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Anno Regni Caroli Regis Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, Decimo Septimo. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November, Anno Dom. 1640. in the 16. yeer of the reign of ... Lord Charles ...; Laws, etc.
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ANNO REGNI CAROLI REGIS ANGLIAE SCOTIAE FRANCIAE HIBERNIAE DECIMO SEPTIMO At the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November Anno Dom. 1640. In the 16. yeer of the Reign of our most gracious Soveraign Lord CHARLES by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. LONDON Printed by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL 1641. Cum Privilegio HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT ANNO XVII Caroli Regis ¶ An Act for the better Raising and Levying of Mariners Sailers and others for the present guarding of the Seas and necessary defence of the Realm and other His Majesties Dominions WHereas there was an Act this present Parliament intituled An Act for the better raising and levying of Mariners Sailers and others for the present guarding of the Seas and necessary defence of the Realm which Act is now expired And whereas also a Fleet is now in preparing to be set forth with all expedition for the guarding of the narrow Seas and necessary defence of this Realm and other His Majesties Dominions in this time of imminent danger which cannot accordingly be performed unlesse the same be furnished with fit and sufficient men for that Service Be it therefore enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament That the Lord Admirall that now is shall and may at any time or times between the tenth day of December 1641. and the first of November next coming by himself his Vice-Admirall Commissioner or Commissioners or other Officer or Officers or any of them together with one or more Iustices of the peace next the place where any Presse shall be made shall Raise Levie and Impresse such and so many Mariners Sailers Watermen Chirurgions Gunners and Ship-Carpenters as shall be requisite and necessary for this present Expedition or for any such further defence of the Realm or any other of His Majesties Dominions Which said Mariners Sailers other such persons so to be Levied and Impressed as aforesaid and every of them shall have paid and delivered unto him upon such his Impressing by the person that shal so Impresse him for Conduct-money for every mile from the place where he shal be so Impressed to the Ship or place to which he shall be appointed to make his repair the sum of one peny and the like sum of one peny for every mile from the place of his discharge unto the place of his abode and shall be allowed for his Service the best Wages and entertainment which have or hath been allowed by His Majestie to any such person or persons respectively at any time within three yeers last past And if any Mariner Sailer Waterman Chirurgeon Gunner or Ship-Carpenter shall wilfully refuse to be Impressed in or for the said Service or shall voluntarily hide and absent himself at the time of such Presse to avoid the said Service That then every such person so offending shall suffer Imprisonment by the space of three moneths without bail or mainprise Provided alwayes that this Act shall not extend to the Pressing of any Master or Masters-mate Gunner Carpenter or Boatswain of any Ship or Vessell that is or shall be in imployment or of above one of ten Mariners of any Ships that shall be inward or outward bound nor to any person that shall be under the age of eighteen or above the age of fifty nor to any person that was rated in the last Subsidies or shall be rated in any Subsidies hereafter to be granted before the time of his being Impressed Provided alwayes and be it enacted That no Money or other reward shall be taken or any corrupt practise used by any the persons authorized by this Act in or for the Pressing Changing Sparing or Discharging of any person or persons to be Impressed by force of this Act under pain of forfeiture of twenty pounds by the person so offending for every such offence the one half to His Majestie His Heirs and Successours the other half to him that will sue for the same to be recovered by Action of debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record or before the Iustices of Assise Oyer and Terminer Goal-Delivery or the Iustices of the Peace of the County City or Town-Corporate where such offence shall be committed at their generall quarter Sessions wherein no Wager of Law Essoign Protection or Injunction shall be admitted or allowed ⧠ANNO XVII Caroli Regis ⧠An Act for the Relief of the Captives taken by Turkish Moorish and other Pirates and to prevent the taking of others in time to come WHereas many thousands of your Majesties good and loving Subjects with their Ships and goods have of late time been surprised and taken at Sea as they were in their lawfull trading by Turkish Moorish and other Pirats And some of them to free themselves of the cruell and barbarous usage of those Pirats have renounced the Christian Religion and turned Turks And others yet kept in bondage are used with so extream cruelty as they are in great danger thereby to lose their lives unlesse they shall also forsake the Christian Religion And divers of those Your Subjects kept in bondage being expert and skilfull Mariners are usually imployed at Sea against others Your good Subjects and prove very prejudiciall to them and hurtfull to the Trade and Merchandise of Your Majesties Dominions And whereas aswell Your Majesties Subjects as strangers Exporting or Importing their Goods and Merchandize into this Kingdom have ever sithence Your Majesties accesse unto this Crown been charged with the payment of great sums of Money under the name of Custom and that without consent of Parliament which had they been legally taken ought to have been chiefly imployed to the safeguard of the Seas and preservation of Your good Subjects in their Trade of Merchandize from the spoil of Pirats and other Sea-robbers but have been exhausted by evil Ministers and not applied to their proper uses so that Your Highnesse good Subjects have been exposed to the mercilesse cruelty of those Pirats and barbarous Infidels And the Commons taking into further consideration Your Majesties pressing wants and great occasions of Moneys in these times of distemper as well in the Kingdom of Ireland as other Kingdoms of Forraign Princes so that there will be required some further aid to inable Your Highnesse to effect so great a Work besides the present Tunnage and Poundage now granted to Your Majestie Have therefore for this present pressing occasion and for a time hereafter limited taken into their Resolutions a further way of raising a Supply of Moneys for the providing and setting forth to the Seas a Navie as well for the enlargement and deliverance of those poore Captives in Argier and other places if Almightie God shall so please to give that Blessing unto their enterprises as also for the preventing of
the like future dangers unto Your good people their Persons Ships and Merchandizes Do therefore pray Your most Excellent Majestie That it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by authority of this present Parliament That where any Subsidie Custome or other dutie after the nine and twentieth day of September in the yeer one thousand six hundred fourty one and before the four and twentieth day of Iune then next following shall be laid or imposed by authority of Parliament upon any Goods Wares or other Merchandize of what nature kinde or qualitie soever to be Exported out of or Imported into this Your Majesties Realm of England or Dominion of Wales That one other sum of one in the hundred according to the Rates to be established by Parliament within the time aforesaid over and above the said Custome Subsidie or dutie so to be laid or imposed shall be raised levied and paid from and after the tenth day of December in the yeer one thousand six hundred fourty one aforesaid of and from all and every such goods wares and other Merchandize to be imported into or exported out of this Your Majesties said Realm of England or Dominion of Wales the said summe of one in the hundred to be raised levied and paid for the space of three yeers next after the said tenth day of December and no longer And received and taken by the Lord Major and Chamberlain of London for the time being their Deputies or Deputie and by them the said Lord Major and Chamberlain of London for the time being to be layed out payed and imployed for providing and setting out to sea and maintaining of one or more Fleet or Fleets of good and serviceable ships and other necessaries to be used and imploied for the purposes aforesaid in such sort as by Order of a Committee of the House of Lords and a Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament of this Your Majesties Realm of England shall be directed And such Lord Major and Chamberlain of London who shall receive or disburse any the monies aforesaid shall be accountable and account for all and every their receipts and disbursements afore mentioned to the said Committee or to such person or persons as the said Committee shall Order and appoint And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid That if any goods wares or other Merchandize whereof the sum of one in the hundred aforesaid is or shall be due and paiable by vertue of this Act shall at any time hereafter be shipped or put into any Boat or other Vessell to the intent to be carried into the parts beyond the Seas or else be brought from the parts beyond the Seas into any part of this Your Realm of England or Dominion of Wales by way of Merchandize and unshipped to be laid on land the summe of one in the hundred as aforesaid due or to be due for the same not payed or lawfully tendered and secured to be payed to the Major and Chamberlain of London for the time being or their Deputy or Deputies for the uses aforesaid all the same Goods Wares and other Merchandize whatsoever shall be forfeited and lost The one Moity of the rate or value thereof to be to him or them that will seize or sue for the same and the other Moitie to be imployed to and for the uses before expressed And for the better incouragement of Mariners to undertake the said service and Owners of Ships to let out their Ships for the said imployment Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Ships goods or Merchandize of the said Pirats or of the subjects of any that are or shall be in enmity with your Majestie your Heirs or Successors or the Person of any such Pirates shall be taken by the Ships to be imploied in the service before mentioned that one fourth part thereof shall be to the Mariners that shall take the same and one other fourth part to the Owners of the said Ships over and above their Hire and Wages and the other two fourth parts to and for such uses as the said Committees shall order and appoint and the overplus of the Money to be raised by vertue of this Act and not imployed to and for the service afore mentioned if any shall be shall also be imployed according to the Order of the same Committees And be it further Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that this present Act for the raising of Moneys for the setting forth of Ships for the suppressing of Pirates and safety of Merchants shall not hereafter be drawn into example but that Your Majesty would in time to come be pleased to in trust such Ministers as may faithfully imploy the Moneys raised by Tonnage and Poundage unto the right and proper uses for the guarding of the Seas safety of Merchants which will advance the Honour of Your Sacred Majestie abroad and procure the safety peace and happinesse of Your Highnesse loyall and faithfull subjects at home