and reserving the ancient Rent or such as hath been paid for the greater part of twenty years next before the Year 1660. to those that have the Inheritance or else a reasonable Rent not being under the twentieth part of the clear yearly value III. All Covenants Covenants good against them to whom the Interest shall afterward come Conditions and Agreements in every Lease made as aforesaid shall be good in Law according to the contents of the same not only against them to whom the Reversion of the said Lands shall come but against them to whom the Interest of the said Leases shall come as if their Majesties at the making such Covenants and Conditions were actually seized in Fee-simple of the same IV. Saving to all Persons and Bodies Politick Saving of Rights their Heirs and Successors saving the King and Queen and their Heirs the Dukes of Cornwal for the time being and their Heirs or whosoever shall enjoy the Dukedom by force of any Act of Parliament all such Rights and Demands whatsoever of in to or out of the said Offices or Lands or any of them as they had before the making this Act any thing herein notwithstanding V. Fees for passing Leases The Fees and Charges to be paid for passing and perfecting Leases of Tenements of small value where the Fine or Value of such Lease or Grant to be made or renewed shall not exceed 80 l. shall not exceed the Sum of 10 l. for every Lease and 4 l. for every Copy besides the said Fine or Value the said 10 l. and 4 l. to be divided among the Officers of the Exchequer imployed for the preparing and passing such Lease or Grant and if any Officer exceed the same he shall forfeit to the Party grieved so much as is exceeded by this Act and also 20 l. one moiety whereof shall be forfeited to the King and the other to the Party grieved Militia I. STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 13. An Act for raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the year 1694. although the Months Pay formerly advanced be not repaid Mines I. Lawful to dig in Mines notwithstanding pretended to be Royal. Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 6. All Persons Subjects of the Crown of England Bodies Politick or Corporate having or that shall have any Mine or Mines within the Kingdom of England or Wales wherein any Ore now is or shall be discovered or wrought in which there is Copper Tin Iron or Lead shall and may enjoy the same Mine or Mines and Ore and dig and work the said Mine or Mines or Ore notwithstanding they shall be pretended or claimed to be a Royal Mine or Mines II. Rates to be paid for Ore where Mines are pretended to be Royal Provided that their Majesties their Heirs and Successors and all claiming any Royal Mines under them may have the Ore of such Mines in any part of England or Wales other than in the Counties of Devon and Cornwal paying to the Owners of the said Mines wherein such Ore is or shall be found within thirty days after the said Ore is or shall be laid upon the Banks of the said Mines and before the same be removed thence the Rates following viz. For all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Copper 16 l. per Tun For all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Tin 40 s. per Tun And for all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Iron 40 s. per Tun And for all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Lead 9 l. per Tun and in default of payment of such respective Sums as aforesaid it shall be lawful for the Owners of the said Mines wherein such Ore shall be found to dispose of the said Ore to their own uses Orphans I. STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 4. Perpetual Fond to pay the Interest of 4 l. per Gent. unto Dec. 25th 1693. From the time first due to Dec. 25th 1683 at 5 l. per Cent. And from thence to Dec. 25th 1693. at 3 l. per Cent. 4 l. per Cent. from the 25th of Dec. 1655 to the 25 of Dec. 1693 and so proportionably The City Lands c. excepting the Revenues of the Hospitals and Repairs of London-Bridge for ever chargeable after the 24th of June 1694. for raising the Annual Sum of 8000 l. It is enacted That for the raising a perpetual Fond to pay the yearly Interest of four pounds for every hundred pound principal Mony and of all the Interest thereof due to any Orphan of the City or the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such Orphan unto the 25th day of December 1693. The Interest to be computed from the time first payable unto the 25th day of December 1683. at five pounds for the Interest of every hundred pounds for one year And from that time to the 25th day of December 1693. at three pounds and so proportionably for any greater or lesser Sum the Interest already received for such principal Mony to be deducted and to pay the like yearly Interest of four pounds for every hundred pounds of the principal Mony and Interest thereof to be computed as aforesaid due upon Bond Bill or Note liable to pay Interest between the 25th day of December 1655. and the same day of December 1693. or any other the Creditor of the same City or the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such Creditor on the said 25th day of December 1693. from the Chamber of the said City or from the Mayor Commonalty or Citizens thereof and so proportionably for any greater or lesser Sum the Manners Messuages Lands Markets and Fairs and other the Hereditaments and Revenues belonging to the same City in possession or reversion and the Improvements that shall be made thereof except such the Lands and Revenues belonging to the Hospitals of the same City or Borough of Southwark or such as are chargeable with the Repairs of London Bridge shall be yearly charged for ever after the 24th day of June 1694. for the raising the Annual Sum of eight thousand pounds to be appropriated for the raising such a perpetual Fond and be applied as aforesaid II. The Aqueducts belonging to the City The City Aqueducts liable and their Rents except the Profits of such Water as shall be for the Supply of the publick Conduits Hospitals Halls and Prisons shall be for ever appropriated and applied towards payment of the said Interest III. 2000 l. annually out of Personal Estates And for the raising such a perpertual Fond the Common Council may every year raise and assess the Sum of two thousand pounds upon the Personal Estates of the several Inhabitants within the City and Liberties and to distrain for default of payment IV. Leases of the Convex Lights for 21 years from June 24th 1694 600 l. per ann The City may Lease to the Persons concerned in the Convex Lights the sole use of
 Copies of Inventories in Courts of Admiralty Cinque Ports and Ecclesiastical Courts   Affidavits and Copies Indentures Leases Deed Polls 6 d. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper Writs Original Latitats Capias Subpoena Bill of Middlesex Quominus Ded. Potestatem and other Writs   Processes and Mandates in all Courts where Debt is above 40 s.   Actions in London and other Corporations above 40 s.   Charter Parties Pollicies of Assurance Pasports Bonds Releases Contracts Obligatory Instruments Protests Procurations Letters of Attorny or other Notarial Acts.  Copies of Declarations Pleas Replications Rejoinders Demurrers and other Pleadings in all Courts of Law and for Copies thereof 1 d. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper Copies of Depositions Bills Answers Pleas Demurrers Replications Rejoinders Interrogatories and other Proceedings in any Court of Equity Copies of Wills  Things Excepted Draughts of Depositions taken by Commissioners before they are ingrossed Seamens and Souldiers Wills and Administrations Paupers Bills of Exchange Accounts Bills of Parcels Bills of Fees Bills or Notes not sealed for Payment of Mony at sight or on demand or at the end of certain days of payment Trade I. Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 2. An Act for repealing such parts of several former Acts as prevent or prohibit the Importation of Foreign Brandy Aqua-vitae and other Spirits and Bacon except from France I. Importation of fine Thrown Silk Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 3. It shall be lawful to or for any Person or Persons residing within their Majesties Dominions to import within this Kingdom from any Port whatsoever excepting the Ports of France during the present War with France and three Months after fine Thrown-Silk of the growth or production of Italy Sicily or Naples II. Provided that this Act nor any thing herein contained What sorts to be imported shall extend to give liberty to bring over Land and import any Italian Thrown Silk courser than a sort thereof known and distinguished by the name of Third Bolonia nor any Sicilian Thrown Silk courser than a sort thereof known and distinguished by the name of Second Orsay nor any sorts of Silks commonly called Frams of the growth of Italy Sicily or Naples nor any other Thrown Silk of the growth or production of Turky Persia East-India or China The penalty under the Penalty and Forfeiture of all such Thrown Silk as shall be brought over land and imported contrary to the intent of this Act. III. And that all such fine Italian To be brought to the Custom-house Sicilian and Naples Thrown Silks as are allowed to be imported by this Act wheresoever landed shall be brought to their Majesties Custom-house London to the intent that no other sort may be imported over-land than those only allowed by this Act under the Penalties before-mentioned any thing to the contrary hereof notwithstanding I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 3. Whereas by an Act made in the 5th year of Q. Elizabeth Entituled An Act containing divers Orders for Artificers Labourers Servants in Husbandry and Apprentices It is enacted in these words following Provided always and be it farther enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Person or Persons using or exercising the Art or Mystery of a Woollen Cloath-Weaver other than such as be inhabiting within the Counties of Cumberland Westmorland Lancaster and Wales weaving Frizes Cottons or Houswifes Cloath only making and weaving Woollen-Cloath commonly sold or to be sold by any Cloathman or Clothier shall take and have any Apprentice or shall teach or in any-wise instruct any Person or Persons in the Science Art or Occupation of Weaving aforesaid in any Village Town or Place Cities Towns-Corporate and Market-Towns only excepted unless such Person be his Son or else that the Father or Mother of such Apprentice or Servant shall at the time of the taking of such Person or Persous to be an Apprentice or Servant or to be instructed have Lands or Tenements or other Hereditaments to the clear yearly value of 3 l. at the least of an Estate of Inheritance or Freehold to be certified under the Hands and Seals of three Justices of the Peace of the Shire or Shires where the said Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments do or shall lie The effect of the Indenture to be registred within three months in the Parish where such Master shall dwell and to pay for such registring 4 d. upon pain of forfeiture of 20 s. for every month that Person shall otherwise take any Apprentice or set any such Person on Work contrary to the meaning of this Article II. St. 5 Eliz. concerning Apprentices in Woollen Manufafacture repealed Now forasmuch as such part of the said Act before recited hath been found prejudicial to the Clothing-Trade It is hereby enacted That so much of the said Act as is before recited is hereby declared to be repeald and made void as if the same had never been made I. Salt-petre to be brought in for one year Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 10. It shall be lawful for any of their Majesties Subjects to import and bring Salt-petre into this Kingdom from any Place or Country now in Amity with their Majesties for the space of one year to be computed from and after the 25th day of March 1694. II. In what Ships Provided that such Salt-petre be brought in only in such Ships or Vessels as are English built and no other III. At what rate to be sold Provided that no Person importing Salt-petre by virtute of this Act nor any Retailer shall sell any part of the Salt-petre so to be imported at above the price of 70 l. per Tun not exceeding 18 per Cent. Refraction upon the Penalty of 50 l. per Tun. IV. Their Majesties Duty Provided that the Salt-petre which shall be imported by virtue of this Act shall pay to their Majesties the same Duty as if the same were directly imported from the East-Indies V. Salt-petre imported and mingled not to be sold at above 70 l. per Tun. If any Person shall mingle any Salt-petre imported by virtue of this Act with any other Salt-petre and sell the same so mingled at above the rate of 70 l. per Tun or shall by way of Barter or Exchange take or agree to take any other Commodity for Salt-petre imported by virtue of this Act whether by it self or mingled with other Salt-petre in any manner so as to have or receive for the same more than the rate of 70 l. per Tun accounting the Commodity so taken in exchange at the then currant Price That the sale of such Salt-petre so mingled and also such Barter or Exchange shall be construed and taken to be a Sale contrary to this Act. I. Iron Copper c. may be transported except to France during the War Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 11. It shall and may be lawful to and for any Person whatsoever Bodies Politick or Corporate to ship and export all and all manner of Iron Copper or Mundick Metal out of this Realm of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed except unto or for the use of the French King or any of his Subjects residing within his Dominions or in to or for any Port or Place within his said Dominions during the present War between their Majesties and the French King paying the Duties and Customs by Law payable for the same II. Excepting Port-Metal Gun-Metal c. Provided this Act shall not extend to the exportation of Port-Metal Gun-Metal or Shruff-Metal or any old Metal or any mixture therewith or any Copper or other Metal than what is made c. of English Ore only FINIS
the Fourth It was Enacted That none from thenceforth should use to multiply Gold or Silver or use the Craft of Multiplication and if any the same do they should incur the pain of Felony Be it Enacted that the said Branch Article or Sentence be Repealed II. Provided that all Gold and Silver that shall be Extracted by the Art of Melting and Refining Metals and otherwise Improving them and their Ores shall be employed for the encrease of Moneys and no otherwise and that the Place hereby Appointed for the disposal thereof shall be the Mint in the Tower of London where they shall receive the Value of their Gold and Silver so Extracted III. No Mine of Copper Tin Iron or Lead shall hereafter be adjudged to be a Royal Mine though Gold or Silver may be Extracted out of the same Government I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 2. An Act for Impowring His Majesty to Apprehend and Detain such Persons as he shall find just cause to suspect are Conspiring against the Government EXP. II. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 7. An Act for Impowring His Majesty to Apprehend and Detain such Persons as he shall find just Cause to suspect are Conspiring against the Government III. Stat. Ann. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap 19. All Persons that shall be in Prison the 25th Day of May 1689. or after by Warrant of Their Majesties Privy Council Signed by Six of the Council for Suspicion of High Treason or Treasonable Practices may be detained in Custody without Bail or Main-prize till the 23d Day of October 1689. And no Judge or Court of Justice shall Bail or Try any such Persons without Order from Their Majesties Privy Council Signed by Six till the said 23d of October IV. From and after the said 23d of October such Persons shall have the Benefit of the Habeas Corpus Act and of all other Statutes providing for the Liberty of the Subjects V. Nothing in this Act shall extend to Prejudice the Ancient Rights and Priviledges of Parliament VI. A true Copy of every Warrant for such Commitment shall be Entred and Kept by the Clerks of the Privy Council in a Book apart and Signed by such of the Privy Council as shall Grant the Warrant and no Warrant not so Entred and Signed and Kept shall be adjudged to be a Warrant by Virtue of this Act. VII Stat. 2. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 6. Whensoever and as often as His Majesty shall be absent out of England It shall be Lawful for the Queen to Exercise and Administer the Regal Power and Government in the Names of both Their Majesties for such time only during Their Joint Lives as His Majesty shall be absent out of England VIII Nothing in this Act shall debar His Majesty during such absence from the Exercise of Administration of any Act or Acts of Regal Power or Government and neither the passing this Act nor His Majesties Royal Voyage or Absence shall Dissolve this present Parliament or determine any Commissions Granted by His Majesty nor avoid any other Act of Government executed or to be execured by him IX Provided That as often as His Majesty shall return into England the sole Administration of the Regal Power and Government shall be in His Majesty only Hair-Buttons I. STat. 4. 5. W. M. cap. 10. No Foreign Buttons made of Hair nor other Foreign Buttons whatsoever shall be Imported or Bartered Sold or Exchanged on pain to Forfeit the Buttons so Imported Bartered Sold or Exchanged and under such farther Penalties as are expressed in an Act made in the 14th year of the Reign of the late King Charles 2d Entituled An Act Prohibiting the Importation of Foreign Bone lace Cut-work Imbroidery c. One Moiety to Their Majesties and the other to the Informer II. The Justices of Peace within their respective Divisions shall have the same Authority and Power to issue their Warrants to seize all Foreign Buttons whatsoever that by the said Act is given them to seize Foreign Buttons made of Thread and Silk Hearth-Doney I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 10. An Act made in the Parliament begun at Westminster the 8th of May in the 13th year of King Charles 2d Entituled An Act for the Establishing an Additional Revenue upon His Majesty His Heirs and Successors for the better Support of His and Their Crown and Dignity And another Act made in the Second Session of the said Parliament in the 15th year of the said King's Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Revenue arising by Hearth-Money And another Act made in the 16th year of the said King's Reign Entituled An Act for Collecting the Duty arising by Hearth-Money by the Officers to be Appointed by His Majesty are hereby Repealed and made Void II. Nothing in this Act shall hinder or prejudice the Levying the said Revenue arising by Hearth-money which shall grow due on the 25th of March 1689. and all Arrears of the said Duty now due and payable by the said Acts. High-ways I. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 12. The Laws and Statutes in force touching the High ways not hereby altered or repealed shall be put in Execution II. Upon the 26th day of Decemb. yearly unless that day be Sunday and then on the 27th day the Constables Headboroughs Tything-men Churchwardens Surveyors of the High-ways and Inhabitants in every Parish shall assemble and the major Part of the Assembly shall make a List of the Names of a competent Number of the Inhabitants who have an Estate in Land in their own Right or their Wives of 10 l. per annum or a personal Estate of 100 l. or are Occupiers of Houses Lands c. of the yearly value of 30 l. if such there be and if not then a List of the most sufficient Inhabitants and return it to Two or more Justices of the Peace at a Special Sessions to be held for that purpose on the third day of January next following or within Fifteen days after For which purpose the Justices are required to hold a Special Sessions and to give notice to the Constables Headboroughs c. of every Parish within the Division Ten days before the holding of the same and out of the said Lists by Warrant under their Hands and Seals they shall nominate One Two or more to be Surveyor or Surveyors of the High-ways of every Parish within the Division or for any Hamlet Precinct Town c. of and in the same for the year ensuing Which Nomination shall by the Constables c. be notified to the persons nominated within six days by serving them with the Warrants or leaving the same or a Copy thereof at their Houses And if the Persons so nominated shall refuse or neglect to take upon them the said Office they shall forfeit 5 l. to be on their Goods by Distress and Sale thereof by Warrant of Two Justices of the Peace which Warrant the Justices are
this Act in execution may plead the General Issue c. and if the Plaintiffs discontinue or delay prosecution or become non-suit or a Verdict or Judgment pass against them the Defendants shall recover their treble Costs XV. After the first day of September 1690. none of the Commodities hereby prohibited shall be imported from Guernesey Jersey Alderney Sark or Man into England Ireland Wales or Berwick under the Penalties and Forfeitures contain'd in this Act. XVI None shall sell at or demand a greater price for any French Wines or so reputed or other Wines mixt with French Wines after the 10th day of September 1689. to the 10th day of September 1690. than 12 d. by the Quart and after the 10th of September 1690. 6 d. by the Quart and no more on pain to forfeit for every Quart 5 l. for the first Offence to the Informer and 10 l. for the second and every other Offence to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. XVII After the 10th of Sept. 1689. no Retailer of Wines shall utter them other than in Measures made of Pewter and sealed according to the Statute on pain to forfeit 5 l. for every such Offence to the Informer to be recovered as aforesaid XVIII If any Merchant Vintner Wine-cooper or other Persons selling Wines by whole-sale or retail shall corrupt or adulterate any Wine or shall utter Wine corrupted or adulterated they shall forfeit 300 l. for every such Offence the one moiety to their Majesties and the other to him that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. and shall suffer three months Imprisonment XIX Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 14. If any Officer of the Customs or Prizes shall knowingly suffer any Goods or Manufactures imported as Prizes or otherwise contrary to an Act made in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Trade and commerce with France to be admitted to an Entry or to be embezil'd and not stav'd spilt burnt or destroy'd as the said Act directs he shall forfeit 500 l. one moiety to their Majesties the other to the Informer and shall be uncapable of executing any Office in their Majesties Revenue XX. If any Persons after the first of February 1690. shall utter by retail by Glass-Bottles or by any other Retail-measure not made of Pewter and seal'd according to Law any Wines or other Liquor or shall sell the same for a greater price than by the said Act is appointed and shall be convicted by confession or the Oath of two Witnesses before a Justice of Peace being prosecuted within thirty days after the Offence committed they shall forfeit 5 s. for every such Offence which if not paid upon demand shall be levied by distress and tale of Goods by such Justices Warrant to the Constable Headborough c. the Mony so levied to be given to the Informer and for want of a distress the Offender to be committed to the common Gaol till payment of the penalty and all necessary Costs to be taxed by the Justice or Justices before whom the Conviction was XXI Offenders punished by virtue of this Act shall not incur the Penalty of any former Law for the same Offence and no Writs of Certiorari shall supersede or remove any Proceedings by virtue of this Act. XXII Persons resisting abusing beating or wounding an Officer Informer or other Person impowred hereby or such as shall act in their Aid shall by the next Justice of Peace or other Magistrate be committed to prison till the next Quarter-Sessions where they shall be punished by Fine not exceeding 5 l. and the Offender to remain in prison till he be discharged of his Fine and Imprisonment by Order of the Justices or any two of them XXIII Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 17. A joint Stock of 40000 l. at least shall be raised by Subscriptions by Sir W.S. H.B. R.H. J.S. G.B. F.G. E.P. E.H. J.J. E.B. B.S. M.A. R.M. J.G. J.K. T.S. W.B. R.B. R.H. J.B. J.B. P.P. T.P. C.M. S.H. S.N. B.S. N.C. T.C. P.G. J.B. T.K. H.S. R.M. J.P. R.C. P.G. A.B. A.M. J.O. J.P. and T.G. on or before the first day of May next and shall be paid to the use of the Company established by this Act. XXIV And be it enacted That the said Sir W.S. H.B. and the rest of the Persons afore-named and all and every other Person and Persons subjects born or naturalized or endenizend who shall have any share in the said Joint-Stock shall be incorporated by the Name of the Company of Merchants of London trading to Greenland and shall have a common Seal and Ability to purchase Lands and Tenements in Succession so as the same exceed nor the yearly value of 100 l. and to do and execute all Matters and Things which any other Body Corporate may lawfully do or execute XXV The said Company during the continuance of the said Joynt-Stock shall freely use the Trade and Merchandize of catching Whales into and from Green land and the Green-land Seas and in all Seas and Places whatsoever except in the Seas belonging to their Majesties Colonies and Plantations in America without interruption or disturbance any Law Statute or other thing to the contrary notwithstanding XXVI A Governor Deputy-Governor and sixteen Committees shall be elected as followeth who shall have the management and direction of the said Trade XXVII A Book for Subscriptions shall be provided within ten days after the passing of this Act by the first five of the said Persons or any three of them in which shall be subscribed on or before the first day of May next by the Persons above-named or the Survivors of them the said Joint-Stock which shall not be less then 40000 l. no Subscriber to subscribe less than 500 l. nor more than 2000 l. XXVIII All Persons subscribing shall on or before the said first day of May pay down to such as the Persons before-named or the major-part of them shall appoint one fourth part of the Sums they subscribe and the remainder at such times and in such manner as shall be appointed by the Governor or Deputy-Governor and Court of Committees so as the whole Sum subscribed be paid within four years after the said first day of May. XXIX Defaulters in payment shall after such default have no other advantage by such Subscription than in proportion to such Sums as they shall have actually paid and farther shall forfeit to the use of the Adventurers in the said Joint-Stock 10 l. for every hundred pounds of such Sum as they shall omit to pay in to be deducted out of the Mony by them paid in XXX Before the 25th day of May next any thirteen of the said Persons before-named shall call a Court of all the Subscribers and others who shall then have any share in the said Joint-Stock who shall meet and chuse one fit Person having subscribed 1000 l. or upwards and paid in one
every Person and Persons Bodies Politick and Corporate Guilds and Fraternities having any Estate in ready Monies or in any Debts owing to them within this Realm or without or having any Estate in Goods Wares Merchandizes or other Chattels or Personal Estate within this Realm or without belonging to or in trust for them except out of the Premises such Monies as he or they do bona fide owe and such Debts owing to them as shall be adjudged desperate by the Commissioners appointed by this Act and also the Stock upon Lands and such Goods as are used for Houshold-stuff shall pay unto their Majesties 4 s in the Pound according to the true yearly value thereof for one year viz. for every 100 l. of such ready Mony and Debts and for every 100. l. worth of such Goods Wares Merchandizes or other Chattels or other Personal Estate the Sum of 24 s. and so after that rate for every greater or lesser Sum or quantity II. All and every Person and Persons All publick Officers their Agents except Officers in the Army to pay 4 s. in the Pound Commissioner or Commissioners having or exercising any Publick Office or Employment of Profit such Military Officers who are or shall be in Muster by the Muster-Master General of the Army or in Pay in their Majesties Army or Navy in respect of such Offices only excepted other than Governors Deputy or Lieutenant-Governors of any of their Majesties Garrisons Forts or Castles for their Salaries or Pay for the same Governments And also except such Persons in their Majesties Ordnance whose Salaries do not exceed 100 l. per Ann. and all and every their Agents Clerks Secondaries Substitutes and other inferiour Ministers whatsoever shall pay unto their Majesties the Sum of 4 s. for every 20 s. which he or they receive in one year by virtue of any Salaries Gratuity Bounty-mony Reward Fees or Profits to him or them accruing by reason or occasion of their several Offices or Imployments III. All real Estates chargeable as aforesaid All Manors Messuages Lands and Tenements as also Quarries Mines of Coal Tin or Lead Copper Mundick-Iron or other Mines Iron-works Salt-springs and Salt-works all Allom Mines or Works all Parks Chases Warrens Woods Under-woods Coppices and all Fishings Tithes Tolls Annuities and all other yearly Profits and Hereditaments of what nature or kind soever they be as well within ancient Demesn and other Liberties and priviledged Places as without shall be charged at 4 s. for every 20 s. by the year which the said Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and other the Premises are now worth to be leased if the same were truly and bona fide leased or demised at a Rack Rent and according to the full true yearly value thereof without any respect had to the present Rents reserved for the same if such Rents have been reserved upon such Leases or Estates made for which any Fine or Income hath been paid or secured or have been lessened or abated upon consideration of Mony laid out or to be laid out in Improvements and without any respect had to any former Rates or Taxes thereupon imposed or making any abatement in respect of Reparations Taxes Parish-Duties or any other Charges whatsoever To be paid quarterly to be paid by four quarterly Payments the first thereof to be made upon the 26th of March which shall be in the year 1694. IV. Deductions to be allowed And whereas many of the Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Tithes Hereditaments and Premisses intended by this Act to be charged with the Pound Rates as aforesaid stand incumbred with or are subject and liable to the payment of several Rent-charges or Annuities issuing out of the same or to the payment of divers Fee-farm Rents Rent-service or other Rents thereupon reserved or charged by reason whereof the true Owners of such Manors c. do not receive to their own use the true yearly value of the same for which nevertheless they are by this Act charged It is therefore hereby enacted That it shall be lawful for the Landlords and Proprietors of such Manors c. as are charged with the Pound Rate as aforesaid to deduct and keep in their Hands 4 s. in the Pound for every Fee-farm Rent c. charged upon or issuing out of the Premises or any part thereof And all Persons who are intituled to such Rents c. are hereby required to allow such Deductions upon receipt of the residue of such Monies as shall be due to them for such Rents or Annual Payments reserved as aforesaid V. Commissioners to make Assessors who are to return the Names of Persons and value of their Estates As also Collectors Penalty of neglect or refusal The Commissioners after their general Meeting and Charge given shall issue their Warrants to two at the least of the most sufficient Inhabitants of each Parish or Township within the respective Divisions requiring them to be Assessors of every the Rates and Duties by this Act imposed and shall prefix a certain day and place for the Assessors to appear before them and to bring in their Certificates in Writing of the Names and Sirnames of every Person dwelling within the Limits of those Places with which they shall be charged and of the value of every of them in ready Mony Debts Goods Chattels or other Personal Estate except before excepted or in publick Offices or Imployments And the same Assessors are also hereby required to inform themselves by all lawful ways of the full yearly value of all Manors Messuages Lands and Tenements as also of all Quarries Mines of Coal Tin or Lead Copper Mundick or other Mines Iron-works Salt-springs and Salt-works Allom-mines and Works Parks Chases Warrens Woods Under-woods and Coppices and all Fishings Tithes Tolls Annuities and other yearly Profits And of all Hereditaments of what nature soever lying or being in the Limits with which they shall be charged And being so thereof ascertained they are to assess the said Manors Lands and Premises before appointed to be charged after the rate of 4 s. for every 20 s. of the full yearly value as aforesaid and to bring with them a Certificate in Writing of their said Assessment And shall then also return the Names of two or more able Persons living within the Limits of those Parishes or Places where they shall be chargeable to be Collectors of the Monies to be paid to their Majesties by this Act for whose paying to the Head-Collector such Monies as they shall be chargeable withal the Parish wherein they are so imployed shall be answerable Penalty of Assessors for neglecting their Duty And if any of the Assessors as aforesaid appointed refuse to serve or make default at the time appointed for his Appearance not having a lawfull excuse to be witnessed by the Oaths of two credible Witnesses which two or more of the said Commissioners have power to administer or shall not perform his Duty every such Assessor
shall for so neglecting or refusing forfeit to their Majesties such Sum as the said Commissioners or the major part of them shall think fit not exceeding 20 l. nor under 10 l. to be levied by distress and sale of the Offenders Goods and Chattels in like manner as is appointed for levying the several Rates herein mentioned in case of refusal of payment And every Assessor as afore appointed before he take upon him the execution of the said Employment shall take the Oaths required to be taken in an Act made in the first Year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths Oath to be taken and also take the Oath following You shall swear well and truly to execute the Duty of an Assessor and to cause the Rates and Duties imposed by an Act Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of 4 s. in the Pound for one year for carrying on a vigorous War against France to be duly and impartially assessed according to the best of your skill and knowledge and therein you shall spare no Person for Favour or Affection nor any Person grieve for Hatred or Ill-will So help you God VI. Certificates to be return'd to the Commissioners by the 5th of March 1693. The Rates and Assessments upon all ready Monies Debts Goods Chattels Personal Estates and Publick Offices and Employments of Profit charged by this Act shall be ascertained and the Certificates thereof returned to the Commissioners upon or before the 5th of March 1693. unless the Commissioners shall think fit to give farther time And also the Assessments of 4 s. in the Pound of the yearly value of all Manors Messuages Tenements Hereditaments and Premises charged by this Act shall be ascertained and the Certificates returned in to the Commissioners on or upon the 5th day of March aforesaid unless the Commissioners shall think fit to give farther time and upon return of such Certificate any three or more of the Commissioners may examine the Presenters thereof if they see cause Commissioners to examine suspected Returns And if at the return of the Certificates or within twenty days after they shall have cause to suspect that any Person or any Manors Lands or other the Premises which ought to be charged is omitted or that any Person is of a greater Estate or any the Lands or other Premises are of greater yearly value the said Commissioners or any three of them may summon such Person or the Owners of such Manors or other Premises to appear before them and if they neglect to appear not having a reasonable excuse every Person so making default Penalty of the Persons not appearing shall pay to their Majesties double the Sum he should have been rated at And the said Commissioners or the major part of them shall have power to examine into the Estate of such person and the value of such Premises chargeable by this Act and to set such Rates thereon as shall be chargeable by this Act. VII And the said Commissioners Collecting the Duty at 4 quarterly Payments and when to begin or any two of them shall issue out their Warrants for the collecting the Rates and Assessments in respect of the Personal Estates Offices and Imployments and also of the Pound Rate to be charged upon Lands Tenements and other the Premisses as aforesaid at four quarterly Payments the first to be on the 26th of March 1694. or within twenty days after paid into their Majesties Exchequer The second Payment by the 20th day of June next ensuing or within twenty days after The third on the 20th day of September next ensuing or within twenty days after And the last Payment to be on the 20th of December or within twenty days after VIII The Sub-collector may retain 3 d. Sub-collectors and Receiver Generals Fee for each 20 s. he collects as a Reward for his Pains and shall not travel above ten miles for payment of any Monies by him received And the Head-collector shall be nominated by the Receiver General of the County which Receiver General shall be answerable for all Monies received by the Collectors of the said County And the Receiver General shall have 2 d. in the Pound for all Monies paid by him into the Exchequer on or before the times prefixt in this Act. IX Commissioners Clerks Fees The Commissioners Clerks shall for writing Warrants Certificates and Duplicates by Warrant under two or more of the Commissioners Hands receive from the respective Receivers General 1 d. in the Pound for such Monies as they shall have received X. Penalty of refusing payment Upon refusal to pay as by Act assessed it shall be lawfull to distrain and the Distress to sell within four days And moreover it shall be lawful to break open in the day-time any House and upon Warrant under the Hands and Seals of two or more of the said Commissioners any Chest Trunk Box or other things where any such Goods are calling the Constables or Headboroughs to their assistance where any refusal or resistance shall be made Tenants to deduct out of their Rents The several Tenants which shall be rated by virtue of this Act are hereby required to pay such Monies as shall be rated upon such Houses and Premises and deduct out of the Rents so much of the said Rates as in respect of the said Rents of every such House or Lands the Landlord ought to bear and all Landlords are hereby required to allow such Deductions upon receipt of the residue of their Rents XI Within what time to appeal If any Person by this Act sessed do find himself grieved by such assessing and do within ten days after demand of the same complain to the Commissioners the said Commissioners or any three or more of them so as the major part of the Commissioners who signed the Rates be present shall have power within ten days after such complaint to examine any Persons upon Oath of their real or personal Estate and upon examination and knowledge thereof to abate or enlarge the same Assessment and the same so abated or enlarged shall be estreated into the Exchequer as aforesaid Appeals to be final Collector neglecting or refusing his Penalty And Appeals once determined to be final XII If any Collector shall neglect or refuse to pay any Mony by him received as by this Act is directed or shall detain any Mony and not pay the same at such time as is hereby directed the Commissioners of each County or any two or more of them are hereby impowred to imprison the Person and seize the Estate both real and personal of such Collector to him belonging or which shall descend or come to his Heirs or Executors and to give notice and appoint a time for the sale thereof and to satisfie and pay into the Hands of the Receiver General so much as shall be detained by the
Person of the Age of sixteen years or upwards and being now withing this Realm who hath not taken the Oaths mentioned and upon Summons under the Hand and Seal of any two or more of the said Commissioners appointed by the first above-mentioned Act shall refuse to take the said Oaths at the time appointed in such Warrant or shall neglect to appear at such times before the Commissioners in order to take the said Oaths shall doubly be assessed the Rates above-mentioned XXVI Gentlemen to be taxed by a former Act and not paying the Penalty Every Gentleman or so reputed or owning or writing himself such or being above that Quality who by virtue of an Act made in the third year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for raising Mony by a Poll payable quarterly for one year for carrying on a vigorous War against France did pay or ought to have paid double the Sums charged by the said Act or were or ought to have been returned into the Exchequer for non-payment thereof who shall not voluntarily appear before the said Commissioners or any two or more of them within ten days after the first Meeting of the said Commissioners and take the said Oaths appointed by the said Act made the first year of their Majesties Reign shall be doubly assessed as above XXVII Quakers to subscribe the Declaration Provided nevertheless that whereas certain Persons called Quakers and now known to be such do scruple the taking of any Oath It shall be sufficient for every such Person to subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity contained in an Act of Parliament held in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws and every Person so doing shall not be chargeable with any of the double Rates aforesaid XXVIII Lands to be above 20 s per ann No Person shall be liable to the Pound-rate imposed by this Act upon Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whose Lands Tenements or Hereditaments are not of the yearly value of 20 s. in the whole XXIX Master of the Rolls c. where to be charged The Master of the Rolls Masters in Chancery Six Clerks Clerks of the Petty Bag Examiners Registers Clerks of the Inrolment Clerks of the Affidavits and Subpoena Office or any other the Officers of the High-Court of Chancery that execute their Offices in the Liberty of the Rolls are to be assessed there and not elsewhere XXX Penalty of Collectors detaining Mony If any Collector shall keep in his Hands any part of the Mony by him collected for any longer time than by this Act directed or pay any part thereof to any other Person than the Head-Collector or Receiver-General of such place every such Collector shall forfeit 10 l. And if any Head-Collector shall detain in his Hands or pay any Mony to any other than the Receiver-General of such Place every such Head-Collector shall forfeit 40 l. And if any Receiver-General or his Deputy shall pay such Monies or any part thereof paid to him by this Act to any Person whatsoever other than the Receipt of their Majesties Exchequer within the times limited by this Act such Receiver General or his Deputy shall forfeit the Sum of 1000 l. XXXI Changing Abode after Assessment If after Assessments on personal Estates according to this Act any Person shall remove to any place where such Person was not taxed the Commissioners acting within such place are hereby impowred to summon such Person before them and unless he or she shall produce a Certificate made according to the Directions of this Act whereby it may appear that he or she have paid all their precedent quarterly Payments the said Commissioners are hereby required to cause such Persons to be assessed for such quarterly Payments as remain unassessed to be assessed and paid according to the true intent of this Act. XXXII The King may borrow upon this Act at 7 l. per Cent. It shall and may be lawful for any Person Native or Foreigner Bodies Politick or Corporate to lend to their Majesties upon the security of this Act any Sums of Mony and to receive for the forbearance thereof any Sum not exceeding 7 l. per Cent. for one whole year and that no Mony so lent shall be rated by virtue of this Act. XXXIII No Rector or Vicar chargeable except above 30 l. per Ann. No Rector or Vicar who has the Cure of Souls and actually resides upon his Rectory or Vicaridge upon the account of such his Rectory and Vicaridge only shall be charged by this Act unless his Rectory or Vicaridge does really and truly exceed the value of 30 l. per annum or unless he hath more than one Rectory or Vicaridge Additional Supply for 118506 l. 5 s. 10 d. I. Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 5. That it shall and may be lawful for any Persons Natives or Foreigners to contribute towards the advancing the Sum of 118506 l. 5 s. 10 d. to make up the whole Sum of 1000000 l. granted to their Majesties by an Act made this present Parliament intended to be advanced by paying into their Majesties Exchequer at any time before the first day of May 1694. any Sum or Sums of Mony not exceeding in the whole the Sum of 118506 l. 5 s. 10 d. as followeth viz. That every Person out of the Rates and Duties of Excise granted by the said Act of 1000000 l. 14 l. per Cent. for own Life or Nominees shall have and receive for every Sum of 100 l. by them respectively advanced and paid a quarterly Annuity Rent or Payment of 14 l. and proportionably for a greater Sum for and during the life of such Person so advancing or paying the same or during any other life to be nominated by the Person advancing or paying any such Sum as aforesaid Within what time to be nominated the same to be nominated within six days after payment of such Sum which yearly Annuities Rents or Payments shall commence from the 24th of June next ensuing and shall be paid and payable at the four most usual Feasts of the year viz. The Annuntiation of the Blessed Virgin Mary the Nativity of St. John Baptist the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel and the Feast of the Birth of our Lord Christ and every Person on payment of such Sum or Sums as aforesaid Tallies to be given on receipt of the Monies and Orders thereon which may be transferred or assigned and not to be revoked shall immediately have one or more Tally or Tallies importing the receipt of the Consideration Mony and Orders for the Payment of the said Annuities bearing the same date with the Tally the said Tallies to be levied and the said Orders to be signed in the same manner as in the said Act is mentioned touching Tallies and Orders to be given to the Contributors for
said Collector his Heirs or Executors XIII Controversies among Commissioners how to be determined If any Controversie arising concerning the assessment or payment thereof which concerns any of the Commissioners by this Act appointed the Commissioners so concerned in the said Controversie shall have no Voice but shall with-draw at the time of the Debate until it be determined by the rest and in default thereof that the Commissioners present may impose upon such Commissioners so refusing to with-draw what to them seems fit not exceeding 20 l. the same to be paid as other Fines in this Act. XIV Colledges Halls and Persons c. excepted No Colledge or Hall in either of the two Universities or the Colledges of Windsor Eaton Winchester or Westminster or the Corporation of the Governors of the Charity for Relief of poor Widows and Children of Clergy-men or the Colledge of Bromley or any Hospital for or in respect of the Scites of the said Colledges Halls or Hospitals or any Master Fellow or Scholar of any such Colledge or Hall or any Reader Officer or Minister of the said Universities Colledges or Halls or any Master or Usher of any School for or in respect of any Stipend Wages or Profits whatsoever arising or growing due to them in respect of the said several Places or Imployments in the said Universities Colledges Halls or Schools shall be assessed by this Nor shall any the Houses or Lands belonging to Christs Hospital St. Bartholomews Bridewel St. Thomas or Bethlehem in the City of London and Borough of Southwark or the Corporation of the Governors of the Charity for Relief of poor Widows and Children of Clergy-men or the Colledge of Bromley be assessed by virtue of this Act. No Alms-men or Alms-women or other poor Person inhabiting within any other Hospital or Alms-House for or in respect of any Rents or Revenues payable to them for their immediate use and relief and whose annual Maintenance and Profits doth not exceed in the whole the Sum of 20 l. But nevertheless all the Houses and Lands which are held by Lease or Grant from the said Corporation or any of the said Hospitals or Alms-houses for so much as they are yearly worth over and above the Rents reserved and payable to the said Corporation or to the said Hospitals or Alms-houses to be received and disbursed for the immediate support and relief of the Poor in the said Hospitals or Alms-houses are liable to be assessed by this Act. XV. No Covenants hereby avoided Provided that nothing in this Act contained shall change or make void any Covenants or Agreements whatsoever between Landlord and Tenant or any others touching the payment of Taxes any thing herein mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding XVI Guardians and Parents liable for Infants Where any Persons chargeable with any Rates by this Act shall be under the Age of twenty one years in such case the Parents Guardians and Tutors of such Infants upon default of payment by such Infants shall be hereby liable to and charged with the Payments which such Infants ought to have made and upon default or neglect of such Parents Guardians or Tutors as aforesaid they shall be proceeded against as any other Persons making default in this Act. XVII Where a Person shall be taxed in respect of Employment Every Person rated or assessed for his Office or Imployment shall pay for the same in the place where such Office is executed And every Person rated in respect of his personal Estate shall be rated at such place where he shall be resident at the time of the execution of this Act. And if any Person who ought to be taxed by this Act for his personal Estate shall at the time of his Assessment be out of the Realm such Person shall be rated therefore in such place where he was last abiding within the Realm XVIII Where in respect of his Estate Shifting his Residence the Penalty If any Person having several Mansion-houses shall be doubly charged by this Act in respect of his personal Estate then upon Certificate under the Hands and Seals of two or more Commissioners for that place of the Sum charged upon him and upon Oath made before a Justice of Peace of such Certificate the Person so doubly charged shall for so much as shall be so certified be discharged in every other place And if any that ought to be taxed by this Act for his personal Estate shall by changing his place of Residence or any other fraud escape from being taxed and the same be proved before any two of the Commissioners or a Justice of Peace of the place where such Person resideth at any time within one year after such Tax every Person so escaping shall be charged at the double value of so much as he should be taxed by this Act the same to be certified into the Exchequer and levied upon his Lands and Goods XIX Housholder to give Account of his Lodgers Commissioners to assess each other New River Water Thames Water-works c. excepted Every Housholder shall upon demand of the Assessors give an Account of the Names and Qualities of all Lodgers in their Houses under penalty of forfeiting 20 l. to their Majesties XX. The Commissioners in their several Limits shall assess each other for their personal Estates and Imployments respectively and also shall assess each Assessor within their several Divisions No Persons shall be assessed for having any share or interest in the New-River Water brought to the North-parts of London commonly called the New-River or in the Thames Water-works or in the Hide-Park or Marybone Waters or any Rents or Profits arising thereby Nor any Person having any share or interest in the Stock for printing of Books in the Kings Printing-house nor any Companies of Merchants in London for their respective Shares aforesaid and the aforesaid Stock XXI Scotland Ireland c. excepted Provided this Act shall not extend to the Inhabitants of Scotland Ireland Jersey or Guernsey for and concerning any such personal Estate which they or any to their use have within the places aforesaid XXII Exemptions from Taxes void No Letters Patents granted to any Persons or Corporations of any manner of Liberties or Exemptions from Taxes or Aids shall be construed to exempt them from the Sums of Mony granted by this Act. XXIII No Commissioner shall act by virtue of this Act before he hath taken the Oaths appointed by an Act made in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled Commissioners Oath An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and appointing other Oaths upon the pain of 500 l. XXIV Every Papist or reputed Papist Papist not swearing to be doubly charged being of the Age of sixteen years or upwards who hath not taken the Oaths in the last Act mentioned to be taken as there expressed shall be doubly charged the Rates above mentioned XXV Penalty of any Person refusing the Oath Every