the two Houses of Parliament should continue to sit and with their Majesties Royal Concurrence make effectual Provision for the Settlement of the Religion Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom so that the same for the future might not be in danger again of being subverted to which the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons did agree and proceed to act accordingly Now in pursuance of the Premisses the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled for the ratifying confirming and establishing the said Declaration and the Articles Claâ—ses Matters and Things therein contained by the force of a Law made in due form by Authority of Parliament do pray that it may be declared and enacted That all and singular the Rights and Liberties asserted and claimed in the said Declaration are the true ancient and indubitable Rights and Liberties of the People of this Kingdom and so shall be esteemed allowed adjudged deemed and taken to be and that all and every the particulars aforesaid shall be firmly and strictly holden and observed as they are expressed in the said Declaration and all Officers and Ministers whatsoever shall serve their Majesties and their Successors according to the same in all Times to come And the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons seriously considering how it hath pleased Almighty God in his marvellous Providence and merciful Goodness to this Nation to provide and preserve their said Majesties Royal Persons most happily to Reign over us upon the Throne of their Ancestors for which they render unto him from the bottom of their Hearts their humblest Thanks and Praises do truly firmly assuredly and in the sincerity of their Hearts think and do hereby recognize acknowledge and declare That King James II. having abdicated the Government and their Majesties having accepted the Crown and Royal Dignity as aforesaid their said Majesties did become were are and of Right ought to be by the Laws of this Realm our Soveraign Liege Lord and Lady King and Queen of England France and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging in and to whose Princely Persons the Royal State Crown and Dignity of the said Realms with all Honours Stiles Titles Regalities Prerogatives Powers Jurisdictions and Authorities to the same belonging and appertaining are most fully rightfully and intirely invested and incorporated united and annexed And for preventing all Questions and Divisions in this Realm by reason of any pretended Titles to the Crown and for preserving a certainty in the Succession thereof in and upon which the Unity Peace Tranquility and Safety of this Nation doth under God wholly consist and depend The said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do beseech their Majesties that it may be enacted established and declared That the Crown and Regal Government of the said Kingdoms and Dominions with all and singular the Premisses thereunto belonging and appertaining shall be and continue to their said Majesties and the Survivor of them during their Lives and the Life of the Survivor of them and that the entire perfect and full exercise of the Regal Power and Government be only in and executed by his Majesty in the Names of both their Majesties during their joynt Lives and after their deceases the said Crown and Premisses shall be and remain to the Heirs of the Body of her Majesty and for default of such Issue to Her Royal Highness the Princess ANNE of Denmark and the Heirs of her Body and for default of such Issue to the Heirs of the Body of his said Majesty and thereunto the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do in the Name of all the People aforesaid most humbly and faithfully submit themselves their Heirs and Posterities for ever and do faithfully promise That they will stand to maintain and defend their said Majesties and also the Limitation and Succession of the Crown herein specified and contained to the utmost of their Powers with their Lives and Estates against all Persons whatsoever that shall attempt any thing to the contrary And whereas it hath been found by Experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant Kingdom to be governed by a Popish Prince or by any King or Queen marrying a Papist the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do farther pray that it may be enacted That all and every Person and Persons that is are or shall be reconciled to or shall hold Communion with the See or Church of Rome or shall Profess the Popish Religion or shall Marry a Papist shall be excluded and be for ever uncapable to inherit possess or enjoy the Crown and Government of this Realm and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging or any part of the same or to have use or exercise any Regal Power Authority or Jurisdiction within the same and in all and every such Case or Cases the People of these Realms shall be and are hereby absolved of their Allegiance and the said Crown and Government shall from time to time descend to and be enjoyed by such Person or Persons being Protestants as should have inherited and enjoyed the same in case the said Person or Persons so reconciled holding Communion or Professing or Marrying as aforesaid were naturally dead And that every King and Queen of this Realm who at any time hereafter shall come to and succeed in the Imperial Crown of this Kingdom shall on the first day of the meeting of the first Parliament next after His or Her coming to the Crown sitting in His or Her Throne in the House of Peers in the presence of the Lords and Commons therein assembled or at His or Her Coronation before such Person or Persons who shall administer the Coronation Oath to Him or Her at the time of His or Her taking the said Oath which shall first happen make subscribe and audibly repeat the Declaration mentioned in the Statute made in the thirteenth year of the Reign of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government by disabling Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament But if it shall happen that if such King or Queen upon His or Her Succession to the Crown of this Realm shall be under the Age of twelve years then every such King or Queen shall make subscribe and audibly repeat the said Declaration at His or Her Coronation or the first day of the meeting of the first Parliament as aforesaid which shall first happen after such King or Queen shall have attained the said age of twelve years All which their Majesties are contented and pleased shall be declared enacted and established by Authority of this present Parliament and shall stand remain and be the Law of this Realm for ever and the same are by their said Majesties by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same declared enacted and established accordingly And be it
the Quorum shall set prices of Coals to be sold by Retail And if any Ingrosser or Retailer of Coals refuse to sell as aforesaid the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Justices of Peace respectively shall impower whom they think fit to enter into any place where such Coals are stored up and in case of refusal taking a Constable to force Entrance and to sell the said Coals at the prices set as aforesaid rendring the Money to the Owner Charges deducted This Act to continue for 3 years and to the end of the next Session of Parliament No person sued by virtue of this Act shall be sued upon any other for the same Offence and if any Action be prosecuted for any thing done by colour hereof the Defendant may plead the General Issue and give the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Verdict be found for him or the Plaintiff become Nonsuit he shall recover his Damages and double Costs No Person having any Interest in a Wharf used for Coals or Trading in Coals in his own or any others name or engrossing the same in order to sell them shall intermeddle in the setting the price of Coals Continuance I. Stat. 4. 5. W. M. cap. 24. Entituled An Act for Providing Carriages by Land and by Water for the use of His Majesties Navy and Ordnance shall be in force for Seven years from the 13th day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the First Session of Parliament then next ensuing II. An Act Entitused An Act for encouraging of Coynage made in the 18th Year of King Charles 2. And another Act made in the 25th Year of the same King Entituled An Act for continuing a former Act concerning Coynage shall be in force from the 13th Day of February 1692 and to the end of the First Session of Parliament then next ensuing III. An Act made in the 2â—th and 23th Years of the Reign of the same King Entituled An Act for the better and more certain recovery of Fines and Forfeitures due to His Majesty shall be in force and is hereby made perpâ—tual IV. All Officers to whom it belongeth to make returns of Estreats into the Court of Exchequer shall upon the delivery in of all and every such Estreat and Estreats take this Oath viz. You shall Swear that these Estrates now by you delivered are trult and carefully made up and examined and that all Fines Issues Americaments Recognizances and Forfeitures which were Set Lost Imposed or Forfeited and in right and due course of Law ought to be estreated into the Court of Exchequer are to the best of your Knowledge and Understanding therein contained And that in the same Estreats are also contained and expressed all such Fines as have been paid into the Court from which the said Estreats are made without any wilful or fraudalent Discharge Omission Misnomer or Defect whatsoever So help you God Which Oath any of the Barons of the Exchequer shall Administer V. An Act made in the 22th and 23th Year of the same King Entituled An Act to prevent the Planting of Tobacco in England and for Regulating the Plantation Trade shall be in full force for Seven Years from the said 13th Day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament VI. An Act made in the 19th Year of the same King Entituled An Act for Assigning Orders in the Exchequer shall be in force for Seven years from the said 13th Day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament VII Whereas an Act made in the 22th and 23th years of the same King Entituled An Act to revice an Act Entituled An Act to prevent the disturbance of Seamen and others and to preserve the Stores belonging to His Majesties Navy Royal with some Alterations and Additions was by an Act made in the 1st Year of the Reign of the late K. James Enacted to be in force for Seven years and from thence to the end of the 1st Session of the next Parliament The said last mentioned Act shall be continued for Seven years from the said 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament VIII An Act made in the 22d and 23d of the said K. C. 2. Entituled An Act to prevent Frauds in the buying and selling of Cattle in Smithfield and elsewhere together with a Proviso in an Act made the 1st year of the late K. James for the Reviving and Continuance thereof That the said Act should not extend to Salesmen or Factors employed by Farmers or Feeders shall be in force for Seven years from the 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament IX An Act made in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for the better preventing the Exportation of Wooll and encouraging the Woollen Manufacture of this Kingdom except such part thereof as relates to the free Exportation of the Woollen Manufacture shall be in force for Three years from the said 13th day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament X Provided that no Wooll shall be Imported from Ireland into the Port of Exeter any thing in this or any former Act to the contrary notwithstanding XI An Act made the 13th and 14th years of the late King Charles 2. Entituled An Act for the better relief of the Poor of this Kingdom as to all Parts other then what relates to the Corporations thereby Constituted shall be in force for Seven years from the said 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XII An Act made in the 30th year of the late K. Charles 2. Entituled An Act to enable Creditors to recover their Debts of the Executors and Administrators of Executors in their own wrong shall be perpetual XIII And further Executors and Administrators of Executors or Administrators of Right who shall waste or convert to their own Use the Goods or Estate of his Testator or Intestate shall be chargeable as their Testator or Intestaâ—e should or might have been XIV If any Woman hath been or shall be Convicted of any Felony for which a Man might have the Benefit of Clergy and hath once had or shall have the Benefit of an Act made at the last Session of this present Parilament Eâ—â—â—ed Aâ— Act to take away Clergy from some Offenders and to being others to punishment and shall be again Convicted of any other Felony such Woman thall be totally excluded from having any other benefit of the said Act. XV. The said last mentioned Act to continue for Three years from the said 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XVI An Act made in the 13th and 14th years of the Reign of the late King Charles 2. Entituled An Act for preventing abuses in Printing Seditions Treasonable and Unlicensed
custody or stood upon Bail on the said 13th day of February shall be proceeded against as if the said Crimes had been committed before the said 11th day of December and all Persons for any Matter arisen since the said 11th day of December and before the said 13th day of February shall be liable to any Action and it shall be sufficient in all Indictments and Informations for any such Crimes and in all Actions and Declarations for any such Cause to alledge the Year of our Lord instead of the Year of the King and in such Indictments Informations or Actions wherein Conclusions used to be contra Pacem Domini Regis to conclude contra Pacem Regni and Indictments for Felonies committed within that time shall be good having the words contra Pacem Regni though the words Domini Regis Coronam Dignitatem be omitted X. Recognizances Statutes and Obligations made since the said 11th day of December and before the said 13th day of February in the Name of and to the late King James II. shall be good and may be sued in their Majesties Names and all Persons who were bound by Recognizance to the said late King to appear in the Court of Kings Bench at any time in Hill Term or at the next Assizes Oyer and Terminer General Gaol-delivery or of the Peace shall be obliged to appear in the said Court of Kings Bench on the first day of Easter-Term 1689. and at the next Assizes Sessions of Oyer and Terminer c. under the Penalty of forfeiting the said Recognizance c. XI Writs and Process issuing out of any of the Courts of Westminster as of Mich. Term 1688. that have been executed before they were returnable and all Bills Plaints Judgments and Proceedings in any Inferior Court and Executions thereupon since the said 11th day of December and before the said 13th day of February shall be good as if the said late King had continued so XII Bail Bonds taken by Sheriffs c. though not lawfully qualified since the first day of November 1687. and Recognizances of Bail taken since the said 11th day of December before any Person who upon the first day of December last was Justice of the Kings Bench Common Pleas or Baron of the Exchequer shall be good and may be inroll'd in Easter-Term 1689. and all Commitments to prison on any Writ or Process by the said Judges since the said 11th day of December shall be good in Law XIII No part of the time from the 10th of December 1688. until the 12th of March 1688. shall be accounted as part of the six months from the time of the avoidance of any Church in which any Person is bound to bring his darrein Presentment or Quare impedit or as any part of the time in which any Person by virtue of any Statute of Limitation ought to bring his Action Iudgments I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 20. The Clerk of the Essoins of the Court of Common Pleas every Clerk of the Doggets of the Court of Kings Bench and the Master of the Office of Pleas in the Exchequer shall before the end of every Easter-Term put into an Alphabetical Dogget by the Defendants Names a particular of all Judgments for Debt by Confession non sum Informatus or nihil dicit entred in the said respective Courts of the Term of St. Hillary preceding containing the Names of the Plaintiffs and Defendants their Places of Abode Title Trade or Profession if any such be in the Record and the Debt Damages and Costs recovered thereby and where the Actions were laid and the Number-roll of the Entry thereof and every Clerk of the Judgments and other Clerk of the Courts of Common Pleas and Kings Bench shall within ten days before the said time bring to the Clerks of the Doggets Notes in Writing of all the Judgments by them entred of the said Term of St. Hillary upon Verdicts Writs of Enquiry Demurrer and every other Judgment for Debt or Damages in all things as aforesaid and that the Clerk of the Judgments and every other Clerk of the Exchequer shall within the time aforesaid bring unto the Master of the Office or Pleas the like Note in Writing of all the like Judgments by him entred to the end they may be respectively entred and the respective Officers and Clerks shall before the last day of the Term of St. Michael make the like Doggets containing all Judgments of the Terms of Easter and Trinity in all things as aforesaid and before the last day of every Hillary-Term the like Doggets of Judgments in Michaelmass-Term The said Doggets to be kept in Books in Parchment to be searched and viewed by all Persons at reasonable times paying for every Terms search 4 d. and no more on pain that every Clerk of the Essoins of the Court of Common Pleas Clerk of the Doggets of the Kings Bench and Master of the Office of Pleas in the Exchequer and every Clerk before-mentioned shall for every Term in which he shall neglect his Duty forfeit 100 l. one moiety to the Party grieved and the other moiety to the Prosecutor II. No Judgment not doggetted as aforesaid shall affect any Lands as to Purchasers or Mortgagees or have any preference against Heirs Executors or Administrators in the administration of their Ancestors Testators or Intestates Estates III. The Plaintiffs in every of the said Judgments shall pay to the Clerks of the Judgments for every Judgment entring 4 d. over and above the Fees now due IV. This Act to continue for one year from the 25th day of March 1693. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament King and Queen I. STat. 2 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 1. The Lords and Commons publish declare and enact in Parliament that they do recognize and acknowledge that their Majesties are and of Right ought to be by the Laws of this Realm their Soveraign Liege Lord and Lady King and Queen of England France and Ireland c. in and to whose Princely Persons the Royal State Crown and Dignity of the said Realms with all Honors Prerogatives c. are fully rightfully and entirely invested incorporated united and annexed II. All and singular the Acts made in the Parliament assembled the 13th day of Febr. 1688. were and are the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom and as such ought to be reputed taken and obeyed Leather I. STat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 23. Whereas an Act made in the 20th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for giving liberty to buy and export Leather and Skins tanned or dressed was revived by another Act made in the first year of the Reign of the late King James II. Entituled An Act for reviving a former Act for exporting Leather which Act will expire at the end of this Sessions Be it enacted that the said two Acts be revived and continue in force from the end of this Session of Parliament for seven
prosecutions in the Court of Kings Bench for Matters and Causes cognizable only in Parliament and by divers other arbitrary and illegal Courses And whereas of late years partial corrupt and unqualified Persons have been returned and served on Juries in Trials and particularly divers Jurors in Trials for High-Treason which were not Freeholders And excessive Bail hath been required of Persons committed in criminal Cases to elude the benefit of the Laws made for the Liberty of the Subjects And excessive Fines have been imposed And illegal and cruel Punishments inflicted And several Grants and Promises made of Fines and Forfeitures before any Conviction or Judgment against the Persons upon whom the same were to be levied All which are utterly and directly contrary to the known Laws and Statutes and Freedom of this Realm And whereas the said late King James II. having abdicated the Government and the Throne being thereby vacant His Highness the Prince of Orange whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the Glorious Instrument of delivering this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power did by the Advice of the Lord Spiritual and Temporal and divers Principal Persons of the Commons cause Letters to be written to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being Protestants and other Letters to the several Counties Cities Universities Boroughs and Cinque-Ports for the choosing of such Persons to represent them as were of Right to be sent to Parliament to meet and sit at Westminster upon the two and twentieth day of January in this year one thousand six hundred eighty and eight in order to such an establishment as that their Religion Laws and Liberties might not again be in danger of being subverted upon which Letters Elections having been accordingly made And thereupon the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons pursuant to their respective Letters and Elections being now assembled in a full and free representative of this Nation taking into their most serious consideration the best means for attaining the ends aforesaid do in the first place as their Ancestors in like case have usually done for the vindicating and asserting their ancient Rights and Liberties declare That the pretended Power of suspending of Laws or the Execution of Laws by Regal Authority without consent of Parliament is illegal That the pretended Power of dispensing with Laws or the Execution of Laws by Regal Authority as it hath been assumed and exercised of late is illegal That the Commission for erecting the late Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes and all other Commissions and Courts of like nature are illegal and pernicious That levying Mony for or to the use of the Crown by pretence of Prerogative without grant of Parliament for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted is illegal That it is the Right of the Subjects to petition to the King and all Commitments and Prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal That the raising or keeping a standing Army within the Kingdom in time of Peace unless it be with consent of Parliament is against Law That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their conditions and as allowed by Law That Election of Members of Parliament ought to be free That the freedom of Speech and Debates or Proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Court or Place out of Parliament That excessive Bail ought not to be required nor excessive Fines imposed nor cruel and unusal Punishments inflicted That Jurors ought to be duly impannelled and returned and Jurors which pass upon Men in Trials for High-Treason ought to be Freeholders That all Grants and Promises of Fines and Forfeitures of particular Persons before Conviction are illegal and void And that for redress of all Grievances and for the amending strengthening and preserving of the Laws Parliaments ought to be held frequently And they do claim demand and insist upon all and singular the Premisses as their undoubted Rights and Liberties And that no Declarations Judgments Doings or Proceedings to the prejudice of the People in any of the said Premisses ought in any wise to be drawn hereafter into Consequence or Example To which demand of their Rights they are particularly encouraged by the Declaration of his Highness the Prince of Orange as being the only means for obtaining a full redress and remedy therein Having therefore an intire Confidence That his said Highness the Prince of Orange will perfect the Deliverance so far advanced by him and will still preserve them from the Violation of their Rights which they have here asserted and from all other Attempts upon their Religion Rights and Liberties The said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons assembled at Westminster do resolve That William and Mary Prince and Princess of Orange be and be declared King and Queen of England France and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging to hold the Crown and Royal Dignity of the said Kingdoms and Dominions to them the said Prince and Princess during their Lives and the Life of the Survivor of them And that the sole and full Exercise of the Regal Power be only in and executed by the said Prince of Orange in the Names of the said Prince and Princess during their joynt Lives and after their deceases the said Crown and Royal Dignity of the said Kingdoms and Dominions to be to the Heirs of the Body of the said Princess And for default of such Issue to the Princess Anne of Denmark and the Heirs of her Body and for default of such Issue to the Heirs of the Body of the said Prince of Orange And the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do pray the said Prince and Princess to accept the same accordingly And that the Oaths hereafter-mentioned be taken by all Persons of whom the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy might be required by Law instead of them and that the said Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy be abrogated I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear That I will be Faithful and bear true Allegiance to their Majesties King WILLIAM and Queen MARY So help me God I A. B. do swear That I do from my Heart Abhor Detest and Abjure as Impious and Heretical this damnable Doctrin and Position That Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope or any Authority of the See of Rome may be deposed or murdered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do declare That no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Iurisdiction Power Superiority Pre-eminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm So help me God Upon which their said Majesties did accept the Crown and Royal Dignity of the Kingdoms of England France and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging according to the resolution and desire of the said Lords and Commons contained in the said Declaration And thereupon their Majesties were pleased That the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons being
Arrears thereof and of all Moneys then and before the determination of the said Power in the Hands of the Receiver General or Cashiers of the Customs Excise or Hearth-money and of the Sum of 412925 l. 14 s. 6 d. Granted by an Act of the First Session of the late Parliament Entituled An Act for the Granting a present Aid to Their Majesties and of the Money paid or payable by an Act Entituled An Act for raising Money by a Poll and otherwise towards the Reducing of Ireland and by one other Act Entituled An Act for preventing Doubts and Questions concerning the Collecting the Publick Revenue and by one other Act Entituled An Act for the Grant to Their Majesties of an Aid of 12 d. in the Pound for one Year for the necessary defence of the Realm and of one other Act Entituled An Act for an additional Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors and one other Act For Appropriating certain Duties for paying the States General of the United Provinces their Charges for His Majesties Expedition into the Kingdom and for other Uses and of one other Act of the Second Session of the same Parliament Entituled An Act for preventing all Doubts and Questions concerning the Collecting the Publick Revenue and of one other Act Entituled An Act for a Grant to Their Majesties of an Aid of two Shillings in the Pound for One Year and of one other Act of the same Session Entituled An Act for a Grant to Their Majesties of an additional Aid of 12 d. in the Pound for One Year and of one Act Entituled An Act for Charging and Collecting the Duties upon Coffee Tea and Chocolate at the Custom-house and of one other Act Entituled An Ast for Review of the late Poll granted to Their Majesties and for an additional Poll towards the Reducing of Ireland and by one other Act Entituled An Act for Raising Money by a Poll and otherwise towards the Reducing of Ireland and Prosecuting the War against France and by one other Act Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties for their Lives and the Life of the Survivor of them certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors and one other Act Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties a Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage and other Sums of Money payable upon Merchandizes Exported and Imported and by one other of this Session Entituled An Act for Granting an Aid to Their Majesties of the Sum of 1651702 l. 18 s. and by one other Act Entituled An Act for doubling the Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors during the space of One Year and by one other Act Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods and Manufactures and upon all wrought Silks and several other Goods and Merchandize to be Imported after the 25th Day of December 1690. and by one other Act Entituled An Act for the continuance of several former Acts therein mentioned for the Laying several Duties upon Wines Vinegar and Tobacco and of all Prizes taken since the said Fifth Day of November and of Money paid for the same to any Person Authorised to receive it or otherwise and of all the Crown-Lands First-fruits and Tenths of the Clergy Wine-licences Fines Forfeitures and of all other Branches of the Revenue and all Publick Money whatsoever that hath arisen since the said Fifth Day of November or shall arise before the determination of the Power hereby Granted and how and by and to whom the same hath been disposed or paid and for taking Accounts of all Their Majesties Stores Provisions and Habiliments of War by Land and Sea and to set down what numbers of Ships Yachts or Boats were on the said Fifth Day of November or at any time since and what Sums of Money Provisions Victuals Sâ—oes c. have been provided or paid since the said Fifth Day of November or shall be provided and paid towards the Payment or Maintenance of the Land Forces in England or Ireland or elsewhere or their Forces by Sea and the numbers of them respectively and towards the Building Repairs or Setting out of any Ships or Navies since the said Fifth Day of November and before the determination of the Power aforesaid II. The Auditor of the Receipt in the Exchequer and the Clerk of the Pells there and all other the Officers of the Exchequer and the Receipt thereof the Secretary and Treasurer at War Muster-master and Pay-master of the Land Forces in England and Ireland all Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy and Ordnance all Officers and Keepers of Their Majesties Stores and Yards and all Persons employed as Commissioners in and about the Treasury or the Management Ordering Paying or Receiving of Their Majesties Treasure Revenue Provisions or Stores of War and all Persons whatsoever whom the said Commissioners or any Five of them shall think fit to Examine are hereby required to observe such Orders as they or any Five of them shall by writing under their Hands Direct and Ordain for and touching the taking of the said Accounts III. The said Commissioners to sit in the Inner Court of Wards at Westminster or where they think fit with or without Adjournment and to send their Precepts for Persons Books Papers and Records and to Administer an Oath for the better discovery of the Truth of the Inquiries by them to be made and all Bayliffs Constables Sheriffs and other Officers are hereby required to obey and execute their Precepts and the said Commissioners or any Five of them may Employ such Clerks Messengers and Officers as they think fit and give them an Oath for their faithful Demeanour which Clerks and Officers shall take nothing for their Service but such Salary as the Commissioners shall direct IV. Two of the said Commissioners first named in this Act before they enter upon the Execution thereof shall take an Oath before the Chancellour of the Exchequer or the Master of the Rolls in these words viz. I A. B. do Swear that according to the best of my Skill and Knowledge I shall Faithfully Impartially and Truly demean my self in Examining and Taking the Accounts of all such Sum or Sums of Money and other things brought or to be brought before me in Execution of one Act Entituled An Act for Appointing and Enabling Commissioners to Examine Take and State the Publick Accounts of the Kingdom according to the Tenour and Purport of the said Act. V. And every other of the said Commissioners shall take the said Oath before the said two Commissioners VI. The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury shall cause to be paid such Sums of Money not exceeding 2000 l. to such Persons as the said Commissioners or any Five of them shall direct to be employed in the Payment of Clerks Messengers and other Officers and in defraying other necessary Charges the same to be Accounted for by him to whom it is paid according to the course of the Exchequer and the
said Commissioners shall from time to time if required and at the end of their Proceedings by virtue of this Act give an Account thereof in writing under Five or more of their Hands and Seals to the King and Queen and both Houses of Parliament at their next Meeting VII All Accountants shall make their Accounts in the Exchequer as formerly this Act notwithstanding VIII The Powers hereby Granted shall endure for one Year from the 25th day of January 1690. and no longer IX The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury shall pay 500 l. to each Commissioner for his Care and Pains herein X. The said Commissioners or any Five or more of them shall take an Account what Sums of Money were ordered and paid during the late King James his Reign for Repairing the Fleet and how the same hath been disposed of XI This Act shall give no Authority to the said Commissioners to demand an Account of Money paid to Their Majesties Privy Purse or expended for secret Service XII Nothing in this Act shall hinder the said Commissioners from requiring an Account upon Oath of Pensions Salaries and Sums of Moneys paid or payable to Members of Parliament XIII Stat. 4 5 W. M. c. 11. Sir Thomas Clarges Kt. Sir Peter Colliton Bar. Sir Samuel Barnardiston Bar. Sir Benjamin Newland Kt. Sir Matthew Andrews Kt. Paul Foley Esq and Robert Harley Esq or any four or more of them are hereby constituted Commissioners for taking an Account of the Publick Revenue of the Crown and all other Accounts which by an Act made in the Second Year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Appointing and Enabling Commissioners to Examine Take and State the Publick Accounts of the Kingdom were to be taken by Commissioners thereby constituted and the said Act is hereby revived and shall be in force from the 24th of April next to the 25th of April 1694. and be executed by the Commissioners herein named or any four or more of them And the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury shall issue and pay the like Allowances for Clerks and other Charges as the said Act directs and the like quarterly Payments to the Commissioners hereby constituted as by the said Act is appointed to the Commissioners therein named and the Commissioners hereby constituted shall take Accounts of all Their Majesties Revenue and other publick Moneys due and payable to them between the 5th day of November 1688. and the 25th day of April 1694 not yet accounted for by virtue of the said recited Act or the last Clause touching Publick Accounts in one Act in the Third Year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Raising Money by a Poll c. Admiralty I. Sat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. c. 2. All and singular Authorities Jurisdictions and Powers which by Act of Parliament or otherwise are vested in the Lord High Admiral of England for the time being have always appertained to and shall be used and executed by the Commissioners of the Admiralty as if they were Lord High Admiral II. Every Officer present upon Tryals of Offenders by Courts Martial to be held by virtue of any Commission granted by the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty shall before any proceeding to Tryal take this Oath to be administred by the Judge Advocate or his Deputy viz. You shall well and truly try and determine the matter now before you between our Sovereign Lord and Lady the King and Queens Majesties and the Prisoner to be tryed So help you God Bails I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. c. 4. The Judges of the Kings Bench or any two of them whereof the Chief Justice to be one for the Court of Kings Bench and the Judges of the Common-Pleas or any two of them whereof the Chief Justice to be one for the Court of Common-Pleas and the Barons of the Colf of the Exchequer or any two of them whereof the Chief Baron to be one for the Court of Exchequer may by Commissions under the Seals of the said respective Courts from time to time Impower such Persons other then common Attorneys and Solicitors as they shall think fit in all and every the Counties of England and Wales and Town of Berwick to take such Recognizances of Bails as any Persons shall be willing to make before them in any Action or Suit depending or to be depending in the said Courts in Manner and Form as the Justices and Barons of the said Courts have used to take the same Which Recognizances shall be transmitted to some one of the said Justices or Barons respectively who upon Affidavit made of the due taking thereof shall receive the same upon payment of the usual Fees Which Recognizance shall be of like effect as if it were taken de bene esse before any of the said Justices or Barons For taking which Recognizances the Persons impowered shall receive Two Shillings and no more II. The Justices and Barons respectively shall make such Rules for the justifying such Bails as to them shall seem meet so as the Cognizors be not compell'd to appear in person in any of the said Courts unless they live in London or Westminster or within ten Miles thereof to justifie themselves but the same is hereby directed to be determined by Affidavits taken before the Commissioners III. Any Judge of Assize may take such Recognizances which shall be transmitted and received as aforesaid without Oath upon payment of the usual Fees IV. Persons representing or personating others before any impowered by this Act to take Bails shall be adjudged Felons Beer c. I. Stat. Ann. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 22. From and after the twenty fourth of June 1689. any Person may ship off within any of the usual and allowed Ports by Law and at the common Keys and within the usual hours of Excise to be Exported into Foreign Parts in the presence of a sworn Officer to be appointed by the Farmers c. of Excise within the limits where the same shall be shipp'd any strong Ale strong Beer Cyder or Mum paying Custom for the same after the Rate of 1 Shilling per Tun and no other Duty Such Officer to certifie the quantity so shipp'd off to the Commissioners and Officers of Excise where the Entry thereof shall be made who are hereby required to make Allowance or repay the Excise of the Beer Ale Cyder or Mum so Exported to the Brewer or Maker thereof within one Month after such Exportation deducting Three pence per Tun for the Charges of their Officers II. If any Merchant Master of Vessel or other Person shall cause or suffer any Liquors so shipped to be laid on Land or put into any other Vessel within England Wales or the Town of Berwick he shall forfeit the same and 50 l. more for every Cask so unduly landed or put on Board any Vessel the one Moiety to the King and Queen the other to the Informer And Their Majesties Commissioners and Officers of the
Books and Pamphlees and for regulating Printing and Printing Presses shall be in force for One year from the 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of â—arliament XVII All Jurors other then Strangers upon Tryals per medietatem linguae return'd upon Tryal of Issues joyn'd in the Kings-Bench Common-Pleas or Exchequer or before Justices of Assize or Nisi prius Oyer and Terminer Goal-delivery or General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace after the 1st Day of May 1693. within any County of England shall have in their own Name or in Trust for them within the same County 10 l. a year at least above Reprizes of Free-hold or Coppy-hold Lands or of Lands in ancient Demesne or in Rents in Fee-simple or Fee-tail or for their own or some other Persons Life And in every County of Wales such Jurors shall have 6 l. a year at least as aforesaid All which Persons having such Estates are hereby made liable to serve as aforesaid If any be return'd of lesser Estate it shall be good cause of Challenge and the Party return'd shall be discharged upon such Challenge or upon his own Oath Nor shall any Jury-man's Issues making default be saved but by special Order of the Court or Judges for some reasonable Cause proved upon Oath And the Ven. fac for Impannelling Juries in England shall run thus viz. Rex c. praecipimus c. quod Ven. fac coram c. duodecim liberos legales homines de vicineto de A quor ' quilibet habeat decem Librat terrae tenementor ' vel reddit ' per annum ad minus per quos c. qui nee c. and the residue after the ancient manner and the Writs for Returning Juries in Wales shall be in like manner altering only the Word decem for sex And Sheriffs Coroners and other Ministers returning in any such Pannel any Person not having 10 l. or 6 d. respectively by the Year as aforesaid shall forfeit for every such Person so Returned the Sum of Five Pounds to Their Majesties XVIII No Sheriff or Bayliff of any Liberty or their Ministers shall return any such Persons to have been Summoned by them unless they shall have been Summoned Six days at least before the Day on which they ought to make their Appearance nor shall take any Reward to excuse the Appearance of any Juror Summoned or Return'd on Pain to Forfeit for every such Offence 10 l. to Their Majesties XIX Saving to all Cities Boroughs and Towns Corporate their ancient Usage of returning Jurors in such manner as hath been accustomed XX. Provided that it shall be Lawful to Return Persons upon the Tales in any County within England who shall have 5 l. a year above Reprizes and within Wales 3 l. a year XXI No Fee or Reward shall be taken by any Person whatsoever upon the Account of any Tales return'd upon Pain to Forfeit 10 l. for every such Offence the one Moity to the Prosecutor and the other to Their Majesties XXII No Writ de non ponendis in Assisis Juratis shall be granted unless upon Oath made that the Suggestions are true XXIII So much of this Act as relates to the returning of Jurors to be in force for Three years from the 1st of May 1693. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament Corn. I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess I. cap. 12. When Malt or Barley Winchester Measure shall be at 24 s. per Quarter or under Rye at 32 s. per Quarter or under and Wheat at 48 s. per Quarter or under in any Port of this Kingdom or Wales Merchants and others who shall put on Ship-board in English Shiping the Master and Two thirds of the Mariners being Their Majesâ—ies Subjects any sorts of the Corn aforesaid to Export the same beyond Sea shall bring Certificates under their Hands containing the quantity and quality of the Corn shipped to the Persons appointed to Collect the Customs in any such Port and upon Proof made of such Certificate by one or more Credible Persons upon Oath and upon Bond given by such Merchant or other Person in â—00 l. for every hundred Tuns of Corn so shipped and so proportionably that the said Corn dangers of the Seas excepted shall be Exported into Parts beyond the Sea and not be landed in England Wales Guernsey Jersey or Berwick shall receive from the Persons appointed to Collect the Customs as aforesaid for every Quarter of Barley or Malt ground or unground 2 s. 6 d. for every Quarter of Rye 3 s. 6 d. for every Quarter of Wheat 5 s. and shall pay no Custom nor any Fee or Reward for Corn so laden to be Exported And upon Certificate under the Common Seal of the Chief Magistrate in any Place beyond Sea or under the Hand and Seals of Two known English Merchants upon the Place that such Corn was there Landed or upon Proof by Credible Persons that such Corn was taken by Enemies or Perished at Sea the Examination and Proof thereof being left to the Receivers of the Customs the Bond shall be delivered up to be Cancelled And the Moneys so paid shall be allowed as paid to Their Majesties Courts I. Stat. 1 W. M. Stss 1. cap. 27. Whereas by a Statute made in the 34th and 35th years of the Reign of King H. 8. Entituled An Act for certain Ordinances in the King's Majesties Dominion and Principality of Wales It is Enacted That there shall be and remain a President and Council in the said Dominion and Principality of Wales and the Matches of the same with all Officers Clerks and Incidents thereunto in Manner and Form as hath been heretofore used and accustomed Which President and Council shall have Power and Authority to Hear and Determine by their Wisdoms and Diseretions such Causes or Matters as be or hereafter shall be Assign'd to them by the King's Majesty as heretofore hath been accustomed and used Be it Enacted that the said Clause be Repealed and that the said Court before the President and Council be dissolved and taken away II The Justices of the Great Sessions in Wales shall yearly Nominate Three Persons for each Shire in their Circuits to be Sheriffs of the same and certifie the same to the Lords of the Privy Council Crastino animarum that Their Majesties may appoint one of them to be Sheriff for that year III. Errors in Pleas personal within Wales shall be redressed by Writ of Error as Errors in Pleas real and mixt are appointed to be redrest by the said Statute of 34 and 35 of King H 8. IV. Judgments and Decrees passed in the said Court before the 1st Day of June 1689. shall remain in force and execution upon them in the same State in which they were before the making this Act. Crown-Office I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 22. No Corporations Lords of Manors or others having Grants by Charter or other good Conveyances who have
next Session of Parliament VIII Stat. 4. 5. W. M. cap. 16. If any Persons shall borrow any Money or for any other valuable Consideration for the payment thereof shall acknowledge or suffer to be Entered against them a Judgment Statute or Recognizance and shall afterwards borrow any other Sum of any other Persons or for other valuable Consideration and for securing the Repayment or Discharge thereof shall morgage Lands to the Second or other Lender or Lenders or to any other Persons in Trust for him or them and shall not give notice to the Morgagee of such Judgment Statute or Recognizance in writing before the Execution of the said Morgage unless such Morgager or his Heirs upon notice given by the Morgagee in writing under Hand and Seal Attested by Two or more Witnesses of such former Judgment c. shall within Six Months Pay off and Discharge the same and cause the same to be vacated or discharged by Record such Morgager shall have no Benefit in Equity for Redemption of the Lands Morgaged IX If any Person who hath or shall once Morgage Lands for security of Money or for other valuable Considerations shall again Morgage the same Lands or any part thereof to any other Persons the former Morgage being in force and shall not discover to the Second Morgagee the First Morgage in writing such Morgager shall have no Relief or Equity of Redemption against the Second Morgagee X. But such Second or other Morgagees may Redeem any former Morgage XI This Act shall not extend to bar any Widow of any Morgager from her Dower who did not legally joyn with her Husband in such Morgage or otherwise Lawfully exclude her self Game I. STat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 23. All Laws and Statutes in Force for the better Preservation of the Game of this Kingdom and every Clause and thing therein not hereby Altered or Repealed shall be duly put in Execution II. Constables Head-boroughs and Tything men by a Justice of Peace his Warrant may and are Required to enter into and search in such manner as by An Act for the more effectual Discovery and Punishment of Deer-stealers made in the Third and Fourth Year of Their Majesties Reign is provided in Case of Venison or Skin of any Deer or Toyles Houses of Suspected Persons not qualified and in Case any Game shall be found the Offender shall be carried before a Justice of Peace and if he do not give a good Account how he came thereby or produce the Party of whom he bought it in some convenient Time or some Credible Person to depose upon Oath such Sale thereof he shall be Convicted of such Offence by the said Justice and Forfeit for every Hare Partridge c. or other Game any Sum not under 5 s. and not exceeding 20 One Moiety to the Informer and the other to the Poor of the Parish where the Offence was Committed to be Levied by Distress and Sale of his Goods rendring the Overplus and for want of a Distress shall be Committed to the House of Correction for any time not exceeding a Month nor less then Ten days there to be Whipt and Kept to Labour And if any Person not qualified by Law do keep or use any Bows Greyhounds Setting-dogs Ferrets Coney-dogs Hays Lurchers Netts Tunnels Low-bells Hare-pipes Snares or other Instruments for destruction of Game and shall be Convicted as aforesaid he shall be subject to the Pains and Penalties aforesaid And if any Person so Charged shall not before the same Justice give such Evidence of his Innocence as aforesaid he shall be Convicted thereof in like manner as the Person First Charged therewith is hereby directed to be and so from person to person till the First Offender be discovered III. Lords of Manors and other Royalties or any Authorized by them shall and may Oppose and Resist such Offenders in the Night time within their respective Manors and Royalties as if such Fact had been Committed in any ancient Chase Park or Warren Enclosed IV. No persons whatsoever shall after the 25th day of March 1693. keep any Net Angle Leap Piche or other Engine for taking Fish other then the Makers and Sellers thereof for their better convenience in the Sale thereof and other then the Owner or Occupier of a River or Fishery And Owners or Occupiers of Rivers and Fisheries and such as they shall Authorize may seize and keep to their own Use any such Engine which shall be found used by or in the possession of any Person whatsoever fishing in any River or Fishery without the consent of the Owner or Occupier And also any Person whatsoever Authorized by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of a Justice of Peace may search the Houses and other Places of Persons Prohibited and Suspected to have in their Custody any such Engines and the same to seize and keep to their own use or to destroy V. This Act shall not extend to abridge Fishermen or their Apprentices Lawfully Authorized to Fish in Navigable Rivers or Waters with Lawful Nets and Engines VI. No Certiorari shall be allowed to remove any Conviction or other Proceeding concerning any matter in this Act unless the Parties against whom such Conviction shall be shall before the Allowance thereof become bound to the Prosecutor in the Sum of 50 l. with Sureties to be Approved of by the Justice or Justices of Peace before whom such Offender was Convicted to pay to the Prosecutor within a month after such Conviction Confirmed or Proceedendo Granted their full Costs and Charges to be ascertain'd upon Oath VII Offenders Punished by force of this Act shall not incur the Penalty of any other Law for the same Offence VIII Persons prosecuted at Law for any thing done in pursuance of this Act may Plead the General Issue and give this Act or any other special Matter in Evidence and if the Verdict pass for the Defendants or the Plaintiffs become Non-suit or suffer a discontinuance the Defendants shall recover Treble Costs IX If any inferior Tradesman Apprentice or other dissolute Person shall Hunt Hawk Fish or Fowl unless in Company with the Master of such Apprentice qualified by Law they shall be subject to the Penalties of this Act and may be sued for Trespass in coming upon any persons Ground in which Suit the Plaintiff shall recover his Damages and full Costs X. For the better preserving the Red and Black Game of Growse commonly called Heath cooks or Heath-colts no person whatsoever on any Mountains Hills Heaths Moors Forests Chases or other Wasts shall burn between the Second Day of February and the Twenty fourth of June any Grig Ling Heath Furz Gross or Fern on pain of being Committed to the House of Correction for any Time not exceeding a Month nor under Ten Days there to be Whipt and kept to hard Labour Gold and Silver I. Sat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 30. Whereas by a Statute made in the 5th Year of King Henry
provide each their Souldier with pay in Hand not exceeding one Months Pay as if all the Pay before advanced and provided had been re-imbursed Oaths I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 6. The Oath herein after mentioned shall be administred to King William and Queen Mary at the time of their Coronation viz. The Archbishop or Bishop shall say Will you solemnly promise and swear to Govern the People of this Kingdom of England and the Dominions thereunto belonging according to the Statutes in Parliament agreed on and the Laws and Customs of the same The King and Queen shall say I solemnly promise so to do Archbishop or Bishop Will you to your Power cause Law and Justice in mercy to be executed in all your Judgments King and Queen I will Archbishop or Bishop Will you to the utmost of your Power maintain the Laws of God the true Profession of the Gospel and the Protestant reformed Religion established by Law And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of this Realm and to the Churches committed to their charge all such Rights and Priviledges as by Law do or shall appertain unto them or any of them King and Queen All this I promise to do After this the King and Queen laying his and her Hand upon the Holy Gospels shall say King and Queen The Things which I have here before promised I will perform and keep So help me God Then the King and Queen shall kiss the Book II. The said Oath shall be in like manner administred to every King or Queen who shall succeed III. Stat. Anno 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 8. Henceforth no Persons shall be obliged to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy or either of them by force of the Acts of 1 Eliz. or 3 Jac. or any other Statute and the said Oaths are hereby abrogated II. The Oaths appointed by this present Act to be taken and the Declaration appointed by this Act to be made c. shall be taken made repeated and subscribed by such as were required by any Act to take the said abrogated Oaths or either of them before such Persons as hereafter is expressed viz. Archbishops and Bishops and all above the Degree of a Baron of Parliament in the Court of Chancery or Kings Bench between the hours of 9 and 12 in the Forenoon before the end of Trin. Term next or at the General Quarter-Sessions for that County or Place where they shall be or reside between the said hours before the first day of August next IV. Other such Persons shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration before such Persons as by any Act were authorized to tender the said abrogated Oaths V. All Persons other than such concerning whom other provision shall be made in this Act or Session of Parliament that shall be admitted into any Office or Imployment Ecclesiastical or Civil or come into any capacity by reason whereof they should have been obliged to take the said abrogated Oaths or either of them shall take the Oaths hereby appointed in such manner as they ought to have taken the former Oaths and under the same Penalties Forfeitures Disabilities and incapacities VI. If any Person now having any such Office or Imployment neglect or refuse to take the said Oaths before the first day of August next or sooner if required by order of Council such Office and Imployment shall be void VII Archbishops or Bishops and other Persons now having any Ecclesiastical Dignity Benefice c. neglecting or refusing to take the said Oaths before the first day of August next shall be suspended for six months from the said first of August and if they shall not within the said space of six months take the said Oaths they shall be ipso facto deprived and are hereby adjudged to be deprived VIII Governors Heads or Fellows of Colledges or Halls in either University or of any other Colledge Masters of Hospitals or Schools Professors of Divinity Law Physick or other Science in either University or in London neglecting or refusing as aforesaid before the first day of August next shall be suspended six months to be accounted as aforesaid and if they shall not within the said space of six months take the said Oaths their Offices Imployments Masterships Governments Fellowships and Professorships shall be void IX Other Persons refusing to take the said Oaths being lawfully tendred shall be committed by the Persons tendring the same to the Common Gaol or House of Correction for three months without Bail or Mainprize unless such Offenders shall pay down 40 s. or such lesser Sum as the Persons tendring the said Oaths shall require which Mony shall go to the relief of the Poor of the Parish or Place where such Offender did last reside and if at the end of three months such Persons shall again refuse c. they shall be committed as aforesaid for six months unless they shall pay down such Sum of Mony as the Persons tendring the said Oaths shall require not exceeding 10 l. nor under 5 l. the said Mony to be disposed as aforesaid and unless such Offenders shall become bound with two Sureties to be of the Good Behaviour and appear at the next Assizes or General Gaol-delivery for the place where they shall reside at which Assizes or Gaol-delivery the said Oath shall be again tendred in open Court and upon refusal the Persons refusing shall be adjudged incapable of any Office Civil or Military and be bound to their Good Behaviour till they take the said Oaths and if such Persons shall refuse to make and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in the Statute of the 30th Year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government c. they shall be taken and deemed Popish Recusants convict to all intents and purposes X. Commission-Officers and Non-Commission or Warrant-Officers now employed by Sea or Land shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the last mentioned Declaration before the Lord Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty or their Deputies or such as their Majesties shall appoint to administer them And all Persons hereafter to be put into any such Imployment shall before the delivery of their Commission or Warrant take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration before the Lord Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty or their Deputies or such as shall issue such Commission or Warrant or such as shall be authorized to administer the same as aforesaid and in case of refusal shall be incapable of taking or executing such Office or Imployment XI The Oath appointed by the Statute of 13 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for the ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom And so much of a Declaration prescribed in another Act made in the same Year Entituled An Act for the Uniformity of Publick Prayers c. as is expressed in these Words viz. I A. B.
declare That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take up Arms against the King and that I do abhor that traiterous Position of taking Arms by his Authority against his Person or against those that are commissioned by him Shall not from henceforth be required or enjoyned XII The Oaths required and intended by this Act are in these Words following viz. I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary So help me God c. I A. B. do swear That I do from my Heart abhor detest and abjure as impious and heretical that Damnable Doctrin and Position That Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope or any Authority of the See of Rome may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whomsoever And I do declare That no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Pre-eminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm So help me God c. XIII The Names of Persons and Officers that shall take the said Oaths in the Chancery Kings Bench or Quarter-Sessions shall in the said respective Courts be inroll'd with the day and time of their taking the same The Rolls for the Court of Chancery to be publickly hung up in the Petty-bag-Office for the Kings Bench in the Crown Office and in some publick place in every Quarter-Sessions every Term and every Quarter-Sessions No Fee or Reward above 12 d. to be given to any Officer belonging to any of the said Courts for such Entries XIV Whereas since the 11th day of December 1688. the said abrogated Oaths could not be taken by Persons elected into Offices of Magistracy Places of Trust c. Be it enacted That if any such Officer shall before the first of August 1689. take the Oaths herein mentioned and required before such Persons who ought to have administred the said Abrogated Oaths the same shall be adjudged as good and effectual as if he had taken the said Abrogated Oaths XV. And whereas since the Feast of St. Michael last past divers Persons have been admitted into Offices Imployments or Places of Trust and could not take the said Abrogated Oaths and subscribe the Declaration at such time and in such manner as is appointed by the Act of 25 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for preventing of Dangers that may happen from Popish Recusants Be it enacted That if any such Person shall before the end of Trinity-Term next in the Chancery or Kings Bench or before the first of August 1689. at the Quarter-Sessions c. take the Oaths hereby appointed to be taken and repeat and subscribe the said Declaration and take the Sacrament according to the usage of the Church of England and procure Certificate thereof as by the said Act is directed that such Person shall be indemnified from any Penalty or Disability that he might have incurred by the said Act. XVI It shall be left to the King to allow to such of the Clergy as shall refuse the Oaths prescribed by this Act as he shall think fit not exceeding twelve an allowance out of their Ecclesiastical Benefices c. for their Subsistence not exceeding a third part to continue during the Kings Pleasure XVII Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 25. If any Commission for Military Imployment shall be granted to any Person at more than twenty Miles distance from London such Persons may take the Oaths and make and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in an Act of this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths at the next Muster after the receipt of the said Commission before the Commissary of the Musters or his Deputy who shall send up a Certificate thereof under his Hand and Seal to the Person who issued such Commission XVIII If any Person receiving such Commission shall refuse to take the said Oaths c. he shall not be allowed upon the Musters but his Commission shall be void XIX Nothing in this Act contain'd shall extend to the Militia Papists I. STat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 9. The Lord Mayor of London for the time being and every Justice of Peace of London and for Westminster and Southwark and of the Counties of Middlesex Surry Kent and Sussex within their respective Limits shall cause to be brought before him every Person not being a Merchant Foreigner within the said Cities or within ten miles of the same as are reputed to be Papists and tender them the Declaration mentioned in the Statute of 30 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government c. And if any such Person after refusal to make and subscribe the same shall continue to be within the said City or Cities or within ten miles distant from the same he or she shall forfeit and suffer as a Popish Recusant convict II. The Justices of Peace shall certifie the Subscriptions taken before them by virtue of this Act and the Names of Refusers upon tender under their Hands and Seals into the Court of Kings Bench the next Term or else at the next Quarter-Sessions and if Persons so refusing and certified shall not within the next Term or Sessions after such refusal appear in the Court of Kings Bench or Sessions and in open Court make and subscribe the said Declaration and indorse his so doing upon the Certificate they shall be adjudged from the time of such their refusal as Popish Recusants convict III. This Act shall not extend to such as use any Trade or Manuel Occupation nor to such as within six months before the 13th of Febr. 1688. had their places of abode within the said Cities or ten miles compass not having any place of abode elsewhere so as before the said first day of August 1689. they certifie their Names Additions and Places of Abode at the Sessions of the Peace to be held for the said respective Cities Counties or Places the Clerk of the Peace to take but 2 d. for the entry of such Name Addition and Place of Abode IV. Nothing in this Act shall have any effect upon such Foreigners as are or shall be menial Servants to Ambassadors or Publick Agents V. Foreigners Servants to the Queen Dowager are likewise excepted not exceeding the number of thirty at any one time VI. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 15. It shall be lawful for any two or more Justices of the Peace who shall know or suspect any Person to be a Papist or shall be so informed to tender to such Person the Declaration expressed in an Act of Parliament made Anno 30 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government c. And if such Person shall not make and subscribe the said Declaration or shall refuse to appear upon notice left at his Place
XVII This Act shall give no ease to Papists or Popish Recusants nor to any that in preaching or writing shall deny the Trinity XVIII If any persons after the 10th day of June come into any Church Chappel or Congregation permitted by this Act and disturb the same or misuse the Teacher upon proof thereof by two Witnesses before a Justice of Peace they shall find two Sureties to be bound by Recognizance in 50 l. and in default thereof be committed to prison till the next Quarter-Sessions and upon conviction of such Offence at the General or Quarter-Sessions shall forfeit 20 l. XIX No Assembly for Religious Worship shall be allowed by this Act till the place of meeting be certified to the Bishop of the Diocess or the Arch-deacon or to the Justices of Peace at the General or Quarter-Sessions and registred or recorded there respectively and a Certificate thereof given without Fee c. Revenue I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 14. The Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of Mony payable upon Merchandise and the several Impositions Duties and Charges upon Liquors Manufactures and other Things and all and singular the Revenue and Revenues except Hearth-mony other than the Duties thereby arising at or before the 25th of March 1689. granted and payable to the two late Kings or either of them which remained and had continuance on the 5th day of November last and all Arrears of the same shall be answered and paid to their Majesties until the 25th day of December 1689. II. All persons who have received or collected any part of the publick Revenue since the said 5th day of November are hereby indemnified against all persons of whom they received or collected the same to be answerable nevertheless to their Majesties III. Seizures and Distresses made or to be made by any persons authorized and all Forfeitures and Penalties for any Offence against any Law concerning the Customs or Excise or relating to the Transportation of Wool or importation or exportation of prohibited Goods incurred since the 11th day of December and before the 13th of February 1688. shall be prosecuted as well by any Informer for the King and Queen and himself as by the Attorny General in manner and form as if such Seisures Distresses and Offences had been made and committed after the said 13th day of Febr. IV. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 28. Part of the Mony accruing to their Majesties by one Act of Parliament made in the first year of the Reign of the late King James II. Entituled An Act for granting to his Majesty an Imposition upon all Tobacco and Sugar imported between the 24th day of June 1685. and the 24th day of June 1693. not exceeding in the whole 60000 l. shall be applyed to the payment of the Wages due to the Servants of the late King Charles II. which were his Servants at the time of his decease to be paid them within three years from the 24th day of Dec. 1689. by three equal payments and in such manner and proportion and to such of them as his Majesty shall direct and the residue of the Mony arising by the said Act and the Mony arising by two other Acts of the said first year of the said late King James the one entituled An Act for granting his Majesty an imposition upon all Wines and Vinegar imported between the 24th day of June 1685. and the 24th of June 1693. and the other An Act for granting an aid to his Majesty by an imposition on all French Linnens and all East-India Linnen and several other Manufactures of India and on all French wrought Silks and Stuffs and on all other wrought Silks and on all Brandies imported after the first day of July 1685. and before the first day of July 1690. and by one other Act of this Parliament Entituled An Act for an additional Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors shall be applied from the 29th of September 1689. during the continuance of the said Acts in the first place towards the payment of 600000 l. to the States of the United Provinces for their assistance to his Majesty in coming into this Nation in such manner as his Majesty shall direct and the residue towards the subduing the Rebellion of Ireland and other Charges of the War against France V. Accounts of the said Monies to be kept apart from other Monies payable to their Majesties that such as the States of the United Provinces shall appoint and other persons concerned may see how the said additional Duty and other Impositions are from time to time paid into the Exchequer VI. No Mony shall be paid to any of the late King Charles II's Servants but to such as before the first day of February next shall have taken the Oaths and made and subscribed the Declaration mentioned in an Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths at the General Quarter-Sessions of the County or Place where they reside and shall produce a Certificate thereof attested by the Clerk of the Peace VII Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 3. An Act for preventing all Doubts and Questions concerning the collecting the publick Revenue Exp. Rights and Liberties I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 2. Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons assembled at Westminster lawfully fully and freely representing all the Estates of the People of this Realm did upon the thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred eighty eight present unto their Majesties then called and known by the Names and Stile of William and Mary Prince and Princess of Orange being present in their proper Persons a certain Declaration in Writing made by the said Lords and Commons in the Words following viz. Whereas the late King James II. by the assistance of divers evil Councellors Judges and Ministers employed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom By assuming and exercising a Power of dispensing with and sus-spending of Laws and the Execution of Laws without consent of Parliament By committing and prosecuting divers worthy Prelates for humbly petitioning to be excused from concurring to the said assumed Power By issuing and causing to be executed a Commission under the Great Seal for erecting a Court called The Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes By levying Mony for and to the use of the Crown by pretence of Prerogative for other time and in other manner than the same was granted by Parliament By raising and keeping a standing Army within this Kingdom in time of Peace without consent of Parliament and quartering Souldiers contrary to Law By causing several good Subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when Papists were both armed and employed contrary to Law By violating the freedom of Election of Members to serve in Parliament By
to receive the same for their Majesties use the Sum of 50 l. and no more 50 l. for each License and not to exceed 21 years and 4 l. Rent per Ann. at four quarterly Payments by way of Fine for such License which said 50 l. shall be paid by the Person so licensed before the License delivered to him the said Licenses to continue for twenty one years and no longer nor to be granted in Reversion after the determination of others And upon every the said Licenses there shall be reserved to their Majesties the yearly Rent or Sum of 4 l. payable quarterly the first at the Feast of St. Michael the Nativity of our Lord Christ the Annuntiation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Nativity of St. John Baptist with such Covenants as the Commissioners in their discretions shall think fit III. And the said Commissioners Stage-Coaches to pay 8 l. per Ann. the Leases to be renewed yearly or the major part of them are impowered under their Hands and Seals to license all Stage-Coaches kept or driven throughout England and that no License for any Stage-Coach shall continue longer than for one year and for every such License there be reserved to their Majesties the Rent or Annual Sum of 8 l. to be paid quarterly at the four most usual Feasts of the year with such Covenants as the Commissioners in their discretions shall think fit And that every one so licensed to keep or drive a Hackney or Stage-Coach Power to assign or devise may by Writing under his Hand and Seal assign or by his last Will in Writing devise his her or their Interest therein and in default of such Assignment or Devise their Executors shall be intituled to the residue of their Interest That an Entry shall be made of such Assignment in some Book kept by the Commissioners to which the Executors or Administrators may have recourse gratis and within sixty days after the decease of such Testator or Intestate they may produce Letters of Administration to intitle themselves IV. This Act to commence from the 24th of June 1694. Penalty 5 l. driving without License No Horse under 14 Hand No Person to keep above two Coaches Altering Mark or Figure 5 l. And that no Person after the 24th of June 1694. shall drive or let to hire any Hackney-Coach or Coach-Horses within the Cities of London or Westminster c. nor drive or let to hire any Stage-Coach or Coach-Horses within any part of England without such License first obtain'd as aforesaid upon pain to forfeit for every such Offence the Sum of 5 l. and that no Horse Gelding or Mare shall be used in any Hackney or Stage-Coaches under the size of fourteen Hands according to the Standard And that every Coach so licensed shall have a Mark of distinction by Figures or otherwise and that no Person shall be licensed to keep more than two Hackney-Coaches and that no Person shall put the same Figure or Mark upon his Coach that is appointed for another nor shall alter or obliterate the Figure or Mark of distinction upon pain of 5 l. V. And if any Commissioner shall grant Licenses for more than the number of 700 Hackney-Coaches as before directed or shall grant any License for any Hackney or Stage-Coach for any longer time than before directed Commissioners Offences 100 l. he shall forfeit for every such Offence 100 l. VI. The Rates for Hackny-Coachmen on penalty of 40 s. No Hackney-Coachman or Driver shall take for his Hire in London or ten Miles thereof above 10 s. for a Day reckoning twelve hours to the day and by the Hour not above 1 s. 6 d. for the first hour and 1 s. for every hour after and that no Person shall pay from any the Inns of Court or thereabouts to any part of St. James's or City of Westminster except beyond Tuttle-Street above 1 s. and the same Prizes from the same Places to the Inns of Court or thereabouts and from any of the said Inns of Court or thereabouts to the Royal Exchange 1 s. and if to the Tower of London or to Bishopgate-street or Aldgate or thereabouts 1 s. 6 d. and so from the said Places to the said Inns of Court as aforesaid and the like Rates from and to any place at the like distance with the places before-mentioned And if any Coachman shall refuse to go at or exact more for Hire than the Rates hereby limited he shall for every such Offence forfeit 40 s. VII Commissioners and Officers Oaths The said Commissioners and every Officer to be appointed under them shall take an Oath for the faithful execution of their respective Offices and shall likewise take the Oaths appointed by an Act made in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths and that no Person shall be able to execute the Powers by this Act granted till the taking the same VIII Offences how and where determinable All Offences against this Act other than the Offences of the Commissioners shall be determined by the Commissioners or any three of them upon Oath of one or more credible Witnesses the Party accused being summoned IX By-laws for the standing of Coaches in the Streets c. And for the better regulating such as shall be licensed to keep Hackney or Stage-Coaches as aforesaid and to prevent Inconveniences in the Streets where such Coaches stand and punishment thereof it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners or the major part of them to make By-laws to bind such Persons as have Licenses their Executors Administrators and Assigns and to annex reasonable Penalties for the breach thereof so as such By-laws be agreeable to the intent of this Act and not repugnant to the Laws of this Realm and so that such By-laws be approved by the Lord Chancellor Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal for the time being and by the two Chief Justices of either Bench and Chief Baron of the Exchequer or any three of them and after such allowance the same shall be published and the Penalties put in execution by any Justice of Peace or other Magistrate of the Place where the Offence is committed But no Person shall be punished twice for the same Offence X. The number to ply on Sundays It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to appoint 175 and no more of the said Hackney-Coaches to ply stand and drive on the Lords-Day within the Bills of Mortality only so as the whole number of 700 may be imployed successively XI And if after the said 24th of June The penalty for offending any Hackny-Coach shall ply stand or drive upon the Lords-Day other than such as shall be so appointed as aforesaid or any where else within the Bills of Mortality the Owner of such Coach shall forfeit 5 l. A List of Hackney-Coaches to
Company of the Bank of England and by that Name to have perpetual Succession and a Common Seal and to be capable in Law to purchase or grant Subject to condition of redemption to sue or be sued or answer or be answered in Courts of Record or any other Place subject nevertheless to the Condition of Redemption hereafter mentioned XIII If the 1200000 l. be not paid by 1 June 1694. the Contributors to receive 8 l. per Cent. That in case the whole Sum of 1200000 l. shall not be advanced and paid into the Receipt of Exchequer before the first of January 1694. that then the Subscribers and Contributors towards the Sum of 1200000 l. their Heirs Successors and Assigns shall have and receive only so much and such part and portion to the Sums so respectively paid and advanced as shall be after the rate of 8 l. per Cent. per Annum And that any time upon twelve months notice after the first of August 1705. After 1st of August 1705. upon repayment of 1200000 l. the Corporation to cease upon repayment by Parliament of the said Sum of 1200000 l. or such part thereof as shall be paid and advanced as aforesaid unto the respective Subscribers and Contributors of the said Sum of 1200000 l. or such part thereof as shall be paid and advanced their Heirs Successors and Assigns and of all the Arrears of the said yearly payments of 100000 l. or such proportionable part thereof according to the Sum which shall be paid and advanced Then and from thence forward the said yearly payments and every of them of 100000 l. or such proportionable part and every part thereof and the said Corporation shall absolutely cease and determine XIV The Commissioners of the Treasury to issue their Warrants yearly for the payment of the 100000 l. to the Contributors of the 1200000 l. The Officers of the Exchequer without fee to issue out the Mony The Commissioners of the Treasury and the Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer now being and the Lord High-Treasurer and Under-Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being are by this Act required without other or farther Warrant to direct their Warrants yearly for the payment of the said yearly Sums of 100000 l. to the Contributors of the said Sum of 1200000 l. in the manner and proportion as herein before directed and the Auditor of Receipt of Exchequer and all other Officers of the Exchequer now and for the time being are enjoined to issue the said Monies so set apart for the Uses before mentioned without Fee or Reward from time to to time in the manner and proportions before mentioned and under the like Penalties Forfeitures and Disabilities as are hereafter inflicted upon any Officer for diverting any Mony appropriated by this Act. XV. No Person to subscribe above 20000 l. A fourth to be paid at the time of the Subscription No Person or Body Politick shall by themselves or any other in Trust for him or them subscribe towards the raising the Sum of 1200000 l. any Sum exceeding the Sum of 20000 l. and such Subscriber shall at the time of such Subscription pay to the Commissioners authorized to take Subscriptions one full fourth part of such Subscription and in default of payment the Subscription to be void And the residue of the Subscriptions shall be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer as their Majesties shall direct before the first of January next and in default of such payments then the fourth part first paid shall be forfeited to and for the benefit of their Majesties their Heirs and Successors XVI Before the 1st of July next no person shall subscribe for more than 10000 l. The whole 1200000 l. or a moiety to be subscribed before 1st of Aug. next else the Corporation to cease So much of the 100000 l. as belongs to c. The same to be no Fond or applied to other uses than by this Act directed No Person or Persons or Body Politick at any time or times before the first day of July next ensuing shall subscribe in his own Name or Names or in any others in Trust for him or them towards the raising of the Sum of 1200000 l. any Sum or Sums exceeding in the whole Sum of 10000 l. XVII In case the whole Sum of 1200000 l. or a moiety thereof be not subscribed on or before the first of August 1694. Then the Powers and Authorities in this Act for executing a Corporation as aforesaid shall cease and determine And in such case so much of the said yearly Sum of 100000 l. as shall belong to the said Subscribers shall be transferrable and may be transferred by the respective Persons so subscribing and paying any part of the same into the Exchequer or their respective Heirs Successors and Assigns to any Person or Persons whatsoever by any Writing under the Hand and Seal of the Person or Persons transferring the same attested by two or more credible Witnesses and entred within twenty days in a Book in the Exchequer by their Majesties Remembrancer for the entring whereof nothing shall be paid which Entries the said Remembrancer is from time to time upon request directed to make And such part of the said yearly Sum of 100000 l. as shall be due to the Subscribers shall not at any time be made use of or be a Fond or Security for or applied to pay any other Sums of Mony save only such Mony as shall in pursuance of this Act be paid into their Majesties Exchequer within the time by this Act limited XVIII The Corporation not to borrow more than 1200000 l. Except enabled by Act of Parliament The Corporation so to be made shall not borrow or give security under their common Seal for any more farther or other Sum than 1200000 l. so that they shall not any one time owe more unless it be by Act of Parliament upon Eonds agreed in Parliament And in such case only such farther Sums as shall be directed and allowed to be borrowed by Parliament and for such time only until they shall be repaid And if any more farther or other Sums of Mony shall be borrowed under the common Seal If more borrowed the Members liable to be sued in their private Capacities then and in such case every Member or Members of the said Corporation his and their respective Heirs Executors and Administrators shall in his and their respective private and personal Capacities be chargeable with and liable in proportion to their several Shares or Subscriptions to the repayment of such Monies which shall be so borrowed with Interest for the same And in every such Case an Action of Debt may be maintained in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster by the respective Creditor or Creditors to whom any such Security under the common Seal of the said Corporation shall be made against all and every or any one or more of the Members of
Courts of Equity shall be written or ingrossed 6 d. XV. Licenses Ecclesiastical For every Skin c. on which any Institution or Licence under Seal of any Archbishop Bishop Chancellor or other Ordinary or any Ecclesiastical Court shall be written or engrossed 5 s. XVI Writs of Error c. For every Skin c. on which any Writs of Error Certioraries Habeas Corpus's or Appeals except to the Delegates shall be written or ingrossed 5 s. XVII Significavit pro Corp. c. For every Skin c. on which any Significavit pro Corporis deliberatione shall be written or ingrossed 5 s. XVIII Sentences c. in the Admiralty c. For every Skin c. on which any Sentence in the Court of the Lord High Admiral or Cinque-Ports exercising Admiralty Jurisdiction Attachments out of the said Court of Admiralty or any Relaxation of any such Attachment shall be ingrossed or written 5 s. XIX Licenses of Marriage c. For every Skin c. on which any Licence or Certificates of Marriage or Letters of Mart shall be ingrossed or written 5 s. XX. Probate of Wills c. For every Skin c. on which any Probate of Wills or Letters of Administration for any Estate above 20 l. value shall be written or ingrossed 5 s. XXI Recognizances Statutes For every Skin c. on which any Recognizance Statute-Staple or Merchant shall be ingrossed or written or entred of Record in any Court or Office 5 s. XXII Nisi prius Posteas For every Skin c. on which any Record of Nisi Prius or Postea shall be ingrossed or written 2 s. 6 d. XXIII Judgments For every Skin c. on which are ingrossed or written any Judgment which shall be signed by any Member of the Office or Prothonotaries their Deputies Secondaries or Clerks or others belonging to any the Courts of Westminster who have Power or usually do or shall sign Judgments 2 s. 6 d. XXIV Commissions Ecclesiastical For every Skin c. on which any Commission out of any Ecclesiastical Court not herein otherwise particularly charged shall be written or ingrossed 2 s. 6 d. XXV Warrants Decrees in Admiralty or Cinque-Ports For every Skin c. on which are ingrossed or written any Warrant Monition or personal Decree in any Courrt of Admiralty or Cinque-Ports any beneficial Warrant or Order under their Majesties Sign Manual except Warrant or Orders for the Navy Arms and Ordnance 2 s. 6 d. XXVI Special Bail For every Piece c. on which are ingrossed or written any Special Bail in any of the Courts at Westminster or before a Judge which shall be filed in the Court and also Appearances thereof 1 s. XXVII Bills Answers c. For every Skin c. on which shall be ingrossed or written any Bill Answer Replication Rejoinder Interrogatories Depositions taken by Commission or any other Pleadings whatsoever in the Chancery Exchequer Dutchy and County Palatine Courts or other Courts of Equity 1 s. XXVIII Admission into Corporations c. For every Skin c. on which any Admission into a Corporation or Company Matriculation in either University Admission into any of the Inns of Court or Chancery shall be written or ingrossed 1 s. XXIX Affidavits For every Piece c. on which any Affidavit shall be ingrossed or written except for burying in Woollen and such Affidavits as shall be taken before the Officers of the Customs or any Justice of Peace or any Commissioner appointed or to be appointed by any Act of Parliament for the assessing and levying any Duties or Aids granted or to be granted to their Majesties which Affidavits shall be taken by the said Persons by virtue of their Authorities respectively 6 d. XXX Copies of Affidavits For every Piece c. on which are ingrossed or written Copies of Affidavits herein charged that shall be read or filed in any Court 6 d. XXXI Indentures Leases c. For every Skin c. on which are ingrossed or written any Indenture Lease or Deed Poll not hereby otherwise charged 6 d. XXXII Original Writs For every Piece c. on which any Original Writ except such on which a Capias issues Subpoena Bill of Middlesex Latitat Writ of Capias Quo minus Dedimus Potestatem to take Answers examine Witnesses or appoint Guardians or any other Writ Process or Mandate that shall issue out or pass under the Seals in any Court at Westminster Quarter Sessions in Wales Counties Palatine or any other Court whatsoever holding Plea where the Debt or Damage amounts to 40 s. or above or the demand is of the value shall be ingrossed or written 6 d. XXXIII Entry of Actions in Inferior Courts For every Piece c. on which any entry of any Action in the Mayors or Sheriffs Courts London and in all other Courts or Corporations out of which no Writs Process or Mandate issue holding Plea for Debts or Damages amounting to 40 s. or above shall be ingrossed or written 6 d. XXXIV Common Bail Appearance For every Piece c. on which are ingrossed or written any Common Bail to be filed in any Court and any Appearance that shall be made upon such Bail 6 d. which Appearance or Common Bail the Defendant shall cause to be entred or filed within eight days after the Return of the Process on which the Defendant was to be arrested on Penalty of 5 l. to be paid to the Plaintiff for which the Court shall immedately award Judgment and the Plaintiff may take out Execution XXXV Rule of Court For every Piece c. on which any Rule or Order made in any of the Courts at Westminster either Courts of Law or Equity shall be ingrossed or written 6 d. XXXVI Copies of Rules of Court and of Records For every Piece c. on which any Copy of such Rules and Orders entred or the Copies of any other Records or Proceedings in any of the Courts at Westminster not hereby otherwise charged shall be ingrossed or written 6 d. XXXVII Citations Monitions c. For every Skin c. on which any Citation or Monition made in any Ecclesiastical Court any Libel or Allegation Deposition or Signal Decree or any Inventory exhibited in any Ecclesiastical Court Courts of Admiralty or Cinque-Ports or Copies of them respectively shall be ingrossed or written 6 d. XXXVIII Charter-parties Policies c. For every Skin c. on which any Charter-party Policy of Assurance Pass-port Bond Release Contract or other Obligatory Instrument any Protest Procuration Letter of Attorny or any other Notarial Act whatsoever shall be ingrossed or written 6 d. XXXIX Declarations Pleas c. For every Skin c. on which any Declaration Plea Replication Rejoinder Demurrer or other Pleadings whatsoever in any Court of Law shall be ingrossed or written 1 d. XL. Copies thereof For every Skin c.