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
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
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
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
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
measures and prices of Coals and how the same shall be set 17 Car. 2. 2. Collectors 1 What Collectors be accomptants to the King 13 Car. 2. 3. 2 All persons imployed in Collecting or gathering publique moneys by vertue of any Act of Parliament being sued may plead the general Issue 14 Car. 2. 17. See Excise Conventicles 1 How Seditious Conventicles shall be suppressed and the several penalties for the same 16 Car. 2. 4. Corporation 1 Who onely may be chosen Officers in Corporations 13 Car. 2. 1. 2 Non-Conformists restrained from inhabiting Corporations 17 Car. 2. 2. 3 How Churches and Chappels in Corporations may be United 17 Car. 2. 2. Corn. 1 The Duty and Customs payable upon Corn and when Corn may be transported 3 Car. 1. 4. 2 The King by Proclamation may restrain transportation of Corn 3 Car. 1. 4. 3 How and when Corn may be Exported or Imported and what Custome to be paid for the same 15 Car. 2. 7. Cornwall See Leases Covent-Garden 1 The Precincts thereof made Parochial 12 Car. 2. 37. PR Coyâ—age of money 1 Encouragement for bringing Gold and Silver into the Mint to be Coyned 18 Car. 2. 5. Customs See Tunnage and Poundage Subsidies 1 The penalties upon such as shall convey away any Goods without entry and agreement for the Customes 12 Car. 2. 19. 2 Frauds and abuses in his Majesties Customes prevented 14 Car. 2. 11. 3 The penalty for beating or abusing Officers of the Customes Ibid. Damage Cleer 1 DAmage Cleer shall not be taken after the 29. Sept. which shall be in the year 1671. 17 Car. 2. 6. Death 1 The death of Plaintiff or Defendant after Verdict shall not be Error in nor stay of Judgment 17 Car. 2. 8. 2 See Burials Deer 1 The penalty for unlawful hunting or killing of Deer in any Forest Park or Chase 13 Car. 2. 10. Delays 1 Delays in Suits by not giving a Declaration before the end of the next Term after appearance 13 Car. 2. 2. Stat. 2. 2 Delays by reason of the Teste or return of the Writ remedied Ibidem 3 Delayes occasioned by staying Execution by Supersedeas in Writs of Error remedied ibid. 4 Delays by Arrest of Judgment for Jeofails and superseding Executions remedied 17 Car. 2. 8. Distresses 1 A more speedy and effectual proceeding upon Distresses and Avowries for Rents 19 Car. 2. 5. Dover Harbour 1 Certain sums of money granted for Repairing of Dâ—â—er Harbour 14 Car. 2. 27. Drapery See Cloath Manufacture Dutchy of Lancaster 1 The Chancellor of the Dutchy impowred to grant Commissions for taking Affidavits within the Dutchy Liberty 16 and 17 Car. 2. 9. 2 Of Cornwall see Leases See Lancaster Ecclesiastical matters persons and Jurisdictions 1 THe high Commission Court taken away and a branch of the Stat. of 1 Eliz. concerning the same repealed 17 Car. 1. 11. 2 No new Court with the like power may be Erected Ibid. 3 Certain Ministers confirmed and others restored 12 Car. 2. cap. 17. 4 Persons in holy orders inabled to exercise Temporal Jurisdiction 13 Car. 2. 2. 5 None may Sollicite or procure any petition c. for altering any Established law in Church or State 13 Car. 2. 5. 6 The ordinary power of Arch-Bishops and Bishops c. in matters Ecclesiastical 13 Car. 2. 12. 7 Uniformity of Common Prayer Administration of Sacraments and Consecrating and Ordaining Bishops Priests and Deacons Established 14 Car. 2. 4. Error 1 Abatement of Writs of Error in the Exchequer Chamber remedied 16 Car. 2. 2. 2 In what actions onely execution may be stayed by Writ of Error 13 Car. 2. 2. Stat. 2. See Delayes where Execution shall not be Superseded but upon Entring Bail 16 and 17 Car. 2. 8. Estates 1 How such as claim Estates for others Lives must prove the Lives in being 19 Car. 2. 6. Excise 1 Certain impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors granted to His Majesty for the Encrease of His Revenue for His Majesties life 12 Car. 2. cap. 13. 2 How the same shall be collected levyed and accompted for Ibid. 3 See wards and Wardships 4 All money owing upon Excise and new impost vested in the King 13 Car. 2 13. 5 The manner ordering and collecting the duty of Excise and prevention of abuses therein 15 Car. 2. 9. 6 In what cases Sureties shall be answerable for the duty of Excise 15 Car. 2. 12. 7 Additional powers given to Farmers for collecting the Excise 16 and 17 Car. 2. 4. 8 Farmers of the Excise have like power as Commissioners of the Excise Ibid. Executors See Administrators Extents and Executions 1 Delayes in Extending Statutes and in Executions of Judgements and Recognizances remedyed 16 and 17. Car. 2. 5. 2 See Delayes Fenns 1 The great Level of the Fens called Bedford Level how to be bounded and drayned and the several Officers interests and concernments there 15 Car. 2. 17. 2 The Drayning of the Fens called Deeping Fens and other Fens 16 and 17 Car. 2. 11. Fines 1 Fines recoveries c. Confirmed 12 Car. 2. 12. Fishing 1 How and what times Fishing for Pilchards and Fumathoes in Cornwall and Devon 14 Car. 2. 28. 2 See Cattel 3 Encouragement of Fisheries 15 Car. 2. 7. 4 Certain Duties to be paid upon Salted and dryed Fish 15 Car. 2. 7. 5 The Regulation of Herring and other Fisheries 15 Car. 2. 16. 6 The manner of Vessels for and packing of Fish Island Westmony Newfound Land Greenland c. ibid. Forrests 1 What shall be the metes and bounds of Forrests 17 Car. 1. 16. 2 No place where no Justice Seat Swainmote Court of attatchment c. hath been within 20 years shall be accompted Forrest Ibid. 3 Tenants and owners of Lands excluded shall enjoy their Common and profits as formerly Ibid. 4 The penalty for vnlawful hunting and killing of Deer 13 Car. 2 10. Fullers Earth See Wooll c. Gaming THe penalty for deceitful and disorderly Gaming 16 Car. 2. 7. Gardians 1 Parents may appoint Gardians to their Children by their last Will and Testament 12 Car. 2. 14. Gun-Powder 1 The mischief by prohibiting importation of Gun-powder 17 Car. 1. 21. 2 Any person may import Gun-powder or Salt-Peter from Foreign Parts or freely make Gun-powder in this Realm 17 Car. 1. 21. 3 Tâ—e penalty for putting in Execution any Letters Patents Proclamation c. for restraint of Importing Gun-powder Brimstone Salt-peter c. ibid. 4 The King by Proclamation may prohibit transporting of Gunpowder 12 Car. 2. 4. HAbeas Corpus See Privy Councill Hearth-money 1 Every Fire-Hearth and Stove charged with the yearly payment of 2 s. to the King for ever 14 Car. 2. 10. 2 The manner of charging levying and accompting for the same ibid. 3 Additional powers for better ordering and collecting the same 15 Car. 2. 13 4 Hearth-money to be collected by Officers appointed by the King 16 Car. 2. 3. High-Commission Court See Ecclesiastical Matters Persons and Jurisdictions High-wayes 1 How the High-ways Street-Paving