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An exact abridgment of all the statutes of King William and Queen Mary now in force and use / by J. Washington.; Laws, etc.
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England and Wales.; Washington, Joseph, d. 1694.
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1694
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Wing E913; ESTC R23866
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Exchequer and their Sureties and all Recognizances and Conditions for the payment of Mony XXV This Act shall not discharge any Recognizance c. not yet forfeited nor any forfeited Recognizanc c. whereof the Farmers of the Excise or any part of the Revenue ought to receive benefit nor any Debt due by Recognizance c. to any Persons endebted to their Majesties which hath been seiz'd in Aid nor any Debt whereupon any enstalment or seizure hath been made upon which any thing is or since the 25th of March hath been answered and paid nor to discharge any Forfeitures or Sums of Mony due to their Majesties by any Statute which Forfeitures c. since the said 25th of March are converted into the nature of a Debt or have been install'd or any seizure made for them upon which any thing has been paid since the said 25th of March. XXVI But all Recognizances c. forfeited since the said 25th of March for non-payment in any Court or other place or not keeping the Peace or not being of the Good Behaviour are discharged except Recognizances granted to or in trust for the Lord Almoner XXVII And except all Issues Fines and Amerciaments lost or assessed since the said 25th day of March being totted or received by any Officer before the last day of this Session of Parliament and all Issues c. lost or assess'd since the said 25th day of March affeered taxed estreated or entred severally touching any one or more Persons joyntly or severally above 6 l. and except Issues Fines c. set in any Court of Record at Westminster within a year before the first day of this Parliament XXVIII But all other Fines as well pro lic concord as others set or entred before that time and Issues and Amerciaments as well real as others set or entred before the time aforesaid and which do not exceed 6 l. whether estreated or not estreated whether turn'd into Debt or not and not being totted or received by any Officer before the first day of this Parliament shall be discharged yet nevertheless the estreats of such Fines c. already estreated out of the Exchequer and remaining in the Sheriffs Hands shall upon the return of such Estreats be charged and delivered by Scrowes into the Pipe-Office as hath been accustomed and yet Sheriffs and other Accountants upon Petition to have allowance for such Fines c. as are pardoned shall have their Petition allowed without Fee XXIX This Act shall not pardon any who by Name are excepted out of the Act of Oblivion made 12 Car. 2. nor to those two Persons who appeared in Vizors upon the Scaffold when King Charles I. was murther'd XXX Nor shall this Act restore any Ability to exercise Offices or to serve in Parliament c. to persons disabled by any other Laws XXXI Nor shall this Act discharge any person who if he after the first day of September 1660. has exercised any Office is by the said Act of 12 Car. 2. to stand as if excepted out of the said Act by Name XXXII And except all persons attainted by Act of Parliament or otherwise for any Rebellion levying of War or any Conspiracy thereof in any of their Majesties Dominions and all persons attainted or outlawed for any other Treason Petit Treason Murder wilful Poysoning or Burglary XXXIII And except all persons who by any former Act are by Name made liable to any penalties whatsoever XXXIV And except persons who after conviction or attainder for any Felony have desired to be transported XXXV And except persons who being excepted out of the said general Act of 12 Car. 2. have had any pains or penalties imposed on them by any subsequent Act. XXXVI And except all penalties of 500 l. which shall by any Act of this Session be inflicted for holding Offices contrary to an Act of Parliament made in the 25th of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants XXXVII And except William Marquiss of Powis Theophilus Earl of Huntington Robert Earl of Sunderland John Earl of Melfort Roger Earl of Castlemain the Lord Thomas Howard Nathaniel Lord Bishop of Durham Thomas Lord Bishop of St. Davids Henry Lord Dover William Molineux Sir Edward Hales Sir Edward Herbert Sir Francis Wythens Sir Richard Holloway Sir Edward Lutwich Sir Richard Heath Sir Thomas Jenner Sir Roger l'Estrange Sir Nicholas Butler Edward Petre Thomas Tindesley Townly Rowland Tempest Edward Morgan Obadiah Walker Robert Brent Richard Graham Philip Burton Robert Lundy Matthew Crone and George Lord Jefferies deceased XXXVIII And also except all Offences committed by Jesuits and Romish Priests contrary to the Statute made in the 27th year of Queen Elizabeth Entituled An Act against Jesuits Seminary Priests and other disobedient Persons and except all Convictions of Popish Recusants XXXIX No Process of Outlawry at the Suit of any person Plaintiff shall by virtue of this Act be stay'd unless the Defendant appear and put in Bail where the Law requires it and take out a Seirs Fac Nor shall this Pardon discharge any Outlawry after Judgment till satisfaction or agreement with the party XL. Persons hereby pardoned may plead the Ceneral Issue and give this Act in Evidence XLI This Act shall be of as good force to pardon and discharge the Premisses against such as claim the same by any Grant from the Crown as against their Majesties themselves XLII Nothing in this Act shall discharge any person from abetting or procuring the raising War or Rebellion against their Majesties or adhering to their Enemies since the 13th day of February 1688. unless such person shall before the 20th day of July next or sooner if required take this Oath in such Court as shall have power to administer the same 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 Parliament I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 1. The Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons conven'd at Westminster the 22th day of January 1688. and there sitting on the 13th day of February following are the two Houses of Parliament to all intents and purposes notwithstanding the want of any Writs of Summons or other defect of Form and this Act and all other Acts to which the Royal Assent shall be given before the next Prorogation shall be adjudged to commence upon the said 13th day of February II. The Act made in the 30th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government by disabling of Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament and all other Acts of Parliament as to so much of them as concerns the taking the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy or either of them by any Member of either House of Parliament with relation to their sitting and voting there are hereby repealed III. And the taking the Oaths herein after
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