l. CCXI. Every Pedlar Hawker or other Travelling person so Travelling as aforesaid shall before the 24th of June 1697. deliver to the Commissioners for Transportation or to the persons deputed by them a Note in Writing under his or her Hand or under the Hand of some person by him or her Authorized in what manner he or she will Travel and Trade whether on foot or with one or more Horse Ass c. for which the Party shall pay to the said Commissioners or Deputies one moiety of the Duty by this Act payable for the same and give Security by Bond with one or more Sureties to be taken in his Majesties Name for the payment of the other Moiety at the end of Six Kalendar Months unless the Party shall choose to pay it down in which case 2 s. in the Pound shall be allowed for Prompt Payment and thereupon a Licence shall be Granted to him or her so to Travel or Trade by two or more of the said Commissioners for Transportation CCXII. If any such Hawker c. after the 24th of June 1697. be found Trading as aforesaid without or contrary to such Licence such person shall for every such Offence Forfeit 12 l. one moiety to the Informer the other to the Poor of the Parish where such Offender shall be discovered And every person so Trading who upon demand shall refuse to shew to any Justice of the Peace Mayor Constable or other Officer of the Peace his or her Licence for so Trading shall Forfeit 5 l. to the Church-wardens for the Poor of the Parish where such demand shall be made and for Non-payment shall suffer as a Common Vagrant and be committed to the House of Correction CCXIII. The said Commissioners or any two of them upon the Terms and Receipt and Security given as aforesaid shall grant a Licence to every Hawker c. for him or her self alone or with one or more Horses Asses c. as the case shall require for which Licence they shall take 1 s. unless such Hawker c. travels with Horse Ass c. and then 2 s. and no more The said Commissioners shall keep a distinct Account of the Duties arising by this Act and pay the same into the Exchequer Weekly on the Wednesday unless a Holiday under the penalties which the Officers of the Exchequer herein after mentioned shall be liable unto Which Money so paid in shall be applied to the paying the Interest of the 330769 l. 10 s. 7 d. in such manner as by the Act 6 7 W. 3. cap. 7. is appointed CCXIV. Whoever shall Forge or Counterfeit any Licence or Travel with such shall Forfeit 50 l. one moiety to the King the other to the Prosecutor to be Recovered by Action of Debt c. in any of the Kings Courts of Record at Westminster in which no Essoin c. to be allowed and to be subject besides to the Pains and Penalty of Forgery CCXV Persons sued or troubled for putting this Act in Execution may plead the General Issue and give the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff shall be Nonsuited or Judgment be given against him the Defendant shall have Treble Costs CCXVI Constables or other Officers refusing or neglecting upon due Notice to Aid or Assist in the Execution of this Act every such Officer being thereof Convicted before any Justice of Peace shall Forfeit 40 s. to be levied by Distress and Sale of Goods One moiety to the poor of the Parish the other to the Informer CCXVII Any person may seize and detain any Hawker c. till such time as he or she shall produce a Licence if they have any if not till they give Notice to the Constable or some other Parish Officer who shall carry such Offender before a Justice of Peace who upon Confession or due Proof of Trading and no Licence produced shall by Warrant under his Hand and Seal cause the said Sum of 12 l. to be levied out of the Offenders Goods and Wares with reasonable Charges for taking the Distress CCXVIII This Act shall not extend to prohibit any person from selling Acts of Parliament Forms of Prayer Proclamations Gazettes Licensed Almanacks or other Licensed Papers or Fish Fruit or Victuals or hinder the Makers of any Goods or Wares in England Wales or Town of Berwick their Children Servants or Agents from carrying abroad and selling the same in any publick Fair or Market or elsewhere nor any Tinker Cooper Glasier Plummer Harness-menders or other person Trading in mending household Goods from going about and Carrying with them proper Materials for mending the same CCXIX. There shall be kept in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipts in the Exchequer one Book in which all Moneys paid in by virtue of this Act shall be entred apart CCXX If any Officer of the Exchequer shall divert or misapply any Moneys given by this Act he shall Forfeit his Office be incapable of any place of Trust and pay the treble value of any Sum so misapplied to the Party grieved his Executors c. who will sue for the same by Action of Debt c. wherein no Essoin c. And all Orders and Warrants for payment of Money contrary to the intent and meaning of this Act shall be Void CCXXI Nothing herein contained shall extend to hinder any Persons from selling any sorts of Goods in any publick Market or Fair in England Wales or Town of Berwick but that they may do therein as they lawfully might have done before the making of this Act. CCXXII On or before the first of August 1697. the several Owners of the Ships mentioned in the foresaid Act 6 7 W. 3. cap 7. or such persons who have parts and shares in the same shall deliver in to the Commissioners for Transportation an Account of what Share Part or Interest in each Ship he or they under whom they Claim are possest of and if the same be not in the first Proprietor then the person claiming to give an Account how and by what means he came to the same and so from time to time upon the Death or Assignment of any person Intituled unto any part or Interest of the Money intended to be raised by this or the foresaid Act an Account shall be given thereof to the said Commissioners CCXXIII. A Register of every persons Claim and Interest shall be made and kept in a Book to be provided by the said Commissioners and for Registring each persons Title a Fee of 1 s. shall be paid to the Clerk and no more and no person shall receive any Moneys to be raised by this or the foresaid Act till he hath delivered in to the said Commissioners an Account of his Share and Interest which Register shall at all times be viewed without Fee CCXXIV. In case it happen that the Duties Granted upon Coffee Tea Chocolate and Spice by the foresaid Act with the Duties to be raised by this Act shall amount to more
said Commissioners shall keep a distinct account of the Duties granted by this Act and pay the Money arising thereby into the Exchequer on Wednesday in every Week unless a Holiday and then the day after and upon neglect or refusal shall incur the penalties c. as other the Officers of the Exchequer herein mentioned shall be liable unto which Money so pay'd in shall be applied to pay Interest for the said Transport Debt after 5 per Cent. per Ann. CCCXC Persons Forging or Counterfeiting such Licences or Travelling with Forged or Counterfeited Licences shall forfeit 50 l. one Moiety to the King the other to the Prosecutor to be recovered in any the Courts of Record at Westminster and be subject to the penalties for Forgery CCCXCI Persons sued for putting this Act in Execution may plead the general Issue and give the special matter in Evidence And if the Plaintiffs be Nonsuited or suffer Judgment on Demurrer or a Verdict pass for the Defendants the Defendant shall have treble Costs CCCXCII If any Constable or other Officer refuse or neglect to be assisting in the Execution of this Act being thereunto required such Officer being thereof convicted upon Oath before a Justice of Peace shall forfeit for every such offence 40 s. to be levied by Distress and Sale of Goods one Moiety to the Poor of the Parish the other to the Prosecutor rendring the overplus CCCXCIII Any persons may seise and detain such Hawkers c. till they produce a Licence or if Trading without a Licence till such time as notice be given to the Constable or some other Parish officer who are to carry such persons before a Justice of Peace who upon confession of the party or due proof upon Oath that the person had so Traded and no Licence produced shall by Warrant under his Hand and Seal levy the said Sum of 12 l. by Distress and Sale of the Offenders Goods or Wares rendring the overplus after deduction of the charge for distraining and out of the said Sale to pay the said penalties and forfeitures CCCXCIV This Act shall not prohibit persons from selling Acts of Parliament Forms of Prayer Proclamations Gazetts licensed Almanacks or other printed Papers licensed by Authority or any Fish Fruits or Victuals nor hinder the makers of any Goods or Wares within this Kingdom or their Children Apprentices Agents or Servants from selling the Goods and Wares of their own making in any Mart Fairs Markets or elsewhere nor any Tinkers Coopers Glasiers Plummers Harness-menders or other persons trading in mending Kettles Tubs Houshold Goods or Harness from going about and carrying with them proper materials for mending the same CCCXCV There shall be kept in the Office of the Auditor of the Exchequer a Register of all Moneys paid in by virtue of this Act distinct from all other Moneys CCCXCVI If any Officer in the Exchequer shall divert any of the Moneys paid in by virtue of this Act he shall forfeit his Office be incapable of any place of Trust and shall pay treble the value of the sums so diverted to the persons grieved who will sue for the same in any the Courts of Record at Westminster And all orders for disposing the Moneys to be raised by this Act contrary to the meaning thereof shall be void CCCXCVII This Act shall not hinder any persons from selling any sorts of Goods or Merchandizes in any publick Mart Market or Fair within this Kingdom CCCXCVIII If the several Duties and Impositions granted to his Majesty by several Acts of Parliament towards payment of Interest of the said Transport Debt together with the Duties to be raised by this Act shall amount to more than sufficient for payment of interest at 5 per Cent. for the said Transport Debt according to the several Debentures made and to be made out then such surplus shall remain in the Exchequer and not be disposed of but by Act of Parliament CCCXCIX The Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury or the Lord High Treasurer out of the Moneys raised by this or the said recited Acts may pay to the said Commissioners to be appointed pursuant to this Act their Clerks and others such sums as they may reasonably deserve for their service or may have expended in or about this or the said recited Acts. CCCC This Act shall not give power for the Licensing any Hawker Pedlar or Petty-chapman to sell or expose to sale any Wares or Merchandizes in any City Borough Town Corporate or Market Town within this Realm otherwise than might have been done before the making of this Act. CCCCI Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 34. After 15 May 1698. The Money coming into the Exchequer for the Duties of Excise granted by an Act of 5 and 6 W.M. Intituled An Act for Granting to their Majesties certain Rates and Duties upon Salt and upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the sum of Ten hundred thousand pounds towards carrying on the War against France shall in the first place be applied to pay such of the Annuities lately payable out of the Tunnage Duties and the tickets for the same which became due at Lady day 1696 or within 20 days after and are yet unsatisfied And in the second place to pay such of the said Annuities as became due at Michaelmas 1697 or within 20 days after and are yet unsatisfied And in the third place to pay such of the said Annuities as became due 25 Mar. 1698 or within 20 days after and not otherwise And the said Arrears being first discharged or Money reserved for payment thereof the growing produce shall be applied to pay the said half yearly and yearly Annuities in course And no Officer shall pay any half yearly or yearly payments of the said Annuities till the preceding half year or year be fully paid or the Money reserved for which publick notice in Writing shall be hung up in the said Office under penalty of forfeiting his Office and for every such offence 100 l. to the persons who shall sue for the same in any the Courts of Record at Westminster where the Plaintiff upon Recovery shall have treble Costs CCCCII. The Tickets commonly called Benefit Tickets which became due at Lady day 1698 or within 20 days after shall be paid as they are numbred beginning at number one and ending with number 2500. And the Tickets for 20 s. a piece commonly called blank Tickets being due at Michaelmas 1698 or within 20 days after shall also be paid as they are numbred beginning with number One and ending with the number 97500. And in the year next following the Benefit Tickets shall be paid in an Arithmetical Progression descending beginning with number 2500 and ending with number One and the Blank Tickets from number 97500 inclusive to number one inclusive and so onwards in every subsequent year alternately CCCCIII It shall be no undue preference to
Policy Contract Bargain or Agreement which is to be performed after the 1st day of May 1697. upon which any Pramium is or shall be given or paid for Liberty to deliver receive accept or refuse any share in any Joint-stock Talleys Orders Exchequer Bills or Bank Bills other than such Policies and Contracts as are to be performed within three days from the time of making the same shall be utterly null and void and every such Praemium shall be paid back XII If any Praemium shall be given contrary to the intent and meaning of this Act with the privity of a sworn Broker or if any person shall Act or Trade as a Broker not being Admitted according to this Act and the same shall come to the knowledge of a sworn Broker in every such Case such sworn Broker shall forthwith discover the same and in case he shall not so do the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall displace such sworn Broker who shall for ever be incapable to use or exercise the Trade of a Broker XIII All penalties and forfeitures given by this Act shall be recovered by Action of Debt c. in any of the Kings Courts of Record at Westminster in which no Essoin c. one Moiety to the King the other to him that shall sue for the same XIV This Act to continue from the 1st of May 1697. for the space of three years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XV. No person buying or selling of Cattle Corn or any other Provision or Coal shall be esteemed a Broker within this Act. XVI No Broker Admitted by this Act shall after the time aforesaid till the end of next Session of Parliament act or deal or drive any Bargain to buy or sell Talleys or other Securities upon Parliamentary Funds unless Licensed so to do by the Lords of the Treasury or three of them under the penalty of 500 l. I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 29. For Repair of the Peers of Bridlington alias Burlington in the East-Riding of Yorkshire It is Enacted That after 1 May 1697 and until 1 May 1704 there shall be paid for the repairing and amending the said Peer one farthing for every Chalder of Coals that shall be loaden on Board any Ship or other Vessel at or in the Port of Newcastle upon Tyne or at Sunderland Blythe Suton Sluce Culler Coats or any place reputed a Member of the Port of Newcastle Which said Duties during the term aforesaid shall be answered and paid unto Arthur Lord Viscount Irwin Sir Griffith Boynton Sir Charles Hotham Sir William Strickland Sir William St. Quintin Baronets Sir Michael Wharton Sir Matthew Peirson Sir William Hustler Sir Richard Osbaldeston Knights Ralph Wharton John Buck Robert Monckton Hugh Bethell Robert Byerly Charles Osborn Esquires and to the Wardens of Trinity-House at Hull for the time being the Survivors and Survivor of them and the Executors and Administrators of such Survivor or to their Deputy or Deputies thereunto appointed by some Writing under their or the major part of their Hands and Seals by the Master of the Vessel whereupon such Coals shall be loaden The said Duties to be paid at such place or places as shall be appointed in or near the place of Loading II. No Officer of the Customs within the Ports Harbours Creeks or places aforesaid shall during the time aforesaid take any Entries or give any Cocket or other Discharge for any Ship or other Vessel so loaden with Coals as aforesaid till the Duties hereby granted shall be paid to the respective Deputies appointed to receive the same as aforesaid and that the Master of such Ship or Vessel do produce an Acquittance testifying the Receipt thereof And every Officer of the Customs making default in any of the Premisses shall forfeit the Sum of 50 l. to the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B. c. to be recovered with Costs in any of the Kings Courts of Record by Action of Debt c. wherein no Essoin c. shall be allow'd III. Any person or persons by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B. c. or the major part of them may go on Board any Ship or other Vessel loaden with Coals at any the foresaid places to inspect and take an account of the lading of such Coals IV. All such Sums of Money which shall be raised by the Duties aforesaid and recovered for any Forfeitures in this Act appointed other than what shall be laid out or allow'd for Collecting the said Duty not exceeding 6 d. in the pound shall be by the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B c. applyed to the rebuilding repairing and amending the said Port or Peer of Bridlington alias Burlington and there shall be provided and kept by the said persons their Deputy or Deputies one or more Books in which all Receipts and Payments by virtue of this Act shall be entred expressing the time when and persons from and to whom the same were made And once yearly the Justices of the Peace for the East-Riding of the County of York at their Quarter-Sessions may order the said Books to be brought before them to inspect the same and upon any mis-imployment of the said Duties to make such Orders for the better management of the same according to the intent of this Act as they shall think most fit Which Orders shall be observed by all persons concerned upon such Penalties not exceeding 100 l. as they shall set to be levyed upon the Goods of the Offenders by Warrant from the said Justices V. The said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B c. or the greatest number of them that shall be then living may by Indenture under their Hands and Seals convey and assure the Duties granted by this Act or any part thereof as a Security for Money to be borrowed for the ends and purposes of this Act. VI. If any person shall be sued for any thing done by virtue of this Act he may plead the General Issue and give the special Matter in Evidence and upon Nonsuit or Verdict for the Defendant he shall recover double Costs VII After 1 May 1697 the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G B c. or any three or more of them may from time to time survey and inspect the sufficient Building and Repairs of the Peer aforesaid with all Walls Jetteys Sluces Sockers and Locks thereof and certifie the State and Condition of the same in Writing to the said Justices at their Quarter Sessions who are hereby impowered to charge the Lands formerly granted by K. James I. 20 Sept. in the 21st year of his Reign to John Earl of Holdernesse his Heirs and Assigns with such equal assesment as they shall judge sufficient and necessary for repair of the same and in default of Payment of the said assesment the Defaulter to be distrained by Warrant of three of such Justices and after
of this Realm and all Widows having a Dower or Joynture of 100 l. per Ann. or more or being worth 1000 l. and all unmarried Women worth 1000 l. shall pay 20 s. quarterly for one year at the days before mentioned but no persons not having such Estates and thereof making Oath before two or more of the Commissioners shall be charged with the said quarterly Sum of 20 s. CCCCXXI Every Cursitor Philizer Attorney Solicitor Clerk in Chancery or Exchequer or other Courts of Law or Equity or Scrivener or practising as such and every Chancellor Commissary Official Register and every Advocate Proctor Apparitor and publick Notary or practising as such and all other Officers in any Court and all Merchants Brokers to Merchants and Pawn Brokers shall pay 20 s. quarterly at the days before mentioned and none of the persons so charged to be further charged as a Gentleman CCCCXXII Every Clergy-man not being a Lord Spiritual having by any Benefice Benefices Contribution or otherwise 60 l. per An. or upwards and every Preacher or Teacher in any Congregation not in Orders according to the Church of England having in Gratuities Contributions Rewards or Bounties 60 l. per An. or upwards shall pay 20 s. quarterly at the days before mentioned and then not to be further charged as a Gentleman every such Dissenting Preacher or Teacher having by any Contribution or otherwise 150 l. per An. or upwards shall pay double the said Sum of 20 s. quarterly at the several days before mentioned And every Clergy man having in several Benefices or Ecclesiastical Promotions 150 l. per An. or upwards shall pay double the Sums charged upon other Clergy-men CCCCXXIII Every Tradesman Shopkeeper and Vintner worth 300 l. and upwards shall over and above the foresaid quarterly Sums of 1 s. pay the Sum of 10 s. quarterly on the days before mentioned CCCCXXIV Every person who by reason of his or her Estate is or would be chargeable if such person was no Officer in the Militia to find a Horse in the Militia shall for each Horse so chargeable over and above all other Sums pay 20 s. quarterly on the days before mentioned and so proportionably for contributing towards a Horse or Horses CCCCXXV Every person not finding or contributing to a Militia Horse who keeps a Coach Chariot or Calash shall over and above all other Sums pay 20 s. quarterly on the days before mentioned except for Stage Coaches and Hackney Coaches CCCCXXVI Every Lord Spiritual or Temporal of this Realm shall over and above any Sum chargeable by this Act pay 10 l. quarterly on the days before mentioned CCCCXXVII Every Gentleman or so Reputed or being above that Quality and under the Degree of a Peer of this Realm worth 300 l. and being 16 years of age or upwards and within the Realm who has not taken the Oaths and shall not voluntarily take them before two or more of the Commissioners shall pay double the Sums he ought to be charged with CCCCXXVIII Provided that Quakers making and subscribing the Declaration of Fidelity before any two or more of the Commissioners shall not be charged double CCCCXXIX All the persons named and appointed Commissioners in an Act of this present Session For Granting to his Majesty the Sum of One Million for hundred eighty four thousand and fifteen Pounds One Shilling Eleven Pence Three Farthings for Disbanding Forces Paying Seamen and other Uses therein mentioned shall be Commissioners for putting in Execution this present Act in all the Places for which they are appointed Commissioners by the said Act. CCCCXXX Which Commissioners in their respective Counties Divisions and Places shall meet together at the most usual place of meeting on 20 July 1698. and may divide themselves as they shall see expedient and shall direct their precepts to such Inhabitants Officers and Ministers as they shall think convenient to be Presenters and Assessors Requiring them to appear before the Commissioners within eight days and shall then openly declare the Effects of their charge unto them and how they ought to make their Certificates and prefix another day for bringing in their Certificates of the Names and Sirnames Qualities Degrees Titles Estates Professions Imployments and Trades of all Persons within their respective Limits with the Assessment of the respective Rates hereby imposed without Favour or Malice upon forfeiture of a sum not exceeding ten pounds And shall then return two or more sufficient persons within the said Limits respectively to be Collectors For whose paying to the Receivers General the Moneys they shall be Charged withal the Parish or Place shall be answerable which Assessments shall be returned to the Commissioners by 12 August 1698. who shall thereupon Issue their Warrants to the Collectors for levying the same and the Collectors shall thereupon make their demands within four days after and pay in the first of the said quarterly payments on or before 1 September 1698. The second payment on or before 1 December 1698. The third on or before 1 March 1698. And the fourth on or before 1 June 1699. And the Receivers are to hasten the Collectors to the said quarterly payments and in default thereof to levy by Warrant of two or more of the Commissioners upon the Collectors by Distress the Moneys by them received and not paid in CCCCXXXI A Duplicate of the whole sum charged on each Division or Place without naming the persons shall be returned into the Exchequer before 10 September 1698. All Appeals being first determined and so within thirty days after every other quarterly payment and like Duplicates to be delivered to the Receivers General And the said quarterly Sums to be paid into the Exchequer on or before 20 September 1698. 20 December 1698. 20 March 1698. and 20 June 1699. CCCCXXXII Upon return of the Certificates the Commissioners may examine the same and if then or within twelve days after they shall know or suspect any persons to be omitted or not duly charged they may warn such persons before them to be examined thereupon who neglecting to appear not having a reasonable excuse shall pay double and the Commissioners may by any lawful ways or means inquire into all things chargeable by this Act and set such Rates as shall be according to the true meaning thereof CCCCXXXIII The Receiver General shall have an allowance of 2 d. in the pound for all Moneys paid by him into the Exchequer and every Collector 3 d. in the pound for what he shall pay to the Receiver General and the Commissioners Clerks three half-pence in the pound of what shall be received by virtue of the Warrants and Estreats by them made out CCCCXXXIV Persons refusing or neglecting to pay the sums charged upon demand the Collector is to Distrain their Goods and Chattels and if the Money be not paid within four days after then such Distress is to be appraised and sold and the Overplus Restored to the Owners CCCCXXXV Persons refusing or neglecting to
Dispatch of the Publick Business in the Exchequer and in the Bank of England Oaths 4. An Act for Continuing the Imprisonment of Counter and others for the late Horrid Conspiracy to Assassinate the Person of his sacred Majesty Imprisonment Anno 9 10 W. 3. 5 An Act for satisfying and discharging the Arrears of several Annuities which Incurred between the Seventeenth Day of May One thousand six hundred ninety six and the Seventeenth Day of May One thousand six hundred ninety seven Annuities 6. An Act that all Retailers of Salt shall sell by Weight Salt 7. An Act to prevent the Throwing or Firing of Squibs Serpents and other Fireworks Squibs 8. An Act for Explaining an Act made the last Session of Parliament for Granting to his Majesty certain Duties upon Malt Mum Sweets Cyder and Perry Taxes 9. An Act for Rendring the Laws more effectual for preventing the Importation of Foreign Bone-Lace Loom-Lace Needle-Work Point and Cut Work Trade 10. An Act for Granting to his Majesty the Sum of One million four hundred eighty four thousand and fifteen pounds One shiling Eleven pence three farthings for Disbanding Forces Paying Seamen and other Uses therein mentioned Taxes 11. An Act for Explaining an Act made the last Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for supplying some Defects in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom Poor 12. An Act for the Inlarging Repairing and Preserving the Bridge and Key of the Borough of Bridgwater in the County of Somerset Bridgwater 13. An Act for Granting to his Majesty several Duties upon Coals and Culm Taxes 14. An Act for Continuing the Duties upon Coffee Tea and Chocolate and Spices towards satisfaction of the Debt due for Transport Service for the Reduction of Ireland Taxes 15. An Act for determining Differences by Arbitration Arbitration 16. An Act to Execute Judgments and Decrees saved in a Clause of an Act of the First year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary Intituled An Act for taking away the Court holden before the President and Council of the Marches of Wales Iudicial Proceedings 17. An Act for the better Payment of Inland Bills of Exchange Trade 18. An Act for Repairing the High-ways from the Town of Birdlipp and the Top of Crickly-Hill in the County of Gloucester to the City of Gloucester High-ways 19. An Act for Cleansing and making Navigable the Channel from the Hithe at Colchester to Wivenhoe Rivers 20. An Act to Naturalize the Children of such Officers and Soldiers and others the Natural Born Subjects of this Realm who have been born abroad during the War the Parents of such Children having been in the Service of this Government Soldiers 21. An Act for the better Preventing the Counterfeiting Clipping and other Diminishing the Coin of this Kingdom Coin 22. An Act to Repeal an Act made in the Nine and thirtieth year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Intituled An Act to Restrain the Excessive making of Malt and to Discharge and Vacate Orders made by Justices of Peace by Virtue thereof for Restraining Maltsters from making Malt. Malt. 23. An Act for Granting to his Majesty a further Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage towards Raising the yearly Sum of Seven hundred thousand pounds for the Service of his Majesties Houshold and other uses therein mentioned during his Majesty Life Customs 24. An Act for Inlarging the time for Purchasing certain Estates or Interests in several Annuities therein mentioned Annuities 25. An Act for Granting to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors further Duties upon Stampt Vellum Parchment and Paper Taxes 26. An Act to Settle the Trade to Africa Trade 27. An Act for Licensing Hawkers and Pedlars for a further Provision of Interest for the Transport Debt for Reducing of Ireland Taxes 28. An Act for the Exporting Watches Sword-Hilts and other Manufactures of Silver Trade 29. An Act to Repeal the Act made the last Session of Parliament Intituled An Act for Relief of Creditors by making Composition with their Debtors in case Two thirds in number and value do Agree Creditors 30. An Act for Increasing his Majesties Duties upon Lustrings and Alamodes Customs 31. An Act for Raising the Militia for the year One thousand six hundred ninety eight although the Months pay formerly advanced be not Repaid Militia 32. An Act for the more effectual suppressing of Blasphemy and Prophaneness Religion 33. An Act to Stop the Coining Farthings and Halfpence for One year Coin 34. An Act for the better and more orderly payment of the Lottery Tickets now payable cut of certain Additional Duties of Excise and of other Annuities lately payable out of the Tunnage Duties Taxes 35. An Act for preventing Frauds and Abuses in the Charging Collecting and Paying the Duties upon Marriages Births Burials Batchclors and Widowers Taxes 36. An Act for the Increase and Preservation of Timber in the New Forest in the County of Southampton Ships and Shipping 37. An Act for applying to the use of his Majesties Navy and Ordinance the Overplus of the Money and Stores which were provided for the Building Seven and twenty Ships of War Ships c. 38. An Act for Granting to his Majesty an Aid by a Quarterly Poll for One year Taxes 39. An Act for Setling and Adjusting the Proportions of Fine Silver and Silk for the better making of Silver and Gold Thread and to prevent the Abuses of Wire-drawers Trade 40. An Act for the explanation and better Execution of former Acts made against Transportation of Wool Fullers-Earth and Scouring Clay Wool 41. An Act for the better preventing the Imbezlement of his Majesties Stores of War and Preventing Cheats Frauds and Abuses in paying Seamens Wages Stores of War 42. An Act for Enlarging the time for Registring of Ships pursuant to the Act for preventing Frauds and regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade Trade 43. An Act for the better Incouragement of the Royal Lustring Company and the more effectual preventing the Fraudulent Importation of Lustrings and Alamodes Trade 44. An Act for Raising a Sum not exceeding Two Millions upon a Fund for payment of Annuities after the rate of Eight pounds per Cent. per Ann. and for setling the Trade to the East-Indies Trade 45. An Act for taking away half the Duties imposed on Glass Wares and the whole Duties lately laid on Stone and Earthen Wares and Tobacco Pipes And for Granting in lieu thereof New Duties upon Whale Fins and Scotch Linen Taxes A CONTINUATION OF THE ABRIDGMENT OF ALL THE STATUTES OF King WILLIAM and Queen MARY AND King William III. In Force and Use From October the 20th 1696. to July 5. 1698. Annuities I. STat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 5. For discharging the Sum of 255663 l. 5 s. 8 d. remaining unpaid upon the several Annuities which between 17 May 1696. and 17 May 1697. became due and ought to have been paid out of 5 seventh parts of the late Duties of Tunnage and 2 seventh parts of the same Duties as also out of certain
the Uses aforesaid as there shall be cause And the Mayor of the said Borough is to Administer an Oath to the Collectors and persons imployed for the faithful Executing their Offices in and about the Premisses V. The said Collectors shall be allowed for their pains in Executing the said Office out of the Money by them received so much as the said Mayor c. in Common Council assembled shall think fit not exceeding one Shilling in the Pound VI. The said Collectors may at seasonable times Enter into any Ship or Vessel within the said Port of Bridgwater to see what Goods shall be in the same Unlading And in case the sums of Money appointed to be paid as aforesaid shall not be paid by the Master or other person having the Command of any Ship or Vessel Unlading as aforesaid then the said Collectors may by Warrant from the Mayor or Aldermen of the said Borough or one of them Distrain such Ship or Vessel and all Tackle Apparel and Furniture thereunto belonging and keep the same till they be satisfied and paid the sums Imposed by this Act which if not paid within Ten days next after such Distress then the said Collectors may sell the said Distress and therewith satisfie themselves for the Duty so unpaid and also for keeping such Distress rendring the Overplus VII The said Mayor c. in Common Council assembled may by Indenture under their Common Seal Convey the Duties Granted by this Act or heretofore payable as a security for any sums of Money by them to be borrowed for the ends and purposes of this Act to any persons that have advanced or shall advance any Moneys upon such security All which Money to be borrowed shall be imployed towards the Inlarging Preserving and Repairing the said Bridge or Key of Bridgwater aforesaid VIII The Keys or Wharfs now standing on each side of the River below the Bridge of Bridgwater aforesaid or that shall be Inlarged or Repaired not exceeding in length on each side of the said River 150 Yards are and shall be taken for lawful Keys or Wharss for the Landing or Laying on Shore any sort of Goods and Merchandizes whatsoever IX From and after the Expiration of the Years hereby Granted the ancient Duties of Keyage Pontage and Cranage shall be demanded and paid as heretofore Brokers I. Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 32. For Restraining the III practice of Brokers and Stock-jobbers It is Enacted That after 1 May. 1697. No person whatsoever shall use or exercise the Office or Imployment of a Broker or deal as such in London Westminster or Southwark or the Limits of the Weekly Bills of Mortality in making or concluding Bargains between Merchant and Merchant or others concerning Wares and Merchandizes or Moneys to be taken up by Exchange or concerning any Talleys or Orders Bills of Credit or Tickets payable at the Exchequer or any publick Office or concerning any of the Bank-Bills or Notes or Stock of the Bank or Stock of any Company or Society that is or shall be Incorporated until such person shall be admitted and licensed by the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of London II. Upon admittance of any such Broker he shall take an Oath to the effect following viz. That he will truly and faithfully execute and perform the Office and Imployment of a Broker between party and party in all things appertaining to the Duty of the said Office and Imployment without Fraud or Collusion to the best of his skill or knowledge and according to the Tenour and Purport of the Act Intituled An Act to Restrain the Number and Ill practice c. III. And every such person within Three Months after such Admittance shall in the Court of Chancery or Kings-Bench or Quarter Sessions take the Oaths appointed in the Act 1 W. M. cap. 8. and Subscribe the Association appointed by the Act made 7 W. 3. cap. 27. And every such person shall at his Admittance give Bond to the Lord Mayor Citizens and Commonalty of London in the Penalty of 500 l. with Condition That if he do and shall well and truly Vse Execute and Perform the Office and Imployment of a Broker between Party and Party without Fraud Covin or any Corrupt or Crafty Devices according to the Purport true Intent and Meaning of the Statute in that case lately made and provided then the Obligation to be void IV. The Number of such Brokers shall not at one time exceed 100. and the Fees upon Admittance into the said Imployment shall not exceed 40 s. V. The Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall cause the Names of such Brokers as shall be Admitted by Virtue of this Act and their places of habitation to be publickly affixt on the Royal Exchange in Guildhall and in such other publick places in London as they shall think fit VI. If any person shall act as a Broker after the time aforesaid not being admitted according to this Act he shall forfeit 500 l. over and above such other Forfeitures as he shall any ways incur by virtue of this Act and if any person after the time aforesaid shall knowingly Imploy any person to deal for him as a Broker or Stock-jobber not being admitted and sworn as aforesaid such person shall forfeit the sum of 50 l. and if any person after the time aforesaid not being a sworn Broker according to this Act shall act and deal as a Broker in Discounting Talleys or Bills or in Stock-jobbing in selling Bank-stock or any other Securities upon any Fund granted by Parliament such person shall Forfeit 500 l. and stand in the Pillory in some publick place in London three several Days for the space of one Hour in the Morning VII After the time aforesaid every sworn Broker shall keep a Book or Register in which he shall enter all Contracts and Bargains that he shall make between any persons within three days after the Contract with the parties Names and for omitting so to do he shall forfeit 50 l. VIII If any such Broker after the time aforesaid shall directly or indirectly take above 10 s. per Cent. for Brokage he shall for every such Offence forfeit 10 l. IX Every sworn Broker after his Admittance as aforesaid shall carry about him a Silver Medal having the Kings Arms on one side and the Arms of the City of London with his own Name on the other side which he shall produce at the concluding of every Bargain to the Parties concern'd upon pain to forfeit 40 s. for every Omission X. If any such Broker after the time aforesaid shall deal for himself in the Exchange or Remittance of Moneys or Buy any Talleys Orders Bills or Shares in any Joint-stock for his own use or buy Goods or Merchandizes to sell again or make any profit in buying or selling any Goods more than the Brokage allowed by this Act he shall forfeit the sum of 200 l. and be for ever incapable to act as a Broker XI Every
four days the Goods to be appraised by two or more Inhabitants and to be sold and the overplus above the Assesment and Charges of Distress to be immediately restored to the Owner Churches I. STat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 14. For Compleating the Building and Adorning the Cathedral of St. Paul London and for Repairing the Cathedral of St Peter Westminster It is Enacted That for all Coals and Culm Imported into the Port of London from the 29th of September 1700. until the 29th of September 1716. there shall be paid for every Chalder of Coals or Culm One Shilling and for every Tun of such as are sold by Weight One Shilling which said Imposition of One Shilling shall be Levied and Paid in such manner and form and under such penalties as are exprest and directed by the Act 1 Jac. 2. cap. 15 The Articles Rules and Clauses of which Act except otherwise hereafter provided shall be of such force and effect as if the same were particularly set down and Enacted by this Act. II. All Moneys Levied by this Act shall be disposed as herein after mentioned And the Archbishop of Ganterbury the Bishop of London and Lord Mayor of London for the time being or any two of them shall have such Powers and Authorities unless otherwise herein after directed as they had by the said former Act. III. One Sixth part of all Moneys which shall be raised by virtue of this Act shall be appropriated and disposed to the Repairing of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster and the said Archbishop of Canterbury Bishop of London and Lord Mayor of London for the time being or any two of them shall during the Continuance of this Act pay or cause to be paid to the Chancellour of the Exchequer the Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench and the Dean of the said Church for the time being Commissioners hereby appointed for Repairing the said Church the said Sixth part of such Moneys by Quarterly Payments the first Payment to be made on the Thirtieth of December 1700. Which said Money shall be laid out and expended in Repairing the said Collegiate Church And the like Books of Accounts to be inspected by any person gratis shall be kept by the Commissioners and the like Abstract of such Books of Accounts shall be yearly transmitted into the Exchequer in such manner as is directed to the said Archbishop Bishop and Lord Mayor in the aforesaid Act. IV. The said Archbishop Bishop and Lord Mayor may deduct yearly out of the sums to be by them paid as aforesaid one Sixth part to their Deputies and Officers for their Collecting the Duties hereby continued and Inspecting the Coal-Meters V. The said Commissioners or any Two of them may by Indenture under their hands and seals engage the Profits arising out of the sums hereby Granted towards the Repairing of the said Collegiate Church as a Security for Money by them to be borrowed for the intent and purpose aforesaid which Money is to be imployed accordingly VI. A sum not exceeding Three thousand Pounds part of the Duty hereby Granted shall in Four Years be paid towards the Building the Parish-Church of St. Thomas in Southwark according to such Directions as the President Treasurer and Governours of the Hospital there with allowance of the foresaid Archbishop Bishop and Lord Mayor or any two of them shall approve and allow VII After the 29th of September 1697. the Stipend or Allowance of the Surveyor General of the Building of the said Cathedral of St. Paul shall be paid one Moiety yearly and the other Moiety in one intire sum within Six Months after the finishing the said Cathedral and not before Coin I. STat. 8 W. 3. cap. 1. The Act past in the First Sessions of this present Parliament Intituled An Act for taking off the Obligation and Encouragement for Coining Guineas for a certain time therein mentioned and all things therein contained except what relates to the Recompences by the said Act appointed to be applied to the Silver Mints and what concerns the African Company shall be Repealed and utterly made Void and all persons may freely Import into this Kingdom Guineas and Half-Guineas as they might before the making the said Act. II. The Master and other Officers of the Mint in the Tower of London shall on or before the Tenth day of November 1696. prepare and set apart one or more Mill or Mills with other Conveniencies to be imployed for the Coinage of Gold which shall be brought thither by any persons Natives or Foreigners to be Received in Coined and Delivered out in such manner as by the Statute made 18 Car. 2. is directed so that the Course in Coinage of Gold and Silver be kept in distinct Accounts and not interfere and such Coining and Delivering out of Gold in a distinct Course although there be Silver remaining there Uncoined shall not be interpreted any undue Preference any thing in the said Statute of 18 Car. 2. notwithstanding III. Stat. 8 W. 3. cap. 2. All Hammered Silver Money Clipped or Unclipped as shall be brought to any of his Majesties Mints between the Fourth of November 1696. and the First of July 1697. shall be received there at the Rate of 5 s. 4 d. per Ounce Troy IV. All his Majesties Receivers or other Officers concerned in the Receipt or Collection of his Majesties Aids Taxes or other Revenues or of any Loans shall and are hereby required to receive in payment all such Hammered Silver Coin as shall be Tendred for any Aids Taxes or other Revenues or upon Loans at any time after the Fourteenth of November 1696. until the First of February next following as to Loans and all Arrears of Aids Taxes or Revenues due before the said First of February and until the First of June then next following as to all future Aids Taxes and other Revenues at the Rate of 5 s. 8 d. per Ounce And the Tender Payment or Loan of every Ounce of such Hammered Silver Coin shall be as good for the sum of 5 s. 8 d. as if the said sum of 5 s. 8 d. had been Tendred Paid or Lent in Lawful Current Coin V. After the First of December 1696. no Hammered Silver Coin of this Kingdom shall be Current in any Payment except such as before mentioned otherwise than by Weight only after the Rate of 5 s. 2 d. per Ounce of Sterling Silver VI. All such Hammered Money consisting only of Pieces having both the Rings or the greatest part of the Letters or Six Pences of Sterling Silver not Clipt within the innermost Ring as have been before the Eighteenth Day of November 1696. actually received by any Commissioner Receiver General or other Receiver or Collector by Tale for any Publick Tax or Revenue whatsoever shall and may be paid by them by Tale and not by Weight within the times hereafter following viz. Every particular Receiver or Collector shall have time to make his Payments to the Head Collector
Bills brought in so to be cancelled And as to the Interest that shall have incurred on the said Old Bills to their being brought in it shall be so computed as to abate what did accrue whilst they lay in any of the Receivers or Collectors Hands or in the Exchequer and shall be written on the said New Bills XXXIV Stat. 9 10. W. 3. cap. 21. Any person to whom any piece or pieces of Silver Money shall be tendred being diminisht otherwise than by Wearing or by the Stamp Impression Colour or Weight suspected to be Counterfeit may cut break or deface such Piece or Pieces And thereupon appearing Counterfeit the Tenderer shall bear the Loss but being of due Weight and appearing Lawful Money the person who cut it shall take it for what it was Coined for XXXV If any Dispute arise whether the Piece so cut be Counterfeit it shall be determined by the Mayor Bailiffs or Chief Officer of the Place where Tendred if a City or Town Corporate or if not then by the next Justice of Peace of the County XXXVI The Tellers of the Exchequer their Deputies and Clerks and the Receivers General of his Majesties Revenue shall cut break or deface every piece of Counterfeit or unlawfully diminisht Silver Money Tendred them in Payment for his Majesties Use And the said Tellers and Receivers General their Deputies and Clerks shall weigh all Silver Money by them Received and the same or any piece thereof appearing by the Weight or otherwise to be Counterfeit or Unlawfully Diminisht shall not be received by or from them in the Exchequer XXXVII The Act made the last Session of this present Parliament Intituled An Act for the better Preventing the Counterfeiting the Current Coin of this Kingdom and every Article thereof shall be in Force till 25 March 1701. and thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XXXVIII Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 33. No persons shall after 24 June 1698 and before 24 June 1699. Coin or make or cause to be coin'd or made any Farthings or Half-pence or tokens to go for Farthings or Half-pence of Copper or any other Metal whatsoever on pain of forfeiting Five Pounds for every Averdupoize Pound Weight of such Farthings and Half-pence so Coined one Moiety to the King the other to such persons as will sue for the same XXXIX The Contractors for making or coining of Copper Farthings and Half-pence shall not by virtue of any Agreement made with his Majesty and the late Queen for giving in Exchange to his Majesties Subjects weekly Farthings and Halfpence made of Copper for Farthings and Half pence made of Tin be obliged to perform such Exchange for so many weeks only as are between the said 24 June 1698. and the said 24 June 1699. Creditors I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap 18. Two thirds or more in Number and Value of all real Creditors their Executors Administrators Guardians and Trustees and other Persons Authorized by them may make such Compositions as they think fit with their Debtors who being unable to pay the whole are withdrawn or absconded or are Prisoners for Debt before 17 Nov. 1696. II. Which Composition being for the Equal Benefit of all the Creditors and Subscribed and Sealed by the said Two thirds without any fraudulent Agreement shall be Binding III. And all persons Subscribing and Sealing such Composition shall within Twenty days after being required thereunto in writing before two Witnesses by any of the Creditors make Oath in writing before a Master in Chancery Ordinary or Extraordinary on what account their Debts became due and that they neither have nor are to receive any greater advantage than the said Composition Which Oath shall be made and filed in Chancery at the charges of the requirer within twenty days and the persons forswearing themselves shall suffer as for Perjury IV. Persons refusing to make such Oath or claiming a greater Debt than due or receiving or agreeing to receive a greater advantage than the said Composition their Subscription shall be void they shall forfeit 100 l. and treble the Value fraudulently claimed received or agreed to be received with full Costs of Suit to the Creditors suing for the same and the Money so recovered over and above the Charges shall go to the Creditors Contributing thereto V. Where any Debtor compounded with shall be kept in Prison contrary to such Composition the Lord Keeper Master of the Rolls or any of the Judges may in presence of the Creditor or absence if lawfully Summon'd discharge such Debtor out of Prison upon producing such Composition and Schedule of Debts upon Oath and swearing the cause of Imprisonment to be only for such Debts and the Creditor shall pay the Charges of such detaining and the Keeper of the Goal is to Attend with and Discharge such Prisoner under penalty of 5 l. a day VI. Persons Sued for any thing done in prosecution of this Act the Plaintiff being Nonsuit or Cast shall pay treble Costs VII Provided this Act shall not make void any Securities by Mortgage Pawn Judgment Statute or Recognizance or otherwise whereby the Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods and Chattels of such Debtors may be charged so as the same affect not the person of the Debtor Compounded with VIII And provided that Agreements already made between Debtors and Creditors shall be of Force subject to the Benefits of this Act for enforcing such Agreements IX Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 29. After 24 June 1698. The Act made in the second Session of this present Parliament held 8 9 W. 3. Intituled An Act for Relief of Creditors by making Compositions with their Debtors in case Two thirds in Number and Value do Agree and every Clause Matter and Thing therein contained shall be Repealed Determined and of no Force X. This Act shall not make void any Agreement or Composition made bona fide before the said 24 June nor any Order for the Discharge of any Debtor out of Custody made in pursuance of such Composition by virtue of the abovesaid Act or within the saving or benefit thereof before the said 24 June But every such Composition whereupon any such Order of Discharge is made shall be good and effectual and every such Order of Discharge is hereby Confirmed and every such Composition whereupon no such Order of Discharge shall be made shall be of the same force as if this Act had not been made Nor shall it Pardon or Discharge any person who before the said 24 June shall Incur any Penalty by committing any Offence against the said Act. XI No Persons Discharged by virtue of the said Act before the said 24 June shall be deemed to be Discharged thereby who to procure any Agreement or Release from their Creditors have before one of the Judges or one of the Masters in Chancery corruptly made any false Oath to the Defrauding their Creditors but every such Agreement and Release obtain'd upon a false Oath by any person being
by twelve equal monthly Payments the first Payment to be made 25 Febr. 1696. And that every Papist or reputed Papist of the Age of Sixteen Years who had not taken the Oaths required Ann. 1 W. M. should pay double unless such Papist did take the same within ten days after the first Meeting of the Commissioners And that every person of the Age of Sixteen Years who not having taken the Oaths did not upon Summons take the same should also pay double And that every Gentleman or so reputed who ought to have paid double to the Quarterly Poll Ann. 3. W. M. and did not voluntarily take the same before the Commissioners within ten days after their first Meeting should likewise pay double And that the Commissioners should upon information or suspicion Summon every suspected person to take the said Oaths but that Quakers making and subscribing the Declaration of Fidelity appointed Ann. 1 W. M. should not be liable to pay double XXVIII For a further supply it is now Enacted That all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever charged by the other Act with 3 s. in the pound shall now be charged for one Year from 25 Jan. 1696. with the further Sum of 1 s. in the pound viz. 4 s. per pound in the whole XXIX And all persons who by the other Act ought to pay double or 6 s. per pound shall pay 2 s. in the pound over and above the said 6 s. XXX The Commissioners appointed for the 3 s. in the pound shall be Commissioners for this present Act of 1 s. per pound and the said double Rates with all the Powers and Authorities of the said other Act. And the Assessors and Collectors of the 3 s. shall be the Assessors and Collectors of the 1 s. and the said double Rates XXXI For the avoiding repeated Assessments the Assessors and Collectors shall charge collect and levy One third part of the Duty of the 3 s. and double rates for and in satisfaction of the said rate of 1 s. and the double rates by Kalendary Months the first payment for three months to be on 25 Apr. 1697. or within 14 days after and afterwards each Kalendary Month successively in such manner as they are required by the said other Act of 3 s. per l. and shall pay the same to the Head Collectors accordingly to be answered by the Receivers General into the Excheqner according to the directions of the said other Act. And all persons concerned or imployed by virtue of this Act shall be subject to the Penalties and have the Benefits of the said other Act. And all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments subject by Distress or otherwise to the rates of 3 s. per l. shall in like manner be subject to the rates of 1 s. per pound XXXII And whereas by the said other Act of 3 s. in the pound c. the Commissioners of the Treasury may issue Exchequer Bills not exceeding the Sum of 1500000 l. for the use of the War and by the Act for making good the deficiencies of Funds c. the said Bills are to be Current to the Receivers or Collectors of any Tax or Supply granted this Session for the War or otherwise and also at the Exchequer with 5 d. per Day Interest for each Hundred Pounds It is further Enacted That the Commissioners of the Treasury may issue Exchequer Bills not exceeding 1200000 l. over and above the said 1500000 l. so as there be not at any one time above 2000000 l. standing out in such Bills which Bills to have like Currency and Interest as the said Bills for 1500000 l. XXXIII The persons contracting with the Treasury to advance Money for Circulating the said Bills for 1500000 l. shall be discharged of their Contracts as soon as the Sums by them agreed to be advanced shall be called for and paid or so soon as Bills for 1500000 l. issued by the former or this present Act shall be Cancelled or that the Funds for the War for this present Year shall have produced sufficient to take up and Cancel the same XXXIV The Commissioners of the Treasury may in like manner agree for the Advancing any further Sums for Exchanging such Bills of the said 1200000 l. as may be refused at the Rate of 10 l. per Cent. per Ann. XXXV The Bills issued for the said 1500000 l. and 1200000 l. which shall not be Cancelled by the Produce of those Funds by the 25th of March 1698. shall be taken up and Cancelled by the Arrears of those Funds or by the Moneys Granted next Session of Parliament And the persons advancing Moneys for Exchanging such Bills of the 1200000 l. as shall be refused shall be discharged of their Contracts as soon as the Sums Contracted for shall be paid by them and if the same be not called for by the 25th of March 1698. they shall thenceforth be absolutely discharged of their Contracts XXXVI Till it shall be published by Proclamation that the Treasury hath made Provision that the said Bills may be Exchanged for ready Money such Bills for the 1200000 l. shall be Current only in the Supplies Granted for the War this present Year 1697. except the 3 s. in the Pound XXXVII It shall be Felony without benefit of Clergy to Forge or Counterfeit any of the said Bills or Demand Money thereon knowing the same to be Counterfeited XXXVIII Out of the Moneys arising by this Act by Bills of Credit or otherwise 672197 l. is Appropriated for the Navy and for the Sea-Service in the Office of the Ordnance the Ordinary of the Navy the Payment of Marine-Officers and Charge of Registring Seamen to compleat the Sum of 2372197 l. for those Services and the remainder for the Land Forces Ordnance Ammunition and Incidents of War XXXIX The Rules and Directions in the Act Ann. 1 W. M. for Granting an Aid of 2 s. per. Pound touching the Payment thereof and Management in the Exchequer with the Penalties in case of Diversion shall be revived and applied to the Sums hereby Appropriated XL. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 34. For lessening the Duty on Tin and Pewter Exported It is Enacted That after the 10th of May 1697 there shall be paid on any Entry of Tin to be Exported for every Hundred Weight containing 112 Pounds of Tin unwrought 3 s. and for every hundred Weight of wrought Tin commonly called Pewter 2 s. and so proportionably and no more XLI After the said 10th of May till 1 Aug. 1706. the Subsidy to be received for all Drugs Imported directly from the place of their Growth in English Built Ships shall be according to the full Value of the respective Species enumerated in the Book of Rates and for all Drugs otherwise Imported treble such Value XLII Nothing in this Act shall extend to the laying a further Duty on any sort of Drugs used in Dying XLIII Stat. 9 10 W. 3 cap 23. Over and above all Subsidies of Tunnage and
of the Subsidy hereby Granted with the Oath of the Merchant Importing and Exporting the same affirming the truth thereof and all other Requisites performed touching Repayment of the Half Subsidy by the former Act the whole Subsidy actually paid upon this Act shall be repaid within one Month after Demand or the Security vacated as to so much as shall be so Exported And as to Foreign Wrought Silks Tobacco Sugars and Refined Sugars no Drawback upon this Act shall be made unless Re-exported within the times hereby limited for other Goods and that like Proof be made and other Requisites performed for the said Silks c. as for other Goods Re-exported But upon such Exportation of Foreign Wrought Silks and Proof made and other Requisites performed not only the two thirds of the Subsidies by this Act. Directed to be Repaid for such Silks but also the remaining one third of the same Subsidy shall be intirely repaid at the Custom house LVI It being intended that the yearly Sum of 700000 l. be Supplied to his Majesty for his Houshold and Family and other his necessary Expenses and Occasions out of the Hereditary Excise Granted Ann. 12. Car. 2. and out of the Temporary Excise payable during his Majesties Life by an Act of 2 W. M. after the Talleys Charged upon the Weekly Sum of 6000 l. issuing out of the said several Duties of Excise pursuant to the Act of 7 W. 3. and still unsatisfied with the Interest thereof shall be fully paid and out of the Revenue of the Post-Office after all the Talleys Charged on the Weekly Sum of 600 l. issuing out of that Revenue pursuant to the said Act of 7 W. 3. and still remaining unsatisfied and the Interest thereof shall be fully paid And out of the small Branches of his Majesties Revenue viz. The First Fruits Alienation Fines Post Fines Wine Licences Sheriffs Proffers Seizures of Uncustomed and Prohibited Goods The Revenue of the Dutchy of Cornwall or any other Revenue in Lands in England or Wales or Fines of Leases for the same and the Duty of Four and a half per Cent. in Specie in Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands in America and out of the Moneys arising by this Act after the Commencement of the same It is Enacted That if the said Great and Small Branches and Revenues shall produce clear more than the yearly Sum of 700000 l. after 25 Dec. 1699. the Overplus shall not be Disposed of but by Parliament And all Dispositions of such Overplus without Authority of Parliament shall be Void and the persons to whom such Dispositions shall be made shall be incapable to Enjoy the same LVII Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 30. All Lustrings and Alamodes Imported into this Kingdom which by the Act of Tunnage and Poundage made Ann. 12 Car. 2. were valued in the Book of Rates at 40 s. the Pound Weight containing 16 Ounces shall after 24 June 1698. be valued at Four Pounds for every Pound Weight containing 16 Ounces as aforesaid And the several Subsidies Additional and other Duties and Impositions payable thereupon by virtue of several Acts of Parliament since that time made during the Continuance of the same respectively shall be Collected Paid and Answered upon the said Lustrings and Alamodes according to the said Valuation of Four Pounds for every Pound Weight as if the same had been Originally Inserted in the said Book of Rates and had been particularly referred to instead of the said Rate of 40 s. in the several Acts beforementioned And that according to the same Rules and Methods and with such or the like Allowances and under such Penalties as are by the said Acts or any of them prescribed for the respective Duties on the same Commodities Exchequer I. STat. 8. 9. W. 3. cap. 28. For better observation of the Course anciently used in the Exchequer It is Enacted That after 20 April 1697. when any Money shall be brought into the Receipt of the Exchequer the respective Teller into whose Office it shall be brought if the Officers belonging to the Talley Court be then attending or as soon as they shall attend for the Levying a Talley shall without delay receive the said Money Weighing the same in intire Sums or otherwise and making due entry thereof shall throw down a Bill or Bills written upon Parchment and Sign'd into the Talley Court whereby a Taller may be duly Levied according to the nature of the Payment And that such Teller his Clerk or Substitute shall not for such Money give a Note importing a Depositum or other private Note or Security to prevent the due charging thereof in the Exchequer as aforesaid upon pain that such Teller who shall offend against this Act by neglecting to receive and duly charge himself with such Money or giving any private Note as aforesaid shall forfeit his Office and be disabled to serve the King in any Office and Forfeit double damages to the King or party damnified and full costs of Suit and every Clerk and substitute of such Tellers who shall offend against this Act by giving any private Note shall for every such offence forfeit double the sum for which such Note was given one moiety to the King the other to the Informer and also be removed from the said Receipt II. After the said 20th of April No Teller shall charge himself by Bill with the receipt of any Moneys in the Exchequer but when the Officers of the Talley Court are there present nor shall any Teller or his substitute throw down into the said Court any Bill purporting the receiving of any Money unless such Teller or his Clerks have actually receiv'd the same except in such cases where Talleys are or shall be Levied by special Warrant of the Lords of the Treasury or Treasurer of the Exchequer or where the person for whom any Talley shall be Levied shall at the same time or on the same day give a Discharge according to the course of the Exchequer upon some Order or Debenture for the Money for which such Bill shall be thrown down upon pain of incurring the like forfeiture of Office and Disability as before mention'd and forfeiting double the sum so unduly charged one moiety to the King the other to the Informer and for Clerks and Substitutes the like penalty as aforesaid III. No Teller his Clerk or Substitute after the Bills thrown down into the Talley Court shall lend pay or by any way whatsoever depart with such Money out of his Office without an Order for the same made forth by the Auditor and Recorded by the Clerk of the Pells and taking a Receipt to discharge the King according to ancient course under the like forfeitures and penalties as for unduly charging any Money before actually received IV. After the said 20 April the Chamberlains or Deputy Chamberlains and such other Officers Clerks and Deputies as belong to the Talley Court shall daily except Sundays and Holidays constantly attend at least from
Contributions for the said Tickets And if such Contributions before 24 June 1697. be not sufficient to pay the said Loans with Interest such Loans shall be satisfied out of the Duties on Malt brought in in specie And so many Tickets not deliver'd out as are equal to such Principal Money unsatisfied to be Cancelled and the rest Drawn and proportion'd accordingly Which Money so Lent to His Majesty to be part of the Sum appropriated to his Majesties Houshold and other his necessary Occasions LIX Every Round Bushell 8 Inches and ½ wide throughout and 8 Inches deep shall be esteem'd a Winchester Bushel LX. The 1400 l. in Hammer'd Money paid into the Custom-house of Exon by Daniel Ivry and Henry Arthur Merchants before 4 May last shall be receiv'd by Tale by the Collector there and be carried to the Mint to be Coin'd into Mill'd Money Hawkers and Pedlars Vide Taxes Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 25. Hay Market I. STat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 17. After 25 March 1697. Every Cart Load of Hay that shall stand to be Sold in the Street called the Hay-Market in the Parishes of St. Martins in the Fields and St. James's within the Liberties of Westminster shall Pay 3 d. and every Cart Load of Straw 1 d. in ease of the Parishioners of the said Parishes for and towards the Paving and Amending the said Street II. Every Cart Load that Pays and is not Sold shall not Pay the next Market Day for standing III. Upon refusal of Payment the Offenders Goods may be Distrain'd by Warrant of any Justice of Peace of Middlesex or Westminster and Sold within Three Days after Distress returning the Overplus IV. The said Street shall be Construed to extend in Length from the Old Toll Post at the upper end of the Hay-Market to the Phaenix Inn at the lower end and in Breadth from Kennel to Kennel which shall be esteemed the Bounds of the said Market V. A Hand-Bell shall be Rung by the Toll-gatherer about the Market Twice a Day on every Market Day viz Tuesday Thursday and Saturday weekly at One Hours Distance to give Notice of the time of ending the Market according to the Stat. 2 W. M cap. 8. In default of such Ringing Persons Selling Hay or Straw shall the next immediate Market Day Stand and Sell Toll-free VI. All Forfeitures given by the foresaid Act shall be Demanded in the said Market by the Bell-Ringer on the same Day on which they are incurr'd and Complaint shall be made of the Offence to some Justice of the Quorum in Westminster before the next succeeding Market Day or else no person shall be liable to such Forfeitures VII The Collectors of the said Toll shall yearly at every Easter Sessions give to the Justices of Peace of the said County and City a particular Account upon Oath of their Receipts and Disbursements and the Overplus to go to the County of Middlesex High-ways I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 15. The Justices of Peace at their next Sessions for the County of Surrey shall Appoint Surveyors of the High-ways for the year ensuing pursuant to the Statute 3 4 W. M. cap. 12. who shall meet and Survey the Lanes leading from Woodhatch Borough to Sidlow Mill and Salmons Cross in the Parish of Ryegate and the Lanes called Horsehill and Bonehurst and Petteridge in the Parish of Horley in the County of Surrey and make their Certificates thereof to the Justices who thereupon shall make such Orders in and about the same as to them shall seem good II. The Surveyors shall require such Carts and Persons as are liable to work in the High-ways to work in the respective Places paying according to the usual Rate of the Country III. Where there is not sufficient Gravel Chalk Sand or Stones to be found in the proper Parish the Surveyors or whom they shall Appoint may Dig Take and Carry away the said Materials By direction of the Justices out of the Waste or Common of any Neighbouring Parish paying a reasonable Satisfaction for the same and filling up the Ground if directed or desired IV. The Justices at their special Sessions shall Appoint one or more Receiver or Receivers of Toll viz. Of every Horse 1 d. Coach 6 d. Calash or Chariot 6 d. Waggon or Cart 6 d. Score of Sheep or Lambs 1 d. and so proportionably Score of Calves 2 d. Score of Hogs 2 d. and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Number not being under Five Score of Oxen or Neat Cattel 6 d. and so proportionably that shall pass through the said Way after the passing of this Act. The Place for Collecting the said Tolls to be at such convenient Place upon the High-way in or near the said Lanes as the Justices of Peace at their special Sessions shall appoint V. The Receivers or Collectors of the said Toll shall give a monthly Account upon Oath to one or more of the next Justices to be Return'd to and Examin'd by the Justices at the next special Sessions The Horse Cart c. of any Person refusing to pay the said Toll may be Distrain'd and Detain'd till the Toll and Damages of Distress be satisfied VI. The Surveyors shall at the next special Sessions Account to the Justices in Writing under their Hands for all Moneys Receiv'd of the Collectors and Disbursements in or about the said High-ways Paying the Overplus to the Surveyors for the year ensuing And the Justices shall make Allowances to them for their Care and Pains as to them shall seem good VII If the Collectors of the Toll shall not upon request duly pay the same to the Surveyors or in case the Surveyors shall not make such Account and Payments as the Justices shall Order the Justices upon due Proof may Imprison the Offenders VIII The Surveyors or the more part of them by Order of the Justices at their Special Sessions may engage the Profits arising by the said Toll by Indenture under their Hands and Seals for any Term not exceeding Fifteen years to any Persons who shall Lend any present Sum of Money at 6 per Cent. Which Money so Advanced shall be Distributed by the Iustices at their Special Sessions for the Purposes aforesaid IX Such as neglect or refuse having no Lawful excuse to take upon him the Office of Surveyor being thereunto chosen shall be Fined by the Justices not exceeding 5 l. to be Levied by Distress and Sale of Goods and in such case or in case of Death some other Person to be chosen Surveyor X. All Fines and Forfeitures Incurr'd by virtue of this Act shall be paid to the Surveyors for the time being for and towards the Repairing the said Lanes XI Actions brought against any Person for any thing done in pursuance of this Act shall be laid in the said County of Surrey and not elsewhere the Defendant may Plead the General Issue and give the Special Matter in Evidence c. and in case the Cause goes
the Parish of St. Giles in Colchester XV. Provided That all Goods c. unloaden out of any Ship or Vessel at Wivenhoe and not brought to Colchester or within the Liberties thereof or Laden at Wivenhoe and not first Carried from or through Colchester or the Liberties thereof shall not be liable to the said Duties Oath being made thereof if required before such Collector or any Custom-house Officer XVI The said Mayor and Commonalty by Indenture under their Common Seal with consent of the Commissioners may engage the Profits arising as aforesaid for any Term not exceeding 21 Years to any persons that will upon such Security advance Money for Carrying on the said Work for securing the Repayment thereof with Interest not exceeding 6 per Cent. XVII Provided That if before the end of 21 Years sufficient Moneys shall be raised for the purposes aforesaid and so adjudged by the Commissioners that then after Repayment of the Money so borrowed with Interest the said Duties shall cease XVIII Provided That upon Dispute touching the Weight and Quantity of the Goods liable to the said Duties the Collector may weigh the same and if they prove more than the Collector did insist upon the Owner shall bear the charges of weighing XIX If any persons be proseeuted for Acting in pursuance of this Act they may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence And if the Prosecutor be Nonsuit or Discontinue or a Verdict or Judgment pass against him the Defendant shall recover Costs XX. Provided That if a New Cut be made through the said Earl of Kents Land called Gravel-Pit-Land it shall be at the Election of the said Earl to have the Value of the Land so severed or to keep the same And if the said Earl shall within Twelve Months after such severance signifie his Election to keep the same the Right thereof shall be Vested in the said Earl and the said Mayor and Commonalty c. shall make a Wall and Bank cross the present Old Chanel at both ends thereof which said Old Chanel shall also be Vested in the said Earl XXI Provided That this Act take not away any Persons Right of Fishing in the said River Salt I. Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 6. After 25 Mar. 1698. No Badger Retailer or other person making or dealing in Salt or buying Salt to sell again shall sell or dispose of any Salt in England or Wales and Town of Berwick otherwise than by Weight after the Rate of 56 Pound Weight to the Bushel and not by measure or any other manner upon Forfeiture of Five Pounds to the Informer who shall prosecute for the same II. The Forfeitures and Offences against this Act shall be determined by any two or more Justices of Peace residing near the place where such Offence was committed But persons agrieved may appeal to the Justices at the next General Quarter Sessions whose Judgment therein shall be final III. All Justices of Peace upon complaint of Offences contrary to this Act are to Summon the Party accused and upon proof of the Matter of Fact by Oath of two or more Witnesses or Confession of the Party to give Judgment and issue out Warrants for Levying such Forfeitures on the Goods and Chattels of the Offender to be sold if not redeemed in six days rendring the Overplus and for want of Distress to Imprison the Offender till satisfaction be made IV. When any Salt shall be Entred to be put on Board any Boat Ship or Vessel or carried by Land and the Duty paid or secured together with all Moneys then or before due and payable by Bond or otherwise on Account of Salt delivered the proper Officer shall upon due Notice by himself or Deputy in the Day time between Sun-rising and Sun-setting attend the Weighing out such Salt without loss of time to the persons that shall Ship off or carry the same upon Forfeiture of 40 s. to be recovered as other Penalties in this Act are directed Seamen I. Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 23. All such persons who by virtue of the Act made the last Session of this Parliament For the Increase and Incouragement of Seamen 7 8. W. 3. cap. 21. are Intituled to the Provisions and Advantages in the Hospital in the said Act mentioned and out of the Revenues thereof shall from time to time be placed in the said Hospital upon Certificates to be produced as by the said Act is directed in succession as the person registred shall be in Course and Order of time upon the Registry Book and the Widows and Children of the persons longest registred before others II. Every Seaman or Mariner who have Liberty and shall be willing to register themselves as by the said Act directed after the 10th of April next bringing such Certificate as the said Act directs under the hand of any one Justice of Peace of the County where he lives may and shall be registred and himself Wife Widow and Children be Intituled to all Advantages given by the said Act as if the Certificate were under the hands of two Justices according to the said Act. The Justice or Justices giving such Certificate are required diligently to enquire into the truth of the same and if occasion be to examine the party upon Oath and if any fraud or deceit appears to certify the Admiralty thereof III. Any persons already registred or who shall hereafter be registred and who then were or shall after be raised to the degree of a Masters Mate in any of the Kings Ships their Wives Widows and Children are declared and enabled to enjoy all and every the Benefits and Advantages given to any other person so registred by the said recited Act. IV. After the said 10th of April all Seamen above the Age of 50 years and who shall appear by the Books of the Navy Office to have served on Board any of the Kings Ships for seven years last past without wilful Disserting shall upon producing Certificates as aforesaid under the hands of one or more Justices of Peace be registred and have and enjoy the several Privileges in the said Act mentioned V. Provided that after the 10th day of April 1699. No Seaman above the Age of 50 years shall be admitted to register himself without giving such Reasons for his omitting to do it during the time of such Service on Board as shall be approved by the Admiralty or Navy or by the persons appointed for keeping the said Register VI. It shall be Lawful for the Commissioners appointed for Registring Seamen by Warrant under their Hands and Seals to cause all Masters and Commanders of Ships not in his Majesties Service to appear before them and discover upon Oath the Number Rates Salaries Wages and Times of Service of all and every persons or person serving in such Ships or Vessels and which by the foresaid Act are obliged to pay 6 d. per mensem out of their Salaries and Wages And if any
imported although filled with Liquor shall pay one Moiety of the Duties charged thereon by the former Acts. CCCCLXXXIII Upon the Importation of any Whale Fins Scotch Linen or Tickings as aforesaid Entry thereof shall be made in the Custom-house where imported And in case of Landing any such Goods before due Entry made and the Duties secured or without a Warrant from the Commissioners or proper Officers of the Customs for Landing the same such Goods shall be forfeited or the value thereof and be recovered of the importer or proprietor one Moiety to the King the other to the Seiser or Prosecutor CCCCLXXXIV The said Duties payable for Whale Fins and Scotch Linen as aforesaid shall be managed by the Commissioners of the Customs And the Receivers General of the Customs shall bring the Produce thereof necessary charges only excepted into the Receipt of the Exchequer And the Officers of the Exchequer shall apply the said Duties as also the half Duties on Glass Waies for the payment of such Principal and Interest Moneys whereunto the whole Duties on Glass and Earthen Wares and Tobacco Pipes ought to have been applied in the same Order and under the like Penalties and Forfeitures as in the said former Acts are prescribed Trade I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 36. Enacted That whosoever shall Import any Foreign Alamodes or Lustrings into England Wales or Town of Berwick without paying the Customs and Rates due for the same at such Importation or shall Import any Alamodes or Lustrings prohibited by Law or undertake or agree to deliver or shall deliver any such Goods or Merchandize or shall pay any Money Praemium or Reward for Insuring or Conveying any such Goods or knowingly receive or take the same into his or her House Custody or Possession such Person may be prosecuted for the same in any Action Suit or Information and thereupon a Capias specifying the Sum of the Penalties shall Issue and the Party obliged to give sufficient Bail to the Officer to appear in Court and shall at the time of appearance give sufficient Bail to pay the penalties for such Offences in case of Conviction or yield his Body to Prison II. It shall be lawful for any Person to Sue for and Recover the penalty of 500 l. imposed by the Stat. 4 5 W. M. upon Insuring to Import Prohibited Goods or Goods without paying Custom cap. 15 Customs 166. by Action of Debt c. in any of the Kings Courts of Record at Westminster wherein no Essoign c. shall be allowed III. All Black Alamodes and Lustrings wheresoever made which shall be found in the Possession of any Person not Markt and Seal'd by the Custom House or the Royal Lustring Company shall be forfeited and may be seized as forfeited whether the same hath been bought and sold or not and the Person in whose Custody they are found shall incur the penalties relating to Alamodes and Lustrings in an Act made 6 7 W. 3. cap. 18. Trade 84. IV. No Alamodes and Lustrings that after the 10 of April 1697 shall be seized and forfeited by virtue of any Law now in force shall be used in England but shall be exported again and to that end shall immediately on their Seizure be carried to the Custom-house Ware house in London and there sold by Inch of Candle on Condition to be exported and Security given for Exportation which Security may be discharged by Certificate from the Port where such Goods shall be Landed or Oath made that they were lost at Sea V. On Exportation of Foreign Lustrings or Alamodes the Exporter shall not be Intituled to Receive Draw back or be repaid the Customs or Impositions paid or secured on Importation of the same or any part thereof VI. Every Person that shall Imbezel Pawn Sell or Detain any of the Silk delivered to them as Agents Journeymen Warpers or Winders or after it is wrought up and every Receiver Buyer and Pawn-taker of any the said Goods shall be subject to all the Penalties and Punishments mentioned and provided in an Act made 13 14 Car. 2. chap. 15. and in another Act made 20 Car. 2. chap. 6. both for regulating the Trade of Silk throwing VII All such pieces of Alamodes and Lustrings as some Weavers have now by them unmarkt and shall appear upon Oath made in Writing before any Justice of Peace by one or more credible Witnesses to be Manufactured within this Realm before the 10 of April 1697 shall be brought to the Royal Lustring Companies Ware-house and the Evidence being there produced shall be Markt and Sealed gratis by the said Company before the 1 of May 1697 and then be lawful to be Sold as if manufactured by the said Company VIII The said Weavers shall give an Account weekly to the said Company to whom they have Sold such Goods so marked and sealed under the penalty of double the value of such Goods for every Omission to be recovered as other Penalties inflicted by this Act and the said Company shall keep a Register of the said Sales IX Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 9. All Persons who after 25 March 1698 shall Import or cause to be Imported into England or Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or who shall after 24 December 1698 Sell Barter or offer to Sale or knowingly keep in their Custody for Sale or for the use of any Importer or Dealer in the Commodities aftermentioned any Foreign Bone-lace Loom-lace Needle-work Point or Cutwork shall forfeit 20 s. per Yard for all the said Foreign Bone-lace c. so Imported Sold Bartered offered to Sale or kept as aforesaid together with all the said Goods X. The Importation Selling Bartering offering to Sale or Barter or knowingly keeping for that purpose any Foreign Bone-lace c. is hereby declared a Common Nuisance And the said prohibited Goods or any part thereof may be seized and the Offenders prosecuted by any person whatsoever Any Persons with a Constable or Tythingman with a Warrant from a Justice of Peace in the day time may enter into any House Shop Cellar Ware-house or Room or other place whatsoever to Search for and Seize any of the prohibited Goods before mentioned and in case of Resistance to break open Doors Chests Trunks and other Package whatsoever to Seize the Goods prohibited by this Act And every Justice of Peace is to grant such Warrant to any credible Persons making Oath that they have reason to suspect there are such prohibited Goods where they intend to Search XI All Foreign Bone-lace c. Seized by virtue of this or any other Act shall be carried to the next Custom house not thence to be delivered unless to be produced at a Trial or otherwise discharged by Law The Goods so seized and condemned shall be sold publickly by Inch of Candle whereof publick notice in Writing to be affixed at the Custom-house Door and other publick place where the Goods are lodged Ten days before the Sale
or Wire or Plate ready wrought for the covering of Silk or Thread shall be Imported into this Kingdom on pain of being forfeited and burnt XLIX Of the several Penalties in this Act one Moiety shall be to the King the other to them that shall sue for the same in any the Courts of Record at Westminster L. If any Person be sued for what he shall do in Execution of this Act he may plead the General Issue and give the Special Matter in Evidence and upon a Non-suit Discontinuance or Verdict against the Plaintiff the Defendant shall have treble Costs LI. No Penalty shall be inflicted on any Person exposing to sale any Silver Wire or Silver or Gold Thread or Lace or Fringe on or before 29 Sept. 1699 though not made according to this Act provided it be proved by Oath before a Justice of Peace of the Place that such Goods were made on or before 24 July 1698. LII Every Prosecution upon this Act shall be commenced within Six months after the Offence committed LIII This Act shall continue for Three years and thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament LIV. Stat. 9 10 W. 3. Cap. 42. Whereas by an Act 7 8 W. 3. Intituled An Act for Preventing Frauds and Regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade It is Enacted That after the 25th of March 1698. No Ship or Vessel shall pass as a Ship of the built of England Ireland Wales Berwick Guernsey Jersey or any His Majesties Plantations in America so as to Trade to or from the said Plantations till Registred as enacted by the said Act And yet several Merchants Trading to the Plantations have sent out several Ships and Vessels thither but through madvertency only have omitted to Register them It is Enacted That all Ships and Vessels of the Built of England Ireland Wales Berwick Guernsey Jersey or any His Majesties Plantations in America being English Property shall have Nine months longer from the said 25th of March 1698. for Registring such Ships which being Registred within the said Nine months shall have the advantage of the saie Act as if Registred before the said 25 Mar. 1698. LV. Stat. 9 10 W. 3. Cap. 43. After 1 July 1698. no Foreign Silks known by the name of Alamodes or Lustrings shall be Imported into this Kingdom but into the Port of London only and Notice shall be given to the Commissioners or Chief Managers of the Customs there of the Quality and Quantity with the Marks Numbers and Package of all such Silks intended to be Imported with the Name of the Importer and of the Ship and her Burthen and of the Master and Commander on which they are to be Laden and the Port where the same are to be taken on Board And a Licence shall be taken under the Hands of the said Commissioners or Chief Managers of the Customs or any three of them for the Importing of the same which Licence is to be granted without Fee or Reward LVI The said Commissioners or Chief Managers of the Customs shall cause to be marked and sealed all such Alamodes and Lustrings which shall be Imported after the said 1st of July according to this Act and cause a dissinct Registry thereof to be kept in the Custom-House to be made without Fee or Reward before the Goods be delivered out of the Custom House Warchouse And if any of the said Silks shall be Imported into this Realm other where than in the Port of Londen or Imported without such Notice and Licence and the Duties paid for the same or shall not be so sealed and marked such Silks or the sull value thereof shall be forfeited And the Silks which shall be seised and forfeited by virtue of this or any former Act shall be sold and exported pursuant to the Rules mentioned in an Act of 8 9 W. 3 Intituled An Act for the further Encouragement of the Manufacture of Lustrings and Alamedes within this Realm LVII All Persons who shall Import or bring into this Kingdom any Alamodes or Lustrings contrary to this Act or knowingly receive the same into their Custody or sell or offer to sale any such Foreign Silks so fraudulently Imported and their Aiders Abettors and Assistants knowing thereof shall forfeit 500 Pounds LVIII If any Commission or Warrant Officer or other Person in the Service of His Majesty and having the Command of any Ship or Vessel shall Import or Convey or procure or suffer to be Imported or take on Board any Alamodes or Lustrings in Order to be Imported into this Kingdom or shall Unship or suffer to be Unshipt into any Boat or Vessel any such Silks knowing thereof shall over and above the Forfeitures and Penalties in this or any other Act be ipso facto rendred uncapable of serving His Majesty by Sea or Land or of receiving any Advantage by virtue of such Service And if any Seaman Mariner or other belonging to any Ship or Vessel shall discover any Alamodes or Lustrings so Imported or Unshipt in order to be Imported contrary to this Act such Persons shall over and above their part of the Forfeitures by this Act be discharged from on Board such Ship or Vessel if they desire the same and the Captain or Master shall immediately give them a Ticket Intituling them to their Wages on Board such Ship or Vessel LIX If any Persons shall afterwards Counterfeit or Misapply any of the Seals or Marks now used at the Custom House for Sealing and Marking Alamodes and Lustrings according to this or any other Act or the Seals or Marks of the said Company for Marking and Sealing their Goods they their Aiders and Abettors shall for every such Offence forfeit 500 Pounds and stand in the Pillory two Hours And all Persons who shall buy or fell or have in their Possession any Alamodes or Lustrings with a Counterfeit Seal or Mark or with the Custom-House or Companies Seal or Mark not lawfully affixed thereto knowing thereof and not discovering the same shall forfeit the Goods and 100 Pounds Any Persons with a Writ of Assistance from the Exchequer or with a Constable or Officer and a Justice of Peace's Warrant may in the day time Enter into any House Shop Warehouse or other place to search for and seize any Alamodes or Lustrings Imported contrary to this or any other Act or Sealed or Marked as aforesaid And in case of Resistance to break open Doors Chests and other Package to bring thence to his Majesties Ware house any such Silks And the Justices of Peace are to grant such Warrants to Credible Persons making Oath they suspect there are such Silks where they intend to Search And upon Dispute whether such Silks were Manufactured beyond the Seas or Imported contrary to this Act the Proof shall lie upon the Importer or Owner and not upon the Prosecutor LX. All Officers of the Customs or in Corporations or elsewhere shall be assisting in the Execution of this Act and if any Officer
of the Customs shall knowingly connive at the Importation or Disposing of such Alamodes and Lustrings or if any Persons taking upon them to Seize or Prosecute in pursuance of this or any other Act shall by Collusion desist or delay Prosecution to Condemnation of the said Silks they shall forfeit 500 l. and be incapable of any Office or Imployment LXI Such Persons Convicted for any Offence against this or any other Act relating to Alamodes or Lustrings as shall afterwards offend a second time or oftner shall so often as they offend forfeit double the sum inflicted by this Act. LXII All Persons offending contrary to this or any other Act relating to Alamodes or Lustrings shall be prosecuted in any Action Suit or Information and thereupon a Capias in the first Process specifying the Penalties sued for may Issue and sufficient Bail and Security shall be given by Natural born Subjects or Denizens to answer such Suit and at the time of Appearance sufficient Bail and Security in Court to answer the Penalties in case of Conviction or to suffer Imprisonment LXIII All the Penalties and Forfeitures imposed hereby or by any former Law relating to Alamodes or Lustrings shall be two third parts to his Majesty and one third to the Prosecutor the charge of which Suit shall be born by his Majesty out of his Majesties part of the Forfeitures Which Penalties and Forfeitures shall be recoverable by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any the Courts of Record at Westminster wherein no Essoign c. shall be allowed nor more than one Imparlance All which Informations or Actions may be laid and tried in such places and with the like proceedings as are used about the Scizing Condemning or Prosecuting any Goods for Non payment of Customs or other Duties or any Persons offending against the Laws relating to the Customs LXIV No claim shall be entred to any such Silks seized as aforesaid till Security given by Recognizance before a Judge to answer the Penalties and Forfeitures with full cosis of Suit where a Verdict shall pass or Judgment be entred for the Plaintiff And in default of such Security within the limited time the Goods to be forfeited and Judgment entred accordingly LXV This Act and every thing therein contained shall be taken to be a general Law and not needful to be set forth in Heading and shall be construed most beneficially for the Prosecutor and for preventing the mischiefs hereby provided against And Persons sued for any thing done by virtue hereof may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the Special matter in Evidence And upon a Verdict for the Defendants or if the Plaintiff Discontinue be Non-suit or suffer Judgment by Demurrer the Defendants shall have treble Costs LXVI All Actions brought by an Informer against this Act shall be Commenced within two years after the offence committed LXVII The Royal Lustring Company having been first Erected by the late King James by Letters Patents bearing date 23 Novemb. 4. Jac. 2. for the Term of 14 years and afterwards by the Letters Patents of his present Majesty and the late Queen of Blessed Memory bearing date 15 Octob. 4 W. M. Incorporated with perpetual Succession for the making and dressing of Alamodes Renforcez and Lustrings in England And having brought the said Manufacture to perfection but by reason of the fraudulent Importation of Alamodes and Lustrings and in contesting with many difficulties and obstructions have not enjoyed the benefit intended them by the said Charter It is Enacted That the foresaid Company and their Successors shall from henceforth be a Body Politick and Corporate by the Name of the Royal Lustring Company and Enjoy all the Privileges and Authorities granted them in the said Charter of Incorporation as fully as if the same were recited in this Act. LXVIII The said Royal Lestring Company and their Successors shall have the sole exercise and benefit of Making Dressing and Lustrating of plain Black Alamodes Renforcez and Lustrings within this Realm for 14 years from 24 Jun. 1698 and from thence to the end of the next Sessions of Parliament any thing to the contrary notwithstanding LXIX The said Company having 17 Bails of Fine Italian Thrown Silk in Amsterdam brought thither over Land before the Conclusion of the Peace and designed to be Imported and used here in the Manufacture of Alamodes and Lustrings but could not be Imported within the time limited by Law It is Enacted That the said Company may Import into this Kingdom the said 17 Bails of Silk before 29 Sept. next paying the legal Duties to his Majesty LXX Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 44. Enacted That there shall be through England and Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed Levied and paid to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for Salt over and above all other Duties already payable these Additional Rates viz. 5 d. per Gallon for all Salt Imported from 1 July 1698. to 25 December 1699. And from 24 December 1699. for ever 7 d. per Gallon and so for a greater or lesser Quantity LXXI For all Salt and Rock-Salt Home made from the said 1 July 1698. to 25 December 1699. 2 d. Half-peny per Gallon and from 24 December 1699. for ever 3 d. Half peny per Gallon subject to the Redemption hereafter mentioned LXXII Which Duties on Foreign Salt shall be paid by the Importer before landing and if Landed before due Entry thereof or before the Duties be paid or a Warrant for the Landing thereof then to be Forfeited and also 10 s. for every Bushel so Landed LXXIII Provided that the Importers of Salt giving Security for payment of these Duties shall have Six Months time for Payment with a Discount after 10 l. per Centum per Aunum for prompt Payment LXXIV The said Duties on Salt to be Managed by the Commissioners of Excile who are to Appoint the necessary Officers and the Penalties and Forfeitures hereby Imposed to be Sued for and Recovered by the same Ways as Directed by the Act 12 Car. 2. For taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite and by Knights Service and Purveyance and Setling a Revenue on His Majesty in lieu thereof or by any Law now in Force relating to the Excise LXXV All Makers and Proprietors of Salt and Rock-Salt within the Kingdom shall make true Entries with the Officers so appointed and shall have their Warrant gratis for Carrying the same away upon Payment or Security to pay the Duties within Six Months after such Entry with a Discount after 10 l. per Cent. per Annum for Ready Money LXXVI The Officers so Appointed may seize all such Salt as after 1 July 1698 shall be Conveying away before due Entry made or Warrant obtain'd for Conveying thereof And if not Claim'd within Ten Days then to be absolutely Forseited and Sold One Moiety of the Preceed thereof to go to the King the other to the Seizer And if Claim'd without
in the Act 2 W. M. for an Aid of 2 s. in the pound for the speedy Payment of Money into the Exchequer and misapplication thereof are hereby Revived CXLIX After 10 July 1698. The Commissioners of the Treasury if it consist with his Majesties Service may direct Bank Bills to be Received in all Payments to the King until the end of next Session of Parliament but not when they are at any Discount Treason I. Stat 8 W. 3. cap. 4. For the Treasons and other Causes in the Preamble recited at large Enacted That Sir John Fenwick Baronet be Convicted and Attainted of High Treason and shall suffer the Pains of Death and incur all Forseitures as a Person Atainted of High Treason II. Stat. 8 W. 3. cap. 5. Enacted That if Sir George Barclay Knight Johnson alias Harrison Durant alias Durance Michael Hare Major George Holmes Philip Handford alias Brown Richard Richardson John Maxwell Bryerly Plowden Hungate shall not before 25 March 1697. Render themselves to the Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench or one of the Secretaries of State in order to their Trials for the Tieason wherewith they are charged then such of the said Persons as shall not so render themselves shall Stand and be Convicted and Attainted of High Treason and shall suffer the Pains of Death and all Forfeitures and Penalties as Traytors Convicted of High Treason III. And Counter John Bernardi Robert Cassells Robert Meldrum James Chambers and Robert Blackbourn and such other Persons who shall hereafter render themselves or shall be apprehended against whom there shall be Evidence upon Oath of being concerned in the said Conspiracy of Assassinating his Sacred Majesty shall be detained in Custody without Bail till the first day of January 1697 unless they shall be sooner Bailed by order of Councel signed by six Privy Councellors IV. Stat. 9 W. 3. cap. 1. Every of His Majesties Subjects who since 11 Decemb. 1688. have voluntarily gone into France or any of the French Kings Dominions in Europe without Licence from his Majesty or the late deceased Queen Mary or who have during the late War with France born Arms in the Service of the French King by Sea or Land or who have since 13 Feb. 1688. been in Arms under the Command or in the Service of the late King James in Europe and shall after 14 Jan. 1697. return into this Kingdom or any other his Majesties Dominions without Licence under the Privy Seal shall be Guilty of High Tieason and suffer and forseit accordingly V. Every of his Majesties Subjects who after 14 Jan. 1697. shall without Licence from his Majesty within this Realm or without in order to give any Aid or Assistance to the late King James hold or keep any Intelligence or Correspondence by Letters Messages or otherwise with the late King James or with any Person Imployed by Him knowing such Person to be so Imployed or shall without Licence from his Majesty by Bill of Exchange or otherwise remit or pay any Sums of Money for the Use or Service of the late King James knowing such Money to be for such Use or Service shall be Guilty of High Treason and suffer and forfeit accordingly VI. Any of the Offences against this Act committed out of this Realm may be laid and tried in any County of this Realm VII The Clause in an Act of 3 4 W. M. Intituled An Act against Corresponding with their Majesties Enemies whereby it was Enacted That if any of his Majesties Subjects should after 10 March 1691. without Licence from their Majesties voluntarily go or Imbark in any Vessel with intent to go into France or any Dominions of the French King should be Guilty of High Treason is declared to be intended only during the War with France and is now of no force VIII Provided That if any Person who since 11 Dec. 1688. went into France or any of the French Kings Dominions without Licence or who had been in Arms under the late King James or the French King or in either of their Services since 13 Feb. 1688. and hath returned into this Realm without Licence such Person shall depart this Realm by the first of Febr. 1697. unless before that time such Person obtain his Majesties Licence for staying here And every such Person not departing this Realm by 1 Febr. 1697. or after such departure returning into this Realm without his Majesties Licence shall be Guilty of High Treason and suffer and forfeit accordingly IX No person shall pay for any such Licence above 10 s. in each Office through which such Licence shall pass and Persons receiving more shall forfeit 20 l. to the Party grieved X. All Persons who after 6 Jan. 1697. shall procure or accept any Charter of Pardon or Grant of any Title of Honour or other matter or thing in England or Ireland from the late King James or shall claim any Benefit thereby or by any Writing purporting any such Pardon or Grant shall be Guilty of High-Treason and suffer and forfeit accordingly And whosoever hath since 11 Decemb. 1688. accepted such Pardon or Grant shall by the 13 of Febr. 1697. deliver such Pardon or Grant to his Majesty in Council or to one of the Secretaries of State before two Witnesses or be Guilty of High Treason and suffer and forfeit accordingly XI Any Person who having accepted or concealed any such Pardon or Grant shall discover and deliver up the same by the said 13 Febr. shall not be punished for procuring accepting or concealing thereof but be wholly Indempnified for the same XII All Persons Indicted for any thing made Treason by this Act shall have the benefit of the Act 7 W. 3. Intituled An Act for Regulating of Tryals in cases of Treason and Misprision of Treason XIII All Grants of any Estate forseited by Virtue of this Act shall be utterly void Wool I. Stat. 9 10. W. 3. cap 40. The Act made 7 W. 3. Intituled An Act for the more effectual Preventing the Exportation of Wool and for Incouraging the Importation of Wool from Ireland and every thing therein contained except what is hereby otherwise altered shall continue and be in full force II. After 24 Jun. 1698. No Fullers Earth or Scouring Clay shall be Exported out of this Kingdom into Ireland Scotland or any other Foreign parts but the Exporter shall forfeit 1 s. for every pound weight III. All Owners of Wool Shorn Housed or Lodged within 10 Miles of the Sea side in Kent and Sussex shall give an Exact Account in Writing within 3 days after Sheering of the number of Fleeces and where lodged or housed to the next adjoyning Port or Officer of the Customs and the like notice before Removing thereof and the Name and Abode of the Persons to whom disposed and where intended to be carried and shall take a Certificate of such Entry on forfeiture of the Wool not Entred or otherwise Disposed of and a penalty of 3 s. per pound for such