 88. Private Acts. An Act for ascertaining and Establishing the Fees of the Masters of the Chancery in Ordinary An Act for Confirming a Sale made by Sir Thomas Prestwich and others of the Mannor of Holm and certain Lands in the Parish of Manchester in the County of Lancaster unto Sir Edward Mosley Baronet An Act for Restoring of Thomas Radcliffe Esq to all his Lands and Possessions in England and Ireland An Act enabling John Harbin Esq to settle sell and dispose of several Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances in the County of Somerset and Dorset therein mentioned for Payment of his Debts and to make provision for his younger Children An Act to enable the Sale of some of the Lands of Thomas Hunt Esq and John Hunt Gent. for the payment of their Debts An Act for setling the Mannors Knoll Seal and Kempsing in the County of Kent upon the Earl of Dorset and his Heirs and charging the Mannor of Bexhill and the Mannor or Farm of Cawding and other Lands in the County of Sussex with a Rent charge of One hundred and thirty pounds per annum in lieu thereof An Act for Confirmation of the Charter and Priviledges of the Master Wardens and Commonalty of Weavers Fullers and Clothiers in the City of Worcester An Act for Setling of several Lands late of Sir Edward Baesh Knight upon Sir Ralph Baesh Knight of the Bath Heir of the said Sir Edward and his Heirs An Act for Confirmation and Explanation of an Act for the Setling of some of the Mannors and Lands of the Earl of Cleaveland in Trustees to be sold for the satisfying of the Debts of the said Earl and Thomas Lord Wentworth his Son An Act for the Uniting the Parsonages of St. Andrews and St. Mary Witton in Droitwich in the County of Worcester An Act to enable John Lord Abergavenny Son and Heir of
Henry late Lord Abergavenny to sell certain Lands for payment of his Debts and Preferment of his Brother and Sisters An Act for the Naturalizing of Francis Brudenel Esq Son and Heir Apparent of the Right Honourable Robert Lord Brudenel and of the Right Honourable Anna Maria Countess of Shrewsbury Daughter of the said Lord Brudenell and now Wife of the Right Honourable Francis Earl of Shrewsbury An Act for the Reviving a Settlement of certain Lands on John Orlibeare for life the Remainder to the Sons of the said John successively and the Heirs Males of their Bodies c. An Act for Confirming and Continuing an Act for the necessary Maintenance of the Work of Draining the great Level of the Fens An Act for Confirming of an Inclosure of Land formerly used for a Common High-way from Parsons Green to Southfield in Fulham and the Setling of other Land for a Common High-way in lieu thereof An Act enabling Trustees to sell certain Lands and Tenements in the Counties of Suffolk and Norfolk for payment of the Debts of Richard Gipps Esq and providing Portions for his younger Children Anno decimo tertio Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae c. The Second Meeting of the Parliament 1 AN Act for the well governing and regulating of Corporations Cap. 1. fol. 90. 2 An Act for prevention of Vexations and Oppressions by Arrests and of delayes in Suits of Law Cap. 2. fol. 91. 3 An Act for granting unto the Kings Majesty Twelve hundred and threescore thousand pounds to be Assessed and Levied by an Assessment of Threescore and ten thousand pounds by the moneth for Eighteen moneths Cap. 3. fol. 93 EXP. 4 An Act to Enable the Kings Majesty to make Leases Grants and Copies of Offices Lands Tenements and Hereditaments parcel of his Highness Dutchy of Cornwal or annexed to the same and for Confirmation of Leases and Grants already made Cap. 4. fol. 93. Private Acts. AN Act for Confirming an Act for Restoring of the Marquess of Hertford to the Dukedom of Somerset An Act for Confirming an Act for Restitution of Thomas Earl of Arundel Surrey and Norfolk to the Dignity and Title of Duke of Norfolk An Act for Confirming of Private Acts. An Act for dividing Trinity Church in Kingston upon Hull from Hasle An Act to enable Algernon Peyton Doctor of Divinity to make Sale of part of his Lands for payment of Debts Anno Decimo tertio decimo quarto Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae c. 1 AN Act for preventing the mischiefs and dangers that may arise by certain Persons called Quakers and others refusing to take lawful Oaths Cap. 1. fol. 94. 2. An Act for Repairing the High-ways and Sewers and for Paving and keeping clean of the Streets in and about the Cities of London and Westminster and for reforming of Annoyances and Disorders in the Streets of places adjacent to the said Cities and for the Regulating and Licensing of Hackney Coaches and for the enlarging of several strait inconvenient Streets and Passages Cap. 2. fol. 95. Anno Decimo quarto Caroli Secundi Regis c. 3 AN Act for Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdome Cap. 3. fol. 102. 4 An Act for the Uniformity of Publike Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies And for Establishing the Form of Making Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons in the Church of England Cap. 4. fol. 108. 5 An Act for Regulating the Making of Stuffs in Norfolk and Norwich Cap. 5. fol. 115. 6 An Act for Enlarging and Repairing common High-ways Cap. 6. fol. 119. 7 An Act to Restrain the Exportation of Leather and Raw Hides out of the Realm of England Cap. 7. fol. 123. 8 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 Cap. 8. fol. 125. EXP. 9 An Act for the relief of poor and maimed Officers and Souldiers who have faithfully served His Majesty and his Royal Father in the late Wars cap. 9. fol. 125. 10 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 cap. 10. fol. 126. 11 An Act for preventing Frauds and regulating abuses in his Majesties Customs cap. 11. fol. 130. 12 An Act for the better Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom cap. 12. fol. 138. 13 An Act prohibiting the Importation of Forreign Bonelace Cut-Work Imbroidery Fringe Bandstrings Buttons and Needlework cap. 13. fol. 143. 14 An Act directing the Prosecution of such as are accountable for Prize-Goods cap. 14. fol. 144. 15 An Act for Regulating the Trade of Silk-Throwing cap. 15. fol. 145. 16 An Act for the more speedy and effectual bringing those persons to Account whose Accounts are excepted in the Act of Oblivion cap. 16. fol. 147. 17 An Act for relief of Collectors of Publick Moneys and their Assistants and Deputies cap. 17. fol. 148. 18 An Act against exporting of Sheep Wooll Wooll-fells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Wooll-flocks Fullers-Earth Fulling-Clay and Tobacco-pipe-clay cap. 18. fol. 148. 19 An Act against Importing of Forreign Wooll-cards Card-wire or Iron-wire cap. 19. fol. 150. 20 An Act for providing Carriage by Land and by Water for the use of his Majesties Navy and Ordnance cap. 20. fol. 151. 21 An Act for preventing the unnecessary Charge of Sheriffs and for ease in passing their Accounts cap. 21. fol. 152. 22 An Act for preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England cap. 22. fol. 155. 23 An Additional Act concerning matters of Assurance used amongst Merchants cap. 23. fol. 156. 24 An Act declaratory concerning Bankrupts cap. 24 fol. 458. 25 An Act for the restoring of all such Advowsons Rectories Impropriate Gleab-lands and Tythes to his Majesties Loyal Subjects as were taken from them and making void certain Charges imposed on them upon their Compositions for Delinquency by the late Usurped Powers cap. 25. fol. 158. 26 An Act for reforming of Abuses committed in the weight and false packing of Butter cap. 26. fol. 159. 27 An Act for repairing of Dover Harbor cap. 27. fol. 161. 28 An Act for the regulating of the Pilchard Fishing in the Counties of Devon and Corn-wall cap. 28. fol. 162. 29 An Act for the reversing the Earl of Strafford his Attainder cap. 29. fol. 163. 30 An Act for the Importing of Madder pure and unmixed cap. 30. fol. 163. Rep. 15. Car. 2. cap. 16. 31 An Act to prevent the Inconvenience arising by melting the Silver-Coyn of this Realm cap. 31. fol. 164. 32 An Act for the better Regulating of the Manufacture of Broad Woollen Cloth within the West-riding of the County of York cap. 32. fol. 164. 33 An Act for preventing the frequent abuses in Printing Seditious Treasonable and unlicensed Books and Pamphlets and for Regulating of Printing and Printing Presses cap. 33. fol.
167. Private Acts. AN Act for setling of the Estate of James late Duke of Richmond and Lenox according to agreement of Charles Duke of Richmond and Lenox Mary Dutchess Dowager of Richmond and Lenox and the Lady Mary her Daughter and the Trustees of the said Lady Dutchess An Act for confirmation of certain Letters Patents made and to be made to the Right Noble Lord George Duke of Albemarle of several Honors Mannors and Hereditaments granted or mentioned to be granted to him by His Majesty An Act for confirming the Estate of John Marquess of Winchester in certain Mannors and Lands whereof the Deeds and Evidences were burnt and lost at the taking of the Castle of Basing An Act to confirm the sale of certain Lands sold by Ferdinando late Earl of Huntingdon for the payment of his own and his Fathers debts An Act for setling a Capital Messuage or Mansion House with the Appurtenances in Kensington in the County of Middlesex upon Baptist Viscount Campden and his Heirs An Act for confirming an Act for restoring to Thomas Lord Culpeper Son and Heir and sole Executor of John Lord Culpeper Baron of Thorsway and Master of the Rolls deceased all his Honors Mannors Lands and Tenements Leases not determined and Hereditaments whatsoever whereof the said John Lord Culpeper was in possession on the twentieth of May 1642. or at any time after which have not been since sold or aliened by the said John late Lord Culpeper by Acts or Assurances to which himself was party and consenting An Act to enable the Bishop of London to lease out the Tenements now built upon the Scite of his Palace in London An Act for the Naturalizing of Philadelphia Wife to the Right Honorable Thomas Lord Wentworth An Act for confirming several Acts therein mentioned An Act for confirming of two Acts therein mentioned An Act for the Endowment of several Churches by the Lord Viscount Scudamore of Sligo in the Realm of Ireland An Act for the disuniting the Hundreds of Dudston and Kings Barton from the County of the City of Gloucester and restoring them to be part of the County of Gloucester An Act for making Navigable of the Rivers of Stower and Salwerp and the Rivulets and Brooks running into the same in the Counties of Worcester and Stafford An Act for the making Navigable of the Rivers of Wye and Lugg and the Rivers and Brooks running into the same in the Counties of Hereford Gloucester and Monmouth An Act for setling certain Mannors and Lands late of Sir James Enyons Baronet on Sir Henry Puckering alias Newton Baronet and Sir Charles Aderly Knight his surviving Trustees to sell for payment of Debts An Act for confirmation of certain Decrees of Sewers made by the Commissioners for the limits of the Level of the River of Ancholm in the County of Lincoln An Act for confirming a Decree made on the behalf of Thomas Derham Esq and the Improvements Exchanges and Allotments therein mentioned An Act for the enabling Sir Thomas Lee Baronet to exchange some Lands setled upon the Marriage of Dame Anne Lee his now Wife in consideration of another Settlement of Lands of equal value in lieu thereof An Act for discharging the Mannors of Stodscomb and Holwell and other Lands in the County of Devon from the trust of one hundred and fifty years made unto John Earl of Exeter John Earl of Bridgwater and Oliver Earl of Bolingbrook An Act for supplying a supposed defect of the words Stand and be seized in a Deed for setling of divers Mannors and Lands on Sir Henry-Frederick Thynne An Act for confirming the Copy-hold Estates of divers of his Majesties Copy-hold Tenants within the Honor of Clitherow in the County Palatine of Lancaster parcel of the Dutchy of Lancaster according unto several Decrees in the Court of Dutchy Chamber of the said County Palatine An Act for confirmation of the Estates of several Tenants and Copy-holders of the Mannors of Rannes Irchester Rushden and several other Mannors parcels of the Dutchy of Lancaster An Act for confirming explaining and enlarging an Act intituled An Act for the levying of certain Moneys due upon the Collection for the Protestants of Piedmont An Act to enable the sale of some of the Lands of William Milward Esq for payment of some of his Debts An Act vesting certain Lands in Bleasby in Sir John Mounson the younger Robert Thorold Esq and Anthony Eyre the elder Esq and their Heirs to sell for payment of the debts of Sir Robert Dallison and William Dallison An Act to enable the Trustees of Henry Nevil Esq to sell certain Mannors Lands and Tenements in the Counties of York and Leicester for payment of his and his Son William Nevils debts and likewise to confirm and strengthen the sale of such Lands as they have already sold in the County of York An Act for the making void certain Fines unduly procured to be levied by Sir Edward Powel Knight and Baronet and Dame Mary his wife An Act for sale of Sir Robert Slingsby deceased his Lands for payment of his debts An Act to enable Sir Anthony Brown to sell Lands for payment of debts An Act to enable Anthony Etrick to sell Lands for payment of his Debts An Act for the Naturalizing of Anna Ferrers and several other persons named therein An Act for the Naturalizing of Mark Le Pla and others An Act for the Repairing of Bengworth Bridge in the County of Worcester An Act to enable Rowland Okeover Esq to sell certain Lands in the County of Derby An Act to enable Mrs. Clemence Rivers and Mrs. Rose Rivers to sell certain Lands and Houses for payment of the Debts of Edward Rivers Esq deceased and provision for his younger children An Act to enable Thomas Peck Esq to sell a Mannor and some Lands in the County of Norfolk for the payment of his Debts and other uses An Act for confirmation of Agreements made between Thomas Bushel Esq and the Miners of Rowpits in Somersetshire for recovering their drowned and deserted works An Act for the setling certain Lands belonging unto Francis Tindal Gentleman upon Trustees to be sold for the payment of Debts An Act for confirmation of three Acts therein mentioned Anno decimo quinto Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae c. 1 AN Act for repairing the High-ways within the Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntingdon cap. 1. fol. 173. 2 An Act for the punishment of unlawful cutting or stealing or spoiling of Wood and Underwood and Destroyers of young Timber-Trees cap. 2. fol. 176. 3 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 cap. 3. fol. 179. EXP. 4 An additional Act for the better ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom cap. 4. fol. 179. 5 An Act for Regulating select Vestries cap. 5. fol. 182. 6 An Act for
for Prize-goods cap. 6. fol. 256. 7 An Act for continuance of a former Act for Regulating the Press cap. 7. fol. 258. 8 An Act to prevent Arrests of Judgment and Superseding Executions cap. 8. fol. 258. 9 An Act to impower the Chancellour of the Dutchy to grant Commissions for taking Affidavits within the Dutchy-Liberty cap. 9. fol. 259. 10 An Act for continuance of a former Act for Repairing the High-wayes within the County of Hertford cap. 10. fol. 259. 11 An Act for Draining of the Fenn called Deeping-Fenn and other Fenns therein mentioned cap. 11. fol. 261. 12 An Act for making the River Avon Navigable from Christ-Church to the City of New-Sarum cap. 12. fol. 270. Private Acts. AN Act to enable Sir Edward Hungerford Knight of the Bath to sell certain Lands in the County of Devon An Act for the enabling of Trustees to sell part of the estate of Samuel Sandys the elder Esquire and of his son Samuel Sandys for payment of debts An Act for confirming a Deed of Settlement between the Earl of Thanet and his younger Brothers An Act to enable the Bishop of Winchester to convey One hundred Acres of Land lying in the great disparked Park of Bishops-Waltham in the Parish of Bishops-Waltham in the County of Southampton upon the Rector of the said Parish-Church of Bishops-Waltham and his Successors in lieu of all Tythes and Payments for Tythes due to the said Rector and his Successors for Waltham-Parks An Act to enable the Lord Henry Powlet George Withers and John Mompesson to sell the Mannor of Abbots-Anne in the County of Southampton An Act to enable Henry Lord Loughborough to make the River and Sewer Navigable from or near Bristow Causey in the County of Surrey into the River of Thames An Act to enable Trustees for the Lord Strangford to sell Lands for payment of Debts An Act for restoring of Sir Charles Stanley in blood An Act for the setling of several Mannors Lands and Tenements of Sir Jacob Astley lying in the Counties of Norfolk and Warwick An Act for setling the Estate of Sir Robert Carr Baronet An Act for making the River of Medway Navigable in the Counties of Kent and Sussex An Act for making divers Rivers Navigable or otherwise passable for Boats Barges and other Vessels An Act for setling of Differences between the Towns of Great and Little Yarmouth touching the lading and unlading of Herrings and other Merchandises and Commodities An Act for the Naturalizing of Dederic alias Richard Comes and others An Act for confirming of an Act intituled An Act to enable Joseph Micklethwaite an Infant and his Trustees to sell Land for payment of his Fathers debts An Act for the inabling of Thomas Juckes of Treliddan in the County of Mountgomery Esquire to sell Lands for the payment of his Debts and raising of younger childrens portions An Act to enable Francis Lee Esquire to sell Lands for payment of Debts and to make provision for his children Anno Decimo septimo Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae c. 1 AN Act for granting the sum of Twelve hundred and fifty thousand pounds to the Kings Majesty for His present further Supply cap. 1. fol. 273. 2 An Act for Restraining Non-Conformists from Inhabiting in Corporations cap. 2. fol. 278. 3 An Act for Uniting Churches in Cities and Towns Corporate cap. 3. fol. 279. 4 An Act for Continuance of a former Act for Regulating the Press cap. 4. fol. 280. 5 An Act for attainting Thomas Dolman Joseph Bampfeild and Thomas Scott of High-Treason if they render not themselves by a day cap. 5. fol. 281. 6 An Act for taking away of Damage Cleere cap. 6. fol. 281. 7 An Act for a more speedy and effectual proceeding upon Distresses and Avowries for Rents cap. 7. fol. 282. 8 An Act for avoiding Unnecessary Suits and Delays cap. 8. fol. 283. 9 An Act for granting One moneths Assessment to His Majesty cap. 9. fol. 283. A Private Act. An Act for the Naturalization of Lewis Blanquefort and others Anno decimo octavo Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae c. 1 AN Act for Raising Moneys by a Poll and otherwise towards the Maintenance of the present War cap. 1. fol. 286. 2 An Act against Importing Cattel from Ireland and other parts beyond the Seas and Fish taken by Forreigners cap. 2. fol. 298. 3 An Act to continue a former Act for preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England cap. 3. fol. 299. 4 An Act for Burying in Woollen only cap. 4. fol. 299. 5 An Act for encouraging of Coynage ca. 5. fol. 300. Private Acts. AN Act for enlarging the time given by a former Act for Redemption of Mortgages made by the Earl of Cleveland An Act for Naturalizing of Isabella of Nassau Wife of the Right Honourable the Lord Arlington one of His Majesties Principal Secretaries of State An Act for Supply of part of the Joynture of the Lady Elizabeth Neell An Act for Setling the Estate of John Bodvell Esquire deceased An additional Act for Enabling the Sale of Lands to pay the Lord Strangford's Debts Anno decimo nono Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae c. 1 AN Act Explanatory of the Act for Raising Moneys by a Poll and otherwise towards the Maintenance of this present War cap. 1. fol. 302. 2 An Act for Erecting a Judicature for Determination of Differences touching Houses Burned or Demolished by reason of the late Fire which happened in LONDON cap. 2. fol. 303. 3 An Act for Rebuilding the City of LONDON cap. 3. fol. 304. 4 An Act for Relief of poor Prisoners and setting of them on work cap. 4. fol. 315. 5 An Act extending a former Act concerning Replevins and Avouries to the Principality of Wales and the County Palatines cap. 5. fol. 316. 6 An Act for Redress of Inconveniencies by want of Proof of the Deceases of Persons beyond the Seas or absenting themselves upon whose Lives Estates do depend cap. 6. fol. 316. 7 An Act to prevent the Disturbances of Seamen and others and to preserve the Stores belonging to His Majesties Navy Royal cap. 7. fol. 316. 8 An Act for granting the sum of Twelve hundred fifty six thousand three hundred forty seven pounds thirteen shillings to the Kings Majesty towards the Maintenance of the present War Private Acts. AN Act for Naturalizing of Hesther le Lov the Daughter and Co-heir of Gideon le Lou Lord of Coliumbers in Normandy the now Wife of the Right Honourable Denzill Lord Hollis of Ifield An Act for Confirming Explaining and Enlarging an Act Entituled An Act to Enable John Lord Abergaveny Son and Heir of Henry late Lord Abergaveny to Sell certain Lands for Payment of his Debts and Preferment of his Brother and Sisters An Act for the Illegitimation of the Children of the Lady Anne Roos An Act for Sale of a Messuage in Chiswick for Payment of the Debts of Edward Russel Esquire An Act for Confirmation of a Settlement of the Estate of
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-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
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
or other outrage or misdemeanor whatsoever and by such summary course and order as is agréeable to Martial Law and as is used in Armies in time of War to procéed to the trial and condemnation of such Offendors and them to cause to be executed and put to death according to the Law Martial By pretext whereof some of your Majesties Subjects have béen by some of the said Commissioners put to death when and where if by the Laws and Statutes of the Land they had deserved death by the same Laws and Statutes also they might and by no other ought to have béen judged and executed And also sundry grievous Offendors by colour thereof claiming an exemption have escaped the punishments due to them by the Laws and Statutes of this your Realm by reason that divers of your Officers and Ministers of Iustice have unjustly refused or forborn to procéed against such Offendors according to the same Laws and Statutes upon pretence that the said Offendors were punishable onely by Martial Law and by Authority of such Commissions as aforsaid Which Commissions and all other of like nature are wholly and directly contrary to the said Laws and Statutes of this your Realm The Petition They do therefore humbly pray your most excellent Majesty That no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any Gift Loan Benevolence Tax or such like charge without common consent by Act of Parliament And that none be called to make answer or take such Oath or to give attendance or be confined or otherwise molested or disquieted concerning the same or for refusal thereof And that no Fréeman in any such manner as is before mentioned be imprisoned or detained And that your Majesty would be pleased to remove the said Souldiers and Mariners and that your People may not be so burthened in time to come And that the foresaid Commissions for procéeding by Martial Law may be revoked and annulled And that hereafter no Commissions of like nature may issue forth to any person or persons whatsoever to be executed as aforesaid lest by colour of them any of your Majesties Subjects be destroyed or put to death contrary to the Laws and Franchise of the Land All which they most humbly pray of your most excellent Majesty as their Rights and Liberties according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm And that your Majesty would also vouchsafe to declare That the awards doings and procéedings to the prejudice of your People in any of the premisses shall not be drawn hereafter into consequence or example And that your Majesty would be also graciously pleased for the further comfort and safety of your People to declare your royal will and pleasure That in the things aforesaid all your Officers and Ministers shall serve you according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm as they tender the Honor of your Majesty and the Prosperity of this Kingdom Stat. 17 Car. cap. 14. CAP. I. A restraint of divers abuses committed on the Lords day FOrasmuch as the Lords day commonly called Sunday is much broken and prophaned by Carriers Waggoners Carters Wain-men Butchers and Drovers of Cattle to the great dishonor of God and reproach of Religion Be it therefore enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and by the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That no Carrier with any Horse or Horses A Carrier c. that travels upon the Lords day shall forfeit 20. s. nor Waggon-men with any Waggon or Waggons nor Car-men with any Cart or Carts nor Wain-man with any Wain or Wains nor Drovers with any Cattel shall after forty days next after the end of this present Session of Parliament by themselves or any other travel upon the said Day Butchers that sell or kill victual upon that day shall forfeit 6. s. 8. d. upon pain that every person and persons so offending shall lose and forfeit twenty shillings for every such offence Or if any Butcher by himself or any other for him by his privity or consent shall after the end of the said forty daies kill or sell any Victual upon the said Day That then every such Butcher shall forfeit and lose for every such offence the sum of six shillings and eight pence The said offences and every of them being done in view of any Iustice of Peace Mayor or other head Officer of any City or Town corporate within their limits respectively or being proved upon Oath by two or more witnesses or by the confession of the party offending before any such Iustice Mayor or head Officer within their several limits respectively wherein such offence shall be committed To which end every such Iustice Mayor or head Officer shall have power by this Act to minister an Oath to such witness or witnesses All which sums or penalties shall or may be levied by any Constable After conviction and by warrant from a Iustice c. the Constables c. may levy the said forfeitures to the use of the poor or they may be recovered by Suit or Church-warden by Warrant from any such Iustice or Iustices of the Peace Mayor or other head Officer as aforesaid within their several limits where such offence shall be committed or done by distress and sale of the Offendors goods rendring to the party the over-plus or shall be recovered by any person or persons that will sue for the same by Bill Plaint or Information in any of his Majesties Courts of Record in any City or Town corporate before his Majesties Iustices of the Peace in their General Sessions of the Peace All which forfeitures shall be employed to and for the use of the poor of the Parishes where the said offences shall be committed or done saving onely that it shall be lawful to and for any such Iustice Mayor or head Officer out of the said Forfeitures to reward any such person or persons that shall inform or otherwise prosecute any person or persons offending against this present Act according to their discretions so that such reward excéed not the third part of the Forfeiture Provided that such Bill Plaint or Information shall be commenced sued and prosecuted in the County City or Town corporate where such offence shall be committed and done and not elsewhere wherein no Essoin Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed to the Defendant Provided always That it shall be lawful for any Constable or Church-warden that shall have any Suit or Action brought against them for any Distress by them or any of them to be taken by force of this present Act to plead the general Issue and to give the special matter in Evidence Provided likewise That no person or persons whatsoever shall be impeached by this Act unless he be thereof questioned within six moneths after the Offence committed Provided further That this Act shall not in any sort abridge or take away the Authority of the Court Ecclesiastical
This Act to continue to the end of the first Session of the next Parliament St. 1 Car. 1. Continued and made perpetual 17 Car. cap. 4. CAP. II. A restraint of passage or sending any person beyond the Seas to be Popishly bred FOrasmuch as divers ill affected persons to the true Religion established within this Realm have sent their children into foreign parts to be bred up in Popery 1. Jac. 4. He that goes himself or sends any other beyond the seas to be trained up in Popery c. shall be disabled to sue c. and shall lose all his goods and shal forfeit all his lands c. for life Stat. 27 El. 2. Stat. 3 Jac. 5. notwithstanding the restraint thereof by the Statute made in the first year of the reign of our late Soveraign Lord King James of famous memory Be it Enacted That the said Statute shall be put in due execution And be it further Enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That in case any person or persons under the obedience of the King his heirs and Successors at any time after the end of this Session of Parliament shall pass or go or shall convey or send or cause to be sent or conveyed any Childe or other person out of any of the Kings Dominions into any the parts beyond Seas out of the Kings obedience to the intent and purpose to enter into or be resident or trained up in any Priory Abbey Nunnery Popish Vniversity Colledge or School or House of Iesuits Priests or in any private Popish Family and shall be there by any Iesuite Seminary Priest Friar Monk or other Popish person instructed perswaded or strengthned in the Popish Religion in any sort to profess the same or shall convey or send or cause to be conveyed or sent by the hands or means of any person whatsoever any sum or sums of Money or other thing for or towards the maintenance of any Childe or other person already gone or sent or to go or to be sent and trained and instructed as is aforsaid or under the name or colour of any Charity Benevolence or Alms towards the relief of any Priory Abbey Nunnery Colledge School or any Religious House whatsoever Every person so sending conveying or causing to be sent and conveyed as well any such Childe or other person as any sum or sums of Money or other thing and every person passing or being sent beyond the Seas being thereof lawfully convicted in or upon any Information presentment or Indictment as is aforesaid shall be disabled from thenceforth to sue or use any Action Bill Plaint or Information in course of Law or to prosecute any Suit in any Court of Equity or to be Committée of any Ward or Executor or Administrator to any person or capable of any Legacy or Déed or Gift or to bear any Office within the Realm and shall lose and forfeit all his Goods and Chattels and shall forfeit all his Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Rents Annuities Offices and Estates of Fréehold for and during his natural life A convert shall not incur the penalties aforesaid Stat. 27. El. 2. Provided always That no person sent or conveyed as aforesaid that shall within six moneths after his return into this Realm conform himself unto the present Religion established in this Church of England and receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper according to the Statutes made concerning Conformity in other cases required from Popish Recusants shall incur any the penalties aforesaid And it is enacted That all and every of the Offences against this Statute may be inquired heard and determined before the Iustices of the Kings-Bench or Iustices of Assise or Gaol-delivery or of Oyer and Terminer of such Counties where the Offendors did last dwell or abide or whence they departed out of this Kingdom or where they were taken Provided also That if any person or Childe so passing or sent or now being beyond the Seas shall after his return into this Realm conform himself to the present Religion established in this Church of England and receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper according to the Statutes made for or concerning Conformity in other cases required from Popish Recusants for and during such time as he or she shall so continue in such Conformity and obedience according to the true intent and meaning of the said Laws and Statutes shall have his or her Lands restored to them again CAP. III. The Forfeiture and Punishment of him that keeps an Alehouse without License VVHereas by an Act made in the fifth year of the reign of King Edward the sixth of famous memory intituled an Act for kéepers of Alehouses to be bound by Recognizance amongst other things ◠6. Ed. 6. 25 it is enacted That if any person or persons other then such as should be from thenceforth admitted and allowed by the Iustices mentioned in the said Act should after the day in the said Act limited obstinately and upon his own authority take upon him or them to kéep a common Alehouse or Tippling-house or should contrary to the commandment of the said Iustices or two of them use commonly selling of Ale or Béer That then the said Iustices of Peace or two of them whereof one to be of the Quorum should for every such offence commit every such person or persons so offending to the Common Gaol within the same Shire City Borough Town corporate Franchise or Liberty there to remain without bayl or mainprise by the space of thrée days And before his or their deliverance the said Iustices shall take recognizance of him or them so committed with two Sureties that he or they should not kéep any common Alehouse Tippling-house or use commonly selling of Ale or Béer as by the discretion of the said Iustices should séem convenient And the said Iustices should make Certificate of every such Recognizance and Offence at the next Quarter Sessions that should be holden within the same Shire City Borough Town corporate Franchise or Liberty where the same should be committed or done which Certificate should be a sufficient Conviction in Law of the same Offence And the said Iustices of Peace upon the said Certificate made should in open Sessions assess the Fine for every such Offence at twenty shillings as by the said Act may appear Which Law hath not wrought such Reformation as was intended for that the said Fine of twenty shillings is seldom levied and for that many of the said Offendors by reason of their poverty are neither able to pay the said Fine of twenty shillings nor yet to bear their own Charges of conveying them to the Gaol And moreover do leave a great charge of Wife and Children upon the Parishes wherein they live In regard whereof the Constables and other Officers are much discouraged in presenting them and the Offendors become
The Essoin dayes and the Essoin day of the Return of Crastino Sanctae Trinitatis And be it further enacted Writs in personal actions hauing day from tres Michaelis till Crastino Ascentionis good Proviso for writs returnable 1641. Exp. That all Writs and Process in personal Acttions hereafter to be made out of any of his Majesties said Courts at Westminster and having day from tres Michaelis untill Crastino Animarum shall be good and effectual in Law notwithstanding there be not fiftéen dayes betwixt the quarto die of the said tres septimanas sancti Michaelis and the dayes of Essoin of Crastino Animarum Any Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary heretofore notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be if further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all writs and Process to be made from and after the Feast of Easter in the year of our Lord God 1641. Returnable in Octabis or Quindena sancti Michaelis now next ensuing or having dayes betwixt any of the said Returns shall by force of this Act have day unto tres septimanas sancti Michaelis next and the parties to the said writs and Process shall then appear and plead and procéed thereupon to all intents and purposes as if the said Writs and Process had béen made returnable a die sancti Michaelis in tres septimanas And whereas before the making of this Act Writs of summons ad Warrantizandum upon common recoveries and writs of Right of Advowson abridged to five Returns all Writs of Summons ad Warrantizand against the Vouchées upon Common Recoveries had in writs of Entry and writs of Right of Advowson were made for nine Returns inclusive Now for the more spéedy perfecting of such Recoveries Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that from and after the said Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next all and every such writs of Summons ad Warrantizand upon the appearance of the Tenant to every such writ of Entry and writ of Right of Advowson shall and may be made and abridged to five Returns as writs of Summons ad Warrantizand in writs of Dower unde nihil habet heretofore have been used and accustomed And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all common writs and Process Common writs process to keep the aforesaid returns as well personal as mixt which shall fortune to be returnable in the said Michaelmas Term shall have and kéep the said Returns of A die sancti Michaelis in tres septimanas a die sancti Michaelis in unum mensem in Crastino animarum in Crastino Sancti Martini in Octabis Sancti Martini and a die Sancti Martini in Quindecem dies or any of them Provided alwayes And it is further Enacted by the authority aforesaid Special dayes may be appointed as have been used Dayes in assise of Darrein presentment and in plea of quare impedit and in attaint not contrary hereto shall be firm that in such and like cases and Process as special dayes have béen used to be appointed and assigned and given for the returning of writs and Process It shall be lawful to the Iustices of every of the Kings said Courts of Record for the time being in all the Process by them awarded to assign and appoint special dayes of Returns as by their discretions shall be thought convement Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the dayes in Assise of Darrein presentment and in Plea of Quare Impedit limited and appointed by the Statute of Marlebridge and also the dayes to be given in Attaint limited in the Statute made in the fifth year of the Reign of the Noble King Edward the third And also in the Statute made in the thrée and twentieth year of the Raign of the late King Henry the eighth of worthy memory being not contrary to the Tenours of this Act shall be holden firm and stable and shall stand in their full force and effect CAP. VII 1 Stat. 12. Car. 2. cap. 1. This Parliament shall not be Dissolved Prorogued or Adjourned but by Act of Parliament EXP. CAP. VIII Tunnage and Poundage A Subsidy Granted to the King of Tunnage Poundage and other sums of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported from the 25th of May 1641. to the 14th of July next EXP. CAP. IX Provision of Money for the speedy Disbanding the Armies and setling the Peace of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland by raising and charging several sums of Money upon persons according to their Ranks Dignities Offices Callings Estates and Qualities therein mentioned and Commissioners to issue for levying the same EXP. CAP. X. For Regulating the Privy Councel and for taking away the Star-Chamber-Court Recital of Maâ—â—-Châ—rlâ— and several Statutes St. 3. li. 7. 1. 5 E. 3. cap. 9. VVHereas by the Great Charter many times confirmed in Parliament It is Enacted That no Fréeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised of his Fréehold or Liberties or Frée Customs or be Outlawed or exiled or otherwise destroyed and that the King will not pass upon him or condemn him but by lawful Iudgment of his Péers or by the Law of the Land And by another Statute made in the fifth year of the Reign of King Edward the Third It is Enacted That no man shall be attached by any accusation nor fore-judged of life or limb nor his Lands Tenements Goods nor Chattels seised into the Kings hands against the form of the Great Charter and the Law of the Land and by another Statute made in the five and twentieth year of the Reign of the same King Edward the Third 25 E. 3. cap. 4. Stat. 5. It is accorded assented and established that none shall be taken by petition or suggestion made to the King or to his Councel unless it be by Indictment or Presentment of good and lawful people of the same Neighbourhood where such Déeds be done in due manner or by Process made by Writ Original at the Common Law and that none be put out of his Franchise or Free-hold unless he be duly brought in to answer and foreiudged of the same by the course of the Law and if any thing be done against the same it shall be redressed and holden for none 28 E. 3. cap. 3. And by another Statute made in the eight and twentieth year of the reign of the same King Edward the Third It is amongst other things Enacted That no man of what Estate or condition soever he be shall be put out of his Lands or Tenements nor taken nor imprisoned nor disinherited without being brought in to answer by due process of Law And by another Statute made in the two and fortieth year of the Reign of the said King Edward the Third 42 E. 3. c. 3. It is Enacted That no man be put to answer without presentment before Iustices or matter of Record or by due process and writ original according to the Old Law of
the Land and if any thing be done to the contrary it shall be void in Law and holden for error And by another Statute made in the six and thirtieth year of the same King Edward the Third 36 E. 3. c. 15. It is amongst other things Enacted That all pleas which shall be pleaded in any Courts before any the Kings Iustices or in his other places or before any of his other Ministers or in the Courts and places of any other Lords within the Realm shall be entred and inrolled in Latine And whereas by the Statute made in the third year of King Henry the seventh 3 H. 7. cap. 1. power is given to the Chancellor the Lord Treasurer of England for the time being and the Kéeper of the Kings Privy Seal or two of them calling unto them a Bishop and a Temporal Lord of the Kings most Honourable Councel and the two Chief Iustices of the Kings Bench and Common Pleas for the time being or other two Iustices in their absence to procéed as in that Act is expressed for the punishmâ—â—â— of some particular offences therein mentioned And by the Statute made in the One and tâ—â—ntieth year of King Henry the Eighth 21 H. 8. cap. 20 The President of the Councel is associated to joyn with the Lord Chancellor and other Iudges in the said Statute of the third of Henry the seventh mentioned But the said Iudges have not kept themselves to the points limited by the said Statute but have undertaken to punish where no Law doth warrant and to make Decrées for things having no such Authority and to inflict heavier punishments then by any Law is warranted All matters â—â—â—minable in 〈◊〉 Star-Chamber maâ— be â—â—â—â—â—nable and 〈◊〉 â—â—o by the Common Law And forasmuch as all matters examinable or determinable before the said Iudges or in the Court commonly called the Star-Chamber may have their proper remedy and redress and their due punishment and correction by the Common Law of the Land and in the Ordinary course of Iustice elswhere and forasmuch as the reasons and motives inducing the erection and continuance of that Court do now cease and the procéedings Censures and Decrées of that Court have by experience been found to be an intolerable burthen to the Subject and the means to introduce an Arbitrary Power and Government And forasmuch as the Councel-Table hath of late times assumed unto it self a power to intermeddle in Civil causes and matters only of private interest betwéen party and party and have adventured to determine of the Estates and Liberties of the Subiect contrary to the Law of the Land and the Rights and Priviledges of the Subject by which great and manifold mischiefs and inconveniencies have arisen and happened and much incertainty by means of such procéedings hath béen conceived concerning Mens Rights and Estates For setling whereof and preventing the like in time to come Be it Ordained and Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament Court of Star-Chamber and all its powers dissolved That the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber and all Iurisdiction Power and Authority belonging unto or exercised in the same Court or by any the Iudges Officers or Ministers thereof be from the first day of August in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred forty and one clearly and absolutely dissolved taken away and determined and that from the said first day of August neither the Lord Chancellor or Kéeper of the Great Seal of England the Lord Treasurer of England the Kéeper of the Kings Privy-Seal or President of the Councel nor any Bishop Temporal Lord Privy-Councellor or Iudg or Iustice whatsoever shall have any power or authority to hear examine or determine any matter or thing whatsoever in the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber or to make pronounce or deliver any Iudgment Sentence Order or Decrée or to do any Iudicial or Ministerial Act in the said Court And that all and every Act and Acts of Parliament and all and every Article clause and sentence in them and every of them by which any Iurisdiction power or Authority is given limited or appointed unto the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber or unto all or any the Iudges Officers or Ministers thereof or for any procéedings to be had or made in the said Court or for any matter or thing to be drawn into question examined or determined there shall for so much as concerneth the said Court of Star-Chamber and the power and authority thereby given unto it be from the said first day of August repealed and absolutely revoked and made void And be it likewise Enacted Like Iurisdiction in several other Courts repealed and taken away That the like Iurisdiction now used and exercised in the Court before the President and Councel in the Marches of Wales and also in the Court before the President and Councel established in the Northern parts And also in the Court commonly called the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster held before the Chancellor and Councel of that Court And also in the Court of Exchequer of the County Palatine of Chester held before the Chamberlain and Councel of that Court The like Iurisdiction being exercised there shall from the said first day of August One thousand six hundred forty and one be also repealed and absolutely revoked and made void any Law prescription custome or usage Or the said Statute made in the third year of King Henry the seventh Or the Statute made the One and twentieth of Henry the Eigth Or any Act or Acts of Parliament heretofore had or made to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And that from henceforth no Court Councel No Court or Councel to have the like Iurisdiction or place of Iudicature shall be erected ordained constituted or appointed within this Realm of England or Dominion of Wales which shall have use or exercise the same or the like Iurisdiction as is or hath béen used practised or exercised in the said Court of Star-Chamber Be it likewise declared and Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament The King nor his privy Councel shall have no Iurisdiction over any mans estate That neither his Majesty nor his Privy-Councel have or ought to have any Iurisdiction power or authority by English Bill Petition Articles Libel or any other Arbitrary way whatsoever to examine or draw into question determine or dispose of the Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods or Chattels of any the Subjects of this Kingdome But that the same ought to be tryed and determined in the ordinary Courts of Iustice and by the ordinary course of the Law And be it further provided and Enacted That if any Lord Chancellor Penalties upon great Officers and others for the first offence or Kéeper of the Great Seal of England Lord Treasurer Kéeper of the Kings Privy Seal President of the Councel Bishop Temporal Lord Privy Councellor Iudg or Iustice whatsoever shall offend or do
any thing contrary to the purport true intent and meaning of this Law Then he or they shall for such offence forfeit the sum of Five hundred pounds of lawful Money of England unto any party grieved his Executors or Administrators who shall really prosecute for the same and first obtain Iudgment thereupon to be recovered in any Court of Record at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoin Protection Wager of Law Aid-Prayer Priviledg Injunction or Order of restraint shall be in any wise prayed granted or allowed nor any more then one Imparlance And if any person against whom any such Iudgment or Recovery shall be had as aforesaid shall after such Iudgment or Recovery offend again in the same then he Second offence or they for such offence shall forfeit the sum of One thousand pounds of lawful money of England unto any party grieved his Executors or Administrators who shall really prosecute for the same and first obtain Iudgment thereupon to be recovered in any Court of Record at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in which no Essoin Protection Wager of Law Aid-Prayer Priviledg Iniunction or Order of Restraint shall be in any wise prayed granted or allowed nor any more then one Imparlance And if any person against whom any such second Iudgment or Recovery shall be had as aforesaid shall after such Iudgment Third offence or recovery offend again in the same kind and shall be thereof duly convicted by Indictment Information or any other lawful way or means that such person so convicted shall be from thenceforth disabled and become by vertue of this Act incapable Ipso facto to bear his and their said Office and Offices respectively and shall be likewise disabled to make any Gift Grant Conveyance or other disposition of any of his Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods or Chattels or to take any benefit of any Gift Conveyance or Legacy to his own use And every person so offending shall likewise forfeit and lose unto the party grieved Treble damages to the party grieved by any thing done contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Law his treble damages which he shall sustain and be put unto by means or occasion of any such Act or thing done the same to be recovered in any of his Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoin Protection Wager of Law Aid-Prayer Priviledg Injunction or Order of Restraint shall be in any wise Prayed Granted or Allowed nor any more then one Imparlance Every person committed contrary to this Act shall have an Habea◠Corpus And be it also provided and Enacted That if any person shall hereafter be committed restrained of his Liberty or suffer imprisonment by the Order or Decrée of any such Court of Star-Chamber or other Court aforesaid now or at any time hereafter having or pretending to have the same or like Iurisdiction power or authority to commit or imprison as aforesaid Or by the command or Warrant of the Kings Maiesty his Heirs or Successors in their own Person or by the command or Warrant of the Councel-board or of any of the Lords or others of his Majesties Privy Councel That in every such case every person so committed restrained of his liberty or suffering imprisonment upon demand or motion made by his Counsel or other imployed by him for that purpose unto the Iudges of the Court of Kings Bench or Common Pleas in open Court shall without delay upon any pretence whatsoever for the ordinary Fées usually paid for the same have forthwith granted unto him a Writ of Habeas Corpus to be directed generally unto all and every Sheriffs Gaoler Minister Officer or other person in whose custody the party committed or restrained shall be and the Sheriffs Gaoler Minister Officer or other person in whose custody the party so committed or restrained shall be shall at the return of the said Writ and according to the command thereof upon due and convenient notice thereof given unto him at the charge of the party who requireth or procureth such Writ and upon security by his own bond given to pay the charge of carrying back the prisoner if he shall be remanded by the Court to which he shall be brought as in like cases hath béen used such charges of bringing up and carrying back the prisoner to be alwayes ordered by the Court if any difference shall arise thereabout bring or cause to be brought the body of the said party so committed or restrained unto and before the Iudges or Iustices of the said Court from whence the same Writ shall issue in open Court and shall then likewise certify the true cause of such his detainer or imprisonment and thereupon the Court within thrée Court-dayes after such return made and delivered in open Court shall procéed to examine and determine whether the cause of such commitment appearing upon the said return be iust and legal or not and shall thereupon do what to Iustice shall appertain either by delivering bailing or remanding the prisoner And if any thing shall be otherwise wilfully done or omitted to be done by any Iudg Iustice Officer or other person aforementioned contrary to the direction and true meaning hereof That then such person so offending shall forfeit to the party grieved Treble damages in default his treble damages to be recovered by such means and in such manner as is formerly in this Act limited and appointed for the like penalty to be sued for and recovered To what Courts this Act shall extend Provided alwayes and be it Enacted That this Act and the several clauses therein contained shall be taken and expounded to extend only to the Court of Star-Chamber and to the said Courts holden before the President and Councel in the Marches of Wales and before the President and Councel in the Northern parts and also to the Court commonly called the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster holden before the Chancellor and Councel of that Court And also in the Court of Exchequer of the County Palatine of Chester held before the Chamberlain and Councel of that Court And to all Courts of like Iurisdiction to be hereafter erected ordained constituted or appointed as aforesaid And to the Warrants and directions of the Councel-boards and to the commitments restraints and imprisonments of any person or persons made commanded or awarded by the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors in their own person or by the Lords and others of the Privy Councel and every one of them Offenders of this Act shall be impleaded within two years after any offence And lastly provided and be it Enacted That no person or persons shall be sued impleaded molested or troubled for any offence against this present Act unless the party supposed to have so offended shall be sued or impleaded for the same within two years at the most after such
Majesty his Heirs or Successors And all Powers and Authorities Granted or pretended or mentioned to be Granted thereby and all Acts Sentences and Decrées to be made by vertue or colour thereof shall be utterly void and of none effect CAP. XII A Subsidy Granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage Tunnage and Poundage and other sums of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported from the 15th of July 1641. to the 10th of August next EXP. CAP. XIII Such Monies secured as are or shall be due to the Inhabitants of the County of York and the other adjoyning Counties for the Billet of the Souldiers and to certain Officers of the Army who forbear part of their pay according to an Order in that behalf made in the Commons House of Parliament this present Session for such part of their pay as they shall so forbear EXP. CAP. XIV The late Preceedings touching Ship-money declared unlawful and all Records and Process concerning the same made void Shipâ—rits VVHereas divers Writs of late time issued under the Great Seal of England commonly called Ship-Writs for the charging of the Ports Towns Cities Burroughs and Counties of this Realm respectively Certioraries to provide and furnish certain Ships for his Majesties service Mittimus And whereas upon the Execution of the same Writs and Returns of Certioraries thereupon made and the sending the same by Mittimus into the Court of Exchequer Process hath béen thence made against sundry persons pretended to be charged by way of Contribution for the making up of certain sums assessed for the providing of the said Ships and in especial in Easter Term Scire facias against John Hampden Esquire Demurrer in the thirtéenth year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord the King that now is a Writ of Scire facias was awarded out of the Court of Exchequer to the then Sheriff of Buckingham-Shire against John Hampden Esquire to appear and shew cause why he should not be charged with a certain sum so assessed upon him upon whose appearance and demurrer to the procéedings therein the Barons of the Exchequer adjourned the same case into the Exchequer-Chamber where it was solemnly argued divers dayes and at length it was there agréed by the greater part of all the Iustices of the Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas and of the Barons of the Exchequer there assembled That the said John Hampden should be charged with the said sum so as aforesaid assessed on him The main grounds and reasons of the said Iustices and Barons which so agréed being that when the good and safety of the Kingdom in general is concerned and the whole Kingdom in danger the King might by Writ under the Great Seal of England command all the Subjects of this His Kingdome at their charge to provide and furnish such manner of Ships with Men Victuals and Munition and for such time as the King should think fit for the defence and safeguard of the Kingdom from such danger and peril and that by Law the King might compel the doing thereof in case of refusal or refractorinses and that the King is the sole Iudg both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided according to which grounds and reasons all the Iustices of the said Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas and the said Barons of the Exchequer having béen formerly consulted with by his Maiesties command Extrajudicial Opinion had set their hands to an extraiudicial opinion expressed to the same purpose which Opinion with their names thereunto was also by his Majesties command inrolled in the Courts of Chancery Kings Bench Common Pleas and Exchequer and likewise entred among the Remembrances of the Court of Star-Chamber Iudgment and according to the said agréement of the said Iustices and Barons Iudgment was given by the Barons of the Exchequer That the said John Hampden should be charged with the said sum so assessed on him And whereas some other Actions and Proces depend and have depended in the said Court of Exchequer and in some other Courts against other persons for the like kind of charge grounded upon the said Writs commonly called Shipwrits all which Writs and procéedings as aforesaid were utterly against the Law of the Land Shipmoney proceedings thereupon contrary to Law Be it therefore declared and Enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the said charge imposed upon the Subject for the providing and furnishing of Ships commonly called Ship-money and the said extrajudicial opinion of the said Iustices and Barons and the said Writs and every of them and the said agréement or opinion of the greater part of the said Iustices and Barons and the said judgment given against the said John Hampden were and are contrary to and against the Laws and Statutes of this Realm the right of property the liberty of the Subjects former resolutions in Parliament and the Petition of Right made in the third year of the Reign of his Maiesty that now is St. 3 Car. 1. Petition of right to be observed And it is further declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the particulars prayed or desired in the said Petition of Right shall from henceforth be put in execution accordingly and shall be firmly and strictly holden and observed as in the same Petition they are prayed and expressed and that all and every the Records and remembrances of all and every the Iudgment Iudgments proceedings touching ship-money and all entries records inrolments thereof made void Inrolments Entry and procéedings as aforesaid and all and every the procéedings whatsoever upon or by pretext or colour of any of the said Writs commonly called Ship-Writs and all and every the Dependents on any of them shall be Déemed and Adiudged to all intents constructions and purposes to be utterly void and disannulled and that all and every the said Iudgment Inrolments Entries Procéedings and Dependents of what kind soever shall be vacated and cancelled in such manner and forme as Records use to be that are vacated CAP. XV. Touching Incroachments and Oppressions in the Stannary Courts WHereas King EDWARD the first of famous memory did for the Amendment of the Stannaries in the County of Devon E. 1. Charter grant divers Franchises and Liberties to the Tinners there And whereas in the Parliament in the fiftieth year of King EDWARD the third upon the petition of the Commons of the County of Devon certain Branches and Articles of the said Charter were explained in manner following That is to say whereas one Article of the said Charter is in these words following Explained 50 E. 3. viz. Sciatis nos ad emendationem Stannariarum nostrarum in Com. Devon ad tranquilitatem utilitatem Stannatorum nostrorum praedictorum earundem Concessisse pro nobis haeredibus
by which the Meets Meers Limits or Bounds of the said Forrests or any of them are or are pretended to be further extended then as aforesaid And also all and every Presentment of any person or persons at any Iustice seat Swainemote or Court of Attachments for or by reason or by colour of any Act or Acts whatsoever done or committed in any place without or beyond the said Méets Méers Limits or Bounds respectively so commonly known reputed used or taken as aforesaid and all and every Fine and Fines and amerciament and amerciaments upon by reason or colour of any such Presentment or Presentments shall from henceforth be adjudged déemed and taken to be utterly void and of no force or effect any Law Statute Record or pretence whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid No place where no Iustice seat Swainemote cour◠or attachment c. hath been within 〈◊〉 yeares shall be accompted Forrest That no place or places within this Realm of England or Dominion of Wales where no such Iustice seat Swainemote or Court of Attachment have been held or kept or where no Verderers have been chosen or regard made within the space of sixty years next before the first year of his Majesties Reign that now is shall be at any time hereafter judged déemed or taken to be Forrest or within the Bounds or Meets of the Forrests But the same shall be from thenceforth for ever hereafter De-afforrested and freed and exempted from the Forrests Laws Any Iustice-seat Swainemote or Court of Attachment held or kept within or for any such place or places at any time or times since the beginning of His Majesties said Reign or any presentment enquiry Act or thing heretofore made or hereafter to be made or done to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid For ascertaining of Meets c. Commissions shall be issued That for the better putting into certainty all and every the Meets Meers Bounds and Limits of all and every the Forrests as aforesaid The Lord-Chancellour or Lord-Keeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being shall by vertue of this Act upon request of any of the Peers of this Kingdome or of the Knights and Burgesses of the Parliament or any of them grant severall Commissions under the Great Seal of England to Commissioners to be nominated respectively by the said Péers Knights and Burgesses or any of them to enquire of and find out by Inquests of good and lawful men upon Oath and by the Oaths of Witnesses to be produced at the said Inquests and by all other lawful means all and every the Méers Méets Bounds and Limits of the Forrests respectively which were commonly known to be their Méers Meets Bounds and Limits respectively in the said twentieth year of the Reign of our late Soveraign Lord King James And to return the Inquests so taken into the Court of Chancery and that all and every the Sheriffs and Bailiffs of and in every County wherein any such Inquests shall be so to be taken And all and every the Verderers Forresters Rangers and other Officers of the Forrests respectively where any such Officers be shall be assistant and attendant to the execution of the said Commissions according as by vertue of the said Commissions respectively they shall be commanded And where no such Officers are or where such Officers be if they or any of them shall refuse or neglect such assistance and attendance as aforesaid Then the said Commissioners shall and may procéed without them in the execution of the said Commissions Forrests shall not extend beyond the meets c. so returned And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Forrests whereof the Méets Méers Limits and Bounds be so returned and certified by vertue of any the said Commissions as aforesaid from thenceforth shall not extend nor be extended nor be déemed adjudged or taken to extend any further in any wise then the Méets Méers Limits and Bounds that shall be so returned and certified And that all the places and Territories that shall be without the Méets Méers Limits and Bounds so returned and certified shall be and are hereby declared to be from thenceforth free to all intents and purposes as if the same had never béen Forrest or so reputed Any Act or Acts matter or thing whatsoever to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Grounds deafforrested shall be excluded Provided and be it further Enacted by Authority aforesaid That all and every the grounds Territories or places which have béen or are De-afforrested or mentioned to be De-afforrested in or by any Letters Patents Charters or otherwise since the said twentieth year of the Reign of our said late Soveraign Lord King James shall be excluded and left out of the Méets Méers Limits and Bounds of the Forrests which are to be enquired of returned and certified by vertue of the said Commissions or any of them respectively And shall be and hereby are declared and Enacted to be utterly De-afforrested frée and exempt to all intents and purposes as if the same had never béen at all Forrest or so reputed Any thing in this present Act contained or any other Act matter or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Tenants Owners c. of lands excluded shall enjoy their ancient commission c. Provided nevertheless and be it Enacted That the Tenants Owners and Occupiers and every of them of Lands and Tenements which shall be excluded and left out of the Méets Méers Limits or Bounds of the Forrests to be returned and certified by vertue of any the said Commissions shall or may use and enjoy such Common and other profits and easements within the Forrest as anciently or accustomably they have used and enjoyed Any thing in this present Act contained or any Act or Ordinance made in the thrée and thirtieth year of King Edward the first or any Custome or Law of the Forrest or any other matter or thing to the contrary thereof notwithstanding CAP. XVII Scotland A confirmation of the Treaty of Pacification between England and Scotland with the Commissions and Articles thereupon EXP. CAP. XVIII For securing by publick Faith the remainder of the friendly assistance and relief promised to those of Scotland Scotland EXP. CAP. XIX The Office of Clerk the Market allowed and regulated for the reformation of Weights and Measures Grievances by Clerks of the Market and anequality in weights and measures FOrasmuch as the undue execution of the Office of Clerk of the Market hath béen very grievous unto divers of his Majesties most loving Subjects who have béen much troubled by unnecessary Summons and charged with exactions of divers sums of Money by colour of the said Office and in regard the said evils have partly arisen by means of an inequality of Weights and Measures throughout this Kingdom◠and by granting
persons to ship carry out and transport by way of Merchandize these several sorts of Goods following that is to say Gun-powder when the same doth not excéed the price of five pounds the Barrel And Wheat Rye Pease Beans Barley Mault and Oats Béef Pork Bacon Butter Chéese Candles when the same do not excéed in price at the Ports from whence they are Laden and at the time of their Lading these prises following That is to say Wheat the Quarter Forty shillings Rye Beans and Pease the Quarter Twenty four shillings Barley and Mault the Quarter twenty shillings Oats the Quarter Sixtéen shillings Béef the Barrel Five pounds Pork the Barrel Six pounds ten shillings Bacon the pound Six pence Butter the Barrel Four pounds ten shillings Chéese the Hundred One pound ten shillings Candles the dozen pound Five shillings paying the respective Rates appointed by this Act and no more Any former Law Statute Prohibition or Custome to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding His Majesty by Proclamation may prohibit transporting Gun-powder Arms and Ammunition out of England 1. Stat. 17. Car. 1. cap. 21. An additional Subsidy upon Wines over and above the forementioned rates Security to be given by the Importer The said Subsidy to be repaid upon exportation Provided alwayes That it shall be frée and lawful for his Majesty at any time when he shall sée cause so to do and for such time as shall be therein expressed by Proclamation to prohibit the Transporting of Gun-powder or any sort of Arms or Ammunition into any parts out of this Kingdome Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That over and above the Rates herein before mentioned there shall be paid unto your Majesty of every Ton of Wine of the Growth of France Germany Portugal or Madera brought into the Port of London or elsewhere the sum of thrée pounds of currant English money within the space of Nine moneths after the Importing And of every Ton of all other Wines brought in as aforesaid the sum of Four pounds of like currant Money within the space of Nine months after the Importing thereof For the payment of which duties accordingly the Importer shall give good Security And if any of the said Wines for which the additional Duty in this clause mentioned is paid or secured at the Importation be Exported within twelve moneths after their Importation then the foresaid additional Duty in this clause mentioned shall be returned or the security discharged as to so much as shall be so Exported And if at the Importation the Importer shall pay for the same ready money he shall be allowed after the Rate of Ten per Cent. for a year All Wines discharged of Excise And be it further Enacted That from and after the said Four and twentieth day of July all manner of Wines whatsoever to be Imported in the Port of London or elsewhere shall be fréed and discharged of and from the Imposition of Excise Prisage wines not to pay any custome or subsidy Provided and it is hereby Declared and Enacted That the prisage of Wines or prise-Wines ought not to pay Tonnage nor Custome and shall not be charged with the payment of any Custome Subsidy or sum of money Imposed upon Wines by this Act or any thing therein contained Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. V. For continuing the Excise untill the Twentieth of August 1660. EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. VI. For the present Nominating of Commissioners of Sewers His Majesty not yet having constituted any Treasurer of England or Chief Justice of either Bench according to the Stat. of 20 H. 8. EXP. and the said Statute of H. 8. to continue in force CAP. VII Marquess of Ormond An Act for restoring unto James Marquess of Ormond All his Honours Manors Lands and Tenements in Ireland whereof he was in possession on the Three and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty and one or at any time since PR CAP. VIII For continuing the Excise till the Five and twentieth Day of December One thousand six hundred and sixty EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. IX For the speedy Provision of Money for Disbanding and Paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea by a contribution of all persons according to their several Ranks and Degrees EXP. CAP. X. Explanations of certain defaults in an Act Entituled An Act for the speedy Provision of Money for Disbanding and Paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea CAP. XI The Kings Majesties most gracious Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion THe Kings most Excellent Majesty taking into His Gracious and Serious consideration the long and great Troubles Discords and Wars The Causes and Ends of this Pardon and Indempnity that have for many years past béen in this Kingdom and that divers of His Subjects are by occasion thereof and otherwise faln into and be obnoxious to great pains and penalties Out of a hearty and pious Desire to put an end to all Suits and Controversies that by occasion of the late Distractions have arisen or may arise betwéen all His Subjects The General Pardon And to the intent that no Crime whatsoever committed against His Majesty or His Royal Father shall hereafter rise in Iudgment or be brought in Question against any of them to the least endamagement of them either in their Lives Liberties Estates or to the prejudice of their Reputations by any Reproach or Term of Distinction And to bury all Séeds of future Discords and remembrance of the former as well in his own Breast as in the Breasts of His Subjects one towards another And in performance of His Royal and Gracious Word signified by His Letters to the several Houses of Parliament now assembled and His Declarations in that behalf published Is pleased that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled First That all and all manner of Treasons Misprisions of Treason Murthers Felonies Offences Crimes Contempts and Misdemeanors Counselled Commanded Acted or done since the first day of January in the year of Our Lord One thousand six hundred thirty seven by any person or persons before the Twenty fourth day of June in the year of Our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty other then the persons hereafter by name excepted in such manner as they are hereafter excepted by vertue or colour of any command power Authority Commission or Warrant or Instructions from his late Majesty King Charles or His Majesty that now is or from any other person or persons deriving or pretending to derive authority mediately or immediately from both or either of their Majesties or by vertue or colour of any Authority derived mediately or immediately of or from both Houses or either House of
and are hereby from henceforth Discharged And also the Kings Majesty is contented That it be further Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this His said Frée Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion shall be as good and effectual in the Law to every of his said Subjects Bodies Corporate and others before rehearsed in for and against all things which be not hereafter in this present Act Excepted and Foreprized as the same Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion should have béen if all Offices Contempt Forfeitures Causes Matters Suits Quarrels Iudgments Executions Penalties and all other things not hereafter in this present Act Excepted and Foreprized had béen particularly singularly especially and plainly named rehearsed and specified and also pardoned by proper and express Words and Names in their Kinds Natures and Qualities by Words and Terms thereunto requisite to have béen put in and expressed in this present Act of Frée Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion And that his said Subjects nor any of them nor the Heirs Executors or Administrators of any of them nor the said Bodies Corporate and others before named and rehearsed nor any of them be nor shall be Sued Vexed or Inquieted by or on the behalf of the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors in their Bodies Goods Chattels Lands or Tenements for any manner of Matter Cause Contempt Misdemeanor Forfeiture Trespass Offence or any other thing Suffered Done or committed before the said twenty fourth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty against His late Majesty King Charles or His Majesty that now is His Crown Dignity Prerogative Laws or Statutes but onely for such Matters Causes and Offences as be Excepted and Foreprized by this present Act out of the same any Statute or Statutes Laws Customs or Vsages heretofore had made or used to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And that all and every the Kings said Subjects and all and singular Bodies Corporate and others before rehearsed may by him or themselves or by his or their Deputy or Deputies or by his or their Attorney or Attorneys according to the Laws of this Realm plead and minister this present Act of Frée Pardon for his or their Discharge of or for any thing that is by vertue of this present Act Pardoned Discharged Given or Granted without any Fée or other thing paying to any person or persons for wriiing or entry of the Iudgements or other cause concerning such Plea Writing or Entry but onely sixtéen pence to be paid to the Officer or Clerk that shall enter such Plea Matter or Iudgement for the Parties Discharge in that behalf any Law Statute Vsage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding And furthermore the Kings Majesty is contented and pleased that it be Enacted This Pardon c. to be expounded in all Courts most beneficial for the Subject and be it Enacted by the authority aforesaid That this His said Frée Pardon Indemntty and Oblivion by the general Words Clauses and Sentences before rehearsed shall be reputed déemed adjudged expounded allowed and taken in all manner of Courts of his Highness and elsewhere beneficial and available to all and singular the said Subjects Bodies Corporate and others before rehearsed and to every of them in all things not in this present Act excepted or foreprized without any ambiguity question or other delay whatsoever it shall be to be made pleaded objected or alleadged by the King our Soveraign Lord His Heirs or Successors or by His or any of their general Attorney or Attorneys or by any person or persons for his Highness or any of His Heirs or Successors And furthermore be it Enacted by the King our Soveraign Lord The Penalty of any Officer c. that shall go about to disquiet or trouble any person pardoned by this Act. and the authority aforesaid That if any Officer or Clerk of any of His Highness Courts commonly called the Chancery Kings-Bench and Common-pleas or of his Exchequer or any other Officer or Clerk of any other of His Highness Courts within this Realm at any time of the passing of this present Act make out or write out any manner of Writs Process Summons or other Precepts whereby any of the said Subjects or of the said Bodies Corporate or others before rehearsed or any of them shall be in any wise arrested attached distrained summoned or otherwise vexed inquieted or grieved in his or their Bodies Lands Tenements Goods or Chattels or in any of them for or because of any manner of thing pardoned or discharged by vertue of this Act of Frée Pardon Or if any Sheriff or Escheator or any of their Deputy or Deputies or any Bayliff or other Officer whatsoever by colour of his or their Office or otherwise after the passing of this present Act do levy receive take or withhold of or from any person or persons any thing pardoned or discharged by this Act That then every such person so offending and thereof lawfully convicted or condemned by any sufficient testimony witness or proof shall yield and pay for recompence thereof to the party so grieved or offended thereby his or their treble damages besides all costs of the Suit and shall also forfeit and lose to the Kings Majesty for every such default ten pounds And nevertheless all and singular such Writs Process and Precepts so to be made for or upon any manner of thing pardoned or discharged by this present Act of Frée Pardon Indemnity and Oblivion shall be utterly void and of none effect Except and alwayes foreprized out of this Frée and General Pardon Exceptions out of his Pardon All Murder not comprised in the first clause of this Pardon excepted Pyracy excepted Buggery Rapes and wilful taking away any Maid excepted all Murders done or committed by any person or persons other then such which are pardoned and discharged in the first clause of pardon above mentioned And also excepted and alwayes foreprized out of this General and Frée Pardon all and every the offences of Piracy and Robbery upon the Seas not done in relation to the Diffrences and Wars aforesaid and every procuring or abetting of any such Offendors and the comforting and receiving of them or any of them or any goods taken by way of such Piracy or Robbery upon the Seas as aforesaid And also excepted the detestable and abominable Vice of Buggery committed with Mankind or Beast And also excepted all Rapes and carnal Ravishments of Woman And also excepted all Ravishments and wilful taking away or marrying of any Maid Widow or Damsel against her will or without the assent or agréement of her Parents or such as then had her in custody and also all Offences of aiding comforting procuring and abetting of any such Ravishment wilful taking or Marrying had committed or done And also excepted all Offences made Felony by a certain Act made and ordained Entiuled Double Marriages excepted Witchcraft excepted Accompts of certain Treasurers and Receivers
them who being disguised by Frocks and Vizors did appear upon the Scaffold erected before Whitehal upon the thirtieth of Ianuary one thousand six hundred forty and eight All which persons for their execrable Treason in sentencing to death or signing the Instrument for the horrid Murder or being instrumental in taking away the precious Life of our late Sovereign Lord Charles the first of Glorious Memory are left to be procéeded against as Traytors to His late Majesty according to the Laws of England and are out of this present Act wholly excepted and foreprized But ingard the said Owen Row Augustine Garland Edmond Harvey Henry Smith Persons that appeared and rendred themselves Henry Martin Sir Hardress Waller Robert Titchbourn George Fleetwood James Temple Thomas Wait Simon Meyn William Heveningham Isaac Penington Peter Temple Robert Lilburn Gilbert Millington Vincent Potter Thomas Wogan and John Downs have personally appeared and rendred themselves according to the Proclamation bearing Date the sixth day of Iune one thousand six hundred and sixty to Summon the persons therein named who gave Iudgement and Assisted in the said Horrid and Detestable Murther of our said late Sovereign to appear and render themselves and do pretend thereby to some favour upon some conceived doubtful Words in the said Proclamation Be it Enacted by this present Parliament and the Authority of the same upon the humble desires of the Lord and Commons in Parliament assembled That if the said Owen Row Augustine Garland Edmond Harvey Henry Smith Henry Martin Sir Hardress Waller Robert Titchburn George Fleetwood James Temple Tho. Wait Simon Meyn William Heveningham Isaac Penington Peter Temple Robert Lilburn Gilbert Millington Vincent Potter Thomas Wogan and John Downs or any of them shall be legally Attainted for the Horrid Treason and Murther aforesaid That then nevertheless the Execution of the said person and persons so Attainted shall be supended until his Majesty by the Advice and Assent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament shall order the Execution by Act of Parliament to be passed for that purpose Except also out of this present Act Oliver Cromwel deceased Henry Ireton deceased John Bradshaw deceased and Thomas Pride deceased Provided That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to discharge the Lands Tenements The Lands and Goods of the persons rendring themselves not excepted St. 13 Car. 2. ca. 15. Goods Chattels Rights Trusts and other the Hereditaments late of the said O. Cromwel Henry Ireton John Bradshaw and Thomas Pride or of Isaac Ewer deceased Sir John Danvers deceased Sir Thomas Maleverer Baronet deceased William Purefoy deceased John Blackiston deceased Sir William Constable Baronet deceased Richard Dean deceased Francis Allen deceased Peregrin Pelham deceased John Moor deceased John Aldred alias Alured deceased Humphry Edwards deceased Sir Gregory Norton Baronet deceased John Venn deceased Thomas Andrews Alderman deceased Anthony Stapely deceased Thomas Horton deceased John Fry deceased Thomas Hamond deceased Sir John Bourchier deceased of and from such pains penalties and forfeitures as by one other Act of Parliament intended to be hereafter passed for that purpose shall be expressed and declared And also excepted out of this present Act William Lord Mounson James Challoner Persons excepted for other penalties not extending to life St. 13. Car. 2. ca. 15. Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington John Phelps and Robert Wallop All which persons did Act and sit in that Trayterous Assembly which in the moneth of Ianuary one thousand six hundred forty eight Acted and procéeded against the Life of our late Sovereign King Charles the first of blessed Memory and are therefore reserved to such pains penalties and forfeitures not extending to Life as by another Act intended to be passed for that purpose shall be imposed on them And also except Sir Arthur Hesilrig for and in respect onely of such pains penalties and forfeitures not extending to Life as by one Act intended to be hereafter passed for that purpose shall be inflicted and imposed Provided alwayes That John Hutchinson Esquire and Francis Lassels Persons made incapable of any Offices shall be and are hereby made for ever incapable to Execute any Place or Office of Trust Civil or Military within this Kingdom And that the said Francis Lassels shall pay unto our Sovereign Lord the King one full years value of his Estate Any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained Sir Henry Vane Iohn Lambert excepted shall not extend to the pardoning or to give any other benefit whatsoever unto Sir Henry Vane John Lambert or either of them but that they and either of them are and shall be out of this present Act wholly excepted and foreprized Penalty of certain persons if they shall after the first of September 1660. accept any Office Provided That if William Lenthal William Burton Oliver Saint-John John Ireton Alderman Colonel William Sydenham Colonel John Desborow John Blackwel of Moreclake Christopher Pack Alderman Richard Keeble Charles Fleewood John Pyne Richard Dean Major Richard Creed Philip Nye Clerk John Goodwyn Clerk Sir Gilbert Pickering Colonel Thomas Lister and Colonel Ralph Cobbet shall after the first day of September one thousand six hundred and sixty accept or exercise any Office Ecclesiastical Civil or Military or any other publique employment within this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed that then such person or persons as do so accept or execute as aforesaid shall to all intents and purposes in Law stand as if he or they had béen totally excepted by name in this Act. Persons that gave Sentence upon any in the illegal High Courts of Iustice Provided likewise That all those who since the fifth of December one thousand six hundred forty eight did give sentence of death upon any person or persons in any of the late Illegal and Tyrannical High Courts of Iustice in England or Wales or Signed the Warrant for Execution of any person there Condemned except Colonel Richard Ingolsby and Colonel Matthew Thomlinson shall be and are hereby made incapable of bearing any Office Ecclesiastical Civil or Military within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales or of serving as a Member in any Parliament after the first day of September one thousand six hundred and sixty Provided also and it is Enacted That all and every the persons appointed Trustées in a late pretended Act or Ordinance made in the year of our Lord Persons intrusted by Ordinance 1649. about Tithes shall be accomptable one thousand six hundred forty nine for and concerning Tithes appropriate Oblations Obventions Pensions Portions of Tithes appropriate Offerings Fée-farm Rents issuing out of the Tithes therein mentioned First-fruits and other things and Enacted or mentioned to be Enacted to be vested setled adjudged or déemed to be in the actual sesin or possession of such person and persons in the said pretended Act or Ordinance mentioned
respective terms or times for which they have béen bound and shall have and enjoy the same Immunities as they should have had and enjoyed if they had served out their said terms or times And all others of the said Officers and Souldiers may set up and exercise such Trades as they are apt and able for in the several Towns and Places within the several and respective Counties wherein they were born without any suit let or molestation of any person or persons whatsoever for or by reason of the using of such Trade And if any such Officer or Officers Souldier or Souldiers shall be sued impleaded or indicted in any Court whatsoever within this Kingdom for using or exercising any such Trades as aforesaid then the said Officer or Officers Souldier or Souldiers making it appear to the same Court where they are so sued impleaded or indicted that they have served the Kings Majesty under the Command of the said Captain General as aforesaid and they they have severally taken the said Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance The general Issue pleaded upon this Act. and have not since deserted the said Service shall upon the General Issue pleaded be found Not guilty in any Plaint Bill Information or Indictment exhibited against them and such persons who notwithstanding this Act shall prosecute their said Suit by Bill Plaint Information or Indictment and shall have a Verdict pass against them or become Nonsuit therein or discontinue their said Suit such person or persons shall pay unto such Officer or Officers Souldier or Souldiers double costs of Suit to be recovered as any other Costs at Common Law may be recovered And all Iudges and Iurors before whom any such Suit Information or Indictment shall be brought and all other persons whatsoever are to take notice of this present Act and shall conform themselves thereunto any Statute Law Ordinance Custom or Provision to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding How an Officer or Souldier may prove his being in Service within this Act. Provided That no Officer or Souldier shall have the benefit of this Act that shall not prove his Service as aforesaid either by a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of some Field Officer and two Commission-Officers of the Regiment wherein he served or some General-Officer of the Army certifying his knowledg of the Service aforesaid and the said Certificate to be proved by one Witness at least to be a true Certificate or for default of such Certificate by the Oaths of two credible Persons at least Penalty upon false Certificates Provided also That if any person or persons pretending themselves to have béen Officers or Souldiers within the qualifications aforesaid shall produce a false Certificate to the intent to have the benefit of this Act and thereof be convicted by Confession or due proof of Law shall suffer Imprisonment not excéeding six months and to lose the benefit of this Act Any thing therein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Souldiers Tradesmen to submit to all Offices and Orders in Corporations and Companies of their Manufacture Provided also and be it Enacted That the said Officers and Souldiers in this Act mentioned and all other persons exercising or that shall exercise any Trade or Profession in any City or Corporation shall be liable to bear all Offices in the said respective Cities and Corporations when by the said Cities and Corporations they shall be elected thereunto and shall submit to such Orders of Corporations and Companies for search of the well and true making of their Manufacture as others frée of the said Companies or Corporations are subject unto any Law Usage or Custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding CAP. XVII Ministers confirmed and restored to their Benefices CAP. XVIII Shipping and Navigation Encouraged FOr the increase of Shipping and encouragement of the Navigation of this Nation wherein under the good Providence and Protection of God the Wealth Safety and Strength of this Kingdom is so much concerned Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled No goods shall be imported from Asia Africa or America but in English Ships and the Authority thereof That from and after the First day of December One thousand six hundred and sixty and from thenceforward no Goods or Commodities whatsoever shall be Imported into or Exported out of any Lands Islands Plantations or Territories to His Majesty belonging or in his possession or which may hereafter belong unto or be in the possession of His Majesty his Heirs and Successors in Asia Africa or America in any other Ship or Ships Vessel or Vessels whatsoever but in such Ships or Vessels as do truly and without fraud belong only to the People of England or Ireland Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or are of the built of and belonging to any the said Lands Islands Plantations or Territories as the Proprietors and Right Owners thereof and whereof the Master and thrée fourths of the Mariners at least are English Penalty under the penalty of the Forfeiture and Loss of all the Goods and Commodities which shall be Imported into or Exported out of any the aforesaid places in any other Ship or Vessel as also of the Ship or Vessel with all its Guns Furniture Tackle Ammunition and Apparel one Third part thereof to his Majestie his Heirs and Successors one Third part to the Governour of such Land Plantation Island or Territory where such default shall be committed in case the said Ship or Goods be there seized or otherwise that third part also to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other third part to him or them who shall Seize Inform or Sue for the same in any Court of Record by Bill Information Plaint or other Action wherein no Essoin Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed And all Admirals and other Commanders at Sea of any the Ships of War or other Ship having Commission from his Majesty or from his Heirs or Successors are hereby Authorized and strictly required to seize and bring in as prize all such Ships or Vessels as shall have offended contrary hereunto and deliver them to the Court of Admiralty there to be procéeded against and in case of condemnation one Moyety of such Forfeitures shall be to the use of such Admirals or Commanders and their Companies to be divided and proportioned amongst them according to the Rules and Orders of the Sea in case of Ships taken prize and the other Moyety to the use of his Majesty his Heirs and Successors And be it Enacted Aliens shall not exercise the occupation of Merchants or Factors That no Alien or person not born within the Allegiance of our Soveraign Lord the King his Heirs and Successors or Naturalized or made a frée Denizen shall from and after the First day of February which shall be in the year of our Lord One
thousand six hundred sixty one exercise the Trade or Occupation of a Merchant or Factor in any the said places upon pain of the Forfeiture and Loss of all his Goods and Chattels or which are in his possession one third to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors one third to the Governour of the Plantation where such person shall so offend and the other third to him or them that shall inform or sue for the same in any of his Majesties Courts in the Plantation where such offence shall be committed And all Governours of the said Lands Islands Plantations or Territories and every of them are hereby strictly required and commanded and all who hereafter shall be made Governours of any such Islands Plantations or Territories by his Maiesty his Heirs or Sucéessors shall before their entrance into their Government take a Solemn Oath to do their utmost that every the aforementioned clauses and all the matters and things therein contained Governors c. of Plantations to take an Oath for the observance of the aforementioned clauses shall be punctually and bona fide observed according to the true intent and meaning thereof And upon complaint and proof made before His Majesty his Heirs or Successors or such as shall be by Him or them thereunto authorized and appointed that any the said Governours have béen willingly and wittingly negligent in doing their Duty accordingly that the said Governour so offending shall be removed from his Government And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Goods or Commodities whatsoever of the growth production or manufacture of Africa Asia or America or of any part thereof or which are described or laid down in the usual Maps or Cards of those places be imported into England Ireland or Wales Islands of Guernsey and Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed in any other Ship or Ships Vessel or Vessels whatsoever but in such as do truly and without fraud belong only to the people of England or Ireland Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or of the Lands Islands Plantations or Territories in Asia Africa or America to His Majesty belonging as the proprietors and right owners thereof and whereof the Master and thrée Fourths at least of the Mariners are English under the penalty of the Forfeiture of all such Goods and Commodities and of the Ship or Vessel in which they were Imported with all her Guns Tackle Furniture Ammunition and apparel one Moyety to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them who shall seize inform or sue for the same in any Court of Record by Bill Information Plaint or other Action wherein no Essoin Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid No Goods of forreign groweth or manufacture shall be brought into England c. in English Ships but onely from the places of their said growth c. That no Goods or Commodities that are of forreign Growth Production or Manufacture and which are to be brought into England Ireland Wales the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed in English-built shipping or other shipping belonging to some of the aforesaid places and Navigated by English Mariners as abovesaid shall be shipped or brought from any other Place or Places Countrey or Countreys but onely from those of the said Growth Production or Manufacture or from those Ports where the said Goods and Commodities can onely or are or usually have béen first shipped for transportation and from none other Places or Countreys under the penalty of the Forfeiture of all such of the aforesaid Goods as shall be Imported from any other Place or Country contrary to the true intent and meaning hereof as also of the Ship in which they were Imported with all her Guns Furniture Ammunition Tackle and Apparel one Moyety to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that shall seize inform or sue for the same in any Court of Record to be recovered as is before exprest All ling stockfish c. oyl c. Whale â—ins c. imported not caught in vessels by the proprietors themselves c. shall pay double Aliens custom And it is further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That any sort of Ling Stockfish Pilchard or any other kind of dryed or salted fish usually fished for and caught by the People of England Ireland Wales Town of Barwick upon Tweed or any sort of Codfish or Herring or any Oyl or Blubber made or that shall be made of any kind of fish whatsoever or any Whale-fins or Whale-bones which shall be imported into England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed not having béen caught in Vessels truly properly belonging thereunto as Proprietors and right Owners thereof and the said Fish cured saved and dryed and the Oyl and Blubber aforesaid which shall be accompted and pay as oyl not made by the people thereof and shall be imported into England Ireland or Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed shall pay double Aliens custom No goods to be â—aâ—ed or carryed from one part of England to another in the vessel of any Alien not denizend c. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That from henceforth it shall not be lawfull to any person or persons whatsoever to Load or cause to be Loaden carried in any Bottom or Bottoms Ship or Ships Vessel or Vessels whatsoever whereof any Stranger or Strangers born unless such as be Denizens or Naturalized be Owners Part-owners or Master and whereof thrée fourths of the Mariners at least shall not be English any Fish Victual Wares Goods Commodities or things of what kind or Nature soever the same shall be from one Port or Créek of England Ireland Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed to another Port or Créek of the same The penalty or of any of them under penalty for every one that shall offend contrary to the true meaning of this branch of this present Act to forfeit all such goods as shall be loaden and carried in any such Ship or Vessel together with the Ship or Vessel and all her Guns Ammunition Tackle Furniture and Apparel one Moyety to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other Moyety to him or them that shall Inform Ease and abatement in the book of rates to extend only where three parts of the Marriners be English Seize or Sue for the same in any Court of Record to be recovered in manner aforesaid And it is further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That where any Ease Abatement or Priviledge is given in the Book of Rates to goods or Commodities Imported or Exported in English built Shipping that is to say shipping built in England Ireland Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or town of Berwick upon Tweed or in any the Lands Islands Dominions and
raised levyed collected 12 Car. 2. c. 2. â— and paid unto Your Maiesty during Your Life for Beer Ale Sider and other Liquors herein after mentioned The several Rates Impositions Duties and Charges herein after expressed and in manner and form following That is to say Beer and Ale above 6 s. the barrel For every Barrel of Beer or Ale above six shillings the barrel brewed by the Common Brewer or any other Person or Persons who doth or shall sell or tap out beer or Ale publickly or privately to be paid by the common Brewer or by such other person or persons respectively and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity One shilling three pence XV. d. Beer and Ale of â— s. the barrel For every barrel of Six shillings Beer or Ale or under brewed by the common Brewer or any other person or persons who doth or shall sell or tap out such Beer or Ale publickly or privately to be paid by the said common Brewer or by such other person or persons respectively as aforesaid and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity three pence iij. d. Sider Perry For all Syder and Perry made and sold by retail upon every Hogshead to be paid by the Retayler thereof and so proportionably for a greater or lesser measure One shilling three pence XV. d. Metheglin Mead. For all Metheglin or Mead sold whether by Retail or otherwise to be paid by the maker thereof upon every Gallon One half-penny Ob. Vinegar-beer For every Barrel of Beer commonly called Vinegar-Beer brewed by any common Brewer in any common Brew-house six pence Vi. d. Strong water For every Gallon of Strong-water or Aquavitae made and sold to be paid by the maker thereof One penny i. d. Beer and Ale Imported For every barrel of Beer or Ale Imported from beyond the Seas Three Shillings iij. s. Syder Perry Imporced For every Tun of Syder or Perry Imported from beyond the Seas and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity Five shillings V. s. Spirits Imported For every gallon of Spirits made of any kind of Wine or Syder Imported Two pence ij d. Strong-water Imported For every gallon of Strong-water perfectly made Imported from beyond the Seas Four pence iiij d. Coffee For every Gallon of Coffee made and sold to be paid by the maker Four pence iiij d. Chocolatte For every gallon of Chocolatte Sherbet and Tea made and sold to be paid by the maker thereof â—ight pence Viij d. The Excise upon forreign liquors imported to be paid by the importers in money upon entries made before landing Common brewers to accompt weekly and other retailers of beer ale c. monthly And be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the several Rates Duties and Charges of Excise or New Impost above mentioned hereby set or imposed upon all and every the said Forreign Liquors which shall be Imported or brought into all or any the Ports of this Kingdom and Dominions thereof aforesaid from and after the five and twentieth day of December next shall be from time to time satisfied and paid by the Merchant or Merchants Importer or Importers of the same in ready money upon his or their Entry or Entries made and before the landing thereof The penalty for not accounting as aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all common Brewers of Béer and Ale shall once in every Wéek And all Inn-kéepers Victuallers and other Retaylers of Béer Ale Syder Perry Metheglin or Strong-water Brewing Making or Retailing the same shall once in every moneth make true and particular Entries at the Office of Excise within the limits of which the said Commodities and Manufactures are made of all Béer Ale Perry Syder Metheglin Strong-Water or other the Liquors aforesaid which they or any of them shall Brew make or Retail in that Wéek and Moneth respectively as aforesaid The penalty for not accounting as aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all such common Brewers who do not once a Wéek make due and particular Entries shall forfeit five pounds And that every such Inn-kéeper who doth not make true and particular Entries once a Moneth shall forfeit five pounds And that every Alehouse-kéeper Victualler or other Retailer who doth not once a moneth make due and particular Entries shall forfeit twenty shillings And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Common Brewer who shall not pay and clear off within a Wéek after he made his Entry or ought to have made his Entry as aforesaid shall pay double the value of the Duty And that every Inn-kéeper Alehouse-kéeper Victualler or other Retailer who shall not pay and clear off within a Moneth after he made his Entry or ought to have made his Entry as aforesaid shall pay double the value of the Duty The said respective forfeitures to be levyed upon their Goods and Chattels in such manner and form as hereafter in this Act is Ordained and directed Provided that no such person as aforesaid shall be compelled by the Commissioners or Sub-Commissioners of Excise No person to be compelled by the Commissioners of Excise to go further for making their entries then the next market-Town The Commissioners for execution of this act impowred to appoint gagers The power of the gagers to travel for the making of the said Entries or payment of the said Duties or other cause whatsoever touching or concerning the same if he live in a Market-Town out of the said Town if he live out of a Market-Town then to no other place then to the next Market-Town to his habitation in the same County on the Market-day And be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners who shall be appointed by his Majesty for putting this Act in execution and their Sub-Commissioners in their respective Circuits and Divisions shall hereby have power to constitute under their Hands and Seals such and so many Gagers as they shall find néedful Which Gagers and every of them shall at all times as well by night as by day And if by night then in the presence of a Constable or other lawful Officer be permitted upon their request to enter the house Brew-house Distilling-house and all other houses and places whatsoever belonging to or used by any Brewer Inn-kéeper Victualler or other retailer of Béer Brewing or making the same as aforesaid or by any Distiller of Strong-waters or Retailer of other the Liquors aforesaid And to Gage all Coppers Fat 's and Vessels in the same And to take an accompt of Béer Ale Worts Perry Syder Strong-waters Aquavite Metheglin or other the Liquors aforesaid in the said Houses Places and Vessels from time to time Brewed or Made and Distilled and thereof to make return or report in Writing to the said Commissioners or Sub-Commissioners of Excise
two or more credible witnesses in such manner and from time to time as he shall respectively think fit to dispose of the custody and tuition of such child or children for and during such time as he or they shall respectively remain under the age of 21 years or any lesser time to any person or persons in possession or remainder other then Popish Recusants And that such disposition of the custody of such child or children made since the 24th of February Actions of ravishment of wards 1645. or hereafter to be made shall be good and effectual against all and every person or persons claiming the custody or tuition of such child or children as Guardian in soccage or otherwise And that such person or persons to whom the custody of such child or children hath béen or shall be so disposed or devised as aforesaid shall and may maintain an action of Ravishment of Ward or Trespass against any person or persons which shall wrongfully take away or detain such child or children for the recovery of such child or children and shall and may recover damages for the same in the said Action for the use and benefit of such child or children And be it further Enacted The sands of children and the management of their personal estate by their guardians That such Person or Persons to whom the custody of such Child or Children hath béen or shall be so disposed or devised shall and may take into his or their custody to the use of such Child or Children the profits of all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of such Child or Children and also the custody tuition and management of the Goods Chattels and personal Estate of such Child or Children till their respective Age of 21 years or any lesser time according to such disposition aforesaid and may bring such Action or Actions in relation thereunto as by Law a Guardian in common soccage might do Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to alter or preiudice the custom of the City of London nor of any other City or Town Corporate or of the Town of Berwick on Tweed concerning Orphants nor to discharge any Apprentice from his Apprenticeship Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained Proviso touching Titles of honour feodal shall infringe or hurt any Title of Honour Feodal or other by which any person hath or may have right to sit in the Lords House of Parliament as to his or their Title of Honour or sitting in Parliament and the priviledge belonging to them as Péers This Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And whereas by like experience it hath béen found Purveyances and provisions for the Kings house-hold taken away Alt. St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. that though divers good strict and wholesome Laws have béen made in the times of sundry his Majesties most noble Progenitors some extending so far as to life for Redress of the grievances and oppressions committed by the persons imployed for making provisions for the Kings houshold Carriages and other purveyance for his Majesty and his occasions Yet divers oppressions have béen still continued and several Counties have submitted themselves to sundry Rates and Taxes and Compositions to redéem themselves from such vexations and oppressions And forasmuch as the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament do find that the said Remedies are not fully effectual and that no other remedy will be so effectual and just as to take away the occasion thereof especially if satisfaction and recompence shall be therefore made to his Maiesty his Heirs and Successors which is hereby provided to his Majesties good liking and content His Majesty is graciously pleased That it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That from henceforth no sum or sums of Money or other thing shall be taken raised tared rated imposed paid or levied for or in regard of any provision Carriages or purveyance for his Majesty His Heirs or Successors Purveyances for the King Queen c. And that henceforth no person or persons by any Warrant Commission or Authority under the Great Seal or otherwise by colour of buying or making provision or purveyance for his Majesty or any Quéen of England for the time being or of any the Children of any King or Quéen of England for the time being Timber Carts Carriages c. taken away or that shall be or for his their or any of their Houshold shall take any Timber Fewel Cattel Corn Grain Mault Hay Straw Victual Cart Carriage or other thing whatsoever of any the Subjects of His Majesty His Heirs or Successors without the free and full consent of the Owner or Owners thereof had and obtained without menace or enforcement nor shall summon warn take use or require any the said Subjects to furnish or find any Horses Oxen or other Cattel Carts Ploughs Wains or other Carriages for the use of His Majesty His Heirs or Successors or of any Quéen of England or of any Child or Children of any the Kings or Quéens of England for the time being for the carrying the Goods of His Majesty His Heirs or Successors or the said Quéens or Children or any of them without such full and frée consent as aforesaid any Law Statute Custom or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding No pre-emption to be allowed or claimed in behalf of the King c. And be it further Enacted That no pre-emption shall be allowed or claimed in the behalf of His Majesty or of any His Heirs or Successors or of any the Quéens of England or of any the Children of the Royal Family for the time being in Market or out of Market but that it be for ever hereafter frée to all and every of the Subjects of His Majesty to sell dispose or employ his said Goods to any other person or persons as himself listeth any pretence of making provision or purveyance of Victual Carriages or other thing for his Majesty His Heirs or Successors or of the said Quéens or Children or any pretence of pre-emption in their or any of their behalfs notwithstanding And if any person or persons shall make provision or purveyance for His Majesty His Heirs or Successors The Penalty or any the Quéens or Children aforesaid or impress or take any such Carriages or other things aforesaid on any pretence or colour of any Warrant aforesaid under the Great Seal or otherwise contrary to the intent hereof it shall be be lawful for the Iustices of Peace or such two or one of them as dwell near and to the Constables of such parish or Village where such occasion shall happen at the request of the party grieved And they are hereby enioyned to commit or cause to be committed the party or parties so doing and
offending to Gaol till the next Sessions there to be indicted and procéeded against for the same and that the Officers and Inhabitants of the Village or Parish where such offence shall happen shall be assistant therein and moreover the party grieved shall have his Action or Actions against such offender or offenders and therein recover his treble damages and treble costs In which Action no Essoin Wager of Law Aid-prayer Priviledge Protection Imparlance Iniunction or Order of Restraint No action upon this Statute to be stayed but by Order of the Court where such action depends shall be granted or allowed And if any person or persons shall after notice given that the Action depending is grounded upon this Statute cause or procure any Action at the common Law grounded on this Statute to be delayed or stayed before Iudgment by colour or means of any Order Power Warrant or Authority save onely of the Court where such Action shall be brought and depending or after Iudgment had upon such Action shall cause or procure Execution of such Iudgment to be stayed or delayed by colour or means of any Order Warrant Power or Authority save only by Writ of Errour or Attaint or Order of such Court where such Writof Errour or Attaint shall be depending That then the person so offending shall incur the pains penalties Premunire and forfeitures ordained and provided by the Statute of Provision and Premunire made in the sixtéenth year of the Reign of King Richard the second Provided alwayes That this Act extend not to prejudice any of His Majesties Rights Titles or Duties of in or to or out of any Tinne in the Stannaries of Devon and Cornwall Proviso for the Stannaries Butserage Prisage nor to prejudice the ancient Duties of Butlerage and Prizage of Wines but that the same shall be in the same plight that the same were before the making of this Act any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Recompence to his Majesty for the Court of Wards and Purveyances And now to the intent and purpose that His Majesty His Heirs and Successors may receive a full and ample Recompence and Satisfaction as well for the profits of the said Court of Wards and the Tenures Wardships Liveries Primer-Seizins Ousterlemaines and other the Premisses and Perquisites incident thereunto and for all Arrears any way due for the same as also for all and all manner of Purveyance and Provisions herein before mentioned and intended to be taken away and abolished and all sums of money due or pretended to be due or payable for and in respect of any compositions for the same 12 Car. 2. cap. 23. Rates of the Excise Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That there shall be paid unto the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors for ever hereafter in recompence as aforesaid the several Rates Impositions Duties and Charges herein after expressed and in manner and form following that is to say For every Barrel of Beer or Ale above six shillings the barrel brewed by the Common Brewer or any other Person or Persons who doth or shall sell or tap out beer or Ale publickly or privately to be paid by the common Brewer or by such other person or persons respectively and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity One shilling three pence XV. d. For every barrel of Six shillings Beer or Ale or under brewed by the common Brewer or any other person or persons who doth or shall sell or tap out such Beer or Ale publickly or privately to be paid by the said common Brewer or by such other person or persons respectively as aforesaid and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity three pence iij. d. For all Syder and Perry made and sold by retail upon every Hogshead to be paid by the Retayler thereof and so proportionably for a greater or lesser measure One shilling three pence XV. d. For all Metheglin or Mead sold whether by Retail or otherwise to be paid by the maker thereof upon every Gallon One half-penny Ob. For every Barrel of Beer commonly called Vinegar-Beer brewed by any common Brewer in any common Brew-house six pence Vi. d. For every Gallon of Strong-water or Aquavitae made and sold to be paid by the maker thereof One penny i. d. For every barrel of Beer or Ale Imported from beyond the Seas Three Shillings iij. s. For every Tun of Syder or Perry Imported from beyond the Seas and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity Five shillings V. s. For every gallon of Spirits made of any kind of Wine or Syder Imported Two pence ij d. For every gallon of Strong-water perfectly made Imported from beyond the Seas Four pence iiij d. For every Gallon of Coffee made and sold to be paid by the maker Four pence iiij d. For every gallon of Chocolatte Sherbet and Tea made and sold to be paid by the maker thereof Eight pence Viij d. And be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the several Rates Rates of Excise upon forreign Liquors imported to be paid in money before landing Duties and Charges of Excise or New Impost above mentioned hereby set or imposed upon all and every the said Forreign Liquors which shall be Imported or brought into all or any the Ports of this Kingdom and Dominions thereof aforesaid from and after the five and twentieth day of December next shall be from time to time satisfied and paid by the Merchant or Merchants Importer or Importers of the same in ready money upon his or their Entry or Entries made and before the landing thereof And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Entries to be made at the Office of Excise by Common Brewers Inn-keepers c. That all common Brewers of Béer and Ale shall once in every Wéek And all Inn-kéepers Alehouse-kéepers Victuallers and other Retaylers of Béer Ale Syder Perry Metheglin or Strong-water Brewing Making or Retailing the same shall once in every moneth make true and particular Entries at the Office of Excise within the limits of which the said Commodities and Manufactures are made of all Béer Ale Perry Syder Metheglin Strong-Water or other the Liquors aforesaid which they or any of them shall Brew make or Retail in that Wéek and Moneth respectively as aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all such common Brewers The penalty for not making Entries who do not once a Wéek make due and particular Entries shall forfeit ten pounds And that every such Inn-kéeper who doth not make true and particular Entries once a Moneth shall forfeit five pounds And that every Alehouse-kéeper Victualler or other Retailer who doth not once a moneth make due and particular Entries shall forfeit twenty shillings And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Common Brewer The penalty for not paying who shall not pay and clear off
possible for the enemies of God and the King to bring upon us whilst the Fanatick Rage of a few Miscreants who were as far from being true Protestants as they were from being true Subjects stands imputed by our Adversaries to the whole Nation We therefore your Majesties said dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled do hereby renounce abominate and protest against that Impious fact the execrable Murther and most unparallel'd Treason committed against the Sacred person and life of our said late Soveraign Your Maiesties most Royal Father and all procéedings tending thereunto and do beséech Your most Excellent Majesty that it may be declared That by the undoubted and Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom neither the Péers of this Realm nor the Commons nor both together in Parliament nor the people collectively or representatively nor any other persons whatsoever ever had have hath or ought to have any Coercive power over the persons of the Kings of this Realm And for the better vindication of our selves to posterity and as a lasting Monument of our otherwise inexpressible detestation and abhorrency of this villanous and abominable Fact We do further beséech Your most Excellent Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it hereby Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty A yearly Anniversary of Humiliation on the â—0th of Ian. for ever by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That every thirtieth day of January unless it falls out to be upon the Lords day and then the day next following shall be for ever hereafter set apart to be kept and observed in all the Churches and Chappels of these Your Majesties Kingdoms of England and Ireland Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and the Isles of Jersey and Guernsey and all other Your Majesties Dominions as an Anniversary day of Fasting and Humiliation to implore the Mercy of God that neither the guilt of that Sacred and Innocent Blood nor those other sins by which God was provoked to deliver up both us and our King into the hands of cruel and unreasonable men The attainder of the persons actively instrumental in the Murther of his late Majesty may at any time hereafter be visited upon us or our posterity And whereas Oliver Cromwel deceased Henry Ireton deceased John Bradshaw deceased and Thomas Pride deceased John Lisle William Say Sir Hardress Waller Valentine Wauton Thomas Harrison Edward Whalley William Heveningham Isaac Penington Henry Martin John Barkstead Gilbert Millington Edmund Ludlow Sir Michael Livesey Robert Titchbourn Owen Row Robert Lilburn Adrian Scroop John Okey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner John Carew John Jones Miles Corbet Henry Smith Gregory Clement Thomas Wogan Edmond Harvy Thomas Scot William Cawley John Downs Nicholas Love Vincent Potter Augustine Garland John Dixwel George Fleetwood Simon Meyne James Temple Peter Temple Daniel Blagrave Thomas Wayte John Cook Andrew Broughton Edward Dendy William Hewlet Hugh Peters Francis Hacker Daniel Axtel are notoriously known to have béen wicked and active Instruments in the prosecution and compassing that Trayterous Murther of his late Majesty for which the said Sir Hardress Waller Thomas Harrison William Heveningham Isaac Penington Henry Martin The names of the persons cryed and legally attainted Gilbert Millington Robert Titchbourn Owen Row Robert Lilbourn Adrian Scroop John Carew John Jones Henry Smith Gregory Clement Edmond Harvy Thomas Scot John Downs Vincent Potter Augustine Garland George Fleetwood Simon Meyne James Temple Peter Temple Thomas Wayte John Cook William Hewlet Hugh Peters Francis Hacker and Daniel Axtel have already received their Tryal at Law and by Verdict or their own Confession have béen convicted and by Iudgment of Law thereupon had do now stand duly and legally attainted of whom ten persons that is to say Thomas Harrison Adrian Scroop John Carew John Jones Thomas Scot The ten persons executed Gregory Clement John Cook Hugh Peters Francis Hacker and Daniel Axtel have most deservedly suffered the pains of death and béen executed according to Law and the said John Lisle The persons fled William Say Valentine Wauton Edward Whalley John Barkstead Edmond Ludlow Sir Michael Livesey John Okey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner Miles Corbet William Cawley Nicholas Love John Dixwell Daniel Blagrave Andrew Broughton and Edward Dendy are fled from Iustice not daring to abide a Legal Tryal May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament The persons dead before they could be brought to tryal attainted The persons fled attainted That the said Oliver Cromwell deceased Henry Ireton deceased John Bradshaw deceased and Thomas Pride deceased shall by vertue of this Act be adjudged to be Convicted and Attainted of High Treason to all intents and purposes as if they and every of them respectively had béen Attainted in their lives And also that John Lisle William Say Valentine Wanton Edward Whalley John Barkstead Edmond Ludlow Sir Michael Livesey John Okey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner William Cawley Miles Corbet Nicholas Love John Dixwell Daniel Blagrave Andrew Broughton Edward Dendy and every of them stand and be adjudged and by Authority of this present Act Convicted and Attainted of High Treason Their Lands Tenements c. forfeited vested in his Majesty And that all and every the Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Rents Reversions Remainders Possessions Rights Conditions Interests Offices Fées Annuities and all other the Hereditaments Leases for years Chastels real and other things of that nature whatsoever they be of them the said Oliver Cromwell Henry Ireton John Bradshaw Thomas Pride John Lisle William Say Valentine Wauton Edward Whalley John Barkstead Edmond Ludlow Sir Michael Livesey John Okey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner William Cawley Miles Corbet Nicholas Love John Dixwell Daniel Blagrave Andrew Broughton Edward Dendy Thomas Harrison Adrian Scroop John Carew John Jones Thomas Scot Gregory Clement Hugh Peters Francis Hacker John Cook Daniel Axtel Sir Hardress Waller William Heveningham Isaac Penington Henry Martin Gilbert Millington Robert Titchbourn Owen Row Robert Lilbourn Henry Smith Edmond Harvey John Downs Vincent Potter Augustine Garland George Fleetwood Simon Meyne James Temple Peter Temple Thomas Wayte which they or any of them or any other person or persons to their or any of their uses or in trust for them or any of them had the Five and twentieth day of March Whereof they were seised or any for them 25 March 1646. in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and six or at any time since shall stand and be forfeited unto Your Majesty Your Heirs and Successors and shall be déemed vested and adjudged to be in the actual and real possession of your Majesty without any Office or Inquisition thereof hereafter to be taken or found And also
de droyt Ouster le maine or other Suit to his Maiesty enter on the premisses in his Majesties possession or in the possession of his Successors and Patentées their Heirs or Assigns in such manner to all intents as he or they might have done on the possession of the said Offenders their Heirs or Assigns in or upon the said twenty fifth day of March or at any time since Any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for such as have received paid their Rents to the Offenders Provided also That all and every person and persons which have received any of the Rents or mean profits of in or out of any the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Chattels real or Possessions of any of the Offender or Offenders in this Act mentioned before the Eleventh day of February One thousand six hundred fifty and nine and have paid or accounted for the same before she said Eleventh day of February One thousand six hundred fifty and nine unto the said Offender or Offenders or their Assigns or to any claiming from or under them shall be clearly and for ever acquitted and discharged of and from the same against the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Proviso for Richard Ingoldsby Provided alwayes That it shall and may be lawful to and for Richard Ingoldsby to retain and kéep or otherwise to sell and dispose all and singular the Goods and Chattels formerly belonging to Sir Hardress Waller in the Kingdom of Ireland untill two thousand pounds for which the said Richard Ingoldsby in the year One thousand six hundred fifty eight stood joyntly bound with the said Sir Hardress Waller unto James Brooks of the City of York Alderman and was then counter-secured by a Iudgment upon his Lands and since by a Déed of Bargain and Sale of the said Goods and Chattels in Ireland be fully paid together with the Interest thereof he the said Richard Ingolsby accounting for and paying the full overplus thereof if any shall be unto our Soveraign Lord the King Any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XXXI Leases and Grants from Colledges and Hospitals Confirmed CAP. XXXII Exportation of Wooll Woolfells Fullers Earth or any kind of Scouring Earth Prohibited FOR the better preventing and avoiding of such Losses and Inconveniencies as have happened and daily do and may happen to the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales and to the Kingdom of Ireland by and through the secret and subtile exportation and transportation and by and through the subtile carrying and conveying away of Wooll Woolfels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks Fullers Earth and Fulling Clay out of and from the Kingdoms and Dominion aforesaid and for the better setting on work the poor people and Inhabitants of the Kingdoms and Dominion aforesaid And to the intent that the full and best use and benefit of the principal native Commodities of the same Kingdoms and Dominion may come redound and be unto and amongst the Subjects and Inhabitants of the same and not unto or amongst the Subjects and Inhabitants of the Realm of Scotland or of any Forreign Realms or States as the same now of late in some great measure hath done and is further likely to do if some severer punishment than heretofore be not speedily inflicted upon such Offenders as shall be Actors or Assistants in and to such Exportation and Transportation and in and to such carrying and conveying thereof as aforesaid Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty No person after the 14. of Jan. 1660. shall export any Sheep or Wooll Wool-fells Mortlins Shorlings Yarn Woolflocks Fullers Earth Fulling Clay the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That no person or persons whatsoever from and after the fourtéenth day of January One thousand six hundred and thréescore shall directly or indirectly Export Transport carry or convey or cause or procure to be Exported Transported carried or conveyed out of or from the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or out of or from the Isles of Jersey or Guernsey with Sarke and Alderney being under the Government of Guernsey aforesaid or out of or from any of them or out of or from the Kingdom of Ireland aforesaid into any parts or places out of the Kingdoms Isles or Dominion aforesaid any Shéep or Wooll whatsoever of the bréed or growth of the Kingdoms of England or Ireland or Isles or Dominion aforesaid Or any Woolfells Mortlings or Shorlings or any Yarn made of Wooll or any Woolflocks or any Fullers Earth or any Fulling Clay whatsoever nor shall directly or indirectly pack or load Nor carry load or board any Sheep Wooll c. or cause to be packed or loaded upon any Horse Cart or other Carriage or Load or lay on board or cause to be loaden or laid on board in any Ship or other Vessel in any Place or Port within the Kingdoms of England or Ireland or Town of Berwick or Isles or Dominion aforesaid any such Shéep Wool Wool-fells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll or Woolflocks or any Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay to the intent or purpose to export transport carry or convey the same or to cause the same to be exported transported carried or conveyed out of the Kingdoms of England and Ireland Town of Berwick Isles or Dominion aforesaid or with intent or purpose that any other person or persons should so export transport carry or convey the same into any parts or places out of the Kingdoms of England and Ireland Town of Berwick Isles or Dominion aforesaid into the Kingdom of Scotland or any forreign parts And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Wooll Woolfells Mortlings No Wooll Woolfells c. after the 14. of Ian. 1660. to be carried into Wales Ireland c. Except Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks or any Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay shall be from and after the fourtéenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and thréescore exported transported carried or conveyed out of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick or Kingdom of Ireland or out of any Port or Place of the said Kingdoms respectively unto the Isles of Jersey or Guernsey or to Sarke or Alderney except as in this Act shall be hereafter limited or appointed And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid The Penalties That all and every the Offender and Offenders offence and offences aforesaid shall be subject and lyable to the respective pains penalties and forfeitures hereafter following That is to say The said Shéep Woolls Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woollflocks Fullers Earth and Fulling Clay so exported transported carried conveyed packed or loaden contrary to the
six hundred fifty and nine by any of the Offenders before in this Act mentioned or their Heirs or by any other person or persons claiming by from or under them or any of them other then the Wife or Wives Child or Children Heir or Heirs of such person or persons or any of them for money bona fide to them or any of them paid or lent or other valuable consideration nor any conveyance assurance Conveyances and assurances made before the 25th of April 1660. grant or Estate made before the five and twentieth day of April One thousand six hundred and fifty by any person or persons to any of the Offenders aforesaid in trust and for the benefit of any other person or persons not being any of the Offenders aforesaid or in Trust for any Bodies politick or Corporate shall be Impeached defeated made voide or frustrated hereby or by any of the Convictions and Attainders aforesaid But that the same shall be held and enjoyed by the Purchasers Grantées Lessées Assigns Cestuy que use Cestuy que trust and every of them their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively as if this Act had not béen made so as the said Conveyances and all and every the Grants and Assurances which by vertue of this Act are and ought to be held and enjoyed as aforesaid shall before the first day of January which shall be in the year of our Lord So as they be inrolled in the Exchequer before the first of Ian. 1662. One thousand six hundred sixty and two be entred and enrolled of Record in his Majesties Court of Exchequer and not otherwise any thing in this Act herein before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That William Lord Mounson William Lord Mounson Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington Robert Wallop and John Phelps degraded Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington Robert Wallop Esquire and John Phelps and every of them shall be and are hereby degraded from and made uncapable of all and every the Titles of Honour Dignities and Preheminences which they or any of them now have or which at any time hereafter may descend unto them And that neither they nor any of them shall at any time hereafter have hear or use the Name Stile Addition or Title of Lord Baronet Knight Esquire or Gentleman or any of them nor shall use or have any Coats or Escutcheons of Arms whatsoever nor any other legal Title or addition whatsoever but shall be for ever reputed and are hereby declared to be Persons of Dishonour and Infamy And further That they the said William Mounson Henry Mildmay James Harrington William Mounsor Hen◠Mildmay James Harrington Robert Wallop John Phelps shall be drawn to Tyburn as persons executed for treason Robert Wallop and John Phelps and every of them shall upon the seven and twentieth day of January which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty one or so soon after as they shall be apprehended carried to the Tower of London and from thence drawn upon sledges with Ropes about their Necks and according to the manner of persons executed for High Treason quite through the stréets of London unto the Gallowes at Tiburn and from thence in like manner be brought back again to the Tower of London and there or in such other Prison as his Majesty shall think fit continue Prisoners and suffer pains of Imprisonment for and during the Term of their Natural Lives Provided alwayes Proviso for executors of the said persons and legacies That no Executor or Administrator to any of the dead Persons whose Estate is forfeited by this Act shall at any time hereafter be sued or molested for any Debt or Legacy by them paid as Executor or Administrator to any person or persons to whom the same was due or bequeathed and was by the said Executor or Administrator paid bona fide but the respective Legatées who have received any such Legacies from the said Executors shall be accomptable to the Kings Majesty for all such Legacies as they have respectively received and shall pay the same to the Kings most Excellent Maiesty Provided alwayes That nothing in this Act shall be construed to forfeit the Term Estate Proviso for Sir William Lewes or Interest which Sir William Lewes of Borden in the County of Southampton Baronet had or hath in the custody of the Park called East-mean Park in the aforesaid County and in the game of Conies therein for the term of thrée years to come from our Lady-day last being the remaining years of a greater term he the said Sir William being formerly possessed thereof by an Assignment made by John Allen Executor of the said Francis Allen the which said Park and Premisses being part of the Possessions of the Bishop of Winchester the said Sir William Lewes hath surrendred unto the said Bishop and hath now taken a new Lease thereof for thrée lives from the Bishop of Winchester the which said Lease for thrée lives so made by the said Bishop unto the said Sir William Lewes shall for and notwithstanding this Act or any thing therein contained remain firm and good unto the said Sir William Lewes according to the true meaning of his said Lease saving alwayes to all and every person and persons Bodies politick and others their respective Heirs Successors Executors and Administrators all such Estate Right and Title and Interest in Law and Equity which they or any of them have or ought to have of in to or out of any the Premisses not being in Trust for any the said Offenders nor derived by from or under the said offences since the five and twentieth day of March one thousand six hundred forty six saving alwayes and reserving to Cuthbert Collingwood Esquire and George Collingwood Gent. his Son their or either of their Heirs and Assigns and the Farmers and Tenants of the said Cuthbert and George Collingwood or either of them and of their Heirs and Assigns all such Right Title of Entry and Action Vse Interest and Possession which they or any of them or any in trust for them or any of them have or had or ought to have of in to or out of the Mannors Townships Villages Hamlets and Precincts of Islington Whitingham Barton Throunton Fawden Keynton West-Brunton East-Brunton Dunnington Blakedon alias Blagdon and Wetslade or any of them in the County of Northumberland and of in to or out of the Lands Tenements Hereditaments Rights Members and Appurtenances to them or any of them belonging or appertaining as if this Act had never béen made Proviso for Rachel Powre Provided also that this Act nor any thing herein contained shall extend to preiudice the Estate and Interest in Law or Equity of Rachel Powre Widow of in and to one Copyhold Messuage and Mill thereunto belonging with their Appurtenances Scituate lying and being in Chepmansford in the
County of Southampton being parcel of the Mannor of Husband Priors which by order and decrée of the High-Court of Chancery of the one and twentieth of June One thousand six hundred sixty one she is to be forthwith restored unto and put into possession of and to quietly hold and enjoy the same during her Widowhood with the mean profits thereof taken by the said Mr Wallop But that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Rachel Powre to hold and enjoy the same according to the said Decrée Proviso for Sir John Bourchier Provided alwayes and it is hereby further Enacted That it shall and may be lawfull to and for Barrington Bourchier Esquire Son and Heir of Sir John Bourchier herein before mentioned to hold and enjoy all and singular the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to him lately granted and conveyed or mentioned to be granted and conveyed in and by certain Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing date the Two and twentieth day of March in the thirtéenth year of His Majesties Reign against His Majesty His Heirs and Successors for ever according to the full intent and meaning of the said Letters Patents Any thing in this present Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Anno XIII Car. II. Regis ACTS made at the second meeting in this present Parliament begun at Westminster the 8th day of May Anno Dom. 1661. And there continued untill the 20th of December and from that day adjourned unto the seventh of January next ensuing as followeth CAP. I. An Act for the well Governing and Regulating of Corporations impowring the King to issue Commissions for the removing placing and restoring certain Officers and Members there FOr and within the several Cities Corporations and Burroughs and Cinque-Ports and their Members and other Port-Towns within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed viz. All Mayors Aldermen Recorders Bailiffs Town-Clerks Common-Councel-men and other persons then bearing any Office or Offices of Magistracy or Places or Trusts or other Imployment relating to or concerning the Government of the said respective Cities Corporations and Burroughs and Cinque-ports and their Members and other Port-Towns and for tendring to all such 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 of taking Arms by His Authority against His Person or against those that are Commissioned by Him So help me God And also for subscribing this following Declaration I A. B. do declare That I hold that there lies no Obligation upon me or any other person from the Oath commonly called The Solemn League and Covenant and that the same was in it self an unlawful Oath and imposed upon the Subjects of this Realm against the known Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom EXP. 25. March 1663. as to the Power of the said Commission and Commissioners But None to be chosen any Officer in any Corporation that shall not have taken the Sacrament within a year next before Provided also and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the expiration of the said Commissions no person or persons shall for ever hereafter be placed elected or chosen in or to any the Offices or Places aforesaid that shall not have within one year next before such Election or Choice taken the Sacrament of the Lords Supper according to the Rights of the Church of England and that every such person and persons so placed elected or chosen shall likewise take the aforesaid thrée Oaths and subscribe the said Declaration at the same time And shall take the said three Oaths and subscribe the said Declaration when the Oath for the due execution of the said Places and Offices respectively shall be administred And in default hereof every such placing election and choice is hereby Enacted and Declared to be void CAP. II. Vexations and Oppressions by Arrests and of Delayes in Suits of Law prevented WHereas by the Ancient and Fundamental Laws of this Realm The antient fundamental Law in proceeding to arrests upon Suits to express the true cause of Action in the Processe in case where any person is Sued Impleaded or Arrested by any Writ Bill or Process issuing out of any of His Majesties Courts of Records at Westminster in any Common Plea at the Suit of an◠Common person the true cause of Action ought to be set forth and particularly expressed in such Writ Bill or Process whereby the Defendant may have certain knowledge of the cause of the Suit and the Officer who shall execute such Writ Bill or Process may know how to take Security for the Appearance of the Defendant to the same and the sureties for such Appearances may rightly understand for what cause they become engaged And whereas there is a great Complaint of the People of this Realm that for divers years now last past very many of His Majesties good Subjects have béen arrested upon general Writs of Trespass quare clausum fregit Bills of Middlesex Latitat's and other like Writs issued out of the Courts of Kings Bench and Common-Pleas not expressing any particular or certain cause of Action and thereupon kept prisoners for a long time for want of Bail Bonds with Sureties for Appearances having béen demanded in so great sums that few or none have dared to be security for the Appearances of such persons so arrested and imprisoned although in truth there hath béen little or no cause of Action and often times there are no such persons who were named Plaintiffs but those Arrests have béen many times procured by malitious persons to vex and oppress the Defendants or to force from them unreasonable and unjust Compositions for obtaining their Liberty And by such evil practices many men have béen and are daily undone and destroyed in their Estates without possibility of having Reparation The Actors imployed in such practises having béen for the most part poor and lurking persons and their Actings so secret that it hath béen found very difficult to make true discoveries or proof thereof For remedy and prevention of which so great growing evils and mischiefs and also for discouraging all frivolous and uniust Suits and Causeless Arrests for the future 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 from and after the Twelfth day of February in the year of our Lord Persons arrested by Process out of the Kings Bench or Common Pleas not expressing the cause of Action how to be bailed and set to liberty upon their own Bonds for appearance One thousand six hundred sixty and one no person or persons who shall happen to be arrested by any Sheriff Vnder-sheriff
Coronor Steward or Bailiff of any Franchise or Liberty or by any other Officer Minister Vnder-bailiff or other person or persons whatsoever within this Realm having or pretending to have Authority or Warrant in that behalf by force or colour of any Writ Bill or Process issuing or to be issuing out of His Majesties said Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas or either of them in which said Writ Bill or Process the certainty and true cause of Action is not expressed particularly and for which the Defendant or Defendants in such Writ Bill or Process named is and are bailable by the Statute in that behalf made in the thrée and twentieth year of the Reign of the late King Henry the sixth shall be forced or compelled to give security or to enter into Bond with Sureties 23 H. 6. ca. 10. for the Appearances of such person or persons so arrested at the day and place in the said Writ Bill or Process specified or contained in any penalty or sum of money excéeding the sum of Forty pounds of lawful money of England to be conditioned for such Appearances and that all Sheriffs and other Officers and Ministers aforesaid shall let to bail and deliver out of Prison and from their and every of their Custodies respectively all and every person and persons whatsoever by them or any of them arrested upon any such Writ Bill or Process wherein the certainty and true cause of Action is not particularly expressed upon Security in the sum of Forty pounds and no more given for Appearance of such person or persons so arrested unto the said Sheriff or Officer aforesaid according to the said Statute in the said thrée and twentieth year of the Reign of the said late King Henry the sixth in that behalf made and provided And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That upon Appearance to be Entred in the Term wherein such Writ Bill or Process is retornable with the respective Officer in that behalf for the said person or persons by Attorney or Attorneys in the said respective Courts from whence the said Writ Bill or Process issued unto such Writ Bill or Process the Bond or Bonds so given for Appearance thereunto Bonds given for discharged upon appearance Nonsuit for want of a Declaration before the end of the next term after appearance and judgment and costs against the Plaintiff be and are hereby satisfied and dischargeed And that after such Appearance so entred no Amerciaments be set or Estreted upon or against any Sheriff or other Officer aforesaid or any other person whatsoever concerning the want of such Appearance and unless the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs in any such Writ Bill or Process named shall put into the Court from whence such Writ Bill or Process did issue his or their Bill or Declaration against the person or persons so Arrested in some personal Action or Ejectione firmae of Lands or Tenements before the end of the Term next following after Appearance That then a Non-suit for want of a Declaration may be Entred against the said Plaintiff or Plaintiffs in the said Courts respectively And that every Defendant in every such Writ Bill or Process named shall or may have Iudgment to recover Costs against every such Plaintiff or Plaintiffs to be Assessed Taxed and Levied in such manner and according as it is provided by the Statute for Costs made in the thrée and twentieth year of the Reign of the late King Henry the Eighth 23 H. 8. ca. 15. any former or other Act Statute Ordinance Law Custome Order Course or Vsage of either of the said Courts to the contrary thereof heretofore had made admitted or used in any wise notwithstanding Provided alwayes that this Act nor any Clause or thing herein before specified or contained shall not extend Arrests upon Capias utlagatum Attachments upon Rescous Contempts and of Priviledg excepted nor be construed or taken to extend unto any Arrests hereafter to be made upon or by Vertue of any Writ of Capias utlagatum Attachment upon Rescous or Attachment upon any Contempt or of any Attachment of Priviledge at the Suit of any priviledged person or of any other Attachment for Contempt whatsoever issuing or to be issing out of either of the said Courts although there be no particular certainty of the cause of Action expressed or contained in the said Writs But that nevertheless no Sheriff nor Vnder-sheriff nor any of the Officers or Ministers aforesaid shall discharge any person or persons taken upon any Writ of Capias utlagatum out of Custody without a lawful Supersedeas first had and received for the same and that upon the said Writs of Attachment such lawful course be taken for Security for Appearance therein as hath béen heretofore used any thing herein before expressed to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And whereas many persons out of ill intent to delay their Creditors from recovering their Iust Debts continue Prisoners in the Fléet who cannot be procéeded against in such manner as they might be if they were at Large Now for the better enabling all persons to recover their just Debts and Demands against such Prisoners How Persons having cause of action may proceed against Prisoners in the Fleet. Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person or persons whatsoever who now hath or have or which at any time hereafter shall have cause of any personal Action against any person being a Prisoner in the prison of the Fléet may Sue forth an Original Writ upon his or their cause of Action And that a Writ of Habeas Corpus be granted to every such person or persons being Plaintiff or Plaintiffs desiring the same to be directed to the Warden of the same Prison to have the Body of such prisoner before the Iustices of the Common Pleas at some certain day in any Term to answer the said Plaintiff or Plaintiffs upon his or their said Cause of Action And that if the said Plaintiff or Plaintiffs at the said day put into the said Court his or their Declaration according to the said Original Writ against the said prisoner being present at the Barr the said prisoner shall be bound to appear in person or to put in an Attorney to appear for him in the said Action And unless the said Defendant plead upon a Rule given to be out at eight daies at the least after such Appearance Iudgment by Nihil dicit may be entred against such Defendant as appearing in person which shall be good and effectual in Law And such charge in Court by Declarations signified by Rule unto the said Warden shall be a good cause of detention of such prisoner in his Custody from which he shall not be discharged without a lawful Supersedeas or Rule of Court And if the said Warden shall do otherwise he shall be Responsible to the Court and to the party grieved for Damages by Action upon the case to be brought
or Assessments shall not excéed in the whole above the sum of Six pence in the pound in any one year according to the real value of the same and Twenty pounds in Money Goods Stock or other personal Estate shall be rated equally to Twenty shillings a year in Lands And every such Assessment so made shall within Six days after be presented to some Iustice of the Peace near adjoyning to the Parish where it is made to be séen allowed and signed by him And after such Allowance every person so Assessed or Taxed that shall not within Twenty days after demand made by the Surveyors or one of them pay such sum or sums of Money Assessed on him or her or them unto the Surveyors or one of them shall forfeit and pay double so much as he she or they are Assessed to pay unless upon complaint made to the said Iustice of wrong done to such person by that Assessment the said Iustice shall think fit to alter the same And in case where common Nusances are in High-ways or where Ditches or Water-courses adjoyning unto High-ways are not scoured and dressed the said Surveyors shall sée the same reformed and the offenders punished according to Law deducting out of the Moneys so to be raised his reasonable Charges for prosecution And for the more effectual Mending the High-ways and Parish-Bridges and Stréets the Surveyors aforementioned shall yearly at the most convenient and fitting time betwéen the First of May and the last of August hire labourers Work-men Carts and Carriages for Amending the High-ways Stréets Parish-Bridges aforesaid and Water-courses and shall cause them to be well and sufficiently mended The Surveyors may charge Carts and Work-men And for the better effecting thereof Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Surveyors or any of them within their several Limits and Iurisdictions may yearly as he shall see cause and néed require direct and appoint every person and persons who by the former Laws and Statutes of this Realm are chargeable with Wayn or Cart 2 3. Ph. Mar. ca. 8. 5 El. ca 13. 18 El. ca. 10. to the amending of the High-ways and every other person and persons chargeable to come to labour at the said ways to send his or her Cart or Wayn and Team so furnished as by the Laws is directed or to come and work for the amending of the High-ways for so many days as by the Laws are appointed or for so many of them as the said Surveyors shall think néedful and appoint for which Teams work and labour the said Surveyors shall pay unto such workmen and Owner of such Teams Carts and Wayns according to the usual rate of the Countrey for such work as they shall do over and above what by the other Laws made for the amending the High-ways they are appointed to do And if any question shall arise about the value or worth of such work or labour for Man or Teams some Iustice of the Peace near adjoyning and not living in the said Parish shall determine what is fit to be allowed for such work Penaly upon such as refuse or neglect And in case any person so charged to send his or her Team to work as aforesaid shall refuse or neglect to do so such person so refusing or neglecting shall forfeit ten shillings for every day that he or she shall make such default and every Labourer Eightéen pence for such day that he neglects to work as aforesaid Provided That no person or persons occupying any Lands shall be Assessed and Taxed both for the said Lands and the Stock which he or they shall use or imploy upon the same In what cases High-ways may be Enlarged out of mens lands next adjoyning And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Surveyors of the High-ways for the time being of every such Parish Town Village or Hamlet within their several Precincts from time to time by order from the Quarter-Sessions and upon the view and by the allowance or consent of two or more Iustices of the Peace of the County Authorized thereunto by the Sessions wherein such Parish Town Village or Hamlet shall lie under their hands and seals in writing where any common or publick High-way is not of the breadth of eight yards from the shoars and brinks of the Ditches on either side or from the banks and hedges where there are no Ditches to assign and lay out so much of any mans several Lands next adjoyning to the said Common and publick High-way where they shall think it néedful and it may conveniently be done as shall enlarge the said way to be the full breadth of eight yards or so much broader toward the bredth of eight yards then now it is as conveniently the place will bear from the said shoars Ditches Banks or hedges by the consent of the Owner or Owners of the said lands according to his or their respective interests therein or otherwise by order of the Iustices of Peace at their Quarter-Sessions after a Writ of Ad quod damnum first issued out and returned to assign and lay out a more new and commodious way in and over the said lands next or near adjoyning to the said common and publick High-ways the said Surveyors first giving such satisfaction for the said ground unto the respective owners of the same according to their several and respective Interest in the whole not excéeding Twenty years purchase Provided always That if any common or publick High-way or ways shall be so altered and changed as is aforesaid that then and in such case the same new Way or Ways as also any new Way or ways altered or to be altered by a Writ of Ad quod damnum shall from time to time be repaired and amended by such Parish or Parishes Town Hamlet or Village or by such person and persons and in such manner and form as the said old and former common or publick High-way or ways was or were to be repaired and amended Digging for gravel in wasts and Commons And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where there is not sufficient Gravel Chalke Sand Cinders or Stones within any Parish Town Village or Hamlet to repair their common and publick High-ways it shal be lawful for the Surveyor and Surveyors and such person and persons as he or they shall appoint upon the allowance and approbation of any two Iustices of Peace within the said County to digg take and carry away Gravel Chalk Sand Cinders or Stones out of the Waste and Common of any Neighbouring Parish Town Village or Hamlet or upon the Sea-Coast without paying any thing for the same for the repairing and amending of the High-ways aforesaid so as they fill up the place within one moneth next ensuing if required by the Owner of the Soyl. Provided always and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid
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
Act to the contrary notwithstanding And the said Sheriffs shall deduct out of their payments Four pence in the pound whereof Thrée pence to be for themselves and One penny for the Clerk of the Peace to be recovered as aforesaid Officers of the Exchequer shall discharge persons who pay the duties without any Fee And that His Majesties Officers in his said Court of Exchequer shall discharge all such persons who paid their respective Duties without taking any Fées for the same and shall also issue out Process to levy the said duty upon such persons who shall fail in payment thereof where no distress can be found to be taken according to this Act. The said Revenue shall be paid into the Exchequer And not charged with any grant or Pension And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Revenue and Sum of money arising by vertue of this Act Except what shall be allowed to the aforesaid Officers and Ministers for Collecting the same shall be duly and constantly paid and answered into His Majesties Court of Exchequer and shall not be particularly charged or chargeable either before it be paid into the Exchequer or after with any Gift Grants or Pension whatsoever And that all and every Grants of any such Pensions and all and every clause of Non obstante therein contained shall be and is hereby declared to be utterly void and all and every the persons to whom such Grants are passed shall be and are hereby made Accomptants unto His Majesty Grantees of the same shall be accomptanes His Heirs and Successors and shall pay back all sums of money received by pretence of such Grant and the Court of Exchequer shall be and is hereby enjoyned to Issue out Process accordingly And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Action Bill Plaint Suit Persons acting upon this Statute being sued therefore may plead the general Issue or Information shall be Commenced or Prosecuted against any person or persons for what he or they shall do in pursuance or execution of this Act such person or persons so Sued shall and may plead the general Issue Not guilty And upon Issue joyned may give this Act and the special matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff or Prosecutor shall become Nonsuit or suffer discontinuance or if a Verdict pass against him or if upon a Demurrer Iudgement pass against him Treble Costs to the Defendants the Defendant shall recover treble Costs for which there shall be like remedy as in any case where Costs by Law are given to the Defendants And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Increases of Hearths or Stoves which may happen That where any Increase or Decrease of such Hearths or Stoves shall hereafter happen that an account in writing of the same shall be had and made in like manner as the same is directed to be first taken returned and inrolled by this Act and a Duplicate thereof sent into the Exchequer in such sort as is before directed Decreases how discharged And from thenceforth the Owner or Occupier of such House where such Decrease is shall be discharged proportionably without any further pleading in the Exchequer Provided always That no person or persons shall be charged prosecuted Arrerages not to be charged or sued for but within 2 years next after they become due or brought to account for the Arrerages of any Duty or Arrerages of Revenue raised by this Act unless the said Suit shal commence within two years and be brought to a Iudgement within four years and the Duty levied within five years next after the same shall grow due Provided always That no person who by reason of his poverty Poor people exempted or the smallness of his Estate is exempted from the usual Tares Payments and Contributions towards the Church and Poor shall be charged or chargeable with any the Duties by this Act Imposed Any thing herein before to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and be it hereby Enacted That if the Church-wardens and Overséers of the Poor of the Parish together with the Minister of the same or any two of them whereof the Minister to be one shall in writing under their hands yearly certifie their belief that the house wherein any person doth Inhabit is not of greater value then of Twenty shillings per annum upon the full improved Rent And that neither the person so Inhabiting nor any other using the same Messuage hath useth or occupieth any Lands or Tenements of their own or others of the yearly value of Twenty shillings per annum nor hath any Lands Tenements Goods or Chattels of the value of Ten pounds in their own possession or in the possession of any other in trust for them That then in such case upon such Certificate made to the two next Iustices of Peace and allowed for which Certificate and allowance no Fée shall be paid the person on whose behalf such Certificate is made shall not be returned by the Constable or other Officer And the said house is hereby for that year discharged of and from all the Duties by this Act imposed Any thing herein to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person or persons Further Penalty upon any person that shall accept or procure any pension Gift or grant for years c. bodies Politick or Corporate shall at any time hereafter procure or accept of from the Kings Majesty His Heirs or Successors any Pension Gift or Grant for years life or any other Estate or any sum or sums of money out of the Revenue arising by vertue of this Act that then such person or body Politick or Corporate procuring or accepting the same shall forfeit double the value of such Pension Gift or Grant The one moyety of which forfeiture shall be to the use of the poor of the Parish or Parishes where the said Offenders be or inhabit to be recovered by the Church-wardens the other moyety to him that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information Provided that this Act Blowing houses Stamps Furnaces Kilns Ovens Hospitals or any thing herein contained shall not extend to charge any Blowing-house and Stamp Furnace or Kiln or any private Oven within any of the houses hereby charged nor any Hearth or Stove within the scite of any Hospital or Alms-house for the relief of poor people whose Endowment and Revenue doth not excéed in true value the sum of One hundred pounds by the year Provided The payments and duties charged only upon the Occupiers That the payments and duties hereby charged shall be charged only on the Occupier for the time being of such Hearth or Stove dwelling in such house whereto such Hearth or Stove shall be belonging his Executors or Administrators and not on the Landlord who Let or Demised the same his Heirs Executors or Assigns
Provided also That no person or persons Indebted for any the Duties aforesaid shall thereby be priviledged as a Debtor or Debtors to His Majesty His Heirs or Successors No priviledg to sue in the Exchequer Nor assign a Debt to the King to sue any person or persons in the Court of Exchequer or to assign any Debt to His Majesty His Heirs or Successors towards satisfaction of the same 15 Car. 2. ca. 13. 16 Car. 2. ca. 3. CAP. XI Frauds and abuses in His Majesties Customs prevented and Regulated 12 Car. 2. cap. 19. FOrasmuch as it appears that several unlawful and indirect means and devices are daily put in practise to Export and Import Goods and merchandizes prohibited by the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom as also to defraud the Kings most Excellent Majesty of His Dues Customs and Subsidies as well by secret and deceitful designs as by open force and violence used against the Kings Majesties Officers imployed in the Affairs of the Customs For the better preventing of which frauds and violences in time to come It is Enacted and Ordained by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled and be it Enacted and Ordained by the Authority thereof That no Ship or Vessel arriving from the parts beyond the Seas Ships and Vessels arriving from beyond the Seas at Grave-end shall be above thrée days coming from Graves-end to the place of her discharge within the River of Thames without touching or staying at any Wharf Key or place adjoyning to either Shoar betwéen Graves-end and Chesters-Key unless apparently hindred by contrary Winds Draught of Water or other just impediment to be allowed by such person or persons as are or shall be appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs the Collectors Inwards or other principal Officers of the Customs and then or before the Master or Purser for that voyage of such Ship or Vessel shall make a just and true Entry upon Oath of the Burthen Contents and Lading of every such Ship or Vessel True Entries of Lading to be made upon Oath with the particular Marks Numbers Qualities and Contents of every parcel of Goods therein Laden to the best of his knowledge also where and in what Port she took in her Lading of what Countrey built how manned who was Master during the Voyage and who are Owners thereof and in all Out-Ports or Members to come directly up to the place of Vnlading The Penalty as the condition of the Port requires and will admit and making Entries as aforesaid upon the penalty of the forfeiture of One hundred pounds And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Captain Master Purser or any other person or persons taking charge of any Ship or Vessel bound for the parts beyond the Seas The duty of Captains Master and others taking charge of Ships and Vessels bound for parts beyond the Seas or into the Kingdom of Scotland whether the same Ship or Vessel shall have Commission from or belong unto the Kings Majesty that now is His Heirs or Successors or shall belong to or have Commission from any forrein Prince or State or otherwise shall take in or suffer to be taken into or laden aboard any such Ship or Vessel any English Goods Wares or Merchandize to be Exported into the parts beyond the Seas or into the Kingdom of Scotland until such Captain Master Purser or other person as aforesaid shall have entered such Ship or Ships in the Book of the Commissioners To take in no English goods till Entry thereof be made at the Custom-house Customer or Collector and Comptroller Outwards of such Port where he shal Load or take in Goods together with the Name of such Captain or Master the Burden of such Ship or Vessel the Number of Guns and Ammunition she carries and to what Port or Place she intends to pass or Sail and before he or they shall depart with his or their Ship or Vessel out of such Port or Place shall bring and deliver unto the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs the Customer or Collector and Comptroller of such Port or Place a Content in Writing under his or their Hands of the Names of every Merchant and other person or persons that shall have laden and put on Board any such Ship or Vessel any such Goods or Merchandize together with the Marks and Numbers of such Goods and Merchandize and shall likewise publickly in the open Custom-house upon his Corporal Oath to the best of his knowledge have answered to such question or questions as shall be demanded of him by the said person or persons which are or shal be appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs the Customer or Collector and Comptroller or their Deputies concerning such Goods and Merchandize as shall be aboard such Ship or Vessel upon pain of Forfeiture of One hundred pounds Ships or Vessels of War bringing goods And that no such Captain Master Purser or other person or persons taking charge of any Ship or Vessel of War as aforesaid wherein any Goods Wares or Merchandizes shall have béen laden or brought from the Ports beyond the Seas or out of the Realm of Scotland shall unload or put on board any Lighter Boat or Bottom or lay on land or suffer to be discharged or put into any Lighter Boat or Bottom or to be laid on land out of any Ship or Vessel as aforesaid any Goods Wares or Merchandize whatsoever before such Captain Master Purser or other person taking charge of the Ship or Merchants Goods for that Voyage as aforesaid shall have signified and declared in writing under his or their Hands unto the person or persons which are or shall be appointed by his Majesty for managing the Customs the Customer or Collector and Comptroller Inwards of the Port where he arriveth the Names of every Merchant or Lader of any Goods or Merchandizes aboard the said Ship or Vessel together with the Number and Marks and the quantity and quality of every Parcel of Goods and Merchandizes to the best of his knowledg and shall have answered upon his or their Corporal Oath to such Questions concerning such Goods and Merchandizes as shall be publickly administred unto him in the open Custom-house by such person or persons which are or shall be appointed for Managing the Customs Customer or Collector and Comptroller or their Deputies and shall be liable to all Searches and other Rules which Merchants Ships are subject unto by the usage of his Majesties Custom-house victualling Bills and Entring excepted upon pain to forfeit One hundred pounds and upon refusal to make such Entries as aforesaid as well Outwards as Inwards the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed for managing the Customs and Officers of His Majesties Customs and their Deputies shall
and may fréely enter and go on board all and every such Ship or Vessel of War and bring from thence on shoar into His Majesties Store-house belonging to the Port where such Ship shall be all Goods and Merchandizes prohibited or uncustomed which shall be found aboard any such Ship as aforesaid And be it hereby also Enacted The power of Officers for managing the Custom to enter and search Ships and Vessels That the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed for managing the Customs and Officers of His Majesties Customs and their Deputies are hereby Authorized and enabled to go and enter aboard any Ship or Vessel as well Ships of War as Merchant Ships and from thence to bring on shore all Goods prohibited or uncustomed except Iewels if they be Outwards bound and if they be Ships or Vessels Inwards bound from thence to bring on shore into His Majesties Store-house as aforesaid all small Parcels of Fine Goods or other Goods which shall be found in Cabbins Chests Trunks or other small Package or in any private or secret place in or out of the Hold of the Ship or Vessel which may occasion a just suspition that they were intended to be fraudulently conveyed away And all other sorts of Goods whatsoever for which the Duties of Tunnage Poundage were not paid or Compounded for with in Twenty days after the first Entry of the Ship to be put remain in the Store-house aforesaid until His Majesties Duties thereupon be justly satisfied unless the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs and Officers of the Customs shall sée just cause to allow a longer time and that the said person or persons which are or shall be so appointed to manage the Customs and the Officers of the Customs and their Deputies may fréely stay and remain aboard until all the Goods are delivered and discharged out of the said Ships or Vessels And if any Master Purser or Boat-swain or other taking charge in any Ship or Vessel or any other person whatsoever shall suffer any Truss Bale Pack Fardel Cask or other Package to be opened aboard the said Ship or Vessel and the Goods therein to be imbezelled carried away or put into any other Form or Package after the Ship comes into the Port of her discharge in every such case the said Master Purser Boat-swain or others shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case Goods concealed in any Ship after clearing after the clearing of any Ship or Vessel by the person or persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs or any their Deputies and discharging the Watchmen or Tidesmen from attendance thereupon there shall be found on board such Ship or Vessel any Goods Wares or Merchandizes which have béen concealed from the knowledge of the said person or persons which are or shall be so appointed to manage the Customs and for which the Custom Subsidie and other Duties due upon the Importation thereof have not béen paid then the Master Purser The Penalty or other person taking charge of such Ship or Vessel shal forfeit the sum of One hundred pounds And it shall be lawful to or for any person or persons authorized by Writ of Assistance under the Seal of His Majesties Court of Exchequer to take a Constable Headborough or other Publick Officer inhabiting near unto the place and in the day time to enter and go into any House Shop Cellar Ware-house or Room or other place and in case of resistance to break open Doors Chests Trunks and other Package there to seize and from thence to bring any kind of Goods or Merchandize whatsoever prohibited and uncustomed and to put and secure the same in His Majesties Store-house in the Port next to the place where such seizure shall be made And for the better encrease of Shipping and Navigation Be it further Enacted An accompt to be given of all forreign Ships in all Ports of England That the Collectors and other Officers of His Majesties Customs in all the Ports of England shall forthwith give an account unto the Collectors and Surveyor in the Port of London appointed by His Majesty for all Duties and Matters relating to a late Act Intituled An Act for encreasing and encouraging of Shipping and Navigation of all Forreign built Ships in their Ports 12 Car. 2. cap. 18. owned and belonging to the people of England of what built and burthen they are for which Certificates have béen made according to the said Act and that the said Collector and Surveyor shall make a true and perfect list of all such Ships attested under their hands and transmit the same into his Majesties Court of Exchequer on or before the moneth of December in the year 1662. there to remain upon record And that no Forreign built Ship that is to say not built in any of his Majesties Dominions of Asia Africa or America Forreign built Ships not to have the priviledg of Ships belonging to England or Ireland or other than such as shall bona fide be bought before the First of October 1662. next ensuing and expresly named in the said List shall enjoy the priviledge of a Ship belonging to England or Ireland although owned or manned by English except such Ships only as shall be taken at Sea by Letters of Mart or Reprizal and condemnation made in the Court of Admiralty as lawful Prize but all such Ships shall be déemed as Aliens Ships and be liable unto all Duties that Aliens Ships are liable unto by vertue of the said Act for encrease of Shipping and Navigation And whereas it is required by the said Act that in sundry cases the Master and thrée fourths of the Mariners are to be English it is to be understood that any of his Majesties Subjects of England Ireland and his Plantations are to be accounted English and no others and that the number of Mariners be accounted according to what they shall have béen during the whole Voyage And whereas of late some of the persons appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs and the Officers of the Customs and their Deputies have béen hindred affronted abused beaten and wounded to the hazard of their lives in the due execution of their several trusts services in their respective places by armed companies and multitudes of men and goods prohibited and uncustomed have by force violence as well by Land as by Water béen forcibly carried and conveyed away Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where any Officer or Officers shall be by any person or persons armed with Club The punishment for beating or abusing Officers of the Customs or any manner of Weapon forcibly hindred affronted abused beaten or wounded as aforesaid either on board any Ship or Vessel or upon the Land or Water in the due
execution of their Office all and every person and persons so resisting affronting abusing beating or wounding the said Officer or Officers or their Deputies or such as shall Act in their aid or assistance shall by the next Iustice of Peace or other Magistrate be committed to Prison there to remain till the next Quarter-Sessions And the Iustices of the Peace of the said Quarter-Sessions shall and are hereby impowered to punish the Offender by Fine not excéeding One hundred pounds and the Offender is to remain in Prison till he be discharged by Order of the Exchequer both of the Fine and of the Imprisonment or discover the person that set him on work to the end he may be legally procéeded against No goods to be Water-born or landed but in the presence of some Officer of the Customs And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Wharfinger or Kéeper of any Wharf Crane Key or their servants or any of them shall take up or land or knowingly suffer to be taken up or landed or shall Ship off or suffer to be Water-born at or from any of their said Wharfs Cranes or Keys any Goods Wares or Merchandize prohibited or whereof any Custom Subsidy or other Duties are due and payable unto the Kings Majesty without the presence of some of the Officers of His Majesties Customs thereunto appointed or at hours and times not appointed by Law except in the Port of Hull 1 Eliz cap. 11. as in the Statute of the First year of Quéen Elizabeth Chapter the eleventh is excepted not otherwise or Goods passing by Certificates Waste-Cockquet The Penalty or otherwise without the presence or notice given to one or more of His Majesties Officers That in every such case all and every such Wharfinger and Kéeper of such Wharfe Crane or Key shall forfeit and pay the sum of One hundred pounds And if any Goods or Merchandize shall be Laden or taken in from the Shore into any Bark Hoy Lighter Barge Wherry or Boat to be carried aboard any Ship or Vessel Outwards bound for the parts beyond the Seas or Laden or taken in from or out of any Ship or Vessel coming in and arriving from foreign parts without a Warrant and presence of one or more Officers of the Customs such Bark Hoy Lighter Barge Boat or Wherry shall be forfeited and lost and the Master Purser Boatswain or other Mariner of any Ship Inward bound knowing and consenting thereunto shall forfeit the value of the Goods so unshipped And further That in case any Car-man Porter Water-man or other person or persons whatsoever shall assist in the taking up landing shipping off or carrying away any such Goods Wares or Merchandizes that then such Carman Porter Water-man or other person or persons so offending being apprehended by Warrant of any Iustice of the Peace for that County City or Borough which the said Iustices every of them are hereby Authorized to issue and to examine Witnesses upon Oath concerning such fact and the same being proved by the Oath of Two Witnesses the said Offenders for such first Offence shall and may by such Iustice of the Peace be committed to the next Gaol there to remain till he and they find sufficient Surety to be of the good behaviour for so long time until he they shall be thereof discharged by the Lord Treasurer Chancellor Vnder-Treasurer or Barons of the Exchequer And in case he or they so convicted shall afterwards at any time offend in the like kind then he and they shall and may by any Iustice of the Peace as aforesaid be committed to the next Gaol there to remain for the space of Two Moneths without Bail or Mainprize or until he shall pay unto the Sheriff of that County the sum of Five pounds for the use of His Majesty or until he shall by the Lord Treasurer Chancellor or Vnder-Treasurer or Court of Exchequer be thence discharged Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Goods Wares or Merchandizes shall be shipped or put on Board to be carried forth to the open Sea from any one Port Goods carryed from one Port to another in England or Wales Créek or Member in the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick to be landed at any other place of this Realm without a Sufferance or Warrant first had and obtained from the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed for managing the Customs and Officers of his Majesties Customs all such Wares and Merchandizes shall be forfeited and lost and that the Master of every Ship or Vessel that shall lade or take in any such Goods Wares or Merchandizes in any Port Member or Créek within this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town and Port of Berwick to be landed and discharged in some other Port Member or Créek of the said Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town and Port of Berwick shall before the Ship or Vessel be removed or carried out of the Port where he shall take in his lading take out a Cocquet or Cocquets and become bound to the Kings Majesty with good Security in the value of the Goods Wares and Merchandizes aforesaid for Delivery and Discharge thereof in the Port or place for which the same shall be entred as aforesaid or in some other Port or place within the said Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick and the dangers and accidents of the Seas excepted to return a Certificate within Six moneths after the date of such Cocquet and Cocquets under the Hands and Seals of the Kings Majesties Officers Signed also by some of the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs or their Deputy or Deputies in every respective Ports Members or Créeks where the same shall be landed and discharged to His Majesties Officers of the Customs to whom such security hath béen given as aforesaid that such Goods Wares and Merchandizes were there landed and discharged accordingly Officers of any Port making false certificate upon the penalty of the forfeiture of the Bond and Security aforesaid And be it hereby further Enacted That if any Officer of any Port Member or Créek shall grant or make any false Certificate of any Goods or Merchandizes which should have béen landed out of any Ship or Vessel That such Officer shall lose his Imployment and moreover forfeit the sum of Fifty pounds The Penalty and suffer one years Imprisonment without bail or mainprize and be incapable of serving his Majesty in any place of Trust concerning his Customs and be further liable to such Corporal punishment as the Court of Exchequer shall think fit Counterfeiting Cocquets Certificates c. The penalty And if any person whatsoever shall Counterfeit Rase or Falsifie any Cocquet Certificate or Return Transire Let-pass or any other Custom-house Warrant he shall forfeit
One hundred pounds and the Cocquet Certificate or Return shall be invalid and of none effect and if any Goods Wares or Merchandizes brought or coming into any Port Haven or Créek within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick from any other Port Haven or Créek within the Kingdom of England or Dominions aforesaid by Port Cocquet Transire Let-pass or Certificate in Ships or Vessels shall be landed or put on shore before such Cocquet Transire Let-pass or Certificate shall be delivered to such Person or Persons which are or shall be appointed by his Majesty for manageing his Customs the Customer or Collector and Comptroller of the Port or Place of their Arrival or to their Deputy or Deputies and a Warrant or Sufferance made and given from such person or persons Customer or Collector and Comptroller or their Deputy and Deputies aforesaid for the landing and discharging thereof And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Goods Wares Goods secretly conveyed beyond Sea uncustomed and undiscovered by the officers or Merchandizes for which the Duties of Subsidy or Custom are due and payable to the Kings Maiesty shall be secretly conveyed on Board any Ship or Vessel before the Custom and Subsidy thereof be duly answered and paid and shall escape the discovery thereof by the Officers of the Customs or others and be carried into the parts beyond the Seas in such case the Owners or Proprietors of such Goods Wares or Merchandizes or other person or persons who shall have so shipped or caused the same to be shipped and transported shall forfeit the double value of the Goods The penalty computed according to the Book of Rates Except for Coal which so secretly Exported as aforesaid shall pay double the Custom and Duty to be Collected and Levied in such manner as by the Act of Tunnage and Poundage is directed and appointed Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid For preventing frauds in louring strangers goods That for preventing of frauds in colouring of strangers Goods and otherwise every Merchant or other passing any Goods Wares or Merchandizes Inwards or Outwards shall by himself or his known servant Factor or Agent subscribe one of his Bills of every Entry with the mark number and contents of every parcel of such Goods as are rated to pay by the piece or measure and weight of the whole parcel of such Goods as are rated to pay by the weight without which the Officers of the Customs shall not suffer any Entry to pass And that no children of aliens under the age of Twenty one years be permitted to be Traders or any Goods or Merchandizes to be entred in their names Be it also hereby Enacted That upon any Actions There shall be no party Iury in actions or suits concerning customs Suits and Informations that shall be brought commenced or entred upon any Law or Statute concerning the Kings Majesties Subsidies of Tunnage and Poundage or Ships or Goods to be forfeited by reason of unlawful Importation or Exportation there shall not be any Party Iury but such only as are the natural and frée-born Subjects of the King his Heirs or Successors And whereas allowances given to Merchants and others for defects and damages upon Goods Allowances for defects and damages in goods how to be made and Five per centum generally upon all Goods Imported and Twelve per centum upon Wines every Merchant or others having the aforesaid allowances inwards shall in person upon Oath by himself or by his known Servant or Factor demand and receive the moneys due upon Debenturs for such forreign Goods Exported by such Certificate with such abatements and allowances as were made and given to him upon the Importation and if he be found fraudulently to ship out less in quantity or value then is expressed in his Certificate the Goods therein mentioned or the value thereof shall be forfeited and the Owner or Merchant shall lose the benefit of receiving back any part of the Subsidy for those Goods and if any Goods shipped out by Certificate as aforesaid shall be landed again in the same or any other Port or Place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town and Port of Berwick unless in case of Distress to save the Goods from perishing which shall be presenly made known to the Person or Persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty to manage His Customs and Principal Officers of the Port no allowance shall be demanded or made for those Goods and the said Goods or value thereof shall be forfeited and lost Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Goods Goods brought from or carried into Scotland by land shall pass through Barwick or Carliâ—e Wares or Merchandize that shall be brought out of or carried into the Kingdom of Scotland by Land into or out of the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick shall pass and be carried by and through some of the Towns and Passages hereafter named that is to say by and through Berwick or Carlile and then and there pay the Custom and Subsidy granted and due to the Kings Majesty by an Act of this present Parliament Entituled 12 Car. 2. cap. 4. A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported And if any Goods Wares or Merchandize prohibited or uncustomed coming out of Scotland into England or going out of England into Scotland shall pass by or beyond the Towns Ports and Places aforenamed without due entry and payment of the Customs That then all such Goods Wares and Merchandize or the value thereof shall be forfeited and lost And whereas in and by an Act of Parliament in the First year of Quéen Elizabeth 1 El. cap. 11. When and where Merchandize shall be landed and custom paid of famous memory directing when and where Merchandize shall be landed and Customs paid it is amongst divers other things Enacted and Ordained That no Goods Wares or Merchandize shall be shipped or loaden aboard any Ship or Vessel or landed or discharged out of or from any Ship or Vessel but in or upon some such open Place Key or Wharf Places Keys or Wharfs Except the Port of Hull as her Highness her Heirs and Successors should therefore assign or appoint by vertue of her Highness Commission or Commissions within the Port of London and in all Ports Creeks Havens or Roads as in and by the said Act doth and may at large appear And whereas notwithstanding the aforesaid Act there are some Ports Créeks and places where Customers Collectors and Comptrollers and Searchers their servants had then time out of mind béen resident to which no such Commissions were sent nor places keys nor wharfs appointed as by the said Act was directed And whereas also since that time by reason of the alteration of
Rivers Streams Channels and Sands some places then appointed are become unfit and useless others much more convenient and commodious as well for Traffique and Commerce as for Landing and Discharging Lading and Shipping of Goods Wares and Merchandize It is Enacted and Ordained and be it Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the Kings Majesty may from time to time by his Highness Commission or Commissions out of his Court of Exchequer assign and appoint all such further Places Ports Members and Créeks except the Town of Hull as shall be lawful for the landing and discharging lading or shipping of any Goods Wares or Merchandize within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and to what ancient and head-Ports respectively such Places Members or Creeks shall belong and appertain And where any such Member Créek or Place shall be so as aforesaid appointed by vertue of the said Commission or Commissions the Customer Collector Comptroller and Searcher of the head-Port shall by themselves or their sufficient Deputy or Deputies servant or servants reside and inhabit for the entring clearing and passing shipping and discharging of Ships Goods and Merchandize And by vertue of the aforesaid Commission or Commissions may likewise set down and appoint the extents bounds and limits of every Port Haven or Créek within his Majesties Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town and Port of Berwick whereby the extents limits and priviledges of every Port Haven and Créek may be ascertained and known And it shall not be lawful for any Person or Persons whatsoever to lade or put or cause to be laden or put off or from any Key Wharf or other place on the Land into any Ship Vessel Lighter Boat or Bottom any Goods Wares or Merchandize whatsoever Fish taken by his Majesties Subjects Sea-coal Stone and Bestials only excepted to be Transported into any place of the parts beyond the Seas or carried by land into the Realm of Scotland or to take up discharge or lay on land or cause or procure to be taken up discharged and laid on land out of any Boat Lighter Ship Vessel or Bottom being not in Leak or Wreck any Goods Wares or Merchandize whatsoever Fish taken by his Majesties Subjests Bestials and Salt only excepted to be brought from any of the parts beyond the Seas or by land from the Realm of Scotland by way of Merchandize but only upon such open Place Key or Wharf Places Keys or Wharfs as his Majesty shall from time to time assign and appoint by vertue of such Commission and Commissions as aforesaid in his Majesties Port of London and the Members and Liberties thereof in any other Port Place Member or Créek within his Majesties Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town and Port of Berwick without special sufferance and leave first had from the Commissioners and Officers of his Majesties Customs upon the penalty of the forfeiture of all such Goods Wares and Merchandize For avoiding Practises between Owners of goods and Informers to avoid payment of customs None to seize any goods but officers of the customs And forasmuch as it doth appear by daily experience That there are great Practises and Combinations betwéen the Importers and Owners of Goods and Merchandizes and the Seizers and Informers with design and intent to defraud the force of the Law and his Majesty of his Duties and Customs Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Ship or Ships Goods Wares or Merchandize shall be seized as forfeited for or by reason of unlawful Importation or Exportation into or out of this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick or any the Ports members or Créeks thereunto belonging or for not payment of any Customs or Subsidies now due or hereafter to be due and payable to his Majesty but by the person or persons who are or shall be appointed by his Majesty to manage his Customs or Officers of his Majesties Customs for the time being or such other person or persons as shall be deputed and authorized thereunto by Warrant from the Lord-Treasurer or Vnder-Treasurer or by special Commission from his Majesty under the Great or Privy-Seal And if any Seizure shall hereafter be made by any other Person or Persons whatsoever for any the Causes aforesaid such seizure shall be void and of none effect any Statute Law Act or Provision to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding In any suit against persons imployed about the customs the Defendant may plead the general issue 12 Car. 2. cap. 18. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in every Action Suit Indictment Information or Prosecution wherein or whereby the person or persons which are or shall be appointed by his Majesty for managing his Customs or the Officers of his Majesties Customs or any Officer or Officers Person or Persons authorized by his Majesty to put in execution the Act of Parliament For encreasing and encouraging of Navigation their Deputies or Servants or any others acting in aid of them have béen are or shall be sued indicted prosecuted or molested it shall be lawful for all and every the said Persons their Heirs Executors and Administrators to plead the general Issue And to give this for other acts relating to customs or Navigation in evidence and to give this or the aforesaid Acts of Parliament relating to the Customs and Navigation in evidence in any of his Majesties Courts of Iustice or other Courts where the said matter shall be depending And the Iudges of the said Courts are hereby strictly enjoyned and required to admit the same and to acquit and indemnifie them and every of them of and from all such Suits Indictments Informations or Prosecutions for or concerning any matter or thing acted or done in the due and necessary performance and execution of their respective Trusts and Imployments therein Be it hereby also Enacted for avoiding of fraudulent Compositions That if any Seizer For avoyding fraudulent compositions by Informers Informer or Officer as aforesaid shall not prosecute to effect for the bringing to Tryal and Condemnation the Ships Goods and Merchandize by them Seized or Informed against That then and in every such case it shall be lawful to or for any of the person or persons which are or shall be appointed by his Majesty for managing his Customs or the Officers of the Customs or other person or persons deputed by them or thereunto Authorized by the Lord-Treasurer or Vnder-Treasurer to make seizure of or inform against such Goods and Merchandize or bring his Action for the same by way of Devenerunt and that they shall be estéemed and adjudged in Law as the true first Informers and Seizers and have the benefit of such Informers or Seizers Any Law Statute Act or Vsage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And that no Informer or Officer be suffered to compound under one Third of the
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
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
of any of the Kings or Quéens of England for the time being for the carrying the Goods of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or the said Quéens or children or any of them without such full and free consent as aforesaid Any Law Statute Custom or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding Be it notwithstanding Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That from and after the Four and twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord How carriages shall be provided for his Majesties Navy and Ordnance One thousand six hundred sixty and two as often as the Service of his Majesties Navy or Ordnance shall require any Carriages by Land within the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed upon notice given in writing by Warrant under the hand and seal of the Lord High Admiral of England for the time being or under the hands and seals of two or more of the principal Officers or Commissioners of his Majesties Navy or under the hand and seal of the Master of his Majesties Ordnance for the time being or under the hand and seal of the Lieutenants of his Majesties Ordnance for the providing of Carriages for the respective service of the Navy or Ordnance unto two or more Iustices of the Peace dwelling near unto the place where the said Iustices of the Peace may and shall immediately issue forth their Warrants to such of the adjacent Parishes Hundreds or Divisions as they shall judge fit within their respective Counties and Divisions not being above Twelve Miles distant from the place of lading for the sending to a certain place and at certain times to be specified and appointed in the said Warrants such numbers of Carriages with Horses or Oxen sufficient for the said service as by the Lord high Admiral of England for the time being or by the Master or Lieutenant of his Majesties Ordnance for the time being or by the principal Officers or Commissioners of his Majesties Navy respectively as abovesaid shall be by writing under their hands and seals required the Owners of which Carriages or their Servants The rates allowed for carriages shall receive for every Load of Timber per mile one shilling for every reputed mile which they shall go laden and for other Provisions the summe of eight pence per mile for every Tun they shall carry And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it may and shall be lawful for the Lord High Admiral of England for the time being by Warrant under his hand and seal and also for the principal Officers and Commissioners of his Majesties Navy by Warrants under the hands and seals of any two or more of them as also for the Master of his Majesties Ordnance for the time being by Warrant under his hand and seal and also for the Lieutenant of his Majesties Ordnance by Warrants under the hands and seals of either of them as often as the service of his Majesties Navy or Ordnance respectively shall require any Carriage by Water Impressing of persons ships vessels for carriages to appoint such person or persons as they shall judge fitting to Impress and take up such Ships Hoys Lighters Boats or any other Vessel whatsoever as shall be necessary for the Accommodation of his Majesties said service the Owners of which said Ships Hoys Lighters Boats or other Water-Carriage aforesaid or such as they shall appoint shall receive for the hire of every such Ship Hoy Lighter Boat or other Vessel per Tun according to the Rates usually paid by Merchants from time to time And in case his Majesties Officers and the Owners of such Ships Hoys Lighters Boats or other Vessels shall not agree on the said rates then the rate to be setled by the Brotherhood of Trinity-house of Deptford-Strand And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Penalty upon such as neglect or refuse That in case any of his Majesties Subjects of this Realm shall refuse or wilfully neglect after reasonable notice to make their appearance with such sufficient carriages by Land or to fit provide and furnish their Ships Hoys Lighters Boats or other Vessels for the service of his Majesties Navy or Ordnance as is before expressed or shall after they have undertaken such service neglect or delay the same that then upon due proof and conviction of such refusal or neglect by the Oath of the Constable or other Officer or two other credible witnesses before the said Iustices of Peace of the County or Mayor or other chief Officer of the City or Corporation where he or they inhabit which Oath they shall have power to administer for the Land-Carriages and for the Water-Carriages by the Oath of such person as shall be appointed by the Lord High Admiral the principal Officers or Commissioners of his Majesties Navy the Master of his Majesties Ordnance or the Lieutenant of his Majesties Ordnance as aforesaid or other two credible witnesses before the principal Officers or Commissioners of his Majesties Navy or Master or Lieutenant of his Majesties Ordnance respectively which Oath they shall have likewise power to administer the Party so refusing or neglecting shall for every such refusal or neglect forfeit the sum of Twenty shillings for the Land-carriage and for Carriage by Water treble the freight of such Ship or Vessel not excéeding Fifty pounds in the whole to the Kings Majesties use to be forthwith levied in default of payment upon demand by distress and sale of his Goods and Chattels by Warrant from the said Iustices of the Peace Mayor or other chief Officer or from the principal Officers or Commissioners of his Majesties Navy or Master or Lieutenant of his Majesties Ordnance respectively rendring to the Parties the overplus upon every such Sale if there shall be any the charge of distraining being first deducted The time of continuance in the service Provided always that no Horses Oxen Cart Wayn or other Land-Carriage shall be enforced to Travail more days Iourney from the place where they receive their lading or be compelled to continue longer in the imployment then shall be appointed by the Order of the said Iustices of the Peace and that ready payment shall be made in hand for the said Carriages at the place of lading without delay Present payment to be made according to the aforesaid Rates Provided always That in case any Iustice of the Peace Mayor chief Officer or Constable or any person or persons which shall be appointed by the Lord High Admiral the principal Officers or Commissioners of his Majesties Navy the Master of his Majesties Ordnance or the Lieutenant of his Majesties Ordnance as aforesaid respectively shall take any gift or reward to spare any person or persons No gifts or rewards may be taken by Iustices of the Peace
ease of Sheriffs in passing their Accompts Seizures of Lands remaining charged Michaelmas 1660. Be it Enacted and Declared That from henceforth every Seizure for or concerning any Lands Tenements and Hereditaments now remaining charged in the Foreign accompt of any Sheriff or Sheriffs within the Kingdom of England for the year ended at Michaelmas One thousand six hundred and sixty shall be from the said Foreign accompt charged particularly in the great Roll of the Exchequer And that the several Remembrancers of the said Court or their respective Deputies do in their respective Officers forthwith Seizures hereafter taken or returned and so from time to time for the future write and make true and perfect Copies of all and every such other Seizure and Inquisition as already are or hereafter shall be certified into their respective Offices without certifying the Copy of the Writ or Commission at large upon which such Seizure or Inquisition is or shall be so taken or returned mentioning only in brief the Date of the said Writ or Commission and shall deliver the said Copies well and truly examined and attested under his or their Hands to the Engrosser of the said great Roll And that all such of the said Seizures and Inquisitions as now are returned into any of their respective Offices shall be delivered before the first day of February next coming And that all such other seizures as shall hereafter be returned or certified into their respective Offices shall be delivered so examined and attested as aforesaid to the said Engrosser before the first day of the next Term after the said Remembrancers shall have received the same so as the same may be charged in the great Roll To the end that the Processe of the Court may from thence issue for levying the Issues and Profits thereof to the use of the Crown unto which said Remembrancers or their Deputies shall be from time to time paid for every Sheet which they or their respective Clerks shall so write and deliver the sum of eight pence Fees to the Remembrancers the same to be paid unto them by the aforesaid respective Sheriffs who shall be allowed the same by the Barons upon their respective Accompts out of the Issues and Profits arising out of the Premisses so seized and no Sheriff or Sheriffs for this persent year One thousand six hundred sixty and one Sheriffs shall not answer illeviable seizures Farm Rents c. nor any Sheriff or Sheriffs to be hereafter made or appointed within this Kingdom of England shall be charged in accompt to answer any illeviable Seizure Farm Rent or Debt or other Seizure Farm Rent Debt matter or thing whatsoever which was not writ in Processe to him or them to be levied wherein the persons of whom or the Lands or Tenements out of which together with the cause for which the same shall be so levied shall be plainly and particularly expressed but shall be thereof wholly discharged without Petition Plea or other trouble or charge whatsoever And it is hereby further Enacted and Declared Seizures before 1 Jac. and divers others to be left out of the Sheriffs accompt That all Seizures heretofore made before the first Year of the Reign of the late King James of ever blessed memory now remaining in the Accompts of the Sheriffs and all Seizures and Debts which are pardoned shall be and are hereby fully discharged And that the same and every of them shall hereafter be left out of Sheriffs accompts without further Order Plea Petition or other Charge to any Sheriff or Sheriffs whatsoever And that no Processe shall from henceforth be written forth to any Sheriff for the levying of the same or any of them nor for any other Rent or Farm which cannot be explained by setting forth the particulars thereof or which have been unanswered by the space of forty years last past And that all other dead Farms and Seizures and all desperate illeviable and unintelligible Debts shall be removed out of the Annual Roll and Sheriffs Charge into the Exannual Roll there to remain untill by Commission they shall be revived and made answerable Process for Debts to be sent forth in convenient time And to the end that all new Debts arising and coming into the Exchequer for the future may be sent forth in Processe within convenient time Be it also Enacted and Declared That the aforesaid several Remembrancers do forthwith inrol and certify to the said Ingrosser of the great Roll all such Debts as any Sheriff or Sheriffs of this Realm are or hereafter shall be charged withall either by vertue of their respective Retorns made to the Barons of the said Exchequer upon his Majesties Writs of Fieri facias Levari facias Capias or other Processe and also of all Fines and Amerciaments which are or shall be set and imposed by the Court of Exchequer upon any Sheriff or Sheriffs for his or their contempts or neglects that is to say That all and every such Debts Fines and Amerciaments as now are returned set or imposed in any of the said Offices shall be delivered as aforesaid before the First day of February next ensuing And all such Debts Fines and Amerciaments as shall hereafter be returned set or imposed in any of the respective Offices shall be also delivered by the First day of the next Term after such Retorns made The penalty upon officers for doing any thing against this Act. or such Fines or Amerciaments so set or imposed that so they may be all charged in the Sheriffs Accompts respectively and comprehended within his or their Quietus est upon pain that every Officer or Officers in the said Exchequer who shall in any thing offend contrary to this present Act shall forfeit the sum of Forty pounds for every such offence whereof one moyety shall be to the King his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to the party or parties who shall be thereby agrieved to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of his Majesties Courts at Westminster wherein no Essoin Protection Priviledge or Wager of Law shall be allowed or admitted 9 E. 2. St. Lincoln 4 E. 3. cap. 9. 5 E. 3. cap. 4. And it is hereby further Provided and Ordained That no person shall be assigned to be Sheriff of any County within this Realm except such as have Lands within the same County sufficient to answer the King and his people And whereas by an Act made in the One and twentieth year of the Reign of our late Soveraign Lord King James over England 21 Jac. cap. 5. It was provided That whensoever any Sheriff upon passing his Accompts A Quietus est to be a sufficient discharge for a Sheriff if not questioned within four years after grant thereof should have his Quietus est that he should be thereby absolutely discharged of all sums of Money by him Levied and Received and pretended not to be accompted for
within the said Accompt whereupon he had his Quietus est unless such Sheriff should be called in question for such sums of Money so pretended to be Levied and not Accompted for within four years after the time of such Accompt and Quietus est which Act notwithstanding divers Sheriffs and their Heirs upon such pretences have béen molested and troubled many years after their Accompts and Quietus est and have had Process sent out against them contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said Act It is hereby further Provided and Enacted That when any Sheriff or Sheriffs within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales upon passing their Accompts shall have their Quietus est that then such Sheriff and Sheriffs their Heirs Executors and Administrators Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels shall be thereby absolutely discharged of all manner of sum or sums of Money whatsoever by them Levyed and Received notwithstanding any such pretence that the same were not accompted for or other pretence whatsoever unless such Sheriff or Sheriffs shall be called in question and that Iudgment shall be given against him or them for the same within four years next after such Accompt or Quietus est and that every Officer or Minister by whom or by whose default any Writ or Process contrary to this Act shall be sent out shall incur the like Forfeitures and Penalties to be recovered and inflicted by such persons and in such manner as by the aforesaid Act is provided Provided alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to the Counties of Chester Chester Lancaster Durham Wales Lancaster Durham or the Counties in Wales being County-Palatines as to their manner of accompting but that the Sheriffs therein shall accompt as formerly before the respective Auditors only and not elsewhere Proviso touching the Kings Remembrancer Lord Treasurers Remembrancer Provided That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to enjoyn His Majesties Remembrancer or the Lord Treasurers Remembrancer to transcribe and deliver to the Ingrosser of the great Roll any Inquisitions or Seisures but such as have béen formerly charged in the Foreign Accompts of the Sheriffs but for all Inquisitions upon Attainders or other Forfeitures to the Crown the same shall be put in charge as heretofore they have béen according to the constant usage and Decrée of the Court of Exchequer Nor shall this Act or any thing therein contained extend to exclude His Majesties said Remembrancer of or from the writing forth Process for or upon any His Majesties Debts Duties Outlawries or other charge whatsoever or Process of Levari facias at the prosecution of any person or persons to levy the Issues or Profits of any Lands or Tenements seised or to be seised into the Kings hands or Process of Venditioni exponas for Goods seised or to be seised upon any Debt to His Majesty His Heirs or Successors or upon any Outlawry or to alter or change the Pleadings or other Procéedings heretofore used and accustomed in the said Office upon any Pleadings touching the said Debts Duties and Seisures or any of them whatsoever And that no Debt Duty Fine Amerciament or Seisure whatsoever which shall be charged in the said great Roll of the Pipe upon any person whatsoever by or from any Record Process or Procéeding had made filed or recorded in the Office of His Majesties Remembrancer of his Exchequer nor any Process or Procéeding thereupon to be had or made by vertue of this Act shall be respited stayed mitigated extenuated compounded or otherwise discharged but by Order Warrant or Iudgment made filed or entred in the said Office of His Majesties Remembrancer where the original of such Debt Duty or Charge as aforesaid is and remaineth And that in case any Process of Summons of the Pipe have béen or shall be awarded for or upon any such Debt Duty Fine Amerciament or Seisure whatsoever and the same Debt Duty Fine Amerciament or Seisure shall not upon such Summons of the Pipe be levied or answered unto His Majesty That then the Clerk of the Pipe or Engrosser of the Great Roll shall the next Term after the return of such Summons certifie the same in a Schedule into the Office of His Majesties Remembrancer aforesaid to the end that further Process may be from thence written forth for the Levying and Answering thereof And that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend unto nor be construed to be prejudicial to His Majesties Remembrancer in His Exchequer in any just ancient and lawful Fées by him claimed or belonging or incident to His Office and usually had and received by him or his Predecessors Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding The conttnuance This Act to continue to the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer CAP. XXII For Preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England VVHereas a great number of Lewd Disorderly and Lawless Persons being Thieves and Robbers who are commonly called Moss-Troopers have successively for many and sundry years last past béen bred resided in and frequented the borders of the two respective Counties of Northumberland and Cumberland and the next adjacent parts of Scotland and they taking the opportunity of the large waste Grounds Heaths and Mosses and the many intricate and dangerous Wayes and By-paths in those parts do usually after the most notorious Crimes committed by them escape over from the one Kingdom into the other respectively and so avoid the hand of Iustice in regard the Offences done and perpetrated in the one Kingdom cannot be punished in the other And whereas since the time of the late unhappy distractions such Offences and Offenders as aforesaid have excéedingly more increased and abounded and the several Inhabitants of the said respective Counties have béen for divers years last past necessitated at their own frée and voluntary charge to maintain several Parties of Horse for the necessary defence of their Persons Families and Goods and to the end the aforesaid evil and pernicious members might be apprehended and brought to Iudgment And whereas the most part of the Inhabitants of the said Counties being more remote from the Borders then other parts and consequently not so much exposed to imminent dangers as others are therefore unwilling to contribute their proportionable parts of the aforesaid Charge and yet notwithstanding it cannot probably or possibly be avoided but that those Inhabitants of the respective Counties who hold themselves most secure must certainly sustain much damage and detriment in their Goods and Estates in case the aforesaid Moss-Troopers be not timely suppressed but suffered to grow numerous strong and potent which they must néeds do in case there be no restraint upon them Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled
and by Authority thereof that from and after the Feast of St. Michael the Arch-angel which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two for and during the term of Five years next ensuing the date of this present Act it shall and may be lawful for the respective Iustices of Peace of the said respective Counties or the major part of them at any General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said Counties respectively on the behalf of the said Counties or either of them from time to time as they shall sée occasion to make an Order in open Court of Sessions for charging according to their several Proportions all and every the several Inhabitants of the said respective Counties for the safeguard and securing of the said severall Counties and Inhabitants thereof from all injury violence spoil and rapine of the Moss-Troopers aforesaid Provided That the said County of Northumberland be not by force of this Act at any time charged above the sum of Five hundred pounds in the year nor the said County of Cumberland charged above the sum of two hundred pounds in the year And for this end and purpose the said several Iustices of Peace of the respective Counties aforesaid are hereby impowred and authorized at any their General Quarter Sessions aforesaid to appoint and imploy from time to time if occasion require any person or persons to have the Conduct and Command of a certain number of men not excéeding the number of Thirty men in the County of Northumberland and Twelve in the County of Cumberland whereby the Malefactors aforesaid may be searched out discovered pursued apprehended and brought to tryal of the Law And all and every the said Iustices of Peace of the respective Counties aforesaid or the major part of them at any General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said Counties or either of them respectively are hereby further impowred and authorized by force of this present Act to make and issue forth their respective Warrants under their hands for the levying and collecting any sum or sums of money ordered to be paid for and towards the safeguard and securing of the said Counties respectively as aforesaid and to give full power to the several Constables and other Officers to raise levy and collect the said money and all and every the Inhabitants of the said several Counties according to their respective proportionable Estates in Lands or Goods by Distress and Sale of Goods rendering the overplus if there be any to the respective Owner or Owners And the said Iustices of Peace in the said several Counties or any one of them respectively are hereby also authorized to examine any Complaint made against the Collectors and Constables or any other Officers or Ministers of Iustice whatsoever or any of them or any other refractory person or persons whatsoever that at any time hereafter shall refuse neglect or fail to give obedience to this Act or shall do any act or acts in disturbance or obstruction thereof and to bind over such person or persons to the next Quarter Sessions according to the known Laws of the Land to the end such person or persons may be procéeded withall according to Iustice And the said respective Iustices of Peace as aforesaid are hereby further Impowred and Authorized on behalf of the said several Counties respectively to appoint a Treasurer to receive from the said Collectors the Moneys by them Collected and to pay over the same according to the Orders they shall receive from the said Iustices at the General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said respective Counties And the said Iustices are also Impowred to agrée and article with such person or persons yearly as they shall think fit to imploy in the said Service and to take sufficient Security of them for the faithful and most effectual performance thereof for the best safeguard advantage and benefit of the people according to the true intent and meaning of this Act. And in case any person or persons shall in pursuance of this Act be imployed in the Border-Service and shall at any time hereafter wilfully and corruptly or for any sinister respect whatsoever neglect or forbear to Discover or Apprehend or to bring to Tryal any of the said persons called Moss-Troopers as aforesaid and shall be convicted thereof according to Law he or they shall from thenceforth be disabled and made uncapable for ever after to manage or take upon him or them the said Imployment and to suffer such Fine and Imprisonment according to the quality of his or their offence as the Iustices of Peace at their General Sessions shall think fit to inflict Provided nevertheless and be it hereby Declared That it shall be lawful for the Iustices of Peace of either of the said Counties as aforesaid respectively at any time hereafter to moderate or lessen the said charge if they sée cause Provided that this Act shall continue and be in force for five years and no longer Provided always and be it further Enacted by Authority aforesaid That for better suppression and punishment of the said Moss-Troopers flying out of England into Scotland or out of Scotland into England 4 Jac. cap. 1. 7 Jac. cap. 1. the Statutes made in the several Sessions of Parliament in the Fourth and Seventh years of King James shall be revived and put in execution according to their true intent 18 Car. 2. cap. 3. Continued for Seven years from the expiration of this Act. CAP. XXIII An Additionall Act concerning matter of Assurance used amongst Merchants WHereas by an Act of Parliament made in the Thrée and fortieth year of the Reign of Quéen Elizabeth of happy memory 43 El. cap. 12. Entituled An Act concerning matters of Assurances used amongst Merchants Encouragement of Merchants and Trade The Parliament then taking into Consideration by all good means to comfort and encourage the Merchants of this Kingdome thereby to advance and increase the Wealth of this Realm her Majesties Customs and the strength of shipping and for preventing of divers mischiefs in the said Act mentioned It was Enacted That it should and might be lawful for the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being to award forth under the Great Seal of England one general or standing Commission to be renewed yearly at the least and otherwise so often as unto the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper should séem méet for the hearing and determining of Causes arising on Policies of Assurance such as then were or then after should be entred within the Office of Assurance of the City of London which Commissions should be directed to the Iudge of the Admiralty for the time being the Recorder of London for the time being Two Doctors of the Civil Law Two Common Lawyers and eight grave or discréet Merchants or any five of them which Commissioners or the greater part of them which
much incouraged Fishing and Navigation increased and the publike good of the whole Kingdom very much advanced 34 H. 8. cap. 4. 13 El. cap. 7. 1 Jac. cap. 15. 21 Jac. ca. 19. Notwithstanding which great advantage to the publike there hath béen lately some opinion conceived that such persons may and ought to be made subject to the Statutes provided against Bankrupts For the better declaring and explaining the Law therein and to the end such persons may not be discouraged in those Honourable endeavours for promoting publike undertakings Be it declared and Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the Advice and Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same No persons for putting in money to the East-India or Guiney Company or the Fishing Trade shall be esteemed a Trader within the Statute of Bankrupts That no person or persons whatsoever who have adventured or put in or who hereafter shall adventure or put in any sum or sums of money in the said East-India Company or Guiney Company or into any joynt stock or stocks of money by them or either of them made or raised or to be made and raised for and towards the maintaining and carrying on the Trade by the said East-India Company or Guiney Company managed or to be managed or who have formerly or shall hereafter adventure or put in any sum or sums of momey into any stock or stocks of money for the managing and carrying on of the said Fishing Trade or the Trade now called the Royall fishing Trade and shall receive and take his or their part or dividend of Fish Goods or Merchandizes in specie and shall sell or exchange the same shall for or by reason onely of such adventure of moneys so put into the said East-India Company or Guiney Company or into any Stock or Stocks for and towards the said Fishing Trade or for or by reason only of the receiving and taking such Fish Goods and Merchandizes in Specie or selling for money or exchanging the same again be Adjudged Taken Estéemed or Reputed a Merchant or Trader within any Statute or Statutes for Bankrupts or be lyable to the same Proviso for other Trading Provided always and it is hereby Declared That every person or persons who shall Trade Traffique or Merchandize in any other way or manner then in the said Royal Fishing Trade or the Trade managed by the said East-India Company or the Guiney Company as aforesaid shall for and by reason of his and their Trading Traffiquing and Merchandizing be liable to Commission and Commissions against Bankrupts as fully to all intents and purposes and not otherwise as if this Act had never béen made Any thing in Act to the contrary notwithstanding The Iudgment concerning Sir John Wolstenholme made void And be it further Enacted That a Verdict and Iudgment in Replevin heretofore had or given in the Term of Easter in the Year One thousand six hundred fifty thrée in the Kings Bench betwixt Phineas Andrews Plaintiff Richard Woolward and William Meggs Defendants whereby Sir John Wolstenholme Knight an Adventurer in the said East-India Company was adjudged and found lyable to a Commission of Bankrupts only for and by reason of a share he had in the Ioynt-Stock of the said Company and a pretended selling for money part of the return which he had in Specie for his said Adventure shall be and is hereby declared contrary to Law and is hereby reversed Proviso for Purchasors in the Case of Sir John Wolstenholme and made void and null Provided always and be it Enacted That no Act Sale or Disposition of any the Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods Chattels Debts or Credits of the said Sir John Wolstenholme or any distribution of the same or of any money heretofore made or done by the Commissioners of Bankrupts or any claiming under them or any of them by vertue or colour of any Commission or Commissions taken out against the said Sir John Wolstenholme and whereof any person or persons is by vertue or colour of or under any such Act Sale or Disposition actually seised or possessed shall be hereby impeached or frustrated but that the same be injoyed for and toward satisfaction of the Debts for which the same have béen disposed or distributed CAP. XXV For Restoring of all such Advowsons Rectories Impropriate Gleeb-Lands and Tithes to his Majesties Loyal Subjects as were taken from them and making void certain charges imposed on them upon their Compositions for Delinquency by the late Usurped Powers VVHereas many Loyal Subjects of our late Soveraign Lord King Charles the First and of the Kings Majesty that now is were upon pretence of Delinquency for adhering unto and faithfully serving their said Majesties according to their Duty and Allegiance enforced and constrained by the pretended power of the Long Parliament not onely to part with great sums of money in satisfaction of the said supposed Delinquency but likewise to settle all or part of such Advowsons Rectories Gléeb-Land and Tithes Estates and Terms as they or any in trust for them were then seised or possessed of and to make Grants and Assurances of Rents and Annuities to and upon such Trustées as were appointed by the said Long Parliament as well for the augmentation of certain Vicarages as for the use and maintenance of Preaching Ministers and Lecturers without any valuable consideration given for the same other then some abatement of those excessive Fines imposed upon them for their pretended Delinquency and exacted from them by those arbitrary powers to the impoverishing and undoing of many of the Kings most Loyal Subjects Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same That all Grants All Estates made by pretended Delinquents of Advowsons Rectories c. for Compositions made void Feoffments Bargains and Sales Releases Confirmations and other Conveyances and Assurances in the Law of any higher or lower nature whatsoever had or made by any such pretended Delinquents their Heirs Executors or Administrators or by any person having any Estate or Interest in Law or Equity in Trust for them or by any other person or persons having any Estate or Interest joyntly or in common with them or in Reversion or Remainder after them to any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate of any such Advowsons Rectories Impropriate Gléeb-Lands Tithes Estates Terms Annuities and Rents as aforesaid to or for the uses aforesaid as part or in full of their Compositions for such pretended Delinquency as aforesaid and all Securities touching or concerning the same onely Saving other Rights be and are hereby adjudged from henceforth null and void in Law to all intents and purposes whatsoever Saving to all persons other than the said Trustées and their
Heirs and all claiming under them all right to the said Rectories and Premisses as hath accrued unto them before the Ninetéenth day of May One thousand six hundred sixty and two And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Tenants Lessées How Tenants and Lessees under such Estates shall pay their Rents and Occupiers of all such Advowsons Rectories Impropriate gléeb-Gléeb-Lands Tithes and premisses so granted or setled to or upon such Trustées as aforesaid for the uses or purposes aforesaid shall pay all such Rents as shall hereafter grow due and payable to such persons onely unto whom the right and interest of and in the same Advowsons Rectories gléeb-Gléeb-Lands Tithes and premisses before the said Conveyances or Assurances intended to be annulled and made void by this present Act did or should of right belong or appertain And whereas the said Conveyances and Assurances in and by this Act intended to be made void were some of them of Estates in Fée-simple and some of them long Terms for years made to Trustées Rents and sums appointed for augmentation of certain Vicarages who redemiled the same at and under such yearly Rents and Sums of Money as were then appointed to be the Augmentation of certain Vicarages or maintenance for preaching Ministers since which time many of the Rectories and Lands so Conveyed and Leased have béen absolutely sold and the Redemises thereof granted and assigned by the Owners thereof for the benefit of such purchasers Be it further Enacted and Ordained by this present Parliament and by the Authority of the same That the said Purchasers their Heirs and Assigns shall pay and the said former Owners of the said Lands and Rectories their Executors Administrators and Assigns shall have hold and enjoy the said Rents and sums of Money so reserved for the Augmentation of the said Vicarages and maintenance for Preaching Ministers upon the said several Redemises and shall have the same and the like remedies by Distress or by Action of Debt for the recovery thereof as the said Trustées who Redemised the same should or might have had if this Act had not béen made CAP. XXVI Abuses committed in the Weight and false Packing of Butter Reformed FOrasmuch as Butter is one of the principal Commodities of the product of this Kingdom and is not only of an universal use Expence at home The Contents of a Kilderkin of Butter but very great quantities thereof are Transported beyond the Seas And whereas by Custom time out of mind used every Kilderkin of Butter ought to weigh One hundred thirty and two pounds gross at the least that is to say One hundred and twelve pounds of Neat Butter and the Cask Twenty pounds The Firkin The Firkin of Butter ought to weigh Sixty and four pounds viz. Fifty and Six pounds of good Merchantable Butter Neat and the Cask Eight pounds And the Pot of Butter ought to weigh Twenty pounds The Pot. viz. Fourtéen pounds of good and Merchantable Butter Neat and the Pot Six pounds And whereas great Complaint hath béen made by the Traders in Butter and Chéese That by the Fraudulent dealing and practice of several Farmers Owners and Packers of Butter and by their irregular manner of weighing with Stones Iron Wedges Bricks and other unwarrantable Weights the same quantities of Butter are not put up into the respective Cask and Pots aforesaid and the Kilderkin is Commonly made to weigh Six and twenty pounds and sometimes Eight and twenty pounds and the Firkin to weigh Ten pounds or Twelve pounds and sometimes Thirtéen or fourtéen pounds weight and the Pots are made generally to weigh Seven pounds and some of them Eight pounds or Nine pounds weight and much bad and decayed Butter is mixed and Packed up into Kilderkins Firkins and other Cask and Pots with sound and Good Butter and immoderate quantities of Salt intermixed to the spoil of the same and to the great wrong and abuse of his Majesty in the Victualling of His Navy of Merchants in the Victualling of their Ships and of all Traders in the said Commodity and of all Housholders who buy the same for their expence and to the great dishonour of the English Nation in the parts beyond the Seas and to the bringing of the said Commodity into great disrepute abroad whereby it yields not that price nor is vented there in such quantities as otherwise it would For remedy whereof Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal A Kilderkin of Butter shall contain 112 l. besides the Cask and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That from and after the First day of June which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two every Kilderkin of Butter do and shall contain One hundred and twelve pounds Neat or above every pound containing sixtéen Ounces besides the Taxe of the Cask The Firkin 56. l. and not less of good and Merchantable Butter Every Firkin and Butter do and shall contain Fifty six pounds Neat or above besides the weight of the Cask of good and Merchantable Butter and every Pot of Butter do and shall contain fourtéen pounds Neat or above besides the weight of the Pot The Pot 14. l. of good and Merchantable Butter And that no Butter which is Old or Corrupt shall be mixed or packed up into any Kilderkin Firkin or other Cask Vessel or Pot whatsoever with any Butter which is New and Sound No old Butter shall be mixed with new nor any Whay-Butter shall be packed or mixed with any Butter that is made of Cream but that the said respective sorts of Butter shall be packed up severally and apart by themselves and shall not be mixed one with another and that every Cask or Pot of Butter shall be of one sort and goodness throughout such Cask and Pot Nor Whay-butter and that no Butter shall be salted with any great Salt but that all Butter shall be salted and saved with small Salt nor more Salt shall be intermixed with it then shall be néedful for its preservation The penalty upon pain and penalty that every Owner Farmer or Packer of Butter not putting up in each Kilderkin Firkin and Pot of Butter to be sold or to be exposed to sale respectively such quantities as aforesaid or offending in false packing as aforesaid for every such offence shall forfeit the value of all the Butter so false packed and for every offence where any Kilderkin Firkin or Pot shall be found to contain a lesser quantity of Butter then by this Act is appointed six times the value of every pound of Butter that shall be wanting in any such Cask or Pot. And to the intent that the benefit intended by this Act may be extended with full effect to all persons who do either cut out Butter by Retail or expend it Be it further Enacted
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
hereby Enacted Comodities of the growth and manufacture of Europe how to be imported in English built shipping That from and after the five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty four no Commodity of the Growth Production or Manufacture of Europe shall be Imported into any Land Island Plantation Colony Territory or Place to his Majesty belonging or which shall belong hereafter unto or be in the Possession of his Majesty his Heirs and Successors in Asia Africa or America Tangier only excepted but what shall be bona fide and without fraud Laden and Shipped in England Wales or the Town of Berwick upon Tweed and in English built Shipping or which were bona fide bought before the first day of October One thousand six hundred sixty and two and had such Certificate thereof as is directed in one Act passed the last Sessions of this present Parliament Entituled 14 Car. 2. c. 11 An Act for preventing Frauds and regulating Abuses in His Majesties Customs and whereof the Master and thrée Fourths of the Mariners at least are English and which shall be carried directly thence to the said Lands Islands Plantations Colonies Territories or Places and from no other place or places whatsoever Any Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding The penalty under the Penalty of the loss of all such Commodities of the Growth Production or Manufacture of Europe as shall be imported into any of them from any other place whatsoever by Land or Water And if by water of the ship or vessel also in which they were Imported with all her Guns Tackle Furniture Ammunition and Apparel one third part to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors one third part to the Governor of such Land Island Plantation Colony Territory or place into which such Goods were Imported if the said ship vessel or goods be there seised or informed against and sued for Or otherwise That third part also to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other third part to him or them who shall seise inform or sue for the same in any of his Majesties Courts in such of the said Lands Islands Colonies Plantations Territories or Places where the Offence was committed or in any Court of Record in England by Bill Information Plaint or other Action wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed Provided always and be it hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to ship and lade in such ships and so navigated as in the foregoing Clause is set down and expressed in any part of Europe Salt for the Fisheries of New-England and New-found-land Salt for Fisheries and to ship and lade in the Madera's Wines of the growth thereof and to ship and lade in the Western Islands or Azores Wines of the growth of the said Islands and to ship and take in Servants or Horses in Scotland or Ireland and to ship or lade in Scotland all sorts of Victual of the Growth or Production of Scotland and to ship or lade in Ireland all sorts of Victual of the Growth or Production of Ireland and the same to Transport into any of the said Lands Islands Plantations Colonies Territories or places Any thing in the foregoing Clause to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And for the better prevention of Frauds Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted Prevention of frauds That from and after the five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty and four every person or persons importing by Land any Goods or Commodities whatsoever into any the said Lands Islands Plantations Colonies Territories or Places shall deliver to the Governour of such Land Island Plantation Colony Territory or Place or to such person or Officer as shall be by him thereunto authorized and appointed within four and twenty hours after such Importation his and their Names and Sirnames and a true Inventory and particular of all such Goods or Commodities And no Ship or Vessel coming to any such Land Island Plantation Colony Territory or Place shall lade or unlade any Goods or Commodities whatsoever until the Master or Commander of such Ship or Vessel shall first have made known to the Governour of such Land Island Plantation Colony Territory or Place or such other person or Officer as shall be by him thereunto authorized and appointed the arrival of the said Ship or Vessel with her Name and the Name and Sirname of her Master or Commander and have shewen to him that she is an English-built Ship or made good by producing such Certificate as abovesaid that she is a Ship or Vessel bona fide belonging to England Wales or the Town of Berwick and navigated with an English Master and thrée fourth parts of the Mariners at least English-men and have delivered to such Governour or other person or Officer a true and perfect Inventory or Invoyce of her Lading together with the place or places in which the said Goods were laden or taken into the said Ship or Vessel under the pain of the loss of the Ship or Vessel with all her Guns Ammunition Tackle Furniture and Apparel and of all such Goods of the growth Production or Manufacture of Europe as were not bona fide laden and taken in in England Wales or the Town of Berwick to be recovered and divided in manner aforesaid And all such as are Governours or Commanders of any the said Lands Islands Plantations Colonies Territories or Places Tangier only excepted shall before the Five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty and four and all such as shall hereafter be made Governours or Commanders of any of them shall before their entrance upon the Execution of such trust or charge take a solemn Oath before such person or persons as shall be authorized by his Majesty his Heirs and Successors to administer the same to do their utmost within their respective Governments or Commands to cause to be well and truly observed what is in this Act Enacted in relation to the Trade of such Lands Islands Plantations Colonies Territories and Places under the penalty of being removed out of their respective Governments and Commands And if any of them shall be found after the taking of such Oath to have wittingly and willingly offended contrary to what is by this Act required of them That they shall for such offence be turned out of their Governments and be incapable of the Government of any other Land Island Plantation or Colony and moreover forfeit the sum of one thousand pounds of lawful money of England the one moyety to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that shall inform or sue for the same in any of his Majesties Courts in any of the said Plantations or in any Court of Record in England wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed Penalty upon Officers of the Customs And it is
Record at Westminster And no Lease Grant or Conveyance of or charge out of or upon the said Ninety five thousand Acres or any part thereof except Leases for seven years or under in possession shall be of force but from the time it shall be entred with the said Register as aforesaid the Entry whereof being endorsed by the said Register upon such Lease Grant Conveyance or Charge shall be as good and effectual in the Law as if the Original Book of Entries were produced at any Tryal at Law or otherwise And be it further Enacted That the said Governour Bayliffs and Commonalty shall Execute Estates according to the aforesaid Trust under their Common Seal the Taxes and Penalties then in Arrear being first paid which for non-payment are by vertue of this Act to be levied by Sale of the Lands And be it further Enacted Levying of taxes and penalties That for the Levying such Taxes and Penalties as are now in Arrear or at any time since the Thirtieth day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fifty and eight other then such as are hereby otherwise directed to be Levied or which shall be set and imposed upon the said Ninety five thousand Acres by vertue of this Act and shall be in Arrear upon the respective parts and proportions of the said Ninety five thousand Acres the said Governour Bayliffs and Conservators of the said Corporation and their Successors for the time being or any five or more of them whereof the said Governour and Bayliffs for the time being and their Successors or any of them to be two for levying such Taxes and Penalties which now are or shall be so in arrear upon the respective parts and proportions of the said Ninety five thousand Acres shall on Wednesday and Thursday in Whitsun-wéek or either of them every year at the Shire-House in Ely aforesaid in the said Isle of Ely have power only to sell so much of such parts and proportions of the said Ninety five thousand Acres upon which any Tax shall be in Arrear or penalties in such proportion as the said Governour Bailiffs and Conservators of the said Corporation or their Successors or any five or more of them whereof the said Governour and Bailiffs or any of them to be two shall judg to be sufficient to raise such Taxes and penalties by any writing under the Seal of the said Corporation and the person or persons to whom such Sales shall be made shall be a lawful Purchaser and Assignée of so much as shall be sold to all intents and purposes whatsoever Provided That by any colour of any sale for non-payment of Taxes Proviso for tenants at will or by leases any Tenant or Tenants at will or by Lease Indented upon improved Rent of any part of the said Ninety five thousand Acres shall not be removed from his or their possession until he or they shall have taken his or their Crop from off the Premisses so sold paying reasonable Rent proportionable to the time that such possession shall from and after such Sales be continued And such Tenant or Tenants as shall hold any part of the said Ninety five Thousand Acres by Lease as aforesaid shall and may if he or they shall think meet continue out their respective terms paying their Rent to such Purchaser in proportion to the quantity of Acres so purchased Any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Provided That the said Corporation nor their Successors shall not sell any part or proportion of the said Ninety five thousand Acres for any Tax or Penalty in arrear which Tax or Penalties shall not be in arrear by the space of four moneths next before the Sale nor any more Lands then only for the raising of such Taxes and Penalties Publick notice to be given of lands charged with arrears of taxes or penalties Provided also That the said Corporation shall give publick notice from time to time of the parts and proportions of the said Ninety five thousand Acres for which any Tax or Penalties is or shall be in arrear by affixing openly at the Shire-House or Market-place in Ely aforesaid a Schedule in Parchment under the Seal of the said Corporation containing such parts and proportions of the said Ninety five thousand Acres for which any Tax or Penalty is or shall be in arrear with the name and names of the respective Owner or Owners entred upon the Tax-Roll with the said Corporation of the said parts and proportions of the said Ninety five thousand Acres so in arrear And be it further Enacted That the said Corporation shall and may from time to time erect any new works within the said great Level New works may be made or without the said great Level for conveying the Waters of the said great Level by convenient Out-falls to the Sea so always that if they cut any several grounds they give full recompence and satisfaction for the same in such manner as shall be hereafter in this Act provided The penalty for throwing down any works And if any person or persons shall cut throw down or destroy any of the said Works made or to be made as aforesaid the parties offending shall answer treble damages to the said Corporation and Costs of Suit to be recovered in an Action of Trespass to be brought by the said Corporation in any of his Majesties Courts of Record And if such cutting throwing down or destroying shall be maliciously done the same shall be punished as for the cutting the Podyke in Marsh-Land The oath to be taken by the Governor Bailiffs and Conservators And be it further Enacted That the said William Earl of Bedford nominated to be Governour and every other from time to time into that Office chosen shall before he take upon him or them the exercise of that Office take an Oath That he will well and truly execute that Office in all things the which Oath shall and may be administred by the said Bailiffs or any one of them And the said Bailiffs Conservators Register Receiver or other Officer nominated as aforesaid and every other from time to time into any of the respective Offices to be chosen shall before he or they take upon him or them the exercise of the said respective Offices take the like Oath for the true executing their respective Offices the which Oath shall be administred by the said Governour Bayliffs and Conservators or any two or more of them without any Commission or further warrant The Governor Bailiffs and Conservators to be elected yearly And for the continuance of the said Corporation in Succession for ever Be it further Enacted That the said Governour Bayliffs Conservators and Commonalty upon Wednesday in Whitsun wéek yearly shall at a publick meeting to be holden for the said Corporation by the greater number then present whereof the said Governour or one of the Bailiffs to be one elect a new Governour
hold the same Lands Shares Lots parts and proportions as fully and effectually as if the said Governour Bayliffs and Conservators had executed respective Estates thereof subject nevertheless to such Decrée as the said Iudicature or Commissioners before nominated and appointed shall make touching or concerning the Premises and also subject to the payment of all Taxes to be laid and imposed by vertue of this Act and no other And whereas there are several sums of money amounting to Four thousand pounds or thereabouts in arrear for Taxes laid and imposed since the Nine and twentieth day of September 4000 l. in arrear for Taxes upon whom to be laid in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred fifty and eight upon several parts of the said Ninety five thousand acres subjected by this Act to the Iudicature aforesaid and for Penalties incurred for non-payment of the same by vertue or colour of some Act or authority or pretended Act or authority Be it therefore Enacted by the authority aforesaid That the said Commissioners or Iudicatory or any two of them aforesaid shall have Power and authority and are hereby required in such adjudication as they shall make touching the Lands subjected to their Iudicature as aforesaid to Direct Order and Decrée upon what Persons or Lands the said Sums of Money so in Arrear for Taxes and Penalties as aforesaid shall be charged and the said Taxes and Penalties shall be accordingly levyed upon such Persons or Lands and in such manner and by such ways and means as shall be Directed Ordered and Decréed by the Iudicature aforesaid or any two of them And as if such Direction Order and Decree had béen particularly hereby Enacted Complaints by particular persons and Parishes And whereas particular persons and Parishes do conceive and alledge That the Dreining of one place hath Drowned and made worse the Lands in other places And whereas divers persons likewise do alledge and complain That the said Ninety five thousand acres in many places are not indifferently set out or allotted according to the Law made at Lyn in the Sixth year of the late King Charles nor according to Agréement made with the Countrey But in many places greater quantities have béen taken from the Owners Commoners and Townships then ought to have béen And that some Lands have béen taken as belonging to one Parish and County which in truth did belong to another And in many places the allotments have béen taken very inconvenient for the Townships which ought not to have béen by the said Agréement And whereas the Dreining aforesaid and future maintenance of the said Great Level ought to be without prejudice to Navigation And because all Complaints which have béen made and all prejudices which have béen or shall be done to particular Persons Parishes and Places cannot by this Act be sufficiently provided for and remedied Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Sir John Tracy Knight Commissioners hearing the said Complaints and Differences Sir Charles Mordant Sir Nicholas L' Strange Baronets Sir William Hovel Knight Edward Pepis Humphrey Beddingfield Nicholas Stileman Esquires for the County of Norfolk Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight of the Bath Sir Lyonel Tolimach Baronet Sir John Duncombe Knight Sir Edmond Pooley Knight Sir George Reve Knight and Baronet Sir George Weneve Knight Thomas Waldegrave Esquire for the County of Suffolk Sir Dudley North Sir Thomas Wendy Knights of the Bath Levinus Bennet Esq Robert King John Pepis Doctors of the Law Thomas Crouch Francis North Esquires for the County of Cambridge Sir Thomas Sclater Baronet L' Strange Colthrop John Millecent Thomas Hall John Sotheby Esquires John Bing Esquire and William Wren Esquire for the Isle of Ely Sir Francis Compton Knight Robert Appreece Sutton Ashfield Esquires Anthony South Doctor of the Law Robert Payne Richard Nayler _____ Ferrers of Gedding Esquires for the County of Huntington Sir William Dudley Knight and Baronet Maurice Tresham Francis Kirkham Lewis Palmer Christopher Thursby Francis Lane George Tresham Esquires for the County of Northampton Sir Charles Hussey Sir John Newton Baronets Sir Thomas Meeres Sir Anthony Irby Knights Sir Anthony Oldfield Baronet Richard Brownlow Daniel Rhodes Esquires for the County of Lincoln shall be and are hereby made and constituted the present Commissioners for the purpose herein mentioned And for the supplying the number of the Commissioners of the said respective Counties in case of death or other avoidance or incapacity Be it also Enacted That within Thrée moneths after such death or Notice of such avoidance or incapacity of the remaining Commissioners of each respective County of which such Commissioners who died or became incapable were or the major part of them shall from time to time nominate and appoint by Déed under their Hands and Seals to be enrolled in Chancery some other person or persons residing within the said County of which the said Commissioners who died or became incapable The Power and Authority of the said Commissioners were to be Commissioners in the place and stead of him or them so dying or becoming incapable which said Commissioners hereby constituted or hereafter to be constituted in manner aforesaid or any seven or more of them be are and shall be hereby Authorized and Impowred from time to time to hear and determine such Complaints Controversies Differences and Grievances as are in this Act expressed relating to or concerning or occasioned by the Dreining and Maintaining the said Great Level of any Parish or Township or of any person or persons as well within or without the said Level in such manner as is herein after expressed And that the said Commissioners hereby constituted or hereafter to be constituted in manner aforesaid or any seven or more of them shall from time to time have power and authority and are hereby required at or before the Eight and twentieth day of September which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and six to give or make satisfaction out of the said Ninety five thousand Acres to such Parish or Township Person or Persons whose Lands or Interest therein either within or without the said Level shall after the First day of May One thousand six hundred sixty and thrée be made worse in quality or condition by the aforesaid Dreining or Works then they were before the Vndertaking the Dreining of the said Level in the Sixth year of the Reign of our late King Charles of blessed memory and proportionable to the Losses the owners of or persons interessed in such Lands shall hereafter receive by reason of their Lands being made worse in Quality or Condition by any such Works and Dreining as aforesaid and shall also have power at any time within Four years from the Four and twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and thrée to alter change and restore such parts and parcels of the said Ninety five thousand Acres as
be lawful for the said Commissioners for the time being or any seven or more of them from time to time and at all times to Assess Taxes or Sums of Money upon the said Ninety five thousand Acres for the raising money for Draining the same again in such proportion as they or any seven or more of them shall think fit together with a penalty for not paying the said Taxes the said penalty not excéeding a third part of such Tax How lands may be sold for non-payment of Taxes or penalties And for default of payment of the said Taxes or Sums of money and penalties Be it Enacted That the Lot and Share of such Participant or Adventurer of and within the said Ninety five thousand Acres as shall be in arrear for the said Tax sum of money or penalty and unpaid by the space of two moneths next after the day appointed for payment by the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them or so much thereof as they shall think fit shall be Sequestred by the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them for or towards the payment of such Tax sum of money or penalty so in arrear restoring the overplus of the money for which such Lot or Share or any part thereof shall be Sequestred if any be Which Sequestration shall be made in writing under the hands and seals of the said Commissioners for the time being or any seven or more of them Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case the said Governor Bayliffs and Corporation constituted by this Act shall neglect or refuse to pay such Tax or Taxes and penalties sum or sums of money as shall from time to time hereafter be taxed and imposed by the said Commissioners before named or to be named by vertue of this Act or any seven or more of them pursuant to the Powers given them by this Act whereupon the Goods and Chattels of any person or persons his or their Tenant or Tenants of and in the said Ninety five thousand acres or any part thereof shall be distrained or sold or his or their Lands Sequestred for the payment thereof or that such person or persons his or their Tenant or Tenants shall thereupon pay the said Tax and Taxes and penalties so assessed and imposed as aforesaid That then the said Governour Bayliffs and Corporation immediately from and after notice to him or them given thereof shall Assess and Tax the whole Ninety five thousand Acres for the satisfaction and payment of the Tax Taxes and penalties sum and sums of money and all damages that such person or persons his or their Tenant or Tenants hath or have paid born or sustained as aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if the said Governour Bayliffs and Corporation shall not within six moneths next after demand made by such person or persons his and their Heirs Executors and Administrators whose own or Tenant or Tenants Goods and Chattels shall be distrained or sold or Lands sequestred as aforesaid pay and satisfie unto him or them such sum and sums of money and damages as he or they and his and their respective Tenant or Tenants have respectively paid born and sustained That then and from thenceforth such person and persons his and their Heirs and Assigns shall and may bring his and their Action or Actions of Debt in any of the Kings Majesties Courts at Westminster against the said Governour Bayliffs and Corporation for the recovery thereof and by vertue of this Act shall recover the same and be allowed Costs of Suit expended therein And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners so constituted or to be hereafter constituted as aforesaid or any seven or more of them for the better execution of the Powers hereby given shall may inform themselves by examining Witnesses upon Oath which hereby they or any seven or more of them shall have power to administer due execution of all every or any the Powers or Authorities hereby given them for the doing Iustice therein accordingly The Commissioners to take an Oath Provided always That the said Commiâ—â—ioners and every of them before he or they take upon him or them the execution of any the Powers or Authorities hereby given them other then the administring the Oath following to one another which they shall have authority by this present Act to administer to one another shall take the Oath following viz. I A. B. shall and will without favour or affection hatred or malice truly and impartially according to the best of my skill and knowledg execute and perform all and every the Powers and Authorities established by this Act of Parliament Which Oath any one of the said Commissioners are hereby authorized to administer And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Iudgments Orders Decrées Determinations Alterations Changes Restaurations and other Acts done by the said Commissioners hereby constituted or hereafter to be constituted as aforesaid or of any seven or more of them respectively pursuant to the Powers and Authorities by this Act given shall be final And that the first time and place of their Méeting shall be at or before the Two and twentieth day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and thrée at Ely And that afterwards the usual places where the said Commissioners shall sit to Hear Order The Places where the Commissioners shall sit and Determine the Matters to them referred by this Act shall from the 29th of September to the 26th day of March in every year be at the Town of Huntington and from the 25th day of March till the 30th day of September in every year be at Ely unless the said Commissioners hereby constituted or hereafter to be constituted as aforesaid or any seven or more of them shall appoint some other place or places being a Market Town or Towns And the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them shall by Warrant under their hands and seals declare the places and times of their after-méeting which Warrant shall be published in the open Market of such respective places where they last sate betwéen the hours of Twelve Two upon some Market day one moneth at the least before the said time or times of méeting To the end all persons concerned may have sufficient time and notice to make their appearance before them upon any cause of complaint or other occasion And shall have power and authority by Warrant under the hands and seals of any seven or more of them to summon Parties and Witnesses to appear before them Provided That none of the said Commissioners hereby constituted or hereafter to be constituted as aforesaid shall Vote or give his Iudgment or Determination in any matter or thing which concerns the Division and Bounds of the County of or for which he is appointed Commissioner Provided also That no person who
hath any Part Share or Interest in Possession or Reversion of or in any Mannors or Lands within the said Level shall be a Commissioner And in case of Descent Gift Devise or Purchase of any such Part Share or Interest to or by any of the said Commissioners It is hereby Declared and Enacted That immediately after such Descent Gift Devise or Purchase to or by any such Commissioner The said Descent Gift Devise or Purchase shall be an avoidance of his being a Commissioner and shall make him be incapable of being again nominated or appointed a Commissioner whilst his Interest doth remain Provided also and the said Commissioners for the time being or any seven or more of them shall from time to time and at all times have power and authority to give and make satisfaction out of the Ninety five thousand Acres to such person or persons whose Lands or Interest therein by any New Works hereafter to be made by the said Corporation without the said Level for conveying of the Waters of the said Level by convenient Outfals to the Sea shall be made worse in quality condition or value then they were before the said Vndertaking in the said Sixth year of the said late King Charles proportionable to the loss and damage the Parties shall receive thereby Owners of Wastes and Commons may improve And to the end that the Owners of the Commons and Wastes in the said Level and other Towns Parishes and places unto which the Works aforesaid or any of them do extend may improve the same by making Divisions and Inclosures Be it Provided and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons Body Politique or Corporate whatsoever their Heirs and Successors that are or shall be Lords of Mannors or have or shall have right of Common in the said Wastes to Improve Set out Inclose Divide and Sever such Proportion or Proportions as to them shall or may severally or respectively belong or appertain or be adjudged and allotted out of the said Commons and Wastes within the said Level or within any Town Parish or place into which the Works aforesaid or any of them do extend And to hold such proportion in severalty at all times of the year and all Differences that shall arise concerning the Boundaries of the Wastes Rights of Common Approvements Allotments Divisions and Inclosures shall from time to time and at all times be Determined Adjudged and finally ended by the said Commissioners for the time being or any seven or more of them upon their View or Examination of Witnesses upon Oath which they are hereby Authorized to Administer or upon both and hearing of the Parties concerned by their Adjudication under their Hands and Seals in Writing which Determination and Iudgment being Certified into the Petty-bag there to be Filed and kept on Record shall be final and conclusive unto all parties And the Allotments Divisions and Proportions so Adjudged or Decréed to be held by the said respective persons to whom they are so Set out shall be held by him or them and his and their Heirs Executors and Assigns respectively according to his or their Tenure or Tenures Estate Title or Interest they had in the Mannors Tenements and Lands for which they Claimed the said Proportions of Common as abovesaid paying such Fines and Rents and doing such Services in proportion for the same as by Custom or otherways they are to pay or do and do for the Mannors Tenements and Lands for which they Claim the same proportion having such respect to the yearly values of the one and the other as shall if néed so require be limited by seven or more of the Commissioners Provided also and be it Enacted That it shall and may be lawful to and for such person and persons as were heretofore Owners of the One hundred seventy five Acres in Sutton North and South Meadland in the said Isle of Ely Sutton Meadland set out by the said Law of St. Ives as a Recompence for Dreining the whole North and South Meadlands containing about One thousand Acres their Heirs or Assigns to sue and implead before the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them the Owners and Occupiers of the said North and South Meadlands or elsewhere within the said Great Level to draw them into Contribution for their several and respective Proportions of the said North and South Meadlands towards the said One hundred seventy five Acres And the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them shall thereupon Adjudge and Decrée unto the said Owners of the said One hundred seventy five Acres or such of them as they shall think fit and to their Heirs and Assigns such recompence and satisfaction either in ready Money yearly Rent or Land out of the residue of the said North and South Meadlands as to the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them shall séem méet to be held and enjoyed by the said Owners of the said One hundred seventy five Acres their Heirs and Assigns Provided always and be it Enacted That it shall and may be lawful to and for Sir John Watts Knight and others who derive any interest under the Dreyners of that Fenn called Londoners Fenn his and their Heirs and Assigns to sue and implead all and every person and persons their Executors and Administrators that have taken and received the rents and profits of his or their share and proportion of Londoners Fenn Londoners Fenn remaining from the share and proportion allotted and set out by the said Law of St. Ives since the said Level was adjudged Dreined and to sue for and recover the same in any of his Majesties Courts at Westminster and also that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Sir John Watts and the Participants aforesaid his and their Heirs and Assigns heretofore Owners of the several proportions in Londoners Fenn set out by St. Ives Law for the Adventurers recompence for Dreyning the low Grounds in Upwell Upwell Outwell Welney Outwell and Welney to pursue and prosecute before the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them their claim and sue for relief against the owners or occupiers of the Fenny and low surrounded Grounds lying in Upwell Outwell and Welney aforesaid whose Grounds did not all contribute or not in equal proportion to the said Ninety five thousand Acres to draw them into Contribution in ease of the said Sir John Watts and the Participants aforesaid and thereupon the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them are hereby impowred to adjudge and decrée unto the said Sir John Watts and the Participants aforesaid his and their Heirs and Assigns such proportion out of the said Grounds which have not equally contributed as aforesaid as to the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them shall séem méet Provided always and be it Enacted that it shall and may be lawful for the Kings
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
Trusts and shall likewise take a Corporal Oath before one or more of the Barons of the Exchequer or before such persons as shall be authorised to take such Security and Oath by Commission from the said Court of Exchequer for the due and faithful execution thereof according to the Laws Enacted to that purpose And that they shall not exact or demand any Fée or sum of money for execution thereof from any Subject but onely from the Kings Majesty under pain of being disabled to execute the said Office or Imployment And upon legal Conviction of any such Crime to render treble damage to the party grieved And shall sign and deliver Acquittances for moneys by them received without any Fée or Reward whatsoever And every such Acquittance shall be a final Discharge as in the said first Act is provided And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person occupying any Hearth or Stove chargeable to his Majesty shall leave or relinquish any House Edifice Lodging or Chamber before any of the half-yearly Feasts whereon the same is appointed to be paid to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors In every such case the next Occupier thereof shall be chargeable with the same for the said half year And if any person shall fraudulently stop up deface cover or conceal any Chimney-Hearth or Stove chargeable by the said Act and the same be proved either by confession of the party or upon Oath before one Iustice of Peace or chief Magistrate or by their view he shall for such offence pay double the value of the Duty for the same to be levied as aforesaid And be it likewise Enacted That if any person within one year last past hath or hereafter shall let the Lands Gardens Orchards or Out-houses formerly belonging to any Dwelling-house or Cottage apart from the same or shall divide any house into several dwellings or let out the same to any such persons who by reason of their poverty may pretend to be exempted from payment of the said Duty by any Clause or Clauses in the former Acts That in every such case such person shall pay the said Duty in as ample manner as they ought to have done before that time And that no person or persons inhabiting any Dwelling-house not being an Alms-house exempted by the former Act within any City Burrough Corporation Market-Town or Parish which hath or shall have in it more than two Chimneys Fire-hearths or Stoves shall be exempted from payment of the Duties thereon imposed by colour of any exemption or pretext whatsoever And if any question or difference shall arise about the taking any Distress or levying any money by vertue of this Act the same shall be heard and finally determined by one or more of the Iustices of the Peace near adjoyning or chief Magistrate of the place respectively upon complaint in that behalf And be it further Enacted That every Collector who shall be authorised and appointed by vertue of this Act to receive any of the said Duties shall truly answer and pay all such moneys as he shall receive for the said Duties into his Majesties Receipt of Exchequer half-yearly within Thrée moneths after the Feast of Saint Michael the Arch-Angel or the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary happening next after the time the same moneys grew due to his Majesty by vertue of the said Acts and under the penalty of the loss of his Office And the Iustices of Peace and chief Magistrates Constables and other his Majesties Officers within their several Limits and Iurisdictions are hereby authorised and required to give assistance from time to time to such Officers as shall be appointed by his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for the collecting of the said Duty according to the true meaning of the said former Acts and this present Act. Provided That no person or persons shall be questioned for any arrears due on or before our Lady day One thousand six hundred sixty four who shall produce to the Collector a Certificate approved or to be approved of by the two next Iustices of Peace for their exemption from the said Duty for that time according to the Rules prescribed in the said first recited Act nor any person who hath truly paid the said Duty and shall if it be required make proof thereof before any one Iustice of Peace or other chief Magistrate of the place Any thing therein contained or any Return made into his Majesties Exchequer to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every such Officer or Officers as shall be at any time appointed by his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for the collecting gathering and receiving of the several sums of money now or hereafter to grow due unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for or in respect of the said Duty arising upon the Fire-hearths and Stoves shall satisfie and pay unto the respective Petty-Constables and Clerks of the Peace of this Kingdom all such allowances as are by any former Act or Acts given and allowed unto them as well for their pains and labour heretofore as hereafter to be taken by them as in and by the former Acts concerning Fire-hearths and Stoves are limited and appointed Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding CAP. IV. Seditious Conventicles suppressed WHereas an Act made in the Five and thirtieth year of the Reign of our late Soveraign Lady Quéen Elizabeth entituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience 35 El. cap. 1. declared to be in force hath not béen put in due Execution by reason of some doubt of late made whether the said Act be still in force although it be very clear and evident And it is hereby Declared That the said Act is still in force and ought to be put in due execution For providing therefore of further and more spéedy remedies against the growing and dangerous practises of Seditious Sectaries Further remedy against Seditious Sectaries and other disloyal persons who under pretence of Tender Consciences do at their Méetings contrive Insurrections as late Experience hath shewed Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That if any person of the age of Sixtéen years or upwards being a Subject of this Realm at any time after the first day of July which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and four shall be present at any Assembly Conventicle or Méeting Vnlawful Conventicles and Meetings under pretence of exercise of Religion forbidden under colour or pretence of any exercise of Religion in other manner then is allowed by the Liturgy or practice of the Church of England in any place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick
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
Cardiffe sir Richard Lloyd Knight Arthur Trevor Esquire sir Edward Mansel sir Edward Stradling sir Edward Thomas Baronets sir John Awbry Knight and Baronet sir VVilliam Lewis sir Thomas Lewis sir Richard Basset Knights John Greenuff Evan Seys Sergeant at Law William Basset Doctor of Laws Robert Thomas Miles Button Thomas Lewis William Basset of Bewpre William Herbert of Swansey Edmond Thomas Bussy Mansel Herbert Evans Thomas Matthew Humphrey Windham David Jenkins Gabriel Lewis William Thomas Thomas Stradling Thomas Carne John Van John Gibbs Tho. Thomas David Matthew Lamerock Stradling Thomas Evans Edmond Gammage Richard Loughers VVilliam Herbert of Killy-Bebel John Carne Henry Basset Edward Herbert of Cogan David Evans John Lewellin Merioneth For the County of Merioneth Maurice VVilliams Esquire High Sheriff sir Richard Wynne Baronet sir John Owen sir Richard Lloyd sir John Wynne Knights William Salisbury VVilliam Price William Vaughan of Corseggedal Lewis Lloyd Howel Vaughan Maurice Wynne Vincent Corbet John Pugh John Lloyd Hugh Nanney Robert Wynne Roger Mostin Richard Wynne Griffith Lloyd Lewis Owen William Vaughan of Caithle Iohn Nanney Edmond Meirick Humphrey Hughes Ioh. Vaughan Rowland Vaughan Rich. Anwil Ellis Edwards VVill. Tueir Ioh. Morgans Esq Iohn Owen of Hanwooddowilth Rich. Jones Anthony Poole Griffith-Iohn Lewis Richard Nanney Gent. Henry Wynne Morrice Williams Esquires Evan Lloyd of Rhiwgech Richard Lloyd of Carrog Gentlemen Montgomery For the County of Montgomery sir Iohn Witterong High Sheriff sir Henry Herbert Edward Herbert Andrew Newport Esquires sir Matthew Price sir Richard Corbet Baronets sir Edward Lloyd Knight Iohn Pursell Richard Herbert Richard Owen Robert Layton John Blayney John Pugh Francis Buller Charles Salisbury Edmond Waring John Price of Parke Roger Mostin Matthew Morgan William Penrid junior Thomas Maurice Edward Glyn of Glin Edward Evans of Rhidicorrow John Whitingham David Powel Thomas Juckes John Mathews the elder John Mathews the younger Edward Edwards of Collfrin John Bladwell Tho. Winde Tho. Corbet Robert Lee Tho. Jones Henry Pursell Vincent Peirce VVilliam Eyton Richard Mitton John Kiffin Francis Fitzherbert Edward Price of Glanmahely Robert Griffiths Arthur Wevor William Browne Edward Herbert Esquires Evan Vaughan Llodowick Lewis Iohn Bright of Mellington Meredith Lloyd of Brynellen Iohn Oakley Rowland Oakley Edward Wittingham Samuel Biggs Humphrey Nicholas Iohn Lloyd of Coney Hugh Davyes of Trewilan Ellis Lloyd Iohn Bunner Henry Griffiths of Benthall Morgan Evans Gentlemen Haverford West For the Town and County of Haverford West The Mayor for the time being Sir William Moreton Knight One of His Majesties Serjeants at Law Sir John Stepney Baronet Sir Hugh Owen Knight and Baronet Rowland Laughorne William Philips Richard Walter George Haward Thomas Cozens Esquires VVilliam Williams Henry Bowen Lewis Barron John Williams William Brown Aldermen William Davies Esquire John Barlow John Thomas Matthew Prynn William Williams junior John Lloyd Richard Jones Gabriel Wade Gentlemen Pembrook For the County of Pembrook Sir William Moreton Knight one of His Majesties Sergeants at Law Sir Erasmus Philipps Sir John Stepney Baronets Sir Hugh Owen Sir John Lort Knights and Baronets Sir Harbert Perrott Knight Griffith Dawes Arthur Owen Essex Megrick Rowland Laughorne Hugh Owen Lewis Barlow Hugh Bowen Henry White William Philipps Walter Cuny James Bowen Isaac Lloyd George Haward William Scouerfield William Mordant Thomas Corbert David Morgan James Lloyd George Owen Esquires Thomas Warren Thomas Powell Hugh Laughorne Thomas Owen John Matthias John Laughorne Thomas Wogan John Lort William Owen of Camdog Thomas Lloyd John Thomas Town of Pembrook For the Town of Pembrook The Mayor for the time being Matthew Bowen Richard Browne Gentlemen Town of Tenby For the Town of Tenby The Mayor for the time being Richard Wyat Rice Barrow David Palmer Gentlemen Radnor For the County of Radnor Sir Richard Lloyd Knight Arthur Trevor Esquire Sir Henry Williams Baronet Sir Edward Harley Knight of the Bath Sir Robert Harley Knight George Gwyn Richard Fowler James Price Thomas Corbet Henry Williams Lewis Morgan John Wallcott Thomas Harley Samuel Powell Nicholas Tayler Evan Davies Andrew Philipps Charles Lewis Henry Probert Herbert Weston James Beck One of His Majesties Sergeants at Arms Henry Stedman Griffith Jones Hugh Powell Richard Meredith Thomas Ecleston Robert Cutler Esquires Francis Rickards John Rickards Rowland Higgins Gentlemen The Bailiff of New-Radnor for the time being Marmaduke Bull Gentleman And be it further Enacted and Declared That the several Commissioners aforesaid shall méet together at the most usual and common place of meeting within each of the said Counties How the Commissioners shall meet and divide themselves Cities Boroughs Towns and Places respectively on or before the tenth day of March now next ensuing And the said Commissioners or so many of them as shall be present at the said first General Meeting or the Major part of them are hereby authorized and required to put this present Act in execution according to the best of their Iudgments and Discretions and shall then if they see cause subdivide and distribute themselves so into lesser numbers as two or more of the said Commissioners may be appointed for the service of each Hundred or other Division and as may best conduce to the carrying on of His Majesties service hereby required And for the more effectual performance thereof Be it Enacted and Declared Their power within the several Divisions and Hundreds That the Commissioners at their foresaid first General Meeting or the Major part of them shall agrée and set down in writing who and what number of the said Commissioners shall act in each of the said Divisions or Hundreds To the end that there be no failer in any part of the due execution of the service by this Act required And be it Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners within the several Divisions or Hundreds or any two or more of them are hereby authorised and required to cause the said several Proportions charged on the respective Divisions and on every Parish and Place therein for the said thrée years Assessment to be equally assessed and taxed And to appoint two or more Assessors in each Parish or Place for the perfecting thereof who are hereby required with all care and diligence to assess the same equally by a Pound-rate upon all Lands Tenements Hereditaments Annuities Rents Parks Warrens Goods Chattels Stock Merchandize Offices other then Iudicial and Military Offices and Offices relating to the Navy under the Command of the Lord High Admiral and Offices within His Majesties Houshold Tolls Profits and all other Estates both Real and Personal within the Limits Circuits and Bounds of their respective Parishes and Places And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid 2064â—8 l. â—6 s. 08 d. the first three moneths payment how to be paid That the sum of Two hundred and six thousand four hundred fifty and eight pounds six shillings eight pence being the first of the said twelve quarterly Payments hereby imposed shall be assessed collected levied
their duty in execution of this Act. And be it further Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid That if any Person or Persons shall wilfully neglect or refuse to perform his or their duty in the due and speedy execution of this present Act the said respective Commissioners or any Three or more of them have hereby Power to impose on such Person or Persons so refusing or neglecting their duties such Fine or Fines as to them shall be thought fit and to cause the same to be levied by Distress and Sale of his and their Goods Provided that no Fine to be imposed by any of the said Commissioners shall for any one Offence exceed the Sum of Twenty pounds And that all Fines that shall be imposed by vertue of this Act shall be paid to the respective Receivers-General and by them to the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer Collectors and Sub-collectors receiving mony and not paying the same And it is further Enacted and Declared That if any Collector or Sub-collector that shall by vertue of this Act be appointed for the Receipt of any Sum or Sums of Money thereby to be Assessed shall neglect or refuse to pay any Sum or Sums of Money which shall by him be received as aforesaid and not pay the same as in and by this Act is directed and shall detain in his or their hands any money received by them or any of them and not pay the same as by this Act is directed the Commissioners of each County City or Town respectively or any Two or more of them in their respective Divisions are hereby Authorised and Impowred to imprison the Person and seize and secure the Estate both Real and Personal of such Collector or Sub-collector to them respectively belonging or which shall descend or come into the hands or possession of their Heirs Executors or Administrators where-ever the same can be discovered and found And the said Commissioners who shall so seize and secure the Estate of any Collector or Sub-collector shall be and are hereby impowred to appoint a time for the general Meeting of the Commissioners of such County City or Town and there to cause publick notice to be given at the place where such Meeting shall be appointed ten days at least before such General Meeting And the Commissioners present at such General Meeting or the major part of them in case the Moneys detained by Collectors or Sub-collectors be not paid or satisfied as it ought to be according to the Directions of this Act shall and are hereby impowred and required to sell and dispose of all such Estates which shall be for the cause aforesaid seized and secured or any part of them and satisfie and pay such County and Place the Sum that shall be so detained in the hands of such Collector or Sub-collector and return the Overplus deducting necessary Charges to such Collector or Sub-collector their Heirs Executors and Administrators respectively Collectors and Sub-collectors to be called to give an accompt to the Commissoners at the expiration of this Act. And it is hereby further Enacted and Declared That at the expiration of the respective times in this Act prescribed for the full payment of the said quarterly Assessments the several and respective Commissioners or any Two of them within their Division and Hundred shall and are hereby required to call before them the chief Collectors and Sub-collectors within each respective Division and Hundred to examine and assure themselves of the full and whole Payment of the particular Sum and Sums of Money charged upon the said Division Hundred and every Parish and Place therein and of the due Return of the same into the hands of the Receivers-General of the said County City Town and Place respectively And by such Receiver-General to the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer to the end there may be no failer in the payment of any part of the Assessment by vertue of this Act to be assessed and paid nor any Aâ—rears remain chargeable upon any the said Counties Cities Towns or places respectively And in case of any faileriâ—n the premisses the said Commissioners or any Two of them are hereby to cause the same to be forthwith levied and paid according to the true intent and meaning of this Act. Commissioners concerned in any Controversie to withdraw and not vote And it is hereby Enacted and Declared That in case any Controversie arise concerning the said Assessments or the dividing apportioning or payment thereof which concern any of the Commissioners by this Act appointed that the Commissioners so concerned in the said Controversie shall have no Voice but shall withdraw at the time of the Debate of any such Controversie until it be determined by the rest of the Commissioners No exemption of any priviledged Place or Person Fee-Farm Rents And be it hereby Enacted and Declared That no Priviledged Place or Person Body Politick or Corporate within the Counties Cities and Towns aforesaid shall be exempted from the said Assessments and Taxes and that they and every of them and also all Fée-Farm Rents and all other manner of Rents Payments sums of moneys and Annuities issuing out of any Lands within City or County shall be liable towards the payment of every sum by this Act to be taxed and levied And all the Tenants of every Fée-Farm Rent other Rent sums of money or Annuities aforesaid are hereby directed and authorised to pay them proportionably according to the Rates and Assessments by this Act appointed and directed And all such Tenants shall be hereby saved and kept harmless by authority of this Act from any further payment of such portion of any such Rent Rents Sums or Annuities either to the Exchequer or to any other person or persons to whom any such Rent Rents Sums of Moneys or Annuities as aforesaid should or ought to be paid to all intents or purposes whatsoever as fully and as amply as if they had paid the same into the Exchequer or to any person or persons to whom the same is reserved or become due Provided Proviso for Colledges and Halls in the Vniversities Windsor Eaton Winton Westminster Hospitals c. That nothing contained in this Act shall be extended to charge any Colledge or Hall in either of the Vniversities or the Colledges of VVindsor Eaton VVinton or VVestminster or any Hospitals for or in respect of the Scites of the said Colledges or Halls or Hospitals nor any Master Fellow or Schollar of any such Colledge or Hall or in any other Free-Schooles or any Reader Officer or Minister of the said Vniversities Colledges or Schooles or of any Hospitals or Alms-houses for or in respect of any stipend wages or profit whatsoever arising or growing due to them in respect of the said several Places and Imployments in the said Vniversities Colledges Schooles Hospitals or Alms-houses nor to Charge any of the Houses or Lands belonging to Christ's Hospital Saint Bartholomewes Bridewell Saint Thomas and Bethlehem Hospital
in the City of London and Burrough of Southwark or any of them for or in respect of any Rents or Revenues payable to the said Hospitals being to be received and disbursed for the immediate use and relief of the Poor in the said Hospitals Provided That no Tenants that hold or enjoy any Lands or Houses by Lease Tenants to be assessed for the over value of their Lands or any other Grant from any of the said Hospitals do claim and enjoy any freedom exemption or advantage by this Act but that all the Houses and Lands which they so hold shall be rated and assessed for so much as they are yearly worth over and above the Rents reserved and payable to the said Hospitals Provided also London That where any Person inhabiting within the City of London hath his dwelling house in one of the Parishes or Wards therein and hath any Goods Wares or Merchandize in one or more of the other Parishes or Wards within the same that then such Person shall be charged taxed and assessed for such his Goods or Merchandize in the Parish or Ward where he dwelleth and not elsewhere in the said City Provided nevertheless That no Clause or Proviso in this Act shall extend to the lessening or abatement of the full sum by this Act appointed to be taxed levied and paid There shall be no abatement of the full sum in this Act. but that the same be fully assessed taxed levied collected and paid in the several and respective Counties Cities and Towns aforesaid in such manner and form and to such uses as herein before mentioned and declared And that the several and respective Commissioners The Commissioners to give accompt to the Lord Treasurer and every of them shall from time to time give a true and perfect accompt of all their doings and procéedings in the execution of this Act to the said Lord Treasurer or to other such Persons as His Maiesty shall appoint Provided alwayes and be it hereby Enacted and Declared Assessing by a pound-rate That in case the way or manner of assessing by a Pound-rate shall prove any way prejudicial or obstructive to the said spéedy bringing in of the Assessment or any part thereof appointed by this Act that then and in all such cases the respective Commissioners or any two of them are hereby authorized to order and direct their respective Assessors who are hereby required to procéed accordingly to assess the respective Sums charged on the respective Counties Cities and Burroughs Towns and places mentioned in this Act according to the most just and usual way of Rates held and practised in such Counties Cities Burroughs Towns and places respectively Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof contained in any wise notwithstanding Provided always That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to alter change determine Contracts and Covenants between Landlord and Tenant or make void any Contracts Covenants or Agréements whatsoever between the Landlord and Tenant touching the payment of Taxes or Assessments any thing herein before mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and be it further Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid All places and divisions to be rated as formerly That for the avoiding of all obstructions and delays in collecting the sums by this Act to be rated and assessed all Places Constablewicks Divisions and Allotments which have used to be rated and assessed shall pay and be assessed in such County Hundred Rape and Wapentake as the same hath heretofore usually béen assessed in and not elsewhere 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 Persons sued for executing this Act may give the general issue in Evidence 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 Non-suit or forbear further Prosecution or suffer Discontinuance or if a Verdict passe against him the 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 Treble-Costs Proviso for Salop and Stafford Provided alwayes That nothing in this Act shall extend or he construed to invalidate a Decree lately made in the high Court of Chancery for the quieting of Suits between the Counties of Salop and Stafford and for the setling all future Payments to be imposed on certain Lands in Sheriff-Hales with the County of Salop Sheriff-Hales And for exempting the said Lands from paying hereafter with the County of Stafford But that the said Decrée shall remain in such and no other force as it did before the making of this Act any thing herein to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Spiritual Promotions and all Lands Spiritual promotions and lands c. Possessions or Revenues annexed to and all Goods and Chattels growing or renewed upon the same or elsewhere appertaining to the Owners of the said Spiritual Promotions or any of them which are or shall be charged or made contributory by this Act towards the Payments aforesaid during the time therein appointed shall be absolutely freed and discharged from the two last of the four Subsidies granted by the Clergy to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors by an Act made in a former Session of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for confirming of four Subsidies granted by the Clergy 15 Car. 2. cap. 10. Any clause or thing in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding Head-collectors shall give acquittances without fee. Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the several Head-Collectors which shall be appointed according to this Act shall from time to time at every Payment appointed thereby give unto the several Sub-collectors within their respective Precints upon the Payment of the whole Sum due at such times of Payment from their respective Parishes Constablewicks or places within each of their Collections several Acquittances under their Hands without taking any thing for the same And that in like manner at every time of Payment appointed by this Act Receiver-General the Receiver-General of each County shall give unto the several Head-Collectors aforesaid upon the Payment of the whole Sum due for their Hundred or Division respectively at each time of Payment aforesaid several Acquittances under their Hands and Seals without taking any thing for the same which said Acquittances of the Head-collectors shall be a full and perfect Discharge to the Sub-collectors And the said Acquittances of the Receiver-General shall be a sufficient Discharge to the Head-collectors and
Merchant and of the Staple VVHereas the Security by Statute-Merchant and of the Staple is now become of little use and benefit by the fraud of the Conusors thereof in sundry Cases who to prevent the payment of their Debts secretly assign small parts of their Lands to several and unknown persons And it having been used that if the Creditor take Execution on such Statute yet if the Lands of any one or more person or persons to whom such alienation was made and liable to such Execution be omitted out of such extent The same execution hath been avoided by Audita Quaerela Executions avoided by Audita Quaerela and the party extending lost his Costs and was delayed of his iust Debt and so again upon any new extent toties quoties And if any one Acre or Parcel of Land happened to descend to an Infant the whole execution was deferred till full age of such Infant And if afterwards other part of the Lands or Tenements liable to such Debt descended to another Infant then also a farther delay happened during that Infancy also 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 For what causes extents upon Iudgments or Statutes shall not be avoided or delayd and by the Authority of the same That when any Iudgment Statute or Recognizance shall be extended the same shall not be avoided or delayed by occasion that any part of the Lands or Tenements extendible are or shall be omitted out of such extent saving alwayes to the Party and Parties whose Lands shall be extended his and their Heirs Executors and Assigns his and their remedy for contribution against such person and persons whose Lands are or shall be omitted out of such extent from time to time Proviso for Heirs within age Provided always that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be construed to give any Extent or Contribution against any Heir within the age of one and twenty years during such Minority of such Heir for or in respect of any Lands to such Heir descended farther or otherwise then might have béen before the making of this Act. To what statutes and extents only this Act shall extend The continuance of this Act. Provided that this Act extend only to such Statutes as are or shall be for payment of Moneys And to such extent as shall be within twenty years after the Statute Recognizance or Iudgment had and obtained Provided that this Act shall continue for the space of thrée years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament and no longer CAP. VI. Part of an Act of Parliament Entituled An Act directing the prosecution of such as are accomptable for Prize-goods repealed 14 Car. 2. cap. 14. Directions for recovery of Prize-goods not accompted â—or WHereas by an Act made in this present Parliament entituled An Act directing the prosecution of such as are accomptable for Prize-goods It is amongst other things Enacted That all and every Admirals Vice-Admirals Captains of Ships Officers and Mariners that did surprise or receive to or for the publique use or by pretence thereof any Ships Plate Iewels Bullion Money Silver Gold Arms Ammunition Waxes Merchandizes or any manner of Goods whatsoever seized or taken for Prize betwixt the thirtieth of January One thousand six hundred fourty two and the nine and twentieth day of May One thousand six hundred sixty And that had not at the making of the said Act truly Accompted for and paid in the same or the just Provenues thereof should be chargeable to His Majesty for the said premisses and convened and sued for in His Majesties Court of Admiralty and called to accompt or otherwise by such Suit and in such manner as should be most available to His Majesty And in case of defect of Iurisdiction in the said Court of Admiralty then upon Certificate thereof from the said Court of Admiralty made into His Majesties Court of Exchequer spéedy procéedings were to be had in the said Court of Exchequer for the recovering and levying of the Prizes Goods matters and things as by the said Act relation being thereunto had more plainly fully and at large appears Whereupon divers Captains and Officers of His Majesties Fleets and several others the Commanders Officers and Mariners imployed in the Sea-service have been sued or may possibly be sued concerning the several Prizes and Prize-goods by them heretofore seized and taken at Sea or in Ports since the Moneth of January One thousand six hundred forty two and before the twenty ninth of May One thousand six hundred sixty contrary to the grace and favour extended towards them not onely in and by His Majesties most gracious Act of Frée and general Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion but also by a Proclamation since made by His Majesty bearing Date the Fourteenth day of July One thousand six hundred sixty two in the Fourteenth year of His Majesties Reign Declaring His Majesties grace and favour towards all Commanders and Seamen in relation to Prizes and Prize-goods seised and taken since the moneth of January One thousand six hundred forty two untill the nine and twentieth of May One thousand six hundred sixty His Majesty thereupon willing that His Grace and Favour towards all Admirals Vice-Admirals Commanders Sea-men and Mariners should take its full effect And being fully satisfied of their dutiful affections unto His Majesties Royal Person and Government and for their future incouragement to persevere loyally in His Majesties Service is most graciously pleased that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled 14 Car. 2. cap. 4. Repealed as to all Admirals Officers Mariners and Souldiers at Sea and by the Authority of the same That the said Act entituled An Act for directing the prosecution of such as are accomptable for Prize-Goods and all and every Branches Clauses Powers and Articles and every matter and thing therein contained for so much onely and as for and concerning all and every Admirals Vice-Admirals Captains of Ships Officers of Ships or Vessels Seamen and Mariners and every of them shall be and is hereby from henceforth repealed annulled and made void and of no effect to all intents and purposes whatsoever And that all and singular Process and proceedings whatsoever which before this time have been now are or may be at any time hereafter had sued forth and prosecuted in any of His Majesties Courts at Westminster or in the High Court of Admiralty of England or elsewhere within any His Majesties Dominions against any Admirals Vice-Admirals Captains of Ships Officers of Ships or Vessels Seamen and Mariners or any of them by force and vertue of the said Act or any Article or Clause therein contained be forthwith
High Bridge over Spalding River be not finished before the five and twentieth of March One thousand six hundred and seventy That then the said Trustées Spalding-brid◠their heirs and assigns or the survivor of them shall forfeit the full and just sum of one hundred and fifty pounds to Peircy Church Esquire his Executors or Assigns which shall and may be raised by the Commissioners of Sewers for the time being at the publick Sessions by sale of part of the said third part of the said Fens or of the said thrée thousand five hundred Acres therein mentioned and be by them accordingly paid over to the said Peircy Church his Executors or Assigns and the person and persons and their heirs to whom such sale shall be made shall and may for ever then after hold and enjoy the same by vertue of such sale and of this present Act any thing herein to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for the better preservation of the said Banks environing the said Fens or made within the said Fens for the defence of the same Preservation of the Banks it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Trustées their heirs and assigns or the survivor of them to cut the ground lying betwéen the outring-Banks and the said Rivers or either of them to take earth manure and litter for repairing the said Banks so often as néed shall require or to them shall séem méet and convenient so that such cutting be not extended or made above six score foot distant from the said Banks and to erect make and kéep such and so many sufficient Bars and Slakers and in such places as shall séem most fit and convenient to the said Trustées their heirs and assigns or the survivor of them The Slakers to take off the surplusage of Waters and the Bars to hinder the passage of Horsmen and drifts of Cattel over the same Banks in the times hereafter prohibited And to the end that the Banks should not be impaired by horsemen drifts of shéep horses beasts and other Cattel It is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons whatsoever except as hereafter is excepted shall at any time or times hereafter in any year betwéen Michaelmas-day and the first day of May drive or cause to be driven any Horses Oxen Shéep or any other kind of Cattel over or upon any of the said Banks without first paying to them the said Trustées their heirs and assigns or the survivor of them after the rate of four pence for every score of Shéep and for every other Beast the sum of four pence which they their heirs and assigns are hereby authorized to demand and receive Provided nevertheless and be it Enacted That all and every the Lords Proviso for owners and commoners Owners and Commoners of or in all or any part of the said Fens shall have frée liberty at all times of the year for them their Horses Servants and Cattel to pass and repass upon any Bank or Banks Drove or Droves in or compassing the said Fens without paying any thing for so doing if such person or persons claiming such fréedom do not usually buy Shéep or Cattel and trade that way to London with such Cattel or Shéep as are not of their own féeding for a Moneth before And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Horsemen and cattel landing upon the banks That no person or persons whatsoever kéeping a Horse-boat either at Croyland Cloote Deeping Baston Eastcoate Pinchbeck Spalding or Cowbet shall land any horsemen with their horses or cattel upon any the said Banks at any time hereafter betwéen Michaelmas day and the first day of May but at Waldrome-Hall Baston Spoute Dovehurne Cloote or Croyland without licence first thereunto had and obtained from the said Trustées their heirs and assigns or the survivor of them upon pain and forfeiture to be made and paid for every horse and neat beast six pence and for every score of shéep four pence to the said Trustées their heirs and assigns or the survivor of them And that no manner of person or persons shall draw any Boat on or over any the Banks in or compassing the said Fens but in such places only as are or shall be appointed for that purpose And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Swine of what sort soever Swine ringed or unringed be put upon the said Fens or any of them betwéen the said Banks and the Wearditches but that they shall be put into the Fens at usual places where other Cattel are put in And that the Swine so put shall be ringed upon pain of every Hog so found unringed to forfeit to them the said Trustées their heirs or assigns or the survivor of them the sum of two pence for every time so found to be levied by distress and impounding of such Hog or Hogs And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Trustées their heirs and assigns or the survivor of them their or any of their Tenants Farmers or Ground-holders of any part of the said third part or of the said Fen or of the said five thousand Acres shall not have any time hereafter use or claim any Common of Pasture or other Commonage of Pasturing in any part of the remainder of the said Fens nor any of them nor in the North Fen of Pinchbeck and Spalding Poor Inhabitants nor any part thereof by vertue or pretence of his or their residence there But all and every the Inhabitants that may hereafter be upon any part of the said third part or upon any part of the said five thousand Acres and are not able to maintain themselves shall be maintained and kept by the said Trustées their heirs and assigns and the survivor of them and never become chargeable in any kind to all or any the respective Parishes wherein such Inhabitant or Inhabitants shall reside or dwell any Statute or Law to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no water shall be let or taken out of the Rivers of Gleane or Welland Water shall not be set out of the rivers of Glean and Welland or any other the said Dreyn or Dreyns by any Sluce Cut or Tunnel without the licence of the said Trustées their heirs or assigns or the survivor of them or by Order of six Commissioners of Sewers who likewise are to take order that such Cut or Cuts made for the taking thereof shall be made up again at the charge of the person or persons for whose benefit the same were made but for necessary houshold uses by such as now lye by some Law of Sewers already setled And in case any abuse of the said Tunnels happen to be that then the said Trustées their heirs or assigns or the survivor of them their servants or agents shall have power
immediately to stop the same Pinchbeck Spalding Blewgate sluce And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Inhabitants of Pinchbeck and Spalding shall for ever hereafter have the use of a certain Gote or Sluce called Blewgate and the Dreyn leading thereto so as the said Trustees their heirs or assigns shall not be put to any charge for the repairing or maintaining of the same The dreyn from Boston-bank to Winsoever And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Loads or Dreyn under the Dozens from Baston-bank to Winsoever be Ditched two hundred foot more inward into the said Fens then now it is and the earth laid on that side the bank next the Town of Pinchbeck And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for and in consideration of all the moneys already expended in and about the Dreyning of the said Fens and in consideration of the doing and performing of the Works aforesaid hereafter to be done and of all and every of them about the Recovering The proportion estates upon the trustees â—ndertakers Inning and Dreyning of the said Fens and every of them that they the said Trustées their heirs and assigns or the survivor of them shall from henceforth have hold peaceably occupy and enjoy to them their heirs and assigns in Fee-simple for ever the said third part of the said Fens and Marshes formerly assigned to the said Thomas Lovel his heirs and assigns as also three thousand five hundred Acres added and allotted by a Decrée of Sewers made at Spalding in the said Fens and one thousand Acres out of that part of the said Fens formerly taken in for the Quéens improvement and five hundred Acres more to be taken proportionably out of the residue of the said Fens in Kestiven and Holland next adjoyning to the said three thousand five hundred Acres which three thousand five hundred Acres and one thousand Acres and five thousand Acres last mentioned are to be demeasured by Statute-measure by two Artists and set out by them at the charge of the said Trustees their heirs or assigns or the survivor of them one to be chosen by the Commissioners of Sewers of Kestiven and Holland and one other by the said Vndertakers but upon the Trusts hereafter mentioned That is to say as touching and concerning eight thousand thirty six Acres thereof mentioned in a Schedule annexed to an Indenture of Fifteen parts dated the second of August 1650. made betwéen Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Exeter and others therein named and two thousand Acres more to be indifferently set out within six moneths after the passing of this Act amounting in the whole to ten thousand thirty six Acres in Trust That the said Trustées their heirs and assigns or the survivor of them shall grant and convey the same to such person or persons or for such Estates in Fee-simple or otherwise in such manner as the said Thomas Earl of Berks the said Lord Andover Lord Bruce and John Lord Berkley of Stratton shall appoint And as for touching and concerning the residue of the said Fens by this Act allotted for recompence for the said Dreyning moreover and above the said eight thousand thirty six Acres and two thousand Acres in Trust for the said Earl of Berkshire and the Lady Elizabeth his Wife the said Lord Andover the said Earl of Elgin Countess of Stamford and Lord Grey and such other person and persons to whom the Remainder upon their Estates are limited according to their several and respective Interests and Estates as aforesaid made or derived from by or under the said William late Earl of Exeter and Elizabeth late Countess of Exeter or either of them their or either of their heirs or assigns And in case the said Commissioners shall not nominate a Surveyor within thrée moneths after nomination by the said Trustées their heirs or assigns or the survivor of them and both to be sworn by the said Commissioners and notice thereof to be given to the said Commissioners That then the said Trustées their heirs or assigns or the survivor of them shall procéed as aforesaid by their own Artist The trustees shall fence and inclose the third part c. Provided also And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Trustées their heirs and assigns and the survivor of them shall at all times hereafter sufficiently fence and inclose the said third part and all other the Lands by this Act to them granted on all parts against the Lords and Commoners of and in the residue of the said Fens And if any of their Cattel shall enter or break into the said third part and other Lands so granted or any part thereof in default of the Inclosure thereof It shall not be lawful for the said Trustées their heirs or assigns or the survivor of them to Distrain or Impound the same or to maintain any Action for any such Entry Depasturing or other Trespass happening in such default And if any such Action be brought it shall be lawful for the Defendant or Defendants therein to plead the General Issue and to give this Act in Evidence And that the two Drove-ways in the said Fens called the North-drove and South-drove leading from the parts of Kestiven into the parts of Holland be continued open and common through the said third part and Lands to them granted for the use and benefit of the Lords and Commoners for a Drift-way for them and the said Vndertakers And also that the Banks or Dreyns by vertue of this Act to be continued or made shall not stop or hinder the Land-waters falling from the parts of Kestiven into the said Fen but shall and may receive and carry the same away Provided always That this Act or any Clause Article Sentence or Penalty therein contained mentioned or expressed shall not extend to charge the persons of the said Trustées their heirs or assigns or the survivor of them or any the Estate or Estates real or personal of them the said Trustées their heirs or assigns or the survivor of them other then their Estate and Estates of and in the said Fens Provided also and upon condition That if the said Trustées their heirs or assigns or the survivor of them shall neglect the Inning and Dreyning of the said Fens and every or any of them The penalty upon neglect to dreyn the said fens within seven years and so after to keep maintain them and shall not fully and perfectly finish the Dreyning of the same before the end and expiration of the said seven years as aforesaid according to the intent and purport of this Act or shall not after the Inning or Dreyning thereof kéep and maintain the said Fens and every of them after the end and term of the said seven years dry firm and depasturable ground for Cattel at all times in the year except such Lakes Dreyns Sewers Portions and Quantities of the said Fens as are before
and their heirs and successors respectively by and according to his and their tenures estate title and interest which he or they had in the Mannors Lands or Tenements for or in respect of which he or they claimed or inclosed the said quantity or quantities of the said Wastes as abovesaid Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Commissioners and every of them before he or they take upon him or them the execution of any the Powers or Authorities hereby given them other then the administring the Oath following to one another which they shall have Authority by this present Act to administer to one another shall take the Oath following viz. The oath to be taken by Commissioners I A. B. am not interessed in possession reversion or remainder of in or to the said Fens or any part thereof And shall and will without favour or affection hatred or malice truly and impartially according to the best of my skill and knowledg execute and perform all and every the Powers and Authorities in me established by this Act of Parliament Which Oath any one of the said Commissioners are hereby authorised to administer The places of the Commissioners â—â—tting And that the places where the said Commissioners shall sit to hear order and determine the matters referred to them by this Act shall be at the Towns of Stamford Market-Deeping or Spalding in the said County of Lincoln And the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them are hereby directed by Warrant under their hands and seals to declare the places and times of their méeting The same Warrant to be published in open Market in the said Towns of Stamford Market-Deeping and Spalding betwéen the hours of twelve and two upon some Market-day one and twenty dayes at least before the said time or times of méeting to the end all persons concerned may have sufficient time and notice to attend And shall have power and Authority by Warrant under the hands and seals of any thrée or more of them Their power and manner of proceeding to summon parties and witnesses to appear before them And in case any controversy or difference shall happen to arise betwéen or amongst the said Commissioners before any Iudgment or Determination given by them in the premisses touching or concerning the exposition of the words of this Act or the powers or authorities thereby to them given Then the Lord Chief Iustice of the Kings Bench the Lord Chief Iustice of the Common-Pleas and the Lord Chief Baron of his Majesties Court of Exchequer for the time being are hereby constituted and established a Iudicature and they or any two of them are hereby authorized to hear adjudg and determine such controversies and differences And their Iudgment or determination thereof certified under their hands seals shall be observed and shall be likewise certified together with the Iudgments and determinations of the said Commissioners into the Petty-bag there to be kept on Record as aforesaid CAP. XII The River Avon to be made Navigable from Christ-Church to the City of New-Sarum WHereas the making Navigable and passable with Barges Boats Lighters and other Vessels the River Avon in the Counties of Wilts and Southampton from the Town of Christ-Church in the said County of Southampton to the City of New-Sarum in the said County of VVilts And if néed require the making of a new Haven may with Gods blessing be of great advantage and benefit not only to the said Counties but also to the Publick by import and export of Commodities and increase of Commerce and Trade and of able Seamen and Watermen and most profitable and necessary for the said City of New-Sarum for the conveyance thereby of Fewel and other necessaries to the said City whereof there is now great scarcity and far greater is like to grow if some help therefore be not provided besides the extraordinary preservation of the High-ways in and near the said City and County Commissioners how to be appointed for making the river Avon navigable Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being at any time after the end of this present Session of Parliament shall and may nominate appoint and authorize by Commission under the Great Seal of England such person or persons Bodies Politick and Corporate as to him shall séem fit and are willing to undertake the making Navigable the said River of Avon from the said Town of Christ-Church to the said City of New-Sarum And to make a new Haven if néed require for Ships and Vessels near the said Town of Christ-Church Which said Vndertakers so nominated and appointed as aforesaid are hereby authorized and shall have full power and authority by this present Act to make Navigable or passable by Barges Boats Lighters or other Vessels the said River of Avon from the said Town of Christ-Church to the City of New-Sarum aforesaid And for that purpose to cleanse scour and open the same and to cut or dig the Banks of the same and to take away or remove all Wears or other Impediments that may hinder Navigation either in sailing or haling of Boats with Horses Men or otherwise to amend or alter such Bridges and High-ways as may hinder the said Passages and Navigation and to open prepare and make all Wears Sasses Locks and Turn-pikes fit for the said Passage And likewise to cleanse scour open or cut and dig the Banks of any other Stream Brook Ditch or Water-course that shall to them séem convenient for the better making the said River Navigable and passable for Boats Barges Lighters and other Vessels And likewise to make and erect any Wharfs Sasses Locks Turnpikes or pens for Water in or near the said River or Passage that shall be fit or necessary for the same and to bring lay and work all Materials requisite for the making erecting and repairing of the said Locks or Turnpikes upon the said River or Passage and to cut such and so many new Channels and Trenches as to them shall séem convenient for altering the course of the said River of Avon in bringing the same to the City of New-Sarum as aforesaid as also for the bringing in any other River or Water-course into the said River and to do all other things necessary and convenient for the said River and Passages new Channels Wharfs Sasses Locks Wears Turnpikes Penns for Water and the said Bridges Ways and Passages and for the altering repairing kéeping using and amending of the same or any of them or any part of them from time to time hereafter as oft as néed shall require and also if néed require to make a commodious Haven and Port near the said Town of Christ-Church for the Entry
have a Mayor and Aldermen and particular Iustices of the Peace by Charter or Commission or Bayliff or Bayliffs or other Chief Officer or Officers and other Assistants by like Charter and where two or more Churches or Chappels or a Church a Chappel the Parishes thereunto belonging do lie within the said Corporation or Liberties thereof convenient to be united In such cases the Bishop of the Diocese where such Parish and Parishes are with the consent of the Mayor Aldermen and Iustices of the Peace Bayliff or Bayliffs or other Chief Officer or Officers or the major part of them and of the Patron or Patrons of such Church or Churches Chappel or Chappels shall or may according to due form of Law unite the said Churches or Chappels or Church and Chappel or any of them and shall appoint at which Church or Chappel Churches or Chappels the said Parishioners and Inhabitants of the said Parishes or places to which the said Churches or Chappels or Church and Chappel do belong shall usually méet for the worship of God and which of the said Churches or Chappels or Church or Chappel shall be united and annexed unto the other which shall be the Church Presentative unto which all Presentations shall thereafter be only made unto which the Parishioners shal resort as their proper Church And after such Order made the said Churches or Chappels or Church and Chappel shall accordingly for ever stand united And the Parishioners Landholders and Inhabitants of the said Parishes and places belonging to such Churches or Chappels or Church and Chappel so united and annexed shall as they or any of them become void and from thenceforward pay all such Tythes and other Duties as belong or did belong to the Incumbent of any of the said Churches or Chappels or Church and Chappel so united and annexed unto the Incumbent of the said Presentative Church or Chappel unto which the said other Churches or Chappels or Church or Chappel shall be so united and annexed Parishes shall remain distinct notwithstanding such Vnion of Churches And it is hereby also Enacted That notwithstanding any such Vnion to be made by vertue hereof each of the Parishes so united shall continue distinct as to all Rates Taxes Parochial Rites Charges and Duties and all other Priviledges Liberties and respects whatsoever other then what is herein before mentioned and specified And Churchwardens shall be elected and appointed for each Parish as they were before such union made How and when such Vniting shall take effect And it is further Enacted and Provided That where one or more of the said Churches or Chappels or Church and Chappel so united and annexed shall be full at the time of making such Vnion That then the said Vnion shall take effect for every such Church or Chappel And how severall Patrons shall present upon the first Avoidance after such Vnion made And that the several Patrons of the said Churches and Chappels so Vnited shall and may present by turns to that Church onely which shall remain and be presentative from time to time in such order as the said Bishop with the consent of the said Mayor Aldermen and Iustices of Peace Bayliff or Bayliffs or other chief Officer or Officers within such Parishes or the major part of them and of the Patron or Patrons of such Church or Churches Chappel or Chappels shall determine and decrée for the preservation of their respective Rights therein respect being therein had to the difference of the values of the yearly Maintenance belonging to such Churches or Chappels or any of them Saving unto the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors all the Tenths and First-Fruits of all such Churches and Chappels so to be Vnited according to the rates and valuations at which the said Churches and Chappels are Rated and Valued in the Office of First-Fruits and Tenths in His Majesties Court of Exchequer And also reserving all Procurations and Pensions to all persons to whom they are now and have béen formerly or shal be hereafter due and payable Any thing herein contained notwithstanding How Vnions must be registred Provided always That no Vnion of Parishes or places to be made by vertue of this Act shall commence or be effectual in Law until it be Registred in the Register Book of the Bishop of the Diocese which the Register is hereby required to do Parishes having 10 l. maintenance may not be Vnited Provided always That no Vnion made by vertue hereof shall be good and effectual where the setled Maintenance belonging to the Parsons Vicars and Incumbents of the Church or Chappel or Churches or Chappels so Vnited shall excéed the sum of One hundred pounds per annum cléer and above all Charges and Reprises unless the respective Parishioners or the major part of them under their hands desire otherwise Incumbents oâ— sâ—ch Vnited Pâ—â— shes must be graduates of the Vniversity Provided always And be it Enacted That every Minister setled as aforesaid the Incumbent of any Church or Chappel or Churches or Chappels united according to this Act shall be the full and lawful Incumbent thereof to all intents and purposes so as such Minister be a Graduate in one of the Vniversities of this Kingdom Owners of Impropriations may bestow and annex mâ—intenance to the Churches where they lie And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Owner or Proprietor Owners or Proprietors of any Impropriation Tythes or Portion of Tythes in any Parish or Chappelry within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales is are and shall be by vertue of this Act inabled and impowred to give or bestow unite and annex the same or any part thereof unto the Parsonage or Vicarage of the said Parish Church or Chappel where the same do lie or arise or settle the same in Trust for the benefit of the said Parsonage or Vicarage or of the Curate and Curates there successively where the Parsonage is Impropriate and no Vicar indowed according to his or their respective Estates Without license of Mortmain without any License of Mortmain Any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding Parsons and Vicars not having setled means of 100 l. per annum may purchase and annex lands or rents without license in Mortmain And be it further Enacted That if the setled Maintenance of such Parsonage Vicarages Churches and Chappels so united or of any other Parsonage or Vicarage with Cure in the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales shall not amount to the full sum of One hundred pounds per annum cléer and above all charges and reprises That then it shall be lawful for the Parson Vicar and Incumbent of the same and his successors to take receive and purchase to him and his successors Lands Tenements Rents Tythes or other Hereditaments without any License of Mortmain Any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding CAP. IV. A Former Act for Regulating the Press
Continued BE it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That an Act made in the Fourtéenth year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord the King that now is 14 Car. 2. cap. 23. Entituled An Act for preventing Abuses in Printing Seditious Treasonable and Unlicensed Books and Pamphlets and for Regulating of Printing and Printing Presses shall be continued with the Alterations and Additions made in and by this Act and shall remain in force until the end of the First Session of the next Parliament And be it further Enacted That from and after the Six and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty five Three printed Copies of every Book in London how to be disposed Every Printer within the City of London or in any other place except the Two Vniversities shall reserve Thrée Printed Copies of the best and largest Paper of every Book new Printed or reprinted by him with Additions and shall before any publick Vending of the said Book bring them to the Master of the Company of Stationers and deliver them to him One whereof shall by the said Master of the said Company of Stationers within Ten days after he hath so received the same be delivered to the Kéeper of His Majesties Library and the other two within the said ten days to be sent to the Vice-Chancellour of the two Vniversities respectively for the use of the publick Libraries of the said Vniversities Books printed in the Vniversities And it is further Enacted That the Printers in the said Vniversities and every of them respectively from and after the said Six and twentieth day of December shall deliver one such Printed Copy as aforesaid of every Book so new Printed or reprinted in the said Vniversities or in either of them to the Kéeper of His Majesties Library as aforesaid as also to the Vice-Chancellour of either of the said Vniversities for the time being two other such Printed Copies for the use of the publick Libraries of the said Vniversities respectively And if any of the printers aforesaid or the said Master of the Company of Stationers shall not observe the direction of this Act therein That then he and they so making default in not delivering the said printed Copies as aforesaid shall severally forfeit besides the value of the said printed Copies the sum of Five pounds for every Copy not so delivered as also the value of the said printed Copies not so delivered The same to be recovered by His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and by the Chancellour Masters and Scholars of either of the said Vniversities respectively by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster wherein no Essoyn Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed CAP. V. Thomas Dolman Joseph Bampfeild and Thomas Scot attainted of High Treason if they render not themselves by a Day IN all humble manner shew unto Your most Excellent Majesty Your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled in Parliament That whereas it is notoriously known that Thomas Dolman Joseph Bampfeild alias Stepner and Thomas Scot Son of Thomas Scot lately Executed as a Most execrable Traitor one of the horrid bloudy murderers of His late Royal Majesty King Charles the First of ever blessed memory contrary to the duty of their Allegiance have most traiterously and wickedly adhered and still do adhere to Your Majesties Enemies beyond the Seas where they as yet remain and commit divers Treasonable acts without any sense of loyalty to Your Majesty or of natural affection to their native Country May it therefore please Your most Excellent Majesty That it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the consent and advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That if the said Thomas Dolman Joseph Bampfeild alias Stepner and Thomas Scot Thomas Dolman Joseph Bampfeild Thomas Scot. shall not return into the Realm of England and render themselves to some or one of His Majesties Iustices of the Peace for the County wherein he or they shall first arrive at or before the first day of February next ensuing and also abide their Legal Trial for such their Treasons Then every of them the said Thomas Dolman Joseph Bampfeild alias Stepner and Thomas Scot not rendering himself as aforesaid or not abiding his Trial aforesaid shall from and after the said First day of February stand and be adjudged attainted of High Treason to all intents and purposes whatsoever and shall suffer and forfeit as a person attaint of High Treason by the Laws of the Land ought to suffer and forfeit And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Persons beyond Sea by Proclamation are required to return into England That all and every person and persons who now are or hereafter shall be beyond the Seas and whom His Majesty by any of His Royal Proclamations to be issued under the Great Seal of England during the continuance of this War with the States of the United Provinces shall name and require to return into England and render themselves by a certain day therein to be mentioned to some or one of His Majesties Iustices of the Peace for the County wherein he or they shall first arrive and shall not return and render themselves accordingly and abide their legal Trial shall from and after the day to them to be prefixed by such Proclamation stand and be attainted of High Treason to all intents and purposes and shall suffer such pains and penalties and undergo all such forfeitures as persons attainted of High Treason ought to do The time by such Proclamation Three moneths at least Provided That the time to be prefixed by such Proclamation for the persons therein to be named to render themselves be not less then the time and term of Thrée Calendar moneths from and after the Date of such Proclamation And be it further Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Persons Serving the States of the Vnited Provinces during the War That all and every His Majesties Subjects who from and after the First day of February next ensuing shall at any time during the continuance of the said War serve the States of the United Provinces either by Land or Sea as a Souldier or Seaman on this side the Straights Or from and after the First day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and six within the Straights Or from and after the First day of August in the said year One thousand six hundred sixty six in Africa or America or any where beyond the Straights on this side the Equinoctial Or from and after the First day of February in the said year One thousand six hundred sixty six in
the East-Indies or any part beyond the Equinoctial shall be and are hereby Attainted of High Treason and shall suffer and forfeit to all intents and purposes as persons Attainted of High Treason ought to do CAP. VI. Damage Cleere taken away WHereas the moneys which are taken by Prothonotaries of Your Majesties Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas and by the Clerk of Your Majesties Court of Exchequer at Westminster and the Prothonotary of Your Majesties Court of Common Pleas at Lancaster and the Prothonotaries and Clerks of other Your Majesties Courts within the Realm of England and Dominion of Wales in the name of Damna Clericorum or Damage Cléere Damna Clericorum are an unnecessary charge and burden to all Your Majesties Subjects who have good cause and are put to Sue for Damages in Actions where Damages are recoverable For avoiding of which inconveniencies for the future and that Your Majesties Subjects may have an easier means for the recovery of their damages and just rights which are unjustly detained from them May it please Your most Excellent Majesty that it may be Enacted And the Kings most Excellent Majesty being willing upon all occasions to ease His Subjects of all unnecessary charges and burdens is graciously pleased That it be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty Shall determine and not be taken after the 29 day or September 1672. with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That immediately from and after the Twenty ninth day of September which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy two no Damage Cléere shall by any Title or Precept whatsoever be due payable taken or received from any person or persons in any Action whatsoever sued or prosecuted in any of His Majesties Courts at Westminster or elsewhere within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales by any Prothonotary Clerk or Clerks or other Officer or Officers of the said Courts respectively And that from and after the day and year aforesaid the said Fée of Damna Clericorum or Damage Cléere shall wholly cease and be for ever abolished in the said Courts And that if any Prothonotary Clerk or Clerks or other Officer in any of the said Courts The Penalty shall take or exact any sum or sums of money in the name of Damna Clericorum or Damage Cléere or any thing in lieu thereof after the day and year above mentioned Or if any of the said Prothonotaries Clerk or Clerks or their Deputies at any time before the said Twenty ninth day of September in the year aforesaid shall exact or take any Damage Cléere or sum of money Bond or Security in lieu thereof from any Plaintiff or Plaintiffs Demandant or Demandants in any Action where Damages have béen or hereafter shall be recovered in any of the said Courts or shall refuse or delay to Sign any Iudgement until Damage Cléere be first paid by the Plaintiff or Demandant which are not to be paid unless forth of the moneys levied from or paid by the Defendants as is herein after provided and mentioned He or they so offending shall forfeit treble the sum so taken exacted or demanded to the party or parties grieved to be recovered by Bill Plaint or Information in any of the said Courts wherein no Essoyn Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed Provided and be it further Enacted That until the Nine and twentieth day of September which shall be in the year of our Lord God In what cases only they may be taken until the 29 September 1672. One thousand six hundred seventy and two and no longer the Damage Cléere shall be paid answered and allowed out of such sum and sums of money onely as shall be actually levied or otherwise paid by or from the Defendants and onely for the proportion of the Sum and Sums of money which shall be so levied or otherwise paid as aforesaid and no more or otherwise CAP. VII For a more speedy and effectual proceeding upon Distresses and Avowries for Rents FOrasmuch as the ordinary Remedy for Arrearages of Rents is by Distress upon the Lands chargeable therewith And yet nevertheless by reason of the intricate and dilatory proceedings upon Replevins that Remedy is become ineffectual For remedy thereof It is Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the Advice and Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Plaintiff in Replevin being nonsuit before issue joyned and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That whensoever any Plaintiff in Replevin shall be Non-suit before Issue joyned in any Suit of Replevin by Plaint or Writ lawfully returned How the Defendant may Avow removed or depending in any of the Kings Courts at Westminster That the Defendant making a Suggestion in nature of an Avowry or Cognizance for such Rent to ascertain the Court of the cause of Distress The Court upon his Prayer shall award a Writ to the Sheriff of the County where the Distress was taken to enquire by the Oaths of Twelve good and lawful men of his Bayliwick touching the Sum in Arrear at the time of such Distress taken and the value of the Goods or Cattel distrained And thereupon notice of Fiftéen days shall be given to the Plaintiff or his Attorney in Court of the sitting of such Enquiry and thereupon the Sheriff shall enquire of the truth of the matters contained in such Writ by the Oaths of Twelve good and lawful men of his County And upon the Return of such Inquisition the Defendant shall have Iudgement to recover against the Plaintiff the Arrearages of such Rent in case the Goods or Cattel distrained shall amount unto that value And in case they shall not amount to that value then so much as the value of the said Goods and Cattel so distrained shall amount unto The Plaintiff nonsuit after Avowry made c. together with his full Costs of Suit and shall have Execution thereupon by Fieri facias or Elegit or otherwise as the Law shal require And in case such Plaintiff shal be nonsuit after Cognisance or Avowry made and Issue joyned or if the Verdict shall be given against such Plaintiff then the Iurors that are Impannelled or Returned to inquire of such Issue shall at the prayer of the Defendant inquire concerning the Sum of the Arrears and the value of the Goods or Cattel distrained And thereupon the Avowant or he that makes Cognisance shall have Iudgement for such Arrearages or so much thereof as the Goods or Cattel distrained amount unto together with his full Costs and shall have Execution for the same by Fieri facias or Elegit or otherwise as the Law shall require Iudgement upon Demurrer for the Avowant And be if further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if Iudgement in any of the Courts aforesaid
nine hundred and two pounds fiftéen shillings and eight pence And all and every person or persons who shall be liable to or any wayes concerned or imployed in the assessing collecting levying receiving or paying of the Moneys by this Act imposed shall have like benefits advantages and discharges and shall be subject to like penalties and forfeitures in case of any neglect or refusal to pay their respective Assessment or to perform their respective duties as any other person or persons lyable unto or concerned or imployed in the assessing collecting levying receiving or paying any of the said former Assessments ought to have or be subject unto as fully and amply as if all and every the clauses matters and things to the said former Assessments relating had béen again in this Act repeated and Enacted The meeting of the Commissioners And be it further Enacted That the several Commissioners shall méet together at the most usual and common place of méeting vpon or before the Tenth day of January One thousand six hundred sixty seven to put this Act in Execution And that the said One hundred and twenty thousand nine hundred and two pounds fiftéen shillings and eight pence shall be assessed collected levied and paid unto the Receivers of the several Counties appointed or to be appointed by His Maâ—esty and by them answered and paid into his Majesties Exchequer upon or before the Fiftéenth day of February One thousand six hundred sixty and seven Anno XVIII Caroli II. Regis CAP. I. Moneys raised by a Poll and otherwise towards the Maintenance of the present War MOst Gracious Soveraign We Your Majesties most Obedient and Loyal Subjects the Commons now in Parliament Assembled having taken into our serious Consideration the many and urgent Occasions which at this time do press Your Majesty to an extraordinary Expence of Treasure for the Defence of Your Majesties Kingdoms and Dominions and in most thankful acknowledgment of Your Majesties just and tender Care of the welfare of Your People A Free Gift presented to his Majesty towards the carrying on the Warre Do most humbly present unto Your Majesty a Frée Gift of several Sums of money towards the carrying on of the present War to be Levied in such manner as is hereafter expressed and do beséech your Majesty to accept thereof And that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and every person and persons Bodies Politique and Corporate Guilds or Fraternities within this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed having any personal Estate in such Debts owing to them within the Realm or without Of Personal Estates in Debts and Moneys which he or they do not account or estéem as desperate over and besides such just Debts as he she or they shall bona fide owe or in ready moneys shall yield and pay unto His Majesty for every Hundred pounds in such Debts and ready Moneys the sum of Twenty shillings to be Assessed Imposed Levied and Collected in manner herein after mentioned Debts and Moneys not chargeable by this Act. Provided always That no sum of Money which hath béen lent unto his Majesty upon the Security of the Act Passed at Oxford in the Seventéenth year of his Majesties Reign entituled An Act for granting the Sum of Twelve hundred and fifty thousand pounds to the Kings Majesty for His present further Supply or lent by the City of London upon the Security of His Majesties Revenue arising by Hearth-money 17 Car. 2. cap. 1. at the rate of Sir per Cent. and which at the time of the execution of this present Act shall be unpaid nor any sum of money which shall be lent unto his Majesty upon the Security of this present Act or upon the Security of any other Act of Parliament passed or to be passed during this present Session of Parliament at the rate of Sir per Cent. shall be Rated or Assessed by vertue of this Act Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Commissioners and Officers chargeable And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person and persons Commissioner or Commissioners having using or exercising any Office Place or publick Imployment whatsoever such persons who are or shall be in Muster and Pay at Land or Sea onely excepted and all and every their Deputies Agents Clerks Secondaries Substistutes and other their inferiour Ministers and Servants whatsoever who are already Taxed in and to the said Monethly Assessment for and in respect of their Offices Agencies and Imployments shall likewise pay vnto his Majesty over and above the several sums with which they are or shall be Charged in or to the said Monethly Assessment the sum of Twelve pence for every Twenty shillings which he or they do receive in one year by vertue of any Fées Profits Perquisites or other Advantages to him or them accruing or by reason or occasion of their several Offices Agencies and Imployments And such who are not already Taxed in and by the said Monethly Assessment for and in respect of their Commissions Offices Agencies and Imployments shall yield and pay unto His Majesty the full sum of Thrée shillings for every Twenty shillings which he or they do receive in one year by vertue of any Fées Profits Perquisites or other advantages to him or them accruing or by reason or occasion of their several and respective Commissions Offices Agencies and Imployments The said several sums of Twelve pence in every Twenty shillings and Thrée shillings in every Twenty shillings to be Assessed Imposed Levied and Collected in such manner as is herein after mentioned Allowing to every such Officer and Commissioner one Third part of the Annual Salary or Sum of money he shall so receive for and towards his or their charge of executing any such Commission Office or Place before mentioned And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Pensions and Stipends from his Majesty That all and every other person and persons having or claiming to have any Pension or yearly Stipend or Annuity by vertue of any Gift or Grant from His Majesty under his Great Seal or Privy Seal shall pay unto his Majesty the sum of Thrée shillings for every Twenty shillings by the year so given or granted as aforesaid to be Assessed Imployed Levied and Collected in such manner as is herein after mentioned And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Sergeants at Law Counsellors Sergeants at Law Counsellors Attorneys Sollicitors Scriveners Advocates Proctors Notaries Physitians Attorneys Sollicitors and Scriveners and all Advocates Proctors and publick Notaries and all and every person and persons practising the Art of Physick shall pay unto His Majesty the sum of Two shillings
aforesaid And upon due Examination or knowledge thereof abate defalk increase or inlarge the said Assessment And the same so abated increased or inlarged shall be Estreated by them into the Exchequer in manner aforesaid And to that end the said Commissioners are hereby required to méet together for the Determining of such Complaints and Appeals accordingly And be it further Enacted That every person rated for his Office shall be rated In what places Persons shall be rated for Offices or otherwise and pay for his said Office in the place where the said Office is executed And every person to be otherwise rated shall be rated and the sum or sums on him or her set and levied at such places where he or she and with his or her Family shall be resident at the time of the execution of this Act And that all persons not being Housholders nor having a certain place of above and all Servants shall be Taxed at the place where they are resident at the time of the execution of this Act thrée moneths before the execution of this Act. Provided always That if any person having several Mansion-houses or places of Residence Persons doubly charged may be discharged upon Certificate shall be doubly charged by vertue of this Act That upon Certificate made by two or more of the Commissioners for the County City or place which Certificate the said Commissioners are required to give without delay Fée or Reward of his or their last personal Resiâ—ence under their Hands and Seals of the sum or sums there charged upon him or them and in what capacity or respect he or they were so charged and upon Oath made of such Certificate before the Commissioners to whom such Certificate shall be tendred which Oath the said Commissioners are hereby authorized to administer Then the person and persons so doubly charged shall for so much as shall be so certified be discharged in every other County City or place And if any person at the time of the Assessing shall be out of the Realm such person shall be rated where such person was last abiding within the Realm Persons changing their dwelling by fraud to avoid the Tax And if any person that ought to be Taxed by vertue of this Act by changing his place of residence or by fraud or covin shall escape from the Taxation and not be Taxed and the same proved before the Commissioners or two of them or two Iustices of the Peace of the County where such person dwelleth or is resident at any time within Six moneths next ensuing after such Tax made Every person that shall so escape from the said Taxation and payment shall be charged Penalty upon proof thereof at the double value of so much as he should or ought to have béen Taxed by the Act The said double value upon Certificate thereof made into the Exchequer by the Commissioners or Iustices before whom such proof shall be made to be Levied of the Goods Lands and Tenements of such persons towards the Supply aforesaid And be it further Enacted That the Commissioners which shall be within any County or Place within their respective limits or the major part of them Commissioners to taxe one another shall Tax and Assess every other Commissioner joyned with them and the Commissioners within their Division shall Assess every Assessor within their Division And as well all sums upon every the said Commissioners and Assessors as the Assessments made and presented by the Presenters as aforesaid shall be Written Estreated Levied and Gathered as it should and ought to have béen as if the said Commissioners had not béen named Commissioners Provided always and it is hereby declared Decrâ— That the several Rates and Taxes to which the Lords and Péers of this Realm shall be liable by vertue of this Act shall be received by a Collector to be nominated by the Péers which said Collector shall cause the same to be paid into His Majesties Receipt of Exchequer at Westminster upon or before the aforesaid thirtieth day of April Provided That this Act shall not extend to the Inhabitants of Scotland Ireland Scotland Ireland Jersey Guernsey Jersey or Guernsey for or concerning any such personal Estate as aforesaid which they or any other to their use have within the places aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective Treasurers of His Majesties Navy and Ordnance are hereby authorized and required to take and retain unto themselves Allowances to the Treasurers of the Navy and such as shall be respectively imployed by and under them One peny in the pound and no more out of the moneys raised by vertue of this Act and paid unto and issued out by them to any person or persons in pursuance thereof to be allowed unto them in their respective Accompts And be it further Enacted That if any Assessor Collector Receiver or other person appointed by the Commissioners shall wilfully neglect or refuse to perform his Duty in the due and spéedy Execution of this present Act The said respective Commissioners Assessors Collectors or Receivers neglecting their duties or any thrée or more of them may and shall by vertue of this Act impose on such person or persons so refusing or neglecting their Duties any Fine not excéeding the sum of Twenty pounds for any one offence the same to be Levied and Certified as aforesaid into His Majesties Court of Exchequer Penalty and charged upon the respective Receiver-general amongst the rest of the Rates aforesaid and the said Commissioners or any two or more of them may or shall from time to time call for and require an Accompt from the respective Receiver-general of all the Moneys received by him of the said Head-collectors and of the payment thereof into His Majesties Receipt of Exchequer according to the direction of this Act And in case of any failer in the premisses the said Commissioners or any two or more of them are hereby required to cause the same to be forthwith levied and paid according to the true intent and meaning of this Act. And in case of any controversie arising betwéen the said Commissioners concerning the said Rates or Assessments the Commissioners that shall be concerned therein shall have no voice but shall withdraw during the debate of such controversie until it be determined by the rest of the Commissioners And all questions and differences that shall arise touching any of the said Rates Taxes Assessments or Levies shall be heard and finally determined by two or more of the Commissioners upon complaint thereof to them made by any person or persons thereby grieved without further trouble or Suit in Law Controversies and questions about the rates how to be determined And the said Receiver-general shall give Acquittances gratis to the said Head-collectors for all moneys of them received and the said Head-collectors shall also give Acquittances gratis to the Sub-collectors for all such
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
and Sewers about London and Westminster shall be repaired and kept and several Streets enlarged 13 Car. 2. 2. Stat. 3. 2 The repairing and enlarging High-ways throughout the Kingdom 14 Car. 2. 6. How the High-ways in the Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington shall be repaired 15 Car. 2. 1. 16 17 Car. 2. 10. Hospitals See Leases Hunting See Forest and Deer JEoâ—ailes See Delays Indempnity See Pardon Ireland 1 Several Statutes for Reducing the Rebels in Ireland 17 Car. 1. 33. c. EXP. Judgment See Execution Delays Error Judicial proceedings 1 Which Process Judicial proceedings in the late times be made good and which not 12 Car. 2. 3. 12 Car. 2. 12. Jurors 1 Of what ability in Free-hold Lands Jurors for tryal of Issues shall be 16 17 Car. 2. 3. 2 No party-Jurors in tryals for Customs due upon Merchandize 14 Car. 2.11 3 Challenges of Jurors who are Lessees for lives ibid. 4 Issues lost by Jurors shall not be saved but by Order of the Judge 16 17 Car. 2. 3. See Lancaster King WHat Rates Inn-keepers shall take for provisions for the Kings Retinne in his Progress 13 Car. 2. 8. 2 See Carriages Knighthood 1 None shall be compelled to take the Order of Knighthood 17 Car. 1. 20. 2 The Kings Person and Government preserved against Treason and Seditious persons 13 Car. 2. 1. See Treason Lancaster 1 HOw Jury-men shall be summoned in the Dutchy of Lancaster 16 17 Car. 2. 3. See Dutchy Leases 1 What Leases to be made by the King of the Dutchy Lands in Cornwal shall be good and confirmed 1 Car. 1. 2. 2 Leases and Grants from Colledges and Hospitals confirmed 12 Car. 2. 31. 3 Leases made by the Master of the Rolls shall be good 12 Car. 2. 36. 4 Leases by the King of Lands and Tenements of the Dutchy of Cornwall confirmed and made good 13 Car. 2. 4. Stat. 2. See Estates Leather 1 The Exportation of Leather and Raw Hides out of England restrained 14 Car. 2. 7. 2 Exportation of Leather declared a Common Nusance ibid. 3 Leather used within London or 3. miles shall be searched and allowed by the Wardens of the Curriers ibid. Liberties 1 Petition and Declaration of divers Liberties of the People called the Petition of Right 3 Car. 1. London 1. Lights shall be hanged forth by the Inhabitants in the Streets in Winter 14 Car. 2. 2. 2. A judicature erected for hearing and determining all differences touching Houses burned and demolished in the Fire there 19 Car. 2. 2. 3. Rules setting forth the order and form to be observed in the Street and re-building of the City of London 19 Car. 2. 3. Madder 1 THe Statute for importing Madder pure and unmixed repealed 15 Car. 2. 16. Manufactures 1 Importing of Forreign Bonelace Cutwork imbroidery Fringe Bandstrings Buttons and Needle-work prohibited 14 Car. 2. 13. 2 The Silk-throwers London incorporated by Patent and the making of the manufacture regulated 14 Car. 2. 5. 3 The manufacture of making Linnen Cloth and Tapistry encouraged 15 Car. 2. 5. Marriages 1 The confirmation of divers Marriages and how issues upon such Marriages shall be joyned and tryed 12 Car. 2. 33. Marriners and Seamen See Ships and shipping Muket See Clerk of the Market Master of the Rolls See Leases Measures See Weights Merchants and Merchandize 1 Merchants strangers shall be well entreated 12 Car. 2. 4. 2 No Tax may be imposed upon Merchandize but by authority of Parliament ibid. 3. Aliens may not exercise the Trade of Merchants or Factors in Asia Africa or America 12 Car. 2. 8. 4 Encouragement of Merchants and Trade 14 Car. 2. 23. 5 Additional matters concerning pollicies of assurance amonst Merchants 14 Car. 2. 23. 6 Aliens Infants may not be Merchants 14 Car. 2. 11. See Ships and shipping Militia See Souldiers Minister 1 Certain Ministers confirmed and others restored to their Benefices 12 Car. 2. 17. Money 1 The penalty for melting currant Silver money 14 Car. 2. 31. 2 How Forreign Coyn and Bullion may be exported 15 Car. 2. 7. 3 Silver-plate or Gold brought to the Mint may be coyned gratis See Coynage Mos -Troopers See Scotland NAvy and Navigation See Ships and Shipping Norwich Stuffs 1. The making Stuffs in Norfolk and Norwish regulated 14 Car. 2. 5. Nusances 1 Nusances in High-ways to be removed 14 Car. 2. 6. 2 Transporting of Leather and Raw-hides declared a common Nusance 18 Car. 2. 1. 3 Importation of Cattel out of Ireland declared a common Nusance 14 Car. 2. 7. Oath THe Oath Ex officio taken away 17 Car. 1. 11. and 13 Car. 2. 12. 2 Certain penalties upon persons refusing to take a lawful oath 13 Car. 2. 1. stat 3. See Quakers See Dutchy Orders and Ordinances of Parliament See Parliament Pardon 1 THe Kings most gracious free and general Pardon indemnity and oblivion 12 Car. 2. 11. 2 All moneys and goods received in late usurpation not pardoned vested in the King 13 Car. 2. 3. 3 The pains and forfeitures upon divers offenders excepted in the act of general pardon 13 Car. 2. cap. 15. 4 The penalties upon Accomptants to the King not pardoned by the Act of Oblivion who shall not proceed and perfect their Accompts within a certain time 14 Car. 2. 16. Parliament 1 The Parliament begun 3 Nov. 16 Car. 1. declared to be dissolved and the penalty upon persons that shall hold or declare the contrary 12 Car. 2. 1. 2 Orders or ordinances of one or both houses of Parliament how not binding without the King 13 Car. 2. 1. 3 Priviledges of debates in Parliament for repeal or alteration of Laws or redress of publique greivances 13 Car. 2. 1. 4 Parliaments shall be held once in three years at the least 16 Car. 2. 1. 5 The Parliament of 12 Car. 2. confirmed 12 Car. 2. 1. Petition 1 The Petition of Right 3 Car. 1. 2 See Ecclesiastical c. Num. 5. 3 None may make unlawful Assemblies upon pretence of petitioning the King or Parliament to alter the Law c. 13 Car. 2. 5. Pilchard Fishing See Fishing Plague See Prisoners Poor 1 The occasion of the encrease of Poor and for their better relief 14 Car. 2. 12. 2 A Work-house at Exeter for relief of the poor there 19 Car. 2. 19. 3 Poor Officers and Souldiers relieved 14 Car. 2. 9. Poll-Money 1 Poll-money according to several Dignities and Degrees granted to His Majesty 18 Car. 2. 1. 19 Car. 2. 6. Pollices of Assurances See Merchants Ports See Dover Post-Office 1 A Post-Office erected for carriage and the several Prices of Letter from Inland and forreign places 12 Car. 2. 35. 2 The penalty upon Post-masters and Officers neglecting or not doing their Duties ibid. 3 The profits of the Post-Office setled upon his Royal Highness the Duke of York in tail 15 Car. 2. 14. Poundage See Tunnage Printing See Books Prize-Goods 1 Direction for prosecution of such as are accomptable for prize-goods 14 Car. 2. 14. 16
17 Car. 2. 6. Prisoners 1 How stocks shall be provided for relief and setting prisoners on Work 19 Car. 2. 4. 2 How to be removed in time of Plague 19 Car. 2. 9â— Privy Council 1 The Privy Council regulated and Court of Star-Chamber taken away 17 Car. 1. 10. 2. May not examine or determine of the Lands Tenements or Goods of any Subject of this Kingdom but the same ought to be by the ordinary course of the Law 17 Car. 2. 10. 3. How persons committed by the Privy Councel may have their Habeas Corpus ibid. Proces and Judicial Proceedings 1. What Proces Writs Pleas and other judicial Proceedings shall be continued and proceeded upon 12 Car. 2. 3. 2. What proceedings in Law shall not be avoided for defects faults or alterations of Styles or Forms 12 Car. 2. 12. See Judicial Proceedings Purveyance 1. Preemption and Purveyance taken away 12 Car. 2.24 See Carriages Quakers 1 The penalty upon certain persons called Quakers refusing to take a lawful Oath 13 Car. 2. 1 Stat. 3. Recoveries 1 Common Recoveries Confirmed 12 Car. 2. 12. See Judicial proceedings Rectories and Advowsons taken from certain persons upon pretended delinquencies in the late troubles restored to the right owners 14 Car. 2. 25. Recusants 1 The penalty of sending or being sent to any Popish University or School beyond Seas 3 Car. 1. 2. Replevins See Distresses Rivers 1 The River of Avon to be made Navigable from Christ-Church to the City of new Sarum 16 and 17 Car. 2. 12. Ryots and unlawful assemblies See Petition Sabbath 1. ASsemblies and unlawful Pastimes upon the Lords-day forbidden 1 Car. 1. 1. 2. Carriers Waggoners Brewers shall not travel upon the Lords-day called Sunday 3 Car. 1. 1. 3. Butchers shall not â—ell or kill Meat upon the Lords-day 3 Car. 1.1 4. A restraint of divers other Abuses committed on the Lords-day 3 Car. 1. 1. Saltpeter See Gunpowder Scotland 1. The prevention and punishment of Thefts and Rapines by Moss Troopers upon the borders of England and Scotland 14 Car. 2. 22. Scrivener See Usury Sea-coals See Coals Sewers 1. A supply of the Statute of H. 8. for present nominating Commissioners of the Sewers 12 Car. 2. 6. Sheep See Wooll c. Sheriffs 1. Sheriff may not keep Tables at the Assizes for others then their own Family and Retinue nor make any Present or Gift to any Judges of Assize 14 Car. 2. 21. 2. How Sheriffs shall be eased in passing their Accounts in the Exchequer 14 Car. 2. 21. 3. Shall not answer illeviable Seisures Farms Rents c. Ibidem Ships and Shipping 1. From what foreign parts Goods may be imported onely in English Ships 12 Car. 2. 18. 2. No Goods to be laded or carried out of England in the the Vessels of any other not Denizen'd 12 Car. 2. 18. 3. Encouragement of the Shipping and Trading by the English into their Plantations of Asia Africa and America 12 Car. 2. 18. 15 Car. 2. 7. 4. Articles and Orders for better government of his Majesty's Navies Ships of War and Forces by Sea 13 Car. 2. 9. 5. How provision of carriage by Land and Water shall be made for the use of the Navy and Ordnance 14 Car. 2. 20. 6. The Penalty for imbezelling of Stores and Ammunition belonging to his Majesty's Navy-Royal 16 Car. 2. 5. 19 Car. 2. 7. 7. Who may punish Disturbances by Sea-men and others relating to the Navy-Royal 16 Car. 2. 5. 19 Car. 2. 7. 8. The penalty for delivering up English Merchant-ships to Turks or Pyrats 16 Car. 2. 6. 9. Builders of new Ships encouraged 14 Car. 2. 11. Ship-money 1. Certain proceedings touching Ship-money declared illegal and the Records thereof made void 17 Car. 1. 4. Silk and Silkthrowers See Manufactures Souldiers and Seamen 1. Such Souldiers as were instrumental in his Majesty's Restauration may exercise Trades 12 Car. 2. 16. Such as deserted the Kings Service or refuse to take the Oath of Allegiance excepted Ibid. 2. The Militia and ordering and disposing of the Forces and Souldiers by Sea and Land declared to be onely in the King 13 Car. â— 6. 14 Car. â— 3. See Ships and Shipping 3. How the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom shall be ordered 14 Car. 2. 3. 15 Car. 2. 4. 4. Relief of poor and maimed Souldiers who faithfully served his Majesty and his Royal Father in the late Wars 14 Car. 2. 9. Stannaries 1. Certain Inchroachments and Oppressions in the Stannary Court redressed 17 Car. 1. 15. Star-Chamber 1. The Court of Star-chamber taken away 17 Car. 1.10 2. All matters examinable in Star-chamber may be examined and redressed by the Common Law 17 Car. 1.10 3. No Court or Councel to be erected may have the like Jurisdiction 17 Car. 1. 10. Statutes 1. All Acts that are upon continuance shall remain in force till otherwise ordered by Parliament 17 Car. 1. 4. 2. A Repeal of some and continuance of divers other Statutes 3 Car. 1. 4. 3. Divers publick Acts made 12 Car. 2. confirmed 13 Car. 2. 7. and cap. 11. 14. Statute-staple See Extent Stuffs 1. The regulating of making of Stuffs in Norfolk and Norwich See Norwich Subsidy 1. A Subsidy and Royal Aid granted to his Majesty by a Monethly Assesment leviable in three years 16 17 Car. 2. 1. 2. A further supply 17 Car. 2. 1. 3. One Moneths Assesment granted to the King for his Royal Highness the Duke of York 17 Car. 2. 9. 4. See Excise Tunnage and Poundage Hearth-money Poll-money Benevolence 5. A further supply by a Monethly Assesment granted to his Majesty for eleven Moneths 19 Car. 2. 8. Suits See Arrests and Delays TApistry See Manufactures Terâ— 1 Michaelmas Term abbreviated and the manner of Continuances and Returnâ— of Writs 17 Car. 1. 6. Tobacco 1 The planting setting or sowing of Tobacco in England prohibited under several penalties 12 Car. 2. 34. 2 Certain further penalties for planting Tobacco in England 15 Car. 2. 7. Treason 1 What shall be adjudged Treason during his Majesties life 13 Car. 2. 1. 2 Offences disabling persons to bear any Office during the Kings life 13 Car. 2. 1. 3 Offences which incur a Praemunire ibid. See Attainder Tumults See Petitions and Riots Tunnage and Poundage 1 The Causes and Trusts upon granting Tunnage and Poundage for defending the Seas 12 Car. 2. 4. 2 To be paid according to the Book of Rates agreed by the Commons House of Parliament for ascertaining the same ibid. 3 What Fees the Custom-Officers may take ibid. 4 Prisage of Wines not to pay the said Duty ibid. 5 The penalty for committing frauds and abuses about the Customs 14 Car. 2. 11. Vestry 1 HOw Vestry-men shall be Elected and the Oath they are to take 15 Car. 2. 5. Uniting of Parishes See Corporations Usury 1 The penalty upon him that shall take above Six in the Hundred for the Loan of One hundred pounds for a year 12 Car. 2. 13. 2 The forfeiture of a Scrivener that shall take excessive Brocage Ibid. Uniformity See Ecclesiastical Matters c. Wales 1 JUry-men in Wales must be worth 8 l. per annum 16 17 Car. 2. 3. 2. The Statute concerning Replevins and Avowries upon Distresses shall extend to Wales 19 Car. 2. 5. Wards and Wardships 1 The Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite and Knights Service and Purveyance taken away 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. And the Imposition upon Ale and Beer and other Liquors granted to the King his Heirs and Successors ibid. Weavers 1 Linnen Weavers may set up the Trade in any places where they please 15 Car. 2. 15. Weights and Measures 1 There shall be but one Weight and Measure throughout the Kingdom 17 Car. 1. 19. Wines 1 The King may issue Commission to licence the uttering of Wines by Retail 12 Car. 2.25 2 The Agents for granting Wine-Licences may grant them not exceeding 21 years if the person so long live upon Rent reserved but no Fine to be taken ibid. 3 How and by whom the prices of Wines shall be set 12 Car. 2. 25. 4 The Power of granting Wine-Licences setled upon the Duke of York in tail 15 Car. 2. 14. Wood. 1 The penalty for unlawful cutting spoyling and stealing of Wood and Under-wood young Timber Trees Poles c. 15 Car. 2. 2. Wooll Woolf ls c. 1 The Exportation of Wooll Woollfels Fullers Earth or any kind of scowring prohibited under several penalties 12 Car. 2. 32. 2 Exporting of Sheep Wooll Woolfels Mortlings Shorelings Yarn of Wooll Wooll-Flocks Fullers Earth Fulling Clay Tobacco-Pipe clay prohibited upon certain penalties 14 Car. 2. 18. 3 Importing of Forein Wooll-Cards Card-wire and Iron-wire prohibited 14 Car. 2. 19. Yarn See Wooll c. FINIS