HONI · SOIT · QVI MAL · Y · PENSE DIEV · ET · MON · DROIT · A COLLECTION OF THE STATUTES Made in the REIGNS of King Charles the I. AND King Charles the II. With the ABRIDGMENT of such as stand Repealed or Expired Continued after the Method of Mr. PULTON WITH Notes of References one to the other as they now stand Altered Enlarged or Explained TO WHICH ALSO ARE ADDED The Titles of all the Statutes and Private Acts of PARLIAMENT Passed by their said MAJESTIES untill this present Year M.DC.LXVII With a TABLE directing to the Principal Matters of the said STATUTES By THO MANBY of Lincolns-Inn Esq LONDON Printed by John Streater James Flesher and Henry Twyford Assigns of Richard Atkyns and Edward Atkyns Esquires Anno Dom. 1667. Cum Gratia Privilegio Regiae Majestatis A View and Digest of the Heads and Titles of the several STATUTES from the First Year of King CHARLES the First untill this present time according to the Order of Statutes in this Book mentioned Anno Primo CAROLI primi nuper Regis Angliae c. 1 AN Act for punishing of divers Abuses on the Lords Day called Sunday Cap. 1. Fol. 1. 2 An Act to enable the King to make Leases of Lands parcel of his Highness Dutchy of Cornwal or annexed to the same Cap. 2. fol. 1. 3 An Act for the Ease of obtaining Licences of alienation and in the pleading of alienations with Licence or of Pardons of alienations without Licence in the Court of Exchequer or elsewhere Cap. 3. fol. 2. See Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. 4 An Act for the further Restraint of Tipling in Inns Ale-houses and other Victualling-houses Cap. 4. fol. 2. 5 An Act for the Confirmation of the Subsidies granted by the Clergy Cap. 5. fol. 3. EXP. 6 An Act for the Grant of two entire Subsidies granted by the Temporalty Cap. 6. fol. 3. 7 An Act that this Session of Parliament shall not determine by his Majesties Royal Assent to this and some other Acts Cap. 7. fol. 3. Anno Tertio Caroli Primi Regis c. THe Petition exhibited to his Majesty by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled concerning divers Rights and Liberties of the Subject with the Kings Majesties Royal Answer thereunto in full Parliament Folio 3. 1 An Act for the further Reformation of sundry abuses committed on the Lords Day commonly called Sunday Cap. 1. fol. 5. 2 An Act to Restrain the passing or sending of any to be Popishly bred beyond the Seas Cap. 2. fol. 5. 3 An Act for the better suppressing of Unlicensed Ale-house-keepers Cap. 3. fol. 6. 4. An Act for Continuance of divers Statutes and for Repeal of divers others Cap. 4. fol. 7. 5 An Act for the establishing of the Estates of the Tenants of Bromfeild and Yale in the County of Denbigh and of the Tenures Rents and Services thereupon reserved according to a late composition made for the same with the Kings Majesty then Prince of Wales Cap. 5. fol. 11. 6 An Act for Confirmation of the Subsidies granted by the Clergy Cap. 6. fol. 11. EXP. 7 An Act for the grant of Five entire Subsidies granted by the Temporalty Anno Quarto Caroli Regis Cap. 7. fol. 11. Anno Decimo sexto decimo septimo Caroli Primi Regis c. 1 AN Act for the preventing of Inconveniences happening by the long intermission of Parliaments Cap. 1. fol. 11. Rep. and Alt. 16 Car. 2. cap. 1. 2 An Act for the Relief of his Majesties Army and the Northern Parts of this Kingdom Cap. 2. fol. 11. EXP. 3 An Act for the Reforming of some things mistaken in the late Act made in this Parliament for the granting of Four Subsidies Entituled An Act for the Relief of his Majesties Army in the Northern Parts c. Cap. 3. fol. 11. EXP. Anno decimo septimo Caroli Primi Regis c. 4 AN Act for the further Relief of his Majesties Army in the Northern Parts of this Kingdom Cap. 4. Fol. 11. 5 An Act for the better raising and levying of Marriners Saylers and others for the present Guarding of the Seas Cap. 5. fol. 12. EXP. 6 An Act concerning the limitation and abbreviation of Michaelmas Term Cap. 6. fol. 12. 7 An Act to prevent Inconveniences which may happen by the untimely Adjourning Proroguing or dissolving of this present Parliament Cap. 7. fol. 14. EXP. 8 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other sums of money payable upon Merchandizes Exported and Imported Cap. 8. fol. 14. EXP. 9 An Act for the speedy Provision of Money for Disbanding of the Army and setling the Peace of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland Cap. 9. fol. 14. EXP. 10 An Act for Regulating the Privy Council and taking away the Court commonly called the Star-Chamber Cap. 10. fol. 14. 11 An Act for Repeal of a Branch of a Statute 1 Eliz. concerning Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical Cap. 11. fol. 16. 12 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of money payable upon Merchandise Exported and Imported Cap. 12. fol. 17. EXP. 13 An Act for securing of Moneys due or to be due to the Inhabitants of the County of York and other adjoyning Counties wherein his Majesties Army is or hath been Billited c. Cap. 13. fol. 18. EXP. 14 An Act Declaring unlawful and void the late proceeding touching Ship-Money and for the vacating of all Records and Process concerning the same Cap. 14. fol. 18. 15 An Act against divers Incroachments and oppressions in the Stannary Courts Cap. 14. fol. 19. 16 An Act for the certainty of Forrests and of the Meers Meets Limits and Bounds of the Forest Cap. 6. fol. 21. 17 An Act for the Confirmation of the Treaty of Pacification of England and Scotland Cap. 17. fol. 22. EXP. 18 An Act for securing the Publique Faith the remainder of the friendly assistance and relief promised to our Brethren of Scotland Cap. 18. fol. 22. EXP. 19 An Act for the Regulating of the Clerk of the Market and for the Reformation of false Weights and Measures Cap. 19. fol. 22. 20 An Act to prevent vexatious proceeding touching the Order of Knight-hood Cap. 20. fol. 24. 21 An Act for the free bringing in Gun-powder and Salt-Peter from foreign Parts and for the free making of Gun-powder in this Realm Cap. 21. fo 24 22 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of money payable upon Merchandise Exported and Imported Cap. 22. fol. 25. 23 An Act for the Raising of Mariners and Saylers for the Guarding of the Seas and his Majesties Dominions Cap. 23. fol. 25. EXP. 24 An Act to relieve Captives taken by the Turks and to prevent the taking of others hereafter Cap. 24. fol. 25. EXP. 25 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of money payable upon Merchandizes Exportable and Importable Cap. 25.
4. 20 R. 2. 2. and one other Statute made in the twentieth year of the reign of the late King Richard the second by which it is ordained that no Vaclets called Yeomen nor other of lesser estate than an Esquire shall use or bear any sign of Livery called Livery of Company of any Lord within the Realm And one Statute made in the first year of the reign of the late King Henry the fourth concerning giving of Liberies 7 H. 4. 7. 6 H. 4. 14. 13 H. 4. 3. 8 H. 6. 4. 8 Ed. 4. 2. 3 H. 7. 1. 3 H. 7. 12. A repeal of the 9 Statutes last mentioned And one statute made in the 7th year of the reign of the late King Hen. the 4th concerning giving of Liveries And one other Statute made in the 13th year of the reign of the late King Henry the fourth concerning giving of Liveries And one Statute made in the eighth year of the reign of the late King Henry the sixth concerning Liveries And one Statute made in the eighth year of the reign of the late King Edward the fourth concerning Liveries and so much of one Statute made in the third year of the reign of the late King Henry the seventh concerning the Star-Chamber as toucheth or concerneth the punishment of those that shall give or take Liveries And one other Statute made in the said third year concerning taking of Liveries by the Kings Officers and Farmers be from henceforth repealed And be it also enacted by authority of this Parliament 7 Jac. 20. continued untill the next Parliament that one Act of Parliament made in the seventh year of the reign of the late King James intituled An Act for the speedy recovery of many thousand Acres of marsh grounds and other grounds within the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk lately surrounded by the rage of the Sea in divers parts of the said Counties and for the prevention of the danger of the like surrounding hereafter be continued and shall stand in force untill the end of the next Session of Parliament 17 Car. cap. 4. CAP. V. The Estates of the Tenants of Bromfield and Yale in the County of Denbigh and of the Tenures Rents and Services thereupon reserved according to the late composition made for the same with the Kings most Excellent Majesty then Prince of Wales ratified and confirmed PR CAP. VI. Five Subsidies granted by the Spiritualty EXP. CAP. VII Five Subsidies granted by the Temporalty Anno quarto Caroli Regis EXP. Anno Regni Caroli Regis Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Decimo Sexto AT the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of Novemb. An. Dom. 1640. In the sixteenth year of the Reign of CHARLES the first by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. To the High pleasure of Almighty God and to the weal publick of this Realm were Enacted as followeth CAP. I. Parliaments to be called and held every third year REP. ALT 16 Car. 2. cap. 1. CAP. II. A Grant of four entire Subsidies for the Relief of His Majesties Army and the Northern parts of the Kingdom EXP. CAP. III. Some things mistaken in the last Act reformed and the Acts of the Commissioners and other Officers by them appointed made good EXP. Anno decimo septimo Caroli Regis CAP. IV. A Grant of two Subsidies for the further Relief of His Majesties Army and the Northern parts of the Kingdom EXP. And divers Statutes continued ANd be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the passing of this present Act Divers Statutes continued or of any other Act or Acts or his Majesties Royal Assent to them or any of them in this present Session of Parliament shall not be any determination of the said Session 3 Car. cap. 4. continued further and that all Statutes and Acts of Parliament which have their continuance or were by an Act of Parliament made in the third year of the Reign of his Majesty that now is intituled An Act for the Continuance and Repeal of divers Statutes continued untill the end of the first Session of the then next Parliament shall by vertue of this Act be adiudged ever since the Session of Parliament in the said third year to have been of such force and effect as the same were the last day of that Session and from thenceforth until some other Act of Parliament be made touching the continuance or discontinuance of the said Statutes and Acts in the said Act of the third year of his Majesties Reign continued as aforesaid CAP. V. The Lord Admiral and others by his authority may Raise and Impress Mariners Sailers and others for the present guarding of the Seas and necessary Defence of the Realm EXP. CAP. VI. Michaelmas Term abbreviated Inconvenience◠Michaelmas term being so soon after the feast of Saint Michael VVHereas the Term of S. Michael commonly called Michaelmas Term doth begin so soon after the Feast of Saint Michael that it is generally found to be very inconvenient to His Majesties Subjects both Nobles and others as well for the keeping of the Quarter Sessions next after the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and the keeping of their Léets Law-dayes and Court-Barons which they can by no means attend in regard of the necessity of their coming to the said Term so spéedily after the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel to appear upon Iuries and to follow their Causes and Suits in the Law the same time being the chief time of all the year for the sowing of Land with Winter Corn and for the disposing and setting in order of all their Winter Husbandry and business and for the receiving and paying of Rents And in many parts of this Kingdom Harvest is seldom or never Inned till three wéeks after the said Feast Therefore the Kings most Excellent Majesty out of the Princely care that he hath of all his loving Subjects having a special care to the encrease and continuance of their wealth and good Estates by the assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same Ordaineth Enacteth and Establisheth That in the said Michaelmas Term there shall be six common dayes of Return only and not above that is to say The first day of Return thereof shall be and be called A die Sancti Michaelis in tres Septimanas In Michaelmas term shall be lie common dayes of Return only The second day of Return of the same Term shall be and be called A die Sancti Michaelis in unum mensem The third day of Return of the same Term shall be and be called In Crastino animarum The fourth day of Return of the same Term shall be and be called In Crastino Sancti Martini The fifth day of Return of the same Term shall be and be called In Octabis Sancti Martini And the sixth day of Return of the said
and letting to Ferme the said Office of Clerk of the Market and the Execution thereof in and through all or the most of the several Counties of this Kingdome for great sums of Money which the said Fermours or Grantées by their unjust and undue procéedings in the said Office do extort from his Majesties Subjects again to their great impoverishment and yet little or no redress at all in their said Weights or Measures or any benefit thereby accruing to his Majesty For remedy whereof and for regulating of all Weights and Measures according to the true intent of this Statute and the other Statutes in the behalf formerly made and provided and preventing the said inconveniencies There shall be but one measure one weight and one yard St. 9 H. 3 25. 14 E. 3. 12. 27 E. 3. 10. Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Lords and Commons of this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That from henceforth there shall be but one Weight one Measure and one Yard according to the Standard of the Exchequer throughout all the Realm as well in places priviledged as without Any usage or custome to the contrary notwithstanding And that every Measure of Corn shall be striked without heap And whosoever shall sell by or kéep any other Weight Measure or Yard then as aforesaid whereby any Corn Grain or other thing is bought or sold after six moneths after the end of this present Session of Parliament shall forfeit for every such offence five shillings Forfeiture being thereof lawfully convicted by the Oath of one sufficient Witness before any Iustice of Peace Mayor or other head Officer of the County City or Town Corporate respectively where the said Offence shall be committed Who by vertue of this Act shall have power to administer an Oath in that behalf How to be levyed Which said sum or penalty of five shillings shall be levyed by the Church-wardens and Overséers of the Poor of the Parish or some or one of them where such Offence is or shall be committed to the use of the Poor of the same Parish of the Goods and Chattels of such Offenders by way of Distress and Sale of the Offenders Goods rendring the Overplus to the party so offending And in default of such Distress it shall be lawful for any Iustices of Peace Mayor or other head Officer of the County City or Town corporate respectively to commit the said party to the Prison or Gaol there to remain without Bail or Mainprise untill he shall pay such sums of Money forfeited as aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Clerk of the Market his limits That no Clerk of the Market of the Kings House which now is or hereafter shall be or of the Prince His Highnesse His Heirs or Successours which is or shall be Duke of Cornewall or His or Their Deputy or Deputies shall hereafter execute his or their said Office or Offices respectively in any part of the Kingdom but only within the Verge of the Kings Court where it shall then reside for the time being And that it shall be alwayes hereafter lawful for any Mayor Mayor head Officer and Lords of Liberties have power as clerks of the Market or other head Officer of any City Burrough or Town Corporate or for any Lord or Lords of Liberty Liberties or Franchises his or their Deputy or Deputies or Agents according to their several Liberties and Iurisdictions to have full power to execute the said Offices respectively as they ought or might have done before the making of this Act And for the more ease of his Majesties Subjects Be it further Enacted Forfeiture of â—lerke of the Market for offences That if any Clerk of the Market within his aforesaid precincts and limits of the Verge of the Kings house only or any Mayor or other Officer whatsoever who by vertue of this Act shall have power to inquire of any abuses in Weights and Measures shall seal or give allowance unto any other Weight or Measure Weights or Measures other then according to the said Standard of the Exchequer or shall upon reasonable request and warning refuse to seal or give allowance unto such Weight or Measure Weights or Measures as are according to the said Standard of the Exchequer paying only such Fée or Fées for such allowance as by the Statute or Statutes or by ancient custome are in that behalf formerly provided and allowed and no more That then the said Clerk of the Market Mayor and other Officer or Officers of such City Burrough or Town and the said Lord and Lords of Liberty or Liberties and his and their Deputy and Deputies and Agents respectively shall forfeit for every such offence five pounds to be levyed as aforesaid to the use of the poor of the parish where such offence is or shall be committed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if the Clerk of the Market Forfeiture for taking unlawful fines or fees his Deputy or Deputies or Agents within the Verge aforesaid or any Mayor or any other Officer or Officers of any City or Town or any Lord or Lords of Liberties his or their Deputy or Deputies Agents or Assigns respectively shall take or receive of any of his Majesties Subjects by colour of the said Office any common Fine or Fines or any Fées other then are formerly allowed by the Statute or Statutes or ancient custome in that behalf made or used shall take any Fée or Fées or other sum of money Reward or consideration for the making Signing or Examination of any Weights or Measures which have béen formerly Marked or Sealed or shall Impose or Assess or cause to be Imposed or Assessed any Fine or Amerciament Fines or Amerciaments without a due and legal trial of the Offences for which the said Fine or Fines Amerciament or Amerciaments are Imposed or Assessed or shall otherwise misdemean himself in the execution of his said Office and be thereof lawfully convicted He shall forfeit for the first Offence whereof he shall also be so lawfully convicted five pounds And for the second offence ten pounds And for the third offence and every other offence afterwards twenty pounds to be levyed as aforesaid to the use of the pâ—or of the Parish where such offence shall be committed And be it Enacted That whosoever shall be fined or amerced by vertue of this Act St. 13 R. 1. 4. Persons â—ined by this Act not to be â—ined upon any former law Rents of ferms of corn excepted shall not be again fined or amerced for the same offence by vertue of any former Law or Statute Provided alwayes That this Act or Statute shall not extend to the Rents of Ferms or Lands or any Corn or Grain due or payable to any Lord or Lords or any Colledges Houses or other Societies by vertue of any â—ease or Leases or other Covenant or Agreement
St. 13. Car. 2. cap. 3. An Act to restrain all persons from Marriage until their former Wives and former Husbands be dead And also except all Offences of Invocations Conjurations Witchcrafts Sorceries Inchantments and Charms and all Offences of procuring abetting or comforting of the same and all persons now attainted or convicted of any of the said excepted Offences And also excepted all and singular the accompts of all and every person and persons appointed by any of the Authorities or pretended Authorities aforesaid to be Treasurer Receiver Fermor or Collector other then the Sub-collectors of the several Parishes Towns and Hamlets respectively for and concerning their Receipts before the four and twentieth day of Iune in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred fifty nine who have received or collected any Subsidy Custom Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage Prize-Goods Assessments Sequestration New Impost or Excise or of any the Rents and Revenues of any Lands or Hereditaments of or belonging unto the late King Quéen or Prince or King that now is or belonging unto the late Arch-Bishopricks Bishopricks Deans or Deans and Chapters Canons Prebends and other Officers belonging to any Cathedral or Collegiate Church or Popish Recusants convict or of persons Sequestred for their Recusancy or other Sequestred Estates received or collected by or paid unto them since the thirtieth of January in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fourty two and of all Monies and other Duties grown due or contracted upon the Sale or Disposition of them or any of them Proviso for the Heirs and Lands of Accomptants excepted Provided That the Heirs Executors Administrators or Ter-tenants of the Lands of any Accomptant within this Exception now deceased shall not be charged with nor lyable unto any accompt for the matters in this Exception mentioned Except for such sum or sums of Money as remain due upon any of their accompts already Stated and Determined and are not yet paid in and that no Accomptant as abovesaid now living shall be liable to make accompt of any sum or sums of Money paid or disbursed or otherwise allowed or discharged by vertue or colour of any Order or Ordinance of both or either House or Houses of Parliament or any Convention or Assembly called or Reputed or taking on them the name of a Parliament or of Oliver Cromwel pretended Protector or of Richard his Son while he continued or was stiled or obeyed as Protector or by any persons acting as a Committée appointed by the said two Houses or either of them or by any such Convention or Assembly or any Order or Direction of such Committée or Committées or any person or persons acting as a publick Council though having no legal authority so to do or by their or any their Order or Orders or Direction Fees and Salaries c. not to be accompted for It being further Declared and Enacted And it is Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons shall be charged for any Moneys by him received for the Fées Salaries and Wages then allowed or for Moneys by him disbursed upon any publick use or pretence though the Direction or Authority whereby the same Money was issued was not or be not Legal and Warrantable in Law Military payments not to be accompted for And be it further provided That no Military or commissioned Officer of the Armies or Navies or Souldier or Marriner who before the twenty fifth of March one thousand six hundred fifty nine hath received any Moneys for his own pay or the pay of other Souldiers or for any other Contingencies of the Souldiers or Garrisons under his command or by way of reward shall be called to accompt therefore No person to be called to an accompt after the 24 of Iune 1662. And that no person whatsoever shall be called to accompt for any the matters in this Exception mentioned after the four and twentieth day of Iune which shall be in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred sixty and two next ensuing And that in case any person who stands accomptable for any Moneys received since the first of Ianuary one thousand six hundred forty two and before the thirtieth of Ianuary one thousand six hundred forty eight have béen-robb'd or plundered by Souldiers or others of the Moneys in their hands or any Notes or Books of Receipt or Acquitances touching their payments or discharge Then the Oath or Oaths of such party or parties of the same respectively shall be a good discharge for so much of their accompt And that the Oath of every Accomptant in or betwéen the years one thousand six hundred forty two and one thousand six hundred forty eight of what they have paid to any publick use by or according to any publick or pretended Order or Authority whatsoever shall be a good discharge as to so much of the accompt of such person or persons And except all First-fruits and Tenths in the hands of any Receiver not having disbursed Discharges and quietus est given in the Exchequer Accompts of the Revenues of Churches in Wales Bribery Subornation Forging Debentures c. Witnesses as in the last Exception is expressed Provided That all and every Iudgment of Discharge or Quietus est had or given at any time upon any accompt in the publick Exchequer since the year One thousand six hundred forty eight be allowed and shall not be avoided except all accompts of the Revenues of Churches and Vicaridges in Wales and the County of Monmouth and all Iudgments of Discharge or Quietus thereupon obtained And also Excepted out of this Pardon all offences of Bribery Perjuries and the Subornation of Perjury or Witnesses and Offences of Forging or Counterfeiting any Déeds Debentures Bills of publick Faith Escripts Wills or other Writings whatsoever or of any Examinations or Testimonies of any Witness or Witnesses tending to bring any person or persons in danger of his Life Liberty or Estate and the giving the same in evidence and the compelling or procuring of any such counterfeiting or forging to be had or made Imbezeling and purloyning the Kings goods And also excepted all offences in detaining imbezeling or purloining any the Goods Money Chattels or Iewels of the late King Quéen or Prince or any of the Children of the late King and Quéen other then Shipping Stores and Ammunitions of War and other then such Goods and Chattels as have béen sold or disposed of to any of the Servants or Creditors of his late Majesty in or toward satisfaction of their debts or wages Issues fines and amerciaments Received by Sheriffs And also excepted out of this pardon all Issues Fines and Amerciaments Rents and other publick Duties being Levied Received or Collected by any Sheriff Vnder-Sheriff Bayliff Minister or other Officer to or for the use of the late King the Parliament or the said Kéepers of the Liberty of England or any other person stiling himself Protector or for
and their heirs shall accompt for and be responsible for all Rents and Profits of the premisses which came to their hands and have not béen by the said Trustées or their Order disbursed disposed or imployed for the maintenance of Ministers or other uses according to the said pretended Act or Ordinance or some other Act Order or Ordinance made in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred fifty one thousand six hundred fifty four and one thousand six hundred fifty six by any assembly called or reputed a Parliament or assuming the power of a Parliament according to the intention of such Act Acts or Ordinances And the Agents and Receivers under the Order of the said Trustées and the Occupiers and Tenants of the Premisses who have taken the premisses or profits thereof into their hands without agréement to pay Rent therefore and have made no accompt or satisfaction to the Trustes aforesaid or to some other by their Order and also the persons who have held the same or taken the profits thereof under any agréement to pay Rent or Money for the same and have not paid the same shall respectively accompt pay and make satisfaction for so much of the premisses and profits of the premisses as are unsatisfied or unaccounted for as aforesaid and pay such Arrearages of Rents or Money as by such agréement remaineth unpaid by them all which payments and accompts shall be made to such persons and in such manner as in Parliament shall be directed Nevertheless it is not hereby intended that any Minister Schoolmaster or other person for whose benefit and maintenance the said pretended Acts or Ordinances were made shall be accomptable or lyable to make satisfaction for any Profits Rents or Sums of money paid to or taken by them respectively by vertue or colour of any Order or Appointment of the said Trustées or any of them or otherwise Bonds taken in his Majesties name before May 1642. for securities of any his Majesties Receivers not pardoned c. Provided also That this Act do not extend to pardon any Bond taken in his late Majesties Name before the month of May one thousand six hundred forty two for securing the proper Debt of any Servant or Receiver of the Revenue of his said late Majesty that hath not béen paid to or by order of some Lawful or Pretended authority And whereas by an Order of the Six and twentieth day of May in the year One thausand six hundred forty one the then House of Commons in Parliament did accept the sum of One hundred and fifty thousand pounds as a Composition from the Farmers of several Customs voted to be illegally taken and some of the said Farmers did procure and pay the said whole sum of One hundred and fifty thousand pounds at the desire of the said House of Commons and upon their Declaration That such of the said Farmers as did not pay their Proportions should not be pardoned but proceeded against and out of their Fines satisfaction should be made to those who had paid the said One hundred and fifty thousand pounds and in pursuance thereof did on the First of June then next following Resolve That the Estates of such persons living or dead as have by colour of any Patent received monies from the Subject under pretence of such Customs or have béen under-Sharers with the Patentées ought to be made liable to restitution Payments upon proportions of 150000 l. upon the customes It is therefore Provided That this Act shall not extend nor be construed to extend to Pardon or Indempnifie any person or persons their Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns who have not paid their Proportions of the said One hundred and fifty thousand pounds or ought to have béen contributory thereunto from or against misdemeanors or offences relating to the said Customes or from payment of their Proportions But that the Estates of the dead as well as of the living of such who ought to have béen contributory in whose possession soever Purchasers Bona fide and upon valuable Considerations only excepted shall Continue and be charged and chargeable with the payment of their Proportions to all intents and purposes as if this Act had not béen made any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to pardon or discharge any sum or sums of money due and Arrear for Excise of Béer Ale Arrears of Excise upon Beer and Ale or other Native or Inland Commodity since the twenty fourth day of June One thousand six hundred fifty and nine Provided also That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to the pardoning Monies due for free quarter or discharging of any sum or sums of money due from any Officers or Souldiers to any of the Subjects of this Kingdom for frée-quarter since the second day of July One thousand six hundred fifty and nine or to discharge any monies borrowed by any Officers for preventing of frée-quarter Provided alwayes And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Conveyance Purchasers bona fide of Lands other then the Kings c. to enjoy their purchases Assurance Grant Bargain Sale Charge Lease Assignment of Lease Grants and Surrenders by Copy of Court-Roll Estate Interest Trust or Limitation of any Vse or Vses of any Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments not being the Lands nor Hereditaments of the late King Quéen Prince or of any Archbishops Bishops Deans Deans or Chapters nor being Lands or Hereditaments sold or given or appointed to be sold or given for the Delinquency or pretended delinquency of any person or persons whatsoever by vertue or pretext of any Act Order or Ordinance or reputed Act Order or Ordinance since the first day of January One thousand six hundred forty and one Nor any Statute Iudgment or Recognizance had made acknowledged or suffered to any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate before the Nine and twentieth day of September One thousand six hundred fifty and Nine By any of the persons before in this Act by name excepted or their Heirs or by any other person or persons claiming by from or under them or any of them other then the Wife or Wifes child children heir and heirs of such person and persons or any of them for money bona fide to them or any of them paid or lent nor any conveyance assurance grant or estate made before the Five and twentieth day of April One thousand six hundred and sixty By any person or persons to any such person excepted by Name as aforesaid in trust and for the benefit of any other person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate not excepted by name as aforesaid shall be impeached defeated made void or frustrated hereby or by the attainder or conviction of any such excepted person or persons but that the same shall be held and enjoyed by the Purchasers Grantées Lessées Assigns Cestuy
Hereditaments Escheated or Forfeited by reason of such Attainder and all Title to any Measne Profits by reason of such Conviction Outlawry Attainder or Grant be from henceforth repealed and discharged And that all Escheats Forfeitures and Confiscations by reason of such Outlawries Conviction or Attainder Be and are hereby restored unto such persons so Outlawed Convicted or Attainted their Heirs Executors and Administrators respectively as if no such Attainder had béen Sales made by Ordinance of Parliament Provided Nevertheless And be it Enacted That this Act or any thing herein contained shall not extend to avoid or confirm any Sales or Estates made by vertue or pretence of any Act Order or Ordinance or reputed Act Order or Ordinance of Parliament since the first day of May in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty two nor any Confirmation thereof made or to be made thereof in this present Parliament but that such sales stand and be in the same plight and condition as they should or might have done if this Act had not béen made Recognizances Obligations c. in the names of the late Protector And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Recognizances Obligations or other Securities made or given to the Kéepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament or to Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging or to Oliver Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging Or to Richard Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging and not pardoned or discharged by any Act passed or to be passed this present Parliament or otherwise other then such Recognizances Obligations and Securities as have béen made and given to any the pretended power or persons aforesaid or to any deriving or pretending to derive Authority from them by any person or persons for or by reason of their adherence to His Majesty or His said late Royal Father or relating to or arising only upon or in respect of the late Troubles All which are hereby declared to be void and to be delivered up to be Cancelled And all Iudgments Extents Inquisitions Executions and Seizures had for the said Kéepers or Protectors or any of them and not likewise pardoned or discharged other then as aforesaid shall and may be had and prosecuted in the name and to the use of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors and also excepting all Obligations Bonds or Recognizances entred into to the said Kéepers or Protectors or any of them by any person or persons by Order or Direction of any Council of State Committée of Safety Major Generals Decimators or any Officer or other person under them or any other Military power all which Obligations Bonds and Recognizances are hereby discharged and declared to be null and void to all intents and purposes Provided also and be it Enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained Iustices Serjeants c. Commissioners of Sewers shall not extend to continue after the Eighth day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty any Iustice or Iustices of one Bench or the other or Barons of the Exchequer Serjeants at Law Commissions of Sewers Commissions of Bankrupts or of charitable uses made or constituted by or in the Name or Stile of any the late pretended powers or authorities Provided alwayes That it shall and may be lawful to and for every person and persons Writs of Errour may be brought who shall find themselves grieved or damnified by any Iudgment Fine Recovery Decrée or Sentence given made levied granted or pronounced in any of the said Courts to procéed in due form of Law either by Writ of Errour Bill of Review Appeal or other lawful remedy for the Reversing Annulling or Revoking of the same in such manner as they might at any time heretofore have done if the said Courts had béen established by lawful Authority other then for those Errours and Defects which are remedied or provided for by this Act. Provided alwayes And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Non-claim upon Fines of lands sold by Ordinance of Parliament That no Non-claim upon or after any Fine or Fines hereby made good or confirmed shall extend or be construed to Bar or Prejudice any person or persons their Heirs or Successors or their Feoffées or Trustées other then the parties to the said Fines and their Heirs general and special and his and their Trustées as concerning such Right Claim and Interest as they had in or to any Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments which by colour of any Act Order or Ordinance of both or either Houses of Parliament or any Convention sitting at Westminster under the Name or Stile or assuming the Name or Stile of a Parliament since the First day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and two and before the Five and twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty were Sold Conveyed or Disposed as then or late the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the King Quéen or Prince or of Archbishops Bishops Deans Deans and Chapters or other Ecclesiastical persons or as the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of any other persons for their Adherency to the late King or his Majesty that now is or for any their Actings relating to or in respect of the late Troubles so alwayes that the said person or persons aforesaid their Heirs or Successors pursue their Title Claim or Interest by way of Action or lawful Entry within five years next after the Nine and twentieth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty And although in this Confirmation of Iudicial Procéedings The late Government declared to be usurped it was necessary to mention Divers pretensed Acts and Ordinances by the Names and Stiles which those Persons then Vsurped who took upon them to pass the same Namely some by the Stile and Name of the Kéepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament and others by the Name and Stile of Protectors of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging Yet this present Parliament doth Declare and it is further Enacted by Authority of the same That the Names and Stiles aforesaid and every of them are most Rebellious Wicked Trayterous and Abominable Vsurpations Detested by this present Parliament Recognition of his Majesties just title as Opposite in the Highest Degrée to His Sacred Majesties most Iust and Vndoubted Right to whom and to his Heirs and Lawful Successors the Imperial Crowns of the Realms of England Scotland and Ireland with their and every of their Dominions and Territories do of Right appertain and as violating and Infringing the just Rights and
That all and every the Goods Debts and other the Chattels personal whatsoever of them the said Oliver Cromwell Henry Ireton John Bradshaw Thomas Pride whereof at the time of their respective deaths they or any of them or any other in trust for them or any of them stood possessed in Law or Equity All their goods personal estate forfeited vested in his Majesty and all the Goods Debts and other the Chattels personal whatsoever of them the said John Lisle William Say Valentine Wauton Edward Whalley John Barkstead Edmond Ludlow Sir Michael Livesey John Okey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner William Cawley Miles Corbet Nicholas Love John Dixwell Andrew Broughton Edward Dendy Thomas Harrison Adrian Scroop John Carew John Jones Thomas Scot Gregory Clement Hugh Peters Francis Hacker John Cook Daniel Axtel Sir Hardress Waller William Heveningham Isaac Penington Henry Martin Gilbert Millington Robert Titchbourn Owen Row Robert Lilburn Henry Smith Edmond Harvey John Downs Vincent Potter Augustine Garland George Fleetwood Simon Meyne James Temple Peter Temple Thomas Wayte Whereof they were possest or any for them 11 Feb. 1659. whereof upon the eleventh day of February One thousand six hundred fifty nine they or any of them or any other in trust for them or any of them stood possessed either in Law or Equity shall be déemed and adjudged to be forfeited unto and are hereby vested and put into the actual and real possession of Your Majesty without any further Office or Inquisition thereof hereafter to be taken or found Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Conveyance Proviso for conveyances by any of the offenders Assurance Grant Bargain Sale Charge Lease Assignment of Lease Grants and Surrenders by Copy of Court-Roll Estate Interest Trust or limitation of any Vse or Vses of or out of any Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments not being the Lands nor Hereditaments of the late King Quéen or Prince or of any Arch-bishops Bishops Deans Deans and Chapters nor being Lands or Hereditaments sold or given for the Delinquency or pretended Delinquency of any person or persons whatsoever by vertue or pretext of any Act Order Ordinance or reputed Act Order or Ordinance since the first day of January One thousand six hundred forty one nor any Statute Statutes Iudgments c. before the 9th of Sept. 1659. Iudgment or Recognizance had made acknowledged or suffered to any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate before the twenty ninth day of September One thousand six hundred fifty nine by any of the Offenders before in this Act mentioned or their Heirs or by any other person or persons claiming by from or under them or any of them other then the wife or wives For money bona fide lent c. Conveyances in trust made before the â—â— of April 166â— to any the said Offenders child or children heir or heirs of such person or persons or any of them for money bona fide to them or any of them paid or lent nor any Conveyance Assurance Grant or Estate made before the twenty fifth of April One thousand six hundred and sixty by any person or persons to any of the Offenders aforesaid in Trust and for the benefit of any other person or persons not being any of the offenders aforesaid or in trust for any Bodies Politick or Corporate shall be impeached defeated made void or frustrated hereby or by any of the Convictions and Attainders aforesaid but that the same shall be held and enioyed by the Purchasers Grantées Lessées Assigns Cestuy que use Cestuy que trust and every of them their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively as if this Act had not béen made and as if the said Offenders had not béen by this Act or by any other course or procéedings of Law convicted or attainted so as the said Conveyances Such conveyances to be enrolled in the Court of Exchequer before the first of Ian. 1662. and all and every the Grants and Assurances which by vertue of this Act are and ought to be held and enjoyed as aforesaid shall before the first of January which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty two be entred and enrolled of Record in His Majesties Court of Exchequer and not otherwise Any thing in this Act herein before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for the Marquess of Worcester c. Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and singular the Manors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which at any time heretofore were the Lands and possessions of Henry late Marquess of Worcester and Edward now Marquess of Worcester and Henry Lord Herbert Son and Heir apparent of the said Edward Marquess of Worcester or any of them whereof or wherein the said Oliver Cromwell or any other person or persons in trust for him or to his use or any other the persons attainted by this Act or otherwise or any person or persons in trust for them or any of them had or claimed or pretended to have any Estate Right Title Possession or Interest at any time before or since the decease of the said Oliver Cromwell shall be and hereby are vested and setled in and shall be held and enjoyed by the said Marquess of Worcester and the said Henry Lord Herbert in such manner and form and for such Estate and Estates with such powers and priviledges as they formerly had in the same respectively Any thing in this present Act contained or any Act Conveyance or Assurance heretofore made or acknowledged by the said Edward Marquess of Worcester and Henry Lord Herbert or either of them unto the said Oliver Cromwell or any other person or persons in trust for or to the use of the said Oliver Cromwell or any Act or Conveyance made or done by the said Oliver Cromwell or by any in trust for him to any person whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding Saving alwayes to all and every person and persons Saving Bodies Politick and others their respective Heirs Successors Executors and Administrators all such Right Title and Interest in Law and Equity which they or any of them have or ought to have of into or out of any the Premisses not being in trust for any the said Offenders nor derived by from or under the said Offenders since the twenty fifth day of March which was in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty six And that they the said person and persons Bodies Politick and other their respective Heirs Successors Executors and Administrators and every of them in all and every such case where his and their Entry was lawful upon such Offender or Offenders or the Heirs or Assigns of such Offender or Offenders in or upon the said twenty fifth day of March one thousand six hundred forty and six or at any time since may without Petition Monstrans
shall cause to be proclaimed in the Market Town next to such place Penalty for taking more then limited for lodging c. and in such of the Neighbouring Towns and Villages as to them shall séem méet to the end that notice may be taken of such Rates and Prices And if any person shall take any other sum then what is or shall be so limited either for Lodging Horse-meat Stable-room or other such accomodations and be thereof convicted by confession of the party or by the Oath of one credible witness before any one Iustice of the Peace which Oath the said Iustice of the Peace is hereby authorized to administer That then in such case every person so offending shall forfeit and pay to the party grieved the sum of Forty shillings the same to be levied by distress by Warrant from the said Iustice of the Peace and sale thereof returning the overplus to the party the charge of the distraining being first deducted This Act to have continuance till the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer CAP. IX Articles and Orders for the regulating and better Government of His Majesties Navies Ships of War and Forces by Sea FOr the regulating and better Government of his Majesties Navies Ships of War and Forces by Sea wherein under the good Providence and Protection of God the Wealth Safety and Strength of this Kingdom is so much concerned Articles to be observed Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority thereof That all and every the Articles and Orders in this Act mentioned shall be duely and respectively put in Execution observed and obeyed in manner hereafter mentioned I. The publick Worship of God THat all Commanders Captains and other Officers at Sea shall cause the publick Worship of Almighty God according to the Liturgy of the Church of England established by Law to be solemnly orderly and reverently performed in their respective Ships And that prayers and preachings by the respective Chaplains in holy Orders of the respective Ships be performed diligently and that the Lords Day be observed according to Law II. Swearing Drunkenness c. Every person and persons in his Majesties pay using unlawful and rash Oaths Cursings Execrations Drunkenness Vncleanness or other Scandalous Actions in derogation of Gods Honour and corruption of good manners shall be punished by Fine Imprisonment or otherwise as the Court-Martial shall think fit III. Holding any forreign Intelligence If any Officer Mariner Souldier or other person in the Fléet shall give hold or entertain Intelligence to or with any King Prince or State being Enemy to or any persons in Rebellion against his Majesty his Heirs and Successors without direction or leave from the Kings Majesty the Lord High Admiral Vice-Admiral or Commander in Chief of any Squadron every such person or persons so offending shall be punished with death IV. Letters or Messages from any forreign Prince c. Enemy to the King If any Letter or Message from any King Forrein Prince State or Potentate being an Enemy to the Kings Majestie his Heirs and Successors or on their behalf be conveyed to any Inferiour Officer Mariner or Souldier or other in the Fléet and the said Officer Mariner Souldier or other as aforesaid do not within twelve hours having opportunity so to do acquaint the Superiour Commander with it or if a Superiour Officer or Mariner being acquainted therewith by an Inferiour Officer Mariner or other or himself in his own person receiving a letter or message from any such Enemy or Rebel and shall not in convenient time reveal the same to the Admiral Vice-Admiral or the Commander of the Squadron every such person shall be punished with death or such other punishment as the Court-Martial shall think fit V. Relieving of any Enemy No person or persons of the Fléet shall relieve an Enemy or Rebel in time of War with money Victuals Powder Shot Arms Ammunition or any other Supplies whatsoever directly or indirectly upon pain of death or such other punishment as the Court-Martial shall think fit to impose VI. Papers Charter-Parties c. taken in any Ship seised as Prize All the Papers Charter-Parties Bills of Lading Pasports and other Writings whatsoever that shall be taken seized or found aboard any Ship or Ships which shall be surprised or seised as Prize shall be duly preserved and not torn nor made away but the very Originals sent up intirely and without fraud to the Court of Admiralty or such other Commissioners as shall be appointed for that purpose there to be viewed made use of and procéeded upon according to Law upon pain of loss of all the shares of the Takers and such further punishment to be inflicted upon the Offenders therein as the quality of their offence and misdemeanor shall be found to deserve and the Court-Martial shall impose VII Prize Ships or Goods seised for prize None in his Majesties pay shall take out of any Prize or Ship or Goods seized on for Prize any Money Plate Goods Lading or Tackle before Iudgment thereof first past in the Admiralty Court but the full and intire accompt of the whole without imbezelment shall be brought in and Iudgment past intirely upon the whole without fraud upon pain of such punishment as shall be imposed by a Court-Martial or the Court of Admiralty excepting That it shall be lawful for all Captains Sea-men Souldiers and others serving as aforesaid to take and to have to themselves as Pillage without further or other accompt to be given for the same all such Goods and Merchandizes other then Arms Ammunition Tackle Furniture or Stores of such Ship as shall be found by them or any of them in any Ship they shall take in fight or prize upon or above the Gun-deck of the said Ship and not otherwise VIII Imbezeling any Cables Anchors c. None shall imbezle steal or take away any Cables Anchors Sails or any of the Ships Furniture or any of the Powder or Arms or Ammunition of the Ship upon pain of death or other punishment as the quality of the offence shall be found by a Court-Martial to deserve IX Forrein ships taken as prize not making resistance If any Forrein Ship or Vessel shall be taken as prize that shall not fight or make resistance that in that case none of the Captains Masters or Mariners being Forreiners shall be stripped of their Clothes or in any sort pillaged beaten or evil entreated upon pain That the person or persons so offending shall forfeit double Damages but the said Forrein Ships and all the Goods so taken shall be preserved intire to receive Iudgment in the Admiralty Court according to Right and Iustice X. Every Captain or Commander who upon signal or order of fight or view The duty of Captains c. upon signal of
to have the full force and strength of Acts of Parliament according to the tenor and purport thereof and so shall be adjudged déemed and taken to all intents and purposes whatsoever and as if the same had béen Made Declared and Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament CAP. XV. The Pains Penalties and Forfeitures Imposed upon the Estates and Persons of certain notorious Offenders excepted out of the Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 11. The Lands and Tenements of the persons deceased not discharged by the Act of General Pardon VVHereas in a certain Act passed in the late assembly held at Westminster in the Twelfth year of His Majesties Reign and confirmed by the Authority of this present Parliament Entituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion amongst other things it is provided that nothing therein contained should extend to discharge the Lands Tenements Goods Chattels Rights Trusts and other the Hereditaments late of Isaac Ewer deceased Sir John Danvers deceased Sir Thomas Maleverer Baronet deceased William Purefoy deceased John Blakiston deceased Sir William Constable Baronet deceased Richard Dean deceased Francis Aleyn deceased Peregrin Pelham deceased John Moore deceased John Aldred alias Alured deceased Humphrey Edwards deceased Sir Gregory Norton Baronet deceased John Venn deceased Thomas Andrews Alderman deceased Anthony Stapley deceased Thomas Horton deceased John Fry deceased Thomas Hammond deceased and Sir John Bourchier deceased of and from such pains penalties and forfeitures as by one other Act of Parliament intended to be afterwards passed for that purpose should be expressed and declared All which persons before mentioned were whilst they lived notoriously known to have béen wicked and active Instruments in the prosecution and compassing of that horrid and Execrable Treason the Murther of our late Soveraign Lord King CHARLES the First of ever blessed memory And whereas William Lord Mounson James Challoner Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington John Phelps and Robert Wallop who in the moneth of January One thousand six hundred forty eight did act and fit in that Traiterous Assembly which procéeded against the Person and Life of our said late Soveraign Lord King CHARLES the First and Sir Arthur Haslerig who in his life did commit many horrid and Traiterous Crimes against the Person Crown and Dignity of his late Majesty of glorious memory and his Majesty that now is are all of them excepted out of the said Act and reserved to future Pains Penalties and Forfeitures not extending to life since the passing of which Act so as aforesaid confirmed Sir Arthur Haslerig and James Challoner died and no Act hath yet passed for the inflicting of due Pains Penalties and Forfeitures upon the Persons and Estates of the Offenders aforesaid We therefore the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembed do beséech your Majesty That it may be enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled The Mannors Lands c. of the persons named and by authority of the same That all and every the Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements Rents Reversions Remainders Possessions Rights Conditions Interests Offices Fées Annuities and all other the Hereditaments Leases for years Chattels Real and other things of what nature soever they be of them the said Isaac Ewer Sir John Danvers Sir Thomas Maleverer William Purefoy John Blakiston Sir William Constable Richard Dean Francis Aleyn Peregrin Pelham John Moore John Aldred alias Alured Humphrey Edward Sir Gregory Norton John Venn Thomas Andrews Of which they were seised the 20th of March 1646. or since forfeited and vested in his Majesty The goods debts Chattels of which the persons named were possessed at the time of their death forfeited to his Majesty The goods c. of which William Lord Mounson Sir Hen. Mildmay Sir James Harrington John Phelps and Rob. Wallop were possessed the 11. of Feb. 1659. forfeited and vested in his Majesty Anthony Stapley Thomas Horton John Fry Thomas Hammond Sir John Bourchier William Lord Mounson James Challoner Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington John Phelps Robert Wallop and Sir Arthur Haslerig which they or any of them or any other person or persons to their or any of their uses or in trust for them or any of them had the five and twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and six or at any time since shall stand and be forfeited unto your Majesty your Heirs and Successors and shall be déemed vested and adjudged to be in the actual and real possession of Your Majesty without any Office or Inquisition thereof hereafter to be taken or found And also that all and every the Goods Debts and other the Chattels personal whatsoever of them the said Isaac Ewer Sir John Danvers Sir Thomas Maleverer William Purefoy John Blakiston Sir William Constable Richard Dean Francis Aleyn Peregrin Pelham John Moore John Aldred alias Alured Humphrey Edwards Sir Gregory Norton John Venn Thomas Andrews Anthony Stapley Thomas Horton John Fry Thomas Hammond Sir John Bourchier James Challoner and Sir Arthur Haslerig whereof they or any of them at the time of their respective deaths or any other in Trust for them or any of them stood possessed or interessed in Law or Equity and all the Goods Debts and other the Chattels personal whatsoever of them the said William Lord Mounson Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington John Phelps Robert Wallop whereof upon the eleventh day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fifty and nine they or any of them or any other in trust for them or any of them stood possessed either in Law or Equity shall be déemed and adjudged to be forfeited and are hereby vested and put into the actual and real possession of your Majesty without any further Office or Inquisition thereof hereafter to be taken or found Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Conveyance Assurance Grant Bargain Sale Charge Lease Assignment of Lease Grants Proviso for conveyances and assurances c. made bona fide before the 29. of September and Surrenders by Copy of Court-Roll Estate Interest Trust or Limitation of any use or uses of or out of any Mannors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments not being the Lands nor Hereditaments of the late King Quéen or Prince or of any Archbishops Bishops Deans Deans and Chapters nor being Lands or Hereditaments sold or given for the Delinquency or pretended Delinquency of any person or persons whatsoever by vertue or pretext of some Act Order Ordinance or reputed Act Order or Ordinance since the First day of January one thousand six hundred forty and one nor any Statute Iudgment or Recognizance had made acknowledged or suffered to any person or persons Bodies politick or Corporate before the Nine and Twentieth day of September one thousand
Provided also That no person or persons Indebted for any the Duties aforesaid shall thereby be priviledged as a Debtor or Debtors to His Majesty His Heirs or Successors No priviledg to sue in the Exchequer Nor assign a Debt to the King to sue any person or persons in the Court of Exchequer or to assign any Debt to His Majesty His Heirs or Successors towards satisfaction of the same 15 Car. 2. ca. 13. 16 Car. 2. ca. 3. CAP. XI Frauds and abuses in His Majesties Customs prevented and Regulated 12 Car. 2. cap. 19. FOrasmuch as it appears that several unlawful and indirect means and devices are daily put in practise to Export and Import Goods and merchandizes prohibited by the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom as also to defraud the Kings most Excellent Majesty of His Dues Customs and Subsidies as well by secret and deceitful designs as by open force and violence used against the Kings Majesties Officers imployed in the Affairs of the Customs For the better preventing of which frauds and violences in time to come It is Enacted and Ordained by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled and be it Enacted and Ordained by the Authority thereof That no Ship or Vessel arriving from the parts beyond the Seas Ships and Vessels arriving from beyond the Seas at Grave-end shall be above thrée days coming from Graves-end to the place of her discharge within the River of Thames without touching or staying at any Wharf Key or place adjoyning to either Shoar betwéen Graves-end and Chesters-Key unless apparently hindred by contrary Winds Draught of Water or other just impediment to be allowed by such person or persons as are or shall be appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs the Collectors Inwards or other principal Officers of the Customs and then or before the Master or Purser for that voyage of such Ship or Vessel shall make a just and true Entry upon Oath of the Burthen Contents and Lading of every such Ship or Vessel True Entries of Lading to be made upon Oath with the particular Marks Numbers Qualities and Contents of every parcel of Goods therein Laden to the best of his knowledge also where and in what Port she took in her Lading of what Countrey built how manned who was Master during the Voyage and who are Owners thereof and in all Out-Ports or Members to come directly up to the place of Vnlading The Penalty as the condition of the Port requires and will admit and making Entries as aforesaid upon the penalty of the forfeiture of One hundred pounds And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Captain Master Purser or any other person or persons taking charge of any Ship or Vessel bound for the parts beyond the Seas The duty of Captains Master and others taking charge of Ships and Vessels bound for parts beyond the Seas or into the Kingdom of Scotland whether the same Ship or Vessel shall have Commission from or belong unto the Kings Majesty that now is His Heirs or Successors or shall belong to or have Commission from any forrein Prince or State or otherwise shall take in or suffer to be taken into or laden aboard any such Ship or Vessel any English Goods Wares or Merchandize to be Exported into the parts beyond the Seas or into the Kingdom of Scotland until such Captain Master Purser or other person as aforesaid shall have entered such Ship or Ships in the Book of the Commissioners To take in no English goods till Entry thereof be made at the Custom-house Customer or Collector and Comptroller Outwards of such Port where he shal Load or take in Goods together with the Name of such Captain or Master the Burden of such Ship or Vessel the Number of Guns and Ammunition she carries and to what Port or Place she intends to pass or Sail and before he or they shall depart with his or their Ship or Vessel out of such Port or Place shall bring and deliver unto the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs the Customer or Collector and Comptroller of such Port or Place a Content in Writing under his or their Hands of the Names of every Merchant and other person or persons that shall have laden and put on Board any such Ship or Vessel any such Goods or Merchandize together with the Marks and Numbers of such Goods and Merchandize and shall likewise publickly in the open Custom-house upon his Corporal Oath to the best of his knowledge have answered to such question or questions as shall be demanded of him by the said person or persons which are or shal be appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs the Customer or Collector and Comptroller or their Deputies concerning such Goods and Merchandize as shall be aboard such Ship or Vessel upon pain of Forfeiture of One hundred pounds Ships or Vessels of War bringing goods And that no such Captain Master Purser or other person or persons taking charge of any Ship or Vessel of War as aforesaid wherein any Goods Wares or Merchandizes shall have béen laden or brought from the Ports beyond the Seas or out of the Realm of Scotland shall unload or put on board any Lighter Boat or Bottom or lay on land or suffer to be discharged or put into any Lighter Boat or Bottom or to be laid on land out of any Ship or Vessel as aforesaid any Goods Wares or Merchandize whatsoever before such Captain Master Purser or other person taking charge of the Ship or Merchants Goods for that Voyage as aforesaid shall have signified and declared in writing under his or their Hands unto the person or persons which are or shall be appointed by his Majesty for managing the Customs the Customer or Collector and Comptroller Inwards of the Port where he arriveth the Names of every Merchant or Lader of any Goods or Merchandizes aboard the said Ship or Vessel together with the Number and Marks and the quantity and quality of every Parcel of Goods and Merchandizes to the best of his knowledg and shall have answered upon his or their Corporal Oath to such Questions concerning such Goods and Merchandizes as shall be publickly administred unto him in the open Custom-house by such person or persons which are or shall be appointed for Managing the Customs Customer or Collector and Comptroller or their Deputies and shall be liable to all Searches and other Rules which Merchants Ships are subject unto by the usage of his Majesties Custom-house victualling Bills and Entring excepted upon pain to forfeit One hundred pounds and upon refusal to make such Entries as aforesaid as well Outwards as Inwards the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed for managing the Customs and Officers of His Majesties Customs and their Deputies shall